Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/July 2010

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July 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 1

1. About editing
2. Two featured pictures up for speedy
3. Bot or not Bot?
4. Some Stupids are destroying my article
5. Table Alignment
6. Need some help creating a new article
7. Missing information
8. Phishing email targeting Wiki users
9. Just received an email saying that I've registered with wikipedia but I have not
10. Glossary of terms for ...
11. Is this a valid Wikipedia email?
12. kaine page on facebook
13. strange mail from you or...?
14. Report an user
15. Archiving
16. Links in images
17. wikipedia as a virtual art gallery
18. mystery address
19. gay.com

July 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 2

1. Hospital article guidelines
2. Why person feels to increase zone setpoint??
3. Episode lists
4. Tool on Simple not here
5. Image deleted?
6. Reverting Vandalism Format
7. New Article
8. Transferring IP edits to a username
9. Naming section headers
10. Tahiti national football team
11. HTTP message format
12. Incorrect links
13. what can doc types can be embedded/inserted? PDFs?
14. Who is the American wrestler that reported his own death on Wikipedia?
15. Twinkle
16. Rude names
17. Company Changed Name, Best way to handle in approved manner?
18. Speedy Deletion Unfair
19. Enabling the Wikipedia Book maker

July 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 3

1. Article page and redirect page swap
2. Fair-use conundrum
3. Search Bug
4. Privacy
5. Charles Roth
6. Talk Page
7. Reviewers
8. Book compiled but download corrupted
9. Huggle
10. Huggle
11. How do I make this box thing?
12. Asking Other Editors...
13. How to feed pages such as 'My contributions' to a self-written editor?
14. Add information
15. 2010–11 Ipswich Town F.C. season
16. Naomh Conaill

July 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 4

1. How do I go about proposing a new notability standard for schools?
2. How to upload a picture for my profile & presentation Bio page???
3. Case Conversion?
4. #1 albums categories
5. page about NEARU martial art is missing
6. Problem
7. Talk Page
8. This article has multiple issues
9. Portal Box Location
10. placing article
11. Double redirect
12. Roll back

July 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 5

1. Login Problems
2. Database error
3. Search box
4. Wikipedia and Twitter
5. Changing fonts and adding backgrounds
6. Editing old revisions using custom tabs
7. Daddy Long Legs article issue
8. 1989 car craft conversion
9. Sploofus
10. Google Books reference, with or without highlighting?
11. Location for debate with other wikipedians
12. Can't Move New Article Out Of My UserPage - What Now?
13. Uploading Images
14. Bank of Montreal
15. Template:Userspace draft

July 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 6

1. Remove prod blp tag
2. overview of allowed sources
3. Creating a template
4. Trouble with using picture from Japanese Wikipedia.
5. Questions about your article on the Shaker song Simple Gifts
6. administrator
7. Improper redirection of our trade name hotel Tanjung Rhu Resort
8. Fast way to replace a deleted image?
9. CSD Tag
10. Where does the phrase "walking in a crocodile" come from?
11. Formatting
12. Can news articles depicting negative events be added to University's Wikipedia page?
13. Sortable Table Question
14. Mile run redirect
15. Aristide Razu article
16. Preferred method to force literal non-list interpretation of infobox data field
17. editing Infobox

July 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 7

1. How to delete my username from wikipedia?
2. Delete all categories?
3. Editing a page
4. MySpace links in body of text
5. page deletion
6. Question
7. Who is the uploader? Empty log
8. Directories
9. Bracket error
10. Man, I really dislike the play sushi ads
11. Spelling of search terms
12. US Court question
13. Names of jailed entertainers?
14. Deleted article
15. Cannot edit reference section
16. References
17. Stop users from editing my page
18. How do I...... Post a page on WIkipedia
19. Salam
20. Bizarre template with leading colon transcluding from the beyond
21. Merge IP with User

July 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 8

1. deleted
2. Userpage problem
3. Reporting a suspected "sockpuppet"
4. Allowance of an article about a psychological test.
5. Translations
6. Different standards for the Dutch en English Wikipedia?
7. What the f*#& happened to this article?
8. font
9. Pending changes Question asked here for quick response
10. audio file
11. Moving half an edit history?
12. Filmography
13. What to do about offensive or soapbox material on a talk page.
14. Using excerpts and images for third party articles?
15. BLP - Nuno Lupi (Reliable sources)
16. Changing an article name
17. advertising on wikipedia

