Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/March 2012
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March 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 1
- Why have the colors changed when viewing diffs?
- Server acting weird
- Continent Travel Userboxes
- sSick of australian content
- Not sure how to propose for deletion
- Need someone who speaks German and is friendly
- About errors on the page Orange Orange. We want to clarify info about the band Orange Orange.We have the RIGHT BIOGRAPHY
- WikiProject proposal
- Printable editing information?
- Display of "My contributions" has changed for the worse
- Redirect Failed nation to Failed state ?
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Peter_Gerald_Charles_Dickens
- Welsh Development Agency
- Archive Setup
- List of people diagnosed with dyslexia
- Joan Wolf - references
- reformating partitioned C: drive
- Math formula rendering
- Demotion to Good
- Article is outdated tag
- Edit conflict
- IE9 compatability with Wikipedia
March 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 2
- Can you edit content on the mobile version?
- What are the green and red +/- numbers in an articles Revision History?
- Issue with concert list
- Help on an editnotice
- Updating link in a gadget
- Deleting the User "Autofan"
- HOW TO CHANGE WIKIPEDIA'S FONT COLOR SETTING?
- submitted article
- HOW TO CHANGE WIKIPEDIA'S FONT COLOR SETTING? Section 2
- Redirect the redirect?
- missing children
- Tag for partial deletion proposal ?
- Creating a box around text
- Requests for comments/discussion on talk pages
- How to find out how many people have contributed to a wiki page or made a contribution in the last two weeks? ( University question)
- File name above uploaded picture
- Broken Link
March 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 3
- Image problem
- Where is my Wiki Article
- Aderoll/ridlyn
- Liver Disease
- Wyatt
- Contributions
- interwiki
- Wikipedia -> XKCD
- Front page bot failure?
- Templates for Displaying Military Ribbons/Medals as Worn?
- Cannabis Tax Stamp
- Becoming an administrator
- Contributions rendering error?
- Cite reference
March 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 4
- Appointment of new Foreign Secretary for Pakistan
- loisiana red
- Disambiguation marked as stub?
- why cant I edit anything
- Trouble placing image
- Progeria
- Where to request block of some accounts I control?
- Named reference definition placement
- Name of Company is wrong
- Cite error
- Post from User:Comcargru6
- Permission to reproduce map
- Article title formatting
- Why is it so difficult to add a userbox to a userpage?
- Incorrect information on Roshumba Williams article
- Creating pages that get deleted.
- Creating an arrow like an n-dash
- Oddity on front page
- Federal Detention Center Miami
- Fanning & Coles
March 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 5
- Google Earth kmz file reference
- Ginger Baker's Drumming - How to add info
- Seeking explanation and some assistance
- Help moving article from sandbox to main space
- I'm new - help
- Paul Newman/marriage & family
- Draft article
- Upload a picture
- Ariel Sharon
- Winning by endurance
- A place to ask for help improving language
- Question regarding image copyright
- Removing copyrighted material or vandalism
- Correct kerning when using a quote in a citation
- How do I create a new user sub-category
- Death of Ralph McQuarrie should be "In the news"
- need an article on macarthur scale of subjective socioeconomic status
March 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 6
- Incorrect reference
- WP guidelines or policy for deciding what constitutes a political endorsement?
- Where's my saved article?
- Redirects of words from other languages to English
- Image problem
- Interwiki on mobile wp
- Twinkle
- Twinkle auto-watchlisting
- My page is not getting approved and no update on the status
- Extraneous |} in an article
- Looking under spirit I found an error
- Quoting
- How is wiki markup stripped from search results?
- Alan Ladd Biography
- How do I get to the search page?
- Huggle issue
- Expansion of an existing article -- how does one request this?
- Report on a personal attack of a wiki user
March 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 7
- Tryign to make a user account
- western weds
- Nelson Mandela
- Wiki article about 19th-century American anthropologist Samuel Haven is in Spanish, but not English
- Unstable search engine
- Why was my talk deleted?
