Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/April 2012

= April 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 1


 * 1) April Fool's AfD
 * 2) Cite error: Closing missing for tag;
 * 3) Zodiac date
 * 4) I need help
 * 5) Autocomplete off
 * 6) Template returning the second-largest number of a set?
 * 7) List of monoclonal antibodies
 * 8) IP adding links
 * 9) how to cite an article in a book
 * 10) Burca
 * 11) photographs
 * 12) Human rights in Japan
 * 13) Positioning blockquotes
 * 14) Gene Kelly
 * 15) de:wikipedia image needed in en:wikipedia
 * 16) Why can't I print a pdf rendering of the Luisitania Page?
 * 17) Can preview tell me if there is an edit conflict?

= April 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 2


 * 1) Princeton High School, princeton West Virginia
 * 2) movie missing in article on film noir
 * 3) Watching sections of pages
 * 4) Duck Tape®
 * 5) commenting on the mistake in an article
 * 6) NCR
 * 7) Language setting
 * 8) Athletes changing name after winning an event
 * 9) navigating
 * 10) Cointreau photo upload
 * 11) HTML Displayed in all Wikipedia Titles
 * 12) Username conflict
 * 13) Add info
 * 14) Mobile Link comes-up in a Google Search
 * 15) Change of page name
 * 16) Userbox Float
 * 17) HOW DO I GET MY SCHOOL LISTED IN WIKIPEDIA?
 * 18) Being Confirmed

= April 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 3


 * 1) Blue article in Google Chrome
 * 2) Simple English Wiktionary userbox
 * 3) One-Day International cricket statistics
 * 4) Should a fact be removed from an articale that describe the context of events when it is related to POV ?
 * 5) John Copley
 * 6) Company info published on Facebook
 * 7) Scott Hamilton error
 * 8) How to retire
 * 9) IMDB and an official television network's forum
 * 10) Prostaglandin D2
 * 11) "Shrapnel" in articles
 * 12) Altering text size in edit mode
 * 13) Article rejection, no recourse
 * 14) References that do not resolve
 * 15) Requesting update of company article
 * 16) Never had this happen, not sure how to proceed on The Right One/Together Dating (apparently a defunct website)
 * 17) Where'd my Search go?
 * 18) Ralph BIRKETT
 * 19) Signature

= April 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 4


 * 1) Preserved Florida Plantations and Antebellum Homes
 * 2) I'm not sure where to ask
 * 3) Libel & slander posted on our page
 * 4) Acehnese Wikipedia infobox country template
 * 5) Dear Wikipedia,
 * 6) Edits by Kristijh
 * 7) article about the Arts District in Los Angeles is a baltant ad for an organization that overstates its significance
 * 8) Accutron
 * 9) Editing external link
 * 10) send email link
 * 11) Help needed:
 * 12) RfA and RfB Notification Update
 * 13) Footnote numbering
 * 14) Probable spam user
 * 15) Suggested minor wording-improvement is offered, for the "My Watchlist"'s status message (which reports the total number of pages that one is Watching)
 * 16) blue background
 * 17) My sandbox problem
 * 18) trouble adding caption for image
 * 19) User page

= April 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 5


 * 1) kimberella question
 * 2) Dorothy Rabinowitz biography Controversial Comments section
 * 3) Talk:Axilla seems to be complete nonsense. Editor please have a look!
 * 4) Request articles page is not editable (or link to it is wrong)
 * 5) Article Updating
 * 6) External links and twitter
 * 7) "Which came first...?"
 * 8) Request for review
 * 9) Help with a cite url that contains spaces
 * 10) not able to create a page
 * 11) Template:Disambiguation
 * 12) Wikipedia search function not working very well?
 * 13) Citing Philosophy
 * 14) marilyn lightstone biography
 * 15) Pilkingtons Buses

= April 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 6


 * 1) Template:Rfc used incorrectly. Do you know how to fix it?
 * 2) hidden
 * 3) Corinthian bronze
 * 4) User:Marcus Qwertyus
 * 5) why has this page been deleted? can someone please respond back to me?  All content was real and valid and not subject to the parameters listed for deletion.
 * 6) Stevi B's Pizza restaurant
 * 7) title of contribution
 * 8) Is a Disambiguation page allowed to contain redlinks?
 * 9) An article I created has been deleted. Also who can I complain to?
 * 10) Advertisments
 * 11) fujifilm of greenwood
 * 12) I get one read of any wiki page, a second read results in an error.
 * 13) JOSÉ VASCONCELOS
 * 14) A quick & easy one:
 * 15) Bayfield, WI.  Population
 * 16) METAL-HALIDE LAMPS

