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April 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 1

  1. password
  2. Firefox addins
  3. Show button
  4. Unified login system
  5. Template help
  6. Advice on Possible Goalline Blitz Article
  7. top reference sites list?
  8. Admissible photos of actors?
  9. How Can i edit and add one information in Wikipedia? (repeat question)
  10. Language and log-in question
  11. How to "strike out", "strike through" or "rule through"?
  12. page display of List of RAF stations
  13. Can't see Edits
  14. Admin
  15. Network
  16. Creating a page about my band
  17. Help editing a page
  18. How to add an notice in an template
  19. i want to change my username
  20. print to PDF
  21. Search button captions
  22. Requesting Unprotecting
  23. Reverting my user talk page?
  24. Companies

April 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 2

  1. How Do I Delete?
  2. Kanute or Canute?
  3. Daily Emails
  4. Protection of User pages
  5. Help Using a Specific Infobox
  6. info about youngest commercial pilot
  7. First time user
  8. When I search my article is not found.
  9. American cities
  10. I am not sure if my entry is fixed now
  11. Signature
  12. Editing articles
  13. Trouble with Save page
  14. Problem adding references
  15. Gartner
  16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Thinker
  17. How do I upgrade the eSignal entry from stub status (I am not the original author)?
  18. is this notable?
  19. ADDING A PICTURE
  20. Advice on knocking people out
  21. help locating topic
  22. Checking user levels
  23. Make it bigger?
  24. Bibliography on Wikepedia
  25. Image from German Wikipedia
  26. Help editing the title of my page
  27. Willy on Wheels

April 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 3

  1. Incorrect photo on page.
  2. Appropriate edit summary for section zero
  3. I thought I was doing it right... But now I... Help!
  4. How can i upload word document or EXCEL document on my page
  5. Direct article links in google
  6. Fingerprint
  7. How do I create a template?
  8. PURPLE HEART LIST
  9. Template
  10. The Wikipedia Globe logo
  11. Wikipedia Analytics
  12. Why does this say [edit][edit][edit]?
  13. about image uploading
  14. News about Wikipedia
  15. Memories of Worth Ranch
  16. Keeping A Journal On Wikipedia
  17. Improperly Cited Article?
  18. accused of vandalism
  19. ADDING AN ARTICLE ABOUT A BAND
  20. How can this mistake be fixed?
  21. login problem

April 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 4

  1. Too much security
  2. What is the protocol on articles under the banner of dead projects?
  3. Strange error when trying to access pages
  4. about running a bot
  5. Users own verse on a page?
  6. Editing removed
  7. political science
  8. How do you put a rationale on a image you uploaded
  9. Finding reference
  10. Username Case Problem
  11. international standards
  12. Shiatsu and Acupressure
  13. Need help
  14. Sarahmckem/Simon Bruce
  15. New user creating pages
  16. i cannot add my submission for the 2nd time!
  17. The J.M. Smucker Company/Hungry Jack Link
  18. Warning message
  19. who was the father of the science fiction?
  20. Links to Wikipedia articles
  21. Copyright restrictions
  22. Freezing computer which finally shut down
  23. Corporate Listing Question
  24. how to search for investment companies
  25. Threats to "subpoena" IP Address, etc.
  26. Help using IRC to fight vandalism
  27. Can you post an article
  28. Help using IRC
  29. To edit article heading
  30. Editing Conflict
  31. DRAFT Article Creation
  32. Vandalism Accusation

April 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 5

  1. Vandal Report
  2. Daytona Beach Notable inhabitants -- How to make Lee Apperson's Bio and many awards on the page accessable
  3. call monitoring sys
  4. How to make a big border in a table ?
  5. Archiver not working again...
  6. referencing
  7. Uploading a file
  8. Searches on Wikipedia
  9. Starting this college
  10. Qwanell Mosley
  11. Own article
  12. Coding boxes

April 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 6

  1. Can not print graphs and other "illustration" type equations in wiipedia mathematics articles
  2. posting PDF
  3. Language
  4. John Adams (miniseries) Inforbox
  5. Adoption program
  6. Uploading picture
  7. Edit special page
  8. Writing Practice Problems/Exercises for Wikipedia Articles
  9. peer review - clock conflict
  10. archiving own talk page
  11. Album Citation
  12. Hints to screen readers
  13. WIKIPEDIA & PDA Accessibility
  14. making articles

