Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/October 2008

= October 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 1


 * 1) How to change the title of a Wikipedia Article?
 * 2) Image not scaling
 * 3) Problem with editing. Have I deleted half an article accidentally?
 * 4) can i add my own content (about my site & buseiness) using wikipedia.
 * 5) Why cant I add a page about a band I like??
 * 6) Michael Hemmingson
 * 7) Is SVG the best format?
 * 8) Watch my Page
 * 9) hy
 * 10) Fixing "edit section" boxes
 * 11) WP colour
 * 12) transclusion of page with categories without duplicating category count
 * 13) Warning Vandals
 * 14) youtube as a source
 * 15) I found an error
 * 16) Which Came First?
 * 17) Editing content that has no edit link
 * 18) Can I find out why a particular article has been deleted from WP?

= October 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 2


 * 1) Lists of (x) alumni
 * 2) Editing the Wikipedia Page on Morgan Freeman
 * 3) Can you mark articles as 'read'?
 * 4) Wikipedia futurology section
 * 5) a list what sells the most online
 * 6) 40 corrections to Wiki Battleship Texas BB35 - recommendations how to proceed
 * 7) Adding a section to a page
 * 8) Dr. Joyce Cherono Laboso
 * 9) Sync of portal and boxes
 * 10) Can't get multiple college students signed on to do a project on Wikipedia!
 * 11) How do I tell if a wiki  page is 'semi-protected' or 'protected'?
 * 12) Translators (radio)
 * 13) Essay
 * 14) Darts problem
 * 15) Page disappearance
 * 16) All movie

= October 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 3


 * 1) Citing Wikipedia
 * 2) Cats Singapore.
 * 3) Postcard's License
 * 4) Leighrayment.com
 * 5) New question - wealth
 * 6) Infobox?
 * 7) Single and double spacing

= October 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 4


 * 1) Namecalling, to-do list, and any general words of wisdom
 * 2) Reporting Vandelism
 * 3) Deletion of Regan Mizrahi Article
 * 4) notability/shared name/disambiguation
 * 5) Table of contents
 * 6) did i do it correctly?
 * 7) Category:People from Yolo County, California
 * 8) an incomplte/not correct bio on me published on Wikipedia to be deleted
 * 9) Privileges
 * 10) Sidemenu creation
 * 11) What programming language do you use on wikipedia?
 * 12) Long Beach, California
 * 13) Missing out full stops
 * 14) movie synopsis
 * 15) Company Lists
 * 16) Google Chrome - IPA problem
 * 17) USS New York LPD 21
 * 18) perjury

= October 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 5


 * 1) Listing all pages created by a user
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 5#Deletion of .5Bhttp:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fw.2Findex.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Marshall+Hall%2C+Tennessee+Technological+University&year=&month=-1 Marshall Hall, Tennessee Technological University.5D: It was deleted with no clear reason given against Wikipedia English Policy.|Deletion of Marshall Hall, Tennessee Technological University: It was deleted with no clear reason given against Wikipedia English Policy.]]
 * 3) Editing Albert Schweitzer
 * 4) I want to nominate a deletion
 * 5) How do you move a page?
 * 6) Withdrawing an AFD
 * 7) Transclusion question regarding the Notability RFC Compromise page
 * 8) Hyperlinks without underscore
 * 9) Modify template or create slightly different one?
 * 10) Help with listing an aritcle for deletion
 * 11) Add a page in a Category
 * 12) global account
 * 13) R.E.M. ROCKPALAST DVD
 * 14) Can an admin please reinstate a previously deleted article please?
 * 15) 2008 Presidential Candidate Ruth Bryant White
 * 16) Merge histories

