Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2012

= August 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 1


 * 1) Issue archiving certain EW.com articles using webcitation
 * 2) A7 speedy deletion...why?
 * 3) Editing Wikis and it showing up on the Facebook page
 * 4) Having trouble adding a header image correctly to an infobox template
 * 5) Re the removal of my article on Frederick Tibbenham
 * 6) Holidaysafe
 * 7) Check I'm not spamming
 * 8) GA
 * 9) New astray template
 * 10) Fix redirects post-move
 * 11) a copyeditor for me
 * 12) i had a call off the ombudsman to say i have won my case
 * 13) Placement of  my Wikipedia entry in Google search results
 * 14) College Athletics pages -- team rosters -- Adding (W) to the LEGEND box and Q re: how to use the LEGEND codes
 * 15) How to change a photo on a page
 * 16) re- Frank Slide
 * 17) Co-opted link
 * 18) Translation copyright conflict
 * 19) Timing of controversial changes

= August 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 2


 * 1) Dates federal budget was signed by presidents
 * 2) Racism and Pan-Turkism
 * 3) password dose not match
 * 4) Mark Ring Wales Rugby Union International
 * 5) Wrong spelling of the first name of Xhemail Mustafa
 * 6) wrong Chase Daniels
 * 7) Need help with the unblock template
 * 8) Profession added to Biographical Article
 * 9) Check-user
 * 10) Login problems
 * 11) Company article - infobox or prose?
 * 12) Edit Conflicts when Un-doing my edits
 * 13) Font conversion?!

= August 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 3


 * 1) why was A great reference book  deleted
 * 2) Reporting Users
 * 3) Advice re marine boiler needed
 * 4) How to add my organisation details
 * 5) Peter Bodo, sports writer and blogger about Tennis
 * 6) Sorry
 * 7) Please help with a Merge
 * 8) Company info
 * 9) Article declined, reviewer doesn't answer/talk
 * 10) Dead Birds film by Robert Gardner
 * 11) Seems like there's no help for me, unfortunately
 * 12) Alert message is unfair and should be removed
 * 13) Editing
 * 14) messages
 * 15) 100 questions by FACEBOOK members asked to anyone seeking political office
 * 16) Autoconfirmed question
 * 17) abot factor

= August 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 4


 * 1) Ip address
 * 2) Rosa Diamante
 * 3) Wrap in ToC
 * 4) Editors/groups with an agenda
 * 5) Santa Paula Airport
 * 6) Changing incorrect information on my profile.
 * 7) Place for discussing changes to watchlist style script
 * 8) some queries
 * 9) Request for advice
 * 10) Problems with other users
 * 11) Mr. Wales contact info
 * 12) Talk:Tiger versus lion
 * 13) A full list of LaTeX commands
 * 14) Request for feedback
 * 15) Python
 * 16) Is there a place to discuss articles on Wikipedia?

= August 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 5


 * 1) Regarding FLC and FAC
 * 2) data flow diagram
 * 3) Caravanim
 * 4) HOW DO I GET A PAGE ABOUT ME ON WIKIPEDIA?
 * 5) Can redirects be ProDed?
 * 6) How to clarify this?
 * 7) Starmania (TV series)
 * 8) I would like to recreate an article
 * 9) BIO on CLAUDE RAINS
 * 10) Help with finding a journal article
 * 11) Problems with Bulla Kutta Page
 * 12) Narula Institute of Technology
 * 13) Why does 🇪🇸 expand to the wrong message?
 * 14) Building a new article.

