Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2008

= December 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 1


 * 1) I am new,,,
 * 2) Template:Infobox U.S. legislation
 * 3) Monobook code
 * 4) Username Change Unfulfilled
 * 5) Purging
 * 6) External Links to Commercial Websites
 * 7) Santa Claus/Father Christmas
 * 8) Unfair and unbalaced contributions
 * 9) Citing annual reports
 * 10) Dynamically requesting wikipedia content to include in another site.
 * 11) Need help Changing IP address to User Name
 * 12) Moving a page
 * 13) Interpage diffs
 * 14) Katt Williams
 * 15) Seeking approval for Pete Snyder article
 * 16) somthing wrong with display of a page
 * 17) putting ref tags in a hidden article section
 * 18) Canvassing
 * 19) How do I?

= December 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 2


 * 1) Open All Hours table looking odd
 * 2) Is there anything else that I should be doing?
 * 3) Writing and Making an article
 * 4) When an article's name has changed for a different category
 * 5) Deleted Page
 * 6) An RfA
 * 7) server information access fail. please ask help desk
 * 8) About Wikimapia
 * 9) Is there a sandbox-type-thing that has footnotes when a reference is cited?
 * 10) photos.
 * 11) Help deleting a page
 * 12) Using requests for comment in an Arbitration Enforcement case
 * 13) captcha
 * 14) Login Problems
 * 15) Volatile Works
 * 16) Sound sample box

= December 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 3


 * 1) Journalistic
 * 2) How??
 * 3) Templates not updating?
 * 4) Restore logs
 * 5) electrical field
 * 6) Citation Question
 * 7) Hayley Williams
 * 8) Citation Needed
 * 9) access of links
 * 10) Changing from an anonymous edit to my user name
 * 11) language link
 * 12) Dutch names
 * 13) how do i reference a journal cited in wikipedia
 * 14) Rollback
 * 15) Wiktionary
 * 16) Printing issue
 * 17) Deleted Page
 * 18) Deleted article
 * 19) Adding images to articles
 * 20) Request for Work on Article
 * 21) WP:NPW
 * 22) Adding images and refrences to sources outside of wikipedia

= December 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 4


 * 1) Changing information referred to between double brackets
 * 2) Fundraising Notice
 * 3) Help with database dumping?
 * 4) Using WikiMapia Images on Wikipedia
 * 5) bracket templates
 * 6) A problem on a discussion page
 * 7) Bot operating
 * 8) Advert
 * 9) Quick way of adding articles to your watchlist
 * 10) edit tag is unavailable!
 * 11) Question about removing false/unverifiable/defamatory information
 * 12) Banned
 * 13) IPs signing posts
 * 14) Editing a Page.
 * 15) extensive rewrite of existing article
 * 16) Page version control on userpage
 * 17) Editing (deleting) an ostensibly promotional link in an article CLETE BOYER
 * 18) printing an article
 * 19) Joke categories on Book of Proverbs
 * 20) "Save page" times out for logged-in user (proxy IP blocked for anonymous)

= December 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 5


 * 1) Date when first published
 * 2) defaultsort
 * 3) help.
 * 4) Rollback?
 * 5) advice, please: How do I tag an article for possible "re-naming"?
 * 6) How do I add a picture of an album cover and the other things in the square of information?
 * 7) Categories don't display on a particular page
 * 8) John Kennedy test
 * 9) Can a Category be redirected?
 * 10) Copy and Paste Symbols
 * 11) Archibald Bell Jr
 * 12) My Home page
 * 13) New template grammar
 * 14) where do I go to complain about the way Wikipedia works?
 * 15) Expired E-mail addresses
 * 16) What to do with an incoherent article?
 * 17) Webpage Expired when using Back button
 * 18) Music notability
 * 19) Recognition for DYK nomination.
 * 20) how do i enter a biography?
 * 21) What is considered notable information or articles?  My page got deleted because of lack of notability.
 * 22) How to steal Empire State Building
 * 23) How To Email An Article
 * 24) bray cary
 * 25) Can importance ratings be updated??
 * 26) How to delete a page
 * 27) Talk page

= December 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 6


 * 1) Book Cover image for infobox
 * 2) Copy and Paste Symbols
 * 3) Too many citations?
 * 4) People rewriting History
 * 5) Suggesting a new section: what NOT to put in edit summaries
 * 6) "Hiding" a template
 * 7) Why
 * 8) Renaming an account
 * 9) help with footnotes/references

