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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 1

  1. Incomprehension
  2. Why did you delete what i added?
  3. Wikipedia helping criminal activity
  4. 3rd Civil Affairs Group
  5. Protect Cablevision
  6. Delinking dates
  7. Administrator
  8. Notability
  9. Moving
  10. I am a new contributor. I may have named my new article incorrectly
  11. I got a message saying my edits would be subject to a filter
  12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J%C3%A1nos_K%C3%A1d%C3%A1r_%28fototeca.iiccr.ro%29.jpg
  13. Original research
  14. start
  15. Is there a way to find those articles that have two assessment characteristics? (i.e. High Importance, Stub) or such
  16. search suggestions
  17. William Songer

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 2

  1. Strange Java Script
  2. How many pictures can I put up?
  3. Oldsmobile
  4. How can i find out how many time a page has been edited?
  5. How to direct WP:SICILY to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sicily
  6. Names
  7. moving a page or aticle
  8. hi
  9. Disagreement on the move
  10. I edited (minor updates/corrections to my bio) for two hours, Saved page, it looked fine, then I got a notice it couldn't be processed!
  11. Acid ( Mortal Kombat )
  12. Soxred's Tool
  13. Referencing sources inside sources

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 3

  1. HELP ME FIND THE ADDRESS FOR A WEB REGISTRAR
  2. Template:Vector version available
  3. Music-CD Cover Scan
  4. flight pattern leads in ducks
  5. Cannot 'search' my new article
  6. Archiving a web document?
  7. Is there a MOS notice board?
  8. About Cruelty to Animals
  9. Can I Give you my credit card info or Social Security number to remove captchas?
  10. Competitors delete our profile
  11. IP address range search in Special:Contributions not working
  12. Copyright
  13. Have I done all I need to?
  14. Text keeps jumping up and down
  15. Redirect

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 4

  1. Templates
  2. I want to create categories
  3. start up
  4. Assessing (Grading) an Article in an WikiProject
  5. Log in
  6. Facts
  7. Flagging a Section as United States - orientated?
  8. Number
  9. Info Box
  10. Need help in posting an article
  11. Posts for The International Cat Association

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 5

  1. daniel fromenglish to japanese
  2. Adding a Legion Of Merit Recipient
  3. Hi my name Is Craig
  4. Possible Incorrect naming
  5. Links not working
  6. I was falsely accused of "vandalising" an aricle I never even knew about.
  7. Clearing an image cache internally
  8. 12th day of Christmas
  9. Hiding a controversial edit by doing a minor edit straight after
  10. Can we kill external links eyetest?
  11. wikipedia-for Mr. Jimmy Wales
  12. Incorrect information
  13. PDF export in English.
  14. editing biographical entry on now deceased person
  15. Copy Template
  16. Introduction of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
  17. Bessie Blount Griffin
  18. Band Pages
  19. Permissions help needed
  20. Memory from Vietnam
  21. what do I do when someone dies & their WP biography doesn't yet reflect it?
  22. adding pictures
  23. Committed identity for dummies...

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 6

  1. how might a person distinguish between the prejudical and nonprejudical use of rhetorical devise can i get an example of both
  2. Problem with Template:Infobox boxing match
  3. my bio was deleted
  4. Noesis article traffic statistics
  5. copy to note
  6. I wish to be in contact with a person who is well versed in programming and who can write linux code for a business of which I belong.
  7. ncaa basketball history box scores
  8. Wikipedia
  9. Classification
  10. Google Street View images on Wikipedia
  11. Reviewers/Flagged Revisions
  12. Bibliography Chonological or Alphabetical?
  13. IRC and Pidgin
  14. How to acquire rights?
  15. info box

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 7

  1. Referencing sources inside sources (back again)
  2. Other Wikipedia articles as references?
  3. Copyright
  4. Do you have an available 2012 PHENOMENON article in tagalog?
  5. image of Gen. John Charles Black
  6. Penang State Anthem
  7. Removal of Admin Right
  8. Insults = Defamation?
  9. Wikipedia Not Trust Worthy ???
  10. redone?
  11. Number of watchers of a page
  12. Discuss deletion of redirect
  13. English / Chinese
  14. Global sysops proposal
  15. How do a tag a category whose articles don't have, or might not have, sources to be in the category?
  16. Table or list
  17. How do I find out about this Saturdays meeting in D.C.

