Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/November 2011

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November 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 1

1. Letterman Current Singers
2. Deletion
3. Uploading Photos to Wikipedia Articles
4. Disambiguation question
5. Kris Humphries article says he graduated from Hopkins High School, Minnetonka, Mn
6. Question about Article Creation
7. please replace with accurate photo
8. Freidoune Sahebjam
9. table conversion
10. Setting up specialised recent changes template
11. MOS question about arabic names
12. IP block exemption
13. Question about EDIT page
14. Usage of the help me template
15. What does this mean?
16. Wikipedia box at the top of an article
17. Mistake about my authorship
18. Watchlist
19. Disambiguation page statistics
20. Random Article
21. What happens if you discover dozens of reliable sources incorect?
22. Why can't I embed my imge?
23. Changing the User: name at the top of the article
24. Can't work out how to put the article on Wikipedia
25. All Magazines List
26. Edit tool info request
27. Error
28. writing help - meeting ntibil;ity rquirements
29. Citing a pamphlet
30. Regarding a website on reliable source noticeboard.

November 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 2

1. Band notability
2. Hello
3. chemistry/catalyst
4. full form
5. JIMMY SAVILLE RIP
6. Rescue me u.s t.v series
7. Name of Macedonia
8. Honda ASIMO Revisions
9. thumbnail not showing up
10. Date showing incorrectly
11. contents
12. Hattusa
13. Request to mainspace article

November 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 3

1. Cleveland State University Poetry Center page
2. Editing English spellings to other English Spellings
3. Just a quick question
4. S. Thaman
5. Editing
6. The Statement of Randolph Carter
7. Eslicarbazepine acetate origin and duplication
8. Moving essay into WP namespace
9. Correct Name
10. David Burton-Richardson
11. Problem with reflist

November 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 4

1. Multilingual support
2. Porno on the page for Narcissism
3. Why can't I edit this page?
4. getting an error page when searching for israel
5. Looking for an "Advice for expert editors" page
6. Picture Problems
7. An addition has been Removed
8. History of an address
9. Add Author info to a county page?
10. sources to prove the notability of a band
11. Chart for comparing different philosophical ideas
12. Welcoming Templates
13. Editing

November 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 5

1. Italics
2. Provelt reference tool
3. erie canal
4. Text size
5. How to request semi-protection
6. wrong link
7. Link to external web site
8. Correction
9. Preview works but not after Save

November 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 6

1. How do I do this with the "cite news" template?
2. user talk limitions?
3. Use of the link-interwiki model
4. dialer tune
5. new documenta13 page is inviting helpers to translate German to English
6. 1954 Greada Treaty
7. Global Media Post
8. New article
9. contribution of multimedia content
10. Jim Glaser Discography
11. Untitled
12. Inline citations and wikilinks
13. boys hostel
14. Is a screenshot of a video considered "own work"

November 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 7

1. factualy error
2. Master Dana Wong article deleted
3. I want to delete a file I uploaded.
4. Pictorial Illustrations
5. Deletion review
6. mark howard goalkeeper
7. Article Publication and Third-Party Verification
8. adding Bangla language
9. Dysentery
10. Page Name
11. Picture rotation problem
12. Adaptive Planning
13. PROD of BLP

November 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 8

1. Problem with Redir Page
2. Ben Schwartz's Bio
3. Youtube clips
4. Markup query
5. Request to edit page of 'Mehdi Hasan'
6. Page review
7. Italic title
8. How to change multiple categories quickly
9. ted hughes - dick straightup
10. who put my article on Wikipedia?
11. someone keeps moving my LINK to the bottom
12. Via Margutta entry
13. Images
14. united baseball league
15. nonconstructive editing
16. moving a wikipedia page

November 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 9

1. A Simple Suggestion (or two)
2. submitting bio. to wikipedia
3. Where do I go to have an article rated?
4. help
5. duplicating Matt Bolan covers
6. Editing {{reflist}}
7. Editing Help Needed
8. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 9#Forum_advice_on_.7B.7Btl.7CKennedy_Center_Honorees.7D.7D|Forum advice on {{Kennedy Center Honorees}}]]
9. How can I post my institution's profile?
10. New user
11. Highlighting links
12. unit formatting guidelines
13. hooliganism
14. H.A.A.R.P.
15. Copyright for logo
16. Retitling page
17. Josee Nadeau
18. Do I have insurance coverage through your company
19. Login error: Username entered already in use. Please choose a different name.
20. recent edit I suggested

