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March 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 1

1. Most popular articles
2. URLs being removed
3. Plagiarism
4. Archived Disupute template
5. uses for hard drives
6. PRINTING
7. technical support
8. Merge decision
9. name meaning
10. Resizing
11. creating a page
12. automatic signatures
13. skiriderexp.com
14. Are Wikipedia Bookmarks Possible?
15. Mirpur Thana - GR error
16. After editing a page, browser returns to top of article
17. I hate my watchlist.
18. Unifying wikipedia

March 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 2

1. Wood Brothers Racing
2. Talk page question
3. New article for a word already listed (under unrelated meaning)
4. No obvious insertion point in existing article
5. your recent edit has been reverted.
6. Template problem?
7. Image error
8. viewing answer to a question
9. LUUS:AP
10. Release dates using "hemisphere dependant" seasons (predominantly software).
11. Reinstating Deleted Page: Cary Peppermint
12. using wikipedia
13. Help desk regulars: please vote for bug fix
14. Kitchen Pass
15. Contents
16. Not sure what to do
17. cast
18. How Do I Make A Wikipedia Page?
19. Incorrect birth name listed for a certain person
20. Jack Kemp Library of Congress image
21. Templates such as Template:Saskatchewan Provincial Highways
22. Trying to Setup Personal Wikipedia

March 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 3

1. parser function "#if"
2. Removing Search History
3. Welcome template
4. Names of people on disambiguation pages
5. confusing box "multiple issues"
6. Viral text reference in article?
7. How do I use an image...
8. AWB help
9. clicking on edit-this-page brings up index.php as a save-file option
10. stub files
11. export page
12. Printing Categories
13. Copying my own work from another wikipedia
14. Number of administrators in 2008
15. Creating a New Term.
16. Citation broken
17. Country - United Kingdom being added whereEngland used.
18. Creating a category
19. Wikipedia Essay Contest

March 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 4

1. Changing the shape of the Contents list
2. template help
3. Images
4. Deletion review
5. Container of 6 lines with vertical scrollbars
6. Renaming a Page
7. question
8. offensive content
9. re http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_united
10. I can not edit with my username
11. team india
12. How to export a page with prefix 'Special'?
13. notibility?
14. adding image
15. conversion tables for measures
16. copyright
17. Notability (people)
18. export page
19. how to email
20. IFTHENELSE
21. Public proxy?
22. Zorro Series
23. No copyright violation if it's my own work.
24. Meth song edit
25. how to link to sections of a page
26. Newsweek Wrong?
27. IP address
28. Chatter Box

March 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 5

1. Can't change my skin
2. Userbox question
3. Page division
4. identity theft
5. Someone is linking to a commercial site from an article with suspect credentials
6. Please do not post ubseen pics
7. about fix maintenance in ibm aix
8. Unethical Use of Volunteers (adm) for FAN CLUB BIOGRAPHY
9. could somebody please help me?
10. Adding a Business Listing
11. RURAL ENGINEERING
12. WP:HD: old revision shown when logged out
13. Log in
14. Use of Wikimedia photo images
15. Crediting piracy groups with releases
16. medicine Raynaud's disease
17. Up to date picture
18. Growing Up Sitka Deer
19. logged out
20. My Account

March 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 6

1. How do I put in hyperlinks
2. Asking Question
3. Adding a Quote Header
4. Help with article, please
5. White blood cells
6. Removing Warning Boxes on Talk Pages
7. Correcting an ambiguous link
8. Unsuccessful log on/create account
9. editing a new name
10. adding a new model/socialite entry
11. Google Google everywhere
12. Template interwiki links
13. Chemistry
14. How to create a new page
15. science / aircraft
16. I want to improve
17. statistical analysis/test of hypothesis
18. palm date suppliers od manufacturing machines and suppliers of wrapping materials
19. How do I propose an article for deletion?
20. How to includ an I am online in my profile?
21. Login in different language versions
22. Uploading Promotional band photo
23. How do I allow any user to edit but the edited pages only updated on wiki after being approved by moderators?
24. Jason Castro
25. Doppleganger Accounts
26. Writing about a term that has a deferent meaning
27. Looking for rule/guideline/template/essay on "Don't make intentional bad edits to test WP"
28. List of Article I wrote
29. Mercian regiment
30. are women suppose to be desciples or preaching in seventh-day-adventist church
31. Editing External Links
32. Talk Page
33. Posting an article
34. Wikipedia spam being sent from "Wikimedia.org?"
35. Main Page Down!
36. Twinkle

