Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2012

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January 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 1

1. How to recruit others to help out
2. Number of watchers
3. Re: My Edits & Reverts
4. non-breaking hyphen
5. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
6. a simple thank you!!
7. Indicating "sic" in reference title
8. Feature request: displaying mathematical equations as png images with solid background
9. Photo switching option
10. userboxes
11. Wikipedia Android App
12. Offensive comment
13. Donations 4
14. Charlie Brooks (Eastenders actress)
15. Wikipedia
16. Robert E Lee Museum, in Biloxi, MS
17. Blue dots show up only on thumbnail image??
18. Seeking article feedback
19. Stats on Unregistered Editors

January 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 2

1. Fictional universe of Avatar
2. Team Rosters for phillips 66ers
3. Can we use Australian Case Law in U.K
4. Seeking article feedback 2
5. Creating new article and copyright and more
6. Please run page size tool on Fluorine
7. element of set, how do i do it?
8. Year-end page view tool availability for 2011?
9. Collaboration of the month nominations
10. Spelling of D'Arcy
11. Donation
12. In the News section
13. todays featuread photo
14. Magic word variable for sections/anchors
15. Missing image on Wikicommons
16. Is it OK to go back and changing a non-compliant signature from alternateretired account?
17. Looking for a French friend who was deported back to France in 1975 by Vietnamese communist
18. Hi
19. Moving to Commons
20. a question about some custom vector.css
21. !vote
22. Creating Bio Page
23. Pledge drive
24. Articles on California Smog Check - one is a treatise on air pollution, one is poorly written
25. The use of the word LAME to describe edit wars is offensive to people with physical disabilites.

January 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 3

1. Need help with category
2. how to reference
3. Use of minority languages
4. recent recessed article - list of adaptogens
5. someone is deleting the updated info on my Wikipedia entry and leaving outdated info
6. speedy close requested
7. Photo captions.
8. That little cross...
9. I want to register
10. Dear Sir,
11. Uploading
12. first row live sports
13. David Polglass - death
14. Food supply -wild animals
15. Logging-in after username change
16. facebook
17. Russian articles need for translation
18. Wikipedia Security and Higher Education
19. Requring a static IP address to have a Wikipedia account in order to edit.
20. Why don't graphics show?
21. Block Own IP?

January 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 4

1. Blatant rules violation
2. Can't access Sue Gardner message with IE
3. Use Wikipedia image for my book
4. page references
5. How to handle problematic IP user
6. new element discovery of ashish kaushik
7. Fix this
8. Categories - wrapping
9. Ref desk q re Nigeria
10. Coord template
11. rick manasa keyboardist for bob seger
12. How do i make a numbered list
13. Facebook
14. Special Pages:User contributions *as of* specific dates instead of before certain dates
15. David T . Beers Article
16. My Account
17. Major Wikis hosted by .EDU
18. I added an item to column 2, but it appears in column 1.
19. Renaming an article
20. Please Delete Article

January 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 5

1. How do I create an account
2. Pressurized Dew Point
3. $1000.00 Walmart Gift Certificate
4. Sirius radio
5. User page question
6. "Theft" of an article
7. Aust hiphop history
8. Vital records
9. scaggdaddys, life lesson
10. Need help with a title name change, incorrect spelling
11. Questions not in the public eye that candidates need to answer
12. Stuck in Chineese.
13. unkind comments
14. The Edit window task bar
15. Fixing double redirects

January 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 6

1. Roger Blackwell Article
2. Improvement to the IPA link in Wikipedia subjects
3. Submission Rejected
4. Please help with questions for my article
5. Help:Merging
6. Littlejohn's Wiki Page
7. My page Tony Samara
8. Trying to contact a User directly
9. Unreviewed new articles
10. Can tables work a bit like a spreadsheet?
11. Limiting Category by "namespace"
12. How do i figure out the categories to put my article into
13. previous editor creating a new Wikipedia article
14. Citation Error/Need assistance
15. Dr. Chester M. Pierce - correction
16. Musician infobox (?) help
17. add my new wikipedia site
18. Where do I find your comments on my sumission?
19. Is there a place to request a source?
20. Virus question
21. What are the green numbers in my watchlist?