= April 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 7


 * 1) Odd edit that I don't understand
 * 2) Feedback request
 * 3) Time
 * 4) Open access template
 * 5) deuterosessionism
 * 6) Problems with the new Wiki I-Phone App
 * 7) My name appears in eo.wikipedia which I have never visited
 * 8) How to change casing in article title - 'The' to 'the'
 * 9) Fixing old vandalism
 * 10) Article comes up twice
 * 11) Ddate of birth and additional info
 * 12) External web links

= April 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 8


 * 1) how do i create an entry about myself?
 * 2) Can I use pictures (photos) off wiki for use on my own website?
 * 3) Obama campaign ads are blocking article content.
 * 4) Neighborhood Unit article
 * 5) Intelligent Energy
 * 6) Editing 2012 Chicago White Sox game log
 * 7) Correcting Vandalised articles
 * 8) Loosing session data when trying to edit
 * 9) Please help me understand more of the culture of Wikipedia
 * 10) Bio information for Deryl Dodd
 * 11) Trying to determine why a number list is disappearing
 * 12) article on Moshe Feinstein
 * 13) Citation  Invisible Children, Inc
 * 14) How do I create a page rather than editing it?
 * 15) I need help.
 * 16) Bob Pirie entry vandalized
 * 17) Viewing code of an article's past form
 * 18) Wikipedia is not working correctly
 * 19) Noinclude
 * 20) User page

= April 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 9


 * 1) Background is blue
 * 2) Arabic language
 * 3) User:TheLongTone/Grande Semaine
 * 4) Bot request...
 * 5) Talk pages and images of references
 * 6) what does "bar" mean?
 * 7) Traditional Chinese pages containing Simplified Chinese
 * 8) TARGET attribute
 * 9) Multiple references from same source
 * 10) How do I allow people to search for my article by full-name
 * 11) Richardville house
 * 12) Don Peake
 * 13) Dashes
 * 14) Editing, removing, etc my contributions
 * 15) Editing Deleted!
 * 16) Mobile site in Google
 * 17) wikigraphist uploads
 * 18) Can someone teach me how to edit
 * 19) hierarchy
 * 20) Removing age from Background info.

= April 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 10


 * 1) How can I persuade my teachers that Wikipedia is a reliable source?
 * 2) Lost HotCat with the new mods to Preferences page
 * 3) Glitch with saving/previewing pages
 * 4) Vandalized article
 * 5) Adding new portal
 * 6) for editing
 * 7) I can't get WP using Perl's get command...
 * 8) civility question
 * 9) Karimnagar district#Mandals
 * 10) Can someone delete an article written about themselves? Can someone request that certain information about themselves be removed from Wikipedia?
 * 11) Gospel ranch Allen  google
 * 12) Watchlist feature addition
 * 13) Search for Otto-configuration
 * 14) External Links
 * 15) I have been notified that my page was up for deletion
 * 16) Was creating a page
 * 17) Page is blue
 * 18) Category tree viewing
 * 19) New at editing
 * 20) Fixed with vs. variable width templates
 * 21) Facebook Wikipedia pages
 * 22) Is there a way to add additional header lines to a long table

= April 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 11


 * 1) My IE6 and mobile both crashes when visiting a page
 * 2) Infobox editing
 * 3) cats
 * 4) want know reality?
 * 5) Cognos Reporting using big data
 * 6) IP user breaching 1RR restrictions set out at WP:NCMAC
 * 7) Highly important -
 * 8) Regarding my merger request
 * 9) The powder coating process
 * 10) Link for toolserver edit count
 * 11) Does not cite sources?
 * 12) Image help
 * 13) New Editor
 * 14) Advertisements/"Ad Choices" are covering article content
 * 15) Animated flag
 * 16) DATE ERROR
 * 17) North Carolina/South Carolina border dispute
 * 18) Need to merge (delete actually) an article

= April 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 12


 * 1) Is there any way to add a mobile phone verification to my account ?
 * 2) Annoying 'Improve this article' blue box
 * 3) List of banned sources
 * 4) My account is gone
 * 5) Please can I have some feedback on my new article please?
 * 6) How can i add another language?
 * 7) Page revision links
 * 8) Add a celebrity to the site
 * 9) Heroes Welcome UK
 * 10) Request for loss of adminship
 * 11) Is this article OK to publish
 * 12) Veteran Editors
 * 13) James Burke, James Burk
 * 14) username changing
 * 15) PETER LOCKE, (Producer)
 * 16) "ISBN Number page"
 * 17) Getting This Article Posted
 * 18) Uploading Images
 * 19) Editing references

