Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/February 2012

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February 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 1

1. interwiki links do not work
2. User page not created after sign up
3. Try to provide a verifiable link for "Niticeability".
4. navigation box help
5. How long do I have to wait before setting up a proposed new WikiProject?
6. Dorial Green Beckham
7. PDF off computer as reference?
8. wp access
9. Disambiguation
10. Quick question
11. My name on the list of Akoko Sons
12. Speedy Deletions...
13. Interwiki links are broken
14. No links to digital pages
15. Twinkle
16. Libelous writing
17. KBDI-TV

February 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 2

1. Bill C-11. Look out.
2. Artists Discography
3. What about ACTA?
4. the india map
5. Re advetorial changes to article and need for monitoring
6. MathML rendering
7. Shanks Group image
8. There might be an factual error running through multiple articles
9. REVISION TO SECTION ON A COMPANY I FOUNDED
10. Correcting a name of someone
11. I don't know what I want to learn
12. The Flowers of War article's rating box
13. editing
14. Add a new external link to our (very interesting) Research Guides on different wiki pages.
15. Reading Wikipedia
16. Was endash the right choice?
17. Disruptive editing
18. Redirects showing out-of-date content
19. I want to correct references at page Andritz AG
20. Spaces or TABs for indenting source code?
21. reference gone = citation no longer available
22. Edit Israel page
23. Image help
24. AfC help
25. People's Action Party (Singapore) - Article
26. Afttest

February 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 3

1. Make a page
2. Rich Price
3. Re: J. Joseph Garrahy
4. how to join a wikipedia classroom group?
5. Job at Wikipedia
6. New Article
7. Article Feedback Request
8. Style issue
9. Rowspan command not working in a table
10. Why was my BlahBlahBia page deleted?
11. Regular password expiration
12. New User needing Experienced Editor
13. How do I shrink the font on Wikipedia?
14. Please help me help - re "Articles for creation"
15. Wikipeetia
16. Copywrite
17. How to save a Wikipedia book
18. Quadripoint

February 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 4

1. I don't even know where to start?!?!
2. King Elementary - noteworthy?
3. Deleted image still shows
4. Rejected Article
5. about delivery of new city Honda 1.5 V MT Exclusive with sun roof
6. Program For Editing
7. Where can external links go?
8. The Nurturing Network
9. I seek some advice re a user who marks most edits as minor.
10. How do I view a deleted page ?
11. About Prophet Muhammad
12. A page exists in English Wikipedia but not on French Wikipedia
13. Infobox & image layout
14. Boma
15. Disambig page
16. forwarding wikipedia articles
17. Apropriate User Talk page content
18. Request moving a category
19. Map coordinates, no seconds?
20. Problem With Wikipedia App for iOS

February 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 5

1. flagging a page with a possible copyright problem
2. Can we "Freeze panes" in Wikipedia tables?
3. How come it never logs me in across all wikis?
4. How to Change Erroenous Article Title and Links?
5. adding new science fiction authors
6. Demographics is COMPLETELY WRONG on Melbourne, Fl.
7. Translation of an English page to an already existing page in a different language
8. Request for feedback
9. Tables next to each other
10. uploading an image
11. Porsche 991
12. Blacklist
13. Gross misinformation
14. Multiple external links
15. Hans Kammerlander
16. color in links
17. Pine Burr Area Council

February 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 6

1. automatic highlighted add
2. Ref: User:Yasmin_Karim also :File:A. K. Nazmul Karim.jpg
3. What is the difference between the "Update" and "Out of date" templates?
4. I messed up a reference list
5. I corrupted a reference list
6. Restoring page on "IMP³rove"
7. Paul M. Ellwood, Jr.
8. Frances Raday
9. Reference
10. How to subscribe
11. how do i delete my wiki history?
12. BASCA logo
13. whereabouts of school
14. Editing external links for an organisation
15. concern about a posting on the page of Barack Obama
16. Saint Just book image
17. Edit Displaying.
18. What does RPO mean
19. Editing an Article
20. Creating links to places within articles that do not have separate articles in their own right.
21. Retrieving only articles (main namespace) via external search engine like Google
22. Deletion of orphaned non-free file
23. how to edit
24. How should units be designated in table headers?

