Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2010
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December 1
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- Contributions by Companies
- How to EDIT a season of TV episodes to realign Episode Numbers with correct Episode Names.
- Help
- Readable content in a WP article?
- Admins pushing POV
- cappos
- Names of Large French Company CEOs?
- images
- Jimmy Wales
- Help
- Urgent Post on Talk:Live television
- Wikipedia fundraising ads worse than banner ads
December 2
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- A few things to discuss
- Question
- Further to my last
- obtaining a copy of a will
- Limited access vs dead links
- November 2010 disappeared in page view statistics
- What happened to Phil Schneider's page?
- Protected article
- where does my donation go?
- The repeated displays of banners
- Broken "Kartika" and "Lilaroja" and "Joan Goma" banners
- Wikipedia Mobile formatting problem on Palm Pre/WebOS
- Donation via BACS in the UK
- softening seawater before desalination using Sodium r Sodium Hydroxide
- Edit comparison tool
- Wikipedia in Nahuatl
- Page moves and archives
December 3
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- Photo Hanayo
- My additions to an article were removed
- Canvassing?
- German question
- Wrong dog photo
- :Category:Free software programmed in Tcl tkwww is listed under M
- Logged in signal desired
- oxygen and carbon di oxide
- Where is the Artisian page?
- Yugoslavian languages problem
- Returning editor
- Meaning of Wikipedia
- Question from 187.15.23.96
- Chem Symbols
- Wikitables
- Picture Formatting
- Is my article moving forward?
- Mark up text
December 4
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- Two thing to discuss
- Infoboxes of my own
- Contents
- Uploading pictures
- WP:NPOV and WP:TITLE
- Dear Wikipedia
- we would love to donate but....
- Two sharks for sister Sarah
- Could someone please remove Jimmy Wales' photo from Wikipedia? It's doing my nut in.
- August Heinrich Petermann
- Ochromonas malhamensis and Vitamin B-12
- Suddenly no possibility to edit
- My submission was declined
- Subscribing
- wiki and lyrics
- Questions about donating...
- Image name problem
December 5
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- Maps on Wikipedia
- My Page Was Redirected & Maybe Deleted...Help!
- changes made to a "see also" section of a page on wikipedia.
- disappeared?
- Time stamp
- text deleted but did not save a copy.
- Donations from India
- infoboxes show up as half the width long for some people but not others!
- Draft article
- User sandbox
- Reviewer
- Format
- Remove Intrusive Jimmy Wales Banner
- info box Netherlands
- Fixing Horribly Malformed Talk Pages
- On other wikis
- Template
- Legitemate link removed
- write the truth
December 6
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- Wikipedia pages not displaying properly
- Language problem
- Problem with "new external links" message
- What is archive url and what is url?????????????????
- Wikipedia's sister projects
- Promostyl should be in Wikipedia
- Is There An Automated User Box for Edits / Contributions?
- Help needed with page move
- www.softpedia.com keeps deleting my (and others) contribution to the wikipedia articol about them, because that truth is not good for their image
- Collapsing sections via options
- Dear Mr. Wales
- Deletion Log
- Mescalero Apache
- Heidolph Image Deletion/ Page HELP
- How I do I use code to insert blank spaces in an article? Want to space infobox and other sections properly.
- A comment on NotabilityGuidelines.
- Leaks
- HELP blues clues
- Pro coder
- Merging 2 articles - Beauchamps School and Beauchamps High School
December 7
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- English language problem
- WP:???
- Wikipedia logo use
- Maybe now...
- Need help from someone experienced with the backend of the ref tag
- Image upload
- Submitted an entry but can't find it unless I do to my 'contributions' page
- Uppercase 'i's and lowercase 'L's
- Bracked link to a redirect page
- Page layout problem
- Adding a PDF file containing his war time experiences to my fathers listing in Wikipedia
- Need to rename/move article
- Ophthalmology
- Henry Hopwood
- Help -- I made extensive updates a few weeks ago and the updates are not showing!
