Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2009

= August 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 1


 * 1) Special:Export limit?
 * 2) User Name?
 * 3) Why are some articles picked more often than others?
 * 4) Learn
 * 5) Open proxy
 * 6) User talkpage protected
 * 7) Save page from wrong editing
 * 8) Is there anyway to get a random featured article
 * 9) RSS feeds for Watchlist
 * 10) Toolserver down?
 * 11) is arbitrary archive of talk page allowed?
 * 12) Changing Pages
 * 13) Template Abbreviation
 * 14) Image upload... where did it go?
 * 15) Feature picture
 * 16) Suggestions?

= August 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 2


 * 1) Free logos
 * 2) noting content added to the wrong section of an article
 * 3) Incomplete article
 * 4) Creative Commons on Flickr
 * 5) Are Userpage Guestbooks allowed?
 * 6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE8#Missing_features
 * 7) Fixing a picture
 * 8) Hiding the Contents box
 * 9) computer speed
 * 10) publish my article
 * 11) BLP images
 * 12) GA Sweeps review userbox

= August 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 3


 * 1) My Contributions
 * 2) making a new page
 * 3) Windows
 * 4) No one will reply to my question on the reliable sources noticeboard!
 * 5) do you want to save this file, or find a program online to open it?
 * 6) Copyright query
 * 7) Editing
 * 8) Page Problems
 * 9) Convert MP4 file to format Wikipedia will accept
 * 10) Categorisation of merged articles
 * 11) Who's the Arbiter?
 * 12) Copyrights update on the Mobile site
 * 13) Removing unaired episode descriptions
 * 14) Boolean Searches
 * 15) How to remove picture
 * 16) How to convert a new category to a sub category of an existing category
 * 17) MIME setting
 * 18) Fred Parr Watercolour Artist

= August 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 4


 * 1) Playing ogg files
 * 2) genderfication definition
 * 3) to know who is suffering from HCV in India
 * 4) Mission statements
 * 5) Great Ziggurat of Ur
 * 6) How to move a page
 * 7) Job Activities of Senior Field Officer(TELE) in Indian Cabinet Secratariat
 * 8) NHS Blood ad Transplant wiki page
 * 9) [Technical] &#8211; How can I improve Google PageRank for articles with title in English, but with original title in a foreign language?
 * 10) Global Employment and Literacy Coalition (GEALC)  and North-American Organisation for Migration
 * 11) Citation Needed Tag
 * 12) Domaining is not squatting.
 * 13) Uploading Images
 * 14) TOC showing only sections
 * 15) Lost Password
 * 16) phased array radars
 * 17) Exporting my article to the French Wikipedia
 * 18) where is the city of Chad?
 * 19) How do I embed an image from a foreign language Wikipedia?
 * 20) Redirect is not Correct
 * 21) Table sorting glitch
 * 22) Publishing date

= August 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 5


 * 1) Fixing redirects
 * 2) Aloe Vera
 * 3) External tools
 * 4) can pages have the same url
 * 5) Page creation
 * 6) Co-ordinates for medium-sized areas
 * 7) Page Reviews/Warnings
 * 8) Peer reviewed
 * 9) Use of wikinews as reference
 * 10) Italy plug vrs North American plugs
 * 11) Edit war on Young Republicans
 * 12) is there a way to get a deleted image back?

= August 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 6


 * 1) Hiding categories
 * 2) override this function
 * 3) PAGE DELITED WITHOUT ANY REASON
 * 4) Can you change a page as I do not know how to edit a page?
 * 5) enquiry about the identity
 * 6) Thomas Chippendale
 * 7) Tool to find all pages which two editors edited
 * 8) Citations and external links
 * 9) E-MAIL ADDRESS'S USEING INTERNET STICKS
 * 10) How to create Musician list in wikipedia?
 * 11) Image with no license
 * 12) Deletion of a page on a company
 * 13) vatiswa
 * 14) Music Council Of Australia
 * 15) Re: adding a link to the Container Garden page
 * 16) Trouble finding confirmation totals of past SCOTUS justicies
 * 17) edit warring
 * 18) Valid source or not?
 * 19) Changing the Title of a page
 * 20) Movie Quotes
 * 21) How to add photos and certain descriptions to articles

