Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/June 2012
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June 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 1
- Saved edits do not appear
- OTRS Ticket
- Name Confict? What do I need to do? Who Is TowTrucker?
- How would one find a bot owner for a task?
- apurva palanpura
- Short footnotes
- Chemical structures, help on copyright status.
- Becoming a computing advisor and also submitting a company wiki page
- Need to make diffs edit changes more visible
- Winter Park High School, Winter Park Florida
- Updated financial figures that do not appear afterwards in the public page
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- HTML char refs for "[" & "]"
- Creating a new page in French and in English.....
- Collapse template
- How to add references?
- Sorry - I can't find a deleted article I wrote that I would like to download
- Changing top heading
- Crosswikispam
- people that makes the wikipedia an unfree webpage
June 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 2
- Clubman page
- Two users keep changing around constructive edits
- Confusion of two similary named sports teams
- How to create a page in wiki
- Grep - searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression
- hi
- Addition to article 'List of long place names
- Incorrect Link
- erroneous information in article
- Baburam Bhattarai being an ex-terrorist with interpol notice against him in the past
- Archiving at ANI
- Subpage
- Jayadevan's system and VJD System
- Template Unsolved TfD
- Books
- Template Unsolved follow up question
June 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 3
- Double brackets as "text"
- An edit on PARIS-SORBONNE UNIVERSITY
- Spacing
- How do I get this to display correctly?
- Marilyn Miller
- Disambiguation
- Documentary: FAT
- Fraternal Order of Eagles
- Birth/death templates
- Authoring Articles about Oneself
- Probable copyright violation
- James Graham Marquis of Montroes - Civil War under 17th Century History Scotland
- MiszaBot III struggling to archive my talk page correctly
- Stats
June 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 4
- What happened to my book? Snierman
- Problems with being Autoconfirmed
- Sorting issue
- Your link is somehow being connected to mine
- Creating a page basic
- there is a mix up?
- Joint Casualty Resolution Center article
- Category question
- Film capacitor
- F.G.Natesa Iyer
- Need review of my article.
- Is a Wikiproject allowed to have a "shared" sandbox?
- Local upload
- Transcluding only a section of a page into another page
- CPU overloading
- HOW TO UPLOAD A PICTURE
- How do I know if a picture is okay to use on wikipedia?
- incorrect link on Quad City Eagles page
- Need Review and Copy editing help
- Citation Not Needed..
- Flickr Images
- our wikipedia page was deleted
- Email password reminder not arrived
- Searching for wikipedia articles on the internet and article quality ratings.
- Page view question...
- False information keeps being re-posted on my page, please help!
June 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 5
- Help with deleting revision
- How do I add the "other languages" tab for a page that exists in other wikis????
- how do you create a wikipedia?
- Ocean acidification and rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere
- tim burns 3rd degree
- Editing MPNFL page
- Main image isn't displayed correctly
- pl confirm if form3019A is submitted in favor of diigvijay singh a 88 east of kailash new delhi india
- WikiProject as a one-man show
- Film Pages - Production Designers
- Up to day photo of this area in at the National Zoo
- War of 1812
- how can a student who has passed m.b.b.s. from india join your university
- I have played a part (the Italian nanny) in The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke
- External Link
- Broken Page?
- How to edit the lead title
- Page Ratings unaccessible
- Uploading an image
- Problems editing my Watchlist
- Creating article
- Monroe, LA
- The movie "Blue Sky"
June 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 6
- Toca Rivera
- Monitor what is being added to a category?
- Cite button missing
- image in interlanguange links
- Editing protected page
- Table
- Deletion of most of the Wikipedia entry for William Glen. Unauthorized. please restore to full entry as published for several years.
- Reference list
- ufc
- Australian Cricket Society
- renaming a page
- Admin
- new page?
- Testing
- Adding a Bio
- Individual questions
- Vandals
- Help with semi-protected of a wiki page and a banned user.
- External links question
- Should this be in an article?
