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April 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 1

1. Adding search keywords for a wikipedia article
2. Claims I've never heard before
3. This may seem kind of stupid...
4. Unassessed articles
5. Custom messages heading edit pages
6. network components and its types
7. How do you add a picture to a page you have created.
8. Question about user and usertalk pages
9. Why is my accont not valid?
10. What do the numbers on the watchlist page mean?
11. Reassessment
12. Linking to selfpage (linked page has redirect back to same page as what linked to)
13. Dates for when articles change level in Quality Scale
14. PC Pitstop page
15. How do I place a text that has a differente language than the rest.
16. My Very First Question??
17. Login problem
18. Problems adding new picture to existing entry
19. The Sky is Falling (novel)
20. How does the deletion process work?
21. Deprecation
22. Usurp
23. soliciting feedback

April 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 2

1. Public Domain
2. $
3. Still having trouble with the delete process
4. Possible minor sockpuppetry
5. Wikipedia:Talk#Others.27_comments
6. Challenging External Links
7. How can I add information to an existing article?
8. Special:Tags
9. Whats it called when one article focuses too much on a tangential topic?
10. I lost my password and my mail address has changed
11. Account login problems (no email)
12. Picture on commons, how do I get it to the article
13. "username removed"
14. License Plates in Photographs
15. Notes
16. I've edited to create a neutral point of view. Now what?
17. Changing redirects created after a merge
18. Wikimedia commons
19. Can i make a copy from the history on Alexander Fleming for my essay in college?--Hazel eyez (talk) 22:54, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
20. Editing Reverted

April 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 3

1. Changing an article's title
2. Name Change
3. Capital letter in the title
4. relation
5. Fonts are small in Wikipedia
6. Manawan Police Training School coordinates
7. power lifting
8. languages
9. can not edit pages
10. I have no clue
11. Epitaph
12. Love Sex Magic
13. rates
14. geneology

April 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 4

1. My talkpage TOC formatting disaster
2. Grammar questions
3. To write with International Phonetic Alphabet
4. Style on Wikipedia
5. How to set up disambiguation
6. tags
7. about the place
8. How to write my something to WIKIEPEDIA?
9. Request copies of files: File: Outline map metro and rail Brussels.svg and File: Metro Brussels.svg but with new lines
10. How do I bring up an alphabetical list of each article I have have edited?
11. Template:Campaignbox Pakistan attacks
12. main logo in upper left of every page ...
13. TROY DOUGLIN
14. Where should I ask for removal of full protection?
15. Question on IP block vs account
16. Deletion of Comment to Article

April 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 5

1. Problematic reference
2. Creating an article
3. Computer lockout
4. Offline Wikipedia
5. Log In
6. low cost airline
7. Where do I find those icons?
8. Tenochtitlan
9. General Wiki Editing
10. adding a person and info
11. Sub-page
12. Creating Wikepedia shortcut on Windows screen
13. admin help with a new user.
14. checking printing colours in idesign cs
15. moving pages or changing their names

April 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 6

1. youtube not working
2. Where to write a new article
3. Check some edits, please
4. Weird message from the EU wiki?
5. Using or translating foreign place names
6. Our Listing
7. Posting links to images
8. biliary cyst
9. Why does Italian wikipedia act up like this?
10. Can someone find the templates used in SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
11. how do I insert a table down the right hand side the same as the one that can be seen on the Greenpeace page?
12. List of wikilinks in an article
13. No footnotes and ref improve headings. Who removes them?
14. Uploaded Images for Dance Bear-a-Thon

April 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 7

1. Notable residents
2. How Do I Set up a Wiki Page About Myself: Composer
3. Rory Elrick
4. Login problems
5. Can anyone identify a user's computer IP address?
6. Talk Page "contents" list
7. Washer & Dryer history?
8. Archiving talk pages
9. Template Help
10. Bold text
11. How do I get a cleanup box reviewed?
12. Artist

April 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 8

1. Requested Articles
2. Spy Wednesday
3. changing Info on wikipedia?
4. Uploading Picture
5. Uploading a photo?
6. Help needed…
7. Please delete image
8. Oyoyoy, ooops etc. - I need to move new category
9. Permission from author to use picture
10. Aspen Magazine
11. 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict
12. How Can I Edit
13. Can't login because...

