Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/February 2010

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February 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 1

1. Strange page rendering problem
2. Do you need to be an admin to nominate someone for adminship?
3. How Do I Insert Pictures into an Article
4. Special character
5. editing erroneous info in my bio
6. Removing unwanted contributions from history page
7. Wikimedia is displaying an out of date logo for our company
8. Inappropriate move of User:Springfieldohio to article
9. Account Deletion
10. How to eliminate large white space?
11. Wikipedia pages do not open .msg : The server at en.wiki.x.io is taking too long to respond
12. Invisibile (useless?) characters
13. Cans and Can'ts
14. list of ex-millwall players
15. can't find my user page
16. Wiki Suggestion
17. Changing an existing article to reflect changed circumstances
18. The same problem that happened to me yesterday is happening again

February 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 2

1. Hughes Tool Company/Dickson Gun Plant - Houston, Texas
2. nudity censorship
3. Wrong Picture at "Salvador, Bahia" article.
4. Table background color
5. Countries and quality of life
6. author needed
7. White background instead of image
8. Mobile version disabled
9. No response
10. I need access to diesel automobiles
11. yeast
12. Bad link
13. Training
14. Is it allowed to use wikipedia as a reference for information when creating new wikipedia articles
15. Commons link logo displaying on help page?
16. account tied to old address
17. Edits on archived talk pages
18. Citing a video reference
19. Engineering portal
20. Question mark in a section title
21. Putting a pic on Commons so I can use it on en.wikipedia
22. Userspace subst'ing
23. Contents box
24. Account

February 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 3

1. I have nothing that plays OGG files. Why are the sound files in OGG?
2. Upon splitting a page, the talk pages are now linked
3. Date of birth categories
4. Need help changing entry name
5. Notification on ArbCom amendments to old arbitrations
6. Lock a value so people can't edit it
7. Image source URLs
8. Mainspace edits
9. Things in text
10. ABout Content
11. What just happened?
12. Comparing categories
13. Would like to submit photos
14. Timing for approvals...
15. GFE
16. The word,best.
17. Condemnations in Adam
18. Citation of direct quotes
19. Citation / Evidence

February 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 4

1. BLP Question
2. how to post an article from user page
3. Problem with a Wikipedia Veteran Editor IV
4. How should I handle a second WP:COPYVIO?
5. search
6. how to save the entry i am interested in under my account name
7. Addition of a name to DFC and bar medal list
8. Redirect
9. Where to ask for help
10. Reverse Glass Painters
11. Deletion of Box at top of article
12. Removing Template at Top of An Article
13. Obama's Wiki
14. Bot help
15. get my page reviewed and published
16. Medical references
17. I submitted a new page entitled "Gordon Ferguson (British Army)"
18. Merge Accounts
19. Putting Photos Next to Each Other
20. Creating an account

February 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 5

1. Colloge with two campuses - how to add coords of both to title?
2. Lost toolbar
3. what will happen???
4. descriptive links
5. userspace draft: How do I find my draft
6. preferences not working
7. Images, a query
8. Place-mark on Google Earth
9. enquiry for person who borrow money from me
10. What should I do if a page I created is not listed as a edit prefix:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives
11. One name, three images
12. Uniblue Registry Booster
13. Wine Personalities
14. WikEd loading error
15. NED KELLY IS SEMIPROTECTED
16. First hand experance with Presidents problem
17. Pick Me Up Error
18. User Confirmation
19. My recent changes to the article virus are not displaying
20. removal of article
21. How do I prevent an edit fight?
22. Looking for album
23. Hi guys

February 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 6

1. New feature rquest
2. can this be copied?
3. Sir/Mam, please update your database..........
4. My text formatting problem
5. Urdu text in wikipedia articles
6. creating Wikipedia ID:
7. Victimisation
8. Looking for a template
9. Offensive stuff
10. Counting Views
11. Wikicode converter

