Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/February 2010

= February 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 1


 * 1) Strange page rendering problem
 * 2) Do you need to be an admin to nominate someone for adminship?
 * 3) How Do I  Insert Pictures into an Article
 * 4) Special  character
 * 5) editing erroneous info in my bio
 * 6) Removing unwanted contributions from history page
 * 7) Wikimedia is displaying an out of date logo for our company
 * 8) Inappropriate move of User:Springfieldohio to article
 * 9) Account Deletion
 * 10) How to eliminate large white space?
 * 11) Wikipedia pages do not open .msg : The server at en.wikipedia.org is taking too long to respond
 * 12) Invisibile (useless?) characters
 * 13) Cans and Can'ts
 * 14) list of ex-millwall players
 * 15) can't find my user page
 * 16) Wiki Suggestion
 * 17) Changing an existing article to reflect changed circumstances
 * 18) The same problem that happened to me yesterday is happening again

= February 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 2


 * 1) Hughes Tool Company/Dickson Gun Plant - Houston, Texas
 * 2) nudity censorship
 * 3) Wrong Picture at "Salvador, Bahia" article.
 * 4) Table background color
 * 5) Countries and quality of life
 * 6) author needed
 * 7) White background instead of image
 * 8) Mobile version disabled
 * 9) No response
 * 10) I need access to diesel automobiles
 * 11) yeast
 * 12) Bad link
 * 13) Training
 * 14) Is it allowed to use wikipedia as a reference for information when creating new wikipedia articles
 * 15) Commons link logo displaying on help page?
 * 16) account tied to old address
 * 17) Edits on archived talk pages
 * 18) Citing a video reference
 * 19) Engineering portal
 * 20) Question mark in a section title
 * 21) Putting a pic on Commons so I can use it on en.wikipedia
 * 22) Userspace subst'ing
 * 23) Contents box
 * 24) Account

= February 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 3


 * 1) I have nothing that plays OGG files. Why are the sound files in OGG?
 * 2) Upon splitting a page, the talk pages are now linked
 * 3) Date of birth categories
 * 4) Need help changing entry name
 * 5) Notification on ArbCom amendments to old arbitrations
 * 6) Lock a value so people can't edit it
 * 7) Image source URLs
 * 8) Mainspace edits
 * 9) Things in text
 * 10) ABout Content
 * 11) What just happened?
 * 12) Comparing categories
 * 13) Would like to submit photos
 * 14) Timing for approvals...
 * 15) GFE
 * 16) The word,best.
 * 17) Condemnations in Adam
 * 18) Citation of direct quotes
 * 19) Citation / Evidence

= February 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 4


 * 1) BLP Question
 * 2) how to post an article from user page
 * 3) Problem with a Wikipedia Veteran Editor IV
 * 4) How should I handle a second WP:COPYVIO?
 * 5) search
 * 6) how to save the entry i am interested in under my account name
 * 7) Addition of a name to DFC and bar medal list
 * 8) Redirect
 * 9) Where to ask for help
 * 10) Reverse Glass Painters
 * 11) Deletion of Box at top of article
 * 12) Removing Template at Top of An Article
 * 13) Obama's Wiki
 * 14) Bot help
 * 15) get my page reviewed and published
 * 16) Medical references
 * 17) I submitted a new page entitled "Gordon Ferguson (British Army)"
 * 18) Merge Accounts
 * 19) Putting Photos Next to Each Other
 * 20) Creating an account

= February 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 5


 * 1) Colloge with two campuses - how to add coords of both to title?
 * 2) Lost toolbar
 * 3) what will happen???
 * 4) descriptive links
 * 5) userspace draft:  How do I find my draft
 * 6) preferences not working
 * 7) Images, a query
 * 8) Place-mark on Google Earth
 * 9) enquiry for  person who borrow money from me
 * 10) What should I do if a page I created is not listed as a edit prefix:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives
 * 11) One name, three images
 * 12) Uniblue Registry Booster
 * 13) Wine Personalities
 * 14) WikEd loading error
 * 15) NED KELLY IS SEMIPROTECTED
 * 16) First hand experance with Presidents problem
 * 17) Pick Me Up Error
 * 18) User Confirmation
 * 19) My recent changes to the article virus are not displaying
 * 20) removal of article
 * 21) How do I prevent an edit fight?
 * 22) Looking for album
 * 23) Hi guys

