Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2009

= December 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 1


 * 1) Deletion
 * 2) Protection
 * 3) How do you add a new word to Wikipedia
 * 4) Maths formulae - Cyrillic?
 * 5) way sending  article for this site ..
 * 6) Practical differences between a stub and a normal article
 * 7) Wikipedia Mobile application
 * 8) percentage of all pages that are talk pages
 * 9) Speedy deletion of Redirect
 * 10) Firefox
 * 11) Problems uploading an article on Greyhound Recycling & Recovery
 * 12) Employment
 * 13) CorenSearchBot - how to remove??
 * 14) Display on mainpage
 * 15) goof up at List of Smoking Bans in US
 * 16) References
 * 17) Templates
 * 18) Wikipedia value versus use Why Donate?
 * 19) Adding info to infobox
 * 20) Download logs
 * 21) New message notification
 * 22) Articles with Same Name-Default Appearance

= December 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 2


 * 1) washington monument
 * 2) Pictures
 * 3) Google search wildcards
 * 4) What to write for no breaks
 * 5) A problem with wikipedia in Firefox. Please, help.
 * 6) Guideline for location wikilinks
 * 7) adding new article
 * 8) Unit symbols in ranges
 * 9) Bold not working
 * 10) Moving Airport Bratsk to AeroBratsk
 * 11) trying to log in
 * 12) Unable to reference website on wikipedia page
 * 13) Viewing block logs for a CIDR range
 * 14) Adding an article for a social network
 * 15) Download Recent Changes
 * 16) Hello
 * 17) Why does Category:People from Kansas City, Missouri redirect to Category:People from the Kansas City metropolitan area?
 * 18) I misspelled the title for an article I authored

= December 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 3


 * 1) Finding mediawiki messages
 * 2) publishing problem / save page caution message
 * 3) Editing toolbar
 * 4) Brown Lake
 * 5) Question about TV Show pages (and possibly Merge/Delete?)
 * 6) LOGIN info, please
 * 7) Username problem
 * 8) Spamfilter
 * 9) User page Page protection
 * 10) Migration
 * 11) google searching locates text in a wikipedia entry, but wikipedia entry does not include the text (why?)
 * 12) Cannot access account
 * 13) enviromental organizations
 * 14) Infoboxes
 * 15) "Template loop detected"
 * 16) Wikipedia editor review in my Sandbox

= December 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 4


 * 1) Can't find a link within an article
 * 2) Adding an image to an existing page
 * 3) No INR donation option
 * 4) Bookmarking Paricular Items for a Personal Wiki
 * 5) Autocomplete on Wikipedia
 * 6) Photos at Flickr
 * 7) Deleted?
 * 8) No regional presence in India
 * 9) difference between two companies should be added
 * 10) Editing Advice
 * 11) Sources
 * 12) I ask a Q in the RD. It's removed. I ask the editor about it in the editor's talk page. It too was removed. Now what do I do?
 * 13) Why am I not an "Autoconfirmed User" yet?
 * 14) Keep up with new articles
 * 15) Reviewing an article
 * 16) New Topic

= December 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 5


 * 1) Patrolled
 * 2) Wikipedia edit stats
 * 3) How to download and use a labeled image map
 * 4) Days of the year RSS feed
 * 5) linking new account (username) to old edits done under anon. IP address
 * 6) Auto archiving your user talk page
 * 7) Questions Comments to ensure Publication
 * 8) Author Page Publication
 * 9) Windy City Blues Society
 * 10) Problem with refreshing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old
 * 11) Unwanted bold-face in wikipedia table, bug?
 * 12) Annoying bug
 * 13) Search bar

= December 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 6


 * 1) Contact
 * 2) How the person in coma will recure?
 * 3) New articles
 * 4) HTTPS with HTTP content mixed
 * 5) Inserting messages in article namespace
 * 6) adding
 * 7) Name conflict
 * 8) search results give wikipedia.org link, but clicking doesn't link to article, but instead asks me to save the file
 * 9) reviewing an article

= December 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 7


 * 1) Lansing crusaders
 * 2) Citing legal documents
 * 3) Inserting an image
 * 4) source problem in college
 * 5) Voluntary translation of a German wikipedia page to English
 * 6) Cherokee Studios - wtf!?
 * 7) Saul Ewing Page
 * 8) Text search in category and its sub-categories
 * 9) Use of WikiProjects for improving and creating articles related to Oxfam
 * 10) How to store a document for reference material
 * 11) what's the easiest way to
 * 12) Missing article
 * 13) Uploading Photos/Logos
 * 14) Lyrics question

