Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/October 2010

= October 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 1


 * 1) Determining if my subject is Notable
 * 2) Problems with disambiguation pages
 * 3) Formatting gone wrong?
 * 4) Moving page
 * 5) FLOURENS ARTICLE
 * 6) Commons attribution
 * 7) "Promotion"? Really?
 * 8) Disambiguation page redirect
 * 9) XLinkBot Issues
 * 10) Locked Page?
 * 11) How do I tag that an article needs clean-up
 * 12) Biology by team
 * 13) Size of quotations
 * 14) Non-breaking space for template "convert"
 * 15) Fluorescent background-color, text-color
 * 16) How do I delete an image I previously uploaded.

= October 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 2


 * 1) Resubmission of a first time article
 * 2) Signatures
 * 3) Adding Official Social Networking Sites
 * 4) Is the movie true?
 * 5) Photo tag
 * 6) IP warning
 * 7) New Article Creation (to find information easier on a specific possible non-notable topic)
 * 8) Cheated by sales of Royal Jordanian
 * 9) Offers
 * 10) Locating a particular diff
 * 11) Advice on editing infobox templates
 * 12) campari
 * 13) Personal Pages
 * 14) Which cite style to use
 * 15) Photo images. Puzzled.

= October 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 3


 * 1) Friendly merged to Twinkle
 * 2) Who approves textboxes?
 * 3) Marriage certificate
 * 4) Received Notice in Error - is this common?
 * 5) Is there any policy on drug safety information for pharmaceutical product pages and any policy on drug companies having responsibility for these?
 * 6) Editing a template/infobox
 * 7) What do you do if you think an entry should be monitored because the entry is growing into a heated issue?
 * 8) Uploading images into English Wikipedia
 * 9) Here comes Santa Claus
 * 10) forgot password, email no longer exists
 * 11) Help with User talkpage move

= October 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 4


 * 1) Fan produced toys
 * 2) I read help and FAQ - All I wanted to do was update a URL link in the reference section of a page but I can't figure it out.
 * 3) School Infobox
 * 4) searching for articles
 * 5) writing an article for a band
 * 6) Can't figure out how to print "publish" final article??
 * 7) Draft on User Space still exists after moving
 * 8) Marking Favorite Pages
 * 9) Joe Chapman's page

= October 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 5


 * 1) URL syntax
 * 2) Modifying the personal toolbar
 * 3) material I edited is deleted
 * 4) Question about Sourcing (Now I'm in the correct spot)
 * 5) Follow up to question asked 10/4/10 re can't figure out how to publish final article??
 * 6) Redirects of Book Titles
 * 7) Three things I need to discuss
 * 8) talk page
 * 9) My Wikipedia background went crazy - instead of it being gray it has a pic of a family
 * 10) suggestions
 * 11) Kostya Novoselov needs to be moved to Konstantin Novoselov asap !!!
 * 12) What Is My Registration Date?
 * 13) Changing the title of an article
 * 14) Rearranging a table
 * 15) Out of date?
 * 16) Deletion of crack-pot ideas...
 * 17) Template question
 * 18) Wikipedia political system questions
 * 19) TAGS

= October 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 6


 * 1) Inaccurate Article
 * 2) Jeweller article
 * 3) The_No._1_Ladies'_Detective_Agency_(TV_series)
 * 4) nominate for deletion
 * 5) Responding to answers for new article "National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB)"
 * 6) Copyright
 * 7) y my changes have disappeared
 * 8) Archive
 * 9) A place called OFEN before WWII,it was in Germany close to the former city of Danzig.I cannot find it in any of your maps of Germany or Poland
 * 10) Removing 'stub' status
 * 11) Wapedia vs Wikipedia
 * 12) Important Band Missing
 * 13) Redirect categorization
 * 14) Demeaning and Inappropriate Description Of Tyler Perry BIO
 * 15) Updates to family member's article (not Tyler Perry's)
 * 16) Editing refs

= October 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 8


 * 1) Who can stop vandalism?
 * 2) Info on Noerthern California Wailaki Noremuk Wintu Tribe
 * 3) About sections of contents of arthcle
 * 4) headline not working
 * 5) Luo people/Masai people
 * 6) vandalism
 * 7) Creating an article about a hospitality company: is it OK?
 * 8) So many methods
 * 9) How can I get another contributor banned?
 * 10) Can you advise me re my article
 * 11) Hansard citation?
 * 12) Dangling redirect
 * 13) Mediawiki bug?

