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July 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 1

1. paraggelia games
2. THUMBAIL and THUMBS
3. Input requested
4. defamatory vandalism
5. Home handyman
6. Conspicuously Absent Article
7. Thousand Oaks High School

July 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 2

1. Category history
2. Improper IP Address..?
3. Inclusion of new Article
4. Bio seems more of an article
5. PROBABILITY
6. How do I feature Keys Hotels on wikipedia
7. Article has Stopped Appearing in Google Searches
8. Company Name Change
9. Abbreviations
10. Bill Williams -game designer - for Alley Cat video game-- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Bill_Williams_(game_designer)
11. Help with Infobox on Fiserv Page
12. Lucas Oil Stadium
13. Page: Colin Ratushniak
14. On Kushiro Wetland

July 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 3

1. Need the consent from Wikipedia to reproduce in my book the Trinidad Anglican Episcopal Coat of Arms.svg
2. I don't know if this is the right place for this, but
3. July 2012 Calendar
4. regarding my company products
5. Name of spouse is abusive..
6. Blue Links
7. recovery data from hard disk
8. creating an article
9. Renaissance Malmö Hotel
10. Logo
11. Article editing: paragraphs eliminated when previewing text
12. Feedback
13. cfcuk Chelsea Fanzine / Roman Abramovich
14. Ref Tags and Reference Lists
15. how to become a pregnant
16. Global account issues
17. Move a wikipedia entry to wiktionary?
18. BLP for divorce

July 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 4

1. Euro bronze medals
2. custody forms
3. Help Needed ASAP
4. The growing "Google + no disambiguation page" problem
5. Reference not working, not sure why
6. Where can I seek advice for a WikiDrama or user conflicts without getting anybody else involved?
7. wrong Map of India
8. Hide rollback links on watchlist
9. Irrelevant muzak in article
10. How to remove deleted page?
11. Avoiding my name showing
12. Adding missing geocoordinates
13. Blacklisted BLP name
14. I want to add a Japanese entry for a famous person that currently has no Japanese entry.
15. A photo of someone else is stated to be me.
16. Did I break it? (possibly Twinkle-related)
17. List order
18. edited article deleted twice
19. hi I'm new to wikipedia but I would like some help please.
20. template help
21. Correcting miscatagorization of article as Orphan
22. Transclusion
23. My Grandmother
24. highlight
25. famous people from Homer, Alaska
26. How does editing a Wikipedia article work?
27. edit warring
28. Code Used on Monobook.js, Vector.css, etc.

July 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 5

1. Article Draft Preview
2. I want to delete my account
3. Is it possible to merge IP user contributions with User contributions?
4. Are Administrators allowed to WikiHound someone?
5. Can a adult with a disability get legal and and Financial assitance in Canada for a name change?
6. How to Edit Ref. 1 in the Article on "Deborah Kenny"?
7. Infobox pushing down gallery of images
8. Seting up a company page
9. JML Direct TV
10. Targeted redirects for State of the Union and Recommendation Clauses
11. Can't remember the name of a template
12. Creating an English version of a French bio
13. Please help me fix a table format
14. I might have messed up an article - 'Swansea City A.F.C'
15. Problems getting information in a Biography of a Living Person
16. Oxford Geology Group
17. Difference between the UK and England
18. Musicians: rules re band members in templates
19. Display different template depending on country?
20. how do i submit a new article for Wikipedia? i am an experienced author, with ca. 1,000 publicatons. Where do i send it? What form? Is PDF ok?
21. Miszabot archiving issues
22. Joseph Stalin
23. How do I remove this text?
24. Why doesn't my edit appear even though it's is shown under 'view history' as the last one?

July 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 6

1. Adding citations
2. Immpossible to create correct external link
3. Can this be called WikiHounding?
4. cite error
5. Bangalore Univeristy
6. need to attach a news paper article for authenticity
7. Admiral Arthur William Radford High School, Honolulu, Hawaii (vs) Radford High School, Radford, Virginia
8. Facebook errors being blamed on WP.
9. The method to get my username back.
10. play videos
11. Can't patrol pages
12. How can I delete/remove my date of birth? Jdobisz (talk)
13. Name spelled wrong
14. banned
15. Outside Commission
16. problem with "designation list" template
17. Editing Articles???
18. Troy Anthony Davis Photograph
19. Have added photos to a page, but they don't show up as thumbnails in FaceBook posts
20. Notices at the top of articles beginning wit "!"
21. Footnote issue
22. Template help
23. wrongly accused of vandalism

