Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2011

= May 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 1


 * 1) Falsfification of sources-what are the proper ways/procedures to deal with such thing?
 * 2) Mispelled Page Title / Request  Move --- Confusion
 * 3) SUCESSION TO BRITISH THRONE.
 * 4) mismatch between displayed page and text to be edited; canceling redirects elsewhere
 * 5) Table bordering
 * 6) Link a Picture
 * 7) Adobe digital editions
 * 8) Redirect to foreign language Wikipedia?
 * 9) Discription of the term 'DIRTY SANCHEZ' In Wikipedia.
 * 10) Updating the "Ongoing events" section of the Current Events portal
 * 11) Mast Year article
 * 12) Question in Georgian
 * 13) Invisible table
 * 14) TWU infobox messed up?
 * 15) Well referenced stub that is unlikely to be expanded
 * 16) Education System In Malaysia

= May 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 2


 * 1) Measurement conversion
 * 2) Adding a new page?
 * 3) The Shoes (French group): disambiguation
 * 4) Editing a semiprotected page
 * 5) Adding to Polonium
 * 6) Est.Profit / Loss Projections for Business plan
 * 7) metadata
 * 8) How to handle inherently notable one line stubs?
 * 9) jobs
 * 10) Article consolidation: Nominating a move and a merge in the same time
 * 11) extreme home make over
 * 12) Asseting regional identity
 * 13) Ralph Machio (actor USA)
 * 14) Editing a list
 * 15) trouble geting my book edits to "stick"

= May 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 3


 * 1) Can we use Wikipedia text for analysis?
 * 2) External Links
 * 3) Even I attached the reference links to the content, why was that still altered or deleted by others?
 * 4) Sonia Landy Sheridan
 * 5) Uploading Image
 * 6) Ransomes & Rapier publications
 * 7) how i add my grand parents
 * 8) Can't edit/correct a misspelled title in a reference.
 * 9) Looking for a certain timeline template...
 * 10) Help correctly formatting italic title (with brackets)
 * 11) Please help with design
 * 12) Edit--What happened to the "Cite" menu?
 * 13) Deletion sorting
 * 14) World Court of Human rights (page or disambiguation or nothing?)
 * 15) Automatic wikilinking to an articles AfD discussion

= May 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 4


 * 1) Vietnamese Dong
 * 2) Semi-lock
 * 3) RFK letter
 * 4) Questions on Economics
 * 5) Overlinking - tool?
 * 6) Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
 * 7) who do I contact to get my aged iMacwith an older operating system, OS 5.4.11recognize and use Internet Exployer,5.2.2
 * 8) How to create red link?
 * 9) notability guideline for music.
 * 10) The movie "Dr. Dolittle" with Rex Harrison  - the movie was shot in 1967
 * 11) Info Box
 * 12) Terribly Sorry
 * 13) Is My Page Ready?
 * 14) Blue Link With No Page
 * 15) Trademarks
 * 16) Past predictions of the future
 * 17) Biography

= May 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 5


 * 1) Using defined reference with Citation Template
 * 2) Policy
 * 3) How to see  mathematics formulas written in Tex form?
 * 4) Cure for Excema
 * 5) Problem with Cologne Blue skin?
 * 6) Family of surname of royal/imperial origins
 * 7) Cleanup template for sections in mathematics articles
 * 8) How can I create an official page?
 * 9) "Diff" changes on Commons
 * 10) tamil font
 * 11) red text has disappeared from differences.
 * 12) Technical questions
 * 13) External link problem
 * 14) Braceville, Illinois
 * 15) Jitendra Joshi
 * 16) How can I have a wiki site?
 * 17) Editing template
 * 18) How to add a reference/disambiguation for a different page

= May 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 6


 * 1) Is this page still used?
 * 2) A few things I need to discuss
 * 3) Message on My talk page
 * 4) anikkattilammakshethram
 * 5) Template unreferenced section
 * 6) old garden planters
 * 7) Suicide methods
 * 8) Fair Use for historical photos
 * 9) The Seventh Coin
 * 10) Could an admin pop by?
 * 11) Could an admin pop by? (2)
 * 12) Discussion Page Guidelines
 * 13) What do I have to do to be a writer here?
 * 14) Image help
 * 15) playing my windows mediaplayer
 * 16) Attraction Info Box
 * 17) Holly_Marie_Combs
 * 18) Wikkipida looks differnt to me