= December 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 7


 * 1) Where to ask about de-listing a link from spam list
 * 2) Watchlisting user contributions
 * 3) font change
 * 4) Footnote won't hyperlink correctly. I think it is because the URL contains a { and a }
 * 5) Medaglie, decorazioni ed ordini cavallereschi italiani
 * 6) Using Wikipedia Info on my own site
 * 7) Bad interwiki links

= December 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 8


 * 1) Hiding the donate bar
 * 2) Is this trolling
 * 3) Template Substitution
 * 4) help needed
 * 5) Some ads deleted some stay intact
 * 6) Template:Current US state Chief Justices
 * 7) Account creator
 * 8) Personal Ads
 * 9) Author, Skip Stover
 * 10) Question for Wikipedia regarding monetary contributions
 * 11) I got this feeling, Wikipedians are watching me
 * 12) language interwiki question (linkings)
 * 13) language interwiki question (size and number of articles)
 * 14) My ISP is blocked
 * 15) Orphaned AfD
 * 16) Help

= December 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 9


 * 1) Vandalism on user page
 * 2) Unifying account has given me two usernames
 * 3) "Encore Suites" page
 * 4) Tag requested
 * 5) Fishery templates
 * 6) Question
 * 7) List of documentary films
 * 8) Date de-linking
 * 9) Shaun Costello
 * 10) Head Title
 * 11) Templated category
 * 12) User Pages and Deletion of Comments
 * 13) I need to see a comparison of Mobile Phones Operating Systems
 * 14) Rollback Userbox
 * 15) image display
 * 16) HOUSE OF PAIN disambiguation
 * 17) Block
 * 18) Inserting Images and Catagorizing in Commons
 * 19) IP Blocking indefinity for proxies
 * 20) Functions to manipulate strings in templates
 * 21) wiki home pages

= December 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 10


 * 1) Login question
 * 2) New messages
 * 3) Template date autoformatting
 * 4) Official links in infobox and external links
 * 5) Bar with buttons missing
 * 6) right aligned thumbnails push down table
 * 7) Help finding a template
 * 8) Request lost in limbo?
 * 9) A recent attempt to attack your computer was blocked
 * 10) Leaking info while in SSL mode?
 * 11) New Message message
 * 12) Font Question
 * 13) Edit went wrong...
 * 14) First post just got removed, need guidance
 * 15) Help with infobox publisher

= December 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 11


 * 1) Account deletion
 * 2) avoiding a bot
 * 3) envci sci
 * 4) First Post
 * 5) Re-inserting deleted article
 * 6) Unified Login with Wiktionary removed editing privilege
 * 7) Template Pages
 * 8) Please answer
 * 9) Album cover images in discographies
 * 10) WikiAdmin?

= December 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 12


 * 1) Help Desk Templates
 * 2) Delete Userbox
 * 3) customizing signature
 * 4) JOHN BLOOM
 * 5) Pan-Wikipedia "New message" alert for my User account?
 * 6) Use of colon before wikilink
 * 7) Template font changes
 * 8) Resume Question
 * 9) Firouz Naderi
 * 10) Suedeheads
 * 11) Declining blatantly bad faith unblock requests
 * 12) Links on my user page
 * 13) Tionne Watkins/T-Boz
 * 14) photo
 * 15) I can't use pictures from Commons!!!
 * 16) .js Pages

= December 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 13


 * 1) Quoting a foreign language
 * 2) Pictures?
 * 3) Archives
 * 4) Wapedia
 * 5) Category list order
 * 6) How to Get Someone To Help Edit A Protected Entry
 * 7) edit protected request
 * 8) File space vs. image space
 * 9) Buttons
 * 10) Changing Password

= December 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 14


 * 1) Allied control council
 * 2) Need help controlling image size and position
 * 3) SEALs page
 * 4) Statrep
 * 5) RfA Percentage
 * 6) Blank space in article
 * 7) Gloria Stuart Titanic
 * 8) Box
 * 9) Copy image to Commons
 * 10) List of chess books
 * 11) Problem Solved
 * 12) modern skin issues
 * 13) step by step help making an archive on talk
 * 14) Using StatCounter in own user space
 * 15) no width but line-break-able

