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March 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 1

  1. Why have the colors changed when viewing diffs?
  2. Server acting weird
  3. Continent Travel Userboxes
  4. sSick of australian content
  5. Not sure how to propose for deletion
  6. Need someone who speaks German and is friendly
  7. About errors on the page Orange Orange. We want to clarify info about the band Orange Orange.We have the RIGHT BIOGRAPHY
  8. WikiProject proposal
  9. Printable editing information?
  10. Display of "My contributions" has changed for the worse
  11. Redirect Failed nation to Failed state ?
  12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gerald_Charles_Dickens
  13. Welsh Development Agency
  14. Archive Setup
  15. List of people diagnosed with dyslexia
  16. Joan Wolf - references
  17. reformating partitioned C: drive
  18. Math formula rendering
  19. Demotion to Good
  20. Article is outdated tag
  21. Edit conflict
  22. IE9 compatability with Wikipedia

March 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 2

  1. Can you edit content on the mobile version?
  2. What are the green and red +/- numbers in an articles Revision History?
  3. Issue with concert list
  4. Help on an editnotice
  5. Updating link in a gadget
  6. Deleting the User "Autofan"
  7. HOW TO CHANGE WIKIPEDIA'S FONT COLOR SETTING?
  8. submitted article
  9. HOW TO CHANGE WIKIPEDIA'S FONT COLOR SETTING? Section 2
  10. Redirect the redirect?
  11. missing children
  12. Tag for partial deletion proposal ?
  13. Creating a box around text
  14. Requests for comments/discussion on talk pages
  15. How to find out how many people have contributed to a wiki page or made a contribution in the last two weeks? ( University question)
  16. File name above uploaded picture
  17. Broken Link

March 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 3

  1. Image problem
  2. Where is my Wiki Article
  3. Aderoll/ridlyn
  4. Liver Disease
  5. Wyatt
  6. Contributions
  7. interwiki
  8. Wikipedia -> XKCD
  9. Front page bot failure?
  10. Templates for Displaying Military Ribbons/Medals as Worn?
  11. Cannabis Tax Stamp
  12. Becoming an administrator
  13. Contributions rendering error?
  14. Cite reference

March 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 4

  1. Appointment of new Foreign Secretary for Pakistan
  2. loisiana red
  3. Disambiguation marked as stub?
  4. why cant I edit anything
  5. Trouble placing image
  6. Progeria
  7. Where to request block of some accounts I control?
  8. Named reference definition placement
  9. Name of Company is wrong
  10. Cite error
  11. Post from User:Comcargru6
  12. Permission to reproduce map
  13. Article title formatting
  14. Why is it so difficult to add a userbox to a userpage?
  15. Incorrect information on Roshumba Williams article
  16. Creating pages that get deleted.
  17. Creating an arrow like an n-dash
  18. Oddity on front page
  19. Federal Detention Center Miami
  20. Fanning & Coles

March 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 5

  1. Google Earth kmz file reference
  2. Ginger Baker's Drumming - How to add info
  3. Seeking explanation and some assistance
  4. Help moving article from sandbox to main space
  5. I'm new - help
  6. Paul Newman/marriage & family
  7. Draft article
  8. Upload a picture
  9. Ariel Sharon
  10. Winning by endurance
  11. A place to ask for help improving language
  12. Question regarding image copyright
  13. Removing copyrighted material or vandalism
  14. Correct kerning when using a quote in a citation
  15. How do I create a new user sub-category
  16. Death of Ralph McQuarrie should be "In the news"
  17. need an article on macarthur scale of subjective socioeconomic status

March 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 6

  1. Incorrect reference
  2. WP guidelines or policy for deciding what constitutes a political endorsement?
  3. Where's my saved article?
  4. Redirects of words from other languages to English
  5. Image problem
  6. Interwiki on mobile wp
  7. Twinkle
  8. Twinkle auto-watchlisting
  9. My page is not getting approved and no update on the status
  10. Extraneous |} in an article
  11. Looking under spirit I found an error
  12. Quoting
  13. How is wiki markup stripped from search results?
  14. Alan Ladd Biography
  15. How do I get to the search page?
  16. Huggle issue
  17. Expansion of an existing article -- how does one request this?
  18. Report on a personal attack of a wiki user