March 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 7

1. Infobox
2. Talk:Bathrobe
3. Is not allowing students to go to the bathroom legal?
4. Somebody erased a talk page.
5. Link to foreign language Wiki, yet again
6. something
7. Psoriatic Arthritis page
8. Article marked for deletion
9. question about mathematic formulae support
10. How to set table max width
11. logging out
12. Template for lack of an external link
13. chemistry
14. How can I create a dynamic wiki page
15. External Link check
16. Ebay seller is plagurizing Wikipedia
17. Putting a box on a film page that contains poster and film info?
18. Can someone please tell me how to upload and post a picture to wikipedia article?
19. Speedy Deletion of my biography
20. Making a table from 4 columns

March 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 8

1. how can I fix a page that someone else moved, prematurely, from my user area to the public area, without getting blocked?
2. um...
3. DB tags showing as minor edits
4. Extreme Croquet
5. Article Title
6. Closing my account
7. File sharing
8. find a translation for Mi Corazoncito?
9. Google indexing time minimum?
10. computer hardware
11. I can't find anything I need!!!
12. adding in someone's signature stamp?
13. Random album art deletion
14. Trying to delete a pic
15. How do I edit this box?
16. Whose web site is it?
17. How do I make a contents on a page?
18. Help on Assessment Categories needed
19. Is it OK to include a contextually appropriate commercial link?
20. Stub size
21. Professional help in publishing profile on Wikipedia
22. Log in
23. Mentioning a song that's about the subject of a biographical article

March 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 9

1. Is there a way to find out how many hits/visits a particular item has received?
2. turkey
3. Redirects
4. How do you make an article?
5. Information from a single source
6. problem with a page?
7. Uploading image
8. Red links to an existing userpage
9. BC vs BCE
10. Bossons
11. Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
12. name change
13. Heparin recall - please supply more information!!!
14. Kosovo and the death penalty.
15. There is no entry for "Post-consumer society" - is there a reason that entry is excluded?
16. heroin
17. Plano Senior High School

March 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 10

March 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 10

1. Adding a Picture to Wikipedia
2. "Surfboard"
3. Link unfailry removed
4. Question about tables.
5. Kashmir Observer english language daily newspaper from Indian administered Kashmir
6. Where to change my name?
7. Action Asia magazine worthy of a nod?
8. Putting blank articles into category listings
9. What the...?
10. How can I modify a date in infobox?
11. Erroneous Category for tobacco plant
12. Filtering out articles I started (First edits)
13. How to display the page based on setting of flag in the"text" table of wiki database
14. Working on newly added article
15. Watchlist reformat?
16. Habeas corpus article
17. Redirecting
18. How to achieve consensus
19. GTA Poster
20. Restriction/Limitations
21. Wrong font
22. Hi am the daughter of parents that commited a crime back in 1972 and am looking for an artivcle

March 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 11

1. Script conks out on every preview
2. Edit count stat tool
3. Need help on a table
4. Citations of Shakespeare
5. Recent changes and large size changes
6. Removing content from user talk pages.
7. Why could I not open the Japanese Wiki
8. Holman Fenwick & Willan
9. New Users
10. Halo 'o Vave
11. Moving images from en to commons
12. "Even when we were no more, sun and moon would be there."
13. Edits are not visible
14. Sortable table problem
15. Freezing computer
16. contributing
17. creating a page
18. Richard Leiterman
19. Entering Book Information
20. Editing an article and adding footnote
21. ?
22. inclusion of college technical reports
23. Equation numbering
24. Is it possible to restore a userpage/talk page after a username change?
25. Gadgets

March 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 12

1. Article Format
2. Move Tab is missing
3. Mark A. Moore
4. Part 145 Line Maintenance
5. I need some one who operates bots on OS X
6. what is out put of that prog. and why why??
7. Linking articles
8. MAPs
9. corporation making it's own article
10. Featured Article
11. vandalism?
12. removing a link
13. NYSE
14. I applaud what you are doing about not removing the pictures
15. Karen R. Hitchcock - Somebody keeps reverting the article
16. peristent anon vandal
17. Name mispelled
18. Problem with Text Header
19. Is there a better way to deal with on going vandalism?
20. The St. Patrick page

