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December 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 1

  1. Contributions by Companies
  2. How to EDIT a season of TV episodes to realign Episode Numbers with correct Episode Names.
  3. Help
  4. Readable content in a WP article?
  5. Admins pushing POV
  6. cappos
  7. Names of Large French Company CEOs?
  8. images
  9. Jimmy Wales
  10. Help
  11. Urgent Post on Talk:Live television
  12. Wikipedia fundraising ads worse than banner ads

December 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 2

  1. A few things to discuss
  2. Question
  3. Further to my last
  4. obtaining a copy of a will
  5. Limited access vs dead links
  6. November 2010 disappeared in page view statistics
  7. What happened to Phil Schneider's page?
  8. Protected article
  9. where does my donation go?
  10. The repeated displays of banners
  11. Broken "Kartika" and "Lilaroja" and "Joan Goma" banners
  12. Wikipedia Mobile formatting problem on Palm Pre/WebOS
  13. Donation via BACS in the UK
  14. softening seawater before desalination using Sodium r Sodium Hydroxide
  15. Edit comparison tool
  16. Wikipedia in Nahuatl
  17. Page moves and archives

December 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 3

  1. Photo Hanayo
  2. My additions to an article were removed
  3. Canvassing?
  4. German question
  5. Wrong dog photo
  6. :Category:Free software programmed in Tcl tkwww is listed under M
  7. Logged in signal desired
  8. oxygen and carbon di oxide
  9. Where is the Artisian page?
  10. Yugoslavian languages problem
  11. Returning editor
  12. Meaning of Wikipedia
  13. Question from 187.15.23.96
  14. Chem Symbols
  15. Wikitables
  16. Picture Formatting
  17. Is my article moving forward?
  18. Mark up text

December 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 4

  1. Two thing to discuss
  2. Infoboxes of my own
  3. Contents
  4. Uploading pictures
  5. WP:NPOV and WP:TITLE
  6. Dear Wikipedia
  7. we would love to donate but....
  8. Two sharks for sister Sarah
  9. Could someone please remove Jimmy Wales' photo from Wikipedia? It's doing my nut in.
  10. August Heinrich Petermann
  11. Ochromonas malhamensis and Vitamin B-12
  12. Suddenly no possibility to edit
  13. My submission was declined
  14. Subscribing
  15. wiki and lyrics
  16. Questions about donating...
  17. Image name problem

December 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 5

  1. Maps on Wikipedia
  2. My Page Was Redirected & Maybe Deleted...Help!
  3. changes made to a "see also" section of a page on wikipedia.
  4. disappeared?
  5. Time stamp
  6. text deleted but did not save a copy.
  7. Donations from India
  8. infoboxes show up as half the width long for some people but not others!
  9. Draft article
  10. User sandbox
  11. Reviewer
  12. Format
  13. Remove Intrusive Jimmy Wales Banner
  14. info box Netherlands
  15. Fixing Horribly Malformed Talk Pages
  16. On other wikis
  17. Template
  18. Legitemate link removed
  19. write the truth

December 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 6

  1. Wikipedia pages not displaying properly
  2. Language problem
  3. Problem with "new external links" message
  4. What is archive url and what is url?????????????????
  5. Wikipedia's sister projects
  6. Promostyl should be in Wikipedia
  7. Is There An Automated User Box for Edits / Contributions?
  8. Help needed with page move
  9. www.softpedia.com keeps deleting my (and others) contribution to the wikipedia articol about them, because that truth is not good for their image
  10. Collapsing sections via options
  11. Dear Mr. Wales
  12. Deletion Log
  13. Mescalero Apache
  14. Heidolph Image Deletion/ Page HELP
  15. How I do I use code to insert blank spaces in an article? Want to space infobox and other sections properly.
  16. A comment on NotabilityGuidelines.
  17. Leaks
  18. HELP blues clues
  19. Pro coder
  20. Merging 2 articles - Beauchamps School and Beauchamps High School

December 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 7

  1. English language problem
  2. WP:???
  3. Wikipedia logo use
  4. Maybe now...
  5. Need help from someone experienced with the backend of the ref tag
  6. Image upload
  7. Submitted an entry but can't find it unless I do to my 'contributions' page
  8. Uppercase 'i's and lowercase 'L's
  9. Bracked link to a redirect page
  10. Page layout problem
  11. Adding a PDF file containing his war time experiences to my fathers listing in Wikipedia
  12. Need to rename/move article
  13. Ophthalmology
  14. Henry Hopwood
  15. Help -- I made extensive updates a few weeks ago and the updates are not showing!
  16. portuguese version of wiki
  17. Philabundance Wiki Page- please help
  18. Place-Based Social Media
  19. uploading picture
  20. Julian
  21. Curtis J Hopfenbeck
  22. Posting Company Information

