Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/September 2009
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September 1
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- Sandbox Use -- My Jane Austen
- photos in Wikipedia
- Table rowspan issue
- Help with image fair use validation
- Blocked users
- map names
- Why can't I find my article?
- How can I change the Lemma?
- How do you create a new page?
- Mobile version issues
- Civility and IRC
- IP needs blocking.
- private or intranet wikipedia
- Cite conference grievance
- Discovery Air Incorporated
- New York City Gay Basketball-Post
- Need SMTP server to use air card with Livingston internet server
- How do I edit section above External Links for Lake Forest Graduate School of Management?
- Can I use the same modem of my father, who has been banned?
- Locked creation
- I dont want to be blocked...
September 2
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- Reference Number links
- Wikipedia irc
- image description page
- Can I change the Wikipedia skin I'm using myself?
- Question about the Triangle of Death
- Remove a question
- Cluebot message
- Howard joseland
- Help with an image
- Creating a New Entry for Wikepedia
- Boilerplate for Files
- What Links here - filter problem?
- broken contents table on talk page
- Second request re: Dominion Resources warning template
- Brackets in external link
- Duplicate citations / Consolidation of citations
- Printing of Wikipedia
- my page still not up
- Copyright center
- Searching sorted by date
- unable to edit a bio
- Can someone fix PER
- ParserFunction math
September 3
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- Sister projects can not refer to or use each other?
- Copyrighted problem still need help
- totally frustrated trying to place a picture on a page
- Non Latin title
- Searching for word
- Proposed deletion
- Editing an already-existing page and the proper citation required
- Adding a photo to a page.
- Names in different languages in wiki english
- Directions
- biggest selling music artsit
- Image help
- Download prompt when wikipedia link is clicked in Google search
- Biomass pellets
- Numbering table rows
- instrument anagram of cart horse
- Problem adding information to page.
- Picture description problem
- UAA en français
September 4
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- What's the difference between a Wikiproject and a Wikiportal?
- Any cute variations of the "User Alternate Acc" template
- forgot to license image, now it is on commons, what can I do?
- German Wikipedia
- Add a bio stub
- Speedy deletion & edit counts
- Discussing a redirect
- Are sockpuppets permitted if they are, like, blatantly obvious?
- Wiki Page Doesn't Show Up When I Search for It
- help
- Editing A Protected Page
- Page Title
- Adding Information
- I am disgusted with Wikipedia and Wikicommons and I want my account and all contributions removed and deleted.
- Editors With Agendas
- Know of any cutey pie templates?
- I see some users have photo galleries. Are nekkid ladies permitted?
- Specifics regarding the creation of a Nassim Haramein article
- "I'll revert yours if you revert mine."
- Creating an article
- Article vandalized
- AfC Submissions
September 5
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- Help with a page move mistake
- Readding a Merged Page
- Mass history merges
- What to do to remove wrong interlanguage links permanently?
- Type in my language(Oriya/Odia)
- HTTP headers of project
- Article "The Warning (Animorphs)"
- removal of error pages
- A website wiki??
- Help moving article
- 2009 calender?
- law library schedule?
- Show/Hide in table cells?
- linking to wikipedia articles from a paid IPhone application
- Refactoring
- heart disease
- article about myself
September 6
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- Family culture in the Netherlands/Holland
- Pictures
- Capitalizing an article name
- Two articles with same name and no disambiguation?? Multiple issues here
- Proposed article w/ COI implications
- List of Fraternity and Sorority in the Philippine
- How to pass HTML as a parameter to a template?
- Template:Plot/sandbox on French Wikipedia
- When is it copyvio?
- Can I create a redirect to one of my workpages?
- How does one initiate an AfD for an image?
September 7
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- Making a link that any user can click on to go to their userpage/x
- Hidden db- template on a a page in user space?
- User talk pages
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 September 7#.7B.7Btl.7Cdb-copyvio.7D.7D_not_working.3F|{{db-copyvio}} not working?]]
- Website editor requesting no external links
- Signatures
- Virus?
- Unable to correct table formatting in Miss Supranational article
- How should people with a letter for a surname be referred to?
- How to see how many page views an article has had?
- How to see a list of new articles I created
- Color coding in Wikipedia?
- Link colour
- Reference desk pages
- Image question
- New Entry Problem ...
