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June 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 1

1. How to challenge a reference
2. samssung corby plus(hydrid)
3. External Editor
4. Permanent Wiki URL?
5. Lisney Ltd
6. How long does a new article takes to appear in Search Result
7. Time to celebrate?
8. Diff between two shortish bits of text
9. How to delete temporary article
10. Lost login ID and Password i know which Email i made it from ...
11. Deletion of Tri Shakthi
12. Signing my post
13. False Usernames
14. Drive-By Downloads on the site! found by Norton Safe Web
15. RSS Feeds
16. Computer threat from wikipedia.org
17. Biography deleted
18. Edit in infobox doesn't show
19. Can pages be blocked from people editing?
20. Article claimed to be vandalism
21. Created article
22. Page tagged with template not showing up in category

June 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 2

1. Wiki stopped working on BlackBerry Fri May-07-2010
2. Problem
3. Difference between Twinkle's built-in reverter and Rollback?
4. Is there a place to request help in verifying material in pay only sites?
5. Performance
6. Applying {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} to a different page
7. Wayne Bonney
8. Recycling bin
9. Political affiliation
10. Cannot change one detail of a page I moved and edited.
11. Article translated by friend - does he need an account?
12. File extension does not match MIME type
13. Site change or is it me
14. I had a login and it does no longer work. Please Help!
15. Wilhelm Scream soundbyte removed
16. Request clean up of talk page at the Wrap-up tab of Wikipedia:Tutorial
17. General Aristide Razu article ,photos upload in the article?
18. Autograph-Cards LLC
19. Improper citation resource
20. General Aristide Razu
21. Teardown actually contains two articles
22. Why are my edits being deleted?
23. Image not showing up
24. What year was it established that IP addresses could not edit?

June 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 3

1. LA Rams - My Father?
2. Stadler Image
3. remove this pic
4. be alert! ip address stolen
5. How to place my article on another blog on Wikipedia?
6. Image shrunk to a point
7. Which Language is it?
8. Wrong name of article
9. Background color no longer uses my Windows setting
10. COI question
11. General Aristide Razu
12. Lady Gaga
13. figure it out episodes
14. General Aristide Razu's resources
15. I can't get to mobile mode!
16. Parsing Wiki XML Dumps ver0.4 just got tough
17. Aurora Organic Dairy - factual errors in content
18. new page
19. Photographs?
20. TFA - What is the point of this?

June 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 4

1. Ventro-ventral should be renamed
2. have photos etc to contribute for Steve Fossett bio re the search
3. Gary Coleman
4. I didn't disagree with you
5. How do I resize an image?
6. Thea Garrett (Controversy section)
7. Writing in red
8. Threats on my user page
9. linking to sub heading
10. Recreating an article
11. Adminship
12. uploading a new corporate logo to a company's existing article/page
13. templates with a number of red links
14. Vandalism
15. User account redirect to article page OK?
16. report abuse, IP issue
17. how do i extend the width of a section. The line only goes halfway across the page

June 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 5

1. Code can't be hidden in infobox
2. Complexity
3. Mobil wiki not working
4. Blocking?
5. Need help to revert the changes and add new subcategory on the config examples page.
6. Quick question
7. STiki
8. Mobile Wiki
9. iPhone devise browser format of Wikipedia articles has stopped working
10. Abusive comment
11. Making a page: will it be deleted if?
12. General of Division Aristide Razu
13. References
14. Mystery template
15. Jointing references?
16. Ancestry.com & Wikipedia
17. How to protest decision

June 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 6

1. Please forward my email to actor Eric Roberts
2. Archiving
3. What is the best warning template to use?
4. Ambulance passenger(s)
5. Trying to get an image file renamed, and am not allowed to upload
6. making link text a different color.
7. Deletion of Pages With an Outside Source
8. Substandard old FA articles
9. Errors on several articles
10. Looking for a template.
11. Wow!Thanks!
12. Login issues
13. references help - formatting
14. Musical notation
15. May I copy an article/chart for use in a lecture without written permission? If I need permission, how do I get it?
16. search engine
17. New messages
18. Admitting defeat: protected pages with expiry expired.
19. Uploading Pictures Created Created on Photoshop

