Help:Editing/feedback

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i was reading about dental hygiene and i wanted some clarification about how much time one should spend brushing their teeth. one minute or five minutes. i realize this could vary from person to person but the must be an average. i did not know how to ask this question while i was reading the info. i'm techno stupid.

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• Couldn't find any instructions as to how to notify errors or omissions found on 'protected' pages.

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• Include information needed in answer to preceding question.

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 Done -- John of Reading (talk) 12:02, 21 May 2011 (UTC)reply

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• i stumbled upon an article, HMS Southampton (1912), where either the text is a free invention, or at least not accurate. one indication: the article states it participated at a battle in 1916, which took place in 1914.

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• searching the internet for wikipedia editing help, wikipedia quality do not bring up a good help page. defining keywords, and having one initial help page would be preferrable, which really is found by the keywords.

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This is Perfect and easy to understand.

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• Allow me to run that page i will take care myself. My Name is Toseef Shahji Bukhari on Facebook in Gujranwala, Pakistan page, i got many emails claim that page, but i don't know how i can :(

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• My Name is Toseef Shahji Bukhari on Facebook in Gujranwala, Pakistan page, i got many emails claim that page, but i don't know how i can :( So please make me Admin regards.

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• mostly. It seemed like there were a few redirects to full

answers when a brief explaination and redirect would have been more effective

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• Yes

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• see above on redirects. Also, in the mobile version (using iPhone

and Safari) the font for a few phrases is too light too read.

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Thanks, Dillon Pyron

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good

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• No. This page is too large, verbose and poorly structured. It doesn't meet the needs of new users at all. The lead section is waffly and too detailed. The image doesn't add value; it increases the visual clutter. The material in the section entitled "More information on editing wiki pages" is badly organised. I think this page needs a total rethink and rewrite.

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• I'm not a new user so I can't comment on completeness. But I think there is far too much unnecessary detail.

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• I would suggest cutting the page right down to the basics. Remove all jargon, especially all the stuff about being bold.

• What's needed: A simple jargon-free explanation of how to edit, linked to a beginner's version of wiki markup. Mention the critical importance of using references with 2-3 clear examples (link to explanation of reliable sources). Mention the importance of using the preview button. Mention the importance of a meaningful edit summary. Most new editors will just want to edit an existing page, so have a separate page on creating a new article (mention stub tags, categories, wikiprojects). Remove the big blurry image. The material in the section entitled "More information on editing wiki pages" could be put into a navbox; anything that is important for new users to read should not be in this section.

Rubywine . talk 16:27, 27 August 2011 (UTC)reply

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• this is the most confusing mind boggling sites in existance...all i want to do is write my article which is easy enough and then add pictures which i have already uploaded via another page called wiki comms or something like that !!!!!!!!!!! why can't you have one click insert from users browser...it must be that simple !! I can see my pictures on this other comms site but cannot get the insert formula to add to my article...help help....

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Replied at User talk:Elviz77. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:52, 5 September 2011 (UTC)reply

i want the text in marathi

full name :ravindran.karthiban

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O.K., but there could be more

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add more facts

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Fashion trends a dollar store

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• Dear Master of Puppets, Im easy to understand that I love creating pages without speedy deletions

and I prove it no blocks, no block notices either. Ha Ha, Love, Koolboy2001.

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yupp

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by putting my own wikipedia page

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nothing if you put mee on a wiki paage i will become famous and noticed :))

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quite helpful

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mostly yes.

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well, others are not really

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i believe this site are more better educated, you dont need for something do it better

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none =)

yes

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more or less

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• Be clear and direct

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lol

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• yes , definitely yes

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• of course

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yes , make me easy to follow

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• gain more knowledge about articles

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• i don;t think so

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• Please make a clear simple statement regarding how and where to sign an edit. At the moment, the Editing Help page only says where NOT to sign. Is the signature, for instance, meant to be the last thing one types into the edit window before clicking Save page?

