Help talk:Contents/Archive 1

message: The link for "Help" in the default navigation box links to Help:Contents rather than Wikipedia:Help. Is there a reason for that that I'm missing? -Sean Curtin 06:33, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Help:Contents is the new location for Help. Wikipedia:Help is the old link. A redirect was used as temporary solution. Its been fixed now. Help now belongs in the Help: namespace. Krik 15:24, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you going to move everything like the "how to edit a page" etc.? I lot of the WikiPedia space is arguably help. Is this discussed somewhere?  --BozMo|talk 09:22, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navigation 

message: Okay, I see the need for a central "Help" page, but what's the Help namespace all about? When I searched that namespace for "editing", for example (using the checkboxes on the search results page), it just returned a lot of the same pages (and articles!) as a combined search on (Main), Wikipedia and Help. - dcljr 06:06, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help namespace 

message: Bit odd that the "sister projects" link at the top of the page goes to a template from the mainpage listing them. Shouldn't we really have an article about the sister projects under the link? --BozMo|talk 09:20, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bit odd 

message: Should I assume that that overly-cautionary note in the lede is sufficiently NPOV (in it's clear attempt to *be* NPOV, ironically) as to merit reversion?  I see no discussion of it here, and I'd expect some, since it's policy, not content.  Baylink 19:13, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change in lede 

message: What does this: "I have a child of 8 years old. A beautiful son and had to have Invitro-Fertilization. I have been going through custody battles for the last 5 years. I am so tired and feel so helpless now, as it has been over 100,000.00 so far and now I can't afford a Lawyer. They always say the poor never win. 0" have to do with anything?  Who is that?  --Muhgcee 06:39, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of place? 

message: Ok. I'm trying to understand why my browser doesn't display some Unicode characters. Maybe it's that I have IE, maybe I don't have the correct font. Anyway, I then came across a new quastion: how do you change the font type? I thought it would be something like
<p font-family="Font here">Text Here</p>
as I thing is in HTML. Can someone help me, please? Thx Jotomicron 22:18, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A question on fonts, please 

message: why is the atomic mass of an element not a whole number?
::Because atoms have isotopes.  It like the average american family having 2.5 kids.  For example, the atomic weight of hydrogen is 1.(some small number) because the majority of hydrogen atoms have just a single proton in their nuclei.  However, a few hydrogen atoms have one or more neutrons; because of this, the average atomic weight of hydrogen is a little higher than one.  The atomic weight is a statistical average; a given hydrogen atom usually has an atomic weight of one, but occassionally has an atomic weight of 2 or 3.  If this is confusing, click on the links in this paragraph.  Samboy 19:42, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: For elements that are very unstable and not found in nature, you'll see their atomic mass in parentheses.  This will always be a whole number, because it is the atomic mass of the most stable isotope.  For this reason, many of the man made elements will have different atomic masses according to different sources, since physicists are continually finding more stable isotopes, especially in more newly disovered elements. Lepidoptera 03:27, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Atomic mass

message: How does one creat a new image?--^~^Morgan^~^ 01:16, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New images 

message: I believe this page should also link to Wikipedia:Be_Bold and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.  From my experence we need to let the novice user know what Wikipedia is not.  We also shold encourage them to be bold --Michael180 14:41, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding link to WP:BB and WP:NOT 

message: Why has "Help" changed to "Help / Contact Us" on the toolbar on every Wikipedia page? Contact whom? Wikipedia is made by those who read it - "Us" is the person reading it. --81.146.47.6 14:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help / Contact Us 

message: Where can I ask for help about my monobook.css? Jotomicron | talk 09:35, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I may be able to help answer specific questions, if you haven't already found the help you wanted. (my style) —HorsePunchKid→龜 04:27, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: .css files

message: Had no idea where to bring this up but on the Upload file page, there's this message: 
You must be <a href="/wiki/Special:Userlogin">logged in</a> to upload files.
With the HTML showing just like that... fairly ugly. And the page is uneditable...?
:This is fixed (see MediaWiki:Uploadnologintext) — Dan | Talk 02:47, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Upload file" page 

message: Hey, I think this page lacks information about: how to attribute articles written anonymously to existing usernames.... I'm actually looking for that right now.Qwertzy2 10:33, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Attribute

message: The links to pages where to ask questions such as the help desk and reference desk are in their section. The help desk is filled enough as is it that there should not be a link to it on the top of the page. The purpose is for the user to view the help howto files *before* having the link to the question page. Elfguy 15:21, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: help desk link

message: Is there a list of templates somewhere?  I think that would be helpful, and if there is, I think it should be in the tutorial or help section... somewhere where people could find it.  I've seen a couple "disputed" tags here and there, but I'm looking for something appropriate for this: Al-Waqidi's credibility Not only is the article unintelligble, I don't think it should exist at all... but I'm not really sure to handle this, especially since this a topic I know nothing about.  Thank you! Lepidoptera 03:23, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You may want to look at Wikipedia:Template messages. Scroll down a bit and you'll see a bunch of common templates. It's definitely not all-inclusive, but it will probably have the template you're looking for. You may want to list it on Votes for Deletion if it is a junk article; just read the instructions. —HorsePunchKid→龜 04:23, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a shortcut to see all of the stub messages. It's at Stub types EdwinHJ | Talk 21:38, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: List of templates

