Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/October 2009

= October 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 1


 * 1) Wikipedia articles being sold for profit
 * 2) Regular expression search of Wikipedia articles
 * 3) GD & T for relation gauges
 * 4) How can I change the title of my article
 * 5) Article "Euler"
 * 6) Templates in sandboxes
 * 7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Japan_with_highlight_on_47_Okinawa_prefecture.svg is not clear
 * 8) Linux article redirected to Linux kernel.
 * 9) Is my Wikipedia entry live?
 * 10) writng an article ona new topic and
 * 11) Rollbacking
 * 12) Writing in foreign languages
 * 13) good faith edits but...
 * 14) Vandals have posted items about me on wikipedia
 * 15) how do i create a page
 * 16) Template colour question
 * 17) Image help
 * 18) Where do I request corrections to an image?

= October 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 2


 * 1) Uploading Images to Existing Pages
 * 2) My contributions to "Enterprise (NX-01)"
 * 3) Possible Plagiarism in Polanski Article
 * 4) Large blocks of uncited trivial material
 * 5) What is the proper procedure for when the reason for an issue notice appears to have been resolved?
 * 6) Enterprise (NX-01)  article edit was again removed
 * 7) full fashioned
 * 8) Nicholas Hagger
 * 9) load?
 * 10) translations
 * 11) need help setting my clock
 * 12) Where can I learn
 * 13) What happened to that user contributions page

= October 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 3


 * 1) missing letters from the 2001 series of the one dollar bill "in god we trust"
 * 2) WhatLinksHere
 * 3) Per row / per column table border properties and CSS.
 * 4) Table converter tool
 * 5) I just installed MediaWiki; how do I permit the public to edit?
 * 6) how data is furnished by wiki
 * 7) Should this article exist?
 * 8) High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
 * 9) Adding a new definition
 * 10) Question about Facebook or Netlog.com
 * 11) Articles for translation
 * 12) "Risky" template change

= October 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 4


 * 1) Help with renaming an article
 * 2) mabinogi
 * 3) Searching for information in English only
 * 4) Unknown file type
 * 5) wikipedia
 * 6) Question regarding possibility of "claiming" contributions made when one has forgotten to sign in
 * 7) Unknown File Type

= October 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 5


 * 1) Image not showing
 * 2) new words
 * 3) This page is a user's work in progress page
 * 4) acid rain
 * 5) Adding all articles in a category to watchlist
 * 6) Transclusion of Recent Changes
 * 7) NoteTA
 * 8) Special:abusefilter
 * 9) Infobox rant
 * 10) Why can't I see my page?
 * 11) A bit stuck with uploading an image from a book
 * 12) Doed wikipedia need money?
 * 13) Twinkle trouble
 * 14) Twinkle question
 * 15) Font faces
 * 16) How long until I can see edit/new discussion topic?
 * 17) speedy delete?
 * 18) HELP ME

= October 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 6


 * 1) Changing link color
 * 2) The article received a  where it makes no sense
 * 3) physics circular motion
 * 4) Header notifications of  article
 * 5) wikipedia on mobile handset
 * 6) Translating Chinese wikipedia articles into English
 * 7) How Do I submit an Article?
 * 8) How ?
 * 9) PARTNERSHIP IN SIERRALEONE
 * 10) Tollund Man
 * 11) How do I lower my Contents box so I can add a little more information to the introduction section of the article?
 * 12) Translating an Article from EN Wiki to Japanese
 * 13) Too Many Edits
 * 14) Need help with table

= October 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 7


 * 1) Permissions
 * 2) Health care certification in US
 * 3) Question about merging contributions
 * 4) Charlotte Beazley
 * 5) Hints, Staffordshire
 * 6) New topic
 * 7) Unencyclopedic edits that are nevertheless not vandalism
 * 8) removing outdated tag?
 * 9) Correcting information in articles
 * 10) Vertical space
 * 11) can i adda aprticular page to view it later ...like favorite types ? or if i have added it to my book i can only print it but hw can i view it again?
 * 12) 304-A 337 ipc section
 * 13) Rules about using
 * 14) Help with first article search on google!
 * 15) Help please
 * 16) Translate French Wiki article to English
 * 17) Why did none of my changes save???
 * 18) How do you put pictures in Wikipedia articles?
 * 19) YOUR VOICE COUNT

