Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2010

= December 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 1


 * 1) Contributions by Companies
 * 2) How to EDIT a season of TV episodes to realign Episode Numbers with correct Episode Names.
 * 3) Help
 * 4) Readable content in a WP article?
 * 5) Admins pushing POV
 * 6) cappos
 * 7) Names of Large French Company CEOs?
 * 8) images
 * 9) Jimmy Wales
 * 10) Help
 * 11) Urgent Post on Talk:Live television
 * 12) Wikipedia fundraising ads worse than banner ads

= December 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 2


 * 1) A few things to discuss
 * 2) Question
 * 3) Further to my last
 * 4) obtaining a copy of a will
 * 5) Limited access vs dead links
 * 6) November 2010 disappeared in page view statistics
 * 7) What happened to Phil Schneider's page?
 * 8) Protected article
 * 9) where does my donation go?
 * 10) The repeated displays of banners
 * 11) Broken "Kartika" and "Lilaroja" and "Joan Goma" banners
 * 12) Wikipedia Mobile formatting problem on Palm Pre/WebOS
 * 13) Donation via BACS in the UK
 * 14) softening seawater  before desalination using   Sodium r  Sodium Hydroxide
 * 15) Edit comparison tool
 * 16) Wikipedia in Nahuatl
 * 17) Page moves and archives

= December 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 3


 * 1) Photo Hanayo
 * 2) My additions to an article were removed
 * 3) Canvassing?
 * 4) German question
 * 5) Wrong dog photo
 * 6) Category:Free software programmed in Tcl tkwww is listed under M
 * 7) Logged in signal desired
 * 8) oxygen and carbon di oxide
 * 9) Where is the Artisian page?
 * 10) Yugoslavian languages problem
 * 11) Returning editor
 * 12) Meaning of Wikipedia
 * 13) Question from 187.15.23.96
 * 14) Chem Symbols
 * 15) Wikitables
 * 16) Picture Formatting
 * 17) Is my article moving forward?
 * 18) Mark up text

= December 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 4


 * 1) Two thing to discuss
 * 2) Infoboxes of my own
 * 3) Contents
 * 4) Uploading pictures
 * 5) WP:NPOV and WP:TITLE
 * 6) Dear Wikipedia
 * 7) we would love to donate but....
 * 8) Two sharks for sister Sarah
 * 9) Could someone please remove Jimmy Wales' photo from Wikipedia? It's doing my nut in.
 * 10) August Heinrich Petermann
 * 11) Ochromonas malhamensis and Vitamin B-12
 * 12) Suddenly no possibility to edit
 * 13) My submission was declined
 * 14) Subscribing
 * 15) wiki and lyrics
 * 16) Questions about donating...
 * 17) Image name problem

= December 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 5


 * 1) Maps on Wikipedia
 * 2) My Page Was Redirected & Maybe Deleted...Help!
 * 3) changes made to a "see also" section of a page on wikipedia.
 * 4) disappeared?
 * 5) Time stamp
 * 6) text deleted but did not save a copy.
 * 7) Donations from India
 * 8) infoboxes show up as half the width long for some people but not others!
 * 9) Draft article
 * 10) User sandbox
 * 11) Reviewer
 * 12) Format
 * 13) Remove Intrusive Jimmy Wales Banner
 * 14) info box Netherlands
 * 15) Fixing Horribly Malformed Talk Pages
 * 16) On other wikis
 * 17) Template
 * 18) Legitemate link removed
 * 19) write the truth

= December 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 6


 * 1) Wikipedia pages not displaying properly
 * 2) Language problem
 * 3) Problem with "new external links" message
 * 4) What is archive url and what is url?????????????????
 * 5) Wikipedia's sister projects
 * 6) Promostyl  should be in Wikipedia
 * 7) Is There An Automated User Box for Edits / Contributions?
 * 8) Help needed with page move
 * 9) www.softpedia.com keeps deleting my (and others) contribution to the wikipedia articol about them, because that truth is not good for their image
 * 10) Collapsing sections via options
 * 11) Dear Mr. Wales
 * 12) Deletion Log
 * 13) Mescalero Apache
 * 14) Heidolph Image Deletion/ Page HELP
 * 15) How I do I use code to insert blank spaces in an article?  Want to space infobox and other sections properly.
 * 16) A comment on NotabilityGuidelines.
 * 17) Leaks
 * 18) HELP  blues clues
 * 19) Pro coder
 * 20) Merging 2 articles - Beauchamps School and Beauchamps High School