March 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 7

  1. Tryign to make a user account
  2. western weds
  3. Nelson Mandela
  4. Wiki article about 19th-century American anthropologist Samuel Haven is in Spanish, but not English
  5. Unstable search engine
  6. Why was my talk deleted?
  7. Wikipedia:Twinkle
  8. International Reply Coupons
  9. Units of measure - distance
  10. Emmerdale and Coronation Street on Wikepeadia
  11. HOW TO CORRECT A FACTUALLY STATED ERROR IN A BIOGRAPHY?
  12. Please help fix a table
  13. Redirect at Service Data Objects
  14. Incorrect Information
  15. Where can I find out about those hidden items after the categories in an article?
  16. Katy Perry Uploaded Images

March 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 8

  1. Editing the title to an article.
  2. Help creating template
  3. Alpha Phi
  4. Wallyball
  5. Image problem
  6. On Luther's Bible page - link missing
  7. Is this blatant advertising?
  8. Help please with subtitling
  9. Handling an extremely doubtful article?
  10. Adding an external website link
  11. USS Thresher submarine disaster in 1963
  12. Information lacking
  13. advice needed about reference errors in citatons
  14. Why is info I submitted being deleted
  15. Is it possible to request for this to be reviewed soon please?
  16. Is there any way of printing the whole of a page with links e.g. List of British monarchs?
  17. Writing an article
  18. Mobile site
  19. "Dual posting" reverse?
  20. "Community Pages" from Wikipedia on Facebook
  21. Who produces the rules by which Wikipedia works ?
  22. move from User space to Template space (doc) needs repair?
  23. Username

March 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 9

  1. Tables and line spacing
  2. inserting unconventional symbols
  3. Confused about needing references
  4. How do I find pages that need proof-reading?
  5. Reply to Matt Deres (?)
  6. My first article is the biography of a living person.
  7. Yes, please help set this up
  8. Columns breaking
  9. Wallkill Valley
  10. Lady Greyhound
  11. Where is the "user problem report" page on Wikipedia ?
  12. problems producing an article in the Wikipedia assault course
  13. Someone who knows WP:CORP well required
  14. How to use <span class="noprint">
  15. ballon D'or
  16. ADDING THE FACT BOX DOWN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE
  17. Contradicting a Public Work with a Private One and determining a reference to be inappropriate for Wikipedia.
  18. Jad Adams
  19. Updating a Widely Used Image
  20. Wikipedia page exists, but google cannot find any record of it
  21. Banner adverts on Wikipedia
  22. Recent Changes
  23. Login up to 180 days?

March 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 10

  1. US Presidents
  2. Guideline on subsequent name use
  3. I left an external link that may be spam
  4. ProQuest Archiver
  5. Request for Scanning/Review
  6. Carla facciolo
  7. Help with correcting big mistake
  8. Moving an article
  9. citing the info
  10. New article, fun, safe, easy, etc.
  11. Help - :Template:Sfnm
  12. Question about redirect guideline
  13. Close discussions
  14. RAW Design Wikipedia
  15. Converting Spreadsheets Into Tables
  16. Legitimate or Linkspam?
  17. stock portfollio magement
  18. Reviewer right
  19. Canary Lee Burton
  20. Permissions
  21. Redirect question
  22. Delete
  23. Tables

March 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 11

  1. Wikipedia won't let me edit articles. WHAT DO I DO?
  2. Don't receive password reminder for forgotten password
  3. broken markup, what's the problem?
  4. How do you find someone when you only know a last name?
  5. Log in problem
  6. Deleted pages in own userspace
  7. Changing font
  8. Guideline / help page for writing help pages
  9. 911 response - claims we invaded AFGHANISTAN. Ii think we invaded IRAQ! AFGHANISTAN CAME LATER.
  10. Hoverbox Suggestion
  11. Nominating another User
  12. Forgotte my Password
  13. Self-promotion in userspaces?
  14. I have 14 different butterfly pupa images
  15. Canvasing to a degree but not what it sounds please read
  16. A bug - doubling the homepage info - in infobox writer
  17. ref desk archive missing question
  18. User reverted changes
  19. New website
  20. What's the correct wikipunctuation for antiAmericanenergy?
  21. Inappropriate link in a political party page
  22. help with personal attacks
  23. Could someone please format a hatnote properly for me
  24. first article mistake
  25. Where is appropriate place to consult about advertisement like a content ?
  26. Another editor sanitized a direct quote in Steven Landsburg article - what to do?

