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August 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 1

1. List of past titles?
2. Where do I submit a request for an article?
3. Can someone help me create an article?
4. Table help
5. X
6. Forced addition of dot in middle initial?
7. What do you do when someone joins Wikipedia to edit to promote his own agenda?
8. Need to edit a page, but option is no longer available.
9. Searching for Improper Latin replacements for Greek Letters.
10. Value of card
11. Anxious to help?
12. User name
13. help
14. I experiment in my sandbox
15. Congratulations Wikipedia User..
16. Move multiple pages
17. I added dalasta in List_of_women_warriors_in_folklore#Historical_Czech_Lands
18. Spam protection filter
19. Help Link

August 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 2

1. Article "San Francisco Choral Society"
2. my hp printer
3. Does the site "Dear God please help me" on freewebs contain some kind of virus?
4. I started a new article on Dlasta
5. Wikipedia article rule...?
6. Acceptable username?
7. Wrong URL leads to Wrong Article
8. WHY can I not figure out how to request an article!!!?
9. Editing Janet Ross - Adding Sections
10. Cannot create "Copal Partners" page on Wikipedia
11. TEXT STYLE
12. Deleting an account
13. Usage of titles in articles
14. Image not showing
15. When are redirects considered useful?
16. I can be logged in only on my country's wikipedia page. Why?
17. Requesting an Article
18. 2010 U.S. Census data bot?
19. Creating a page for a company I work for. Is this kosher?
20. Tool for creating wikilinks from all entries in a category
21. Split history
22. Adding items to Discography
23. IN ERROR I BLOCKED AN ACTIVE GAME OF FRONTIERVILLE`````.
24. Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
25. Adding a photo to an article.

August 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 3

1. Website
2. Should the article Dlasta get deleted
3. New to Wiki (except for reading); I do not know where to go to address an issue.
4. Posts deleted
5. adding to an article.
6. Reference question
7. Can I flag users?
8. Wiktionary wikilink
9. Commons
10. Standards for naming articles about buildings
11. Number of deleted article?
12. Deleted Links to Richard Ebeling
13. Looking to reach consensus on minor update to BLP
14. Talk:Anders Behring Breivik: New section becomes new subsection.
15. Misspelled word through out Wikipedia
16. Incorrect spelling of town on map
17. Where is the articles for improvement page?
18. Need advice
19. Is there a way to get one contributor's permission to authorize an article for publication that has over 500 anonymous and robot authors?
20. Deleting vs. merging
21. How is this possible?
22. I joined your book club

August 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 4

1. reticular theory
2. IP addresses
3. How do I move my Content Box?
4. Help needed with Harvnb references
5. New entry
6. How to remove 'User' from main title of Wikipedia entry?
7. Speedy deletion needed please
8. Wiki users request money
9. Wikipedia Nazis on power trips who "dominate" and act like little Hitler's in determining content on some pretty important subject matter
10. Author identification for Confidence in Factual Correctness
11. Citation taskforce
12. Editing in General
13. Linking new picture to facebook info.
14. Uncategorized template
15. Russell Crow
16. How do I create a page for a songwriter?
17. Scott_Evil
18. Live help

August 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 5

1. Protecting my wp account
2. Vector images of trademarks
3. Article accreditation
4. template for code of federal reguations
5. It's unfair to add such Allegations/Controversies on a biography when nothing has been proved yet. Article Subrata Roy
6. Changes to Country Risk wiki page and editing country pages
7. Privacy and Safety
8. Drop of Contributors
9. Reporting an error
10. Usablenet Wikipedia Page Status
11. Wonder Man comic book
12. Making coords visible through infobox
13. List of Publications critical of the Latter Day Saint movement
14. Image info
15. Technical help about moving two articles

August 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 6

1. Internet Explorer and Firefox
2. Add new article
3. Why is Wikipedia so slow?
4. Why the hell am I banned in IRC???
5. Help finding anything on vixon Ayala
6. Please help
7. Foreign language redirects
8. about thevenin theorem
9. Belly amphora and wierd title
10. Non-free
11. Exact copying from Government forms OK?
12. Locating records from Moryn, Poland
13. posting box
14. i want to make my artcle permanent
15. publishing a specialized resume