= December 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 15


 * 1) Fair use
 * 2) So I can't figure out what this is called to look it up...the +/- thing
 * 3) Why is my page designated as "vandalism"?
 * 4) How does the average reader report VERY BASIC vandalism?
 * 5) Offering photographs to Wikipedia authors
 * 6) Issue with an image
 * 7) Self assessment of articles
 * 8) posting some ones profile to wikipedia
 * 9) ApawkG
 * 10) Changing my signature
 * 11) Uploading Photos Correctly
 * 12) Citations in infoboxes
 * 13) How do I
 * 14) POV Vandalism
 * 15) Assistance regarding a controversy
 * 16) question about contributors to a page
 * 17) Transcluding My Subpage
 * 18) server crash by deleting the sandbox?

= December 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 16


 * 1) Assessing articles
 * 2) Infobox problems
 * 3) Question about portal/template
 * 4) Geobox - River - Using _type for coordinates
 * 5) madison pettis
 * 6) Article referencing
 * 7) Using photo threads on forums to reference
 * 8) Printing Color
 * 9) Ask a question
 * 10) DEFAULTSORT Conflict With Listas Parameter
 * 11) template
 * 12) Redlinked image related to moving from wikipedia to commons
 * 13) Article was deleted and replaced with useless info
 * 14) Logging into my alternative account
 * 15) Want to copy articles on wikipedia onto my website
 * 16) Writing a bibliography about wikipedia?

= December 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 17


 * 1) Help displaying text onto a project page
 * 2) How do I submit an article?
 * 3) Warning I.P.
 * 4) Question on columns in Portal
 * 5) Very Simple English
 * 6) Apostrophe immediately following italics markup
 * 7) depth problem
 * 8) Archiving
 * 9) Did you know

= December 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 18


 * 1) WikiTravel
 * 2) How to edit the bugzilla guide?
 * 3) Deleting User Subpages
 * 4) Requesting an IP Address Block
 * 5) Recruitment/Vacancies
 * 6) Adjacent tables
 * 7) Submitting an English version of an existing article on another language Wikipedia site
 * 8) Where to put?
 * 9) clarification of wp:outing
 * 10) New Account Email Confirmation
 * 11) Pages not loading completely
 * 12) Editing the actual title of an article....
 * 13) Nominate for DYK
 * 14) User:Gracenotes/rollback.js will not install

= December 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 19


 * 1) External links question
 * 2) Ira Hayes
 * 3) Subdirectories
 * 4) Question added by User:Johntcullen
 * 5) Password-protected pages as sources
 * 6) How to edit title of a page?
 * 7) About admission in  Class V from Class IV in same School under Govt. of West Bengal.
 * 8) I want to update a picture on an article
 * 9) Table sorting
 * 10) Watchlist RSS feed for Google Reader
 * 11) Template
 * 12) Saving references
 * 13) Can someone fix Infobox ski area?
 * 14) Picture related formatting errors
 * 15) What is the art work you see if a page loads slowly?
 * 16) inline template forcing line breaks in one article only

= December 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 20


 * 1) How to correct errors and upload photos?
 * 2) Red banner at bottom of article.
 * 3) Information is found to be incorrect
 * 4) Hungarian passports from the 1930s
 * 5) archives search
 * 6) Universal notability?
 * 7) Harry Meacher
 * 8) Cathodic protection
 * 9) Adding content
 * 10) Date of registration
 * 11) My new articles
 * 12) Page restore query
 * 13) Content Editing help
 * 14) Talk Page Template

= December 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 21


 * 1) List of WikiProjects
 * 2) Requesting account reset/merge
 * 3) Requesting block of Hezzospike
 * 4) Problem with Chess article
 * 5) Please help complete afd nom
 * 6) Consumption of ink in Colour/Black cartridges in printer/copier/scanner
 * 7) Reference
 * 8) global turn off boxes at top of page
 * 9) Project to bring word like editing to wikisoftware?
 * 10) Edit counters
 * 11) Conflict of Interest
 * 12) Status template

= December 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 22


 * 1) Getting out of "edit conflict" on ref. desk pages
 * 2) Creating new WikiProject
 * 3) Linking from an article to an userpage
 * 4) Purchasing an image
 * 5) A full delete of account?
 * 6) My account doesn't exist anymore. What?
 * 7) Spliting Cells
 * 8) Is List of films shot in Sonora, California deletable?
 * 9) business growth.
 * 10) Not legal
 * 11) How to edit, update, or replace an image
 * 12) External links to non-http urls
 * 13) Editing/Modifying "Musicians" Template.
 * 14) Attacks on an organization by a Wiki user