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 8

  1. Need Help - Can't Login In After Enabled A Lot Of Profile Options.
  2. 2008 BCS National Champion was the Florida Gators
  3. How do I add more than one user page?
  4. Odd characters
  5. deleted page
  6. single phase half controlled bridge converter
  7. {{mtc}}
  8. Ref Frogmore Community College Entry
  9. Admin Rights in Logs
  10. addmission
  11. anaylitics
  12. Lake Panasofkee Florida
  13. Login issue
  14. Can someone delete the previous edits of File:YsgolRhydywaunLogo.jpg from me
  15. Logs
  16. Delete image that I uploaded
  17. How do I create an account?
  18. "What links here?"
  19. Can someone with experience please create a page for this movie
  20. Is an RFC tag appropriate? If so, would you do it for me?
  21. Netscape 7.2 crashes immediately when I access Wiki
  22. Hamtramck, Michigan

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 9

  1. What might be considered, partially, an "attack page"
  2. Delete/Update company history and description
  3. How...
  4. JIM LEAVITT
  5. WP accessibility
  6. How can I add sibling names?
  7. user.gif is having a bad hair day
  8. Mutual Organizations
  9. New Page
  10. 1957 oscars
  11. Nidheesh
  12. how can non-resident person provide the legal documents from high court without money to submit to the Abbey bank to transfer in my account?
  13. weather
  14. Wikipedia pictures don't show up in web browser
  15. Blocking Edit page / Change option in Wikipedia page
  16. Stub
  17. Finding uploaded picture
  18. Where's the page that lists categories?
  19. Finding references within articles
  20. URGENT, URGENT, URGENT !!!! MY IP ADDRESS WAS REVEALED - PLEASE CORRECT IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
  21. A request please...
  22. AUGUST ALVO
  23. Browser crashes -- Wikipedia code change?
  24. dialup modems
  25. Caurso record
  26. retired user account/sockpuppet and meatpuppet policy
  27. smaller thumb image
  28. Toolbar Icons

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 10

  1. Hi every one, i appreciat ur work & i want to share..!!
  2. en-au-buffer.org
  3. KGOS/KERM Radio
  4. failure of the system and consequences
  5. Convert box digit play out.
  6. YOUR HOME PAGE
  7. africa
  8. Do articles have to be linked in the navbox for them to use it?
  9. Tables
  10. Enabling searching with an acronym
  11. I have created a page which already exists

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 11

  1. Wrong link
  2. Do I have to wait 4 days and edit 10 times for my newly created first article to appear?
  3. Uploaded image to incorrect article name
  4. Defining a template within an article
  5. Enabling email
  6. publication in the main page?
  7. pine ridge reservation journalist
  8. URLs and Character encoding
  9. How does the"This biography of a living person does not cite any references or sources. ..." get removed?
  10. Centering userboxes
  11. How big is Wikipedia?
  12. How to name an article if the name is already used by another
  13. editing text without an edit button...
  14. Mass null edit for categories
  15. Interwiki vs. Stub
  16. Personal Sandboxes and Making My Page Less Visible
  17. Deleting a page
  18. Log info, please
  19. Need tag for inaccurate site identification and coordinates...
  20. Bolding And Color Retained
  21. <gallery>

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 12

  1. Display stuck in text mode or print mode.
  2. Regarding Food and Agriculture data
  3. problem submitting completed article-
  4. ver sacrum
  5. Textile auxiliaries
  6. Please kindly change the website address of my company's.
  7. Article name
  8. What if someone won't discuss?
  9. Linking other Wikis
  10. Removing pictures
  11. Citing the results of a web site's internal search engine
  12. Family history question
  13. Need help in adding photos to the Delft Dragons article
  14. How do I publish my page?
  15. I am an author
  16. math
  17. Image Content/Photographs
  18. Current time in time zone articles
  19. santa clause
  20. why do you remove every post I have created?
  21. Move
  22. Conflict sorting books
  23. RecentChangesLinked: duration more than 30 days?
  24. Message that seemed to disappear
  25. African Americans
  26. Complaint about user 'doctorfluffy'
  27. Block yourself from editing without logging in?
  28. View
  29. "Next--Live!"
  30. Is there a "favorites" option?
  31. How to get Organization added.
  32. Use of Russian language in English Wikipedia

