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September 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 1

1. Category challenge
2. guidence for subjects to contribute a commons compatible picture
3. Page ratings suggestion
4. Running Wikipedia
5. My Page
6. Citation parameters
7. Curt Smith
8. red username
9. Why do my edits to sandboxes (to practice reference with links and citations) disappear when I click save?
10. Doppelganger accounts
11. Unknown value, self-serving content
12. How to upload a jpg
13. Difficulty getting video/audio references on article to show both the 'work' (eg name of newspaper) and the publisher
14. New question
15. deleting history
16. description of Alive! Catholic newspaper
17. Societal attitudes towards pedophilia in medieval Europe
18. english
19. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation page
20. Consequence on the servers of a change in the noinclude section of a template
21. Contacting contributor
22. Cleveland

September 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 2

1. Problem with lists and tables template needs fixing urgently
2. Can't find draft article
3. Autoconfirmed and confirmed users
4. Stop Letters from a Website
5. Help with blockquotes
6. INCOTERMS
7. How to id edits which are not the most recent ones?
8. Stale draft
9. Editing Biographies
10. Question on Adding a recent submission
11. Difficulty making correction to article references directed to a portal
12. Daily Article editing
13. Administrator status?
14. Singaporean national anthem recording
15. Picture doesn't display
16. Category question

September 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 3

1. University of Tennessee health science center on Wikipedia
2. Poorly written Wikipedia process for suggesting a new article
3. Table sorting with convert templates
4. News source plagiarising Wikipedia
5. a topic entry suggestion for Hiljaiset Levyt record label in english
6. I'd like to correct my user name after registering for the first time today.
7. putting images in an article
8. researching my family history
9. AIDS roster addition
10. Creating pages with preloaded content
11. September 2011
12. September 2011
13. Air Lease Corporation ( ALC)
14. link
15. Where to get 50 helpers for WP:GOCE backlog
16. Would my Signature be considered obnoxious?
17. messed up redirect
18. Crop white space, desharpen

September 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 4

1. Banning an IP?
2. Wrong information on how old Octavius Winslow was when he died.
3. Login trouble
4. Why post stuff I have to pay for - shame!
5. DYK nomination
6. How do I find all the Wikipedia pages that are linked to a Wikipedia page?
7. Editing help?
8. fake name in headline/duplicate pages
9. I CANT EDIT AN ARTICLE ABOUT ME!!
10. Revision number
11. Simplify the process of uploading a copyrighted picture
12. lookking for info on Band
13. Deletion log and Google search
14. reservation residents and addresses
15. Translation of Suite Tetelecentro

September 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 5

1. ten year budget 2001 thru 2011 jennings county, in.
2. Clarence Earl Gideon
3. Compare diffs from two different articles?
4. Deleting from Wapedia an article that has been removed from Wikipedia
5. Thumbs down on an unreviewed article
6. My editing of the police brutality page
7. deleting history
8. about boost converter
9. third opinion
10. Changing the rendering size of a TeX formula
11. Use of wp:engvar
12. Ganesha body?
13. Problem getting picture thumbnail to display
14. Subscription forcefully
15. Wrong Translation on Home Page
16. Recovering the code of a page
17. Xbox 360 Achievement Lists for games
18. questions about starting new article
19. Will phone calls show up on my phone bill
20. Using a parameter in an infobox
21. Can someone please edit the page for Tim Bee, former Arizona Senate President?
22. Help needed with harv references

September 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 6

1. Searching for plain English tutorial on how to write an article for Wikipedia
2. Title interference
3. Outdated Editing Critique banners on top of articles
4. editing ungenerous statements and reports
5. reporting articles
6. Darcy-Weisbach Equation
7. Anthony Stanislas Radziwill
8. Improvement to Hinuism Article Swami Nigamananda
9. Your messed up resetting passwords
10. How can I find my last posts and talks on my user? I sent talks to the editors and now there are no sign of them
11. EMANI SANKARA SASTRY
12. Bad linking between Wiki pages of different languages
13. Deleted page
14. Copyright photo?
15. Guide for young editors
16. Moving new draft article to wikipedia
17. David Willey
18. Vacillating Bot !
19. How to create a new page in Wikipedia namespace?
20. Farmville
21. Replacing photo
22. Withchurch
23. Listening to Word Pronunciations
24. Doctor
25. Archiving Comments on one's Userpage

