Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/June 2008

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June 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 1

1. CSD A7
2. Vague external link
3. Images
4. FYI for the Help Desk volunteers
5. Avril Lavigne attack?
6. Using the wikipedia articles
7. listing a person on wikipedia
8. Cannot find articles anymore. Please help me!
9. Search box
10. commons flickr uploader bot
11. Combining category and template search
12. My wikilink doesn't work

June 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 2

1. creating article lead section that is not included in article outline
2. problem with search bar
3. Need help
4. Page listing
5. Sort user contributions
6. User Box
7. mars moon was it eclipsed
8. referencing my edit to the article on Carmenere wine
9. Sort table by numbers
10. Request for welcome message
11. Speedy deletion of Vladimir Pak
12. matlab problem with nonlinear curve fitting
13. Does this page need wiki cleanup?
14. Becoming a wikipedia page patroler
15. Superhero boxes
16. Changing Template?

June 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 3

1. using linux
2. technical difficulties?
3. adding categories to my user page
4. My question
5. Starting new page with existing template
6. ?????
7. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 3#*Category:Fractions<.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki>*Category:Fractions]]
8. Citing encyclopædia
9. Modifying an inaccurate entry about me
10. St. Francis High School (La Canada Flintridge) Notable Alumni
11. Hello
12. IP address of sender in google group
13. MostLinked, filter by namespace
14. citation for personal communication
15. Could you help out this editor, most courteous ever
16. Comparing pages for criteria
17. Single User Login
18. Video
19. length of contributions
20. german to english
21. What days do we get paid.

June 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 4

1. Template problem
2. Twin Peak Towers - Wikipedia
3. Janine Habeck
4. Deletion of Chetan Ramlu
5. copy picture
6. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Manchester_Academy_of_English
7. how can i upload any picture in my article?
8. Why were my posts deleted
9. TeeNAgerS~Manga/Anime
10. Referencing
11. Why is the print so small on 'printable version'?
12. Stub
13. Colour Background Codes?
14. How many...
15. Colonial Tavern
16. Means?

June 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 5

1. 'huggle whitelist'
2. External Links Question
3. geometry
4. Information
5. Can someone help with my page
6. general forums
7. Problems with svg
8. Alpha
9. My Watchlist
10. Delete
11. More than one title for an article
12. 222.239.26.175 (talk) 19:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)forgetting password
13. Limiting my watch list

June 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 6

1. Messed up jumble of HTML?
2. Upload File Problem
3. Footnote color
4. Style query about referencing
5. Table help
6. please clarify one sentence in spoken english
7. I don't understand
8. Verifiability requirements
9. I did mistake while archiving....help.
10. to edit the first part of the entry
11. Revert edits, protecting a article
12. Number of edits
13. Pandemonium article
14. Maple tree seeds
15. 2 Megs Of Nothing
16. citation

June 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 7

1. Stronger Rewrite Template
2. to hear how a word is pronounced
3. Unable to copy and paste from Wikipedia to a word document
4. Moving a page using AutoWiki Browser
5. List of characters in Maximum Ride
6. Forum for reporting NOR
7. RfC on Burmyanmar
8. Table Editing: How do I centre a column?

June 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 8

1. HTML?
2. Creating page?
3. Font
4. Page protection and notices
5. Possible copyvios
6. Citation Templates
7. Question
8. Replacing an common image
9. How to edit a wrong fact in the box on the top right of the Wikipedia page about Soko Morinaga Roshi?
10. MediaWiki
11. how to make my posting appear on web
12. Content Box on Userpage?
13. Language question
14. Sharon Johnston Park
15. Magic words

June 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 9

1. Helping nominating Allegations of Israeli Apartheid for deletion
2. Admin help may be required at Steve Peters
3. Disappearance of an entry...
4. Box Art and Screenshots for Video Games
5. What to do
6. Wiki information pop-ups on other homepages
7. Reuse license on images
8. Help
9. Photo question
10. query.php
11. Danger Guys Series - Notable?
12. toolserver problem
13. image
14. Non-admin accounts can move pages over redirects??