March 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 13

1. Double redirect
2. Images not working properly
3. Title change
4. User List
5. Welcome message
6. Michael Rogin
7. Hide boxes in articles
8. ILGA World Conference 2008 Quebec City
9. Broken reference
10. QUESTION ABOUT PAGE NOW MARKED AS ADVERTSDIMENT
11. cherrytree
12. Images
13. DynamicCategoryMap not showing
14. Page not edited
15. Black Rock Mountain (World of Warcraft)
16. search help
17. side bar edit buttons
18. Youth on Wikipedia
19. WAAA
20. Subpages
21. MediaWiki Scripts
22. Automation Tools
23. Responding/Posting a Comment to an article already on the site

March 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 14

1. Huy Nguyen
2. Freezing computer II
3. How do I tag an article for not being neutral?
4. How to report someone that may be 3RR
5. Brain Anuerysm
6. Question about editing article on hemorrhoids
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history
8. Using material licensed under Creative Commons license
9. Tables
10. Rude picture
11. References
12. References
13. Moved image to Commons, now what?
14. help with life
15. Merging Infoboxes
16. 3 things
17. Speedy Deletion HELP
18. Help! need to change email address on account
19. Use of blogs as legitimate citations?
20. please REMOVE ALL PICTURES under Artical PROPHET MUHAMMAD
21. How Do I Add An Article?

March 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 15

1. Guidelines on length of Further Reading sections
2. Not sure if this is the right place
3. Question about fair use
4. Can't access my account
5. I am trying to add a picture
6. Who did $this and when did they do it?
7. Mining_Simulation
8. re directs
9. What is this called
10. Infobox image
11. Article on William C. Marland
12. Talk:Ralph Lauren vandalism
13. Aligning text
14. Why can't I post an article?
15. Fair use questions- round 2
16. making a wikipedia page
17. WAAA Vol. 2
18. Edit Rolled Back
19. Uploading a replacement image
20. Help!
21. List of recent headers in article
22. How do I get rid of my monobook.js?
23. Page protection

March 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 16

1. Why did I get these messages?
2. Hey, my userpage
3. Variables in template transclusion
4. WXXS FM Ownership Update
5. deleted page
6. Add an article
7. drinking laws in spain
8. Citations
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
10. Intra Wikipedia Copying
11. Can someone quicker than me create a disambiguation page?
12. graham stack disambiguation page
13. Information Boxes
14. Random article functionality
15. Inserting Images
16. Articles
17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 16#|]]
18. Nominations of Law Enforcement Officers - First responders
19. Table backgrounds turning white on IE7?
20. Urgent help requested: India

March 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 17

1. Query re email
2. unable to remove category from pages
3. newbie
4. How to I stop a revert war?
5. username - it's mine - can't use
6. user page info boxes
7. vandalism of link from main page
8. Need specific administrator
9. pages
10. Upload Mistake
11. HI
12. Summarize data from multiple page to one page
13. e learninig
14. full text of 1965 Hart-Celler immigration Act
15. Freezing computer--the sequel
16. "Robert Falls" page redirected?
17. confirmation email

March 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 18

1. REdirect a Company Name to a new domain
2. Wildcard searching of my userspace
3. How can I add more information to the Nutritionalvalue template
4. Redirect goes back to an older version
5. netblock for download of archive
6. how to delete entry from page history
7. Visually Impaired Access to Maths Expressions on Wikipedia
8. Display text as entered
9. stub files
10. how to traslate from english to other languagess
11. Text size
12. mazo dela roache jalna mini series,
13. John George Gough article
14. Carex eburnea
15. Making edits show up
16. world war 1 Frankfoss (talk) 16:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
17. How Do I delete a Page I have made for myself?
18. Change in editing mechanism?
19. sig wrong- know nothing about code
20. Odd history
21. List of public universities in North Carolina
22. Article reviewing
23. Linking to images
24. How do i create a new page?
25. Semi-protection of a new article
26. WAZZ/WFLB
27. John Deere article
28. Energy drink

March 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 19

1. Template format
2. Conversation about deleting a category
3. Am I allowed to post this article?
4. Help move
5. Help with monobook
6. Cyber Team Page?
7. i need answer soon as possible...
8. Deleted Work
9. new article
10. Creating a Wikipedia Page
11. Blacklist removal
12. Number of articles created
13. Making additions to articles
14. Question about diff
15. Edit count
16. Attention Editors of Wikipedia
17. Moving (Renaming)
18. Spelling anomaly
19. Ayuda

March 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 20

1. ?!?
2. Article Singh
3. using wikipedia to advertise
4. Usage of hexadecimal colours in wikimarkup tags
5. Template markup
6. Total number of articles in categories
7. i can't edit a page
8. Quiz
9. RFA Tool
10. im not able to see telugu font in my system
11. about project
12. Created Articles?
13. about expecting a normal child after getting married in relatives
14. Lupin's anti-vandal tool and Twinkle have disappeared
15. Creation of a sourced article in the place of an unsourced one that was deleted and protected.
16. Bad sites for referencing
17. Contibution
18. Is it considered OK to remove any unreferenced material from an article?

