Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/July 2011

= July 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 1


 * 1) Linking to other wikis
 * 2) HELP
 * 3) Assuring me that if ever I accomplish anything, Wiki will not post a page about me ever? Is that possible?
 * 4) Please help I'm new to wiki editing
 * 5) Why doesn't my photo show up in my gallery?
 * 6) Request History Merge USS Kansas City (CA-128) and Kansas City (CA-128)
 * 7) unbale to move/publish

= July 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 2


 * 1) Help adding a new version of an image
 * 2) mis-categorized page
 * 3) Is there a way to left justify an Infobox?
 * 4) Being Threatened Or Harrassed.
 * 5) Thecla Gumbo
 * 6) MIT GAR
 * 7) Who is able to see my watchlist?
 * 8) Reference styling
 * 9) Heart icon
 * 10) Ocean Rowing
 * 11) very long citation style

= July 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 3


 * 1) Category:Bruce Springsteen songs
 * 2) Talk page
 * 3) Checking Article Traffic
 * 4) Light Emitting Diodes
 * 5) Why can't we see if an article is nominated for good article?
 * 6) JavaScript issue in Google Chrome
 * 7) Downloadable sources
 * 8) Abnormal adding of « user’s guides » portions inside an article
 * 9) Interlanguage links
 * 10) Fort Hood Killer
 * 11) Edits not posting
 * 12) Change my user name
 * 13) Is it possible to edit protected pages and not become an administrator?
 * 14) No response to my Talk with WBOSITG or Garden Editor
 * 15) Changing name of article
 * 16) The Hot Dog Program
 * 17) Changing how the Watchlist works
 * 18) Please fix ref tag

= July 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 4


 * 1) Where in the MOS
 * 2) Help in Lebak, Sultan Kudarat
 * 3) Can I post feedback on a company to wikipedia
 * 4) Viability of a re-direct
 * 5) changing wiki content on facebook searches: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ferial-Haffajee/133052846729789?sk=info
 * 6) I am in the USA and want to edit an entry on the Wikipedia Japanese site
 * 7) IHU,new party
 * 8) I can't log in
 * 9) cyberrevolution
 * 10) Quoting Wikipedia Articles
 * 11) Image Links
 * 12) Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah
 * 13) user sandbox link name on user page munged
 * 14) any branch in Doha Qatar,or any mosque where Ijtima is held?
 * 15) edit foot notes
 * 16) CONTENT WEB PAGE
 * 17) Number of States in the United States of America

= July 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 5


 * 1) More problems with new page
 * 2) How to search for any articles with a section named "X"
 * 3) Phony password change
 * 4) Democratic Politics
 * 5) Need to Change Company Name
 * 6) Cannot find my page or any history of its deletion
 * 7) Worst Vandal
 * 8) Userboxes
 * 9) Template Usage
 * 10) Identical duplicate pages

= July 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 6


 * 1) Our Stories Films information
 * 2) Books Go Poof - Is There Light At THe End Of This Tunnel Or Is That Let Another Train?
 * 3) edit conflict
 * 4) Maggots are also known commonly as gentiles
 * 5) Can I post a completed article to get feedback here? Just want to make sure that the article is Wiki correct and that it does not get deleted?
 * 6) Transwiki a template
 * 7) An update I did is visible only to me
 * 8) Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC
 * 9) 'Quarter-Final' vs 'Quarterfinal'
 * 10) Wikipedia:New_contributors%27_help_page
 * 11) middletons black and mild
 * 12) Why do so many Wikipedia place pages read like a travel brochure or real esate broker's article
 * 13) Notification of subject
 * 14) RMS AMP
 * 15) Article idea - South African artist named Portchie
 * 16) just a help i can do
 * 17) ELECTRIC POWER
 * 18) Uncyclopedia
 * 19) New category - African American Women
 * 20) Have tried to nominate the page but just won't delete
 * 21) new article developing a subject already covered in part by an existing article
 * 22) Watchlist the contents of a category
 * 23) Clueless question about the article table I am using as a model
 * 24) copyright infringement
 * 25) Easy way to tell when a user was last active
 * 26) Challenge of uncited allegation in CenterPoint Energy article
 * 27) Deleted Picture
 * 28) Racist and Harassment of Iberian in Wikipedia

