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November 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 1

  1. Selective censorship
  2. A problem ..
  3. The tool that shows how many times a page was viewed
  4. How to Semi-protect a page
  5. Fake poster in a film article
  6. clarinet userbox
  7. Wikiproject Birds

November 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 2

  1. Numbers weirdly inserted into pages I edit
  2. How would I reference
  3. Preferences broken
  4. Inappropriate user name?
  5. Category problem
  6. Category problem
  7. Sheet of music in Wiki
  8. cant find number
  9. how tocreate a new article?
  10. Uploading a New Picture
  11. Edting someone else's image
  12. Cite comic issue
  13. article
  14. Redirects

November 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 3

  1. New Article
  2. Personal information on siblings
  3. convert this code
  4. simvastatin and lisinopril&Hydrochlorothiazide
  5. Need the assighnment of a project on Management Functions(Planning,Organizing,Leading and Controling)
  6. New article and DAB page
  7. How can i delete an account?
  8. animated bibles stories
  9. Bruce Springsteen
  10. Listing all pages within a category
  11. Sidebar
  12. Can one watch user contributions?
  13. PICTURE OF QUARTER HORSE
  14. Byte counts on watchlist
  15. Making a simple table
  16. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kelley Limp
  17. Uploaded Images
  18. Lake Lagunitas - Marin County California
  19. How do I edit
  20. Password reset in Wikimedia
  21. Content Suitability
  22. My User Page Deletion - Could I have it sent back to me with Wikipedia correctness?
  23. cleaning a cd.
  24. Wikipedia article and webpage almost same
  25. Did not receive new messages on page when I accessed earlier today
  26. two articles, one sea slug
  27. Please tell me about sapn and div attributes

November 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 4

  1. Script display
  2. Searching Reference desk archives
  3. wrong Indian flag. today featured article
  4. mw-textarea-protected
  5. Please remove the picture.
  6. Hi, this is regarding Telugu language..
  7. Shortcuts for user space pages.
  8. Changing Article title
  9. about an new article.
  10. IMAGES
  11. Adding a web link to one of your pages
  12. new question
  13. Reporting a personal attack?
  14. Everything of mine has been deleted??
  15. Signatures
  16. mobile wikipedia

November 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 5

  1. Tagging images
  2. Over-referencing
  3. Hauntings
  4. Umm...
  5. images
  6. Running/Downloading exe batch file from article
  7. Hi
  8. Deleted article
  9. Need Guidance re Vandalism
  10. IP address check for admins
  11. Searching for article
  12. How do I make a wiki version
  13. copy/paste ogg theora files
  14. "Donate now" button
  15. How to bring the recent changes to the main page of wiki?
  16. NTOC
  17. In Album, creating a band section?
  18. Why are our external links being deleted?
  19. Self-updating table

November 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 6

  1. Are welcomes?
  2. Collapsing nav box
  3. Our new support Wikipedia banners
  4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 6#Four<.2Fs> Five questions about unified login|Four Five questions about unified login]]
  5. geography
  6. Education.
  7. another case of the "preferences" bug
  8. Mike Bloomberg entry: please add his $375 million contribution to tobacco control
  9. Images and OTRS
  10. User-defined colour names
  11. Deletion & Google Search
  12. Why are my college students experiencing complete DELETES for a project they're doing?
  13. troubles
  14. Adult contemporary music
  15. Not going through
  16. Link page not working
  17. Multilingual Sourcing
  18. IE/FF inconsistencies
  19. Administrator Abuse
  20. i need help making a album page for a band
  21. How do I get an entry posted to Wikipedia

November 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 7

  1. Making or requesting a "BOT"
  2. Signature Personalization & Tables
  3. Editing using page to moderate far-right hate site.
  4. comments & suggestions
  5. Question of the day

November 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 8

  1. Help with collateral damage on French Wikipedia article
  2. editprotected tab via CSS
  3. Details
  4. Unwatch link on my watchlist never works
  5. content list & other things not working
  6. Changing My Preferences
  7. Rust
  8. Some climate boxes I'm adding do not show up
  9. Valid citable sources??
  10. Image size fix

