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December 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 1
- Re:not sure why my sources aren't considered verifiable, they are national (Australian) public media outlets
- Adding info on another resident
- user-sandbox question
- Assembling colour from templates
- Adding photos to existing article.
- ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE WORDS
- How to convert a wiki page in Bangla
- HMS MAHRATTA G23
- Will someone create the page "Justice Party (United States)"
- Category question
- Misplaced reference
- List of concert halls
- virus?
- Changing the logo image for our company's page description
- Harvard citation link
- Reference not found
December 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 2
- I'd love to donate, but I can't seeing as I'm a 16 year old wihout a paypal or bank account.
- Subcategory count
- Format problem
- Photo of Yvonne Swan Wanrow on Wikipedia & the woman by the same name speaking at the AIM Conference in 2009 video do not match, the name, personal bio, history, etc are the same, however the faces do not match up, any idea of why...
- No response
- Stomach ache
- Wikipedia usage out of an iPhone app
- Error in Space-based solar power
- Help me
- Content confusion - questioning submission rejection
- Donations to wiki
- Love In Plain Sight
- Navbox doesn't autocollapse
- Language change
- Improved translation not published
- Citing my sources - technical problems and unwarranted removal
- Different content in different languages
- Does this logo have the right license?
- Discussion
- Transfering file
- Infobox Model
- WIKI Donate
- My Wiki book has disappeared
- texts
- Image Gallery Question 2
- Transferring files to commons
- Wikipedia Loves Libraries
- Movie title
- where to suggest a change
- Is this the info you need?
- Create Wikipedia page
- Cannot save an edit due to spam filter
December 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 3
- Mobile browser
- You are not citable!!!
- How to generate a list of all en-wp's article titles?
- New Article
- Sixties TV series
- Citing a multiple-author book
- Help needed in determining the amount of detail that is useful for a reader
- Identifying edit removing section from article
- T:AH invalid time at Talk:The Litigators
- Wikipedia button for blogs and web pages
- Feedback for Rise to It page
- How to delete a redirect
- The Josh Pate article needs a review.
- Splitting out discography into new article
- How do you cite a US state law?
December 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 4
- Request for help with article
- I clicked the link for feedback on an article i created and it said to go here.
- Image rotated 90 degrees
- bad reference in the article http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ramayana:_The_Legend_of_Prince_Rama
- nonprofit using Inc.
- Speedy deletion of unused files
- This seems like a hoax and scam with the Karthik Nadar asking for money.
- Providing a suggestion for more information for a topic
- real time scheduling
- Can this symbol be generated using HTML code
- Link at top of the page asking for donations
- External links - blogs
- "Requests for feedback" process now inoperative - so how do new articles get reviewed?
- Need CityVille Hometown Reviewed
- http://anexosolanadelmar.blogspot.com/
- Mating habits
- Spacing ideas on Pakistan national rugby league team?
- different log in pages - is there a font recognition problem? do i need 2 log in names?
- List of programs broadcast by Telefutura
- Sylvia Hyman
- Possibly problematic link
- References in the "Further reading" section?
- Adding talk page banners in sandbox?
- Media Representations of Haiti
December 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 5
- Is citing an episode a reliable source?
- 'Australian Business Traveller' tagged as 'probably not a reliable source for an encyclopedia'?
- in a bind
- A side table is not editable.
- where can i go to buy mercury
- create own .dic and .aff files
- Images of the Prophet Mohammed
- Can an admin upload the following file and reason inside
- Modifying a chart or table
- Where are drafts stored?
- ہیموگلوبن
- Murder of Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandes
- Huggle Configuration
- Choosing a category
- Alexa
- Splitting a Sandbox in half
- Unhelpful edits to Behavioral optometry article
- Inappropriate Images
- Spoken Word
- ditetrahydrofurfurylpropane help
- Page for reporting Vandalism has been vandalized
- I cannot play any sound in the page
- Is the old article available for research
December 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 6
- IP Address Fraud?
- Indic font rendering w Chrome
- How do you edit a Reference in an article.
- What template to use to cite an entire magazine issue?
- disambiguating word for electronic 'bands'?
- Link to my site was removed from Wiki Article
- Catholic youth associations of French Algeria
- submitting article from Sandbox
- Help with a parserfunction/Magic Word
- Another "Request for feedback" (should be quick i think!)
- Help with templates
- Upload Company Logo?
- Request for help with new article
- Worlds Biggest Liar Competition, 2011.
- Something weird
- Information to Improve Stubs
- Adding a 'Reference'?