February 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 7

1. color vs colour
2. infobox and image conflicting (IE9)
3. Definition on Wiki of "Evil"
4. Link user CSS and JavaScript across different Wikimedia sites
5. Template problem
6. Assistance with article. Autobot said references were not verifiable?
7. i think some the info people put in dictionaries and in other places should be changed or removed
8. New article - wrong name
9. Categorizing events known by Islamic calendar year
10. How and where to suggest a policy or a procedure to Wikipedia?
11. hurricane RINA!!! :D
12. addition to table and then reference it in footnote--confused...
13. How to Write an Article Citing Primary Sources?
14. Adding a section of a page to a category
15. Asian font for punctuation character?
16. incorrect page
17. Submission + Credibility
18. Trying to propose an article for deletion
19. Merrick Systems page deleted
20. Advise for Startup Company's Article Revision

February 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 8

1. Someone is Selling Wikipedia on PlayBook?
2. James Frain
3. Smithsonian Channel counter-diction
4. how to request a user ban
5. Contrib count by edit prefix
6. Defining two url parameters in citation template
7. Contribution keeps getting removed
8. 2012
9. wrong pix
10. Show me the money
11. Wrong flag used for 2 years now
12. My article for Serge Lamothe
13. Gerry Zaragemca
14. Formatting Issue on a specific page
15. Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection
16. What reference format is in use here?
17. Looking for logs except a certain type
18. Date Calculating Incorrectly in Info Box
19. Specific litmus for COI edit and promotional user name

February 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 9

1. Global account username change
2. Google 'Define British Person'
3. What template to use?
4. Referencing
5. Untitled section
6. Need help on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
7. Math codes
8. How do you display a Coat of Arms in an InfoBox?
9. Broken thumbnail
10. why is my edit continuously deleted?
11. A lack in Languages..
12. Glue
13. User contributions
14. Blue background
15. Double vote
16. Web Page Format
17. Review
18. Revision History Statistics Broken?
19. trouble with code
20. Unable to locate article in search function
21. Broken edit statistics
22. User John Petrov's image source website seems to be getting deleted
23. Republicanism in the United States--a bright shining lie masquerading as an encyclopedia article
24. Local info
25. check my work?

February 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 10

1. How to reply in the Talk section
2. Spammy links
3. TORONTO ONTARIO
4. Who and When
5. Adding a citation
6. advice notice of iten on Wikipedia
7. Mexican Built Sand Cats
8. deactivate of an account
9. So Where is Rule 16 ??
10. Mysterious file disappearances.

February 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 11

1. Wrong date
2. The Ox-Bow Incident
3. ip redirect
4. michael socha
5. Finding why a file was deleted
6. Auto Confirmed
7. Wiki Admin upsurping power
8. What to do with a particular redirect?
9. major religion
10. Can I write an article about Gaynor Sports, Ambleside. UK
11. Undo move
12. Random page, but with guidelines?
13. Wayne Rooney
14. Green and Red numbers on My Watchlist
15. Jordan McCabe
16. Unreviewed article
17. Blue type overused
18. Bureaucrat criteria

February 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 12

1. Admin needed for protected template
2. MAGPIE article weird statistics results
3. Render server error while creating book
4. White-Pool House
5. Citing a piece of literature / media.
6. Why can only administrators view deleted pages?
7. Editing a page that later gets deleted
8. How do I put a reference in a endnote?
9. Ullswater
10. Spelling error in the title of an article I have created
11. looking for admission

February 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 13

1. Quotation box & URLs
2. quercetrin
3. New to Wikki
4. Chinese version of Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
5. English Usage
6. Adding an Entertainer to Wikipedia
7. CDC data primary source
8. What sort of place is Wikipedia?
9. Article completed. Wat's next ?
10. Sociology paper 7 Emergence of sociological concern in india
11. Emotional Therapy
12. Huggle
13. Incorrect Spelling Of Product Name
14. Image not appearing
15. George Shinn/Purchase of Hornets
16. Job seeker

