Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2009

= January 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 1


 * 1) Sockpuppet alegation
 * 2) motorbike stunts
 * 3) Help with user
 * 4) Why was my articles deleted?
 * 5) Template guru
 * 6) How to add a translation to an existing page
 * 7) agri centres tie up with industries
 * 8) Search for special characters
 * 9) Hi
 * 10) Naming question - didn't find guidelines about this
 * 11) Using OpenID identity from another site as Wikipedia username?

= January 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 2


 * 1) Security info box
 * 2) Copyright
 * 3) New features
 * 4) Request for feedback
 * 5) Partily Protection on pages
 * 6) Table sorting problems in Firefox
 * 7) How to write algorithms for C functions
 * 8) How to put in locations on a map?
 * 9) Editing an article that is protected/semi-protected.
 * 10) Closing 'Rename Page' Proposal
 * 11) Howandy wikipedia game‎
 * 12) Category loops
 * 13) Servers getting out of sync
 * 14) Duplicate Titles
 * 15) Wrong Rated
 * 16) Deletion?
 * 17) Files uploaded
 * 18) helpme
 * 19) How do I alphabetize a subject in a list?

= January 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 3


 * 1) Is there an infobox for non-profit organizations?
 * 2) Providing citations/ supporting evidence
 * 3) Parser #if
 * 4) CheckUser
 * 5) Wikitable - Infobox interference
 * 6) Uploading stereoscopic compound models
 * 7) Image template
 * 8) CHANGE USER NAME
 * 9) library of congress picture

= January 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 4


 * 1) info on Fabiola Gatti doesn't appear
 * 2) Finding all articles by a particular editor
 * 3) Display settings
 * 4) Converting excel spreadsheet to wiki markup
 * 5) Agent.AWF
 * 6) Blunder at wikimedia
 * 7) Template for image links
 * 8) Wikipedia : A propaganda of UK Unioinism?
 * 9) Copyright violation?

= January 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 5


 * 1) How to add a search term to an already existing article?
 * 2) Bahia Honda MO or MOE giant hammerhead shark Florida Keys
 * 3) Pages fading
 * 4) printing of an article on E.C.T.
 * 5) Barack Obama image on United States presidential election, 2008
 * 6) Editing a title page
 * 7) Dhimmi
 * 8) Category Talk
 * 9) editing
 * 10) editing templates
 * 11) Template gone wonky?
 * 12) Making a photo visible in an article but unavailable for copying
 * 13) Deleted article still not on Deletionpedia
 * 14) Everything Channel Posting Deleted

= January 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 6


 * 1) Where to post for help on a dodgy-looking edit
 * 2) Check edits, please
 * 3) Text scans on Commons
 * 4) Table height problems
 * 5) Help with a template in development
 * 6) Deletion of this article
 * 7) Messages
 * 8) Delete article
 * 9) Image placement guideline
 * 10) Anderson
 * 11) education
 * 12) Legality of Palin email screenshots
 * 13) Internet Based
 * 14) Viewing Images
 * 15) New to Wikipedia editing and would like to add personal photos to expand on my edit topic.
 * 16) need address
 * 17) FInfo Tool - 403 Forbidden Error
 * 18) Help and FAQ's aren't helping me

= January 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 7


 * 1) sorting table
 * 2) Creating a sandbox or subpage for new article
 * 3) contribution disappeared by still listed under my contributions
 * 4) Why is everyone on here Unionist?
 * 5) Renaming a wiki entry title
 * 6) Fixing mistakes -- I tried to fix a mistake
 * 7) port folio management
 * 8) References & footnotes
 * 9) Move image to Commons?
 * 10) links removed
 * 11) Help with template
 * 12) Who can see my IP
 * 13) May a subject be part of more than one Wiki?
 * 14) Editing Own Article
 * 15) Insertion of factual information: Im still new to WIkipedia
 * 16) Image of map
 * 17) Subcategories