= February 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 6


 * 1) New feature rquest
 * 2) can this be copied?
 * 3) Sir/Mam, please update your database..........
 * 4) My text formatting problem
 * 5) Urdu text in wikipedia articles
 * 6) creating Wikipedia ID:
 * 7) Victimisation
 * 8) Looking for a template
 * 9) Offensive stuff
 * 10) Counting Views
 * 11) Wikicode converter

= February 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 7


 * 1) login to valid account after personal email changed
 * 2) Same login for different products of wiki
 * 3) Robot Editor
 * 4) Impostor
 * 5) Getting rid of the Try Beta link?
 * 6) Trans Fat
 * 7) Domain Eukarya
 * 8) Rotating images
 * 9) Templates
 * 10) I am so sorry
 * 11) Cite
 * 12) Merge the pages
 * 13) Beta won't allow me to leave.
 * 14) Problem
 * 15) bowel ultrasound  to locate foreign body or narcotic capsules
 * 16) Mod needed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:UFC_110#Event_Date
 * 17) WIKIPEDIA PAGE
 * 18) Wikitravel

= February 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 8


 * 1) Help with formatting
 * 2) my watchlist only partially updating
 * 3) Adding copyright tags
 * 4) Which AfD deletion category for a non-fiction book?
 * 5) the same  ????
 * 6) Remove "show" in Navbox
 * 7) Showing A Table But Only Some Rows And Collapsing The Rest
 * 8) Help with a dodgy category
 * 9) how do I "Review" an article?
 * 10) editing city pages (adding second image, map with pin, etc)
 * 11) Personnel of a Company
 * 12) I'm trying to find a user's IP address...can I do that?
 * 13) Adding a reference to Top Gear (magazine) article
 * 14) Table in talk page
 * 15) Tab key function on edit screen
 * 16) Adding IPA
 * 17) Storage Heater
 * 18) Purchase
 * 19) Creating accounts for other people
 * 20) Posting Business on Wikipedia
 * 21) theroy of evolution.
 * 22) Fix templates
 * 23) What's the tag to indicate a section of an article is under construction?
 * 24) Copyright violation?

= February 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 9


 * 1) Highly inappropriate language
 * 2) How can I reclaim my account?
 * 3) Unified login
 * 4) Finding the source of information in a wiki article
 * 5) I would like to know why you and other companies seem to not want to print the truth about something to let the public know even if you have been told otherwise.
 * 6) music
 * 7) Updating of a page
 * 8) Freeze Panes - Top Row in Tables
 * 9) fas
 * 10) In search of a Director/Producer
 * 11) Help archives
 * 12) Disability Compatibilty feature on product pages
 * 13) Essjay44/Ian Cutler
 * 14) Possibly unfree files
 * 15) Printing Pictures with Articles
 * 16) can't save to sandbox
 * 17) jobs
 * 18) Templates

= February 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 10


 * 1) I Need Help So That The Templates Work
 * 2) How to "Talk" between contributors.
 * 3) Strange problem when copying and pasting
 * 4) Bringing Attention to an Issue
 * 5) Creating an entry
 * 6) Questions about the verified source policy
 * 7) Wikipedia as a client (school project)?
 * 8) How to edit an existing user-created infobox
 * 9) Category help
 * 10) Are people aware this wikipedia entry is directly copied from another site  ?
 * 11) T-shirt
 * 12) How to create a journal intro page on wikipedia
 * 13) The page Blood Types will not display on my laptop when saved to disk on a public computer.
 * 14) Edit Frequency
 * 15) Talk pages and articles mismatch
 * 16) Broken Robot
 * 17) "Article quality" gadget not working
 * 18) Sick Article
 * 19) Leading photos of certain articles
 * 20) Disambiguation pages

