Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/June 2009

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June 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 1

1. Updating SFBA statistics table
2. Photo license
3. How to I change a picture on a page?
4. False information about my company
5. APEC Logo Change
6. Huh?!
7. wikitext bullet-point markup question
8. Public Domain (film)
9. Copyright uncertain tag?
10. User/IP address removing template messages from recently-created article
11. Edit Count.
12. What does a blocked user see?
13. Transwiki/importing articles
14. Editing a discussion page
15. Parts lists?
16. discovering my password
17. JS

June 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 2

1. Passenger on board missing air france flight
2. rainbows
3. Wiki style for TV program times
4. Importing Ansfelden heraldic image from de.WP
5. Deletion for A7, How to Correct?
6. Unable to give a server link in Wiki
7. Richard North
8. Changing font size
9. Using an image from another Wiki.
10. Question
11. Tagging {{Stub}} articles as Unreferenced?
12. Name change
13. Editing content
14. City infobox
15. submitting an article
16. Inserting photographs
17. Insert a date template in a template
18. Help creating a page
19. Cropping Flickr image
20. Sandy Sweet Wiki page deleted...
21. help me, 1987 Honda 1.5L D15A3 to the D15a2?
22. Access to my wikipedia account suddenly blocked??
23. looking for pictures

June 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 3

1. Date of electronic publication
2. Inline Citations
3. www.wikipedia.org's main page has a text display problem...
4. Application forms and admission procedures
5. Edit option from the pages should be removed because anybody can change the information and may provide us a wrong info.
6. Requested moves
7. If someone uploaded a false image into a article
8. languages
9. TOWN VEHICLE
10. Nephrops norvegicus
11. new article
12. Banned but have never used wiki account creation or even logged in!
13. Question about NASA photo
14. Articles statistics...
15. Improving search engine?
16. Question regarding Reliable sources
17. Assignment symbol in formulae
18. Using inline templates ("tags")
19. External Link with invalid characters
20. Wikipedia in other languages
21. how do you create a citation in Microsoft Word That Will Work for Wikipedia
22. Upgrade of Wikimagic for ISBN
23. May I borrow your brain?
24. Uploading images
25. About biographic note in the list of Opera Directors
26. Making 2 to 1 ?
27. Bot
28. Popup sticking

June 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 4

1. Table question - when to collapse, how to maintain uniform color
2. monsterVisionTV
3. Hi
4. problems hitting internal links
5. glossary
6. mediawiki shortcuts definition
7. Editing existing articles
8. Making a template
9. User Page
10. Colored link
11. Private school infobox template
12. Pictures
13. Problems with an infobox
14. Possibly bad claim of fair use
15. Freezing a web page for use as a citation
16. Hi I started an article last night come back to try and work on it today and it has been redirected
17. Need an admin to undelete article
18. Jobs at Wikipedia?
19. Am I allowed to Edit my own Talk Page?
20. louis phillipe medallian
21. Pictures in Commons
22. Font Question
23. Alphabetical list of Wikipedias
24. Rewriting an article

June 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 5

1. popups
2. Blank Space
3. Journalists
4. Image copyright
5. Copyright holder
6. Can't see pictures
7. Taskforce templating
8. Work at Wikipedia?
9. Movie Poster
10. SVG strangeness
11. Joy F. Evans
12. Missing help desk pages
13. Huggle
14. Category Tree
15. creating a new article with a tilte that gets redirected to another article.
16. Updating hyperlinks in citations
17. Importance of Person
18. An article I want to edit does not have an "Edit" tab
19. german sheperd puppy
20. retinal detachment and use of a sclerol buckle
21. deletion log
22. request for comment
23. Hello
24. How to submit my page
25. Putting scrollbar in a sidebar
26. Reliable source with possible original research

June 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 6

1. Patron Estates: speedy delete
2. RMS. LACONIA (1921) - found postard
3. Copyright violation
4. How to alter image in Wikimedia Commons?
5. Can a blog be a reliable source?
6. Terri Schiavo case
7. images
8. Clifford Brown, Trumpeteer. American.
9. Tables in disambiguation pages
10. Problem removing extraneous text
11. Posting a Page
12. Something wrong with the mobile interface?

