Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/September 2007

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September 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 1

1. Playboy Magazine Covers
2. Firefox spell-check on Wikipedia
3. Wikipedia Compactabilty
4. Html suppliment
5. Contacting Janke
6. 1 Suggestion and 1 Problem
7. I am INDIAN i need to help you ,in your country ,a person cheated me
8. printing
9. Request for article
10. Slight talkpage problem
11. The Sound of Music
12. How u get such a Large Information
13. Question
14. Renaming
15. Image loading
16. How to go back 20 revs and malicious changes ?
17. Wiki table in wrong place in article ... cannot move it
18. Images
19. gamecocks
20. Another Bug
21. Cant Find The Right infoBox
22. Picture of the Day
23. About the 'Dead By April' page.
24. Error in Host
25. Bible Translation
26. RADIO TALK SHOW HOST AND ROMANCE NOVELIST SKYLAR STONE
27. Skin Problems
28. Ausralia, Mareeba
29. WP commons distinct from WPde ?
30. construction heading
31. embedding content
32. Public domain
33. How do you embed Wikipedia Content into a webpage

September 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 2

1. Reverting on Template:Pirates
2. New entry?
3. Other name for existing article
4. Merging
5. 1973 comet
6. Signature
7. Problem with editing a section
8. agricultural land
9. Disambig query
10. Birth date and death date
11. Word
12. GKMilner
13. Unlocking attachments
14. How do I place the "biassed article" warning label on a page?
15. citation question
16. Flagging for style
17. WP:BLP interpretation requested

September 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 3

1. Why is my IP address blocked?
2. Replacing fictional bio with more important actual person's bio
3. I need help in creating a new account
4. Removing Speedy Deletion Templates
5. Article sections for biographies
6. Anarchism
7. Webpage is not displayed properly after login.
8. How to make a userpage
9. ghargaon and pathwada
10. Suppressing summary
11. Renegade Consulting
12. Creating an article that has the same name as one that already exists
13. Status Bot Help?
14. LogMeIn, Inc
15. Development of three germinal layers
16. renaming account
17. Q-zar
18. Free use the any powerfull telescope for euducation.
19. Information box
20. I think someone is hacking into my account.
21. Reading Old Deleted Articles
22. Editing to a page not having an 'Edit' tab
23. Cities on Wikipedia
24. pronouncing non english words
25. How to create a wiki page with Tabs
26. Searching
27. Wikilink in Spanish language article
28. Battle of Los Angeles
29. This
30. Losing login
31. Use of Image in article A. Baldwin Wood
32. I don't remember my Username and I would like to recover it - can it be sent to my email?
33. Help with adding a photo to an article.
34. How do I respond to an answer on this page?

September 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 4

September 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 4

1. To know better about using Wikipedia.
2. Qingming Festival painting by Qiu Ying
3. Moving an Article
4. Go to end
5. error message...
6. Film page style
7. How do I add a page I'm already a user??
8. Purchase
9. I want to get my own page.
10. Why was the page Inside Sport Forum deleted?
11. Inflection
12. How do you spell the religoun brevlenes
13. mga batas sa pilipinas
14. Single newlines within a paragraph?
15. Location Distances on City/Town articles
16. iller clothing company not mentioned
17. Definition of "Tranche"
18. Problem with wikipedia search: Glasgow
19. Definition of "Tranche"
20. Malayalam version of wikipedia
21. Who are the best article writers on Wikipedia?
22. earth tones
23. How do I delete an blank article that I created by accident?
24. up to date
25. Page deleted without Consultation
26. Adding an article relating to my company
27. I am having problems adding content.
28. New to Wikipedia
29. Acceptable articles
30. Uploading pictures
31. bees stung
32. Adding an Article
33. need help finding information
34. Size of Wikipedia
35. Please help with my username password.
36. Wikipedia code changes
37. Find word from meaning?