= February 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 11


 * 1) Contents of section I want to edit don't appear on edit page
 * 2) URL including square brackets
 * 3) Internet video
 * 4) Other place to put this?
 * 5) Hey help desk!
 * 6) layman-isms
 * 7) I accidently deleted very first paragraph, while trying to add some info on Tirhut. I am trying to revert it back to what it was displaying yesterday, but can not do it. Please revert it back. Sorry,
 * 8) nickname
 * 9) Who is Allowed to upload images, etc?
 * 10) How to Edit Headline?
 * 11) How do I delete a Wiki book?
 * 12) Help resolving a dispute
 * 13) Picture upload
 * 14) Mark Boardman wiki page deleted
 * 15) Copyright
 * 16) Error message when uploading the logo of my organisation
 * 17) Defaultsort/redirect cursor location
 * 18) incorrect re-direct
 * 19) Archiving documents from Google cache
 * 20) help with posting photos
 * 21) Sport or Sports in title?
 * 22) wikipedia traffic

= February 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 12


 * 1) My post
 * 2) "Messed up" a page on accident
 * 3) kato
 * 4) Wikipedia hangs on Monobook theme when clicking links (Firefox)
 * 5) I'm trying to post my first article without much success
 * 6) Need help moving a page
 * 7) That banner on top
 * 8) HOW DO I PROTECT a new ARTICLE on a new topic FROM overzealous nonspecific Administrator VANDALISM?  The administrator does not reply on the talk page
 * 9) Edit Frequency (repost)
 * 10) Why Rollback?
 * 11) WIKI COMPLAINT AGAINST AN EDITOR
 * 12) Changing title of article

= February 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 13


 * 1) When you can't tell whether the subject of a bio is living or not...
 * 2) MiszaBot
 * 3) Copyviol
 * 4) Copyright of Picture
 * 5) Image font
 * 6) Placing wikitables side by side with space between them
 * 7) Not true neautograph fake there authentic  and truly awesome
 * 8) Search tool not working?
 * 9) Altering a title
 * 10) Article - reg.
 * 11) Delete article Beastly (Care Bears)
 * 12) Templates
 * 13) Eukarya/Eukaryota
 * 14) How do I edit the content referred to by reflist but not found in the article itself?
 * 15) Referencing error
 * 16) Becoming an administrator
 * 17) copying Wiki links
 * 18) Unified Login
 * 19) Tool to find closest shared category for two given articles/categories?

= February 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 14


 * 1) About deleting large parts of a problematic article
 * 2) Citing the same source multiple times
 * 3) Why isn't there a standard for the tv episode synopses ?
 * 4) Signature Problems?
 * 5) URL Actions
 * 6) Copyright Violation
 * 7) Signature Shrinking
 * 8) How to delete a user?
 * 9) my toolbox
 * 10) Isolating a Wikipedia page section on its own page. (For printing or saving)
 * 11) Rewrite while retaining edit history
 * 12) I accidentally deleted information on a page - can I restore it?
 * 13) One last question...
 * 14) Amanda Kaye McMurray, female comic book writer
 * 15) J'Achette

= February 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 15


 * 1) My name appears in my article's headline
 * 2) Front
 * 3) Redirect my user page
 * 4) You should see this website. It is about the Turkish Wikipedia's (Vikipedi) abuse of rights.
 * 5) Remove Edit Summary from History?
 * 6) CRR and Interest rates
 * 7) Providing a translation for an existing page
 * 8) Getting contents from wiki dynamically to my webpage.
 * 9) Wikipedia Technicality Help
 * 10) Could you help me with some tables?
 * 11) What to do about a malicious editor?
 * 12) Signature button has stopped working
 * 13) I am Olympic Artist Jesse Raudales and I am trying to create a page
 * 14) Horrid Henry Takeover addition Query
 * 15) How to move a critical entry on a page to go under the article's  "Criticism" heading.
 * 16) Taiwan magazines
 * 17) Sysop Eligibility
 * 18) Featured list

