Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2009

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December 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 1

1. Deletion
2. Protection
3. How do you add a new word to Wikipedia
4. Maths formulae - Cyrillic?
5. way sending article for this site ..
6. Practical differences between a stub and a normal article
7. Wikipedia Mobile application
8. percentage of all pages that are talk pages
9. Speedy deletion of Redirect
10. Firefox
11. Problems uploading an article on Greyhound Recycling & Recovery
12. Employment
13. CorenSearchBot - how to remove??
14. Display on mainpage
15. goof up at List of Smoking Bans in US
16. References
17. Templates
18. Wikipedia value versus use Why Donate?
19. Adding info to infobox
20. Download logs
21. New message notification
22. Articles with Same Name-Default Appearance

December 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 2

1. washington monument
2. Pictures
3. Google search wildcards
4. What to write for no breaks
5. A problem with wikipedia in Firefox. Please, help.
6. Guideline for location wikilinks
7. adding new article
8. Unit symbols in ranges
9. Bold not working
10. Moving Airport Bratsk to AeroBratsk
11. trying to log in
12. Unable to reference website on wikipedia page
13. Viewing block logs for a CIDR range
14. Adding an article for a social network
15. Download Recent Changes
16. Hello
17. Why does Category:People from Kansas City, Missouri redirect to Category:People from the Kansas City metropolitan area?
18. I misspelled the title for an article I authored

December 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 3

1. Finding mediawiki messages
2. publishing problem / save page caution message
3. Editing toolbar
4. Brown Lake
5. Question about TV Show pages (and possibly Merge/Delete?)
6. LOGIN info, please
7. Username problem
8. Spamfilter
9. User page Page protection
10. Migration
11. google searching locates text in a wikipedia entry, but wikipedia entry does not include the text (why?)
12. Cannot access account
13. enviromental organizations
14. Infoboxes
15. "Template loop detected"
16. Wikipedia editor review in my Sandbox

December 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 4

1. Can't find a link within an article
2. Adding an image to an existing page
3. No INR donation option
4. Bookmarking Paricular Items for a Personal Wiki
5. Autocomplete on Wikipedia
6. Photos at Flickr
7. Deleted?
8. No regional presence in India
9. difference between two companies should be added
10. Editing Advice
11. Sources
12. I ask a Q in the RD. It's removed. I ask the editor about it in the editor's talk page. It too was removed. Now what do I do?
13. Why am I not an "Autoconfirmed User" yet?
14. Keep up with new articles
15. Reviewing an article
16. New Topic

December 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 5

1. Patrolled
2. Wikipedia edit stats
3. How to download and use a labeled image map
4. Days of the year RSS feed
5. linking new account (username) to old edits done under anon. IP address
6. Auto archiving your user talk page
7. Questions Comments to ensure Publication
8. Author Page Publication
9. Windy City Blues Society
10. Problem with refreshing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old
11. Unwanted bold-face in wikipedia table, bug?
12. Annoying bug
13. Search bar

December 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 6

1. Contact
2. How the person in coma will recure?
3. New articles
4. HTTPS with HTTP content mixed
5. Inserting messages in article namespace
6. adding
7. Name conflict
8. search results give wikipedia.org link, but clicking doesn't link to article, but instead asks me to save the file
9. reviewing an article

December 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 7

1. Lansing crusaders
2. Citing legal documents
3. Inserting an image
4. source problem in college
5. Voluntary translation of a German wikipedia page to English
6. Cherokee Studios - wtf!?
7. Saul Ewing Page
8. Text search in category and its sub-categories
9. Use of WikiProjects for improving and creating articles related to Oxfam
10. How to store a document for reference material
11. what's the easiest way to
12. Missing article
13. Uploading Photos/Logos
14. Lyrics question