- portuguese version of wiki
- Philabundance Wiki Page- please help
- Place-Based Social Media
- uploading picture
- Julian
- Curtis J Hopfenbeck
- Posting Company Information
December 8
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- Is there a simple way to change my user name?
- Kennedy Western University
- Public-key cryptography Encryption explanation is encrypted!
- Could somebody delete this page
- Oldid
- Viable reference
- Translation
- How do I change the name of my article from the default name?
- How to include or point to software supporting Wiki topics?
- How to Change the User name
- Un-publish temporarily
- How can I donate from India?
- Are we allowed to create a page for personal websites?
- Assamese Christian Literature
- Do we have a Wiki Project for music?
- automatic notification of edits
- Automatic Update of Edit Count
- ConvaTec Wikipedia Page Correction Request
- Pet Shop Boys category
- help userfying a deleted article
- Section Redirect
- Tear down of existing article and restart almost from scratch. How?
- Company selling books of Wikipedia articles possibly without attribution
- Twitter as a source sucks, right?
- translating
- Getting rid of this personal appeal at the top of every page!
December 9
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- problem with page
- Help is needed!
- Inviation
- unwritten history
- Downloading specific categories from wikimedia dumps
- Facebook displays an obsolete link to a wikipedia picture
- Two questions
- Default font size change?
- My post was altered
- How can I get responses to discussions that I start?
- your story on terrance deon long
- Publish
- Request photo
- Company Listing
- Referencing images
- Change Fitchburg, WI Reference
- Feedback
- The Trade Wiki Beta
- Please review
- Personal appeal from Lilaroja or Jimmy Wales
December 10
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- Editing a page
- Hawaii Bowl 2010
- Provide an Option for donation in Indian Currency
- How do I remove the banner from the top from the founder and, currently, Wikimedia Executive Director Sue Gardner?
- crossbow mote works problem
- Homework question
- Creative Commons
- Conflict question.
- Technical/Editorial problem in a page
- link between an english wiki page and another in french.
- Pronunciation
- Need someone with a NYT online subscription to check out a reference for me
- Lost page
- XXXCupid.com
- How to insert infobox, images?
- sandbox(?) article has been completely reproduced on a non wikipedia site. any options for removal?
- New Page
- Factual error on a locked page.
- search box
December 11
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- Search box gone--not in upper right, not anywhere...?
- Search box no longer appears
- seinfeld characters
- tinyurl.com/000psy psychiatry is a fraud
- Complicated cut and paste mess - Assyrian language
- help
- How to edit/delete uploaded jpegs?
- Bad faith
- hand chiseled stone water trough
- business plan
- background colour into grey !
- Page not accessible ..
- Need help with template
- IP blocking
- Additional film for Capucine
- Mentoring a disruptive editor
- Need help entering article in Wikipedia
December 12
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- Signature issues
- Disappearing Tabs
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra
- Background image
- New Webcast & Website Links for Radio Stations
- What Is The Template For "moving a user page into mainspace"?
- SUBMISSION OF CITATION
- Whom should be notified of potential breaking of mass numbers of FactFinder references
- How can I donate I dont have Credit card
- Contents of my talk page as a list !
- Wikipedian Categories
- On psychology
- Please can Wiki stop the begging spam at the top ove EVERY page !!!!???????
- Use of Photos
- Preventing Libel on Wikipedia
- cable leaks
- AfD creation problem
- Fear and Trembling
- Flag carrier page
December 13
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- First time Commons user, help por favor!
- Need help..
- embedding photo in article
- Links that have square brackets in the URL
- Redirect
- Conflict of interest
- forensic doctor
- Editing WP with Kindle
- Table subjugated to external links
- Flattr
- TV channels
- Navigating among languages in which Wikipedia articles are written
- Inclusion of indian rupee
- If Wikipedia is ad-free, as it claims, then why are we bothered by countless "personal appeal[s]" to stuff Mr Wales pockets?