April 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 7

  1. How to add external link wiht good information?
  2. People born in 1926
  3. commercial self promotional edits
  4. How to correct date format?
  5. How to nominate picture from Commons for Featured Picture
  6. Copy text from WIKIpedia in order to use it on my website
  7. use of colors
  8. links
  9. spanish page wanted in english
  10. commodity tracking system
  11. help pls
  12. next 2010 football world cup
  13. Georgia On My Mind
  14. Indicating Ancestry in BLP articles
  15. Can I change my username?
  16. Where did the archive go?
  17. Explaining red-linked terms
  18. For finding an author of a poem
  19. Question
  20. IfD
  21. Centre alignment in tables
  22. Some IFD formatting errors
  23. License
  24. Create Your Own Article
  25. I just need a little help
  26. Redirects
  27. Jimmy Carter

April 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 8

  1. List of Mosques
  2. Adding my full text
  3. Help with bad editors
  4. Image upload
  5. Contents box
  6. equity share in standerd medicals and pharmasuticals ltd
  7. Missing image?
  8. page search
  9. red links
  10. Account email address reset
  11. Template help
  12. Cite error
  13. History
  14. page "Nosle" gets deleted
  15. Cut and paste content about music
  16. How do I upload an image?
  17. retaining wall
  18. :Image:Mick Jagger August 6, 2006 - Dübendorf, ZH.jpg
  19. gold from rock
  20. Plagerism
  21. Unicode
  22. WikiProject Spam
  23. Using watchlist
  24. Contribs bug?
  25. Contributions
  26. Redirect to section of article containing apostrophe
  27. IRC?
  28. Heather King
  29. General help
  30. Afroyim Soshana

April 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 9

  1. Template for Welcoming Users, and suggesting creation of an account?
  2. hilp
  3. How to rename article page
  4. Hide bars/navboxes on subpages
  5. Changing the title of an article
  6. how to edit the main heading
  7. Offensive Image
  8. Loughborough Echo
  9. Gallery tag
  10. Uncyclopedia copyright
  11. Wikipedia math notations don't print correctly anymore. How to fix that?
  12. Justin Tuck
  13. How can I sign my name properly
  14. FRUSTRATED AND NEEDING ANSWERS! :-(
  15. Can I still write the same article after I got deletion?
  16. Can you help my friend please
  17. Hi
  18. would my article about making improck be advertisement?
  19. Is it possible to view WP accounts?
  20. Citeing a forum
  21. Cannot delete link on page
  22. download
  23. Question
  24. Comparative Distance Links

April 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 10

  1. Editing changes not sticking
  2. OceanLab and Oceanlab
  3. Wikiproject
  4. A State of Trance
  5. Missing character
  6. Why my article shows my user name?
  7. RAILROAD TRACKS
  8. Watchlist changes?
  9. Restoring deleted email using windows vista
  10. How do I leave a comment about use of a particular tag?
  11. Talk:Asif Farrukhi
  12. Watch All Live Indian TV Channels Here
  13. In need of help
  14. search my brother
  15. Page redirected
  16. What the heck is this rubbish?
  17. How do I include my firm in the "Advertising Agencies of the United States" list?
  18. Do you like helping out on the help desk??
  19. is this the right place?
  20. Is Wikipedia supposed to be a democratic community?
  21. Contributions from a range of IP
  22. Lost Password
  23. deleted article, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
  24. Wrong article name
  25. archiving own talk pages
  26. how do I create new articles?
  27. WSSM call letter and format switch to WRQR
  28. Adding Edit Summary after your Edit
  29. multiple image template request
  30. Convert template
  31. OK can someone help me with this...
  32. debate result for AFD was KEEP but page has been removed?
  33. Cannot edit from phone
  34. creating a new article

April 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 11

  1. Uploading a city's official seal
  2. Permission to use illustration.
  3. FAA PDF of old accident reports
  4. Do you allow curse words?
  5. How do I...?
  6. Creating a Bibliography on a Separate Page
  7. NEW LANGUAGE
  8. User boxes
  9. Changing an article's name
  10. Contact details of Portal manager
  11. Why is their no category for pages needing to be wikified?
  12. Adding an in-line message box
  13. Email Change Confirmation Not Received
  14. Talk Page Formatting
  15. Using text from my organization's website. Still need copyright permission?
  16. stuck in the sandbox
  17. Black blocks on image
  18. Crossing Categories
  19. Network wikipedians
  20. problem with the font
  21. Unique pages