= August 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 6


 * 1) Bad link on "List of Futurologists" Page
 * 2) Foundary factory
 * 3) PLEASE HELP
 * 4) Location
 * 5) List of rail-road related periodicals
 * 6) What to do if you suspect an editor may be mentally ill or incompetent
 * 7) Move Title
 * 8) New Wikipedia Format?
 * 9) Primary sources
 * 10) User Mdann52 keeps deleting a page I created that needs to be made
 * 11) The Silo - Information Was Removed
 * 12)  $fint$ in wikipedia
 * 13) Disagreement about using Cite templates
 * 14) What to do?
 * 15) STRATHAIRD ESTATE ,ISLE OF SKYE
 * 16) Víctor Jara

= August 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 7


 * 1) Why do my edits/external links disappear?
 * 2) AWB help
 * 3) Disappearing Box-with-an-Arrow
 * 4) Production
 * 5) Categories "Art genres" vs  "Art movements"
 * 6) for zooming  wiki page
 * 7) Regarding 2012 mesh terms
 * 8) Userbox
 * 9) Missing Article
 * 10) Question about formatting references
 * 11) Wikipedia XML data
 * 12) himalayas
 * 13) TRAIN TO GANDHIDHAM/BHUJ.
 * 14) "sortable" table does not sort
 * 15) URGENTLY NEEDS CHANGING
 * 16) Taylor Swift
 * 17) Sir Arthur Edward Trevor Benson Colonial Governor Nothern Rhodesia
 * 18) Redirection - Iestism
 * 19) Redirection - Jubilee School
 * 20) changing/uploading a photograph
 * 21) Avant Garde filmmakers
 * 22) My image

= August 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 8


 * 1) Jacob Michelson
 * 2) New Page
 * 3) Michael Blakey
 * 4) Review
 * 5) famous residents frankfort indiaba
 * 6) basic skills wiki
 * 7) One Ton Cup in English
 * 8) Editing my watchlist
 * 9) death of Aurangzeb
 * 10) cannot write an article about myself
 * 11) Vandal report
 * 12) Broken link
 * 13) Username problem
 * 14) Referemce on talk page
 * 15) Button or box
 * 16) Uploading image help
 * 17) Disputed statement
 * 18) Random page in category not working
 * 19) Influence matrix
 * 20) Finding the source of a formula image by LaTex
 * 21) Protected pages of Republican politicians
 * 22) MAJOR Wikipedia injustice

= August 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 9


 * 1) All in info bar
 * 2) Help
 * 3) Where I can find a template for requesting plot summary of articles for television series and novel?
 * 4) National Historic Fleet Core Collection
 * 5) refs
 * 6) How to use a first-letter-lowercase Username
 * 7) Wanna to write URDU font
 * 8) archived before answer
 * 9) Create a company's page
 * 10) Width of Infobox tennis biography template
 * 11) SPA
 * 12) Table sorting broken?
 * 13) CBS Morning Problem
 * 14) Proper Name Appearing in Lowercase
 * 15) Heroes Welcome UK
 * 16) Help on offer
 * 17) Error on page
 * 18) Wikipedia Hong Kong
 * 19) Removing "unreferenced stub" tag?
 * 20) Deleted page still appears
 * 21) hepatitis c
 * 22) how do I create a user box?
 * 23) Just a quick headsup
 * 24) Correct article title for Katerina Bailey
 * 25) What does the olympic symbol next to a listed athlete mean?
 * 26) Disambiguation for Sauk language
 * 27) Ranks in Tables
 * 28) New user needs help
 * 29) Unable to get a locator map to work

= August 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 10


 * 1) Adding my Gamer Tag
 * 2) Table
 * 3) Uploading a photograph
 * 4) marketswiki
 * 5) Michael Schofield: Researcher and Campaigner
 * 6) Pertaining to the United States of America page.
 * 7) Page Vandalism
 * 8) jim varney article
 * 9) Allowing the PLAY on words within Wiki
 * 10) Weird unified login problem
 * 11) Son of BOSS
 * 12) Is it legitimate to edit others' sandbox? + A question about AFC
 * 13) "Celtic Cross-Roads", 2003 - Martyn Richards
 * 14) BBC trying to sensationalise Wikipedia
 * 15) I have uploaded a picture but can not place it where I want.
 * 16) Original research?