= October 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 6


 * 1) Box Characters
 * 2) Update problem with SSP report
 * 3) displaying eastern characters
 * 4) Combining two categories
 * 5) I Can't Make An Info box
 * 6) slow growth of mutual fund industry in pakistan
 * 7) WRITTING AN ARTICLE ON WIKIPEDIA
 * 8) Create an Account Problem
 * 9) un-sudo?
 * 10) Posting copy for Desperados beer
 * 11) Yearbook pictures...public domain?
 * 12) Can't get checkmate to load
 * 13) creating a page
 * 14) Trouble sending message to Bzuk
 * 15) advertising as part of an image
 * 16) Blocking a vandal's account
 * 17) About a tab
 * 18) Understanding Wikipedia
 * 19) Notable Figures
 * 20) Converting table types

= October 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 7


 * 1) how do you find pages which are tagged non notable?
 * 2) saving pages to work when offline
 * 3) Wikimedia pings
 * 4) Phishing site?
 * 5) Template for top of article
 * 6) Tipi article vandalised
 * 7) Why is a particular picture locally uploaded instead of on Commons?
 * 8) What font or typeface is used for Wikipedia?
 * 9) Moving a reference desk question
 * 10) Wikipedia:Help desk - Typing password at Wikipedia
 * 11) Deleted article
 * 12) picture
 * 13) How can this image be properly displayed?
 * 14) I keep getting spammed for adding external links
 * 15) Check an edit, please
 * 16) Malformed MfD

= October 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 8


 * 1) semi-protected...
 * 2) Linking images from  Wikimedia
 * 3) Heads of Governments
 * 4) Uploading query
 * 5) is this image up for deletion or not?
 * 6) Want to know the synonyms of Logistics
 * 7) Delete this article?
 * 8) Galleries
 * 9) Clearly non-notable software articles
 * 10) Deriative FX at commons
 * 11) Weird link on user page
 * 12) Need ability to post a picture Vontra --Vontra (talk) 16:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 13) Question regarding donating information
 * 14) tag for logical contradiction
 * 15) div background-image in wikipedia
 * 16) User Pages
 * 17) Barack Obama
 * 18) Country Music Pictures
 * 19) Where to obtain help on writing a template?
 * 20) Can't move page
 * 21) Muhammad Kamal

= October 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 9


 * 1) e-Mail
 * 2) A "Jimbo Wales" subpage
 * 3) Article Fjolla
 * 4) Asking for votes?
 * 5) Image copyright question
 * 6) I want to report a sock-puppet
 * 7) Electrical Engineering
 * 8) Vandalism
 * 9) Zaccanopoli
 * 10) Help
 * 11) Requested Template:User Good Topic
 * 12) Album page infoboxes are missing genres
 * 13) Upload  a Piciture I created
 * 14) Translating pages
 * 15) Glasses that are too big;)
 * 16) 'The Workers in the Vineyard'
 * 17) Prize for improving articles?
 * 18) Making a new article that needs the title of a redirect...
 * 19) Is it worth putting my band on Wiki or will it just be deleted?

= October 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 10


 * 1) Faster-than-light
 * 2) I request this account to be deleted under blant advertising and promotion
 * 3) "What links here" counter?
 * 4) can the evolution societal and cultural linked directly to th perception of the impairment associated to disability
 * 5) Photo upload
 * 6) How can I fix a typo in a title when a page move does not appear to have worked?
 * 7) Green (Positive) and Red (Negetive) Number on 'my watchlist'
 * 8) Music genres
 * 9) Template:Hidden
 * 10) can someone do a wikipedia article on me and my music company
 * 11) How to remove history data
 * 12) What order do results from a prefix query come in?
 * 13) Moving article/list
 * 14) Question/Comment?
 * 15) attention plz

= October 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 11


 * 1) Munster Rugby - protected templete deletion?
 * 2) Sources in infoboxes
 * 3) Content box
 * 4) electricity produced using nuclear fuel
 * 5) New page patrol backlog (patrolled edits)
 * 6) WP:AWB
 * 7) Hi
 * 8) Music Genres in the Background Information
 * 9) Started articles?
 * 10) Wikipedia:Help Desk/Preview before post
 * 11) Williams,alex gar-field football player
 * 12) change of email
 * 13) Bug another
 * 14) proofs in articles