- Thumbplay
- Question about reliable sources
- showing Arabic and Hebrew
- Temporary strip references out of text
December 14
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- Xoloitzcuintli infomation
- including a name of a village
- Sharing a reference
- Dual accounts
- Change Name of Article without Confirmed status
- Rix Centre help with Wikipedia project groups
- Janet Graham
- Edit Associated Acts under a band wiki
- Help editing page
December 15
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- Image use
- Cell phone view mode
- Citing journals
- how to donate other than USD, if i want to donate to Wikipedia?
- Banner special pages
- "Phase II" software
- Can i look for a friend just by providing a photo of him because i forgot his name.
- wrong city/state listed under info
- ref
- Photo copyright...
- Jimmy Wales badly formatted
- information on Botswana
- Call out box for politicians, public figures
- Where is Wikipolicy discussed?
- Yagba West, Kogi State, Nig
December 16
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- Smaller Donations
- Where is the article I wrote£
- Occidental - suggested edits
- Need someone to help find italic problem
- IT'S NOT SHOWING UP
- WikiLeaks
- shared IP address?
- Blocked Message from Wickipedia
- Political figures
- Wiki for Thomas Edison - Error listing schools named after him
- Email domain change
- Want some information about Amigotechs software
- Inquiry about a recently deleted page... thank you for your help
- Associated with Wikipedia?
- Any existing template for listing projects undertaken by a charity/organisation
- Submitting information about a musician
- Table not accessible
- Kjære Herr/Fru
- New Page
- Cursor not defaulting to search box upon opening Wikipedia
- New text now displaying as centered, not left-justified
- help deleting a redirect
- I've buggered it up!
- Process of creating
- Math in templates using parameters
- change back to original format
- Logos
December 17
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- Piccirilli Brothers Wiki Site
- Coca-Cola and wikipedia's coi
- Some things I want to discuss
- Wikistalk
- Italics in links
- 3.5 M
- Wikipedia is NOT truly an Open Editable Model, and Jimmy Wales needs to be alerted
- What to do
- new version of bit defender
- Forcibly logged out repeatedly
- The Trade Wiki Beta--how is it related to Wikipedia
- Changing a Wikipedia page for a course
- Donate
- article deleted
- Important information that hasn't been published in English
- long-term creation of an article
- Link Appearance
December 18
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- Biased Article
- Wikipedia's use of browser cookies
- Punjabi programme
- Formatting archived discussions nearly lost during page move
- Aircraft compare
- Saint Nicolass
- rollback
- about A.C CURRENT STORAGE
- Article Rename
- My Contribution for submission
- error on page
- Template trouble
- Phone numbers
- Is there a higher authority to appeal to, in the event of disagreement with an article's content?
December 19
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- Mischsprache
- Procedure for uploading sounds ( Audios )
- Post a school paper (which has bias) on sister project
- Login Unification - Home wiki has different password?
- How do i change a secure port to a non-secure port?
- Soviet Union music recording certification - are there any???
- Please add headlines
- Rochville university
- Help merge two articles.
- Passerine
- Two tables columns
- Severe Disability Needs
- Wikipedia default font size
- Volunteer to Translate for Wikipedia (Spanish English)
- Help needed to fix a layout problem on my user page
- first time article writer question
- Discussing a new article creation
- My user page is screwed up!
- Need admin help moving JuJu Chang to Juju Chang, changing redirect
December 20
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- Danish Jews
- Help closing a discussion
- rainfall
- Same image name on WP and Commons
- new army
- Alexandra Powers
- Tool of article readability
- redirection
- Source
- Requesting assistance: Occidental Petroleum
- Satellite
- حجة
- Article not being shown
- Minor touchup for math?
- Mark Gall
- Image with a copyright statement in its filename
- Lowery's painting of Ebbw Vale
- Need category help
- Political Bias Regarding UK Post Office/Royal Mail Description
- The Lion King 4
December 21
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- Paris By Night
- Patriot Guard Riders
- Citing/Reference Question
- Where are my images?
