Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2010
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January 1
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- Incomprehension
- Why did you delete what i added?
- Wikipedia helping criminal activity
- 3rd Civil Affairs Group
- Protect Cablevision
- Delinking dates
- Administrator
- Notability
- Moving
- I am a new contributor. I may have named my new article incorrectly
- I got a message saying my edits would be subject to a filter
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J%C3%A1nos_K%C3%A1d%C3%A1r_%28fototeca.iiccr.ro%29.jpg
- Original research
- start
- Is there a way to find those articles that have two assessment characteristics? (i.e. High Importance, Stub) or such
- search suggestions
- William Songer
January 2
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- Strange Java Script
- How many pictures can I put up?
- Oldsmobile
- How can i find out how many time a page has been edited?
- How to direct WP:SICILY to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sicily
- Names
- moving a page or aticle
- hi
- Disagreement on the move
- I edited (minor updates/corrections to my bio) for two hours, Saved page, it looked fine, then I got a notice it couldn't be processed!
- Acid ( Mortal Kombat )
- Soxred's Tool
- Referencing sources inside sources
January 3
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- HELP ME FIND THE ADDRESS FOR A WEB REGISTRAR
- Template:Vector version available
- Music-CD Cover Scan
- flight pattern leads in ducks
- Cannot 'search' my new article
- Archiving a web document?
- Is there a MOS notice board?
- About Cruelty to Animals
- Can I Give you my credit card info or Social Security number to remove captchas?
- Competitors delete our profile
- IP address range search in Special:Contributions not working
- Copyright
- Have I done all I need to?
- Text keeps jumping up and down
- Redirect
January 4
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- Templates
- I want to create categories
- start up
- Assessing (Grading) an Article in an WikiProject
- Log in
- Facts
- Flagging a Section as United States - orientated?
- Number
- Info Box
- Need help in posting an article
- Posts for The International Cat Association
January 5
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- daniel fromenglish to japanese
- Adding a Legion Of Merit Recipient
- Hi my name Is Craig
- Possible Incorrect naming
- Links not working
- I was falsely accused of "vandalising" an aricle I never even knew about.
- Clearing an image cache internally
- 12th day of Christmas
- Hiding a controversial edit by doing a minor edit straight after
- Can we kill external links eyetest?
- wikipedia-for Mr. Jimmy Wales
- Incorrect information
- PDF export in English.
- editing biographical entry on now deceased person
- Copy Template
- Introduction of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
- Bessie Blount Griffin
- Band Pages
- Permissions help needed
- Memory from Vietnam
- what do I do when someone dies & their WP biography doesn't yet reflect it?
- adding pictures
- Committed identity for dummies...
January 6
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- how might a person distinguish between the prejudical and nonprejudical use of rhetorical devise can i get an example of both
- Problem with Template:Infobox boxing match
- my bio was deleted
- Noesis article traffic statistics
- copy to note
- I wish to be in contact with a person who is well versed in programming and who can write linux code for a business of which I belong.
- ncaa basketball history box scores
- Wikipedia
- Classification
- Google Street View images on Wikipedia
- Reviewers/Flagged Revisions
- Bibliography Chonological or Alphabetical?
- IRC and Pidgin
- How to acquire rights?
- info box
January 7
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- Referencing sources inside sources (back again)
- Other Wikipedia articles as references?
- Copyright
- Do you have an available 2012 PHENOMENON article in tagalog?
- image of Gen. John Charles Black
- Penang State Anthem
- Removal of Admin Right
- Insults = Defamation?
- Wikipedia Not Trust Worthy ???
- redone?
- Number of watchers of a page
- Discuss deletion of redirect
- English / Chinese
- Global sysops proposal
- How do a tag a category whose articles don't have, or might not have, sources to be in the category?
- Table or list
- How do I find out about this Saturdays meeting in D.C.
January 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 8
- Need Help - Can't Login In After Enabled A Lot Of Profile Options.
- 2008 BCS National Champion was the Florida Gators
- How do I add more than one user page?
- Odd characters
- deleted page
- single phase half controlled bridge converter
- {{mtc}}
- Ref Frogmore Community College Entry
- Admin Rights in Logs
- addmission
- anaylitics
- Lake Panasofkee Florida
- Login issue
- Can someone delete the previous edits of File:YsgolRhydywaunLogo.jpg from me
- Logs
- Delete image that I uploaded
- How do I create an account?
- "What links here?"
- Can someone with experience please create a page for this movie
- Is an RFC tag appropriate? If so, would you do it for me?
