Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2010
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May 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 1
- Help! This page is partly unreadable
- Procedure during RfCs
- User page design
- help,
- Reverting edits prob
- External links not appearing?
- I'm perplexed...
- Resizing animations
- Creating a wikipedia page
- Where can I change the appearance of my user signature?
- link at William McDonough
- Confused
- multiple persons with same name
- standard punctuation
- Time to first fix
- WikiProject Central America template
- Can't log in
May 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 2
- Scammers using identities of American Military Men
- I've been blocked on Meta-Wiki and Wikiquote
- Toki Wright
- Re: Edit Notice
- eventration of diaphragm
- Amos Wilson
- Photo and picture captions
- Bold text problem
- Discussing content of vandalism delete1
- Confluence Parallel
- Can't get script to work
- How does one keep a page up?
- How to get a mediawiki extension added to wikipedia?
May 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 3
- Wikipedia Upload
- add a new page
- Citation
- Italicise manuscript titles?
- clock
- how to make an article about upcoming Hollywood actor? 20 films in 2 years, some very popular
- Login Successful page
- footballers loans
- How to Flag an Article that Needs Many Corrections?
- Editing Mobile Version?
- Dinka
- People keep deleting reference to my Wikimedia commons photo
- where are the videos?
- Image slideshow?
- Determined to stop deletion of template
- Exporting an older revision of an article
- questions regarding webcomic articles
- linking from many articles
May 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 4
- Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
- AfD vote question
- The Blorenge
- Really strange problem with Peace Candle infobox
- Trouble adding a monobook script
- Differences between revisions
- Chives plant
- Listing my program in some article's "Links" section, where similar programs from another vendors are reffered
- <email removed>
- SVG Logo Conversion
- Check an edit please?
- BLSC Blastomere Like Stem Cells
- My new template I created
- notes
- On This Day
- Incorrect Information in VMI Article
- AAPI link
- Image code syntax?
- Something needs to be added
- Wikipadia Logo not on it's proper place
- Please delete my article
- Switching to a new account.
- Please Help a new user
- pdf file
- Archive
- Articles deleted in a similar name
May 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 5
- In Puerto Rico: A red oval poison worm with about 50 claw legs
- Typing special characters
- Upload
- question about Vitamin
- Palm Centro
- Page view tool not working
- Mobile
- Infobox error
- Pictures
- WIKI TO HTML
- Blocked Crats able to access User Rights control panel
- Vandalism from my school's IP
- finding a product
- Why won't an image caption show up?
- Friedrich Gerstacker
- Eddie Snyder
- peppo biscarini
May 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 6
- Task Force Question
- Can't figure out copyright tag to save article
- my edits don't appear
- Monobook js
- Converting a svg-file to html/css
- Editing mr brainwash page
- Marking pages as patrolled not via Special:NewPages.
- Is it Vandalism?
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Stackjones
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Commercial vandalism?
- citations removed - is this valid?
- How do I change a Logo?
- Adil Khan
- needed to get new password but it wouldn't work
- Repeated "page not found message" from wikipedia
- Advice needed for cleanup
- My edits broken down by month
- Unsearchable Entry
- Search engine results: same article in different languages
- Harassment!
May 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 7
- accurasy
- "They did it in another article so I can do it here"
- Why do we have to use geek formatting to enter articles?
- New (dated) Article not in Search-box - Old Article undated
- Notability tag for a specific person in a list of names?
- Toyoto Yaris Interior on Door Handle and the plastic panel on A/C flip , Radio, or A/C control buttons
- Robert Simon Telfer Scott DSM and HMS Havelock
- References
- HOT TO LOOK FOR AN ANSWER
- Troubling inserting logo into article
- Local fraternity chapter Fakepage warning?
- "Take 5" Jazz Tune as a TV/Movie Theme?
- makeing a page
- Need assistance cleaning up
- special ops us
- Avatar/anuerisms
- User Redirect
- Affiliate Link on an index page
- OUT OF COUNTRY
May 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 8
- Citing interpretation boards
- Userpage inaccessibility
- User namespace category
- Hot Air Balloon Rides
- I can't log in, even with new password sent by Wikipedia
- Images don't show up
- Images don't show up (again)
- Is my editing all right?
- Linking to my website under 'External Links'
- Is this an article Article Incubator/Nineteen Nightmares/Valley Entertainment Monthly?
- Citing a foriegn wiki
- Question about using an image on the article body painting
May 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 9
- 2nd nomination of an article--what did I do wrong?
- Replace old material with new.
- login failure
- Requesting a tech fix
- Copy right of our page: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Svpnpa
- When I am editing a page and I see informative placards above the edit field ... where do they come from?
