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April 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 1

1. April Fool's AfD
2. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag;
3. Zodiac date
4. I need help
5. Autocomplete off
6. Template returning the second-largest number of a set?
7. List of monoclonal antibodies
8. IP adding links
9. how to cite an article in a book
10. Burca
11. photographs
12. Human rights in Japan
13. Positioning blockquotes
14. Gene Kelly
15. de:wikipedia image needed in en:wikipedia
16. Why can't I print a pdf rendering of the Luisitania Page?
17. Can preview tell me if there is an edit conflict?

April 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 2

1. Princeton High School, princeton West Virginia
2. movie missing in article on film noir
3. Watching sections of pages
4. Duck Tape®
5. commenting on the mistake in an article
6. NCR
7. Language setting
8. Athletes changing name after winning an event
9. navigating
10. Cointreau photo upload
11. HTML Displayed in all Wikipedia Titles
12. Username conflict
13. Add info
14. Mobile Link comes-up in a Google Search
15. Change of page name
16. Userbox Float
17. HOW DO I GET MY SCHOOL LISTED IN WIKIPEDIA?
18. Being Confirmed

April 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 3

1. Blue article in Google Chrome
2. Simple English Wiktionary userbox
3. One-Day International cricket statistics
4. Should a fact be removed from an articale that describe the context of events when it is related to POV ?
5. John Copley
6. Company info published on Facebook
7. Scott Hamilton error
8. How to retire
9. IMDB and an official television network's forum
10. Prostaglandin D2
11. "Shrapnel" in articles
12. Altering text size in edit mode
13. Article rejection, no recourse
14. References that do not resolve
15. Requesting update of company article
16. Never had this happen, not sure how to proceed on The Right One/Together Dating (apparently a defunct website)
17. Where'd my Search go?
18. Ralph BIRKETT
19. Signature

April 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 4

1. Preserved Florida Plantations and Antebellum Homes
2. I'm not sure where to ask
3. Libel & slander posted on our page
4. Acehnese Wikipedia infobox country template
5. Dear Wikipedia,
6. Edits by Kristijh
7. article about the Arts District in Los Angeles is a baltant ad for an organization that overstates its significance
8. Accutron
9. Editing external link
10. send email link
11. Help needed:
12. RfA and RfB Notification Update
13. Footnote numbering
14. Probable spam user
15. Suggested minor wording-improvement is offered, for the "My Watchlist"'s status message (which reports the total number of pages that one is Watching)
16. blue background
17. My sandbox problem
18. trouble adding caption for image
19. User page

April 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 5

1. kimberella question
2. Dorothy Rabinowitz biography Controversial Comments section
3. Talk:Axilla seems to be complete nonsense. Editor please have a look!
4. Request articles page is not editable (or link to it is wrong)
5. Article Updating
6. External links and twitter
7. "Which came first...?"
8. Request for review
9. Help with a cite url that contains spaces
10. not able to create a page
11. Template:Disambiguation
12. Wikipedia search function not working very well?
13. Citing Philosophy
14. marilyn lightstone biography
15. Pilkingtons Buses

April 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 6

1. Template:Rfc used incorrectly. Do you know how to fix it?
2. hidden
3. Corinthian bronze
4. User:Marcus Qwertyus
5. why has this page been deleted? can someone please respond back to me? All content was real and valid and not subject to the parameters listed for deletion.
6. Stevi B's Pizza restaurant
7. title of contribution
8. Is a Disambiguation page allowed to contain redlinks?
9. An article I created has been deleted. Also who can I complain to?
10. Advertisments
11. fujifilm of greenwood
12. I get one read of any wiki page, a second read results in an error.
13. JOSÉ VASCONCELOS
14. A quick & easy one:
15. Bayfield, WI. Population
16. METAL-HALIDE LAMPS

April 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 7

1. Odd edit that I don't understand
2. Feedback request
3. Time
4. Open access template
5. deuterosessionism
6. Problems with the new Wiki I-Phone App
7. My name appears in eo.wikipedia which I have never visited
8. How to change casing in article title - 'The' to 'the'
9. Fixing old vandalism
10. Article comes up twice
11. Ddate of birth and additional info
12. External web links

April 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 8

1. how do i create an entry about myself?
2. Can I use pictures (photos) off wiki for use on my own website?
3. Obama campaign ads are blocking article content.
4. Neighborhood Unit article
5. Intelligent Energy
6. Editing 2012 Chicago White Sox game log
7. Correcting Vandalised articles
8. Loosing session data when trying to edit
9. Please help me understand more of the culture of Wikipedia
10. Bio information for Deryl Dodd
11. Trying to determine why a number list is disappearing
12. article on Moshe Feinstein
13. Citation Invisible Children, Inc
14. How do I create a page rather than editing it?
15. I need help.
16. Bob Pirie entry vandalized
17. Viewing code of an article's past form
18. Wikipedia is not working correctly
19. Noinclude
20. User page