= December 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 7


 * 1) English language problem
 * 2) WP:???
 * 3) Wikipedia logo use
 * 4) Maybe now...
 * 5) Need help from someone experienced with the backend of the ref tag
 * 6) Image upload
 * 7) Submitted an entry but can't find it unless I do to my 'contributions' page
 * 8) Uppercase 'i's and lowercase 'L's
 * 9) Bracked link to a redirect page
 * 10) Page layout problem
 * 11) Adding a PDF file containing his war time experiences to my father''s listing in Wikipedia
 * 12) Need to rename/move article
 * 13) Ophthalmology
 * 14) Henry Hopwood
 * 15) Help -- I made extensive updates a few weeks ago and the updates are not showing!
 * 16) portuguese version of wiki
 * 17) Philabundance Wiki Page- please help
 * 18) Place-Based Social Media
 * 19) uploading picture
 * 20) Julian
 * 21) Curtis J Hopfenbeck
 * 22) Posting Company Information

= December 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 8


 * 1) Is there a simple way to change my user name?
 * 2) Kennedy Western University
 * 3) Public-key cryptography Encryption explanation is encrypted!
 * 4) Could somebody delete this page
 * 5) Oldid
 * 6) Viable reference
 * 7) Translation
 * 8) How do I change the name of my article from the default name?
 * 9) How to include or point to software supporting Wiki topics?
 * 10) How to Change the User name
 * 11) Un-publish temporarily
 * 12) How can I donate from India?
 * 13) Are we allowed to create a page for personal websites?
 * 14) Assamese Christian Literature
 * 15) Do we have a Wiki Project for music?
 * 16) automatic notification of edits
 * 17) Automatic Update of Edit Count
 * 18) ConvaTec Wikipedia Page Correction Request
 * 19) Pet Shop Boys category
 * 20) help userfying a deleted article
 * 21) Section Redirect
 * 22) Tear down of existing article and restart almost from scratch. How?
 * 23) Company selling books of Wikipedia articles possibly without attribution
 * 24) Twitter as a source sucks, right?
 * 25) translating
 * 26) Getting rid of this personal appeal at the top of every page!

= December 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 9


 * 1) problem with page
 * 2) Help is needed!
 * 3) Inviation
 * 4) unwritten history
 * 5) Downloading specific categories from wikimedia dumps
 * 6) Facebook displays an obsolete link to a wikipedia picture
 * 7) Two questions
 * 8) Default font size change?
 * 9) My post was altered
 * 10) How can I get responses to discussions that I start?
 * 11) your story on terrance deon long
 * 12) Publish
 * 13) Request photo
 * 14) Company Listing
 * 15) Referencing images
 * 16) Change Fitchburg, WI Reference
 * 17) Feedback
 * 18) The Trade Wiki Beta
 * 19) Please review
 * 20) Personal appeal from Lilaroja or Jimmy Wales

= December 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 10


 * 1) Editing a page
 * 2) Hawaii Bowl 2010
 * 3) Provide an Option for donation in Indian Currency
 * 4) How do I remove the banner from the top from the founder and, currently, Wikimedia Executive Director Sue Gardner?
 * 5) crossbow mote works problem
 * 6) Homework question
 * 7) Creative Commons
 * 8) Conflict question.
 * 9) Technical/Editorial problem in a page
 * 10) link between an english wiki page and another in french.
 * 11) Pronunciation
 * 12) Need someone with a NYT online subscription to check out a reference for me
 * 13) Lost page
 * 14) XXXCupid.com
 * 15) How to insert infobox, images?
 * 16) sandbox(?) article has been completely reproduced on a non wikipedia site. any options for removal?
 * 17) New Page
 * 18) Factual error on a locked page.
 * 19) search box

= December 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 11


 * 1) Search box gone--not in upper right, not anywhere...?
 * 2) Search box no longer appears
 * 3) seinfeld characters
 * 4) tinyurl.com/000psy psychiatry is a fraud
 * 5) Complicated cut and paste mess - Assyrian language
 * 6) help
 * 7) How to edit/delete uploaded jpegs?
 * 8) Bad faith
 * 9) hand chiseled stone water trough
 * 10) business plan
 * 11) background colour into grey !
 * 12) Page not accessible ..
 * 13) Need help with template
 * 14) IP blocking
 * 15) Additional film for Capucine
 * 16) Mentoring a disruptive editor
 * 17) Need help entering article in Wikipedia

