Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2009
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December 1
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- Deletion
- Protection
- How do you add a new word to Wikipedia
- Maths formulae - Cyrillic?
- way sending article for this site ..
- Practical differences between a stub and a normal article
- Wikipedia Mobile application
- percentage of all pages that are talk pages
- Speedy deletion of Redirect
- Firefox
- Problems uploading an article on Greyhound Recycling & Recovery
- Employment
- CorenSearchBot - how to remove??
- Display on mainpage
- goof up at List of Smoking Bans in US
- References
- Templates
- Wikipedia value versus use Why Donate?
- Adding info to infobox
- Download logs
- New message notification
- Articles with Same Name-Default Appearance
December 2
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- washington monument
- Pictures
- Google search wildcards
- What to write for no breaks
- A problem with wikipedia in Firefox. Please, help.
- Guideline for location wikilinks
- adding new article
- Unit symbols in ranges
- Bold not working
- Moving Airport Bratsk to AeroBratsk
- trying to log in
- Unable to reference website on wikipedia page
- Viewing block logs for a CIDR range
- Adding an article for a social network
- Download Recent Changes
- Hello
- Why does Category:People from Kansas City, Missouri redirect to Category:People from the Kansas City metropolitan area?
- I misspelled the title for an article I authored
December 3
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- Finding mediawiki messages
- publishing problem / save page caution message
- Editing toolbar
- Brown Lake
- Question about TV Show pages (and possibly Merge/Delete?)
- LOGIN info, please
- Username problem
- Spamfilter
- User page Page protection
- Migration
- google searching locates text in a wikipedia entry, but wikipedia entry does not include the text (why?)
- Cannot access account
- enviromental organizations
- Infoboxes
- "Template loop detected"
- Wikipedia editor review in my Sandbox
December 4
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- Can't find a link within an article
- Adding an image to an existing page
- No INR donation option
- Bookmarking Paricular Items for a Personal Wiki
- Autocomplete on Wikipedia
- Photos at Flickr
- Deleted?
- No regional presence in India
- difference between two companies should be added
- Editing Advice
- Sources
- I ask a Q in the RD. It's removed. I ask the editor about it in the editor's talk page. It too was removed. Now what do I do?
- Why am I not an "Autoconfirmed User" yet?
- Keep up with new articles
- Reviewing an article
- New Topic
December 5
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- Patrolled
- Wikipedia edit stats
- How to download and use a labeled image map
- Days of the year RSS feed
- linking new account (username) to old edits done under anon. IP address
- Auto archiving your user talk page
- Questions Comments to ensure Publication
- Author Page Publication
- Windy City Blues Society
- Problem with refreshing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old
- Unwanted bold-face in wikipedia table, bug?
- Annoying bug
- Search bar
December 6
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- Contact
- How the person in coma will recure?
- New articles
- HTTPS with HTTP content mixed
- Inserting messages in article namespace
- adding
- Name conflict
- search results give wikipedia.org link, but clicking doesn't link to article, but instead asks me to save the file
- reviewing an article
December 7
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- Lansing crusaders
- Citing legal documents
- Inserting an image
- source problem in college
- Voluntary translation of a German wikipedia page to English
- Cherokee Studios - wtf!?
- Saul Ewing Page
- Text search in category and its sub-categories
- Use of WikiProjects for improving and creating articles related to Oxfam
- How to store a document for reference material
- what's the easiest way to
- Missing article
- Uploading Photos/Logos
- Lyrics question
December 8
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- Toolserver Acct
- A possible homework question
- How to dispute fairness of an entry?
- draftspace to mainspace
- Optimization of Search for "AIMS"
- Watch list and languages
- Captcha
- Lost page
- "This article is written like an advertisement
- what to do with really long citations
- How do I put an admin who is doing a bad job up for review?
- Facebook Problems
- Image upload isn't appearing properly
- Pictures
- my userpage
December 9
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- donations
- Firefox won't remember me as a user
- Archiving a talk page
- Question about adminship
- can not find article
- Where to now
- Deprecation
- copying files to other language wikis
- Image links
- template coding help please
- Vandalism
- Sandbox?
- Image filename confusion
- Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative
- ages
- editing someones sig..
- Ruth Gordon article
December 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 10
- are you being served
- English Wikipedia & Instant-runoff voting (the topic, not the article)
- how to reference an article
- After completing my B.Tech in Computer Science, what all courses can i join in ?
- Mixing citation styles
- Date of Original Posting Needed
- Sandbox heading
- Citing a Historian (person) as a Source
- commons image name conflict
- Having some trouble
- uploading
- combined intitle: and incategory: search?