- Netscape 7.2 crashes immediately when I access Wiki
- Hamtramck, Michigan
January 9
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- What might be considered, partially, an "attack page"
- Delete/Update company history and description
- How...
- JIM LEAVITT
- WP accessibility
- How can I add sibling names?
- user.gif is having a bad hair day
- Mutual Organizations
- New Page
- 1957 oscars
- Nidheesh
- how can non-resident person provide the legal documents from high court without money to submit to the Abbey bank to transfer in my account?
- weather
- Wikipedia pictures don't show up in web browser
- Blocking Edit page / Change option in Wikipedia page
- Stub
- Finding uploaded picture
- Where's the page that lists categories?
- Finding references within articles
- URGENT, URGENT, URGENT !!!! MY IP ADDRESS WAS REVEALED - PLEASE CORRECT IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
- A request please...
- AUGUST ALVO
- Browser crashes -- Wikipedia code change?
- dialup modems
- Caurso record
- retired user account/sockpuppet and meatpuppet policy
- smaller thumb image
- Toolbar Icons
January 10
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- Hi every one, i appreciat ur work & i want to share..!!
- en-au-buffer.org
- KGOS/KERM Radio
- failure of the system and consequences
- Convert box digit play out.
- YOUR HOME PAGE
- africa
- Do articles have to be linked in the navbox for them to use it?
- Tables
- Enabling searching with an acronym
- I have created a page which already exists
January 11
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- Wrong link
- Do I have to wait 4 days and edit 10 times for my newly created first article to appear?
- Uploaded image to incorrect article name
- Defining a template within an article
- Enabling email
- publication in the main page?
- pine ridge reservation journalist
- URLs and Character encoding
- How does the"This biography of a living person does not cite any references or sources. ..." get removed?
- Centering userboxes
- How big is Wikipedia?
- How to name an article if the name is already used by another
- editing text without an edit button...
- Mass null edit for categories
- Interwiki vs. Stub
- Personal Sandboxes and Making My Page Less Visible
- Deleting a page
- Log info, please
- Need tag for inaccurate site identification and coordinates...
- Bolding And Color Retained
- <gallery>
January 12
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- Display stuck in text mode or print mode.
- Regarding Food and Agriculture data
- problem submitting completed article-
- ver sacrum
- Textile auxiliaries
- Please kindly change the website address of my company's.
- Article name
- What if someone won't discuss?
- Linking other Wikis
- Removing pictures
- Citing the results of a web site's internal search engine
- Family history question
- Need help in adding photos to the Delft Dragons article
- How do I publish my page?
- I am an author
- math
- Image Content/Photographs
- Current time in time zone articles
- santa clause
- why do you remove every post I have created?
- Move
- Conflict sorting books
- RecentChangesLinked: duration more than 30 days?
- Message that seemed to disappear
- African Americans
- Complaint about user 'doctorfluffy'
- Block yourself from editing without logging in?
- View
- "Next--Live!"
- Is there a "favorites" option?
- How to get Organization added.
- Use of Russian language in English Wikipedia
January 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 13
- Make page public
- Deiser Archives
- Sending messages to other users
- Displaying incorrectly
- password reset not working
- Nice standard wiki blockquote?
- Mobile Wikipedia totally offline? 404 errors on any entry
- Article Edit
- I want to cut my enforced Wikibreak
- How can I connect a Dynamo to my bicycle?
- My contribution has been deleted w/o any log or reason
- Want to donate information from my website
- New page needs disambiguation.
- Replacing images on foreign wikis
- Name of Article "Javits Wagner O'Day Act"
- Change the Name of an Article
- Forgotton user name and password
- Where is the page ?
- Wikipedia used as a Classroom Project
- Writing entries for pay?
- David Caldwell
- Placing Images within Tables
- wiki search
- Article added to any "book" renders the resulting ODT document unusable
- Ray Kinasewich
- Special:UncategorizedPages
- High School Mascot
January 14
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- Which 1990's cartoon is it?
- Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a <references/> tag.
- Google Chrome Layout Problem
- Reference error at Tank
- Wikipedia's Home Page
- Oracle bought Java?
- Delete
- What does it mean that my article has no assertion of notability? How could I edit it?
- History of the product's appearance
- Release history
- Support service
- External links
- Wikipedia app for the iPhone - using spaces in the search field
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Copyright
- Navbox links not showing up in What Links Here after a significant period of time?
- Marinus van der Lubbe
- Can I change the AfD debate category after I've submitted it?
- Page code recover
- languages
- Problem when I moved article from user page into main wikipedia (seems to be 2 articles now, 1 with an unwanted redirect from my user page)
- HAITI
- Printing/Exporting articles as PDF
- Link to section
January 15
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- renaming a title
- .mw-tag-markers
- crew listing of battleships during second world war
- I changed an article in poor condition, but something is wrong.