= October 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 9


 * 1) Mediawiki extensions?
 * 2) Block function
 * 3) Even and odd functions
 * 4) Shortcuts
 * 5) Obtaining permission to use a photo
 * 6) National Club of India
 * 7) Identifying Correct Person
 * 8) 1944 Air Port on Ascension Island
 * 9) Cannot find article

= October 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 10


 * 1) List of Blocks
 * 2) WP:COI user warning
 * 3) 2 articles that need cleaning up
 * 4) Crossing out history entries
 * 5) Article Issues
 * 6) Autopatroller removal
 * 7) How to Merge different Accounts registered at diff languages portals of Wikipedia
 * 8) editing category
 * 9) Flag not working
 * 10) Eye Doctor
 * 11) Where to Report
 * 12) CANT STOP LEAVES ON THE LINE
 * 13) image problem
 * 14) Is it possible to specify who can edit a page and who can not?
 * 15) White House E-Card
 * 16) General reference desk service

= October 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 11


 * 1) problems with image coding
 * 2) Option "MathML if possible" doesn't work
 * 3) How to invite others to read my post
 * 4) References combined with google books
 * 5) screed
 * 6) Calories In Your Whole Wheat Bread????
 * 7) Usernames for admin attention
 * 8) Why Wikipedia...
 * 9) Ten Ten Day
 * 10) Add a page
 * 11) The rules of darts
 * 12) Listening to articles
 * 13) Transclusion
 * 14) Update to Paul Williams (saxophonist) article
 * 15) Additions

= October 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 12


 * 1) Article editing
 * 2) thanks and another question about page format updates
 * 3) Site may contain malware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_spoofing -
 * 4) Searching for external links, but only in the article namespace
 * 5) Category:French serial killers - classification by occupation
 * 6) important info deliberately removed and page locked to prevent correction
 * 7) Where do I put this?
 * 8) oxymorons and other nonsensical phrases
 * 9) Help with an infobox
 * 10) Secure server links from Wikipedia
 * 11) Forgotten committed identity
 * 12) CArlos D Bustamante DOB error
 * 13) Italics in article titles
 * 14) audio articles
 * 15) Section headings
 * 16) Donating material to wikipedia
 * 17) Greyed out names with no linking
 * 18) How to put template
 * 19) External Link Deleted
 * 20) comercial airline crash
 * 21) Wikipediholism
 * 22) vu meter troubleshoot
 * 23) Profile picture not shown
 * 24) Sanny Alexa a Singer
 * 25) how do I print articles of interest?
 * 26) HELEN THOMAS WIKI PAGE

= October 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 13


 * 1) Single login at Meta - double login everywhere else
 * 2) Problem with template
 * 3) I can't see the images on the page.
 * 4) Page numbers in different editions of books
 * 5) Music box is wrong
 * 6) I think ANI is broken!!!!!!
 * 7) Registering Company
 * 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%26P_Projects
 * 9) Tag "Feedback needed"
 * 10) how to
 * 11) Include my email address when other people are notified of changes I make
 * 12) improper deletion of my uploaded images
 * 13) Ask to remove personal details from image history

= October 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 14


 * 1) Image filter
 * 2) Help with Tables
 * 3) Stanley Park
 * 4) shining path
 * 5) Office-protected pages
 * 6) Using Book Creator with Hebrew pages
 * 7) Past deleted articles
 * 8) writing an article for wikipedia,
 * 9) Miscellany for deletion
 * 10) writing original book summaries...
 * 11) libellous
 * 12) Cropping Images?
 * 13) References
 * 14) Why is "Project Voldemort" redirected to "LinkedIn"?
 * 15) Semi-protected talk page?
 * 16) Harry "Hap" Holmes
 * 17) Comparison of racing simulators

= October 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 15


 * 1) Link to Wikisource
 * 2) Redirected from $1
 * 3) Required physical amenities/facilities for an upscale hotel for business travelers
 * 4) download articles for personal use
 * 5) Edit Summary drop-down box
 * 6) tagging an image
 * 7) Moving Notes to Talk Page Until Sorted Out
 * 8) How to tell where an article starts and ends.
 * 9) article creation
 * 10) Silas Creek Parkway. Write new? Or edit another article?
 * 11) Monobook not working
 * 12) Popup Smiley Face

= October 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 16


 * 1) Upgrade my unit
 * 2) House not yet on the historical division roster
 * 3) References
 * 4) test
 * 5) Izabella Arazova
 * 6) Angola international airport
 * 7) Struck Contributions
 * 8) Edit Counter
 * 9) Duplicate links
 * 10) Correcting our title (company name)
 * 11) unchecking "Watch this page" by default
 * 12) hiding article warnings
 * 13) Deleting a picture
 * 14) "What links here" bug
 * 15) Changing the font size
 * 16) Auto-log-out
 * 17) How to have 2 footnotes for the same book but at different page ranges?