= February 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 16


 * 1) Edit counter not working
 * 2) Question for an admin
 * 3) Date from UTC in the 'in this day' context.
 * 4) Unrevertable vandalism
 * 5) NOINDEX
 * 6) How to design this template?
 * 7) Technical issue in Chełm#.22Wise_Jewish_Men_of_Chelm.22
 * 8) Older version of an image
 * 9) how can I send this page to a friend?
 * 10) Energy efficient Gear Boxes
 * 11) Archiving
 * 12) security question
 * 13) Hidden edits on talk page
 * 14) Trying to find a bit of amusing vandalism
 * 15) Do we have a  'template' for an article about a film?
 * 16) user-agent: huh??
 * 17) Want to help?
 * 18) Notability of school articles

= February 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 17


 * 1) Truncating Cites
 * 2) Article rating script not changing when rating is changed?
 * 3) Quotes before dying
 * 4) Can a redirect be undone?
 * 5) image licensing
 * 6) Concerned abusers using Wikipedia to gain illegal access to Home Office by abusing Hotmail Facebook and Microsoft Products.
 * 7) Who decides what isn't good enough for Wikipedia?
 * 8) Arrogance with Britney singles and promos
 * 9) Interwiki bots
 * 10) Entrance exam
 * 11) india vs china
 * 12) lowercase articles produce errors
 * 13) unreplied discussion
 * 14) Wikilinks to Categories
 * 15) http://search.wikimedia.org/ --- Wikimedia search service internal error. Backend failure.
 * 16) Copyrights Problems: A Wikipedia page on FAO - GIPB Initiative
 * 17) full form
 * 18) delete  iuvienna
 * 19) How to write a Family history on Wikipedia?
 * 20) Primary source question
 * 21) Links to my sites

= February 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 18


 * 1) How to delete slanderous information and update with correct information
 * 2) Do even half of the bands here belong in this category?
 * 3) Anonymous user at 70.29.210.242, problems with...
 * 4) FA nominations
 * 5) Blinking text
 * 6) Malicious user
 * 7) ISP history
 * 8) Fake template "transcluding" categories on pages
 * 9) Changing the colour of links to footnotes
 * 10) Paragraph in article deletes remainder
 * 11) Lists of heads of state
 * 12) Monobook full?
 * 13) Replacing a non free image with a free image
 * 14) Redirects on watchlist
 * 15) Wikipedia search list
 * 16) Alphabetized lists
 * 17) AJAX in wikipedia searches
 * 18) Unreliable Sources
 * 19) New word coined

= February 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 19


 * 1) Can only administrators close deletion debates at Possibly unfree files?
 * 2) Discussion cleanup - template help and/or advice needed.
 * 3) Help me to compute this problem.
 * 4) Native Instrument fm8
 * 5) How to clear saved Templates
 * 6) Wikipedia Mobile
 * 7) Userboxes in Template: namespace
 * 8) 200 blogs
 * 9) user page does not exist
 * 10) Photos
 * 11) Vandalism
 * 12) Listing in Search
 * 13) Major Unexplained Deletions in Flash Animation Article
 * 14) How do I deal with this edit fight?
 * 15) people editing my page
 * 16) Problem with the aritcle I am adding -- Wiki says its vandalism
 * 17) tag for needing more references, especially inline
 * 18) Kendall County image
 * 19) Posting to Wiki
 * 20) Erb Institute
 * 21) Cluebot an ex-bot?
 * 22) Wrong info

= February 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 20


 * 1) What's the difference?
 * 2) Time difference
 * 3) Poems?
 * 4) Free editing of Wikipedia
 * 5) Using quote with book reference
 * 6) Extra text while editing
 * 7) Edit Toolbar
 * 8) Special pages - Wanted Categories
 * 9) Tags suggestion?
 * 10) Citing from software
 * 11) Dreadful image
 * 12) Notable
 * 13) Help
 * 14) ClueBot III
 * 15) My login/username
 * 16) We need article that lists countries by "agricultural surplus" and overview of specific agricultural practices of countries.
 * 17) I don't know how to fix this ...