= December 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 8


 * 1) Toolserver Acct
 * 2) A possible homework question
 * 3) How to dispute fairness of an entry?
 * 4) draftspace to mainspace
 * 5) Optimization of Search for "AIMS"
 * 6) Watch list and languages
 * 7) Captcha
 * 8) Lost page
 * 9) "This article is written like an advertisement
 * 10) what to do with really long citations
 * 11) How do I put an admin who is doing a bad job up for review?
 * 12) Facebook Problems
 * 13) Image upload isn't appearing properly
 * 14) Pictures
 * 15) my userpage

= December 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 9


 * 1) donations
 * 2) Firefox won't remember me as a user
 * 3) Archiving a talk page
 * 4) Question about adminship
 * 5) can not find article
 * 6) Where to now
 * 7) Deprecation
 * 8) copying files to other language wikis
 * 9) Image links
 * 10) template coding help please
 * 11) Vandalism
 * 12) Sandbox?
 * 13) Image filename confusion
 * 14) Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative
 * 15) ages
 * 16) editing someones sig..
 * 17) Ruth Gordon article

= December 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 10


 * 1) are you being served
 * 2) English Wikipedia & Instant-runoff voting (the topic, not the article)
 * 3) how to reference an article
 * 4) After completing my B.Tech in Computer Science, what all courses can i join in ?
 * 5) Mixing citation styles
 * 6) Date of Original Posting Needed
 * 7) Sandbox heading
 * 8) Citing a Historian (person) as a Source
 * 9) commons image name conflict
 * 10) Having some trouble
 * 11) uploading
 * 12) combined intitle: and incategory: search?
 * 13) Independence Day Reception
 * 14) Translating from English to another language

= December 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 11


 * 1) Change name on listing for Q (music video director)
 * 2) How do you link to a category?
 * 3) Search box drop-down: ordering?
 * 4) Creating a Topic
 * 5) Problem accessing in site
 * 6) Cross reference to other languages
 * 7) Help.
 * 8) Aligning tables and images
 * 9) Un-archiving a discussion
 * 10) Page created not posted
 * 11) Report corporate sock-puppets
 * 12) Signature

= December 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 12


 * 1) IE8 behaving strangely
 * 2) Search suggestions.  Please, please, please how to get rid of them!
 * 3) Reference issue
 * 4) where to Recommendations to Template:itn
 * 5) How do I edit the scientific classification section on an article?
 * 6) Refrain from donating
 * 7) connecting copywright info to image
 * 8) Is there a tutorial for the cite court template?
 * 9) Unable to log in OR create account

= December 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 13


 * 1) Adding New Page Request - Please make a new page!
 * 2) ? problem with map & coord rendering
 * 3) Sock puppets
 * 4) Uploading pictures
 * 5) Shrinking Display
 * 6) how to get authorised
 * 7) Could you help me with a word? "Feeder school"
 * 8) Is the voting secret to the general public?
 * 9) "Edit page" header...
 * 10) Is it possible to edit and article when there is no "Edit this Page" tab?

= December 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 14


 * 1) Page ordering snafu
 * 2) Google Earth images
 * 3) Policy about CAM/Alternative Medicine
 * 4) Wikipedia and the News
 * 5) .ws domain
 * 6) Signing Issues
 * 7) INR option is not available.
 * 8) Formal Request for a high level Review of Climate Articles to find out whether lobby groups are editing
 * 9) Rollbacking
 * 10) Vandalism standards
 * 11) Linking IP adresses to Username
 * 12) Template double direct problems
 * 13) Image Copyright Status
 * 14) redirect title
 * 15) Copyright Question
 * 16) unblock my server
 * 17) Search text in lead section
 * 18) Testing
 * 19) What is "Wikiwak" and how do I delete a page from it?
 * 20) Picture Problem
 * 21) Editing references
 * 22) What is "Wikiwak" and how do I delete a page from it?
 * 23) Redlinked categories?

= December 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 15


 * 1) How do I redirect?
 * 2) Asking for arbitration/moderation in an article.
 * 3) Getting Rid of Accounts and Changing Their Usernames
 * 4) Donating
 * 5) How to post a video/movie?
 * 6) Passport for my son
 * 7) Linking to another page
 * 8) image and heading help
 * 9) Why auto-reload?
 * 10) lanjauge
 * 11) Need an article changed asap if possible!  Thanks.
 * 12) How do I search for articles starting with the word "List", but exclude redirects?
 * 13) How to cite references?
 * 14) Missing revisions
 * 15) How to find editors who will email authors
 * 16) Are there any experienced editors here who can help me with a WP:CABAL?
 * 17) Linking to a version not explained, bad anchor link, confusion
 * 18) Jamestown
 * 19) Redirects
 * 20) Wikipedia main site in Russian?

