Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2011 May 16

= May 16 =

IP address
Why does my IP address change every day? 161.130.178.143 (talk) 02:15, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * This is caused by your ISP (internet service provider) using a dynamic ip system with your internet connection. To make sure that your edits are accounted for, you should consider making an account. A p 3 rson  ‽   02:19, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * If your home router is configured to assign dynamic IP addresses via the built-in DHCP server you will get different IP addresses assigned. Monterey Bay (talk) 03:26, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

The_Saturday_Big_Tent_Wedding_Party
Can someone please improve The_Saturday_Big_Tent_Wedding_Party article? It's a book by Alexander_McCall_Smith and the article needs to be cleaned up. I wrote a short summary. Neptunekh2 (talk) 04:29, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I wrote a short lead citing to an inline citation, stub tagged it, added a sort key and so on. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:25, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

How do I view a version itself insted of the differences between it and another version?
One of the articles I care about has what I think is a wrong piece of info, but I would be willing to be convinced otherwise. How can I view a version itself instead of its diffs, so I can see what, if any, reasons the person had for the insertion? JumpDiscont (talk) 05:28, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * If I understand your question correctly: in the Revision history page, click on the respective time/date link (immediately left of the username). Moondyne (talk) 05:43, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi ALL
Can anybody tell me about BECKHAM ( Football player) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Palpankajkumar (talk • contribs) 08:28, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The article is named David Beckham. I recommend you glance at Help:Searching too. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:47, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

How long do copyright cases take?
A week ago someone highlighted that Gayatri was possibly completely copied from a book. I added the violation template and followed instructions for notification expecting that it would be investigated promptly and either shown as a false allegation and the notice removed or the article deleted so that it can be started afresh. So far nothing has happened and the article is still blanked. Is this normal? -- Q Chris (talk) 08:43, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is normal. According to the first two paragraphs at Copyright problems, the tag is left alone for seven days to see if any interested editor(s) can fix the issues; only then does the article join the queue for the copyright specialists to tackle. Remember that they are volunteers too. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:57, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I was worried that it had been overlooked -- Q Chris (talk) 08:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Biographical Entries
Dear Wikipedia,

Is there a way that, starting at the beginning of the alphabet, I can look at every biographical entry in Wikipedia? I realize that there are probably tens of thousands of them. I would like to go through every one of them in alphabetical order with just one push/click of one button. In other words, what I'm looking for is to be able to look at what would be just an encyclopedia of biographies. Hope you can help.

Ken Warren —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.217.147.246 (talk) 10:32, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * This category, Category:WikiProject Biography articles, will get you the closest to it. It is probably missing some and it has some articles that aren't necessarily about specific people but it will get you close.  Hope this helps. ps, this category will take you to the talk page of the article.   GB fan (talk) 10:55, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * "The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 905,722 total". At one a second, that's more than ten days. Get clicking! -- John of Reading (talk) 10:57, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm that seems to include a lot of false-positives, bands and so forth. Category:Living people should contain just people, although it has the drawback of just including, well, living people. I think 523,588 entries would still be a good enough start, then you could move on to Category:1850 births, Category:1851 births or whichever year takes your fancy. doom gaze   (talk)  11:37, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Citation template for online dictionaries
Is there a citation template to reference information from online dictionaries like this? bamse (talk) 11:36, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Since each word seems to have its own URL, I'd just use -- John of Reading (talk) 11:43, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Cite encyclopedia includes dictionaries. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 14:20, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. bamse (talk) 16:23, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

