Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/February 2011
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February 1
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- Automobile Driving
- Saturday Night Special
- Charles Edward Stuart: Talk Page
- help with editing at all
- RE: Saved page but can't find it on wikipedia
- nationality
- Trojan in web page
- Removing dead links from a wikicommons page
- European Air Group
- Redirect for discussion - HM The Queen
- Picture problem in the "Paris By Night" series of articles
- Regarding sock puppetry
- LiquidThreads
- Keep getting advertisement message
- Changing page title
- recent visits to Wikipedia
- broken account pevents me from adding it to my global account
February 2
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- The beautiful city....
- contributions
- Please assist me
- Double-matching categories
- High traffic site
- A tool to generate a list of selective contributions
- How to get article live
- Slight bug on search results display?
- USER:XXXXXXX I want to add the title
- Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- How to cite an Associated Press article?
- Ancestors of Qais Abdur Rashid
- Any Admins about?
February 3
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- Featured articles
- Anon whistleblowing
- Copyright violation question
- Alexandra Powers
- Format display
- Would like to usurp German and maybe Finnish user account for unified account
- Disambiguation for Kazuhiko
- Ownership Transfer
- Permian extinction
- Looking for a specific Wikipedia policy
- Transliteration of Cyryllic text
- Still more about SUL usurpation
- My pages aren't visible?
- My Edits Are Not Being Saved
- Photo
- Hugely confusing for a first time contributor! I can't find a button to 'EDIT' a page I want to adjust!!!
- Posting an original but public domain document
February 4
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- Naming/page history issue
- How to mark a BLP article.
- Adolf Hitler
- Action Research in Education
- City of Leeds School entry says it reads like an advert.
- your article about cremation and Islam
- Citing
- up and coming new band
- Getting ride of extra info for sports team info box
- Please edit the page.
- coded encrypted words
February 5
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- DISPLAYTITLE
- Veiled Chameleon
- Special:Contributions bug?
- EDITORS
- How can I create my own wiki?
- Personal discussions with subject as verification
- Vandalism?
- Trouble with Louisiana Senate photo
- Linda Christas College
- IPv6
- External links section
- Contributions
- Making myself a contributor to a portal
- Don Johnson Heartbeat (song)
- user page layout problem
- Userbox template code
- Doris Miles Disney
February 6
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- Anyway to get templates to automatically link to their contents
- Alexandra Powers
- how i enter the new information in wikipedia ?
- Suggestion for WP
- Summary style
- Circular reference for Hibernate Query Language (HQL)
- Protecting Page.
- Foreclosure
- Agave. A plant with many uses.
- Ronald Reagan Aritcle
- Copyright question
- information about bluetooth devices
- Burki
- Something I've noticed...
- What is wrong with the pages?
- Image doesn't show
- Showing navbox by default
- How do I check my messages?
- FA in other WPs, FA in all?
- Style guide reference for addressing the reader directly
- Translate
- Rewrote an article, it appeared to be posted, but when I returned, the old original factually incorrect article was there.
February 7
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- Arabic translation
- Deleting user config subpages
- Strangely broken AfD
- Help with Citing sources and the message "This article uses the Cite.php citation mechanism"
- St. Louis Rams
- John Reid. Baron Reid of Cardowan. Sec of State for Defence 2005-2006
- not availability of language
- Problem of external links in body of articles
- Two accounts
- Now-Commons date formatting
- n Box Media Pvt Ltd
- Editing TCNJ School of Engineering Page
- editing problem
- Error when adding to a talk page?
- Facebook Community Pages
- Remove link in "Normandie_Hotel"
- Trying to find out who wrote the artical on Tobias Wong?
- Attribution
- Wikipedia users that have me on their watchlist
February 8
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- Help editing article with reference list
- ChemDiscovery doesn't show up
- Deleting an old version of an image file
- ABOUT POSTING/CREATING a new article(about a leading company)
- Hidden category
- Claiming IP edits from new account
- Posting pictures...
- e-mailadres
- Zenith Solar
- short stories in german language for children
- Big Problems with WP
- Info boxes wacked
- uploading... from user page.
- How can I get my WP back ...
- Article on Bokeh has lost it's Wikipedia chrome
- Correct the page "National Analysts"
- Images
- Vandalism on Ishmael Khaldi page
- Reference issue removed?
- New format for pages?
February 9
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- Charley Parhurst
- Wikipedia:Requests for feedback
- ss paul hamilton liberty ship
- Anton Nel pianist posted an incorrect information
- Sidebar links
- Change title of article being developed on userpage
- Cropping a picture
- musicals of the 1930s
- Adding a WikiCommons image to an existing article
- Uploading a Word document
- nowrap
- Article is missing CSS
- LINK CORRECTION - "Investor's Business Daily"
- Is it ok to have more than 1 comma per sentence? like in Mechanical fan?
- How do I delete my own addition to a page?
- Gerard way picture
- :Category:Daily newspapers published by Community Newspaper Holdings sorting query
- Commonist
- Is there a "bureaucrat" protection setting?
- stylesheet not loading?
