Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/June 2010
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June 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 1
- How to challenge a reference
- samssung corby plus(hydrid)
- External Editor
- Permanent Wiki URL?
- Lisney Ltd
- How long does a new article takes to appear in Search Result
- Time to celebrate?
- Diff between two shortish bits of text
- How to delete temporary article
- Lost login ID and Password i know which Email i made it from ...
- Deletion of Tri Shakthi
- Signing my post
- False Usernames
- Drive-By Downloads on the site! found by Norton Safe Web
- RSS Feeds
- Computer threat from wikipedia.org
- Biography deleted
- Edit in infobox doesn't show
- Can pages be blocked from people editing?
- Article claimed to be vandalism
- Created article
- Page tagged with template not showing up in category
June 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 2
- Wiki stopped working on BlackBerry Fri May-07-2010
- Problem
- Difference between Twinkle's built-in reverter and Rollback?
- Is there a place to request help in verifying material in pay only sites?
- Performance
- Applying {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} to a different page
- Wayne Bonney
- Recycling bin
- Political affiliation
- Cannot change one detail of a page I moved and edited.
- Article translated by friend - does he need an account?
- File extension does not match MIME type
- Site change or is it me
- I had a login and it does no longer work. Please Help!
- Wilhelm Scream soundbyte removed
- Request clean up of talk page at the Wrap-up tab of Wikipedia:Tutorial
- General Aristide Razu article ,photos upload in the article?
- Autograph-Cards LLC
- Improper citation resource
- General Aristide Razu
- Teardown actually contains two articles
- Why are my edits being deleted?
- Image not showing up
- What year was it established that IP addresses could not edit?
June 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 3
- LA Rams - My Father?
- Stadler Image
- remove this pic
- be alert! ip address stolen
- How to place my article on another blog on Wikipedia?
- Image shrunk to a point
- Which Language is it?
- Wrong name of article
- Background color no longer uses my Windows setting
- COI question
- General Aristide Razu
- Lady Gaga
- figure it out episodes
- General Aristide Razu's resources
- I can't get to mobile mode!
- Parsing Wiki XML Dumps ver0.4 just got tough
- Aurora Organic Dairy - factual errors in content
- new page
- Photographs?
- TFA - What is the point of this?
June 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 4
- Ventro-ventral should be renamed
- have photos etc to contribute for Steve Fossett bio re the search
- Gary Coleman
- I didn't disagree with you
- How do I resize an image?
- Thea Garrett (Controversy section)
- Writing in red
- Threats on my user page
- linking to sub heading
- Recreating an article
- Adminship
- uploading a new corporate logo to a company's existing article/page
- templates with a number of red links
- Vandalism
- User account redirect to article page OK?
- report abuse, IP issue
- how do i extend the width of a section. The line only goes halfway across the page
June 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 5
- Code can't be hidden in infobox
- Complexity
- Mobil wiki not working
- Blocking?
- Need help to revert the changes and add new subcategory on the config examples page.
- Quick question
- STiki
- Mobile Wiki
- iPhone devise browser format of Wikipedia articles has stopped working
- Abusive comment
- Making a page: will it be deleted if?
- General of Division Aristide Razu
- References
- Mystery template
- Jointing references?
- Ancestry.com & Wikipedia
- How to protest decision
June 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 6
- Please forward my email to actor Eric Roberts
- Archiving
- What is the best warning template to use?
- Ambulance passenger(s)
- Trying to get an image file renamed, and am not allowed to upload
- making link text a different color.
- Deletion of Pages With an Outside Source
- Substandard old FA articles
- Errors on several articles
- Looking for a template.
- Wow!Thanks!
- Login issues
- references help - formatting
- Musical notation
- May I copy an article/chart for use in a lecture without written permission? If I need permission, how do I get it?
- search engine
- New messages
- Admitting defeat: protected pages with expiry expired.
- Uploading Pictures Created Created on Photoshop
June 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 7
- Anthony Bustos and Sara Isaacson, DADT activists
- How to Report Duplicate Pages?
- parts
- Can anyone fix this?
- vmware
- wikitable formatting problem
- Babels
- Red text, blue text
- Want a job in Wikipedia
- Ps3 browser problems
- Deleted pages
- Lowercasing an article name
- Hiding IP address
- wikipedia
- article about General Aristide Razu deleted?
- page move
- Edmonton Clinic
- Pokemon cheat codes
- Mobile Redirect Disabled on My Android Device
- Archiving my user talk page
- User:Palu
- Heavily referenced article disappears in only two weeks
- Template:Cite journal not adding quote marks
June 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 8
- Requesting unblock of User:45g
- i can't add pictures
- D
- Citing an Image
- missing determination
- Create a biography
- Lost account... help
- Creating a new personal page on wikipedia
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Today
- Freemont
- File:Ye Htoon.jpg
- Wrong link to Miles Davis album on 'Miles Davis Discography' Wiki page
- Siggy problem
- help with the virtual retinal display article.