November 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 10

1. I didn´t find more information about a book, but I don´t want the deletion of the article
2. Need to Change Username or Immediately Delete current Wikipedia and start over
3. Stray question
4. RE: Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
5. Problems with an image
6. Atribution
7. Request to add new section for the 'Mehdi Hasan' entry
8. Can i administrater please help?
9. Following on from my previous request to edit 'Mehdi Hasan' page...
10. Making two columns
11. Searching Wikipedia
12. RE: Please read: A personal appeal from an author of 549 Wikipedia articles
13. Remove myself from occupied
14. Why have the colors of the language templates become so pale all of a sudden?
15. Article Has Missing Information
16. How to move a page when the "move' option isn't showing
17. Get my draft off Google
18. Live Chat
19. Permission to Use Photo, But Requires Logo to Remain on Photo
20. Editing is blocked on the page?
21. want to fil a complaint on donald smith
22. Fan Fiction

November 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 11

1. page created redirected to another title, why?
2. Emmerdale
3. Harry Potter/Christopher Columbus
4. Wikipedia article on Facebook
5. Recreation?
6. Maths rating
7. Strange Redirect
8. Lists of blues artists by decade
9. Archive search and indexing
10. Infoboxes
11. How do you add a ciatacon needed?
12. 2 issues - one request and one more bothersome issue
13. Paypal donation link error
14. Cree Q5
15. Autobiography

November 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 12

1. Publishing
2. OK, so how to create a user page?
3. Error on page "Bittu Sahgal"
4. Flow of Consciousness
5. Images
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadnagar
7. A good edit has been removed and wrongly cited as "did not appear to be constructive".
8. I want to translate poetry &literature works
9. Deciphering this citation
10. regarding GOUTRA OF ANY BUNT
11. Deleted contributions
12. sayfada örnek hatası
13. A little help please
14. American River College
15. filter bag to be used in coal pulverising
16. Special characters
17. Graciela Rivera opera singer
18. "African American" diffusing or non-diffusing subcat of "American"?
19. Is there or do we need a portal on the world power struggle?
20. Category:Feminist television series
21. Dead links

November 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 13

1. Weird Layout
2. I need help with a page I started.
3. PP
4. "You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)"
5. "Rate this page."
6. The Hands Resist Him
7. Fixbunching
8. Copy and paste
9. Can't find cite error in article
10. What should I do now
11. "Rate this page."

November 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 14

1. Creating a list of ways to die by nature or notable poisons and nature accidents.plus change my user name account
2. Acorns
3. B-class troubles
4. Redirect and new page.
5. Moving content between articles
6. Publishing a draft
7. Edit/delete
8. about reply
9. General Emile Armand Gibon (1813-1870)
10. BBc News
11. adding reference and external links
12. two conflict of intrest questions.
13. Licensing and reusing WP articles
14. 10c enforcement
15. How can I add references?
16. Miscredited Donations
17. sources vs references
18. Recent Changes Tag Filter
19. Sentence disappared in template

November 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 15

1. RS question
2. Can I turn off the Personal Appeal by donating ?
3. Number of sensors
4. How to upload pictures to a Wikipedia page
5. Translation of a bengali article
6. Downloading in a format other than PDF
7. Date ranges
8. Sorry to bother
9. looking for a friend
10. Mamadou Doudou Diouf
11. Request for name change is in delay
12. Editing a user page
13. Biggest wave surfers
14. RfC on existing discussion or new?
15. All-Time Chicago Bear Roster

November 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 16

1. what's wrong with banners?
2. Editing Wikipedia:Help desk (new section)
3. How much money does it take to get Jimbo's face off of the internet forever?
4. foot notes
5. User page and watch list and more
6. Finding top-importance stubs?
7. Aligning userboxes with text
8. Rotated image
9. Kimiko Zakreski
10. fiery fingers
11. Capitalization of preposition "o'".
12. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales appeal
13. HELP: article seems to have been truncated!
14. new email Addy.
15. Original contribution
16. My user page is doing something weird D:
17. Image citation question
18. Header
19. Search for edits by ip subnet
20. Mobile version on desktop
21. Peculiar layout problem
22. Geo coordinates
23. Splitting an article
24. Rating a page
25. Can we PLEASE get Jimmy Wales' picture off of EVERY PAGE?
26. Using magazines as a source

November 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 17

1. What Wikipedia policies apply to the notability of article content?
2. Image not showing in a template
3. Someone deleted my edit. How do I find out why?
4. About the topic- Dhenkanal (Princely State)
5. Your Anti-christian policy
6. My username is my article title ?
7. LTJ Bukem
8. How do I increase the text size on wikipedia?
9. Change the layout of the appeal on the top of the pages
10. Lyudmila Pavlichenko
11. adding multiple external links
12. Question boxes
13. Keeping sources confidential except to Wikipedia editors
14. copying external articles with a creative commons license to WP
15. rules
16. re: facebook link - it's up to you. She has frequent updates over there, including salons, articles, etc.

