Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/March 2008

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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