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August 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 1

1. Special:Export limit?
2. User Name?
3. Why are some articles picked more often than others?
4. Learn
5. Open proxy
6. User talkpage protected
7. Save page from wrong editing
8. Is there anyway to get a random featured article
9. RSS feeds for Watchlist
10. Toolserver down?
11. is arbitrary archive of talk page allowed?
12. Changing Pages
13. Template Abbreviation
14. Image upload... where did it go?
15. Feature picture
16. Suggestions?

August 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 2

1. Free logos
2. noting content added to the wrong section of an article
3. Incomplete article
4. Creative Commons on Flickr
5. Are Userpage Guestbooks allowed?
6. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/IE8#Missing_features
7. Fixing a picture
8. Hiding the Contents box
9. computer speed
10. publish my article
11. BLP images
12. GA Sweeps review userbox

August 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 3

1. My Contributions
2. making a new page
3. Windows
4. No one will reply to my question on the reliable sources noticeboard!
5. do you want to save this file, or find a program online to open it?
6. Copyright query
7. Editing
8. Page Problems
9. Convert MP4 file to format Wikipedia will accept
10. Categorisation of merged articles
11. Who's the Arbiter?
12. Copyrights update on the Mobile site
13. Removing unaired episode descriptions
14. Boolean Searches
15. How to remove picture
16. How to convert a new category to a sub category of an existing category
17. MIME setting
18. Fred Parr Watercolour Artist

August 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 4

1. Playing ogg files
2. genderfication definition
3. to know who is suffering from HCV in India
4. Mission statements
5. Great Ziggurat of Ur
6. How to move a page
7. Job Activities of Senior Field Officer(TELE) in Indian Cabinet Secratariat
8. NHS Blood ad Transplant wiki page
9. [Technical] – How can I improve Google PageRank for articles with title in English, but with original title in a foreign language?
10. Global Employment and Literacy Coalition (GEALC) and North-American Organisation for Migration
11. Citation Needed Tag
12. Domaining is not squatting.
13. Uploading Images
14. TOC showing only sections
15. Lost Password
16. phased array radars
17. Exporting my article to the French Wikipedia
18. where is the city of Chad?
19. How do I embed an image from a foreign language Wikipedia?
20. Redirect is not Correct
21. Table sorting glitch
22. Publishing date

August 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 5

1. Fixing redirects
2. Aloe Vera
3. External tools
4. can pages have the same url
5. Page creation
6. Co-ordinates for medium-sized areas
7. Page Reviews/Warnings
8. Peer reviewed
9. Use of wikinews as reference
10. Italy plug vrs North American plugs
11. Edit war on Young Republicans
12. is there a way to get a deleted image back?

August 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 6

1. Hiding categories
2. override this function
3. PAGE DELITED WITHOUT ANY REASON
4. Can you change a page as I do not know how to edit a page?
5. enquiry about the identity
6. Thomas Chippendale
7. Tool to find all pages which two editors edited
8. Citations and external links
9. E-MAIL ADDRESS'S USEING INTERNET STICKS
10. How to create Musician list in wikipedia?
11. Image with no license
12. Deletion of a page on a company
13. vatiswa
14. Music Council Of Australia
15. Re: adding a link to the Container Garden page
16. Trouble finding confirmation totals of past SCOTUS justicies
17. edit warring
18. Valid source or not?
19. Changing the Title of a page
20. Movie Quotes
21. How to add photos and certain descriptions to articles

August 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 7

1. Beta?
2. Alternate accounts
3. mediawiki markup?
4. I just need help regarding adding the references tag to my article
5. Infobox
6. Just need someone to look at my article and tell me where to put the 'references tag', or what else I should do. Thank you.
7. Lists and images
8. File in English link for other languages
9. Random using #expr:
10. Automating a list
11. Beta?
12. Sub page
13. editing articles
14. 3rd link under references is wrong URL and has to be changed, Reflist needes to be unlocked for future updates
15. Translate the new Vector stylesheet
16. how to create line drawings
17. How do you create a wiki page?
18. Infobox for Russian submarine K-496 Borisoglebsk
19. Adding a quote box for a written letter for the Kurt Wintgens Wikipedia article
20. infobox footnote problem