= December 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 16


 * 1) Delete a page
 * 2) linking to wikipedia in other languages
 * 3) Project search question
 * 4) contributing an article
 * 5) Creating a new page
 * 6) Can't login
 * 7) held article
 * 8) debate over the correct usage of bylaw
 * 9) Untitled question
 * 10) football
 * 11) editing while 'waiting' for my article to be published
 * 12) Wafaa (name)
 * 13) WikiProject suggestions wanted
 * 14) How to find recent  featured article
 * 15) Should I start 10-20 Wikipedia accounts?
 * 16) question regarding an notice I received from Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales)
 * 17) Image with no copyright but the contact person from website says "go ahead !"
 * 18) Conflict of interest
 * 19) dummy accounts
 * 20) Template
 * 21) Hello
 * 22) Incomplete article history
 * 23) Main Page

= December 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 17


 * 1) my home page has been hijacked by a wikipedia page
 * 2) Helpme question at User talk:Scubeesnax
 * 3) How do Videos/Movies work?
 * 4) Where do I go to start this discussion?
 * 5) testicular torsion
 * 6) Image insertion in infobox Tabqa Dam
 * 7) Permission to use information on Wikipedia
 * 8) Deleting an article
 * 9) Automatic link creation policy
 * 10) we want to purchase flags reprasenting each country
 * 11) I didn't find information about a town here in WV = Ronceverte ? Help?
 * 12) Searching within an article
 * 13) Dumb Licensing Question
 * 14) Wiki Foretold?
 * 15) When is the appropriate time to use strikeout ?
 * 16) Webfetti
 * 17) Using the "search" function on your home page
 * 18) Profile
 * 19) Vandalism
 * 20) Access to the wikitable sortable variable?
 * 21) Book won't download

= December 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 18


 * 1) Who's Dated Who
 * 2) Direct links to other Wikipedias
 * 3) Santa Ana River 1938 flood image
 * 4) Complete copy-paste in Agriculture in Syria
 * 5) donating problem urgent
 * 6) Name & Info Change
 * 7) Present/Past Tense
 * 8) Persuasive Essay
 * 9) Hitler
 * 10) cryptographic hash
 * 11) Is my article ready?
 * 12) Function to either hide the left sidebar or increase textsize on only the content article?
 * 13) Weird result from coding
 * 14) Will I regret creating an account from a non-static IP?
 * 15) Do not want account
 * 16) Small text
 * 17) how to submit a name and bio for Wikipedia?
 * 18) Citing sources vs. providing external links
 * 19) Image deletion
 * 20) Unhide Template
 * 21) How to Download thousands of wikipedia in PDF
 * 22) Would like to find out where abouts of one Hindu Goddess by the name "Rajura Devi" Or "Rajara Devi" or "Rajala Devi"

= December 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 19


 * 1) 2 Grammar / Wiki questions
 * 2) Modify entry name
 * 3) age template with iso date
 * 4) Book stores query
 * 5) Changing Passwords
 * 6) Box with broken blue lines
 * 7) Joining and/or editing
 * 8) barnstar
 * 9) template
 * 10) Reading articles on Blackberry
 * 11) Image on Commons with name needed for template

= December 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 20


 * 1) Image licence question
 * 2) Error: too many #time calls
 * 3) Customize text above edit box
 * 4) Adding An Article
 * 5) Killed in action
 * 6) google advertising
 * 7) Associate my account with a new email
 * 8) Use of Google Earth images (again)

= December 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 21


 * 1) Question
 * 2) using my name in a disambiguation page
 * 3) In the category: 1987 Births...
 * 4) Organized AnonIP vandalization
 * 5) bv3dsxcssdq
 * 6) contacting admins
 * 7) Red Panda
 * 8) Adding links to Wikipedia articles to my website
 * 9) TFD
 * 10) BRAD101
 * 11) Importing from Wikia?
 * 12) Velm, Inc.
 * 13) Collapsed tables
 * 14) Please fix category
 * 15) Request IP check
 * 16) "This article does not cite any references or sources"

= December 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 22


 * 1) how to donate my article to Wikipedia
 * 2) Site blacklist
 * 3) My Settings / My Preferences
 * 4) Contesting deleted page?
 * 5) Overcharge
 * 6) Huggle's adding to my watchlist, and I want it stopped
 * 7) delete?
 * 8) Lower case name of article, how'd I do that?!
 * 9) User pages
 * 10) Blood group inheritance
 * 11) Second nomination for deletion
 * 12) Watchlist queries...
 * 13) Can't get new password because my email has changed
 * 14) Comments by Wiki staff on my editorial comments:
 * 15) While I applaud the efforts of your founder
 * 16) Wiki to HTML
 * 17) Werewolf article
 * 18) Mac computer--gmail email movies with quicktime

= December 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 23


 * 1) Adding references to Tammy Miranda Music
 * 2) May I write a new page on this topic?
 * 3) LOST YELLOW LAB RETRIEVER KILLED BY SHELTER IN BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA
 * 4) seeking information about a painting
 * 5) Searching using "prefix:" and "intitle:"
 * 6) Format article, please
 * 7) Uncreated categories
 * 8) Short box?
 * 9) Question about a citation
 * 10) Differences between advertising and just information
 * 11) Deleted pages -- record of edits

