Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2008

= August 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 1


 * 1) A-Class review setup assistance
 * 2) My Wikipedia page is left justified how do i change it?
 * 3) Superscript
 * 4) Experienced user can't figure out why his text has vanished
 * 5) Question on a blacklisted domain
 * 6) Blacklisted domain name
 * 7) logs are missing?
 * 8) Nederlands And Spanish  wikipedia embassy
 * 9) Definition list formatting issue
 * 10) Update entry for National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
 * 11) Audio file question
 * 12) Inquiry from the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
 * 13) How do I ask a Flickr user to release photos from copyright?
 * 14) Backlink on user subpages
 * 15) Missing article

= August 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 2


 * 1) userfy a deleted article
 * 2) Special page
 * 3) How to Merge a New Talk Page with an Old Talk Page
 * 4) Posts
 * 5) Is Sexual Assault Complainant Name Unpublished Personal Information?
 * 6) Ariel washing powder
 * 7) misplaced
 * 8) Clearing of block log
 * 9) Expression error
 * 10) about searching
 * 11) Problems with Images uploaded to commons.wikipedia by other users than the original poster
 * 12) Wikipedia Access from China
 * 13) Blacklisted..
 * 14) Counting Articles
 * 15) Lorcaserin
 * 16) Age
 * 17) TEXT ONLY read?
 * 18) Uploading photographs

= August 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 3


 * 1) Assessment Table
 * 2) Right-aligning text
 * 3) Tool
 * 4) Are these albums notable?
 * 5) What's wrong with this page?
 * 6) Logos
 * 7) Templates - compare character strings?
 * 8) What happened to the Emperor of Mankind page?
 * 9) External Namespace question
 * 10) User ID
 * 11) motorcycle reg: 8053
 * 12) My goof
 * 13) Reporting someone who vandalizes or adds other inappropriate material
 * 14) Which version of English for EU citizens?
 * 15) This is confusing
 * 16) Template searching

= August 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 4


 * 1) Article on Ray Liversidge
 * 2) How do you count the number of articles in a category?
 * 3) Global contribution page
 * 4) My name has gone missing
 * 5) Problem printing an article
 * 6) part time job seeking in srilanka
 * 7) what role does the  moon play in religion or culture
 * 8) list function
 * 9) WHOIS
 * 10) earnings
 * 11) Editing a Title....
 * 12) State map showing location of Shreveport, Louisiana
 * 13) Bots for archiving my talk page
 * 14) Declaroty WP:RM noms?
 * 15) Plants
 * 16) Fair use template
 * 17) 121.150.227.3 (talk) 21:41, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Ogg cannot be played with Windows Media Player?

= August 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 5


 * 1) My contributions list
 * 2) The Author Of Wikipedia
 * 3) Antony Worrall Thompson
 * 4) Page History format
 * 5) 1915 locust plague
 * 6) Johnny Keane
 * 7) Gadgets in Firefox
 * 8) My article keeps getting deleted
 * 9) Invisible text
 * 10) Article in need of deletion?

= August 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 6


 * 1) Lo-Debar/Lo-debar
 * 2) Formatting references
 * 3) "Rgy" question
 * 4) hi
 * 5) Lincoln High School (Los Angeles)
 * 6) Help with an image
 * 7) Links to other languages and making categories
 * 8) 3RR
 * 9) Uploading Image on User Page
 * 10) björn again
 * 11) Deleted Article
 * 12) mobile wikipedia
 * 13) World's Tallest Building
 * 14) Strange WP:CHU question
 * 15) Cherry Seeds
 * 16) Redirect template
 * 17) Emailing copyright scans
 * 18) how to bookmark articles in Wikipedia?
 * 19) Photos placed in article
 * 20) Wikipedia:Motto of the day
 * 21) Email Associated with Account No Longer Valid

= August 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 7


 * 1) Article won't appear in my watchlist
 * 2) Can't update an XLS file on Wikipedia
 * 3) Need an Administrator to block an article
 * 4) Need Userbox
 * 5) Getting commons.wikimedia.org into en.wikipedia.org article
 * 6) Adding a 'See also' section
 * 7) Question about linking
 * 8) Can I flag it without editing it?
 * 9) Are such articles allowed?
 * 10) Gadgets in Firefox (2)
 * 11) Link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Asset_Managemen in incorrect
 * 12) Aeronautics and Software
 * 13) Odwalla Ref Questions
 * 14) Norwich School of Art and Design
 * 15) Metagross
 * 16) Logo help
 * 17) Finding old material in an updated site
 * 18) inclusion of an individual;s life history
 * 19) North Carolina Museum of Life and Science has changed thier name to Museum of Life and Science
 * 20) Is this spam or not?
 * 21) Floating box on user talk page is now over-writing text

