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May 3

Factual information

How do I give you factual information? It's taken me hours to get here, so I have zero interest in editing myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LstrmCloser (talk • contribs) 07:24, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

If someone understands the statement "It's taken me hours to get here" please let us know, I feel it would be essential to understanding the content of the question.--Lgriot (talk) 08:33, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I interpret it as meaning "Here, to a place on Wikipedia where I can actually ask a question and stand some chance of getting an answer". In which case, my response is:

If you are unable or unwilling to edit an article directly, but have a link to a reliable source which could be used to enhance that article, edit the talk page, and make a short, polite request for other users to update the article; be sure to include a link to the source you would like to see used. Please be aware that we're all volunteers, so it my take some time for people to respond. Please also be aware that if the source is not reliable, or does not provide verifiable facts relevant to the subject of an article, your request may declined with varying degrees of politeness or bluntness by other users. If there isn't yet an article on your topic of interest at all, please begin at Requested Articles. Thank you for wanting to help enhance Wikipedia! AlexTiefling (talk) 11:07, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

To answer the question, go to the Talk Page of the article that you have information about (click on the "Talk" tab at the top left corner of the article). Click on "New Section" and type in your information exactly as you have done here. To be included, it will need to be referenced by some kind of published material (book, magazine, newspaper, website) which you need to tell us about. Then you need to wait for a kindly editor to put it in the article for you, if they think that it's relevant and notable. Alansplodge (talk) 11:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

And to get to that article in the first place, type its name in the Search box above and press Go. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 11:24, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Problem With Downloading a PDF Version of "The Constellation E-Book"

Hi Wikipedia Staff...My Name is John White & my e-mail address is: (email address removed)... The question I have is that I am unable to download the e-book as titled above from your site. I have followed these steps with the following results: 1). Attempted to download the PDF file numerous times and I reach approximately 92% and I get a "Render Error" Code... 2). I am "logged" in as a "user/member"... 3). The book "contents appears to load fine, then the "License Pages" start at about 85%+/-, then continues until 91% and "change"...Then I get the "Render Error" script response with a page of data... 4) The last line of the error code reads: "rendering 91.1784361773% rendering in function system, file /home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib/nslave.py, line 64"... Is there something I should do to remedy this???...My intent is to use it only for my private studies and will not be sharing it the file with anyone... Your assistance regarding this matter would be much appreciated...

Thx Much...And you all are doing a "Fantastic Job" with respect to Wikipedia!!!

Respectfully, John White IV...(email address removed) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwhite888 (talk • contribs) 08:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I have removed your email address to protect against spammers - Cucumber Mike (talk) 10:34, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi John. Thanks for your kind words about Wikipedia.

As I understand your problem, you are trying to download our article Constellation as a PDF by clicking Download as PDF in the left-hand menu. Apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick.

I've just tried to replicate the error, but it worked perfectly for me. Therefore I've saved the PDF elsewhere, and you can access it here. I'll try to keep the file online for a day or two, but please try to download it sooner rather than later. Let me know if you have any problems. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 10:47, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Mozilla Archive Format ¦ Reisio (talk) 12:00, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Can you explain that a little more, Reisio? I've read the article a couple of times, but I don't really see the connection. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 15:02, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Why rely on a server corrupting HTML into PDF when you can save the HTML directly. ¦ Reisio (talk) 23:30, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thanks. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 07:08, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure this is a misunderstanding of the problem. Constellation is a commercial service that creates e-books for publishers. The OP is probably referring to some specific e-book, but unfortunately there is no way of figuring out which one or where the OP is trying to download it from. There is a facility in Wikipedia for creating e-books (go to the main page and look for "create book" in the left column), but as far as I know it doesn't have anything to do with Constellation. Looie496 (talk) 15:37, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I thought that, but the OP seems to know they're at Wikipedia, and the process described does seem to be mostly similar to the 'Create book' process here. I've left a message on his talk page - guess we'll just have to wait and see if we get any feedback. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 15:51, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I suspect you're right. The error mentioned above also seems to come from the MediaWiki collection extension used to generate PDFs [1]. Nil Einne (talk) 04:22, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

criminal background checks

I would like to know how many years a potential employer can do a background check. I read somewhere that it illegal for them to check back more than seven years,depending on what your applying for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricardonartates (talk • contribs) 17:40, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

You can read about your rights as a prospective employee here. uhhlive (talk) 18:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

It depends entirely on your jurisdiction. The above link is only valid for the US. Mingmingla (talk) 19:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

In the UK, employers who are authorised to obtain CRB checks can find out about any charge or caution (or even suspicion in the case of enhanced CRB checks) right back to the age of criminal responsibility (10 years). For other jurisdictions and employers, the situation will be different, as mentioned above. Dbfirs 12:26, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Airports which only Ryanair flies to

Here in Europe, I'm travelling with Ryanair, which is known for, with a number of exceptions, mainly using secondary airports. However, I was wondering: what are the airports which at present only Ryanair flies to? A quick Google search confirms that there are such cases, although I couldn't find a lot of specific cases or a list of such airports. The closest example I can think of is Rome-Ciampino, which at present only Ryanair and Wizz Air use (I'm not sure if easyJet still flies there, as they did fly there in the past). From what I've read, most of the airports which only Ryanair flies to are very small and serve only one or a few flights, but among the airports where Ryanair is the only airline, which of them are bases or otherwise used for several destinations? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 20:28, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Have you checked out the airports listed at Ryanair destinations? That might help. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:07, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

I think that's very unlikely. An airport would be disadvantaged by restricting their services to one operator. Being an Irish airline, I would expect any such airport to be in Ireland, but all its Irish airports are used by other airlines.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:05, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

I think you'd be looking at a new / newly converted, small airport which is still in thep rocess of attracting airlines. For example, between about 2011-2012 London Southend Airport was a single airline airport, but is now a two-airline airport, and will very soon become a three-airline airport. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 14:38, 5 May 2013 (UTC)