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February 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 1

  1. Strange page rendering problem
  2. Do you need to be an admin to nominate someone for adminship?
  3. How Do I Insert Pictures into an Article
  4. Special character
  5. editing erroneous info in my bio
  6. Removing unwanted contributions from history page
  7. Wikimedia is displaying an out of date logo for our company
  8. Inappropriate move of User:Springfieldohio to article
  9. Account Deletion
  10. How to eliminate large white space?
  11. Wikipedia pages do not open .msg : The server at wiki.riteme.site is taking too long to respond
  12. Invisibile (useless?) characters
  13. Cans and Can'ts
  14. list of ex-millwall players
  15. can't find my user page
  16. Wiki Suggestion
  17. Changing an existing article to reflect changed circumstances
  18. The same problem that happened to me yesterday is happening again

February 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 2

  1. Hughes Tool Company/Dickson Gun Plant - Houston, Texas
  2. nudity censorship
  3. Wrong Picture at "Salvador, Bahia" article.
  4. Table background color
  5. Countries and quality of life
  6. author needed
  7. White background instead of image
  8. Mobile version disabled
  9. No response
  10. I need access to diesel automobiles
  11. yeast
  12. Bad link
  13. Training
  14. Is it allowed to use wikipedia as a reference for information when creating new wikipedia articles
  15. Commons link logo displaying on help page?
  16. account tied to old address
  17. Edits on archived talk pages
  18. Citing a video reference
  19. Engineering portal
  20. Question mark in a section title
  21. Putting a pic on Commons so I can use it on en.wikipedia
  22. Userspace subst'ing
  23. Contents box
  24. Account

February 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 3

  1. I have nothing that plays OGG files. Why are the sound files in OGG?
  2. Upon splitting a page, the talk pages are now linked
  3. Date of birth categories
  4. Need help changing entry name
  5. Notification on ArbCom amendments to old arbitrations
  6. Lock a value so people can't edit it
  7. Image source URLs
  8. Mainspace edits
  9. Things in text
  10. ABout Content
  11. What just happened?
  12. Comparing categories
  13. Would like to submit photos
  14. Timing for approvals...
  15. GFE
  16. The word,best.
  17. Condemnations in Adam
  18. Citation of direct quotes
  19. Citation / Evidence

February 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 4

  1. BLP Question
  2. how to post an article from user page
  3. Problem with a Wikipedia Veteran Editor IV
  4. How should I handle a second WP:COPYVIO?
  5. search
  6. how to save the entry i am interested in under my account name
  7. Addition of a name to DFC and bar medal list
  8. Redirect
  9. Where to ask for help
  10. Reverse Glass Painters
  11. Deletion of Box at top of article
  12. Removing Template at Top of An Article
  13. Obama's Wiki
  14. Bot help
  15. get my page reviewed and published
  16. Medical references
  17. I submitted a new page entitled "Gordon Ferguson (British Army)"
  18. Merge Accounts
  19. Putting Photos Next to Each Other
  20. Creating an account

February 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 5

  1. Colloge with two campuses - how to add coords of both to title?
  2. Lost toolbar
  3. what will happen???
  4. descriptive links
  5. userspace draft: How do I find my draft
  6. preferences not working
  7. Images, a query
  8. Place-mark on Google Earth
  9. enquiry for person who borrow money from me
  10. What should I do if a page I created is not listed as a edit prefix:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives
  11. One name, three images
  12. Uniblue Registry Booster
  13. Wine Personalities
  14. WikEd loading error
  15. NED KELLY IS SEMIPROTECTED
  16. First hand experance with Presidents problem
  17. Pick Me Up Error
  18. User Confirmation
  19. My recent changes to the article virus are not displaying
  20. removal of article
  21. How do I prevent an edit fight?
  22. Looking for album
  23. Hi guys

February 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 6

  1. New feature rquest
  2. can this be copied?
  3. Sir/Mam, please update your database..........
  4. My text formatting problem
  5. Urdu text in wikipedia articles
  6. creating Wikipedia ID:
  7. Victimisation
  8. Looking for a template
  9. Offensive stuff
  10. Counting Views
  11. Wikicode converter

