Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/April 2010
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April 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 1
- "Create PDF" option
- uploading image
- User account for link spam. What to do?
- AFD
- Templates
- How do I edit the title of an article?
- Approval of revised version of Wikipedia article
- Broken new messages banner
- Notification that I have new messages
- soxred93
- Using Book Creator
April 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 2
- Search
- Scientology case?
- blackbox vs smoke test
- Inappropriate Userboxes
- The page for the 2009-10 stanford cardinal women's college basketball team needs editing.
- Music
- Error in locked article
- Version 1.0 Editorial Team index/statistics for our WikiProject?
- Editing football players appearances and goals
- Font size too small
- How do I make an indented list without bullets or numbers?
- Conflict of Interest Help Needed
- Concerned about possible edit warring
- school basketball
- soccer vandalism
- Paolo nutini vandalism
- Adminship
- tank wars,bomb
- "Sysops" and "Crats"
- Higher res version of image doesn't seem to exist
- My watchlist
- Admin Self unblocking
- Any other stuff I should show this editor?
- Dead link?
- Newbie needs help
- search for cleanup tag
- Issue on Military uniform
- question
- Saved changes deleted
April 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 3
- Proxy Error
- Image as svg
- Will not allow me to save my page, keeps asking for security code over and over again
- HELLO
- Bans
- Errors on convert template page
- Barnstars
- Template Link GA
- Default Cursor Position
- Popup TORTURE
- unsigned comments...
- Video
April 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 4
- Picture showing up in wrong section?
- Proposed merger has been completed --> delete the article
- Ribbons
- WikepediaLiberia
- Moving images
- partnering
- Football appearances and goals
- infobox creation
- Database Owner
- Image requested tag.
- Translation
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
- What's wrong?
- Wikipedia 2010 April Fool Item
- no title
- Image question
- 2 copies of a page, older one has less info
April 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 5
- WikiPetrol
- NPOV for fictional characters?
- "Edit" links to wrong page
- Is there a List of logged in users with idle-time less than 40minutes?
- Sienna Miller
- Problems with the Pirates of the Caribbean template
- source tag
- Wikipedia Mobile
- Centered caption
- My page not visable
- Fair-use license questions
- Unrequested Password request?
- Vanishing footnotes using Microsoft word
- suicide bombings list
- Removal of Primarysources box
- Almonte -- Re the Almonte Train Disaster
- Import XML dump
- Jump button?
April 6
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- Refering 2 references
- Table Coloring
- joining a Discussion and the quadruple tilde
- Dynamic IP
- Prior WIkipedia Entries
- Edit filters "Hidden from public view"
- Line Spacing
- Replacement of images
- Did I do this move request correctly?
- Fair Use Part 2
- What is the correct procedure to show that this image is being used properly (legally)
- Account Retrieval
- Highlighting text
- New ref-system
- Deleting files
- How do I stop the text from moving in the edit box?
- Confirmation
- Template mis-sorting categories
- when will my article be searchable
- Accessdate working/not working?
- Script to display revision number
- Table alignment
- Disambiguation pages
- Seeking source for listed data
- Confusing answers on Helpme, can not find editor's comments
- Back in 2009 I ....
- In need of a template fixer...
- Laserpacific
- Redirects
- E-mail as a source
April 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 7
- A user's gender
- insurance comapnies
- writing about a new methodology
- uploading an article
- About multilingual coordination, etc.
- "44th President of the United States" redirects to Hiter?
- Images not displaying
- "Allmusic is a bunch of retards who know nothing about music whatsoever."
- How do I create a link in a current MITREpedia document to another *.doc or *.pdf?
- How to detach an accepted word from its roots, to bring their roots to life as a new (old) word?
- broken link
- Minor updates
- How to add a neologism
- adding refs
- Decimal places output of function {{#expr: ''expression''}}
- Partisan tone
- Urgent
- No line breaks
- Re: Stemming eLayaway to the Layaway article
- Infobox settlement: inconsistencies, questions, and fixes
- PROD
- What is the talk page? and how do I post something on it like suggestions?