March 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 21

1. The Bolles-Brendamour Company
2. Editing a page
3. Problem bolding
4. copyright tag for mug shot
5. Delete an article
6. Lost (TV series) page move
7. My external link gets deleted by another user for his own selfish gains
8. History on NAFTA creditng stating NAFTA was the #1 priority under Clinton's admin. changed
9. Skrewdriver article
10. User Name
11. changes to page
12. Edits
13. Oggcodecs: Help in getting this to work.
14. Edit reverted
15. italic font problem
16. Share marketing
17. Policicy changes at methodone clinics.
18. H. P. Grice not listed as "Alumni of Corpus Christi", Oxford
19. Adding An Article to a Disambiguation
20. mouseover problems
21. Translation of sources
22. Visitors
23. Top contributors to this page
24. Mystery: New article is first search result in Google, now result does not appear at all.
25. problems with reflist. citations at University of California, Riverside
26. Vaccine controversy
27. How do you get a picture deleted?
28. Editcountitis
29. Watchlist preferences
30. Ferdinand A Brader edit
31. List of accounts?
32. Edit page info not showing up on main article
33. confirmation email again

March 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 22

1. Point system
2. Template problems
3. Wikipedia Edition
4. Resolving proposed merger of several articles involving Blue-green article
5. Semi-Protection request
6. I cannot get picture to insert
7. Nashi pear - what it is NOT good for
8. uploading
9. Rollback image
10. WikiProject Ad help

March 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 23

1. I think my article is broke!
2. Correct use of template for a "cited in" circumstance
3. trouble adding album cover to exsisting article
4. Academia Estadounidense de la Lengua Española
5. Category Template creation
6. How is it that some businesses get selected to be listed in Wikipedia, and others do not?
7. Inserting a picture
8. Hard copy references
9. Im confused
10. Talk page archiving
11. old format of searching
12. user.gif

March 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 24

1. Dodgy source
2. Staying logged in to Wikipedia (redux)
3. Change email address; forgot password
4. clarity is nice: a follow up question with more info
5. Deletion of my page, Poet To Arms Dealer
6. How to include an I am online in my profile?
7. Spam on a user's own talkpage as opposed to his/her userpage
8. Page of "Frozen Noodles"
9. Weird
10. Afd?
11. Horizontal line
12. Images on article "Azione Capital" are not displaying at all
13. British United Airways
14. I do not have access to my email address
15. Help with Userpage?
16. Needed Information about an article,..which was deleted for no real reason.
17. North Broad Station
18. Help creating an article!
19. Crossword Problem
20. Wild Car is first card - call color and play draw four?
21. General Help
22. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 24#{{la.7CThumb wrestling}}|Thumb wrestling (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)]]
23. Laptop for poor.

March 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 25

1. Terry Finn & Terry Finn photograph
2. What should "Keyboards" link to?
3. Problem Uploading An Article
4. Comparison articles
5. Vandalism by Ajjay
6. Non free images in template space BUT on the doc page ?
7. Please don'0t delete my page- and give me help!
8. My account is going haywire
9. how do i print just two pages of an articel with out printing the whole article
10. link to a section
11. My navigation bar
12. Turning a portrait 90 degrees
13. Account name
14. Uploading a file
15. Creating a randomized object on my userpage
16. Hebrew language in infobox of Tel Aviv
17. I would like to get a special export
18. Citations
19. Daniel Hunt, Actor
20. HELP
21. Header
22. ref tag Mouseoverproblems not solved
23. Make template contents searchable on including page?
24. Navbar problem
25. how to cite this site?