= January 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 8


 * 1) How to communicate with another wikipedian
 * 2) The Grannies page has vanished and i can't find it in the delete log
 * 3) Correct edits being reverted by admins
 * 4) Bibliography question
 * 5) getting the help for engineering
 * 6) Help with image tag
 * 7) Year Articles Format Problem
 * 8) Image filetype reformat
 * 9) OMG help me....
 * 10) WP:COI
 * 11) Photos of Mount Woods Antarctica
 * 12) Image
 * 13) admission
 * 14) A-class review
 * 15) Terrible use of general questions or subject criteria.... and use of computer technology...
 * 16) Types of blocks
 * 17) Becoming a Moderator
 * 18) Problem with using a Non-free use media on another page
 * 19) New Pages
 * 20) putting up an article
 * 21) Inappropriate deletion
 * 22) How to obtain real help.
 * 23) Need rollback
 * 24) need information

= January 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 9


 * 1) About images on Wikipedia
 * 2) No Article?
 * 3) Help with Book Titles
 * 4) Log-in
 * 5) Can I use an articel on ebay.
 * 6) unicru answer key
 * 7) Help:Comment tags
 * 8) Rename page
 * 9) Satyam Computer Services
 * 10) Who Posted this...
 * 11) Problem with deletion bots
 * 12) New to WIKI- how do I add internal reference and links?
 * 13) WAL-MART TOP MANAGEMENT
 * 14) non-display of italics in Opera for MacOS
 * 15) wiki markup problem
 * 16) Retail companies list
 * 17) Actually writing my article
 * 18) minor name in past history versions

= January 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 10


 * 1) ultra sound said i had thick womb lining witch is moving
 * 2) Created Articles
 * 3) Why Are Edits Not Showing Up On the Page?
 * 4) Someone deleted our link
 * 5) Citations
 * 6) Creations
 * 7) Logins Repeatedly Stop Working
 * 8) please, tell  me
 * 9) New Page
 * 10) Placing tags in wrong places
 * 11) Image Dilemma
 * 12) A strange stub template
 * 13) Signature
 * 14) Paraphrasing terms definitions from published books

= January 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 11


 * 1) Associating user id with talk page id in wiki dumps
 * 2) PAGESINCATEGORY question
 * 3) Edit no-show
 * 4) Delete
 * 5) assessing articles
 * 6) Google
 * 7) Children/people who inspire
 * 8) Time lag for updates to "What links here"
 * 9) Updates not appearing
 * 10) MOTD lag
 * 11) image weirdness
 * 12) Tweaking Special:LinkSearch

= January 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 12


 * 1) pictures
 * 2) WP:GA
 * 3) Signpost on my Watchlist?
 * 4) Company listing has disappeared
 * 5) Uploading images without being auto-confirmed
 * 6) How do I edit a Category title?
 * 7) Discussion pages and policies
 * 8) Notice
 * 9) random on mediawiki -- how/possible?
 * 10) Addition of climate information
 * 11) How to write an article in Wikipedia?
 * 12) Polish Question
 * 13) Edit Count
 * 14) Canada Election Map
 * 15) StatusBot
 * 16) Some problems caused by renamed image
 * 17) Use of references inside templates
 * 18) Username conflicts

= January 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 13


 * 1) Request for comment and appropiate topic area
 * 2) linking articles
 * 3) Uploading photo
 * 4) KenConklins Page on Hawaiian Epistomology and Native Hawaiian Education
 * 5) Check an edit, please
 * 6) Quality / Important Scales - How to edit?
 * 7) Duplicate article - what to do?
 * 8) Tabs and other whitespace
 * 9) Removing watermarks from images
 * 10) Dan Carey Lacrosse
 * 11) The Brand Union
 * 12) Placement of footnotes
 * 13) Watchlist
 * 14) Purple links
 * 15) Why
 * 16) Editing a page but not showing it
 * 17) peculiar character
 * 18) Engineering Economics
 * 19) Etiquette for article talk pages.
 * 20) Trying to upload a team logo
 * 21) Changing article titles?
 * 22) Changing image licenses