- Wikipedia:Twinkle
- International Reply Coupons
- Units of measure - distance
- Emmerdale and Coronation Street on Wikepeadia
- HOW TO CORRECT A FACTUALLY STATED ERROR IN A BIOGRAPHY?
- Please help fix a table
- Redirect at Service Data Objects
- Incorrect Information
- Where can I find out about those hidden items after the categories in an article?
- Katy Perry Uploaded Images
March 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 8
- Editing the title to an article.
- Help creating template
- Alpha Phi
- Wallyball
- Image problem
- On Luther's Bible page - link missing
- Is this blatant advertising?
- Help please with subtitling
- Handling an extremely doubtful article?
- Adding an external website link
- USS Thresher submarine disaster in 1963
- Information lacking
- advice needed about reference errors in citatons
- Why is info I submitted being deleted
- Is it possible to request for this to be reviewed soon please?
- Is there any way of printing the whole of a page with links e.g. List of British monarchs?
- Writing an article
- Mobile site
- "Dual posting" reverse?
- "Community Pages" from Wikipedia on Facebook
- Who produces the rules by which Wikipedia works ?
- move from User space to Template space (doc) needs repair?
- Username
March 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 9
- Tables and line spacing
- inserting unconventional symbols
- Confused about needing references
- How do I find pages that need proof-reading?
- Reply to Matt Deres (?)
- My first article is the biography of a living person.
- Yes, please help set this up
- Columns breaking
- Wallkill Valley
- Lady Greyhound
- Where is the "user problem report" page on Wikipedia ?
- problems producing an article in the Wikipedia assault course
- Someone who knows WP:CORP well required
- How to use <span class="noprint">
- ballon D'or
- ADDING THE FACT BOX DOWN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE
- Contradicting a Public Work with a Private One and determining a reference to be inappropriate for Wikipedia.
- Jad Adams
- Updating a Widely Used Image
- Wikipedia page exists, but google cannot find any record of it
- Banner adverts on Wikipedia
- Recent Changes
- Login up to 180 days?
March 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 10
- US Presidents
- Guideline on subsequent name use
- I left an external link that may be spam
- ProQuest Archiver
- Request for Scanning/Review
- Carla facciolo
- Help with correcting big mistake
- Moving an article
- citing the info
- New article, fun, safe, easy, etc.
- Help - :Template:Sfnm
- Question about redirect guideline
- Close discussions
- RAW Design Wikipedia
- Converting Spreadsheets Into Tables
- Legitimate or Linkspam?
- stock portfollio magement
- Reviewer right
- Canary Lee Burton
- Permissions
- Redirect question
- Delete
- Tables
March 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 11
- Wikipedia won't let me edit articles. WHAT DO I DO?
- Don't receive password reminder for forgotten password
- broken markup, what's the problem?
- How do you find someone when you only know a last name?
- Log in problem
- Deleted pages in own userspace
- Changing font
- Guideline / help page for writing help pages
- 911 response - claims we invaded AFGHANISTAN. Ii think we invaded IRAQ! AFGHANISTAN CAME LATER.
- Hoverbox Suggestion
- Nominating another User
- Forgotte my Password
- Self-promotion in userspaces?
- I have 14 different butterfly pupa images
- Canvasing to a degree but not what it sounds please read
- A bug - doubling the homepage info - in infobox writer
- ref desk archive missing question
- User reverted changes
- New website
- What's the correct wikipunctuation for antiAmericanenergy?
- Inappropriate link in a political party page
- help with personal attacks
- Could someone please format a hatnote properly for me
- first article mistake
- Where is appropriate place to consult about advertisement like a content ?
- Another editor sanitized a direct quote in Steven Landsburg article - what to do?
March 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 12
- Nanban(Film)
- technical trouble with mobile site.