- New editors need feedback
- Lack of citation sources
- Unable to access articles
- Article that I edited has disappeared
- How to load profile picture in Wikipedia?
December 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 7
- Donation by mail
- Template:CSD-warn
- Confusion with "This sandbox has been placed in the article namespace. Move this page into your userspace."
- WIKI BOOKS
- Appeal link does not work
- Footnote 1 in Mongol invasion of Europe
- Donating to Wikipedia from Nigeria
- Contribution to Wikipedia
- Very short subsections
- administrator's help is required for the "carl hirschmann" articles
- Suitability of historical background in a novel as a subject for a Wiki article
- i want to request you
- my user name appearing on the top of my sports Bio with wikipedia
- Portal:Current_events
- My Wikipedia page.
- Possible GeoGroupTemplate Error
- Symbol appearing in watchlist
- first class construction
- enter my company
- Videolog.tv
- Image-display problem
- Setting the sort order for a category without touching each article
December 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 8
- How do I create this page?
- a bout smile to africa adventure
- Purusha Sukta
- My wikipedia page is appearing on Facebook
- What's all the Hubbub, bub?
- Article
- Disambiguation
- Roxanna Panufnik
- Article has a misleading sentence
- Editing Reference Links
- Username for a New Account Regarded as too Similar
- st. catharines jail
- K5 Glass
- IPA code for Danish
- Search Wikipedia for Montrose Star and I get Houston Voice
December 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 9
- Berkman Study
- Polydactyly
- Names of vegetables
- approval
- Confusion on AFD'd article
- Making an article for a Human Rights Organisation - some assistance required
- reggie lambe article
- Infobox image in articles about fictional characters from television shows
- Costs of services
- Hebrew Experts, Come and Help Decide: Neve Sha'anan or Nave Sha'anan?
- Help! My article is listed for speedy deletion, and I can't get into the page
- Wikipedia should use social netwroking when appealing to people on Wiki
- lost Maxime Old article
- making Search Box 'Active'
- help Chat Screen Format
- How To Do Footnotes and Short Citations and Reference List for Article.
December 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 10
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Kokyu : hyperlink to WRONG PERSON
- 'google' what defines an english person
- Contact Randy Meisner
- Question about rejected DYK
- Deleting an unwanted page about me
- OSVAH
- MEP external links
- Tired of fighting battles over images
- How to Display Image on Wk Page/ Could Image Be Blocked?
- Seeking clarification on copying text from a commercial site without permission
- Unicode subscripts and superscripts needs to be restored to the article namespace
- Basic Citation Questions
- Link to template in article
- References to exterior pages
December 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 11
- Additional Info to be included
- Wedding performed on top of Devils Tower 1992, Time magazine carried the story
- Why isn't there a page for author Thomas William Simpson?
- missing film in andy griffith wiki
- How do you crop a picture?
- Dead Link on Page
- References listed side by side in columns versus one long column
- copyright for photographs
- Online versus traditional (non-digital) sources
- Fourier series
- Linking a Word to a Different Wk Article...is this possible?
- Infobox Additions...what am I doing wrong?
- submitted article to be accepted from Sandbox, my mistake, I didn't know it was for nonregistered editors
- Uploading files
- Picture from Public University Website Okay?
- Markup to add an image parameter to an infobox
- Need Feedback on this Software Testing related term
- Test Automation Interface is not same as Test Automation
- Philadelphia Here I Come!
- Third person editting
- How did this image get flipped?
- Army Mules (December 2011 Update)
- Altered Picture...is this okay to use?
- Recreation of deleted page by previously blocked editor
December 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 12
- Deleting a File I Uploaded ?
- Started new Article Mulbarapa
- INFORMATION ON AC # 6076
- problems asking a question
- Citations..basic formatting
- Infobox weird behavior
- Need help with replacing image
- My edit was deleted and i would like to take issue with whoever deleted it!
- Archive help
- what defines an English person
- Dave Scott Atlanta Falcons.He graduated from J.F.K High School Paterson ,New Jersey !972 ,not Paterson Catholic H.S
- Kathryn Kates Page
- Mean as custard?
- Help on judging appropriateness of adding content
- Edit Proposals
- hi...im trying to get a book summary....
- Hi
- Bare URL for Citations Warning
- Date changes on Template:Non-free reduced?
- Labeled map
December 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 13
- how to edit
- Adding a "Themes" section to a movie article
- Hi. How did I do this?
- re: "incomplete" list of Italian Films.