- Learning Swiss
- Red Links
- Can you create an email form on a wiki page like with HTML?
- External Links vs Spam
February 10
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- Congressmen by seniority
- Contributing to a kid/WikipediA
- Claiming sole ownership of a page
- Highly offensive to homosexuality
- Removal of "additional citations needed" banner
- Shoot!
- SupressRedirect userright?
- Swimfan (2002 film)
February 11
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- login information, please
- Hypothetical
- Mass Replacement of Broken links
- Why is it that," we the people are not believing in God", with every part of our existence.
- Links color
- Anti-Vandalism measures (suggestion)
- Finding Ip-address of an user
- My article
- I need some help
- How to make a new page "live"
- Reject a good article candidate review
- Looking for image
- Move confusion
- Point primary reference for "Widi" to "WirelessHD" rather than "Widi" the town
- replacing an existing article
- Help with sortable table and small issues
- Charles Manson
- Unable to delete watchlist entry
February 12
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- Pointmaster Joystick
- Random (specific) question about soccer goalkeeper pages
- Is there an easy way for an anonymous user to check their contributions?
- Page move documented but page unavailable
- WP:RFM Setup
- HELP
- Street
- out side uk
- Wet weather driving doesn't read like an encyclopedia article
February 13
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- Southern University Sit-In at S H Kress 1960, Baton Rouge, LA
- Editing Glitch with Ref tags
- Why is my ID in red?
- alt + f
- Wally George
February 14
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- Statistics: Wikipedia editors
- A few things to discuss
- Citing other articles
- Search keywords/code
- code help
- Secure server
- How to insert a photograph
- Referencing Figures/Images
- Wiki deletion issues
- Help again with this table
- Six Nations rugby 2012
- A suggestion I have
- My user page
- making a subpage a wikipedia article
- edit / add content to existing page
- Clean up and Nutrality problem
- Gray bar
- Summary style
February 15
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- Problems uploading images
- Moving problems with Scott Nicholson
- HELP!!
- Pileated Woodpecker page not proper
- maths project
- Infront Sports & Media Page - International versions / Can you help?
- Demetrias - the Nun
- 747-8 PDF causes abort
- tagged as possible conflict of interest
- delivery of passports
- Wikipedia kml or kmz file
- Luigi Lucioni
- How to save an article without posting it
- I never clicked on that!
- Image Uploads
- how to make the changes in Sanbox
- Creating new discussion pages
February 16
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- Rating bar on the article
- conversion unit
- Gordon Brown
- Tony Blair
- Updating an image
- Favorites button
- Being harassed - what should I do?
- How do I replace the edit toolbar to the original version?
- course
- disruptive editing
- incorrect weg page address
- Following Citing Procedures, but not creating footnote
- References
- Article Wizard - Preview Feature Stopped Working
- list of user pages
- No more graphic — pfft!
- New messages
- Still Having Problems Editing and Ref Tags; cannot revert
- Bar above edit box has changed again
- Log me in globally
- Seek Catagory list, instructs for edit photo-summary, and detailed copyright end-point info.
- Wikipedia Use
- What is the basis for quantifying number of edits?
- Problems with edit toolbar and monobook
- Interface issues
- Hiding the left side of the Wikipedia page (Full page view)
February 17
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- Earth's Age
- Verifying biography?
- Logo moving
- Wikipedia on PSP
- Template function help
- Deliberate attempt by another user to stop my edits.
- Unable to edit
- How to cite obvious similarity between musical themes?
- WAS INQUIRING
- Grammar tools
- How do you actually install Twinkle
- Account
- Unable to find an article
- HELPME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Small template issue
- How to update a company logo please?!
- Premier North West
- Editing WP as part of a college course
- Add to Book
- edit interface and toolbar
- Another reason for celebrating Nowruz
- Autoconfirm
- AMA
- Inuktitut Contributors
- article won't print
- How do I remove these ! on my wiki page?
February 18
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- edited / fixed broken link, replaced with good link, but page still shows old/broken one?
- is that possible to create privately held company page
- Behind the voice actors poll
- incorrect Burmese font
- "Kyle XY" website area
- Mother Teresa
- Random Articles by Topic(s)
- Transwikification
- How to revert multiple edits in one step?
- PDF printing
- How much vandalism
- Hallmark Hall of Fame: Front of the Class
- Some graphical and practical glitches
- Collaboration of the week
- monoboarding
- HIGH SCHOOL PAGE DOES NOT SHOW OUR SCHOOL MASCOT ARTWORK
- Bicycle Transportation Engineering
- How can I be added to your youngest great-grand mothers page
February 19
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- Taking down an article that is still a work in progress
- How can my organization's editor, or I, do minor updates and corrections on your posted biography of me (Amory B. Lovins)?
- template AFD
- Flagging articles with no references
- question about a guideline posted on wrong page
- Need to code collapsible table without row height increase.
February 20
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- How should I welcome newbies?
- Is it possible to disable unified login?
- Follow a category tree?
- Who to ask?
- Edit Conflict?
- sock policy
- Is this harrassment?
