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May 1
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 1
- Falsfification of sources-what are the proper ways/procedures to deal with such thing?
- Mispelled Page Title / Request Move --- Confusion
- SUCESSION TO BRITISH THRONE.
- mismatch between displayed page and text to be edited; canceling redirects elsewhere
- Table bordering
- Link a Picture
- Adobe digital editions
- Redirect to foreign language Wikipedia?
- Discription of the term 'DIRTY SANCHEZ' In Wikipedia.
- Updating the "Ongoing events" section of the Current Events portal
- Mast Year article
- Question in Georgian
- Invisible table
- TWU infobox messed up?
- Well referenced stub that is unlikely to be expanded
- Education System In Malaysia
May 2
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 2
- Measurement conversion
- Adding a new page?
- The Shoes (French group): disambiguation
- Editing a semiprotected page
- Adding to Polonium
- Est.Profit / Loss Projections for Business plan
- metadata
- How to handle inherently notable one line stubs?
- jobs
- Article consolidation: Nominating a move and a merge in the same time
- extreme home make over
- Asseting regional identity
- Ralph Machio (actor USA)
- Editing a list
- trouble geting my book edits to "stick"
May 3
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 3
- Can we use Wikipedia text for analysis?
- External Links
- Even I attached the reference links to the content, why was that still altered or deleted by others?
- Sonia Landy Sheridan
- Uploading Image
- Ransomes & Rapier publications
- how i add my grand parents
- Can't edit/correct a misspelled title in a reference.
- Looking for a certain timeline template...
- Help correctly formatting italic title (with brackets)
- Please help with design
- Edit--What happened to the "Cite" menu?
- Deletion sorting
- World Court of Human rights (page or disambiguation or nothing?)
- Automatic wikilinking to an articles AfD discussion
May 4
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 4
- Vietnamese Dong
- Semi-lock
- RFK letter
- Questions on Economics
- Overlinking - tool?
- Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
- who do I contact to get my aged iMacwith an older operating system, OS 5.4.11recognize and use Internet Exployer,5.2.2
- How to create red link?
- notability guideline for music.
- The movie "Dr. Dolittle" with Rex Harrison - the movie was shot in 1967
- Info Box
- Terribly Sorry
- Is My Page Ready?
- Blue Link With No Page
- Trademarks
- Past predictions of the future
- Biography
May 5
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 5
- Using defined reference with Citation Template
- Policy
- How to see mathematics formulas written in Tex form?
- Cure for Excema
- Problem with Cologne Blue skin?
- Family of surname of royal/imperial origins
- Cleanup template for sections in mathematics articles
- How can I create an official page?
- "Diff" changes on Commons
- tamil font
- red text has disappeared from differences.
- Technical questions
- External link problem
- Braceville, Illinois
- Jitendra Joshi
- How can I have a wiki site?
- Editing template
- How to add a reference/disambiguation for a different page
May 6
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 6
- Is this page still used?
- A few things I need to discuss
- Message on My talk page
- anikkattilammakshethram
- Template unreferenced section
- old garden planters
- Suicide methods
- Fair Use for historical photos
- The Seventh Coin
- Could an admin pop by?
- Could an admin pop by? (2)
- Discussion Page Guidelines
- What do I have to do to be a writer here?
- Image help
- playing my windows mediaplayer
- Attraction Info Box
- Holly_Marie_Combs
- Wikkipida looks differnt to me
May 7
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 7
- simple wikipedia
- British or American English?
- Editing bar
- Actor disambiguation
- [Missing title]
- RE: Adding a photo to an article
- postscript conversion
- John_Hemming_%28politician%29
- Creating articles for local National Weather Services that currently do not have there own yet.
- ibid
- Editing Attraction template
- Would like to dispute a Wikipedia inquiry - stating my musicans article may not meet the notability guideline for music.
- Dinner in the Ritz Hotel, Paris 1904, Painted by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot
- Book Creator: Using List Pages
May 8
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 8
- Reliable sources - citing "puff pieces" or "advertorial"
- New Language
- Old pictures
- Featured article HOUSE.
- Format of display has changed and I can't get it back
- Trouble with diffs
- Using the math markup
- Rule of thumb for de-stubbing
- root domain name .co.cc is blocked?
- Can I add a small business to Wikipedia???