- please help, new at this
- I created an online page from the sandbox?
- Autobiography of a Yogi in Portuguese
- Debt Adviser College in England
September 8
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne#Personal_life
- 111th congress listing
- Halifax Explosion
- Why are my links being deleted?
- Globalisation
- Adding an Article
- Removing a large whitespace at the top of an article
- Steve King page defaced
- posting/entering
- Why are Wikipedia articles corruptede when printed?
September 9
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- WikiMobiPedia
- information on chickenpox
- New User in need of some guidance...
- What to do about an article that will not required in the future
- Unbelievable!!
- INS Arihant
- Nick Griffin
- Formatting
- What are the New types of Derivatives ?
- Image copyright
- question about contents of an article
- Redirect and DAB problem
- Help with Psychology Class
September 10
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- MOST IMMEDIATE HELP REQUIRED.
- Help with AfD listing
- My details on wiki?
- Edit notice
- Links removed
- Formatting for URLs
- Can't adjust table widths
- Article title
- Start a page
- rhododendron leaves
- Link needs to be renamed
- Software Code for formating LaTeX
- Image upload issue
- deleation
- Rendering bug
- FUNSKOOL - Lokhandwala Complex , KANDIVALI - EAST page edition required.
- Listing links to redirects.
- Clearing browser's search history
- Anyone know?
- Deleted Links
- WP:CRYSTAL
- Is it possible to have only the history of the user page deleted?
- what a good attitude!
- hemal
- Your edits to Barry De Vorzon
- References to for-sale sources
September 11
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- Hiroaki "Hiro" Protagonist
- What is this?
- Repurposing a redirect page.
- New to this and under pressure
- Soil Scince
- Veteran Editor
- GDP
- Restore mobile version?
- Is it possible to create an entry for a charity organization even if there is a Conflict of Interest?
- Term/Definition
- First off: please forgive this very ignorant question... tried to find andwer in FAQs, to no avail...
- User_talk Page Deletions & Archiving Policy?
- Dynamic positioning system
- A Wikipedia version of #replace?
- book review
- Should I upload a scan of a PD(?) book and where?
- Viola Article
- Appearances
- Can you use an personal image as a signature, and if so how can it be done?
- Question
- Copying pages from another Country's wiki page
- Templates
- Mass editing help please
- Large Print Format
September 12
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- Searching an article's history
- How to Create a Link to a "Diff", please?
- Links
- I am unable to look up for an article, i was on somedays back, today.
- Unable to confirm my email address
- New image version does not show off at the article
- How to search for user by IP block range
- css for removing the navigation tab
- submitting or posting a new page
- How do you submit a feature request?
- Parsing question (yet again)
- Trying to find website?
- Changing the monobook.css
- How to link from a Wikipedia article to an ovg video file
- Creating an account
September 13
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- Template over text problem
- Adminship Request, Now what??
- Citations in the lead section
- Australian Network Television Schedule
- Quotations
- Sending Xmas Season's greetings to other users' talk page
- How to check whether a link is problematic?
- Taxobox
- Rollback Experience
- Unable to login due to capitalization
- Why is Bonnier Corporation a separate Wiki article? This is a for-profit company? Confusted
- Articles on songs
- Formatting
- To whom should I address a suggestion?
- Huggle
- Stretton-on-Fosse
- Charles Edward Flower
- Another user before
- A possible error?
- Red Links
- Today's featured picture
- problem about Nadumangad article
- Autoreviewers?
- France
- 3 revert rule
- Finding a car owner
- christmas album
- what does this mean?
- Wikitable
- Wikitable, Part 2
- How do I start a new page?
September 14
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- Mango
- His comments to the president.
- Timor-Leste Red Cross Page
- Clerk at CHU
- Help with messy mass deletion
- copyrights, trademark?
- Bruce Boxleitner
- UBX formatting
- Clarification on the WP:NOT#DIRECTORY policy
- Poor visibility of new message notification
- secondary sources
- How do you get the references to appear in columns on Google Chrome?
- what is communication
- high tension wires
- How to see my edits that have been UNDOne?
- Year template
- Other people editing my pages posted
- Clipping a video
- Humorous
- immediate image license help would be nice
- Why was my disambiguation link to 101 (disambiguation) removed from 101?