- Table of contents numbering
- Historic math error.
- How to edit the factually incorrect article: Original Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)
- Admin may want to see this log
- Can't remember a song
- How do you refind the BOOK that you made from articles?
- Collapsing elements of a table
- Good Lists
- Request page move - Opus interrasile
- Charles Viracoloa's Birth date
- Errors in Oklahoma Corporation Commission article
- "Wikimania 2012" link opens in current tab even when using "open link in new tab".
- Getting someone to upload an image file that is an organization logo for an unconfirmed account
- Attention parameter?
- Hello
- Now What
March 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 13
- How do I withdraw an AfD nomination?
- Db-attack doesn't think the page has been blanked?
- Notability in question for about 200 articles linked from 1 likely notable page
- Sir, Dr Punit Sethi, an Engineer cum Author from India have been declared World's Most Popular Social media/Facebook Expert. Mai I request to open a bio-graphic page of Wikipedia of mine with my photographs?
- Lost article/file
- ELI MANNING PHOTO
- Johann Sebastian Bach ( http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Bach )
- All bold?
- diagrams for articles
- Douglas Adams.
- T.V. MOVIE RIGHT TO DIE
- Need help with copyright/links issue
- Sama ECH
- Help with New Entries
- Standard or Standards?
March 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 14
- Daily pictures
- a "suggestion for improvement" for Wikipedia
- Depiction of Prophet Mohammed(PUBH)
- Hospital de Sant Pau Barcelona Spain.
- "blame" command for Wikipedia
- Reg article on Malik Barkat Ali
- Orphan Article
- Oracle Business Process Architect
- Where post about something that needs fixing (needing topic expertise) on a page?
- Changing an article name from italics to non italics
- Page views
- How can I publish an article here?
- editing an edit summary
- Suggestions for article on Rodney Barnes
- Page flow problem
- Copyright Information
- Incorrect zip code
- How to get rid of message on bottom of page?
March 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 15
- Clogged up edit history due to an overactive user
- Copy Editing complete - article remains "requiring editing"
- Forced edit summary?
- Overly helpful edit box
- I want to delete pics i uploaded.
- pictures
- Bollocks about reference lists
- Winners of the Bronze Star (USA)
- Disambiguation Page
- The Meeting School, Rindge, NH
- Comparison of free video converters : new insertion
- Problems with uploads
- I just posted a note to my talk page. Will author see it?
- Collaboration on safety valves page
- Entry for "Autosexual" redirects to "masturbation." NOT THE SAME!!!!
March 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 16
- Wiki tool: Kiki?
- Usage of tools
- :Template:Cite video
- help please (public problem)
- How can I see previous versions of a page.
- Recent edits by User:213.196.211.166 needs a check
- Categorization in navbox
- How do we demote and remove moderators? My story.
- FreeRepublic.com in footnote
- Template docs lacking helpful info
- Using a track on an album as a reference
- Image title
- Racism in talk page?
March 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 17
- At first glance this looked to be outright plagiarism but I've had second thoughts due to its unusual formatting. I don't want to create havoc by deleting but.......
- I was wanting to know if there was a child that needed attention in another world but is a citizen of the us.
- Shortening section headings
- Did not put in Reason for edit before I hit save
- Public Domain Issues
- Why was my page deleted?
- When I click on "Edit," only a list of factoids appears
- Angry Birds
- If someone steals password
- Constant visibility of Template:FilemoverTalkpageNotice on my userpage
- Previous name
- Help???
- How was this article created?
- I found and U.S.ARMY DOG TAG .in and old house in Canada and would like to know who it was.
- Security breach??
- NUCLEAR POWERS
March 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 18
- Charles-Edmond Duponchel (architect)
- Ads on wikipedia
- Help fix a broken reference
- SPAM MESSAGE.