- auto rejection of edits
- Nautical Flags
- Sir John Stuart, 4th Baronet
- Liquid threads
- Amusement rides by name
- Correcting the Main Title and linking Spanish and English versions of Diplomatic Security Service
- Departed (2006 film)
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross US
May 9
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 9
- "I ♥" articles
- Fonts in which Wikipedia webpages are displayed
- Text overlapping image
- Quotations in titles
- DATELINE PAKISTAN
- Alexander Leslie-Melville, 9th Earl of Leven
- talkpage templates
- Reference desk pages don't refresh until reloaded.
- How do I rename a page that was incorrectly created by someone who has since died?
- :Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons
- Duplicate names
- Sandbox
- Deleting old page name
May 10
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 10
- New to your website
- How may I submit articles, etc written about me...
- 2 Things I need to discuss
- Putting a photograph online
- Request an Article?
- Enormous white space
- Highlighter search field
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 10#Protected
May 12
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 12
- Deutschland
- problem in submitting the Article for review. "This page is only for discussing improvements to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Science of Analytics. "
- Is it appopriate...
- Physics project
- Old talk page message
- Where can I let evaluate if a source counts as third-party source or not.
- Notability
- Request restore of Deleted Article Zeta Phi Beta 1957 to user area
- Global editor survey
- downloading and using the wikipeda archive on pc
- Cleanup template for overly long further reading section
- Question about List: Some red, some blue.
- Company Page Created by Unreliable Source
- Refrence link is broken
- User adds false information to articles
- Timestamps
- Insert the current date permenantly?
- Ballowharf
May 13
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 13
- Spacecraft Docking and Berthing Mechanisms table question
- Advertisement on my page
- Problem with translating articles
- Links from templates to the transcluding page
- Afternoon Wikipedians
- Genetic origins of the Turkish people
- People of Jewish Descent
- Sources for people of Jewish descent
- Josh Keaton
- AFD help Rob Potylo
- how to amend the article title
- Request help on Burson-Marsteller article
- East Kilbride page
- Page not loading completely - Dana Plato
May 14
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 14
- Would like to write an article on an item where I am the first, there are no external verifiable sources
- add name to catagory list
- Wolof language in Senegal
- Diff
- Why is there no information on the important World War ll Dambusters Pilot George, L, 'johnny' Johnson
- Corrupted article Jenn Suhr
- Where to make a proposal for an addition to the toolbox?
- I can't find an article using the search box
- Unwatch tab
- Hospitality Industry
- Masking user area article from search engines
- :MV 'Kalia
- Edits by time of day - Wikimedia projects
May 15
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 15
- Democracy In Wikipedia
- citing and page problems
- Does Facebook qualify as a reliable source for a BLP article?
- need help/ gaston doumergue
- Proper way to mention cited sources in references?
- Setting up a Wiki user page for a page that will be written by a group of students
- Redirected from?
- Photo
- creating a page
- E-mailed watchlist changes
- Photo Permissions
- Church Website
- ship bells
- display of title of List of Victorious episodes
- Better highlighting of diff
- Hindu Ancient Village Diety
- correction of incomplete email that is supposed to let me post a message on msnbc.com's access instructions.
- Unable to post a new page
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan
May 16
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 16
- IP address
- The_Saturday_Big_Tent_Wedding_Party
- How do I view a version itself insted of the differences between it and another version?
- Hi ALL
- How long do copyright cases take?
- Biographical Entries
- Citation template for online dictionaries
- A few things to discuss
- Editing References within the Notes-Section
- Space Blanket
- Defamation of character to Adrian Riglesford
- Source for picture of Mary Lee actress/singer 1945/46
- Keeping template examples on user page
- Talk Page email notification
- Autobiography
- publication
- :File:Buckie Harbour.jpg
- New Page Search/ Link on separate page going elsewhere
- New categories
- Help needed to restore file
- Can't use my username for publishing articles
May 17
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 17
- Feedback on informal tone or style of my first Wikipedia page on Callie Crossley, an American journalist.
- Request for protecting article
- Another suicide (attempt)
- In vs. Of
- no ball
- template
- ducktv - formerly bebetv - on wikipedia
- 2010 CENSUS DATA
- Copy and paste or "pdfing" the list of colors (compacted)
- Subpage help
- Wikipedians editing articles about themselves
- Notice
- Template:WikiProject United States History
- how do I change the capitalization of a topic?
- Emails when talk page is changed.
- Edit Summary Gadget?
- Infobox image help
- whey protein
- Where to respond?
May 18
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 18
- Page loading issues?
- Why can't I see images using firefox 3 in linux?