December 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 8

  1. Is there a simple way to change my user name?
  2. Kennedy Western University
  3. Public-key cryptography Encryption explanation is encrypted!
  4. Could somebody delete this page
  5. Oldid
  6. Viable reference
  7. Translation
  8. How do I change the name of my article from the default name?
  9. How to include or point to software supporting Wiki topics?
  10. How to Change the User name
  11. Un-publish temporarily
  12. How can I donate from India?
  13. Are we allowed to create a page for personal websites?
  14. Assamese Christian Literature
  15. Do we have a Wiki Project for music?
  16. automatic notification of edits
  17. Automatic Update of Edit Count
  18. ConvaTec Wikipedia Page Correction Request
  19. Pet Shop Boys category
  20. help userfying a deleted article
  21. Section Redirect
  22. Tear down of existing article and restart almost from scratch. How?
  23. Company selling books of Wikipedia articles possibly without attribution
  24. Twitter as a source sucks, right?
  25. translating
  26. Getting rid of this personal appeal at the top of every page!

December 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 9

  1. problem with page
  2. Help is needed!
  3. Inviation
  4. unwritten history
  5. Downloading specific categories from wikimedia dumps
  6. Facebook displays an obsolete link to a wikipedia picture
  7. Two questions
  8. Default font size change?
  9. My post was altered
  10. How can I get responses to discussions that I start?
  11. your story on terrance deon long
  12. Publish
  13. Request photo
  14. Company Listing
  15. Referencing images
  16. Change Fitchburg, WI Reference
  17. Feedback
  18. The Trade Wiki Beta
  19. Please review
  20. Personal appeal from Lilaroja or Jimmy Wales

December 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 10

  1. Editing a page
  2. Hawaii Bowl 2010
  3. Provide an Option for donation in Indian Currency
  4. How do I remove the banner from the top from the founder and, currently, Wikimedia Executive Director Sue Gardner?
  5. crossbow mote works problem
  6. Homework question
  7. Creative Commons
  8. Conflict question.
  9. Technical/Editorial problem in a page
  10. link between an english wiki page and another in french.
  11. Pronunciation
  12. Need someone with a NYT online subscription to check out a reference for me
  13. Lost page
  14. XXXCupid.com
  15. How to insert infobox, images?
  16. sandbox(?) article has been completely reproduced on a non wikipedia site. any options for removal?
  17. New Page
  18. Factual error on a locked page.
  19. search box

December 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 11

  1. Search box gone--not in upper right, not anywhere...?
  2. Search box no longer appears
  3. seinfeld characters
  4. tinyurl.com/000psy psychiatry is a fraud
  5. Complicated cut and paste mess - Assyrian language
  6. help
  7. How to edit/delete uploaded jpegs?
  8. Bad faith
  9. hand chiseled stone water trough
  10. business plan
  11. background colour into grey !
  12. Page not accessible ..
  13. Need help with template
  14. IP blocking
  15. Additional film for Capucine
  16. Mentoring a disruptive editor
  17. Need help entering article in Wikipedia

December 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 12

  1. Signature issues
  2. Disappearing Tabs
  3. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra
  4. Background image
  5. New Webcast & Website Links for Radio Stations
  6. What Is The Template For "moving a user page into mainspace"?
  7. SUBMISSION OF CITATION
  8. Whom should be notified of potential breaking of mass numbers of FactFinder references
  9. How can I donate I dont have Credit card
  10. Contents of my talk page as a list !
  11. Wikipedian Categories
  12. On psychology
  13. Please can Wiki stop the begging spam at the top ove EVERY page !!!!???????
  14. Use of Photos
  15. Preventing Libel on Wikipedia
  16. cable leaks
  17. AfD creation problem
  18. Fear and Trembling
  19. Flag carrier page

December 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 13

  1. First time Commons user, help por favor!
  2. Need help..
  3. embedding photo in article
  4. Links that have square brackets in the URL
  5. Redirect
  6. Conflict of interest
  7. forensic doctor
  8. Editing WP with Kindle
  9. Table subjugated to external links
  10. Flattr
  11. TV channels
  12. Navigating among languages in which Wikipedia articles are written
  13. Inclusion of indian rupee
  14. If Wikipedia is ad-free, as it claims, then why are we bothered by countless "personal appeal[s]" to stuff Mr Wales pockets?
  15. Thumbplay
  16. Question about reliable sources
  17. showing Arabic and Hebrew
  18. Temporary strip references out of text

December 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 14

  1. Xoloitzcuintli infomation
  2. including a name of a village
  3. Sharing a reference
  4. Dual accounts
  5. Change Name of Article without Confirmed status
  6. Rix Centre help with Wikipedia project groups
  7. Janet Graham
  8. Edit Associated Acts under a band wiki
  9. Help editing page