April 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 9

1. Request for assistance due to my own stupid mistake
2. CAL photo transfer
3. Suggestion to make 'cancel' button more noticeable for newbies
4. James Cawley
5. Article about a greek author
6. Tables
7. Patrolling new pages, second opinion
8. Army CAC Card
9. Editing the TITLE of an article
10. Wierd things happening when I edit
11. PhD dissertation
12. Why was the Declaration of Independence written in the first place?
13. missing links to files
14. Resending question on uploading map of K street
15. How do I make a quotation box?
16. Additional information on existing widipedia site
17. How
18. Height of a table
19. Broken links in an article
20. sabotage
21. Problem with Template:Convert/to(-)/AonSoffAnd

April 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 10

1. Help
2. RFC: Notability of free open source software
3. hOW TO SELECT SOLID STATE RELAYS
4. web technology
5. Image upload
6. dots in pagenames
7. Font family?
8. My Wiki is not found on the internet!
9. Update main information - need help
10. Cannot connect to En Wikipedia
11. An editing icon
12. No access to archive picture
13. Mistake
14. Mahjong Titans
15. Unable to create an Acrobat copy of any Wikipedia article
16. Request copies of file: File:Outline map metro and rail Brussels.svg and file:Metro Brussels.svg but with the new metro lines
17. Improvement of a just created article
18. chicken chops

April 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 11

1. Putting a dot on a map
2. How to file request to have current content removed?
3. Silly image use quesiton
4. Bulbs
5. Is it useful to blank a page before it gets deleted?
6. Finding it impossible to add a (properly formatted) Radio show infobox to an article
7. Please delete the last sentence in the opening content related to article about India
8. Most accessed Wikipedia Articles
9. Template creation
10. Foreign Language Sources
11. keeping or making the port green
12. permanent link for running Reference Desk threads
13. questions/doubts on the article...where??
14. Tryna delete user & disc pages but stalker keep reverting
15. Question about proper use of pictures
16. overhead line
17. External link formatting problem
18. Which speedy deletion tag should I use?
19. How many views does the Main Page get each day?

April 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 12

1. Barnstars
2. Talk page emergency
3. CHANGING THE COLOR OF MY WIKI SKIN FROM WHITE TO BLUE OR GREY
4. Creepy photo
5. Find an article for me?
6. Partisan Warfare
7. spelling or correct usage
8. Image source not valid
9. A problem with references
10. Oskar, oskar, ''oskar''
11. Languages Problem
12. Firefox freezing on page histories
13. Question on corrections/additions to existing articles?
14. How to make columns?
15. Where can I find a list of pictures I created here on Wikipedia?
16. It Isn't Working
17. Willie "The Lion" Smith
18. Editing entry
19. Copyright
20. Watchlist
21. Question

April 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 13

1. help with "if" condition
2. Kevin Musker >> article appears to be made up
3. Broken Links in External links
4. I created a second account
5. I wanna play a game
6. Diff abiogenesis
7. 7th Rib Surgery for Cancer
8. 7th Rib Surgery for Cancer
9. Admin user account User:Jersey_Devil invalid blocking
10. Semi-protected article on helicopter
11. Footnotes in Harvard Style
12. Google map link is out of date: how to get the most recent edit appearing???
13. What can I do when an entry is wrong?
14. Research
15. Naming convention
16. Looking for Wikipedia Guru's to Share Knowledge at Microsoft
17. New Individual
18. External Links
19. Sortable table from Excel
20. using sandbox
21. Weight gain/loss
22. Layout problems
23. Deleting an uploaded image
24. override collapsed state when transcluding a template made with Navbox?
25. how do i write a page
26. Hide Images
27. My Categories Deleted Unfairly

April 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 14

1. mesin diesel
2. Copyright infringement?
3. Why AfD frustrates me
4. Wikipedia User Name error
5. We want to start a wiki for our webshow.
6. Looking for a Challenge?
7. How to make a page
8. Parse first three letters of an article name?
9. Deleting User Account
10. Can't revert vandalism on Windows 7 page
11. Tabloid
12. Delete my edit
13. Catandica exact meaning.
14. Double vision...sort of

April 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 15

1. How to speedy delete?
2. Speedy
3. Image license question
4. Nikolay Motovilov
5. Don't you think...
6. Andy Fairweather Low
7. Something strange
8. it is showing only web adress whwn iam trying to copy anything from ie to word
9. can't save anything, though if this works, I'm wrong about that, too
10. How do I release a draft article created in my user page?
11. Additions Deleted
12. 2 column legend
13. Formatting problem
14. how to include a company?
15. Secure Server Login
16. How to create a new Wikipedia page?
17. 10 off the air
18. Request copies of files: File: Metro Brussels.svg but with new lines
19. Editing Help, Userspace
20. Page http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Frog_%26_Frigate
21. Using Wikipedia