= October 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 8


 * 1) questions about creating new article
 * 2) Deletion of picture
 * 3) Starting a numbered list at something other than 1
 * 4) When to use  "et al" in a list of authors of a citation
 * 5) Want to Place a BIO for a professional athlete/trainer by his request
 * 6) Editing Page Title
 * 7) Redirect importance
 * 8) CAN I COPY?
 * 9) Help
 * 10) Special page editing
 * 11) Closing a deletion review
 * 12) wikiadud

= October 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 9


 * 1) I have a question
 * 2) AFD
 * 3) Article templates
 * 4) Disparging remarks added to a page
 * 5) MediaWiki:Loginerror
 * 6) Uploading resources - Copyright question
 * 7) kerry lugar bill
 * 8) How do I report the article as pure advertising?
 * 9) Can't access user page - getting "404 Error".
 * 10) Adminship
 * 11) What to do about an incorrect category?
 * 12) Simple pedias
 * 13) Mediawiki questions

= October 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 10


 * 1) Untrustworthy links on Wikipedia
 * 2) The 'G5'
 * 3) Nominated finance articles
 * 4) Images in Spanish Wikipedia
 * 5) How to create company profile?
 * 6) red text from??
 * 7) DMCA template problem
 * 8) How can I HEAVILY edit my article without it being seen as vandalism?
 * 9) Chasing WP links
 * 10) Sorting on Roman Numerals?
 * 11) Corrections to an image
 * 12) Spurious category generated by example in template documentation
 * 13) Braxton Bragg
 * 14) Hogganfield - UK Infobox place snafu
 * 15) IPA tone

= October 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 11


 * 1) blockcalc
 * 2) Nari
 * 3) Probable homework question about zoos
 * 4) Categories
 * 5) recent changes in wikipedia for the last one month
 * 6) attribute translator in "cite...." template
 * 7) Drop-down search bar
 * 8) US Wiki Account
 * 9) Linking from one Wikipedia to Another
 * 10) "Choose character subset" section of edit page

= October 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 12


 * 1) If there is a thread on a forum that was covered in 2 newspaper articles, would that be able to be used to say the forum is noteable for it's own article?
 * 2) Logging in to edit
 * 3) Birds
 * 4) Translation  from Wikipedia.de
 * 5) Page title
 * 6) More on IPA tone
 * 7) 'what wikipedia is not'
 * 8) center inline some templates
 * 9) Help with LaTeX quirk

= October 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 13


 * 1) Categories question
 * 2) Edit war?
 * 3) found old Barton & Reed coffee/chocolate pot
 * 4) Spinning Wheel
 * 5) Help, please!
 * 6) Bot to help fix citations?
 * 7) How do I report violations?
 * 8) adding links
 * 9) Gothic letters in HTML
 * 10) Error in the Stana Katic article
 * 11) Adminship
 * 12) When is it ok for editors to change other editors Talk Page
 * 13) problem with article title
 * 14) Printing the editing page?
 * 15) Raname an Image file?
 * 16) New Page
 * 17) I need to delete
 * 18) Seeking input on restructuring of Biomonitoring-related articles
 * 19) How to become an administrator

= October 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 14


 * 1) How are links "blacklisted"?
 * 2) transplanatation of tamarind tree
 * 3) Using macrons
 * 4) Problem with the main page of Wikipedia in Occitan
 * 5) is there trinity college and university in malaga spain that offers Phd degree is psychology
 * 6) BBC iPlayer
 * 7) Email
 * 8) Hiding a page from search engines
 * 9) Thumbnail not showing
 * 10) American Wikipedia?