= October 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 12


 * 1) article referencing as per GFDL
 * 2) Template column spacing
 * 3) Notability requirements for restaurants?
 * 4) email received
 * 5) Person Data
 * 6) Reverting vandalism
 * 7) New Page
 * 8) Pictures
 * 9) Collapsing on tables (colour of "[hide] / [show]")
 * 10) Texture Filtering
 * 11) Combining categories
 * 12) No idea how to create my page
 * 13) Dubious sources
 * 14) Can't find my article
 * 15) meaning of names
 * 16) Can't see article text when editing...
 * 17) Random question
 * 18) Red Warning label
 * 19) Melvin Mora
 * 20) Pictures
 * 21) new redirects minor or major edits?

= October 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 13


 * 1) DRAGNET
 * 2) Trees and global warming
 * 3) Category moves
 * 4) Can I create a page without publishing it?
 * 5) TO SUPLY TIRES MARSHAL TO SYRIA
 * 6) Help change article Title
 * 7) Editing a Football Strip Caption
 * 8) Contents Box
 * 9) how can one spread spam?
 * 10) remove a picture
 * 11) MBS
 * 12) Forgot to log in before editing
 * 13) VF substitutes
 * 14) Thanks a lot for what you are doing but regarding Farsi you did not put any beautiful pictures from Iran, ( Northren part of Iran , Isfahan,  Shiraz or Teharan ..)
 * 15) Names in different languages
 * 16) Wikipedia tries to download files to my computer?
 * 17) Larger text
 * 18) help in editing gelfand pairs

= October 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 14


 * 1) Image policy
 * 2) Third-party references
 * 3) Privacy Concerns Regarding Someone's E-mail Address in an AfD
 * 4) capital
 * 5) problem editing the "Pieing" article
 * 6) Alphabetical table
 * 7) Advice needed - slightly spammy editing
 * 8) Pictures at the Commons?
 * 9) Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon infobox image
 * 10) Monobook
 * 11) Why aren't two images appearing at Stephen Crane?
 * 12) New Question
 * 13) add Wade Martin Bio to wikipedia
 * 14) Delete Attachments
 * 15) Is information for which a source, other than what's in my memory, disalllowed?
 * 16) a different definition of financial intelligence

= October 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 15


 * 1) How do I add a citation when I find one?
 * 2) Change page name
 * 3) How to Request a Title of Article be Changed
 * 4) creating a redirect
 * 5) Government of New York
 * 6) Request for a bot to do something
 * 7) IE hangs when loading into wikipedia
 * 8) software that allows your files to speak to you
 * 9) Getting Started
 * 10) Help
 * 11) Using columns within a table cell

= October 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 16


 * 1) Change of name
 * 2) Yeah, another question
 * 3) How to do a reverse dictionary lookup?
 * 4) i just posted my first creation on wikipedia and...
 * 5) Infobox State_Senator parameter
 * 6) Keeping my Biography accurate or 'locking' a biography.
 * 7) Cathal Crowe
 * 8) How do I make an SVG?
 * 9) How do I contact a user concerning a SUL account?
 * 10) lost
 * 11) Incorporating information from official government sources
 * 12) Connecting to Adobe Reader
 * 13) Font is messed up on Wikipedia only
 * 14) Changing default location of User
 * 15) Image Question
 * 16) Radio stations that trade frequencies
 * 17) Wikipedia
 * 18) Article section under discussion template
 * 19) Error on SanDisk page
 * 20) Template help
 * 21) Blocking