= April 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 13


 * 1) Band notability
 * 2) Suspicious User Page
 * 3) RS or not?
 * 4) Timescale for new page upload
 * 5) URGENT : Error link on the Nelly Furtado
 * 6) we want to know from which place, ip address this page is being modified and the users name, details
 * 7) how long before uploaded image file becomes visible publicly?
 * 8) wehatesit.com and blackmatters101
 * 9) Persistent vandalism of Stanley Booth-Clibborn page
 * 10) Why do I keep being logged off WP today?
 * 11) Association for Rare Earth
 * 12) Saving changes I make in my sandbox version of an article I am writing
 * 13) Text alignment control in a navbox with collapsible groups
 * 14) Feedback about editing
 * 15) New pages for Pending Changes Testing
 * 16) Some input on redlink overkill
 * 17) i want to change my username but i am unable to do so.

= April 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 14


 * 1) Getting article TO my sandbox,  Cardiac catheterization
 * 2) About your messages to me
 * 3) Poorly translated synopsis
 * 4) volunteer
 * 5) Re Sunsanahut (film)
 * 6) Rugby Union Caps
 * 7) POV gatekeeping
 * 8) Deleting a Section
 * 9) int:pipe-separator
 * 10) George Soros
 * 11) Wikipedia comes up with a weird blue color.
 * 12) Redirect help

= April 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 15


 * 1) screen is blue
 * 2) Graphics Lab archives
 * 3) SVGs wanted
 * 4) Looking for blueprints
 * 5) Rollback
 * 6) Quick wikitable fix please
 * 7) Source
 * 8) Is "Big-X" acceptable?
 * 9) Missing Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Armada
 * 10) Original composer of alexader's Rag Time Band
 * 11) Coding problem?
 * 12) Copyright Issue

= April 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 16


 * 1) Hatfield and McCoy in Piegon Forge Tennessee
 * 2) How to delete my username
 * 3) What is the policy to stop a user from following my edits
 * 4) Watchlist
 * 5) Wikipedia article keeps disappearing
 * 6) How do you add information on top of an edit page?
 * 7) Downloading PDF documents
 * 8) User name hidden behind picture caption
 * 9) Humble Request
 * 10) Wikipedia "photoshop team"
 * 11) Article been moved without following request for move procedures

= April 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 17


 * 1) Delete Account
 * 2) template for photo gallery
 * 3) Battle of Culloden
 * 4) Welding Institute link expired
 * 5) editing an article
 * 6) reusing an image
 * 7) about creating a page on wikipedia
 * 8) Errie Ball Golfer
 * 9) Wikipedia has turned blue.
 * 10) I accidently messed up this page WQTL
 * 11) Persistent vandalism of two pages - plus threat placed on my Talk page
 * 12) Having trouble putting together the pieces for an article
 * 13) Request for a Wiki to track promises politicians make in public
 * 14) Adding Texas to the article on Brevet Military Ranks
 * 15) Question about removing a section

= April 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 18


 * 1) Remove my userpage
 * 2) Cannot Correct Content on Locked Page
 * 3) List of Presidents of the United States
 * 4) Edits in file namespace
 * 5) Capturing previous DYK main page screenshot
 * 6) Announcement
 * 7) Can't login to upload a photo
 * 8) Lack of SSL for login/registration on Wikipedia
 * 9) Extended captions for a photograph depicting an invidivual
 * 10) Having View History Logs Entries Removed or Changed
 * 11) What's next?
 * 12) Hidden Categories
 * 13) Deleted Text
 * 14) Where to add links to an "orphan" tagged entry?
 * 15) Awaiting approval
 * 16) Tool to find articles an editor created

= April 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 19


 * 1) Citation Bot (DOI bot) is down?
 * 2) How do I find back and edit my uploaded files
 * 3) VPNV4
 * 4) Why do some templates blow up when Transcluded?
 * 5) Edit Mwakinyungu to denied.
 * 6) Sarah Wilson (journalist)
 * 7) Czechoslovakia
 * 8) I am Logged In, a New User, as " TEXTKNOWLEDGE ", and I have made a Talk Page re: an Article
 * 9) Template help
 * 10) Bank Merger-Houston, Texas
 * 11) Request for Move
 * 12) Template:UserStatus
 * 13) Stalker tool
 * 14) Infobox and template layout clash