September 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 7

1. How many pages can a user edit in one minute?
2. Lenny Williams
3. Archived, unclosed discussion with only 'Support' votes
4. Ïs there a free wikipedia article download/archiver?
5. wrong information in advertisement under types of advertisement
6. Has one of your pages been hacked into?
7. Is there a noticeboard for NFC violations?
8. ...CONTACTING ANOTHER USER.......
9. 'This article does not cite any references/sources' - I can see them!
10. How to rename a category where pages are added only via template transclusion
11. unreadable font
12. Alice Lok Cahana
13. Can a magazine scan be used to support a reference?

September 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 8

1. Changing a Picture
2. An example article
3. Australian Science Fiction Writers
4. Why are there pornographic pictures on at least one page
5. LNER METAL PLATE & LMS METAL PLATE
6. Why the assumption that ISP language/IP represents user language?
7. POURPOURAKIS
8. DEL policy if article exists in other language.
9. Satellite question
10. Norman Lamont/Lindi St Clair
11. American Dad episode articles are gone
12. Searches for persons with the same name as others...
13. "Cite book" formatting boggle
14. HELPME
15. Textbox
16. HTN with intravertebral bleed/mid line shift (Brain)
17. HELPME!!!!!
18. Duplicate article
19. Lost password without email configured
20. HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
21. Behbahani dialect
22. UNDO
23. Simple English
24. helpme
25. PROXIES
26. UNBLOCK
27. Question
28. Proper warning for removing a TFD discussion and tag
29. Trolling
30. Questions
31. Minor edit
32. Edit notice at List of Telugu Brahmins
33. How do i fix this page? It's overlapping at the bottom.
34. Two Questions.

September 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 9

1. trigonometry
2. tracing of lost blackberry
3. problem
4. How do you get a wikipedia page
5. Oooops - I messed up
6. Creating a text macro in an article or providing some way to replicate text from a prior place in the article.
7. Blocks
8. Henry Raeburn Dobson
9. Baseball card Society Membership
10. 2 questions
11. Wikify
12. Problem with the Unified login
13. Data over time on Article Feedback Tool
14. How do I change an existing out-of-date logo to our new one
15. non-diuretic hot/cold beverages
16. Brazilian National Math Olympiad for Public Schools
17. User:Roberton213
18. edits
19. Wool
20. natrona news research
21. Wikipedia displaying weird font, look like Impact
22. ABOUT TOLA ( gold )
23. Brian O'Shaughnessy
24. Talk Page
25. Image file problem
26. Lost archives
27. Fixing a repair to an article that wasn't done quite right
28. edited articles
29. New editor: help wanted?

September 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 10

1. Searching for template documentation
2. Can you make it harder to tell you your search engine is broken?
3. Wikipedia policies/rules/regulations
4. Does Wikipedia give money for article
5. Jeff Chandler
6. Fixing common errors
7. Moving section
8. Web services
9. Suggestion for Simplification
10. Maren Jensen Page
11. What edit summary should I use here?
12. What is the right place for this RFC?
13. Rating Web Pages
14. Messed up move

September 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 11

1. prevent undo changes
2. Can't get a caption on a photo
3. LA's Wasted Youth
4. registration details
5. Spelling of Mariners on their shirts.
6. Abuse of power among Wikipedia accounts.
7. Help with a template that I'm not familiar with
8. Church sues SDA Kinship over use of Church name
9. How to edit a Digital SLR page
10. Non-English question
11. 2 questions
12. Using Wikipedia as a word processor - or how to teach MS Word to work like Wikipedia
13. Problems accessing Wikipedia with Blackberry
14. Now mislabeled as a stub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_Institute
15. References - Ossett Wikipedia
16. Question regarding Limit containing exponential function
17. Wizard broken? (Creating a new article)
18. Why I cannot hear pronunciation - How to set laptop speakers to hear pronunciation
19. My new article is using my username as it's title rather than the subject I choose.
20. Offensive wiki page feedback
21. Don't get a list of people
22. Need help with deleting an image
23. Sources in other languages