= August 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 8


 * 1) User Template
 * 2) Wikipedia english classified as entertainment?
 * 3) where i can  quetionairy form (32 questions)
 * 4) Translating articles
 * 5) Orphans
 * 6) Frigoglass correction
 * 7) Username change
 * 8) Removing WikEd buttons
 * 9) title help
 * 10) Multi-Liscence template
 * 11) Alaskan Highway
 * 12) What's this process called?
 * 13) RE: Albergo Creative Arts / Robert Albergo
 * 14) Need assistance to delete a first draft, unwanted sentence located within a dotted line border on the Webb Pierce page
 * 15) "Lost in Love"

= August 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 9


 * 1) "Characters of x" vs. "List of x characters"
 * 2) Categories
 * 3) Vlore article is offensive to the citizens of vlore
 * 4) Any five components of the Mother Board
 * 5) Creating an infobox
 * 6) Potentially libelous entry
 * 7) Current page bold
 * 8) German Wikipedia comment help
 * 9) creating a new page...
 * 10) New page- backlisted hyperlink?
 * 11) Template format
 * 12) Leaving fields empty in an infobox template

= August 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 10


 * 1) Experienced editor required
 * 2) Physiological and molecular wheat breeding
 * 3) Translated page template
 * 4) Extreme confusion regarding my IP address receiving vadalism warnings when I did not make the edits in question.
 * 5) Is there a template for localizing area?
 * 6) NATO FLAG COPYRIGHT NOT DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE OFFICIAL NATO WEBSITE
 * 7) How do I cite a computer program's source code?
 * 8) vandalism in the article for Rock Paper Scissors
 * 9) answer to doubt
 * 10) Category "sandbox"
 * 11) Username
 * 12) How to transclude list of articles in a category?
 * 13) Asking for a Ban for a User

= August 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 11


 * 1) Iskcon
 * 2) bug on S-200?
 * 3) Similar names registration problem
 * 4) Jeffrey Dahmer
 * 5) wikibreaks
 * 6) isaac hayes wiki vandalized
 * 7) Talk page
 * 8) Blind user requesting help with Wikipedia
 * 9) Wikimania 2009
 * 10) Mall
 * 11) Subpage
 * 12) Commons pic
 * 13) Adding images. Uploading
 * 14) userfication of deleted article
 * 15) Overlaping picture issue
 * 16) Can i get the Amelia Mary Earhart english version text in french
 * 17) Spanish Wikipedia

= August 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 12


 * 1) User toolbar
 * 2) civil engineering
 * 3) removing multiple spam links
 * 4) citing a web page only accessible through a html post form with no direct URL?
 * 5) Protected Pages
 * 6) getting information automatically
 * 7) Unable to undo a move.
 * 8) How to clear the interview
 * 9) about  admiission  &  eligibility  in  various  post graduate  courses  at  mit(university of  cambridge)
 * 10) An equals sign in the hidden template
 * 11) Link to create new section
 * 12) Closed communicators
 * 13) No &amp;lt; &amp;gt;
 * 14) Montana Tucker
 * 15) My edit only shows up when I'm logged in
 * 16) EST
 * 17) personalising wikipedia homepage
 * 18) 'Anti-personal attacks' rules as a means of inflicting censorship
 * 19) template keeps autocollapsing
 * 20) Increasing Pages Shown on Special:NewPages
 * 21) Userpage mishap

= August 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 13


 * 1) Added Verifiable Citation... Now what??
 * 2) Talk page warnings
 * 3) Spanish Wikipedia
 * 4) User toolbar
 * 5) Permanent link help
 * 6) Unsure which email address is associated with my Wikipedia account
 * 7) Do IP users get messages
 * 8) Pittsburg, Walker County, Georgia was a post office
 * 9) VIRUS
 * 10) What Was The 2,500,000th Article?
 * 11) Ken Joseph Jr.
 * 12) Template:PGP top
 * 13) Copy from another website
 * 14) Citing Sources ?
 * 15) Problem with an Image Caption
 * 16) signing in Problem
 * 17) Adding a picture of my home to the Benjamin Adams House page
 * 18) Duplicate pages in different namespaces
 * 19) images
 * 20) My Fansite Link Blocked/Banned? Why
 * 21) Contents list doesn't show :(
 * 22) Downloading or saving Wikipedia information
 * 23) How do I upload a file to the list of System Engineers?
 * 24) Copy/paste link to WP article to email