February 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 14

1. Kathleen Adams
2. Facebook pages created by Wikipedia
3. AfD Removal
4. Error on Leland, Iowa page
5. Trevor Treharne
6. Add a new section to the Contents List
7. Glitch?
8. Translation Problem
9. Keith Haring Infobox
10. Untitled section about MRSA
11. Araldite English reverting
12. Kudos for excellent work and standing your ground
13. Debating notability
14. Wikilinking as COI?
15. POSTING A DRAFT OF AN ARTICLE
16. Misspelled and apparently uneditable (by me) Category heading
17. multiple unsourced chart rankings for ZX Spectrum games
18. Joseph Fischoff
19. National varieties question
20. Question about language translation
21. Adding a page of guidelines
22. Moving and re-title

February 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 15

1. downloading books i created
2. Does logging in again affect one's edit?
3. Shogun page appears to have been deleted.
4. Request move listing
5. blacklisted but don't know why or how to correct
6. Is there a way to hide the "my sandbox" link in the links at the top of the page?
7. Help
8. HOW DO I ADD TO OR DELETE MY UNIFIED ACCOUNTS?
9. Group shot
10. E MAIL ADDRESS
11. Updating pages
12. Reference in info box?
13. Talk page new sections problem
14. Hank Stickney wikipedia page
15. First page
16. Portals
17. Uploading pictures
18. Changing a title / adding a redirect
19. A couple image issues
20. Category-generating template is broken?

February 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 16

1. Uploading photos that are not yours
2. IPA When Editing
3. Report on your (todays featured picture)
4. for 2/16/2012
5. Consensus
6. wikipedia as homepage
7. About FAHRENHEITº magazine
8. Copy editing request tag
9. Help please on how to get a table back!
10. Images from Project Gutenberg
11. Belgium - History of Louis de Potter - Data quality
12. TeX formatting for maths articles - help needed.
13. Bluetooth spam
14. Error in information in the article about Edward Brian (Ted) Seago
15. Luminato festival Wikipedia entry
16. Move to commons
17. My article draft is ready. How long will it take to be published ?
18. Add birthday
19. Questions
20. editing of pages in Hungarian Wikipedia
21. Charles Dana Gibson illustrator
22. 2nd Ammendment To The American Constitution Page
23. editing reference question

February 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 17

1. Adding RSS Feeds to Wikipedia
2. Formatting for Heading
3. Putting image on userspace
4. Clock
5. how do i put something on wikipedia, a new contribution
6. re J W Miller & Sons
7. Converting Word to wiki markup
8. Deleted Edits?
9. How to credit translations
10. Page about "Ferdinand A. Hermens"
11. Requesting general review by non-creator for new article
12. Placement of photos
13. referances request
14. Franklin Hansen incorrect information
15. Film reference as an RS

February 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 18

1. Possibly malicious link in page about Royal Thai Police.
2. Baldiwn of Forde article may have been vandalized
3. Mass vandalism through editing unprotected templates
4. Throat cancer
5. All links on OS X page linking to 9/11 site.
6. The page of Autism appears to have been hacked with an overlay that provides a link to a racist 9/11 conspircy site
7. marcus collins
8. Translation of articles existing in french and not entirely translated in english
9. SEARCH FOR PAGE UNSUCCESSFUL - WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG
10. Anti-Israel Redirects?
11. User:Richhoncho
12. page hijack - ashley tisdale
13. "Nocat" option into navboxes
14. Problem with map on Bosnia and Herzegovina
15. Bosnia Article is Hacked
16. Wikipedia Offline Support
17. Should they still be listed?
18. how do i find wiring diagrams for cars