July 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 9

1. Help with uploading a new image to a friend's Wikipedia
2. Could somebody please upload this file for me?
3. Possible virus link in article reference
4. Rollback
5. Dear Sirs
6. Operation
7. Template problem
8. Interstate 244
9. Gadget issue with browser update
10. page not reviewed
11. Edits are seriously attributed to wrong username
12. LaTeX
13. Case Sensitivity
14. Help with the infobox template
15. Unspecified Login errors
16. Adding a table of contents entry for Spiritual Healing in Faith Healing article?
17. Feedback about my Spiritual Healing text being reverted by User:BullRangifer?

July 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 10

1. Door
2. These pages appear to collapsible into one page
3. Stone cold steve austin
4. User name vs. IP address in change log.
5. Posting link to Wikipedia
6. Wiki Documentation
7. Virginia State Route 17
8. Unable to register account
9. adding to the lamda alumni list
10. iCarly Season 4 Episode One: iGot a Hot Room
11. Book authors violating their own copyright?
12. harry potter page is down
13. Why is article tagged orphan although it has over 30 links and how can the orphan tag be removed?

July 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 11

1. Mods and Policies....
2. U of Kentucky policy regarding holocaust studies
3. Bug in Lupin's AVT
4. User keeps unediting every edit I make without being reasonable
5. Wikiprojects
6. Download a list of pages I have contributed to
7. Fran Merida
8. At what educational level should Wiki articles on technical subjects be written?
9. User:Willy_on_Wheels
10. Page Creation
11. Lloyd Kerry
12. Create an Author Page, How?
13. Naruto Shippuden 4: The Lost Tower
14. Donald Goines
15. References Vs. External Links
16. Family tree of characters of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung from mkirs54321
17. How do I contact a Wikipedia writer?

July 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 12

1. Missing Photo files
2. Where can I request a logo for an article?
3. Template Error - State Highway - Help Pls
4. No response regarding my article
5. Start a new page.?
6. marking or shrinking the rollback button
7. My article doesn't show up in Wikipedia
8. page deleted
9. How can I move an article from my user page to the mainspace
10. Suspicious emails that may not be coming from Wikipedia
11. Alexander's Ragtime Band
12. Eidur Gudjohnsen or Eiður Guðjohnsen
13. warnings when there is no violation
14. concerning references in Mean Free Path
15. Sound version of an article
16. e-mailing articles
17. Getting a list of articles in a category
18. How to locate afd's one has created
19. Fields of science
20. Retrieving information from deleted account
21. Non-italics alternative
22. PRV Engine is ambiguous

July 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 13

1. PROBLEM TABLE SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES?
2. Re: Inappropriate Link PLEASE REMOVE
3. Template to indicate foreign language in ref citation
4. How do I get a picture I have uploaded to Wikipedia Commons to my article?
5. How do you edit the very first section of an article?
6. Could you help me with a picture?
7. Can you curb the antisemitism?
8. OPPOSITE OF BOREDOM
9. Why is email from the holder of a photo right not sufficient as permission?
10. county tax
11. Link to Dropbox
12. Deleting a subpage of my userpage
13. Please help
14. Images
15. How do we handle a situation where a large number of users are vandalizing articles?
16. London Metropolitan University edits
17. How do you change an incorrect redirect?
18. Malicious user page linked in Category:Cancer_treatments
19. prevention of inclusion of email addresses on this page?
20. Greetings
21. Friendly
22. Vandalism?