July 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 7

1. Polar Bear Article
2. Reliability of source
3. When is a section on a TALK PAGE spam?
4. problem
5. Tim Stockdale page
6. How to add a simple content to a subsection within category?
7. .swf extension Upload
8. Finding a User's Contributions
9. Please Edit This WebPage !!!
10. North Wraxall / St James, North Wraxall
11. Highbeam
12. Tamishia Moats
13. there is an error
14. Templates
15. Edits
16. 100+ deeplinks now redirected, needs fixing

July 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 8

1. I want to send a letter
2. how to show pdf icon next to link?
3. questions about proposing deletion
4. question about un-merging or renaming
5. Removing redirects
6. How do I change the version of a picture without creating a new file/image?
7. Oops
8. What to do when I get no responses from Peer Review?
9. Template - transclusion or substitution?
10. Change Registered E-mail Needed to Reset Forgotten Password
11. "Engology" entry in Wikipedia
12. Vertical Bar
13. Arranging info on article
14. Name conflict
15. Tool to convert bare URL's to refs
16. Can somebody assist me in addressing this transwiki concern?
17. Please remove tag
18. Message bar
19. China hurdles to IRC at wikipedia (English)

July 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 9

1. "Former" in front of titles
2. Licensing question
3. Template to convert 20 GBP into U.S dollars
4. Warfaze: Recreating a deleted article
5. Sins of Ommision
6. Undoing a Page Move
7. WP:Featured Books
8. Removing a tag
9. Picture upload for a new article and copyright question
10. "link to Wikipedia" icon?
11. AN/TWQ-1 Avenger infobox
12. duplicate articles - different content
13. Updating Pages
14. 2 articles that contain incorrect information
15. Help with formatting
16. Editing Error
17. Author did not edit in his last update, how...?
18. Bug on posting new talk page posts or signatures
19. Wording
20. Footnote additions
21. Create/Change name of the page I attempted to create and misc
22. Last name with a Upper case letter in the middle
23. How to print out pages from your website
24. New article feedback - notability and references
25. Creating an Article
26. Company not listed on Wikipedia
27. Share alike
28. list of massacres in history

July 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 10

1. How to quickly search IMDb bad link in external links?
2. Foreign language translation of article being read, by mouse pointer or between lines.
3. Page Move
4. Information
5. articles mysteriously in :Category:Science fiction series templates
6. ACCOUNT CREATED
7. Strange message received from Wilkipedia
8. Categories in wrong order
9. Submitting a Wikipedia profile for review
10. rgardind global demand of epoxidised soyabean oil
11. Request to pass an appeal to unblock 81.175.138.59
12. Share alike advice.........
13. Affiliation
14. Sources?
15. abuse of elderly in nursing home
16. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Texas
17. Transferring PD textlogo file to Commons
18. wikipedia article not showing up in google search results
19. User using talkpage for self-promotion
20. My account name
21. Wiki
22. Edit a page without being noticed?
23. Peter O'Toole - Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage
24. Trying to set up an account under a specific user name for an artist but someone is already using something similiar
25. Getting on the main page
26. earthquakes in 2010
27. edit

July 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 11

1. Making a Wiki?
2. Writing an article
3. A new article
4. Quote
5. Some coding error
6. Rename
7. Contesting deletion
8. Existing and useless account - any chance to get it?
9. Problem articles
10. Tosh
11. publishing
12. Citations Issues
13. unregistered user
14. Thomas the Tank Engine
15. Using share alike images in iBooks Author
16. Sort order problem
17. Infobox CPU now broke in IE compatibility mode
18. Help with my troutme template
19. Alteration of message left on talk page...
20. A-Class
21. Proper procedure for submitting an entry with COI issues.
22. Is zeekrewards company good mlm company?
23. Update Please about Brixton Karnes
24. Article feedback tool
25. My account.
26. Can't edit a lead
27. Oops
28. Editing glitches
29. Sending and receiving messages on msn
30. Show more fields in cite web references!
31. Juston R Graber
32. http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
33. Translate caption in French
34. Source classification
35. em to px conversion
36. Remove "updated since last visit" from history pages?
37. Bad faith nominations
38. Multiple Pages from the Same Source
39. Navy and Marine Corps Medal