April 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 9

1. Background is blue
2. Arabic language
3. User:TheLongTone/Grande Semaine
4. Bot request...
5. Talk pages and images of references
6. what does "bar" mean?
7. Traditional Chinese pages containing Simplified Chinese
8. TARGET attribute
9. Multiple references from same source
10. How do I allow people to search for my article by full-name
11. Richardville house
12. Don Peake
13. Dashes
14. Editing, removing, etc my contributions
15. Editing Deleted!
16. Mobile site in Google
17. wikigraphist uploads
18. Can someone teach me how to edit
19. hierarchy
20. Removing age from Background info.

April 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 10

1. How can I persuade my teachers that Wikipedia is a reliable source?
2. Lost HotCat with the new mods to Preferences page
3. Glitch with saving/previewing pages
4. Vandalized article
5. Adding new portal
6. for editing
7. I can't get WP using Perl's get command...
8. civility question
9. Karimnagar district#Mandals
10. Can someone delete an article written about themselves? Can someone request that certain information about themselves be removed from Wikipedia?
11. Gospel ranch Allen google
12. Watchlist feature addition
13. Search for Otto-configuration
14. External Links
15. I have been notified that my page was up for deletion
16. Was creating a page
17. Page is blue
18. Category tree viewing
19. New at editing
20. Fixed with vs. variable width templates
21. Facebook Wikipedia pages
22. Is there a way to add additional header lines to a long table

April 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 11

1. My IE6 and mobile both crashes when visiting a page
2. Infobox editing
3. cats
4. want know reality?
5. Cognos Reporting using big data
6. IP user breaching 1RR restrictions set out at WP:NCMAC
7. Highly important -
8. Regarding my merger request
9. The powder coating process
10. Link for toolserver edit count
11. Does not cite sources?
12. Image help
13. New Editor
14. Advertisements/"Ad Choices" are covering article content
15. Animated flag
16. DATE ERROR
17. North Carolina/South Carolina border dispute
18. Need to merge (delete actually) an article

April 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 12

1. Is there any way to add a mobile phone verification to my account ?
2. Annoying 'Improve this article' blue box
3. List of banned sources
4. My account is gone
5. Please can I have some feedback on my new article please?
6. How can i add another language?
7. Page revision links
8. Add a celebrity to the site
9. Heroes Welcome UK
10. Request for loss of adminship
11. Is this article OK to publish
12. Veteran Editors
13. James Burke, James Burk
14. username changing
15. PETER LOCKE, (Producer)
16. "ISBN Number page"
17. Getting This Article Posted
18. Uploading Images
19. Editing references

April 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 13

1. Band notability
2. Suspicious User Page
3. RS or not?
4. Timescale for new page upload
5. URGENT : Error link on the Nelly Furtado
6. we want to know from which place , ip address this page is being modified and the users name, details
7. how long before uploaded image file becomes visible publicly?
8. wehatesit.com and blackmatters101
9. Persistent vandalism of Stanley Booth-Clibborn page
10. Why do I keep being logged off WP today?
11. Association for Rare Earth
12. Saving changes I make in my sandbox version of an article I am writing
13. Text alignment control in a navbox with collapsible groups
14. Feedback about editing
15. New pages for Pending Changes Testing
16. Some input on redlink overkill
17. i want to change my username but i am unable to do so.

April 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 14

1. Getting article TO my sandbox, Cardiac catheterization
2. About your messages to me
3. Poorly translated synopsis
4. volunteer
5. Re Sunsanahut (film)
6. Rugby Union Caps
7. POV gatekeeping
8. Deleting a Section
9. int:pipe-separator
10. George Soros
11. Wikipedia comes up with a weird blue color.
12. Redirect help

April 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 15

1. screen is blue
2. Graphics Lab archives
3. SVGs wanted
4. Looking for blueprints
5. Rollback
6. Quick wikitable fix please
7. Source
8. Is "Big-X" acceptable?
9. Missing Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Armada
10. Original composer of alexader's Rag Time Band
11. Coding problem?
12. Copyright Issue

April 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 16

1. Hatfield and McCoy in Piegon Forge Tennessee
2. How to delete my username
3. What is the policy to stop a user from following my edits
4. Watchlist
5. Wikipedia article keeps disappearing
6. How do you add information on top of an edit page?
7. Downloading PDF documents
8. User name hidden behind picture caption
9. Humble Request
10. Wikipedia "photoshop team"
11. Article been moved without following request for move procedures