June 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 7

1. Anthony Bustos and Sara Isaacson, DADT activists
2. How to Report Duplicate Pages?
3. parts
4. Can anyone fix this?
5. vmware
6. wikitable formatting problem
7. Babels
8. Red text, blue text
9. Want a job in Wikipedia
10. Ps3 browser problems
11. Deleted pages
12. Lowercasing an article name
13. Hiding IP address
14. wikipedia
15. article about General Aristide Razu deleted?
16. page move
17. Edmonton Clinic
18. Pokemon cheat codes
19. Mobile Redirect Disabled on My Android Device
20. Archiving my user talk page
21. User:Palu
22. Heavily referenced article disappears in only two weeks
23. Template:Cite journal not adding quote marks

June 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 8

1. Requesting unblock of User:45g
2. i can't add pictures
3. D
4. Citing an Image
5. missing determination
6. Create a biography
7. Lost account... help
8. Creating a new personal page on wikipedia
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today
10. Freemont
11. File:Ye Htoon.jpg
12. Wrong link to Miles Davis album on 'Miles Davis Discography' Wiki page
13. Siggy problem
14. help with the virtual retinal display article.
15. ethics
16. How to watchlist an article
17. How do I post a biography?
18. changing pages' colors to other than white
19. List of holby city characters
20. Audio and video sources
21. Book input

June 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 9

1. Wrong link for Light Up the Sky
2. Reporting vandalism on ChildFund International page
3. Dr Who cast list
4. Screenshot
5. Help writing either a template or a bit of inline wizardry
6. Glendon & Rushton Station website
7. Yacht racing photo
8. Book Creator Toolbox
9. Nominating an article for deletion.
10. Placing two images side by side
11. Reference to non-free newspaper from the google news archive.
12. Use of the word "British"
13. Someone who has some time on their hands
14. AIR FORCE GENERALS
15. Multiple archived urls, one source

June 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 10

1. My page was deleted, is not in the deletion log and not on deletionpedia
2. Puzzled, my page has references and still marked for deletion
3. DinoCroc
4. Alternative accounts
5. Updating an article on a person of historical importance
6. Are there any front-end programs for Wikipedia?
7. Clicking the Wiki markup features
8. How to view my user space's contents?
9. Dodgy Display
10. Trying to find a word starting with A
11. Possible BLP violation
12. I wish to sponsor a Wikipedia page. How much would it cost to get an ad there?
13. add a line to my talk without getting the line boxed
14. VP nominator template needed
15. Uploading Photos
16. Acceptable rates for automated access
17. Greyhound Lines-Wipedia the free encyclopedia
18. Watchlist
19. user name
20. General Aristide Razu's photos?

June 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 11

1. Global account
2. Second User Account Created
3. Image editing error
4. FONT TOO BIG
5. Signatures: How to link them to an actual userpage?
6. Help fix Wikipedia page
7. Upload a Delphi application to Wikipedia.
8. To Admins
9. Fighter
10. edit charcterisation software bug?
11. Taking vitamins
12. downloading wikepedia??
13. Universal Absolutism
14. Incorrect info on the 45th Grammy Awards Wikipedia page
15. Editing with factual content
16. residency code

June 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 12

1. Section shows nothing but a link when I clcik edit
2. figure of speech
3. Category Suppression based on Namespace
4. Archiving
5. Some recent Site change Instantly crashes my browser on every Wikipedia page!
6. P. L. Travers
7. Twinkle
8. Arabic
9. phonetics help
10. Scientific Notification in Wikipedia using unicode
11. gramatical question.
12. new page
13. Warnings
14. Problems with illustrations
15. Randomly placng Speedy Deletion tags

June 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 13

1. Warnings
2. Episodes
3. Collapsible Table
4. Spell checking in the editing box
5. Accidentally clicked "Email New Password"; can't remember which email address I had linked to wikipedia.
6. Virus - Wiki or Google
7. sort of racism in Zwahili language article
8. Uncollapsing a template
9. talk page doesn't show last sections
10. False Information About Ariana Afghan Airlines
11. User-Agent blocking problem !
12. Need delete chatroulette article!
13. How to Add Headings to a Wiki Page?
14. Translated books in citation templates
15. Marcelo Bielsa Bio
16. small computer memory made from switches
17. I am trying to figure out hoe to move my article from my user page to 'out there'. I see no move arrow that someone else talked about.Statenisland777 (talk)