April 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 12

  1. Monitor recent changes in real time
  2. Account merging
  3. LaTeX
  4. Article on Hugo Diaz
  5. Using Wikipedia in Iternet Explorer 7's Instant Search box
  6. Ventilation system in hydro project tunnels
  7. GEORGE STEPHENSON
  8. userbox
  9. Logging on
  10. Search through a user's contributions
  11. Rationales
  12. References and redirects
  13. finding deleted articles
  14. Coloured world map
  15. trying to contact an administrator with a request but can't find a talk option
  16. Wikipedia Toolbar IE7: changeíng language
  17. How to question an article's nuetrality
  18. How to move an article to a page with a history
  19. Account Creation
  20. Map Making
  21. Anti vandal tools
  22. Hiding long item in talk page
  23. capitalization of "white" and "black" in chess
  24. My teacher article deleted Wikipedia.
  25. SAPPORO
  26. Fair use

April 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 13

  1. Help on my talk page
  2. How do I delete an article?
  3. One image on top of another
  4. Top and bottom buttons
  5. Malicious Entries on My User Page
  6. Name change
  7. Help please
  8. English Wikipedia wants to registration my teacher article.
  9. Excel to wiki converter
  10. Rob Stewart Canadian actor dob 7/23/1961
  11. AWB
  12. Wikipedia Time
  13. what is the time difference between North carolina and missouri?
  14. Reliability
  15. ToC

April 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 14

  1. Show/hide.
  2. All images missing!
  3. password and new e-mail address
  4. search history
  5. Internal links
  6. Changing Case in article title
  7. Please help me to know "the infetious rate of Japanese B encephalitis in bat...
  8. Adding page to category
  9. wikipedias to survive
  10. Publish articles
  11. Edit count
  12. plagarism
  13. where can i report a bad admin?
  14. Template Problem
  15. Looking for others to reduce unnecessary conflict and drama at source
  16. Infobox width
  17. Is there a way to make Wikipedia display serifs?
  18. Adding A Photo
  19. Network
  20. Insurance policy
  21. Non-inline references
  22. Deleted contributions
  23. Question about citations
  24. Kate Jackson
  25. Change of User Name
  26. Old deletion discussion
  27. Linking to categories

April 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 15

  1. Common Wikimedia account
  2. Rev. Benjamin Durell Weeks
  3. Heraldic artist needed
  4. Sponsoring institution
  5. Soho Housing Association speedy deletion
  6. Religion demographics
  7. Problem redirecting to an anchor
  8. Username
  9. Redirect
  10. Template and Extension help forums?
  11. Barnstars and the Sort
  12. Section shortcuts don't seem to work at the moment
  13. Adding software in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software"
  14. AfD nomination problems
  15. how do I
  16. FORWARDING A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE VIA E-MAIL
  17. citations
  18. editing protected articles
  19. Hidden cats
  20. How do I get the tagged for deletion box off my page since the vote is to keep it?
  21. Creating a historical page for a company that no longer exists?
  22. Vandals who become good editors
  23. A dilemma
  24. How can I check when an article was created?
  25. How to find when text was added to an article
  26. Category
  27. the truth

April 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 16

  1. Why is my username showing up in red?
  2. Too Much Vandalism
  3. How to create my own page or file
  4. Need information pertaining to magic
  5. A scale of clarity for articles,
  6. United States-Vatican City relations image
  7. Fair use rationale - Whats the point?
  8. becoming a user
  9. Companies should not be allowed to place their commercial advertisement on WikiPedia
  10. getting a small column in a table
  11. Irony: blocking of editing on WP:RSN
  12. what is square integrable
  13. Peace Abbey award articles
  14. What the Fxck?!!
  15. Tags for previously speedied articles
  16. My talkpage
  17. Did I upload pics correctly
  18. Article exists but links to another person
  19. Is it permissible to link to Wikipedia?
  20. Shared account or something; what to do?
  21. Infobox on Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill
  22. Lost account
  23. How does the "protecting a page" work?
  24. How do you change the name of an article
  25. Posting something

April 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 17

  1. Patrol
  2. Automatic Columns?
  3. Reposting of prodded content
  4. who?
  5. Copy wiki text or place link to wikitext on web site
  6. Using Colors to Edit
  7. Placing link on my web site
  8. I added category, but the page doesn't appear in the category list...
  9. How do you delete the warning on your talk page?
  10. The truth must be revealed
  11. Editing
  12. water in the lower part of the brain
  13. John Carroll (VC)
  14. Albert Malam
  15. Editing the HK ICAC page
  16. Cannot confirm my email address. The code I receive is always "invalid" and "may have expired."
  17. Forum for template and extension developers?
  18. wikipedia
  19. y does this site suck so bad
  20. Creating a page for Human Kinetics (Biomechanics)
  21. How to remove a redirect so the redirecting article can be written.
  22. Turning link color
  23. citing source
  24. Signing Wikipedia entries
  25. Adding photos
  26. Royal Dutch Shell
  27. Can you talk to other users?
  28. My Password and email have been switched