= August 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 7


 * 1) Beta?
 * 2) Alternate accounts
 * 3) mediawiki markup?
 * 4) I just need help regarding adding the references tag to my article
 * 5) Infobox
 * 6) Just need someone to look at my article and tell me where to put the 'references tag', or what else I should do. Thank you.
 * 7) Lists and images
 * 8) File in English link for other languages
 * 9) Random using #expr:
 * 10) Automating a list
 * 11) Beta?
 * 12) Sub page
 * 13) editing articles
 * 14) 3rd link under references is wrong URL and has to be changed, Reflist needes to be unlocked for future updates
 * 15) Translate the new Vector stylesheet
 * 16) how to create line drawings
 * 17) How do you create a wiki page?
 * 18) Infobox for Russian submarine K-496 Borisoglebsk
 * 19) Adding a quote box for a written letter for the Kurt Wintgens Wikipedia article
 * 20) infobox footnote problem

= August 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 8


 * 1) Which template should I use related to Wikipedia:NOT_PAPERS
 * 2) Didn't Know You Could Do That
 * 3) The Beta. Will it replace the old version?
 * 4) Beverages in Kerala
 * 5) Auto title for sectiosns and auto signature
 * 6) Asking here
 * 7) Board of Trustees election
 * 8) daewoo cars
 * 9) Profunda artery
 * 10) Question about PStricks
 * 11) Orphan pages with regards to redirects
 * 12) Contradicting informations between en and cs Wikipedia
 * 13) Autoconfirmation
 * 14) Beta discussion?
 * 15) Date range style in infoboxes
 * 16) LOST CARD
 * 17) Page creation
 * 18) No visible images

= August 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 9


 * 1) Checkusers
 * 2) How come users delete pages I edit?
 * 3) Having problem creating an unified login
 * 4) Calulation of Wikipedia Depth
 * 5) flipflop article with redirect?
 * 6) Black Country
 * 7) Dec. 19, 2006 Help Desk archive
 * 8) Moving article from user space to new article space
 * 9) Accidental redirect
 * 10) How do I verify information about myself that is on my wikipedia page?
 * 11) 1000 year old equadorian artifact

= August 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 10


 * 1) Can You Insert Text From One Wikipedia Article Into Another?
 * 2) Hiding category list
 * 3) If you wanna quit, how do you??
 * 4) Am I allowed to use a photograph of someone else's painting in a Wiki article if I bought that painting?
 * 5) Is there any way to turn on line numbers?
 * 6) Switching from secured to unsecured page
 * 7) Login unification
 * 8) CED Capacitance electronic disc system
 * 9) Editing text above edit box
 * 10) Help template
 * 11) asexual reproduction
 * 12) Are open accounts allowed
 * 13) Biographical article
 * 14) can't log in
 * 15) Today's featured article
 * 16) Disabling popups
 * 17) Changing the title of an article
 * 18) Unable to open wikipedia addresses found in Google -- Windows XP says no file extension associated
 * 19) Pages that contain only an infobox and a "reflist"
 * 20) Block and Ban

= August 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 11


 * 1) An image license template and "all rights reserved"
 * 2) I just uploaded a photo to add to a director's artcle, need help!!!
 * 3) Editing problems when logged in
 * 4) how do a searching for one particular word in the text ( not entry title)?
 * 5) I NEED HELP MAKING A LINK ON A WIKIPEDIA PAGE TO A WIKISOURCE PAGE
 * 6) Free use?
 * 7) login/editing problem
 * 8) Template class page
 * 9) bot to convert jpgs to pngs?
 * 10) New Stussy article
 * 11) Paragraph boxed and elongated
 * 12) Log in
 * 13) Creating a portal
 * 14) Are US Department Of Justice Files Considered Citable Sources ?
 * 15) Some Template Related Query. Problem With "|"
 * 16) Image
 * 17) problem deleting a logo
 * 18) Is there a page which lists which WikiProjects have the most articles?
 * 19) I replaced my article's one photo with a cleaner one, yet Wikipedia added 4 extras photo to the file history/jpg page (not what I did).
 * 20) SUL account
 * 21) Rating Articles
 * 22) Someone elses writing.
 * 23) Taking text from annother website