- Where can I get feedback on my handling of an AfD?
- Looking for 'On hold' template
- Posting images
- Name change needed to article
- Calculation of articles needing cleanup
- Prison breakouts
- GENERAL SIR CHARLES ASGILL
- Page view statistics
- SABC Program Line-up
- IPA help wanted
- Getting To and From Busan
- How to edit the facts/stats box on a City's Wiki page?
- Making a counter proposal to an active VPR discussion
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon
- Request clarification in Example: close paraphrasing repaired
- Is this a copyvio or not?
- Specific Commercial on 12/12/11 @ 6:47pm
- bio
- Category:Jin Yong characters' family tree error
- Image Use
- Spelling errors in section links (anchors)
- "Connecting to bits.wikipemdia.org"
December 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 14
- Source requests
- Image thumbnail spacing question
- erasing username
- Donations
- When I am logged out on google chrome
- Content duplicated between pages
- Use of BCE and CE by Wikipedia rather that the proper use of the historically correct BC and AD
- CSD R?
- Define English Person
- Wiki Page Layout
- I seem to have asked for help in the wrong part of the Village Pump
- Editing the Article on "Circumcision"
- New Horizons Governor's School
- Help as i good like to upload a picture that might help with an a article about Geograpic Toungue.
- Systematically search for readlinks
- Template problem outside of my expertise
- Food Grade Alcohol - I just want to know the list of names for alcohols that are food grade because I want to avoid petro alcohols in my shampoo, etc.
- why Basil Soufi
- Problem with wikipedia title
- This sucks badass
- all my posts have been deleted
- RS?
- Article
- Please Remove Article not submitted or signed by me. Thank you.
- Where is water measuring puzzle page?
- How to create a shortcut if using same source?
- Unable to log in to my Wikipedia account
- Can you use a YouTube video link as a reference or source for information for an article?
- Help with new article
December 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 15
- Working for Wikipedia
- Deleting my monobook.js page?
- Edit incorrectly attributed to me on Hindi Wikipedia
- Unfair Practice
- Help please with a new article
- Birth date discrepancy
- Update abd correction to a user article about my enterprise
- Sons Of Anarchy Founders
- Joe Arpaio
- Upload resume
- black listed
- Rollback links in watch list
- Cary Capparelli
- Logged out of facebook on my PC ,GRAND SON LOGGED IN
- "Second 2011 Editor Survey"
- Personal Appeals
- Convert to excel
- How can I use GLNF inside an infobox without screwing it up?
- why is my FACTUAL edit of IPPOLIT wikie deleted and BLOCKED
- Login Unification
- Need help creating/requesting a page for a book
- I want this pic deleted
- Account unavailable
- AD's on WikipediA
- Case sevsitive
- "Jack" McCall
- Help is sought with a new article.
- CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
December 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 16
- more help is sought with new articles - feel free to edit them as you please
- Wikipedia logging me out
- asp.net
- External links
- Picture
- What is Wikipedia
- Inserting Umlaut and Accent symbols
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Moonshine partial undeletion request
- moving a page
- Edited page, changes do not appear.
- User?
- Question
- Labelling minors as drug addicts in Wikipedia Page
- dick litlefield baseball pitcher
- How does the review process work? How can one ask reviewers to review the newly created page?
- Chhundo
- Receive email when article in watchlist is edited or vandalized
- Created a new article in the userspace
December 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 17
- Is human voice contact ever allowed?
- Shao Nian Yang Jia Jiang and The Young Warriors (TV series) articles
- Escaping special characters inside http
- More scientist articles created - please help
- Requested Article Assistance
- Demand of Brass & Copper Sheets
- class="wikitable" distorting userboxes?
- Complicated vandalism onSalva Kiir Mayardit
- MiszaBot not adhering to instructions?
- Upon his resignation from the CIA Mickolus became a Professor at Harrison Middleton University has two errors
- Request for feedback on new article Kalina_Yordanova
- New Article Feedback
- told to use reliable sources
December 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 18
- Halloween 3D
- Tables with multiple consecutive conditional rows
- Salted page?
- Search box for talk archive
- online earning
- article removed
- Template:Weather box/metrictoinch
- A personal appeal
- Mental Health Supporting Application
- temperature and chemical structural stability of edible vegetable oils, especially poly unsaturated cooking oils used for frying .
- mail box.
- account problems
- Removing "Unreferenced" template from article
- What to do about persistant IP vandalism
- A bad hyperlink.
- Archiving articles
- Article Edited - Removed Dup Section
- How do I add my photo to my profile?