February 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 7

  1. login to valid account after personal email changed
  2. Same login for different products of wiki
  3. Robot Editor
  4. Impostor
  5. Getting rid of the Try Beta link?
  6. Trans Fat
  7. Domain Eukarya
  8. Rotating images
  9. Templates
  10. I am so sorry
  11. Cite
  12. Merge the pages
  13. Beta won't allow me to leave.
  14. Problem
  15. bowel ultrasound to locate foreign body or narcotic capsules
  16. Mod needed here http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:UFC_110#Event_Date
  17. WIKIPEDIA PAGE
  18. Wikitravel

February 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 8

  1. Help with formatting
  2. my watchlist only partially updating
  3. Adding copyright tags
  4. Which AfD deletion category for a non-fiction book?
  5. the same  ????
  6. Remove "show" in Navbox
  7. Showing A Table But Only Some Rows And Collapsing The Rest
  8. Help with a dodgy category
  9. how do I "Review" an article?
  10. editing city pages (adding second image, map with pin, etc)
  11. Personnel of a Company
  12. I'm trying to find a user's IP address...can I do that?
  13. Adding a reference to Top Gear (magazine) article
  14. Table in talk page
  15. Tab key function on edit screen
  16. Adding IPA
  17. Storage Heater
  18. Purchase
  19. Creating accounts for other people
  20. Posting Business on Wikipedia
  21. theroy of evolution.
  22. Fix templates
  23. What's the tag to indicate a section of an article is under construction?
  24. Copyright violation?

February 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 9

  1. Highly inappropriate language
  2. How can I reclaim my account?
  3. Unified login
  4. Finding the source of information in a wiki article
  5. I would like to know why you and other companies seem to not want to print the truth about something to let the public know even if you have been told otherwise.
  6. music
  7. Updating of a page
  8. Freeze Panes - Top Row in Tables
  9. fas
  10. In search of a Director/Producer
  11. Help archives
  12. Disability Compatibilty feature on product pages
  13. Essjay44/Ian Cutler
  14. Possibly unfree files
  15. Printing Pictures with Articles
  16. can't save to sandbox
  17. jobs
  18. Templates

February 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 10

  1. I Need Help So That The Templates Work
  2. How to "Talk" between contributors.
  3. Strange problem when copying and pasting
  4. Bringing Attention to an Issue
  5. Creating an entry
  6. Questions about the verified source policy
  7. Wikipedia as a client (school project)?
  8. How to edit an existing user-created infobox
  9. Category help
  10. Are people aware this wikipedia entry is directly copied from another site  ?
  11. T-shirt
  12. How to create a journal intro page on wikipedia
  13. The page Blood Types will not display on my laptop when saved to disk on a public computer.
  14. Edit Frequency
  15. Talk pages and articles mismatch
  16. Broken Robot
  17. "Article quality" gadget not working
  18. Sick Article
  19. Leading photos of certain articles
  20. Disambiguation pages

February 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 11

  1. Contents of section I want to edit don't appear on edit page
  2. URL including square brackets
  3. Internet video
  4. Other place to put this?
  5. Hey help desk!
  6. layman-isms
  7. I accidently deleted very first paragraph, while trying to add some info on Tirhut. I am trying to revert it back to what it was displaying yesterday, but can not do it. Please revert it back. Sorry,
  8. nickname
  9. Who is Allowed to upload images, etc?
  10. How to Edit Headline?
  11. How do I delete a Wiki book?
  12. Help resolving a dispute
  13. Picture upload
  14. Mark Boardman wiki page deleted
  15. Copyright
  16. Error message when uploading the logo of my organisation
  17. Defaultsort/redirect cursor location
  18. incorrect re-direct
  19. Archiving documents from Google cache
  20. help with posting photos
  21. Sport or Sports in title?
  22. wikipedia traffic

February 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 12

  1. My post
  2. "Messed up" a page on accident
  3. kato
  4. Wikipedia hangs on Monobook theme when clicking links (Firefox)
  5. I'm trying to post my first article without much success
  6. Need help moving a page
  7. That banner on top
  8. HOW DO I PROTECT a new ARTICLE on a new topic FROM overzealous nonspecific Administrator VANDALISM? The administrator does not reply on the talk page
  9. Edit Frequency (repost)
  10. Why Rollback?
  11. WIKI COMPLAINT AGAINST AN EDITOR
  12. Changing title of article

