Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2010

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August 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 1

1. Please help me sort out complaint and Complaint (disambiguation)
2. MLM Network Marketing
3. Website with the Wikipedia Template
4. Unattended article
5. Collapsable Nav Boxes
6. Civil List
7. Userbox categories - noinclude, incude etc
8. Publishing a document
9. Numbered Lists
10. WikiProject
11. Article traffic statistics
12. HOW DO I PUBLISH FROM MY USER PAGE?

August 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 2

1. how do I search for article titles?
2. Sortable Table problem - Recent change in format
3. Rating for questions in reference desk
4. Blacklist
5. SoCo Lime Recipe Mixes
6. Another blacklist question
7. Image deletion problem
8. Images deleted, please help
9. Stub Icon
10. Facebook
11. Biography posting
12. redirect keywords/terms
13. Google in Wikipedia
14. Deleting Advertisement
15. Need Article Information That Was Deleated!
16. Sources Allowed and Forbidden
17. When opening an article it asks to download a file
18. WP:FOO
19. Comic strip reference
20. Query: "CITRIS" doesn't link to CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society)
21. Constant glitches while editing
22. help please
23. Dyson Peabody
24. Screenshot

August 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 3

1. Editing the Title of a Wiki page
2. Requesting assistance
3. Businesses?
4. Faith Healing page - website links - advertising?
5. Question about posting a story
6. is adding categories actually helpful?
7. Hide a picture
8. New design is terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's the bug?
9. Productora de Software Ltda, PSL
10. tree fruiti or vegetable?
11. RE: www.teachmyselfsmarts.com .biz, .net, .info and .org cannot be found
12. Removing an Unreviewed Article Tag
13. Is there a place for heavier duty public article re-development work that provides both a project page and a talk page?
14. Devon and Cornwall Police Logo
15. Pending revisions and edit-wars
16. Twinkle

August 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 4

1. Rename
2. Strange edit by One bot
3. How to update or replace existing photo in wikipedia?
4. How do I edit?
5. TELEPHONE NO. OF BANDRA SMALL CAUSES COURT
6. Where do I report a major security problem about repeated vandalism and block evasion?
7. Templates For Scripts Similar To {{nihongo}}
8. Old user accounts - reviving them
9. How long does it take for an article to be available?
10. Infoboxes
11. New Question
12. Problems with user Recon.Army
13. Supreme Court of Canada Ruling in Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Company
14. Laryngoscope
15. Related to Someone Who Should, but Doesn't have Wikipedia Entry
16. New temporary password for Wikipedia
17. Unable to verify facts re Donn Finney bio article
18. bibi balwant kaur ji
19. Check mark

August 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 5

1. Colorado will not load, but most other's will
2. Team Kit Editing
3. How to edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Beer_vessels_and_serving ?
4. Rollback rights
5. When does a correct-the-following banner disappear?
6. Article history separated from moved article
7. Automatic Archiving
8. Page Deletion Question
9. Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over three million articles...
10. Inappropriately aligned image

August 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 6

1. Can a block be cleaned from your record?
2. Review this code change, please
3. Conflict of Interest
4. Selling stuff
5. how to update old logos and pictures
6. Military Awards and Decorations
7. replace outdated images
8. Cannot confirm email from 'my preferences'.
9. Copyright
10. Incorrect reversion
11. Fixing broken link
12. page i created
13. Friday Night Cranks
14. Why can't I edit certain pages only?
15. Cant seem to remove [edit] tag from harp page

August 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 7

1. Information with No Supporting Sources
2. Uploading a photo here or to Commons?
3. Photo in the Commons
4. Vatul(city) Title change to Vatul (Village)
5. How do I add a reference to table without screwing up the formatting?
6. Please post neutrality notice to Antisemitism page
7. The case of "Specifically human basic need".
8. batch searches on Wikip?
9. Date check template
10. Can't upload song
11. movie search
12. Question

August 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 8

1. How to update the image displayed on the right side of the page for a politician?
2. change user name
3. Photos and Collages
4. Facebook page creation automatic from Wikipedia page creation?
5. northern kentucky delicacy
6. Any idea who these 'authors' are on these published articles from Wikipedia
7. Colorado redux