June 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 14

1. Why am I not autoconfirmed?
2. Does anybody know how to bypass Chrome's cache?
3. prjects on commercial mathematics
4. WATERBURY , CONNECTICUT PICTURES
5. Activate Window XP
6. Dark matter question/hypothesis
7. Adding Commons images to en Wiki categories
8. Music Genre
9. Interwiki links between the nine Language RDs
10. Identifying the original contributor of article text
11. move-ing on...but not sure i did it right!
12. Medals
13. page view stats - down sharply
14. Link to a picture within an article
15. Edit Count and Oversight?
16. Aristide Razu
17. User Name to Name
18. Copy and paste?
19. Oops, did I make a mistake?
20. What's up with Collapsible tables

June 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 15

1. Naming help
2. IP address
3. about rajkot
4. The Passion of Christ
5. My Own Automated Archiving
6. BioControl article
7. Use of Wikipedia logo
8. Want to Check with Wikipedia Editors - Several Articles About the College Where I Teach Have Been Deleted in the Past. Don't Want to Write an Article in Vain - Dr. Lara
9. picture won't show
10. Merge editor accounts
11. Unable to export article with sanskrit font Alinel (talk) 10:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Bala
12. Help with translation of WW11 japanese medal
13. Using Images
14. Only qualify for one?
15. Spanish vandal
16. eutimes.net
17. Interwikis displaying twice at WP:MCQ?
18. Adding a journal reference to an article
19. Internet Explorer 8 no longer defaulting to search box
20. Where does one see the flagged revisions edits?
21. List of newest accounts
22. How should I convert currencies?
23. Business Cited Incorrectly in the "Freestone, CA" entry
24. 2 dias sin badoo
25. Blocked account creation...

June 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 16

1. Can't create an account
2. is someone else passing off my ip address as their own?
3. "Bump"
4. Unsigned comment by 74.104.31.56 (talk • contribs • [http://dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall/?ip=74.104.31.56/ info] • [http://toolserver.org/~chm/whois.php?ip=74.104.31.56 WHOIS])
5. Kinda new here...
6. Signature problem
7. Eliminating Duplicate Userboxes by merge?
8. Copy Right Permission ( to add on my Website)
9. Need to update the wikipedia entry on the organisation I work for
10. SD-TTSurekh Font not recognised by the wiki editor. Need help in exporting an english article with Sanskrit font (SD-TTSurekh - Devanagari). This is my second posting. Please Help !!
11. Guides Logo
12. Can wikipedia content be copied/pasted to create another webpage?
13. Pending changes' impact on Lupin's AVT
14. Fair Use
15. hi
16. CALA Page removal
17. parking
18. change my page name
19. I recently created a Userspace Draft and I'm not sure how to get it posted (I've tried to figure it out myself and have become hopeless)
20. Autofilling comments filter
21. Links to resources for parents (books) or support groups (external links)
22. HELP
23. Stubs
24. Good faith misuse of DAB page
25. how to change a draft page into a wikipedia page
26. Old Format
27. Move articles
28. Yodel Australia?

June 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 17

1. Template trouble
2. Tags in the lede
3. I made mistake in my article title HELP!
4. Substituting Magic Words In Templates
5. Linking Commons
6. Adding Links to References
7. how do i vote to keep a person in Wikipedia who is threatened with deletion of his listing?
8. CONTACT NOS. OF MR. MUSTAFA JAFFER
9. Why was a Link Removed?
10. Deleting Bad Images
11. Cape buffalo in Cape Agulhas
12. Help
13. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
14. Magnesium
15. Unable to edit original successfully
16. talk page archiving