= October 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 17


 * 1) please fix agar so that the Google results do not begin with the contents of the multiple image template
 * 2) IMDb
 * 3) Contraction rules
 * 4) Recovering the password
 * 5) Cite error: There are tags on this page, but the references will not show without a  template or a tag; see the help page.
 * 6) Angola International Airport
 * 7) referencing commons files
 * 8) Cystic Fibrosis Website
 * 9) problem with table
 * 10) I registered but I cannot edit some articles
 * 11) Italic article titles
 * 12) Biography disambiguation
 * 13) Sorting a table
 * 14) C.I.D. (TV series)
 * 15) How to make screenshots like this?
 * 16) TV Sports Information
 * 17) How to ask a question about the content in an article
 * 18) Recieving content of deleted article to my email

= October 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 18


 * 1) Italic titles
 * 2) Placing a picture across a Wikipedia article in different languages
 * 3) Brights Grove, Ontario
 * 4) Image covering prose
 * 5) Media archealogy
 * 6) Fair-use image of a fictional character, used to illustrate the actor (deceased)
 * 7) WP:PROD Vs WP:AfD
 * 8) hide
 * 9) Rica Takashima
 * 10) Needs to be taken down
 * 11) media description page
 * 12) Adderllin
 * 13) Corrupt file?
 * 14) Wikitable heading color

= October 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 19


 * 1) How do i cancel this redirection
 * 2) Need help with excess white space
 * 3) Google Categories
 * 4) Lion-Vallen Industries wikipedia page.
 * 5) How does an UNREVIEWED article become a REVIEWED article?
 * 6) summary deletion of two articles. While seeking footnote help.
 * 7) What's the difference between Wikipedia and Wikitravel?

= October 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 20


 * 1) Will I be notified if someone edits a Wikipedia page I create?
 * 2) Turkmen Wikipedia Technical issue!
 * 3) Speedy deletion policy
 * 4) Blacklisting
 * 5) How should this article be marked?
 * 6) Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit/Denni
 * 7) Change in the Page Name for Royal Enfield
 * 8) Corporate / Organization Wiki Page
 * 9) Sessionography...Can i upload a Word document on this category?
 * 10) LEGO Set Articles
 * 11) Strange behaviour of phone-like numbers on article pages
 * 12) Joining unregistered entries to my newly created account so my IP address doesn't show up anymore - but my username instead
 * 13) Photos for new article
 * 14) B-class checklist
 * 15) Double Jeopardy
 * 16) Football league seasons
 * 17) Categories improperly up for speedy

= October 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 21


 * 1) Feedback is drowning
 * 2) FA Link
 * 3) Transclusion
 * 4) Correct way for someone with COI to request that article be created?
 * 5) Ameen Rihani
 * 6) Who is RSAnimate?
 * 7) Rejab
 * 8) how to make a Collapsible tables in a reference template?
 * 9) whats the name of...
 * 10) indian histroy
 * 11) Moving edits from account to account
 * 12) Retrieved
 * 13) merging an article with other language wiki links
 * 14) E. Howard & Co. Wrist Watch.  Ned help

= October 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 22


 * 1) Is there a WYSIWYG format?
 * 2) Background web color?
 * 3) Userpage and image upload
 * 4) AfC Script
 * 5) Change to organisation name
 * 6) Page Upload
 * 7) Tuition center
 * 8) Japanese naval commanders
 * 9) Deletion of an over-specific article and consolidation of its contents into one where it belongs
 * 10) Moving a lost query here
 * 11) Need some help
 * 12) kasakhs, azerbaijanis, turkmen...
 * 13) Rollback edit summary
 * 14) Upload Image
 * 15) Linux commands
 * 16) Update picture
 * 17) McEwen Centre needs moving
 * 18) Need help with template and date math
 * 19) mossberg500 A shotgum 30 inch barrel
 * 20) Any Way To Assume Responsibility For My "Forgot-To-Sign-In" Edits?

= October 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 23


 * 1) Comparison of clipboard manager software
 * 2) How can I become an administrator?
 * 3) Incorrect information in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal Sufism
 * 4) Odd copy and paste problem
 * 5) How should http://www.asic-world.com be designated?
 * 6) Vandalism
 * 7) what is the best way to request English Wikipedia pages translated to foreign lingos Wikipedia, and interlink them
 * 8) Where Is The "PMID" Number For A Reference?
 * 9) Wiki's rasterization
 * 10) Problem with Wiki's editor winner42
 * 11) Proofreading Request Adam Josephs
 * 12) User talkpage
 * 13) Signature
 * 14) Image not updated in facebook
 * 15) Yet another userbox problem
 * 16) The Land Has Eyes
 * 17) Software misinterprets formatting

= October 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 24


 * 1) Please create a redirect for me
 * 2) Conflict of Interest
 * 3) Correcting a citation in a reference list
 * 4) Article on user-page vs. Wikipedia-article
 * 5) Ranvir Shorey
 * 6) Sandboxes
 * 7) Purpose
 * 8) Biographies
 * 9) Problem with splitting off of references into paragraphs, by sorting it with ref group
 * 10) Tube Challenge
 * 11) Protection
 * 12) Content submission

