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September 1
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 1
- Category challenge
- guidence for subjects to contribute a commons compatible picture
- Page ratings suggestion
- Running Wikipedia
- My Page
- Citation parameters
- Curt Smith
- red username
- Why do my edits to sandboxes (to practice reference with links and citations) disappear when I click save?
- Doppelganger accounts
- Unknown value, self-serving content
- How to upload a jpg
- Difficulty getting video/audio references on article to show both the 'work' (eg name of newspaper) and the publisher
- New question
- deleting history
- description of Alive! Catholic newspaper
- Societal attitudes towards pedophilia in medieval Europe
- english
- Conrad N. Hilton Foundation page
- Consequence on the servers of a change in the noinclude section of a template
- Contacting contributor
- Cleveland
September 2
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 2
- Problem with lists and tables template needs fixing urgently
- Can't find draft article
- Autoconfirmed and confirmed users
- Stop Letters from a Website
- Help with blockquotes
- INCOTERMS
- How to id edits which are not the most recent ones?
- Stale draft
- Editing Biographies
- Question on Adding a recent submission
- Difficulty making correction to article references directed to a portal
- Daily Article editing
- Administrator status?
- Singaporean national anthem recording
- Picture doesn't display
- Category question
September 3
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 3
- University of Tennessee health science center on Wikipedia
- Poorly written Wikipedia process for suggesting a new article
- Table sorting with convert templates
- News source plagiarising Wikipedia
- a topic entry suggestion for Hiljaiset Levyt record label in english
- I'd like to correct my user name after registering for the first time today.
- putting images in an article
- researching my family history
- AIDS roster addition
- Creating pages with preloaded content
- September 2011
- September 2011
- Air Lease Corporation ( ALC)
- link
- Where to get 50 helpers for WP:GOCE backlog
- Would my Signature be considered obnoxious?
- messed up redirect
- Crop white space, desharpen
September 4
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 4
- Banning an IP?
- Wrong information on how old Octavius Winslow was when he died.
- Login trouble
- Why post stuff I have to pay for - shame!
- DYK nomination
- How do I find all the Wikipedia pages that are linked to a Wikipedia page?
- Editing help?
- fake name in headline/duplicate pages
- I CANT EDIT AN ARTICLE ABOUT ME!!
- Revision number
- Simplify the process of uploading a copyrighted picture
- lookking for info on Band
- Deletion log and Google search
- reservation residents and addresses
- Translation of Suite Tetelecentro
September 5
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 5
- ten year budget 2001 thru 2011 jennings county, in.
- Clarence Earl Gideon
- Compare diffs from two different articles?
- Deleting from Wapedia an article that has been removed from Wikipedia
- Thumbs down on an unreviewed article
- My editing of the police brutality page
- deleting history
- about boost converter
- third opinion
- Changing the rendering size of a TeX formula
- Use of wp:engvar
- Ganesha body?
- Problem getting picture thumbnail to display
- Subscription forcefully
- Wrong Translation on Home Page
- Recovering the code of a page
- Xbox 360 Achievement Lists for games
- questions about starting new article
- Will phone calls show up on my phone bill
- Using a parameter in an infobox
- Can someone please edit the page for Tim Bee, former Arizona Senate President?
- Help needed with harv references
September 6
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 6
- Searching for plain English tutorial on how to write an article for Wikipedia
- Title interference
- Outdated Editing Critique banners on top of articles
- editing ungenerous statements and reports
- reporting articles
- Darcy-Weisbach Equation
- Anthony Stanislas Radziwill
- Improvement to Hinuism Article Swami Nigamananda
- Your messed up resetting passwords
- How can I find my last posts and talks on my user? I sent talks to the editors and now there are no sign of them
- EMANI SANKARA SASTRY
- Bad linking between Wiki pages of different languages
- Deleted page
- Copyright photo?