= August 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 11


 * 1) Can someone delete Template:Spoken_Wikipedia-n
 * 2) GA reviews
 * 3) How to add a redirect link to Wikipedia?
 * 4) Kindly Advice!!!
 * 5) Units of Measurement
 * 6) What do I do next?
 * 7) Thomas F. Murphy
 * 8) Brief announcement: More opportunities for you to access free research databases
 * 9) Mpharmacy pass class eligibilty colleges
 * 10) the kamba
 * 11) Someone keeps changing my correct edit into the incorrect statistic
 * 12) Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee

= August 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 12


 * 1) Translators
 * 2) Removing "needs cleanup"
 * 3) Indus Script and Indus Valley Civilization
 * 4) Fair use for statues?
 * 5) frozen iris
 * 6) why kashmir is showed as territory claimed by india on wiki?
 * 7) Translators  (ATTN: PHANTOM STEVE)
 * 8) The Prospect Before Us
 * 9) Exporting templates to a private wiki
 * 10) Block log
 * 11) how to burn a cd with copyright protection
 * 12) Reusing Wikipedia article content in a private wiki
 * 13) Missing reference in Chinese Wikipedia 'Hong Kong Tramways'article
 * 14) Firefox on Kubuntu link funktion
 * 15) Sources and cleanup tag
 * 16) the footnote appears in the text, but nothing shows up in the reference information
 * 17) Product is dead, but no official word so nothing to document?
 * 18) Flood myth
 * 19) YOU ARE A LIFESAVER IF CAN HELP THIS OLD(83 DUCK)
 * 20) User:Michelle19660620/Jan Hofmeyer Community Services
 * 21) Brown University people entry literature

= August 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 13


 * 1) This page was last modified on 30 December 2010 at 21:56.
 * 2) How access "deleted" pages?
 * 3) Rename of "The Qube" back to "Chase Tower"
 * 4) Italicized article titles?
 * 5) I want someone to help me write a biography About a Notable Music Producer in my country
 * 6) What's the namespace number for articles starting with Wikipedia: (e.g. Wikipedia:No_original_research)
 * 7) problems posting first article
 * 8) Article declined, reviewer doesn't answer/talk
 * 9) Hello
 * 10) Natalia Kuchinskaya
 * 11) Archive usage when first citing source?
 * 12) Same person keeps posting libelous material on my site
 * 13) Uploading a photo
 * 14) Bare link question
 * 15) How can I create a new page?
 * 16) external links
 * 17) USAF Pararescue Beret
 * 18) pindown inquiry
 * 19) Translating existing articles into English
 * 20) How can I create content and upload it on wikipedia?
 * 21) Bethel University (tennessee) page
 * 22) editing my page to include updated source information
 * 23) Content not showing up on AfD
 * 24) Internet Explorer wipedout

= August 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 14


 * 1) Tone – Gossip! Need Help!
 * 2) What is wrong with an article about a book series?
 * 3) Mahua Roy Chowdhury
 * 4) Changing copyright status of uploaded image
 * 5) Economy of Wikipedia
 * 6) Miscellenious question
 * 7) in the news
 * 8) Need help to removed red-links.
 * 9) Linking from a Wikipedia page to my business website
 * 10) File deletion
 * 11) II Field Force Viet Nam Hq Co
 * 12) Article edit count?
 * 13) Language addition

= August 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 15


 * 1) Number of visitors
 * 2) IE versus FireFox brower
 * 3) Organic cotton clothes.
 * 4) Declined AfC submissions
 * 5) Block me.
 * 6) Jack Brabham
 * 7) Title change query
 * 8) Angela Gregovic
 * 9) Wikipedia Language in Coded Messages
 * 10) Is there any way to see "Feedbacks linked" or "Related feedbacks" just like Special:RecentChangesLinked.
 * 11) footballer
 * 12) can i request a spi on myself?
 * 13) likeness law
 * 14) Providing Sources
 * 15) I work for a government agency.  The law was recently changed regarding the student services we provide.  We need to edit the page.
 * 16) Article Title Incorrect
 * 17) Must every article have a lead?
 * 18) Exceeding template limits - what should I look for?
 * 19) Noforum restrictions
 * 20) Problems with viewing the Computing Reference Desk with Firefox on Windows 7
 * 21) Cannot Log In