= January 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 14


 * 1) Forgot Log In information
 * 2) Adding an internet link
 * 3) Notability
 * 4) diff used to show "rollback vandal"
 * 5) Autocollapsing TOC
 * 6) How to Contact the Australian Survey Corps in relation to finding Maps done in 1970/71 Tour of South Vietnam
 * 7) How to publish an article so it is seen by the public?
 * 8) fund
 * 9) Reinstating a title
 * 10) Coats of arm
 * 11) Cannot upload image
 * 12) Moving "lead" thread on talk page below TOC
 * 13) Printable Version
 * 14) Half the content in the entry is not visible in the product
 * 15) Scrollable timeline
 * 16) How to create my own page?
 * 17) How can one revert a page move?

= January 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 15


 * 1) Accounts
 * 2) Signature help
 * 3) Video conversion question
 * 4) mistake on Larry Elder's profile
 * 5) "What links here" time lag
 * 6) Deleting my page
 * 7) Trying to amend the 'key people' listed on the Airlines PNG page
 * 8) Setting cell size in tables
 * 9) Sorting Numeric Fields
 * 10) "Orphaned" image?
 * 11) deleted posting
 * 12) Local holidays in Vijayawada
 * 13) Barnstar needed for AGF
 * 14) multicolumn format
 * 15) sortable tables
 * 16) Dealing with Vandalism
 * 17) Stacking Edits
 * 18) Hobartimus is some dictator .. or what?
 * 19) Citing a court case
 * 20) italy
 * 21) Template help

= January 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 16


 * 1) Fair Use or my licence?
 * 2) Confirming famous wiki editors
 * 3) sorry, but...
 * 4) Poor image source
 * 5) Long pages
 * 6) Article Title is wrong
 * 7) Adding a Photo
 * 8) Images Beside a Table
 * 9) Undo vs Revert
 * 10) What did I screw up?
 * 11) Starting a new Topic
 * 12) Could someone here explain any foreign Wikipedia GA process?
 * 13) Past Weather
 * 14) Wrong link
 * 15) Changing the page name/headline of an article
 * 16) Site-wide blanking

= January 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 17


 * 1) Confusion and A Question....
 * 2) Biographys
 * 3)
 * 4) Image in dire need of modification
 * 5) Made vector graphic out of raster - how to say it's from that raster?
 * 6) Greek surname: Chondroyannos
 * 7) Deleting New Topic that is Valid
 * 8) Translation
 * 9) Fair Use
 * 10) Missing references
 * 11) the promble of creating a new account
 * 12) Editing page for school I work for
 * 13) Deletion without entry in Revision History
 * 14) Instructions

= January 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 18


 * 1) User pages
 * 2) posting pictures or diagrams
 * 3) Vandalism tools
 * 4) Non-English Sources
 * 5) my biography
 * 6) Can't login to new account after username change.
 * 7) Page source characters inverted right-to-left
 * 8) Infobox image
 * 9) Feedback on editing
 * 10) alpha within cats
 * 11) I would like to vanish and would like my user page deleted
 * 12) copyright laws
 * 13) backlinks

= January 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 19


 * 1) Putting an article in the mainspace
 * 2) IRC is just like wikipedia: Jibberish to the casual eye
 * 3) AUTHOR OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DE TOLOSA ARTICLE
 * 4) Merging two (or three) articles
 * 5) soceity
 * 6) Having one user account across Wikipedia.
 * 7) Help me
 * 8) Can't log in
 * 9) U K Culture
 * 10) HELP
 * 11) Why did the Wiki for the RSS Reader FeedGhost get deleted?
 * 12) badminton
 * 13) does Wikipedia has any feature which enables internal discussion forum
 * 14) Redirects
 * 15) How to code a telnet link (telnet://1.1.1.1) on a wiki page
 * 16) BALLARAT RED DEVILS
 * 17) Table coding on Juliette Lewis
 * 18) 3RR Question
 * 19) Why not create a new part of Wikipedia where users could combine words to make new ones?
 * 20) Fireside Bowl
 * 21) Possibly redundant categories
 * 22) I need to know who the last one to edit a page was
 * 23) Undo of vandalism: one step instead of two, how?