September 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 12

1. New section tab missing
2. BOOK Creation & Usage
3. Update company title
4. Is FRUCKING an offensive word in the English language
5. limitation of sales management
6. HELP ME QUICK!
7. I have uploaded an image, but it won't appear on the article!
8. Acoustics and human rights
9. Help with images
10. Arumuga Navalar wiki violates academic honesty and suppresses facts
11. Creating a consonant sound file
12. List of buses
13. Vanessa_Grant article link error
14. Multiple Issues
15. Internet
16. View History
17. Digi Rhymes
18. How Do Subpages Work
19. User stats
20. Cabnt find the extreme music article where is it?
21. Referencing information released under a UK Freedom Of Information act request.
22. Please Add

September 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 13

1. Porn picture hacked into 911 article DISGUSTING!!!
2. Contributing Information Learned From TV
3. Wrong picture/logo
4. Ektoise
5. Village lock-ups
6. Modification to ChemInfo Box
7. Doppelganger account
8. Tomas J Fleischmann
9. pronunciation
10. Science
11. Help finding bad image (example.jpg) in Lonely Mountain article?
12. Vandalism
13. Request move issue
14. Adding link to our site results in "spam" messages from Wikipedia
15. omission of my most recently published book on my page
16. Pad_see_ew

September 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 14

1. Making custom anchors show up in TOC
2. Image
3. Wikipedia:VANDALISM IN PROGRESS
4. Optical Fibers
5. Christian Zolbe: I want it deleted
6. I could use some eyes on a few things
7. History of Egypt
8. Vandalism ?
9. Creative Commons Attribution
10. Peter H Thomas
11. Sourcing For Biographies of Living Persons
12. 2007 (album)
13. Help with article review
14. Wrong link for Senator
15. please delete Scott Tatman

September 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 15

1. Changing the name of a page
2. Contacting another user
3. Help requests - COI/semi/PER
4. List of professional cyclists who died during a race
5. New account setup not happening :(
6. Adding an article
7. Rename page
8. "Show" buttons redirect to unrelated (including CONTACT section)
9. Removal of a specific template from an article
10. sharing with social sites?
11. Bosnian War
12. Bare URL Message
13. login not saved
14. Windows-only free software
15. Click here to buy?
16. My signature
17. What to do with a paid-for advert
18. Question about deleted revision
19. Debt - Bondage - happened in Britain
20. Dakota Meyer page

September 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 16

1. Posting Verifiable Information
2. why can't this page be edited?
3. Navbox help
4. Harry's Girls
5. Template hidden
6. Photographer who wants to contribute needs advice
7. A suggestion...
8. Notifications of changes
9. Template problem
10. User talkpage
11. references
12. Using Wikipedia Under GNU/Creative Commons
13. Allowing other Wikipedia users to edit your subpage draft
14. Sergio DeMello
15. Editing or Reformatting a Page Title
16. Why the aversion to advertisements?
17. REMOVAL OF MY BIOGRAPHY

September 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 17

1. "User account "Technical Communication" is not registered."
2. The "long running" one man crusade
3. Romanization of Farsi script
4. unable to offer a correction to Joe McGinness article
5. Voter ID laws in United States
6. Setting the Signature button on the edit toolbar to use an em-dash instead of two hyphens
7. new word....
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartism
9. Help with an image
10. incorrect spelling of my name in Cash Harmon article
11. Financial problems
12. birth date
13. IPhone 3GS support
14. article
15. IPA articles
16. Nuclear warfares
17. page ratings
18. Photo in infobox appearing in its original full size
19. hello..
20. Where to go to Patrol Recent Changes?
21. Article requests

September 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 18

1. pleasant hill tn
2. Just signed up and cannot edit. There is no save or view listed.
3. Downloading Images
4. The birthdate of Dr Vikram Sarabhai
5. nfl championship
6. Funny issue with bar box
7. Searching all revisions
8. how to put a video on Facebook
9. Text formatting
10. Email change and password reset
11. login
12. Broken pronunciation link
13. weird adress popping up in user talk and watchlist.
14. Problems with downloading a file
15. Pictures Problem
16. Post deleted - question the decision.
17. Ninety
18. Diego Garcia
19. Smart Phone editing
20. "link rot"
21. editing an article
22. Waterproof, Louisiana and John Henry Johnson
23. Wrong email
24. Moving an article