December 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 8

1. Toolserver Acct
2. A possible homework question
3. How to dispute fairness of an entry?
4. draftspace to mainspace
5. Optimization of Search for "AIMS"
6. Watch list and languages
7. Captcha
8. Lost page
9. "This article is written like an advertisement
10. what to do with really long citations
11. How do I put an admin who is doing a bad job up for review?
12. Facebook Problems
13. Image upload isn't appearing properly
14. Pictures
15. my userpage

December 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 9

1. donations
2. Firefox won't remember me as a user
3. Archiving a talk page
4. Question about adminship
5. can not find article
6. Where to now
7. Deprecation
8. copying files to other language wikis
9. Image links
10. template coding help please
11. Vandalism
12. Sandbox?
13. Image filename confusion
14. Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative
15. ages
16. editing someones sig..
17. Ruth Gordon article

December 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 10

1. are you being served
2. English Wikipedia & Instant-runoff voting (the topic, not the article)
3. how to reference an article
4. After completing my B.Tech in Computer Science, what all courses can i join in ?
5. Mixing citation styles
6. Date of Original Posting Needed
7. Sandbox heading
8. Citing a Historian (person) as a Source
9. commons image name conflict
10. Having some trouble
11. uploading
12. combined intitle: and incategory: search?
13. Independence Day Reception
14. Translating from English to another language

December 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 11

1. Change name on listing for Q (music video director)
2. How do you link to a category?
3. Search box drop-down: ordering?
4. Creating a Topic
5. Problem accessing in site
6. Cross reference to other languages
7. Help.
8. Aligning tables and images
9. Un-archiving a discussion
10. Page created not posted
11. Report corporate sock-puppets
12. Signature

December 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 12

1. IE8 behaving strangely
2. Search suggestions. Please, please, please how to get rid of them!
3. Reference issue
4. where to Recommendations to Template:itn
5. How do I edit the scientific classification section on an article?
6. Refrain from donating
7. connecting copywright info to image
8. Is there a tutorial for the cite court template?
9. Unable to log in OR create account

December 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 13

1. Adding New Page Request - Please make a new page!
2. ? problem with map & coord rendering
3. Sock puppets
4. Uploading pictures
5. Shrinking Display
6. how to get authorised
7. Could you help me with a word? "Feeder school"
8. Is the voting secret to the general public?
9. "Edit page" header...
10. Is it possible to edit and article when there is no "Edit this Page" tab?

December 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 14

1. Page ordering snafu
2. Google Earth images
3. Policy about CAM/Alternative Medicine
4. Wikipedia and the News
5. .ws domain
6. Signing Issues
7. INR option is not available.
8. Formal Request for a high level Review of Climate Articles to find out whether lobby groups are editing
9. Rollbacking
10. Vandalism standards
11. Linking IP adresses to Username
12. Template double direct problems
13. Image Copyright Status
14. redirect title
15. Copyright Question
16. unblock my server
17. Search text in lead section
18. Testing
19. What is "Wikiwak" and how do I delete a page from it?
20. Picture Problem
21. Editing references
22. What is "Wikiwak" and how do I delete a page from it?
23. Redlinked categories?

December 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 15

1. How do I redirect?
2. Asking for arbitration/moderation in an article.
3. Getting Rid of Accounts and Changing Their Usernames
4. Donating
5. How to post a video/movie?
6. Passport for my son
7. Linking to another page
8. image and heading help
9. Why auto-reload?
10. lanjauge
11. Need an article changed asap if possible! Thanks.
12. How do I search for articles starting with the word "List", but exclude redirects?
13. How to cite references?
14. Missing revisions
15. How to find editors who will email authors
16. Are there any experienced editors here who can help me with a WP:CABAL?
17. Linking to a version not explained, bad anchor link, confusion
18. Jamestown
19. Redirects
20. Wikipedia main site in Russian?