- archway cookies
- Garfield Heights Ohio
- Help with userpage
April 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 8
- Copy-Editing temp. removal
- Transclusion
- Possible CC-noncompliance
- Wikipedia Article-User Data Dump
- Communicating with user talk & how do I learn about my submission
- wikiproject banner fixing
- Trouble with translations of articles
- Review Page
- two user account
- RfA error
- Providing an article importance rating
- Userbox list?
- general question
- Image help
- translations of articles
- wysiwyg wiki editor
April 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 9
- Help! Can't get second reference to work.
- Women are better driver than Men
- No such anchor: CITEREF...
- edit buttons in a table
- Someone trying to delete a credible article about Dr. Judy Wood
- RP system v. Bibiography/Footnotes system
- Removal of adminship
- Requirement of stoichiometric quanity of lime
- Page tagged for speedy deletion per CSD A7 not getting deleted
- How do I close an account, if possible?
- Exclaim!5
- Thomas Donilon profile
- Charity support
- Log In?
- How to cite a map of Lewis and Clark Expedition held in commons?
- template problem
- Bug with sorting in Category
- Userboxes
- Creating a disambiguation (Loose Balls)
- Is there wiki-database, a wiki-spreadsheet, a wiki-website software?
- Business Materials
- Starting up
- Printing an article
April 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 10
- plastic theory
- Category and template causing trouble
- Sort Dates in Table
- adding footnotes, citations
- Edit buttons going crazy
- Who is this man?
- Vandalism - dynamic IP addresses
- MATERIAL PROBLEM
- declearation
- Is our own legalese affecting Wikipedia prose?
- Future Events
- Identifying CSD initiators
- can you correct page deletion
April 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 11
- Template help
- Need to change contact email address
- Eric Tunney article google link.
- Table of Contents: Default Show or Hide?
- editing & adding
- Colour coded edits
- move from sandbox to article
- Alan Callan
- WP:CORP questions
- please fix wikisource article
- "Acceptable use"
- Admin power abuse
April 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 12
- Will I be allowed to usurp an account?
- Image not duplicating correctly from Wiki Media Commons
- Use an image as an external link?
- Science question
- I can't find a guideline
- Help with Preferences
- Wikipedia's text has changed
- Hooghalen - an Illustration obscures text
- Question
- Edit to list of Gentlemen's Clubs
- Changing Page Name
- Change the Author of a book
- Telenovelas
- Wikipedia Intranet
- Hindu priests
- Days
- User Access Review
- Image info edit question
- User page / Search page
- Help with Coordinates in an Infobox
- project banner problem
April 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 13
- Who decides what a "fact" is...
- Article into the news
- Needing a copy of GED
- How to edit
- Karl Duguid
- Gracie and Zarkov
- YOU SAY YOU WANT HELP
- Will I be contacted if my article is refused/deleted?
- Can't add wikilinks under photo at Wake Island Conference
- New and in need of some help with my article
- Wrong link on http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portugal
- Huggle
- Navbox
- How can I wikify this page?
- Continuous broken images after uploading first one
- Bold text problem
- Edit count
- Can't delete content
- Gosh
- Archiving
- Lost login details
- Citing Wikipedia in Wikipedia
April 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 14
- Submitting my name as an artist
- References
- Account problems
- Image is horribly wrong
- Bring out Wikipedia in KANNADA Language
- Login doesn't remember me
- Search function changes (no more redlink)
- Dates
- Legal Issues concerning Jimmy Noonan Page/Wikipedia Support system
- Linking to my blog
- using photos
- Userpage talk help
- John Burgess Karslake
- How long to get something posted or added in an article
- User talk page is an attack page
- I didn't find acces date on web page about balance of payments, it doesn't shown, I really need it!
- Edit Comments section of Image File
- incorrect link on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram
- Lego Universe fansite
- Capitalizing the title of an article
- Wikipedia Widget?
- Pserousis
- why wikipedia put website into spam????
- Login Credentials
- Making reference to other language wiki articles
- Bill Gates' wiki has erroneous entry
April 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 15
- Using images from commons
- FACT OR FRAUD
- i need help..