August 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 8

1. Which template should I use related to Wikipedia:NOT_PAPERS
2. Didn't Know You Could Do That
3. The Beta. Will it replace the old version?
4. Beverages in Kerala
5. Auto title for sectiosns and auto signature
6. Asking here
7. Board of Trustees election
8. daewoo cars
9. Profunda artery
10. Question about PStricks
11. Orphan pages with regards to redirects
12. Contradicting informations between en and cs Wikipedia
13. Autoconfirmation
14. Beta discussion?
15. Date range style in infoboxes
16. LOST CARD
17. Page creation
18. No visible images

August 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 9

1. Checkusers
2. How come users delete pages I edit?
3. Having problem creating an unified login
4. Calulation of Wikipedia Depth
5. flipflop article with redirect?
6. Black Country
7. Dec. 19, 2006 Help Desk archive
8. Moving article from user space to new article space
9. Accidental redirect
10. How do I verify information about myself that is on my wikipedia page?
11. 1000 year old equadorian artifact

August 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 10

1. Can You Insert Text From One Wikipedia Article Into Another?
2. Hiding category list
3. If you wanna quit, how do you??
4. Am I allowed to use a photograph of someone else's painting in a Wiki article if I bought that painting?
5. Is there any way to turn on line numbers?
6. Switching from secured to unsecured page
7. Login unification
8. CED Capacitance electronic disc system
9. Editing text above edit box
10. Help template
11. asexual reproduction
12. Are open accounts allowed
13. Biographical article
14. can't log in
15. Today's featured article
16. Disabling popups
17. Changing the title of an article
18. Unable to open wikipedia addresses found in Google -- Windows XP says no file extension associated
19. Pages that contain only an infobox and a "reflist"
20. Block and Ban

August 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 11

1. An image license template and "all rights reserved"
2. I just uploaded a photo to add to a director's artcle, need help!!!
3. Editing problems when logged in
4. how do a searching for one particular word in the text ( not entry title)?
5. I NEED HELP MAKING A LINK ON A WIKIPEDIA PAGE TO A WIKISOURCE PAGE
6. Free use?
7. login/editing problem
8. Template class page
9. bot to convert jpgs to pngs?
10. New Stussy article
11. Paragraph boxed and elongated
12. Log in
13. Creating a portal
14. Are US Department Of Justice Files Considered Citable Sources ?
15. Some Template Related Query. Problem With "|"
16. Image
17. problem deleting a logo
18. Is there a page which lists which WikiProjects have the most articles?
19. I replaced my article's one photo with a cleaner one, yet Wikipedia added 4 extras photo to the file history/jpg page (not what I did).
20. SUL account
21. Rating Articles
22. Someone elses writing.
23. Taking text from annother website

August 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 12

1. Getting Started
2. My Kelly Kelly Page was deleted
3. I need an Admin
4. IP Address
5. Can't find project page
6. Hang on
7. Can I add a line saying our company has not reviewed this?
8. Article I created MUST BE DELETED
9. how do I send a page to a friend?
10. best school
11. Re: Delete account
12. Change the name of a Wikipedia page
13. Title Editing
14. substantiate notability
15. pls help me with my password
16. Question about duplication of material
17. renaming non-existing topics with existing ones
18. Reference question for my page for you
19. Infoboxes and Images
20. Accidentally damaged a page somehow
21. Registeration
22. Non-breaking spaces
23. Healthcare options
24. Plagiarism
25. Colt 1860 Army .44 Caliber Revolver S/n 16763
26. addig a category