= July 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 7


 * 1) Override template default
 * 2) pic
 * 3) Bundling citations: Can same ref be bundled in one place and stand alone in another?
 * 4) Archiving
 * 5) need help
 * 6) Time Stamp
 * 7) retriving a page that was seen earlier
 * 8) Circumventor IP
 * 9) Image update problems
 * 10) ELECTRIC POWER 2
 * 11) bits
 * 12) hwy 385 correction
 * 13) Jamie Floyd
 * 14) Assistance to disambiguate
 * 15) How do you edit a title of a page?

= July 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 8


 * 1) Injure in spinal card/lower butt
 * 2) bus nos
 * 3) a template won't allow an image to site beside it
 * 4) What is the meaning of these colors
 * 5) Article display problem
 * 6) applications for nokiac7-00 symbian^3 mobiles
 * 7) References aren't showing up
 * 8) I made changes to an article which are not registering except when I log in myself
 * 9) fools gold jewelry
 * 10) Reference Help
 * 11) Links deleted
 * 12) Splitting and renaming an article
 * 13) how do I close an unsigned entry?
 * 14) WLTN-FM and WLTN-AM Traded In IRN USA Radio Network For CBS Radio Network News
 * 15) Cheney Mason
 * 16) help uploading larger size images, but that have changed file extension
 * 17) page for historic company with a lot of references on wiki
 * 18) Photo
 * 19) Out of date tag
 * 20) Requesting Input on Policy Proposal
 * 21) Reference Desk Trolling
 * 22) Extension

= July 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 9


 * 1) Template help
 * 2) Number_1_Ladies_Detective_Agency
 * 3) Fix Reference
 * 4) WP:SALT
 * 5) Looking for help
 * 6) Help on what is a reliable source
 * 7) Deleted articles
 * 8) Downloading wikitext
 * 9) Is there an equivalent of BLP1E for articles about dead people?
 * 10) Editing raw watch list
 * 11) Sean Burch article
 * 12) X5 Winner
 * 13) Disambiguation page please
 * 14) adding attribution
 * 15) username
 * 16) CLOSED CAPTIONED UNDER SPENCER FAMILY AS HENRY FONDA AND JAMES MACARTHUR
 * 17) Searchable table number order
 * 18) File:William Hearn umpire.jpg
 * 19) Photo confusion

= July 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 10


 * 1) The edit feature is missing off the page I am looking at for the NJ mob
 * 2) Need help with adding reliable sources for Living Biography Entry (Joe Cabot)
 * 3) does wikipedia reference desk draw its knowledge only from wikipedia
 * 4) Please don't delete the following categories
 * 5) Is there a way to view someone's speedy deletion tags for articles that were deleted?
 * 6) Infobox error
 * 7) Template parameters
 * 8) vandalism
 * 9) Inappropriate and misleading picture on your WWII article in Facebook with promoting Hitler instead of telling the truth on the outcome of this war and of crimes against humanity by the person you are promoting on Facebook with Hitler picture.
 * 10) TeX font size
 * 11) Requests for Articles
 * 12) edit conflict
 * 13) I can't log in to the Chinese version of Wikipedia
 * 14) please provide us wikipedia in hindi...........
 * 15) Can't login
 * 16) I want to run this by you all of you
 * 17) Accessibility for colour blind people
 * 18) I would like to merge my old userpage with my new userpage
 * 19) removal of date of birth from profile

= July 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 11


 * 1) Reference error
 * 2) Account recovery - old/dead account
 * 3) place
 * 4) My images are not right aligned
 * 5) How to cite a web source that has new information since previously visited?
 * 6) Infobox high court
 * 7) Italic Text and Bold Text vandalism cleanup.
 * 8) Search Box will not take focus nor can type into the box
 * 9) Requested move of page.  Not showing up on queue.
 * 10) Multiple coordinates for geographic list articles
 * 11) Image Description Contains Mistakes
 * 12) Wrong information featured on Corporation Wiki.
 * 13) Yu Yu Hakusho episode list/Seasons
 * 14) Paul Pratt Biography Page
 * 15) m
 * 16) Can someone check I've started an AfD properly?

