Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/July 2010
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July 1
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- About editing
- Two featured pictures up for speedy
- Bot or not Bot?
- Some Stupids are destroying my article
- Table Alignment
- Need some help creating a new article
- Missing information
- Phishing email targeting Wiki users
- Just received an email saying that I've registered with wikipedia but I have not
- Glossary of terms for ...
- Is this a valid Wikipedia email?
- kaine page on facebook
- strange mail from you or...?
- Report an user
- Archiving
- Links in images
- wikipedia as a virtual art gallery
- mystery address
- gay.com
July 2
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- Hospital article guidelines
- Why person feels to increase zone setpoint??
- Episode lists
- Tool on Simple not here
- Image deleted?
- Reverting Vandalism Format
- New Article
- Transferring IP edits to a username
- Naming section headers
- Tahiti national football team
- HTTP message format
- Incorrect links
- what can doc types can be embedded/inserted? PDFs?
- Who is the American wrestler that reported his own death on Wikipedia?
- Twinkle
- Rude names
- Company Changed Name, Best way to handle in approved manner?
- Speedy Deletion Unfair
- Enabling the Wikipedia Book maker
July 3
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- Article page and redirect page swap
- Fair-use conundrum
- Search Bug
- Privacy
- Charles Roth
- Talk Page
- Reviewers
- Book compiled but download corrupted
- Huggle
- Huggle
- How do I make this box thing?
- Asking Other Editors...
- How to feed pages such as 'My contributions' to a self-written editor?
- Add information
- 2010–11 Ipswich Town F.C. season
- Naomh Conaill
July 4
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- How do I go about proposing a new notability standard for schools?
- How to upload a picture for my profile & presentation Bio page???
- Case Conversion?
- #1 albums categories
- page about NEARU martial art is missing
- Problem
- Talk Page
- This article has multiple issues
- Portal Box Location
- placing article
- Double redirect
- Roll back
July 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 5
- Login Problems
- Database error
- Search box
- Wikipedia and Twitter
- Changing fonts and adding backgrounds
- Editing old revisions using custom tabs
- Daddy Long Legs article issue
- 1989 car craft conversion
- Sploofus
- Google Books reference, with or without highlighting?
- Location for debate with other wikipedians
- Can't Move New Article Out Of My UserPage - What Now?
- Uploading Images
- Bank of Montreal
- Template:Userspace draft
July 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 6
- Remove prod blp tag
- overview of allowed sources
- Creating a template
- Trouble with using picture from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Questions about your article on the Shaker song Simple Gifts
- administrator
- Improper redirection of our trade name hotel Tanjung Rhu Resort
- Fast way to replace a deleted image?
- CSD Tag
- Where does the phrase "walking in a crocodile" come from?
- Formatting
- Can news articles depicting negative events be added to University's Wikipedia page?
- Sortable Table Question
- Mile run redirect
- Aristide Razu article
- Preferred method to force
literalnon-list interpretation of infobox data field - editing Infobox
July 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 7
- How to delete my username from wikipedia?
- Delete all categories?
- Editing a page
- MySpace links in body of text
- page deletion
- Question
- Who is the uploader? Empty log
- Directories
- Bracket error
- Man, I really dislike the play sushi ads
- Spelling of search terms
- US Court question
- Names of jailed entertainers?
- Deleted article
- Cannot edit reference section
- References
- Stop users from editing my page
- How do I...... Post a page on WIkipedia
- Salam
- Bizarre template with leading colon transcluding from the beyond
- Merge IP with User
July 8
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- deleted
- Userpage problem
- Reporting a suspected "sockpuppet"
- Allowance of an article about a psychological test.
- Translations
- Different standards for the Dutch en English Wikipedia?
- What the f*#& happened to this article?
- font
- Pending changes Question asked here for quick response
- audio file
- Moving half an edit history?
- Filmography
- What to do about offensive or soapbox material on a talk page.
- Using excerpts and images for third party articles?
- BLP - Nuno Lupi (Reliable sources)
- Changing an article name
- advertising on wikipedia
July 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 9
- Help with uploading a new image to a friend's Wikipedia
- Could somebody please upload this file for me?
- Possible virus link in article reference
- Rollback
- Dear Sirs
- Operation
- Template problem
- Interstate 244
- Gadget issue with browser update
- page not reviewed
- Edits are seriously attributed to wrong username
- LaTeX
- Case Sensitivity
- Help with the infobox template
- Unspecified Login errors
- Adding a table of contents entry for Spiritual Healing in Faith Healing article?
- Feedback about my Spiritual Healing text being reverted by User:BullRangifer?
July 10
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- Door
- These pages appear to collapsible into one page
- Stone cold steve austin
- User name vs. IP address in change log.
- Posting link to Wikipedia
- Wiki Documentation
- Virginia State Route 17
- Unable to register account
- adding to the lamda alumni list
- iCarly Season 4 Episode One: iGot a Hot Room
- Book authors violating their own copyright?
- harry potter page is down
- Why is article tagged orphan although it has over 30 links and how can the orphan tag be removed?
July 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 11
- Mods and Policies....