- Scorpion781004
- Flagging a section that needs to cite sources
- My preferences: internationalisation (sic)
- Own work or copyright theft?
- Using the Wikipedia logo as an icon to a specific Wikipedia article
February 21
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- Why am I being asked for a username and password all of a sudden?
- A way to search all noticeboard archives?
- math
- Oakhill College - Old Crest
- lisinopril
- Dear Sir, Why Marathi Movie Encyclopedia ar enot made.
- Linking to a picture that was uploaded into Commons
- Floating side bar
- link in article on john bunyan
- Translating Wikipedia from English
- image upload extension
- Place of birth through the ages
- lord mayor of Cork, Ireland in 1921-22 DONAL O'CALLAGHAN
- PR firm needing to update a client's page, but it is locked
- Can I change a subject's picture? If so, how?
- Error in map image
- Suspected violation of block for sockpuppetry
- How to list ALL articles that have links to ONE article?
February 22
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- Can I crawl wikipedia, I have a specific kind of search engine for movies
- Cite problem
- Delay in Category listings
- article credit
- Deleting without scaring off a new editor
- Page creation
- Facebook like button
- This is a mystery and I need someone to explain this
- Missing space!!!
- Page reverted by someone without a clue
- Broken link to MOS
- adding an article
- Sources, lots of them
- ToolTips
- Creating a page about a business
- how to publish my article
- Quick closure
- Upload Image to replace old one
- removed references
- Global log in
- DELETE THE OLD ARTICLE URL
- @#!*%
- How do I cite a peice of Audio as a source?
February 23
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- Fannie Branson horses and history
- Photos submitted
- EX STAFF ,RE THE BRITISH SHOE CORP
- New article - submission declined
- Am I right to doubt fanfiction.net is a reliable source?
- Chiropractic article
- obtaining certificate of ordination as minister of god like my mother
- Why is your text so small?
- Template:ISSN
- Protection for article
- General Yakubu Gowon
- Reviewer
- How do I fix a broken link on an article
- How do I change fonts/font sizes?
- Which template for ambiguous references?
- Difficulty printing Wikipedia articles
- Naming a page issue
- Using the sandbox to Autoconfirm 'fake' accounts
- Pronunciation
- How do you correct a mis-statement in a sub?
- Is Twinkle malfunctioning or is just me?
- Fixing Page
- ORGANIZATION CHANGED NAME
- Alphabetical list of WP codes for the different language wikipedias
- Malware external link
February 24
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- Wikipedia abbreviations
- Article help
- Unable to post a vandalism warning
- Userbox centering, Wikicode
- Recovering a Redirect??
- delete ip address
- Need to upload an image.
- Template for "few, if any, contribs made outside this vote"?
- To adding on External Link to a related topic
- Invalid link in article on Software Testing
- Search Index
- Missing item
- Global user manager
- theme song
- Telnet
- University crest disappeared on Wikipedia Facebook page
- Focus on "Search" bar on Wikipedia main page
- Sharing using twitter
- Adding a company name to existing list of companies on an article
February 25
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- Making an article live
- Remove "Redirected from User:name/topic" from new article header
- qustion
- publish my article
- Problems with reflist
- linked page completely missing
- create an article with an existing name
- Mobile Wikipedia.
- Global account s4 warning
- Article not Appearing in Search Results
- University of London emblem
- Problem with pdf
- identifying authors
- Pronunciation guide
- Where does his response go?
- Misinformation
- 2011 EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION
February 26
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- What happens when a source is no longer on the net?
- Unable to Correct due to existing blocked reference
- RFA notifications
- How To Remove a Contaminating Image
- Why Sonia Gandhi Article - Update Denied Even After Providing The Reliable Source ?
- Mr. Advani dn't apologized but he regrets ..Fact need to be checked and Updated
- Looking for my draft
- torsion field article was made by an impostor
- Icelandic letters
- How to create my company profile in Wikipedia
- How do you "Update" pictures?
- Article in article
- Auto User name generation code
- feature in wikipedia tables
- Link jump
- Jonny Arnold page
- change way page is displayed
- who do I talk to int the philosophy of mind section to have the Mandinka think tank added? This is an important omission.
- Animated gif
February 27
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- Confusion getting started
- answer required
- deer feeding
- editing a "side panel"
- Loretta_Jafelice
- Image alignment problem in article
- Cite template not working?
- Pianoforte and others
- Book link
- NEW HERBAL PRODUCTS
- Erroneous information
- Getting started with disambiguating
February 28
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- Problems with Commons
- My External Links Always Deleted
- 71.211.76.37
- Category Questions
- Question regarding the notability of an article
- Files in Category:Buildings and structures at night
- Ford trimotor
- I can't read Ol Chiki and Avesta words
- Grand Western Canal
- Replacing a logo of a non-for-profit organisation on Wikipedia
- Why did you delete my page?
- Copyright notice on images of Scottish banknotes
- HELP!
- Lakeland Central School District in New York
- Wikipedia API no longer returning image thumbnail information
- Copyright violation
- Billy Hathorn
- Update a company logo