- ethics
- How to watchlist an article
- How do I post a biography?
- changing pages' colors to other than white
- List of holby city characters
- Audio and video sources
- Book input
June 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 9
- Wrong link for Light Up the Sky
- Reporting vandalism on ChildFund International page
- Dr Who cast list
- Screenshot
- Help writing either a template or a bit of inline wizardry
- Glendon & Rushton Station website
- Yacht racing photo
- Book Creator Toolbox
- Nominating an article for deletion.
- Placing two images side by side
- Reference to non-free newspaper from the google news archive.
- Use of the word "British"
- Someone who has some time on their hands
- AIR FORCE GENERALS
- Multiple archived urls, one source
June 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 10
- My page was deleted, is not in the deletion log and not on deletionpedia
- Puzzled, my page has references and still marked for deletion
- DinoCroc
- Alternative accounts
- Updating an article on a person of historical importance
- Are there any front-end programs for Wikipedia?
- Clicking the Wiki markup features
- How to view my user space's contents?
- Dodgy Display
- Trying to find a word starting with A
- Possible BLP violation
- I wish to sponsor a Wikipedia page. How much would it cost to get an ad there?
- add a line to my talk without getting the line boxed
- VP nominator template needed
- Uploading Photos
- Acceptable rates for automated access
- Greyhound Lines-Wipedia the free encyclopedia
- Watchlist
- user name
- General Aristide Razu's photos?
June 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 11
- Global account
- Second User Account Created
- Image editing error
- FONT TOO BIG
- Signatures: How to link them to an actual userpage?
- Help fix Wikipedia page
- Upload a Delphi application to Wikipedia.
- To Admins
- Fighter
- edit charcterisation software bug?
- Taking vitamins
- downloading wikepedia??
- Universal Absolutism
- Incorrect info on the 45th Grammy Awards Wikipedia page
- Editing with factual content
- residency code
June 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 12
- Section shows nothing but a link when I clcik edit
- figure of speech
- Category Suppression based on Namespace
- Archiving
- Some recent Site change Instantly crashes my browser on every Wikipedia page!
- P. L. Travers
- Twinkle
- Arabic
- phonetics help
- Scientific Notification in Wikipedia using unicode
- gramatical question.
- new page
- Warnings
- Problems with illustrations
- Randomly placng Speedy Deletion tags
June 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 13
- Warnings
- Episodes
- Collapsible Table
- Spell checking in the editing box
- Accidentally clicked "Email New Password"; can't remember which email address I had linked to wikipedia.
- Virus - Wiki or Google
- sort of racism in Zwahili language article
- Uncollapsing a template
- talk page doesn't show last sections
- False Information About Ariana Afghan Airlines
- User-Agent blocking problem !
- Need delete chatroulette article!
- How to Add Headings to a Wiki Page?
- Translated books in citation templates
- Marcelo Bielsa Bio
- small computer memory made from switches
- I am trying to figure out hoe to move my article from my user page to 'out there'. I see no move arrow that someone else talked about.Statenisland777 (talk)
June 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 14
- Why am I not autoconfirmed?
- Does anybody know how to bypass Chrome's cache?
- prjects on commercial mathematics
- WATERBURY , CONNECTICUT PICTURES
- Activate Window XP
- Dark matter question/hypothesis
- Adding Commons images to en Wiki categories
- Music Genre
- Interwiki links between the nine Language RDs
- Identifying the original contributor of article text
- move-ing on...but not sure i did it right!
- Medals
- page view stats - down sharply
- Link to a picture within an article
- Edit Count and Oversight?
- Aristide Razu
- User Name to Name
- Copy and paste?
- Oops, did I make a mistake?
- What's up with Collapsible tables
June 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 15
- Naming help
- IP address
- about rajkot
- The Passion of Christ
- My Own Automated Archiving
- BioControl article
- Use of Wikipedia logo
- Want to Check with Wikipedia Editors - Several Articles About the College Where I Teach Have Been Deleted in the Past. Don't Want to Write an Article in Vain - Dr. Lara
- picture won't show
- Merge editor accounts
- Unable to export article with sanskrit font Alinel (talk) 10:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Bala
- Help with translation of WW11 japanese medal
- Using Images
- Only qualify for one?
- Spanish vandal
- eutimes.net
- Interwikis displaying twice at WP:MCQ?
- Adding a journal reference to an article
- Internet Explorer 8 no longer defaulting to search box
- Where does one see the flagged revisions edits?
- List of newest accounts
- How should I convert currencies?
- Business Cited Incorrectly in the "Freestone, CA" entry
- 2 dias sin badoo
- Blocked account creation...