= May 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 7


 * 1) simple wikipedia
 * 2) British or American English?
 * 3) Editing bar
 * 4) Actor disambiguation
 * 5) [Missing title]
 * 6) RE:  Adding a photo to an article
 * 7) postscript conversion
 * 8) John_Hemming_%28politician%29
 * 9) Creating articles for local National Weather Services that currently do not have there own yet.
 * 10) ibid
 * 11) Editing Attraction template
 * 12) Would like to dispute a Wikipedia inquiry - stating my musicans article may not meet the notability guideline for music.
 * 13) Dinner in the Ritz Hotel, Paris 1904, Painted by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot
 * 14) Book Creator: Using List Pages

= May 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 8


 * 1) Reliable sources - citing "puff pieces" or "advertorial"
 * 2) New Language
 * 3) Old pictures
 * 4) Featured article HOUSE.
 * 5) Format of display has changed and I can't get it back
 * 6) Trouble with diffs
 * 7) Using the math markup
 * 8) Rule of thumb for de-stubbing
 * 9) root domain name .co.cc is blocked?
 * 10) Can I add a small business to Wikipedia???
 * 11) auto rejection of edits
 * 12) Nautical Flags
 * 13) Sir John Stuart, 4th Baronet
 * 14) Liquid threads
 * 15) Amusement rides by name
 * 16) Correcting the Main Title and linking Spanish and English versions of Diplomatic Security Service
 * 17) Departed (2006 film)
 * 18) Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross US

= May 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 9


 * 1) "I ♥" articles
 * 2) Fonts in which Wikipedia webpages are displayed
 * 3) Text overlapping image
 * 4) Quotations in titles
 * 5) DATELINE PAKISTAN
 * 6) Alexander Leslie-Melville, 9th Earl of Leven
 * 7) talkpage templates
 * 8) Reference desk pages don't refresh until reloaded.
 * 9) How do I rename a page that was incorrectly created by someone who has since died?
 * 10) Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons
 * 11) Duplicate names
 * 12) Sandbox
 * 13) Deleting old page name

= May 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 10


 * 1) New to your website
 * 2) How may I submit articles, etc written about me...
 * 3) 2 Things I need to discuss
 * 4) Putting a photograph online
 * 5) Request an Article?
 * 6) Enormous white space
 * 7) Highlighter search field
 * 8) [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 10#Protected

= May 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 12


 * 1) Deutschland
 * 2) problem in submitting the Article for review. "This page is only for discussing improvements to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Science of Analytics. "
 * 3) Is it appopriate...
 * 4) Physics project
 * 5) Old talk page message
 * 6) Where can I let evaluate if a source counts as third-party source or not.
 * 7) Notability
 * 8) Request restore of Deleted Article Zeta Phi Beta 1957 to user area
 * 9) Global editor survey
 * 10) downloading and using the wikipeda archive on pc
 * 11) Cleanup template for overly long further reading section
 * 12) Question about List:  Some red, some blue.
 * 13) Company Page Created by Unreliable Source
 * 14) Refrence link is broken
 * 15) User adds false information to articles
 * 16) Timestamps
 * 17) Insert the current date permenantly?
 * 18) Ballowharf

= May 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 13


 * 1) Spacecraft Docking and Berthing Mechanisms table question
 * 2) Advertisement on my page
 * 3) Problem with translating articles
 * 4) Links from templates to the transcluding page
 * 5) Afternoon Wikipedians
 * 6) Genetic origins of the Turkish people
 * 7) People of Jewish Descent
 * 8) Sources for people of Jewish descent
 * 9) Josh Keaton
 * 10) AFD help Rob Potylo
 * 11) how to amend the article title
 * 12) Request help on Burson-Marsteller article
 * 13) East Kilbride page
 * 14) Page not loading completely - Dana Plato

= May 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 14


 * 1) Would like to write an article on an item where I am the first, there are no external verifiable sources
 * 2) add name to catagory list
 * 3) Wolof language in Senegal
 * 4) Diff
 * 5) Why is there no information on the important World War ll Dambusters Pilot George, L, 'johnny' Johnson
 * 6) Corrupted article Jenn Suhr
 * 7) Where to make a proposal for an addition to the toolbox?
 * 8) I can't find an article using the search box
 * 9) Unwatch tab
 * 10) Hospitality Industry
 * 11) Masking user area article from search engines
 * 12) MV 'Kalia
 * 13) Edits by time of day - Wikimedia projects