- The Alhambra Decree Image Premission Request
- Compare all revisions of a single line
June 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 7
- parsing error on wikipedia page for 'poundal'
- Image request
- Writing numerals from right to left
- Someone copied my user page as his/her own
- User attrition data
- Is Editing with a first account after editing with IP prohibited ?
- Short sections
- How does one enter a footnote?
- How do you change the title of a page?
- How can I give wikipedia permission to use my copyrighted picture?
- 'Jeroen Speak' proposed for deletion
- numerical ordering
- Search finding previous title
- HELP
- Cite Button
- 3RR
- Legal duties of a c.m.
- Accidental Category Creation.
- Vandals on the Wikipedia
- Citing
- M
- Subject of new article has the same name as subject of an existing article
- Sock puppet template not working properly
June 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 8
- Software Error
- National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee (wrong title)
- Must I be a famous person to create a new entry about myself?
- How to delete pages
- My Page does not appear when searching.
- Magic words
- Incorrect information about me in article harming my reputation
- Change photograph
- Definition of censorship
- Unwanted indentation
- Created article with wrong name
- new article
- Peacock warning and order of operations when writing an article for Wikipedia
- Football matches live information
- Talk page contribution
- Quick question regarding Peer Reviews
June 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 9
- Model release required?
- I can't search my new article
- Policy about vandalism
- Actress in the movie Prometheous
- First time creator...thank you
- Creating an article
- hello?
- Page sources
- New admission
- restore
- Exact search
- Help getting my band onto Wikipedia (Search results)
- How do I use an image within the text, as a "character"?
- Publishing an article that is meant to be viewed from a link within a major article
- removing flags from edited page
- Movie quotes
- Finding a (hopefully) published Wiki Page "the National Capitol Radio & Television Museum"
- template section
- Error on Bernie Sanders Page
- Citing what I've added.
June 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 10
- harsh, delayed messages displayed indefinitely
- delete account
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 10#.7B.7Bt.7CCite_JSTOR.7D.7D|{{Cite jstor}}]]
- Unsure of how to flag an article for improper form
- Help needed with project banner code
- Sign
- Sackett
- I have donated money to Wikipedia...
- Several things
- time difference in roza iftikar
- inaccurate link for Tony Osborne on this wiki page Black Gunn (1972)
- search
- What to do with unused user sandbox page?
- How to cite this book
- Average article size
- Setting up pictures for access on Wikimedia Commons and appropriate licensing
- Question about foreign sources
- Not able to use wikitravel on iphone
- Articles for creation/Ballyhannon Castle (aka Castlefergus).
June 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 11
- JSTOR Access!
- Book search
- Created an account at Commons... and found that I inadvertently created a new account here
- Rendering problem on New Stevenston?
- Can a title be changed?
- Madonna
- General Enquiry
- Inaccurate University of Wales article
- Francois Lamore
- Help required immediately. What should I do now? Whom should I approach?
- How can I read entries WITHOUT the distracting blue links and citation numbers
- Science articles
- User abuse on vandalism flagging/reverting
- Wikipedia search
- digital signal processing
- External Link
- Exposure to radiation
- I want to make for Thomas W. Jones born in 1841, but a different Thomas W. Jones born in 1956 already has a page.
- Jonathan Waxman (physician)
- review
- Bias against Ron Paul
June 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 12
- Chemspider, pubchem, CAS. Are they reliable sources?
- Article about Boeing 777 (or other commercial aircraft for that matter)
- Is Lexisnexis a valid source to use to make an edit on a page?
- delays in updated posts/publishing
- Retreiving a draft article
- How can I add a page about my company?
- additional mathematics
- Edward Ladd Betts Article
- Stub RAF West Kirby
- WP:non-free content review
- Userbox issues
- Literature reference incorrect in literature list
- Updating the content on the google search
- Changing the path name of an article on Wikipedia
- Participating in discussions
- Sorting problem
- IDEA - Accelerate the learning process...