June 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 10

1. Huh
2. Renaming an Article/Changing Articles Titles
3. Posting articles
4. how to
5. Template for edit-mode-only in dab pages
6. blacklisted?
7. How can I create a link to a section of another article?
8. cookies are n, you woon't accept tham.
9. Shredding
10. railway platform
11. Downloading Flickr images
12. Hindi Translation
13. Possible Plagerism
14. man made disaster
15. Linking to Wikipedia in a frame
16. Tag image for speedy delete
17. SUL
18. How do you create branches in the Route Diagram Template for Railways?
19. Wikipedia Traffic stats
20. Wait Time After Submitting Article Request
21. Wikipedia Contributors
22. Creating a new Wikipedia page
23. watchlist-compatible rollback?
24. Graphical timelines problem
25. Contributions/Edits
26. block
27. Changing Signature

June 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 11

1. S. Scott Bullock
2. Unusual text
3. Edit not appearing
4. Please do not filter JCN and KICS email as spam
5. Please Help Me.
6. writing new article
7. columned tables
8. how to contact OTRS email system
9. Template:Infobox Museum Image caption
10. printing
11. Changing a page's title
12. Using "Commons" Files to Edit Wikipedia Article
13. Printing pages from Wikipedia
14. Column problem
15. Creating Discussions / Requesting Page Edits
16. help with footnote
17. image formating
18. Help with Portuguese

June 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 12

1. possible sockpuppets
2. business ethics
3. Simple question
4. Drawing
5. Talk:BP Pedestrian Bridge/GA1
6. Optical fiber question
7. not able to attach a photo to a topic
8. Automatic reverts
9. Time in signature
10. Right place to post that stuff ?
11. Multli Column bulleted list
12. cannot log in
13. Hurricane Katrina editing
14. Help POV Pushing Tag Team In Play What To DO?
15. using referense desk archives
16. Silkscreen (typeface)
17. Company link in "Gasket" article
18. "Back to Top" Link
19. in text wiktionary link
20. Verifiability for fiction articles
21. Possible risk of copyright infringement.
22. how can i have video on a wiki page?

June 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 13

1. Trouble Formatting
2. What's the point?
3. Bathams - Black Country Brewers
4. plagiarism
5. New Subject
6. Table formatting
7. Follow up on reporting NOR violations
8. ADDING A PAGE
9. My own private wiki
10. DEATH INTERVENTION SPECIALIST
11. Difference?
12. Wikipedian protester
13. can you track page visits on Wikipedia
14. GAR
15. Article Copy/Paste
16. Account Creator on Listuser?
17. Licensing review
18. Live scores of sports events
19. Speedy Deletion of a Image that exisits on Commons
20. New page
21. Automatically Archive
22. adding accounts to unified profile
23. Image
24. Badge for HMCS Port Colborne
25. can I somehow upload a photo I took showing an informative state historical marker at a nearby public park?
26. New Language Wikipedia
27. Copyright?
28. Tim Russert's page

June 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 14

1. absolutely inactive users
2. Colour Codes
3. Edit conflict
4. Wikiprojects
5. Copyright makes my head spin [image copyright question]
6. Many many users
7. Wiki logo
8. Problem at WP:NOR
9. How do I become an auto confirmed User? HELP ME!
10. Babel/userbox error.
11. Formatting around a left-justified image
12. HELP!! THANKS!!
13. Really long references/URLs

June 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 15

1. User Page Problems
2. Risks of old software
3. age
4. "Do not move to commons" tag
5. please help me
6. How do I add myself to Wikipedia?
7. Duplicate a watchlist
8. A URL that leads nowhere
9. Please .. from it.wiki user
10. Image that covers the links
11. Editing the lead
12. BOY GEORGE page error - a quick link change please
13. Talk Page Archive Boxes?
14. Linking to a site which violates copyright?
15. What's an outing website?
16. Subject of harassment campaign - what can I do?

June 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 16

1. New Account Confirmation Email Invalid
2. science/big universe
3. What is the template to say an image needs a fair use rationale?
4. Delete Double gammas Delete
5. Wikipedia as webhost
6. Articles "Under Construction"
7. Regarding providing wikipedia with Telugu version.
8. Template
9. Copying the "Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas" to an Exce Spread Sheet
10. Kindle EBook
11. How to embed our logo
12. AFD
13. Deleting my Wiki Account
14. Translation from Wikipedia to external site
15. One more Boy George link to change
16. All pages by DEFAULTSORT

June 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 17

1. Links and spam
2. F: namespace
3. Template
4. Citation/Opinion Answer?
5. Just received spam from Wiki email address. See below
6. Specificity
7. profile
8. deletion
9. Part time professional business
10. How many articles in Wikipedia exist on a given topic?
11. HTML link behavior change?
12. Creating a company profile
13. :Template:Geobox
14. Edit summaries
15. missing contribution
16. Inacurracy with Electronic Data Systems page
17. Adding a page to the site
18. Template?
19. More template trouble