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 13

  1. Make page public
  2. Deiser Archives
  3. Sending messages to other users
  4. Displaying incorrectly
  5. password reset not working
  6. Nice standard wiki blockquote?
  7. Mobile Wikipedia totally offline? 404 errors on any entry
  8. Article Edit
  9. I want to cut my enforced Wikibreak
  10. How can I connect a Dynamo to my bicycle?
  11. My contribution has been deleted w/o any log or reason
  12. Want to donate information from my website
  13. New page needs disambiguation.
  14. Replacing images on foreign wikis
  15. Name of Article "Javits Wagner O'Day Act"
  16. Change the Name of an Article
  17. Forgotton user name and password
  18. Where is the page ?
  19. Wikipedia used as a Classroom Project
  20. Writing entries for pay?
  21. David Caldwell
  22. Placing Images within Tables
  23. wiki search
  24. Article added to any "book" renders the resulting ODT document unusable
  25. Ray Kinasewich
  26. Special:UncategorizedPages
  27. High School Mascot

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 14

  1. Which 1990's cartoon is it?
  2. Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a <references/> tag.
  3. Google Chrome Layout Problem
  4. Reference error at Tank
  5. Wikipedia's Home Page
  6. Oracle bought Java?
  7. Delete
  8. What does it mean that my article has no assertion of notability? How could I edit it?
  9. History of the product's appearance
  10. Release history
  11. Support service
  12. External links
  13. Wikipedia app for the iPhone - using spaces in the search field
  14. Emotionally Focused Therapy
  15. Copyright
  16. Navbox links not showing up in What Links Here after a significant period of time?
  17. Marinus van der Lubbe
  18. Can I change the AfD debate category after I've submitted it?
  19. Page code recover
  20. languages
  21. Problem when I moved article from user page into main wikipedia (seems to be 2 articles now, 1 with an unwanted redirect from my user page)
  22. HAITI
  23. Printing/Exporting articles as PDF
  24. Link to section

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 15

  1. renaming a title
  2. .mw-tag-markers
  3. crew listing of battleships during second world war
  4. I changed an article in poor condition, but something is wrong.
  5. Other language to English Wikipedia or Commons
  6. I had created a page on Strategy Execution but when I type in Strategy Execution, the article did not appear.
  7. Problem editing page for Tower Hamlets College
  8. Wikipedia Day
  9. Auit Machine covers
  10. A request please....
  11. External Links
  12. re articles about Dovestones Revervoir, Greenfield.
  13. Nested reference syntax
  14. Logging in
  15. Edit within A Template
  16. Signature help
  17. Wrong Link
  18. Mathematical derivations
  19. Advertisement / Notability Distinction

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 16

  1. Where to go, how to get there, how to fill in the question, and where to go and how do I get the answer for the question.
  2. HELP, PLS : IT HAS TO BE LINK TO DAUGHTER OF NICHOLAS the first instead
  3. Drafting, initialising, outlining... what is good practice?
  4. Redirecting to a Specific Article
  5. Wikipedia images don't show up in browser
  6. Government of India policy
  7. Differences in degrees
  8. User page masquerading as a Wikipedia article
  9. Sockpuppet?
  10. Mailing lists
  11. Does this article-name make sense?
  12. Robert Mitchum
  13. vitae bene
  14. The email confirmation message is not coming
  15. Editing a template
  16. Thalidomide

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 17

  1. Do we allow stolen pictures
  2. Two Questions On Editing
  3. Citation help desk
  4. Y2.01K bug?
  5. What exactly should decade history pages show?
  6. Question
  7. Gloria Vanderbilt
  8. How does one report a vandal?
  9. Watchlist no longer showing articles
  10. Biographical information
  11. Comparing edit counts
  12. new sinclair research indicates that robert de saint clair and eleanor de dreux may be the founders of the sinclair in scotland
  13. Chings Secret Soya sauce
  14. My name (page) is already being used by someone esle. What do I do?
  15. Linking to Articles
  16. Rollback Request Requirements
  17. What happened to all the thumbnails?
  18. Breach of name suppression order