= July 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 12


 * 1) pay
 * 2) Adding my name
 * 3) Surname listing
 * 4) Column titles on comparison pages
 * 5) Problem with a template (or something)
 * 6) Template:Miss Universe Organization titleholders
 * 7) Wikipedia Experiment FAIL
 * 8) Elizabeth Street, Sydney
 * 9) Is the Pothole article violating NOTHOW?
 * 10) Correct place for for language icon template inside a reference using a citation template
 * 11) Wrong redirect
 * 12) Please do not delete my page
 * 13) Why Does the page revert to the old one after edits?
 * 14) What was changed in this edit?

= July 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 13


 * 1) Removed and replaced article for this day in history. July 12th
 * 2) Gadget Request: Quick Diff Viewer
 * 3) John_Mahoney
 * 4) how do you use images
 * 5) Paying a bill
 * 6) Can i update some software information for ESC(Electronics System Cooling), Its not there in this website?
 * 7) Reliable source?
 * 8) flagellar undular movement
 * 9) sorting error
 * 10) coord missing
 * 11) Show Page
 * 12) The article entitled "Music"
 * 13) What do you do with snippet sources?
 * 14) Moving an article from my sandbox
 * 15) Articles number excluding lists and outlines
 * 16) A strange, seemingly pointless page

= July 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 14


 * 1) usertalkpage
 * 2) I have contributed to "The Milpitas Monster" reference just to have it all deleted.
 * 3) Changes not showing
 * 4) Converting AfD to speedy delete
 * 5) Breaking story hatnote
 * 6) No Clue???
 * 7) Two identical articles, how to merge or remove one?
 * 8) CASEY ANTHONY
 * 9) Find refs with missing accessdate fields?
 * 10) Source Disappears
 * 11) Edit summary
 * 12) currious
 * 13) Accessing direct wiki code for official templates
 * 14) News citations, agency article: where?
 * 15) Mattress Giant
 * 16) My edits are persecuted
 * 17) How to add factual information to an existing Topic?
 * 18) New wiki for my company
 * 19) 2 things to dicuss
 * 20) template
 * 21) sandbox

= July 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 15


 * 1) Reviewer JRCLA2 is rogue. He should be restricted.
 * 2) I would like to "like" comments :-)
 * 3) someone was rude to me and deleted my questions from the reference desk even thought they were of a highly intelligent and intresting nature
 * 4) Looking for broken wikilinks that no longer anchor to a section header
 * 5) finding sources
 * 6) My own article got deleted
 * 7) external links - isn't it possible to have links to internet forums and commercial websites?
 * 8) How do I include information and data from a report that is only available for purchase and isn't in Library of Congress etc?
 * 9) Forgot to sign in can I remove my IP address to my user account?
 * 10) wikipedia and facebook
 * 11) using your images
 * 12) A user is spamming a suspicious link
 * 13) Does GFDL apply to lists?
 * 14) For the first time I justmmade an edit to a page.  I see it listed as a contribution
 * 15) Template for dated article sections
 * 16) username
 * 17) wikicup
 * 18) Depleted Uranium talk page being used to advocate positions not accepted for the article.

= July 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 16


 * 1) WikiGolf
 * 2) Deleted page not showing in deletion log
 * 3) Delete a site but on a page that copies from wikipedia
 * 4) Difficulty editing Wikipedia articles
 * 5) Image query
 * 6) Watchlist notice while using secure server
 * 7) Denice Lewis
 * 8) Rate this page feature
 * 9) Tabloid sources template/ Improve sources?
 * 10) Disambiguation page
 * 11) george wahington crosssing the Delaware