February 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 7

1. login to valid account after personal email changed
2. Same login for different products of wiki
3. Robot Editor
4. Impostor
5. Getting rid of the Try Beta link?
6. Trans Fat
7. Domain Eukarya
8. Rotating images
9. Templates
10. I am so sorry
11. Cite
12. Merge the pages
13. Beta won't allow me to leave.
14. Problem
15. bowel ultrasound to locate foreign body or narcotic capsules
16. Mod needed here http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:UFC_110#Event_Date
17. WIKIPEDIA PAGE
18. Wikitravel

February 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 8

1. Help with formatting
2. my watchlist only partially updating
3. Adding copyright tags
4. Which AfD deletion category for a non-fiction book?
5. the same  ????
6. Remove "show" in Navbox
7. Showing A Table But Only Some Rows And Collapsing The Rest
8. Help with a dodgy category
9. how do I "Review" an article?
10. editing city pages (adding second image, map with pin, etc)
11. Personnel of a Company
12. I'm trying to find a user's IP address...can I do that?
13. Adding a reference to Top Gear (magazine) article
14. Table in talk page
15. Tab key function on edit screen
16. Adding IPA
17. Storage Heater
18. Purchase
19. Creating accounts for other people
20. Posting Business on Wikipedia
21. theroy of evolution.
22. Fix templates
23. What's the tag to indicate a section of an article is under construction?
24. Copyright violation?

February 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 9

1. Highly inappropriate language
2. How can I reclaim my account?
3. Unified login
4. Finding the source of information in a wiki article
5. I would like to know why you and other companies seem to not want to print the truth about something to let the public know even if you have been told otherwise.
6. music
7. Updating of a page
8. Freeze Panes - Top Row in Tables
9. fas
10. In search of a Director/Producer
11. Help archives
12. Disability Compatibilty feature on product pages
13. Essjay44/Ian Cutler
14. Possibly unfree files
15. Printing Pictures with Articles
16. can't save to sandbox
17. jobs
18. Templates

February 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 10

1. I Need Help So That The Templates Work
2. How to "Talk" between contributors.
3. Strange problem when copying and pasting
4. Bringing Attention to an Issue
5. Creating an entry
6. Questions about the verified source policy
7. Wikipedia as a client (school project)?
8. How to edit an existing user-created infobox
9. Category help
10. Are people aware this wikipedia entry is directly copied from another site  ?
11. T-shirt
12. How to create a journal intro page on wikipedia
13. The page Blood Types will not display on my laptop when saved to disk on a public computer.
14. Edit Frequency
15. Talk pages and articles mismatch
16. Broken Robot
17. "Article quality" gadget not working
18. Sick Article
19. Leading photos of certain articles
20. Disambiguation pages

February 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 11

1. Contents of section I want to edit don't appear on edit page
2. URL including square brackets
3. Internet video
4. Other place to put this?
5. Hey help desk!
6. layman-isms
7. I accidently deleted very first paragraph, while trying to add some info on Tirhut. I am trying to revert it back to what it was displaying yesterday, but can not do it. Please revert it back. Sorry,
8. nickname
9. Who is Allowed to upload images, etc?
10. How to Edit Headline?
11. How do I delete a Wiki book?
12. Help resolving a dispute
13. Picture upload
14. Mark Boardman wiki page deleted
15. Copyright
16. Error message when uploading the logo of my organisation
17. Defaultsort/redirect cursor location
18. incorrect re-direct
19. Archiving documents from Google cache
20. help with posting photos
21. Sport or Sports in title?
22. wikipedia traffic

February 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 12

1. My post
2. "Messed up" a page on accident
3. kato
4. Wikipedia hangs on Monobook theme when clicking links (Firefox)
5. I'm trying to post my first article without much success
6. Need help moving a page
7. That banner on top
8. HOW DO I PROTECT a new ARTICLE on a new topic FROM overzealous nonspecific Administrator VANDALISM? The administrator does not reply on the talk page
9. Edit Frequency (repost)
10. Why Rollback?
11. WIKI COMPLAINT AGAINST AN EDITOR
12. Changing title of article