= December 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 24


 * 1) 2 articles on the same thing
 * 2) Having trouble with a custom signature...
 * 3) JS on talk page
 * 4) Cannot Setup the WIkiFIlter to Work with either Apache or IIS in sevrer 2008
 * 5) Medieval Warming Period
 * 6) Signature blues
 * 7) Download article titles
 * 8) Text quality
 * 9) How to publish my Page?
 * 10) Uploading new images?
 * 11) How to remove redirect while keeping sandbox?
 * 12) Virginia College
 * 13) aashrama  jeevitham
 * 14) template for tagging disputes of licenses?

= December 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 25


 * 1) Usage of material
 * 2) Curtis Mathes TV
 * 3) article an photo
 * 4) Template:Fb and Template:Fb-rt
 * 5) Extra code on top of new image
 * 6) I need help with searching and disambiguation

= December 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 26


 * 1) hi...
 * 2) Disambiguation of a minor previous entry to a new major entry of the same name
 * 3) Administrator
 * 4) soccer
 * 5) RADHA  the movie
 * 6) Toolbox antics
 * 7) erroneous article
 * 8) TOU violation?
 * 9) Changing my archive bot
 * 10) moving from user pages to articles space

= December 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 27


 * 1) Table trouble
 * 2) route location
 * 3) Opening article drafts for review
 * 4) Return/get first word of page title
 * 5) Vandalism
 * 6) creating category article
 * 7) Umm kinda stupid question :S
 * 8) Bob Marley
 * 9) Sound clips
 * 10) adding a full article from an official source to the minimal bio already existing in Wikipedia
 * 11) ridding an article of inappropriate templates
 * 12) Graphemes
 * 13) Alt text parameter for an infobox
 * 14) Fix
 * 15) 1.000.000
 * 16) something is wrong with an article
 * 17) Federal Ruling

= December 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 28


 * 1) english grammar
 * 2) citations
 * 3) Me and Sockpuppetry
 * 4) New User Help (merged)
 * 5) Image reversion
 * 6) Protection
 * 7) search/go
 * 8) Favorite articles
 * 9) Rollback rights?
 * 10) Gadgets
 * 11) guardian ad litem
 * 12) Problem editor
 * 13) How to correct bulk misspellings in Wiki Commons images
 * 14) InfoBox and notability question
 * 15) How to edit a title

= December 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 29


 * 1) A PENNY OF YEAST
 * 2) frustrations at being booted out.
 * 3) Signature
 * 4) why don't you put advertisement ?
 * 5) Twinkle
 * 6) What categories are not showed in the lower part of the page?
 * 7) How to handle information in article that has nothing to do with stated subject
 * 8) Vandalism to semi-protected article
 * 9) Cleaning up
 * 10) Cited for lack of references
 * 11) transclude pages in category
 * 12) Cannot log in
 * 13) Untitled question
 * 14) Wiki on the iPhone
 * 15) File:Nintendodsbrowserds.jpg
 * 16) A letter as a Secondary source

= December 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 30


 * 1) Rollover Text
 * 2) Size of Wikipedia on particular date
 * 3) New York Steak
 * 4) size
 * 5) Project page Article's classes not getting updated
 * 6) Moving a Title
 * 7) Account Creator Tool
 * 8) User contributions
 * 9) Virus alert when accessing eBay article
 * 10) Two entries for one title
 * 11) Search
 * 12) Navigating in "All Pages"
 * 13) I will no longer use Wikipedia.
 * 14) Is "sandbox" a specific Wikipedia system item, or just a vague term?
 * 15) updating head line on google search
 * 16) Table
 * 17) Help with creating an article
 * 18) Football titles
 * 19) History data bug for United States Constitution
 * 20) Commenting on rights requests and other requests
 * 21) vandal and personal attack
 * 22) Mirror site
 * 23) Convert a sandbox article to a wikipedia article.
 * 24) Cannot Get My Product Included In Comparison Listing
 * 25) Where to buy
 * 26) Special:PrefixIndex
 * 27) Help Needed with Wikipedia Article
 * 28) User name different when signed than what it actually is

= December 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 31


 * 1) $now
 * 2) Nuclear Core Bonding
 * 3) Margins on articles in general
 * 4) Search box suggestion
 * 5) RfA
 * 6) Have I found the right help desk?
 * 7) Orphan
 * 8) Undoing Cluebot
 * 9) Composers births/deaths
 * 10) index.php
 * 11) Putting Article Sections up for deletion
 * 12) How do I find a page I edited in the past?
 * 13) Music - popular children's song