= August 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 16


 * 1) Submitting a 7-in-1 DYK hook
 * 2) Ambrose!
 * 3) Ambrose! From a band called The Leaves.
 * 4) Redonda Stamps- Whence?
 * 5) Odd Seach Result
 * 6) My talk page
 * 7) Why is a template and sig not showing on an article talk page?
 * 8) Is this a reliable source?
 * 9) Obtaining images for Death of Tia Sharp
 * 10) How do I license two Wikipedia images with my own image.
 * 11) Original research/computer example
 * 12) How to create an external link to a wikipedia page and section?
 * 13) Link added but name needs to appear instead of number assigned.
 * 14) Repeating items on the Help Desk
 * 15) Homotopy retract
 * 16) Cannot login
 * 17) Another way to assist - responding to article feedback
 * 18) re ww.2 MIA pilot NORMAN WHITTREDGE, shot down over Kakeroma Island 1945.
 * 19) ROM 5:12 should be moved to Rom 5:12, but the page already exists
 * 20) Questions Needing to Be Answered
 * 21) Paul Ryan

= August 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 17


 * 1) Multiple Infoboxes
 * 2) Do I create draft article in 'user page' or 'sandbox'?
 * 3) ISBN
 * 4) Indira Parthasarthy
 * 5) Image provided by a company for use in a press pack
 * 6) Internal consistency error
 * 7) word pronounciation
 * 8) Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
 * 9) Declined Article
 * 10) Unnecessary italic title
 * 11) family history
 * 12) Churches
 * 13) Lenzie
 * 14) Hydrocephalus article
 * 15) Frank Pace (TV producer) and multiple issues template and COI
 * 16) Two questions about the Chipman NB page
 * 17) Trailers/Teasers in film articles?
 * 18) Trouble uploading

= August 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 18


 * 1) David Friede
 * 2) how to find out size of a page after citations etc took out
 * 3) Wikibin
 * 4) probable link towards a virus on the 'Quoridor' page
 * 5) 1.0 assessment chart seems to be forbidden for me, any help?
 * 6) how to find hcard information
 * 7) BOT
 * 8) Requests for file renaming
 * 9) Making a new Rugby Union Flag Template.
 * 10) Spamlist on preview

= August 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 19


 * 1) Help with submitting an edited article
 * 2) CHANGE DISPLAYTITLE OF GAYLORD DUBOIS PAGE TO GAYLORD DU BOIS
 * 3) Screwy layout for ordered lists
 * 4) New Features
 * 5) replacing an old logo with a new one
 * 6) Question for administrator
 * 7) Article submitted for review
 * 8) Thank you, Jarkeld, for help on New Article for Review
 * 9) Changing User Names While Article is Being reviewed

= August 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 20


 * 1) Listing page for Hungary in the Olympic games
 * 2) File deleted for lack of license
 * 3) Templates and expansion depth
 * 4) highest score for spider solitaire
 * 5) About a deleted page
 * 6) Edit please
 * 7) Reference formatting
 * 8) Help with appearance of Wikipedia (font size) in Mozilla Firefox
 * 9) sources
 * 10) outdated information please updated
 * 11) Setting Background color for Table Header Row
 * 12) MHA logo
 * 13) declined submission - style
 * 14) Could it be possible to watch move logs, deletion logs etc. separately?
 * 15) Edit count numbers are different even after subtracting deleted edits
 * 16) A new article
 * 17) How do I submit photos?
 * 18) Doreen Giuliano's page was vandalized
 * 19) I got a message saying I edited something (or someone at my ISP address did) yet I did not, what is going on?
 * 20) Trusts

= August 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 21


 * 1) Bo Guagua's nationality is UNKNOWN.
 * 2) Gary Kong Elkerton
 * 3) After translate, it become blocks...
 * 4) s...m...l
 * 5) Trying to link to Nick Harkaway
 * 6) comms between submarines and frigates in WW2 (known as SST)
 * 7) Bellevue Washington article
 * 8) Partial histomerge required
 * 9) Follow up question:history merging always be done by sysop
 * 10) Frank E. Snodgrass
 * 11) Iron Man: Armored Legacy
 * 12) How to strike comments
 * 13) deleted while creating first page
 * 14) Images
 * 15) Uploading photos to already existing pages.
 * 16) Importing a template to a non-WMF project

