Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/March 2010

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March 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 1

  1. Removing warnings from user talk pages
  2. really dumb question- autoconfirmed?
  3. Languages
  4. Generating map pngs
  5. DYKCheck not working in Google Chrome?
  6. William S. Burroughs
  7. Two articles I didn't write are attributed to me
  8. hugh johnson biog
  9. weight measurement
  10. School Name changes
  11. MENDIP HILLS ARTICLE
  12. Why does my edit not save for any longer then 5 minutes?

March 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 2

  1. Is there easy way to get diffs of my contributions on particular articles?
  2. Create new tables
  3. What do you consider to be unauthorized copy right information
  4. Deleting a "votes for deletion page"
  5. Help with Categories
  6. Rollbacks without permission
  7. why is your website so god damned fucked up ?
  8. Why is it 'vandalism'???
  9. Wrong period of time in table with release date
  10. Twinkle
  11. Revert help
  12. Barbara Baird-Filliter
  13. My edit didn't happen
  14. Template deletion notification
  15. Looking for information about painter
  16. Creating redirect page

March 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 3

  1. Reverting Updated Information
  2. Post natal depression PPD
  3. Where is a good place to let editors know about a new template I created?
  4. basic template query.
  5. my suggestion
  6. Formatting of Sydney Ferries page
  7. forgoten pasword for my fax2email account
  8. Deletion nomination error
  9. who do I ask to get a block removed?
  10. Locating Move Tab
  11. pronunciation guides?
  12. Article categorization.
  13. Searching
  14. Not allowing me to edit a page
  15. Changed email address and password lost
  16. Vandalism

March 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 4

  1. Untitled
  2. Uploading a Graph made w/ Excel
  3. "New" message on my IP talk page
  4. Bold move?
  5. Downloading Wikipedia software
  6. Articles' Quality Rating within WikiProjects
  7. My New Page
  8. Create book bug
  9. Updating filetype of image
  10. Help with misformatted table
  11. how to add "share" to toolbox
  12. Uploading an Image File
  13. Help!
  14. Two questions - posting images and verifying yourself if you have a wikipedia page
  15. Where are the episode counts in the character infobox?
  16. Excuse me...
  17. How To Add Scripts
  18. {{!xt3}}
  19. 2010 California gubernatorial election

March 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 5

  1. If we can't write it...
  2. {{!xt3}} Not Working
  3. Request for article on other wikis
  4. I didn't know
  5. Merging All Accounts
  6. Help with table
  7. The league
  8. How to change the info in a block on a page
  9. How do I...

March 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 6

  1. How do you change an incorrect hyperlink?
  2. How do you deal with a pencil neck
  3. IMDB
  4. studies
  5. L Ron Hubbard -missing information?
  6. Printing Problem on one particular page...
  7. file:Las Vegas (7-20-08) 1056.jpg
  8. Using lasers for breathing problems
  9. Asiria

March 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 7

  1. Section linking... within images?
  2. I'm Steve Fonyo
  3. How do you upload an image?
  4. copyright violation The Enchanted Dance
  5. e-recharge
  6. Watched Pages
  7. John Addison 1765 Professor of Music
  8. how to propogate the Clivia? I looked it up and people were talking about this but I couldn't find the info to the question?
  9. editing the schizoid page
  10. what links to a section?
  11. purple day for epilepsy article
  12. Irrelevant templates transcluded
  13. Wikipedia list of Chevaliers of the Order of Arts and Letters
  14. a gun with a 1856 logo on it

March 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 8

  1. Gadget
  2. Using a youtube channel or video as a additional source
  3. Speedy deletion question
  4. Vandalism question
  5. How do I get an account on wikipedia?
  6. Error on your main page (wrong item in "on this date")
  7. Inquiry...
  8. Same User name (Login) for all Wikipedias
  9. redirections to other languages and using Tables "in common"
  10. The note at the end of the Alice in Wonderland section
  11. Articles to edit and SuggestBot
  12. Accidentally deleted content in sandbox Template: X5
  13. hoe to add a profile
  14. Changing an existing image

March 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 9

  1. What are some respected publishing houses on history?
  2. Wikipedia toolbar
  3. T Table
  4. wikipedia toolbox...continued
  5. Number of successor states
  6. Viewing articles with other browsers
  7. Is the account transferable ??
  8. What part of the code makes editnotice work?
  9. User box and delated image
  10. Information Box
  11. Road Conditions for Hwy 84 in Louisiana
  12. Redirecting links from Edible Landscaping to specific plants already referenced.
  13. Need to publish a story -- but have no "move" tab
  14. Question
  15. Separate tables in separate sections being unappropriately associated when page is published
  16. external links editing goes to further readings category instead
  17. What?
  18. Claps and Boos
  19. Search box dropdown list
  20. Eliott Spitzer