= October 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 17


 * 1) Article Name Change
 * 2) FAQ section in some articles like CD, DVD etc...
 * 3) Naming of an article
 * 4) Biographies & First-Hand Knowledge
 * 5) Standardization
 * 6) User page signature
 * 7) wrong information
 * 8) Incumbent parameter value
 * 9) Google Earth
 * 10) Wikiprojects/guilds
 * 11) editing and search results
 * 12) Articles
 * 13) Advertising in an image
 * 14) ImageRemovalBot
 * 15) I'm a primary source to verify a basic statement of fact
 * 16) References question

= October 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 18


 * 1) Un-redirect an article
 * 2) Request that a page be deleted
 * 3) advantage of career planning program
 * 4) Friendly template
 * 5) create disambiguation page?
 * 6) protocol
 * 7) Somebody take a look
 * 8) Who
 * 9) Jacobo Morales
 * 10) Code Enforcement Bureau
 * 11) Editing
 * 12) Hidden cats
 * 13) why cant Wikipedia have a 'did you mean' spell checker?

= October 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 19


 * 1) Pic won't show up in infobox
 * 2) GA tip?
 * 3) Question on RfA
 * 4) Copyedit
 * 5) How do I delete a disambiguation page
 * 6) Online reference doesn't let you out
 * 7) How do I embed content from another article section?
 * 8) I have a serious problem
 * 9) Unauthorized Request to change password on my account
 * 10) Images
 * 11) MiszaBot's archiving
 * 12) MOS questions

= October 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 20


 * 1) No Progress on Article Name Change
 * 2) User:HunterRaven and User:Pendragon
 * 3) Autoconfirmation
 * 4) Archive on Talk
 * 5) question about bridge
 * 6) I WANT TO BE UPGRADE MY PC
 * 7) Noinclude?
 * 8) Control over controversial issue pages
 * 9) Using Expressions With Variables In Templates
 * 10) Removing a section from the Table of Contents
 * 11) user acct in one language only?
 * 12) Broken Link
 * 13) DELETE
 * 14) Renaming
 * 15) A hoax?

= October 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 21


 * 1) Barney's picture
 * 2) User box search...
 * 3) Indentation
 * 4) Troubles with new submission
 * 5) Article Size Graph
 * 6) Javascript link
 * 7) Expressions that call on Sums of Parameters
 * 8) lost password and email i cannot reset my password please help
 * 9) Deleted images
 * 10) PLEASE
 * 11) page go live
 * 12) My contributions were deleted
 * 13) Citing videos
 * 14) Previous Searches
 * 15) Creative Commons-licensed wiki
 * 16) Cannot use contents menus on articles

= October 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 22


 * 1) Link to talk page in signature does not work
 * 2) Deleted Articles
 * 3) Unadministration member semiprotecting(?)
 * 4) Deleted Edits
 * 5) Le random communes
 * 6) Pan Cyber
 * 7) Accidentally log myself out
 * 8) can wikipedia be my homepage??
 * 9) Categories confusion
 * 10) Foreign language links
 * 11) Sources
 * 12) Barack Obama
 * 13) copy of proof of graduation
 * 14) Image Trouble
 * 15) help plz
 * 16) Admin help

= October 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 23


 * 1) Lost draft of new page
 * 2) plz help
 * 3) Unnessary Page
 * 4) using google earth and wikipedia
 * 5) Problem editing sections and subsections
 * 6) Tables--major help needed!!!
 * 7) What's the right place for burdensome biographical details published by relatives?
 * 8) MIKE TYSON FACT PAGE INCORRECTION
 * 9) Editing introductory material
 * 10) fishing
 * 11) Cast in Films
 * 12) Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore.  Television 1992
 * 13) Subtlety or Nonsense?