- What did I do wrongly?
- LYNN GARRISON
- Campina Grande geo-coords placement error
December 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 19
- Inclusion of source in an appropriate format acceptable in Wiki
- Suggestion for a way to collect a lot more money
- Links to pages that require membership
- posted production credits but warning page deletion msg is still there !
- WRONG MESSAGES
- Image Help
- how do you upload???
- User Reptozoid violating Wikipedia Biography of Living Persons policy
- Cary Capparelli/Mike Quigley
- EU Prize for Literature
- Economy of England
- question about american dad! Episode list
- search for punctuation
- Illegible graph
- Untitled car question
- Fixing an article's page name
- how mant air miles do I have
- Publishing a page
- Help with uploads and drafts
- Looking for a less garish "external media" template
- Recovering edits from a userified article
- Help with creating a table
- Question on changing page name and more
- Feedback
- Incorrect information
December 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 20
- United States Youth Volleyball League
- A problematic move
- The livelys
- regarding ghassan rahbani biography
- Link on top of every Wikipedia Page Asking Users to Read Personal Appeal from Author of Many Wikipedia Articles Does not Work
- Mistake in my email address
- Help me
- Article Review
- Where to buy CD-ROM copy of Wikipedia?
- how do I include a chart from powerpoint and word tables? .
- New User Needs feedback on First Article
- Linking
- Problem with WCQL-FM article
- |format= in cite report
- Chzz whinging again
- using content
- Feedback on draft page
- Creative Commons License
- SPER
- Highbeam
- where do you go to get an addon to see changes easier for the watchlist?
- To-do list
- Note about Kansas city Kansas being a suburb of Kansas city missouri
December 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 21
- previewing embedded references
- My Sandbox
- Article title formatting
- I want to create my biographical page but am facing a user error
- unnoticed non-too-trivial vandalism by a specific user
- Feedback requested
- problem with Merger proposal
- Additional info for "Boontling" article
- Freezing Internet Explorer in Vista
- Problems with template editing and application
- Timeline
- question on wiki-style blogging
- Error in automatic redirect
- Upload one of my own images to my own profile
December 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 22
- Please move file to Commons
- were is the ownership tag located on my hewlett packard laptop
- How to restore a version of the page?
- cant read the wikipedia pages
- Page size script not working for me
- Name Jesus or Jeshua
- Editing protected Wikipedia entries
- Double substitution
- The Berkeley Eagles baseball article.
- about infobox writer
- How to edit an article
- Untitled section: Vibe
- Donation
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Mitch_McConnell
- Someone changed it - Wrong Photo and Copy
- Feedback Please!
- Forwarding an article.
- research rose band muscogee creek
- How to Embed a Random Page from a Category?
December 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 23
- Sanctium Band
- many views one day
- Why does Wikipedia overly promote the use of "ANYONE" can edit, create on their site when in actuality that is not true?
- Create a definition
- File:Wiki-cumshot.png
- Help with policy concerning custom signature?
- Users essays on Civility
- Is there an easy way to move my wikipedia files to wikimedia?
- Leaked magazine scans
- Edit the biography of MK
- Article Feedback request
- Reddit appeals to Jimmy Wales.
- new article "Robert Fanning"
- Facebook as reference link
- For X, see Y
- Global account status "in migration"
- Invention InfoBox
- Can Wiki change domains (from the pro-SOPA GoDaddy to something else)
- Sandbox deletion effect
- making many changes to a published article
- References not showing up or in order
- Making many changes to a published article...........related question
- Finding why an image has been deleted
- Table Alignment
- several sandboxes
- wikipedia / wikileaks
- outstanding money
- What is the story of Chanukha?
December 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 24
- Types of users in wikipedia
- Population Density value in Wikipedia page for US cities
- Arnaldo
- DYK check
- Change of website address
- Logo in Bulgarian version
- Posts deleted
- fair use of university logos
- Startling by Each Step: Grammar check
- Turning dab pages into regular pages
- Query
- Municipal consolidation
- Editing the References Section of Unified S-Band page.
- I don't want to do editing, just offer info!!!
- Forgotten password
December 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 25
- Editing Change History
- Unclear post without heading
- Hovering over a link
- Where's my Book (book creator)
- Incorrect Link
- Which citation template?
- table/references in Paul Keres Memorial Tournament
December 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 26
- Civil war argument
- DYK
- Invitation to update "Template:Roadrunner United"
- Editing Doodles Weaver "reference" section
- Rosie scott LIBEL
- Brenda Fricker
- Donated money to wikipedia
- Entry: 1st Special Forces Airborne Regiment (Airborne)
- Help with disambig.