August 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 7

1. User created a page for a file that is on Commons
2. Producer forgotten on "Bangin' On Wax" album page
3. Lawrence Tribe article- two versions??
4. You got Frank AbeckNALE Jr in here as an American Consultant & And Colton Harris Moore! My God!
5. a "Like" link for anything to for facebook
6. {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
7. THE SCENARIO OF THE DEPOSIT COLLECTORS IN INDIAN BANKS.
8. Feature at WP:UTN not working
9. Display of Wikipedia on my laptop
10. Correcting instructions
11. Kurt Russell
12. Best Article of All?
13. about GATE prepiration
14. KISS
15. University of Liverpool - Incorrect Crest
16. add photos to Wikipedia

August 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 8

1. Italicize species title
2. What do I need to create a new Church page?
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/98.171.190.114
4. Set an upper limit for the rendering resolution of uploaded images
5. Islamic Mobiling
6. References confirmed and requested to be validated
7. Editing
8. Interstate highways exit lists
9. Talk page problems
10. Older dumps of Italian Wikipedia
11. backprocess of transmission of e-mail
12. case sensitivity
13. Impossible unicode combination?
14. page move
15. index error

August 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 9

1. How do you rate an article?
2. Will it blend, AWB?
3. Vandal editors
4. I keep getting a message that my article has missing end reference tags, & I need ((reflist)) at the end.
5. ASSISTANCE IN COPYING A TABLE TO AVOID PRINTING OFF MORE THAN IS NECESSARY.
6. Why was a subject removed?
7. Can an admin please open Gabriel Obertan again
8. Should I close the RFC?
9. editing the page name
10. Page view statistics question
11. Question
12. Help! What to do?
13. Katharine's son?
14. University of Liverpool Logo/Crest
15. Error: no |title= specified when using Cite web
16. Registered accounts, IPs and Checkuser
17. article about Mike Hudock Jr.
18. Multiple edits at one time
19. Tool that ranks top contributors to a specific article
20. Disambiguation redirect title question

August 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 10

1. Editing window size
2. Correcting rationale on picture file
3. Wikihounding?
4. So here is the deal
5. Adding a picture which I own (personal)
6. Deletion log
7. Userbox help
8. Shaikh Aziz- The Legend of Sindh
9. remove my incorrect wikipedia page
10. Problem with Login unification . . .
11. Editing statistics
12. Copy/Paste Prevention
13. What are the guidelines regarding current lawsuits?
14. Reason for deletion of a file
15. Changing name of category
16. Crop whitespace
17. How to include email address in example code in article?
18. Luke Evans page lockdown due to debate on notability of sexual preference
19. The Mussolini-Montessori conflict described meeting the "citation needed" plea.
20. Article Feedback Tool - can't disable it
21. Define "review" as it pertains to film
22. Page was deleted - we want it back!
23. Issue with Google Chrome browser
24. The word "hell" is replaced with "@#!*%"
25. Sound Files
26. WORLDS STRICTIST PARENTS

August 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 11

1. Links can not be displayed in IE8
2. External link problem
3. MediaWiki 1.17wmf1
4. Incorrect spelling
5. Reference does not format correctly
6. Who did the edit?
7. Translation
8. fixing page discussion for past
9. Word Listing...
10. Editing a protected page
11. Expanding article
12. How to remove the "This page is a new unreviewed article" tempelate from an article that I have reviewed ?
13. List of all Bot's UserIDs
14. Where are yesterday's pageview stats?
15. Wikipedia policies on first-person
16. Report users?
17. a permalink to present version template?
18. Possible redirect would have two equally valid targets
19. Switch hitter's
20. I was here recently

August 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 12

1. Living person signatures for articles
2. Help
3. Watchlist disappeared
4. May I ask YOU to help me to sign in?
5. numbers in Tables
6. Strange appearance of wikilinks
7. Looking for son
8. My editing didn't print the way i Wanted
9. Remove my old edits from my autobiography
10. Uploading a picture (Does not belong to me)

