Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/February 2008
<< Jan | Help Desk | Mar >> |
---|
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
---|
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on the current Help desk page. |
February 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 1
- autohide TOC
- Brand Named Handbags
- How do I Change my user page?
- how do you start o whole new page on something
- Using HTML Markup Codes
- making
- Remove history
- hi
- Contribution
- Invader Species
- adding a new section or page
- list of all the articles of a category and it's subcategories
- Warning templates
- User ID?
- Recommendation for using sortable tables in other articles
- article traffic tracking
- Writing an article
- becoming a recognized authority
- country flags
- do i have to be a black man to join gods the earths?
- new entry
- Gallary of User Styles
- your copyright infringement comments to image
- AfD closure by non-admin
- Vandalism
February 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 2
- Renaming Users
- What is Wikistalking?
- Creating special characters within page title
- Deleted page
- Created material - how does it get posted (subject: Pickering Ribfest)
- problems scrolling utilyzing the touch-pad
- Sigma Phi Epsilon Colorado Alpha
- my contribution to Origin theories of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- How to suppress the TOC
- Table with "not-bold" header
- Monobook.js
- Reassigning contributions made when logged out to user ID?
- Adding map to infobox
- 18- edit
- Galactic Dominance
- Nav-Header
- Getting rid of unwanted watchlist item.
- Wikipedia Traffic Details
- Two questions
- IP Confusion
- Rex Gildo
- New article
- Edit counter tool
- Convert template imprecision
- editing tables
- punctuation in lists
- TV show link boxes
- Technical question about Wikipedia's parser.
- Policy breaches
- Can I delete
February 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 3
- Creating templates
- Wikipedia as a search engine in my Internet Explorer Browser
- deleted
- Edited Page Does Not Appear First Time
- I need help doing automated editing.
- Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 3#
- Hoping I'm in the right area for a question on searching my own userpages
- cannot retrieve forgotten password.
- "In-line footnotes" template?
- Uploading a friend's pictures
- Link my photos to the Wiki entry for Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Wikipedia:Image renaming
- Where is the information coming from?
- Help with a template
- Incorrectness
- Flicker image permission
- War Brides
- Removing My Name from the user page of another user under Contacts
- questions for moderators
- Why is my page protected?
- Line Numbers
- Page layout coding
- meprobamate 400mg tablets
- wjjz calls
- British using Wikipedia
- Userbox
- complete mess of a move
- tags tab
- Page Layout Question, part 2
February 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 4
- Main page formating
- Transclusions
- Forgot my password and I haven't got an email address registered with Wikipedia
- Userpage
- Strange question about infobox
- Wikibreak question
- Deleting talk pages of redirected pages?
- How do I get off-line sources on-line?
- Seven Wonders
- What is...
- my biography
- Speed of motor to pump
- guitar player
- User page
- search
- Transcluding a subsection only
- deep draw tool
- question
- References
- Steve Brown
- Lost password
- Where do I create an article at
- What is Wkipedia?
- start a new busines model
- Question
- Got another weird infobox question...
- Anne E. Schraff
- Ghastiophage
- Can I get a simple explanation on how to properly quote from an attribute to an article?
- Web design
- inserted citation
- How do I link my company's Wiki page to an existing category list?
- Add color and lines to userpage?
- what is share,securities,sensex,stockexchange and its history.
- about wikipedia school fees
- MY EXTERNAL LINK KEEPS GETTING DELETED
- Book Information
- bullets/formatting
- Illustrations
- False information being presented
- <ref> tag error I can't figure out
- how to create an article
- Paul Kidd article display problem.
- I KNOW for a fact this is true!
- username verification expired
- Answering reference questions?
February 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 5
- URL changing?
- CBS Primetime Shows - Welcome to the Captain, Jericho, Big Brother, Power of 10, Survivor, and Dexter
- monobook.js not working
- Help - need to understand why my article failed
- Adding a Word
- inappropriate information
- Include an external link to an article that does not have an external link section(nasopharyngeal carcinoma)
- Credit for Help in Articles
- FAQ / Nubio problem
- watchlist ratings?
- AfD Error
- Searchbar
- how to site
- Created articles?
- Leon Rippy Date of Birth
- award
- how do i modify my webpage?
- For viewing emails (gmail)
- Endorsement of cantidate, WP:SPS
- adding to a discussion page
- Help!
- Scanning images
- Had page deleted I believe incorrectly
- Random Article from a Specified Portal
- Copyright Question
- I'm new and am looking for my edit
- Pictures
- Cant get any of my members after fifty to sign in i get login erros
- edit
- Lent
- Biographics
- Biographics (TM)
- question
- Undo a cut & paste move
- Is it possible to create a portal?