- My edit disappears
- Edit counts from deleted pages
- Creative Commons License
- Wrong Logo on "Guru Studio" Page
- Battle of Salamis
- INFORMATION ABOUT MARIO BROS 3
- Editor Review
- Getting an authoritative opinion
- Last step of this AFD
- Where did the page on me go?
- game of bike
- What's the template to notify an editor that you sent them e-mail?
- error on your page divorce the United States
- AfD question
- Ryan Beatty
May 19
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 19
- Editing an "edit comment"
- i could not cite the quran in Metric expansion of space. Why?
- related contribution
- How do I create a SHA-512 user committed identity?
- Cláudio César Dias Baptista recent article
- Category formatting
- Arman Cagle Helping Newbies
- Can't see the forest....
- new biogrpahy still has "New User Stendahl65/New Biography" as header
- Wikinews link
- User name: login not possible and no e-mail address to send new password to
- how to handle a confirmed sock puppet of two users?
- logging in
- Ian Ritchie (architect)
- "Megan is Missing" a mockumentary
- Email editnotice?
- Categories again
- New Car Club entry
- MISL indoor
May 20
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 20
- Changes made on a page have been saved but are not showing up when not logged in.
- why was Ark (webseries) deleted for non-notable? Providing links on articles regarding this series below:
- Feedback on an addition to an extant entry
- Question about reference flood overkill
- Addition to New Mexico Governor list
- Anderson Cooper edit request
- First Wikipedia users
- SHIM CARD ACTIVATION
- Has Wikipedia ever been hacked into or crashed?
- Document Uploading
- Publication of a new web site
- How to create math formula images
- is a wiki page the best for my aims?
- References in disambiguation pages
- Need someone to fix an image
May 21
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 21
- archives
- Hello
- Why pages deleted about Scientific Journal
- Did I upload this image correctly?
- Adding thumb nail image
- Translated BLP's "lacking" sources
- Right place for discussion of article feedback tool
- How could I read Wikibooks on my kindle E-book reader?
- Larry T. Gell
- Submitting a Photo
- Firefox 4.0 not "remembering me" on Windows 7 system
- Copyright of a YouTube image
- Updating accessdate
May 22
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 22
- history
- Citing The New York Times Magazine
- My new userbox
- Math symbols don't show up
- New user upload image to existing or new page
- no verifiable sources
- Charles Hollis Jones
- My Whole Page has been deleted for no real reason and i want it back!
- Regarding user names
- How to remove a page from a Catagory
- Mobile App?
- Article for Deletion / Disambiguation / Other? The New Earth
- Article Quality Ratings
May 23
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 23
- How to change the title of an article?
- Boerebetrokke Groep
- Thomas Cresap article
- question regarding the appropriate use of blocks
- Italicizing web site titles
- Clarification needed: Assigning religion categories to BLPs according to WP:EGRS
- References in disambiguation pages (again)
- tiny font size
- Any one here good with templates?
- libellous and hate inducing entry - 'List of Zionist figures' Please amend
- Vanishing revisions
- School hymn copyright
- Talk Page Edit Disappears
May 24
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 24
- Fake Wikipedia Content Posting on Website
- How do we upload an image to the Anamorphosis page, in the "Anamorphosis in Popular Culture" section?
- Wrong link
- Arbitration Troubles Template has possible bad links?
- Flickr video to Wikipedia or Commons
- Hard rock band
- Proposed deletion of Emmanuella Grace
- Assistance from someone who isn't at their workplace?
- wikipedia photos.
- Disabling and enabling cookies
- Andrew Lansley's page
- Question re: Special:NewPages
- main page
- Help please with downloading a biography
- publishing a draft
- List of it companies in hyderabad
- BLP subject is upset about unflattering photo
- Deleting an account - need URGENT help
- Nancy Cartwright
- Concerning some Photos on Wikipedia
- en:WP pictures
- How Do I Reach and Experienced Wikipedia to Make Sure I'm Not Spamming the Place Up? :)
- Incorrect/outdated IP address | errors in talk page | "wikipedia is yelling at me and I don't know what I did"
- How to merge the content of an article into a category?
- Template:Autism_films
- Wikipedia "Contest"
May 25
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 25
- Text shifting location
- Query
- Is Wikipedia an ideal tool for me to use?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad
- Comment
- Entry on R.C school being maliciously altered . Possible sectarian motive.
- How to find a topic?
- Self removal of text?
- Recreating a page
- IP address vandalism problem .
- Kobaia_Sierra_Leone
- watchlist malfunction
- Should I Apply for Rollback?