= August 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 12


 * 1) Getting Started
 * 2) My Kelly Kelly Page was deleted
 * 3) I need an Admin
 * 4) IP Address
 * 5) Can't find project page
 * 6) Hang on
 * 7) Can I add a line saying our company has not reviewed this?
 * 8) Article I created MUST BE DELETED
 * 9) how do I send a page to a friend?
 * 10) best school
 * 11) Re: Delete account
 * 12) Change the name of a Wikipedia page
 * 13) Title Editing
 * 14) substantiate notability
 * 15) pls help me with my password
 * 16) Question about duplication of material
 * 17) renaming non-existing topics with existing ones
 * 18) Reference question for my page for you
 * 19) Infoboxes and Images
 * 20) Accidentally damaged a page somehow
 * 21) Registeration
 * 22) Non-breaking spaces
 * 23) Healthcare options
 * 24) Plagiarism
 * 25) Colt 1860 Army .44 Caliber Revolver S/n 16763
 * 26) addig a category

= August 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 13


 * 1) Copyright/usage of the Wikipedia logo
 * 2) Template for "Read discussion first"
 * 3) What additional source is needed for the page of D. Bertsekas?
 * 4) chat
 * 5) New Article
 * 6) Citations.
 * 7) Adding to an article without logging in..sorry
 * 8) AFD muckup
 * 9) Finding my article when searching
 * 10) Template for the nth AfD
 * 11) New page
 * 12) Flagging as Inaccurate or Obsolete
 * 13) Beta
 * 14) Fabian A. Koss
 * 15) American Motorcyclist Association
 * 16) Mobile editing
 * 17) Change Entry Name Capitalization

= August 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 14


 * 1) I was given the following advice as to how to improve my page Kerry Hallam
 * 2) Title mistake
 * 3) dropdown section?
 * 4) iPhone App for Watchlist
 * 5) "Current user" display
 * 6) Do we have a template page for an article that is primarily based on primary soures?
 * 7) Are externak links to blogs allowed?
 * 8) Signature appearance
 * 9) Illegal link
 * 10) deleting account
 * 11) How do I add my own links to the sidebar
 * 12) Securing content rights protection
 * 13) Starting a brand new page
 * 14) I received a strange email in Croatian from WikiAdmin??!
 * 15) Strange email
 * 16) hiding minor edits for user contributions
 * 17) Changing Title of an Article
 * 18) Broken Links

= August 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 15


 * 1) Moving an article from user page to general accessibility
 * 2) flicker page as reference
 * 3) Help with clean up tag
 * 4) How can i browse wiki offline?
 * 5) give information
 * 6) Browser problem?
 * 7) My page was deleted - the error message said it was deleted because other information was not found on google
 * 8) Uploading photos but first i need to undergone 10 edit
 * 9) Deletion discussions
 * 10) Search function
 * 11) Rollback and Reverting: Difference?
 * 12) Change the Name of Wikipedia Page
 * 13) can't export new article to the web
 * 14) creating signatures
 * 15) Blip External Link Graphic in Infobox

= August 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 16


 * 1) Tmbox
 * 2) Roger Federer
 * 3) Uploading translated pages
 * 4) Trouble with templates and functions.
 * 5) Inexperienced Need Help
 * 6) New user here, with new page & need review of it & what I can do;
 * 7) Uploading Images
 * 8) My Page Has Been Deleted
 * 9) How long will it take for a new page that I added to appear?
 * 10) $ per square foot conversion