- Other language to English Wikipedia or Commons
- I had created a page on Strategy Execution but when I type in Strategy Execution, the article did not appear.
- Problem editing page for Tower Hamlets College
- Wikipedia Day
- Auit Machine covers
- A request please....
- External Links
- re articles about Dovestones Revervoir, Greenfield.
- Nested reference syntax
- Logging in
- Edit within A Template
- Signature help
- Wrong Link
- Mathematical derivations
- Advertisement / Notability Distinction
January 16
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- Where to go, how to get there, how to fill in the question, and where to go and how do I get the answer for the question.
- HELP, PLS : IT HAS TO BE LINK TO DAUGHTER OF NICHOLAS the first instead
- Drafting, initialising, outlining... what is good practice?
- Redirecting to a Specific Article
- Wikipedia images don't show up in browser
- Government of India policy
- Differences in degrees
- User page masquerading as a Wikipedia article
- Sockpuppet?
- Mailing lists
- Does this article-name make sense?
- Robert Mitchum
- vitae bene
- The email confirmation message is not coming
- Editing a template
- Thalidomide
January 17
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- Do we allow stolen pictures
- Two Questions On Editing
- Citation help desk
- Y2.01K bug?
- What exactly should decade history pages show?
- Question
- Gloria Vanderbilt
- How does one report a vandal?
- Watchlist no longer showing articles
- Biographical information
- Comparing edit counts
- new sinclair research indicates that robert de saint clair and eleanor de dreux may be the founders of the sinclair in scotland
- Chings Secret Soya sauce
- My name (page) is already being used by someone esle. What do I do?
- Linking to Articles
- Rollback Request Requirements
- What happened to all the thumbnails?
- Breach of name suppression order
January 18
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- keuffel and esser co also called k&esser co have ther model rule six sided 1631w
- API
- Picture in post won't show
- Contributing, not thru research, but personal experience.
- Question Concerning Permission to Use Photographs
- Userbox construction
- Editing
- Uploading a photo from family archives for an existing Wikipedia file/page (of our deceased son Andrei Toncu).
- uploaded an article?
- Control table of contents?
- Help neeed with strange edits
- Missing article
- Mr Don Ratzlaff
- Article Creation Check?
- How to correctly post a question or comment in an article discussion
- eminem
- New question
- My Wikipedia contributions aren't saving
- Process for proving that published works are released under free licenses
January 19
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- Adding two pictures to an article
- Username change
- contact telephone numbers and email addresses
- Holly Willougby
- External Links in article disappears
- move article into mainspace - for publication
- First Fire In The World
- How to change the title line of an article
- Save as PDF
- my profile taken by sombody else
- Rights
- Why isn't there a bot to welcome new users?
- Shon Brooks
- Protected Pages
- Capitalisation question
January 20
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- Confused about deletion citeria
- Permanently Deleting Edits from Page History
- Question about redundancy
- Listing as a Lesbian Musician
- refer to a file in "<ref?"
- How to create a new Infobox?
- sports logos
- I'd like to use templates to obscure table syntax
- 4CTechnologies is Notable
- A template for moving a comment to a different talk page
- Getting company on Wikipedia
- Should this be posted?
- Adverts
- tag to mark a section as non-notable?
- Question
- Contents box on my talkpage missing
- Parrot Family Bird - Solid White Similar to African Gray
- Animals
- Find a Practioner in Cchicago
January 21
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- Permission to use image
- article writing wizard
- Page mimicking Wikipedia
- Linking where a page does not exist
- Garnett Rocchi
- password not logging on & reset not working
- "Worst/Best Person in the World" references
- List of editors with access to references?
- Company Information
- View and Delete "Subpages" on User Page
- Twelve Tribes of Israel?
- USS Louisville CA 28
- emaul id expiry
- Is there any accountability for large scale blocks?
- help with bot
- wiki and e readers
- Primary Colors
- Edits Not Showing In Article
- Sandbox coding
- Commons linking
- Getting a page
- Warn/temp block a page or user
- Template or markup to completely hide text
- suggesting deletions
January 22
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- Disappearing history
- Photo problem
- How do I edit the very first paragraph?
- What to do when I forgot to sign using four tildes?
- Making an article live
- loading a page
- Officical compnay content
- Edit summary
- Linking to foreign wikis with the same article name
- Finding my page
- Is there a template like this?
