Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/November 2011

= November 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 1


 * 1) Letterman Current Singers
 * 2) Deletion
 * 3) Uploading Photos to Wikipedia Articles
 * 4) Disambiguation question
 * 5) Kris Humphries article says he graduated from Hopkins High School, Minnetonka, Mn
 * 6) Question about Article Creation
 * 7) please replace with accurate photo
 * 8) Freidoune Sahebjam
 * 9) table conversion
 * 10) Setting up specialised recent changes template
 * 11) MOS question about arabic names
 * 12) IP block exemption
 * 13) Question about EDIT page
 * 14) Usage of the help me template
 * 15) What does this mean?
 * 16) Wikipedia box at the top of an article
 * 17) Mistake about my authorship
 * 18) Watchlist
 * 19) Disambiguation page statistics
 * 20) Random Article
 * 21) What happens if you discover dozens of reliable sources incorect?
 * 22) Why can't I embed my imge?
 * 23) Changing the User: name at the top of the article
 * 24) Can't work out how to put the article on Wikipedia
 * 25) All Magazines List
 * 26) Edit tool info request
 * 27) Error
 * 28) writing help  -  meeting ntibil;ity rquirements
 * 29) Citing a pamphlet
 * 30) Regarding  a website on reliable source noticeboard.

= November 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 2


 * 1) Band notability
 * 2) Hello
 * 3) chemistry/catalyst
 * 4) full form
 * 5) JIMMY SAVILLE RIP
 * 6) Rescue me u.s  t.v series
 * 7) Name of Macedonia
 * 8) Honda ASIMO Revisions
 * 9) thumbnail not showing up
 * 10) Date showing incorrectly
 * 11) contents
 * 12) Hattusa
 * 13) Request to mainspace article

= November 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 3


 * 1) Cleveland State University Poetry Center page
 * 2) Editing English spellings to other English Spellings
 * 3) Just a quick question
 * 4) S. Thaman
 * 5) Editing
 * 6) The Statement of Randolph Carter
 * 7) Eslicarbazepine acetate origin and duplication
 * 8) Moving essay into WP namespace
 * 9) Correct Name
 * 10) David Burton-Richardson
 * 11) Problem with reflist

= November 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 4


 * 1) Multilingual support
 * 2) Porno on the page for Narcissism
 * 3) Why can't I edit this page?
 * 4) getting an error page when searching for israel
 * 5) Looking for an "Advice for expert editors" page
 * 6) Picture Problems
 * 7) An addition has been Removed
 * 8) History of an address
 * 9) Add Author info to a county page?
 * 10) sources to prove the notability of a band
 * 11) Chart for comparing different philosophical ideas
 * 12) Welcoming Templates
 * 13) Editing

= November 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 5


 * 1) Italics
 * 2) Provelt reference tool
 * 3) erie canal
 * 4) Text size
 * 5) How to request semi-protection
 * 6) wrong link
 * 7) Link to external web site
 * 8) Correction
 * 9) Preview works but not after Save

= November 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 6


 * 1) How do I do this with the "cite news" template?
 * 2) user talk limitions?
 * 3) Use of the link-interwiki model
 * 4) dialer tune
 * 5) new documenta13 page is inviting helpers to translate German to English
 * 6) 1954 Greada Treaty
 * 7) Global Media Post
 * 8) New article
 * 9) contribution of multimedia content
 * 10) Jim Glaser Discography
 * 11) Untitled
 * 12) Inline citations and wikilinks
 * 13) boys hostel
 * 14) Is a screenshot of a video considered "own work"

= November 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 7


 * 1) factualy error
 * 2) Master Dana Wong article deleted
 * 3) I want to delete a file I uploaded.
 * 4) Pictorial Illustrations
 * 5) Deletion review
 * 6) mark howard goalkeeper
 * 7) Article Publication and Third-Party Verification
 * 8) adding Bangla language
 * 9) Dysentery
 * 10) Page Name
 * 11) Picture rotation problem
 * 12) Adaptive Planning
 * 13) PROD of BLP

= November 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 8


 * 1) Problem with Redir Page
 * 2) Ben Schwartz's Bio
 * 3) Youtube clips
 * 4) Markup query
 * 5) Request to edit page of 'Mehdi Hasan'
 * 6) Page review
 * 7) Italic title
 * 8) How to change multiple categories quickly
 * 9) ted hughes - dick straightup
 * 10) who put my article on Wikipedia?
 * 11) someone keeps moving my LINK to the bottom
 * 12) Via Margutta entry
 * 13) Images
 * 14) united baseball league
 * 15) nonconstructive editing
 * 16) moving a wikipedia page