- Guide for young editors
- Moving new draft article to wikipedia
- David Willey
- Vacillating Bot !
- How to create a new page in Wikipedia namespace?
- Farmville
- Replacing photo
- Withchurch
- Listening to Word Pronunciations
- Doctor
- Archiving Comments on one's Userpage
September 7
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 7
- How many pages can a user edit in one minute?
- Lenny Williams
- Archived, unclosed discussion with only 'Support' votes
- Ïs there a free wikipedia article download/archiver?
- wrong information in advertisement under types of advertisement
- Has one of your pages been hacked into?
- Is there a noticeboard for NFC violations?
- ...CONTACTING ANOTHER USER.......
- 'This article does not cite any references/sources' - I can see them!
- How to rename a category where pages are added only via template transclusion
- unreadable font
- Alice Lok Cahana
- Can a magazine scan be used to support a reference?
September 8
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 8
- Changing a Picture
- An example article
- Australian Science Fiction Writers
- Why are there pornographic pictures on at least one page
- LNER METAL PLATE & LMS METAL PLATE
- Why the assumption that ISP language/IP represents user language?
- POURPOURAKIS
- DEL policy if article exists in other language.
- Satellite question
- Norman Lamont/Lindi St Clair
- American Dad episode articles are gone
- Searches for persons with the same name as others...
- "Cite book" formatting boggle
- HELPME
- Textbox
- HTN with intravertebral bleed/mid line shift (Brain)
- HELPME!!!!!
- Duplicate article
- Lost password without email configured
- HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
- Behbahani dialect
- UNDO
- Simple English
- helpme
- PROXIES
- UNBLOCK
- Question
- Proper warning for removing a TFD discussion and tag
- Trolling
- Questions
- Minor edit
- Edit notice at List of Telugu Brahmins
- How do i fix this page? It's overlapping at the bottom.
- Two Questions.
September 9
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 9
- trigonometry
- tracing of lost blackberry
- problem
- How do you get a wikipedia page
- Oooops - I messed up
- Creating a text macro in an article or providing some way to replicate text from a prior place in the article.
- Blocks
- Henry Raeburn Dobson
- Baseball card Society Membership
- 2 questions
- Wikify
- Problem with the Unified login
- Data over time on Article Feedback Tool
- How do I change an existing out-of-date logo to our new one
- non-diuretic hot/cold beverages
- Brazilian National Math Olympiad for Public Schools
- User:Roberton213
- edits
- Wool
- natrona news research
- Wikipedia displaying weird font, look like Impact
- ABOUT TOLA ( gold )
- Brian O'Shaughnessy
- Talk Page
- Image file problem
- Lost archives
- Fixing a repair to an article that wasn't done quite right
- edited articles
- New editor: help wanted?
September 10
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 10
- Searching for template documentation
- Can you make it harder to tell you your search engine is broken?
- Wikipedia policies/rules/regulations
- Does Wikipedia give money for article
- Jeff Chandler
- Fixing common errors
- Moving section
- Web services
- Suggestion for Simplification
- Maren Jensen Page
- What edit summary should I use here?
- What is the right place for this RFC?
- Rating Web Pages
- Messed up move
September 11
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 11
- prevent undo changes
- Can't get a caption on a photo
- LA's Wasted Youth
- registration details
- Spelling of Mariners on their shirts.
- Abuse of power among Wikipedia accounts.
- Help with a template that I'm not familiar with
- Church sues SDA Kinship over use of Church name
- How to edit a Digital SLR page
- Non-English question
- 2 questions
- Using Wikipedia as a word processor - or how to teach MS Word to work like Wikipedia
- Problems accessing Wikipedia with Blackberry
- Now mislabeled as a stub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_Institute
- References - Ossett Wikipedia
- Question regarding Limit containing exponential function
- Wizard broken? (Creating a new article)
- Why I cannot hear pronunciation - How to set laptop speakers to hear pronunciation
- My new article is using my username as it's title rather than the subject I choose.
