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June 14
Online casino replaces pre-existing website
Several years ago, I deleted a previous article about Michael Greilsammer because it infringed the "about the artist" page on his website, http://www.michaelgreilsammer.com/michael-greilsammer-biography. Someone's asked on my talk page if this might have been a different person, because http://www.michaelgreilsammer.com is a website for online casinos, but the deleted version clearly talked about the same person as the current article.
This leads me to conclude that the current page (with elements such as Die Besten Online Casinos Österreich 2025) was registered by someone else after the violinist's registration expired. I'm pretty sure that the Domain drop catching article is relevant, since that's "the practice of registering a domain name once registration has lapsed, immediately after expiry". But does Domain hijacking apply? This website looks very similar to ones that I've often seen, where the expired registration is replaced with spam; I have no reason to expect that the website replacement was done by "abuse of privileges on domain hosting and registrar software systems", but I don't know if "changing the registration of a domain name without the permission of its original registrant" applies. Presumably the violinist didn't permit his website to be replaced with spam for online casinos, but the article seems to treat it as theft, and it doesn't seem theft to take something that's been abandoned. "Domain hijacking can be done in several ways, generally by unauthorized access to, or exploiting a vulnerability in the domain name registrar's system, through social engineering, or getting into the domain owner's email account that is associated with the domain name registration". Nyttend (talk) 20:02, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
- Check the Internet Archive and it's an obvious WP:USURPURL. Sesquilinear (talk) 20:15, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
- Sorry, not trying to get the original page. (We already have it in the deleted history, since I deleted it as a copyright infringement.) I'm asking about the classification here: is this an example of domain hijacking? Nyttend (talk) 22:17, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
- I think it's closer to Domain squatting. I've seen "usurped" as the Wikipedia term of art, as above. Sesquilinear (talk) 22:19, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
- Sorry, not trying to get the original page. (We already have it in the deleted history, since I deleted it as a copyright infringement.) I'm asking about the classification here: is this an example of domain hijacking? Nyttend (talk) 22:17, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
June 27
What's the point of the "<html>" tag in html?
I don't really get it. If you already know your gonna be coding an html file then what's the point of specifying its an html file? (Sorry if this is a stupid question.) Wordsonwordsonpagesonwordshello (talk) 15:30, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- HTML is a markup language. As such, it can be used in any file. I can put HTML in an email or a PDF or this answer here. A file with the extension .html simply acts as a hint that it contains HTML. So, the <html> tag means "I am starting HTML now." Also, you should use it to further define the content like <html lang="en">. ~2026-35761-94 (talk) 17:30, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you!!!!!!!!!!! Wordsonwordsonpagesonwordshello (talk) 18:16, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- See also File format#Magic number. -- Verbarson talkedits 19:35, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- Also, when Tim Berners-Lee designed HTML, he intended it to be an application of SGML. SGML documents have a tree structure of entities, whose root is an element as indicated by a tag. This was copied in HTML, in which the root is the <html> element. ‑‑Lambiam 22:11, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you!!!!!!!!!!! Wordsonwordsonpagesonwordshello (talk) 18:16, 27 June 2026 (UTC)