= April 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 20


 * 1) Disambig and redirect
 * 2) How does one ask a question about an article I read? I could find no follow-up on this interesting article. Since I don't belong to the upper crust which seems seems to flock here, I might need more help that most.
 * 3) Talk banner
 * 4) Harv errors
 * 5) Calcium carbonate
 * 6) Citation covering many points and vice versa
 * 7) References within Talk page sections
 * 8) Please provide feedback for a page about Markus Vinzent
 * 9) Request to Unblock ArmadaBackupServices
 * 10) REQUEST FOR YOUR GOOD BOOKS
 * 11) Help with a non-English Speaker
 * 12) How can I upload my picture to my site?
 * 13) Entry for United States Presidential Election Results, 2000 (detail)
 * 14) Broken source links

= April 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 21


 * 1) Thumbnail in Economic history of Colombia screwed up
 * 2) A BIG PROBLEM!!!!
 * 3) Article talk page
 * 4) Forum Club Handball-Adding a new article
 * 5) Help with reviewing Good article nominations
 * 6) Wikimarkup for a single newline after a displayed box?
 * 7) How can I disable the spam filter?
 * 8) ~ Wikipedia Most Visited Page ~
 * 9) Language Identification Guide
 * 10) Young justice Episodes Somebody Deleted all the episode names and dates
 * 11) Attribution question
 * 12) Attempt to request Flickr (CC-BY) image upload declined as "File is corrupt. Still not able to view the image."
 * 13) Firefox article needs help
 * 14) Tarzan
 * 15) Typo Note 3 and in body of text,  Article about Joan Szymko
 * 16) Answer
 * 17) No ratings options on President Obama's article
 * 18) Is there any way I can get rid of that awful "Improve this page" box that seems to accompany Article Feedback 5?

= April 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 22


 * 1) Pronunciation of English words: IPA hover-key and phonetic respelling
 * 2) Jeff Pope TV Producer
 * 3) link to a virus
 * 4) setting up an online curriculum for high school students - advanced learning
 * 5) Charles William Paddock's nickname/byname is "CHARLEY",,, NOT `Charlie` !
 * 6) Lisa wife of Paul Burlison and former Playboy Bunnie in Chicago, also Lisa was a Diplomatic Courier for the Fifth Corp, 70's out of AG Farben Building, Germany
 * 7) Undoing a redirct
 * 8) Trans terms
 * 9) Suggestion: When rolling over a link to an article, display a small summary of the article in a tool-tip.
 * 10) WHO HAS ACCESS TO ARTICLE 18 USC SECTION 2257
 * 11) 2012RIQUIER
 * 12) Please help re Leila Berg, author, who died 17/4/12
 * 13) Comparison of ...
 * 14) Defining several parameters of a specific template
 * 15) appearance/skin for unregistered user in FireFox
 * 16) THE VOICE UK FINAL CONTESTANTS KATE READ
 * 17) BLP Rule
 * 18) What is appropriate content for an article?
 * 19) submission for name inclusion in list
 * 20) Writing Article
 * 21) Tables
 * 22) Founder Parmesan
 * 23) Roots
 * 24) Ending a Deletion Discussion
 * 25) Need help on a Move
 * 26) Isn't something wrong with this article?
 * 27) bridges
 * 28) Phishing email under wikipedia banner ?

= April 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 23


 * 1) Why is contacting actual Wikipedia people so hard?
 * 2) Confirming quality for first page - So it won't be deleted
 * 3) Upload an article from My sandbox field
 * 4) categorize the watchlist by subject
 * 5) Moving an article from my sandbox to Wikipedia
 * 6) Protest Internet censorship in India
 * 7) Deleted page on James Wing Woo
 * 8) List of online translators
 * 9) Head Restraints
 * 10) I am missing Twinkle
 * 11) what has happened to restore to previous version?
 * 12) creating a list of large jewelry chain stores by country
 * 13) publishing a page
 * 14) Revert single-instance of image use?
 * 15) How to update images?
 * 16) Gmail
 * 17) gmail
 * 18) Viewer Ship Tool?
 * 19) Asshole Wikipedia editor changes Carnivore entry I made
 * 20) My login has been compromised
 * 21) Making political propaganda