August 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 13

1. Copyright/usage of the Wikipedia logo
2. Template for "Read discussion first"
3. What additional source is needed for the page of D. Bertsekas?
4. chat
5. New Article
6. Citations.
7. Adding to an article without logging in..sorry
8. AFD muckup
9. Finding my article when searching
10. Template for the nth AfD
11. New page
12. Flagging as Inaccurate or Obsolete
13. Beta
14. Fabian A. Koss
15. American Motorcyclist Association
16. Mobile editing
17. Change Entry Name Capitalization

August 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 14

1. I was given the following advice as to how to improve my page Kerry Hallam
2. Title mistake
3. dropdown section?
4. iPhone App for Watchlist
5. "Current user" display
6. Do we have a template page for an article that is primarily based on primary soures?
7. Are externak links to blogs allowed?
8. Signature appearance
9. Illegal link
10. deleting account
11. How do I add my own links to the sidebar
12. Securing content rights protection
13. Starting a brand new page
14. I received a strange email in Croatian from WikiAdmin??!
15. Strange email
16. hiding minor edits for user contributions
17. Changing Title of an Article
18. Broken Links

August 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 15

1. Moving an article from user page to general accessibility
2. flicker page as reference
3. Help with clean up tag
4. How can i browse wiki offline?
5. give information
6. Browser problem?
7. My page was deleted - the error message said it was deleted because other information was not found on google
8. Uploading photos but first i need to undergone 10 edit
9. Deletion discussions
10. Search function
11. Rollback and Reverting: Difference?
12. Change the Name of Wikipedia Page
13. can't export new article to the web
14. creating signatures
15. Blip External Link Graphic in Infobox

August 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 16

1. Tmbox
2. Roger Federer
3. Uploading translated pages
4. Trouble with templates and functions.
5. Inexperienced Need Help
6. New user here, with new page & need review of it & what I can do;
7. Uploading Images
8. My Page Has Been Deleted
9. How long will it take for a new page that I added to appear?
10. $ per square foot conversion

August 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 17

1. "What links here" oddness
2. Help wikify article
3. Talk:Chicago Theatre/GA1
4. help us PLEASE. page content dispute over Party in the USA
5. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 17#WP:Citation_needed.2C_and_making_a_list_of_alternatives_to_.7B.7Btl.7Cfact.7D.7D|WP:Citation needed, and making a list of alternatives to {{fact}}]]
6. License Plate On File
7. research project
8. Review the article please
9. wrong entry
10. bad gateway
11. Child support
12. Article "Female Transformers"
13. mime file type not recognized
14. Investment in Rwanda
15. Speedily Deleted Articles
16. Problem moving pages
17. burning pictures to a dvd
18. post a photo
19. Citing musical works
20. how can I change my password
21. Iran (word) - Persian literature?
22. How to use talk pages
23. How can I change/move the name of a file/picture
24. donna hagen
25. adding pictures
26. Mass nonsense/spam edits

August 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 18

1. Enable mobile version
2. Merging Cells
3. Help
4. Suppression without explanations of 8000 bytes from "Quinceañera film"
5. Search for not so new article
6. Access a specific deleted revision given its oldid
7. Notability of Websites
8. Order of items on a disambiguation page
9. Chimerica
10. Infobox or Table
11. Arbitration policy
12. Searching user contributions
13. gk
14. Moving page
15. discrete mathematics/posets115.240.202.190 (talk) 19:51, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
16. Map on Christianity article
17. Question about " This websites has been blocked REASON: Phishing Attempt
18. Listing order of new links, is there a protocol?