September 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 19

1. sonny tufts?
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. DYK
4. How do you actually edit the text as it appears on the mainpage?
5. Why does Wiki always refer to America?
6. Issue with article for Bain & Company
7. External Links to real estate websites
8. RICK JAMES/COLD BLOODED (ALBUM)
9. ABOUT STEAM ENGINE........
10. Conflict of Interest
11. Assistance requested with file version
12. Dutson
13. Forgotten
14. The New Update it Wicc 600 Logo thats On The New Web Site at www.wicc600.com thats on the top left
15. music
16. confused about setting up disambiguation
17. Constant Deletion of valid articles by another user

September 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 20

1. Sander Vanocur - Family
2. Image problem
3. Smart Phone editing
4. User Name
5. iPhone 3GS and mobile wiki problem
6. potentially slanderous comment
7. How to add our company profile page on Wikipedia ?
8. Facebook
9. Permanently Delete Page
10. Template help needed
11. Creating new artical - where is link?
12. Cant find it !
13. Add material
14. How to wikilink to a section if two sections with identical title exist
15. Vicki Roberts erroneously is redirected to Amy Alkon
16. Have I messed up an AfD?
17. Deleting old draft copies from Userspace

September 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 21

1. Babel "es"
2. Horizon League
3. Accidental disable
4. Mobile wikipedia feedback
5. Show/Hide buttons not working on iPhone.
6. Table formatting problem
7. Screenshots
8. Regina Louise article got rejected
9. Asking question again...was not answered.
10. Email contact
11. How to find my wikipedia account that i have created when using the search key
12. Editing specific pages
13. I cant move my article, why?
14. Signed baseball from HARLAND KENTUCKY,1952 MOUNTAIN LEAUGE
15. Non-English Language Source Citation
16. Moving appearance of screen
17. Comparing Versions
18. Cross project wikilinks
19. Way to create coordinate links without the annoying little globes
20. What to do with Collaborative_writing
21. Semi existence!
22. Donating copyrighted materials
23. Informal article help

September 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 22

1. Disputed facts and veracity of sources
2. Revert error - help needed
3. Wikipedia app on iPhone and other mobile devices
4. i want to help from people
5. list of satellite crashes
6. Foreing exchange
7. birth date (previously archived thread, revived to allow reply)
8. Replace minus signs with endashes
9. I entered significant changes to Swietenia humilis a few minutes ago. All have disappeared.
10. Login: temporary password expiration time? And a request.
11. New page not coming up in google searches
12. Wrongful Redirection
13. Indexing subcategories
14. I have a question

September 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 23

1. Correct template
2. possible vandalism
3. Improve an article to GA status
4. Wiki entry for Antisocial Personality Disorder
5. How to create a math symbol?
6. Images from French WP not appearingin English articles
7. i want a job
8. Email
9. Q about cats
10. Lost edits?
11. Repeated article in two addresses
12. Date sorting on tables
13. need to find out who this number belongs to?

September 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 24

1. Reference question
2. an edited post was submitted
3. Assistance with Being Born Again Couture article - it seems that everybody doesn't know how to help
4. Uploading pictures
5. life duration of an article. Can an article be removed?
6. Copy right infringement?
7. How to determine if an article is in a category
8. Question
9. Difficulty setting up my wikipedia account
10. grammatical correction needed
11. Friday Night Club
12. Translating a wiki article into another language

September 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 25

1. updating "Higher Education in Canada"
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pancreatic_cancer_survivors
3. spelling mistake in article "Rattanakosin Kingdom"
4. Henry Joseph Fradelle
5. dora maria en estos momentos
6. Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win!
7. Non native speaker needs help with an article
8. How do I get feeedback and edits to a proposed article?
9. How to place a userbox on a userpage?
10. doubts in electronics
11. higher cylinderical number
12. Really delete a revision
13. What does the mathematical symbol ⊙ represent?
14. sortname and linking
15. New Article Request
16. Very minor diff