- WP:RD/Language
- Keeping login name
- Bhutan
- Vandalism
September 15
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- How to remove a user page from a category
- Disambiguation question
- Spammy user page
- auto tabulation of en wiki page text ?
- English Static Wikipedia download
- engineering
- Class wiki
- Possessive and italics = bold?
- Wikipedia server time
- Block
- Guidelines
- the old "I accidentally showed my IP address" question
- Question about code for ~~~~ and inclusion via Signature template
- How best to handle an article that is a duplicate?
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dwayneflanders
- Major lag and javascript problems
- Can you use an personal image as a signature, and if so how can it be done? (claification of question asked a few days ago)
- fully protected pages in wikipedia?
September 16
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- PDF version tool
- Getting around copyrighted picture problems
- Dab help
- How to create a table with a image as background?
- DISCUSSION PORTAL
- Attempt to contact a real person, to resolve a confusing issue.
- project work
- Task force, templates, and talk page banners
- Removing a warning
- Where is the place to develop an article before posting it?
- Question about recreating a deleted article
- Archive of "speedy delete" discussion?
- Create a page?
- use
- logo disapper on albert einstein college of medicine page
- User:Philbox17
- Can I hide the redirect message?
- Template coding request
- How to put apply for "notability
September 17
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- My Userpage
- Edit Problem
- Stow-Munroe Falls High School Article
- Link Problem
- can we give 5 volt input to the motherboard using two wires
- List of A&R Music scouts Australia
- Assignment
- Categories
- Sock puppet?
- Related articles column
- "Software updates are being applied to Wikimedia sites; we're shaking out a few remaining issues."
- asking a question
- Autonumbering in a table
- Java Script
- Making User Page Live
- My picture with Ewan McGregor
- Cable TV question
- Add a link?
- Editing
- references
- publishing user page
- Missing tools
- Newbie How can I use a template for a new article.
- Hide Redirect Notice
September 18
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- Trouble with transclusion (newbie at templates)
- IRC
- HEATING PAD
- Does this constitute as vandalism?
- Why can't I upload a new version of an image ?
- Unbroken Wikipedia Static HTML (English)
- Deleted my page, but...
- Lost Contribution to AfD Discussion
- How do I add to an existing article please?
- Template:Infobox GP2 round report
- Twinkle
- Check corruption
- Lupin's Anti-Vandalism tool
- Casual suggestions
- pictures
- Who is watching this article (and other questions)
- What is the page Mediawiki:Editwarning being used for?
- visible wikitext
September 19
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- Unable to upload over images
- How to user-override MediaWiki messages
- page deleted
- no onscreen images in articles
- How to...
- Unable to delete and erroneous wikiproverbs entry
- cannot open page
- "Ignore" function
- Trubar in Slovene
- For movie experts
- How can the title of an article be corrected?
September 20
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- Clipping a video part 2
- need to make an entry
- Renaming of an image
- Plano, Texas
- Placing boxes
- size of wortley
- Maestro
- Time
- Immunocal Page Deleted, What is needed to re-submit?
- Userpage archives
- Chak Budho
September 21
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- Can't upload an image
- how to fix a missing link
- How to place several sources under one note so that article doesn't look cluttered?
- Question
- Automatic update
- I need Help But not exactly about wikipedia
- Manupatra account on wikipedia
- Is there a way to check the content of a page before it was deleted?
- Citing References
- Can we upload PDF file on Wikipedia?
- Changing my account name
- Contact an author
- Mexican Army.
- Posting to discussion board
- Like to help?
- Archive searches
- "Unjustify" tables wording
- Page layout
September 22
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- Ongoing bias
- How do I debate an assertion?
- 1998 Ford Explorer Petrol Injectors over fueling
- Ingersoll Rand
- Question in Georgian
- what is this?
- editing table on a page
- my ip
- Can Businesses create an Article?
- Is this user wasting server space?
- New Article Listings
- College in Bangladesh
- Changes Made to an Article by the Artist Manager
- Are we allowed to edit an article about our NGO on Wikipedia?
- Title conflict
- Cut and paste article (another question)
- Content guidelines for references to fan fiction
- Trying to insert content into BBC article and trying to insert info into England section of Opium article
September 23
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- Better diff
- Need semi-protection ASAP on Law of the United States
- Seemingly logged out on main page
- Rattle
- Search past revisions for words
- Formatting of template:quotebox2
- Suppressing line break around square brackets in altered quotation.