- Searching for specific text within an article
- Section of page shows in Firefox but not IE
- Blaise Pascal article/editing
- Repeated unsourced edits by an unregistered user
- Category intersection
- Categories for WikiProject assessment
- Uncensored SSN
March 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 19
- Israel and US interests
- How do I turn on "New Message" notification?
- Long templates
- TV Episode Pages
- Biography Upon Haile Selassie I & Menen Selassie I, I Father & Mother
- A Place to Bookmark Favorite or Notable Wikipedia Articles
- Removing a Wikipedia Page Immediately
- Reuse of text from the talk page or main article.
- Mitch Gaylord
- picture problem
- location of toguchin, siberia
- Dateless coin references
- Katy Perry Unreleased Music Videos and (A) Katy Perry
- Google search results
- U.S. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Complaint 2012
- Repeat citations
- Printing URL citations in article references
- Unicode superscript and subscript characters + non breaking space
- When and when not to use {{refbegin}}
March 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 20
- image on the left screws up left-justification
- New article help
- Citing a tweet? What should be used as a title?
- Infobox - added one, and now can't find where to edit it
- images upload
- The Ryan and Johnny Podcast Show
- Reducing size of image on the article page
- homeopathy
- Proposed deletion problem
- Recording an exact moment into "now, nowadays, not yet, etc." words
- Stable, stability
- Your article about Evangelist David R. Wilkerson
- What defines location coordinates?
- Stale e-mail entry
- Could not submit my information to a page for a new entry
- you have to see this
- Wikipedia talk:Articles for Creation/Jordan Wolfson
- Fidelity Walk of Life
- Editing Articles
- new article
- state capitalism and three gorges corporation
- farmville
- Hits per page
- User is taking my free speech away and censoring me!
- Log-In Problems
- Request correction:
- Question about certain trivialities in an article
- quick help
March 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 21
- User's script labelling my edits "unproductive"
- Submission
- Requesting feedback on new article: "Steph St. Laurent
- Dictionary
- is porn allowed? Nikki Benz photo.
- Soundtrack album
- New article
- New to Wikipedia
- AVATARS ABODE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY.
- Where to get article feedback?
- Upgraded Wiki appearance
- Peer review
- ads on wiki
- Mistake in the article Toyger
- Important advice
- Toyger
- Pop up's
- Muriel Humphrey Error
- reftags, etc.
- Discharge papers
- Creating and editing wiki pages
- Dictionary
March 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 22
- Incorrect information on article.
- Finding File Names and Locations
- Mobile browser
- Mobile interface
- Incorrct id
- Finland language links
- latin
- Looking for a tool
- Bare URL help?
- iso (in search of)
- On the Wiki facebook page for the BuxMont Torch FC
- "The Son of Man" by Emil Ludwig
- Does this type of thing need to be sourced?
- glitch!?!
- Looking for a specific deleted page in my userspace
- Search History?
- Templates in captions
March 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 23
- Trojan Horse
- POV pushing - Question for administrator
- trouble linking an external link regarding congenital erythropoietic porphyria
- Category:Pejorative Categories
- C. M. Prasad
- Looking for feedback
- Please fix
- Failure to post
- All titles are showing html tags like span dir=auto Wikipedia:Help desk span
- new episodes
- Account?
- How to deal with socks
- quick question
March 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 24
- BTOLA Pty Ltd reads like a classic advertorial
- Laura Marano
- "CROSSROADS NOVEL"
- Name display issue
- can you cut the monster tables ?
- Edit automatically removed, should I re-post?
- Where are deleted articles?
- Viewing a list of pages I have made
- Userboxes
- Hidden category for articles containing living people
- Possible legal threat ?
- Using non-WP narrative style
- Page layout problem
- Policy/guideline query
- Problem with Mahon Tribunal page
- X!'s Edit Counter
- Request renaming
March 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 25
- Finding the ID# for Template:British pathe
- Request for Permissions-?
- Editing reflist tags?