= August 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 22


 * 1) Location of MediaWiki page for account creation
 * 2) New stuff
 * 3) Deleting preliminary article from userspace
 * 4) Dead citation
 * 5) Will our website suffer a lower ranking if we have a wikipedia page about us?
 * 6) BibISBN in reflist not visible
 * 7) digger indian
 * 8) inter wiki links
 * 9) unreferenced tags on dates?
 * 10) Single purpose RfA
 * 11) Atalaya in Huntington Beach State Park
 * 12) Registering a village
 * 13) Most up to date image used in lead of BLP
 * 14) How to request a page
 * 15) Default activation of the search field on: Main Page
 * 16) Naming Children of celebs
 * 17) My user page
 * 18) Notability of software
 * 19) Broken image
 * 20) Missing article.
 * 21) tables
 * 22) want to add wiki search in my won web site
 * 23) Irrelevant link
 * 24) Uploading source material
 * 25) Portuguese rule in Malvan (India)
 * 26) Using multiple IP accounts
 * 27) Compressing notes at top of page
 * 28) I want russian country names as in url (appear country in russian) can you provide a list?
 * 29) Inline Citations
 * 30) change of info
 * 31) Change new user's username...

= August 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 23


 * 1) IPA guideline
 * 2) World War II
 * 3) Help me with public domain copyright help me
 * 4) health problem
 * 5) Geelong West Football Club
 * 6) Someone responsible for this?
 * 7) Dougie Brimson entry - changes
 * 8) Editor acronyms/codes are not covered in the Wikipedia Glossary, makes discussing with them difficult.
 * 9) VolkerRail
 * 10) Coby Electronics
 * 11) Problems with editing an article of someone I represent
 * 12) Page not updating?
 * 13) stats on pages in a category
 * 14) Proper header
 * 15) Students altering my bio page
 * 16) Table formatting
 * 17) Ken Russell

= August 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 24


 * 1) Joan Hinde
 * 2) Ulrich W. Schiefer
 * 3) Biased P.O.V.
 * 4) Article-on Rodney Ontong written by www.walesonline.co.uk/topicsrodneyontong
 * 5) Two unrelated articles under the same URL
 * 6) here tis
 * 7) Harriet Jessica Phoebe Bywater (Hetti), was born on the 10th September, 1994 in Reigate, Surrey
 * 8) Article about Dr. Neema Moraveji
 * 9) Follow up question
 * 10) Verify source
 * 11) Highway sign on exit lists
 * 12) Triple crown nomination
 * 13) Using Template:Double image within Template:Multiple image
 * 14) Deletion.
 * 15) search for a winebago to rent
 * 16) sortable wikitable
 * 17) Phantom categories

= August 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 25


 * 1) Handicap card replacement
 * 2) Table border colour
 * 3) WP:ALT
 * 4) Unified login with Commons
 * 5) API Limits?
 * 6) permission to use photo
 * 7) I want wikipedia to prove to us that Bo Guagua has a chinese passport.
 * 8) wikipdea admins are vandalizing your own page!
 * 9) Bonjour
 * 10) Code needed for a specific template
 * 11) Specific Year Quotes
 * 12) Scott Joplin
 * 13) Images in Wikipedia will not enlarge
 * 14) New section tab gone
 * 15) editing my page
 * 16) name blacklisted?
 * 17) Links in page not working
 * 18) Taishan
 * 19) rename page
 * 20) How to register an email?

