Help talk:Starting a new page

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Leevanjackson in topic Moving Home
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Protecting a page from being created edit

It is not really possible to protect a page from being created, but one can create a page with a standard text such as in w:en:Template:Deletedpage and protect that page. Note that sometimes a terminology like "This page should not be created." is used even though for the system the page exists. Therefore it is not suitable for demonstrating a link to a non-existing page.

Pages are create-protected all the time; I was actually looking for somewhere to ask if the create protect bans on articles are ever lifted. Daniel Christensen (talk) 18:12, 27 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

That section was correct at one time...but that was a long time ago - I've updated it now. If you would like to get the create protection lifted on a page, you can bring it up either with the protecting admin or at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Font question edit

I just have a font question. Somehow yesterday when I use doing my research the font in the text changed, it is now huge, and I can't figure out how to reset it. I didn't change anything. it so big now I can't focus on the pages. I turned everything off, started over this morning and it's still huge. I know this isn't an article question, but I need help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.78.245 (talk) 13:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Can you provide a link to the article and/or the edit that caused the change? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Moving Home edit

I have recreated this page at Help:Empty pages as a lot of links were pointing to it in the assumption it was how to edit new articles ( and most editors following these links will be 1st timers]], all previous links have been aimed at the better creating articles links e.g. Wikipedia:Starting an article, the shortcut still points here for now , but I'll try to check for the few cases which really did want to create a new empty article without then creating article content within it Lee∴V (talkcontribs) 01:21, 9 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Update: no use of the shortcut in this sense redirecting to article creation. I have created a new shortcut for the specific use of 'creating a page thats not going to be an article' it is WP:EMPTY, hoe this is all clear and fine, redirecting this page to Wikipedia:starting an article now ... Lee∴V (talkcontribs) 01:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)Reply