- Infobox Problem
- Question
February 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 6
- Print???
- Hangon template
- New Topic
- autobahn average speed
- THAT'S IT -- I'M NEVER USING WIKIPEDIA AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Burger Baron
- Paleolithic
- Stanley Cup
- led to page with Gooogle search
- Replacing Image??
- how to start a independent lable
- american lakes
- change page title
- copying from website?
- How to remove underconstruction template
- page type
- Deleting titles
- sandbox
- Improper use of Wikipedia.org
- Madison+Main sandbox article...
- Renominate an article for deletion/merge/etc
- Sharing Contacts in Outlook
- Printable Version anyone?
- Relient k
- Editing pages and providing a source
- Template for showing information until someone chooses to hide it
- Nazrul
- wikipedia for mobile users
- What is the currency of Thailand?
- Review & tags
February 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 7
- Something on my Userpage...
- Citations = necessary?
- Henri VIII
- Block Quote maximum Size, For example Appendix 1D...
- How to Keep Track of Answers
- Wrongful Warning
- POV comment in grading box
- Wikipedia Start
- muhammed and jesus
- Testing templates
- Help- Talk Page
- Programming error on create account page?
- Generators
- A how to cite issue
- Signature Question
- Links to other language wikipedias
- shares
- How do I start a discussion topic about a page
- Unable to open my account and not getting my new password from you, Sir
- Want to get ownership for DTP work..
- about physiology
- error on the article HARYANA
- Question regarding E-mailing Wikipedia's contents to others
- Tracking ArbCom - Elvis Presley Article
- Resuming my account
- Replacing Image?? Again
- jobs
- Data Errors
- Replaced with an older version
- Hiding lists
- Entry keeps getting deleted
- Secured editing
- how do i close and delete my wikipedia account?
- Succession box
- Missing article. Deleted?
- HELP!
- Muslims don't like image of Mohammud
- Night Watch
- Suppressing TOC in Sections
- How do I copy an existing article to a subpage of my user page?
- state quarter designs
- multiple file icons
February 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 8
- Peptide synthesis
- pages
- Please set up STEVE ABBOTT (actor)
- Linking years?
- The Jake Mackey Band
- Liz Garbus
- Question on third-party source material
- Removing the Search button
- Wikibreak Enforcer
- Theodore Acland Harper
- San Diego Highwayman
- Infoboxes
- how to report a typo
- Querry About Hindi Font
- Salary of president of India before 1996
- holocaust
- St George's House Northern Police Orphanage
- How do I go about deleting a page/article?
- Wikipedia:Help desk page "Click here to ask your question about using Wikipedia" link
- help me
- Shattuck Oklahoma Chamber Website
- Uploading a pdf file
- Userbox.
- Wikipedia images
- password does not work anymore
- how to download photos into Wikipedia submission
- another work by Benny Bufano
- Non tredditional Machining
- Printing with links?
- Edit counter tool
- where can the nano be bought in the us what dealer ship
- Closing an AFD
- defination of data structure
- Page view counter
- Making a page help
- Changing an Image
- Automatic archive
- Question about edit counts
- Swedish language template
- starting my own page
- How do I go about creating a Disambiguation Page?
- '(ec)'
- Searching for references to an ISBN
February 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 9
- Talk:Floor covering disappeared unexpectedly
- new entry for a business
- Efficient Formatting
- Pietro Nenni
- Adding Charmparticles- a music group from Portland
- What sort of tab should be placed on a possibly non-notable Wiki entry?
- why some others edits don't show up on my watchlist
- I edit a topic (HDCP)
- Cannot load images
- password problem
- airport destinations list format
- more information about this image/symbol
- Inserting image copyright info
- space program
- Book covers/illustrations, which editions to use?
- Deleted articles
- Rockport
- Terra's Monobook.js
- Muhammed
- Pollepel Island
- Newbies
- keywords
- Are there any current projects to add a picture to every article?
- problem with getting an account
- vandalism? I think not
- population
- Why was my article "What to believe" deleted?
February 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 10
- Complaint
- userbox naming
- Sidebar missing in firefox
- I need help with a vandalism deletion of my article pages
- Moving images to Commons
- Sixteen Candles
- Image Copyright question
- Corrupted Files
- What does nawassa mean
- How do I get a user page to respond in the Wikipedia search engine?