- Independence Day Reception
- Translating from English to another language
December 11
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- Change name on listing for Q (music video director)
- How do you link to a category?
- Search box drop-down: ordering?
- Creating a Topic
- Problem accessing in site
- Cross reference to other languages
- Help.
- Aligning tables and images
- Un-archiving a discussion
- Page created not posted
- Report corporate sock-puppets
- Signature
December 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 12
- IE8 behaving strangely
- Search suggestions. Please, please, please how to get rid of them!
- Reference issue
- where to Recommendations to Template:itn
- How do I edit the scientific classification section on an article?
- Refrain from donating
- connecting copywright info to image
- Is there a tutorial for the cite court template?
- Unable to log in OR create account
December 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 December 13
- Adding New Page Request - Please make a new page!
- ? problem with map & coord rendering
- Sock puppets
- Uploading pictures
- Shrinking Display
- how to get authorised
- Could you help me with a word? "Feeder school"
- Is the voting secret to the general public?
- "Edit page" header...
- Is it possible to edit and article when there is no "Edit this Page" tab?
December 14
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- Page ordering snafu
- Google Earth images
- Policy about CAM/Alternative Medicine
- Wikipedia and the News
- .ws domain
- Signing Issues
- INR option is not available.
- Formal Request for a high level Review of Climate Articles to find out whether lobby groups are editing
- Rollbacking
- Vandalism standards
- Linking IP adresses to Username
- Template double direct problems
- Image Copyright Status
- redirect title
- Copyright Question
- unblock my server
- Search text in lead section
- Testing
- What is "Wikiwak" and how do I delete a page from it?
- Picture Problem
- Editing references
- What is "Wikiwak" and how do I delete a page from it?
- Redlinked categories?
December 15
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- How do I redirect?
- Asking for arbitration/moderation in an article.
- Getting Rid of Accounts and Changing Their Usernames
- Donating
- How to post a video/movie?
- Passport for my son
- Linking to another page
- image and heading help
- Why auto-reload?
- lanjauge
- Need an article changed asap if possible! Thanks.
- How do I search for articles starting with the word "List", but exclude redirects?
- How to cite references?
- Missing revisions
- How to find editors who will email authors
- Are there any experienced editors here who can help me with a WP:CABAL?
- Linking to a version not explained, bad anchor link, confusion
- Jamestown
- Redirects
- Wikipedia main site in Russian?
December 16
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- Delete a page
- linking to wikipedia in other languages
- Project search question
- contributing an article
- Creating a new page
- Can't login
- held article
- debate over the correct usage of bylaw
- Untitled question
- football
- editing while 'waiting' for my article to be published
- Wafaa (name)
- WikiProject suggestions wanted
- How to find recent featured article
- Should I start 10-20 Wikipedia accounts?
- question regarding an notice I received from Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales)
- Image with no copyright but the contact person from website says "go ahead !"
- Conflict of interest
- dummy accounts
- Template
- Hello
- Incomplete article history
- Main Page
December 17
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- my home page has been hijacked by a wikipedia page
- Helpme question at User talk:Scubeesnax
- How do Videos/Movies work?
- Where do I go to start this discussion?
- testicular torsion
- Image insertion in infobox Tabqa Dam
- Permission to use information on Wikipedia
- Deleting an article
- Automatic link creation policy
- we want to purchase flags reprasenting each country
- I didn't find information about a town here in WV = Ronceverte ? Help?
- Searching within an article
- Dumb Licensing Question
- Wiki Foretold?
- When is the appropriate time to use
strikeout? - Webfetti
- Using the "search" function on your home page
- Profile
- Vandalism
- Access to the wikitable sortable variable?
- Book won't download
December 18
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- Who's Dated Who
- Direct links to other Wikipedias
- Santa Ana River 1938 flood image
- Complete copy-paste in Agriculture in Syria
- donating problem urgent
- Name & Info Change
- Present/Past Tense
- Persuasive Essay
- Hitler
- cryptographic hash
- Is my article ready?
- Function to either hide the left sidebar or increase textsize on only the content article?
- Weird result from coding
- Will I regret creating an account from a non-static IP?
- Do not want account
- Small text
- how to submit a name and bio for Wikipedia?
- Citing sources vs. providing external links
- Image deletion
- Unhide Template
- How to Download thousands of wikipedia in PDF
- Would like to find out where abouts of one Hindu Goddess by the name "Rajura Devi" Or "Rajara Devi" or "Rajala Devi"
December 19
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- 2 Grammar / Wiki questions
- Modify entry name
- age template with iso date
- Book stores query
- Changing Passwords
- Box with broken blue lines
- Joining and/or editing
- barnstar
- template
- Reading articles on Blackberry
- Image on Commons with name needed for template
December 20
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- Image licence question
- Error: too many #time calls
- Customize text above edit box
- Adding An Article
- Killed in action
- google advertising
- Associate my account with a new email
- Use of Google Earth images (again)
December 21
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- Question
- using my name in a disambiguation page
- In the category: 1987 Births...