= November 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 9


 * 1) A Simple Suggestion (or two)
 * 2) submitting bio. to wikipedia
 * 3) Where do I go to have an article rated?
 * 4) help
 * 5) duplicating Matt Bolan covers
 * 6) Editing
 * 7) Editing Help Needed
 * 8) Forum advice on Kennedy Center Honorees
 * 9) How can I post my institution's profile?
 * 10) New user
 * 11) Highlighting links
 * 12) unit formatting guidelines
 * 13) hooliganism
 * 14) H.A.A.R.P.
 * 15) Copyright for logo
 * 16) Retitling page
 * 17) Josee Nadeau
 * 18) Do I have insurance coverage through your company
 * 19) Login error: Username entered already in use. Please choose a different name.
 * 20) recent edit I suggested

= November 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 10


 * 1) I didn´t find more information about a book, but I don´t want the deletion of the article
 * 2) Need to Change Username or Immediately Delete current Wikipedia and start over
 * 3) Stray question
 * 4) RE: Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
 * 5) Problems with an image
 * 6) Atribution
 * 7) Request to add new section for the 'Mehdi Hasan' entry
 * 8) Can i administrater please help?
 * 9) Following on from my previous request to edit 'Mehdi Hasan' page...
 * 10) Making two columns
 * 11) Searching Wikipedia
 * 12) RE: Please read: A personal appeal from an author of 549 Wikipedia articles
 * 13) Remove myself from occupied
 * 14) Why have the colors of the language templates become so pale all of a sudden?
 * 15) Article Has Missing Information
 * 16) How to move a page when the "move' option isn't showing
 * 17) Get my draft off Google
 * 18) Live Chat
 * 19) Permission to Use Photo, But Requires Logo to Remain on Photo
 * 20) Editing is blocked on the page?
 * 21) want to fil a complaint on donald smith
 * 22) Fan Fiction

= November 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 11


 * 1) page created redirected to another title, why?
 * 2) Emmerdale
 * 3) Harry Potter/Christopher Columbus
 * 4) Wikipedia article on Facebook
 * 5) Recreation?
 * 6) Maths rating
 * 7) Strange Redirect
 * 8) Lists of blues artists by decade
 * 9) Archive search and indexing
 * 10) Infoboxes
 * 11) How do you add a ciatacon needed?
 * 12) 2 issues - one request and one more bothersome issue
 * 13) Paypal donation link error
 * 14) Cree Q5
 * 15) Autobiography

= November 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 12


 * 1) Publishing
 * 2) OK, so how to create a user page?
 * 3) Error on page "Bittu Sahgal"
 * 4) Flow of Consciousness
 * 5) Images
 * 6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadnagar
 * 7) A good edit has been removed and wrongly cited as "did not appear to be constructive".
 * 8) I want to translate poetry &literature works
 * 9) Deciphering this citation
 * 10) regarding GOUTRA OF ANY BUNT
 * 11) Deleted contributions
 * 12) sayfada örnek hatası
 * 13) A little help please
 * 14) American River College
 * 15) filter bag to be used in coal pulverising
 * 16) Special characters
 * 17) Graciela Rivera opera singer
 * 18) "African American"  diffusing or non-diffusing subcat of "American"?
 * 19) Is there or do we need a portal on the world power struggle?
 * 20) Category:Feminist television series
 * 21) Dead links

= November 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 13


 * 1) Weird Layout
 * 2) I need help with a page I started.
 * 3) PP
 * 4) "You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)"
 * 5) "Rate this page."
 * 6) The Hands Resist Him
 * 7) Fixbunching
 * 8) Copy and paste
 * 9) Can't find cite error in article
 * 10) What should I do now
 * 11) "Rate this page."

= November 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 14


 * 1) Creating a list of ways to die by nature or notable poisons and nature accidents.plus change my user name account
 * 2) Acorns
 * 3) B-class troubles
 * 4) Redirect and new page.
 * 5) Moving content between articles
 * 6) Publishing a draft
 * 7) Edit/delete
 * 8) about reply
 * 9) General Emile Armand Gibon (1813-1870)
 * 10) BBc News
 * 11) adding reference and external links
 * 12) two conflict of intrest questions.
 * 13) Licensing and reusing WP articles
 * 14) 10c enforcement
 * 15) How can I add references?
 * 16) Miscredited Donations
 * 17) sources vs references
 * 18) Recent Changes Tag Filter
 * 19) Sentence disappared in template