January 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 7

1. Personalised Signatures
2. Page creation
3. Lost my password and confirmation email.
4. how to translate an English article into Bengali.
5. Talk page categories
6. Portal Perils
7. Suspicious posting/Self publicity
8. Homework question
9. Trouble with editing "Bernard's Watch"
10. Book cover images
11. Sandbox
12. Would like to put article on the web
13. Where is the View Source tab on a subject page? So I can locate the Submit an edit request link to do so.
14. Articles for creation
15. re your artical on cowboys etc

January 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 8

1. Page Deletion
2. Mass talk page mailing
3. False Warning from Bot
4. my page Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
5. For review: StarCore (software distributor) article
6. how to merge an artical that written in bengali languge to written same article in english
7. Please restore missing text to Wikipedia page for Deroy Murdock
8. Help financially to keep the last World Dreadnought Battleship afloat (BB-35 USS TEXAS) please!
9. user id
10. Advice for EDU admins
11. Agapemone or Agapemonites
12. moving text to the right
13. The photo of me removed and replaced by one which is not me in a biography of me

January 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 9

1. unlock ipod 2nd generation
2. Notability concern
3. Journalists vs. reporters
4. Capital Cities by Altitude
5. Download PDF Is Broken
6. About Music director Johnson wkipedia--ame
7. Renaming Templates
8. Not sure where to put this
9. Dramaout
10. Donator's email address changed
11. Articles for creation/Daniel Snowman
12. OPTIMIZATION
13. External links to celebrity interviews
14. Page not appearing in Categories etc.
15. Reverse large text in Wikipedia
16. Daylight Savings Time on Wikipedia
17. Rejection of Article
18. Updating a bibliography
19. Billabong International page
20. Help, please
21. Previewing a draft article
22. article about Cyrus Eaton

January 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 10

1. right of entry
2. Help: I want to delete my own photo-comments from photo-files.
3. Migrating page after a similarly named page has been deleted
4. finding an old contributor
5. Joe Greene (American football) template font bolding
6. Gabby West "Gabrielle D West"
7. Login option - how to bypass "Logging you into other wikis" page?
8. :File:Sardis_synagogue_pavement.jpg
9. Language redirect issue
10. Deleted Kaseya Article
11. Contacting Wikipedia monitor?
12. Bot on the loose
13. Sandbox 2
14. Executions at the Tower of London
15. Advice for page content regarding listing businesses
16. How can I change a name in a category list for a redirect
17. article on phila school for performing arts

January 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 11

1. Use of present tense for historical events
2. I submitted an article but forgot to create a subpage first so I could play around.
3. how to edit
4. reporting an offensive page
5. How to post English translation of a French quote found in English article (!) on English Wikipedia ?
6. please some body help or assist
7. Finding your edited page has been changed back to the outdated content
8. Draft article question
9. Jon Driver
10. Account
11. infoboxes on manufacturers' pages
12. Edit removed for insufficient reference ... what to do?
13. every time i search the web my internet explorer stops working what can i do to fix this problem?
14. Citing a documented that was updated twice
15. The thoroughbred Ahonoora
16. Advertising Wikiprojects
17. Unveiling old myths: procedures and expected effects (ref song "Ging gang goolie" and Robert Baden-Powell, etc)

January 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 12

1. channel numbers for fox footy
2. Rap Group Cali Swag
3. Security Code/Picture problem
4. Can't find an old TFD
5. URL points to Incorrect article
6. Reporting vandalism
7. recently added 'Eric Arnott' article
8. Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy
9. Special:DeadendPages
10. complaint against biju rasheed
11. Ugh
12. Unable to locate article
13. I got two warning notices
14. Why does redirect point to an old/obsolete page???
15. Edititing page title
16. SOPA Sucks
17. Search facility
18. Eaton Bay Financial
19. Photo Removed
20. Contributing a photo which is relevant to an encyclopedia article already on Wikipedia
21. Please Consider Helping
22. Formatting error on Wikipedia Page
23. Request assistance:Moving a category
24. User name change went wrong!

January 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 13

1. Is it gluten-free?
2. Is this a scam
3. Verification
4. Sorry for inconvenience I have done an unintentional mistake on one of your pages.
5. Redirect problem
6. Worm
7. How to load images and link it with a new article created
8. About size of articles
9. Warning function
10. VIRUS IN TETRAHYDRAFURAN ARTICLE WHEN CONVERTED TO PDF
11. Is this acceptable
12. native speaker review wanted for pointing machine
13. Best way to display alternative years of birth
14. Marcin Kasprzak
15. wikitable, cellspacing, cellpadding
16. How do I create a page?
17. That IS Paul McCartney In The Nickelback Rockstar Video