= January 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 20


 * 1) help with Listusers
 * 2) Italicize shows and club nights?
 * 3) Searching the deletion logs
 * 4) how can I get the lyrics of songs using the wikipedia?
 * 5) [edit] buttons disappeared on Wikipedia talk:Help desk
 * 6) jetting a motorcycle
 * 7) Problem with coordinates
 * 8) About db-author
 * 9) Using quotations in reference templates
 * 10) Dutch Antilles Express (Airline)
 * 11) Where is Monobook?!
 * 12) Cruft on user page
 * 13) US Army Iraq
 * 14) please, i need help with creating a page.
 * 15) Issue uploading PNGs
 * 16) Article Vandalism
 * 17) tag tab

= January 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 21


 * 1) How do I change a snippet?
 * 2) About accounts
 * 3) Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
 * 4) Help on deleted article
 * 5) Which CSD applies to...
 * 6) How to get  KHATHA  for  a Registered site
 * 7) Some pages extremely slow if logged in, fast if not
 * 8) Photo Submission
 * 9) Inputbox search problem
 * 10) Columns
 * 11) general question
 * 12) CSS question
 * 13) Printout text is black only - how to print the "tags" in blue?
 * 14) Contents disappeared
 * 15) prankster information on Wikipedia listings for "hydrail" and "hydrolley"
 * 16) Pretty Taxonomic/Single-access Key
 * 17) Request to be Removed from Blacklist
 * 18) Magnetic Survey(Geology)
 * 19) The Quick Index is vandalized!
 * 20) How do I add an article?????????
 * 21) How replace IP Address with username in an edited article?
 * 22) Flagged Revisions
 * 23) Small But Meaningfull
 * 24) How do I change the picture for Joel McHale?

= January 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 22


 * 1) Dumb question from an experienced user
 * 2) How do i create a page?
 * 3) physics-GRAVITATION
 * 4) New heading
 * 5) Essay
 * 6) Copyright
 * 7) Stub search engine
 * 8) Fact keeps being changed to fiction.  Now unable to edit page.  What's up?
 * 9) questions form a new user!
 * 10) Changing a page title
 * 11) Dawn and sunset times in Cuba
 * 12) nigeria news
 * 13) In the news user box
 * 14) Plants and flowers question
 * 15) Watch Talk Pages
 * 16) Renamed accounts' contribs
 * 17) Messages
 * 18) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Group
 * 19) Is this site reliable?
 * 20) Searching deletion debates?
 * 21) Job queue
 * 22) Unable to Edit Taylor Swift
 * 23) Watching Contributions
 * 24) Created pages
 * 25) Los Angeles County California Schools
 * 26) Wikipedia font is very difficult to read
 * 27) Important question
 * 28) How can I suggest a new article- I'm not very good at writing myself
 * 29) Category merge
 * 30) stubs
 * 31) Watchlist too big
 * 32) purging?
 * 33) Nav box
 * 34) Watch list Question

= January 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 23


 * 1) Article Help
 * 2) link to my image in Wikimedia
 * 3) can I take sibutramine with cinarizine
 * 4) Contributing to Wiktionary
 * 5) Adding a person to a dismbiguation page
 * 6) Finding a reference
 * 7) Location of Pancake Restaurant in Music Within
 * 8) stub
 * 9) Uploading images from en-wiki to the Simple English
 * 10) When I click an internal link to a new wikipedia page, I want it to open in a new tab; not change the page I'm currently looking at...
 * 11) Topicon-notice issues
 * 12) i cant start a new account
 * 13) Embedd Visio
 * 14) add my company profile to wikipedia
 * 15) Questionable picture
 * 16) Women Graphic Designers: A Suggested list
 * 17) Adding last name to entry of film director Nahid Persson (now Nahid Persson Sarvestani)
 * 18) How to fix a crazy redirect
 * 19) Twinkle gone in Safari
 * 20) How to move Vegeta to Vegeta (Dragon Ball)?
 * 21) Legal threat over article language
 * 22) Wikipedia Blackberry Phonetop Icon:  How to use, find, locate, suggest, etc . ..
 * 23) Creating an article
 * 24) Recent changes special page
 * 25) Wassup wit dat?