= August 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 14


 * 1) Help with grammar
 * 2) Time
 * 3) a quick question
 * 4) Question from Fangusu
 * 5) Software version
 * 6) Citing references
 * 7) Errors on Miller Chill Entry
 * 8) Where to go for WP community discussions on verfiability and sources
 * 9) How do i communicate with an administrator for deleting my contribution
 * 10) olymbic
 * 11) Inserting a picture
 * 12) WP:Dan
 * 13) How to do personal sandboxing without release to wild
 * 14) Question About a Naming a Page
 * 15) where do I look for you responses?
 * 16) Template:Navbox
 * 17) Translutions
 * 18) Referencing
 * 19) Why are my requests to delete superfluous subpages ignored?
 * 20) My Signature
 * 21) Watchlist
 * 22) My last contribution is not showing up in user contributions
 * 23) List vandalism templates
 * 24) My Watchpage.
 * 25) Citing references, the sequel

= August 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 15


 * 1) Two contradictory articles
 * 2) Zodiac?
 * 3) Another One
 * 4) Somebody is blacklisting my URL
 * 5) email notification
 * 6) Where to ask
 * 7) Etana Insurance
 * 8) Can I only visit only wikipedia.org
 * 9) Chinese Wikipedia
 * 10) Partily Block
 * 11) Appealing the speedy deletion of an article
 * 12) INSERTING AN IMAGE
 * 13) Deleted edits?
 * 14) Kiyoshi Kawakubo
 * 15) Using Wikipedia content on other sites
 * 16) Editing the first section of a Talkpage
 * 17) mr x22:23, 15 August 2008 (UTC)Wrestlerx (talk)
 * 18) Link bot

= August 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 16


 * 1) Identify object
 * 2) An expression...
 * 3) End of day
 * 4) Interlinking different language wikipedia images
 * 5) GDFL Violation
 * 6) Embedding an image
 * 7) Bill Schonely page
 * 8) Infobox help
 * 9) Image Help
 * 10) Media and copyrights
 * 11) Userpage
 * 12) Uploading image
 * 13) Check for redirects in watchlist

= August 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 17


 * 1) Accused of vandalism
 * 2) Change capitalization of article
 * 3) Anyone know any alternate way to watchlist a category for changes?
 * 4) re: information about survivors of Legionnairs disease
 * 5) Adding a Photo
 * 6) glastonbury patmos twinning
 * 7) create and editing a page
 * 8) html question
 * 9) Did some one damage my account?
 * 10) What are the guidelines for submitting translations of a website?
 * 11) How come my image appears as a link?
 * 12) PAI
 * 13) How do I flag something as advertising?

= August 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 18


 * 1) Box and align right
 * 2) Help!
 * 3) mathematics limits
 * 4) Image speedy deletion
 * 5) Fair use or uncopyrightable?
 * 6) Re-write or edit
 * 7) Estonia national football team
 * 8) FireFox/Mac
 * 9) How to delete redirects
 * 10) My inline citation and link does not show in the references list and is not clickable
 * 11) Appropriate reporting venue?
 * 12) Question on Referencing
 * 13) Template:railway line header
 * 14) confirm my email
 * 15) Moving Page: Need Help; Sort of Double Page Made.
 * 16) Legitmacy of copyright violation

= August 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 19


 * 1) Searching within my own contributions
 * 2) helpme templates
 * 3) Bettie Page
 * 4) wolf-hirschhorn syndrome
 * 5) US flag
 * 6) Adding a Citation to a Semi Protected Article
 * 7) Information required.
 * 8) Transcluding templates
 * 9) Multiple collapsible elements
 * 10) Inserting an image with a caption but without the inner frame
 * 11) Changing an Autobiography to an article
 * 12) No source links available.
 * 13) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Victory_Theatre
 * 14) You are too much trouble
 * 15) Log in, create an account.
 * 16) Editing The List Of Defunct Magazines
 * 17) User:TimLambert
 * 18) Pic from FA
 * 19) Deleting an account
 * 20) posting my company info
 * 21) two files seem to be missing
 * 22) I am trying to do something that makes sense
 * 23) Countries
 * 24) translation
 * 25) Citing images found in Wikipedia
 * 26) Personal Biographies
 * 27) phillips Idowu - triple jumper Olympics