= April 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 24


 * 1) About hotel Prag Continental which is in guwahati ,Assam,India.
 * 2) Date format error didn't show up for 2½ years
 * 3) Article versions comparison gone bad ??
 * 4) Tom Vanden Brook#Wikipedia entry
 * 5) entries on wikipedia
 * 6) Watchlist changes
 * 7) I feel like I'm outnumbered by ignorant people on an article. What should my next move be?
 * 8) How do I learn if changes/updates are enough to eliminate the "problems with this article" box?  article is Eva Feldman
 * 9) Newspaper archives online page deleted (!)
 * 10) I need help regarding moving a page

= April 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 25


 * 1) use of restricted image
 * 2) Picture not updating
 * 3) Ads
 * 4) Urgent problem: Category misuse on Filipino people's articles
 * 5) Through one of these interesting wikilink things
 * 6) Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Modulate -Resubmission
 * 7) How can I?
 * 8) New to this please help! - Finished article in Sandbox
 * 9) License plates with 0
 * 10) Error message using Book Creator
 * 11) "Miracle on Ice" correction needed
 * 12) Attach a photo to an existing article
 * 13) A bluish box in the article
 * 14) Interwiki bots
 * 15) Name spelling correction edit reversed?
 * 16) rucker/woods
 * 17) Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates
 * 18) Advice on subtitling
 * 19) Blocking Users and IPs
 * 20) Red links turned to blue
 * 21) Temp IP
 * 22) Search engine results
 * 23) Going back a few revisions
 * 24) Previewing a redirect edit
 * 25) New Draft Page
 * 26) I am new
 * 27) Business proposition

= April 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 26


 * 1) Portal:Current events's Wikinews articles question
 * 2) Historical figures sometimes considered autistic & List of people with autism spectrum disorders
 * 3) Files
 * 4) Housewives of NJ
 * 5) Unverified statements and potential correction?
 * 6) New to Wikipedia editing
 * 7) A tool maybe?
 * 8) deleting
 * 9) Watchlist
 * 10) Reference
 * 11) Love dont live here anymore
 * 12) Vandalism, too broad a term?
 * 13) trying to do an Afd
 * 14) Password
 * 15) Category:People by century
 * 16) Changes made between revisions
 * 17) Incremental search suggestions
 * 18) skin pressure

= April 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 27


 * 1) Users with articles
 * 2) Citations
 * 3) I'd like to search all articles in a category; can't figure out how...
 * 4) Question about creating a page for a small business
 * 5) reinstating Excelsior Jet
 * 6) Can I create a page about myself?
 * 7) Bullcrap
 * 8) Erroneous Data
 * 9) ~ THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UPDATED MOST VISITED ARTICLES BY UNIQUE VISITOR ANYWHERE ON THE ENTIRE WEB ~
 * 10) Pretty Good Privacy page 2  digital signatures
 * 11) Editing sections
 * 12) {HELP ME} How do I edit an info box?

= April 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 28


 * 1) toolbar
 * 2) New page, need some input
 * 3) Senators of Sri Lanka
 * 4) Need some image help
 * 5) Charles Boyer
 * 6) Avoiding displaying of non-defined parameters
 * 7) Regarding Copyrights and using and  citing of such material
 * 8) Due weight beyond just viewpoints
 * 9) If I want to have an article rated for quality...
 * 10) True Blue
 * 11) My sandbox

= April 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 29


 * 1) Book vs Wikipedia
 * 2) Page view counter
 * 3) Pencil icon
 * 4) How long does one wait for another editor to reply on a proposal of an article
 * 5) On a mobile device, how do you switch the default back from desktop view to mobile view?
 * 6) Edit summaries in sandboxes?
 * 7) Differences
 * 8) I have a general question
 * 9) counting number of readers of an article
 * 10) the little start on featured articles
 * 11) Merging articles.
 * 12) Article section deletions
 * 13) C5, CV

= April 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 30


 * 1) Cite journal, pmc parameter
 * 2) Strange password problem
 * 3) Erdos-Bacon number
 * 4) Bayonet
 * 5) wikipedia color issue in chrome
 * 6) Getting a response from Wikimedia Permissions
 * 7) Showing a picture to left of an infobox
 * 8) Fraudulent Account Set up under a 13 year name
 * 9) 'Show' button in a collapsible template obscuring some words
 * 10) Steyr GB
 * 11) Image not appearing
 * 12) Looking for Edits
 * 13) Version mismatch on Collections extension
 * 14) wikipedia When opened in a google chrome with zoom 90% the background screen is blue
 * 15) jewelers initials