- what does AUS mean
- how do i make a page
- Reg : Looking for a career with Wikipedia - NewDelhi,India
- New service
- Article's Images
- deletion of images of PROPHET MOHAMMAD(SAS)PEACE BE UPON HIM
- Vandilism
- I found an article that should be delted
- Was this edit vandalism?
- tournament brackets
- Adding Pictures
- Wikilinking a edit page
- Coding help
- I'm sure I saw a project that has people check out new articles.
February 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 11
- adding information to a name that is matching the same name of another person
- Is there...
- Requiring citations
- how to edit a page?
- Picture
- Quickbar preferences
- Posting my talk page
- Legal Auditing entry
- How can i make a page
- Making a graph
- Changing signature
- Moving Chatfield High School
- Page deleted
- Suggestion
- Autograph license
- computer
- emailing
- Portrait Image
- Signature Queston and Hometown Question
- product not deliverd
- Porgy and Bess
- Edit My Username?
- http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_made_the_first_bomb
- signature cursor
- edit counting
- My Toolbox
- New Pages
February 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 12
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 12#Adding tl.7CSharedIPEDU to talk pages|Adding {{SharedIPEDU}} to talk pages]]
- How to get initial capital letters into all words of a subject title?
- chemistry
- free DVD rewritable disc eraser.
- Hover Text
- How can I get the content of a deleted entry?
- New Version of Image Displaying Improperly
- Quiz
- Siting Wikipedia as a Source
- Translation sites
- Correcting other people's typos
- Good Faith vs Copyvio
- Images not being displayed
- Dual purpose: list & disamb
- Adding information
- Refused Article?
- Urgent Do it
- Expert locked out of editing by amateur
- 288 page
- teeth
- Need help with wikitable
- I want to close out my account ive created, and Have EVERYTHING deleted (only One Article repeated 4 times)
- how many combos
- catalytic converter
- How can a user with only one edit and no record of deletions have a blank user page?
- Companies
- help with editing
- media/ artist pages
- Suspected Plagerism
- Disputed accuracy
- Endorsements
- Referencing - A pretty Version?
- *Sigh...*
- Dell E1505
February 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 13
- Column summation
- Direct find and replace function for Wikipedia editing
- part page transclusion
- article sub pages
- References
- Album Cover Fair Use
- Quantity of edits and editors
- Linking to an image page
- Tomeraider 3 is shut down every time I look up words beginning with the letter "z"
- Help regarding merging an Article
- Second Link
- Link
- Violation of Wikipedia's policy on advertising and conflicts of interest on external links
- Error
- More on inserting copyright
- Question on verifiable sources.
- Closing
- Creating an account; forgotten user name
- References
- Numeric accuracy
February 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 14
- Why are level 5 section headings minute?
- WHAT HAPPEN?
- Is there a way for a picture to include a hyper/wiki-link?
- A Userbox
- Banning
- Valentines Day
- Orignator of request for new article?
- Getting approval to use some one else's images?
- Changing table text alignment
- How do you read deleted articles?
- it support
- Userbox
- Quickest way to undo a redirect
- Question about afghania
- water pressure & surges
- Renaming images
- Vandalism report
- New page
- Slavery
- Printing wih hypertext
- problems viewing image page
- Colours in signatures
- uploading a file
- how to remove phantom subheadings?
- HOW DO I QUESTION AN ARTICLES IMPARTIALITY
- New Article
- Using non "cc" photos for info use
- trying to correct an error
February 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 15
- USING PROMOTIONAL/ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS FROM 1940'S
- Click Template
- Wikicharts
- Log in / 'remember me' problems
- Regarding my website
- Undo while editting
- Urine drinking
- Viewing images on Wikipedia
- Re: Article "Departments of France"
- CPA
- Public domain?
- problem
- deleted page
- Untitled
- nation rural emloyment gaurantee scheme by indian govt
- Great Depression
- Login Swelter
- Wikipedia talk:Sandbox
- Commercial DVD as reference
- editing and then printing an article
- Logging in
- Creation
- Image links
- GFDL
- Template
- putting a picture into my draft article
- Reporting bugs?
- I've got a question...
- Image link is broken now
- Permanently block my IP address
- "Reply here" talk page convention?
- flyordie was deleted
February 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 16
- Wikiquote template
- Rename to simple redirect not working
- Editing Question
- Logging out everytime I close my Browser
- children on wikipedia
- Gonintendo Article
- I want to change the title of a page i have created
- Categorising a page
- Changing/editing name of article
- Frequent Logouts
- Proper Band Templates
- Making an anchor and referencing it...