= August 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 26


 * 1) Flag of Yugoslavia vanished?
 * 2) Sue barker
 * 3) Nevado dl Tolima
 * 4) Akamai  University is Accredited
 * 5) Autoarchiving of urls
 * 6) Problem with tooltips
 * 7) dominic blizzard born 2nd september 1985
 * 8) Script problems
 * 9) One article about two different record labels of the same name
 * 10) Problems updating our business logo
 * 11) Files for speedy deletion — notification template in infoboxes?
 * 12) Essay or guidline wanted
 * 13) Userbox alignment
 * 14) Request to review + undo an edit
 * 15) Why doesn't my template work?

= August 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 27


 * 1) Can I use info from this site on mine
 * 2) File added in Wikipedia instead of Wikimedia Commons
 * 3) Crystal Ball from the past template?
 * 4) Nectar Design - COI - help seeking a community editor
 * 5) Help with title and map marking
 * 6) Alex Smith Cleveland Browns Born In Two Places
 * 7) Wikipedia displays without any formatting? (FF 14.0.1, Win7 64/OSX 10.6)
 * 8) Edit to the semi-protected page “Johann Sebastian Bach"?
 * 9) Found something, and then forgot the title
 * 10) New license required template at Wikisource article Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: A World that Stands as One
 * 11) How to gain approval for first page - submitted but no responses
 * 12) amazement surpassed only by frustration
 * 13) Are there any pages that are hidden from "ordinary" Wikipedians?
 * 14) Ro is short/slang for Camaro
 * 15) Moved page not working on facebook
 * 16) Uploading Picture
 * 17) Cinnamon Bear
 * 18) The Ropers
 * 19) Map Creation
 * 20) New page and can't find messages

= August 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 28


 * 1) Main page vandalism
 * 2) WikiProjects
 * 3) Edit warning question
 * 4) How do I remove my IP address from the revision history?
 * 5) facts about shakargarh
 * 6) Is including a screenshot of a movie in an article about an actor  considered fair use
 * 7) Challenging a closing
 * 8) Parsing a math formula fails
 * 9) Removing a Redirect
 * 10) wikireader does not work?
 * 11) Verifying Articles
 * 12) Finding incoming links
 * 13) Scott Moorhouse incorrect facts

= August 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 29


 * 1) Can unregistered users create user pages?
 * 2) User:Root
 * 3) Tried to write a Wikipedia article about my school
 * 4) Is this notable?
 * 5) Wiki loves monuments
 * 6) The Student Room - editing this page
 * 7) Error when rendering NYC book as PDF
 * 8) template position
 * 9) Cannot edit note
 * 10) Sourcing a statement about university consortium
 * 11) Jimi Hendrix locked page contains factual error
 * 12) Representative of institution needs to upload image but is not autoconfirmed

= August 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 30


 * 1) Clicking "edit" gives blank page
 * 2) How to propose an article for 'Wikipedia:In the news'
 * 3) Adding links into the text
 * 4) OJJDP and NIJ Facebook Pages
 * 5) Problems with editing and inserting a reference
 * 6) Reminder service
 * 7) Namibia
 * 8) GAs and FAs by length
 * 9) File requests
 * 10) Changing Article Name
 * 11) Is there a noticeboard on WP for seeking help with finding sources?
 * 12) Charlie Siem
 * 13) Book creator: Can't add linked wikipages, can't add chapters, and can't drag-and-drop article to change their order
 * 14) Afrikaans speaking Wikipedians
 * 15) length for GAs
 * 16) I am corresponding
 * 17) My ~ ~ ~ ~ fails to provide link to my userpage or talk page?
 * 18) new login

= August 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 31


 * 1) Special:Export/SynchronizationStartTime
 * 2) incategory
 * 3) Translation to English
 * 4) Wikipedia:Long-term abuse
 * 5) What's happened to the revision history?
 * 6) Summary box
 * 7) Correct information being deleted/false info being inserted
 * 8) I submitted content to publish weeks ago and it has not yet been approved.
 * 9) reg MS DHONI wikipedia info
 * 10) SERIOUS MISTAKE LIBELOUS STATEMENT
 * 11) need to paste from excel
 * 12) Where to upload pictures
 * 13) Fixing wikilink
 * 14) Sky Blue Colour
 * 15) star ratings for medicare plaans
 * 16) Zoom up an zoom in