June 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 7

1. my name
2. Do we have a list of WikiProjects?
3. Column equivalent to line word wrap for long two column tables
4. Reliable sources and external links
5. Category link lists
6. Help would be welcome
7. changing the correct information of the person and abusing it.
8. Citing references - same source, with and without page numbers
9. BRD cycle and contested material in article.
10. alfred james taylor
11. Formatting
12. answer to Todd
13. How to submit a question to Wikipedia ?
14. Wikipedia BLP.
15. Wikilink to an image file

June 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 8

1. Formatting
2. New look?
3. Submission for reviewal?
4. Where to find the archive of a redirected page?
5. I can't see any picture
6. Tables (episode list format)
7. Canonical Law
8. I can't find the move button
9. How to stop a redirect and create a disabiguation in one foul swoop.
10. Efron's dice image
11. Author
12. Category:Manufacturer of recreational vehicles
13. Deleted article but not one I wrote ???
14. Genealogy for families 17:06, 8 June 2009 (UTC)~~
15. Multilingual Wiki links
16. How do I get my article removed from the orphan category?
17. question about "This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from other articles related to it."
18. My Addition to wikipedia
19. Upload
20. A new kind of vandalism? Or no?
21. References Section
22. Do we need an independent secondary source for a statement of opinion from the Anti-Defamation League?

June 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 9

1. Create Biography
2. Page move gone wrong. Please help!
3. eteeap policies for recruitment and admission
4. Solid Axles
5. login account lost?
6. Annoying mobile redirection...
7. want to join
8. procedure to obtain an oekotex certificte for apparel garment
9. Same file name
10. Advice on request to remove a photo
11. Sign Talk page automatically
12. How do I properly attribute my information to another article?
13. microsoft medications for bert sugarman
14. To histmerge or not to histmerge
15. Duplicate title, different info/person
16. creating a new topic
17. List_of_Jewish_actors
18. Can't see the article I just wrote and saved ....

June 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 10

1. How to edit an image?
2. Reference Desk for biz
3. delete wikipedia defamatory pages
4. User's created pages
5. Random statement on user page refresh
6. Is it possible to contact an editor of a page so that we may collaborate on the information before publishing.
7. Emailing an article to a friend outside of Wikipedia from within Wikipedia
8. Image Uploaded to "Commons." Now what? How do I get it to the article I want?
9. I have a personal anecdote to share about the late actor David Carradine
10. Quick question
11. Public Domain
12. I want to upload a picture for Richard Krawiec, how do I do it?
13. Editing an Article for a different meaning but with the same name...
14. Problem with formatting of footnotes

June 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 11

1. Improper category listings in article
2. using interwikis as sources
3. Booker T. Washington High School
4. arch corses
5. Tool to find a Wikipedian's contributions to one article
6. Sub Page
7. admission in engineering college
8. CITY College, Affiliated Institution of Sheffield, Thessaloniki-page deleted
9. Signature help?
10. Tom Van Flandern?
11. Classification as a stub?
12. Lyrics Pages
13. where to comment
14. Bot for searching
15. Romanian Map
16. Checking articles created by user
17. creating a page
18. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 11#.7B.7Btl.7CCell_wall_disruptive_antibiotics.7D.7D|{{Cell wall disruptive antibiotics}}]]
19. Bakugan Editing
20. PDF won't appear

June 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 12

1. Article renders incorrectly with Firefox
2. Table Problem
3. Image Permission
4. runtime error
5. Hebat, and other unsourced speculative articles
6. Factual article always deleted, but others exist
7. 'Adult' picture on the Help Desk?
8. link directly to a person rather than to the disambiguation page
9. How to Edit Series Box
10. New Page
11. moving a page
12. Original research
13. Something tells me...
14. Unclear on photo usage for reprinting- Please tell me if I can do the following with the photos
15. How do I PUBLISH a page?
16. My User Box
17. What is the different between WP:HELPDESK and WP:NCHP?
18. The Canyons' Info Box