August 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 13

1. Help with resizing an upright image in infobox
2. Someone with nutritional knowledge could help.
3. Requests for help
4. User:krispin16/VSide
5. Fantasy (Regine Velasquez album)
6. Marketing activation
7. Theft by finding
8. ARC Energy
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cryer
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Roots
11. Borje Oscar Rosaen inventor
12. User:StoneCircleMetal/Stone_Circle_(Band)
13. Hailey Dunn
14. Andrew Abercromby
15. ISAFF
16. Music of the Soul (book)
17. Obstacle Race
18. Davies public affairs
19. Stem Cell topic
20. Templates to mark articles with problems due to a lack of historical depth of coverage?
21. Deleted pages in raw watchlist
22. Ryan Hobson
23. latitude and longitude coordinates link
24. Completing the "Featured article" nomination procedure
25. making a templete collapsed.
26. "upright=" in image tags
27. jon the dentist (entry in wikipedia)
28. U.K. Flash crime wave
29. Alignment of a map legend
30. Sisters of St. Joseph
31. Spoliers!!!
32. Title of page
33. Mistake posting article - help!
34. How to remove hypertexts ? [Feature request]
35. I would like to get a copy of all the national parks in the USA, I really like what you have on the parks a picute and a description, please send a copy of this inforamtiion to David Conley, <redacted>
36. Somebody wrote a false article about me on the Wiki and I would like it to be removed.
37. Article on the "Personal Computer Industry" or "Personal Computing Industry."
38. Editing M F K Fisher
39. Need help to backtrack article to earlier version.
40. Editing M F K Fisher (2)
41. Template:Post-it small
42. How to reach a consensus?
43. Deletion.
44. Joshophobia
45. Inactive projects
46. Wikipedia:User page design center/Menus and subpages

August 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 14

1. Editing M F K Fisher
2. Edit jumping
3. Bahá'í Faith
4. Entry for Montauk, New York Has a Link that Releases a Virus
5. Another person by that name
6. Westlawn cemetery canton ohio
7. Copyright
8. Unable to determine copyright informatioin on my photograph.

August 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 15

1. Decade birth cats
2. How do I get rid of unwanted visible code above / below an image from Wikimedia Commons in a Person Infobox?
3. request
4. Problem with the Scanning Electron Microscope page
5. Template moved but subpage with references was not moved
6. Indefinite blocked user
7. what happened to my new article "Google Ideas"?
8. content writer
9. Jesse Lee Peterson and Linda Christas
10. Rating articles
11. ritual abuse
12. Two Users
13. Thicker vertical border in table
14. Griffon Corporation Logo
15. FA voting?
16. My legitimate edits were flagged as vandalism
17. Referencing help
18. How can I change my article name?
19. Facebook duplicate page
20. facebook question
21. REQUEST a New Article ?!

August 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 16

1. Doesn't remember my login
2. The rating of an article
3. In re policy on ritual abuse.
4. Split template does not generate a response
5. How do I delete my whole contribution
6. Can't contribute to referendum
7. omanual - freeware need (container)or Program to open it.
8. Problems with my Talk page: David J Johnson
9. Rick Richter
10. Editor count
11. Olympus µ article naming
12. Re: Michael Jingozian biography
13. Article revision problem
14. information missing in an article
15. How to insert a photograph into a wikipedia article from your computer
16. Wikipedia talk:Peer review
17. Rename and Redirect?

August 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 17

1. The League For Spiritual Discovery
2. Bach's Minuet
3. Touchscreen Article
4. Browser troubles
5. Formula One WikiProject template
6. PayPal Topic Hacked / Hijacked
7. Archive
8. Pigment Volume Concentration
9. time format
10. pronunciation
11. Image 'gremlin' in infobox template?
12. Creating an article based on a foreign language stub
13. Cancer treatment help
14. About the section of Ancient Egyptian Mythology in popular culture.
15. Ryan Moats false information
16. Jean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D
17. Adding sources to Wikipedia biographies of living people
18. How to give a different colour to templates' lower lines.
19. I need some help with IPA