March 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 12

  1. Nanban(Film)
  2. technical trouble with mobile site.
  3. Table of contents numbering
  4. Historic math error.
  5. How to edit the factually incorrect article: Original Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)
  6. Admin may want to see this log
  7. Can't remember a song
  8. How do you refind the BOOK that you made from articles?
  9. Collapsing elements of a table
  10. Good Lists
  11. Request page move - Opus interrasile
  12. Charles Viracoloa's Birth date
  13. Errors in Oklahoma Corporation Commission article
  14. "Wikimania 2012" link opens in current tab even when using "open link in new tab".
  15. Getting someone to upload an image file that is an organization logo for an unconfirmed account
  16. Attention parameter?
  17. Hello
  18. Now What

March 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 13

  1. How do I withdraw an AfD nomination?
  2. Db-attack doesn't think the page has been blanked?
  3. Notability in question for about 200 articles linked from 1 likely notable page
  4. Sir, Dr Punit Sethi, an Engineer cum Author from India have been declared World's Most Popular Social media/Facebook Expert. Mai I request to open a bio-graphic page of Wikipedia of mine with my photographs?
  5. Lost article/file
  6. ELI MANNING PHOTO
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach )
  8. All bold?
  9. diagrams for articles
  10. Douglas Adams.
  11. T.V. MOVIE RIGHT TO DIE
  12. Need help with copyright/links issue
  13. Sama ECH
  14. Help with New Entries
  15. Standard or Standards?

March 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 14

  1. Daily pictures
  2. a "suggestion for improvement" for Wikipedia
  3. Depiction of Prophet Mohammed(PUBH)
  4. Hospital de Sant Pau Barcelona Spain.
  5. "blame" command for Wikipedia
  6. Reg article on Malik Barkat Ali
  7. Orphan Article
  8. Oracle Business Process Architect
  9. Where post about something that needs fixing (needing topic expertise) on a page?
  10. Changing an article name from italics to non italics
  11. Page views
  12. How can I publish an article here?
  13. editing an edit summary
  14. Suggestions for article on Rodney Barnes
  15. Page flow problem
  16. Copyright Information
  17. Incorrect zip code
  18. How to get rid of message on bottom of page?

March 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 15

  1. Clogged up edit history due to an overactive user
  2. Copy Editing complete - article remains "requiring editing"
  3. Forced edit summary?
  4. Overly helpful edit box
  5. I want to delete pics i uploaded.
  6. pictures
  7. Bollocks about reference lists
  8. Winners of the Bronze Star (USA)
  9. Disambiguation Page
  10. The Meeting School, Rindge, NH
  11. Comparison of free video converters : new insertion
  12. Problems with uploads
  13. I just posted a note to my talk page. Will author see it?
  14. Collaboration on safety valves page
  15. Entry for "Autosexual" redirects to "masturbation." NOT THE SAME!!!!

March 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 16

  1. Wiki tool: Kiki?
  2. Usage of tools
  3. :Template:Cite video
  4. help please (public problem)
  5. How can I see previous versions of a page.
  6. Recent edits by User:213.196.211.166 needs a check
  7. Categorization in navbox
  8. How do we demote and remove moderators? My story.
  9. FreeRepublic.com in footnote
  10. Template docs lacking helpful info
  11. Using a track on an album as a reference
  12. Image title
  13. Racism in talk page?

March 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 17

  1. At first glance this looked to be outright plagiarism but I've had second thoughts due to its unusual formatting. I don't want to create havoc by deleting but.......
  2. I was wanting to know if there was a child that needed attention in another world but is a citizen of the us.
  3. Shortening section headings
  4. Did not put in Reason for edit before I hit save
  5. Public Domain Issues
  6. Why was my page deleted?
  7. When I click on "Edit," only a list of factoids appears
  8. Angry Birds
  9. If someone steals password
  10. Constant visibility of Template:FilemoverTalkpageNotice on my userpage
  11. Previous name
  12. Help???
  13. How was this article created?
  14. I found and U.S.ARMY DOG TAG .in and old house in Canada and would like to know who it was.
  15. Security breach??
  16. NUCLEAR POWERS

March 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 18

  1. Charles-Edmond Duponchel (architect)
  2. Ads on wikipedia
  3. Help fix a broken reference
  4. SPAM MESSAGE.
  5. Searching for specific text within an article
  6. Section of page shows in Firefox but not IE
  7. Blaise Pascal article/editing
  8. Repeated unsourced edits by an unregistered user
  9. Category intersection
  10. Categories for WikiProject assessment
  11. Uncensored SSN