- Editing articles
- Page error
- awareness ribbons
- Download of all Wikipedia Templates
- w and p
- Asian Glory
- Article deleted but nothing in delete log
January 23
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- Shabazz
- Article title in italics
- How/when will my article be published?
- Development-induced Displacement and Rehabilitation in India
- Deleting my own uploaded photos
- Overriding template link format
January 24
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- How to suppress interwiki links?
- How do I use IRC?
- Stirrups
- Referencing an article on es.wikipedia from en.wikipedia
- reverse colors in table
- Request for page moved to incubator
- Pics
- New username does not allow me to upload photos or see my previous contributions
- adam lambert
- Wikipedia query information
- Suspicious edit
- Link to viamontenapoleone.org - Via Montenapoleone site
- submitting an article
- posting new article on wikipedia
- Contract document between a seller (merchant) and factor
- Tools for browsing article histories
- WP Admins: Does my contribution have any problem with WP policy?
January 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 25
- Vandalism not affecting page display?
- How do I merge two accounts?
- Billboard.com and WebCite
- Deletion of protected template
- Clover, the film
- Swami Premeshananda
- New page patrol: marking pages as patrolled.
- please give me the answer of this question...
- Page Statistics
- Order of Wiki page types from general to specific
- French typo (Charcher)
- Copying the Wikipedia Upload Pages
- Creating an account for someone else
- Username
- Is there a script....
January 26
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- Deleted edits
- Existing articles in sandbox
- Page for copyright owners donating material?
- Correct my band's entry
- Why are the text/paragraphs shrinking on the page I edited?
- requesting permission to upload image
- Userboxes
- twas the night before christmas
- Terminology for U.S.-centricity problem?
- Helping to add photos to Wikipedia (Guideline clarification)
- Messages on my user talk page about image copyright
- checkuser check
- Suitable content for new page
- MySpace question
- Rogue letter on article page
- How do you link to a table?
- How to use image in foreign Wikipedia article on English version of same article
- clinical trial studies
- How can I download entire wikipedia to hard disk
- Requesting removal of unverifiable non-fact
- Very unusual edit summary
- List of passengers
- Important information is missing in article on Wikipedia about Barbie doll
- adding my social network to a list of social networking websites
- Attack sections
- A possible suggestion
- Content related to climatology.
- Deleted articles log
- article for deletion Andrea Rivera
- Adding a References Section to an Existing Article
- Photography source
January 27
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- Disambiguation
- Can Wikipedia be edited?
- Patrolling edits
- My posting was called vandalism
- How do you block a comment that is written about you on a page that you haven't created?
- Speedy Deletion
- How can I stop someone abusing and deleting entries
- Editing from other hardware
- Odd-looking citations
- How?
- Please help
- band leader
- Editing a citation link in a list of notes
January 28
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- good day
- URL won't display right
- Created articles?
- Why is my name in "red fonts"?
- spores
- Exporting/saving tables
- Information Usage policy, Simple enquiry.
- Marking a page when I have a question about its NPOV
- Requested edit unanswered
- Non Receipt of Email Code
- Wikipedia access via Google links blocked....Possibly IP blocked
- Minor Change to Main Page Possible?
- USER PAGE???
- Does laurel have a meaning in british/american culture?
- Source Tag
- Image licence question
- about Fluther
- How do I make an article appear on Google Maps?
- Oldids
- Help using Opera browser
January 29
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- Breaking news about fusion power
- Italicizing non Roman characters
- chaya someswara swamy temple pictures
- printing pages with equations in them
- arranging the legitimate inclusion of artwork by a living artist
- Convert Wikitables to Excel
- User:Patrickneil
- Why can't non-admins view deleted edits
- Q: How does one re-set an article as a "primary page"?
- rowspan usage in a table
- changing a section header without affecting prior linking from other pages
- User Page & User Sandbox appears in Google external search
January 30
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- new admission
- Why is it
- book by geo. catlin
- Movig to the Philippines
- Geoff Beckett entry
- Making small change in article title
- Block
- I have a few questions about citing sources.
January 31
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- Question about database information.
- Related articles
- Montage
- Random redirect
- Merge Yourself
- Change Listing Name
- Living Person Bio (author) editorial help
- Move Tab missing on a few articles, though present on most....
- Readiness for Requesting Adminship
- Cluebot III
- good day
- re-direct from my name search !!
- Deleted edits
- Subpages
- deleted resume
- What is Wikipedia
- Creating bios
- Image Citation
- div box does not work
- Advertising
- difficulty editing a new article
- Jessica Alba archives
- Union numbering system for local chapters
- How do I add old AfD discussions to a new AfD nomination?
- Where ask question about copyright?