- Upload Wizard Help
- Searching a page (ctrl f) can't find terms that are hyperlinked
- Is logic allowed?
- been hackedsorry name is dion berriman
- Setting a link from Wikipedia article to Wikimedia to do a search against all categories?
- my wikipedia page is not longer visible.
- Please help students like me make pages expand in size without having to scroll from side to side
June 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 13
- Biography of living person references
- http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Miami_cannibal_attack&diff=497323169&oldid=497319028
- Did Monobook die?
- World's Tallest People
- Acknowledging Sources
- Radical change in average page ratings of an article
- Classical Pantheism
- Possible vandalism?
- changing Grammatical error on title
- Titles - forms of address
- Wallachian Revolution of 1848
- Citation formatting: Jayne Mansfield
- Wikibreak template on my user page
- Word definition - help!?
- a need to have copy of Encyclopedia of Psychological Problems, Naramore
- Claiming an article edit
- IWhat to do to create an encyclopedia articele?
- Cite news
- Archiving Talk page
- sorry, need a quick help to place foot note
- Template:WikiProject Seinfeld
- Redirects!
June 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 14
- How can I add information to a article in Wikipedia?
- Adding facts in article that are not included.
- Allowed to seek help as an IP user? Being followed around Wikipedia?
- Geographical coordinates
- David Lewis (trumpeter/pianist/composer)
- AFD Summary ArkyBot Dragons flight
- Wikipe-tan on porn website
- Muslim divorce
- THREE TIME TALAQ TALAQ TALAQ IN ONE SITTING IS IT ACCEPTED ?
- MDT-FIT
- From Movie Farm Awards to Movie Farm
- Query about why some wikilinks are in red
- Imagini Page under investigation for potential copyright issue
- Colorado Mounted Rangers
- Thanks for wikipedia
- Javascript!
- Message about editing/vandalism
- Search Engine
- What code does media wiki use for bold and italics or where would I go to find out
- Submitting article from Sandbox
- Joe Robbie article
June 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 15
- Monobook question
- earmarking a page
- Could someone watch a page for me?
- Any way to have different display settings for phone browser?
- Missing bulleye
- Archiving
- AGF / Wikiquette
- Redirect
- Fasting
- Football / Soccer Prediction League
- Help with citations!!
- rebecca holden
- I wrote an article but I can´t find him on the internet
- Would this be allowed on a userpage?
- Please add us to your site
- Deering High School notable Alumni
- "Jiffy Lube"
- Infobox edits
- Damon Dash
- Question about double-checking for sockpuppetry without violating WP:AGF
- info in wrong place
- So Tired of POV Edit Warriors
June 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 16
- SUPER (software)
- Headrest on Chrysler Sebring
- Shaunna Hall : recent edit caused factual error of personal history
- Iranian filters put on the web?I wish to contact the Iranian Govt. Before ...Ya know....Thanks.
- I'm nervous of Template:you have new messages, how can I alter it using my preferences?
- phony account using my cell phone number
- Potentiometer
- line numbers as cited in diffs
- How do I report a factual error?
- Can an Article's notability prevent it from being merged/deleted?
- induced polarization
- Inventions
June 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 17
- Large tasks, backlogs, etc
- What would happen if a page was transcluded onto itself?
- ONLY YOU AND GOD CAN HELP........
- Weird vandalism just moments ago
- Logo field necessary
- Sortable table
- Possible socking
- Repairing links to disambig pages
- Is this considered vandalism?
- Where to propose new admin backlogs?
- Repairing a butchered entry
- New entry submitted 4 June 2012 - still not live
- Using photos given to me by a friend
- Article On Unification
- APC history
June 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 18
- See also rules
- Wikifrustrated! I want to create a template!
- request length report for Fluorine
- Pictures
- Unwanted markup fragment on target page
- Multiple questions
- Stephen Hinchliffe
- HOW TO DE-ORPHANE AN ARTICLE
- No English version
- Account Deletion
- Cloud.com
- Snafu re category move to new name
- Adding shortcuts to this page
- How do I add the Reflinks tool (Toolserver) to my Toolbox menu?