- Offensive wiki page feedback
- Don't get a list of people
- Need help with deleting an image
- Sources in other languages
September 12
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 12
- New section tab missing
- BOOK Creation & Usage
- Update company title
- Is FRUCKING an offensive word in the English language
- limitation of sales management
- HELP ME QUICK!
- I have uploaded an image, but it won't appear on the article!
- Acoustics and human rights
- Help with images
- Arumuga Navalar wiki violates academic honesty and suppresses facts
- Creating a consonant sound file
- List of buses
- Vanessa_Grant article link error
- Multiple Issues
- Internet
- View History
- Digi Rhymes
- How Do Subpages Work
- User stats
- Cabnt find the extreme music article where is it?
- Referencing information released under a UK Freedom Of Information act request.
- Please Add
September 13
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 13
- Porn picture hacked into 911 article DISGUSTING!!!
- Contributing Information Learned From TV
- Wrong picture/logo
- Ektoise
- Village lock-ups
- Modification to ChemInfo Box
- Doppelganger account
- Tomas J Fleischmann
- pronunciation
- Science
- Help finding bad image (example.jpg) in Lonely Mountain article?
- Vandalism
- Request move issue
- Adding link to our site results in "spam" messages from Wikipedia
- omission of my most recently published book on my page
- Pad_see_ew
September 14
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 14
- Making custom anchors show up in TOC
- Image
- Wikipedia:VANDALISM IN PROGRESS
- Optical Fibers
- Christian Zolbe: I want it deleted
- I could use some eyes on a few things
- History of Egypt
- Vandalism ?
- Creative Commons Attribution
- Peter H Thomas
- Sourcing For Biographies of Living Persons
- 2007 (album)
- Help with article review
- Wrong link for Senator
- please delete Scott Tatman
September 15
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 15
- Changing the name of a page
- Contacting another user
- Help requests - COI/semi/PER
- List of professional cyclists who died during a race
- New account setup not happening :(
- Adding an article
- Rename page
- "Show" buttons redirect to unrelated (including CONTACT section)
- Removal of a specific template from an article
- sharing with social sites?
- Bosnian War
- Bare URL Message
- login not saved
- Windows-only free software
- Click here to buy?
- My signature
- What to do with a paid-for advert
- Question about deleted revision
- Debt - Bondage - happened in Britain
- Dakota Meyer page
September 16
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 16
- Posting Verifiable Information
- why can't this page be edited?
- Navbox help
- Harry's Girls
- Template hidden
- Photographer who wants to contribute needs advice
- A suggestion...
- Notifications of changes
- Template problem
- User talkpage
- references
- Using Wikipedia Under GNU/Creative Commons
- Allowing other Wikipedia users to edit your subpage draft
- Sergio DeMello
- Editing or Reformatting a Page Title
- Why the aversion to advertisements?
- REMOVAL OF MY BIOGRAPHY
September 17
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 17
- "User account "Technical Communication" is not registered."
- The "long running" one man crusade
- Romanization of Farsi script
- unable to offer a correction to Joe McGinness article
- Voter ID laws in United States
- Setting the Signature button on the edit toolbar to use an em-dash instead of two hyphens
- new word....
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartism
- Help with an image
- incorrect spelling of my name in Cash Harmon article
- Financial problems
- birth date
- IPhone 3GS support
- article
- IPA articles
- Nuclear warfares
- page ratings
- Photo in infobox appearing in its original full size
- hello..
- Where to go to Patrol Recent Changes?
- Article requests
September 18
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 18
- pleasant hill tn
- Just signed up and cannot edit. There is no save or view listed.
- Downloading Images
- The birthdate of Dr Vikram Sarabhai
- nfl championship
- Funny issue with bar box
- Searching all revisions
- how to put a video on Facebook
- Text formatting
- Email change and password reset
- login
- Broken pronunciation link
- weird adress popping up in user talk and watchlist.