= January 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 24


 * 1) References
 * 2) Refer to ships as it or she?
 * 3) Convert template not closing
 * 4) How do you search for keywords located in articles?
 * 5) get a substring in a template
 * 6) Hello
 * 7) Red link appears even though there is definately a page.
 * 8) Elements song
 * 9) Question about adding a new article regarding notability and referencing
 * 10) How to display Ming typeface cross-platform
 * 11) Adding an External LInk
 * 12) Template help
 * 13) Pages created
 * 14) Rename of articles
 * 15) Disambiguation
 * 16) Default English IPA
 * 17) Fair Use of Commercial DVD Screen Captures
 * 18) Reference or template problem on The Bahamas
 * 19) Rolf Steiner
 * 20) ecce homo
 * 21) Vandalism on Eclipse (novel)
 * 22) Strange virus alert trigger when viewing an article
 * 23) meta description tags
 * 24) How do I post a video?

= January 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 25


 * 1) adventure game
 * 2) Date relative linking
 * 3) How do I rename a page and redirect a page.
 * 4) Why can't I find a page in AllPages?
 * 5) (Invalid) new messages alerts?
 * 6) Solved: Correct use of double curly brackets/ aka braces : templates (and variable delimiters)
 * 7) Searching
 * 8) Far East people name order policy
 * 9) Just diffs, not current version
 * 10) Mariana Bridi
 * 11) Request for Netural Party
 * 12) Names
 * 13) Details of WP:OR
 * 14) style question
 * 15) Wikipedia page on  "Samar Chatterjee"
 * 16) EDITING ("Fascism/Etymology of the word "fasces"") & TALK PAGES

= January 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 26


 * 1) Same template
 * 2) Style Guidelines?
 * 3) Image linked to page?
 * 4) User subpage name showing on Category page
 * 5) Are financial donations the only way to express gratitude for articles?
 * 6) Airport code history
 * 7) Clean up references
 * 8) edit war
 * 9) adding a new language
 * 10) resolving disputes
 * 11) IP address impersonation
 * 12) Newpages offset
 * 13) Location map in infobox
 * 14) M-Tech(Master of Technology) Construction Managment
 * 15) Starting over again
 * 16) Arrangement of images beneath headings
 * 17)
 * 18) Non-free use rationale Questions
 * 19) Creating a page name for an event with advertising in its name
 * 20) Policy Page
 * 21) Creating a new article with a title which already exsists
 * 22) Can you center a caption?
 * 23) Redistrubuting information from Wikipedia?
 * 24) Height

= January 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 27


 * 1) Adding medal box to athletic profile
 * 2) Wikitionary Quick Links
 * 3) I create a page and save it but when I come back it is not there?
 * 4) adding stub template
 * 5) How to delete my account?
 * 6) can i create an article?
 * 7) Vandalism or update?
 * 8) My user page display problem
 * 9) ParserFunctions on a mythical date
 * 10) Incorrect photo?
 * 11) Changing "Edit Summary"
 * 12) Aim for the Heart
 * 13) Personal Attack - Copy Profile Definition
 * 14) Factual Error  in "1967 Atlantic Hurricane Season" page
 * 15) Duplicate account
 * 16) AFD log
 * 17) How to create Topic Summary Table at the top
 * 18) How do you get started?
 * 19) How do i remove a picture that I uploaded onto wiki?
 * 20) AUDIO