- fonts
- Article Being deleted
- looking for a job
- Sharing same account across WP & WN
- Wikipedia content quoted without attribution/reference to the authors
- Malfunction
- Reclaiming an account with no email attached
- Diana Dors
- submitting the biography of an author
- AFD help
- why was my page on uiolentapneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosising deleted
- Wikipedia should support advertisements for a revenue stream
- Updating Abdul Khaliq Hazara, Formatting Error with RtL Font/Text
- Sigma Gamme Rho
December 22
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- James McGill (child actor)
- Abbreviation "ce" used in edit summaries
- What's it called
- What are those insets normally at the top of the pages called?
- email notification
- Muhammad Zafrullah Khan
- Every word a link.
- Are you allowed to edit if....
- WP: TWINKLE
- "People from New York City" CATEGORY entry
- Fixing table in Ecology#Population ecology
- Problem with svg picture
- How do I keep my information from being deleted before I can find out how to edit?
- A-Class
- Cannot find my article in user drafts anymore! Not even under contributions...
- Newly created page not showing in search results
- Jack Scoltock Irish author
- Tuskegee Airmen
- 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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- Donation suggestion
- Verifying data on Wikipedia
- State Library of Queensland
- Jimmy Wales
- how to determine URL from image name
- Removal of photo from wikipedia
- linking accounts
- Permanent text size change for logged in?
- Error in editing page
- Diff on page--what am I missing?
- Can't properly add citation
- How do I add a picture to an article I created?
- When can tags to add references or clean up the page be removed?
- Convert from IP user to registered user
December 24
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- Anything recourse for abusive user comments in Discussion?
- Citing a source
- Can I download the query log of wikipedia?
- New user query re article creation & talk page
- WHAT!!!!!!!
- Alonzo Elliot: Composer
- copyright or not?
- going live with an entry
- AN vs. ANI
- Another file with one name, but FOUR images
- Capitalization Issue In New Article Title
- Doug Smail Ex Fife Flyers Player
December 25
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- Table help
- Including words in the Russian (Cyrillic) language
- Fundraising Banners
- شركات مصنفه
- How to Donate Here in Iran
- Writing about one's self
- New section tab missing
- Template Change
- Pop up or new tabs.
December 26
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- need to know
- An ordinary average guy like to donate
- Getting repeated errors when editing
- Font size for MATH ""
- Making Donations To Wikipedia: Why Should I Have To Pay Through PayPal?
- An ordinary average guy like to donate
- DIVORCED WOMEN
- User Bdb484 is changing everything to back to his version.
- Login error
- Filmography
- Quickie...add reference for an 'orphan'
- 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
- Modifying a page without the Edit hyperlink
December 27
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- Some things I would like to discuss
- Some non-question that had no heading
- Alexandra Powers
- Glen MacDonough
- Regarding Policy Number: WTG1321908
- geolocation
- System does not accept any login name
- Check information on a main page but also on individuals?
- Template help
- The use of ' vs >
- Alexandra Powers
- Sorting Wikipedia links?
- Questions about using infobox templates
- Unable to edit
- Copy and paste vandalism
- Advertisements
December 28
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- My browser reports a virus in the image on a La Sagrada Familia page
- No apostrophe in the Broadway production of Hellzapoppin
- Selected Works
- What percentage of the world population plays golf?
- Restricted Page, can't edit page Frankel Jewish Academy- Religious Lies about the Jewish School
- Ratings for Movies
- Stuff to help with
- How do I delete an unused account?
- Picture alignment
- Most visited non-existent articles
- Apply a monobook line only when using Safari
- Rape Statistics
- Wiki clock
December 29
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- About Donation
- Johnson Tan Hiok Phuay
- About Principles of photonics You can give me the useful webside also can give me the details
- How do I create an entry?
- Searching in category an subcategories
- File extension does not match MIME type.
- Question about the Writer Infobox
December 30
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- Fundraiser
- Alexandra Powers
- copyright fees
- Creating an article
- SUL Usurpation
- Remove my photos from Wikipedia
- Why doesn't My watchlist e-mail me new changes?
- One discussion in multiple forums
- Invisible anchors?
- Hilite template not working
- How do I edit an photo on Wiki?
- Edwardian Funerals
- Wife complaint