Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/November 2008

= November 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 1


 * 1) Selective censorship
 * 2) A problem ..
 * 3) The tool that shows how many times a page was viewed
 * 4) How to Semi-protect a page
 * 5) Fake poster in a film article
 * 6) clarinet userbox
 * 7) Wikiproject Birds

= November 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 2


 * 1) Numbers weirdly inserted into pages I edit
 * 2) How would I reference
 * 3) Preferences broken
 * 4) Inappropriate user name?
 * 5) Category problem
 * 6) Category problem
 * 7) Sheet of music in Wiki
 * 8) cant find number
 * 9) how tocreate a new article?
 * 10) Uploading a New Picture
 * 11) Edting someone else's image
 * 12) Cite comic issue
 * 13) article
 * 14) Redirects

= November 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 3


 * 1) New Article
 * 2) Personal information on siblings
 * 3) convert this code
 * 4) simvastatin and lisinopril&Hydrochlorothiazide
 * 5) Need the assighnment of a project on Management Functions(Planning,Organizing,Leading and Controling)
 * 6) New article and DAB page
 * 7) How can i delete an account?
 * 8) animated bibles stories
 * 9) Bruce Springsteen
 * 10) Listing all pages within a category
 * 11) Sidebar
 * 12) Can one watch user contributions?
 * 13) PICTURE OF QUARTER HORSE
 * 14) Byte counts on watchlist
 * 15) Making a simple table
 * 16) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kelley Limp
 * 17) Uploaded Images
 * 18) Lake Lagunitas - Marin County California
 * 19) How do I edit
 * 20) Password reset in Wikimedia
 * 21) Content Suitability
 * 22) My User Page Deletion - Could I have it sent back to me with Wikipedia correctness?
 * 23) cleaning a cd.
 * 24) Wikipedia article and webpage almost same
 * 25) Did not receive new messages on page when I accessed earlier today
 * 26) two articles, one sea slug
 * 27) Please tell me about sapn and div attributes

= November 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 4


 * 1) Script display
 * 2) Searching Reference desk archives
 * 3) wrong Indian flag. today featured article
 * 4) mw-textarea-protected
 * 5) Please remove the picture.
 * 6) Hi, this is regarding Telugu language..
 * 7) Shortcuts for user space pages.
 * 8) Changing Article title
 * 9) about an new article.
 * 10) IMAGES
 * 11) Adding a web link to one of your pages
 * 12) new question
 * 13) Reporting a personal attack?
 * 14) Everything of mine has been deleted??
 * 15) Signatures
 * 16) mobile wikipedia

= November 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 5


 * 1) Tagging images
 * 2) Over-referencing
 * 3) Hauntings
 * 4) Umm...
 * 5) images
 * 6) Running/Downloading exe batch file from article
 * 7) Hi
 * 8) Deleted article
 * 9) Need Guidance re Vandalism
 * 10) IP address check for admins
 * 11) Searching for article
 * 12) How do I make a wiki version
 * 13) copy/paste ogg theora files
 * 14) "Donate now" button
 * 15) How to bring the recent changes to the main page of wiki?
 * 16) NTOC
 * 17) In Album, creating a band section?
 * 18) Why are our external links being deleted?
 * 19) Self-updating table

= November 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 6


 * 1) Are welcomes?
 * 2) Collapsing nav box
 * 3) Our new support Wikipedia banners
 * 4)  Four Five questions about unified login
 * 5) geography
 * 6) Education.
 * 7) another case of the "preferences" bug
 * 8) Mike Bloomberg entry: please add his $375 million contribution to tobacco control
 * 9) Images and OTRS
 * 10) User-defined colour names
 * 11) Deletion & Google Search
 * 12) Why are my college students experiencing complete DELETES for a project they're doing?
 * 13) troubles
 * 14) Adult contemporary music
 * 15) Not going through
 * 16) Link page not working
 * 17) Multilingual Sourcing
 * 18) IE/FF inconsistencies
 * 19) Administrator Abuse
 * 20) i need help making a album page for a band
 * 21) How do I get an entry posted to Wikipedia

= November 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 7


 * 1) Making or requesting a "BOT"
 * 2) Signature Personalization & Tables
 * 3) Editing using page to moderate far-right hate site.
 * 4) comments & suggestions
 * 5) Question of the day

= November 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 8


 * 1) Help with collateral damage on French Wikipedia article
 * 2) editprotected tab via CSS
 * 3) Details
 * 4) Unwatch link on my watchlist never works
 * 5) content list & other things not working
 * 6) Changing My Preferences
 * 7) Rust
 * 8) Some climate boxes I'm adding do not show up
 * 9) Valid citable sources??
 * 10) Image size fix

= November 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 9


 * 1) Archives
 * 2) Can I get an opinion on a few edits
 * 3) MY question is incorporated with the space
 * 4) Page Format Missing
 * 5) Degraded image
 * 6) Interwiki account
 * 7) help me
 * 8) I have a question
 * 9) getting logged out while editing
 * 10) Contacting non-English Wikipedians
 * 11) Fuck me boots
 * 12) Help using same reference twice
 * 13) error in Wind power
 * 14) Reccomendations?
 * 15) Keyboard short cuts.
 * 16) am i qualified to edit wikipedia?
 * 17) Teflon: What happened to the original article? (pre: January 2008)
 * 18) Text copying issue

= November 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 10


 * 1) Archive box issues
 * 2) mobile skin
 * 3) Made mistake by accident now need help to fix the error
 * 4) registration confirmation problem
 * 5) Generating a list of most popular articles in a project
 * 6) Raibin
 * 7) Sockpuppets
 * 8) Please move page
 * 9) I am Unable to upload a personal photograph.
 * 10) Citation templates and archived/cached web sources
 * 11) College Textbooks?

= November 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 11


 * 1) AfD
 * 2) Blocked
 * 3) help others
 * 4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Collections_Service
 * 5) What happens when you xfd an article with Twinkle that meets WP:CSD?
 * 6) How do I "bookmark" an article that I'd like to read later?
 * 7) i need to remove an image from one article
 * 8) Archive editing
 * 9) Multi-Sport Stadium Dimensions
 * 10) I get undesired gzipped pages
 * 11) Transcluded Template
 * 12) Long URLs in cite
 * 13) Can I do Offline Editing of an Ariticle (to make it appropriate for Children)?
 * 14) Christopher Wren
 * 15) Kelowna Pictures

= November 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 12


 * 1) what are the affiliates of wikipedia?
 * 2) Help
 * 3) Meaning of "(top)"
 * 4) New users
 * 5) I made a mistake
 * 6) Biographic info on a living person. There are very few existing references
 * 7) financial loan
 * 8) Linking to complex URLs
 * 9) How to get an unbroken static HTML dump file from Wikipedia
 * 10) Finding a person's biography
 * 11) I guess it takes all sorts
 * 12) Camera location problem for an image
 * 13) I would like to delete my URL
 * 14) ADMIN
 * 15) Links and photos
 * 16) Fair use
 * 17) Correcting entry

= November 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 13


 * 1) Fake or unregistered usernames
 * 2) Article requests
 * 3) Log in Trouble
 * 4) "What links here" pages
 * 5) editing a page
 * 6) hey
 * 7) what will be the position of market after 2 years
 * 8) userbox
 * 9) Making a message banner
 * 10) My New Pages
 * 11) SS Gideon Welles
 * 12) References to wiktionary?
 * 13) Unable to create fresh articles
 * 14) page deletion "samuel_tiberius_hunter_welek"
 * 15) Centering things in a table
 * 16) How to have an incorrect tag removed from an article that is locked

= November 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 14


 * 1) embedded images
 * 2) photography/the rule of three
 * 3) Signpost
 * 4) Wierd
 * 5) Locating old edits
 * 6) Vandalism and other warning templates
 * 7) " {{#if: " expression
 * 8) Template:NBA game log section
 * 9) Username not created but is contrib
 * 10) Logo quality
 * 11) help
 * 12) Status
 * 13) Signatures
 * 14) Greeting new users with speedy deletions?
 * 15) Personal bio page
 * 16) Editing
 * 17) Userpage

= November 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 15


 * 1) Suggestions?
 * 2) List of articles edited by a user
 * 3) Bad jumps
 * 4) Product naming and the interwiki bots
 * 5) What template should I use?
 * 6) Uploaders category?
 * 7) Mixing cannabis and cigarettes
 * 8) Account
 * 9) Definition
 * 10) List of FA authors
 * 11) References and footnotes
 * 12) Can I buy Wikipeida?
 * 13) What would happen?
 * 14) 2008 Michigan Wolverines football team

= November 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 16


 * 1) A question about possible non-free image use
 * 2) brian peppers
 * 3) Page presentation help
 * 4) Is there a way to view all my deleted edits?
 * 5) delete my account
 * 6) Talk Page
 * 7) Wikibits.js
 * 8) Error in preferences
 * 9) Incorrect error in my preferences/Gadgets page
 * 10) howdy. I apparently can't move a page that's up
 * 11) Can't print page 2 of "Percolation Theory"
 * 12) Template help
 * 13) What's wrong with $P$ ??

= November 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 17


 * 1) Unified login
 * 2) Adjusting printable version
 * 3) disambiguation
 * 4) broken page
 * 5) Relapse
 * 6) more opinions needed in unblacklisting discussion
 * 7) Syndicated Wikipedia articles
 * 8) Wikipedia's status
 * 9) New section tab
 * 10) Vandalism only account
 * 11) Disgraceful
 * 12) Issues with 8974 Gregaria
 * 13) Solo edit war
 * 14) This is not important, but some math equations do not display correctly

= November 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 18


 * 1) Re-directing
 * 2) Table
 * 3) Center text
 * 4) search offering "view logs"
 * 5) Wikipedia Usernames
 * 6) GIF problems
 * 7) books
 * 8) Collapsing watchlist and popular articles
 * 9) Creating Infobox for a new article
 * 10) citations
 * 11) Creating an Article
 * 12) When Wikipedia was made
 * 13) Moving pages
 * 14) Can't remove Tags.
 * 15) Wikipedia (English) On Local Backup Disc
 * 16) berghof  edelstahl
 * 17) Help deleting a subpage?
 * 18) Problem with monobook scripts.
 * 19) Hatnote confusion
 * 20) Reporting Abuse
 * 21) No response on months-old question on Financial Services companies stubs
 * 22) can't see images i uploaded

= November 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 19


 * 1) Donation banner
 * 2) stock market  trading in call and put
 * 3) Essays
 * 4) plz help
 * 5) wiki article doesn't come up in goole search anymore
 * 6) My Template
 * 7) How can I copy and paste edited content from a redirected article (or template)?
 * 8) page redirecting
 * 9) Patrolling the articles you created

= November 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 20


 * 1) Anonymous edits by an IP user
 * 2) My account won't fully function
 * 3) Sitenotice
 * 4) Sortable table - multiple header rows
 * 5) Number of edits
 * 6) Patrol hotkey
 * 7) HI
 * 8) Threatening message
 * 9) Adding colour button to the wikipedia toolbar
 * 10) Template usage on Userpages
 * 11) November 4 Help Desk archive missing
 * 12) Wikimedia.org
 * 13) hi
 * 14) Bogus Edits/Pages
 * 15) Who merges?
 * 16) Image attribution in ibox
 * 17) Misleading links

= November 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 21


 * 1) WP:CSD
 * 2) Special Pages
 * 3) I am ashamed that I even have to ask this question.
 * 4) Subject of Article wishes the page to be removed
 * 5) Editing
 * 6) where to report a copyright violation
 * 7) Signature
 * 8) Account creations
 * 9) The going on template?
 * 10) Twinkle/Friendly and Watchlist
 * 11) Twinkling for deletion
 * 12) Procedure for making an extraordinary claim as part of a Wikipedia entry.
 * 13) How to get a page undeleted
 * 14) Inline citation appearing as string of characters
 * 15) There is no page for a common search item
 * 16) Slur on Canadians
 * 17) Fixing vandalism
 * 18) Making tables

= November 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 22


 * 1) Click template
 * 2) geometry(shape and size,undefined terms)
 * 3) javascript
 * 4) javascript
 * 5) Image Issue
 * 6) The New York Times archive: all copyrighted as they indicate, or able to be used verbatim?
 * 7) Placing tables right next to each other
 * 8) Mahatma Gandhi
 * 9) Needing help about Numbered Lists
 * 10) Watchlist limitations
 * 11) helpme
 * 12) Periods in image captions
 * 13) Fonts needed by Wikipedia
 * 14) Band infobox members ordering?
 * 15) Nirvana (band)
 * 16) Upgrading image on commons
 * 17) Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 22

= November 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 23


 * 1) None of my scripts work
 * 2) Uploading images
 * 3) How to separate the Categories, Meta Data, Boxes, etc, into a footer editable section.
 * 4) Need help with template move/rename
 * 5) Number of articles
 * 6) Unable to edit pages on Wikipedia
 * 7) Editing
 * 8) Bluestar bus company, Southampton, UK
 * 9) Wikipedia for rural area in South Africa
 * 10) New York Times search engine logic
 * 11) Article titles
 * 12) Number of Page Views
 * 13) Wikiproject cross-reference templates
 * 14) automatically sorting a table
 * 15) what happens to deleted user pages?
 * 16) Rollback
 * 17) looking for help with massachussetts rights
 * 18) NOT GOING THROUGH
 * 19) Anon complaint
 * 20) Account deletion
 * 21) Customizing signature