= August 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 17


 * 1) "What links here" oddness
 * 2) Help wikify article
 * 3) Talk:Chicago Theatre/GA1
 * 4) help us PLEASE. page content dispute over Party in the USA
 * 5) WP:Citation needed, and making a list of alternatives to fact
 * 6) License Plate On File
 * 7) research project
 * 8) Review the article please
 * 9) wrong entry
 * 10) bad gateway
 * 11) Child support
 * 12) Article "Female Transformers"
 * 13) mime file type not recognized
 * 14) Investment in Rwanda
 * 15) Speedily Deleted Articles
 * 16) Problem moving pages
 * 17) burning pictures to a dvd
 * 18) post a photo
 * 19) Citing musical works
 * 20) how can I change my password
 * 21) Iran (word) - Persian literature?
 * 22) How to use talk pages
 * 23) How can I change/move the name of a file/picture
 * 24) donna hagen
 * 25) adding pictures
 * 26) Mass nonsense/spam edits

= August 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 18


 * 1) Enable mobile version
 * 2) Merging Cells
 * 3) Help
 * 4) Suppression without explanations of 8000 bytes from "Quinceañera film"
 * 5) Search for not so new article
 * 6) Access a specific deleted revision given its oldid
 * 7) Notability of Websites
 * 8) Order of items on a disambiguation page
 * 9) Chimerica
 * 10) Infobox or Table
 * 11) Arbitration policy
 * 12) Searching user contributions
 * 13) gk
 * 14) Moving page
 * 15) discrete mathematics/posets115.240.202.190 (talk) 19:51, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 16) Map on Christianity article
 * 17) Question about " This websites has been blocked REASON: Phishing Attempt
 * 18) Listing order of new links, is there a protocol?

= August 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 19


 * 1) external links?
 * 2) My Name- Info keeps getting deleted Why and by whom?
 * 3) Inserting a Photo
 * 4) Able to contact Queen Rania of Jordan
 * 5) Server load from blank transclusion
 * 6) Wikipedia links to official nomenclature documentation for receptor protiens?
 * 7) My Account
 * 8) Rabies article/map
 * 9) Float
 * 10) big and small
 * 11) 3 Questions/ Website Info/ References
 * 12) What is the policy about garbage in a talk page?
 * 13) improvement to main page
 * 14) Pronunciation
 * 15) walled garden of crap
 * 16) how do you indent certain lines on a content box?
 * 17) Conflict of Interest question
 * 18) Canadain Pacific Railway info
 * 19) refs working oddly
 * 20) Does this need to be deleted?
 * 21) I am a new user and I need help!
 * 22) First white settler, New Zealand

= August 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 20


 * 1) Arabic names for foreigners?
 * 2) Adding new name to list of Chileans of Italian descent
 * 3) Can someone help me give better advice?
 * 4) the poem shakespeare by john donn
 * 5) Deletion of my contribution
 * 6) Copyright company logo
 * 7) Kohl Automobile
 * 8) Navbox with collapsible groups, collapsing logic
 * 9) Question re: FA review
 * 10) wikihow
 * 11) Signing
 * 12) Something has gone wonky for me in Google Chrome.

= August 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 21


 * 1) AfD Question
 * 2) manga
 * 3) August 20th 2009 - Events
 * 4) The Wikipedia citation bot
 * 5) pop
 * 6) How do I create an Infobox?
 * 7) Maps
 * 8) Strange display of Wikipedia pages
 * 9) Not receiving verification email
 * 10) online payment
 * 11) Changing unfactual information
 * 12) Please help me
 * 13) google images?
 * 14) Creating a list in a table.
 * 15) WP 1.0 Bot
 * 16) Is this a legitimate reference?
 * 17) Geographic coordinates
 * 18) Editing Semi-Protected Pages
 * 19) Do 'Goodwill' employees wear uniforms in Ontario, Canada?