June 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 18

1. chaning page font size
2. Cancel Account
3. Appropriate Infobox
4. Is this article consider encyclopedic?
5. Coming back
6. Repeated Deletions
7. Function
8. Huggle
9. flowers
10. Username history
11. Is this e-mail OK?
12. the player's guide movie unfair deletion
13. How to add a filmography
14. Editing Article Titles
15. Stupid bots
16. disappearing emails
17. revert 3 edits

June 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 19

1. WP:USURP date section probs
2. More than a stub
3. Removing dead URLs?
4. Edit an edit summary?
5. No Sources(References)
6. Where to Request New Reliable Sources
7. Moving images
8. Seattle Public High Schools template
9. Messed up categories by mistake, sorry
10. Deleting unwanted italics from several paragraphs.
11. SignIDlike (talk) 13:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
12. Numbers and letters
13. Short cut to my Desktop
14. Clarification of 3RR
15. Images being migrated to Commons
16. Page history
17. Have I been blacklisted.
18. Help with the Div tag
19. Bouncing Wikipedia Logo
20. Twinkle on Wii
21. McDonald's Cycle Center infobox help
22. How to contact the last editor to update information
23. How to upload logo

June 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 20

1. Movie with Mare Winngham
2. NZ Winegrowers
3. alphabetization of category articles.
4. Citing pamphlets
5. User Boxes
6. Deleted Content
7. Jacqueline Amuzie
8. Can't view images
9. Huggle
10. Posting
11. Vandalism on image page which seems to sort of not exist
12. Blackberry Site
13. Did you know
14. References not displaying
15. Adding to the "Professional reviews" section of an album
16. First entry.. need some advice.
17. new articles
18. Overlapping "section lines"?
19. Adding new articles to WikiProjects
20. Prayer assistance
21. Hide
22. Link from an article to a Category WITHOUT the word "Category" appearing
23. new articles
24. Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
25. school marm
26. List of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year

June 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 21

1. Signature
2. Watchlist
3. Odd topics appearing in my Watchlist
4. My Userboxes
5. Surnames
6. Copyright question - sketches of copyrighted images
7. Infobox capitalisation
8. Claim the anonymous contributions
9. Removing unencyclopedic image.
10. Personal attacks
11. WP fair usage licensing authentication for properly licensed flickr images placed on commons.
12. Can't find an article
13. New user
14. Submission offering
15. Nbsp inside template parameter
16. Wood carving patterns
17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 21#|]]
18. Cannot use IRC
19. Forcing the first section to not begin until TOC ends
20. showing "bytes changed" in Special:Contributions
21. Account Age

June 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 22

1. iTunes question
2. flight
3. Trying to fix a page transclusion error
4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 22#<span id="43_—_George_Walh".2F><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki><span id="43_—_George_Walh"/>]]
5. ITALIAN
6. FORECLOSURE
7. Contributing material
8. Where do I find all the food articles?
9. italian football shirts
10. Showing up in a wiki search?
11. How do I add a picture to Wikipedia?
12. Consensus
13. Grawp -- How'd he get past it?
14. Log in
15. If a possible page title leads to a different page and I think it should have its own page

June 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 23

1. Printing From a Server
2. find a Wikipedian with an account on a subscription-only website
3. High school sports and CSD A7
4. Unified userpage
5. New article re a superhero in children's book series
6. 10th mark sheet lost
7. Sockpuppetting
8. Altering Edit Summaries After Submitted
9. Differecnes
10. Including / listing company names in your website
11. Viewing user subpages
12. Get rid of an account
13. blacklist
14. where to enter a new person on Wikipedia
15. How to Edit "Semi-Protected" Article
16. Linking to Wikipedia
17. Why is all the text displaying as Thai or something?
18. Uploading images from other WP versions
19. WYSIWYG edits
20. Helicopter Airlines
21. Still no reply
22. Weird user inserting weird info, busy for months
23. External links - blogs
24. Need some teamwork
25. Totally Lost
26. Deleting Accounts