- Train wreck
- Forgot password and changed email
- How to search for articles that share two different categories?
- I'm confused about something with your article deletion policy
- Xbox CD
- How do I solicit broader input on a policy question?
- How do I check out whether I have had any interactions with another user
- Why can't I see the change?
- DNA Structure
September 24
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- hi
- AncientPages
- publishing dates
- HELP
- Old Debate
- Image blink
- Page move help
- Port
- chellame
- Eliminating leading/trailing spaces
- Header 1 title changes
- Collapsed template
- Adding to a table?
- malicious content
- Strange redirects
- Linking to a section title containing a nonbreaking space
- Creating a Category/SubCategory
- Adding a picture to discography info box
- font size in wikipedia display
- cleanup
- rename page/redirect page
- Uploading album cover scans?
- Walther PK380
- Need formatting help
- Vandalism to "Dimitri The Lover" Wikipedia
- MOST IMMEDIATE & HIGH/TOP PRIORITY BASIS HELP!!!!
- Odd strings
September 25
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- Gray contributions
- Possible illegal photograph
- Removing page from categories
- promoting?
- Clay Walker song
- Signbot
- Starnge WIkimedia mention on non Wikimedia websites
- On front page wiki news section NO info on G-20 in Pittsburgh?
- Fixing across languages
- Template:Userspace draft
- my page dissapeared
- What does the manual of style say regarding alts on lists
- Re:File:Edo Panorama old Tokyo color photochrom.jpg
- Section lines crossing infoboxes or images
- Correct template to use in deletion notification
- Style of titles in articles
September 26
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- Book Fees for public education
- Table sorting
- Missing text
- How to Rename a Category?
- What should I do about photos that don't show on my screen?
- Wikipedia Speech Posted?
- problem with juiced 2
- Lost word document
- Cheap laptop
- Wikipedia for kids
- LAW
- Image alignment and missing table lines in Mozilla Firefox
- How words in English of 自行車道 should be translated as?
- Activate My Account
September 27
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- incorrectly made 2 pages
- Infobox awards
- How to remove an unwanted script?
- Copying messages from a talk page to article talk page
- How do i get my ex boyfriend back after 4 months
- The degeneracy of Tamil Wikipedia
- Fact sidebar comes up when I want to edit article
- Sorting data
- Article help
- In the help desk, what does the "Resolved" box mean?
- Uploading pictures to an exising page
- "edit this page" timestamp
- Move
- Links between Wiki projects
- Further Reading
- Copyright
- signing
- mistake
- sorting an article by last name
September 28
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- edit/correcting factual errors in an article
- wikipedia merch?
- How to user-override MediaWiki messages
- electronics
- Adding colour to text
- Wikipedia Has Put My Page Up For Deletion Is There Anyone Who Can Write It For Me?
- A plea for help at Feedback
- Hash signs as numbering
- Italicized titles
- date format
- Customer service question
- Disambiguation and Redirect Page question
- wikipedia
- AFD Results in Merger
September 29
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- constitution petition No 21 of 2007
- Someone else started my page and I corrected it....
- Need help to move Aeroflot-Don to Donavia
- What happens when I tag for expert?
- Similar vandalism from IP and registered user
- WP:SELFPUB QUESTION
- Main article is a section
- Adding New Information
- Open Office help
- Privacy concerns
- Warning template for copyvio
- Plagiarism from Wikipedia found: What is the policy?
- Title Editing?
- Article Creation
- transfer
- Uploading an image from an atlas
- Alt text request
- Maple and animations
- Everette E Dennis
- Link to an illegal copy of Window Clippings in an image
- referance lists
- Calling cards with a cell phone
- What does accent mean in this sentance?
- How to type greek letter in wikipedia?
September 30
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- comment needed on article Raising kittens
- References
- Texas City Dike Pier
- Template help
- Deleting a category
- Priority to published (paper) works
- in seach of 1976 RING (MAGAZINE) BOXING RECORD BOOK
- Updating the Company Information and Logo
- speech for head girl (nominee)
- modify username
- Trouble with someone removing my info
- footnotes
- Editing Issue
- Polanski Article
- where can i download free dvd ram drive
- Wikiglitched?
- Pornographic Image - How to Delete