= May 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 15


 * 1) Democracy In Wikipedia
 * 2) citing and page problems
 * 3) Does Facebook qualify as a reliable source for a BLP article?
 * 4) need help/ gaston doumergue
 * 5) Proper way to mention cited sources in references?
 * 6) Setting up a Wiki user page for a page that will be written by a group of students
 * 7) Redirected from?
 * 8) Photo
 * 9) creating a page
 * 10) E-mailed watchlist changes
 * 11) Photo Permissions
 * 12) Church Website
 * 13) ship bells
 * 14) display of title of List of Victorious episodes
 * 15) Better highlighting of diff
 * 16) Hindu Ancient Village Diety
 * 17) correction of incomplete email that is supposed to let me post a message on msnbc.com's access instructions.
 * 18) Unable to post a new page
 * 19) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan

= May 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 16


 * 1) IP address
 * 2) The_Saturday_Big_Tent_Wedding_Party
 * 3) How do I view a version itself insted of the differences between it and another version?
 * 4) Hi ALL
 * 5) How long do copyright cases take?
 * 6) Biographical Entries
 * 7) Citation template for online dictionaries
 * 8) A few things to discuss
 * 9) Editing References within the Notes-Section
 * 10) Space Blanket
 * 11) Defamation of character to Adrian Riglesford
 * 12) Source for picture of Mary Lee actress/singer 1945/46
 * 13) Keeping template examples on user page
 * 14) Talk Page email notification
 * 15) Autobiography
 * 16) publication
 * 17) File:Buckie Harbour.jpg
 * 18) New Page Search/ Link on separate page going elsewhere
 * 19) New categories
 * 20) Help needed to restore file
 * 21) Can't use my username for publishing articles

= May 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 17


 * 1) Feedback on informal tone or style of my first Wikipedia page on Callie Crossley, an American journalist.
 * 2) Request for protecting article
 * 3) Another suicide (attempt)
 * 4) In vs. Of
 * 5) no ball
 * 6) template
 * 7) ducktv - formerly bebetv - on wikipedia
 * 8) 2010 CENSUS DATA
 * 9) Copy and paste or "pdfing" the list of colors (compacted)
 * 10) Subpage help
 * 11) Wikipedians editing articles about themselves
 * 12) Notice
 * 13) Template:WikiProject United States History
 * 14) how do I change the capitalization of a topic?
 * 15) Emails when talk page is changed.
 * 16) Edit Summary Gadget?
 * 17) Infobox image help
 * 18) whey protein
 * 19) Where to respond?

= May 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 18


 * 1) Page loading issues?
 * 2) Why can't I see images using firefox 3 in linux?
 * 3) My edit disappears
 * 4) Edit counts from deleted pages
 * 5) Creative Commons License
 * 6) Wrong Logo on "Guru Studio" Page
 * 7) Battle of Salamis
 * 8) INFORMATION ABOUT MARIO BROS 3
 * 9) Editor Review
 * 10) Getting an authoritative opinion
 * 11) Last step of this AFD
 * 12) Where did the page on me go?
 * 13) game of bike
 * 14) What's the template to notify an editor that you sent them e-mail?
 * 15) error on your page divorce the United States
 * 16) AfD question
 * 17) Ryan Beatty

= May 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 19


 * 1) Editing an "edit comment"
 * 2) i could not cite the quran in Metric expansion of space. Why?
 * 3) related contribution
 * 4) How do I create a  SHA-512 user committed identity?
 * 5) Cláudio César Dias Baptista recent article
 * 6) Category formatting
 * 7) Arman Cagle Helping Newbies
 * 8) Can't see the forest....
 * 9) new biogrpahy still has "New User Stendahl65/New Biography" as header
 * 10) Wikinews link
 * 11) User name: login not possible and no e-mail address to send new password to
 * 12) how to handle a confirmed sock puppet of two users?
 * 13) logging in
 * 14) Ian Ritchie (architect)
 * 15) "Megan is Missing" a mockumentary
 * 16) Email editnotice?
 * 17) Categories again
 * 18) New Car Club entry
 * 19) MISL indoor

= May 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 20


 * 1) Changes made on a page have been saved but are not showing up when not logged in.
 * 2) why was Ark (webseries) deleted for non-notable? Providing links on articles regarding this series below:
 * 3) Feedback on an addition to an extant entry
 * 4) Question about reference flood overkill
 * 5) Addition to New Mexico Governor list
 * 6) Anderson Cooper edit request
 * 7) First Wikipedia users
 * 8) SHIM CARD ACTIVATION
 * 9) Has Wikipedia ever been hacked into or crashed?
 * 10) Document Uploading
 * 11) Publication of a new web site
 * 12) How to create math formula images
 * 13) is a wiki page the best for my aims?
 * 14) References in disambiguation pages
 * 15) Need someone to fix an image