February 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 13

1. When you can't tell whether the subject of a bio is living or not...
2. MiszaBot
3. Copyviol
4. Copyright of Picture
5. Image font
6. Placing wikitables side by side with space between them
7. Not true neautograph fake there authentic and truly awesome
8. Search tool not working?
9. Altering a title
10. Article - reg.
11. Delete article Beastly (Care Bears)
12. Templates
13. Eukarya/Eukaryota
14. How do I edit the content referred to by reflist but not found in the article itself?
15. Referencing error
16. Becoming an administrator
17. copying Wiki links
18. Unified Login
19. Tool to find closest shared category for two given articles/categories?

February 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 14

1. About deleting large parts of a problematic article
2. Citing the same source multiple times
3. Why isn't there a standard for the tv episode synopses ?
4. Signature Problems?
5. URL Actions
6. Copyright Violation
7. Signature Shrinking
8. How to delete a user?
9. my toolbox
10. Isolating a Wikipedia page section on its own page. (For printing or saving)
11. Rewrite while retaining edit history
12. I accidentally deleted information on a page - can I restore it?
13. One last question...
14. Amanda Kaye McMurray, female comic book writer
15. J'Achette

February 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 15

1. My name appears in my article's headline
2. Front
3. Redirect my user page
4. You should see this website. It is about the Turkish Wikipedia's (Vikipedi) abuse of rights.
5. Remove Edit Summary from History?
6. CRR and Interest rates
7. Providing a translation for an existing page
8. Getting contents from wiki dynamically to my webpage.
9. Wikipedia Technicality Help
10. Could you help me with some tables?
11. What to do about a malicious editor?
12. Signature button has stopped working
13. I am Olympic Artist Jesse Raudales and I am trying to create a page
14. Horrid Henry Takeover addition Query
15. How to move a critical entry on a page to go under the article's "Criticism" heading.
16. Taiwan magazines
17. Sysop Eligibility
18. Featured list

February 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 16

1. Edit counter not working
2. Question for an admin
3. Date from UTC in the 'in this day' context.
4. Unrevertable vandalism
5. NOINDEX
6. How to design this template?
7. Technical issue in Chełm#.22Wise_Jewish_Men_of_Chelm.22
8. Older version of an image
9. how can I send this page to a friend?
10. Energy efficient Gear Boxes
11. Archiving
12. security question
13. Hidden edits on talk page
14. Trying to find a bit of amusing vandalism
15. Do we have a 'template' for an article about a film?
16. user-agent: huh??
17. Want to help?
18. Notability of school articles

February 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 17

1. Truncating Cites
2. Article rating script not changing when rating is changed?
3. Quotes before dying
4. Can a redirect be undone?
5. image licensing
6. Concerned abusers using Wikipedia to gain illegal access to Home Office by abusing Hotmail Facebook and Microsoft Products.
7. Who decides what isn't good enough for Wikipedia?
8. Arrogance with Britney singles and promos
9. Interwiki bots
10. Entrance exam
11. india vs china
12. lowercase articles produce errors
13. unreplied discussion
14. Wikilinks to Categories
15. http://search.wikimedia.org/ --- Wikimedia search service internal error. Backend failure.
16. Copyrights Problems: A Wikipedia page on FAO - GIPB Initiative
17. full form
18. delete iuvienna
19. How to write a Family history on Wikipedia?
20. Primary source question
21. Links to my sites