July 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 12

1. I lost images on Wikipedia
2. Please delete wiki page
3. QQ
4. liver funsion test
5. HANNAH MONTANA DVD
6. Disputer Resolution Process
7. Legal Question
8. How can I message another editor on their talk page?
9. My user page is blocked
10. Toolbox menu
11. Shavington high school
12. Editing wiki
13. Where should I be? Forever young and ignorant.
14. Lcg article

July 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 13

1. Edit counter
2. Recover account without password and without access to email
3. Help with college infobox
4. How do I reference a living source interviewed for a page?
5. NCIS episode 10
6. epguides
7. Facebook
8. America: Freedom to Fascism
9. Need help at FFU!
10. Re-reviewing an article
11. Page Rebecca Rust (American cellist) deleted
12. Any tool for an admin to delete pages en masse?
13. contacts
14. Article disappeared
15. Category links
16. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/John de Ruiter
17. whitespace
18. 4 millionth page and 500 millionth edit
19. Campaign Finance Infobox
20. minor edit
21. Table showing in wrong place
22. Adding photos
23. Table
24. Category:Categories
25. Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus
26. :File:2108c1c4b74543a9938dfd8f1e178a82b80114eb.jpg
27. How do I archive my talk page?

July 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 14

1. Spam email?
2. Mist net
3. Requests for Comment
4. Searching inside edit window
5. Amanda Smock
6. Why I cannot upload mp3 files on Wikipedia
7. How can I convert mp3 files into ogg file
8. Batman: Earth One
9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors: suggesting a Chinese version
10. Please delete my artical
11. Undue Weight and Recentism Regarding a Politician

July 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 15

1. Help finding picture for page.
2. wrong photo uploaded by third user!
3. life insurance
4. Citing a researcher by name?
5. Non-free manga cover
6. About my new article "Lordkipanidze Revaz"
7. Katya Bachrouche
8. Top-importance articles disappearing
9. Request comment
10. Easy way to draw people to a discussion?
11. facebook and group site that are causing vilontce against an individual
12. Move articles to talk page.
13. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Chiropractic
14. Delete a redirect:File:The Legend of the Condor Heroes (cover).jpg
15. paragraph numbering
16. Freedom of speech for teachers.
17. http://shop.wikimedia.org/products/wikipedia-globe-sweats
18. TMZ
19. delete an article

July 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 16

1. Made a mistake in the article title -- how to fix it?
2. US informationin Germany
3. How or where can i display a proposed change to a protected page.
4. Claim inactive username
5. Greater Manchester
6. Colombian Cyclists
7. Please copyedit London Chorus
8. Where do I find the template for References?
9. Display the duration of a YouTube video
10. The New Search Bar
11. My watchlist is screwed up
12. Page of "Annabel Jäger"
13. Renaming an Event
14. Age at time of death
15. Quick favor
16. Uncyclopedia

July 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 17

1. whats happens when u get there
2. unwanted image
3. How to put inline references?
4. Special page named as an article
5. MediaWiki license
6. Wikipedia preserving old aspect ratio of SVG image after update at Wiki Commons
7. Biography of Steve Abana from Solomon Islands
8. Looking for a specific copyright tag
9. Copyright vio ?
10. How do I report verbal abuse?
11. Method of citing TV and radio programmes and amending citations after insertion
12. Question - Ohio
13. Custom CSS?
14. Personal Reference?
15. I can't find my page
16. SAFEMODE
17. Reference hovertext
18. Question on my article that was on speedy delete
19. Spin Along
20. NRHP articles & references
21. pronunciation button isn't working
22. How to sort My Watchlist
23. Information
24. Private persons' name stated in article without consent
25. I could probably help out Wikipedia. I've got language skills, am fluent in Spanish and French. Where's a good place to get started?