= July 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 17


 * 1) How specifically - step by step - do I literally enter a citation to support a citation request in an article.
 * 2) Thomas F. Wilson, just an FYI
 * 3) Can't find our article that we posted in draft form and want to edit
 * 4) Way to create an article
 * 5) A template and date formats
 * 6) Orange Mike
 * 7) Controlled schizophrenia is Kundalini Yoga
 * 8) Overlapping
 * 9) Article for deletion
 * 10) Multiple editors working in common sandbox
 * 11) Move from Commons
 * 12) Blocking User:Jimbo Wales
 * 13) Arcola MS
 * 14) Rowspan in Filmography
 * 15) Edward Scissorhands (dance) San Francisco Chronicle references appearing as bare URLs
 * 16) inks to printer ?
 * 17) Please repair Altoona, PA page for me!
 * 18) Range block request
 * 19) Wikipedia layout
 * 20) Malicious program in my computer
 * 21) General John A.Logan and the BATTLE OF ATLANTA cyclorama
 * 22) Saint Anne
 * 23) Dab page and redirect

= July 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 18


 * 1) why hasnt any medication / therapy helped for my ptsd?
 * 2) How to add our event on Wikimedia?
 * 3) Colorpuncture page edit- alternative view point not given space
 * 4) Wikitable sortable
 * 5) Could somebody please check this diff?
 * 6) to understand abt new website abt saam learning---
 * 7) Time is off 1 hour
 * 8) Spoiler Option for Wikipedia
 * 9) Confused about new articles/articles for creation/talk article etc.
 * 10) "You Can Ask for It To Be Created" info
 * 11) changing language
 * 12) language
 * 13) County categories on highway pages
 * 14) First True Native Americans.........

= July 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 19


 * 1) isp question
 * 2) Account wizard
 * 3) Don Bevan
 * 4) HI
 * 5) hi2
 * 6) English translation for Mexican song - Cielito Lindo
 * 7) Stalis Crete photo not good representation of stalis
 * 8) Question adding mods to softwares
 * 9) Adding a Sl. No: column
 * 10) Hindu
 * 11) Editing Title
 * 12) Question on info boxes
 * 13) printing Wiki mathematical articles (eg Laplace Transform) so that full math notation is reproduced faithfully
 * 14) How to see if your rough draft page has been review
 * 15) Email Alerts
 * 16) Where to go?
 * 17) Blocked
 * 18) Advice on edits for Menthol Cigarette
 * 19) Checkuser question
 * 20) Citation Requirements
 * 21) privacy issue - deleting history
 * 22) delete

= July 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 20


 * 1) Use magazine's old name?
 * 2) Changing a wiki entry
 * 3) prescient
 * 4) Ricci tensor
 * 5) Facebook integration
 * 6) nanded airport
 * 7) Orchestra JB
 * 8) Blocked from editing own talk page
 * 9) Article Vandalism- Marash / Kahramanmaraş
 * 10) Possible inaccuracy in article
 * 11) Bullet - Incorrect Rendering to PDF and PediaPress
 * 12) A question
 * 13) M2 Browning - Incorrect Rendering to PDF and PediaPress
 * 14) Pre-upload before posting?
 * 15) Disable Moblie Wikipedia
 * 16) Wendi Deng - Birthdate of last child??  It says 2005 for Chloe, but in Ruperts wiki page it says 17 July 2003  ???... I think Ruperts wiki page is correct (i.e., it should be 2003)
 * 17) quraan surah
 * 18) Warning message at top of post

= July 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 21


 * 1) Need help with misc questions
 * 2) Hoax on Bejeweled Twist
 * 3) MystBot keeps removing zh: link from new article
 * 4) Confusing wikitext
 * 5) Problem with the reference tags
 * 6) Question again: Notability
 * 7) Google's crawling of secure.wikimedia.org.
 * 8) Template_talk:Infobox_television#creator
 * 9) Feedback on a template
 * 10) Speedy Watchlist
 * 11) Using interactive Flash animations to illustrate articles
 * 12) Picture he
 * 13) WHERE IS "invisible hand" mentioned?
 * 14) Gio-Goi pronounciation
 * 15) Suppression of the External Link icon?
 * 16) Email
 * 17) Albert Pyun Article - Please Cease and Desist
 * 18) Tense of "to star" in film articles
 * 19) PDF for Book Creator always blank
 * 20) List of Nitrome Limited games
 * 21) Creating Alternate Pages for Major Cities
 * 22) AfD deletion process step 3  not working for me