= August 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 22


 * 1) problem logging in from china
 * 2) Visual differences when logged in and logged out
 * 3) How to upload an image?
 * 4) Article naming
 * 5) Adding pictures
 * 6) Possible to delete my account?
 * 7) proposed deletion of 'maple palm'
 * 8) owners title
 * 9) Adding Pictures to a new article?
 * 10) What Stub should this be catergorized with?
 * 11) 1976 CB 360 Honda
 * 12) DreamJournal software - would that be considered spam?
 * 13) Can't find the problem template
 * 14) adding information to your article.
 * 15) Titles in other languages
 * 16) Prince Namor
 * 17) FFD when?
 * 18) Usage of words or phrases in articles

= August 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 23


 * 1) Genealogy of Umberto 11 and Maria Jose of Belgium
 * 2) wikipedia logo - a foot?
 * 3) Twinkle
 * 4) Should Wikipedia:Meta....
 * 5) Naming for placenames and search
 * 6) Vandalism
 * 7) User subpage use
 * 8) Where is my newly composed page?
 * 9) Time Help
 * 10) Article Bad habit
 * 11) Logging In
 * 12) Help with citations
 * 13) Is a YouTube video original research?
 * 14) Link to a section in a hatnote?
 * 15) 2 pair of geographic coordinates
 * 16) Featured article publication date?
 * 17) Placename confusion
 * 18) Is there a way to make an icon show up for Good Articles?
 * 19) Buggy diffs
 * 20) Counting all the pages in a category including those in subcategories
 * 21) PHP Unix timestamp
 * 22) Vandal deterrent

= August 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 24


 * 1) harry potter book order
 * 2) RE: experienced adminstrator available?
 * 3) What is up with the strange colouring of text....
 * 4) Deletion
 * 5) confused about how to transfere page i have created
 * 6) Help editing a page
 * 7) spelling list
 * 8) Social Security Benefit Questions
 * 9) My Watchlist takes ages to load today.
 * 10) author of an article
 * 11) is this vandalism?
 * 12) photos
 * 13) Editing introductory paragraph for topic
 * 14) Help with reverting vandalism

= August 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 25


 * 1) Pulling distribution of articles based on infobox parameter
 * 2) Incorrect US Congressional District map
 * 3) Evinrude Out Board Motor Repair
 * 4) Is there not a difference between "free references" and the "only reference" not being viewable?
 * 5) Logo
 * 6) Difference between Studio and Distributor
 * 7) Adding copyright information to an image
 * 8) Starting a new wiki, want to copy some content.
 * 9) Rules on setting up a page
 * 10) Need
 * 11) trying to add links to page,
 * 12) Interlanguage links and cultural differences
 * 13) Flagged Revisions
 * 14) Language Templates
 * 15) Is there a wikipedia suggestions page?
 * 16) Moving an article under beta.
 * 17) Homework Help
 * 18) Correcting a name - is that considered major or minor edit?
 * 19) Why was Family data removed from right column summary block for all people on Wikipedia?
 * 20) Iota Lambda Pi Fraternity Incorporated
 * 21) Top Aces Consulting
 * 22) How do you Place the green resolved check into a post?
 * 23) What Vandal tag to use for...
 * 24) Splitting a split article further
 * 25) Conflict of Interest: Writing for an employer, from a neutral point of view
 * 26) Can you block people from editing your page?
 * 27) Using an image from the Italian Wikipedia
 * 28) add Fulton Ross to list of Black artists
 * 29) I need help giving help.
 * 30) Toronto Transit Commission accessibility
 * 31) Overlapping infobox and text
 * 32) Help getting page viewable...
 * 33) SouthPeak Game

= August 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 26


 * 1) a list of medical device companies
 * 2) Cnote2 display issue in Firefox
 * 3) How to publish my page?
 * 4) Going around in circles
 * 5) Roster template question
 * 6) Cannabis (drug) protection
 * 7) Tick symbol
 * 8) My new page does not show up on Wikipedia except in my contributions
 * 9) Wikipedia Artwork
 * 10) Non-free image used in two articles, but with a rationale for only one of them
 * 11) How to spell out link to shortcut "CAT:CSD" ?
 * 12) facebook
 * 13) Seeking a way to contact a person who added to a page
 * 14) Unknown File Type
 * 15) posting pdf references that do not link to an external web site
 * 16) Putting about myself
 * 17) Merging Accounts
 * 18) Noinclude showing up without explanation
 * 19) CNN Story
 * 20) How can I get my original account back?