June 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 13

1. Apparent vandalism of article redirect
2. Random Question About Page Moves
3. How does category page know under which letter to list an article?
4. What justifies links per words in an article
5. change the text size
6. Image Renaming
7. Difference between the templates
8. Why do my edits keep disappearing?
9. rules / guidelines for editing an existing article
10. Template find
11. Special:New pages
12. about Vieta : important question (for me)
13. fix urls
14. Review Sites as References
15. Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
16. Merging
17. template to hat a non-improvemnt talk page topic
18. File CSD Criteria
19. Infobox Confusion
20. ArchiverWhy is my avrcive bot not working?

June 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 14

1. Messed up talk page template
2. FAQ template
3. Speedy Deletion
4. Need an administrator's help with an article name
5. gallery tag
6. Bugzilla
7. chnges saved twise?
8. Edit war
9. "Fit"
10. Can't edit a template
11. login account lost (2)
12. Image placement
13. why my article hasn't been posted yet
14. Engineering college rankings in India article
15. Italics in article titles
16. Name Change
17. updating search engine for single word search?
18. Submission on artist to Wikipedia
19. Is citing a book by an article's subject by nature OR?
20. Template that should be used

June 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 15

1. Link to article without it showing up on "what links here"
2. Nightingale birds
3. My date of birth & profession
4. Help
5. Linking dates: Who won the war?
6. Can we use our User IDs for more than Wikipedia?
7. Pages in Script font - help
8. Replacing the incorrect logo with the correct one
9. Acronyms
10. Article abused with advertising
11. WP:GAN help?
12. Why does every edit I try to do create an exception error?
13. MediaWiki internal error
14. Donations To Wikipedia
15. Editing the titles of articles
16. Editing Existing Article Titles
17. Viewing a commons image page through wp
18. Number of edits, and signature
19. Now...
20. creating French pages and linking to them from English
21. Deletion of an article in the space of other user
22. Bot creating nonsense articles

June 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 16

1. Moving free license to Commons without furthur edit
2. IP Editor using my real name
3. History of cricket
4. importing .doc file to wikipedia
5. Link to Commons description changed?
6. Finding all edits a user made to a certain page
7. Moon (film)
8. Collapsible navboxes
9. Uploading new verisons of images that should be in SVG format
10. Please block this account
11. Become an Administrator
12. Were Adam and Eve the first humans?
13. Question on images from another Wikipedia
14. ????????
15. SET UP
16. newer technologies of Microsoft .net
17. Italics or Bold
18. References for Yellow Alder Article
19. Can't see image on page
20. Flashback (radio program) page error
21. Deletion
22. Why do so many pages attempt to download when I click on the link?

June 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 17

1. Today's featured picture
2. Intermitent problems with Twinkle
3. Italics in section headings?
4. How do I find the correct copyright tag?
5. Deletion templates
6. reliable source?
7. External Link - Contribution or spamming?
8. Image map errors at Area code 480 and Area code 602
9. Creating a new page
10. A supreme move is needed.
11. Edit Problem
12. Tracing
13. Correcting factual errors
14. Is there a way...
15. "Footnote"-type question
16. Sin City
17. Userifying Autobiographical articles?
18. How do you create a "rough draft" article?
19. Swedish handball biography stubs
20. Steganography
21. Trouble Moving an edited page
22. Pictures
23. Use of talk page
24. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 17#Suggestion_regarding_.7B.7Btlx.7Ccatmore.7D.7D:_how_do_I_make_sure_it_gets_wide_consideration.3F|Suggestion regarding {{catmore}}: how do I make sure it gets wide consideration?]]
25. Importing CSS or JS code