December 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 16

1. Delete a page
2. linking to wikipedia in other languages
3. Project search question
4. contributing an article
5. Creating a new page
6. Can't login
7. held article
8. debate over the correct usage of bylaw
9. Untitled question
10. football
11. editing while 'waiting' for my article to be published
12. Wafaa (name)
13. WikiProject suggestions wanted
14. How to find recent featured article
15. Should I start 10-20 Wikipedia accounts?
16. question regarding an notice I received from Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales)
17. Image with no copyright but the contact person from website says "go ahead !"
18. Conflict of interest
19. dummy accounts
20. Template
21. Hello
22. Incomplete article history
23. Main Page

December 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 17

1. my home page has been hijacked by a wikipedia page
2. Helpme question at User talk:Scubeesnax
3. How do Videos/Movies work?
4. Where do I go to start this discussion?
5. testicular torsion
6. Image insertion in infobox Tabqa Dam
7. Permission to use information on Wikipedia
8. Deleting an article
9. Automatic link creation policy
10. we want to purchase flags reprasenting each country
11. I didn't find information about a town here in WV = Ronceverte ? Help?
12. Searching within an article
13. Dumb Licensing Question
14. Wiki Foretold?
15. When is the appropriate time to use strikeout?
16. Webfetti
17. Using the "search" function on your home page
18. Profile
19. Vandalism
20. Access to the wikitable sortable variable?
21. Book won't download

December 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 18

1. Who's Dated Who
2. Direct links to other Wikipedias
3. Santa Ana River 1938 flood image
4. Complete copy-paste in Agriculture in Syria
5. donating problem urgent
6. Name & Info Change
7. Present/Past Tense
8. Persuasive Essay
9. Hitler
10. cryptographic hash
11. Is my article ready?
12. Function to either hide the left sidebar or increase textsize on only the content article?
13. Weird result from coding
14. Will I regret creating an account from a non-static IP?
15. Do not want account
16. Small text
17. how to submit a name and bio for Wikipedia?
18. Citing sources vs. providing external links
19. Image deletion
20. Unhide Template
21. How to Download thousands of wikipedia in PDF
22. Would like to find out where abouts of one Hindu Goddess by the name "Rajura Devi" Or "Rajara Devi" or "Rajala Devi"

December 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 19

1. 2 Grammar / Wiki questions
2. Modify entry name
3. age template with iso date
4. Book stores query
5. Changing Passwords
6. Box with broken blue lines
7. Joining and/or editing
8. barnstar
9. template
10. Reading articles on Blackberry
11. Image on Commons with name needed for template

December 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 20

1. Image licence question
2. Error: too many #time calls
3. Customize text above edit box
4. Adding An Article
5. Killed in action
6. google advertising
7. Associate my account with a new email
8. Use of Google Earth images (again)

December 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 21

1. Question
2. using my name in a disambiguation page
3. In the category: 1987 Births...
4. Organized AnonIP vandalization
5. bv3dsxcssdq
6. contacting admins
7. Red Panda
8. Adding links to Wikipedia articles to my website
9. TFD
10. BRAD101
11. Importing from Wikia?
12. Velm, Inc.
13. Collapsed tables
14. Please fix category
15. Request IP check
16. "This article does not cite any references or sources"

December 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 22

1. how to donate my article to Wikipedia
2. Site blacklist
3. My Settings / My Preferences
4. Contesting deleted page?
5. Overcharge
6. Huggle's adding to my watchlist, and I want it stopped
7. delete?
8. Lower case name of article, how'd I do that?!
9. User pages
10. Blood group inheritance
11. Second nomination for deletion
12. Watchlist queries...
13. Can't get new password because my email has changed
14. Comments by Wiki staff on my editorial comments:
15. While I applaud the efforts of your founder
16. Wiki to HTML
17. Werewolf article
18. Mac computer--gmail email movies with quicktime