March 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 19

  1. Israel and US interests
  2. How do I turn on "New Message" notification?
  3. Long templates
  4. TV Episode Pages
  5. Biography Upon Haile Selassie I & Menen Selassie I, I Father & Mother
  6. A Place to Bookmark Favorite or Notable Wikipedia Articles
  7. Removing a Wikipedia Page Immediately
  8. Reuse of text from the talk page or main article.
  9. Mitch Gaylord
  10. picture problem
  11. location of toguchin, siberia
  12. Dateless coin references
  13. Katy Perry Unreleased Music Videos and (A) Katy Perry
  14. Google search results
  15. U.S. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Complaint 2012
  16. Repeat citations
  17. Printing URL citations in article references
  18. Unicode superscript and subscript characters + non breaking space
  19. When and when not to use {{refbegin}}

March 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 20

  1. image on the left screws up left-justification
  2. New article help
  3. Citing a tweet? What should be used as a title?
  4. Infobox - added one, and now can't find where to edit it
  5. images upload
  6. The Ryan and Johnny Podcast Show
  7. Reducing size of image on the article page
  8. homeopathy
  9. Proposed deletion problem
  10. Recording an exact moment into "now, nowadays, not yet, etc." words
  11. Stable, stability
  12. Your article about Evangelist David R. Wilkerson
  13. What defines location coordinates?
  14. Stale e-mail entry
  15. Could not submit my information to a page for a new entry
  16. you have to see this
  17. Wikipedia talk:Articles for Creation/Jordan Wolfson
  18. Fidelity Walk of Life
  19. Editing Articles
  20. new article
  21. state capitalism and three gorges corporation
  22. farmville
  23. Hits per page
  24. User is taking my free speech away and censoring me!
  25. Log-In Problems
  26. Request correction:
  27. Question about certain trivialities in an article
  28. quick help

March 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 21

  1. User's script labelling my edits "unproductive"
  2. Submission
  3. Requesting feedback on new article: "Steph St. Laurent
  4. Dictionary
  5. is porn allowed? Nikki Benz photo.
  6. Soundtrack album
  7. New article
  8. New to Wikipedia
  9. AVATARS ABODE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY.
  10. Where to get article feedback?
  11. Upgraded Wiki appearance
  12. Peer review
  13. ads on wiki
  14. Mistake in the article Toyger
  15. Important advice
  16. Toyger
  17. Pop up's
  18. Muriel Humphrey Error
  19. reftags, etc.
  20. Discharge papers
  21. Creating and editing wiki pages
  22. Dictionary

March 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 22

  1. Incorrect information on article.
  2. Finding File Names and Locations
  3. Mobile browser
  4. Mobile interface
  5. Incorrct id
  6. Finland language links
  7. latin
  8. Looking for a tool
  9. Bare URL help?
  10. iso (in search of)
  11. On the Wiki facebook page for the BuxMont Torch FC
  12. "The Son of Man" by Emil Ludwig
  13. Does this type of thing need to be sourced?
  14. glitch!?!
  15. Looking for a specific deleted page in my userspace
  16. Search History?
  17. Templates in captions

March 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 23

  1. Trojan Horse
  2. POV pushing - Question for administrator
  3. trouble linking an external link regarding congenital erythropoietic porphyria
  4. Category:Pejorative Categories
  5. C. M. Prasad
  6. Looking for feedback
  7. Please fix
  8. Failure to post
  9. All titles are showing html tags like span dir=auto Wikipedia:Help desk span
  10. new episodes
  11. Account?
  12. How to deal with socks
  13. quick question

March 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 24

  1. BTOLA Pty Ltd reads like a classic advertorial
  2. Laura Marano
  3. "CROSSROADS NOVEL"
  4. Name display issue
  5. can you cut the monster tables ?
  6. Edit automatically removed, should I re-post?
  7. Where are deleted articles?
  8. Viewing a list of pages I have made
  9. Userboxes
  10. Hidden category for articles containing living people
  11. Possible legal threat ?
  12. Using non-WP narrative style
  13. Page layout problem
  14. Policy/guideline query
  15. Problem with Mahon Tribunal page
  16. X!'s Edit Counter
  17. Request renaming

March 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 25

  1. Finding the ID# for Template:British pathe
  2. Request for Permissions-?
  3. Editing reflist tags?
  4. Band article request
  5. Free speech
  6. Fair use image resolution
  7. Unable to upload scans from a magazine to list as references