June 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 18

1. change a microformatted article to a form Google can find.
2. Category:LGBT people of Puerto Rican descent
3. Wrong photo
4. Sharing my journals/blogs..
5. IP Address inadvertent use
6. What Links Here ... order?
7. How to find coordinates
8. a readable map
9. Editor abuse
10. How to change title of article?
11. Wikibreak Enforcer
12. Submitting an article on a subject that has been protected
13. How do i tag a section of an article to highlight that it needs references
14. Loss of Log In ID
15. Reverting edits
16. Question
17. Wikifood
18. copyright permission
19. Log In ID
20. Weird image problem

June 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 19

1. Can somebody help
2. Editing english version of page for hometown
3. Confusing administrative double-standards
4. Uploading Google Map.
5. Bookmarking favourite articles.
6. Maps for Streams via External Link
7. Election - member tables.
8. Is my article published?
9. Manchester Apollo Manchster
10. Carburetor Dung
11. Mancheste
12. Link a dispute template to the associated "talk" section
13. General Aristide Razu /pictures are disappearing?
14. The wallbirds
15. Is there anyway I can convert your tables to excel sheets
16. Seeing the Mainpage from previous times
17. we went on criags list and ended up here
18. Citing sources

June 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 20

1. Is there an automated way to determine if an article has broken links?
2. Huge White Space at bottom of Wiki pages
3. Mystery Diagnosis TV Show
4. Undo / Revert
5. Mediawiki spam blacklist
6. Problem printing with "New Features" on Wikipedia...
7. Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
8. Reaching for the Moon
9. quoting complex URLs to "cite web", etc.
10. Question about creating pages for a company and its owner (probable COI)
11. chewing tobacco
12. Wikipedia categories by size
13. Babylon & Wikipedia
14. Photographs - how do they get uploaded onto a wikipedia page?
15. Signature
16. Page editing - why are my [edit] links bunched at bottom of page?
17. sortability with two row headers

June 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 21

1. When do birthdays start?
2. Anyone ever gotten 403 errors for all Wikipedia/Wikimedia images?
3. beta webs
4. We sent this info on nowsthetime.org two weeks ago and it has not
5. Wikibooks - awesome idea, but what about a "disable notes, references and external links"-function?
6. Image from wikitravel.org
7. Uploading photo
8. jabber chat
9. Oracle
10. Suitability of picture
11. Problems linking to a video
12. Clarification
13. Greetings-Researcher Permission?
14. Interaction
15. Replacing company logo
16. Embeded video
17. Infoboxes
18. Image problem
19. Requesting a new infobox

June 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 22

1. encrypting special characters letters in the ps2 console game, for call of duty.
2. Video in article
3. Speed limit thru round about
4. 9mm luger bullets
5. mobile sim manufacturing
6. Retrospectively linking IP and wiki ID
7. Wiki Statistics about articles/pages etc.
8. statistics on user profiles
9. how to create column at the right
10. New user to upload photo
11. Problems in creating a Wilki Book
12. Interpretation of policy
13. Problem with printing
14. Vertical text
15. Namechange- Password etc.
16. Need help correcting an image
17. Toad Outbreak
18. Copyright
19. Delete the page title "Farmleigh Fellowship"
20. bug in pdf creation script for multi-language entries
21. Researchers
22. Tabulating machine content about Nazi Germany
23. Michelle Morgan
24. Semi-Protected Pages
25. Verifiability / web page disappeared
26. I can't find out . .
27. ellipsis and quotations.
28. What if voters in an AFD contradict Wiki guidelines
29. May I publish original research about origins of 5 Wikipedia articles on my user talk page?
30. How do I transfer or copy and paste an article I prepared in my log-in page and submit it for review. Can it be reviewed in my user page?

June 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 23

1. Question about articles
2. Can't log into account
3. Reversing a redirect
4. about XML Schema of "pages-articles.xml" dump
5. translation
6. Photo licensing
7. How to use image found in Chinese Wikipedia?
8. Holy Apostles
9. Subpage
10. Blocking Content From Being Edited By Unauthorized Individuals
11. referencing birthdates
12. There was a bit of an earthquake just now here in Toronto. Now what?
13. Persecution complex
14. NOT creating an account & adding onto someone else's post
15. Logged me out
16. Review log?
17. User contribution search on specific articles
18. to know what are the companies which provides free recharge for mobile research panel.