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• no - more explicit technical info on the "category" section would be useful.

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• add a "how-to" paragraph on "categories" The editing of these is tricky!

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• When editing "categories" the preview doesn't inspire confidence and one is hesitant to push the Save Page button!

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There's something I believe, that belongs here and is not included. Simply, how can I change an article's name in regards to its uppercase/lowercase choice of letters only. I would simply go and create a new page and redirect the wrong spelled version but that's impossible.

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Please include some information about this, can't find it anywhere.

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• no idea. Maybe make it simpler

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Other comments ? Video is helpful

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• I thing you may simpler

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• Add the name Frank Ifield to the list of recording artists.

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• Absolutely, with the necessary hyperlinks included.

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• Maybe add a few more screenshots

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• I LOVE Wikipedia!

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• Please add, in the "Naming and moving" section, that, in order to rename a page, one must "move" it. That makes sense, since most people going to the "naming" section of the "editing" page are probably trying to rename an article. It took me a while to understand that. I couldn't locate that information at the the "article titles" page --even though it's in the summary, that summary is quite long, and a in-document search for "edit" and "change" does not return the answer.

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• Thank you for your time.

I hope that this edit makes it clearer. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:33, 22 February 2012 (UTC)reply

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• dont really need to it was fine

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Nope

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• Yes - except very lite on editing Talk-pages . . which I imagine is a potential minefield. So . .

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• . . cross-references to what's familiar / courteous / expected would probably prevent some flame wars.

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• Example: a fairly lengthy unsigned comment on the Talk page for Judicial Notice quotes from the article as follows.

Lincoln does not draw upon a fact that was "so notorious or well known that it cannot be refuted"

The contributor is right, and I'm planning to rephrase the sentence quoted . . I'd like to add something to the Talk-page entry - to (1) indicate to that contributor that this particular point has resulted in action (2) make newcomers, and others who have since :-appended reactions to the contribution, aware that the article has moved on since this particular point was made. And I don't know how to do this without seeming odd / rustic, and risk being misunderstood as boorish / offensive.

The best way I can think of to give a highly-specific tie-in to my change is to edit the text of the existing comment with a corresponding "[*]", and add a kinda-footnote after it, :-indented and starting with "[*]". But the problem I'm trying to solve here must be widely familiar; presumably there are familiar solutions. SquisherDa (talk) 03:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)reply

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Other comments- this pertains to the articles on the catholic saints. I don't know where you got the word 'cult' from. There are no cults in the roman catholic religion that are permitted What is called a cult - should be called a 'veneration'. This similar to the adulation given a person who did something great. In general terms like venerating an olympian. Get your info on catholic saints from catholic sources that contain the info of 'nihil obstat' and 'imprimatur'. These are the 'seals of approval' on the writings Any questions contact ^{[details removed]}

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The page: Victoria Lake Victoria. There is a huge mistake. It says 1.39 sq km. IT SHOUL be 139 sq km!!!!!!!

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• it is nice

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There are a few cymbal makers that you have left out.

They are -

- Cymbalutopia. Independent cymbalsmith Craig Lauritsen - www.cymbalutopia.com - Steve Hubback - www.stevhubback.com - Ottaviano Cymbals - ottavianocymbals.com

Drum Magazine has a list of cymbal manufacturers in it's special edition 'The Cymbal', issue 188, February 2012.

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I've copied your comment to Talk:Cymbal manufacturers. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:38, 29 March 2012 (UTC)reply

be smarter wikipeadia

CLASS EPIC BRILLIANT

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When i first signed up, there was a guide where i could select my interests, etc, and it would give me a list of artcles in that category that needed editing. This page needs a link back there.