November 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 9

  1. Archives
  2. Can I get an opinion on a few edits
  3. MY question is incorporated with the space
  4. Page Format Missing
  5. Degraded image
  6. Interwiki account
  7. help me
  8. I have a question
  9. getting logged out while editing
  10. Contacting non-English Wikipedians
  11. Fuck me boots
  12. Help using same reference twice
  13. error in Wind power
  14. Reccomendations?
  15. Keyboard short cuts.
  16. am i qualified to edit wikipedia?
  17. Teflon: What happened to the original article? (pre: January 2008)
  18. Text copying issue

November 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 10

  1. Archive box issues
  2. mobile skin
  3. Made mistake by accident now need help to fix the error
  4. registration confirmation problem
  5. Generating a list of most popular articles in a project
  6. Raibin
  7. Sockpuppets
  8. Please move page
  9. I am Unable to upload a personal photograph.
  10. Citation templates and archived/cached web sources
  11. College Textbooks?

November 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 11

  1. AfD
  2. Blocked
  3. help others
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Collections_Service
  5. What happens when you xfd an article with Twinkle that meets WP:CSD?
  6. How do I "bookmark" an article that I'd like to read later?
  7. i need to remove an image from one article
  8. Archive editing
  9. Multi-Sport Stadium Dimensions
  10. I get undesired gzipped pages
  11. Transcluded Template
  12. Long URLs in cite
  13. Can I do Offline Editing of an Ariticle (to make it appropriate for Children)?
  14. Christopher Wren
  15. Kelowna Pictures

November 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 12

  1. what are the affiliates of wikipedia?
  2. Help
  3. Meaning of "(top)"
  4. New users
  5. I made a mistake
  6. Biographic info on a living person. There are very few existing references
  7. financial loan
  8. Linking to complex URLs
  9. How to get an unbroken static HTML dump file from Wikipedia
  10. Finding a person's biography
  11. I guess it takes all sorts
  12. Camera location problem for an image
  13. I would like to delete my URL
  14. ADMIN
  15. Links and photos
  16. Fair use
  17. Correcting entry

November 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 13

  1. Fake or unregistered usernames
  2. Article requests
  3. Log in Trouble
  4. "What links here" pages
  5. editing a page
  6. hey
  7. what will be the position of market after 2 years
  8. userbox
  9. Making a message banner
  10. My New Pages
  11. SS Gideon Welles
  12. References to wiktionary?
  13. Unable to create fresh articles
  14. page deletion "samuel_tiberius_hunter_welek"
  15. Centering things in a table
  16. How to have an incorrect tag removed from an article that is locked

November 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 14

  1. embedded images
  2. photography/the rule of three
  3. Signpost
  4. Wierd
  5. Locating old edits
  6. Vandalism and other warning templates
  7. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 14#"{{.23if:<.2Fnowiki>" expression|"<nowiki>{{#if:" expression]]
  8. Template:NBA game log section
  9. Username not created but is contrib
  10. Logo quality
  11. help
  12. Status
  13. Signatures
  14. Greeting new users with speedy deletions?
  15. Personal bio page
  16. Editing
  17. Userpage

November 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 15

  1. Suggestions?
  2. List of articles edited by a user
  3. Bad jumps
  4. Product naming and the interwiki bots
  5. What template should I use?
  6. Uploaders category?
  7. Mixing cannabis and cigarettes
  8. Account
  9. Definition
  10. List of FA authors
  11. References and footnotes
  12. Can I buy Wikipeida?
  13. What would happen?
  14. 2008 Michigan Wolverines football team

November 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 16

  1. A question about possible non-free image use
  2. brian peppers
  3. Page presentation help
  4. Is there a way to view all my deleted edits?
  5. delete my account
  6. Talk Page
  7. Wikibits.js
  8. Error in preferences
  9. Incorrect error in my preferences/Gadgets page
  10. howdy. I apparently can't move a page that's up
  11. Can't print page 2 of "Percolation Theory"
  12. Template help
  13. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 16#What's wrong with  ??]]