- Problems with downloading a file
- Pictures Problem
- Post deleted - question the decision.
- Ninety
- Diego Garcia
- Smart Phone editing
- "link rot"
- editing an article
- Waterproof, Louisiana and John Henry Johnson
- Wrong email
- Moving an article
September 19
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 19
- sonny tufts?
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- DYK
- How do you actually edit the text as it appears on the mainpage?
- Why does Wiki always refer to America?
- Issue with article for Bain & Company
- External Links to real estate websites
- RICK JAMES/COLD BLOODED (ALBUM)
- ABOUT STEAM ENGINE........
- Conflict of Interest
- Assistance requested with file version
- Dutson
- Forgotten
- The New Update it Wicc 600 Logo thats On The New Web Site at www.wicc600.com thats on the top left
- music
- confused about setting up disambiguation
- Constant Deletion of valid articles by another user
September 20
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 20
- Sander Vanocur - Family
- Image problem
- Smart Phone editing
- User Name
- iPhone 3GS and mobile wiki problem
- potentially slanderous comment
- How to add our company profile page on Wikipedia ?
- Permanently Delete Page
- Template help needed
- Creating new artical - where is link?
- Cant find it !
- Add material
- How to wikilink to a section if two sections with identical title exist
- Vicki Roberts erroneously is redirected to Amy Alkon
- Have I messed up an AfD?
- Deleting old draft copies from Userspace
September 21
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 21
- Babel "es"
- Horizon League
- Accidental disable
- Mobile wikipedia feedback
- Show/Hide buttons not working on iPhone.
- Table formatting problem
- Screenshots
- Regina Louise article got rejected
- Asking question again...was not answered.
- Email contact
- How to find my wikipedia account that i have created when using the search key
- Editing specific pages
- I cant move my article, why?
- Signed baseball from HARLAND KENTUCKY,1952 MOUNTAIN LEAUGE
- Non-English Language Source Citation
- Moving appearance of screen
- Comparing Versions
- Cross project wikilinks
- Way to create coordinate links without the annoying little globes
- What to do with Collaborative_writing
- Semi existence!
- Donating copyrighted materials
- Informal article help
September 22
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 22
- Disputed facts and veracity of sources
- Revert error - help needed
- Wikipedia app on iPhone and other mobile devices
- i want to help from people
- list of satellite crashes
- Foreing exchange
- birth date (previously archived thread, revived to allow reply)
- Replace minus signs with endashes
- I entered significant changes to Swietenia humilis a few minutes ago. All have disappeared.
- Login: temporary password expiration time? And a request.
- New page not coming up in google searches
- Wrongful Redirection
- Indexing subcategories
- I have a question
September 23
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 23
- Correct template
- possible vandalism
- Improve an article to GA status
- Wiki entry for Antisocial Personality Disorder
- How to create a math symbol?
- Images from French WP not appearingin English articles
- i want a job
- Q about cats
- Lost edits?
- Repeated article in two addresses
- Date sorting on tables
- need to find out who this number belongs to?
September 24
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 24
- Reference question
- an edited post was submitted
- Assistance with Being Born Again Couture article - it seems that everybody doesn't know how to help
- Uploading pictures
- life duration of an article. Can an article be removed?
- Copy right infringement?
- How to determine if an article is in a category
- Question
- Difficulty setting up my wikipedia account
- grammatical correction needed
- Friday Night Club
- Translating a wiki article into another language
September 25
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 25
- updating "Higher Education in Canada"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pancreatic_cancer_survivors
- spelling mistake in article "Rattanakosin Kingdom"
- Henry Joseph Fradelle
- dora maria en estos momentos
- Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win!
- Non native speaker needs help with an article
- How do I get feeedback and edits to a proposed article?
- How to place a userbox on a userpage?
- doubts in electronics
- higher cylinderical number
- Really delete a revision
- What does the mathematical symbol ⊙ represent?