= July 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 22


 * 1) FEED
 * 2) Lowercase title
 * 3) Can't make a redirect
 * 4) HELP ~ Having trouble getting started?????
 * 5) adding relevant links that appear to the computer as spam
 * 6) Created Books In Wikipedia Missing
 * 7) Can you
 * 8) Struggling with page layout after adding a photo
 * 9) Is it OK to delete old article and write new topic with the same title?
 * 10) Personal narratives
 * 11) New article on Will Packwood
 * 12) Fictitious Articles
 * 13) Missing post on Talk page
 * 14) Page is looking for an expert
 * 15) Copyright question about File:Eden Pastora 02.jpg
 * 16) Is a wikipedia username the same thing as a wikipedia article title
 * 17) Infobox interfering with image placement
 * 18) Anchors for section headings
 * 19) Missing rating system
 * 20) Journal of Cosmology WIKI--biased, libelous, slanderous,
 * 21) A question on "Debye–Hückel equation"
 * 22) notability

= July 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 23


 * 1) Aldo (musician)
 * 2) how to find new articles
 * 3) New Article inquiry
 * 4) Articles on chemicals inclusion of space-filling or ball and stick models
 * 5) New University of London Logo
 * 6) Kindle editions
 * 7) Adddition to Janet Reno entry
 * 8) 91/0/0 norsk op
 * 9) article paragraphing
 * 10) University of London Logo
 * 11) What to do here?
 * 12) Why is there a re-direct from Guillaume de Melun to William the Carpenter?
 * 13) Law of Attraction
 * 14) Can't login

= July 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 24


 * 1) List of reptiles of Minnesota table sorting
 * 2) I want to start a section of pages on Crosman Air Guns and Airsoft Guns and I was wondering if there is a template for that and am also wondering how I would create a page.
 * 3) Articles are not appearing at Special:NewPages
 * 4) The time of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash as reported in the biographie of Billy Powell.
 * 5) William Jennings Bryan
 * 6) Image not visible in infobox
 * 7) template for remember mediation
 * 8) Noah Wylie
 * 9) Adding external links to multiple pages (not spamming)
 * 10) Is there a special page to store private notes ?
 * 11) C-grade movies
 * 12) Photographer credit in photo caption

= July 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 25


 * 1) Mobile Wikipedia
 * 2) Welcoming Template
 * 3) Navbox with collapsible groups liststyle not working
 * 4) How do I submit a new article
 * 5) Ritu Beri
 * 6) Format of links to items on other Wikimedia Project sites
 * 7) Question
 * 8) Pesquisa Sobre a família Nolêto em Pontremolli
 * 9) Adding copyrights/source information to a logo or image
 * 10) Exhaust gas emission
 * 11) Article
 * 12) Need a review for my article
 * 13) Infoboxes, what is going on?
 * 14) Image Dump from Suisun Bay, west coast US Mothball Fleet, USS Iowa, pics taken yesterday
 * 15) Policy re dropped criminal charges in BLPs
 * 16) K&E drafting machine
 * 17) Broken page layout
 * 18) Editing issues

= July 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 26


 * 1) Help with JavaScript
 * 2) caverns in arkansas
 * 3) content
 * 4) National Bank of Georgia
 * 5) we need help
 * 6) waukegan, illinois
 * 7) Usurpation of an account with 35 edits
 * 8) Where do I ask if I just want some neutral people to add a page to their watchlist?
 * 9) Help with fixing Non-free media use rationale for a non-free file
 * 10) How do I work out what the problem is re Capitalization?
 * 11) Can't get wikipedia to email me when a page on my watchlist is edited - except for my own talk page
 * 12) So is there a place to discuss reform of wikipedia editors and resolving revision tyranny's by editors?
 * 13) External link question
 * 14) University of London Logo
 * 15) Template with exact edit count
 * 16) My first article "Penrose Prozess" was deleted within 2 minutes of it being online, help me get it back please
 * 17) Jonathan Tonge wikipedia entry
 * 18) HINDI TYPING PROBLEM IN WIKIPEDIA
 * 19) Forbidden 403
 * 20) Hiding the IP address
 * 21) Cardinal Mooney High School Principal
 * 22) How actively is that page monitored?
 * 23) private help availability
 * 24) About pages that do not give a neutral point of view