- Non-notable content in a notable article
- Link goes to wrong place -Public debate
- Nationality
- Advanced Wikimarkup
- Truck?
- Viewing a deleted article
- Extend the list at MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels
- User:TonyTheTiger/Table
- How do you make on of these?
- Infoboxes?
- Need help with "Shirley, Illinois"
- Geobox River
May 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 10
- new entry
- I have a cough that someone needs to check out
- articles on TV episodes
- Why does my watchlist have entries like "(+377)" or "(-448)?"
- I cannot download my created book
- Troulbe opening programs
- Edit Date/Time
- Archive
- Log in
- new section to an article
- adding a new section
- Inaction on requested edit
- Watchlist
- How do I become an authorized user to be able to upload a file to link to a page I am working on?
- New mentor/adopter person
- Glucaid
- speedy deletion tag on a talk page
- How does one permanently close a Wikipedia account?
- Copying within Wikipedia with citations
- request to move draft to main space
- editing an erroneous image caption
- How Do I Update a Logo on a Wiki Page
May 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 11
- Pictures of dead people
- Unknown license for images
- Can't find existing article - R&D orgs by country & focus
- can't create user page
- To seek details about "http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Pandher#References"
- Why am I not autoconfirmed?
- Fearful
- Account Merge Failure
- Staniforth Surname
- Withdrawing a deletion proposal
- Continous numbering
- Level of warning after a block
- Question on Henry VIII
- The tag "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" at the top of the page
- Fair use argument
- The banner won't hide
- Vandalism
- When was text added?
May 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 12
- How to limit depth of ToC
- Abusefilter
- needed to get new password but it wouldn't work, round 2
- How to write an email message to maury povick show
- Deleted pages in user contribution
- New subheading in existing article, problems with references not appearing from edit page
- Fixing my signature
- Username or IP removed
- What is the template for an article overhaul?
- "Black Dolls"
- How do I get rid of this big, empty box?
May 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 13
- Why would you destroy a good article and leave only the negative information which happens to be incorrect anyway.
- User talk page question
- Beta today
- Socks 01 - WWE Socks
- Need help on creating page.
- Get rid of beta
- a new look for the environment
- New Article to appear when searching wikipedia
- Why is there hundreds of German place articles tagged here?
- Coord not working
- What's happened
- Contacting someone on the Supreme Court
- Oxybenzone page problem
- Need to be able to upload an image to replace an outdated one
- IP up to no good
- Help me choose a username!
- Is this customary?
- How to go back to the new (improved) wikipedia?
- Added a biography
- Change to account name
- Sourcing a Reality TV Show plot summary - what to do?
- New features
- Interlanguage links
- Spelling
- Adjusting View
- What just happened to the font
- Redirects vs. Disambiguation
- Articles for same-named folks
- Wikipedia doesn't work on the PS3 browser
- im not a spammer i just want to help people
May 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 14
- EDIT BAR
- password recovery
- Searching without mouse
- Can't log into my account, why?
- Special:MergeAccount
- gemma jones
- Return to page logged in from
- Edit bar error
- How to create the table of contents
- Eddie Glaude
- Someone keeps undoing my edits. What can I do?
- user contributions
- Cite an application
- Why was the search box moved to the top right?
- Wrong photo link
- Feedback repository
- I cannot believe this blatant display of biasness and downright racist way of conducting wiki all Information was substanciated
May 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 15
- collapse left side of the page
- Creating userbox problem
- Personal font preferences
- submitted new word how long does it take to post
- Signing posts
- Link aliasing
- User successful XfD counter
- An article on Wikipedia referring to the Spanish diplomat Francisco Javier Ruperez Rubio.
- New format
- Search Box location an inconvenience!
- editing error
- Computer Meridian Diagnostics
- Dave the Chameleon
- Why was article about the Kruger Brothers deleted?
- Designations -
- Sugarloaf Mountain in New Brunswick, Canada
May 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 16
- How do I nominate an article for deletion?
- Skin
- Quesitonable claim
- page does not exist message is appearing, why?
- Looking for a BOT
- Calling template experts
- Apple Dictionary App
- Signing
- children music
- Wikipedia:Article wizard/Wizard-New edit instructions A
- How to get my contribution to show when using Google search
- Template help needed
- Changing vector skin
- For those that subst: in shared IP templates...
- Where has the search field gone? 21:46, 16 May 2010 (UTC)~~
- Image variable in URL
- Bot
May 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 17
- Colorful userpage
- signing
- Image
- Editing redirects
- This media file may meet the criteria for speedy deletion.
- Image upload
- Company Articles
- I tried to put my nomination for afd of Ergogenic aid on the discussion list, but it's not working.
- Delete An Image
- Username as false claim?