November 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 17

  1. Unified login
  2. Adjusting printable version
  3. disambiguation
  4. broken page
  5. Relapse
  6. more opinions needed in unblacklisting discussion
  7. Syndicated Wikipedia articles
  8. Wikipedia's status
  9. New section tab
  10. Vandalism only account
  11. Disgraceful
  12. Issues with 8974 Gregaria
  13. Solo edit war
  14. This is not important, but some math equations do not display correctly

November 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 18

  1. Re-directing
  2. Table
  3. Center text
  4. search offering "view logs"
  5. Wikipedia Usernames
  6. GIF problems
  7. books
  8. Collapsing watchlist and popular articles
  9. Creating Infobox for a new article
  10. citations
  11. Creating an Article
  12. When Wikipedia was made
  13. Moving pages
  14. Can't remove Tags.
  15. Wikipedia (English) On Local Backup Disc
  16. berghof edelstahl
  17. Help deleting a subpage?
  18. Problem with monobook scripts.
  19. Hatnote confusion
  20. Reporting Abuse
  21. No response on months-old question on Financial Services companies stubs
  22. can't see images i uploaded

November 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 19

  1. Donation banner
  2. stock market trading in call and put
  3. Essays
  4. plz help
  5. wiki article doesn't come up in goole search anymore
  6. My Template
  7. How can I copy and paste edited content from a redirected article (or template)?
  8. page redirecting
  9. Patrolling the articles you created

November 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 20

  1. Anonymous edits by an IP user
  2. My account won't fully function
  3. Sitenotice
  4. Sortable table - multiple header rows
  5. Number of edits
  6. Patrol hotkey
  7. HI
  8. Threatening message
  9. Adding colour button to the wikipedia toolbar
  10. Template usage on Userpages
  11. November 4 Help Desk archive missing
  12. Wikimedia.org
  13. hi
  14. Bogus Edits/Pages
  15. Who merges?
  16. Image attribution in ibox
  17. Misleading links

November 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 21

  1. WP:CSD
  2. Special Pages
  3. I am ashamed that I even have to ask this question.
  4. Subject of Article wishes the page to be removed
  5. Editing
  6. where to report a copyright violation
  7. Signature
  8. Account creations
  9. The going on template?
  10. Twinkle/Friendly and Watchlist
  11. Twinkling for deletion
  12. Procedure for making an extraordinary claim as part of a Wikipedia entry.
  13. How to get a page undeleted
  14. Inline citation appearing as string of characters
  15. There is no page for a common search item
  16. Slur on Canadians
  17. Fixing vandalism
  18. Making tables

November 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 22

  1. Click template
  2. geometry(shape and size,undefined terms)
  3. javascript
  4. javascript
  5. Image Issue
  6. The New York Times archive: all copyrighted as they indicate, or able to be used verbatim?
  7. Placing tables right next to each other
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Needing help about Numbered Lists
  10. Watchlist limitations
  11. helpme
  12. Periods in image captions
  13. Fonts needed by Wikipedia
  14. Band infobox members ordering?
  15. Nirvana (band)
  16. Upgrading image on commons
  17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 22#|]]

November 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 23

  1. None of my scripts work
  2. Uploading images
  3. How to separate the Categories, Meta Data, Boxes, etc, into a footer editable section.
  4. Need help with template move/rename
  5. Number of articles
  6. Unable to edit pages on Wikipedia
  7. Editing
  8. Bluestar bus company, Southampton, UK
  9. Wikipedia for rural area in South Africa
  10. New York Times search engine logic
  11. Article titles
  12. Number of Page Views
  13. Wikiproject cross-reference templates
  14. automatically sorting a table
  15. what happens to deleted user pages?
  16. Rollback
  17. looking for help with massachussetts rights
  18. NOT GOING THROUGH
  19. Anon complaint
  20. Account deletion
  21. Customizing signature