February 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 19

1. Error on Eric Griffin page
2. New message prompt reveals 2007 messaage (reverted or removed)
3. About speedy deletions
4. fake link form All's Well that Ends well to a very suspicious site
5. Answer to College Accounting 20th Edition Ch 6 pg 222-226
6. Fate/Stay Characters page is hacked too
7. How to add a sandbox article to main Wikipedia pl?
8. Why are people allowed to talk and act like this?
9. Naming conventions
10. Request for Feedback
11. Roman Catholic Churches in NYC
12. hip goverment program for homeless intervention funding

February 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 20

February 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 20

1. Help me I sumitted the wrong article
2. Name
3. Forgotton Username
4. what is half pk ? What is full and half mold in leather gloves
5. Uploading mistake
6. reviewing an artile called: Sakib
7. Down Loading pictures/photos from wikipedia "athenic" site
8. Looking for a specific policy page
9. Deleting Published User page articles and Deleting my account
10. Image copyright?
11. The Visit Album - references
12. I want to request a new article to be made, but I don't want to create it myself
13. Uploading journal cover image
14. To Whom It May Concern
15. Images Permissions
16. Age to be on Wikipedia.
17. Unable to save a document to CD/RW
18. Geologic(al) subdivisions: capitalisation
19. Accidental Multi-gesture?
20. Template 'pp-full'
21. IP hopping
22. Question about "As Of" template
23. Uploading Google Street view screenshots, permissible?

February 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 21

1. Please help with filling in file info
2. Missing stack in User:Tompw/bookshelf, Wikipedia:Size in volumes etc.
3. Harvard references
4. My New Submission Keeps Getting Rejected
5. Search engine fails
6. Font size changed?
7. Email
8. Deaf and hard of hearing
9. 2008 Channel 4 documentary controversy
10. Reflist template
11. Help Re-write deleted Merrick Systems article
12. How to get an article publised
13. Reordering account links at the top of all pages
14. Please assist me in deleting the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine page
15. Wapiti
16. I really have tried

February 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 22

1. thread answering
2. Request for Feedback
3. Global Positioning System article feedback
4. whitney houston
5. The tools above the edit box -- Internet Explorer vs. Chrome
6. Redefine "My Sandbox"?
7. Should they still be listed?
8. warning of Jacques Cousteau about our seas pollution
9. italics
10. Suggestions greatly appreciated
11. Bibliographic references
12. Giving compliments
13. Only one reference
14. Feedback please - I have worked hard on this article!
15. Search has gone very bad for several hours.
16. Name is written
17. Mad Magizine History... Under Mad Music
18. News Create a wiki unbiased news site

February 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 23

1. Adding picture of sports team uniforms?
2. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/SpiderGraph chart - Notability & 3rd party Sources
3. problem of zh_tw version of wikipedia
4. Question about article submission
5. Reliability & NPOV. Clarification of policy.
6. Did I just screw up royally? "Wikipedia Commons" (resolved)
7. Templates overflowing out of screen
8. Downloading a photo of Athenic.
9. Unable to enter site directly
10. Eva marcille pigford
11. Copying text out of an Abuse Filter log entry?
12. Need help making this page work
13. How do I remove the Wikipedia search
14. Dab help
15. Axioche's stub status, and similar cases.
16. History of topic changes
17. Question on sources
18. Personalized sports jerseys, etc. sold to fans
19. Custom drop down options on special pages
20. Delete edit
21. Bad link
22. What to do when BRD cycle can't be made?
23. Article on cheese
24. additional information

February 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 24

1. User Fastily/E deleted my article and suggests in his user page that Help Desk can help to review re-submitted articles
2. My new edit has stayed red ?
3. F.MOLINA CAMPOS/929
4. Wikipedia and Wikia
5. article's
6. Need a third party to verify neutrality
7. Watchlist bot (no, not that one)
8. Changing the "d" to "t" in templates
9. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 24#Placing_section_below_image.2C_but_alongside_infobox-_.7B.7Btl.7Cclear.7D.7D_doesn.27t_do_it|Placing section below image, but alongside infobox- {{clear}} doesn't do it]]
10. FC Anzhi Makhachkala
11. Wikia
12. Username refusal
13. For Scholarship
14. Crosswiki pictures
15. Searching for specific types of images
16. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Wynne Theater
17. What does the lock icon after a link mean?
18. :Category:American anti-communists
19. rational point article is mysteriously messed up
20. Setting up a page
21. Request for Page Restoration