- Upload a Company Logo
- Autoconfirmed status?
- Parts per million
- E-mails about my password
- Need help in creating and uploading a page for a feature film that I have written, Produced, and directed.
- Clarifying Consensus
- Uploading a Logo
- How I can create a film page?
- Mac OS X dictionary
- Reverting
- longer loading time...
- HF TARIFF CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
- Infoboxes
- redirecting
May 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 18
- Blackberry v4.5.0.169 Wiki English Load Error
- Edit filter triggered when creating new article
- Chinese name
- Logo
- Disambiguation page - linking new article
- Article
- new wikipedia appearance.
- Accusation
- Please Answer
- Font size makes Wikipedia unusable
- Random article within a specific portal :/
- Text
- Brian Leung
- Link to a section or sub-section
- Pictures.
- How long before my article appears live?
- University of Health Sciences Antigua
- Warning 4im
- Font size
- 30 seconds and a laptop
- Question Regarding Templates and Indenting
- Why all the images not shown?
- questions related to engineering.........
- Needed to get new password but it wouldn't work, round 3
- Adding my own images
- Searching with vector skin
- Notability
May 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 19
- Italian descent, sports people
- subst
- The archive term "threads"
- How to find a person or way (for a dummy) to have offline copy of Wikipedia- even if a year old
- how can i submit a page
- How do I create a new page or article?
- Different images with the same name on wikipedia and commons
- How to "search" as opposed to "go" in new interface - with Firefox
- How can I change the title of an article?
- qwuiting
- The Hidden Blade
- Addres of Alphen hospital
- Resubmitted Question: Need to know why the article about the Kruger Brothers was deleted
- individual inline citations
- Pages created
- Place Alexis Nihon content improvement and update
- How Can I load my web page in Wikpedia ?
- Broken: The Wikipedia Part of the Mac Dictionary App
- Referencing
May 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 20
- Having sexual realations with MSRA
- Eclipse with UT
- I'm a network administrator for a large school district with a dilemma related to the "porn" flap
- Sortable tables
- help please ````
- You broken Wikipedia and I can't find ANYTHING explaining how to edit!
- Is an approval mark copyrighted?
- How does "Watch this page work"?
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Dilema with whether or not to use a very in-detail ref
- Template problem
- WHICH IS THE MOST ECONOMICAL FUEL FOR A GENERATOR?
- searching an article providing detailed information for BORDER MOULDING MATERIALS USED IN DENTISTRY.
- Global opt-in
- Translation into English of an existing Romanian article
- Meadows, Illinois. Help needed
- Nominate articles for review
- wikipedia font is now so small I can't use the resource anymore
- Negative title
May 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 21
- Type Size
- What is the requirement for making a page about somebody?
- Number of page views
- replacing unauthorized photo with correct photo?
- Unreferenced tables
- Aberdor the beautiful small village in Fife,Scotland
- viewing statistics of an article
- casting lots
- Wiki logo
- Article inaccuracy
- School Editing
- How do sumit a page you have made?
- How do I find my Village Pump contributions?
- Keeping updated on new WikiProjects
- Citing the same reference more than once
- Problems with Edit Conflicts
- Category watching
- multiple  
- article: Republic of Macedonia
- Auto-Confirm Question
- Loading a page on a Facebook tab.
May 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 22
- "Photograph by xxx" image captions
- The article Hangul needs to change to Hangeul.
- Scant reference to Italian contributions in the "Music" article
- Why did you change the Best Blog on the 'net,' into something that is just bearly usuable? WPM!
- Italian contributions to music
- Grief with pipes in my signature
- 2 last changes on Page History
- Line cutting through infobox
- Warning from a vandal
- Saxondale
- Movie
- Link IP edits to account
- Inappropriate Article
- How to submit a new article
May 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 23
- Removing notification that this biographical article needs additional citations
- What is a "Links in Headings?"
- Do we need this article?
- David R. Bryant, Perkin Medal recipient, 1998
- Need to delete a file I uploaded
- May 22 2010
- Is there a way to add blank space on either side of centered text?
- Project status propagation to talk page tags
- Formatting Question
- Vector APR
- Hacked Link on the Square_Foot_Gardening page
- pronunciation
- Wikify backlog random article feature broken
- Source word
- Deleting history
- Pushing own writing and published material as sources
- File Description Anomaly
- Hyphens in article searches
- dark power
- Downloading PDF files
- Search
- Signing posts: four tildes not working properly
- Tables problem
- Collapsing Sections
- malicious link
May 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 24
- What if I'd like to make a contribution/edit a page that is semi-protected?
- unable to access diffrent language in cellphone
- Dictionary application for iMac
- Redirect
- i was wondering if you need any help
- Meta account
- Disambiguation procedure/etiquette
- Edit box size?