= October 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 15


 * 1) Category articles per page
 * 2) How long before a new wikipage becomes visible?
 * 3) Question about whether several related events should each have their own article, or should be spread into several articles
 * 4) Citing from foreign language sources
 * 5) Column chart
 * 6) Uploaded new logo but old logo still showing
 * 7) Maps
 * 8) Should I disambiguate?
 * 9) Wikipedia architecture and administration
 * 10) Article search keywords
 * 11) Reference templates
 * 12) logging in

= October 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 16


 * 1) someone using my username?
 * 2) id user
 * 3) I's hates parser functions
 * 4) Transclusion question
 * 5) E-mail address
 * 6) Infobox
 * 7) Using the "ref name" syntax for "#tag:ref" notes
 * 8) Untitled
 * 9) How to turn off?
 * 10) Source: Email interview
 * 11) Templates
 * 12) Duplicate tag
 * 13) I'm involved in the company I want to write about... will the article be deleted for bias?
 * 14) Portla:Current Events -- Day's Events
 * 15) How do I upload music samples?
 * 16) ASKING ONE QUESTION
 * 17) photo magnification
 * 18) List of Authors

= October 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 17


 * 1) Uncommon surname matches name of city in Turkey
 * 2) ESSAY ON TRAGEDIES
 * 3) Is there any way to organize a list from recent to old without doing it manually???
 * 4) Is there anyway to get information off of a now redirected page?
 * 5) Recreating pointless articles
 * 6) Disruptive AfD exchange
 * 7) How do I find the all the pages whoes name begins with X?
 * 8) i was refered here
 * 9) Image not appearing in article

= October 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 18


 * 1) Problems with my signature button
 * 2) Help with deleted article
 * 3) Buying
 * 4) Draft articles on user pages
 * 5) HELP
 * 6) Internet Explorer and Firefox
 * 7) UAA
 * 8) Who is paid for working on Wiki
 * 9) strong force
 * 10) Question
 * 11) My first edit
 * 12) Default cursor

= October 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 19


 * 1) Monobook.Js That Makes Browser's Address Bar Reflect Original Page of a Redirect?
 * 2) Edit count
 * 3) How can I get Wikipedia to accept a link to my YouTube video?
 * 4) Looking for a tool, not sure whether it exists
 * 5) Disambiguate a redirecting page?
 * 6) neighbours
 * 7) Signatures
 * 8) IP address question
 * 9) article move protected, a year ago?
 * 10) Template help, please?
 * 11) Question about huggle
 * 12) Question about wp:irc
 * 13) Deleting public forum-like discussion
 * 14) Where is it?
 * 15) just simply adding info
 * 16) Template piping?
 * 17) AfD nomination of a full-protected article
 * 18) Template for registered users with shared IP

= October 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 20


 * 1) Editing problem: page blanks itself
 * 2) adding photo to existing article
 * 3) template
 * 4) Wikipedia's Home Page - where's the cursor?
 * 5) How to give a suggestion?
 * 6) Missing article
 * 7) Incorrect location Information
 * 8) Printing articles
 * 9) fuel consumption calculation
 * 10) Uploading logos
 * 11) How to change name of file
 * 12) How do I capitalize my entry name?
 * 13) Adding references
 * 14) sound proofing?
 * 15) Why did my wikipedia page get deleted
 * 16) Can I add an external link to different topics of same section
 * 17) Email received in Spanish
 * 18) Applying WP:NTEMP and WP:NOTNEWS to new article's.
 * 19) Trying to add an external link
 * 20) Editors of an article

= October 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 21


 * 1) Dubious Bio
 * 2) Would Like to Create!
 * 3) This is a test
 * 4) "Gay serial killers" or "LGBT serial killers" category
 * 5) Hep editing an article for class
 * 6) Jim LeMunyon draft - seeking approval
 * 7) question
 * 8) emailing and article
 * 9) Problem merging accounts
 * 10) How to improve an article in wikipedia
 * 11) Reverting edits
 * 12) Where can I get a copy of the "This article needs an expert opinion" tag?
 * 13) New Article
 * 14) How do I report someone for vandalizing an article?
 * 15) HELP PLEASE AHH!!!
 * 16) Create page for my company
 * 17) Redirect preventing me from creating an article
 * 18) misinformation in wikipedia reference in google search
 * 19) How do I make my article available on Wikipedia?
 * 20) Someone vandalised my talk page...
 * 21) Image
 * 22) How many hits does an article receive?