April 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 17

1. Delete Account
2. template for photo gallery
3. Battle of Culloden
4. Welding Institute link expired
5. editing an article
6. reusing an image
7. about creating a page on wikipedia
8. Errie Ball Golfer
9. Wikipedia has turned blue.
10. I accidently messed up this page WQTL
11. Persistent vandalism of two pages - plus threat placed on my Talk page
12. Having trouble putting together the pieces for an article
13. Request for a Wiki to track promises politicians make in public
14. Adding Texas to the article on Brevet Military Ranks
15. Question about removing a section

April 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 18

1. Remove my userpage
2. Cannot Correct Content on Locked Page
3. List of Presidents of the United States
4. Edits in file namespace
5. Capturing previous DYK main page screenshot
6. Announcement
7. Can't login to upload a photo
8. Lack of SSL for login/registration on Wikipedia
9. Extended captions for a photograph depicting an invidivual
10. Having View History Logs Entries Removed or Changed
11. What's next?
12. Hidden Categories
13. Deleted Text
14. Where to add links to an "orphan" tagged entry?
15. Awaiting approval
16. Tool to find articles an editor created

April 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 19

1. Citation Bot (DOI bot) is down?
2. How do I find back and edit my uploaded files
3. VPNV4
4. Why do some templates blow up when Transcluded?
5. Edit Mwakinyungu to denied.
6. Sarah Wilson (journalist)
7. Czechoslovakia
8. I am Logged In, a New User, as " TEXTKNOWLEDGE ", and I have made a Talk Page re: an Article
9. Template help
10. Bank Merger-Houston, Texas
11. Request for Move
12. Template:UserStatus
13. Stalker tool
14. Infobox and template layout clash

April 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 20

1. Disambig and redirect
2. How does one ask a question about an article I read? I could find no follow-up on this interesting article. Since I don't belong to the upper crust which seems seems to flock here, I might need more help that most.
3. Talk banner
4. Harv errors
5. Calcium carbonate
6. Citation covering many points and vice versa
7. References within Talk page sections
8. Please provide feedback for a page about Markus Vinzent
9. Request to Unblock ArmadaBackupServices
10. REQUEST FOR YOUR GOOD BOOKS
11. Help with a non-English Speaker
12. How can I upload my picture to my site?
13. Entry for United States Presidential Election Results, 2000 (detail)
14. Broken source links

April 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 21

1. Thumbnail in Economic history of Colombia screwed up
2. A BIG PROBLEM!!!!
3. Article talk page
4. Forum Club Handball-Adding a new article
5. Help with reviewing Good article nominations
6. Wikimarkup for a single newline after a displayed box?
7. How can I disable the spam filter?
8. ~ Wikipedia Most Visited Page ~
9. Language Identification Guide
10. Young justice Episodes Somebody Deleted all the episode names and dates
11. Attribution question
12. Attempt to request Flickr (CC-BY) image upload declined as "File is corrupt. Still not able to view the image."
13. Firefox article needs help
14. Tarzan
15. Typo Note 3 and in body of text, Article about Joan Szymko
16. Answer
17. No ratings options on President Obama's article
18. Is there any way I can get rid of that awful "Improve this page" box that seems to accompany Article Feedback 5?

April 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 22

1. Pronunciation of English words: IPA hover-key and phonetic respelling
2. Jeff Pope TV Producer
3. link to a virus
4. setting up an online curriculum for high school students - advanced learning
5. Charles William Paddock's nickname/byname is "CHARLEY",,, NOT `Charlie` !
6. Lisa wife of Paul Burlison and former Playboy Bunnie in Chicago, also Lisa was a Diplomatic Courier for the Fifth Corp, 70's out of AG Farben Building, Germany
7. Undoing a redirct
8. Trans terms
9. Suggestion: When rolling over a link to an article, display a small summary of the article in a tool-tip.
10. WHO HAS ACCESS TO ARTICLE 18 USC SECTION 2257
11. 2012RIQUIER
12. Please help re Leila Berg, author, who died 17/4/12
13. Comparison of ...
14. Defining several parameters of a specific template
15. appearance/skin for unregistered user in FireFox
16. THE VOICE UK FINAL CONTESTANTS KATE READ
17. BLP Rule
18. What is appropriate content for an article?
19. submission for name inclusion in list
20. Writing Article
21. Tables
22. Founder Parmesan
23. Roots
24. Ending a Deletion Discussion
25. Need help on a Move
26. Isn't something wrong with this article?
27. bridges
28. Phishing email under wikipedia banner ?