June 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 18

1. Faxing a Scanned Picture
2. photo in my wiki page
3. Would like to retrieve my username
4. small TeX request
5. How to make page about a school
6. Football match image file
7. How do I cite an RAIB report?
8. Why can't I post a photo?
9. Side effect of masturbation
10. explorer timeline
11. How do you create a wikepeedia page
12. Poorly formatted table
13. cost
14. it wasn't unconstructive!
15. MediaWiki Internal Error
16. Login problem
17. I find myself in a dilemma
18. Portal:Contents/Portals
19. Image help
20. My contributions were deleted, why?
21. democratic is a form of govt. Democrats should call themselves, the Democrat Party, not the Democratic Party. Am I correct here?
22. 76.223.79.208
23. Where do I find the "guidance" for Wikipedia participation as indicated in your email today?
24. CC compatibility question
25. Would like to make my own a rticle.

June 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 19

1. Sister projects
2. uploading a image
3. From Vinhtantran: Photo review
4. How do I create a corporate section / profile of an organization in Wikipedia?
5. Pages in Categories
6. How do I remove a template?
7. Make citation needed and reference
8. Infobox
9. To submit an ommission? suggestion?
10. My user page
11. Error message
12. Teaching project
13. how to post or upload an artilce in wikipedia
14. Tags for Challenging Neutrality
15. How do I display number of edits?
16. Game walkthrough or simple descriptive page
17. Album Covers

June 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 20

1. Collapsing a Template
2. Difficulty logging in to Wikipedia
3. References query
4. energy and environment
5. merge needed
6. Edit Count
7. What links here
8. Vandalism
9. Search Engine

June 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 21

1. Mass Template Adding
2. javascript/scripting language
3. Short Explanations After Linked Words, Is It Acceptable Here?
4. empty lines
5. Moving files into Wikimedia commons
6. Where's the board?
7. My application of the {{editsemiprotected}} tag
8. Setting up a vote on Wikipedia
9. Infobox Festival
10. changes in industrialization affects fertility
11. Searching history
12. Missing image :File:Allanblackia stuhlmannii (Clusiaceae).png

June 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 22

1. gif "movie" image malfs on Mozilla
2. Phantom Lapboard
3. (top)
4. Large Appearances [Resolved]
5. The "user contributions" link
6. Monobook
7. Sub pages allowed in the user space.
8. Wikify table
9. Admin
10. How do I find the thesaurus on Wikipedia?
11. Reverting without seeking consensus
12. Unsure of article placement?
13. how to post a biography
14. Health questions on reference desk.
15. What's the tag for a broken link? [Resolved]
16. Policy on People Articles
17. Internet Explorer 8
18. Where do I ask questions about wikiedia, ut not aout using wikipedia?
19. NO MARKGORMLEY?!

June 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 23

1. Put de: Nat Wolff on the article please.
2. Accidental Non-Capitalization
3. Just wondering
4. talkback to another wiki's talk page (Commons to be specific)
5. creating a book
6. sending sms
7. Tables
8. Allocation of articles to namespaces fails
9. Need help with Archival of this talk page [Resolved]
10. Alberta Ridings infoboxes
11. I'm having trouble finding a wiki.answers.com referenced file
12. Yochanan Sofer [Resolved]
13. Talk page template for WP:NOTSOAPBOX [Resolved]
14. Today Genre [Resolved]
15. Missing space in Glycosidic bond [Resolved]
16. trouble logging in
17. Wrongfully Deleted Entry
18. Signature problems
19. city
20. Refinancing

June 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 24

1. Assitant Manager
2. final words in a news column
3. Auto formatting of dates
4. question?
5. can't open wikipedia
6. Infobox
7. Speed?
8. Image reversal
9. Check link [Resolved]
10. Typhoon affecting Vietnam between 8-1-1971 thru 12-26-1971
11. Non-English Content
12. musical lirics
13. Can't talk to a user reversing my changes
14. Problem with article content and editor disagreement [Resolved]
15. Notability a must on new articles, but those with no sources are permitted?
16. News article
17. GA category question
18. A Bot for resolved items?
19. Rejected article - 'blank suggestions'
20. Uploading an Article
21. FIFA_World_Rankings vandalism
22. How can I ask for a review for a sub page?
23. Adding a definition
24. Merging one's accounts