February 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 13

  1. When you can't tell whether the subject of a bio is living or not...
  2. MiszaBot
  3. Copyviol
  4. Copyright of Picture
  5. Image font
  6. Placing wikitables side by side with space between them
  7. Not true neautograph fake there authentic and truly awesome
  8. Search tool not working?
  9. Altering a title
  10. Article - reg.
  11. Delete article Beastly (Care Bears)
  12. Templates
  13. Eukarya/Eukaryota
  14. How do I edit the content referred to by reflist but not found in the article itself?
  15. Referencing error
  16. Becoming an administrator
  17. copying Wiki links
  18. Unified Login
  19. Tool to find closest shared category for two given articles/categories?

February 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 14

  1. About deleting large parts of a problematic article
  2. Citing the same source multiple times
  3. Why isn't there a standard for the tv episode synopses ?
  4. Signature Problems?
  5. URL Actions
  6. Copyright Violation
  7. Signature Shrinking
  8. How to delete a user?
  9. my toolbox
  10. Isolating a Wikipedia page section on its own page. (For printing or saving)
  11. Rewrite while retaining edit history
  12. I accidentally deleted information on a page - can I restore it?
  13. One last question...
  14. Amanda Kaye McMurray, female comic book writer
  15. J'Achette

February 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 15

  1. My name appears in my article's headline
  2. Front
  3. Redirect my user page
  4. You should see this website. It is about the Turkish Wikipedia's (Vikipedi) abuse of rights.
  5. Remove Edit Summary from History?
  6. CRR and Interest rates
  7. Providing a translation for an existing page
  8. Getting contents from wiki dynamically to my webpage.
  9. Wikipedia Technicality Help
  10. Could you help me with some tables?
  11. What to do about a malicious editor?
  12. Signature button has stopped working
  13. I am Olympic Artist Jesse Raudales and I am trying to create a page
  14. Horrid Henry Takeover addition Query
  15. How to move a critical entry on a page to go under the article's "Criticism" heading.
  16. Taiwan magazines
  17. Sysop Eligibility
  18. Featured list

February 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 16

  1. Edit counter not working
  2. Question for an admin
  3. Date from UTC in the 'in this day' context.
  4. Unrevertable vandalism
  5. NOINDEX
  6. How to design this template?
  7. Technical issue in Chełm#.22Wise_Jewish_Men_of_Chelm.22
  8. Older version of an image
  9. how can I send this page to a friend?
  10. Energy efficient Gear Boxes
  11. Archiving
  12. security question
  13. Hidden edits on talk page
  14. Trying to find a bit of amusing vandalism
  15. Do we have a 'template' for an article about a film?
  16. user-agent: huh??
  17. Want to help?
  18. Notability of school articles

February 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 17

  1. Truncating Cites
  2. Article rating script not changing when rating is changed?
  3. Quotes before dying
  4. Can a redirect be undone?
  5. image licensing
  6. Concerned abusers using Wikipedia to gain illegal access to Home Office by abusing Hotmail Facebook and Microsoft Products.
  7. Who decides what isn't good enough for Wikipedia?
  8. Arrogance with Britney singles and promos
  9. Interwiki bots
  10. Entrance exam
  11. india vs china
  12. lowercase articles produce errors
  13. unreplied discussion
  14. Wikilinks to Categories
  15. http://search.wikimedia.org/ --- Wikimedia search service internal error. Backend failure.
  16. Copyrights Problems: A Wikipedia page on FAO - GIPB Initiative
  17. full form
  18. delete iuvienna
  19. How to write a Family history on Wikipedia?
  20. Primary source question
  21. Links to my sites