April 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 18

  1. Delete a category
  2. Squadrons aboard U.S. Aircraft Carriers
  3. Artistic
  4. Watchlist problem
  5. inappropriate statements made on our school wikipage
  6. Incorrect label from google on Neptune article
  7. short sale on my house?
  8. URL blocked
  9. what happened to acount : joseph031164 ?
  10. adrenoleucodistrofia
  11. image description pages
  12. Unknown file type when loading the page "Circuit complexity"
  13. How do I make a new article all together?
  14. Detecting hex code
  15. A quick question
  16. My article was deleted but I can't find it in the deletion log

April 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 19

  1. Userpage
  2. Can't cofirm email; copying URL doesn't help
  3. Who is the "Editing Admin"
  4. Length of file names
  5. Wikipedia:Upload and MediaWiki
  6. Email Headaches
  7. AfD
  8. Holidays in Egypt
  9. Brachial Plexus Page
  10. Vandalism
  11. Page moved - new title question
  12. What is allowed on a user page
  13. External links
  14. New section
  15. Where to comment on Watchlist "spam" (SF mailing list)
  16. The Used
  17. change user name
  18. where do I go to ask a question about my stomach problems I have never used this but can't seem to find answers

April 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 20

  1. Is there any way....
  2. Disputing content
  3. Four years I have suffered a stroke.
  4. coffee mug
  5. Wikipedia:Help desk/Instructions
  6. Huggle
  7. Similar Username
  8. Disabling the ability to wikilink to a page?
  9. Legality of vandalism
  10. Email.
  11. Nonsense situation
  12. World Market Center Las Vegas entry
  13. Deleting a page
  14. Signatures in templates
  15. Table
  16. images
  17. Put a user's contributions on the watchlist?
  18. WSMR map
  19. Request for comment

April 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 21

  1. Weeping Silence
  2. Removing tags
  3. Infobox_Public_transit template editing help
  4. Sortable tables
  5. ”an” or “a” historic
  6. where to buy music "More than Wonderful"?
  7. about my editing on Crepes
  8. Printed page margins too small
  9. hi
  10. Web RC stream
  11. Sections of an article has blended together
  12. What to cite if I translate them from Thai Wikipedia?
  13. the deleted page
  14. How to create an article on wikipedia
  15. Editing question
  16. detoxification from marijuana
  17. Guidelines & templates for treating [silly] vandalism
  18. Retirement
  19. 'new section'
  20. System software
  21. Signing question
  22. Need assistance with disambiguation
  23. Changing minimum searching size to 3 chars +
  24. Make your own page
  25. Another silly question
  26. Bitches ain't shit

April 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 22

  1. Lag
  2. Change to Subject Title "Health Realization"
  3. Seach
  4. Ref tag problem
  5. Editing the HK ICAC chapter
  6. citation box
  7. Incidental advertising
  8. Search
  9. :Image:Sophie Marceau.jpg
  10. LINUS
  11. Hey
  12. Annoying Changes
  13. MS DOS
  14. Libelous entry by Charles Leo
  15. Regaining control of a hacked account
  16. Link deleted
  17. wiki wikipedia archive has my e-mail address - how can I change, delete, edit
  18. Nearly every article has had the most activity in Fall 2006

April 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 23

  1. AfD problem with Vilnius letter
  2. Drop Down Menu?
  3. Title issue
  4. HI
  5. Citing the same source more than once in an article
  6. Phanart
  7. Clearing the search bar in Wiki
  8. Need 'one word' for a meaning.
  9. About this article - is it fake?
  10. DELL sales persons COMPANY email address
  11. My name is...
  12. Articles on years
  13. user pages
  14. MAIL LITERATURE
  15. I feel very stupid...