- Band article request
- Free speech
- Fair use image resolution
- Unable to upload scans from a magazine to list as references
March 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 26
- If I agree with a fact, and think everyone else does...
- Sandbox
- The subject is The city of Tala, Jalisco, Mexico
- Move problem
- Inversion in a sphere
- IPhone app
- André Simon Wikipedia page
- Translation assessment required
- Augmentation of existing page "Robert Hughes - Swimmer"
- Notable residents (moved from reference desk)
- Google translation of (Official) site
- help!
- not sure I understand deletion process
- Is it OK to tell someone to f*** off on Wikipedia?
- Farra or Farrah or Farraw - a grain crop. Maybe another spelling
- Cuban economic reforms
- How to change a talk page to a regular, searchable page
March 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 27
- Contributing from a Business
- no references
- Nominating article for deletion
- Category Request: Category:Alumni of the École nationale de l'aviation civile
- Religion, reference to United Reformed Church
- Somali National Demcoratic Reform Party. A newly founded reform-minded political party led by Dr. Khalif M. Duale
- About a created page
- proposed redirect
- Creating an article, unsure on title choice and if content can be seen as advertising
- Asking a question in Japanese
- Page written as advertisement and contains buzzwords
- How to post copy write material after permission has been granted.
- Sortable table
- List of transclusions?
- My Own?
- etymology is lacking for many entries
- Twinkle rollback links
- changing false information on for King andCountry
- Posting on a talk page
- Popups anyone?
- Uploading an image that is copyrighted
March 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 28
- Problem with 'PUF' template.
- LISTENING TO A SONG
- Span tags showing on titles
- Looking for good software to help me edit wikipedia.
- Query about the replication lag
- Creating images with programs on my computer that use data from a Twitter post
- Semi-protected article needs 'Cleanup' and/or 'Copy edit'
- Paterson Mass Water flow meter
- Tony Stewart Picture
- bayou blast and collapse
- Just in doubt.....
- User Inputting False Information
- Stock Answers
- List of articles in List of categories without DEFAULTSORT or Sortkey
- Diverse
- using data
- Request for feedback
- Citing multiple non-sequential pages
- James Dean page
- Ansel E. Talbert Information
March 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 29
- File:Second Revolution Flag 2x3.svg
- List notability and styles
- Mistake at "Marble Falls, TX"
- How to make different versions in Wikipedia (Same Topic)
- Blue background?
- Problem with images
- How does original research apply to images? WP:OI
- doi pointing to jstor
- The most recent Wikipedia Signpost issue is empty
- How do I enable automatic categorization of tagged pages?
- How much "notability" does a biography subject need?
- New to Wikipedia
- MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details
- Old username on talk pages and changing username again
- names of fields of profession or study - capital letter(s) or not?
- Vincent Brian Wigglesworth page
- External Linking
- Translations within articles
- adding external links
- Editing Wikitables
- Section
- NJ Charter Study Commission
- Time format
March 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 30
- 'Listen' link
- Looking for ancesters
- Template help!
- Under Miss Minnesota USA
- image visibility
- Want feedback on new article
- Article creation problem
- Error in Wikipedia
- Ref sorting
- Categorizing a template
- Noticeboard
- Non-factual polemic sources are clogging up Wikipedia
- Need a second opinion
- Question on Template:cite video
- Problem
- A weird case with interwiki
- Linebreak prevention (in a link)
- user channel- favourite
- I would like my pre-2012 contributions to be deleted
- How can I add a Category to an article but have the article appear on the Category page under a different name?
- club pogo
- "Log out" link
March 31
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 31
- reporting disruptive editing
- Wizard of the Grand and Honourable Order of Geeks required...
- UFC Pages
- Recent changes: what's the red exclamation mark against the new page indicator?
- Verification of reliability
- Contacting wikipedia is a nightmare!
- user name on Commons
- Vandalism
- Menton
- Does anyone know what's wrong with the edit counter?