= December 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 12


 * 1) Signature issues
 * 2) Disappearing Tabs
 * 3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra
 * 4) Background image
 * 5) New Webcast & Website Links for Radio Stations
 * 6) What Is The Template For "moving a user page into mainspace"?
 * 7) SUBMISSION OF CITATION
 * 8) Whom should be notified of potential breaking of mass numbers of FactFinder references
 * 9) How can I donate I dont have Credit card
 * 10) Contents of my talk page as a list !
 * 11) Wikipedian Categories
 * 12) On psychology
 * 13) Please can Wiki stop the begging spam at the top ove EVERY page !!!!???????
 * 14) Use of Photos
 * 15) Preventing Libel on Wikipedia
 * 16) cable leaks
 * 17) AfD creation problem
 * 18) Fear and Trembling
 * 19) Flag carrier page

= December 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 13


 * 1) First time Commons user, help por favor!
 * 2) Need help..
 * 3) embedding photo in article
 * 4) Links that have square brackets in the URL
 * 5) Redirect
 * 6) Conflict of interest
 * 7) forensic doctor
 * 8) Editing WP with Kindle
 * 9) Table subjugated to external links
 * 10) Flattr
 * 11) TV channels
 * 12) Navigating among languages in which Wikipedia articles are written
 * 13) Inclusion of indian rupee
 * 14) If Wikipedia is ad-free, as it claims, then why are we bothered by countless "personal appeal[s]" to stuff Mr Wales pockets?
 * 15) Thumbplay
 * 16) Question about reliable sources
 * 17) showing Arabic and Hebrew
 * 18) Temporary strip references out of text

= December 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 14


 * 1) Xoloitzcuintli infomation
 * 2) including a name of a village
 * 3) Sharing a reference
 * 4) Dual accounts
 * 5) Change Name of Article without Confirmed status
 * 6) Rix Centre help with Wikipedia project groups
 * 7) Janet Graham
 * 8) Edit Associated Acts under a band wiki
 * 9) Help editing page

= December 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 15


 * 1) Image use
 * 2) Cell phone view mode
 * 3) Citing journals
 * 4) how to donate other than USD, if i want to donate to Wikipedia?
 * 5) Banner special pages
 * 6) "Phase II" software
 * 7) Can i look for a friend just by providing a photo of him because i forgot his name.
 * 8) wrong city/state listed under info
 * 9) ref
 * 10) Photo copyright...
 * 11) Jimmy Wales badly formatted
 * 12) information on Botswana
 * 13) Call out box for politicians, public figures
 * 14) Where is Wikipolicy discussed?
 * 15) Yagba West, Kogi State, Nig

= December 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 16


 * 1) Smaller Donations
 * 2) Where is the article I wrote£
 * 3) Occidental - suggested edits
 * 4) Need someone to help find italic problem
 * 5) IT'S NOT SHOWING UP
 * 6) WikiLeaks
 * 7) shared IP address?
 * 8) Blocked Message from Wickipedia
 * 9) Political figures
 * 10) Wiki for Thomas Edison - Error listing schools named after him
 * 11) Email domain change
 * 12) Want some information about Amigotechs software
 * 13) Inquiry about a recently deleted page... thank you for your help
 * 14) Associated with Wikipedia?
 * 15) Any existing template for listing projects undertaken by a charity/organisation
 * 16) Submitting information about a musician
 * 17) Table not accessible
 * 18) Kjære Herr/Fru
 * 19) New Page
 * 20) Cursor not defaulting to search box upon opening Wikipedia
 * 21) New text now displaying as centered, not left-justified
 * 22) help deleting a redirect
 * 23) I've buggered it up!
 * 24) Process of creating
 * 25) Math in templates using parameters
 * 26) change back to original format
 * 27) Logos

= December 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 17


 * 1) Piccirilli Brothers Wiki Site
 * 2) Coca-Cola and wikipedia's coi
 * 3) Some things I want to discuss
 * 4) Wikistalk
 * 5) Italics in links
 * 6) 3.5 M
 * 7) Wikipedia is NOT truly an Open Editable Model, and Jimmy Wales needs to be alerted
 * 8) What to do
 * 9) new version of bit defender
 * 10) Forcibly logged out repeatedly
 * 11) The Trade Wiki Beta--how is it related to Wikipedia
 * 12) Changing a Wikipedia page for a course
 * 13) Donate
 * 14) article deleted
 * 15) Important information that hasn't been published in English
 * 16) long-term creation of an article
 * 17) Link Appearance