September 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 26

1. added info to blank page does not show up.
2. Two Trevors
3. Feedback
4. Languages of Nepal
5. financing wikipedia
6. Historial prices for Heating Oil, Bio Oil and Natural Gas
7. Search box in English mobile Wikipedia
8. Conflict of interest
9. Unreliable sources
10. (v * d* e) links do not work in a navbox
11. Help
12. RDQ
13. Adding links from Public Television websites
14. Patent for my invention
15. Twinkle?
16. Technical issues/horrible functionality/terrible toolbar
17. Creating an article
18. Italicized titles
19. How to upload an image
20. Changing an existing image on a page
21. Kailua, Hawaii
22. Message when trying to log in
23. age at death template

September 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 27

1. St Louis sculptor Bob Casilly death, includsion on recent deaths
2. How to make a single footnote refer to several different statements in an article?
3. printer setup
4. Young, pregnant, and very confused.
5. Is there a way to have a sportspersons stats automatically updated
6. Userpage redirect
7. I don't understand what I did wrong.
8. College Of Engineering kidangoor,Kottayam
9. Please help correcting Template:Player3
10. FIVE SHANKARANARAYANA TEMPLES IN 15KM RADIUS NEAR SHANKARANARAYANA VILLAGE IN KUNDAPURA TALUK OF UDUPI DISTRICT
11. Two paragraphs of an article are only visible when logged on
12. Alternative and most obvious answer to the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" see link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hatter#The_Hatter.27s_riddle
13. time stamp in the veiw history option
14. Question: How to use "<col>" in wiki table?
15. Adding a rightsfree photo to the biography of ernst reijseger
16. Why is my Article not showing?
17. redirect/new article
18. Trying to restore a dead reference link with the help of the publisher
19. Wikilink for a place named after a person?
20. who do i contact?
21. activate new account to move page
22. User page question
23. DR or copyvio
24. z font problem in Equipartition_theorem
25. Cost accounting
26. Unable to access toolserver.org
27. Urgent help needed!
28. Author information on images
29. thumbnail image sizes
30. Linking Images

September 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 28

1. difficulty setting up my wikipedia account
2. Flag in the European Union article
3. flag question
4. Operation Sea Signal casualties
5. Creation of Information about our NPO- the ICeJHED-Int'l Centre for Justice,Health & Educational Dev.on Wikipedia.
6. Punjabi Film CHANN PARDESEE
7. Wrong information about me ;
8. About Nodle officer
9. Pc sute
10. Help
11. Error on the Barbary lion page
12. Remove vandalism notice from Talkpage and how to deal with similar issues
13. Is it possible to remove my IP address
14. Want to contact facebook
15. Problems Fixing this article
16. Blocked account (maybe?)
17. Looking for Policies/Essays/best practices about contacting Wikipedians
18. Islam's view on the big bang theory.
19. Wikipedia...error for the length of the Las Vegas Strip.....
20. Userpage box broken
21. Registering as opposed to editing with an IP
22. how to purchase

September 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 29

1. Discussion page redirects to the wrong page
2. Hi, i would like to edit my "username"
3. Citation template for citing forum posts
4. Article not appearing on Wikipedia
5. No file by this name exists.
6. Header toolbar links, .css, etc.
7. "Free Radical"
8. Adding the citation / blocked by crazy editor
9. in wrong place
10. Henry Alden Clark
11. WP:OUTING
12. How can I re-enable the Wikipedia Mobile Site.
13. In correct information with reference to the Page on Mr. Salman Bashir
14. National Atheist Party Article
15. Linking images from a translated page

September 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 September 30

1. My Edit Missing
2. Edits missing
3. Winter (dolphin)
4. Server error
5. Userboxes
6. Transclusion problem
7. Changes to format
8. Reactivate sockpuppet investigation
9. Article Help
10. Company changed name
11. Volks Wagen Vento
12. I am a fairly knowledgeable editor
13. Wikipedia tool for finding where two editors have worked together
14. what's user's name
15. Question
16. Is this article, up to par?