June 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 24

June 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 24

1. Number of disambiguation pages
2. Deleting a sub page of my userpage
3. IMDb as a source
4. adding to content
5. C-class Shannara articles
6. Difference between Communication & Transport
7. Citing from closed sources
8. semi-protection of "Christopher Columbus"
9. I am an autoconfirmed member but I am not being allowed to post images. Why not?
10. Adding content in Hindi language
11. Danica Patrick
12. Edit on a template doesn't appear
13. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 24#Formatting questions: <gallery><.2Fnowiki> and "collapsible"|Formatting questions: <nowiki><gallery> and "collapsible"]]
14. Self Bio
15. Correct Broken Web Links
16. Listing an editor's contributions to an article
17. External link???
18. RfC artificially kept alive
19. No answering yet ...
20. adding/writing an article to wikipedia
21. How to move page?
22. Joining a Discussion
23. Isaac Burkett
24. How Do I edit a Semi Protected Page?
25. Templates and new external links captcha

June 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 25

1. Request admin help
2. Changing my user id
3. How do I tell someone about the hacked Barack Obama page?
4. Problem Displaying American Airlines Flight 77
5. FLAGGING
6. Viewing deleted articles
7. Filiquarian Publishing appears to be publishing Wikipedia articles with no acknowledgement
8. Footnote styling
9. responding to comment without signature
10. Userpage
11. Speedy delete tags
12. SupporttoBioBus (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
13. Vandal
14. Question about Infoboxes?
15. How to you submit for assessment/get comments on the editing you have done.
16. How do I add words to wikipedia
17. Recent Changes for two namespaces?
18. Changes to article page tabs
19. National Income
20. Request Moves on Talk Pages
21. Adding Images to page
22. flagged articles

June 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 26

1. Citations
2. Mirror sites
3. Personal Attacks
4. Blocking a user from moving
5. English Article
6. Move of XChat to XChat Aqua
7. Trouble uploading an image
8. Starting a new subject
9. Copyright attribution on Wikipedia
10. fibroddysplasia
11. Multiple lines in second column of table
12. Quantitative Technique in Management
13. My user Account
14. Wikipedia election results?
15. Printing in Printable Version
16. Redirects in WP:AFC
17. Wikipedia Stalkers

June 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 27

1. wikiporno?
2. My Signature
3. Cultural Backgrounds
4. Hypercard - changes that eliminated a reference to my stack Unprotect XCMD
5. Financial aid
6. Differecnes
7. Citing References
8. Forgottan Login Password
9. Statistical analysis
10. LOOKING FOR A JOB AT SINGAPORE
11. Signpost
12. Drawn images, licensing?
13. Ancient Middle-Eastern Mythology Templates
14. How to use Contents in Navigation
15. Add

June 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 28

1. No longer autoconfirmed
2. Adding a picture?
3. Is it possible to shrink an infobox?
4. Putting category= inside a thing inside a thing
5. Google picks up my sandbox contents
6. Creating a new page: 2 persons with the same name
7. Article creation
8. external links
9. FIRE DEPARTMENT DISPATCH LOG
10. Copyright question
11. import a photo into a article
12. Article titles
13. Template for incomprehensible article
14. Require List of India's pincodes by State in xl or Pdf file
15. Sandbox
16. New template Talkarchivehist
17. Editing
18. Arabic wiki

June 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 29

1. Anyone who knows David Banner
2. cyclone, typhoon, storm
3. 334 M.O.B.B.
4. Firefox looses my cookie
5. main heading
6. Deleting my page
7. trees
8. can we find a user identity from a username
9. Resizing images already used on Wikipedia
10. Templates
11. Multiple images
12. Editing a redirect
13. References causing gapping
14. Copyright and references
15. citation bullets in References section
16. References
17. AfD mess
18. SPAM OR VIUS ON YOUR SYSTEM ?
19. Clearing Search (wikipedia)
20. Topic-Relevance

June 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 30

1. More vandalism
2. Image linking to page
3. direct searches for areas in which wikipedia is deficient
4. Instillation of Active directory
5. Pasting stuff on talk pages: Wiki Policy on copy pasting edit material on its talk page
6. Someone else to write my article
7. List of Copyeditors
8. Trouble uploading images
9. Using a bot to correct spellings
10. Userpage request
11. Incorrect logo for SportEngland.org
12. Articles in multiple categories
13. Avient Aviation Incomplete and Jouranslistic Content
14. WikiProjects
15. image file destination
16. Referencing files (such as readmes)
17. Hörspiel interwiki links
18. Why does the heading of my article say it needs citations and links?
19. Image under wrong copyright?
20. how to use?
21. New article / Copyright issue
22. How to make a reference
23. Wikified?
24. wikipedia convert function
25. uploadding a graphic of a chemical structure
26. User Page
27. Ralph Sall