August 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 18

1. Label for "British English" articles?
2. Better than ref label note label?
3. FIFA Soccer 12 Cache
4. Incorrect photo caption
5. Adding content on Transport related issues to Wikipedia
6. line wrap in template
7. income
8. template talk:Authority_control#Bot_support_required
9. Entertainment technology as an article category for Applied Technology
10. Is User:Talktalk a misleading username?
11. Dj Mike Whitfield
12. Barnicklemusic
13. A Problem finding an article that has been posted
14. Dj Mike Whitfield - Malibu Vibes
15. Orthomolecular Medicine
16. Stupid question
17. Please speedy delete
18. Searchable content
19. Can someone fix the citations for me?
20. Problems with two references in article
21. Template:Rfd2
22. Wikipedia Policy
23. Was my page deleted?
24. Disturbed
25. "Night Triangular" video
26. "It appears you are adding external links to many different Wikipedia pages in rapid succession"
27. updating my reflist

August 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 19

1. Sort string length
2. HАGGER?
3. Tool for creating redirects
4. Disable WikiLove
5. correcting an article about me
6. University of Liverpool
7. Transclusion problem with footer
8. how do i report vandels
9. Feedback on Proposed Edit to Spotify Article
10. wikimedia emails without a wikimedia account
11. US Census question
12. Photoshop help
13. Quotations section

August 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 20

1. viewing images
2. Redirect question
3. Photo of church
4. Jordan Christopher Michael
5. Information on pictures
6. tokyo spam
7. Helena Bonham Carter
8. Capitalisation of "The" (etc.) in Movie (etc.) Titles
9. Disabling mobile site
10. Album cover
11. Special:Export - Categories with Colons
12. Can I restrict another users from editing the wiki-page which I create
13. Illegal Wikipedia copy
14. Edit Page Intro?

August 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 21

1. Uploading copyrighted photos I own
2. Copyright question
3. Link photo with article
4. Article talk page template for close connection
5. Twinkle on an iPad?
6. May 3, 2015
7. "Yellow-billed pintail" article has a serious problem
8. Template loop detected: User talk:George SJ XXI
9. Hello can I mix ultram and naproxen
10. adding a listing to a category
11. How do I contact user HUGHPUGH
12. Photo submitted for article
13. Numbered and unnumbered references

August 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 22

1. Help requested
2. Using Books
3. editing Marshall Hall (musician)
4. Interlanguage links - Samuel Morris
5. Marshall Hall (musician) again
6. mistake about our coaches nationality
7. article
8. Wikipedia in other languages
9. Adding a link to a Blog
10. Unusual message notification on Wikipedia landing page
11. Big Dig
12. What if the acronym is already used?
13. Regarding montly donation.
14. arrest records expungement
15. Incorrect information on the Brian Bendis page
16. A company releasing an image under CC?
17. Which date to use in citation?

August 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 23

1. editing
2. Merging help - my first merger attempt
3. remove article
4. Template question
5. CSD G11, normal deletion WP:NOTPROMOTION or WP:COI, or cleanup?
6. Missing option when uploading non-free image
7. Random article function and browser "Back" button causes anomaly
8. Different language, same topic
9. What if a newspaper article wasn't microfilmed?
10. uploading photos error
11. Weird issue while editing
12. problem with second to last userbox
13. What should happen with an RFC?
14. Leslie Brooks
15. Schilieffern Plan
16. 2000 visa free to europe by dangote
17. What should happen with an RFC? (Continuation from four sections above)
18. Incorrect link in article
19. Image misspelled, how to fix?
20. Fixation index

August 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 24

1. How to reference an academic thesis?
2. Formatting problem with section heading on my userpage
3. Fixing links to the English Place-Name Society database
4. Everyday I Wake Up On the Wrong Side of Capitalism
5. How to USE Wikipedia to ask about general knowledge
6. Wrong Birthday: Adam Gazda Bio
7. Australian edition
8. State Bank of Mauritius
9. Transfer and rename
10. subst
11. Rex Rabbit title
12. Image licence question
13. Book in progress is gone
14. Interlanguage map?