January 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 14

1. How to contact a user when he appears to not read talk pages (even his own)?
2. DYK messup on my part.
3. How do you stop a merger?
4. Inciting edit warring
5. Dictionary built into Wikipedia?
6. New Accounts from abroad
7. adding to the lexicon
8. My pages have been hounded
9. Not offered Edit links when looking at most recent Diff
10. Can't find the article I submitted about H.T. Lockard
11. under The Mistletoe
12. What have I done wrong to the reference tags?
13. Images setting by %age
14. Still cannot find my submission on H.T. Lockard
15. symbols
16. DISCUSSION v. TALK page
17. Darryl Read
18. Non free image problem
19. Articles for Creation Appeal
20. Infobox spacing
21. Making a suggestions for Special:Watchlist
22. Memory parody song
23. Problem with Template:Portalbox
24. Service in Nevada
25. Shared account
26. Please dont review article yet
27. Experienced Article Writer Needed

January 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 15

1. how to get novel purchased
2. Remember a Day Darryl Read pages
3. French-German or German-French? Dutch-Belgian or Belgian-Dutch?
4. Ko i zašto[...]
5. wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flemish_people
6. I don't understand how it is ok
7. Moving images from Commons to en.Wikipedia
8. Suicide Article
9. does wikipedia have a policy against links to newsreels?
10. BLACKOUT donation question
11. Twinkle
12. It's been a while..
13. important
14. location of ram mandir, Peterborough
15. People not highlighted to link with Wiki.
16. Audio files autoplay
17. WRONG INFORMATION THIS SITE IS NOT ACCURATE.
18. Expansion needed tag
19. Citations In Leads
20. Uploading a new version of an image
21. searching for music keys in English--
22. Global Usage
23. can't find submission

January 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 16

1. Notability affecting shared name?
2. Mala Aravindan
3. Still cannot find my submission
4. aritcle in punjabi of 'global warming'
5. Technical glitch with URLs
6. scientist who was killed in a homicide
7. Not canvassing
8. Template help
9. Minor Vandalism on article?
10. Date format in accessdate parameter
11. How to move an article to the “waiting to be reviewed” category of articles for creation
12. 3 Stooges
13. finding article
14. Broken link to a sound recording on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Va,_pensiero
15. how to write an effective book proposal
16. TOC help
17. disruptive editing from user
18. Simplon eagle.jpg
19. There are <ref> tags on this page, but...
20. Need help editing
21. Going Dark
22. Userpage snapshot
23. New User Help
24. Sunday Sharpe... remove date of birth
25. Is there

January 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 17

1. "Who are you to say that the author released this under CC?"
2. Typo in the global blackout banner
3. SOPA blackout
4. 24 hour black out is not enough
5. How do i add [by who?] to uncited parts of an article
6. Venezia Giulia Police Force
7. Wikia and Wikipedia
8. School project related Question - How should I go about this?
9. Blackout complaint
10. How to change information in "Spoken Articles" tag in file upload?
11. Article for creation
12. I would like help with my biography please
13. Nice job Wikipedia!!!!
14. Possible illogical confusion over my intended (frequently used) user name.
15. Taking off notations from Wiki at top of a page.
16. Blackout
17. Bad preview of a picture
18. using wikipedia in other languages
19. Deletion of some one elses editing
20. My competitors created a wikipedia page about me with false information
21. Radial engine image
22. Complaint against the SOPA protest?
23. why no banner
24. Personally archived news articles
25. Help
26. IRC channel links

January 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 18

1. Thank You!
2. SOPA/PIPA blackout
3. Merge user accounts

January 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 19

1. Page creation?
2. How do I use a Wikimedia shortcut here?
3. DNA (Rapper)
4. Help: moving category
5. shinee jonghuyn
6. Wikipedia protest 18th January 2012
7. article on 'The Grey'
8. Image help
9. Greenville Trace
10. Creating an article for a new society
11. I cannot sent to photosubmissionwikimedia.org
12. Article on putting pictures on userpage
13. hyperlinks
14. inaccuracy needs correcting asap -- have requested before and nothing done....Diane Francis (subject of page)
15. Updating an article's title
16. Where do images go once you have uploaded them?
17. Fixing bunching
18. thank you
19. PDF Download Problem
20. Is this word banned from section headers
21. D'oh! Need to remove a "timestamp" from a page I edited.
22. Sagres bottle
23. Baseball player Honus Wagner and his Pittsburgh store
24. Self work
25. Blackout 1
26. Delay in requested update
27. BCE instead of BC/CE instead of AD
28. How do you figure out when a wikipedia page is made?
29. "Download as PDF" to print in Letter size instead of A4 size