= February 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 21


 * 1) Creating an information chart
 * 2) French Culture broken link
 * 3) Minor namespace-related problem
 * 4) Infobox Templates
 * 5) The videogame reception chart has a problem
 * 6) Jimmy Cliff, Reggae singer
 * 7) Reverting vandalism - please help!
 * 8) Citations not leaving
 * 9) Reverting an image edit
 * 10) Chrome messing up unicode, any solution
 * 11) APA Citation of Wikipedia
 * 12) I've uploaded my photo to the wrong place
 * 13) Inter State compact
 * 14) Add Publisher
 * 15) no: tag  What is it?
 * 16) emailing
 * 17) Opinion about a possible article
 * 18) Sorting names in Wikipedia tables
 * 19) Automatic redirecting to zh.m.wikipedia.org for mobile phones (iPhone)
 * 20) unable to create an account
 * 21) Potential image upload issue question
 * 22) Browning model 1910 FN .380 Cal. Want to get owners manual.

= February 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 22


 * 1) List of templates?
 * 2) sht
 * 3) Help with a new article: List of Colleges and Academic Departments of Human Ecology
 * 4) Google Box
 * 5) Usernames
 * 6) encapsulate
 * 7) Template rating box incorrect
 * 8) Creating a page
 * 9) Can u have a look
 * 10) Photo not showing up
 * 11) Request For Assistance: Ethics Of Entry Creation
 * 12) PDF OF ALL ANSWERED QUESTIONS
 * 13) Images regarding wikipedia
 * 14) Discovery Creek Children's Museum
 * 15) How long does it take for a new article to be approved?
 * 16) Say Where You Got It - can you put citations that you haven't seen?
 * 17) Wikipedia doesn't seem to support Lynx anymore, what gives?
 * 18) No one else can see my page....
 * 19) Arkansas page
 * 20) Prince Caspien Article

= February 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 23


 * 1) Your link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Next_Top_Model,_Cycle_8
 * 2) Flags for the Olympics
 * 3) GeoGroupTemplate results out of order
 * 4) Efficient way to find similar articles in other languges?
 * 5) Can you erase a post in the discussion "page", entry "Jesus"?
 * 6) Footnotes in middle of sentences
 * 7) Wikitable out of control
 * 8) Criminal creology
 * 9) CATIA
 * 10) Square brackets in citation link titles
 * 11) Possibly unfree files (take 2)
 * 12) My entry on Wikipedia
 * 13) Deleting pictures
 * 14) Trouble with div tag with attributes inside template
 * 15) RFC for IP range
 * 16) Image release to CC-BY, permission via Twitter
 * 17) Richard Levister
 * 18) Rendering PDF Problem
 * 19) using same footnote multiple times
 * 20) Random Article
 * 21) ICantFindMyArticle

= February 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 24


 * 1) Source Help
 * 2) .WhatDoesUniqueArticlesEdited2LiveEdits2MeanOnGeneralUserInfo.
 * 3) How to create auto numbering in Table?
 * 4) Is it my cache?
 * 5) Auto-updating watchlist template?
 * 6) C.P. RAJASEKHARAN
 * 7) Looking for an article called 'Natural horror'
 * 8) Extracting infobox data
 * 9) What happens when the word you want to define already gets re-directed to something else?
 * 10) Talk question
 * 11) how to enter request on MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
 * 12) How do I create and article for a product
 * 13) How does one create a category?
 * 14) hyphen line breaks
 * 15) How do I delete an article
 * 16) I post an article, it got deleted, and I cannot find my original work.
 * 17) Error in Canadian Business Magazine wiki
 * 18) How Post A Definition?
 * 19) SUNY Oswego records
 * 20) LAYNE THOMAS STALEY
 * 21) An expression
 * 22) bogus business
 * 23) Edit count