A few things to discuss

 * 1) I wrote one sentence for Precious and the Puggies a childern's book by Alexander McCall Smith. Could someone please improve the article?
 * 2) Would it be fair to place Eli Wallach under the category: American people of Jewish descent since the article says Wallach came from a Jewish family?
 * 3) I think something needs to added to the Holly Marie Combs. It says in at Tv.com  on  Holly's mother, has worked as an actress and a singer and that her stepfather is a musician. It also says  the Holly and her mother lived near the beach in San Diego until Holly was eight. Could that info be added in Holly's article?
 * 4) These are 2 links talking about a novella More Than Weird which is by English author Martyn Godfrey: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/martyn-godfrey/more-than-weird.htm http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol16no4/morethanweird.html Would those links be enough reason to undelete it?
 * 5) The Martyn Godfrey needs some improvement. Can someone improve it?
 * 6) It says right here that Dorothy Dandridge is of mixed descent: http://ethnicelebs.com/dorothy-dandridge Should that info be added in?
 * 7) Its says on this website that Halle Berry has some Russian German, and Irish heritage: http://ethnicelebs.com/halle-berry Should that be added in? Thanks! Neptunekh2 (talk) 11:42, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 8) Should Transamerica (film) go under the category Category:Jewish LGBT-related films since the main character is half-Jewish? Please let me know your opinions on these subjects. Thanks! Neptunekh2 (talk) 11:47, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

(Reformatted to use an ordered list by use of # markup)


 * 1) Expand it at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series until it gets big enough to split.
 * 2) Discuss on the article talk page.
 * 3) TV.com is not a reliable source.
 * 4) Define "it."
 * 5) Look at the article history and see who has edited it. Perhaps they can help.
 * 6) Discuss on the article talk page. What makes EthniCelebs.com a reliable source?
 * 7) ditto
 * 8) Discuss on the article talk page.


 * You really need to read Identifying reliable sources— sites such as IMDb. NNDb, TV.com and the like are not considered reliable sources. The article tqalk page is the proper venue for a lot of these questions. Please open only one discussion in one place— see WP:MULTI. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 12:47, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Editing References within the Notes-Section
Hi,

I want to edit a url mentioned in the Notes-Section of the following page: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen_and_the_%22Other_Band%22_Tour"

However all I get to see is the following code: ==Notes== , but it's tailored to what I use the most. You can copy the code to a subpage of yours and edit it if you want to.


 * To use the template in your userpage, simply add on it and it will show up as it does on Template:Quicktemplates.


 * As for the rest, in addition to  you can also use   which has expanded characters for better readability (compare  with ). They provide you with the template code that can easily be copied unto pages as well as links to their documentations. Cheers.--  Obsidi ♠ nSoul  18:11, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Talk Page email notification
Now, I am getting an email every time someone edits my User talk page. How do I stop this?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:08, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Preferences - E-mail options - untick "Email me when talk page..."  a_man_alone (talk) 17:13, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:45, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Autobiography
I just stumbled upon Autobiography and it was stated there that I might consider visiting the help desk when there are some autobiography related problems with my article. I've just been told to stop writing my article Till Kraemer due to autobiography issues. I honestly tried to be as neutral as possible, sourced and cited everything but maybe it's still not neutral enough, I don't know. Can someone please be so kind and take a look at the article and if necessary "neutralize" it, and by neutralize I don't mean delete ;) Thanks + cheers, --Till Kraemer (talk) 20:17, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe WP:PORNBIO will help. Astronaut (talk) 05:37, 17 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Astronaut, thanks for the link, but it seems like the main problem isn't notability but neutrality. Cheers, --Till Kraemer (talk) 08:04, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

publication
I have rewriten my article a few times now and i do not understand why it sounds like an advertisement for one and two why are my sources not valid. I found all my source on the internet for primany sources that shows the envolvment of EnviroSupply in the Environmental community. I have made it clear of the importance of this company be that it has A.) been in business with in this industry for 20 years and has be operational with less than 20 employees that services the U.S. which is no easy task for a small businss. I have looked at other business that have been publish on wiki and i do not see any difference other than they are a fortune 500 company. Do you mean to tell me that small business that have been around for 20 years that have helped these fortune 500 companies are not valid to put into an encyclopedia? maybe i am using words that make this sound like and advertisement and would like an example. and if you could please tell my why my sourse are not valid it would appercite it. here is my article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Envirosupply_%26_Service,_Inc.