April 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 23

1. Why is contacting actual Wikipedia people so hard?
2. Confirming quality for first page - So it won't be deleted
3. Upload an article from My sandbox field
4. categorize the watchlist by subject
5. Moving an article from my sandbox to Wikipedia
6. Protest Internet censorship in India
7. Deleted page on James Wing Woo
8. List of online translators
9. Head Restraints
10. I am missing Twinkle
11. what has happened to restore to previous version?
12. creating a list of large jewelry chain stores by country
13. publishing a page
14. Revert single-instance of image use?
15. How to update images?
16. Gmail
17. gmail
18. Viewer Ship Tool?
19. Asshole Wikipedia editor changes Carnivore entry I made
20. My login has been compromised
21. Making political propaganda

April 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 24

1. About hotel Prag Continental which is in guwahati ,Assam,India.
2. Date format error didn't show up for 2½ years
3. Article versions comparison gone bad ??
4. Tom Vanden Brook#Wikipedia entry
5. entries on wikipedia
6. Watchlist changes
7. I feel like I'm outnumbered by ignorant people on an article. What should my next move be?
8. How do I learn if changes/updates are enough to eliminate the "problems with this article" box? article is Eva Feldman
9. Newspaper archives online page deleted (!)
10. I need help regarding moving a page

April 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 25

1. use of restricted image
2. Picture not updating
3. Ads
4. Urgent problem: Category misuse on Filipino people's articles
5. Through one of these interesting wikilink things
6. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Modulate -Resubmission
7. How can I?
8. New to this please help! - Finished article in Sandbox
9. License plates with 0
10. Error message using Book Creator
11. "Miracle on Ice" correction needed
12. Attach a photo to an existing article
13. A bluish box in the article
14. Interwiki bots
15. Name spelling correction edit reversed?
16. rucker/woods
17. Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates
18. Advice on subtitling
19. Blocking Users and IPs
20. Red links turned to blue
21. Temp IP
22. Search engine results
23. Going back a few revisions
24. Previewing a redirect edit
25. New Draft Page
26. I am new
27. Business proposition

April 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 26

1. Portal:Current events's Wikinews articles question
2. Historical figures sometimes considered autistic & List of people with autism spectrum disorders
3. Files
4. Housewives of NJ
5. Unverified statements and potential correction?
6. New to Wikipedia editing
7. A tool maybe?
8. deleting
9. Watchlist
10. Reference
11. Love dont live here anymore
12. Vandalism, too broad a term?
13. trying to do an Afd
14. Password
15. Category:People by century
16. Changes made between revisions
17. Incremental search suggestions
18. skin pressure

April 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 27

1. Users with articles
2. Citations
3. I'd like to search all articles in a category; can't figure out how...
4. Question about creating a page for a small business
5. reinstating Excelsior Jet
6. Can I create a page about myself?
7. Bullcrap
8. Erroneous Data
9. ~ THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UPDATED MOST VISITED ARTICLES BY UNIQUE VISITOR ANYWHERE ON THE ENTIRE WEB ~
10. Pretty Good Privacy page 2 digital signatures
11. Editing sections
12. {HELP ME} How do I edit an info box?

April 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 28

1. toolbar
2. New page, need some input
3. Senators of Sri Lanka
4. Need some image help
5. Charles Boyer
6. Avoiding displaying of non-defined parameters
7. Regarding Copyrights and using and citing of such material
8. Due weight beyond just viewpoints
9. If I want to have an article rated for quality...
10. True Blue
11. My sandbox

April 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 29

1. Book vs Wikipedia
2. Page view counter
3. Pencil icon
4. How long does one wait for another editor to reply on a proposal of an article
5. On a mobile device, how do you switch the default back from desktop view to mobile view?
6. Edit summaries in sandboxes?
7. Differences
8. I have a general question
9. counting number of readers of an article
10. the little start on featured articles
11. Merging articles.
12. Article section deletions
13. C5, CV

April 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 30

1. Cite journal, pmc parameter
2. Strange password problem
3. Erdos-Bacon number
4. Bayonet
5. wikipedia color issue in chrome
6. Getting a response from Wikimedia Permissions
7. Showing a picture to left of an infobox
8. Fraudulent Account Set up under a 13 year name
9. 'Show' button in a collapsible template obscuring some words
10. Steyr GB
11. Image not appearing
12. Looking for Edits
13. Version mismatch on Collections extension
14. wikipedia When opened in a google chrome with zoom 90% the background screen is blue
15. jewelers initials