= October 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 25


 * 1) No one participating in RfC discussion
 * 2) The 1975 film "Tommy"
 * 3) How to delete a page?
 * 4) About open proxy
 * 5) Images
 * 6) bad information on our page "craze productions"
 * 7) reset password
 * 8) There's a problem in opening
 * 9) using a spanish/English dictionary
 * 10) new photos
 * 11) The Lost Hero references
 * 12) nakijin village okinawa japan
 * 13) someone has changed a help link to post their own resume
 * 14) Incorect links
 * 15) Watchlist:biggest change
 * 16) cmos switching
 * 17) Change in Ronald McNair page
 * 18) My Article

= October 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 26


 * 1) how to transport content
 * 2) HOW TO EDIT "Pablo Picasso"
 * 3) can't reply to an email that was sent to us about an item we are selling
 * 4) Scripts
 * 5) Conflict of Interest - Article Request
 * 6) POTATO SEEDS
 * 7) Practical Joke
 * 8) Hra petville
 * 9) Downloads
 * 10) Link error on my userpage
 * 11) how to delay
 * 12) "Burn" page causes Firefox to crash, how weird is that?
 * 13) Searching tool
 * 14) desi arnez sr. high school
 * 15) want to edit Carl Franklin's site
 * 16) Phone number policy
 * 17) Odd Templete Issue
 * 18) |frameless|alt=|
 * 19) Solitaire
 * 20) Elephant
 * 21) Editing music articles created by the band themselves
 * 22) Is this a template?

= October 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 27


 * 1) Somebody keeps putting back in their non-notable website.
 * 2) Notability
 * 3) Wrongly accused of doctoring websites
 * 4) Formatting:How do I position this template directly beneath the infobox?
 * 5) List of Flags for Articles
 * 6) Adams's Apple
 * 7) Can i get my company listed in wikipedia?
 * 8) Re-Print or re-use wiki articles
 * 9) Mentor
 * 10) making changes in an entry
 * 11) Cyprus
 * 12) enquiry
 * 13) Please remove "...references that appear in reliable third-party publications..." on the Dean Silvers page.
 * 14) things for sale
 * 15) reference source(s)
 * 16) How to Close Wikipedia Accounts...
 * 17) senior poconos pa residence fined for having roommates per zoning laws

= October 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 28


 * 1) My password doesn't work and I can't get a new one
 * 2) how can I use an established page in wikipedia to create a new page.
 * 3) How to make the unique content (without references) published on Wikipedia?
 * 4) My name removal from Mumbai Meetup
 * 5) Wiki Slang
 * 6) Cannot Remove Pending Changes
 * 7) Fixing A "Broken" Link In A Reflist
 * 8) donate from india...
 * 9) Trying to find Information about a Newsletter put out by the B.C.  Stroke  association!!
 * 10) Posting An Article
 * 11) Oshawa
 * 12) Reference not matching article
 * 13) RE: Talk:Human Potential Movement
 * 14) Moving article from WP:Sandbox to main namespace

= October 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 29


 * 1) Ready for Submission page replaced
 * 2) Non-encyclopedic picture?
 * 3) bot
 * 4) Profanity in edit summaries
 * 5) Quick look from an experienced editor, please
 * 6) Searching a Word Document
 * 7) Eager to publish!
 * 8) Afd nomination for deletion
 * 9) Possibly Unauthorized Bot
 * 10) Unjustified deleted edits
 * 11) Can I use this Creative Commons material?

= October 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 30


 * 1) Can someone clarify the Anchor link help section?
 * 2) How do I submit an article for publication?
 * 3) Conserving Wiki content is free- but takes just a bit of thought in advance- Why not offline copy- one a year?
 * 4) Question
 * 5) orphan pages
 * 6) How should I ask a question?
 * 7) Image upload: privacy, metadata
 * 8) List of concerts at US Bank Arena
 * 9) my biography - David McReynolds, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McReynolds
 * 10) Multiple personal watchlists
 * 11) Need help for a larger project here on Wikipedia
 * 12) Redirection

= October 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2010 October 31


 * 1) Can't log in on a new computer
 * 2) article
 * 3) Question not in help desk?
 * 4) Where is the philosophical science?
 * 5) SUGGESTION FOR IMPROVING CONTENT
 * 6) Contentious words
 * 7) Education Sector in Pakistan
 * 8) Problem saving edits
 * 9) Bracket in title of cite news messing up reference
 * 10) Removing deleted article from Google search results
 * 11) Unconscious - The Real Life
 * 12) Chapeau Act
 * 13) Unconscious - The Real Life
 * 14) My password doesn't work and I can't get a new one
 * 15) Foreign Language Articles
 * 16) Templates
 * 17) Submission via e-mail
 * 18) please userfy ...