January 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 20

1. Making picture align right
2. how many languages are spoken in the world?
3. help its driving me crazy lol
4. Firstly there are two many help desks
5. support for your actions yesterday
6. Adding my site link to semi protected Humpback Whale page
7. Multiple Accounts
8. re entry for Nigel Lawson
9. Don Ciccone
10. RE: define an english person search
11. Does Wikipedia post pages on Facebook?
12. Factual Errors
13. Table Sorting
14. Verifiable page
15. special characters
16. Links to guitar chords site.
17. Potential article merge
18. My DOB
19. Warning user adding links to .exe files

January 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 21

1. wiki and censorship
2. Internet Legislation
3. This is an awkward question...
4. Verification of edit, ramifications
5. What is the standard heading of a "used in further works" section ?
6. how to make a new ad?
7. When will wiki articles be available in audio, click and listen rather than read.. like an audiobook?
8. Add aspect from, Special:FeedbackDashboard onto my userpage
9. Life Raft Debate wikipedia page copyright issues
10. Capitals
11. Paul Norton Musician Australia
12. Random Article
13. Mass flow estimation
14. Search Results
15. Category conflict
16. old help request, done, thanks
17. Looking for policy on redirects
18. i was looking for information about Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.
19. Shangri-La Correlation
20. Re-editing request of Lurs article at Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurs)
21. george washington meditation/dark in 1906 Ency. Brit.
22. Problem with editing
23. Need help on Interlanguage links
24. Updating image content

January 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 22

1. How to say needs citations?
2. Article on Robert Peernock
3. Wikipedia blackout
4. Are these images unuseable
5. Baridhara Mohila Samobaya Samity, Ltd.
6. Sulu archipelago article
7. Wikipedia:Tags
8. second AfD
9. IP112.203.42.16 VANDALISM
10. President of Benin
11. List of pages exempt from NFCC 9
12. WP:UTT
13. Where do I request site improvements?
14. Wacky diffs
15. Kai Bird
16. Fair use issue
17. Number of visits
18. Only login on hungarian pages
19. How to deal with citations that Redirects 301
20. bloodgroup
21. Tim Berners-Lee invents WWW / World Wide Web
22. Google searches go astray
23. New Photo To A Article
24. Code needed
25. Can you see how many people look at your Wikipedia pages?
26. Deleted due to advertising?? Huh?
27. Peer review desired
28. Request
29. Article traffic statistics

January 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 23

1. List of Startling by Each Step episodes
2. Question about page deletion
3. Inserting Photo
4. Kateri vs. Catherine
5. error on the Tony Acquaviva article
6. I would like an answer to this please help. Thanks
7. How to fix a talk link?
8. How to archive my talk page?
9. a confusion of editing the wikipedia
10. Never Been Marcused
11. Article Title Editing Question
12. Help for correction
13. Permission from living persons
14. Creating a biography
15. Cookies
16. Picastro photo mistake
17. Blog for novels
18. What citation template would be best to use?
19. Copyedit?
20. Reading History?
21. Request for page protection
22. Repeatedly Attempted Search

January 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 24

1. Guidance request
2. Oops, I broke it
3. Contactmusic.com on marital breakup
4. Creating existing page in another language
5. Article Errors
6. How do I answer a question asked at the Reference Desk?
7. delete account
8. Redirecting/merging
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meols
10. jop
11. Broken image?
12. Vulgar Language about the school's assistant principal
13. Libelous information being posted
14. about correction of posting period of Lt. Governor, Andaman and Nicobar islands (INDIA) reg.
15. carnie
16. Translate a page.
17. 2 wrong notes in "The Washington Post (march)
18. Getting mentioned in "Blairites" page
19. Removing an Image
20. Where do I go
21. how to edit the title of a page?
22. Really Big Coloring Books article
23. Is there a place where you can look up the amount of articles and/or users that were here at a given time?
24. How do I add pages, photo's, etc.
25. Vandalism of John P. Surma
26. Page - Atsuma, Hokkaido