July 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 18

1. "New message" alert appearing for a non-user
2. polonaise and mazur-mazurka dances
3. Is it possible to create URL using a date instead of a revision ID?
4. Can Wikipedia Tell a Story?
5. covertable car tops
6. Fontana High SchoolWikipediaSchool · Cullman, Alabama.
7. Will my article be reviewed?
8. Template for tagging paywalled references
9. :File:Jukti Takko Aar Gappo scene.ogv
10. Succession and nav box not showing
11. Inquiry about printing
12. What is the full from NASA
13. Image won't update
14. Nutritional Products
15. Wikipedia is so confusing for someone who wants to create a page
16. What to do after my page was deleted?
17. Question
18. paraprashing
19. My First Article Review/Feedback
20. edit conflict
21. Wikipedia app for Android
22. CSD criterion
23. Battle of Tremseh references
24. Javed Singapuri

July 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 19

1. Wikipedia Book
2. he correct writing of einstein'ts theory of general relativity
3. A Question
4. Email
5. Question About Using Presidential Portraits
6. Information for students in Gujarati Langauge
7. How do I recreate a (previously) deleted page?
8. Dispute Resolution Process
9. Can I keep my sandbox out of google searches?
10. watchlist
11. Url triggers spam filter
12. regarding induction motor text books or manuals
13. How to undo criticism box at top of WildEarth Guardians page
14. Need snapshot of Taylor Brook just before it was deleted
15. Update Logo
16. Confusion - Round 3
17. Question about page proctection
18. Section titles and anchors
19. plz write omething about jordan maxwell
20. I need HELP with Trojan horse infections on my computer, PLEASE!
21. Submitting a Biography

July 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 20

1. New article
2. Template not working
3. Subject would like section removed and photo changed
4. Infobox width
5. Wikiquette question
6. Adam Leigh re the death of model Caroline Byrnes
7. categories in loop: is there a tool?
8. Add signature button to javascript form
9. Contents bar
10. Image uploading question
11. Donor Card
12. Using re-election website as source
13. disambiguate UWO, Please.
14. Question
15. contact
16. Larger Urban Zones
17. "Save page" has become unreliable
18. Content Erased
19. two identical pages
20. Locating articles by subheading/section
21. User IP Question For Journalist Working on Story
22. Romney for President, inc.
23. Help!
24. disambig page and citations etc, using example Coleman
25. My "Engology" page does not to exist any more. Why?
26. deep web/ how to access it?
27. User Page
28. who is the oldest saxophone player in the world?
29. Censorship and Bad Attitudes
30. Backlog of edit requests

July 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 21

1. Father Augustus Tolton
2. Area on Wikipedia For Debates
3. Avoiding archiving for a talk page footer template
4. Is it possible to MFD WP:(VfD)^11 WP WfD?
5. How does one make a request to delete a particular article?
6. Afc Gérard Desbois
7. Creating a map
8. composer/song writer
9. Anyone know of a way to show UTC times in page histories?
10. Template assistance
11. Production information
12. miserable CAPTCHA
13. More intense version of Template:Plot?
14. Navbox looking weird in one article. The template is OK, but in article it is different.
15. /* Edit request */ Hello - Guns controversy and other incidents- added correctly or not please? Nick D'Arcy

July 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 22

1. What should I do to do edits like a bot — any restrictions?
2. Investigation of a Potential Copyright issue on our CEO's page
3. Other than Peer Review, how can I request feedback on an article.
4. Athletic logos in rivalry pages.
5. Is this actually a vandalism...
6. template syntax
7. Watchlist
8. Cropping an image
9. Automatically grouping references
10. photos of steamers
11. login not working, user name not recognized
12. Public use of 10.0.0.0/4 IPs
13. Admin password lost!!
14. Creating a BLP
15. Block form

July 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 23

1. Category watching
2. I created an article and cannot see it
3. Question on "double redirects"
4. statements with old or incorrect sources
5. Date of birth sections showing Skype symbols
6. Advertising (or broadly spreading awareness of) an essay
7. The original Sorry .....is it available in the Spanish Language, if so how can it be ordered?
8. How do I change a page's title?
9. Question About user page
10. Sidebar bug?
11. Commons

July 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 24

1. Question about RS
2. Looking for a template name
3. Dreduardoa
4. OTRS as source?
5. IP Address Mix-up: How do I fix/remove this
6. Recovering password when e-mail has changed
7. Having problems editing the article on the term: PHAT.
8. How to add a Table of contets
9. Creating a page
10. Is Ethical Hacking worth taking as career?
11. Ref name doesn't work for multiple names
12. Conflict of Interest and Revisions
13. Main page
14. Section v subsections on references
15. Powerball scratch off game.
16. Renaming category::Category:Back to the Future
17. lost access to the email used to register on wikipedia
18. Report vandalism
19. Editing
20. Template:Fanpov
21. No edit links on talk page sections