March 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 26

1. Adoption
2. globalization
3. Help! Trying to add bio.
4. hansborough article
5. Search different from a link
6. toplogy
7. the electoral 1824
8. Images not appearing
9. Creating a new page related to an exisiting one
10. learn to fly planes
11. my talkpage
12. password problems
13. creating page, same name
14. Article Naming Conflict
15. second image at top
16. Opening IRC
17. adobe reader
18. watch page
19. Pattern identification
20. Another Fair Use question
21. Infobox Image
22. "Deleted contributions"

March 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 27

1. Wi-Fi and Wi-Max Ownership
2. Create an article
3. General WikiProject help
4. Creating an article
5. Where are you?
6. How to find if there's a sockpuppet
7. Problem with interface
8. Copyvio or not?
9. Navbox below background color
10. Image editing
11. publish
12. article
13. doubts
14. Do you offer working while studying in National University?
15. Looking for something to do
16. Spider life time
17. Fools
18. Replace current image option
19. Commenting in article body bad form?
20. Formatting references
21. Advantages of Silver Oak tree
22. Deleted Page Question
23. List of recent headers in article
24. Inserting an image 1/2 way
25. publish my article
26. Changing the title line of a page - how?
27. Headline text
28. Visitor numbers
29. Adding to categories
30. San Francisco (Whitney's) playland at the Beach Carousel
31. Simple Spanish Wikipedia?
32. My userpage
33. Filing A Lawsuit against you!!!

March 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 28

1. vCarding in Wikipedia - where is it at ?
2. Anyone having a problem with the history or their watchlist?
3. Username posts
4. How to I get to the Wikipedia top 100 viewed pages?
5. Help on mainpage article rv vandalism
6. Confused
7. HEY!!!
8. Request for Tips on Reliable Sources
9. mailing a page of an article in wikipedia
10. updates to article not appearing immediately
11. New Entry for Trimedia Group
12. WP:DYKA AKA WP:Recent additions
13. Giovanni Martinelli - Atlantic crossing
14. Wapipedia stopped working
15. When a bracket is just a bracket ...
16. Help editing a page
17. How do I prevent getting autoblocked?
18. WikiProject Newsletters
19. Contributions
20. Franceca F is back,
21. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 28#|]]
22. Editing a Wikipedia (?) page

March 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 29

1. Combinatorial mathematics
2. Cheyne-Stokes respiration (I'm not asking for medical info, I'm reminding everyone)
3. Editing a template
4. IP
5. log on problems
6. Further to articles in English on EXPO 67, the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967 in Montreal.
7. Citation for "Elisabeth Rodriguez" article
8. User edit counts
9. Question about unified login
10. paradox
11. How Can i edit and add one information in Wikipedia?
12. Question about future merging of accounts to a unified login
13. Right ulnar anti sensory.
14. I did not vandalize
15. General availability of unified login
16. Tournament Brackets
17. Links in a table
18. Can someone make a artikel on my website ?
19. Editing Article Titles
20. I am trying to create an article but whenever i submit it all the text is on one line going straight across the page for quite some space, what should I do?
21. Personal Sandboxes?
22. Wikipedia join date
23. printable page
24. Problems logging in

March 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 30

1. Daylight savings time
2. change username on wikipedia of another language
3. Copyright
4. deleting an article in a Mass moderated AFC archives page
5. Transclusion problem
6. Keyword Search
7. Before Common Era or Anno Domini
8. Driver licencing in New Zealand
9. Format of citation
10. Where to ask merging usernames?
11. Contact an Admin SARAH?
12. HELP!!! i screwed up an artical
13. My PC crashed before I could click "save" for my Wiki work-in-progress! How can I recover it? HELP!
14. Deleted entry
15. Battle of Stoke Field
16. Teaching profession
17. Advertising
18. New biography
19. Talk page subpages
20. SACEUR
21. inserting a picture into a wikipedia article
22. Hudson Cutler is a hoax?
23. What happened here please?
24. use of singular "they"
25. Circular Redirect - Leave or Fix?
26. Is the "collapsing" of references encouraged?
27. adding notable Belizean artist to existing category
28. RMS Mauretania

March 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 31

1. Samantha Turba
2. A Wolf in Bot's Clothing??
3. Template:Cite press release
4. JPI Image use
5. Help with creating a company wiki and personal bio wiki
6. clear history
7. Somebody deleted what I had put up
8. Coats of arms
9. PROBLEM WITH THE LOG IN
10. can't login even w/ new temporary pwd
11. Translating texts
12. Vandalism
13. Hussein Chalayan Biography
14. Alt codes
15. Writing "invisible"
16. picture upload
17. no references/puffs
18. new article
19. american revolution
20. LA's Prom Closet
21. Creating Article
22. Youtube, Myspace, and Fansite Refs
23. My Biography
24. Origin of the South Atlantic Medal
25. art
26. who is floxtar?
27. My changes appears on some computers and not on others!
28. Template for Media citations
29. A-class article
30. Infobox italics
31. The official contents of a music page