- Organized AnonIP vandalization
- bv3dsxcssdq
- contacting admins
- Red Panda
- Adding links to Wikipedia articles to my website
- TFD
- BRAD101
- Importing from Wikia?
- Velm, Inc.
- Collapsed tables
- Please fix category
- Request IP check
- "This article does not cite any references or sources"
December 22
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- how to donate my article to Wikipedia
- Site blacklist
- My Settings / My Preferences
- Contesting deleted page?
- Overcharge
- Huggle's adding to my watchlist, and I want it stopped
- delete?
- Lower case name of article, how'd I do that?!
- User pages
- Blood group inheritance
- Second nomination for deletion
- Watchlist queries...
- Can't get new password because my email has changed
- Comments by Wiki staff on my editorial comments:
- While I applaud the efforts of your founder
- Wiki to HTML
- Werewolf article
- Mac computer--gmail email movies with quicktime
December 23
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- Adding references to Tammy Miranda Music
- May I write a new page on this topic?
- LOST YELLOW LAB RETRIEVER KILLED BY SHELTER IN BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA
- seeking information about a painting
- Searching using "prefix:" and "intitle:"
- Format article, please
- Uncreated categories
- Short box?
- Question about a citation
- Differences between advertising and just information
- Deleted pages -- record of edits
December 24
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- 2 articles on the same thing
- Having trouble with a custom signature...
- JS on talk page
- Cannot Setup the WIkiFIlter to Work with either Apache or IIS in sevrer 2008
- Medieval Warming Period
- Signature blues
- Download article titles
- Text quality
- How to publish my Page?
- Uploading new images?
- How to remove redirect while keeping sandbox?
- Virginia College
- aashrama jeevitham
- template for tagging disputes of licenses?
December 25
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- Usage of material
- Curtis Mathes TV
- article an photo
- Template:Fb and Template:Fb-rt
- Extra code on top of new image
- I need help with searching and disambiguation
December 26
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- hi...
- Disambiguation of a minor previous entry to a new major entry of the same name
- Administrator
- soccer
- RADHA the movie
- Toolbox antics
- erroneous article
- TOU violation?
- Changing my archive bot
- moving from user pages to articles space
December 27
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- Table trouble
- route location
- Opening article drafts for review
- Return/get first word of page title
- Vandalism
- creating category article
- Umm kinda stupid question :S
- Bob Marley
- Sound clips
- adding a full article from an official source to the minimal bio already existing in Wikipedia
- ridding an article of inappropriate templates
- Graphemes
- Alt text parameter for an infobox
- Fix
- 1.000.000
- something is wrong with an article
- Federal Ruling
December 28
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- english grammar
- citations
- Me and Sockpuppetry
- New User Help (merged)
- Image reversion
- Protection
- search/go
- Favorite articles
- Rollback rights?
- Gadgets
- guardian ad litem
- Problem editor
- How to correct bulk misspellings in Wiki Commons images
- InfoBox and notability question
- How to edit a title
December 29
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- A PENNY OF YEAST
- frustrations at being booted out.
- Signature
- why don't you put advertisement ?
- Twinkle
- What categories are not showed in the lower part of the page?
- How to handle information in article that has nothing to do with stated subject
- Vandalism to semi-protected article
- Cleaning up
- Cited for lack of references
- transclude pages in category
- Cannot log in
- Untitled question
- Wiki on the iPhone
- :File:Nintendodsbrowserds.jpg
- A letter as a Secondary source
December 30
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- Rollover Text
- Size of Wikipedia on particular date
- New York Steak
- size
- Project page Article's classes not getting updated
- Moving a Title
- Account Creator Tool
- User contributions
- Virus alert when accessing eBay article
- Two entries for one title
- Search
- Navigating in "All Pages"
- I will no longer use Wikipedia.
- Is "sandbox" a specific Wikipedia system item, or just a vague term?
- updating head line on google search
- Table
- Help with creating an article
- Football titles
- History data bug for United States Constitution
- Commenting on rights requests and other requests
- vandal and personal attack
- Mirror site
- Convert a sandbox article to a wikipedia article.
- Cannot Get My Product Included In Comparison Listing
- Where to buy
- Special:PrefixIndex
- Help Needed with Wikipedia Article
- User name different when signed than what it actually is