- Approving An AFC Request
- your page on the Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
- Editing page title
- Reversed image?
- oxygen
- Those little "who I am" boxes
- How do I publish my wikipedia article?
- Old user new question
- Is my topic Encyclopediac in nature?
- How do I get a cause put into your wikipedia page
- the the
- Invite people to an article in your userspace that you created
- What if there's no red link?
May 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 25
- Changing Interfaces
- Bad link in Eric Clapton discography
- not receiving emailj
- Uploading final file
- Linking images
- An admin is accusing me of vandalism and blocked my access to edit articles even though what I was doing does not constitute vandalism
- blackberry compatibility
- at the moment, a template in a DYK article looks haywire
- milton keynes parish/coulcil
- Mysterious vandalism
- Very problematic page
- Translations
- Alphabetical "What links here"?
- How can text blocks be numbered automatically?
- Masks (1998 film)
- Image corrupted?
- Editing of "Boom (Containment)"
- Other language articles
- Need to upload a picture...
- Vandalism
- Is the image infobox on Wikipedia broken?
- Summary
- uploaded images
- logged out while edditing
- Posting Pages to Foreign Languages Versions of Wikipedia
- Requesting image updates
May 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 26
- Movuy article
- Pioneer 11
- Repeat vandal
- Help in changing Text display size!
- Do you have a widget or a web gadget?
- Uploading a Picture with permission given by the UN
- phonetic words
- social upliftment funding for western cape south africa
- My username does not work i Think
- Mysteriously, the last edit in this page does not show
- Show only BOT edits
- help so my text is not delete
- Deleting old username from talk page
- Suggestion box
- A concept with double meanings
- Full Page History Download
- I quit!
- Unsuccessful adding links
- General Aristide Razu(can't find the article I made)
May 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 27
- Photo gallery
- Avoiding Wrongful Association With Disruptive IP (Via CheckUser)
- Help
- Purpose of Category Modification
- Help With
- Piped Character
- Why you ban us
- Searching with Vector skin
- Emailing the company to ask them to help update/expand their own page
- Creating a new infobox
- Correction of information on our organization.
- Hidden text in the new design
- Rfc/u listing
- Re-use of articles
- Number of articles in subcategories
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Ride_%28Ciara_song%29
- Decision on submitted article
- Does the subject of an article have the final say?
- Transferring images to Commons?
- I can't add a title to the collapsable sections on my user page
- spam
- Report Abuse
- Phantom subcategory
- CHAT
- Uploading a photograph
- Katrina Lynn Shoe & Bag Collection
May 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 28
- Help required with Reference desk archives
- How long does article review take?
- Found an odd article that covers a lot of political and science ground, figured I'd mention it here
- Being logged out
- please anyone who knows
- DYK entry, Dwight, Illinois. Prince Albert
- Commercially Interested Censorship
- How to parse (English) XML dump to extract individual wikipedia articles
- Uploading flickr live performance photograph?
- Userpage with category tags
- New wikipedia page
- How to Copyright Images Owned by a Local Government
- False vandalism warnings from NerdyScienceDude
- My bio
- Readability
- John Wayne Gacy
May 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 29
- page deleted
- Question about user protection
- Centering Short Image Captions to Improve Wikipedia
- How do I change the name of an article?
- Referencing to wikipedia articles
- Fix Main Text to Thumb?
- Wikipedia Categorywise XML Dumps
- Know how to use the parser functions? Can you look at my code?
- New Discovery
- Nominating pages for deletion
- No article or section about side-exit exhaust pipes?
- I can't find the cat tag!
- Professor Julius A. Okojie
- Question about deleting contributions
- Restored file
- NBA 2010 finals
May 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 30
- Remove the deleting tag ?
- Locating a company
- Redirect
- Rediret The Michelangelo to Taft Hotel
- Wikipedia access from BlackBerry Internet browser not working
- unable to access diffrent language in cellphone
- Sales extension counter
- Suggest Salting of Deleted Page(s)?
- How Do I create a userbox for my profile???
- Healer; Merriam-Webster's definition; 1. One who heals 2. Christian Science Practitioner
- Citing newspapers from Google News Archive
- Change of the HTML-page-title, for Wikipedia pages, from vector.js ?
- authors
- Triple Entries
May 31
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 31
- Please delete
- Infobox on geographical articles.
- Company Information profit/loss up/down arrows in red and green
- contributing photo to bio page
- Request that an article be deleted
- Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison
- Strange location for an article
- RfA tool
- proposed deletion
- Posting info about a new invention at Wikipedia
- Benny Hinn
- fyi
- OTRS question
- Legal threat?