- sortname and linking
- New Article Request
- Very minor diff
September 26
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 26
- added info to blank page does not show up.
- Two Trevors
- Feedback
- Languages of Nepal
- financing wikipedia
- Historial prices for Heating Oil, Bio Oil and Natural Gas
- Search box in English mobile Wikipedia
- Conflict of interest
- Unreliable sources
- (v * d* e) links do not work in a navbox
- Help
- RDQ
- Adding links from Public Television websites
- Patent for my invention
- Twinkle?
- Technical issues/horrible functionality/terrible toolbar
- Creating an article
- Italicized titles
- How to upload an image
- Changing an existing image on a page
- Kailua, Hawaii
- Message when trying to log in
- age at death template
September 27
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 27
- St Louis sculptor Bob Casilly death, includsion on recent deaths
- How to make a single footnote refer to several different statements in an article?
- printer setup
- Young, pregnant, and very confused.
- Is there a way to have a sportspersons stats automatically updated
- Userpage redirect
- I don't understand what I did wrong.
- College Of Engineering kidangoor,Kottayam
- Please help correcting Template:Player3
- FIVE SHANKARANARAYANA TEMPLES IN 15KM RADIUS NEAR SHANKARANARAYANA VILLAGE IN KUNDAPURA TALUK OF UDUPI DISTRICT
- Two paragraphs of an article are only visible when logged on
- Alternative and most obvious answer to the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" see link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hatter#The_Hatter.27s_riddle
- time stamp in the veiw history option
- Question: How to use "<col>" in wiki table?
- Adding a rightsfree photo to the biography of ernst reijseger
- Why is my Article not showing?
- redirect/new article
- Trying to restore a dead reference link with the help of the publisher
- Wikilink for a place named after a person?
- who do i contact?
- activate new account to move page
- User page question
- DR or copyvio
- z font problem in Equipartition_theorem
- Cost accounting
- Unable to access toolserver.org
- Urgent help needed!
- Author information on images
- thumbnail image sizes
- Linking Images
September 28
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 28
- difficulty setting up my wikipedia account
- Flag in the European Union article
- flag question
- Operation Sea Signal casualties
- Creation of Information about our NPO- the ICeJHED-Int'l Centre for Justice,Health & Educational Dev.on Wikipedia.
- Punjabi Film CHANN PARDESEE
- Wrong information about me ;
- About Nodle officer
- Pc sute
- Help
- Error on the Barbary lion page
- Remove vandalism notice from Talkpage and how to deal with similar issues
- Is it possible to remove my IP address
- Want to contact facebook
- Problems Fixing this article
- Blocked account (maybe?)
- Looking for Policies/Essays/best practices about contacting Wikipedians
- Islam's view on the big bang theory.
- Wikipedia...error for the length of the Las Vegas Strip.....
- Userpage box broken
- Registering as opposed to editing with an IP
- how to purchase
September 29
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 29
- Discussion page redirects to the wrong page
- Hi, i would like to edit my "username"
- Citation template for citing forum posts
- Article not appearing on Wikipedia
- No file by this name exists.
- Header toolbar links, .css, etc.
- "Free Radical"
- Adding the citation / blocked by crazy editor
- in wrong place
- Henry Alden Clark
- WP:OUTING
- How can I re-enable the Wikipedia Mobile Site.
- In correct information with reference to the Page on Mr. Salman Bashir
- National Atheist Party Article
- Linking images from a translated page
September 30
editWikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 30
- My Edit Missing
- Edits missing
- Winter (dolphin)
- Server error
- Userboxes
- Transclusion problem
- Changes to format
- Reactivate sockpuppet investigation
- Article Help
- Company changed name
- Volks Wagen Vento
- I am a fairly knowledgeable editor
- Wikipedia tool for finding where two editors have worked together
- what's user's name
- Question
- Is this article, up to par?