January 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 18

  1. keuffel and esser co also called k&esser co have ther model rule six sided 1631w
  2. API
  3. Picture in post won't show
  4. Contributing, not thru research, but personal experience.
  5. Question Concerning Permission to Use Photographs
  6. Userbox construction
  7. Editing
  8. Uploading a photo from family archives for an existing Wikipedia file/page (of our deceased son Andrei Toncu).
  9. uploaded an article?
  10. Control table of contents?
  11. Help neeed with strange edits
  12. Missing article
  13. Mr Don Ratzlaff
  14. Article Creation Check?
  15. How to correctly post a question or comment in an article discussion
  16. eminem
  17. New question
  18. My Wikipedia contributions aren't saving
  19. Process for proving that published works are released under free licenses

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 19

  1. Adding two pictures to an article
  2. Username change
  3. contact telephone numbers and email addresses
  4. Holly Willougby
  5. External Links in article disappears
  6. move article into mainspace - for publication
  7. First Fire In The World
  8. How to change the title line of an article
  9. Save as PDF
  10. my profile taken by sombody else
  11. Rights
  12. Why isn't there a bot to welcome new users?
  13. Shon Brooks
  14. Protected Pages
  15. Capitalisation question

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 20

  1. Confused about deletion citeria
  2. Permanently Deleting Edits from Page History
  3. Question about redundancy
  4. Listing as a Lesbian Musician
  5. refer to a file in "<ref?"
  6. How to create a new Infobox?
  7. sports logos
  8. I'd like to use templates to obscure table syntax
  9. 4CTechnologies is Notable
  10. A template for moving a comment to a different talk page
  11. Getting company on Wikipedia
  12. Should this be posted?
  13. Adverts
  14. tag to mark a section as non-notable?
  15. Question
  16. Contents box on my talkpage missing
  17. Parrot Family Bird - Solid White Similar to African Gray
  18. Animals
  19. Find a Practioner in Cchicago

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 21

  1. Permission to use image
  2. article writing wizard
  3. Page mimicking Wikipedia
  4. Linking where a page does not exist
  5. Garnett Rocchi
  6. password not logging on & reset not working
  7. "Worst/Best Person in the World" references
  8. List of editors with access to references?
  9. Company Information
  10. View and Delete "Subpages" on User Page
  11. Twelve Tribes of Israel?
  12. USS Louisville CA 28
  13. emaul id expiry
  14. Is there any accountability for large scale blocks?
  15. help with bot
  16. wiki and e readers
  17. Primary Colors
  18. Edits Not Showing In Article
  19. Sandbox coding
  20. Commons linking
  21. Getting a page
  22. Warn/temp block a page or user
  23. Template or markup to completely hide text
  24. suggesting deletions

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 22

  1. Disappearing history
  2. Photo problem
  3. How do I edit the very first paragraph?
  4. What to do when I forgot to sign using four tildes?
  5. Making an article live
  6. loading a page
  7. Officical compnay content
  8. Edit summary
  9. Linking to foreign wikis with the same article name
  10. Finding my page
  11. Is there a template like this?
  12. Editing articles
  13. Page error
  14. awareness ribbons
  15. Download of all Wikipedia Templates
  16. w and p
  17. Asian Glory
  18. Article deleted but nothing in delete log

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 23

  1. Shabazz
  2. Article title in italics
  3. How/when will my article be published?
  4. Development-induced Displacement and Rehabilitation in India
  5. Deleting my own uploaded photos
  6. Overriding template link format

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 24

  1. How to suppress interwiki links?
  2. How do I use IRC?
  3. Stirrups
  4. Referencing an article on es.wikipedia from en.wikipedia
  5. reverse colors in table
  6. Request for page moved to incubator
  7. Pics
  8. New username does not allow me to upload photos or see my previous contributions
  9. adam lambert
  10. Wikipedia query information
  11. Suspicious edit
  12. Link to viamontenapoleone.org - Via Montenapoleone site
  13. submitting an article
  14. posting new article on wikipedia
  15. Contract document between a seller (merchant) and factor
  16. Tools for browsing article histories
  17. WP Admins: Does my contribution have any problem with WP policy?