- How to Delete an Empty Title?
- Appropriateness of a source for inclusion of an entry in a list article
- Finding an editor with particular language and experience qualifications
- Conflict of Interest ?
- how do you make changes in an article?
- Two versions of a page live at the same time?
- Incorrect Information ref Peter Sellers OR Daniel Mendoza
- organization and company
- DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL
- Goofball a Barbituate?
- how to get an article from the final draft stage onto wikipedia
- Mediawiki screen for IP contributions
May 26
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 26
- Formatting Tables
- Peacock terms
- Accusations of Vandalism
- Change to a list of members
- When are "List of ..." articles supposed to contain references?
- Today's Featured article
- Clicking on pictures jumps to fullscreen
- My Page
- Template quality class
- Logged out
- Copyright on statements from an interviewed person?
- Talking
- Donating an article that has been created for my website
- User name spelled in correctly needs to be changed
- sandbox whoops
- how to edit tupac shakurs article
- Permission
May 27
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 27
- I am a somewhat experience editor
- biography
- Convention for dealing with Discussion comments by socks
- adj=on
- Is navbox name parameter linked to in any way?
- Tying to alter a picture
- Gas Laws
- Top contributor
- Anagrams
- short on references
- How to make a page
- copyright and licensing
- Long Hunters
- Where is the best place to discuss the new 'Rate this page' feature?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkstown_High_School_North
- Why did Dragonfly 67 delete my account?
- Lists of officers as copyvio
- Unable to Edit Inaccurate Summary
- Carrie Savage, the voice actress
May 28
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 28
- District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
- translate foriegn websites into english
- Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.
- Editing a Wickipedia Article- How can I change a picture or image?
- sole survivors of airplane crashes
- reporting inappropriate photo
- ARUNBRAINY'S QUERY ABOUT CHEMICAL
- File Historys
- Deleted post in the talk page of Pietro Badoglio
- Image keeps being desplayed after reversion of the addition
- PC Game Dust Tale of the wired west
- Bill Nye the Science Guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_nye)
- Disambiguation and diacriticals
- Georgia
- Nino Burjanadze
- :File:TonkPile.jpg
- Why so hard to add photo?
- Copyright Infringement Help
- Nelson Mandela semi-protected status
- Converting IP history to a handle
May 29
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 29
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 29#Userpage_and_.7B.7Btl.7CScroll_box.7D.7D|Userpage and {{Scroll box}}]]
- Texting Larry
- Question about Alexandra Powers
- Katharyn_Powers
- List of English football transfers winter 2002–03
- Old style versus new style dates
- Royal Bank of Canada Fraud cover up With CIBC bank of canad
- market segmentation
- Article needing to be expanded
- Technical question for footnote experts
- Copyvio images
- Anglia Building Society
- Direct experience entry
- Sterling silver
- Signature limit too restrictive
- 3 things to discuss
- Copyright question - where to post
- Problem with "Tyler Reks" page
- registering awareness ribbon colours
- original work
- "Hidden" revisions of a page (offline) ??
May 30
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 30
- Twinkle no longer working (solved)
- Alexandra Powers and Katharyn_Powers
- Problem with box padding
- Alexandra_Powers
- Alexandra Powers Reference is messed up
- Karis_Paige_Bryant
- Possessive apostrophe at the end of sentence
- Images in userspace
- Feedback - quote marks
- List_of_The_Mummy_characters
- Shifting existing article to create disambiguation page?
- RC in one category but not another one
- Robotics?
- How can i turn the WIKIPEDIA background color into black?
- How to delete user subpage
- Woodstock Festival 1969
- Getting the runaround in Wikipedia
- how to locate an image in wiki commons
- What counts as an edit?
- Authorization to upload pictures
- British war medal question (copied from article space)
- Photos
- Clicking On Image Jumps To Image Only.Siouxdax (talk) 21:07, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
- Cynthia Townley
- Film References
- Contribution not showing up.
May 31
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 May 31
- Image help
- How do I copy images from Wikipedia in other languages or alphabets into English Wikipedia?
- Compact TOC for glossary etc.
- Who's watching me?
- Introduction about the Article on " India Gate" is wrong.
- Wikilinking to a specific citation needed tag in an article
- Opening sentences
- Seeking an editor mentor
- List of dubstep musicians - columns
- can i print an wikipedia book using another print media than pedia press.
- Page
- Admin
- Linking to a documentary website to provide more information?
- IHOP Founders
- When is a DAB not a DAB? Russian Republic