= December 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 18


 * 1) Biased Article
 * 2) Wikipedia's use of browser cookies
 * 3) Punjabi programme
 * 4) Formatting archived discussions nearly lost during page move
 * 5) Aircraft compare
 * 6) Saint Nicolass
 * 7) rollback
 * 8) about A.C  CURRENT STORAGE
 * 9) Article Rename
 * 10) My Contribution for submission
 * 11) error on page
 * 12) Template trouble
 * 13) Phone numbers
 * 14) Is there a higher authority to appeal to, in the event of disagreement with an article's content?

= December 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 19


 * 1) Mischsprache
 * 2) Procedure for uploading sounds ( Audios )
 * 3) Post a school paper (which has bias) on sister project
 * 4) Login Unification - Home wiki has different password?
 * 5) How do i change a secure port to a non-secure port?
 * 6) Soviet Union music recording certification - are there any???
 * 7) Please add headlines
 * 8) Rochville university
 * 9) Help merge two articles.
 * 10) Passerine
 * 11) Two tables columns
 * 12) Severe Disability Needs
 * 13) Wikipedia default font size
 * 14) Volunteer to Translate for Wikipedia (Spanish English)
 * 15) Help needed to fix a layout problem on my user page
 * 16) first time article writer question
 * 17) Discussing a new article creation
 * 18) My user page is screwed up!
 * 19) Need admin help moving JuJu Chang to Juju Chang, changing redirect

= December 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 20


 * 1) Danish Jews
 * 2) Help closing a discussion
 * 3) rainfall
 * 4) Same image name on WP and Commons
 * 5) new army
 * 6) Alexandra Powers
 * 7) Tool of article readability
 * 8) redirection
 * 9) Source
 * 10) Requesting assistance: Occidental Petroleum
 * 11) Satellite
 * 12) حجة
 * 13) Article not being shown
 * 14) Minor touchup for math?
 * 15) Mark Gall
 * 16) Image with a copyright statement in its filename
 * 17) Lowery's painting of Ebbw Vale
 * 18) Need category help
 * 19) Political Bias Regarding UK Post Office/Royal Mail Description
 * 20) The Lion King 4

= December 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 21


 * 1) Paris By Night
 * 2) Patriot Guard Riders
 * 3) Citing/Reference Question
 * 4) Where are my images?
 * 5) fonts
 * 6) Article Being deleted
 * 7) looking for a job
 * 8) Sharing same account across WP & WN
 * 9) Wikipedia content quoted without attribution/reference to the authors
 * 10) Malfunction
 * 11) Reclaiming an account with no email attached
 * 12) Diana Dors
 * 13) submitting the biography  of an author
 * 14) AFD help
 * 15) why was my page on uiolentapneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosising deleted
 * 16) Wikipedia should support advertisements for a revenue stream
 * 17) Updating Abdul Khaliq Hazara, Formatting Error with RtL Font/Text
 * 18) Sigma Gamme Rho

= December 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 22


 * 1) James McGill (child actor)
 * 2) Abbreviation "ce" used in edit summaries
 * 3) What's it called
 * 4) What are those insets normally at the top of the pages called?
 * 5) email notification
 * 6) Muhammad Zafrullah Khan
 * 7) Every word a link.
 * 8) Are you allowed to edit if....
 * 9) WP: TWINKLE
 * 10) "People from New York City" CATEGORY entry
 * 11) Fixing table in Ecology#Population ecology
 * 12) Problem with svg picture
 * 13) How do I keep my information from being deleted before I can find out how to edit?
 * 14) A-Class
 * 15) Cannot find my article in user drafts anymore! Not even under contributions...
 * 16) Newly created page not showing in search results
 * 17) Jack Scoltock Irish author
 * 18) Tuskegee Airmen
 * 19) HELP! Some "Stalker" is SABOTAGING A SUBJECT! Someone is entering the article and totally sabotaging the article what shall one do?