 * This is prob. the right link: Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Envirosupply_%26_Service,_Inc.--Aspro (talk) 20:50, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * As this is your first attempt to create an article on Wikipedia, I suggest things may become clearer if you read COI, Neutral point of view and Identifying reliable sources. "Do you mean to tell me... etc"' - This is an encyclopaedia not a trade mag.--Aspro (talk) 20:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Buckie Harbour.jpg
Please restore this file which has been deleted from Commons - the permission is specific to en.wiki. Finavon (talk) 20:32, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

New Page Search/ Link on separate page going elsewhere
A page I recently created called "Trevor Clark (Author)", doesn't come up in a search. Also, when I click on the name "Trevor Clark" on the page "List of Fiction Set in Toronto", it goes to a previously-deleted page about someone else. How can I direct it to the one I created? (Perhaps there's just a waiting period before things fall into place.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lotus1029 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I moved your article, Trevor Clark (Author), to Trevor Clark. There is no need for the disambiguation (Author) since there is no other Trevor Clark in the encyclopedia.  Sometimes it takes a while for items to show up in the search and you created the article yesterday so it should be there in a day or so.  GB fan (talk) 21:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lotus1029 (talk • contribs) 05:56, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

New categories
At the outset, I confess to finding categories to be a pain in the butt. However, that bias aside, I have a couple of questions that I'm too tired to figure out on my own. When a new category is created, is it automatically reviewed by anyone? If not, is there a way to have it reviewed, not proposes for deletion, just to open up a discussion on its usefulness? WP:CFD appears to be tilted towards deletion, merging, or renaming.

To put this in more concrete terms, take a look at Category:Showbiz TV shows, which was recently created and then added to The Dick Van Dyke Show article by the category's creator.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:58, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Help needed to restore file
This file, originally uploaded by, was replaced and then blanked in successive edits by. I tried to restore it after tagged it db-g7 but my edit restored only the image description, not the original image. I don't know enough about images to fix this, can someone please do it? Thanks. – Athaenara ✉  22:02, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I can't fix it for you (assuming it should be fixed, which I haven't checked), but the original image was archived here. Sure is pretty.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:10, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Looks OK to me. Please tag it with rename media with a descriptive name instead of the generic. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 22:14, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I've reverted to the version uploaded in 2006. It is really advisable to have it renamed as Gadget850 has pointed out. Jarkeld (talk) 22:17, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Fast work, thank you! – Athaenara ✉  22:21, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * After it was tagged for renaming to File:View of Cap Wabao, Maré Island.jpg and transfer to Commons, it was established there and the local copy deleted. – Athaenara  ✉  06:49, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Can't use my username for publishing articles
Hi, I use the username "SixSigmaGuy" as a pseudonym for all my online publishing and have used it for at least 10 years. I am pretty sure that I created an account on Wikipedia a long time ago using that username, but the email address I would have used is no longer available and I never published any articles on Wikipedia. I'm ready to publish one now, but I can't seem to log on using "SixSigmaGuy" as I don't remember the password. I can't reset the password because the email address is no longer valid. Finally, I can't create a new account using that username because I'm told that the name already exists; of course, I think the one that already exists is mine, but I can't access it. Actually, since your usernames are case sensitive, the name that already exists is "Sixsigmaguy" not "SixSigmaGuy", but still, it says they are too similar.

I have done a search in all areas of Wikipedia and cannot find a single thing published by "Sixsigmaguy," or any reference to any activity at all using that username. Is there some way I can continue using "SixSigmaGuy" under these circumstances.

Naturally, I realize there is a chance that someone else really did create a username of "Sixsigmaguy" and never used it. If that's the case, I won't contest it, although, I would like an opportunity to contact the person to see if they'd be willing to give it up since they've never done anything with it. But, I'm pretty sure it's me who created it.

Thanks, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.206.253.233 (talk) 22:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * User:SixSigmaGuy is not a registered name on wikipedia. You should be able to click here and create the username.  GB fan (talk) 23:03, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There is a . Is that you? —teb728 t c 00:15, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note, usernames are case-sensitive. "SixSigmaGuy" does not exist, but trying to create it yourself would fail, as it is too similar to - which was created in 2007, and has made 0 edits.
 * Perhaps you could log in as "Sixsigmaguy"?
 * Otherwise, you could request "SixSigmaGuy" via account creation, and it could be created (and a password emailed to you) despite the caps similarity, because the other account is old, and has not been used.  Chzz  ► 03:01, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Alternatively, even if you did not create 'Sixsigmaguy', because it has made no edits maybe you could successfully WP:USURP that username. Astronaut (talk) 05:21, 17 May 2011 (UTC)