November 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 18

1. How to quote an interview
2. Are the Wikipedians really serious about Userboxitis?
3. meta/color ???
4. PETER SELLERS
5. Turn off donation ads
6. Wikipedia mailing address to include in my matching grant contribution
7. employment
8. thomas davidson
9. Please edit something for me
10. Automatically generate list of all pages a user has edited and extract coords, if any
11. knowledge economy
12. logo under non profitable education purpose
13. Unified account conflicts
14. Editing photo captions
15. President oath
16. making donation
17. how to see the old students names?
18. Curb stomp
19. |last= and |first= links in parameters
20. how does one report a wikipedia editor for poor performance?
21. A few citation questions
22. Naval Sea Cadet Corps
23. "Some content was originally published at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion"
24. Facebook / Twitter links for easy posting of your donation appeal?
25. Searches: How to make search of plural go to same place as search of singular
26. can the page be expanded so the left hand column shrinks?
27. Signpost missed

November 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 19

1. Sources?
2. If my name is referenced in an approved article, can I create an entry to explain who I am?
3. Baiji
4. About wikibooks
5. Transclusion of TPS template
6. User Papaursa
7. DONATION
8. Variables
9. PubMed
10. Cannot move a draft into mainspace
11. chnage it please!!1
12. Editors keep nominating a page for deletion, even though it is labeled as a new project!
13. Is there a way
14. Edit status credit/ create article
15. Article Title Capitalization

November 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 20

1. acceptable usage of profanity
2. Lincoln High Brooklyn NY. Sing
3. Finding top-importance stubs?
4. optic nerve damged
5. İnserting HTML code as part of a page edit
6. What to do with this article?
7. A good idea (I hope) and no clue where to put it
8. Application for Fund for Foster Child
9. Capitalizing article title: Infinity walk or Infinity Walk
10. difference between standard and redirected articles
11. Someone using Wikipedia content without attribution
12. Adding family details- editing a wikipedia entry and want to add that the person is the great-grandson
13. I need help with from "The Help Desk" please
14. archive bot settings
15. Pharaoh's Curse
16. Infobox width
17. Wikisource image
18. Info box template for School Districts?

November 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 21

1. Bone conduction hearing aid fitting procedure
2. Multiple citations: same book, different page numbers
3. Nazzi symbols...
4. Created new article need little help
5. Employment question
6. office 7 question
7. Multilingual support
8. Why I will not donate to your site
9. Targeted Deletions
10. Is it possible to find out when you post updates?
11. Francis Higginson Cabot (1925-2011)
12. Am I really that confused and that much missing the point?
13. Italicized titles chopping off J's
14. Modifying link colors?
15. What should I do if an unregistered user of Wikipedia keeps making negative and unsubstantiated changes to a wiki page?
16. Errors in Thom Calandra profile
17. Please can you chnage a mis-spelling in a page title
18. lost temple
19. Header
20. Peter Greenaway

November 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 22

1. new unreviewed article needs to be reviewed but how
2. How to Donate
3. Citing references
4. Preload text
5. does wikipedia have a word finder tool to search an article for a specific word?
6. UNITY IN DIVERSITY
7. Style conflict
8. Redirects for spelling difference
9. Ro icon - Technical issue
10. Adding a colletion of images to an established reference article
11. Bettendorf High School
12. Why all the begging?
13. Help naming this article name
14. Add hyperlink to text
15. Donation to WikiPedia
16. External Link info
17. How does article name suddenly get deleted from watchlist?
18. Polyorcahdism
19. Why does Wikipedia believe that ads tarnish the educational value of the website and invade people's privacy?
20. bot and lingonberries
21. Messages
22. Policy status of "singular they"
23. Links for Spanish Wikipedia on English Wikipedia site

November 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 23

1. Hebrew lettering, drop-down feature
2. Trouble formating a table
3. Editing an Article - No 'Edit' Button
4. Can't make a smaller version of an image
5. metallic microlattice
6. Ted Serong :Correction
7. Pasting options and more
8. rate this page - I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional)
9. Cable Co. going HD
10. Adding information to a Wikipedia article
11. Removing AfD template from articles
12. renaming a page
13. Banque de Credit National, s.a.l.
14. Source of funding for Wikipedia
15. Ban templates
16. I'm using a "PS3" and I can't disable the mobile version of Wikipedia
17. Editing a link
18. Help with Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
19. PUBLIC COMPANY USING WIKI NAME - COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
20. I have new info ?
21. Creating a page
22. Paypal link