February 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 25

1. Removing the template name and swimming to properly say rowing
2. To the subtopic under heading sikhism
3. What to do about a user's sandbox
4. Dispute on article "Nair"
5. can we undo what we just saved?
6. a good school Article
7. digitizer
8. National park,Sanctuary,Biosphere
9. I added a navigation bar to my userpage and now text is small!
10. User page
11. Pictures
12. image on the left screws up left-justification

February 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 26

1. how do I undo the most recent edit?
2. Car In "Keeping Up Appearances"
3. Painter by the name E. T. Whitesides
4. Add a word to the dictionary
5. waste of time for myself and other contributers
6. How to make a page on wikipedia
7. Nassim Haramein
8. Want to work with and contribute to Wikipedia for Summer
9. Naming conventions
10. Roughly how many percent of the Wikipedia articles are semi protected?
11. Category Post-Impressionist painters
12. User name is appearing online!!
13. User page is redirected
14. New section
15. music lyrics and chords
16. How do I dispute an edit performed by another editor
17. cannot enter my account
18. Premier League table
19. How do I hide a user page (which I have created)
20. Time zone setting -- where does it apply?
21. Delete please.
22. What happened here?
23. Snopes
24. Need to add a parameter to a template

February 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 27

1. Page editor
2. help
3. Wikipedia not working??
4. Promotional content from a neutral point of view
5. WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
6. Demand for help
7. Correction submition for Bilady, Bilady, Bilady
8. Hope Keng-Wai Lee page should be Hope Keng-Wei Lee. The entry title can not be edited.
9. Warnings and scoldings but NEVER EVER edited anything, NOT AOL user
10. Odds of being born on a millennium leap year
11. Gang Stalking / Cause Stalking
12. Newbie file uploader questions
13. Permission to use of a section of wikiHOW in a book about Design and Designing
14. ARTICLE
15. My article has not been published yet after 2 weeks of waiting...
16. Sandbox as training ground?
17. Two different URLs for same page comes up as different versions.
18. Problem with Judge Tena Campbell's article?

February 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 28

1. Removing orphaned images
2. Sorting troubles
3. Making the 'Show' button on a collapsed table look right
4. improve this article template removal
5. Inserting improved photo
6. How to handle situations when a fellow editor appears to be mentally/cognitively deficient in some or other way
7. "current" AFD out of whack
8. Planespottingworld.
9. Watchlist quiery
10. Archiving DYK nom page
11. Role of agriculture in economic development
12. closeing account
13. Technical request
14. Tool
15. My user name does not exist
16. Referencing problem
17. Table needs fixing
18. economics
19. Deleted Images
20. Viewing talkpage datestamps in local time
21. The copyright status of images with quoted text in them
22. Is it possible to submit a sound clip?
23. Query a fact
24. Why are the periods stripped out?

February 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 29

1. Guenter A. Rieger
2. OTRS and non-free use
3. nonprofit laws on charitable giving
4. Removing 'citations needed' category from an article
5. 3D television
6. Missing stack in User:Tompw/bookshelf, Wikipedia:Size in volumes etc.
7. Horizontal borders for tables
8. Template collapsing
9. Help with random
10. wiki Login Issue - Email expired and not working
11. Large white space
12. Links in References do not appear for editing, need to be changed
13. Historians, &c.
14. Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame
15. Music Chart template problem?
16. irrelevant wikipedia article
17. Whole article a copyvio?
18. Diagrams for articles
19. About my new page
20. Wiki to facebook.
21. Lost uploaded image
22. How in the world is this an advertisement??
23. What does the Improve this Page tab man?
24. Is there any way to remove the "Improve this page" tab?
25. Image frame in a thumbnail
26. iPad 3
27. HTML tags in page titles