= November 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 15


 * 1) RS question
 * 2) Can I turn off  the Personal Appeal  by donating ?
 * 3) Number of sensors
 * 4) How to upload pictures to a Wikipedia page
 * 5) Translation of a bengali article
 * 6) Downloading in a format other than PDF
 * 7) Date ranges
 * 8) Sorry to bother
 * 9) looking for a friend
 * 10) Mamadou Doudou Diouf
 * 11) Request for name change is in delay
 * 12) Editing a user page
 * 13) Biggest wave surfers
 * 14) RfC on existing discussion or new?
 * 15) All-Time Chicago Bear Roster

= November 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 16


 * 1) what's wrong with banners?
 * 2) Editing Wikipedia:Help desk (new section)
 * 3) How much money does it take to get Jimbo's face off of the internet forever?
 * 4) foot notes
 * 5) User page and watch list and more
 * 6) Finding top-importance stubs?
 * 7) Aligning userboxes with text
 * 8) Rotated image
 * 9) Kimiko Zakreski
 * 10) fiery fingers
 * 11) Capitalization of preposition "o'".
 * 12) Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales appeal
 * 13) HELP: article seems to have been truncated!
 * 14) new email Addy.
 * 15) Original contribution
 * 16) My user page is doing something weird D:
 * 17) Image citation question
 * 18) Header
 * 19) Search for edits by ip subnet
 * 20) Mobile version on desktop
 * 21) Peculiar layout problem
 * 22) Geo coordinates
 * 23) Splitting an article
 * 24) Rating a page
 * 25) Can we PLEASE get Jimmy Wales' picture off of EVERY PAGE?
 * 26) Using magazines as a source

= November 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 17


 * 1) What Wikipedia policies apply to the notability of article content?
 * 2) Image not showing in a template
 * 3) Someone deleted my edit.  How do I find out why?
 * 4) About  the topic- Dhenkanal (Princely State)
 * 5) Your Anti-christian policy
 * 6) My username is my article title ?
 * 7) LTJ Bukem
 * 8) How do I increase the text size on wikipedia?
 * 9) Change the layout of the appeal on the top of the pages
 * 10) Lyudmila Pavlichenko
 * 11) adding multiple external links
 * 12) Question boxes
 * 13) Keeping sources confidential except to Wikipedia editors
 * 14) copying external articles with a creative commons license to WP
 * 15) rules
 * 16) re: facebook link - it's up to you. She has frequent updates over there, including salons, articles, etc.

= November 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 18


 * 1) How to quote an interview
 * 2) Are the Wikipedians really serious about Userboxitis?
 * 3) meta/color ???
 * 4) PETER SELLERS
 * 5) Turn off donation ads
 * 6) Wikipedia mailing address to include in my matching grant contribution
 * 7) employment
 * 8) thomas davidson
 * 9) Please edit something for me
 * 10) Automatically generate list of all pages a user has edited and extract coords, if any
 * 11) knowledge economy
 * 12) logo under non profitable education purpose
 * 13) Unified account conflicts
 * 14) Editing photo captions
 * 15) President oath
 * 16) making donation
 * 17) how to see the old students names?
 * 18) Curb stomp
 * 19)  |last= and |first= links in parameters
 * 20) how does one report a wikipedia editor for poor performance?
 * 21) A few citation questions
 * 22) Naval Sea Cadet Corps
 * 23) "Some content was originally published at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion"
 * 24) Facebook / Twitter links for easy posting of your donation appeal?
 * 25) Searches:  How to make search of plural go to same place as search of singular
 * 26) can the page be expanded so the left hand column shrinks?
 * 27) Signpost missed

= November 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 19


 * 1) Sources?
 * 2) If my name is referenced in an approved article, can I create an entry to explain who I am?
 * 3) Baiji
 * 4) About wikibooks
 * 5) Transclusion of TPS template
 * 6) User Papaursa
 * 7) DONATION
 * 8) Variables
 * 9) PubMed
 * 10) Cannot move a draft into mainspace
 * 11) chnage it please!!1
 * 12) Editors keep nominating a page for deletion, even though it is labeled as a new project!
 * 13) Is there a way
 * 14) Edit status credit/ create article
 * 15) Article Title Capitalization

= November 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 20


 * 1) acceptable usage of profanity
 * 2) Lincoln High Brooklyn NY.  Sing
 * 3) Finding top-importance stubs?
 * 4) optic nerve damged
 * 5) İnserting HTML code as part of a page edit
 * 6) What to do with this article?
 * 7) A good idea (I hope) and no clue where to put it
 * 8) Application for Fund for Foster Child
 * 9) Capitalizing article title: Infinity walk or Infinity Walk
 * 10) difference between standard and redirected articles
 * 11) Someone using Wikipedia content without attribution
 * 12) Adding family details- editing a wikipedia entry and want to add that the person is the great-grandson
 * 13) I need help with from "The Help Desk" please
 * 14) archive bot  settings
 * 15) Pharaoh's Curse
 * 16) Infobox width
 * 17) Wikisource image
 * 18) Info box template for School Districts?

= November 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 21


 * 1) Bone conduction hearing aid fitting procedure
 * 2) Multiple citations: same book, different page numbers
 * 3) Nazzi symbols...
 * 4) Created new article need little help
 * 5) Employment question
 * 6) office 7 question
 * 7) Multilingual support
 * 8) Why I will not donate to your site
 * 9) Targeted Deletions
 * 10) Is it possible to find out when you post updates?
 * 11) Francis Higginson Cabot (1925-2011)
 * 12) Am I really that confused and that much missing the point?
 * 13) Italicized titles chopping off J's
 * 14) Modifying link colors?
 * 15) What should I do if an unregistered user of Wikipedia keeps making negative and unsubstantiated changes to a wiki page?
 * 16) Errors in Thom Calandra profile
 * 17) Please can you chnage a mis-spelling in a page title
 * 18) lost temple
 * 19) Header
 * 20) Peter Greenaway

= November 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 22


 * 1) new unreviewed article needs to be reviewed but how
 * 2) How to Donate
 * 3) Citing references
 * 4) Preload text
 * 5) does wikipedia have a word finder tool to search an article for a specific word?
 * 6) UNITY IN DIVERSITY
 * 7) Style conflict
 * 8) Redirects for spelling difference
 * 9) Ro icon - Technical issue
 * 10) Adding a colletion of images to an established reference article
 * 11) Bettendorf High School
 * 12) Why all the begging?
 * 13) Help naming this article name
 * 14) Add hyperlink to text
 * 15) Donation to WikiPedia
 * 16) External Link info
 * 17) How does article name suddenly get deleted from watchlist?
 * 18) Polyorcahdism
 * 19) Why does Wikipedia believe that ads tarnish the educational value of the website and invade people's privacy?
 * 20) bot and lingonberries
 * 21) Messages
 * 22) Policy status of "singular they"
 * 23) Links for Spanish Wikipedia on English Wikipedia site

= November 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 23


 * 1) Hebrew lettering, drop-down feature
 * 2) Trouble formating a table
 * 3) Editing an Article - No 'Edit' Button
 * 4) Can't make a smaller version of an image
 * 5) metallic microlattice
 * 6) Ted Serong :Correction
 * 7) Pasting options and more
 * 8) rate this page - I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional)
 * 9) Cable Co. going HD
 * 10) Adding information to a Wikipedia article
 * 11) Removing AfD template from articles
 * 12) renaming a page
 * 13) Banque de Credit National, s.a.l.
 * 14) Source of funding for Wikipedia
 * 15) Ban templates
 * 16) I'm using a "PS3" and I can't disable the mobile version of Wikipedia
 * 17) Editing a link
 * 18) Help with Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
 * 19) PUBLIC COMPANY USING WIKI NAME - COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
 * 20) I have new info ?
 * 21) Creating a page
 * 22) Paypal link

= November 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 24


 * 1) Jimmy Wales' Appeal
 * 2) Help Me Figure Out Where To Practice Article Creation
 * 3) Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation link expired
 * 4) Contact
 * 5) De-DABing a disambiguation page
 * 6) Another Question
 * 7) NONAVAILABILITY OF INDUS VISION TV CHANNEL
 * 8) Need to find out Enginnering schools as per city in the USA
 * 9) Old Submission
 * 10) picture of Merton Russell-Cotes
 * 11) RFC tag not working
 * 12) 3RR question
 * 13) Cannot locate privacy settings for living biographies
 * 14) Cursor Position on Home Page
 * 15) Why won't this work?
 * 16) Correction
 * 17) where to report advertising
 * 18) Fund Transfer
 * 19) Translation

= November 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 25


 * 1) Stuck in a live chat where no one can hear me
 * 2) Korean War Quote
 * 3) General Sir Charles Asgill
 * 4) Need help changing page name
 * 5) The longhair
 * 6) Did not get email for PW reset
 * 7) How do I create an opaque background on my talk page?
 * 8) How do I change the color of the contents box on my talk page?
 * 9) Shameful!
 * 10) File information
 * 11) Entries deleted
 * 12) Where has my article gone?
 * 13) Help me AJA
 * 14) Wikigear
 * 15) Benigno S. Aquino Jr.
 * 16) Insightful book review by book group on a blog
 * 17) Impossible to Navigate Your Process
 * 18) Title change
 * 19) Funds
 * 20) James Arbuthnot
 * 21) photos