September 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 5

1. Starting my own Wiki.
2. Archiving
3. I'm Wondering....
4. Slightly Mispelled Article Title
5. WP: Lawsuits?
6. Mc/Mac; etc.
7. translate from Dutch to English
8. Aligning text right
9. benefits of larix decidua
10. West Siberian Laika
11. Starting Essay Pages
12. Commons images in Wikipedia
13. Correcting information
14. Page deletion
15. Path to Adminship
16. Meaningless redirect
17. Any scope for adding an essay with dissenting views on Wikipedia's entries under "Competitiveness?"
18. Jimbo Wales e-mail?
19. Talk page format
20. Commotio (choir)
21. Hi
22. Infobox graphic
23. Definitions
24. How to leave Wikipedia and delete an account?
25. Login Problem - HELP!
26. Suggesting an article
27. wikipedia pages that parallel and check other media
28. Merging two pages and then removing one?
29. Please help me to simplify the question
30. Page deletion
31. Watchlist scripts
32. Pornography
33. fleeing a police officer
34. Start, create content, stub or article
35. Advertising/Marketing posts.
36. Unnecessary swap
37. Parser Functions
38. Reference format
39. Default sorting with certain surnames
40. download wikipedia earth
41. Embedding Videos
42. 2,000,000 articles- What if we reach it on September 11th?

September 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 6

1. Netherlands
2. Supporting
3. Possible copyvio
4. Citing Audio Evidence
5. Delete from search drop down menu
6. Improving Google search result
7. Your list of Buffalo actors and actresses
8. redirects
9. Why was my article deleted?
10. External links
11. What algorithm is used for "Random Article"?
12. Correcting typo's in archive
13. want to purchase sex toy
14. RE:Speedy deletion of Decisional analysis of complex systems
15. Editing
16. Lifeline Expedition
17. Distinguished Flying Cross list of Recipients
18. Getting Involved with WikiProjects
19. Posting while logged in
20. How can I
21. an external link?correction?addition?
22. Entry for famous gays and lesbians
23. New redirect
24. about using wikipedia
25. redirect
26. Protection from Editing
27. Image identification assistance
28. Side efftects of ICD
29. Headline
30. Publishing my article
31. Inactive, Vandalism-only accounts
32. Creation
33. Edit Counter Update times?
34. montmorency football club
35. New redirect

September 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 7

1. merging articles
2. shortcut
3. Yet another redirect
4. -_- You're done, huh? -_-
5. Citing my sources
6. Another redirect (almost forgot)
7. New redirect 2
8. Induction hob
9. I wish to delete a photo
10. Two different pages about Jönköping University
11. clearing search history
12. Adding an information box in an academic page
13. Hiding
14. ATTEMPTING TO ADD PHOTO, TEXT DISAPPEARS!! HELP!!
15. hanover, germany
16. Watchlist a page please
17. I contributed to an entry or two, but my signature does not appear ---- Why?
18. Spam
19. title
20. Biased Article
21. bgcolors
22. Entry not appearing
23. Entry not appearing part 2
24. Homosexual
25. Heres what appears to be a stupid question
26. Malayalam
27. Requested Username - Successful or Not??
28. vikipedi
29. Neah Bay Washington Page
30. InfoBox for Kibbutz (Eng) is too restrictie - need to enhance
31. Content Question
32. Broken template?
33. Article marked for deletion?
34. user talk: Sunderland06
35. physical geography
36. Listing our firm
37. I "do not have permission" to view main page source, but I can anyway
38. ?
39. New article
40. human anatomy&physiology
41. More on Risa
42. apology
43. Copyright tag
44. can't add proper citations because most of the article has been removed for lack of citations!

September 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 8

1. Article deleted
2. Jude Stringfellow
3. US Petrochemical
4. research
5. Adding rows to existent tables
6. Problem getting latest version of uploaded JPG to load in articles
7. Pictures on this site is not being able to see on webpages
8. Edit Conflict on article
9. SUSTAINABLE LOGGING
10. Google Books
11. Now I'm just lost
12. Categories
13. war
14. Uploading pictures
15. Deleted Page
16. request to block/delete a user account
17. wikitable sort
18. Japanese characters
19. How do I contribute to Wikiquote?
20. can someone fix the edouard manet page for me??
21. Help
22. My Photos / Would like to Contribute
23. redirected to malicious website
24. Help with tables
25. Tamao Satō (related) questions
26. Dictionary
27. How do I change an article?
28. accounts