August 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 19

1. external links?
2. My Name- Info keeps getting deleted Why and by whom?
3. Inserting a Photo
4. Able to contact Queen Rania of Jordan
5. Server load from blank transclusion
6. Wikipedia links to official nomenclature documentation for receptor protiens?
7. My Account
8. Rabies article/map
9. Float
10. big and small
11. 3 Questions/ Website Info/ References
12. What is the policy about garbage in a talk page?
13. improvement to main page
14. Pronunciation
15. walled garden of crap
16. how do you indent certain lines on a content box?
17. Conflict of Interest question
18. Canadain Pacific Railway info
19. refs working oddly
20. Does this need to be deleted?
21. I am a new user and I need help!
22. First white settler, New Zealand

August 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 20

1. Arabic names for foreigners?
2. Adding new name to list of Chileans of Italian descent
3. Can someone help me give better advice?
4. the poem shakespeare by john donn
5. Deletion of my contribution
6. Copyright company logo
7. Kohl Automobile
8. Navbox with collapsible groups, collapsing logic
9. Question re: FA review
10. wikihow
11. Signing
12. Something has gone wonky for me in Google Chrome.

August 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 21

1. AfD Question
2. manga
3. August 20th 2009 - Events
4. The Wikipedia citation bot
5. pop
6. How do I create an Infobox?
7. Maps
8. Strange display of Wikipedia pages
9. Not receiving verification email
10. online payment
11. Changing unfactual information
12. Please help me
13. google images?
14. Creating a list in a table.
15. WP 1.0 Bot
16. Is this a legitimate reference?
17. Geographic coordinates
18. Editing Semi-Protected Pages
19. Do 'Goodwill' employees wear uniforms in Ontario, Canada?

August 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 22

1. problem logging in from china
2. Visual differences when logged in and logged out
3. How to upload an image?
4. Article naming
5. Adding pictures
6. Possible to delete my account?
7. proposed deletion of 'maple palm'
8. owners title
9. Adding Pictures to a new article?
10. What Stub should this be catergorized with?
11. 1976 CB 360 Honda
12. DreamJournal software - would that be considered spam?
13. Can't find the problem template
14. adding information to your article.
15. Titles in other languages
16. Prince Namor
17. FFD when?
18. Usage of words or phrases in articles

August 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 23

1. Genealogy of Umberto 11 and Maria Jose of Belgium
2. wikipedia logo - a foot?
3. Twinkle
4. Should Wikipedia:Meta....
5. Naming for placenames and search
6. Vandalism
7. User subpage use
8. Where is my newly composed page?
9. Time Help
10. Article Bad habit
11. Logging In
12. Help with citations
13. Is a YouTube video original research?
14. Link to a section in a hatnote?
15. 2 pair of geographic coordinates
16. Featured article publication date?
17. Placename confusion
18. Is there a way to make an icon show up for Good Articles?
19. Buggy diffs
20. Counting all the pages in a category including those in subcategories
21. PHP Unix timestamp
22. Vandal deterrent

August 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 24

1. harry potter book order
2. RE: experienced adminstrator available?
3. What is up with the strange colouring of text....
4. Deletion
5. confused about how to transfere page i have created
6. Help editing a page
7. spelling list
8. Social Security Benefit Questions
9. My Watchlist takes ages to load today.
10. author of an article
11. is this vandalism?
12. photos
13. Editing introductory paragraph for topic
14. Help with reverting vandalism

August 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 25

1. Pulling distribution of articles based on infobox parameter
2. Incorrect US Congressional District map
3. Evinrude Out Board Motor Repair
4. Is there not a difference between "free references" and the "only reference" not being viewable?
5. Logo
6. Difference between Studio and Distributor
7. Adding copyright information to an image
8. Starting a new wiki, want to copy some content.
9. Rules on setting up a page
10. Need
11. trying to add links to page,
12. Interlanguage links and cultural differences
13. Flagged Revisions
14. Language Templates
15. Is there a wikipedia suggestions page?
16. Moving an article under beta.
17. Homework Help
18. Correcting a name - is that considered major or minor edit?
19. Why was Family data removed from right column summary block for all people on Wikipedia?
20. Iota Lambda Pi Fraternity Incorporated
21. Top Aces Consulting
22. How do you Place the green resolved check into a post?
23. What Vandal tag to use for...
24. Splitting a split article further
25. Conflict of Interest: Writing for an employer, from a neutral point of view
26. Can you block people from editing your page?
27. Using an image from the Italian Wikipedia
28. add Fulton Ross to list of Black artists
29. I need help giving help.
30. Toronto Transit Commission accessibility
31. Overlapping infobox and text
32. Help getting page viewable...
33. SouthPeak Game