- Removing NFCC#10C warnings
- Public barnstar: you guys who give help are the best
- How to enter coordinates
- Mat Roy Thompson
February 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 17
- Distorted signature
- blacklisted link
- Interesting log in problem
- Why template?
- plant characteristics box
- Link goes to wrong person
- My first template
- MJ Morning Show
- Spelling error in title
- [https://www.google.com/search?q=site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk Search Help desk] is fantastic! Why not put it (and an example for target change) up top, with the "read FAQ" boilerplate?
- Deleting a user account
- Log In Failure
- User Name
- Reliable sources, Facts and Perceptions
- Someone know what's wrong?
- Adding a pointer to specific meaning to a page with template Wi
- Checkuser
- Future timeline of Earth
- Converting article into a redirect
- 3RR versus IP socks
- bilingual help in Spanish
- How do I "Send a Link" from an article to my email?
- Sum and Limit Operators
- Putting a contribution list on a watchlist
- How to "copy/paste" onto "search" line using a Widget?
- Ogg files
- Vandalism of Wikipedia:Introduction
- Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame inductee(1993) John Kirby
- Images problem
- Missing "File Link" after an album cover upload
- Roller Coaster Infobox
- search history
February 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 18
- Porn sites
- Personal pages
- Disambiguate on a re-directed article
- Google image search
- fairly used metalworking center lathe machine.
- Understanding "ATP"
- original registration number
- ABOUT ELCB
- Big Brother 9 page STILL unverifiable
- how to arrange images side by side in a page
- Seeing who wrote a particular sentence in an article
- Cancelling an account
- Template Problems
- Help with userpage
- Quotation marks around title
- uncertain how to report abuse
- Logging in
- comment request templates
- Yogh
February 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 19
- bullets
- Hi
- Query on "Did you know..." section
- Safari issues?
- Vandalism
- How to export the picture file?
- How to set the editing permission of guest?
- Wikipedia's Maps
- Manually updating signatures after change of username
- Offensive Edit summaries
- How can I find a question and answer that was posed by a coworker of mine about a month ago?
- Flickr review template?
- water pressure and surges
- Online library
- Single/Double spacing after period
- Deleting warnings
- ISBN links
- Coordinates
- Contacting members of Wikipedia casually
- Suggestion
- Use of company name in a definition
- Minot, ND page
- Six degrees of Wikipedia
- List of solar eclipses
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman PORN!!!
- Licensing question
- :Category:Non-talk pages that are automatically signed
- table help
- a section I put some info into has been declared vandalism????
February 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 20
- Euphemisms
- unable to access some articles
- Userpage help
- Some kind of database corruption?
- Userboxes?
- Guideline template
- Autodisplaying templates
- FA stars and GA plusses at top of user page
- Can I link to an article on Wikipedia, and can I use the WIKIPEDIA logo to do so?
- Wikipedia not remembering password
- Changing username
- Matthias Hinze
- Adding search terms that will lead to a given article
- Play character infobox
- differnce in french and englsih
- Where did my change go?
- How to cite Wikipedia itself
- "open access group"
- Infobox problems
February 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 21
- JIM BAILEY ENTERTAINER PAGE
- Statistics
- Request for cleanup assistance
- E-mail authentification won't work for 20 months!
- Completely blank page
- create account
- Citing References
- Wiki Text
- Category intersection
- Same reference but one is rejected and the other accepted?
- page editable!!
- Needing an Admin
- Image Justification
- Access to Lucene Index
- translation
- Dynamic Column widths in tables
- Vandalized Minot, ND Page
- Login Problem
- Creating a new entry that already uses that name
- Still Vandalized on Minot, ND page
- Code vs. symbols
- Question regarding OTRS permissions for image use
- Wikipedia Shortcuts
- Michael Lucas (porn star)
February 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 22
- Add an uploaded photo
- How to create subcategory
- Identifying piece of classical music (Michael Nyman, perhaps?)
- other editors ganging up
- reporting images
- Jeffery Ingram - fugue amnesia
- overlapping sections
- Userbox help
- How many references
- I am not a sockpuppet, am I?
- Page in the wrong language
- Libelous comments remaining on articles
- Lokahi and Lokahi Foundation user name
- Expanding Tutorial
- External Link Deletion
- G. edward Griffin
- Can someone guide me?
- Personal Sandbox
- The Astrons
- Economy of the United States does not load
- Placing the signature correctly on summary box
- List of edits on page history does not include recent edit...
