Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/November 2008
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November 1
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- Selective censorship
- A problem ..
- The tool that shows how many times a page was viewed
- How to Semi-protect a page
- Fake poster in a film article
- clarinet userbox
- Wikiproject Birds
November 2
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- Numbers weirdly inserted into pages I edit
- How would I reference
- Preferences broken
- Inappropriate user name?
- Category problem
- Category problem
- Sheet of music in Wiki
- cant find number
- how tocreate a new article?
- Uploading a New Picture
- Edting someone else's image
- Cite comic issue
- article
- Redirects
November 3
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- New Article
- Personal information on siblings
- convert this code
- simvastatin and lisinopril&Hydrochlorothiazide
- Need the assighnment of a project on Management Functions(Planning,Organizing,Leading and Controling)
- New article and DAB page
- How can i delete an account?
- animated bibles stories
- Bruce Springsteen
- Listing all pages within a category
- Sidebar
- Can one watch user contributions?
- PICTURE OF QUARTER HORSE
- Byte counts on watchlist
- Making a simple table
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kelley Limp
- Uploaded Images
- Lake Lagunitas - Marin County California
- How do I edit
- Password reset in Wikimedia
- Content Suitability
- My User Page Deletion - Could I have it sent back to me with Wikipedia correctness?
- cleaning a cd.
- Wikipedia article and webpage almost same
- Did not receive new messages on page when I accessed earlier today
- two articles, one sea slug
- Please tell me about sapn and div attributes
November 4
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- Script display
- Searching Reference desk archives
- wrong Indian flag. today featured article
- mw-textarea-protected
- Please remove the picture.
- Hi, this is regarding Telugu language..
- Shortcuts for user space pages.
- Changing Article title
- about an new article.
- IMAGES
- Adding a web link to one of your pages
- new question
- Reporting a personal attack?
- Everything of mine has been deleted??
- Signatures
- mobile wikipedia
November 5
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- Tagging images
- Over-referencing
- Hauntings
- Umm...
- images
- Running/Downloading exe batch file from article
- Hi
- Deleted article
- Need Guidance re Vandalism
- IP address check for admins
- Searching for article
- How do I make a wiki version
- copy/paste ogg theora files
- "Donate now" button
- How to bring the recent changes to the main page of wiki?
- NTOC
- In Album, creating a band section?
- Why are our external links being deleted?
- Self-updating table
November 6
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- Are welcomes?
- Collapsing nav box
- Our new support Wikipedia banners
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 6#
Four<.2Fs> Five questions about unified login|FourFive questions about unified login]] - geography
- Education.
- another case of the "preferences" bug
- Mike Bloomberg entry: please add his $375 million contribution to tobacco control
- Images and OTRS
- User-defined colour names
- Deletion & Google Search
- Why are my college students experiencing complete DELETES for a project they're doing?
- troubles
- Adult contemporary music
- Not going through
- Link page not working
- Multilingual Sourcing
- IE/FF inconsistencies
- Administrator Abuse
- i need help making a album page for a band
- How do I get an entry posted to Wikipedia
November 7
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November 8
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November 9
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- Archives
- Can I get an opinion on a few edits
- MY question is incorporated with the space
- Page Format Missing
- Degraded image
- Interwiki account
- help me
- I have a question
- getting logged out while editing
- Contacting non-English Wikipedians
- Fuck me boots
- Help using same reference twice
- error in Wind power
- Reccomendations?
- Keyboard short cuts.
- am i qualified to edit wikipedia?
- Teflon: What happened to the original article? (pre: January 2008)
- Text copying issue
November 10
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- Archive box issues
- mobile skin
- Made mistake by accident now need help to fix the error
- registration confirmation problem
- Generating a list of most popular articles in a project
- Raibin
- Sockpuppets
- Please move page
- I am Unable to upload a personal photograph.
- Citation templates and archived/cached web sources
- College Textbooks?
November 11
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- AfD
- Blocked
- help others
- http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/United_States_Special_Collections_Service
- What happens when you xfd an article with Twinkle that meets WP:CSD?
- How do I "bookmark" an article that I'd like to read later?
- i need to remove an image from one article
- Archive editing
- Multi-Sport Stadium Dimensions
- I get undesired gzipped pages
- Transcluded Template
- Long URLs in cite
- Can I do Offline Editing of an Ariticle (to make it appropriate for Children)?