December 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 15

  1. Image use
  2. Cell phone view mode
  3. Citing journals
  4. how to donate other than USD, if i want to donate to Wikipedia?
  5. Banner special pages
  6. "Phase II" software
  7. Can i look for a friend just by providing a photo of him because i forgot his name.
  8. wrong city/state listed under info
  9. ref
  10. Photo copyright...
  11. Jimmy Wales badly formatted
  12. information on Botswana
  13. Call out box for politicians, public figures
  14. Where is Wikipolicy discussed?
  15. Yagba West, Kogi State, Nig

December 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 16

  1. Smaller Donations
  2. Where is the article I wrote£
  3. Occidental - suggested edits
  4. Need someone to help find italic problem
  5. IT'S NOT SHOWING UP
  6. WikiLeaks
  7. shared IP address?
  8. Blocked Message from Wickipedia
  9. Political figures
  10. Wiki for Thomas Edison - Error listing schools named after him
  11. Email domain change
  12. Want some information about Amigotechs software
  13. Inquiry about a recently deleted page... thank you for your help
  14. Associated with Wikipedia?
  15. Any existing template for listing projects undertaken by a charity/organisation
  16. Submitting information about a musician
  17. Table not accessible
  18. Kjære Herr/Fru
  19. New Page
  20. Cursor not defaulting to search box upon opening Wikipedia
  21. New text now displaying as centered, not left-justified
  22. help deleting a redirect
  23. I've buggered it up!
  24. Process of creating
  25. Math in templates using parameters
  26. change back to original format
  27. Logos

December 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 17

  1. Piccirilli Brothers Wiki Site
  2. Coca-Cola and wikipedia's coi
  3. Some things I want to discuss
  4. Wikistalk
  5. Italics in links
  6. 3.5 M
  7. Wikipedia is NOT truly an Open Editable Model, and Jimmy Wales needs to be alerted
  8. What to do
  9. new version of bit defender
  10. Forcibly logged out repeatedly
  11. The Trade Wiki Beta--how is it related to Wikipedia
  12. Changing a Wikipedia page for a course
  13. Donate
  14. article deleted
  15. Important information that hasn't been published in English
  16. long-term creation of an article
  17. Link Appearance

December 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 18

  1. Biased Article
  2. Wikipedia's use of browser cookies
  3. Punjabi programme
  4. Formatting archived discussions nearly lost during page move
  5. Aircraft compare
  6. Saint Nicolass
  7. rollback
  8. about A.C CURRENT STORAGE
  9. Article Rename
  10. My Contribution for submission
  11. error on page
  12. Template trouble
  13. Phone numbers
  14. Is there a higher authority to appeal to, in the event of disagreement with an article's content?

December 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 19

  1. Mischsprache
  2. Procedure for uploading sounds ( Audios )
  3. Post a school paper (which has bias) on sister project
  4. Login Unification - Home wiki has different password?
  5. How do i change a secure port to a non-secure port?
  6. Soviet Union music recording certification - are there any???
  7. Please add headlines
  8. Rochville university
  9. Help merge two articles.
  10. Passerine
  11. Two tables columns
  12. Severe Disability Needs
  13. Wikipedia default font size
  14. Volunteer to Translate for Wikipedia (Spanish English)
  15. Help needed to fix a layout problem on my user page
  16. first time article writer question
  17. Discussing a new article creation
  18. My user page is screwed up!
  19. Need admin help moving JuJu Chang to Juju Chang, changing redirect

December 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 20

  1. Danish Jews
  2. Help closing a discussion
  3. rainfall
  4. Same image name on WP and Commons
  5. new army
  6. Alexandra Powers
  7. Tool of article readability
  8. redirection
  9. Source
  10. Requesting assistance: Occidental Petroleum
  11. Satellite
  12. حجة
  13. Article not being shown
  14. Minor touchup for math?
  15. Mark Gall
  16. Image with a copyright statement in its filename
  17. Lowery's painting of Ebbw Vale
  18. Need category help
  19. Political Bias Regarding UK Post Office/Royal Mail Description
  20. The Lion King 4

December 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 21

  1. Paris By Night
  2. Patriot Guard Riders
  3. Citing/Reference Question
  4. Where are my images?
  5. fonts
  6. Article Being deleted
  7. looking for a job
  8. Sharing same account across WP & WN
  9. Wikipedia content quoted without attribution/reference to the authors
  10. Malfunction
  11. Reclaiming an account with no email attached
  12. Diana Dors
  13. submitting the biography of an author
  14. AFD help
  15. why was my page on uiolentapneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosising deleted
  16. Wikipedia should support advertisements for a revenue stream
  17. Updating Abdul Khaliq Hazara, Formatting Error with RtL Font/Text
  18. Sigma Gamme Rho