- cookie logon problem
- Formatting references in a draft
- Quality and importance rating
- Sit-up Ltd Channels System
- 'Wiki' article
- Autoconfirmed user cannot edit semi-protected entries
- Editing When Signed in: Downloads index.php file?
- Checkuser Access
- Images are negative
- :File:RSeymour.jpg
- Profile not displaying when i log out
- Highest Peaks in California
- Seeing a list of my sub-pages
- recent changes patrol
- My signature
April 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 16
- Copyrighted image in userbox
- Histroy
- How to join WikiProjects?
- Accidentally disabled mobile site
- Adding links to specific revisions in edit summary.
- WikiCommons permissions
- Honey
- How to add a up and coming actor?
- Template not transcluded correctly
- Meta template problem
- Personalising a Table of Contents
- TELE ATLAS
- Header Globe Displaced to the Right
- Inflation
- Adequate Cite for proposed edit and addition to entry
- Want To Right-align
- To work with wiki.
- RfA
- Changing the Title of the entry
- Can't determine if a movie poster image is Template:Non-freepromotional or some other form of creative commons
April 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 17
- Wiktionary
- Animations not showing up
- Adding sections to IFSB article
- inquiry
- Disambiguation pages editnotice
- Third Opinion
- The Backward "R"
- Privacy concerns about IPs versus usernames
- Policy on editing other people's user pages
- Biography of Living Persons question
- Re article: List of persons who have walked across the United States
- asking for fair use permission
- User page
April 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 18
- My edit count
- Article has disappeared... help!
- News
- I can't log into my original user account
- How to mark a discussion on a Talk page after it is over?
- digital electronics
- What is the max limit of groups in a navigational box?
- Licensing schemes which are not available in Upload form
- User History
- Rounding numbers
- Follow-up to my previous post
- I want a date
- A small query
- Userboxes
- Generally Unfriendly User
- Picture as background?
- Just created a page and I'm new as registered editor to wikipedia
- Userbox wikitable
- Subcats not showing
- Deleted Page
- G.S.Khaparde on Wikipedia free encyclopedia
April 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 19
- When and where will the answer be found?
- help with table
- Be afreid, very afreid
- Too much text breaks table formatting?
- Transfer of an image to Commons.
- Request for help protecting article (security issue)
- reliability
- Mongoose_Cricket_Bat
- Newsbank
- Stamps from Nyassa
- BUB (Belgian Union)
- Article problem
- You don't have to be an Einstein to figure this out
April 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 20
- Broken anchor links for all Viceroys of Peru
- BLOCKING unproven information.
- deleting account
- download images
- Unfriendly User again
- Mistake on page 181Appendix B of "The Good Regiment"
- Question on Page Layout
- Internet search
- Kelly
- Periodontitis citations
- Signature not working
- Connecting to commons
- Phi Gamma Delta Issue
- Question Regarding Article References
- User page
- List of youngest birth mothers
- TOC - Collapsing by Default
- Punctuation suppression in citation templates
- Account creator
- Tagging articles without references?
April 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 21
- Follow up to Sit-up Ltd Channels System
- ClueBot
- Udine page is broken
- Date time format: ISO 8601 but without the 'T'
- I'm sorry but I can't see how to make my first wiki page live
- warning message
- Tracking Viewers
- Table placement
- wrong link to an article
- Impasse
- Using Wikipedia to edit product manuals
- Request clarification on the definition of autoconfirmed status
- User page writing
- Virus
- User page gone and no deletion log
- Page being deleted
April 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 22
- interlanguage links problem
- How do I publish an article without being deleted?
- Manuel Serrano-Gil
- Researcher Right
- Re: TATA DAEWOO F4CEF model truck
- Confused
- "Atelier du Web "
- Inormation Technology
- wikipedia icon interfering with articles
- Adding contibs to signature.