March 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 26

  1. If I agree with a fact, and think everyone else does...
  2. Sandbox
  3. The subject is The city of Tala, Jalisco, Mexico
  4. Move problem
  5. Inversion in a sphere
  6. IPhone app
  7. André Simon Wikipedia page
  8. Translation assessment required
  9. Augmentation of existing page "Robert Hughes - Swimmer"
  10. Notable residents (moved from reference desk)
  11. Google translation of (Official) site
  12. help!
  13. not sure I understand deletion process
  14. Is it OK to tell someone to f*** off on Wikipedia?
  15. Farra or Farrah or Farraw - a grain crop. Maybe another spelling
  16. Cuban economic reforms
  17. How to change a talk page to a regular, searchable page

March 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 27

  1. Contributing from a Business
  2. no references
  3. Nominating article for deletion
  4. Category Request: Category:Alumni of the École nationale de l'aviation civile
  5. Religion, reference to United Reformed Church
  6. Somali National Demcoratic Reform Party. A newly founded reform-minded political party led by Dr. Khalif M. Duale
  7. About a created page
  8. proposed redirect
  9. Creating an article, unsure on title choice and if content can be seen as advertising
  10. Asking a question in Japanese
  11. Page written as advertisement and contains buzzwords
  12. How to post copy write material after permission has been granted.
  13. Sortable table
  14. List of transclusions?
  15. My Own?
  16. etymology is lacking for many entries
  17. Twinkle rollback links
  18. changing false information on for King andCountry
  19. Posting on a talk page
  20. Popups anyone?
  21. Uploading an image that is copyrighted

March 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 28

  1. Problem with 'PUF' template.
  2. LISTENING TO A SONG
  3. Span tags showing on titles
  4. Looking for good software to help me edit wikipedia.
  5. Query about the replication lag
  6. Creating images with programs on my computer that use data from a Twitter post
  7. Semi-protected article needs 'Cleanup' and/or 'Copy edit'
  8. Paterson Mass Water flow meter
  9. Tony Stewart Picture
  10. bayou blast and collapse
  11. Just in doubt.....
  12. User Inputting False Information
  13. Stock Answers
  14. List of articles in List of categories without DEFAULTSORT or Sortkey
  15. Diverse
  16. using data
  17. Request for feedback
  18. Citing multiple non-sequential pages
  19. James Dean page
  20. Ansel E. Talbert Information

March 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 29

  1. File:Second Revolution Flag 2x3.svg
  2. List notability and styles
  3. Mistake at "Marble Falls, TX"
  4. How to make different versions in Wikipedia (Same Topic)
  5. Blue background?
  6. Problem with images
  7. How does original research apply to images? WP:OI
  8. doi pointing to jstor
  9. The most recent Wikipedia Signpost issue is empty
  10. How do I enable automatic categorization of tagged pages?
  11. How much "notability" does a biography subject need?
  12. New to Wikipedia
  13. MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details
  14. Old username on talk pages and changing username again
  15. names of fields of profession or study - capital letter(s) or not?
  16. Vincent Brian Wigglesworth page
  17. External Linking
  18. Translations within articles
  19. adding external links
  20. Editing Wikitables
  21. Section
  22. NJ Charter Study Commission
  23. Time format

March 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 30

  1. 'Listen' link
  2. Looking for ancesters
  3. Template help!
  4. Under Miss Minnesota USA
  5. image visibility
  6. Want feedback on new article
  7. Article creation problem
  8. Error in Wikipedia
  9. Ref sorting
  10. Categorizing a template
  11. Noticeboard
  12. Non-factual polemic sources are clogging up Wikipedia
  13. Need a second opinion
  14. Question on Template:cite video
  15. Problem
  16. A weird case with interwiki
  17. Linebreak prevention (in a link)
  18. user channel- favourite
  19. I would like my pre-2012 contributions to be deleted
  20. How can I add a Category to an article but have the article appear on the Category page under a different name?
  21. club pogo
  22. "Log out" link

March 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 31

  1. reporting disruptive editing
  2. Wizard of the Grand and Honourable Order of Geeks required...
  3. UFC Pages
  4. Recent changes: what's the red exclamation mark against the new page indicator?
  5. Verification of reliability
  6. Contacting wikipedia is a nightmare!
  7. user name on Commons
  8. Vandalism
  9. Menton
  10. Does anyone know what's wrong with the edit counter?