June 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 16
- Can't create an account
- is someone else passing off my ip address as their own?
- "Bump"
- Unsigned comment by 74.104.31.56 (talk • contribs • [http://dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall/?ip=74.104.31.56/ info] • [http://toolserver.org/~chm/whois.php?ip=74.104.31.56 WHOIS])
- Kinda new here...
- Signature problem
- Eliminating Duplicate Userboxes by merge?
- Copy Right Permission ( to add on my Website)
- Need to update the wikipedia entry on the organisation I work for
- SD-TTSurekh Font not recognised by the wiki editor. Need help in exporting an english article with Sanskrit font (SD-TTSurekh - Devanagari). This is my second posting. Please Help !!
- Guides Logo
- Can wikipedia content be copied/pasted to create another webpage?
- Pending changes' impact on Lupin's AVT
- Fair Use
- hi
- CALA Page removal
- parking
- change my page name
- I recently created a Userspace Draft and I'm not sure how to get it posted (I've tried to figure it out myself and have become hopeless)
- Autofilling comments filter
- Links to resources for parents (books) or support groups (external links)
- HELP
- Stubs
- Good faith misuse of DAB page
- how to change a draft page into a wikipedia page
- Old Format
- Move articles
- Yodel Australia?
June 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 17
- Template trouble
- Tags in the lede
- I made mistake in my article title HELP!
- Substituting Magic Words In Templates
- Linking Commons
- Adding Links to References
- how do i vote to keep a person in Wikipedia who is threatened with deletion of his listing?
- CONTACT NOS. OF MR. MUSTAFA JAFFER
- Why was a Link Removed?
- Deleting Bad Images
- Cape buffalo in Cape Agulhas
- Help
- The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
- Magnesium
- Unable to edit original successfully
- talk page archiving
June 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 18
- change a microformatted article to a form Google can find.
- Category:LGBT people of Puerto Rican descent
- Wrong photo
- Sharing my journals/blogs..
- IP Address inadvertent use
- What Links Here ... order?
- How to find coordinates
- a readable map
- Editor abuse
- How to change title of article?
- Wikibreak Enforcer
- Submitting an article on a subject that has been protected
- How do i tag a section of an article to highlight that it needs references
- Loss of Log In ID
- Reverting edits
- Question
- Wikifood
- copyright permission
- Log In ID
- Weird image problem
June 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 19
- Can somebody help
- Editing english version of page for hometown
- Confusing administrative double-standards
- Uploading Google Map.
- Bookmarking favourite articles.
- Maps for Streams via External Link
- Election - member tables.
- Is my article published?
- Manchester Apollo Manchster
- Carburetor Dung
- Mancheste
- Link a dispute template to the associated "talk" section
- General Aristide Razu /pictures are disappearing?
- The wallbirds
- Is there anyway I can convert your tables to excel sheets
- Seeing the Mainpage from previous times
- we went on criags list and ended up here
- Citing sources
June 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 20
- Is there an automated way to determine if an article has broken links?
- Huge White Space at bottom of Wiki pages
- Mystery Diagnosis TV Show
- Undo / Revert
- Mediawiki spam blacklist
- Problem printing with "New Features" on Wikipedia...
- Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Reaching for the Moon
- quoting complex URLs to "cite web", etc.
- Question about creating pages for a company and its owner (probable COI)
- chewing tobacco
- Wikipedia categories by size
- Babylon & Wikipedia
- Photographs - how do they get uploaded onto a wikipedia page?
- Signature
- Page editing - why are my [edit] links bunched at bottom of page?
- sortability with two row headers
June 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 21
- When do birthdays start?
- Anyone ever gotten 403 errors for all Wikipedia/Wikimedia images?
- beta webs
- We sent this info on nowsthetime.org two weeks ago and it has not
- Wikibooks - awesome idea, but what about a "disable notes, references and external links"-function?
- Image from wikitravel.org
- Uploading photo
- jabber chat
- Oracle
- Suitability of picture
- Problems linking to a video
- Clarification
- Greetings-Researcher Permission?
- Interaction
- Replacing company logo
- Embeded video
- Infoboxes
- Image problem
- Requesting a new infobox
June 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 22
- encrypting special characters letters in the ps2 console game, for call of duty.
- Video in article
- Speed limit thru round about
- 9mm luger bullets
- mobile sim manufacturing
- Retrospectively linking IP and wiki ID
- Wiki Statistics about articles/pages etc.
- statistics on user profiles
- how to create column at the right
- New user to upload photo
- Problems in creating a Wilki Book
- Interpretation of policy
- Problem with printing
- Vertical text
- Namechange- Password etc.
- Need help correcting an image
- Toad Outbreak
- Copyright
- Delete the page title "Farmleigh Fellowship"
- bug in pdf creation script for multi-language entries
- Researchers
- Tabulating machine content about Nazi Germany
- Michelle Morgan
- Semi-Protected Pages
- Verifiability / web page disappeared
- I can't find out . .
