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October 23

Recent Changes patrol

How do I get access to patrol recent changes? Deaths in 2013 (talk) 03:47, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

On the left side of your screen, in the "Tools" section of the left menu bar, is a link titled "Recent changes". Click that. Now you can patrol recent changes all you want. --Jayron32 02:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I am at the page in another internet window. I still can't get access. I'm new to recent changes patrol on Wikipedia. Can you please be more specific? Deaths in 2013 (talk) 04:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

When you click 'recent changes', what do you see? What happens? 86.181.68.35 (talk) 04:48, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm seeing "Recent changes" in the "Interaction" section not the "Tools". Here's a link to Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol and one directly to Recent Changes and just in case you were meaning something else here is New Pages. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 17:15, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Domian name

hello,wiki volunteers.thanks in advance .i really need a solution to this. i have developed a webpage regarding job search and preparations and thinking of buying a domain name as jog to jobs but i am thinking of some exciting name other than this.can u suggest some catchy names. thanks again.14.139.187.94 (talk) 06:33, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry but we don't answer questions for opinion ~Helicopter Llama~ 11:59, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Except in certain special cases, apparently. I'm not sure just what it is that makes them special, but I obviously still have a lot to learn around here. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 17:53, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

No opinion, but I can direct you to this book/workbook on the topic of picking a name for things [1]. SemanticMantis (talk) 13:24, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

On Icelandic names and sex-changes

Not sure whether this lives here or in language,but we'll give it a try here.Icelandic(and Faroese)families have unique naming systems so a male will be X Yson and a female will be X Ydottir.The name itself reflects whether you are male or female. If you had such a name and were to have a sex-change,would you have to change your name so you would now be Ydottir instead of Yson? Lemon martini (talk) 13:21, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

See Talk:Icelandic name#Sex change convention?, where this same question was explored. My understanding of the situation, which is very limited, is that a person getting a sex change (presuming their sex is legally changed following the surgery) may have to switch between -dottir and -son because of Icelandic law. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 13:56, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

This might help. The bill got passed BTW. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 20:57, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

spam trends

It occurred to me that I haven't heard from a prestigious non-accredited university in a long time, nor from anyone offering to submit my website to umpty-leven search engines in even longer. The Russians have shifted from email spam to phony HTTP requests (to fill up my website's referral log); my mail filter now catches more from Japan, South Africa and Sweden. Does anyone keep track of the types and sources of spamming as they come and go? —Tamfang (talk) 16:03, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The Spamhaus Project is the first thing that pops into my head. That's at least a jumping-off point. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 18:01, 23 October 2014 (UTC)