November 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 24

1. Jimmy Wales' Appeal
2. Help Me Figure Out Where To Practice Article Creation
3. Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation link expired
4. Contact
5. De-DABing a disambiguation page
6. Another Question
7. NONAVAILABILITY OF INDUS VISION TV CHANNEL
8. Need to find out Enginnering schools as per city in the USA
9. Old Submission
10. picture of Merton Russell-Cotes
11. RFC tag not working
12. 3RR question
13. Cannot locate privacy settings for living biographies
14. Cursor Position on Home Page
15. Why won't this work?
16. Correction
17. where to report advertising
18. Fund Transfer
19. Translation

November 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 25

1. Stuck in a live chat where no one can hear me
2. Korean War Quote
3. General Sir Charles Asgill
4. Need help changing page name
5. The longhair
6. Did not get email for PW reset
7. How do I create an opaque background on my talk page?
8. How do I change the color of the contents box on my talk page?
9. Shameful!
10. File information
11. Entries deleted
12. Where has my article gone?
13. Help me AJA
14. Wikigear
15. Benigno S. Aquino Jr.
16. Insightful book review by book group on a blog
17. Impossible to Navigate Your Process
18. Title change
19. Funds
20. James Arbuthnot
21. photos

November 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 26

1. Tomorrow's featured article?
2. Unicorn (Dungeons & Dragons)
3. LIBRARY SC
4. Deinosuchus skull reconstruction
5. Peter Hellier vs Rove Mc Mannus
6. Connecting character name with actor/actress to also make list at bottom of article & to link actor actress to other accomplishments in their life.
7. Soaked
8. about a page redirect
9. MULARAM DEPAN
10. Rate this page box
11. What makes a user a member of a WikiProject?
12. Donation to Wikimedia Foundation
13. List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte
14. Menieredisease
15. URGENT
16. Showing archives

November 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 27

1. Incorrect movie reference
2. USE OF WIKIPEDIA
3. Is there supposed to be another word?
4. How could this article deletion happen?
5. Sir Robert L. Borden high school
6. Assuming You are the new Local Chief Executive of one of the Municipalities here int he Philippines. What measures will you undertake to improve the services and the economy of the Local Government Unit?
7. Add NetBanking Options in the donation Page
8. Watching an article that's being created, and maybe helping with it
9. Photograph of subject
10. Wiki and my bookmarks
11. How do I turn off the table of contents
12. Need Help To Correct Title Of Wikipedia Article?
13. fat quotes
14. Check/Edit My Efforts?
15. The Penny Project
16. MISS EARTH 2011
17. Assistance
18. New subcatagories within :Category:Television programs based on video games
19. What happened to wikipedia's server why did it crash
20. Correcting biography of a living person

November 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 28

1. donation by BPay
2. Padhavi
3. Edit request
4. Link icon on every link
5. I want to suggest a historical research on a subject
6. Requesting code for a template
7. cannot edit Reference page, only ...
8. Lost!
9. Dismay
10. retire
11. "QuickiWiki Look Up"
12. Entry on Diane Coyle
13. Old version at redirect
14. help
15. meaning of geographic coordinates listed on Wikipedia
16. I want to donate to wikipedia but unable to
17. Want to have the school I work at listed on wikipedia- Alexander Montessori School in Miami, FL
18. Donation requests
19. Copyright status of screenshots of Wikipedia pages
20. character encoding
21. Joseph Leo Mcglynn attended Mount Saint Mary's College/ now mms university in Maryland. Not California .
22. concern about windows
23. How to revert this vandalism?

November 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 29

1. Copyright
2. R.Narasimha
3. Run Ads...
4. how to move subpage to mainspace
5. Possible inappropriate comment
6. For Franamax on mispelling in title of article on Guy Leverne Fake
7. My username on another Wikipedia
8. Italic tags in titles seen in Firefox on Windows
9. Dealing with poor sources
10. republishing
11. Tag for "please expand this acronym"
12. Taking a picture
13. Fundraising question
14. US Open (tennis) editions
15. How to make the ref list?
16. Showing personal appeal again
17. help (2)
18. Protecting your page
19. More money for Wikipedia: Provide - against a donation - whole(!) portals, such as science, fixed(!) on DVD.
20. Media/Logo question
21. Splitting from existing article to new page -- policy?
22. Article removed for copyright infringement
23. Flight Express, Inc.
24. Mark Henry TD mayo North Ireland 1927 to 1932.
25. Deleting footnote mistakes under the reference section of an article

November 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 30

1. Compromised account
2. Oddball image-orientation question
3. funds through donation or advertisement
4. Claudia Lennear
5. Adding Urdu text to articles/pages
6. Help with certain article words and more
7. Odd "unpatrolled" notice on watchlist
8. Apprise Software logo
9. Application of zinc sulfate as ors
10. Contribution problems
11. removing my links
12. need to change link
13. Updated category sort order
14. adding an article about my dad
15. I created a new section in an existing article, but it does not seem to be showing up.
16. Cat picture
17. Donation Payment Mode
18. Image gallery question