= December 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 23


 * 1) Donation suggestion
 * 2) Verifying data on Wikipedia
 * 3) State Library of Queensland
 * 4) Jimmy Wales
 * 5) how to determine URL from image name
 * 6) Removal of photo from wikipedia
 * 7) linking accounts
 * 8) Permanent text size change for logged in?
 * 9) Error in editing page
 * 10) Diff on page--what am I missing?
 * 11) Can't properly add citation
 * 12) How do I add a picture to an article I created?
 * 13) When can tags to add references or clean up the page be removed?
 * 14) Convert from IP user to registered user

= December 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 24


 * 1) Anything recourse for abusive user comments in Discussion?
 * 2) Citing a source
 * 3) Can I download the query log of wikipedia?
 * 4) New user query re article creation & talk page
 * 5) WHAT!!!!!!!
 * 6) Alonzo Elliot: Composer
 * 7) copyright or not?
 * 8) going live with an entry
 * 9) AN vs. ANI
 * 10) Another file with one name, but FOUR images
 * 11) Capitalization Issue In New Article Title
 * 12) Doug Smail Ex Fife Flyers Player

= December 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 25


 * 1) Table help
 * 2) Including words in the Russian (Cyrillic) language
 * 3) Fundraising Banners
 * 4) شركات مصنفه
 * 5) How to Donate Here in Iran
 * 6) Writing about one's self
 * 7) New section tab missing
 * 8) Template Change
 * 9) Pop up or new tabs.

= December 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 26


 * 1) need to know
 * 2) An ordinary average guy like to donate
 * 3) Getting repeated errors when editing
 * 4) Font size for MATH "$$"
 * 5) Making Donations To Wikipedia: Why Should I Have To Pay Through PayPal?
 * 6) An ordinary average guy like to donate
 * 7) DIVORCED WOMEN
 * 8) User Bdb484 is changing everything to back to his version.
 * 9) Login error
 * 10) Filmography
 * 11) Quickie...add reference for an 'orphan'
 * 12) 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
 * 13) Modifying a page without the Edit hyperlink

= December 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 27


 * 1) Some things I would like to discuss
 * 2) Some non-question that had no heading
 * 3) Alexandra Powers
 * 4) Glen MacDonough
 * 5) Regarding Policy Number:  WTG1321908
 * 6) geolocation
 * 7) System does not accept any login name
 * 8) Check information on a main page but also on individuals?
 * 9) Template help
 * 10) The use of ' vs >
 * 11) Alexandra Powers
 * 12) Sorting Wikipedia links?
 * 13) Questions about using infobox templates
 * 14) Unable to edit
 * 15) Copy and paste vandalism
 * 16) Advertisements

= December 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 28


 * 1) My browser reports a virus in the image on a La Sagrada Familia page
 * 2) No apostrophe in the Broadway production of Hellzapoppin
 * 3) Selected Works
 * 4) What percentage of the world population plays golf?
 * 5) Restricted Page, can't edit page Frankel Jewish Academy- Religious Lies about the Jewish School
 * 6) Ratings for Movies
 * 7) Stuff to help with
 * 8) How do I delete an unused account?
 * 9) Picture alignment
 * 10) Most visited non-existent articles
 * 11) Apply a monobook line only when using Safari
 * 12) Rape Statistics
 * 13) Wiki clock

= December 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 29


 * 1) About Donation
 * 2) Johnson Tan Hiok Phuay
 * 3) About Principles of photonics You can give me the useful webside also can give me the details
 * 4) How do I create an entry?
 * 5) Searching in category an subcategories
 * 6) File extension does not match MIME type.
 * 7) Question about the Writer Infobox

= December 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 30


 * 1) Fundraiser
 * 2) Alexandra Powers
 * 3) copyright fees
 * 4) Creating an article
 * 5) SUL Usurpation
 * 6) Remove my photos from Wikipedia
 * 7) Why doesn't My watchlist e-mail me new changes?
 * 8) One discussion in multiple forums
 * 9) Invisible anchors?
 * 10) Hilite template not working
 * 11) How do I edit an photo on Wiki?
 * 12) Edwardian Funerals
 * 13) Wife complaint

= December 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 31


 * 1) Tab
 * 2) Australian football club logos and jumpers/guernseys
 * 3) meters
 * 4) Requesting assistance
 * 5) why do you need money(donations)?
 * 6) Kinuyo Yamashita
 * 7) Send article by email
 * 8) Rod Macqueen vs Rod MacQueen
 * 9) Section Deleted
 * 10) Easy way of finding articles I've created