= August 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 20


 * 1) Watchlist problems
 * 2) user name regrets, regrets!
 * 3) question papers
 * 4) Administration
 * 5) Adding a protected organization logo to an article
 * 6) page
 * 7) using images from another website
 * 8) Twinkle ... speedy rename category
 * 9) Leading space formatting
 * 10) Robert Marsden
 * 11) Template:ArticleHistory out of order
 * 12) Content Menu
 * 13) Problem rendering authorlink?
 * 14) JIS NICKLE STANDARD
 * 15) Adding an article to an existing name
 * 16) First time user
 * 17) Glamping is protected/blocked
 * 18) Inserting a Photo into an Article
 * 19) Image-Move to commons
 * 20) Signature Customization
 * 21) Editing Wikipedia
 * 22) Reporting problem

= August 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 21


 * 1) Recreating a deleted article
 * 2) Consensus?
 * 3) How do I get the blue colored links to print out?
 * 4) Sortable table
 * 5) Confirmation
 * 6) Article already had an AfD page
 * 7) Incorrect move
 * 8) Finding articles
 * 9) Can I help?
 * 10) Speedy deletion
 * 11) work place hazords and dangers
 * 12) Masseter article contains un-deletable vandalism
 * 13) People awarded the Military Cross
 * 14) Login issue
 * 15) detele
 * 16) Preferred format for adding questions to talk pages?
 * 17) Editing of the Paper Route (band) Wikipedia site

= August 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 22


 * 1) flat rate telecommunication
 * 2) move page
 * 3) reference to Atlanta radio station burning
 * 4) Bodog
 * 5) semi protected /protected.
 * 6) Fair use?
 * 7) FINDING MONEY FOR FEMALE  ADULT UNDER GRAD OVER 50YRS OLD
 * 8) Adding Picture
 * 9) Talk page text
 * 10) Lists and Categories
 * 11) changing user name
 * 12) Rules for writing articles about websites
 * 13) New policy?
 * 14) Where are the various language character sets that were on the Edit page?

= August 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 23


 * 1) Assessing articles
 * 2) Wikipedia in italics
 * 3) about Canadian currency in South Korea
 * 4) Changing a footnote/citation
 * 5) Did someone just make a CSS style change?
 * 6) Creating a new article
 * 7) Chinese article on english wikipedia
 * 8) links with "Title" not compatible with Google Toolbar tanslation
 * 9) continental baths
 * 10) Images' copyright
 * 11) finding old login
 * 12) product links
 * 13) Question

= August 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 24


 * 1) Contents
 * 2) Access to sources
 * 3) incorrect information
 * 4) need help logging in - forgotten password/new email address
 * 5) Wikicode box
 * 6) Intank eletric gasoline fuel pump for fuel Injectors.  / used for carburetor
 * 7) Spoiler question.
 * 8) Merger discussion
 * 9) Editing the article "Gelfand pair"
 * 10) Box at bottom of user page
 * 11) Guidelines for Writing Books
 * 12) Help with a box
 * 13) posting picture to article
 * 14) Suzan Lewis
 * 15) Wikipedia download
 * 16) Why the deletion on Biden??
 * 17) References!!!
 * 18) Crucifixion
 * 19) crucifixion
 * 20) Created a New Article...
 * 21) image deletion
 * 22) Notability of Roman Catholic Bishops
 * 23) Question about stubs and other tags
 * 24) Red and Green

= August 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 25


 * 1) Q about Sex
 * 2) Making an Infobox for RPG Character Pages
 * 3) Del image moved to commons
 * 4) Off topic child support request for legal advice from an anonymous user
 * 5) ATP (airline transport pilot’s license) equivalent degree
 * 6) Name order on articles created by categorization
 * 7) Redirect templates
 * 8) How to create and edit my Wikipedia page
 * 9) Article creation request
 * 10) Carmen Cavallaro - ?
 * 11) Auto-Wikibreak
 * 12) Image Question
 * 13) Auto-date
 * 14) Insert box doesn't work for me
 * 15) FA assessment
 * 16) royally pension on non-free media files
 * 17) Changing wikipedia picture
 * 18) Vandalism
 * 19) Rights to an article
 * 20) How do I create a "floating quote" of under 50 words?
 * 21) On reporting vandalism
 * 22) Email Notifications of Article Edits
 * 23) Evidence that smoking causes cancer?
 * 24) Getting an account20:00, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 25) Image not displayed?
 * 26) Unreferenced template problem
 * 27) Wikipedia Toolbar