April 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 16

1. aweazing
2. Coding Your Tag
3. printing
4. SAGE edits - timeframe for changes to show?
5. User Contribs and Search
6. Template:Geobox Settlement third map parameter needed quickly
7. log in password confusion (fairly sure I am the one confused)
8. problems nominating a category for renaming
9. Tea Cultivation
10. Plagurism
11. Need help with tables
12. Can I get my name spelled correctly?
13. The Rolling Stones
14. mental problem- cleanliness
15. Talking smoke detector
16. Line numbers in edit diffs
17. Seattle University
18. Referencing the same articles a/b style
19. Missing links in Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria
20. Persondata
21. Help with WP:NOTE and WP:COI on Mike Signer page

April 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 17

1. Question
2. Free/Fair use?
3. Editing my mother's article.
4. squamous interaepithelial lesion
5. ip talk page
6. Adding ISBNs
7. Page layout
8. Articles for deletion
9. Is it just me or are some pages broken
10. how can I help a user whose edits are almost always incorrect?
11. Neutrality of Believer's baptism
12. Template to fix
13. Tankman Picture
14. Duplicate Names
15. Citation Issue
16. Fresh start
17. Questions form Shadow Bloop
18. search
19. Most Rural States in the U.S.

April 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 18

1. TYPHO
2. Need some help
3. free public,criminal,and health records
4. Steal ISBNs from Britannica?
5. Adding an external link
6. Redirecting an acronym
7. How to create a Spoiler Alert???????
8. Disambiguating from a possibly non-notable subject

April 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 19

1. Scanning a database dump
2. Template
3. what does this mean?
4. Recover password
5. print
6. A question?
7. Renaming a photo that has mis-identified an animal
8. Presence
9. Trouble with a certain page
10. Foreign language content
11. Can't access Latin symbols
12. Where do I go to ask someone to translate an article from another language Wikipedia?
13. how do I ..
14. Making a new page!!!!??
15. Creating a new case under the Wikipedians by alma mater category.
16. Reliable sources
17. How to remove an "Additional Citations Needed" tag???
18. complete subst
19. Where's the tag you use when you see someone who is apparently the subject of the biography editing his/her own biography?
20. editing errors
21. Auto-assessing bots

April 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 20

1. Archive box
2. RFC
3. Heading
4. Tried to enter notes about my changes in the Edit Summary -- did not accept notes, only my changes
5. Hillsborough disaster described wrongly?
6. Need image of Wikia founders
7. Type of files when uploading music?
8. how do i post a biographyDprice65 (talk) 15:38, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
9. Oops
10. Are censored sources acceptable?
11. Wikilinks in columns
12. How can i write my own page as a part of the encylopedia?
13. Contributing to Wikipedia
14. formattation of an article i´m trying to create
15. sign up
16. Pre-determined List
17. How do I find out about a 1956 jr high school shooting?
18. FILM
19. Editors of a page
20. is there anything wrong with ...
21. Recover a deleted article?
22. Remove citation needed tag and header at top of article
23. Born on the Fourth of July

April 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 21

1. Getting my account back
2. Saving entries
3. Images from google street view
4. IP Address Woes
5. A couple things I've been meaning to figure out...
6. access wikipedia programatically
7. Biographical page
8. how to make a suggestion about an article
9. Missing
10. Coded Arms Assault trailer
11. How can a page be found with more than several search alternatives
12. Blatant display of bias —vandalism or not?
13. partial printing
14. Event
15. Hello!
16. Article activation
17. photos
18. Still picture when video clip isn't playing
19. Help fixing a page I screwed up
20. Password forgotten and e-mail address active at the time nolonger exists
21. Creating a redirect
22. Is there a way to check if a particular article is an orphan?

April 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 22

1. History of romantic lyrics
2. Plus signs on my watchlist?
3. Subtracting columns in a table
4. Inline citations advice
5. Template collapse variable help
6. Widescreen assistance needed
7. Purging the cache
8. Linking between different language Wikipedias.
9. Still confused about Orphans
10. Policy
11. List of most searched keywords within Wikipedia?
12. Problems with twinkle
13. How to contribute for an article
14. Reference desk "Choose a topic:" items dissapear in IE7
15. Same Name, Different People -- How To Create New Page

April 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 23

1. User template code
2. Category "Rating Systems"
3. Posting a question or comment
4. How do I start a discussion about proposed changes to certain (i.e. hundreds of) U.S. law articles?
5. Any easy way to edit a Wikitable?
6. Should this be deleted
7. Body Parts (1991 Film)
8. finding an existing page which is hiding; and how to edit that page to add my name, once its found.
9. local wiki groups for legal professionals
10. after Rfc .
11. Suggestions
12. United Kingdom national holidays
13. editing problems
14. making a page
15. editing problems
16. editing problems
17. Revised name for Museum
18. Two references sections
19. pictures
20. page deleted
21. editing problems
22. article talk
23. Revert or not
24. How to submit an article?