February 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 18

1. How to delete slanderous information and update with correct information
2. Do even half of the bands here belong in this category?
3. Anonymous user at 70.29.210.242, problems with...
4. FA nominations
5. Blinking text
6. Malicious user
7. ISP history
8. Fake template "transcluding" categories on pages
9. Changing the colour of links to footnotes
10. Paragraph in article deletes remainder
11. Lists of heads of state
12. Monobook full?
13. Replacing a non free image with a free image
14. Redirects on watchlist
15. Wikipedia search list
16. Alphabetized lists
17. AJAX in wikipedia searches
18. Unreliable Sources
19. New word coined

February 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 19

1. Can only administrators close deletion debates at Possibly unfree files?
2. Discussion cleanup - template help and/or advice needed.
3. Help me to compute this problem.
4. Native Instrument fm8
5. How to clear saved Templates
6. Wikipedia Mobile
7. Userboxes in Template: namespace
8. 200 blogs
9. user page does not exist
10. Photos
11. Vandalism
12. Listing in Search
13. Major Unexplained Deletions in Flash Animation Article
14. How do I deal with this edit fight?
15. people editing my page
16. Problem with the aritcle I am adding -- Wiki says its vandalism
17. tag for needing more references, especially inline
18. Kendall County image
19. Posting to Wiki
20. Erb Institute
21. Cluebot an ex-bot?
22. Wrong info

February 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 20

1. What's the difference?
2. Time difference
3. Poems?
4. Free editing of Wikipedia
5. Using quote with book reference
6. Extra text while editing
7. Edit Toolbar
8. Special pages - Wanted Categories
9. Tags suggestion?
10. Citing from software
11. Dreadful image
12. Notable
13. Help
14. ClueBot III
15. My login/username
16. We need article that lists countries by "agricultural surplus" and overview of specific agricultural practices of countries.
17. I don't know how to fix this ...

February 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 21

1. Creating an information chart
2. French Culture broken link
3. Minor namespace-related problem
4. Infobox Templates
5. The videogame reception chart has a problem
6. Jimmy Cliff, Reggae singer
7. Reverting vandalism - please help!
8. Citations not leaving
9. Reverting an image edit
10. Chrome messing up unicode, any solution
11. APA Citation of Wikipedia
12. I've uploaded my photo to the wrong place
13. Inter State compact
14. Add Publisher
15. no: tag What is it?
16. emailing
17. Opinion about a possible article
18. Sorting names in Wikipedia tables
19. Automatic redirecting to zh.m.wiki.x.io for mobile phones (iPhone)
20. unable to create an account
21. Potential image upload issue question
22. Browning model 1910 FN .380 Cal. Want to get owners manual.

February 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 22

1. List of templates?
2. sht
3. Help with a new article: List of Colleges and Academic Departments of Human Ecology
4. Google Box
5. Usernames
6. encapsulate
7. Template rating box incorrect
8. Creating a page
9. Can u have a look
10. Photo not showing up
11. Request For Assistance: Ethics Of Entry Creation
12. PDF OF ALL ANSWERED QUESTIONS
13. Images regarding wikipedia
14. Discovery Creek Children's Museum
15. How long does it take for a new article to be approved?
16. Say Where You Got It - can you put citations that you haven't seen?
17. Wikipedia doesn't seem to support Lynx anymore, what gives?
18. No one else can see my page....
19. Arkansas page
20. Prince Caspien Article

February 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 23

1. Your link: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/America's_Next_Top_Model,_Cycle_8
2. Flags for the Olympics
3. GeoGroupTemplate results out of order
4. Efficient way to find similar articles in other languges?
5. Can you erase a post in the discussion "page", entry "Jesus"?
6. Footnotes in middle of sentences
7. Wikitable out of control
8. Criminal creology
9. CATIA
10. Square brackets in citation link titles
11. Possibly unfree files (take 2)
12. My entry on Wikipedia
13. Deleting pictures
14. Trouble with div tag with attributes inside template
15. RFC for IP range
16. Image release to CC-BY, permission via Twitter
17. Richard Levister
18. Rendering PDF Problem
19. using same footnote multiple times
20. Random Article
21. ICantFindMyArticle

