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Linking to other languages

Do you know how to link an article to that in another language?

Thank you

Whitethunder79 08:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Simply put [[LANGUAGECODE:ARTICLETITLE]] e.g. [[ca:Scrabble]] at the end of the article.—WAvegetarian•(talk) 08:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Making a new page

How do you start a new page?

Whitethunder79 02:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

"See Help:Starting a new page. You might also want to take a look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article." Make sure that your title follows the WP:Naming convention! Just place {{helpme}} or leave a message at my talk page if you need any more help with anything! X [Mac Davis] (DESK|How's my driving?) 03:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}}

I have made a new page,but when I search for it, it does not exist! what's wrong???

Which page? It could have been moved or deleted, but the only deleted contributions you have are to UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Henry John Orchard, Milad an-Nabi, and LDS insititute of relition. WODUP 03:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

The only pages you appear to have created recently are List of UCLA Electrical Engineering People and UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. If there's another you've created that's disappeared, please post another {{helpme}} with the details. Algebraist 03:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}} for example, if you search UCLA Electrical Engineering Department in the search box, it won't find it!

It does go to the article if you click Go, and it does link to it on the search results page (you searched for UCLA Electrical Engineering Department), but it does take some time before the article will appear in the search results themselves. I'm not sure long, though. Leaving the helpme tag on this page in case someone else knows how long it takes. Cheers, WODUP 05:06, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's there now, so it takes (or at least can take) less than 12 hours. For future reference, the Wikipedia search feature is rubbish. It's almost always better to guess the name of the article you want (or know it exactly, as in this case), to browse relevant articles and categories for links, or just to use Google restricted to wikipedia.org. Algebraist 12:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Hey, welcome. Sorry, I deleted the article UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences because it was empty, so it met the speedy deletion criterion A3. You might want to try requesting the article instead, if you don't want to write it yourself. Or you could write the article in your own userspace (i.e. any article starting with User:Whitethunder79/...) and move it to the article namespace (the original name you had) once it's ready. I'd suggest creating a redirect to UCLA though. Don't hesitate to leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions or need anything, I'm always glad to help. Peace, delldot talk 07:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problems

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Copyright problems

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as the reviewing admin,I do not see substantial copyvio and I have removed the speedy. BUT:

UCLA Electrical Engineering Department

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in general, individual academic departments in individual universities are not considered notable at wikipedia. the School of Engineering is, but not the smaller academic divisions.Very very few such articles have ever been accepted by the consensus here--you would essentially need references showing that this was regarded as one of the top 2 or 3 world-class departments internationally. Maybe it is, but the onus would be upon you to show it. A much more likely approach would be to write articles on the most distinguished members of the faculty. Those in the national Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering are considered certainly notable here, though you should show their careers: honors, most important publications, and so on. and you must not take it from a UCLA or other website. Even if you obtain copyright permission under GFDL--it can not be limited to non-commerical use, it must be Public Domain or FGFDL, it is not likely to be the right style for an encyclopedia, which is different from the public relations usual of an institutional website.

It has to be written in a descriptive encyclopedic manner with respect to the provisions of WP:PROF., WP:COI, and WP:BFAQ. further advice is available. I'dbe glad to help you get suitable articles on important academics.

this also applies to alumni of a particular department--I do not think the consensus here has ever accepted such an article.

For the School of engineering , there should be no difficulty. Just write an adequate article--check some at other universities. it is possible also to do an article on School of engineering people, listing both alumni and faculty. But dont just copy the lists. And they should be people who have articles in wikipedia--that's our working standard of what it takes to be notable enough to be listed.

DGG (talk) 10:22, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 20:57, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Statistical Data on Wikipedia Page

Statistical data on the Wikipedia page is old and out dated. The only people who can update are those who have access to server statistics. Please update and show how popular Wikipedia is. Thanks Whitethunder79 (talk) 19:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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It will be neat if Wikipedia has a reader which reads the article in an organized nice way. I am not that active here but would like to get more active and this can be a good cause. Any ideas?

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