Help talk:Contents/Archive 3

message: How do you copy a graph or picture from a pdf file and put it into a wikipedia article? , when i try to select it, it just takes the text out of the graph and throws it together in the article.
User talk:Daemion
You might try asking your quesition at Wikipedia's Help Desk.  They have volunteers there specifically to answer help-related questions.  This page we are on right now, is just the discussion area for the design of the help menu.  I hope this helps.  Good luck.  --Go for it! 01:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphs or pictures from PDF files 

message: I was very excited to see references to a "Help site map", but when I got to Help:Contents/Site map I was disappointed to see that it was just an expanded contents list. What I would really like to see is a proper graphics map, one that maps the links between different sections. Sort of like the link-maps I've seen people do for Wikipedia, but simplified so as to help people see visually the way various areas relate to each other. Would this be at all possible? A starting point would be to get someone to generate one of those "link-maps", if anyone knows what I mean by this. Carcharoth 17:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is of course not what the term "site map" means. -lethe talk [ +] 17:31, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lethe is correct.  I've only seen one graphical-link-representation site map before, and it happens to be of the Wikipedia namespace.  Here it is:
That's the map I was thinking of! Would it be possible to do something like that for the Help namespace? And thanks for the correction on what site map means. Carcharoth 23:19, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help contents "Site Map" 

message: I was under the impression that the lightbulb image was merely to gather recruits for your project, and that it would be removed once the totd started functioning.
I object to the image. Is it distracting visual clutter, and only serves to obscure the real help available. I propose either the template is fixed to not have an image, or that the template is removed from this page and kept to userspace. --Quiddity 19:42, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: the help version is different than the userpage version. We can remove it from one and not from the other (or should be able to). But that's GFI!'s project more than mine, so he should do it.--HereToHelp 20:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tip of the Day - Lightbulb 

message: I've been trying to find out how I could take an article in one language, translate it and put the accompanying images (from commons) in an article in another language. Copying the link won't work, and uploading the image again on the foreign language site is time and space consuming. So I gave up for now :-(
:Copying the link should work.  Commons images should be accessible across all wikis, so :Image:Big_Cumulonimbus.JPG should be just as valid on en. as on de. or es. without any changes having to be made to the link. SFC9394 19:47, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trouble learning about Commons pictures 

message: *I just installed this in the help menu with an increased visibility as it was so buried there in all the clutter. :* I've been editing 15+ months and tonight is the first time I've been able to find the danged page. So I'm simplifying for all newbies. 
*Ditto in this template which I find myself placing frequently these days. 
Best regards, Boldly yours <B>Fra</B>nkB 23:12, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I thought I was...
I'm adding this:
 [[Wikipedia:Newcomers_help_page]] 

message: My signature stamp is not working. Can anyone provide me with some clues on how to fix this? Gnosis
:Answered on user's talk page.--Commander Keane 17:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Signature Stamp Problem

message: *"Policies, conventions and guidelines" subpage title.
:is it meant to have "conventions" in the title? Is that traditional or another whimsical goforit addition? --Quiddity 02:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Policies and guidelines" is better.  More succinct and matches title of the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

text: could this be better placed in the "Keep track of changes" subpage? -Quiddity 02:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Further Questions