February 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 18

  1. How to delete slanderous information and update with correct information
  2. Do even half of the bands here belong in this category?
  3. Anonymous user at 70.29.210.242, problems with...
  4. FA nominations
  5. Blinking text
  6. Malicious user
  7. ISP history
  8. Fake template "transcluding" categories on pages
  9. Changing the colour of links to footnotes
  10. Paragraph in article deletes remainder
  11. Lists of heads of state
  12. Monobook full?
  13. Replacing a non free image with a free image
  14. Redirects on watchlist
  15. Wikipedia search list
  16. Alphabetized lists
  17. AJAX in wikipedia searches
  18. Unreliable Sources
  19. New word coined

February 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 19

  1. Can only administrators close deletion debates at Possibly unfree files?
  2. Discussion cleanup - template help and/or advice needed.
  3. Help me to compute this problem.
  4. Native Instrument fm8
  5. How to clear saved Templates
  6. Wikipedia Mobile
  7. Userboxes in Template: namespace
  8. 200 blogs
  9. user page does not exist
  10. Photos
  11. Vandalism
  12. Listing in Search
  13. Major Unexplained Deletions in Flash Animation Article
  14. How do I deal with this edit fight?
  15. people editing my page
  16. Problem with the aritcle I am adding -- Wiki says its vandalism
  17. tag for needing more references, especially inline
  18. Kendall County image
  19. Posting to Wiki
  20. Erb Institute
  21. Cluebot an ex-bot?
  22. Wrong info

February 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 20

  1. What's the difference?
  2. Time difference
  3. Poems?
  4. Free editing of Wikipedia
  5. Using quote with book reference
  6. Extra text while editing
  7. Edit Toolbar
  8. Special pages - Wanted Categories
  9. Tags suggestion?
  10. Citing from software
  11. Dreadful image
  12. Notable
  13. Help
  14. ClueBot III
  15. My login/username
  16. We need article that lists countries by "agricultural surplus" and overview of specific agricultural practices of countries.
  17. I don't know how to fix this ...

February 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 21

  1. Creating an information chart
  2. French Culture broken link
  3. Minor namespace-related problem
  4. Infobox Templates
  5. The videogame reception chart has a problem
  6. Jimmy Cliff, Reggae singer
  7. Reverting vandalism - please help!
  8. Citations not leaving
  9. Reverting an image edit
  10. Chrome messing up unicode, any solution
  11. APA Citation of Wikipedia
  12. I've uploaded my photo to the wrong place
  13. Inter State compact
  14. Add Publisher
  15. no: tag What is it?
  16. emailing
  17. Opinion about a possible article
  18. Sorting names in Wikipedia tables
  19. Automatic redirecting to zh.m.wikipedia.org for mobile phones (iPhone)
  20. unable to create an account
  21. Potential image upload issue question
  22. Browning model 1910 FN .380 Cal. Want to get owners manual.

February 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 22

  1. List of templates?
  2. sht
  3. Help with a new article: List of Colleges and Academic Departments of Human Ecology
  4. Google Box
  5. Usernames
  6. encapsulate
  7. Template rating box incorrect
  8. Creating a page
  9. Can u have a look
  10. Photo not showing up
  11. Request For Assistance: Ethics Of Entry Creation
  12. PDF OF ALL ANSWERED QUESTIONS
  13. Images regarding wikipedia
  14. Discovery Creek Children's Museum
  15. How long does it take for a new article to be approved?
  16. Say Where You Got It - can you put citations that you haven't seen?
  17. Wikipedia doesn't seem to support Lynx anymore, what gives?
  18. No one else can see my page....
  19. Arkansas page
  20. Prince Caspien Article

February 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 23

  1. Your link: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/America's_Next_Top_Model,_Cycle_8
  2. Flags for the Olympics
  3. GeoGroupTemplate results out of order
  4. Efficient way to find similar articles in other languges?
  5. Can you erase a post in the discussion "page", entry "Jesus"?
  6. Footnotes in middle of sentences
  7. Wikitable out of control
  8. Criminal creology
  9. CATIA
  10. Square brackets in citation link titles
  11. Possibly unfree files (take 2)
  12. My entry on Wikipedia
  13. Deleting pictures
  14. Trouble with div tag with attributes inside template
  15. RFC for IP range
  16. Image release to CC-BY, permission via Twitter
  17. Richard Levister
  18. Rendering PDF Problem
  19. using same footnote multiple times
  20. Random Article
  21. ICantFindMyArticle