August 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 25

1. Requesting editors to review AfD
2. High Rock, North Carolina deletion
3. On dead links in articles
4. Taking information from other wikipedia pages
5. Using EndNote or other bibliography programmes to add citations
6. Notable parents
7. User warning template for inappropriate profane personal opinion on an article talk page
8. Disable automatically watching a page only for specific pages
9. Preventing the protection & deletion logs from showing on a watchlist
10. Song Lyrics missing?
11. Pictures
12. Simple watched pages list?
13. abdomen pain
14. does it violate wiki rules?
15. No Edit this Article showing on a Wikipedia article.

August 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 26

1. Uploads
2. Infobox_album in artist article italicising title
3. Uploading scanned images
4. Request for archived page deletion
5. Images in BLP
6. Moved article with German interwiki link
7. Image Opening in a New Tab
8. Article about a company I work for
9. Loud text
10. Use of primary sources for verification of the entries in a list article
11. Hurricane Irene (2011)
12. Kitchen Nightmares
13. Transliteration and (or against) sources
14. I have a website I built and used Fortune to publish it,
15. user talk message: how to respond
16. Peer review

August 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 27

1. 60 yr-old, low computer skills, wants to make 1 edit of an article
2. Football
3. Frank Zappa
4. Introducing Myself
5. User:Srobak
6. Peg
7. Military Log
8. Finding articles belonging to two or more specific categories
9. Where can I find guidelines on notability for video games?
10. Image file speedy deletion
11. Unreviewed article

August 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 28

1. Help with template coding
2. Looking for relatives in Germany
3. Semi-protection and ANI
4. Userbox issue
5. Ownership question
6. References Do Not Show Up On List of hard rock musicians; It Shows Up As Template:Reflist
7. Linking text to another page on wikipedia
8. References – style variation and consistency
9. Coordinates on the left?
10. Navbox autohide?

August 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 29

1. i am a play in africa, looking for team
2. Nasty WiKi on people who may be attacked for their logic
3. Uploading scanned images of stamps
4. Gath, (city).... Goliath.
5. finding a family in other countrys
6. Image in article pending review
7. article about treasure hunt movie
8. NFL Pages
9. redlinked categories
10. Photos of 1903 Cannstatt fire
11. Using 'dashes' for sports scores etc.
12. Company page, operated by others, no log-in available
13. Personal Sandbox?
14. "Mullingar"/people
15. Tool to search character string in EDIT SUMMARIES across the PROJECT (not just a single article)
16. Wikipedia source code syntax highlighting

August 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 30

1. biography of Ann Chandonnet
2. Can't login (Work PC)
3. Update numbers in NRHP list
4. Rules of providing a summary in a language other than the article's native language
5. Wikipedia keeps crashing
6. Three different Unicode characters for "micro"
7. article is written like an advertisement
8. Water Filter
9. how to represent a capsule summary
10. Strange transclusion
11. Generated confirm email link appears to be broken (404 - File Not Found)
12. Moving and categorizing a userbox
13. Using sources written by myself
14. There are 2 "Peter Lehmann", but only 1 to find with the search button
15. List of publications for Bio of Living people
16. David Platt Director
17. Possible Inappropriate Link
18. exclamation point banner at top of article
19. Chocolate bars
20. Text from AP
21. Article about a local music artist who is quite unique in our country
22. 328 BS error
23. University of Liverpool Logo as Main Image
24. Problems with images in info boxes

August 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 31

1. Signing Talk contributions
2. Cleaning Up Audio Files?
3. Doppelgangers
4. Withdraw nomination from RFD
5. Case-sensitive on 1st letter in WP?
6. Question about newspaper "Archive" citations
7. How known are Hamburg?
8. Security alert on a page
9. download pages WITHOUT using webcrawlers
10. new article saved - yet not visible to all
11. Internal link help
12. Old closed AFD's for books
13. TurboCAD 16 Deluxe 2D/3D Tool Symbels
14. A style question
15. Two versions of "Medical University of the Americas – Nevis" depending on URL syntax; can this be fixed?
16. Wikipedia Nederland does not appear on startpage
17. Jayalaithaa
18. Olympus camera category subcategorisation
19. Is this photo really allowed?
20. Disruptive behaviour again?