= August 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 27


 * 1) Lost password?
 * 2) definition for cable assembly and harness
 * 3) semi protected page
 * 4) Include my email address when other people are notified of changes I make
 * 5) Template help
 * 6) Fix infobox at Broadmoor Hospital please
 * 7) Change in policy?
 * 8) Using wikipedia articles on travel info websites
 * 9) qui
 * 10) WikiProject Discussion Pages
 * 11) Deleting an article
 * 12) How do I change the list of Alternative Medical Syatems
 * 13) Image help
 * 14) Project tags
 * 15) Stubs
 * 16) Speedy Deletion?
 * 17) Twinkle
 * 18) Should this be deleted?
 * 19) My First Question
 * 20) Mars?
 * 21) Conflicting image names

= August 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 28


 * 1) deleting accounts
 * 2) Washington Post carries an article by the Associated Press, who is the publisher?
 * 3) Paragraph strangeness
 * 4) Ostrich
 * 5) Creating a Template for a Basketball Team Roster
 * 6) Is facebook public domain
 * 7) Getting into an Edit War with a vandal, help!
 * 8) the worst
 * 9) Creating a new Term & Definition
 * 10) Text message
 * 11) Publishing on Wikipedia
 * 12) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_and_Linux
 * 13) Renaming and deleting articles
 * 14) Reporting baised Wikipedia user CaliforniaAliBaba
 * 15) Three Revert Rule
 * 16) Article "Cor anglais (English horn)
 * 17) create united account for all Wiki Projects
 * 18) submitting an bio entry
 * 19) Alien Breed (band)
 * 20) Copyrighted Issues
 * 21) Stopping an automatic redirect
 * 22) money question
 * 23) Adolfo De Bareis
 * 24) Help on displaying a template correctly
 * 25) Vintage Magazines
 * 26) Sum of a column of numerical values?
 * 27) Copyright info issue
 * 28) Need the answer
 * 29) File history for images

= August 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 29


 * 1) Editing reference with external link
 * 2) Bruce DePalma
 * 3) Mango disease
 * 4) Donation
 * 5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCno
 * 6) Help in creating articles
 * 7) Two questions
 * 8) Lag
 * 9) Table, center cell only.
 * 10) Res judicata prints as iudicata
 * 11) Links to commercial websites in articles (not relevant to content).
 * 12) Try Beta

= August 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 30


 * 1) Adoption/Mentorship
 * 2) How do I add a name to a list
 * 3) Code issues
 * 4) All Caps
 * 5) Wikipedia dumps
 * 6) Edit count
 * 7) scotland overseas bank
 * 8) Improper editing
 * 9) Merging/deleting categories
 * 10) Michael Joseph Aprile
 * 11) killer 454
 * 12) How do I link two wikipedia articles in different languages?
 * 13) Updating/Correcting Semi-Protected Pages
 * 14) Wikipedia article "Bird's Nest soup"
 * 15) Honey's Boys on Big Cat Diary
 * 16) How can I add an IMAGE to an existing bio that doesn't contain a photo?

= August 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 31


 * 1) Deleting a Page
 * 2) Table of Content
 * 3) Photography
 * 4) Deleting image
 * 5) How to ask a Question
 * 6) Suspected repeat vandalism by newish user Macgrissom
 * 7) Trademark question
 * 8) Wikipedia bio of VAdm.Theodore S. Wilkinson
 * 9) JPG  link to Wikipedia Pages
 * 10) Discovery Air Inc.
 * 11) messaging members
 * 12) Table & table in template help
 * 13) Pewter
 * 14) Warning tags on Dominion Resources article
 * 15) I did not have permission to upload photo. How do I remove them?
 * 16) Just out of curiosity

= August 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 22