- Using the Book Creator feature?
- Dangerous code on wikipedia page
- BlackBerry browser 5.0 does not trigger mobile view
- Spelling bot
- Secondary citation
- ip address or username of edited postings
December 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 27
- Citing a track on an album?
- Racism in India Article
- no index code
- How to add new parameters to an infobox?
- semi requests and coi. help!
- Email Notification / Suggestions
- Invalid information on the Simon Racine article
- Ref tags
- Editing Danny Cadamarteri
- Help against vandalism
- RFC
- We Would like to Donate -- Please read
- REMOVE PAT MORLEY (FOOTBALL PLAYER)
- Creating articles
- English Search engines inability to find accented French words
- Redirect problem
- Paula Ann Bland
- Colorblind
- Zoe Balcescu painting stolen
- Aristide Razu 32nd "Mircea Voda " Regiment (Defending Marasesti Train Station)-copyright problems
- Next Step on Promotional Name Skyangeltv?
- How do I edit the title of my page?
- Proper tag for an article or section that makes an assertion
- Category question
- Add suicide prevention to the Suicide and Suicide Method's pages
- please update artical "nachman shay"
- One-click unwatching from watchlist
- RfC/AfD
- article for submission
- Was "Laser Heater" page deleted?
December 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 28
- Request article translation (German to English)
- Crossing out text
- Citing more than one pages from a merged reference
- HD template description error?
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 28#Using_.7B.7Btl.7CCite_video.7D.7D_for_a_music_track.3F|Using {{Cite video}} for a music track?]]
- David Combe
- Aricle verification.
- Google maps as reference
- Tennis question
- About lens & lenses
- Cheetahs
- Different tables seperate to columns
- Cite Template: Difference between 'Work' &' Publsiher'?
- Fixing Interwikis?
- Face Book like button
- Hello
- User name is misspelled
- Donations
- Vinay Maloo article
December 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 29
- Tags
- Can someone upload this picture for me and show me how to?
- Kippis
- WP:RefToolbar 2.0
- Humorous Articles
- Removing an AfD that I started
- Why, during the donations, is the amount collected so far not posted?
- Named note
- Mobile Wikipedia
- Donation recommendation
- Why so much concern about Muhammad bin abd al wahhab biography?
- PAGESIZE
- connexion internet
- Editing the template for this page!
- Data for zip codes
- How can I move my page to a new title
- Donations
- value of one thousand dollar bill
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us/Article_problem/Factual_error_(from_subject)
- How to replace a minus sign with an endash
- Create template
- Cary Capparelli
- Mistake in the description of the show Sasural Genda Phool.
- log in
- Hover Boy Game-Arcade
- What does Deleted Contributions show?
- Donations
- How Do You Delete and Create A Redirect?
- Username access in English language Wikipedia not valid for Wikipedia in other languages
- Beyond the speed of light
- Yes I know I'm not logged in, that's THE problem !
December 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 30
- VPR discussion was archived without a clear consensus
- WWI gas attack entry adolph Hitler
- West Covina, California has five City Councilmembers
- Pleadge Drive Redirect
- List of Governors-General of New Zealand
- IUST logo on enwiki
- How to redirect to James Law to James Law (Cybertecture)
- Photo Bomb on Jean Carmet
- Why is it this way
- Edit does not show
- The template (Portal box) is being considered for merging.
- Help
- updated info - blog action day
- Uploading Images
- Letter to Jim Wales, founder of Wikipedia
- Archive missing for June 2011
- Forcing a new line in an #if function
- Article Review
- Please delete
- Donation to Wikipedia
- Database on company info
- Defamation!
- Lion fish
- How to contact and comment on wikipedia policy
December 31
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 December 31
- Confidentiality Please - Wingfield Castle
- Flash drive
- Can someone upload this picture for me and show me how to?
- URGENT: Book content has disappeared!
- Micheal Taiani
- GeoHack, adding coordinates to an article
- stack overflow at line 2946/computer registry error
- Keyboard shortcut for inserting signature
- what are the struck through items in a users contributions?
- worse than romania
- Tell your story
- When editing an article with a trademarked brand?
- Login loop
- Retrieve article from 12/30/3011 on Ghana
- How to Delete the Clown Face in Wiki Pages....
- Donations 3
- templates/wiki syntax stuff
- Re: Content about the now defunct company Kozmo