- Christopher Wren
- Kelowna Pictures
November 12
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- what are the affiliates of wikipedia?
- Help
- Meaning of "(top)"
- New users
- I made a mistake
- Biographic info on a living person. There are very few existing references
- financial loan
- Linking to complex URLs
- How to get an unbroken static HTML dump file from Wikipedia
- Finding a person's biography
- I guess it takes all sorts
- Camera location problem for an image
- I would like to delete my URL
- ADMIN
- Links and photos
- Fair use
- Correcting entry
November 13
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- Fake or unregistered usernames
- Article requests
- Log in Trouble
- "What links here" pages
- editing a page
- hey
- what will be the position of market after 2 years
- userbox
- Making a message banner
- My New Pages
- SS Gideon Welles
- References to wiktionary?
- Unable to create fresh articles
- page deletion "samuel_tiberius_hunter_welek"
- Centering things in a table
- How to have an incorrect tag removed from an article that is locked
November 14
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- embedded images
- photography/the rule of three
- Signpost
- Wierd
- Locating old edits
- Vandalism and other warning templates
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 14#"{{.23if:<.2Fnowiki>" expression|"<nowiki>{{#if:" expression]]
- Template:NBA game log section
- Username not created but is contrib
- Logo quality
- help
- Status
- Signatures
- Greeting new users with speedy deletions?
- Personal bio page
- Editing
- Userpage
November 15
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- Suggestions?
- List of articles edited by a user
- Bad jumps
- Product naming and the interwiki bots
- What template should I use?
- Uploaders category?
- Mixing cannabis and cigarettes
- Account
- Definition
- List of FA authors
- References and footnotes
- Can I buy Wikipeida?
- What would happen?
- 2008 Michigan Wolverines football team
November 16
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- A question about possible non-free image use
- brian peppers
- Page presentation help
- Is there a way to view all my deleted edits?
- delete my account
- Talk Page
- Wikibits.js
- Error in preferences
- Incorrect error in my preferences/Gadgets page
- howdy. I apparently can't move a page that's up
- Can't print page 2 of "Percolation Theory"
- Template help
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 16#What's wrong with ??]]
November 17
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- Unified login
- Adjusting printable version
- disambiguation
- broken page
- Relapse
- more opinions needed in unblacklisting discussion
- Syndicated Wikipedia articles
- Wikipedia's status
- New section tab
- Vandalism only account
- Disgraceful
- Issues with 8974 Gregaria
- Solo edit war
- This is not important, but some math equations do not display correctly
November 18
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- Re-directing
- Table
- Center text
- search offering "view logs"
- Wikipedia Usernames
- GIF problems
- books
- Collapsing watchlist and popular articles
- Creating Infobox for a new article
- citations
- Creating an Article
- When Wikipedia was made
- Moving pages
- Can't remove Tags.
- Wikipedia (English) On Local Backup Disc
- berghof edelstahl
- Help deleting a subpage?
- Problem with monobook scripts.
- Hatnote confusion
- Reporting Abuse
- No response on months-old question on Financial Services companies stubs
- can't see images i uploaded
November 19
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November 20
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- Anonymous edits by an IP user
- My account won't fully function
- Sitenotice
- Sortable table - multiple header rows
- Number of edits
- Patrol hotkey
- HI
- Threatening message
- Adding colour button to the wikipedia toolbar
- Template usage on Userpages
- November 4 Help Desk archive missing
- Wikimedia.org
- hi
- Bogus Edits/Pages
- Who merges?
- Image attribution in ibox
- Misleading links
November 21
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- WP:CSD
- Special Pages
- I am ashamed that I even have to ask this question.
- Subject of Article wishes the page to be removed
- Editing
- where to report a copyright violation
- Signature
- Account creations
- The going on template?
- Twinkle/Friendly and Watchlist
- Twinkling for deletion
- Procedure for making an extraordinary claim as part of a Wikipedia entry.
- How to get a page undeleted
- Inline citation appearing as string of characters
- There is no page for a common search item
- Slur on Canadians
- Fixing vandalism
- Making tables
November 22
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- Click template
- geometry(shape and size,undefined terms)
- javascript
- javascript
- Image Issue
- The New York Times archive: all copyrighted as they indicate, or able to be used verbatim?