December 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 22

  1. James McGill (child actor)
  2. Abbreviation "ce" used in edit summaries
  3. What's it called
  4. What are those insets normally at the top of the pages called?
  5. email notification
  6. Muhammad Zafrullah Khan
  7. Every word a link.
  8. Are you allowed to edit if....
  9. WP: TWINKLE
  10. "People from New York City" CATEGORY entry
  11. Fixing table in Ecology#Population ecology
  12. Problem with svg picture
  13. How do I keep my information from being deleted before I can find out how to edit?
  14. A-Class
  15. Cannot find my article in user drafts anymore! Not even under contributions...
  16. Newly created page not showing in search results
  17. Jack Scoltock Irish author
  18. Tuskegee Airmen
  19. HELP! Some "Stalker" is SABOTAGING A SUBJECT! Someone is entering the article and totally sabotaging the article what shall one do?

December 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 23

  1. Donation suggestion
  2. Verifying data on Wikipedia
  3. State Library of Queensland
  4. Jimmy Wales
  5. how to determine URL from image name
  6. Removal of photo from wikipedia
  7. linking accounts
  8. Permanent text size change for logged in?
  9. Error in editing page
  10. Diff on page--what am I missing?
  11. Can't properly add citation
  12. How do I add a picture to an article I created?
  13. When can tags to add references or clean up the page be removed?
  14. Convert from IP user to registered user

December 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 24

  1. Anything recourse for abusive user comments in Discussion?
  2. Citing a source
  3. Can I download the query log of wikipedia?
  4. New user query re article creation & talk page
  5. WHAT!!!!!!!
  6. Alonzo Elliot: Composer
  7. copyright or not?
  8. going live with an entry
  9. AN vs. ANI
  10. Another file with one name, but FOUR images
  11. Capitalization Issue In New Article Title
  12. Doug Smail Ex Fife Flyers Player

December 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 25

  1. Table help
  2. Including words in the Russian (Cyrillic) language
  3. Fundraising Banners
  4. شركات مصنفه
  5. How to Donate Here in Iran
  6. Writing about one's self
  7. New section tab missing
  8. Template Change
  9. Pop up or new tabs.

December 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 26

  1. need to know
  2. An ordinary average guy like to donate
  3. Getting repeated errors when editing
  4. Font size for MATH ""
  5. Making Donations To Wikipedia: Why Should I Have To Pay Through PayPal?
  6. An ordinary average guy like to donate
  7. DIVORCED WOMEN
  8. User Bdb484 is changing everything to back to his version.
  9. Login error
  10. Filmography
  11. Quickie...add reference for an 'orphan'
  12. 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
  13. Modifying a page without the Edit hyperlink

December 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 27

  1. Some things I would like to discuss
  2. Some non-question that had no heading
  3. Alexandra Powers
  4. Glen MacDonough
  5. Regarding Policy Number: WTG1321908
  6. geolocation
  7. System does not accept any login name
  8. Check information on a main page but also on individuals?
  9. Template help
  10. The use of ' vs >
  11. Alexandra Powers
  12. Sorting Wikipedia links?
  13. Questions about using infobox templates
  14. Unable to edit
  15. Copy and paste vandalism
  16. Advertisements

December 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 28

  1. My browser reports a virus in the image on a La Sagrada Familia page
  2. No apostrophe in the Broadway production of Hellzapoppin
  3. Selected Works
  4. What percentage of the world population plays golf?
  5. Restricted Page, can't edit page Frankel Jewish Academy- Religious Lies about the Jewish School
  6. Ratings for Movies
  7. Stuff to help with
  8. How do I delete an unused account?
  9. Picture alignment
  10. Most visited non-existent articles
  11. Apply a monobook line only when using Safari
  12. Rape Statistics
  13. Wiki clock

December 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 29

  1. About Donation
  2. Johnson Tan Hiok Phuay
  3. About Principles of photonics You can give me the useful webside also can give me the details
  4. How do I create an entry?
  5. Searching in category an subcategories
  6. File extension does not match MIME type.
  7. Question about the Writer Infobox

December 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 30

  1. Fundraiser
  2. Alexandra Powers
  3. copyright fees
  4. Creating an article
  5. SUL Usurpation
  6. Remove my photos from Wikipedia
  7. Why doesn't My watchlist e-mail me new changes?
  8. One discussion in multiple forums
  9. Invisible anchors?
  10. Hilite template not working
  11. How do I edit an photo on Wiki?
  12. Edwardian Funerals
  13. Wife complaint

December 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 31

  1. Tab
  2. Australian football club logos and jumpers/guernseys
  3. meters
  4. Requesting assistance
  5. why do you need money(donations)?
  6. Kinuyo Yamashita
  7. Send article by email
  8. Rod Macqueen vs Rod MacQueen
  9. Section Deleted
  10. Easy way of finding articles I've created