- U of Kentucky policy regarding holocaust studies
- Bug in Lupin's AVT
- User keeps unediting every edit I make without being reasonable
- Wikiprojects
- Download a list of pages I have contributed to
- Fran Merida
- At what educational level should Wiki articles on technical subjects be written?
- User:Willy_on_Wheels
- Page Creation
- Lloyd Kerry
- Create an Author Page, How?
- Naruto Shippuden 4: The Lost Tower
- Donald Goines
- References Vs. External Links
- Family tree of characters of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung from mkirs54321
- How do I contact a Wikipedia writer?
July 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 12
- Missing Photo files
- Where can I request a logo for an article?
- Template Error - State Highway - Help Pls
- No response regarding my article
- Start a new page.?
- marking or shrinking the rollback button
- My article doesn't show up in Wikipedia
- page deleted
- How can I move an article from my user page to the mainspace
- Suspicious emails that may not be coming from Wikipedia
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Eidur Gudjohnsen or Eiður Guðjohnsen
- warnings when there is no violation
- concerning references in Mean Free Path
- Sound version of an article
- e-mailing articles
- Getting a list of articles in a category
- How to locate afd's one has created
- Fields of science
- Retrieving information from deleted account
- Non-italics alternative
- PRV Engine is ambiguous
July 13
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- PROBLEM TABLE SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES?
- Re: Inappropriate Link PLEASE REMOVE
- Template to indicate foreign language in ref citation
- How do I get a picture I have uploaded to Wikipedia Commons to my article?
- How do you edit the very first section of an article?
- Could you help me with a picture?
- Can you curb the antisemitism?
- OPPOSITE OF BOREDOM
- Why is email from the holder of a photo right not sufficient as permission?
- county tax
- Link to Dropbox
- Deleting a subpage of my userpage
- Please help
- Images
- How do we handle a situation where a large number of users are vandalizing articles?
- London Metropolitan University edits
- How do you change an incorrect redirect?
- Malicious user page linked in Category:Cancer_treatments
- prevention of inclusion of email addresses on this page?
- Greetings
- Friendly
- Vandalism?
July 14
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- Album citations?
- Which Ipswich
- My own wiki account
- Undeleting Article "Paul V. Kane"
- Peter Barton, Historian
- Peter Barton, Historian
- Neurotic over reactions via fight/flight impulse or protection of offspring
- Chennai
- Formatting glitch
- Creating/editing Grammar Pages
- Possible vandalism in use of delete tags?
- Is it O.K. to edit the part of an article that is currently being discussed in mediation?
- African American baseball players
- IMDB-only templates
- Skins
- Security settings
- Redirect
- Vandalism? (Seahorse JavaScript Library)
- More vandalism?
- Writing about myself
- redirect
- Where did the pictures I uploaded go?
- DIRECT LINK TO COMMONS
July 15
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- tv scheduling
- Downloading PDFs on Wikisource
- Your Logo
- Why my article has been deleted when I followed all Wikipedia Instructions?
- Unified login for my account name
- I am trying to find anybody that knows anything about Mr. Ray Thomas or Mr.Reno Wolfe.
- London Metropolitan University edits
- Wikipedia Statistics
- Article Authors
- Photo displaying oddly
- {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
- Where to look for the ranking of a page on Wikipedia
- Use of Wikipedia photographs
- Listing musical genres
- Pretty Ricky Wikipedia Page needs to be fixed!!
- Jeckyll Island
- IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO USE POLISH VERSION OF THE WIKIPEDIA
- I can't find my article on Wikipedia
- Speedy deletion tag
- Thank you KarenJC!!!
- Citing references
- Wikipedia Droid App
- Norman Parker speedway rider
- Looking for a tool
- Referencing a company's website
- Question about article tags
- "ball" logos in userpage
- Woman's Tennis Draws ational championshipd
July 16
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- Unable to login to wikipedia
- "Popular reference"
- Infoboxes
- required an essay on "joys and travails of travel"
- map coordinates
- Problem with DYK page
- Advertisement on user talk page
- Accessing and Manipulating books that I have created.
- Pressure in Deepwater Horizon well
- Vandalism?
- SUL
- !@#$%^&
- :File:NRA logo.png
- Self
- Please add information to the webpage
- Sheffield
July 17
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- -Spaces
- Routemaster RMA
- Need help with a WikiProject
- move images to commons
- Changing an article name
- Edit summary help
- Reduction in numbar of slept admins
- Uploading PDFs for use as references
- Vandalism?
- dr who
- Vandalism?
- How to insert a TAB character when editing an article ?
July 18
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- Templates
- Kobe Kaisei College
- Brian O'Brian shorts
- Page with an incorrect title that duplicates the subject of an additional page
- Six tabs gadgets
- Grammar help needed
- English only?
- Need advice: What's the best way to fix articles that are poorly sourced?
- How long should I wait for a response? and if I don't get it, what can I do?
- Creating a Family of Pages
July 19
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- Right to vote
- Table of Contents
- How to refer to a user with no user page?
- Lost Book
- Wikipedia link that ends with a ")"
- Uploading a .JPG image file to an article
- Classic Cigarettes
- Citations and references
- Is there a reason for the underlining on this page?