August 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 26

1. a list of medical device companies
2. Cnote2 display issue in Firefox
3. How to publish my page?
4. Going around in circles
5. Roster template question
6. Cannabis (drug) protection
7. Tick symbol
8. My new page does not show up on Wikipedia except in my contributions
9. Wikipedia Artwork
10. Non-free image used in two articles, but with a rationale for only one of them
11. How to spell out link to shortcut "CAT:CSD" ?
12. facebook
13. Seeking a way to contact a person who added to a page
14. Unknown File Type
15. posting pdf references that do not link to an external web site
16. Putting about myself
17. Merging Accounts
18. Noinclude showing up without explanation
19. CNN Story
20. How can I get my original account back?

August 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 27

1. Lost password?
2. definition for cable assembly and harness
3. semi protected page
4. Include my email address when other people are notified of changes I make
5. Template help
6. Fix infobox at Broadmoor Hospital please
7. Change in policy?
8. Using wikipedia articles on travel info websites
9. qui
10. WikiProject Discussion Pages
11. Deleting an article
12. How do I change the list of Alternative Medical Syatems
13. Image help
14. Project tags
15. Stubs
16. Speedy Deletion?
17. Twinkle
18. Should this be deleted?
19. My First Question
20. Mars?
21. Conflicting image names

August 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 28

1. deleting accounts
2. Washington Post carries an article by the Associated Press, who is the publisher?
3. Paragraph strangeness
4. Ostrich
5. Creating a Template for a Basketball Team Roster
6. Is facebook public domain
7. Getting into an Edit War with a vandal, help!
8. the worst
9. Creating a new Term & Definition
10. Text message
11. Publishing on Wikipedia
12. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_and_Linux
13. Renaming and deleting articles
14. Reporting baised Wikipedia user CaliforniaAliBaba
15. Three Revert Rule
16. Article "Cor anglais (English horn)
17. create united account for all Wiki Projects
18. submitting an bio entry
19. Alien Breed (band)
20. Copyrighted Issues
21. Stopping an automatic redirect
22. money question
23. Adolfo De Bareis
24. Help on displaying a template correctly
25. Vintage Magazines
26. Sum of a column of numerical values?
27. Copyright info issue
28. Need the answer
29. File history for images

August 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 29

1. Editing reference with external link
2. Bruce DePalma
3. Mango disease
4. Donation
5. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Br%C3%BCno
6. Help in creating articles
7. Two questions
8. Lag
9. Table, center cell only.
10. Res judicata prints as iudicata
11. Links to commercial websites in articles (not relevant to content).
12. Try Beta

August 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 30

1. Adoption/Mentorship
2. How do I add a name to a list
3. Code issues
4. All Caps
5. Wikipedia dumps
6. Edit count
7. scotland overseas bank
8. Improper editing
9. Merging/deleting categories
10. Michael Joseph Aprile
11. killer 454
12. How do I link two wikipedia articles in different languages?
13. Updating/Correcting Semi-Protected Pages
14. Wikipedia article "Bird's Nest soup"
15. Honey's Boys on Big Cat Diary
16. How can I add an IMAGE to an existing bio that doesn't contain a photo?

August 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 31

1. Deleting a Page
2. Table of Content
3. Photography
4. Deleting image
5. How to ask a Question
6. Suspected repeat vandalism by newish user Macgrissom
7. Trademark question
8. Wikipedia bio of VAdm.Theodore S. Wilkinson
9. JPG link to Wikipedia Pages
10. Discovery Air Inc.
11. messaging members
12. Table & table in template help
13. Pewter
14. Warning tags on Dominion Resources article
15. I did not have permission to upload photo. How do I remove them?
16. Just out of curiosity

August 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 August 22