August 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 9

1. Please email me my user name.
2. Taranaki Daily News - NEW EDITOR
3. Problems with floating elements
4. Navbox
5. Orphaned page and possible reason
6. Text size
7. RSN Vandalism or just wry humor?
8. Photograph licensing advice - help request
9. Revisions
10. 2006 Login
11. How can I search for use of ":)" and other emoticons in Wikipedia?
12. Rangeblocks
13. Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY
14. Uploading articles in other languages
15. Help needed with adding the right tags for copyright where permission has already been given for use of a photo of an actor
16. how do I move my user page content to mainspace?
17. File:Nara.Y (Light my fire).jpg
18. Deactivation

August 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 10

1. White pill
2. specific MediaWiki pages
3. creating a page
4. Name
5. Question
6. USO of North Carolina
7. Compact Flourescent bulbs
8. Editing
9. editing
10. financial aid from readers
11. Google Docs
12. Italian Image
13. Erroneous editing in the name of Education
14. Can't see logo in different browsers.
15. Comment on Ed Olczyk hockey Player/Announcer
16. error in formatting of References
17. Help
18. unable to view any picture
19. Templates for user pages

August 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 11

1. Zooming_articles_problem (further discussion)
2. How do I get license for photos I want to upload?
3. Why can't I edit "Category:African American rappers"
4. Online Jobs
5. File copyright problem
6. how do I fix a typo in a headline/page name?
7. Most Efficient Way to Edit or Correct Copy
8. Lost Account
9. "Find" command
10. I keep getting error 404 and I'm asked to reenter what I was searching for. I DIDN'T SEARCH FOR ANYTHING.
11. Changing names
12. bookcreator table of contents and index

August 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 12

1. Cute, cuddly kitty cats
2. Re: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
3. Picture in Chinese wiki
4. Redirect, special case
5. Class E power amplifier using low cost power mosfet.
6. Adding Someone
7. How to restore an article after accidental deletion of references
8. Editing a template: WWII DP camps
9. Twitter link in above post
10. Fix
11. username and password
12. New passwort needed
13. neutrality and Duplicity
14. New Name, but....
15. New link?
16. [Edit] bunching on Roy Oswalt
17. MWD as Wiki Page
18. Photos
19. Signature
20. updating the picture for pennywise

August 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 13

1. I accidentally deleted information on Juice Plus listing.
2. Conservation status
3. finding/checking on status of article
4. Renaming Category
5. Another talk page up for speedy deletion
6. RfA number thing broken
7. Secure login
8. removing Wikipedia warnings on references
9. Jukeball (game)
10. I've got a few points
11. Square brackets in external link
12. Abusive content
13. 2nd Opinion Please..
14. New article
15. A question about Prague that had no heading
16. Mediawiki
17. Template:Cite prefix search is inundated
18. Removing note article relying on single citation after updating article
19. Automation
20. Two open move/rename requests for same article
21. Dan Pawson
22. Song title within an album title

August 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 14

1. error logging in and someone appears to be using my account
2. What constitutes a "noteworthy" musical group?
3. Search Index
4. Help
5. IRC password
6. Title mistake
7. Article in Wikipedia
8. Curious question about images
9. About partnerships
10. How do I edit an infobox that has no edit facility?
11. Two classes in one
12. WP:Wikipedia is not a field guide
13. Change name
14. What do editors in the Uk and the US see when they click on this link?
15. Help needed
16. Slow loading from Internet to Wikipedia x 6 weeks
17. Is posting information about yourself considered a conflict of interest

August 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 15

1. How can I find out if a featured article has made it into a future release version?
2. I lost my product key
3. Adding our Company in WIKIpedia Articles
4. Wrong namespace for article
5. articles
6. Please add name
7. eric white (artist)
8. image upload
9. How to determine defaultsort
10. Are you going to answer this OR NOT - Please Read this and answer me as soon is possible My Friend Need full Support from face book Team

August 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 16

1. John Jarvis
2. Blacklist
3. union
4. How do I
5. Film Page for Vampires Suck (Twilight Parody)
6. copyright question
7. I redirected a page and now it is not searchable on google
8. Copy and paste - AfD votes
9. How to store a page

August 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 17

1. Sound file on userpage
2. Edit link not appearing
3. A person was accusing me of vandalism when I don't
4. Windows 7
5. Creating Wikipedia Username: Name already registered, but with no contributions
6. Ehow[.]com
7. Picture thumbs
8. Editorial comments in articles
9. Football kit colours
10. Vlado Popovic politician exists in serbocroat language Wiki -
11. Title/Heading
12. New pages stuck in user box
13. Policy for commercial Links?
14. Dan Pawson
15. History of the CB&Q Railroad in Galesburg, IL.
16. MOS: Best known for?
17. replace image with png
18. Why does the Google spell check not work on Wikipedia?
19. Cal State University Fullerton Alumni ( Forrest Whitaker not on your listing? )
20. How to remove citation box
21. Change Username Question
22. Logo Change
23. Cavalier
24. How do I publish an article to the website when it has been edited, it has been more than 4 days, and it is cited? I do not see a "publish to web" button?
25. taylor swift spell check
26. pastor Robert Morris
27. Hyphen