= February 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 25


 * 1) How do you bring articles that are in another wikipedia language, into the english version
 * 2) Sockpuppet investigation
 * 3) Formatting error
 * 4) Formatting error 2
 * 5) Can I ask someone to write two fairly simple templates?
 * 6) entry doesn't appear to have worked properly
 * 7) Line rental charge
 * 8) Name change proposal
 * 9) How can I become an "autoconfirmed" or "confirmed" user?
 * 10) hi wikipedia
 * 11) Logged In But Still Blocked
 * 12) delete an account
 * 13) South Pass
 * 14) Siggy Prob
 * 15) Edit an existing page I didn't create!
 * 16) How  wikipedia articles works?
 * 17) Page Visibility
 * 18) Pages up for speedy without any indication?
 * 19) Alt field to be added
 * 20) Image size
 * 21) Help with portal / wide images
 * 22) Sock puppet?
 * 23) Background information with picture
 * 24) Image problem
 * 25) How to request votes on topics concerning all Wikipedia articles
 * 26) Upload video clip
 * 27) children

= February 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 26


 * 1) Wikipedia Book Creator
 * 2) Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars in Amazon.com with no warning
 * 3) Collaboration of the Day
 * 4) who has created the most articles
 * 5) Forgotten the password and email id registered for my Wikipedia account
 * 6) Template suppression
 * 7) How to Remove the Template
 * 8) Semi-automated combined Searching and Wikilinking tool ?
 * 9) Article reading ratings
 * 10) partnership business
 * 11) Deleted Page
 * 12) Wikipedia
 * 13) This wikipedian seems to be randomly adding links to her own blog to esoteric / energy medicine articles
 * 14) Replacing an image in a gallery
 * 15) Bug Report
 * 16) Further reading + article added
 * 17) Category: Private schools in Ontario
 * 18) This is stupid.
 * 19) Audio or Radio Wikipedia
 * 20) Save-a-BLP
 * 21) Pages on Ships

= February 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 27


 * 1) Redirect is vandalism.
 * 2) Vandalism of "Bilaal Rajan" page
 * 3) User talk:Intelligentsium#Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#I Need Help So That The Templates Work
 * 4) my buddys b-day
 * 5) Is it edit warring...
 * 6) Blowing off steam
 * 7) ...more blowing off steam...
 * 8) moving to the mainspace?
 * 9) Founder Travancore Federal Bank Ltd
 * 10) vga connected from computer to projector
 * 11) Vandalism
 * 12) help
 * 13) killer whales in the north sea
 * 14) Becoming a sysop
 * 15) "Baseball" needs editing
 * 16) Translation
 * 17) Using an image from Commons when a Wikipedia image has the same name
 * 18) Terrible Articles
 * 19) Feature Request for the Random Article function
 * 20) help with adding an article to an already  exsisting biography
 * 21) Upload support
 * 22) Recreated images using vector graphics as an SVG file: process time?
 * 23) Viewing by iPhone

= February 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 28


 * 1) Find me some vandalism, please?
 * 2) Uploading oggs
 * 3) Map of the Canton Railroad Baltimore Md
 * 4) youtube video content as a citation
 * 5) Trojan
 * 6) Sockpuppet template question
 * 7) Red Links/Archives
 * 8) Finding the most active editors on an article
 * 9) How do I re-direct
 * 10) Eukarya yet again
 * 11) AfDs and Speedy Deletions
 * 12) Wish list of images?
 * 13) Warning templates
 * 14) Redirect help
 * 15) Displaying notes as footnotes when a Wikipedia article is put into a .pdf file?
 * 16) Italics problem
 * 17) redirect is wrong
 * 18) WP:ALT
 * 19) Making Templates
 * 20) Peer review