- Incorrect information on my page
- Removing a tag/flag
- Change name of new page
- Addding a citation
- Wrong Founder
- (my)Deleted wiki page still shows in Google Search
- IRC
- Self Grandizing
June 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 19
- Two different pages for Core War, or not?
- Amber Alert first usage?
- deleting pages
- ETEKOSOFT
- HOW DO I CORRECT WRONG INFO ON THE INFAMOUS COLWICK MURDFERS?
- Circulating article contents by e-mail
- Another template question
- All Cap
- TWITTER Names
- Navigation box fix
- Month's top editor (count)!
- Duplicate ref button?
- Hollywood's Top Ten
- Wikipedia on my mobile(cell) phone.
- locking a book
- Article error?
- Quick question about the appropriate name for an article
- antique books
- CAN I PRINT A WIKIPEDIA REFERENCE
- How do I add a "see also" to a wiki entry in another language?
- Strange Mix of Capitals and lowercase Letters in Names of Languages in the 'Languages' Section of English Wikipedia.
June 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 20
- Private database report?
- hindu bangalis of northeast india
- Twinkle preferences
- Deering High School, Portland, Maine
- Reference irrelevant
- white text?!
- Page does not exist
- Sandbox showing
- Contacting the subject of an article
- Reverting page moves
- Mobile Wikipedia
- My edit keeps getting removed and shouldn't be
- change of software
- about me
- No email from either password/account information request or new account confirmation (already checked the spam filter)
- App creation
- How would you get some info on a person changed
- Edit Triggered a Filter to Warn Editors
- Geoiplookup.wikimedia.org bugging me on every page.
- Donating the contents of a website to wikipedia
- making a template in userspace?
- Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/H. J. High Construction
- Pissed off
- Creating a Merger proposal after nomination for deletion fails?
- Copyright
- Major villages in Jalandhar District
June 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 21
- How do I remove unjustified warnings that appeared at the last edit?
- Insert citation access date
- A General George S. Patton, Jr. quote
- What should I do when I find an inactive user in HAU, project particpants, etc.
- Picture of a famous person
- A disambiguation problem encountered?
- Approval on photos?
- Bill Meek
- Seek a sincere opinion.
- need help
- Odd IW link
- Ref name tool
- Requesting aid in renaming category
- Wikipedia Clock Display
- How do I add a task force tag to an article's talk page?
- Best way forward with regards a major dispute involving multilpy editors
- Wikipedia:Featured articles
- publishing your sandbox content
- is the wiki site down
June 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 22
- problems with photo on foreign wikipedia
- disambiguity page
- Help with photo copyright status
- Footnotes
- I want my deleted page deleted entirely
- oldest woman on earth
- Managing Pain
- page translation
- Reference syntax at Mylène Farmer discography
June 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 23
- George Nader page
- American Jews
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 23#This_sandbox_is_in_the_article_namespace._Either_move_this_page_into_your_userspace.2C_or_remove_the_.7B.7Btl.7CUser_sandbox.7D.7D_template.|This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the {{User sandbox}} template.]]
- Cite web
- Ed Begley
- Languages names spelling in interwiki links
- Redlinks unlikely to be created
- Wikipedia page on Martin Gillingham
- Page View Counter
- Artistic depictions
- Global user info - Hidden Level?
- Nayko Island
- New editor feedback
- Interwiki case presentation
June 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 24
- reference list column
- http://lohere.net/kulkapedia/samuel/Genie
- Two questions: Watchlisting sections and (separately) random pages
- asking for deletion of personal information
- Twinkle
- Question
- Notable alumni
- Need help to modify Infobox template
- M. f. M. n.
- Adding studio musicians to album liner notes
- Language
- Help into archiving
- LANGUAGE
- I have a unique time lapse of the Transit of Venus and need help converting from .mov to .ogg
- Wiki page background color
- Copyright status of side box art photo?