= December 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 23


 * 1) Trying to get some help
 * 2) "this file has no extension"
 * 3) misplaced "edit" button
 * 4) Indian Election - 2009
 * 5) Question
 * 6) How do I go about deleting sections from an article
 * 7) New photo
 * 8) Reliable sources
 * 9) Question Regarding Creating Infoboxes
 * 10) military air force
 * 11) Userbox Icon
 * 12) Hi
 * 13) Linking my name
 * 14) Non-editable Footnotes section of an article

= December 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 24


 * 1) Biographies of living persons policy
 * 2) Most viewed pages
 * 3) Donation
 * 4) Browsing in my mother tongue-Tamil
 * 5) How do I get a template?
 * 6) Editing Talk Pages
 * 7) Cite news
 * 8) Trivia
 * 9) Featured Picture

= December 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 25


 * 1) Notes, References, See Also, Further Reading...
 * 2) Dispute on secondary source
 * 3) Deadlink clearing house
 * 4) search soundex
 * 5) Encyclopaedias

= December 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 26


 * 1) Reverting old vandalism edits
 * 2) Hatrick Wickets Takers
 * 3) creating a new page
 * 4) Temperary transfur of land and house to remove someone from property
 * 5) Professional reviews
 * 6) Posting the same message on multiple users' talk pages
 * 7) Template:Infobox Fishery
 * 8) what are the steps (make it coherent please) to upload my new article? Please upload this article for me (see inside)

= December 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 27


 * 1) redirects tagging
 * 2) Writing an article
 * 3) Binomial authority for article
 * 4) rating articles
 * 5) Siddha Yoga
 * 6) Category name correction
 * 7) forced un-alphabetical list within categories
 * 8) Who is watching
 * 9) publishing my CV in wikepedia
 * 10) Editing an Author's Name in the Reference List
 * 11) Meta References
 * 12) Getting information changed

= December 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 28


 * 1) Template appearance
 * 2) New Words
 * 3) Signing posts?
 * 4) Fundraising banner message has a spelling mistake
 * 5) Adding a second user box via Educat
 * 6) New Articles
 * 7) Deleting an article
 * 8) Why is my IP address still logged if I have a username?
 * 9) Transwiki links and collation
 * 10) Steps to Update Corporate Logo
 * 11) Help please
 * 12) Suffix index
 * 13) Bennie Oosterbaan infobox

= December 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 29


 * 1) Translating a template
 * 2) Need clarification on process to obtain necessary copyright for image use
 * 3) Sortable tables
 * 4) Something funny on my page
 * 5) Vandals at my userpage and Wikipedia reflection script
 * 6) Archiving 'Help talk' pages
 * 7) Photoshopped images?
 * 8) Need help - minor fix needed
 * 9) WP:GAR not updating/purging
 * 10) poor excuse for an article
 * 11) Could someone direct me to...
 * 12) Permanent Press doesn't work
 * 13) Gotta go, someone help please
 * 14) Need help recovering info

= December 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 30


 * 1) Editing Question
 * 2) Userpage
 * 3) Request to be removed from blacklist
 * 4) Automatic clean up script
 * 5) number of articles created
 * 6) Alphabets used
 * 7) Embedded lists
 * 8) Reference Tags in Section Headers
 * 9) Text colors
 * 10) Template changes not reflected in templates in articles
 * 11) merging infoboxes
 * 12) obituary

= December 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 31


 * 1) PRINTING PROBLEMS WITH WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES
 * 2) LMEX
 * 3) Question
 * 4) Turn crisis to Christmas
 * 5) Linking to a section header with a template included
 * 6) About Content
 * 7) Password
 * 8) Can I set a future expiration date for an article I create?
 * 9) 'Uploader' status requested to add photo from new account
 * 10) formatting with logo problem
 * 11) Runaways to GA
 * 12) User hash
 * 13) Editcounters
 * 14) Need an admin's help to fix Nut (hardware)
 * 15) Help with coordinates
 * 16) Link to page "Pingu Episodes Series 4"
 * 17) dealing with a frequent POV user
 * 18) Image tags
 * 19) author
 * 20) Admin