July 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 14

1. Album citations?
2. Which Ipswich
3. My own wiki account
4. Undeleting Article "Paul V. Kane"
5. Peter Barton, Historian
6. Peter Barton, Historian
7. Neurotic over reactions via fight/flight impulse or protection of offspring
8. Chennai
9. Formatting glitch
10. Creating/editing Grammar Pages
11. Possible vandalism in use of delete tags?
12. Is it O.K. to edit the part of an article that is currently being discussed in mediation?
13. African American baseball players
14. IMDB-only templates
15. Skins
16. Security settings
17. Redirect
18. Vandalism? (Seahorse JavaScript Library)
19. More vandalism?
20. Writing about myself
21. redirect
22. Where did the pictures I uploaded go?
23. DIRECT LINK TO COMMONS

July 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 15

1. tv scheduling
2. Downloading PDFs on Wikisource
3. Your Logo
4. Why my article has been deleted when I followed all Wikipedia Instructions?
5. Unified login for my account name
6. I am trying to find anybody that knows anything about Mr. Ray Thomas or Mr.Reno Wolfe.
7. London Metropolitan University edits
8. Wikipedia Statistics
9. Article Authors
10. Photo displaying oddly
11. {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
12. Where to look for the ranking of a page on Wikipedia
13. Use of Wikipedia photographs
14. Listing musical genres
15. Pretty Ricky Wikipedia Page needs to be fixed!!
16. Jeckyll Island
17. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO USE POLISH VERSION OF THE WIKIPEDIA
18. I can't find my article on Wikipedia
19. Speedy deletion tag
20. Thank you KarenJC!!!
21. Citing references
22. Wikipedia Droid App
23. Norman Parker speedway rider
24. Looking for a tool
25. Referencing a company's website
26. Question about article tags
27. "ball" logos in userpage
28. Woman's Tennis Draws ational championshipd

July 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 16

1. Unable to login to wikipedia
2. "Popular reference"
3. Infoboxes
4. required an essay on "joys and travails of travel"
5. map coordinates
6. Problem with DYK page
7. Advertisement on user talk page
8. Accessing and Manipulating books that I have created.
9. Pressure in Deepwater Horizon well
10. Vandalism?
11. SUL
12. !@#$%^&
13. :File:NRA logo.png
14. Self
15. Please add information to the webpage
16. Sheffield

July 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 17

1. -Spaces
2. Routemaster RMA
3. Need help with a WikiProject
4. move images to commons
5. Changing an article name
6. Edit summary help
7. Reduction in numbar of slept admins
8. Uploading PDFs for use as references
9. Vandalism?
10. dr who
11. Vandalism?
12. How to insert a TAB character when editing an article ?

July 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 18

1. Templates
2. Kobe Kaisei College
3. Brian O'Brian shorts
4. Page with an incorrect title that duplicates the subject of an additional page
5. Six tabs gadgets
6. Grammar help needed
7. English only?
8. Need advice: What's the best way to fix articles that are poorly sourced?
9. How long should I wait for a response? and if I don't get it, what can I do?
10. Creating a Family of Pages

July 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 19

1. Right to vote
2. Table of Contents
3. How to refer to a user with no user page?
4. Lost Book
5. Wikipedia link that ends with a ")"
6. Uploading a .JPG image file to an article
7. Classic Cigarettes
8. Citations and references
9. Is there a reason for the underlining on this page?
10. Facts related to an inground swimming pool
11. Infobox question...
12. Looking for a third opinion about revision to Rick Scott page
13. To blog, or not to blog
14. prob with article
15. duplicated AFD report
16. accommodation in shostka ukraine
17. CONFIRMING RESOURSES
18. Jellyfish

July 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 20

1. 1 billionth user
2. Problem with staying logged in
3. how do i get the instution on how to get started
4. "Congratulations! Wikipedia's one-billionth user. Click to collect your prize!"
5. one billionth??
6. Infobox, again...
7. Honoring Brazilian architect Oscar Neimeyer . This could be in a Rio newspaper ., but nowhere on internet was any space for this .
8. enwiki-20100130-pages-articles.xml.bz2
9. Article disappeared - help! New article appeared published but days later cannot find it and re-directing to another article.
10. Can someone help me upload my article?
11. 2x silly questions
12. Posting Information to Wikipedia
13. Update my account
14. Articles created by user Wiki tool
15. Need help changing a heading
16. Vermont Grassroots Party
17. group=notes, named ref?
18. Any MiszaBot gurus about?
19. download file?
20. Social Networking Icons
21. locating stats
22. How can I get a new browser window to open when clicking on a link?
23. Piracy promoting articles
24. incorrect paragraphs in info on Bogalusa, LA--none of this is correct nor even sensible-Bogalusa Chamber
25. Undone edit
26. Can someone do my homework for me?
27. User page messed up, but I can't figure it out

