User talk:Agent0060

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Agent0060! I am Marek69 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Marek.69 ^talk 14:43, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I found an article entitled Tie rod where it seemed to me that, in an automobile application, the component would be referred to in the UK as a track rod. I put a proposed amendment on the discussion page. A week later there was no negative response. Actually, there was no response at all. So I put my proposed amendment in the article. The intention was that entering "track rod" as a search term would initiate an index search. When I subsequently entered the search term, focus immediately jumped to Panhard rod. I cannot find any reference in the Panhard rod article to track rod or any reason why the search should immediately go there. I have put that on the Panhard rod discussion page, but what I think I want is how to stop the search term from immediately presenting the Panhard rod article. Please respond on my talk page. Agent0060 18:29, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Agent0060, thank you for your message.

The reason that Track rod immediately goes to Panhard rod is that Track rod is a redirect page

This means that if you search or click on Track rod you will be redirected automatically to Panhard rod (try it)

When you are on the Panhard rod, you may notice under the title it says (Redirected from Track rod)

If you clock on Track rod there, you will taken back to the Track rod redirect page.

The page will look like this:

A redirect page from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Redirect page
Panhard rod

If you click on edit, you will find the following code:

#REDIRECT [[Panhard rod]]
 {{R from alternative name}}

When you edit you simply need to replace [[Panhard rod] with [[Tie rod]

I hope this answers your question

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:15, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Marek69. Almost there. Can I delete the redirect page? It seems to me that if a Panhard rod proves not to be the same as a track rod, deletion of the redirect page would be the right thing. By the way, when I'm on Panhard rod, there is no redirection under the title.

Agent0060 20:30, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

To get the above message, you have to go to the Panhard rod article by clicking on the redirect page Track rod

As for deleting, only administrators can delete pages, however you can put in a request for this to be done. Please look at Wikipedia:Deletion policy

It may be better to change the redirect to its closest meaning, i.e., Tie Rod

or, you could create a new article by editing the redirect page and converting into an new article on Track rod

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:45, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Contact

Hi,

If you wish to contact me off-wiki, my email address is enabled. You're welcome to use it. Justin talk 15:49, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Your Teahouse question has been answered

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New reply same page! --Tito Dutta (talk) 15:52, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Argentine Government

Not sure whether this is your area, but here goes. In the article on the Argentine Government, there is a section on the Supreme Court. The last-named member of that court is shown as Dr Eduardo Coudet. However, the link is to an Argentine footballer of the same name. Surely that can't be right?Agent0060 12:14, 26 May 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent0060 (talk • contribs)

I'm interested in all subject areas on Wikipedia, and I'm happy to help. The info appears to be either in error or out of date. See http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corte_Suprema_de_Justicia_de_la_Naci%C3%B3n_Argentina#Corte_actual for a list in spanish of the members of the Supreme Court of Argentina. The Transhumanist 17:06, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Doesn't this need to be included in the English version. Agent0060 19:13, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Good thinking. Be sure to include references from an external source. You can find those by doing Google searches on the names of the judges found in the Spanish-language Wikipedia. The Transhumanist 21:53, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't ask me to do things like this. Getting old now, and brain is slowing down. I've identified the "problem". Now we need an expert. Are you an expert? Agent0060 11:21, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Welcome, and some tips...

I noticed, based on your total edits, that Wikipedia operations are still pretty new to you. Welcome. Thank you for joining us in the important work we do here.

I have a couple suggestions for you, to make things a little easier on the servers, and for your fellow editors.

1) Please fix your Signature, so it links to your user page or your talk page, or both.

2) Consider writing something about yourself at User:Agent0060, so that the rest of us can get to know you better. Check out the advice on how to design a user page at the Wikipedia:User page design center.

I hope you find these tips useful.

If you have any questions about Wikipedia, its contents, or how it works, feel free to drop me a note anytime. The Transhumanist 22:06, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Answer to note

Previously, you wrote the following:

I have some thoughts for you.

It's not so much that I'm new, but that I'm inexperienced and OLD. So I don't find it easy to assimilate procedures. Why doesn't Wikipedia identify contributors, so that significant items be challenged. Why are the language variants different? If an article is "true" in English, why isn't also "true" in Spanish?

Why don't you help me? Why don't you explain how everything should be done? Why don't you do it for me?

Keep in mind that almost everything that can be done on Wikipedia is explained in the help system.

The contributors of every single edit on Wikipedia are tracked. At the top of any article, click on "View history". Most of us go by pseudonyms, so we are not personally identified, but we are anonymously identified so that anyone can contact us to discuss the changes we have made to Wikipedia.

Though you can challenge items without looking at the edit history. Simply state your position on the article's talk page. To go to an article's talk page, at the top of the article, click on "Talk". Then click on "Edit".

Language variants are different because it would take hundreds of thousands of translators to implement a single Wikipedia in every language. It is simply much easier to let the people of the world create their own encyclopedias in their own languages.

If you have any further questions, I will be happy to answer them for you. The Transhumanist 15:38, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that "pages" differ and, in my opinion, favour the "experts". Example: Read a page and go to "Talk". Find that it's a page that is part of a "project". Can you find your way to the actual page so that you can amend it? No, you can't. If the page should be amended in English (my language), shouldn't it be amended in every other language? If an English-speaking "editor" amends a page, what point is there if a Spanish-speaker keeps the Spanish version as it is? I might be able to see what's wrong, but, not being multi-lingual or especially computer literate, I can't change what needs to be changed. Back to the beginning. A link is wrong. An argentine Supreme Court justice is an argentine footballer? Anybody want to explain? In step-by-step detail? Or make the change themselves so I don't screw things up? I thought "editors" were supposed to assist. Not just leave things as they are. Agent0060 11:52, 9 September 2013 (UTC)