April 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 24

1. Citation question
2. Citation of talk page
3. How do I insert a photo into an article?
4. User lists have unprofessional names from a few years back
5. Edits from a person that is not logged in (Request)
6. Deletion requested by subject of biography
7. Talk:William Donahey
8. Can I change the name of an uploaded file?
9. Question regarding user pages
10. can I upload an article to Wikipedia?

April 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 25

1. YouTube
2. Recent Changes Page
3. Help finding a template
4. Editing content
5. User Page
6. computer technology
7. Category tree
8. cut and paste or officially move page from user space
9. Reference Help
10. Transcluding Special:watchlist
11. Recently, I typed in the word "catfood" and a Wikipedia entry came up...
12. Any way to hide reverted edits in the edit history
13. problem: forgot password

April 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 26

1. How do I do a mathematical calculation within a template?
2. Moving a page
3. Using Quotes as Sources
4. Blank image description pages for files on Commons
5. Karjala
6. advertising on Wikipedia
7. Someone keeps undoing edits
8. How do you suggest I proceed?
9. Correct method so I don't annoy anybody
10. License update vote
11. Document CD for training all PDF files with embedded links to a subfolder.
12. Second account
13. Jr. at end of sentence
14. Madidi Travel
15. Help with New Article
16. Poem
17. Reduce code
18. Deletet page
19. Notability
20. Watchlist

April 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 27

1. Metroplit*?
2. Soldiers Medal recipients should include all soldiers who were awarded
3. pls remove restriction
4. How can I link from my website to a specific article in wikipedia
5. Redirects
6. Piped links in sorted tables
7. Meaning of the name Catandica
8. inventions&discoveries
9. Railway reservation system
10. სურათების ჩასმა
11. mobile edition
12. ਅਚਿਨਨਦਂਖੌਕ৺ਖਪ ਦੋਨਣ৹
13. Persondata box
14. Cannot fix problem
15. How do I cite a quote from another source
16. Statistics for quality of articles
17. Reducing an article
18. Change username
19. completely revised article - best way to do it?
20. დაგვეხმარეთ
21. Page claimed to be advertisement; edits not working
22. Authentic reference
23. security breach
24. who made this website?
25. Problems regarding uploading a new image

April 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 28

1. trouble adding reference
2. Intrusive infobox
3. MediaWiki question regarding blocks
4. What if I'm the source ?
5. HTML for languages information displayed
6. Facebook
7. problem regarding internal links
8. Access to wikipedia search queries
9. Meaning of crystal glass and ordinary glass
10. I need a "collapsable" template
11. Subject Expert Designation for Wikipedia - how to obtain it?
12. Cite Web and work/publisher
13. How can I contribute to the Wikipedia entry?
14. 3rd party verifiable sources - template?
15. Schools in Raipur
16. Options follwing a Quick Delete
17. Mentholated cigarettes
18. Democracy or not?
19. Correcting the headline/title of the page
20. See also note?
21. Gopal 'Gop Wan' Bhalsod
22. posting on main page
23. Infobox settlement issue
24. "Saint Mary's High School (Colorado Springs), Colorado"
25. User page
26. Birthdays
27. Inserting pictures
28. Technical Noticeboard

April 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 29

1. Questions on Reversions
2. Durations of TV Shows
3. Using a Website as a Reference
4. title
5. Articles for deletion
6. About sources
7. upright?
8. Days of our lives
9. Linda Christas College
10. Something odd
11. Offline editor
12. printing
13. Is there a process to connecting a wikipedia page to search engine results?
14. REUSE of material in wikipedia
15. How can I change lower/capital casing on wiki page title?
16. pictures
17. business names in articles
18. Providing a page for a company
19. Embeding Videos
20. new user deleting page content
21. Newspaper source preservation
22. Duplicate coordinates
23. Zachary Baumel
24. Redirecting
25. New - confused user page vs article
26. Submitting a new article

April 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 April 30

1. Template or Category?
2. r n field
3. Sources
4. South Liverpool FC
5. Viewing images problems
6. Article on hold for several days
7. Number of laws in the united states
8. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
9. ...when an article is already on Wiktionary?
10. menu for Commons images on English Wikipedia
11. Vandalism
12. Renaming images
13. pictures
14. microbiology
15. problem getting a picture
16. Does Wikipedia store complete page for every version or just the difference?
17. pictures
18. title
19. Height of a table (April 9)
20. Watchlist Question
21. No image preview appearing on image page
22. Unified login
23. Misplaced edit buttons
24. photos not displayed
25. PR-motivated article vandals?
26. Page CBS EBlana