February 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 24

  1. Source Help
  2. .WhatDoesUniqueArticlesEdited2LiveEdits2MeanOnGeneralUserInfo.
  3. How to create auto numbering in Table?
  4. Is it my cache?
  5. Auto-updating watchlist template?
  6. C.P. RAJASEKHARAN
  7. Looking for an article called 'Natural horror'
  8. Extracting infobox data
  9. What happens when the word you want to define already gets re-directed to something else?
  10. Talk question
  11. how to enter request on MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
  12. How do I create and article for a product
  13. How does one create a category?
  14. hyphen line breaks
  15. How do I delete an article
  16. I post an article, it got deleted, and I cannot find my original work.
  17. Error in Canadian Business Magazine wiki
  18. How Post A Definition?
  19. SUNY Oswego records
  20. LAYNE THOMAS STALEY
  21. An expression
  22. bogus business
  23. Edit count

February 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 25

  1. How do you bring articles that are in another wikipedia language, into the english version
  2. Sockpuppet investigation
  3. Formatting error
  4. Formatting error 2
  5. Can I ask someone to write two fairly simple templates?
  6. entry doesn't appear to have worked properly
  7. Line rental charge
  8. Name change proposal
  9. How can I become an "autoconfirmed" or "confirmed" user?
  10. hi wikipedia
  11. Logged In But Still Blocked
  12. delete an account
  13. South Pass
  14. Siggy Prob
  15. Edit an existing page I didn't create!
  16. How wikipedia articles works?
  17. Page Visibility
  18. Pages up for speedy without any indication?
  19. Alt field to be added
  20. Image size
  21. Help with portal / wide images
  22. Sock puppet?
  23. Background information with picture
  24. Image problem
  25. How to request votes on topics concerning all Wikipedia articles
  26. Upload video clip
  27. children

February 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 26

  1. Wikipedia Book Creator
  2. Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars in Amazon.com with no warning
  3. Collaboration of the Day
  4. who has created the most articles
  5. Forgotten the password and email id registered for my Wikipedia account
  6. Template suppression
  7. How to Remove the Template
  8. Semi-automated combined Searching and Wikilinking tool ?
  9. Article reading ratings
  10. partnership business
  11. Deleted Page
  12. Wikipedia
  13. This wikipedian seems to be randomly adding links to her own blog to esoteric / energy medicine articles
  14. Replacing an image in a gallery
  15. Bug Report
  16. Further reading + article added
  17. Category: Private schools in Ontario
  18. This is stupid.
  19. Audio or Radio Wikipedia
  20. Save-a-BLP
  21. Pages on Ships

February 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 27

  1. Redirect is vandalism.
  2. Vandalism of "Bilaal Rajan" page
  3. User talk:Intelligentsium#Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#I Need Help So That The Templates Work
  4. my buddys b-day
  5. Is it edit warring...
  6. Blowing off steam
  7. ...more blowing off steam...
  8. moving to the mainspace?
  9. Founder Travancore Federal Bank Ltd
  10. vga connected from computer to projector
  11. Vandalism
  12. help
  13. killer whales in the north sea
  14. Becoming a sysop
  15. "Baseball" needs editing
  16. Translation
  17. Using an image from Commons when a Wikipedia image has the same name
  18. Terrible Articles
  19. Feature Request for the Random Article function
  20. help with adding an article to an already exsisting biography
  21. Upload support
  22. Recreated images using vector graphics as an SVG file: process time?
  23. Viewing by iPhone

February 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 February 28

  1. Find me some vandalism, please?
  2. Uploading oggs
  3. Map of the Canton Railroad Baltimore Md
  4. youtube video content as a citation
  5. Trojan
  6. Sockpuppet template question
  7. Red Links/Archives
  8. Finding the most active editors on an article
  9. How do I re-direct
  10. Eukarya yet again
  11. AfDs and Speedy Deletions
  12. Wish list of images?
  13. Warning templates
  14. Redirect help
  15. Displaying notes as footnotes when a Wikipedia article is put into a .pdf file?
  16. Italics problem
  17. redirect is wrong
  18. WP:ALT
  19. Making Templates
  20. Peer review