July 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 25

1. Redirects for recent template
2. Reference Desk and the need for further contact.....
3. Insured Business
4. Checkuser
5. How do I get the article I just completed uploaded onto WIKIPEDIA ??
6. :File:SarahGordonDeath.JPG
7. Trying to nominate an article for GA
8. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 25#Trying_to_help_.7B.7Buser.7CShravanshetty502.7D.7D|Trying to help Shravanshetty502 (talk · contribs)]]
9. Re submission
10. Style Guide for Scientific Articles
11. Editing references
12. Hello
13. Anarchy
14. How to upload image?
15. Wright USA
16. Image use question
17. Accidental created page
18. Request to Add a new article/ Chapter
19. sesil karatantcheva

July 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 26

1. Gooseberries
2. I provided an online citation which can no longer be accessed for free. What do I do?
3. How do I Rename a Wikimedia Commons File?
4. How do I Apply for a Wikipedia Award?
5. human life-complexity,life relations, phiosophy, religion, importance of money in human life,modern age humanlife, humanity, service, child hood old age
6. Is There a Place Where I Can Find All the Various Wikipedia User Templates?
7. Installed Mac OS X 10.8.0 - Lost Wiki masking-frame
8. The word 'muggle'
9. New Content
10. Disinformation on our product.
11. Find a meaning
12. Broken link to another wikipedia page
13. Researcher
14. How Many References??
15. Informal mediation
16. Canvassing concern

July 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 27

1. agent orange use in new zealand
2. submerged temple under bay of bengal sea water at visakhpatna
3. Gilbert Young
4. Pronunciation
5. Infobox help
6. Page creation question
7. Help
8. Outdated Logo used
9. New look: no edit, etc. functions
10. How to get Page Hits info once I create a page within Wikipedia
11. Sorry
12. Dear friend(s)
13. Sock Puppet
14. Why isn't the bot working right?
15. Improving article layout

July 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 28

1. Statistics template / bot for WikiProject Indigenous languages of California
2. How can I change my user name from buffyfan84 to robotgal84?
3. SPI and notification
4. In the news article image
5. IP address from IPv6
6. Woodstock, Connecticut
7. Anyone
8. Bogus organisation using trademarked identity on Wikipedia page
9. Little Confusion
10. add a Today's featured picture
11. Formatting

July 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 29

1. Page on requested edit list without an edit request?
2. Re-use of content
3. Print bigger
4. Static IP redirect?
5. Olympic rowing
6. Changing picture file name
7. how do I print a map
8. My User Page
9. Mobivox
10. Louise de Vilmorin
11. Can someone help this user merge his three accounts?
12. Accidentally wiped out references on "Kakuma" page
13. Christian Bale
14. Wrong entry on the List of Cities in the Philippines
15. USS Philippine Sea CVA-47 Article

July 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 30

1. Need to rename picture file
2. Which talk page has the greatest numbers of archives?
3. and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make
4. Breaker Morant (film)
5. How do I link in Wikipedia to the Wiktionary?
6. Roswell UFO Incident/Sunrise
7. Doppelgänger accounts
8. Pizza Hut inc page
9. ShoeCareSupplies.com article
10. No log entry for a deleted (?) image
11. Geoffrey Hughes
12. bees attacking the humming bird feeder??
13. The Dark Knight Rises (novel)

July 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 July 31

1. Page hijack
2. Hero Poker Network no longer accepting US players
3. Lost
4. Public Domain Images
5. Block
6. Text Size
7. which Country was Shaikh Ahmed Ali Mullah Masjid-e-Haram Muazzin was born
8. Which board
9. Ordering DVDs
10. speech in english
11. What's going on over at Current Events?
12. is this page hacked ?
13. Wikipedia page on Berners-Lee hacked??
14. Copenhagen article redirect
15. Comcast page hack
16. Earth Exploding Live sends friendly greetings to readers of this article. This message will be taken down within 24 hours if the link specified gets at least 2000 hits. Thank you.
17. Trouble with the link/page
18. Cleaning up a page
19. Creating an account, at another Wikipedia
20. Watchlist bot hiding concern
21. eugene levy
22. Automatically confirmed
23. Sortable tables
24. Infoboxes