= October 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 22


 * 1) what is truth?
 * 2) hurricanes
 * 3) Saving the page links
 * 4) Article on Me
 * 5) translation of english pages to tamil
 * 6) how to change an article name
 * 7) How to use Wrongtitle with pipe characters?
 * 8) Page Protection
 * 9) Editor Review
 * 10) How to upload the image I am autoconfirmed user
 * 11) Recent Changes/New articles box
 * 12) Missing Spdr gold trust article
 * 13) new editor trying to make an article go "live."
 * 14) Cannot re-enter to continue contribution started 10-21-09 (yesterday)

= October 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 23


 * 1) considering a page about a comedian
 * 2) Microphone age determination by serial number / manufacturer
 * 3) Images from a webiste
 * 4) Please help
 * 5) archive bot
 * 6) Who can submit articles?
 * 7) montana sextet
 * 8) Out of date, much?
 * 9) Adding Info
 * 10) Question
 * 11) New page question
 * 12) Harriet Christian
 * 13) how do I contact a contributor?
 * 14) Hiding the references
 * 15) Main page
 * 16) Convert MPH to km/h
 * 17) Where can I find information on placing links within images?
 * 18) T:TDYK
 * 19) Reporting Abuse and False Information:  Diamond Ranch Academy
 * 20) Search option.
 * 21) How do I get my user page and user talk page deleted?
 * 22) Room divider rubbish
 * 23) Caps usernames
 * 24) 3 Berry Blast from Orange Julius

= October 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 24


 * 1) Death notice for a recently deceased famous composer
 * 2) Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
 * 3) Cecile O'Rahilly~audio file
 * 4) Daniela Cicarelli
 * 5) Hi all!
 * 6) Misplacement
 * 7) I' m Lost As To Where To Go From Here........
 * 8) How to nominate a picture for deletion
 * 9) "Sponsored Results" sidebar when using Wikipedia
 * 10) How can I get Wikipedia to stop redirecting my title to another page?
 * 11) Infobox Issue
 * 12) Intersection of contributions
 * 13) [edit] links all bunched together
 * 14) Main page revisited

= October 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 25


 * 1) Creating a dab page - did I do it right?
 * 2) Electric Mary
 * 3) Please Help me with imags showing!
 * 4) Rating gadget
 * 5) Locator Maps
 * 6) Margin problem
 * 7) check an edit, please
 * 8) spam?
 * 9) Uploading picture
 * 10) ARTICLE DELETED
 * 11) List of tags?
 * 12) Disabling Hyperlinks
 * 13) Possible Retirement
 * 14) 1997 lexus ls400 radio fuses
 * 15) Your incorrect comment on film Auto Focus by Paul Schrader
 * 16) dog injury motrin
 * 17) Contact to Excirial
 * 18) terrible article
 * 19) Moves without redirect

= October 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 26


 * 1) Articles on fake antivirus programs
 * 2) How to post stuff
 * 3) Brackets?
 * 4) Lame avitar/icon on page
 * 5) questionable edits
 * 6) Computer networks
 * 7) Company page?
 * 8) Article summarising
 * 9) resumé on Wikipedia
 * 10) category intersections
 * 11) Can this website be an External link?
 * 12) Confused about the release of an image
 * 13) სურათის ათვირთვა
 * 14) My helpme
 * 15) MIME type
 * 16) MEGAPHONE EVENTS
 * 17) Slide Show
 * 18) Updates for your considerations