June 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 24

1. I HAVE A FUNK &WAGNALLS NEW STANDARD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNIVERSAL KMOWLEDFGE COPYRIGHT1931
2. Tags & searching through my contributions
3. How to make revisions requested by a wikipedia editor
4. subject editing
5. RIR readout and dynamic ip's?
6. Editing reference list in entry?
7. comment to talk page
8. Intra-article link
9. John Lehman Hyman Rickover
10. Primary Source and Locations of Headquarters
11. Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (television)
12. flagged revisions turned on yet?
13. Suggestion and log in issues
14. Technical problem
15. References
16. help with making my page go live
17. Link to wrong individual
18. How to share a e-mail source of informations?
19. Wierd overlap different by browsers Iodine pentoxide
20. Was I automatically logged in?
21. Accident
22. new autobiography by NZ author

June 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 25

1. Halp?
2. question
3. How to automate filling in info into cite web template?
4. Tesco Kipa is a Turkish chain supermarket specialising in food. It is currently majority owned by Tesco and as such, uses the Tesco name. Tesco Kipa official site
5. hate speech on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community
6. Discussing a photo
7. Tagging
8. Bad Usernames
9. Kish Khodro Ltd, Kish Island Iran
10. Sloth (deadly sin) article layout problem
11. Hello
12. Tennis Gold Coast
13. Topic
14. Wiki "filtering"???

June 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 26

1. What if i want to write an article about a local hero?
2. External Link getting rejected
3. Editing the semi-protected banner?
4. Can anyone recommend a better tool for filling out cite templates?
5. Texas State Highway 114
6. Problem with tags
7. Help me understand about No Original Research
8. Unconstructive Editing, and Possible Vandalism
9. Delete a page created by me
10. Disambiguation issue with Béla Bartók article
11. EDL
12. How does draft become a mainspace article?
13. Ozzy Osbourne's new single
14. Tracy Wright, multiple references to same article
15. why
16. Improvement of "Aristide Razu" article
17. "Zoe Mandrea " article

June 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 27

1. I've got a range of Questions
2. Trivia
3. entry for 'RGS Atalanta'
4. Delete an Article
5. Improper "branching" of a template due to a copy/paste move
6. image thumb problem
7. Redirect
8. MOS guidance wanted - capitalization for title of English work with French title
9. diff for an archived page?
10. Category merging - need help from experts
11. Editor Gender
12. Need an old version of a deleted article

June 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 28

1. Help with editing an article
2. Sources
3. Problem with nonfactual comment tarnishing enterprise (Symmecon Marketing).
4. On a UK-PBF and the UK aspect of Wikipedia
5. for edit more
6. Question about deleted article
7. Unable to make edits to Patch (website) wiki page, or other town pages that have patch.com websites
8. All your base are belong to us
9. Strange message from T L Mles
10. Please help me.
11. WP:GAN changes
12. Forgot to login before editing
13. "berkeley food and housing project" >> Berkeley Food and Housing Project
14. skye prison article
15. How to change font for one character?

June 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 29

1. Template to ignore/disregard discussion
2. Potential conflict in naming article in English or Portuguese
3. Articles for creation
4. Pls. Allow Edit in " Ezhava "
5. Maai Heeran
6. How to get back on
7. Locating businesses by zip code
8. Several Wikipedia stuff
9. Etiquette when attempting to calm incivility
10. Bar of links on the top-right of my user/talk pages/subpages
11. Reference footnote question
12. Tool ?
13. property owners rights
14. formating
15. I've got a range of Questions (2)

June 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 30

1. Sandbox (how to make article hidden)
2. How do I get my article to be posted?
3. operations on amadeus crs
4. article naming of 2 churches with the same dedication St Thomas à Becket
5. Daniel J. Bernstein (1918-1970)
6. Smurfs episode list
7. Villiages and Towns Lost when State and Federal Parks are made
8. Splitting page history
9. What happens when you google "I can read wikipedia". The slur ni**er page appears.
10. Intrinsic Identification of Surname
11. Deletion of page
12. images