September 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 9

1. SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
2. Question
3. Userbox
4. I'd like to report an article.
5. How do you create a company box
6. About edit conflicts
7. Odd formatting in Polydor_Records using Firefox browser
8. Image not thumbnailed correctly
9. downlode
10. Missing or deleted article about William F. Draper, painter
11. cannot find information
12. User blanking their Talk page
13. pronouncment
14. Professional associations and organizations
15. Copying images from Wikipedia
16. User login for tonymartin
17. RHE76 Adaptable Modem
18. text appearing in different languages
19. I have a secure account but someone called 'ryulong' has indefinitely blocked access
20. How do I request an article be created?
21. incorrect link
22. Problems with imagemap
23. Happy!
24. Restoring Flugpo Article
25. creating an article

September 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 10

1. aurora borealis
2. Craftsman Design
3. missing information
4. editorial changes are visible only when I am logged into Wikipedia.
5. hyperlink not working
6. Commons images
7. Want to add list
8. Uploading an image to a page
9. Deleting previous versions of a picture
10. Pale color scheme for Scheme code examples
11. to creat an account
12. Hide/show menus
13. Searching using Cyrillic alphabet
14. Eeh, I don't understand the rules on deletion.
15. Someone changing something with false information
16. thyroid disease
17. Error
18. Copyright issues
19. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Sandals
20. AIDS TEST
21. updated image doesn't display properly
22. khurry ov ghetto
23. Adminship
24. Centering an Infobox
25. USER NAME
26. Dispute Resolution Question
27. Dispute
28. What was the two millionth article?

September 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 11

1. Quoting
2. Sending pictures
3. Garlows deletion
4. Attempted Retention Process/Policy
5. Gailer School article
6. New user wants to add pages edited anonymously to "my contributions"
7. tagging
8. Can I use Wikipedia Commons images that are in the public domain in a commercial item to sell?
9. Heidi Montag
10. HELP
11. Sandbox
12. How to add a company to a category?
13. font type
14. Listing the names of September 11 attacks victims
15. Creating content/conflict of interest
16. Inserting an Image
17. What is going on here
18. How to add to an existing biography
19. Adding footnotes to Wolf's Head Society article
20. Citing a DVD commentary
21. Adding a name to the "Fantasy Artists" catagory.
22. Point of interest
23. help on everything
24. talk pages
25. request for poker editor
26. Adding a content box template
27. Code
28. Still blocked to upload a new article

September 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 12

1. Can't view images
2. Discussion Page Link Faulty (I think)
3. How to tagmark a page suspected as containing commercial substance
4. pre-empting an edit war
5. Mumbai Suburban Rail Network
6. Images deleted
7. Template that automatically adds to category
8. ARC
9. I accidently ruined a page
10. net exam form
11. Adding Army Officers
12. Talk:Jason Feinberg
13. Texas Holdem
14. Editing Problem - Lalla Ward
15. Permanent softblock possible by IP-owner's request?
16. I have been insulted
17. Plagiarism
18. Cannot Remain Signed/Logged In
19. dialogue with editors
20. External Linking
21. Clearing past search topics
22. name of restaurant
23. NEW TO THE SITE
24. July 30 archive says August 5
25. my signature
26. How can I tag an article with no references/sources?
27. Wolfe City, Texas History
28. Not Vandalism

September 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 13

1. how do i create a wiki
2. Level 3 Headlines
3. Template
4. Help with complex template
5. fonts for indian words
6. Is there a way to change my username?
7. word description
8. Colton-Pierrepont Central School
9. How do I deltete my profile or edit my username?
10. Official Web site of the Malankara Orthodox Church (Indian Orthodox Church)
11. Editing pages
12. waterbugs
13. HELP
14. help!!
15. querry
16. I am being threatened
17. project report
18. editing
19. Proof rreading
20. Page move
21. external links
22. Wide Landing Page
23. poker editor contact request
24. translation
25. Elusive template
26. Once again: nl:Wikipedia
27. poker editor contact request
28. Deleted content in Muscatine, Iowa
29. Show / Hide
30. Twinkle
31. How oo I change my username
32. How do I archive stuff, and how do I find subpages of my user page?
33. Delta lambda psi
34. AWB
35. Software notability criteria
36. Help
37. I am being maligned
38. Alexander Hamilton
39. Latest photos on horsburgh light (pedra baranca)