April 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 24

  1. Deleting personal monobook
  2. Email/sign in
  3. locatioin
  4. Help with Wikiseek
  5. Where to best ask? anonblock / schoolblock
  6. Illustration
  7. Joining
  8. How to colour a page?
  9. 69.145.123.171
  10. Template problems (conditionals?)
  11. "What links here" out of date -- purging cache doesn't work
  12. QUESTION!
  13. Adding external link
  14. Contesting a ruling
  15. How to best follow up on discussions
  16. Monobook.js not functioning
  17. Citation Question
  18. care centre
  19. Playing Wickipedia selection (Beethoven Sonata Op 111) on quick Time
  20. Article hits across the last month
  21. Font
  22. Why does my watch list not work
  23. ES Pictures

April 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 25

  1. E-mail confirmation…
  2. When can a users contributions be deleted?
  3. Wikipedia images not loading in SeaMonkey
  4. Please could you help me?
  5. article missing
  6. child abuse
  7. Change password
  8. Where is the right pace to discuss EB Webshare?
  9. Jack Kemp categories
  10. Brochure
  11. Cite
  12. Adding a Wikipedia page/topic
  13. Columns
  14. AutoWikiBrowser
  15. Link types
  16. RC userbox image
  17. Stalker
  18. Vandalism?
  19. Logos
  20. Unreferenced tags
  21. Nominating an article for features status
  22. ref help
  23. History
  24. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 25#|]]
  25. External links
  26. "+" when editing talk page

April 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 26

  1. User Talkpage
  2. Question about moving and splitting an article
  3. Image use
  4. How to set the wiki logo at the upper left corner?
  5. Deleted pages disappear from a users contribution list
  6. Help find Merge template
  7. disabling search suggestion popups without login
  8. Formatting problem
  9. Contradictory information in article - okay to edit it out?
  10. Two pages
  11. special page: users listed by edits
  12. Why doesn't the main page FA get protected?
  13. help with the ref and cite tags at Skunk Ape
  14. User Namespace?
  15. posting a company on wikipedia
  16. help with recovering an accidental deletion of text & image
  17. Font in signature
  18. User Assistance
  19. Akamai University
  20. Port Charlotte High School's greatschools.net rating VS Charlotte High School's greatschools.net rating
  21. Adding symbols to TeX

April 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 27

  1. NFL Draft Template
  2. My page keeps getting deleted
  3. How to clear past searches on Wikipedia?
  4. Wikipedia:Naming conventions
  5. medical
  6. Diffs/watchlist preference?
  7. Risk assessment
  8. Twinkle help
  9. betel leaves
  10. Sockpuppets
  11. New Articles and IPs
  12. Wikipedia = Facebook?
  13. Running out of patience
  14. users versus editors versus ???
  15. Indent and number headings

April 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 28

  1. best rated audio visual system
  2. Edit count tool limit
  3. Number of frogs in an average pond
  4. Template
  5. help
  6. Map co-ordinates link doesn't seem to work
  7. "New Section" vs. "+"
  8. Wikipedia Front Page
  9. Verfying a Source
  10. SPL records
  11. Boxes
  12. deletion
  13. articles
  14. Multiple images, single caption
  15. Those status thingies
  16. "Suggestions" in search are now not my previous searches.
  17. Top of page notices
  18. Edit This Page tab
  19. Becoming A Project Member
  20. Cancel button on edit page
  21. Downloading SVG files

April 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 29

  1. how can you put an image on a article?
  2. Spam image
  3. How do you put 2 templates beside each other?
  4. Reporting mistaken image
  5. slipring induction motor
  6. reading text of a publicatio/book
  7. Template:Cite web problem in X-Plane (simulator)
  8. Could someone check my IPA?
  9. wikitable sortable issue
  10. Vague or ambiguous time
  11. brownington mo
  12. Indenting a bulleted list
  13. brownington mo hendry country
  14. Censor
  15. Helping
  16. New page
  17. As a beginner, what are 3 specific things I could do to improve a "stub" page that has piqued my interest?
  18. Watchlist problem
  19. Wikitable Formating Question
  20. "Parts manufacture authority" is an incorrect term
  21. Blacklisted links
  22. KUDO 1080AM in Anchorage Alaska
  23. Question
  24. can i add my deffinition to truth with out having messages of thretening to block me.

April 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 30

  1. Timestamps at signatures
  2. Fair use of images with unknown copyright status
  3. Contacting Wikipedians of a certain sort
  4. Bug report
  5. How can I trace a deletion log?
  6. new Search feature
  7. edit reclaimed water page
  8. Time Stamp
  9. super coiling of double stranded dna. only in under graduate level only
  10. How do I post a question?
  11. Rename Category
  12. Links to PBS Videos
  13. changing password
  14. how do you make a new page
  15. UBX
  16. Archiving stuff up
  17. Different writing sizes
  18. WP:FAC readability tool malfunction
  19. Canceling an account:
  20. Wikimedia Temlpate doesnt float
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