March 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 10

  1. Help creating links
  2. Proper fair-use template
  3. Copyvio and "permission"
  4. Revert to prior version?
  5. Assistance for including Matrix Telecom in Wikipedia
  6. DELETION OF ACCOUNT
  7. Mountains of the Marche
  8. suggestion
  9. How do I create a new Wiki page
  10. Just seeking feedback that I did this right
  11. Changing a phone number
  12. :file:Nash SpecOps Equipment.JPG
  13. Line breaks
  14. Previous entry
  15. 76.178.246.119: accidentally edited from IP
  16. Significant source tagline
  17. craigslist

March 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 11

  1. RfA
  2. What If I use the information posted by others on wikipedia, is there any guidline for the same?
  3. Newly created account
  4. Missing password
  5. How does this work?  : fr: Canal de la Colme
  6. Book help
  7. Font size
  8. Table problem
  9. Why does my Wikipedia not retrieve d by a Google search
  10. Edit count
  11. User:Ecw.technoid.dweeb/𪷎𪷉𪷄𪸘𪸘𪵞
  12. Template for section copyvio?
  13. Dispute Resolution
  14. Horse and Country TV
  15. How to change color of Portal?
  16. My contribution was deleted without reason

March 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 12

  1. Difference between alt text and rollover text?
  2. How do I stop vandalism faster?
  3. Layout in a template
  4. U NO HU
  5. "New unreviewed article"
  6. Geoff Waring BIO
  7. Possible vandalism?
  8. Image placement
  9. Plot summary
  10. info box will not allow edits on this site - how do I add content?
  11. Layout of a template
  12. Shrinking div boxes to fit text
  13. Failure to a detailed infobox
  14. Talk page vandalism
  15. Language Swap
  16. Irish Water Safety
  17. Page move
  18. Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST
  19. Wikipedia futures
  20. Firefox Glitch
  21. Organizational structures in Middle East

March 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 13

  1. How can I edit this template?
  2. External links deleted
  3. Sikes Senter Mall
  4. NPP help: odd disambiguation pages, and more.
  5. Link to section title containing []
  6. about presenting an article.
  7. Offensive edit summary
  8. No access from particular IP
  9. Dsipute resolution
  10. Christina Dior Page
  11. Gadget to display disambiguation links?
  12. Navigation popups gadget: loads more kbs?
  13. Do gadgets require additional resources?
  14. Talk pages: see if "real" comments? ("filter out" templates?)
  15. Use of pictures
  16. Wikify
  17. Cover picture for book
  18. Forgotten password
  19. Page not coming up when doing a Search
  20. What is wrong with the star?
  21. Pronunciations
  22. Ancestry

March 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 14

  1. Assistance with creating an account and error made
  2. Subcategory
  3. Mechanics of adding a comment to help improve a Wikipedia article
  4. Backward "R"
  5. Hi
  6. WMRO-AM Radio, Gallatin, TN
  7. Instructor wanted
  8. Login question

March 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 15

  1. Template states
  2. Vandalism Level on all pages
  3. Wikipedia:Template_messages/Maintenance
  4. A few questions
  5. Hello!
  6. Colors
  7. Existing 'summary boxes' in articles
  8. Editor's User page and talk page are both redirects to article space
  9. Mass-moving articles
  10. Recreate a deleted article
  11. Emily Austin Perry -- Adding picture
  12. Can't post a question to user:nawlinwiki
  13. How do I get a page in Wikipedia?
  14. Help desk help template help requested!
  15. coolio page help
  16. badimage tagging

March 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 16

  1. Could someone please replace the pornographic image in the Gustave Courbet listing with a link?
  2. Where should I put this Request?
  3. Broken image history
  4. Adding an entry
  5. References not appearing on page
  6. How do you find in an article the bits one user contributed over time?
  7. Merging an image to Commons
  8. Did Peter Graves act in a couple of episodes of Golden Girls?
  9. Your bot sucks
  10. Using Wikipedia templates on other wikis
  11. Editing People
  12. request to be UNBLOCKED, please
  13. How do I get rid of the "This article has multiple issues" box at the top of a page?
  14. teachersdomain.org terms of use
  15. No section edit link on page
  16. External links %7c
  17. Vcard
  18. Colourz
  19. A question about a reliable source.