- Facts related to an inground swimming pool
- Infobox question...
- Looking for a third opinion about revision to Rick Scott page
- To blog, or not to blog
- prob with article
- duplicated AFD report
- accommodation in shostka ukraine
- CONFIRMING RESOURSES
- Jellyfish
July 20
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- 1 billionth user
- Problem with staying logged in
- how do i get the instution on how to get started
- "Congratulations! Wikipedia's one-billionth user. Click to collect your prize!"
- one billionth??
- Infobox, again...
- Honoring Brazilian architect Oscar Neimeyer . This could be in a Rio newspaper ., but nowhere on internet was any space for this .
- enwiki-20100130-pages-articles.xml.bz2
- Article disappeared - help! New article appeared published but days later cannot find it and re-directing to another article.
- Can someone help me upload my article?
- 2x silly questions
- Posting Information to Wikipedia
- Update my account
- Articles created by user Wiki tool
- Need help changing a heading
- Vermont Grassroots Party
- group=notes, named ref?
- Any MiszaBot gurus about?
- download file?
- Social Networking Icons
- locating stats
- How can I get a new browser window to open when clicking on a link?
- Piracy promoting articles
- incorrect paragraphs in info on Bogalusa, LA--none of this is correct nor even sensible-Bogalusa Chamber
- Undone edit
- Can someone do my homework for me?
- User page messed up, but I can't figure it out
July 21
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- Translate to English
- Requesting closure
- Audio book of How to win friends and influance people.
- Question about a topic-banned user
- Link to closed deletion discussion
- Reference upload?
- copyright
- Is there a tag I can add for...
- Fun with wikicode!
- Orphaned non-free image File:MIJO LOGO.png
- Family members
- Denied a WIKI page without any real rational reason
- 2nd request
- Edited the page "National Minority AIDS Council"
- uploading a logo
- autobiography of author
- Another Bill Johnson
- person with same name not showing up on main page choices
- Using Friends of the Subject as Citations
- Pages started by the conversion script but not on Nostalgia
- Pichilemu#History
July 22
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- User script help
- Delete Revisions?
- Aromatic Ring Structure
- delete this?
- Vandalism?
- picture on french wiki
- Band article (The Freewheelers)
- Share an Article
- Vandalism?
- Tables
- User Page cleanup
- Two bands
- List of football players with a Fooball League Championship winner's medal
- Citing another encyclopedia
- Vandalism
- Extend an foreign language article by translating the english article
- Languages
- Product vs. Company pages
- Title
July 23
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- Inter-Wiki Translating, do I include the same references?
- Help with Wiki form
- Userboxes
- Difference between versions
- Help with Citation Fritz Zwicky
- Requests page lock
- Company name on page title is wrong
- link error
- Adding Details to Any Page
- Anonymous reviewer
- Appropriate to create a new page? And how do we maintain control of content?
- Reviewing Information
- Eastenders
- How to Number Equations
- Change User Name
- Help at the help desk
July 24
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- Linking to Wiktionary
- Emailing talkpage?
- chiropractic
- Manute Bol
- Citadel Broadcasting Streaming Plan Change
- Citadel Broadcasting Radio Station Pages Updating Halted...
- Search
- Article created in the wrong place
- G3
- Bonding problem of plastics
- why different categories of info for different politicians?
- Citadel Broadcasting Websites and Malware
- Paging through long articles
- Insulting edit summeries and possible vandalism
- Edit OK?
- [http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page Deletionpedia]
- Tna alumni
- extra text visible above a dot map
- Articles that continuely need to be updated
- Is my edit ok?
- Disney Channel Latin America
- User Blocked
- References
- Fatehabad, Agra
- Warning
July 25
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- subst and new messages alerts
- Multiple Russian Links
- I own the copyright of paper, but do not know how to prove that
- Delphic Games
- An interview as a reliable source...?
- Changing the display font of Wikipedia
- Photographer
- Vandalism on the Undertaker article
- Max Cleland
- More edit notices?
- Watchlist options
- Named References
July 26
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- Pictures of tanks
- Edit ok?
- Welcome
- Page Deletion
- Illustrations image rights purchase
- Edit OK?
- Bill Williams (actor)
- Did I do this right?
- VCH - Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 1846-7 and other nonsense
- Deletion of page
- Deletion of page
- Edit count
- Editing a discussion after closure
- transferring edit credit
- Company's Marketing Manager Making updates to Page
- Stockport County F.C.
July 27
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- Use of movereq template without subst
- Bible related movies
- Very old AFD RFA
- Page Deletion
- Are there notability guidelines for progidies?
- Twinkle
- Can someone please fix
- Manufacturing in HK
- creating a version of an article in a different language
- Contributions by [76.254.32.248]
- Page Deletion ???
- Problems with an article nontheism, the "word", and an AfD
- Sandpit (disambiguation)
- semi conductors
- Wikipedia arbitrage guidelines
- Is there an RSS feed for DYK?
- Erroneous edit as IP
- Image history
- Change username on Wikipedia account
- Automatically Shorten References By Bot?
July 28
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July 29
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July 30
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