February 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 23
- login problem
- Signiture
- Article That Needs a Lot of Clean-Up
- Inappropriate use of templates
- Height/Weight conversions in infoboxes
- Indenting
- dispute
- Problem article Pancreas--not sure what to do
- Filtering recent change
- Update Required "Democracy"
- Regarding Chennai Tamil portal
- Inapporiate Images
- Bad selection of colours in <source> rendering
- Infobox is fucked up
- Trying to add references
- Can I get an electronic copy of a Wikipedia database?
- Use of Information
- Controlling the colours of links
- Duty Counsel - error/ommission
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church
- Editing a box in an article
- Br
February 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 24
- Fonts in svg file
- 2004 budget
- HEEELP ME PLEASE OH LORD
- Counting new articles by user
- Meaning of edicate
- searching specifically
- layouts IE and Firefox
- Getting "Log in / create account" message on my talk page
- article deletion e.j. gold
- RSS Feed for Wikipedia Pages?
- Need help answering queries on Editor Assistance Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests
- Re-direct
- Tagging temporary facts
- Moving article from User: to Main
- Near Duplicate pages
- how to cite
- please I nedd help with images not displaying in I.E. 6
- Adding to page called "World Egg"
- Inaccuracy about Couples for Christ (CFC) founder
- Simple directions to get a new article uploaded
- User keeps adding non-free images
- Best course of action with brewing problem
- Creating an article
- cite web template
- Signature
- How can i upload a photo to an article?
- YELLOWPAGES.com & YELLOWPAGES.travel on Wikipedia
- Bot Question
February 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 25
- Feeback
- article message box
- Scrabulous
- Can't find the correct template.
- Inline math
- Need assistance on upoading an image
- BLP violation
- Someone has registered an external domain name....
- new page
- neighborhood notability
- text format?
- Why Vandalism?
- TV
- math
- IP address
- Errata in TV shows
- Start of a section
- Permanent Link
- Movies of Tito Gobbi
- Vertical Text
- Incoming/Outgoing page links (Backlinks and What links here) issue
- IP addresses
- Border/Box Help
- Problems with a template
- Leon's Furniture wikipedia inaccuracy
- Question about... well, continuation of topic 2-above this one
February 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 26
- How does someone ask for an unblock?
- Subpage List?
- At what point is an article deemed "Wikified"?
- Trivia template broken?
- Guitar Compatibility Chart Deletion?
- Image editing
- Dashes
- Glitch in the Matrix
- Another opinion requested
- Theft
- Expand the article of an iconous actor in Tamil Nadu
- download data dumps
- Opinion on Lead Paragraph
- Wikipedia Signatures page problem
- helpme question
- "magic words"
- Google Earth and coordinates
- Calendar with or without year
- Wikipedia articles cited elsewhere - what responsibility ?
- How do I participate in discussion?
- Censoring Wikipedia
- My edits are not appearing on the Wikipedia page
- magic word
February 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 27
- Inserting an image from Wikipedia Commons
- How do I edit?
- Long articles
- Fish Cuts eg; En Tresse, Delice
- Wikimedia images used by media
- Withdrawal of picture permission
- Economics
- load data dumps in a database
- Change mouseover text of a link
- removing warning box
- Text dump merger
- Speedy Deletion
- Uploading text in Office format
- How do I create a "contents" box?
- Changing a title
- Template question
- Billboard 200 boxes
February 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 28
- Wikipedia color scheme
- Create Contents
- Counter oddity
- How do you underline text?
- TABs
- Notices posted at head of article
- Template replacement wikiquette ?
- shunt device
- How to create a free Bible viewer application for Java mobile phones( like the Gobible)
- Windsor chairs in U.S.A
- Odd vandalism?
- Moving a page to an existing page??
- Reporting IP Socks
- Nochex
- viagra spam is being sent out from German "lists.wikimedia.org"
- Using maps and photos
- frustrated new user
- egress windows
- ca.
- How do you make a list of articles started?
- Can I use this?
- new article help
- Article name
- Finding Heather Hall
- Hangon tag
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Newsletter/200802
- Article
- Signature in templates
- Tables and hiding/showing
- Commercial article
February 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 February 29
- Wikipedia:Images
- Not a question, but can't figure were else to alert Wikipedia
- Processing Data Dumops into MySQl
- Javascript
- multiple wiktionary links in one box
- Verification
- rocket jet planes
- Biblical Apocrypha
- Capital E
- Using Wikipedia Material
- Guy Talk, Girl Talk by Sal Marino
- Revealing names of underage suspect