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Replied at User talk:Dbh97. For anyone else seeing this, the page is MediaWiki:Customusertemplate-ACP2-Welcomecreation, but the lists it links to are out of date. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:51, 21 April 2012 (UTC)reply

Specifically, after a long absence of editing Wikipedia pages, I am looking for an answer to an access problem to editing. Specifically when I click on "Edit This Page" the action downloads a PHP file called "Index.php". I was expecting to see the editing process demonstrated on this page. I'm on a Mac (10.7.3) and have no expertise in PHP. How can I get access to the "normal" editing routines as demonstrated on this page. If there's something on this Mac that needs to be disabled in order to do that, I'd appreciate appropriate tips.

Thank you. Morley Chalmers aka Morels <morels01@^{[details removed]}>

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u should make a page on how to hack........

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• nothing to change it is good

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• This is good for the people and it is easy and accessible

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• No. Your help menu is impossible to navigate. I have a simple question: HOW DO I DELETE AN ARTICLE ABOUT ME?

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• NO. I JUST WANT TO DELETE AN ARTICLE ABOUT ME AND CAN"T FIND THE INFO

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• REDESIGN your help and search. It is far too complicated and confusing to find simple info.

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• DELETE THE ENTRY ABOUT ME ASAP PLEASE. I don't want to be on WP anymore.

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• It did give me information that I didn't know.

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• It talked about "In use" tag but didn't provide enough details on how/where it is used. Rather than linking to the linking the relevant page, it'd be nice to provide the information then and there.

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• Nothing is complete.

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• Yes, get rid of the images, they seem extraneous to me.

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needs more details

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hate it I think the article was no long make it understandable I cannot believe it is a article it made

me lol

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• I would like to see a link which shows "how to bring back a page that has been deleted"

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Glossary of Edit codes available on edit help pages

I would like to recommend that a glossary of edit codes be put on the edit help page. When i saw a particular code on a edit page, I wanted to find out what it meant and examples of how it functioned. I had trouble finding it here. I wanted to find out what "eo:", meant and was not sure how to find it.

Please see my comments on the talk page of this page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Editing/feedback#Allow_Feedback_to_be_categorized_in_the_contents_list._Allow_feedback_voting.2Fsupporting.

Please Notify me if feedback is addressed

Could i be notified on my talk page if this feedback is addressed in any way, or my question is answered. I think I am only allowed to watch or monitor my own talk page.Thanks

67.160.137.69 (talk) 07:14, 1 July 2012 (UTC)reply

See Help:Interwiki linking and List of Wikipedias. A square-bracketed code beginning "eo:" is a link to a page at the Esperanto Wikipedia. (I'll copy this to your talk page). -- John of Reading (talk) 18:11, 1 July 2012 (UTC)reply

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When the cat can say its own name like caaaatttt then it is a onomatopoeia.

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• By telling us how to edit how old a person is because it is Peter Randall Pages birthday today so he isn't 57 anymore he is 58.

Thankyou.

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You can't fix this by editing the page. Instead I have purged the page to force the software to redo the date calculation. You may have to bypass your browser cache (Ctrl-F5 in many browsers) to see the latest version of the page. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:34, 2 July 2012 (UTC)reply

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• ok

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• maybe

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• dose it usefull ?

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YES, BUT IT DOES NOT TELL ME HOW I CAN UPLOAD A PHOTOGRAPH

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mangali community in andhra pradesh and all over india working as assistant of brahmin employee mangala(shubh (auspicious days ) occassions called Mangala or doing this person is called mangali.) they will not perform mangala music in funeral occassions. the funeral works are managed by Madiga or mala only and also music of sad occassions are handled by Madiga and auspicious occassions managed by Mangala or mangali.brahmins will chant mantras on deity or murthy or idle.

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i want a detail explaination on edit option of menu bar

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• it would be helpful to know if/how it's possible to add edit-details after submitting an edit.

ex: i hit the 'enter' key before adding an edit-summary; the edit was submitted. i went to the list of edits to see if i could add a summary and i don't see a way to do it. is it possible? i would also like to add 'this is a minor edit' to another one of my edits (after submitting); i don't know if it's possible.

sorry, i found the info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary