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July 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 1

1. WP Crash
2. "File Download - Security Warning"
3. Image Map
4. Add an Image
5. Tor Issues
6. Is an article consisting mostly of links acceptable?
7. Book photos relating to films
8. UBX columns
9. Managing global account
10. Template problems
11. how to edit page in order to add notability and references!
12. How Wikipedia Survey is possible?
13. currior dout
14. United States Mint
15. Brett Salisbury was deleted from Wikipedia...
16. Changes to my Official Website
17. Requesting creation of an image
18. Tracing cross references to an article
19. Recognisable people in images of public places
20. Creating a page for a client
21. Obama
22. Most frequent editors for a page
23. Is there a noticeboard to ask about possible non-free images?
24. Admin pls deleted this own made file ASAP
25. Categories
26. Logging out
27. Having difficulty with "wiki.riteme.site" login on Internet Explorer 8.0
28. References

July 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 2

1. Going On - Disambiguation
2. Signature Error
3. Disambiguation of "reel"
4. Question
5. External appear Internal
6. Hw to name an article?
7. in 1mg of magnesium sulphate what is the quantity of magnesium and sulphate
8. Is this information correct?
9. All pages starting with...
10. Wikipedia pages
11. how can i save the page
12. Merchant Navy
13. Sortable tables
14. Why is there ActiveX on WP?
15. Lara Croft
16. Using the same reference
17. Live bookmark in Firefox
18. Template for "over-prosed" biographies?
19. Asking questions

July 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 3

1. Blocking Defaults
2. Appropriate Infobox for Brooklyn Borough Hall?
3. Logo Copying
4. Aligning text to the center
5. Forest Schools
6. Other website appearance
7. Recipients of the Legion of Merit
8. Infobox image not working
9. Press Council
10. Starting a new article
11. SMTP outgoing address for your e-mail server
12. handling e-mail notifications
13. Email Confirmations Not Working For Me
14. How correct internal link pointing to disambiguation page?
15. Page view statistics
16. What is the best approach to sections copied from other articles?
17. Copyright infringement
18. Image linking
19. Jay Adams
20. Wikipedia font displayed hard to read
21. A Bay Area philosifer said:

July 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 4

1. Article Searchability
2. credit card fraud
3. PNG better than SVG if the logo is copyrighted ?
4. Trouble with FaQ and sandboxes
5. saving options
6. color in content
7. Using a Social Network site in External Links.
8. Edit Process
9. Searching for or linking to "wiki:foo" redirects to a blank page at c2.com
10. Filth embedded in document
11. Deleting my Wikipedia account
12. Why doesn't my new page here come up when I type in its subject?

July 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 5

1. Writing a New Article
2. Retrieving articles
3. how do i write in here
4. I had IntrudersAlert from bonzi.com years ago and had lost it by now disposing of my PC.
5. IE8 issues
6. Invisible "Reference Section"
7. Categorizing images
8. 1988 chevy blazer
9. Please remove the following line from the following page
10. Contributing
11. book blurb as reference?
12. Problem with a table
13. can you store lard at room temp?
14. hi
15. Thank You
16. court arrangments
17. Petro Mart
18. Won't let me post any regular people
19. Convert/merge to commons
20. Uploading an image

July 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 6

1. Writing Articles About Companies
2. Why isn't my new article in the list of new pages?
3. Changing an Image
4. Data inconsistency
5. Order of template messages
6. re:Mary Katherine Day-Petrano -- U.S. Autistic Savant
7. Aligning
8. Counters
9. Translation questions
10. Copyright tag
11. I cannot see the changes I made yesterday for an article
12. Strange template in Evernote
13. Offensive Content
14. How Can I Dispute An Article
15. Image question
16. Cleanup and Pictures
17. researches
18. Hotlinking a section rather than a whole page
19. Moving important discussion
20. How to move a meta:Wikipedia content article to a different namespace
21. Misdirecting editors

July 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 7

1. editing spouse information
2. US Census
3. WHH disambiguation
4. New Mobile Format
5. Radioactive Contamination
6. How to delete spam links on many pages
7. Adding an image to infobox
8. Use of pictures in other websites
9. CTM
10. Infobox picture: only file name appears
11. Naming conventions for articles on Buddhist monks
12. Blatant advertising
13. External link verification
14. Is there an archive of old help messages?
15. Conway Hall article
16. conflict of interest in including pharmaceuticals in Wikipedia as such inclusion is used by the drug owners as advertising/propaganda

July 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 8

1. lost in wiki
2. consumer behaviour
3. Articles relying on mostly single sources
4. Article inaccessable - link
5. Reference list...?
6. background check
7. Minor Grammar Change
8. entry test medical
9. engineering
10. Change of Email Address
11. Bowler question
12. Regarding Kannada Movie YODHA.
13. I did not ask the correct question
14. Side Bar Information
15. Featured List
16. Vanishing
17. How do I make a case for my article's "importance"?
18. Chaning entry name
19. Account creator interface
20. Cross-Reference Categories
21. Convert/merge to commons
22. Timex Clock Type Push Buttom Electric 125V 15A Timer.
23. BQ
24. Copyright status of license plates
25. Is oli filth really an administrator?

July 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 9

1. What If I Find An Article That Is Offensive Or Uses Offence Language?
2. Editing Pages
3. Incorrect internal link
4. BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
5. Redhat - Sendmail
6. Can I direct web links to WIKIPEDIA in my APPLICATION about accounting ? ,Can i save webpages like an offline ?
7. Question about the Forgot Your Password option
8. Gropecunt featured article
9. unification of reference citation formats?
10. literature
11. Generic content for sports people - cycling prejudice
12. References
13. Anonymous edits credited to new named account?
14. removing a completely inaccurate page until corrected?

July 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 10

1. help updating
2. Creating A Biography
3. Left alligned
4. Discography images
5. IE8
6. Reconnecting with old account; want to upload photo
7. Photo and copyright usage
8. Linking to Graphics on Other WikiPedias
9. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 10#|]]
10. References
11. help!!
12. Hi
13. asking
14. Mahjongg Master 4
15. my talk
16. Article Creation and linkage to google.
17. Paid Propaganda
18. Nalere Family
19. Becoming an admin
20. Inappropriate tone
21. Request for approval/comment on creating new article with potential COI
22. verifacation
23. :File:Amstrad PCW 16 01.png
24. People With Same Name
25. Warren Etheredge
26. Farrah Fawcett's siblings???

July 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 11

1. Right to request another user stop posting on my talk page?
2. The Transitition To Shad Moss
3. Editing during vacation
4. lebanese nationality law
5. INFO ON VIDA GUERRA & MARIA CHECA.
6. Wikipedia loading time
7. Vandalism?
8. Is Twitter a reliable source?
9. Template help
10. Back to the Future III

July 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 12

1. Left allign
2. Uploading a new version of an existing image
3. Referencing articles
4. help -- attaching a photo at President's_Surveillance_Program
5. User names
6. Hi how do I dispute the neutrality of an article?
7. When do I reallly need to give a source while editing?
8. comic covers frontier times
9. Nicholas Rockefeller any relations to John D. Rockefeller or David Rockefeller? biography lacking
10. Green Globe

July 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 13

1. Sections
2. Change in how posts are 'signed'
3. E-Health
4. Deletion
5. problem with an administrator
6. Article Review
7. Listing "N"ew contributions...
8. where can I read more about ;starting line with semicolon
9. I changed my name, and now i lost twinkle. what do i do?
10. El Centro, CA
11. Dragon Rouge
12. Changing picture size in Infobox
13. Reference is German Wiki
14. what is a user page?!
15. video games

July 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 14

1. recent Edit not visible
2. Free image clutter
3. question regarding different layouts of viewing
4. Policy discussion
5. Is it appropriate for me to give this IP a 'final warning', or is that something only for admins to do?
6. i have introduced an article months ago and it is not "taking"
7. Template acting strange
8. Finding anon user contribs
9. Opening MIDI files in Wikipedia
10. Autoreview
11. In-N-Out Burger article
12. Page size
13. white space at top of article because of pictures
14. Wikipedia Mobile
15. stubs
16. Fullscreen mode in Opera
17. Requested article.
18. Number of pages in a given namespace
19. No emails from my watchlist
20. Need Help linking page to imdb...also do not want my page to be deleted
21. Rating
22. dispute process
23. User Committed Identity
24. maps?
25. Archiving a talk page
26. I cannot use the 'Compare selected revisions' tab in history
27. Page about myself
28. Template names
29. Does wikipedia ever delete anything? ever?
30. Writing an article

July 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 15

1. J Smith
2. 3,000,000 English Articles
3. Fixing vandalism - John Gay
4. Making Malicious Bots for wiki
5. interwiki links
6. pages
7. Can templates do arithmetic?
8. Colours and Links
9. Phone Assistance
10. media
11. History section of Traffic Lights and Dummy Lights
12. Non-free reduce
13. Disambiguation
14. Reference desk edit sorting
15. Userbox codes
16. human right in pre independence nigeria
17. How do I respond?
18. How to incorporate a calender into wiki page
19. Simple corrections.
20. Adding Image
21. "Create Account" link is not working...
22. problem regestering
23. conflict of interest - clarification
24. Disappearing edit buttons
25. How does this article need cleanup?
26. I wish to create a wiki for Reddit.com [it is not for advertising!]
27. I need to change the title of my article
28. Wikipedia article for artist

July 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 16

1. alfalfa pills (vitamins)
2. ARTIST ARTICLES
3. Non-breaking space
4. Images
5. Name change
6. Policy on rumors
7. Concerning Jackobillia
8. question, please how can I link wikipedia site to my normal email site?
9. adding external links to others' articles
10. Moving new article to "live" wikipedia
11. Disambiguation links
12. Category:Football League of Ireland Players
13. Question
14. symbols
15. How to make a new topic?
16. How to use Template:Random portal component
17. Password Forgotten
18. File:Veitshakmah.png

July 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 17

1. Avoiding sexual images
2. Deleting images from the Commons
3. plainlinksneverexpand
4. Yellow background
5. School seal/logo image
6. Wikipages as pdf
7. how to use wikipedia?
8. Question on Transwiki Import
9. first time on the net
10. RTL languages
11. posting my article
12. Sock puppet report thingy
13. Changing Several Wikipedia topic pages in a short time
14. how do I flag an article to semi protect?
15. New article
16. Converting a user page to an article page

July 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 18

1. New account and password not honored
2. Incorporating a brief article into a longer one
3. Official web site of biographical subjects
4. cars
5. Poetry form description "How Fortunate the Man with None" by Bertolt Brecht
6. About Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Article
7. Help! Messages not being displayed on my talk page
8. Font styles
9. Picture vandalism
10. Images
11. WARNING
12. It's Westerly Armory Museum not Westerly Army Museum
13. EDITING
14. Disambigaution
15. Musician page
16. How do you find reasons or information about deletions?
17. cant find saved new document in my space
18. How to link to an ambigious term

July 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 19

1. Strange site
2. What's acceptable for corporation article?
3. Help with categories
4. Update to Special page
5. Creating a Page
6. Non-notable content
7. The lists of TV series episodes
8. Confusing user page
9. Copyright query
10. Molecular structure
11. Question
12. Root Meaning of the Egyptial word?symbol(ankh)(Ancla) (anchor to physical form ie.Life?)
13. Editing rejected
14. How to collapse
15. to creat a new article

July 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 20

1. Help with messed up ref tag
2. Assistance with Pages
3. Michael Jackson height and weight
4. article doesn't show up on search
5. Articles that read like ad copy or a press release
6. NORTH ORISSA UNIVERSITY LAwexam result 2008
7. Past help desk records
8. Finding category intersections
9. legend for a picture
10. Display problems.
11. unemployment ?
12. movie posters
13. Can I adjust the "new section" feature on my talk page?
14. copyright
15. How do I spread awareness of a nifty new template I co-created?
16. Manfred Mann song Blinded by the Light written Bruce Springsteen
17. deleting wiki pages
18. new EDA company page created and inserted into EDA company book?
19. Change Email Address
20. Biotechnic & Histochemistry
21. :File:Gijoeofficialposter.jpg
22. Recent Vandalism
23. McDonalds
24. See how many hits your articles get
25. Biographical Info Box
26. Page move vandalism
27. Help with references
28. articles
29. Page move

July 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 21

1. How to repeat a background image in Wikipedia?
2. HOW DO I MAKE A MATRIX???
3. Transferring a template to another Wiki
4. Wikipedia Media Player
5. Failed access to certain pages
6. steel scrap
7. Admin Help
8. Computer organization
9. Language
10. Citing Own Articles
11. Hiding categories
12. Signature in Infobox Artist
13. Adding a link to wikipedia
14. editing a page
15. rainbow larakeet
16. VandalStop name blacklisted??
17. photo help
18. Sorting tables with rowspan and colspan
19. Including an article in a project
20. User space
21. WikiSummaries

July 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 22

1. Headlines Page
2. Confused and wondering
3. main header
4. How to apply as Editor
5. "conjoined" images
6. EDITING WIKIPEDIA
7. Shaw Theatre
8. Age Limit
9. how can I link to a citation that has already been made?
10. How to creat a medal table!?
11. my input
12. ®
13. First FA
14. Delete my contribution article
15. Multiple log-ins
16. Inserting a photo
17. Better Business Bureau
18. BiDi help request
19. Template
20. Good Portal?
21. No images

July 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 23

1. How to create a PDF file for free?
2. I've broken the tables
3. Template functionality help
4. real estate
5. Signpost
6. relationship
7. translating articles into french
8. non-free images on Commons, which really should only be at en:Wiki
9. hey
10. Adding an image
11. Oval shape
12. How can I see what my overall contribution has been to a particular article? Does such a facility exist?
13. How do I make an undisputed article draft in my user page to an actual article?
14. What to make of recent edit activity
15. router mechanism
16. Help
17. Editing Entry for "Eleison Group"
18. Barnstars
19. How do I add custom links to the sidebar.
20. Copyright Infringement Issue
21. Link to old revision

July 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 24

1. if it possible
2. Second opinions
3. plagiarism
4. Image Linking
5. Publishing partial material - and provide link to original
6. Long-term vandalism/IP harassment
7. Problem with an image: Displays 250px|
8. mumps
9. Can somebody who has "Rollback" sort this vandalism out?
10. Internal wikipedia link exists but are shown as non-existent and does not link directly.
11. coperative movements in india
12. Question
13. Reference and External Link sections aren't showing on my article
14. I got a message that I was vandalizing wikipedia
15. reality behind the neil armstrongs and his groups moon walk in 1969
16. Mark Buerhle
17. Query on legal articles on wikipedia
18. Creating
19. Article Deletion
20. John Willison (musician)
21. Refering to other sections of an article within an article
22. wanted: someone who's nimble with tables to clean up my mess
23. Citing An Article
24. Putting images from Croatian wiki to English wiki

July 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 25

1. User:TonyTheTiger/monobook.css
2. How do I delete an entry?
3. Article on George Mandler
4. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache#Internet_Explorer
5. HARD DISK
6. "Seed" in Portals
7. Creating an account
8. Notability process
9. Translations
10. Spacecraft Endeavour
11. Speedy delete
12. Content dispute
13. Question
14. Reverting edits on talk pages
15. Robert V. Decareau
16. Duplicate account : Joe.mambo and Joe.Mambo are the same user, but different accounts

July 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 26

1. Why is my domain blacklisted from creation?
2. blackberry storm
3. antique oriental fan
4. Question for Template experts
5. How much experiance is needed to participate at ACC?
6. Pictures
7. dates?
8. How do I program a bot in JavaScript code?
9. What links here
10. missing fonts?
11. talk page vs discussion page
12. What would be the appropriate way to comment?