January 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 25

1. Article for creation - AVANCE
2. Help with Frederick C. Leonard
3. Can't log in
4. User name issue
5. Keyboarding Pro 5 & Keyboarding Pro 6
6. Keyboarding Pro 4, Pro 5, Pro 6 andKeyboarding Course 1 -25Pro 6
7. How to contribute
8. Krygzstan article on mobile device
9. Israel's page: All links lead to pornography.
10. Request for Article Feedback
11. there is something wrong with article regarding Islam religion
12. finding pages titles
13. Article on Israel vandalized
14. inquiry about article which is reviewed by your volunteer
15. Include old versionof the images from Image history
16. The Earlier Tribes Of the Eskimos Thule ,Mythology and Social Groups
17. Home Visiting Provider Network HVPN
18. Oakleigh Race Course
19. How to do a Redirect for Discussion
20. Interwiki templating
21. problems with the content of the Turin School of Development page
22. T-90
23. Free Encyclopedia
24. text from another site that was originally on Wikipedia is now a copyright violation?
25. Fake user writing false and unverified content
26. Translation
27. Article disappears?/
28. Someone keeps deleting my posts
29. Finding links
30. Questions about account creation
31. logo and license applicability
32. In regards to books ofthe bible
33. Trojan Horse
34. auto focus
35. Changing the city for a company listing.
36. Trimming books.google.com links.
37. How to edit

January 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 26

1. Automatically remove piped links
2. Article traffic and redirects
3. How to Change the Title of a Page
4. SRMSAT and SRMSAT (satellite): two articles, both alike in dignity, about the same subject
5. User in mourning
6. Star rises 4 minutes earlier everyday than previous day
7. My article: Apples & Oranges
8. scanned newspaper articles
9. adding a new section in the "London Borough of Sutton page"
10. A Tribe Called Quest: History
11. editing wikipedia: need help
12. WRONG COUNTRY FOR LOURES - LOURES IS IN FRANCE - NOT PORTUGAL
13. Hassi Messaoud (Algeria)
14. missing 'book'
15. Use pictures of banknotes in WikiMedia Commons?
16. Notability George Atallah
17. Question
18. Article deletion
19. "In the news" entry's notability
20. Userpage question

January 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 27

1. fraud setup of my name
2. Article creation advice
3. WelcomeBot - Other Languages
4. Infobox with a show/hide option
5. Editing Issues
6. Not capitalising an article title on its Talk page
7. User:Vivvt/35th National Film Awards listed at Redirects for discussion
8. How to type a new topic in wikipedia?
9. Wiki entry for an American exists in German, but not in English
10. Password Request Not Working
11. Lede?
12. Underworld (film series)
13. Problem with sections
14. How to format a reference if it contains [ and/or ] on the URL?
15. converting an article to spanish
16. is Really Big Coloring Books article ready?
17. Question regarding abbreviations and DPLs
18. red pimple like bumps after sex
19. Uploading My Non-Profit's Photos- do I need to get them copyrighted?

January 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 28

1. Filtering recent changes
2. 2012 NFL Draft
3. Hands produce heat sweat all time
4. Facts About Lassie...
5. Removing IP address
6. Camp All Saints
7. payment not payed
8. changing from subpage to article space?
9. Olivier Ripley filmography section
10. Request for Les Lalanne Article Feedback
11. Help with image copyright
12. Cannot find a submit button after creating an article.
13. Possibly silly lack of confidence in removing tag

January 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 29

1. How do I add a comment to one particular article?
2. Nanette Hassall
3. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content; Message on Wikipedia Page
4. Question about whether or not a citation can be used in a specific instance.
5. Font Size
6. How do I see "more hidden content"?
7. Rainbow Rosaries
8. making tables the easy way?
9. searching foreign Wiki?
10. Britney Spear's Biography
11. Shapell.org
12. Editing and adding a link (which was from a Social Networking site)
13. Category
14. Table of Contents on Live at the Apollo (TV series)
15. creating a page for person
16. Bad reference (misinterpreted source)
17. Mass deletion of security-related articles
18. Book: Disconnected from my Account
19. List of Startling by Each Step episodes
20. Account unification
21. Fixing dead external links
22. Tax deduction?
23. fraud setup of my name 2
24. Help creating article about social action group
25. False album page made

January 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 30

1. editiing citation number sequencing
2. Making a Page for Occupy San Antonio
3. Population of Pashtun
4. Prospectus
5. Howto unwatch talkpge of articles + Howto watch specific section in Help Desk + Addon not working?
6. Handling a potential edit war
7. Shanks Group plc format error
8. False edit
9. CSD for Unneeded Topics
10. Hieronymous Bosch article: what are “autonomous sketches”?
11. pipe link not working
12. Severe layout problem on article!
13. Page corrupted?

January 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 31

1. I need help with adding info to a page.
2. The wiki on "Sciatica"
3. Article feedback request
4. Capital lettered acronyms in page titles
5. Sandbox operation
6. Article appeared to be missing info, but it was there all along?
7. Please make the biography of the living person Herbert Guðmundsson semi protected because somebody just recently put slander on it wh.
8. Vertical bar!