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 25

  1. Vandalism not affecting page display?
  2. How do I merge two accounts?
  3. Billboard.com and WebCite
  4. Deletion of protected template
  5. Clover, the film
  6. Swami Premeshananda
  7. New page patrol: marking pages as patrolled.
  8. please give me the answer of this question...
  9. Page Statistics
  10. Order of Wiki page types from general to specific
  11. French typo (Charcher)
  12. Copying the Wikipedia Upload Pages
  13. Creating an account for someone else
  14. Username
  15. Is there a script....

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 26

  1. Deleted edits
  2. Existing articles in sandbox
  3. Page for copyright owners donating material?
  4. Correct my band's entry
  5. Why are the text/paragraphs shrinking on the page I edited?
  6. requesting permission to upload image
  7. Userboxes
  8. twas the night before christmas
  9. Terminology for U.S.-centricity problem?
  10. Helping to add photos to Wikipedia (Guideline clarification)
  11. Messages on my user talk page about image copyright
  12. checkuser check
  13. Suitable content for new page
  14. MySpace question
  15. Rogue letter on article page
  16. How do you link to a table?
  17. How to use image in foreign Wikipedia article on English version of same article
  18. clinical trial studies
  19. How can I download entire wikipedia to hard disk
  20. Requesting removal of unverifiable non-fact
  21. Very unusual edit summary
  22. List of passengers
  23. Important information is missing in article on Wikipedia about Barbie doll
  24. adding my social network to a list of social networking websites
  25. Attack sections
  26. A possible suggestion
  27. Content related to climatology.
  28. Deleted articles log
  29. article for deletion Andrea Rivera
  30. Adding a References Section to an Existing Article
  31. Photography source

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 27

  1. Disambiguation
  2. Can Wikipedia be edited?
  3. Patrolling edits
  4. My posting was called vandalism
  5. How do you block a comment that is written about you on a page that you haven't created?
  6. Speedy Deletion
  7. How can I stop someone abusing and deleting entries
  8. Editing from other hardware
  9. Odd-looking citations
  10. How?
  11. Please help
  12. band leader
  13. Editing a citation link in a list of notes

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 28

  1. good day
  2. URL won't display right
  3. Created articles?
  4. Why is my name in "red fonts"?
  5. spores
  6. Exporting/saving tables
  7. Information Usage policy, Simple enquiry.
  8. Marking a page when I have a question about its NPOV
  9. Requested edit unanswered
  10. Non Receipt of Email Code
  11. Wikipedia access via Google links blocked....Possibly IP blocked
  12. Minor Change to Main Page Possible?
  13. USER PAGE???
  14. Does laurel have a meaning in british/american culture?
  15. Source Tag
  16. Image licence question
  17. about Fluther
  18. How do I make an article appear on Google Maps?
  19. Oldids
  20. Help using Opera browser

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 29

  1. Breaking news about fusion power
  2. Italicizing non Roman characters
  3. chaya someswara swamy temple pictures
  4. printing pages with equations in them
  5. arranging the legitimate inclusion of artwork by a living artist
  6. Convert Wikitables to Excel
  7. User:Patrickneil
  8. Why can't non-admins view deleted edits
  9. Q: How does one re-set an article as a "primary page"?
  10. rowspan usage in a table
  11. changing a section header without affecting prior linking from other pages
  12. User Page & User Sandbox appears in Google external search

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 30

  1. new admission
  2. Why is it
  3. book by geo. catlin
  4. Movig to the Philippines
  5. Geoff Beckett entry
  6. Making small change in article title
  7. Block
  8. I have a few questions about citing sources.

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 January 31

  1. Question about database information.
  2. Related articles
  3. Montage
  4. Random redirect
  5. Merge Yourself
  6. Change Listing Name
  7. Living Person Bio (author) editorial help
  8. Move Tab missing on a few articles, though present on most....
  9. Readiness for Requesting Adminship
  10. Cluebot III
  11. good day
  12. re-direct from my name search !!
  13. Deleted edits
  14. Subpages
  15. deleted resume
  16. What is Wikipedia
  17. Creating bios
  18. Image Citation
  19. div box does not work
  20. Advertising
  21. difficulty editing a new article
  22. Jessica Alba archives
  23. Union numbering system for local chapters
  24. How do I add old AfD discussions to a new AfD nomination?
  25. Where ask question about copyright?
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