July 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 27

1. Insects
2. Unlink tab
3. Wrong info or right one? Please answer!
4. Jimmy Alvarez
5. Fraternity articles
6. Template:Infobox NFLactive
7. question
8. I screwed up the formatting of an article
9. Company Logo change
10. k-box
11. left justification of right-to-left text?
12. center aligned userboxes
13. Typing a colon ":" in the search box
14. Live Articles
15. Adding book references
16. How do I delete a sentence in a biographical entry?
17. Medical School Admissions
18. Nationality category

July 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 28

1. Dynamic template question
2. Create the Wikilympics
3. Image help
4. Retirement question
5. Retrieving an account
6. I accidently made an edit to an entry without logging in to my account
7. How do I prevent a contribution/topic from deletion?
8. ITI
9. add website field to infobox
10. Problem within your setup a new user menu ???
11. Country Province/State City Database
12. Coordinate display
13. I jacked up an article, how do I fix?
14. hello
15. Page click stats
16. Why doesn't edit appear in my watch list?
17. how do i start a new page?
18. names and their meaning
19. Discrepancy between a diff and its final revision
20. Editing Geo Hack links
21. Dead Links
22. move a page from user space to real space
23. RSS FEEDS
24. Related articles
25. Harvard referincing problem
26. Categories
27. How to gain "confirmed status" to be able to upload photographs.
28. Publish article error
29. Create tables
30. Template substitution within a ref tag
31. Adding subpages/ subsections to articles
32. Cannot find my released article
33. Admin sanctions best practice when misbehaiviour recurs after a temporary sanction expires? - Is there a guideline, policy or ArbCom precedentt that addresses this?

July 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 29

1. Questions re citation form and other matters
2. Trustee vote
3. syllables
4. I need help...
5. ArbCom policy for interwiki issues
6. how
7. In a quandry
8. How to add a new topic to Wikipedia
9. reference format
10. I forgot to log in
11. Ogg sources
12. Licensing
13. How do I move a TALK page out of my account to a "live" page that is visible to all?
14. Photo Removal/Replacement
15. Formula to programming example popups
16. Copyright question
17. printable with IE7
18. unable to edit particular article
19. Could someone please update my bio?
20. artist profiles

July 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 30

1. Citing specific pages
2. Wikitable
3. Wiki editing tool?
4. email to upload image
5. Clearing a block log
6. Problems with images
7. Human Genome Organization (HUGO) Article
8. Redirecting a page
9. Speedy deletion and deletion discussions
10. 1) How to insert non-breaking space 2) How to insert borders around a table I have imported from Word.
11. How to remove the speedy deletion tag the 'proper' way
12. How do you change a picture?
13. Twinkle vs Rollback
14. "Caution" warning when I try to save a new page
15. Move request
16. Please vote... just kidding?
17. Editing a table
18. The name
19. mastadon tusk.
20. Moving a page
21. "What links here" question
22. hello
23. need the help of a more experienced wiki editor
24. Review Process

July 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 31

1. What Is the "Users Talk Page"?
2. The Killers' page crashes Wikipanion for iPhone
3. How can I help to translate a page to another language?
4. possible misuse of CATEGORY Speedy Deletion
5. Date formatting
6. UK English or US English?
7. Not Logged In on Main Page
8. About MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, IL
9. movie mahabharat made by Pitar burk
10. I think wrong information is posted on Bobby Charlton's profile...
11. Black rectangles on vandalism level images
12. Bunk Johnson
13. Using MediaWiki extensions: Wiki2LaTeX
14. How to specify multiple articles in Non-free software screenshot Template
15. Font problem
16. Footnote question
17. How do I embed the results of Special:WhatLinksHere in an article?
18. explaination

July 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 15