February 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 24

1. Source Help
2. .WhatDoesUniqueArticlesEdited2LiveEdits2MeanOnGeneralUserInfo.
3. How to create auto numbering in Table?
4. Is it my cache?
5. Auto-updating watchlist template?
6. C.P. RAJASEKHARAN
7. Looking for an article called 'Natural horror'
8. Extracting infobox data
9. What happens when the word you want to define already gets re-directed to something else?
10. Talk question
11. how to enter request on MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
12. How do I create and article for a product
13. How does one create a category?
14. hyphen line breaks
15. How do I delete an article
16. I post an article, it got deleted, and I cannot find my original work.
17. Error in Canadian Business Magazine wiki
18. How Post A Definition?
19. SUNY Oswego records
20. LAYNE THOMAS STALEY
21. An expression
22. bogus business
23. Edit count

February 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 25

1. How do you bring articles that are in another wikipedia language, into the english version
2. Sockpuppet investigation
3. Formatting error
4. Formatting error 2
5. Can I ask someone to write two fairly simple templates?
6. entry doesn't appear to have worked properly
7. Line rental charge
8. Name change proposal
9. How can I become an "autoconfirmed" or "confirmed" user?
10. hi wikipedia
11. Logged In But Still Blocked
12. delete an account
13. South Pass
14. Siggy Prob
15. Edit an existing page I didn't create!
16. How wikipedia articles works?
17. Page Visibility
18. Pages up for speedy without any indication?
19. Alt field to be added
20. Image size
21. Help with portal / wide images
22. Sock puppet?
23. Background information with picture
24. Image problem
25. How to request votes on topics concerning all Wikipedia articles
26. Upload video clip
27. children

February 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 26

1. Wikipedia Book Creator
2. Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars in Amazon.com with no warning
3. Collaboration of the Day
4. who has created the most articles
5. Forgotten the password and email id registered for my Wikipedia account
6. Template suppression
7. How to Remove the Template
8. Semi-automated combined Searching and Wikilinking tool ?
9. Article reading ratings
10. partnership business
11. Deleted Page
12. Wikipedia
13. This wikipedian seems to be randomly adding links to her own blog to esoteric / energy medicine articles
14. Replacing an image in a gallery
15. Bug Report
16. Further reading + article added
17. Category: Private schools in Ontario
18. This is stupid.
19. Audio or Radio Wikipedia
20. Save-a-BLP
21. Pages on Ships

February 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 27

1. Redirect is vandalism.
2. Vandalism of "Bilaal Rajan" page
3. User talk:Intelligentsium#Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#I Need Help So That The Templates Work
4. my buddys b-day
5. Is it edit warring...
6. Blowing off steam
7. ...more blowing off steam...
8. moving to the mainspace?
9. Founder Travancore Federal Bank Ltd
10. vga connected from computer to projector
11. Vandalism
12. help
13. killer whales in the north sea
14. Becoming a sysop
15. "Baseball" needs editing
16. Translation
17. Using an image from Commons when a Wikipedia image has the same name
18. Terrible Articles
19. Feature Request for the Random Article function
20. help with adding an article to an already exsisting biography
21. Upload support
22. Recreated images using vector graphics as an SVG file: process time?
23. Viewing by iPhone

February 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 28

1. Find me some vandalism, please?
2. Uploading oggs
3. Map of the Canton Railroad Baltimore Md
4. youtube video content as a citation
5. Trojan
6. Sockpuppet template question
7. Red Links/Archives
8. Finding the most active editors on an article
9. How do I re-direct
10. Eukarya yet again
11. AfDs and Speedy Deletions
12. Wish list of images?
13. Warning templates
14. Redirect help
15. Displaying notes as footnotes when a Wikipedia article is put into a .pdf file?
16. Italics problem
17. redirect is wrong
18. WP:ALT
19. Making Templates
20. Peer review