= November 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 26


 * 1) Tomorrow's featured article?
 * 2) Unicorn (Dungeons & Dragons)
 * 3) LIBRARY SC
 * 4) Deinosuchus skull reconstruction
 * 5) Peter Hellier vs Rove Mc Mannus
 * 6) Connecting character name with actor/actress to also make list at bottom of article & to link actor actress to other accomplishments in their life.
 * 7) Soaked
 * 8) about a page redirect
 * 9) MULARAM DEPAN
 * 10) Rate this page box
 * 11) What makes a user a member of a WikiProject?
 * 12) Donation to Wikimedia Foundation
 * 13) List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte
 * 14) Menieredisease
 * 15) URGENT
 * 16) Showing archives

= November 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 27


 * 1) Incorrect movie reference
 * 2) USE OF  WIKIPEDIA
 * 3) Is there supposed to be another word?
 * 4) How could this article deletion happen?
 * 5) Sir Robert L. Borden high school
 * 6) Assuming You are the new Local Chief Executive of one of the Municipalities here int he Philippines. What measures will you undertake to improve the services and the economy of the Local Government Unit?
 * 7) Add NetBanking Options in the donation Page
 * 8) Watching an article that's being created, and maybe helping with it
 * 9) Photograph of subject
 * 10) Wiki and my bookmarks
 * 11) How do I turn off the table of contents
 * 12) Need Help To Correct Title Of Wikipedia Article?
 * 13) fat quotes
 * 14) Check/Edit My Efforts?
 * 15) The Penny Project
 * 16) MISS EARTH 2011
 * 17) Assistance
 * 18) New subcatagories within :Category:Television programs based on video games
 * 19) What happened to wikipedia's server why did it crash
 * 20) Correcting biography of a living person

= November 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 28


 * 1) donation by BPay
 * 2) Padhavi
 * 3) Edit request
 * 4) Link icon on every link
 * 5) I want to suggest a historical research on a subject
 * 6) Requesting code for a template
 * 7) cannot edit Reference page, only ...
 * 8) Lost!
 * 9) Dismay
 * 10) retire
 * 11) "QuickiWiki Look Up"
 * 12) Entry on Diane Coyle
 * 13) Old version at redirect
 * 14) help
 * 15) meaning of geographic coordinates listed on Wikipedia
 * 16) I want to donate to wikipedia but unable to
 * 17) Want to have the school I work at listed on wikipedia- Alexander Montessori School in Miami, FL
 * 18) Donation requests
 * 19) Copyright status of screenshots of Wikipedia pages
 * 20) character encoding
 * 21) Joseph Leo Mcglynn attended Mount Saint Mary's College/ now mms university in Maryland. Not California.
 * 22) concern about windows
 * 23) How to revert this vandalism?

= November 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 29


 * 1) Copyright
 * 2) R.Narasimha
 * 3) Run Ads...
 * 4) how to move subpage to mainspace
 * 5) Possible inappropriate comment
 * 6) For Franamax on mispelling in title of article on Guy Leverne Fake
 * 7) My username on another Wikipedia
 * 8) Italic tags in titles seen in Firefox on Windows
 * 9) Dealing with poor sources
 * 10) republishing
 * 11) Tag for "please expand this acronym"
 * 12) Taking a picture
 * 13) Fundraising question
 * 14) US Open (tennis) editions
 * 15) How to make the ref list?
 * 16) Showing personal appeal again
 * 17) help (2)
 * 18) Protecting your page
 * 19) More money for Wikipedia: Provide - against a donation - whole(!) portals, such as science, fixed(!) on DVD.
 * 20) Media/Logo question
 * 21) Splitting from existing article to new page -- policy?
 * 22) Article removed for copyright infringement
 * 23) Flight Express, Inc.
 * 24) Mark Henry TD mayo North Ireland 1927 to 1932.
 * 25) Deleting footnote mistakes under the reference section of an article

= November 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 30


 * 1) Compromised account
 * 2) Oddball image-orientation question
 * 3) funds through donation or advertisement
 * 4) Claudia Lennear
 * 5) Adding Urdu text to articles/pages
 * 6) Help with certain article words and more
 * 7) Odd "unpatrolled" notice on watchlist
 * 8) Apprise Software logo
 * 9) Application of zinc sulfate as ors
 * 10) Contribution problems
 * 11) removing my links
 * 12) need to change link
 * 13) Updated category sort order
 * 14) adding an article about my dad
 * 15) I created a new section in an existing article, but it does not seem to be showing up.
 * 16) Cat picture
 * 17) Donation Payment Mode
 * 18) Image gallery question