August 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 18

1. AIRES Flight 8250
2. Saving a wiki book?
3. help moving a draft article to a new article
4. Help Collapsing
5. Image Upload
6. Looking for a word
7. Writing an article in a different language than sources
8. Improper link within an article
9. Accessing the internet
10. Template:Infobox video game
11. I would like to create a Wiki page for my web site Movie Review Intelligence, which is a professional movie review web site
12. adding a link
13. proof-wiki - Template:Equation
14. Carlo Dini
15. Trying to link to spanish wiki

August 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 19

1. Table
2. User accounts
3. Wikiproject
4. User:Raj6644/National Waterway 4 - Template:InfoboxWatertransit - Help
5. Tallest Building in Singapore
6. Substitution Templates
7. Additional information about the Sweedish actress Martha Hedman.
8. how to make contents list in an article?
9. Age
10. Need a second set of eyes: can you see this picture?
11. Modflow
12. MonaVie Wikipedia
13. Image Display Problems on Existing Page
14. Image not rendered
15. Table doesn't sort properly
16. upload page protected
17. HOW CAN I RESEARCH THE NONES LANGUAGE (NOT LADIN) ?
18. Conversion
19. Search by suffix?
20. Substituting new passage for old one
21. Contacting a "celebrity" family member via any method, esp. E-mail
22. Article question
23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Emirati_Association
24. Media upload or Commons sandbox?
25. Wikipedia article Featured in most Languages
26. gastric bypass
27. Show/hide text box thingy...

August 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 20

1. Change didn't save
2. This month's queue
3. Making time tables
4. Ligatures
5. anonymous contributions
6. Can I use HTML on my user page?
7. How to I start a new Post/topic
8. Changing the title of a page.
9. External links
10. Box requesting citations at top of page
11. Highlighting spelling errors
12. Mark Lowenthal
13. getting p.hd in water resources management
14. What can I do about anonymous users making improper changes?
15. Phantoms in my watched list
16. re: Linda Christas College

August 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 21

1. User's stats
2. Can not log in
3. How to add another disambiguation or contact the admin to add it?
4. how do I make an entry about myself?
5. Uploaded a file
6. help needed help in font size
7. Categories
8. Authority to Semi-Protect Articles
9. Lasting links to specific sections of often-archived pages

August 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 22

1. Days of the week in articles
2. Graham Chapman
3. How do I capitalize a title???
4. How do I add Company Wikipedia
5. Reference fix?
6. Layout Problem
7. Main image problem
8. Singapore Karate-Do Federation
9. slightly odd one - drawing of BLP
10. problen with photo

August 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 23

1. birth dates
2. Uploaded image does not display
3. Help me find a quote
4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 23#.7B.7Btl.7Cadminhelp.7D.7D_duck.3F|{{adminhelp}} duck?]]
5. Image speedy deleted despite mail to OTRS
6. Useragent messages
7. Images in articles not showing?
8. Errors in my contribution
9. Forgotten password
10. Historical income data for US
11. God
12. Cerebral Palsy and Retardation
13. WRONG SPELLING
14. Suspect I'm being "stalked" by a Wikipedia user
15. Regarding the page "Brown University",
16. How do I delete a page from my user space?
17. Footnote list format
18. where can i send a letter of appreciation to Chuck Hagel
19. Requests for feedback
20. Who wrote specific article content
21. Template formatting issues
22. Sourcing question
23. Article completion

August 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 24

1. Article title revision
2. Regarding usefulness of articles
3. name change issue
4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing is getting blocked - virus alert
5. Linking CD Cover Art to Article
6. Article copy and paste into userspace
7. How to restore photo that no longer displays
8. In the article pertaining to Largest Exporter of Steel
9. Dual licensing
10. Euthanasia
11. Computer code warning
12. Please explain categories to me
13. Archives