= July 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 27


 * 1) ban
 * 2) Black page indicator link font color
 * 3) Font size
 * 4) Problems using
 * 5) Valasca
 * 6) Fatal Wikimedia bug has returned, crashing older browsers (Netscape 7-9, etc.) in new skin
 * 7) Wikipedia Appearance Settings - Darker Theme?
 * 8) Going live
 * 9) symptoms of amoeboisis
 * 10) Thomas Quick: What has happened to the interwiki links?
 * 11) Error in URL and title
 * 12) Formatting wiping out categories and navboxes at Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
 * 13) Controversy
 * 14) Unwieldy template
 * 15) oldest unsourced articles?
 * 16) Steve Lieberman
 * 17) replacing picture on my page
 * 18) Watching all the subpages of a topic
 * 19) Need help with the article

= July 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 28


 * 1) Hillary Clinton Navboxes
 * 2) sorting of US state
 * 3) insurance
 * 4) Template interwiki links appearing in portals
 * 5) block
 * 6) Sharing
 * 7) Changing the image on a page of Wikipedia
 * 8) Great Yarmouth Town FC
 * 9) Editing sockpuppet archive
 * 10) Please help
 * 11) Help regarding Talk:Occidental_Petroleum#History_and_Environmental_record_sections
 * 12) Pourpourakis
 * 13) Memorials
 * 14) Template fix needed
 * 15) Front Cover of Vintage Book
 * 16) Image upload
 * 17) Renaming a page
 * 18) Need imput on Talk:Obadiah Parker
 * 19) Suppressing t:respell

= July 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 29


 * 1) Information Needed on How My Corrections Have Been Deleted
 * 2) Need to have a comment I made redacted due to the threat of legal action
 * 3) Shuttle Columbia Disaster
 * 4) Express card slot.
 * 5) Part 2 of my question (here's a link to part 1)
 * 6) The page I edit comes blank !?
 * 7) iPhone
 * 8) tool to analyse breakdown of edits, etc
 * 9) Category:Non-English_welcome_messages for zh users
 * 10) References
 * 11) Debbie Johnson of Ham Lake MN
 * 12) How do I create an article?
 * 13) Anti-vandalism program
 * 14) Parent company
 * 15) Category: Dangerous Professions
 * 16) TIME- The Weekly News-Magazine Vol. 1 N0. 1 March 3,1923
 * 17) Vauxhall Page
 * 18) how to put reference

= July 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 30


 * 1) Commons PD graphic is backwards
 * 2) Edwardsport Indiana
 * 3) How do I edit a page when there is no edit tab?
 * 4) Aligning tmboxes
 * 5) Whatever happened to the Mazda B-Series (North America) thread
 * 6) Surrey Police article not appearing
 * 7) Can you protect the bio for "Behnaz Sarafpour"
 * 8) about ias academy
 * 9) IP account blocked
 * 10) coley mccbe
 * 11) Problems with the article feedback tool
 * 12) Table messes up all sections below it
 * 13) PLEASE DELETE WIKEPEDIA ARTICLE ON ME
 * 14) NEW FONT IS NOT GOOD

= July 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 31


 * 1) how can I edit the stacked blue boxes of related articles at the bottom of French Revolution ?
 * 2) Table help
 * 3) part 2 (please read part 1)
 * 4) wikioffense
 * 5) Regatta Day
 * 6) Naming a reference
 * 7) Trouble uploading photo to Commons
 * 8) Danni Xtravaganza
 * 9) International Organization membership template
 * 10) Where to ask copyright question about image uploads