- ellipsis and quotations.
- What if voters in an AFD contradict Wiki guidelines
- May I publish original research about origins of 5 Wikipedia articles on my user talk page?
- How do I transfer or copy and paste an article I prepared in my log-in page and submit it for review. Can it be reviewed in my user page?
June 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 23
- Question about articles
- Can't log into account
- Reversing a redirect
- about XML Schema of "pages-articles.xml" dump
- translation
- Photo licensing
- How to use image found in Chinese Wikipedia?
- Holy Apostles
- Subpage
- Blocking Content From Being Edited By Unauthorized Individuals
- referencing birthdates
- There was a bit of an earthquake just now here in Toronto. Now what?
- Persecution complex
- NOT creating an account & adding onto someone else's post
- Logged me out
- Review log?
- User contribution search on specific articles
- to know what are the companies which provides free recharge for mobile research panel.
June 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 24
- I HAVE A FUNK &WAGNALLS NEW STANDARD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNIVERSAL KMOWLEDFGE COPYRIGHT1931
- Tags & searching through my contributions
- How to make revisions requested by a wikipedia editor
- subject editing
- RIR readout and dynamic ip's?
- Editing reference list in entry?
- comment to talk page
- Intra-article link
- John Lehman Hyman Rickover
- Primary Source and Locations of Headquarters
- Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (television)
- flagged revisions turned on yet?
- Suggestion and log in issues
- Technical problem
- References
- help with making my page go live
- Link to wrong individual
- How to share a e-mail source of informations?
- Wierd overlap different by browsers Iodine pentoxide
- Was I automatically logged in?
- Accident
- new autobiography by NZ author
June 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 25
- Halp?
- question
- How to automate filling in info into cite web template?
- Tesco Kipa is a Turkish chain supermarket specialising in food. It is currently majority owned by Tesco and as such, uses the Tesco name. Tesco Kipa official site
- hate speech on page http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Gay_community
- Discussing a photo
- Tagging
- Bad Usernames
- Kish Khodro Ltd, Kish Island Iran
- Sloth (deadly sin) article layout problem
- Hello
- Tennis Gold Coast
- Topic
- Wiki "filtering"???
June 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 26
- What if i want to write an article about a local hero?
- External Link getting rejected
- Editing the semi-protected banner?
- Can anyone recommend a better tool for filling out cite templates?
- Texas State Highway 114
- Problem with tags
- Help me understand about No Original Research
- Unconstructive Editing, and Possible Vandalism
- Delete a page created by me
- Disambiguation issue with Béla Bartók article
- EDL
- How does draft become a mainspace article?
- Ozzy Osbourne's new single
- Tracy Wright, multiple references to same article
- why
- Improvement of "Aristide Razu" article
- "Zoe Mandrea " article
June 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 27
- I've got a range of Questions
- Trivia
- entry for 'RGS Atalanta'
- Delete an Article
- Improper "branching" of a template due to a copy/paste move
- image thumb problem
- Redirect
- MOS guidance wanted - capitalization for title of English work with French title
- diff for an archived page?
- Category merging - need help from experts
- Editor Gender
- Need an old version of a deleted article
June 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 28
- Help with editing an article
- Sources
- Problem with nonfactual comment tarnishing enterprise (Symmecon Marketing).
- On a UK-PBF and the UK aspect of Wikipedia
- for edit more
- Question about deleted article
- Unable to make edits to Patch (website) wiki page, or other town pages that have patch.com websites
- All your base are belong to us
- Strange message from T L Mles
- Please help me.
- WP:GAN changes
- Forgot to login before editing
- "berkeley food and housing project" >> Berkeley Food and Housing Project
- skye prison article
- How to change font for one character?
June 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 29
- Template to ignore/disregard discussion
- Potential conflict in naming article in English or Portuguese
- Articles for creation
- Pls. Allow Edit in " Ezhava "
- Maai Heeran
- How to get back on
- Locating businesses by zip code
- Several Wikipedia stuff
- Etiquette when attempting to calm incivility
- Bar of links on the top-right of my user/talk pages/subpages
- Reference footnote question
- Tool ?
- property owners rights
- formating
- I've got a range of Questions (2)
June 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 30
- Sandbox (how to make article hidden)
- How do I get my article to be posted?
- operations on amadeus crs
- article naming of 2 churches with the same dedication St Thomas à Becket
- Daniel J. Bernstein (1918-1970)
- Smurfs episode list
- Villiages and Towns Lost when State and Federal Parks are made
- Splitting page history
- What happens when you google "I can read wikipedia". The slur ni**er page appears.
- Intrinsic Identification of Surname
- Deletion of page
- images