August 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 25

1. linking question
2. Dear wikipedia.
3. KVIC
4. Mobile version on my iPod
5. Mobile view on iPod touch
6. File:SSL graphic.png
7. Search question: No subpages?
8. Unified account and bug in watchlist
9. Courtesy Blanking
10. Interwiki contributions
11. images from German Wikipedia
12. Deleted Article
13. Mistake in article about Brussels Airlines
14. Template tracking
15. looking for a template
16. images don't display on wikipedia
17. Movie Review Intelligence would like to be white-listed -- how?
18. bud day medal of honor recipient
19. some one hacked in to my facebook, now I can't login to it, facebook says because of phishing that they are doing I can't get into my account
20. I am trying to write an article about a company
21. Tracking the number of people sent to an article from a specific link
22. Batch article assessment without AWB
23. UPLOADING CROPPED IMAGES

August 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 26

1. -Why isn't there a section displaying a detailed listing of mathematics notions according to academic levels in the portal named Portal: Mathematics?
2. Table Positioning
3. navasha daya
4. Image size/de-uglification
5. Urban Definitions
6. English literature
7. detailed company history Vs promotional
8. Change Username
9. Reference Desk
10. Vandalism Issue Not being Resolved
11. Placename detail
12. Bylines
13. Priscilla Susan Bury - article
14. Article Deleted Without My Notice

August 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 27

1. Wikipedia balloon
2. User Warnings
3. Nigerian LGBT-related films
4. Sorting by age
5. Can you please restore a wikipedia article?
6. Abuse of the Reed Midem MIPIM Congress Customer information
7. Monetary value comparsions/In today's money
8. Wikipedia university outreach
9. I created a page using the wizard, but I don't know how to get it to actually show up?
10. Can't figure out coding; please help
11. TMobile
12. Integrating Wikimedia Commons image into Wikipedia infobox
13. advertising tag
14. "intitle" & "lookfrom" search options for section titles ?
15. Books
16. anyway of getting new Wiki articles only relating to psychology ?
17. Labshare

August 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 28

1. Jane Greer (poet)
2. NZ's Queen's Personal Flag
3. Moving item from User page to general access
4. Mount Kekneno, West Timor
5. Mistake in 2nd nomination for deletion
6. Article-count by category
7. No Wikipedia symbol on map?
8. Wiki instructions beyond my capacity to cope at the age of 80.
9. Is this a weasel word?
10. Redlinks question
11. Article layout is messed up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumaranalloor
12. TV identitiy
13. Only road trip of Jerry Livingston at the Van Cleve Hotel in Dayton Ohio in 1940, where I took photos of the Orchestra the only pictures of the Road Trip
14. I want to know how to make a new article.

August 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 29

1. Including a Task force on a Wikiproject Template
2. Major Bones , Muscles , Muscles Joints and Joint actions involved in Baseball batting.
3. mounting my information on Wikipedia
4. is my signature appropriate?
5. template for unbreakable space but without conversion
6. Requests for feedback
7. Saint Julian of Norwich :
8. Why is it "...likely to be deleted..."?
9. How can an active editor have no edits logged?
10. Copyright Material
11. Archiving

August 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 30

1. Problem with image file
2. United States presidential election, 1896
3. Change company logo
4. Pasta supremacy
5. Caboddle Ranch in Florida... not on Wikipedia
6. Moving pages
7. Delete of Userpage by OR or Webspace?
8. Help with blank lines appearing above infobox
9. Import procedure
10. I NEED AN SVG FILE OF BRADYCARDIA ECG.
11. I messed up checkuser
12. I WISH TO HAVE LIST OF FORMER CHIEF JUSTICES OF SUPREME COURT OF INDIA WITH PRESENT CONTACT ADDRESSES,TELEPHONE NUMBER AND E MAIL ID
13. A question on the right way to promote any wp-project site
14. how to flag neutrality issues in article for other editors
15. DVD purchase
16. a new article

August 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 31

1. where do I go on the site to write an article?
2. how do i embed a photo?
3. editing
4. telugu translation
5. Disrupting
6. please help me we have already established orphan home but economically lift up the possibiletes
7. HIGH YIELD INVESTMENT PROGRAM-
8. Reference formatting in mephedrone
9. the good old format
10. Removing an incorrect link.
11. Note at top of article - should it be there?
12. my username is not allowing access
13. text from wikia
14. Temporarily not online much?
15. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 31#.7B.7Bla.7CTunecrank.7D.7D|Tunecrank (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)]]
16. this is checked Resolved - it is not resolved - my work is not on Wikipedia
17. Hoax
18. Wikipedia logo