= May 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 21


 * 1) archives
 * 2) Hello
 * 3) Why pages deleted about Scientific Journal
 * 4) Did I upload this image correctly?
 * 5) Adding thumb nail image
 * 6) Translated BLP's "lacking" sources
 * 7) Right place for discussion of article feedback tool
 * 8) How could I read Wikibooks on my kindle E-book reader?
 * 9) Larry T. Gell
 * 10) Submitting a Photo
 * 11) Firefox 4.0 not "remembering me" on Windows 7 system
 * 12) Copyright of a YouTube image
 * 13) Updating accessdate

= May 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 22


 * 1) history
 * 2) Citing The New York Times Magazine
 * 3) My new userbox
 * 4) Math symbols don't show up
 * 5) New user upload image to existing or new page
 * 6) no verifiable sources
 * 7) Charles Hollis Jones
 * 8) My Whole Page has been deleted for no real reason and i want it back!
 * 9) Regarding user names
 * 10) How to remove a page from a Catagory
 * 11) Mobile App?
 * 12) Article for Deletion / Disambiguation / Other?  The New Earth
 * 13) Article Quality Ratings

= May 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 23


 * 1) How to change the title of an article?
 * 2) Boerebetrokke Groep
 * 3) Thomas Cresap article
 * 4) question regarding the appropriate use of blocks
 * 5) Italicizing web site titles
 * 6) Clarification needed: Assigning religion categories to BLPs according to WP:EGRS
 * 7) References in disambiguation pages (again)
 * 8) tiny font size
 * 9) Any one here good with templates?
 * 10) libellous and hate inducing entry - 'List of Zionist figures' Please amend
 * 11) Vanishing revisions
 * 12) School hymn copyright
 * 13) Talk Page Edit Disappears

= May 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 24


 * 1) Fake Wikipedia Content Posting on Website
 * 2) How do we upload an image to the Anamorphosis page, in the "Anamorphosis in Popular Culture" section?
 * 3) Wrong link
 * 4) Arbitration Troubles Template has possible bad links?
 * 5) Flickr video to Wikipedia or Commons
 * 6) Hard rock band
 * 7) Proposed deletion of Emmanuella Grace
 * 8) Assistance from someone who isn't at their workplace?
 * 9) wikipedia photos.
 * 10) Disabling and enabling cookies
 * 11) Andrew Lansley's page
 * 12) Question re: Special:NewPages
 * 13) main page
 * 14) Help please with downloading a biography
 * 15) publishing a draft
 * 16) List of it companies in hyderabad
 * 17) BLP subject is upset about unflattering photo
 * 18) Deleting an account - need URGENT help
 * 19) Nancy Cartwright
 * 20) Concerning some Photos on Wikipedia
 * 21) en:WP pictures
 * 22) How Do I Reach and Experienced Wikipedia to Make Sure I'm Not Spamming the Place Up? :)
 * 23) Incorrect/outdated IP address | errors in talk page | "wikipedia is yelling at me and I don't know what I did"
 * 24) How to merge the content of an article into a category?
 * 25) Template:Autism_films
 * 26) Wikipedia "Contest"

= May 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 25


 * 1) Text shifting location
 * 2) Query
 * 3) Is Wikipedia an ideal tool for me to use?
 * 4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad
 * 5) Comment
 * 6) Entry on R.C school being maliciously altered . Possible sectarian motive.
 * 7) How to find a topic?
 * 8) Self removal of text?
 * 9) Recreating a page
 * 10) IP address vandalism problem.
 * 11) Kobaia_Sierra_Leone
 * 12) watchlist malfunction
 * 13) Should I Apply for Rollback?
 * 14) How to Delete an Empty Title?
 * 15) Appropriateness of a source for inclusion of an entry in a list article
 * 16) Finding an editor with particular language and experience qualifications
 * 17) Conflict of Interest ?
 * 18) how do you make changes in an article?
 * 19) Two versions of a page live at the same time?
 * 20) Incorrect Information ref Peter Sellers OR Daniel Mendoza
 * 21) organization and company
 * 22) DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL
 * 23) Goofball a Barbituate?
 * 24) how to get an article from the final draft stage onto wikipedia
 * 25) Mediawiki screen for IP contributions

= May 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 26


 * 1) Formatting Tables
 * 2) Peacock terms
 * 3) Accusations of Vandalism
 * 4) Change to a list of members
 * 5) When are "List of ..." articles supposed to contain references?
 * 6) Today's Featured article
 * 7) Clicking on pictures jumps to fullscreen
 * 8) My Page
 * 9) Template quality class
 * 10) Logged out
 * 11) Copyright on statements from an interviewed person?
 * 12) Talking
 * 13) Donating an article that has been created for my website
 * 14) User name spelled in correctly needs to be changed
 * 15) sandbox whoops
 * 16) how to edit tupac shakurs article
 * 17) Permission

