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Major-ish renaming scheme, good idea?
It would be handy for using search engines if the page naming scheme for the FAQs used subpages, eg calling Wikipedia:Technical_FAQ something like Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical instead. Then we could use a page specific search more easily, eg searching for site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ How do I report a bug? at Google would actually work. Are there any downsides/problems with the renaming scheme?--Commander Keane 02:50, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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How about an FAQ page for each Wikipedia Page ?
It's be nice to have a place where folks could ASK question about a SPECIFIC Wikipedia ENTRY/Page/Topic and have folks in the Wikipedia community answer it - there in the FAQ section for the specific topi POO
No doubt, some of these questions might make their way onto the main entry page for the topic, and others might be good for discussion ABOUT what should be added to or deleted from the page, but others are just Frequently (or infrequently) asked questions on the topic, and would be nice to be addressed. No doubt, some folks might also want to browse the FAQ page after reading the main entry page for a given topic, but it'd be nice to give folks that alternative ...
Any thoughts on this ? --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.229.208.33 (talk o contribs).
Adding Fixya as tech support resource
Dear all, Fixya is a notable community based site providing solutions to troubleshooting and tech support problems. I believe that the information found there is unique and highly relevant for owners of electronic appliances. Due to original user based content, most of the questions asked in Fixya can not be found anywhere else on the web. Since the edits I placed were deleted I was told to approach the community in order to understand how I may make Fixya's content available in Wikipedia. Your comments are highly appreciated. Yaniv.bl 08:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
New Message Indicator
How do I get rid of a New Message Indicator? 67.188.172.165 16:59, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
HEEEELLLOOOOO ME -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.176.228.7 (talk) 11:52, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Rambot
In the reader's FAQ, it has a question specifically refering to Rambot. Is that still relevant, 5 years and 1,600,000 or so articles later? Maybe a more general question and answer would do better. Atropos 17:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
This page should be protected
Shouldn't this really important page be edit protected? I was looking for some info and found it was blanked for the past 2 hours. All these lost newbies... --DoSiDo 04:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
what events/conditions lead to the rise in populism?
--hi im a 15 year old girl who is desperate to figure out the answer to this question please help me anyone ?(4.249.111.196 (talk) 17:47, 6 January 2008 (UTC))
FAQ reorg
Anyone who spends much time at WP:Help desk or other help pages, knows that users frequently ask questions that are answered in the various FAQ pages. Either they aren't bothering to read the FAQ or they are giving up before they find their question and answer. If it is the former - if they aren't even looking at the FAQ - we can't do anything about that here on the FAQ pages.
If the problem is that people are going to the FAQ, not quickly finding their question and giving up, then I think we can do better by slightly rearranging two of the FAQ pages. The main WP:FAQ page doesn't actually have any questions on it; it is an index to other pages that have questions. The WP:VFAQ page has questions and answers. I propose to rearrange these two pages so that the top FAQ page has the most frequently asked questions, then directs people to the FAQ index page if they don't find their question on the top page.
What I propose to do is Move the current FAQ page to "FAQ index", then Move VFAQ to FAQ. Then there will be some tweaking of the wording due to the new page names and structure. It's fairly straightforward and should not mess up any pages that link to the FAQ.
I'll wait a few days for feedback, then if there are no objections I'll go ahead and make the changes. Sbowers3 (talk) 23:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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Intravenous solutions
How long can intarvenous solutions hang? I was taught any solution was good for 24 hours with the exceptions of some critical care drips. Our policy agrees. The new director of nursing told me she thought it was 72 hours and maybe up to 96 hours. That does not make any sense to me,and she had no data to back it up.Any info with back up data would be appreciated Thank you.Sweetnurse91 (talk) 13:49, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Requested move
As mentioned above (in FAQ reorg) the current FAQ does not actually contain any "frequently asked questions". It is an index to other articles that contain FAQs. I propose to move the current FAQ to "FAQ Index", then move the current WP:VFAQ to FAQ.
When users come to the (reorganized) FAQ they will immediately see frequently asked questions. If their question is not there, they can go to the Index to locate other FAQ articles.
Existing links to FAQ will continue to work: They will go to a page that has FAQs on it. Existing links to VFAQ will still work via a redirect to the new FAQ (i.e. what was the VFAQ). The {{WikipediaFAQ}} which appears at the top of all FAQ pages will be modified to have links to FAQ and Index instead of to FAQ and VFAQ.
Everything will still work okay but there is a good chance that users will find their question on the first page they see and won't give up and ask their question at the Help desk.
To summarize:
- Move Wikipedia:FAQ to Wikipedia:FAQ Index.
- Move Wikipedia:Very Frequently Asked Questions to Wikipedia:FAQ.
- Optionally, move protect the new FAQ page. (The current FAQ page is move protected.)
- Optionally, un move protect the new FAQ Index page. (None of the other FAQ pages is protected.)
I don't think this is controversial but the page is Move protected.
Sbowers3 (talk) 00:26, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
SHortcut overload
Why do we have all these shortcuts for questions? - They seems unecessary. LeeVJ (talk) 22:31, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
(undent) I wrote this big reply before the last two comments, then I got an edit conflict, but it's too much to just throw away:
- As to whether it is harmful to show the poor delicate new user a shortcut, my view is that the new user is going to see a lot of shortcuts, and the sooner they get used to them the sooner they will become productive on Wikipedia. The scarce resource on Wikipedia is not the supply of new users. We have thousands of new users piling in every day (Wikipedia is like the American Idol tryouts). The vast majority of new users will not stick, and that is not our fault - we already put everything a new user needs into the friendly manuals. If people expect to master Wikipedia without reading the manuals, they have bigger problems than you or I can fix. Rather, the scarce resource here is the comparatively small number of users who have spent hundreds of hours reading the friendly manuals and making thousands of edits. Shortcuts improve the efficiency of expert users, thereby conserving the scarcest and most valuable resource on Wikipedia. The cool thing is, the users who invented shortcuts don't have to agree with the users who see no need for shortcuts. Wikipedia is flexible enough to accommodate both preferences.
- I recognize the amusing incongruity of my liking for shortcuts and my propensity to write gargantuan essays for fun. Unfortunately, there is not yet any shortcut to everything I wrote above. If there was, I would just link to it.
- No direct request - just indirect from the various misplaced questions which seem to me to mostly indicate confusion, sometimes 'can't be botherdness' admittedly but my thought's where that if they have come to the faq looking for heir answer to 'what is wikipedia' it would be best to just present them with an answer rather than causing another question Maybe the funding directed toward attaing new editors might provide us a study of the kind you ask! note I'm looking at accessing the FAQ from top level like 'questions' or 'about' which are very early on so a direct to a section is not applicable. LeeVJ (talk) 21:15, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
downloading windows 8 pro on my computer
it only down loaded so far and thats it it erased all the other the was on it too -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1219:8184:90A7:2042:9432:FE2A (talk) 05:45, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
I am khan Shamsullah khan (talk) 18:12, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
why remove safety alarms and bed rails from wheel chairs and beds?>
My mom is at Carmel manor Nursing facility and my family and I are upset with this mandate from the state. We put our loved ones in these facilities for safety and health REASONS. Sincerely, Paul Ochsner69.61.174.156 (talk) 00:19, 7 February 2018 (UTC)Paul Ochsner
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