September 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 14

1. Stop Misuse
2. How to I flag an article for bias
3. Username trouble
4. why was the Nasuma Enterprises page deleted
5. Adding A Bio
6. Google Earth images usable with attribution on Wikipedia?
7. Need some advice for preventing chaos about a revision
8. military archives
9. financial serviecs
10. Re-install dynamic-link library
11. How to edit the title of an article..
12. Self-created picture
13. Abuse Page
14. Line breaks
15. Indian Fashion
16. How to print the pages for dissimination of information to those who do not have Computers.
17. Vandalism to image descriptions
18. Is there any way to tell how many hits a given WP entry has had?
19. Alliance Finlandeleted
20. How can you protect an article from a anonymous user with a shifting IP?
21. Early AFD closure
22. Research Projects
23. Duplicated coordinates
24. foul language
25. Hyperlinks in site go to wiki articles
26. Policies about non-sovereign sub-nationalities?
27. Notability
28. Where's the Rest of this Article?
29. honeybee404
30. Linking Wikipedia to my client's site
31. deleted?
32. Logging in
33. Bill Lee does NOT live in California
34. Removing an edit
35. Flag icons

September 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 15

1. Losing part of a page when editing
2. Finding out about a page
3. ?
4. AFD query.
5. Album Covers
6. Problem with a contributor
7. Country Flags not appearing
8. a line
9. Wikipedia logo
10. Mechanics of Solids
11. Country Flags
12. Creating lines starting with blanks
13. Admin abuse
14. How do I start a fresh new article?
15. Deleting subpage
16. SAVE Program
17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 15#|]]
18. Company pages like Yahoo & Google
19. What is the bloody point?
20. Urgent! something seems to be destroying all the chess diagrams
21. which part of cow
22. How do you add a picture??
23. Scrollbar
24. footnotes
25. how to download articles from wikipedia
26. viruses
27. Dr.Chris Obinwa's Biography or Profile
28. Userboxes
29. Deletion
30. html code for spaces
31. Consumer complaint site is a thing in and of itself.
32. New Logo of Wikipedia proposal
33. Missing astronomical symbols
34. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 15#Template:Tl.7Cdb-copyvio|{{db-copyvio}}]]
35. Question about the page Gosh

September 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 16

1. How do you link inside your page to your references
2. article on antarctic ice shelf
3. authorship
4. images
5. editing page and it keeps going back
6. Redirect
7. the [edit] tag
8. Halle Berry formatting problem
9. Orobanchaceae page
10. Problems with tables
11. Regarding purchase of XO-1
12. Citizenship of India for a foreign national refugee woman married to an Indian citizen
13. Warnings for external links
14. Links to organizations in the Samael Aun Weor article
15. Adding a person with the same name as an existing article
16. Flags images
17. Problem with credibility?
18. exam preperatrions
19. Advertising Deal
20. How do I start!
21. Is there an inline tag for requesting clarification of a term?
22. some images in established articles no longer appearing
23. 'signature' editor button broken
24. Restoring the deleted List of Entertainer's Nicknames Page
25. My Entry Keeps Getting Deleted
26. Watchlist question...
27. Patrol log
28. Image visualisation problem
29. Expanded watchlist
30. U.S. Presidential Election infoboxes (red vs. blue)
31. Images

September 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 17

1. Image Problem
2. Parser Functions
3. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 17#|]]
4. 403 Forbidden error on coordinates
5. Changing font...
6. clear search history
7. Law info-box?
8. how to hide your username in the page history
9. Legal case results citation
10. Links inside brackets
11. hacking windows XP by internet
12. Problem seeing particular images on Wikipedia
13. formations simliar to adams bridge all over the world
14. Christanity and homosexuality
15. What is Wikipedia
16. homosexuality in islam
17. Warning template?
18. Toolbar tabs
19. Macro environmental factors
20. English wikipedia and MS Windows Vista Home Premium - pages garbled upon refresh or revisit
21. I cannot find specific information on How To Post An Article
22. MizaBot
23. Numbered list
24. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 17#|]]
25. deletion, having never tried to do it before
26. color temperature
27. Kerala Locator map at Protected areas of Kerala
28. Page Not Working
29. Custom TOC
30. Banana storage
31. Renaming pages
32. Posting new article
33. signing in