March 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 17

  1. How do I post my article onto Wikipedia
  2. Adding 'this article needs to be updated' box to an article.
  3. Vjsasson
  4. delete SanDisk vRPM page
  5. Signatures
  6. how can i create my own page. i have account in wiki also
  7. Mail fraud
  8. Date Headers and archiving
  9. Talk:John Madden (American football) - newer comments are not displaying
  10. Content Dispute
  11. Template for "hold on I'm working on this".
  12. Colourz- unfinished business
  13. Redirects

March 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 18

  1. unknown login details from past employee
  2. Likely a dumb question, but...
  3. Personal use?
  4. Browser issue with extra spaces?
  5. user name
  6. Birthstone
  7. Policy on No original research
  8. Robert Pattinson
  9. Not a Democracy
  10. Wikipedia article traffic statistics
  11. Immediate help
  12. Appearance of Wikipedia on screen
  13. Please remove copyright infringement notice from Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
  14. References - reliable sources
  15. Page in CAT:CSD, can't discover why
  16. Template trouble
  17. New article submission
  18. Email/password issue
  19. Adding an article about a person whose name has been used already
  20. compiler creation
  21. Hunh?
  22. Firefox doesn't like wikitables
  23. Linkage
  24. Formatting problems ?
  25. Responding to you people
  26. emails
  27. Template colors
  28. Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshots
  29. Where should I propose a possible new wikiproject?

March 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 19

  1. User Talk
  2. Help using
  3. Fraternities
  4. Help me
  5. References
  6. Demographics_of_South_Africa
  7. Photos
  8. search: 'law brokers' incorrect claim. How can it be rectified or amended?
  9. Gio-Goi - company article, clearly written by company (I.e. brochure/propaganda)
  10. IP address logged inadvertently.
  11. How to insert a picture in a article
  12. Moving a page
  13. Proper method for requesting deletion
  14. How to create a category
  15. African Americans
  16. Historic Debate Of Clitoris And Autofellatio
  17. Duck Soup (1970's) Band Member Info Availability
  18. Er? Eh?

March 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 20

  1. Original Research and the Iko Iko article
  2. What, specifically, needs additional references/citations in our article "Armondo Linus Acosta"?
  3. SAVING FILES IN .MHT FORMAT
  4. Grammar.... Usage
  5. "Legend-table" (with image) into article
  6. Approval for a bot
  7. Somerset de Chair
  8. Help me
  9. Signature
  10. Uploading images to wikipedia
  11. Michael Stone article.
  12. the noise
  13. Infobox Picture
  14. multiple instances of same Wikilink from an article.
  15. My preferences vs edit counter
  16. GNG versus other notability guidlines
  17. ImageRemovalBot
  18. Translation // French
  19. Beyond the Pole
  20. So many edits...

March 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 21

  1. Adding an Artist
  2. A question that had no heading and is hard to decode
  3. Philippine political party propaganda
  4. Section with only a float:right mbox.
  5. Date each article
  6. Report a possible copyright infringement?
  7. Renaming backlinks of articles that were moved
  8. Definition of sole proprietor/sole trader
  9. Not auto confirmed yet!!!
  10. correction
  11. UBX
  12. Why does the spellchecker reject British spellings?
  13. Tom Eakin
  14. Edit adding "Cost Overruns" to F-35 Lightning II page removed...Why?
  15. PDF download option
  16. UBX cont.
  17. Photos of People Used to Demonstrate a Topic
  18. How long before an article "goes live"?
  19. Uploading/ Searching/ Adding(to articles) Pictures
  20. article implications

March 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 22

  1. Renaming an Article
  2. Page View Statistics NOT WORKING Why??
  3. Saved edit to non-existent article
  4. Category
  5. Adding Images
  6. closing user account, removing user name
  7. Entry not showing up in search results of search engine
  8. Citation of Personal Experience
  9. Contributing an article
  10. Trouble to login into my Wikipedia account - the account does not exist
  11. Looking at other user's edits
  12. A bit of curiosity

March 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 23

  1. quoting wikipedia stuff
  2. DAYTIME ER
  3. E-mail address
  4. kathy reichs
  5. Help with reversion of apparent vandalism in Tarbosaurus (on the main page)
  6. Change made to Scantron Article
  7. Two images uploaded and appearing on page. After several days, one image still appears but the other does not; although link to image appears in red.
  8. Expletives
  9. 2010
  10. Problem with DYK sections in multiple portals
  11. Userpages and deletion
  12. proper sorting for category :Category:Lines of longitude
  13. Categories
  14. Interlanguage Wikipedia-ing