= November 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 24


 * 1) Page SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria for merging Deletion
 * 2) Username - same as real person
 * 3) Questions about use/creation of Hidden Categories
 * 4) Talk page broken template
 * 5) Can't edit 'Apollonius of Tyre'
 * 6) Merge template
 * 7) .ogg file
 * 8) Sameera_Reddy
 * 9) Image uploading
 * 10) Humanities Archives
 * 11) Uploading pictures
 * 12) CITING AS A REFERENCE PAGE!
 * 13) WP issue
 * 14) Namespace operetor

= November 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 25


 * 1) Category intersections
 * 2) Gerald N. Epstein
 * 3) Coordinates
 * 4) Photo
 * 5) Back to top
 * 6) Public domain after 40 years?
 * 7) Can't suppress fundraising banner
 * 8) Changing Stub Status
 * 9) Search result question
 * 10) How to edit a specific part of the page?
 * 11) Thresholds: dab page when lots of in-text disambiguations are then required
 * 12) Edits don't show on page
 * 13) Halp!  My page no longer archives
 * 14) new article
 * 15) 3RR Template
 * 16) Watch my User Page
 * 17) File:
 * 18) Columns
 * 19) Help Me... I am confused on how to post "NEW"
 * 20) Need help merging histories
 * 21) Editing infobox content

= November 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 26


 * 1) Barack Obama Entry
 * 2) non standard image placement and size
 * 3) Image deletion
 * 4) Images
 * 5) Can I copy Wikipedia content for my own wiki?
 * 6) Time Zone
 * 7) Inquiry
 * 8) IRC cloak
 * 9) Music singles infobox question
 * 10) Talk Page
 * 11) how is it possible for everyone to see the article i wrote in my account
 * 12) page potentially an advertisement?
 * 13) Help:Trusted user
 * 14) Citations Box
 * 15) Image visualization
 * 16) Company Promotion?
 * 17) Images at Talk:Crystal growth#Gallery cleanup
 * 18) inserting words using a non-Latin alphabet
 * 19) hot link colors
 * 20) Pages about companies
 * 21) Disappearing act

= November 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 27


 * 1) Warning: Default sort key "Darrell Figgis" overrides earlier default sort key "Figgis, Darrell".
 * 2) Commons name conflict
 * 3) Submission
 * 4) Template  caption not centering properly
 * 5) public health engineering
 * 6) using searches
 * 7) Humor
 * 8) Making content boxes
 * 9) Userbox
 * 10) articles
 * 11) Refrences not working
 * 12) One half a million dollars..*little finger in corner of mouth*
 * 13) Over riding default image size in infoboxs

= November 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 28


 * 1) wikipedia to go
 * 2) how do i make an article?
 * 3) Mumbai
 * 4) How to reference a website in an infobox
 * 5) Avoid having it in printable version
 * 6) Navbox needs to be expanded
 * 7) Unable to log in
 * 8) Template Choices
 * 9) Adding Video Content
 * 10) "Award winning"
 * 11) History merges and preserving redirects for GDFL compliance - can this be explained?
 * 12) Changes which occure when coppying a text to word and saving it16:26, 28 November 2008 (UTC)79.176.11.215 (talk)
 * 13) Help with math,time, and if/then/else for a calender
 * 14) personile file
 * 15) Table help
 * 16) Counting characters in an article
 * 17) Blocking template and banned users
 * 18) austrslisn customs and values

= November 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 29


 * 1) Template:Location_map_USA_North_Carolina
 * 2) Collapsible boxes
 * 3) Spelling
 * 4) Oops on upload
 * 5) postal and zip codes for the U.S.A. and Israel.
 * 6) Template for citing British Library catalogue
 * 7) Regarding cropping a cc-by-2.0 image
 * 8) Late LateShow Template (Ireland)
 * 9) New branch of fitness science
 * 10) |
 * 11) Reflist does not appear
 * 12) Using foreign characters in an article

= November 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 30


 * 1) Media-Wiki question
 * 2) How do I delete my account?
 * 3) How do I Link to image page without embedding the image?
 * 4) Subcats don't show up anymore after piping
 * 5) Tom Murphy (Titan News Television Founder)
 * 6) do an article
 * 7) Two articles on the same subject
 * 8) Uploading a PD photohraph
 * 9) What is an insecure admin account?
 * 10) FA nomination
 * 11) Copyright rules
 * 12) ask question about certain subject
 * 13) Changing a article title
 * 14) changing category titles