June 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 25

1. Login unification
2. federal reserve bank application
3. Help
4. Wanted categories including ifexist
5. Online Users
6. Default languages
7. Disputing the neutrality of an article
8. User page RPP
9. How to edit a page
10. Guiding another user
11. Blocked user message
12. Flagged for spam, yet I see links like mine abound on wikipedia
13. Horror Infobox
14. Bronchitis
15. Bots
16. Talk 1450 WMIQ website address
17. Talk Page
18. General Notability, Orphan, and other article issues.
19. Wine Distillery
20. Wiki's for creating
21. How do you stop wikipedia mobile from forcing itself on you via an iPhone 3G?
22. uploading a logo to my article
23. hi
24. Can I narrow the "what links here" results?

June 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 26

1. Proper copyright license for image of non-living person
2. Advice regarding how to structure articles
3. Infobox: Books and Wikicommons images
4. Removing stamps from envelop.
5. Editing special pages
6. Nominating an article for Deletion
7. Prisons in Ohio,
8. Advocate for a refugee in Netherlands from Iran
9. Sport soccer
10. GFDL compliance following cut&paste copy
11. I am Tanya Chalkin's manager trying to edit and correct and add to Tanya Chalkin's biography and informatiom.. it wont let me save her bio pls help thanks
12. spam
13. SineBot
14. The plagiarism of (not by) Wikipedia
15. Protected Title (Novarra) -- how can I reuse it?
16. How do I move a new article from my user page to the "live" Wikipedia??
17. Column width
18. Where to find current Wikipedia usage rankings?
19. adding an entry

June 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 27

1. How do I move a new article from my user page to the "live" Wikipedia??
2. make a link to a reference
3. Controlling use of non-free images
4. Whay Images doesn't disply in any web browsers?
5. Hans1928
6. Town Song Composer--May I Add My Info To My Town's Page?
7. saif ur rahman
8. IMDb infobox stuff
9. Animated Gifs
10. How to edit the reflist in a
11. Found Jobs?????!!!!
12. Separate accounts for French and English
13. Making a box
14. finding references to my new article in other articles
15. Unanswered AN quest
16. Michael Jackson contribution
17. How to create a userbox
18. How long?

June 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 28

1. Repeated Copyright Violations
2. How do I cite Song Lyrics?
3. Accidentally edited page, thought I was editing sandbox
4. Protecting user talk page against user
5. Bole (color)#see also
6. How do I attach a song to the wikipedia?
7. Geography
8. How to create your own article?
9. YARIS
10. I am a new user to the computer world
11. Requesting account
12. Category disambiguation question
13. white blood cells
14. Download wikipedia page
15. Quoting lyrics in an article
16. What to do after changing my username?
17. Space around images
18. how to make an info-type box at top of page?
19. Tube maps - my new external link to Hubcapmap.com. Is it advertising??
20. An uncooperating IP vandal
21. Adding a Photo to an Article
22. Image Correction

June 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 29

1. Display of English units after conversion
2. article deletion?
3. Wikipedia view is suddenly quite large
4. How can I resubmit a revision that has been deleted?
5. share it
6. Editing
7. Curriculum Vitae as a source
8. editing "catagory" pages
9. Triangle
10. Identifying foreign-language Wikipedias
11. Can a content topic be linked in 2 spots?

June 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 30

1. Updation of Old Url with the New Url Globally in all Pages
2. Redirection of Old Url with New Url Globally in all Pages
3. User Category
4. Deleting a user sub-page
5. Twinkle on Konqueror
6. Publishing my change management framework
7. Hi, I am very confused right now
8. WikiQuote for Characters
9. Multi-lingual contributions and redirects
10. How can I create a Wikipedia page for my church?
11. language
12. i'm bored
13. help
14. How can I translate an article that already exists in English into another language?
15. Image Correction
16. How to report factual inconsistencies between articles
17. How long does it take for my edit or additions to show up?
18. song
19. Am I being dumb or is this edit link broken?
20. WikiMedia Commons as Source