= October 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 24


 * 1) Incumbent overload in template
 * 2) Countdown timer on userpage?
 * 3) Italacized text.
 * 4) propsed Deletion
 * 5) Wikipedia and Google Earth
 * 6) Can u get banned from WP for being a cr*p editor?
 * 7) Photo
 * 8) How to Display article in main area
 * 9) How to find where a template is used
 * 10) How do I add my article to other articles?
 * 11) Image Question
 * 12) Vandalism Templates...
 * 13) Delete vandal's image

= October 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 25


 * 1) Signature problems
 * 2) Searching within categories
 * 3) Chart
 * 4) Bad news
 * 5) Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 40 problems
 * 6) Question about editing Wikipedia
 * 7) typo on the name of my article
 * 8) Graphical Timeline Template Not Editing Correctly
 * 9) Time to archive...
 * 10) Uploading images
 * 11) Adding a photography studio to the list under Photography Companies > Sub catagory Photography Studios
 * 12) How to HIDE a COLUMN in a TABLE
 * 13) Proposed deletion

= October 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 26


 * 1) Getting Logged-Out
 * 2) George Osborne photo
 * 3) Mohammed_kaaba.jpg
 * 4) Article problem
 * 5) translation
 * 6) Script Package
 * 7) codes for mitsubishi
 * 8) HOW DO I CHANGE A DATE OF BIRTH WHICH IS WRONG?
 * 9) Reopening template
 * 10) Special pages
 * 11) Help Millennium Shakespeare
 * 12) Creating a template
 * 13) DISCUSSION PAGES

= October 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 27


 * 1) How to report sabotage/abuse?
 * 2) When did France prevent the US from using its airspace?
 * 3) CAN NOT LOG IN
 * 4) help getting started
 * 5) Stuffed left alignment while editing table
 * 6) author
 * 7) When Will A Ban Be Unblocked AutoMatic?
 * 8) Follow up questions
 * 9) rogor gadavitano gadmoTargmnili gverdi wordidadn wikishi
 * 10) Unable to edit account preferences
 * 11) Refs
 * 12) Help request for image source on Wikimedia
 * 13) Replacing Incorrect Image
 * 14) What is wrong with article?
 * 15) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bob_Dylan_songs
 * 16) User categories
 * 17) Re-direction problems (repositioned so I have a chance to get a response)
 * 18) WP nomenclature
 * 19) Copyright vio (mirror)
 * 20) How do I contact a specific Wikipedia member?
 * 21) Graphical Timeline Template Not Editing Correctly - part 2

= October 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 28


 * 1) Template help needed
 * 2) Username change
 * 3) Did you know?
 * 4) Soliciting an informal opinion
 * 5) Contents table
 * 6) Snapshots
 * 7) Image renaming
 * 8) Misplaced Addition
 * 9) Quick Links
 * 10) Would this qualify as 3RR
 * 11) References
 * 12) Report Administrator Abuse
 * 13) wiki toolbar
 * 14) Compare selected versions
 * 15) Image:Michael Lucas to David Shankbone on the Iraq War.ogg
 * 16) How do I create a new wikipedia article

= October 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 29


 * 1) Can't Login
 * 2) Download Image
 * 3) Can't create article
 * 4) disaster management
 * 5) New page help
 * 6) number of pages edited help
 * 7) How do I make suggestbot leave me alone?
 * 8) VF IRC bots
 * 9) Reference to North America
 * 10) posting pictures
 * 11) Wikimedia
 * 12) new article

= October 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 30


 * 1) Filmography Box
 * 2) Cannot log in to my account with password you sent
 * 3) How to announce a guidelines proposal?
 * 4) sending articles?
 * 5) Sources and AFD
 * 6) Getting preview screen
 * 7) How to become a registered user
 * 8) How can I download all my edits ?
 * 9) Adding to a page
 * 10) uploading a free image
 * 11) Page view counter for Wikipedia articles?
 * 12) Some symbols not showing up
 * 13) user page spam?

= October 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 31


 * 1) Fixing a problem with a template
 * 2) Experts List?
 * 3) Can't access edit page
 * 4) What proportion of edits on here constitute vandalism?
 * 5) Medical Miracles
 * 6) Template help
 * 7) Sidebar code with template works in "Show preview", but not after "Save page"
 * 8) A suspected serial killer