= May 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 27


 * 1) I am a somewhat experience editor
 * 2) biography
 * 3) Convention for dealing with Discussion comments by socks
 * 4) adj=on
 * 5) Is navbox name parameter linked to in any way?
 * 6) Tying to alter a picture
 * 7) Gas Laws
 * 8) Top contributor
 * 9) Anagrams
 * 10) short on references
 * 11) How to make a page
 * 12) copyright and licensing
 * 13) Long Hunters
 * 14) Where is the best place to discuss the new 'Rate this page' feature?
 * 15) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkstown_High_School_North
 * 16) Why did Dragonfly 67 delete my account?
 * 17) Lists of officers as copyvio
 * 18) Unable to Edit Inaccurate Summary
 * 19) Carrie Savage, the voice actress

= May 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 28


 * 1) District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
 * 2) translate foriegn websites into english
 * 3) Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.
 * 4) Editing a Wickipedia Article- How can I change a picture or image?
 * 5) sole survivors of airplane crashes
 * 6) reporting inappropriate photo
 * 7) ARUNBRAINY'S QUERY ABOUT CHEMICAL
 * 8) File Historys
 * 9) Deleted post in the talk page of Pietro Badoglio
 * 10) Image keeps being desplayed after reversion of the addition
 * 11) PC Game Dust Tale of the wired west
 * 12) Bill Nye the Science Guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_nye)
 * 13) Disambiguation and diacriticals
 * 14) Georgia
 * 15) Nino Burjanadze
 * 16) File:TonkPile.jpg
 * 17) Why so hard to add photo?
 * 18) Copyright Infringement Help
 * 19) Nelson Mandela semi-protected status
 * 20) Converting IP history to a handle

= May 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 29


 * 1) Userpage and Scroll box
 * 2) Texting Larry
 * 3) Question about Alexandra Powers
 * 4) Katharyn_Powers
 * 5) List of English football transfers winter 2002–03
 * 6) Old style versus new style dates
 * 7) Royal Bank of Canada Fraud cover up With CIBC bank of canad
 * 8) market segmentation
 * 9) Article needing to be expanded
 * 10) Technical question for footnote experts
 * 11) Copyvio images
 * 12) Anglia Building Society
 * 13) Direct experience entry
 * 14) Sterling silver
 * 15) Signature limit too restrictive
 * 16) 3 things to discuss
 * 17) Copyright question - where to post
 * 18) Problem with "Tyler Reks" page
 * 19) registering awareness ribbon colours
 * 20) original work
 * 21) "Hidden" revisions of a page (offline) ??

= May 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 30


 * 1) Twinkle no longer working (solved)
 * 2) Alexandra Powers and Katharyn_Powers
 * 3) Problem with box padding
 * 4) Alexandra_Powers
 * 5) Alexandra Powers Reference is messed up
 * 6) Karis_Paige_Bryant
 * 7) Possessive apostrophe at the end of sentence
 * 8) Images in userspace
 * 9) Feedback - quote marks
 * 10) List_of_The_Mummy_characters
 * 11) Shifting existing article to create disambiguation page?
 * 12) RC in one category but not another one
 * 13) Robotics?
 * 14) How can i turn the WIKIPEDIA background color into black?
 * 15) How to delete user subpage
 * 16) Woodstock Festival 1969
 * 17) Getting the runaround in Wikipedia
 * 18) how to locate an image in wiki commons
 * 19) What counts as an edit?
 * 20) Authorization to upload pictures
 * 21) British war medal question (copied from article space)
 * 22) Photos
 * 23) Clicking On Image Jumps To Image Only.Siouxdax (talk) 21:07, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 24) Cynthia Townley
 * 25) Film References
 * 26) Contribution not showing up.

= May 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 31


 * 1) Image help
 * 2) How do I copy images from Wikipedia in other languages or alphabets into English Wikipedia?
 * 3) Compact TOC for glossary etc.
 * 4) Who's watching me?
 * 5) Introduction about the Article on  " India Gate" is wrong.
 * 6) Wikilinking to a specific citation needed tag in an article
 * 7) Opening sentences
 * 8) Seeking an editor mentor
 * 9) List of dubstep musicians - columns
 * 10) can i print an wikipedia book using another print media than pedia press.
 * 11) Page
 * 12) Admin
 * 13) Linking to a documentary website to provide more information?
 * 14) IHOP Founders
 * 15) When is a DAB not a DAB? Russian Republic