March 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 24

  1. Double upload
  2. Made my first edit today but it was deleted
  3. Creating a wiki
  4. Editor Approval for New Article
  5. Al-Farabi
  6. Two different people same name
  7. Templates incorrectly sorted
  8. World Trade Center
  9. NEED EMAIL ADDRESS OF THE TPR WRITER IN MEDIAWIKI
  10. Trying to add to a numbered list
  11. Bernie Mac update
  12. Refer to Bernie Mac update
  13. Upload file under fair-use
  14. Articles norminated for deletion, where can I object?
  15. How do I make an internal link to a specific version of a page?
  16. URL with square brackets
  17. Changes not Showing Up
  18. Numbers in TOC
  19. Problems with Wikipedia display
  20. New site is garbage, I will be back ina montt to see if you fixed it or changed it back. my donations will go elsewhere
  21. Layout problem across multiple browsers.
  22. Stylesheets not loading
  23. Display?
  24. Wikipedia's new appearance
  25. Wikipedia Display Problems
  26. AWB

March 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 25

  1. Nonsense Editing Code
  2. uploading my own photos to a page
  3. Wikipedia screwed up
  4. new user who only wishes to upload photos and doesn't wish to add or edit text (yet)
  5. The reference cited does not say what it claims
  6. Editing window scrolls automatically if certain keys are used
  7. Music Template Question
  8. Post deleted for copyright when I wrote the copy
  9. Letters after name
  10. Mixed content: HTTP mixed with HTTPS
  11. Regular Expressions in AWB
  12. Uploading photos
  13. Unimplementable merger
  14. Latest MySql articles dump
  15. Munky Uk
  16. External linking
  17. Question about photographs

March 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 26

  1. My signature
  2. Watchlist settings...
  3. Encyclopedic?
  4. Where is Joanna Smith II Gambling ship
  5. Problem clicking links
  6. Uploading a PDF and giving a link
  7. Multiple vandal-only accounts
  8. Information
  9. Balance between "Primary Future" vs. "Secondary Past" references
  10. Mini-Wiki
  11. Ahmed Bayonle Arashi
  12. How do I change the capitalization of the name of the page?
  13. How do I add a picture/diagram to an article?
  14. Forest Hill, Toronto
  15. How do I post a my biography on your website?
  16. Links for a specific website
  17. New edit counter
  18. Multiple Images
  19. Request to fix fleshlight links

March 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 27

  1. LocalSettings.php
  2. Trying to edit (add information but can't)
  3. Editing the Intro
  4. Notification on changes on categories
  5. Review unreviewed article
  6. Inserting an image from another wikipedia
  7. Children's Hospital
  8. Continued Harrassment on Wikipedia
  9. Becoming More Anonymous on Wikipedia
  10. Redirect transclusion error
  11. Article Tisangi
  12. Question re creating Subpages

March 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 28

  1. Unable to remove page from my watchlist
  2. BTEX EMISSIONS
  3. ICP as the featured article.
  4. Verifying Resources
  5. accessibility view?
  6. My page has not been moved
  7. unable to get Wikipedia pages due to proxy error
  8. User Talk Page
  9. Adding reference citations to either new or revised text
  10. Friday 13

March 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 29

  1. Numbering paragraphs with alpha...
  2. Moscow Metro Page
  3. Username violation - spam?
  4. Page is now gone
  5. Using Wikipedia directly on my website
  6. Is it true that Stephen Hawking has reverted to Islam?
  7. Unable to edit Wikipedia article on Rottnest Island
  8. Trouble with our portal
  9. Same Title, Different Entry
  10. Creating links to other Wikipedia articles in a new article
  11. Trademark Manuel for Examining Procedures
  12. Deleted account ?
  13. Pcupdate
  14. New rollbacker
  15. Sources Not Online
  16. Category renaming
  17. Suspicion of cracking of no.wikipedia.org servers?
  18. Tor exit node blocking
  19. Advertising

March 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 30

  1. Robert Siciliano
  2. What is template?
  3. Creating a new article - but an article by same name was deleted earlier
  4. Spam email harvester test
  5. Infobox coding error
  6. Problems with reversion on a particular article about Ewood Park
  7. Mouse hovering issue
  8. Illustrations not showing
  9. Is Corn Syrup considered Kosher for Passover

March 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 March 31

  1. Marriage Template Problem
  2. Edit descriptions
  3. Multiple interwiki links on one article
  4. Trying to set up a page.
  5. Something odd at top of article
  6. Problem with my email address?
  7. new user
  8. Defaultsort for articles on peoples homes ?
  9. I'm in the User Edit Page
  10. Username Change
  11. Two-level if statements
  12. How to search all articles links and cites
  13. organization changed name
  14. Improper Photo
  15. iko iko lyrics information