July 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 21

1. Translate to English
2. Requesting closure
3. Audio book of How to win friends and influance people.
4. Question about a topic-banned user
5. Link to closed deletion discussion
6. Reference upload?
7. copyright
8. Is there a tag I can add for...
9. Fun with wikicode!
10. Orphaned non-free image File:MIJO LOGO.png
11. Family members
12. Denied a WIKI page without any real rational reason
13. 2nd request
14. Edited the page "National Minority AIDS Council"
15. uploading a logo
16. autobiography of author
17. Another Bill Johnson
18. person with same name not showing up on main page choices
19. Using Friends of the Subject as Citations
20. Pages started by the conversion script but not on Nostalgia
21. Pichilemu#History

July 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 22

1. User script help
2. Delete Revisions?
3. Aromatic Ring Structure
4. delete this?
5. Vandalism?
6. picture on french wiki
7. Band article (The Freewheelers)
8. Share an Article
9. Vandalism?
10. Tables
11. User Page cleanup
12. Two bands
13. List of football players with a Fooball League Championship winner's medal
14. Citing another encyclopedia
15. Vandalism
16. Extend an foreign language article by translating the english article
17. Languages
18. Product vs. Company pages
19. Title

July 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 23

1. Inter-Wiki Translating, do I include the same references?
2. Help with Wiki form
3. Userboxes
4. Difference between versions
5. Help with Citation Fritz Zwicky
6. Requests page lock
7. Company name on page title is wrong
8. link error
9. Adding Details to Any Page
10. Anonymous reviewer
11. Appropriate to create a new page? And how do we maintain control of content?
12. Reviewing Information
13. Eastenders
14. How to Number Equations
15. Change User Name
16. Help at the help desk

July 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 24

1. Linking to Wiktionary
2. Emailing talkpage?
3. chiropractic
4. Manute Bol
5. Citadel Broadcasting Streaming Plan Change
6. Citadel Broadcasting Radio Station Pages Updating Halted...
7. Search
8. Article created in the wrong place
9. G3
10. Bonding problem of plastics
11. why different categories of info for different politicians?
12. Citadel Broadcasting Websites and Malware
13. Paging through long articles
14. Insulting edit summeries and possible vandalism
15. Edit OK?
16. [http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page Deletionpedia]
17. Tna alumni
18. extra text visible above a dot map
19. Articles that continuely need to be updated
20. Is my edit ok?
21. Disney Channel Latin America
22. User Blocked
23. References
24. Fatehabad, Agra
25. Warning

July 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 25

1. subst and new messages alerts
2. Multiple Russian Links
3. I own the copyright of paper, but do not know how to prove that
4. Delphic Games
5. An interview as a reliable source...?
6. Changing the display font of Wikipedia
7. Photographer
8. Vandalism on the Undertaker article
9. Max Cleland
10. More edit notices?
11. Watchlist options
12. Named References

July 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 26

1. Pictures of tanks
2. Edit ok?
3. Welcome
4. Page Deletion
5. Illustrations image rights purchase
6. Edit OK?
7. Bill Williams (actor)
8. Did I do this right?
9. VCH - Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 1846-7 and other nonsense
10. Deletion of page
11. Deletion of page
12. Edit count
13. Editing a discussion after closure
14. transferring edit credit
15. Company's Marketing Manager Making updates to Page
16. Stockport County F.C.

July 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 27

1. Use of movereq template without subst
2. Bible related movies
3. Very old AFD RFA
4. Page Deletion
5. Are there notability guidelines for progidies?
6. Twinkle
7. Can someone please fix
8. Manufacturing in HK
9. creating a version of an article in a different language
10. Contributions by [76.254.32.248]
11. Page Deletion ???
12. Problems with an article nontheism, the "word", and an AfD
13. Sandpit (disambiguation)
14. semi conductors
15. Wikipedia arbitrage guidelines
16. Is there an RSS feed for DYK?
17. Erroneous edit as IP
18. Image history
19. Change username on Wikipedia account
20. Automatically Shorten References By Bot?

July 28

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July 30

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July 31

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