November 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 24

  1. Page SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria for merging Deletion
  2. Username - same as real person
  3. Questions about use/creation of Hidden Categories
  4. Talk page broken template
  5. Can't edit 'Apollonius of Tyre'
  6. Merge template
  7. .ogg file
  8. Sameera_Reddy
  9. Image uploading
  10. Humanities Archives
  11. Uploading pictures
  12. CITING AS A REFERENCE PAGE!
  13. WP issue
  14. Namespace operetor

November 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 25

  1. Category intersections
  2. Gerald N. Epstein
  3. Coordinates
  4. Photo
  5. Back to top
  6. Public domain after 40 years?
  7. Can't suppress fundraising banner
  8. Changing Stub Status
  9. Search result question
  10. How to edit a specific part of the page?
  11. Thresholds: dab page when lots of in-text disambiguations are then required
  12. Edits don't show on page
  13. Halp! My page no longer archives
  14. new article
  15. 3RR Template
  16. Watch my User Page
  17. File:
  18. Columns
  19. Help Me... I am confused on how to post "NEW"
  20. Need help merging histories
  21. Editing infobox content

November 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 26

  1. Barack Obama Entry
  2. non standard image placement and size
  3. Image deletion
  4. Images
  5. Can I copy Wikipedia content for my own wiki?
  6. Time Zone
  7. Inquiry
  8. IRC cloak
  9. Music singles infobox question
  10. Talk Page
  11. how is it possible for everyone to see the article i wrote in my account
  12. page potentially an advertisement?
  13. Help:Trusted user
  14. Citations Box
  15. Image visualization
  16. Company Promotion?
  17. Images at Talk:Crystal growth#Gallery cleanup
  18. inserting words using a non-Latin alphabet
  19. hot link colors
  20. Pages about companies
  21. Disappearing act

November 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 27

  1. Warning: Default sort key "Darrell Figgis" overrides earlier default sort key "Figgis, Darrell".
  2. Commons name conflict
  3. Submission
  4. Template caption not centering properly
  5. public health engineering
  6. using searches
  7. Humor
  8. Making content boxes
  9. Userbox
  10. articles
  11. Refrences not working
  12. One half a million dollars..*little finger in corner of mouth*
  13. Over riding default image size in infoboxs

November 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 28

  1. wikipedia to go
  2. how do i make an article?
  3. Mumbai
  4. How to reference a website in an infobox
  5. Avoid having it in printable version
  6. Navbox needs to be expanded
  7. Unable to log in
  8. Template Choices
  9. Adding Video Content
  10. "Award winning"
  11. History merges and preserving redirects for GDFL compliance - can this be explained?
  12. Changes which occure when coppying a text to word and saving it16:26, 28 November 2008 (UTC)79.176.11.215 (talk)
  13. Help with math,time, and if/then/else for a calender
  14. personile file
  15. Table help
  16. Counting characters in an article
  17. Blocking template and banned users
  18. austrslisn customs and values

November 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 29

  1. Template:Location_map_USA_North_Carolina
  2. Collapsible boxes
  3. Spelling
  4. Oops on upload
  5. postal and zip codes for the U.S.A. and Israel.
  6. Template for citing British Library catalogue
  7. Regarding cropping a cc-by-2.0 image
  8. Late LateShow Template (Ireland)
  9. New branch of fitness science
  10. |
  11. Reflist does not appear
  12. Using foreign characters in an article

November 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 November 30

  1. Media-Wiki question
  2. How do I delete my account?
  3. How do I Link to image page without embedding the image?
  4. Subcats don't show up anymore after piping
  5. Tom Murphy (Titan News Television Founder)
  6. do an article
  7. Two articles on the same subject
  8. Uploading a PD photohraph
  9. What is an insecure admin account?
  10. FA nomination
  11. Copyright rules
  12. ask question about certain subject
  13. Changing a article title
  14. changing category titles
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