- Placing tables right next to each other
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Needing help about Numbered Lists
- Watchlist limitations
- helpme
- Periods in image captions
- Fonts needed by Wikipedia
- Band infobox members ordering?
- Nirvana (band)
- Upgrading image on commons
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 22#|]]
November 23
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- None of my scripts work
- Uploading images
- How to separate the Categories, Meta Data, Boxes, etc, into a footer editable section.
- Need help with template move/rename
- Number of articles
- Unable to edit pages on Wikipedia
- Editing
- Bluestar bus company, Southampton, UK
- Wikipedia for rural area in South Africa
- New York Times search engine logic
- Article titles
- Number of Page Views
- Wikiproject cross-reference templates
- automatically sorting a table
- what happens to deleted user pages?
- Rollback
- looking for help with massachussetts rights
- NOT GOING THROUGH
- Anon complaint
- Account deletion
- Customizing signature
November 24
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- Page SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria for merging Deletion
- Username - same as real person
- Questions about use/creation of Hidden Categories
- Talk page broken template
- Can't edit 'Apollonius of Tyre'
- Merge template
- .ogg file
- Sameera_Reddy
- Image uploading
- Humanities Archives
- Uploading pictures
- CITING AS A REFERENCE PAGE!
- WP issue
- Namespace operetor
November 25
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- Category intersections
- Gerald N. Epstein
- Coordinates
- Photo
- Back to top
- Public domain after 40 years?
- Can't suppress fundraising banner
- Changing Stub Status
- Search result question
- How to edit a specific part of the page?
- Thresholds: dab page when lots of in-text disambiguations are then required
- Edits don't show on page
- Halp! My page no longer archives
- new article
- 3RR Template
- Watch my User Page
- File:
- Columns
- Help Me... I am confused on how to post "NEW"
- Need help merging histories
- Editing infobox content
November 26
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- Barack Obama Entry
- non standard image placement and size
- Image deletion
- Images
- Can I copy Wikipedia content for my own wiki?
- Time Zone
- Inquiry
- IRC cloak
- Music singles infobox question
- Talk Page
- how is it possible for everyone to see the article i wrote in my account
- page potentially an advertisement?
- Help:Trusted user
- Citations Box
- Image visualization
- Company Promotion?
- Images at Talk:Crystal growth#Gallery cleanup
- inserting words using a non-Latin alphabet
- hot link colors
- Pages about companies
- Disappearing act
November 27
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- Warning: Default sort key "Darrell Figgis" overrides earlier default sort key "Figgis, Darrell".
- Commons name conflict
- Submission
- Template caption not centering properly
- public health engineering
- using searches
- Humor
- Making content boxes
- Userbox
- articles
- Refrences not working
- One half a million dollars..*little finger in corner of mouth*
- Over riding default image size in infoboxs
November 28
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- wikipedia to go
- how do i make an article?
- Mumbai
- How to reference a website in an infobox
- Avoid having it in printable version
- Navbox needs to be expanded
- Unable to log in
- Template Choices
- Adding Video Content
- "Award winning"
- History merges and preserving redirects for GDFL compliance - can this be explained?
- Changes which occure when coppying a text to word and saving it16:26, 28 November 2008 (UTC)79.176.11.215 (talk)
- Help with math,time, and if/then/else for a calender
- personile file
- Table help
- Counting characters in an article
- Blocking template and banned users
- austrslisn customs and values
November 29
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- Template:Location_map_USA_North_Carolina
- Collapsible boxes
- Spelling
- Oops on upload
- postal and zip codes for the U.S.A. and Israel.
- Template for citing British Library catalogue
- Regarding cropping a cc-by-2.0 image
- Late LateShow Template (Ireland)
- New branch of fitness science
- |
- Reflist does not appear
- Using foreign characters in an article
November 30
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- Media-Wiki question
- How do I delete my account?
- How do I Link to image page without embedding the image?
- Subcats don't show up anymore after piping
- Tom Murphy (Titan News Television Founder)
- do an article
- Two articles on the same subject
- Uploading a PD photohraph
- What is an insecure admin account?
- FA nomination
- Copyright rules
- ask question about certain subject
- Changing a article title
- changing category titles