- The page with my name jacqueline Ripstein
- Incorrect time zone specified for Svalbard, Norway in Barentsburg article
June 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 25
- Political control on wikipedia in italian
- Help for new poster in Wikipedia...
- help
- Article suggestion
- This "unsigned" bla, bla, bla...
- verification of a biography of a living person & use of external links
- External / interwiki links search
- Helping with signature
- 1983 world Cup winning Indian Cricket Team data
- Article evaluation needed
- Robert S. Prattico
- Copyright
- Adding a new feature to Wikipedia
- Copyright
- Template question
- disambiguation / Fighting
- How to create a page for my book
- Transclusion
- Citing with same source but different sections
- I have a reference error on this page: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:Sbones5/workshop
June 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 26
- correct error Bert Sugar
- copyright image and map
- Help with Twinkle
- tower instalation work by unitech india pvt ltd
- About the templates of translation
- Deletion
- TV show's broadcasting networks
- Making a page
- Incorrect Location Listed for Marycrest College
- Quote box and Infobox clashing
- Does wikipedia's policies allow for links to commercial sites?
- Wrong name of country.
- Fixing a table
- what is G P A?
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_GDP
June 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 27
- Why is the town of Lantana, Florida relying on a Census reading of 12 years old?
- I've updated a new corporate logo file, but I cannot link the new logo file to the corporate web page
- Colleges in Hawaii - incorrect Info on Remington College
- Huh?
- Israel Jiménez
- spare parts
- Unable to undo edit to Library (computing)
- new article creation
- Adding more than one extra column to Template:Track listing
- How to make pages live
- Help with changes to Jack Welch article
- Editing Information that is already present
- Toolbar issues
- Set-up stock portfolios
- block/ban related question
- Vandalism I don't know how to revert
- deleted text
- Re-enabling mobile redirection?
- IPv6 is now enabled but broken
- Photo on article infobox
- Disable individual section editing
June 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 28
- entry on Queensland Conservation Council has been vandalised
- Uploading an image
- CLAIMS FOR LOSSES IN KUWAIT INVASION
- Want to work on Translation from English to Tamil
- Article deletion
- Searching revisions
- Reply to administrator
- enquiry regarding liquid finish cotton
- How to be manager
- URL contains [ and ] characters
- how to write an article
- Speedy Deletion
- Nelson M. Cooke
- About An Article about Me
- Move picture from Wikimedia Commons to article page
- Is it ok if an employee of a company edits the company page within guidelines?
- Looking for template to link to English version's Good Article
- Layout errors on A14 (road) article on some browsers
- My edits to Richard I of England page
- Honor guard?
June 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 29
- Using Flickr images
- SVG logos
- rollback vs undo
- item that gives credence to an article
- disambiguation pages on Ken Scott
- How can I stop a page from being removed?
- I would like to add myself to wikipedia as i play for thehungarian national rugby team, how do i do this?? D toth
- Copypaste issue
- Template for name change of image file
- Pancreas
- Lucas Oil Stadium MEP Engineer of Record
- What MediaWiki page produces the text on the "Login Successful" page?
- How many prices should be listed in a tablet articles, such as Nexus 7
- Wikipedia page gone
- Editing Information
- Link Change Request
- My userpage
- ClueBot deleted my updates.
- adding an external link
- Long time but newly registered user wants to donate images to creative commons
- Mattress
- new artist page
June 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 30
- incorrect link
- Zeta Delta Xi
- From Louisville Kentuckh
- reading list
- Eric P. Hamp
- Registration
- faulty link
- New Evidence about Sapho the Ancient Poet
- Figuring out a good name for a new article
- editing reverted
- Downloading large numbers of pictures?
- Restoration of Article Zeta Delta Xi
- using many sources
- adding a reference
- No references in Constituent Assembly of Egypt despite adding Reference Reflist markup
- books that are notable biography guidellines
- Advertisments
- No tabs on Talk Page
- Remove copyright writings please
- Can't create a peer review page as an IP user?