- Wiring problem
- Urgent fact check for article
- New page
- Help with socking case
- Naval Air Station Memphis
- Mobile phone GSM 900 &1800 MHz
- I am (opinion) a fairly longtime wikipedian
- copy write tag for own work
- Unsourced article
April 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 23
- Biography entry
- How to install and operate User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool
- Missing references in "Emma Willard" need help
- can a company have an article?
- Wikipedia: Images
- New article - Copyright issue
- William Laud
- I need your help in proving a point!
- table borders
- Facebook and the usage of Wikipedia to validate a group, cause, business, etc...
- Headache
- orphan / wikify
April 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 24
- Articles on Tebuke Rotan and Rotan Tito
- New ad
- school supervision
- Source markup syntax highlighting issue
- Help, tabs
- Enquiry regarding Journal of Pharmacy and bioallied sciences
- Hatnote
- Archiving
- Archive
- Featured article
- Dates around broad statements?
- database dumps
April 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 25
- Can I merge my two accounts?
- Old account watchlist
- A clarification on my web site
- How to quickly add templates to articles?
- Printing
- Genealogy of Nawab Family of Baroda
- Unused XFD logs
- Replacing a section on Koch Indsutries article
- I uploaded a picture and it was removed. Why?
- Trans → Subst
- How do I upload a picture to a Wikipedia article?
- Delete User Account
- Editing Introduction to "Siege of Louisbourg 1745"
- link to edit references appears to be incorrect
- I am unable to edit articles
April 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 26
- Nominating an article for deletion
- detele please
- What is happening when I add {{category:airports}} to a page?
- The Ship called "The Increase"
- Bad faith edit
- Hi
- Using an image used in French wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
- Logo
- Reporting a user
- automatic keep or delete?
- Content removal issues
- Louis XIV article vandalism
- Apple Wikipedia Antoinette Maria Kerr's Work
- Naperville, IL
- flag salute
- List of articles in category needing pictures
- MIME type image upload
April 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 27
- User edits for an IP address
- Virus?
- Image changed, license didn't?
- Changes I Didn't Make
- Misinformation
- Cristovao Vilela
{{NOINDEX}}
- Cannot login
- Beta
- Pixelation to start screen on OGV video I uploaded
- New type of semi-protection?
April 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 28
- Please help a lowly IP ...
- I am trying to establish a subsection for history "Lexington, Illinois" but my edits do not appear
- Forgot a shortcut to somewhere
- WikiProject
- about seribu rupia
- Redirecting to special pages
- An IP address
- Losing my home
- Locked out
- Text to Speech
- Text to Speech (further comment)
- My addition removed without explanation, at least that I can find
- Opening and Library and information science in Hebrew
- How can I add a new category?
- Wikipedia use ontologies for manage the knowledge?
- Notes vs References
- Where can I share my retail line, art gallery and my article..
April 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 29
- Category:Converts to atheism from Eastern Orthodoxy
- Adding info...
- I don't receive a new password
- Creating userboxes
- Ref syntax problem
- Shippen Street (Weehawken) infobox formatting
- hyphenated name; redirect??
- Route diagram formatting and differences
- Question about over-sighted Articles (those with removed revisions)
- I have been warned that I am vandalising a site by user Bidgee
- Struggling with gallery formatting
- UbiPetz--How to unlock the code?
- Starting an article with the?
- Point of Light = Notable?
- music of the song "stand"by Rascal Flatts
- Printing only the article (in other wikis)
- Create a new entry
- Image with permission
- Gibault_Catholic_High_School
- tags
- Pictures
April 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 30
- editing issue
- Recreating articles.
- Welcome template
- Welcome from Sphilbrick
- Copying files to Commons
- How do you post a topic / contributions?
- Wiki page info borders on libel
- Author of a page improperly removes a speedy-deletion notice
- for wikiperdia my external link is Spam!
- Moving company
- Adding self taken images
- netajibosemysteryrevealed.org
- Identifying an article's author
- Signature
- Spam?
- Help with good article nomination
- AfD article issue--1st or 2nd time?
- User page ends up listed under "New pages"
- link to Wikipedia article from my website
- My post was taken down
- Adding a wikilink