= January 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 28


 * 1) Help with disambiguation "Anne Harris"
 * 2) knowing how to present papers (Scientific research) in international journals of my research work?
 * 3) Template:Catholicism
 * 4) Template:NCAATeamSeason image size
 * 5) ZEEGRA TECHNOLOGIES information found deleted . Why?
 * 6) Explain the relationship between business and information systems
 * 7) Cornerstone
 * 8) Coordinate error in Google Earth
 * 9) Disambiguation 2
 * 10) Who checks the presidential candidates for verification?
 * 11) How do I add new pages?
 * 12) Birth dates
 * 13) New user creating another new user account?
 * 14) #expr
 * 15) question on categorising
 * 16) Twinkle
 * 17) problem on webpage
 * 18) drugs for hypomania
 * 19) How do I insert our Link
 * 20) Move article from user page to live Wikipedia
 * 21) picture placement
 * 22) Images
 * 23) why have you removed my edit?!
 * 24) I would like to rename an article I just started
 * 25) baby massage to aid bonding
 * 26) Duplicate or Similar Article
 * 27) Changing Existing Titles of Articles
 * 28) Ref tag error

= January 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 29


 * 1) print to pdf
 * 2) why is there nigger article
 * 3) general notability guideline
 * 4) Font Size
 * 5) new account
 * 6) Reference name / citing reference twice
 * 7) Persecution of IPs
 * 8) How to make an article more notable?
 * 9) Identity on contributions
 * 10) Seeing my deleted edits
 * 11) Category:American electric guitarists
 * 12) It is not possible to rename the page
 * 13) New categories
 * 14) How do I change the coordinates of a location?
 * 15) Barack Obama Editing
 * 16) Multiple watch lists
 * 17) alumni lists
 * 18) Link for "jump to top of page"
 * 19) Images in list articles
 * 20) Guidance required.
 * 21) I know that this isnt exactly the place to talk about this but I think it is ergent
 * 22) Question about what it takes to get banned
 * 23) Where do I appeal a deletion if an administrator is abusing his positotion?
 * 24) Complementary contributions

= January 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 30


 * 1) Putting an article on Wikipedia
 * 2) Where do I enter text?
 * 3) Portal talk:Formula One
 * 4) Can't seem to add image, odd things happen
 * 5) email
 * 6) Correcting error in a Help page copied from Meta
 * 7) An idea about Computer Game Articles.
 * 8) Publishing a submitted article to the World Wide Web
 * 9) Infobox shopping mall
 * 10) Moulsford - Award Winning Restuarant Link - Spammer
 * 11) Expanding existing article
 * 12) Translating for wikipedia
 * 13) Debt Schemes
 * 14) Gender
 * 15) unknown file type
 * 16) New edited information not appearing on article page.
 * 17) Subnetting and IP Address Classes
 * 18) Copyright??
 * 19) data warehousing
 * 20) publishing an article
 * 21) Tables
 * 22) creating a page
 * 23) I know this is the wrong place.
 * 24) Adding a timestamp
 * 25) History of searches
 * 26) Changing Case on Article Title

= January 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 31


 * 1) Can you search for...
 * 2) Userbox selection
 * 3) Picture problems
 * 4) Making a good passage with EFS for English study station
 * 5) Code for Infobox Ship
 * 6) ann coulter
 * 7) Composing articles in the correct font.
 * 8) Sentence placement
 * 9) Flabby categorization
 * 10) functions
 * 11) PAGE RELATING TO AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
 * 12) Display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header
 * 13) No of transclusions
 * 14) sterile reverts
 * 15) Link not showing
 * 16) Is there an inter-disciplinarian list of titles, and if so, then also hypothetical  combinations of such?
 * 17) Barack Obama page 1 million views?
 * 18) freezing food
 * 19) cant get past first 20 listed of a search.
 * 20) Can't remove spam on a page
 * 21) Can't login, lost password, no email received
 * 22) help on my article.
 * 23) Section not in TOC
 * 24) terencce macswiney
 * 25) most goals scored by a player in a single fa cup match.
 * 26) how to use wikipedia on a cell phone