message: I suggest moving everything out of Help:Contents into some other page like Help:general help. Then just have a few links at Help:Contents.
Probably just the same half-dozen links that are at the top of this talk page (and several other helpful pages).
The idea is to make it quicker for both new and old users to find the kind of help they need. 
Anyone want to help me re-organize? Uncle Ed 17:56, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
: I also thought this page is too cluttered. Before doing any changes though, please note the discussion at Template talk:Welcome/Proposed version 1. There, it is argued that many of the links from the {welcome} template should be removed and one should be referred instead to the help pages. So, if you reorgianize this Help:Contents page, I would like to ask to keep the most useful links for newbies, which are now (not for long I hope) in {welcome}. Oleg Alexandrov 18:36, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Radical page re-organization

message: As been mentioned several comments above, the point of having question links not be on top of the page was so people actually use the help articles before going to ask questions. And you can't possibly tell me adding Ask your questions to Ed every 30mins at the top of the page is good form. Elfguy 19:17, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Question links

message: I am in the process of disambiguating literally thousands of links to language pages throughout the Wikipedia. In this process I have found that nearly ALL links to a language page need to be disambiguated thus: French or Basque. I think this needs to be discussed somewhere in the help or how-to sections, but I am not sure where to put it. Maybe it's already here somewhere but I have not found it. (I really wish peoople would verify their links when writing or editing a page.) Thoughts, anyone? — DanMS 01:07, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language links 

message: The simplified ruleset and who can write or edit Wikipedia articles additions are useful fast start overviews for new editors and readers respectively. -- Sitearm | Talk 04:29, 2005 August 25 (UTC)
* It's in the first paragraph, 3rd link. If you really want to add it in the lists, since it's not a "How to", add it to the 3rd section. Elfguy 19:41, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful additions 

message: I added open content to the lead sentence in order to better qualify free. I hope that makes sense. El_C 04:02, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Open content

message: What is your user page to be used for? A description of yourself? Anything you want? Could you host an essay there that doesn't have a place anywhere else on Wikipedia? Will what you post there be watched and moderated? For example, would I be right in assuming that pornography would not be allowed? What, then, would and wouldn't be allowed?
:See Wikipedia:User page and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. —Wayward 07:57, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is allowed and not allowed to be posted on your user page? 

message: I run a password-protected genealogy wiki for my family. I am interested in tracking user logins. Is there any way to do this? 
Thanks, Alex Ramon - Sorry if this is the wrong place to post.
*I don't think we keep logs of anything like that.  It might not be very accurate if we did, since many users choose to stay logged in all the time; there's an option in the user preferences page to do that.  --Merovingian (t) (c) 11:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage Logs 

message: I am considering writing a page about how to keep one's account secure. Would this be a good idea? --Ixfd64 23:40, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't we have too many help pages already? --unforgettableid | talk to me 23:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's nothing wrong with creating another if it's helpful. — TheKMantalk 00:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  password security page 

message: Where does one go to:
1) See the rules on offensive users
2) Complain about offensive users
??? 4.240.201.17 22:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You don't have your own username. Therefore you're likely to get complaints intended for someone else - I found them on my mother-in-law's computer even though she doesn't use Wikipedia. To register your own username see Special:Userlogin. A better place for these questions is Wikipedia:Help desk.Art LaPella 22:20, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Offensive Users  

message: There are an awful lot of unnecessary redlinks on a lot of these help pages that could be cleaned up, however I am reticent to start because of the warning at the top of each page.  How do I proceed to clean these up?  Do I go to meta and do it?  When will the meta version then be transferred across? -- Francs2000  18:26, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Redlinks

message: I note that some users, on their user pages, have a box indicating their degree of facility in other languages.  How do I add something like this to my user page? Unschool 07:09, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Babel for more information. -- Francs2000  12:15, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a Language 

message: I'm looking around for a way to search among files that have been uploaded (but this is not my question here), and saw "How to upload files to Wikipedia" under the "Modifying a Wikipedia page" heading, and thought it might have some clues. But the link just points to the upload page rather than a help page on uploading. I'll keep looking around for what I'm trying to do, but I just wanted to point out this problem. --Qirex 11:53, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the note. I made the link point to Wikipedia:Uploading images instead of Special:Upload. Robert T | @ | C  04:37, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link on page 

message: How can you put up a randomly seleted picture, out of for example six preselected pictures? Is this even possible? Migdejong 20:32, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random 

message: Who or what is a Ben Kuiper?  And how did Helps page histoy get moved it?---User:Rayc
:I moved it back, though I have no idea how to revert what was orignially at Ben Kuipers.--Rayc 22:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ben Kuipers]] 

message: Help!  I'm having two problems which I think stem from the same root.  I am using Internet Explorer 6, fully updated; whenever I double click on any page it brings up a download for index.php.  The same thing happens when I click to 'edit this page' but not when I click the + sign.  This all started yesterday (December 12th, 2005).  I have not changed any settings for a long time.
When I use Firefox everything works fine.
Any ideas?  Suggestions?  Leave me a message in my talk.
Nhandler 05:41, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double click -> download? 

message: When is this page typically archived? And where is it done so? --HappyCamper 02:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archival