December 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 23

1. Adding references to Tammy Miranda Music
2. May I write a new page on this topic?
3. LOST YELLOW LAB RETRIEVER KILLED BY SHELTER IN BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA
4. seeking information about a painting
5. Searching using "prefix:" and "intitle:"
6. Format article, please
7. Uncreated categories
8. Short box?
9. Question about a citation
10. Differences between advertising and just information
11. Deleted pages -- record of edits

December 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 24

1. 2 articles on the same thing
2. Having trouble with a custom signature...
3. JS on talk page
4. Cannot Setup the WIkiFIlter to Work with either Apache or IIS in sevrer 2008
5. Medieval Warming Period
6. Signature blues
7. Download article titles
8. Text quality
9. How to publish my Page?
10. Uploading new images?
11. How to remove redirect while keeping sandbox?
12. Virginia College
13. aashrama jeevitham
14. template for tagging disputes of licenses?

December 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 25

1. Usage of material
2. Curtis Mathes TV
3. article an photo
4. Template:Fb and Template:Fb-rt
5. Extra code on top of new image
6. I need help with searching and disambiguation

December 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 26

1. hi...
2. Disambiguation of a minor previous entry to a new major entry of the same name
3. Administrator
4. soccer
5. RADHA the movie
6. Toolbox antics
7. erroneous article
8. TOU violation?
9. Changing my archive bot
10. moving from user pages to articles space

December 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 27

1. Table trouble
2. route location
3. Opening article drafts for review
4. Return/get first word of page title
5. Vandalism
6. creating category article
7. Umm kinda stupid question :S
8. Bob Marley
9. Sound clips
10. adding a full article from an official source to the minimal bio already existing in Wikipedia
11. ridding an article of inappropriate templates
12. Graphemes
13. Alt text parameter for an infobox
14. Fix
15. 1.000.000
16. something is wrong with an article
17. Federal Ruling

December 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 28

1. english grammar
2. citations
3. Me and Sockpuppetry
4. New User Help (merged)
5. Image reversion
6. Protection
7. search/go
8. Favorite articles
9. Rollback rights?
10. Gadgets
11. guardian ad litem
12. Problem editor
13. How to correct bulk misspellings in Wiki Commons images
14. InfoBox and notability question
15. How to edit a title

December 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 29

1. A PENNY OF YEAST
2. frustrations at being booted out.
3. Signature
4. why don't you put advertisement ?
5. Twinkle
6. What categories are not showed in the lower part of the page?
7. How to handle information in article that has nothing to do with stated subject
8. Vandalism to semi-protected article
9. Cleaning up
10. Cited for lack of references
11. transclude pages in category
12. Cannot log in
13. Untitled question
14. Wiki on the iPhone
15. :File:Nintendodsbrowserds.jpg
16. A letter as a Secondary source

December 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 30

1. Rollover Text
2. Size of Wikipedia on particular date
3. New York Steak
4. size
5. Project page Article's classes not getting updated
6. Moving a Title
7. Account Creator Tool
8. User contributions
9. Virus alert when accessing eBay article
10. Two entries for one title
11. Search
12. Navigating in "All Pages"
13. I will no longer use Wikipedia.
14. Is "sandbox" a specific Wikipedia system item, or just a vague term?
15. updating head line on google search
16. Table
17. Help with creating an article
18. Football titles
19. History data bug for United States Constitution
20. Commenting on rights requests and other requests
21. vandal and personal attack
22. Mirror site
23. Convert a sandbox article to a wikipedia article.
24. Cannot Get My Product Included In Comparison Listing
25. Where to buy
26. Special:PrefixIndex
27. Help Needed with Wikipedia Article
28. User name different when signed than what it actually is

December 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 31

1. $now
2. Nuclear Core Bonding
3. Margins on articles in general
4. Search box suggestion
5. RfA
6. Have I found the right help desk?
7. Orphan
8. Undoing Cluebot
9. Composers births/deaths
10. index.php
11. Putting Article Sections up for deletion
12. How do I find a page I edited in the past?
13. Music - popular children's song