= August 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 26


 * 1) Default font
 * 2)  oldprodfull and CurrentYYYYMMDD
 * 3) Australian Soccer Players
 * 4) Question
 * 5) Request for help with images
 * 6) Email change without password
 * 7) For immediate action: Slander found on Wikipedia
 * 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimo Damaging Innacurracy!!!!!!!
 * 9) how can a redirection be undone?
 * 10) Obama
 * 11) Sponsorship:  Marathon Runners - Energy Bar
 * 12) Hey
 * 13) write letter
 * 14) Wikipedia disclosure
 * 15) Shortcut to citing
 * 16) Global Account
 * 17) Table(s) of Contents
 * 18) Jimbo Wales
 * 19) List of language equivalents
 * 20) How can I add my company to Wikipedia?
 * 21) Removal of "Appearances In Popular Culture" from Dodge Charger page?
 * 22) I represent two comedians, Josh Blue and John Heffron, and need to change the content on their pages
 * 23) Licensing issues
 * 24) Collapse the TOC
 * 25) Trivial Mention
 * 26) AFD problem
 * 27) Why don't you add video to the articles?
 * 28) Becoming an admin

= August 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 27


 * 1) Finding information within an old edit which may be delete
 * 2) Help request - bunching
 * 3) Help questions
 * 4) Newbie Account: banned ?
 * 5) Search Facility
 * 6) Recover account without password and without access to email
 * 7) Question about Jimbo
 * 8) health science/ medicines
 * 9) IP requests a redirect
 * 10) Uploading a jpg image
 * 11) Gettin a pag deleted
 * 12) Page moved, but talk page didn't
 * 13) unified login
 * 14) Making a Page Searchable?  And Public
 * 15) WIKIPEDIA ELECTION
 * 16) How babies are made
 * 17) To H.R.Manager
 * 18) Dotted box around lead section
 * 19) User page
 * 20) how do you become a admin
 * 21) how do you ban user ( why are users not allowed to ban other users )
 * 22) Copy Editing John Perry Barlow Article
 * 23) Hector Elizondo
 * 24) cream pie
 * 25) Moving an image to Wiki Commons
 * 26)  FixBunching

= August 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 28


 * 1) making a disambiguation
 * 2) New infobox
 * 3) Roe v Wade
 * 4) Adding new link to links at top of page...
 * 5) iit jee
 * 6) how do you get a ip
 * 7) Can you change a pages title name?
 * 8) How to change colour
 * 9) ADDING PICTURES TO A WIKI PAGE
 * 10) Template:Infobox Dancer
 * 11) downloading content from wikipedia database
 * 12) Hexadecimal for color of links in lefthand navigation?
 * 13) Permission to cross link web sites
 * 14) how many users
 * 15) page name
 * 16) Telecom Engineers
 * 17) Help, just upgraded to Firefox 3 and most of this site is unreadable!
 * 18) Contessa Entellina, Sicily
 * 19) Book Cover Upload?

= August 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 29


 * 1) Picture won't show
 * 2) PHD degree
 * 3) Does there exist a list of previously deleted articles anywhere?
 * 4) Advanced Editing
 * 5) Anomaly
 * 6) EXE Sandbox
 * 7) Article on Robert Marsden
 * 8) Linking to Conception dream
 * 9) ppast version of copyright infingement  in Japanese Wikipedia
 * 10) Fonts
 * 11) history
 * 12) why ban users not fair
 * 13) byebye, the wikipedia adaction.
 * 14) I can't seem to be able to Edit or Add any comments in the Questions pages?
 * 15) citing pages within books
 * 16) Show/hide section?
 * 17) Letting someone know their page is being deleted
 * 18) Where is my article?
 * 19) Forums as references- Exceptional cases?
 * 20) Bronze Star Recipients of Korean War
 * 21) Changing a username

= August 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 30


 * 1) Non-Notable Site
 * 2) All Mixed Up
 * 3) Relisting AFDs
 * 4) How to undo an archive?
 * 5) User contribs
 * 6) regading my health
 * 7) Wanted to create new article and could not ...
 * 8) Colons in links
 * 9) how can I delete the editing history from a Wikipedia page
 * 10) Downloadable/Static Help Section?
 * 11) How do I do signatures?
 * 12) Do you want to save this file, or find a program online to open it?

= August 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 August 31


 * 1) Correct placement/categorization of an RFC?
 * 2) Where do I go from here?
 * 3) How to Contact Gerry Marr!
 * 4) Article traffic
 * 5) Reporting abuse
 * 6) Database syntax error
 * 7) Account creation
 * 8) WTF?
 * 9) Heading structure broken
 * 10) Anti-vandal tools comparison?
 * 11) edit bots
 * 12) Image moved to commons
 * 13) Can't read text on Wikipedia
 * 14) Featured picture has a wrong link to its candidate page
 * 15) .ogg's?
 * 16) The "N" word used in description of Kwanzaa