September 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 18

1. Adding a person to wikipedia
2. Edits always on watchlist (solved)
3. Citing the same source to many statements
4. Mangua Nicargua article
5. Editing Error
6. Trouble with the status indicator... last resort
7. Nestle addition
8. how to place image on wikimedia page
9. DEFAULTSORT magic word, the PAGENAME template, and transcluded categories
10. I changed local time setting and language seeting seems to have changed
11. humanities
12. speeling yes spelling error
13. GAMES!!!!!
14. joining and using wikipedia-
15. Changing my monobook
16. Error/Fout
17. sunnat
18. default search
19. E-MAILing other people on Wikipedia
20. Printable Version
21. I tried and tried
22. My page about a musician.
23. Executive summary
24. Administration Abuse
25. How do I make a new page?
26. Quick Response, but 1 more queestion
27. Advertisements/spam on user page
28. Did you fix the sandbox yet?
29. Photo ?

September 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 19

1. Reporting Bias Articles
2. User talk:Lord mortekai
3. Help!
4. Citing same source twice?
5. 2 Pages on the same thing?
6. deleting a page
7. Photos/Images
8. How do I contest 'Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flo Jalin'
9. Font size
10. Transferring article from sandbox to new page
11. Mozilla FireFox
12. Title Change
13. Adding subheadings
14. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 19#|]]
15. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 19#|]]
16. Third Heading
17. Are there plans for an AJAX-style edit?
18. Vandalism
19. Add a new page to Wikipedia
20. email purpose
21. Adding a line of text immediately under the title of an article
22. Stopping an edit war on Cairns, Queensland
23. Incorrect Info Johnny Afro
24. Reverting
25. Finding the author
26. history of recreated deleted pages
27. boogytalk
28. Most viewed pages when i search with a keyword
29. duplicate name help
30. Help, need to make third revert but fear banning
31. invoking 'Random Article' function from shortcut or homepage
32. Help talk:Archiving a talk page
33. Undoing more than one edit at a time?
34. gulf the book
35. Screenshot use from online video and Request a photo template
36. Deleteing account
37. Move page
38. Editing Article Titles
39. Malagasy currency
40. Special Icon
41. 'Into The Fray I need to know to put the image so it shows the picture, not the web address.
42. searching for template usage
43. Finding out the AUTHORS of a particular entry?

September 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 20

1. Editing the MediaWiki side panel
2. What is a word for someone who takes a trips?"
3. Automatic Hyperlinking
4. Are there notability guidelines for articles on newspapers?
5. Question
6. The tile on my page is wrong...it says User: Madison Jones. How do i change that?
7. Significance of "Requested Article"
8. How do I scroll through Recent Changes and how long to update?
9. songs for the groom to dance with his mom
10. uh, how do I get a block removed?
11. Joseph Shade
12. question
13. Adding images to userboxes
14. Dead links
15. Turbine
16. How to delete the uploaded Image file
17. How to edit the wikipedia page title once it created?
18. Unscrupulous Editing by unknown parties
19. family tree
20. How do we protect our Page/Article against vandalism
21. Viewing Footnotes during "Show Preview"
22. borax paste for prewash
23. Why don't others see what I added
24. Page Deleton
25. Question (in Georgian I think)
26. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 20#|]]
27. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 20#|]]
28. Turning off in-line cleanup template messages
29. Help me on Hyperlinks
30. login - email not recognised
31. search history

September 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2007 September 21

1. Shrink/shorten/basically make space that the talk page boxes invade smaller
2. Painting listing "Yu Shih-hai" by cplumley2
3. incorrect image i ubject to using it
4. Creating New
5. Citations
6. Watching only part of a page
7. Grammar
8. Viewing languages in articles
9. How to add photograph to article?
10. Leonardo da Vinci - Vocational training
11. Logo
12. Copying a biography with permission...
13. Question
14. GFDL questions
15. New section
16. Dubious times in top Asian 'international academy'
17. Persistent infrequent possible vandalism
18. center for jewish history
19. copyright text
20. Intersection
21. Hallo
22. Photo archive
23. removing a flag/message
24. my article doesnt appear when I search
25. New articles
26. Fourth Geneva Convention
27. I want to access wikipedia from my Verizon mobile phone..
28. Arbitrary break
29. Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation
30. Admin requested....