= October 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 27


 * 1) how to give a name to a repeated citation
 * 2) Where would I go to get help for making a complicated template
 * 3) Spoiler alerts on Wikipedia
 * 4) Urgent question
 * 5) Status of an image uploaded to Wikipedia,
 * 6) Why doesn't Talk:Indigo children have a Table of Contents?
 * 7) Localise and use Custom Search Wikipedia Skin on another Wiki
 * 8) reading and writing better
 * 9) Edit my own addition to Discussion in WikiSongs
 * 10) A question of Wikiquette
 * 11) How to sort out difference of opinion?
 * 12) Mountaineering External Links
 * 13) Almost duplicate files.
 * 14) Wikipedia's "query log"
 * 15) My user page no longer exists
 * 16) african studies
 * 17) category help needed.

= October 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 28


 * 1) Camp Stone Afghanistan
 * 2) Awards in lead sentence of biographies
 * 3) In need of consensus
 * 4) Contest the impartiality
 * 5) Image noticeboard
 * 6) Article about Alexander Pope
 * 7) I can not edit the Microsoft article
 * 8) work cited wikipedia?
 * 9) A critical study on the relaiablity of the Ancient Indians' Cosmological Theories.
 * 10) Sigmund Freud photo
 * 11) Use of Picture
 * 12) Today's Featured Article problem
 * 13) Deleting multiple revisions of an image without deleting the image itself?
 * 14) Embedding Items
 * 15) Updating picture already on page
 * 16) Removing a URL from black list
 * 17) 404 File not found?
 * 18) Trojan Virus?
 * 19) aplogies
 * 20) Title Change
 * 21) How to find new articles of interest?
 * 22) Citation template for historical documents
 * 23) Can a company or individual start a wikipedia page about themself or does it have to be generated from someone within the community
 * 24) Creating external link with URL containing square brackets

= October 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 29


 * 1) Grammar Improvements Seen As Contributing Nothing?
 * 2) Contradiction between two articles
 * 3) Script to show diffs in watchlist
 * 4) login says I don't exist
 * 5) Image logs
 * 6) in which link of here that can put my article?
 * 7) Spate of edits using a single source
 * 8) Problem with album template
 * 9) Rude people
 * 10) I want to help
 * 11) I'm confused
 * 12) User Page
 * 13) I need MAJOR help starting up an article
 * 14) Finding link rot
 * 15) Adding pictures
 * 16) External Link
 * 17) Help with Page
 * 18) Redirects
 * 19) Finding articles that have been on both DYK and AfD
 * 20) Something wierd
 * 21) is there a way to post wiki badges linking to other wikis?

= October 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 30


 * 1) FEATURED ARTICLE
 * 2) EDITING HELPERS
 * 3) unsuccessful searchs
 * 4) Page not appearing via Search
 * 5) Affie Yusuf
 * 6) Linking to enlarged images
 * 7) Consensus in a Merge
 * 8) desperately need some help...
 * 9) Deletion confusion
 * 10) How do you move/rename an image
 * 11) article deletion
 * 12) Inadvertently made 5 edits anonymously
 * 13) Automatic "return to" after login?
 * 14) Image link
 * 15) How do I delete an image I uploaded

= October 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2009 October 31


 * 1) Plots Behind Songs
 * 2) Incorrect date
 * 3) edit a section of a page which seems to be an imbedded image/text from somewhere else?
 * 4) Use of a Photo
 * 5) Need someone to fix a complex template used in >400 articles
 * 6) adding a page.
 * 7) Multiple references
 * 8) How to past an article?DanielZ16 (talk) 10:30, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 9) Citewebbing external links
 * 10) 淡路島モンキーセンター
 * 11) Reviewing Articles
 * 12) Redirect
 * 13) health capital versus human capital
 * 14) user rights
 * 15) Ipod app download stuck
 * 16) Related Changes