Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/February 2009

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February 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 1

1. IP vandalism warnings
2. How to fix when tables/images and tex overlap
3. Template:Infobox AFLretired
4. How to redirect for a duplicative article
5. Reverting images
6. withdraw from gabapentin
7. Images removed from Scutigera coleoptrata
8. hello
9. Annoying browser problem
10. Please Ban
11. Slanderous attacks on Boy Scout founder, based entirely on one writer's imagination
12. rooots
13. random articles, changes?
14. deletion of entire section on SRIH.
15. writing reports
16. Login and site change
17. Changing name format in search
18. Reference links...
19. Category "Sporting Knights": Knighthoods for reasons other than sport

February 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 2

1. Cite Error
2. Second longest river in Australia ?
3. How to edit the text in the box to the right of an article (re: Pittsburgh Steelers)
4. More about Infobox ship's code
5. Uploading
6. Inexperienced Wikipedia User trying to upload image to article correctly, and with respect to appropriate protocol
7. Finding Wikipedia article in Google search
8. Which name to use in foreign games?
9. Changing static link
10. Screenshots copyright.
11. spam filter
12. Article Title
13. Adminbots
14. Pad lock
15. Referencing to 1 book but many different pages
16. Pictures
17. Double images
18. I can't edit a page, some sort of page protection i can't see?
19. Logging in
20. Removal of valid wikilinks to Pygmy Marmoset
21. Deletion code, what does this mean?
22. Same IP?
23. Converting Bare References

February 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 3

1. Why are commas and periods usually placed outside of quotation marks, where they should be placed inside?
2. How do you make your own page?
3. Name
4. File:Map of 2018 FIFA World Cup bids.svg
5. Question
6. Rollback
7. What is the "Geological Information System(GIS)"?
8. Song infobox
9. Wikipedia
10. Sociophysics
11. Jimmys talk page
12. Editing a Page
13. Viewing .svg files with IE 7.0
14. Problem;CC on CBS prime time programs
15. How do I post my article?
16. RSS Feed
17. Can someone please check my posting to see how well it follows wiki guidelines
18. How do I Put An Image In?
19. A comment on the Fraternity of Free Masonry
20. Saving visited pages

February 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 4

1. data collection tools
2. I foregot my password
3. Non-expanding Template Parameters
4. Image copyright question
5. {{Infobox UK place}} slightly borked problem
6. how to delete the page that I created?
7. Solving An Editing Dispute
8. error in article !!!
9. Sociophysics
10. from draft to publishing
11. Sociophysics
12. script that compares the edits of 2 editors
13. RADIO Question
14. Sir Rabindranath Tagore
15. Dealing with an image copyright issue
16. Why doesn't the Wikipedia article appear when I google the subject?
17. Is it possible to cleanly expand a {{reflist}}?
18. printing Wikipedia articles
19. MoS person
20. Moved a Page, new redirect not redirecting
21. How do I change the name of my account?
22. Creating a new entry
23. Wind Mill - Electrical Power Generation
24. Quoting lyrics
25. Transcluding Articles
26. References

February 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 5

1. Deleted contributions
2. Wiki heading formatting
3. linking to city/state
4. Deleted Edits
5. What is the geological information system?
6. search
7. Delete a page
8. Adding a link
9. ER diagram and relational schema diagram
10. How to include XML comments?
11. Article Quality
12. Discontinued product
13. Link Wikipedia to Wictionary
14. how to uninstall wikipedia
15. Use of asterisk
16. <source> tag - from which version in MediaWiki?
17. don't find links
18. Removal of a template after permission ticket number (OTRS) given for an image
19. editing a stub
20. org name change
21. Category mystery
22. Talk vs. Discussion
23. Not Logged In...

February 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 6

1. QUESTIONS
2. Quotation templates
3. Complaint
4. backgrounds and graphics
5. Wikifying
6. bingo rule
7. How do I remove an image I uploaded to Wikipedia?
8. Same List
9. Translation please
10. Embedded links leading away from an article:
11. file wont upload or search
12. Hello please read
13. Capitalization of lists?
14. Errors on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map13.jpg
15. Can it be considered spam?
16. more racism on wikipedia
17. Just signed on! New to asll these things,althow I am old.
18. There is any Alert ir a change were made in my article
19. fresh start
20. WIKI BIO of JOHN ORDRONAUX
21. username
22. Wikipedia:Requested pictures/Science
23. quick question on core policy
24. Duplicating a German Wikipedia article in English

February 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 7

1. Edits like an essay
2. Dibble iceberg tongue
3. Linking to earlier revisions of images
4. Words
5. English or Romanji to be used in Japanese game article?
6. Re-using content
7. career
8. Determining IP of account creation?
9. Filtering articles based on categorisations
10. lucifer[serpent]
11. Stewards' elections
12. artical in Mechanix Illistrated
13. Maintenance tasks
14. help
15. Youtube
16. Last question
17. Searching wikipedia
18. Subcategories are listed as sub-subcats
19. search for liberal and ull see my problem
20. Category links appeared on talk page
21. tagging when I need help

February 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 8

1. BIORHYTHM CYCLES
2. Is there any way to get Wikipedia to forget my username on the login page?
3. tupac
4. Candidates for the United States Senate seat to be vacated by Senator Mel Martinez
5. Reference to Published Correspondence
6. Reference Fix
7. Succession box needs editing
8. Customizing your signature
9. Copying Wikipedia Content Without Attribution
10. Wikitable font size
11. story on gymkhana club
12. File not working.
13. featured article
14. Foreign language characters
15. Oxford United League Positions.jpg
16. How to fix HTML errors
17. Editing the Voicemail history page
18. Archive Bot
19. Troubleshooting lines not showing on WikiProject To-Do template?
20. template:swimmingrecord problem
21. Wikipedia
22. How do I locate all articles that link to an external site?
23. Category:Images for cleanup
24. How can a user place two tables next to each other?
25. Images
26. Time lapse for Google posting of newly-created Wikipedia entry

February 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 9

1. Linking images from wikimedia commons to articles.
2. word definition
3. Munitions Building, FDR
4. Template calculation question
5. how
6. Reuse of photo
7. moved while collecting unemployment in PA
8. Colspan in a navegational template
9. My request for a comment was deleted
10. New Problem of Accessing Wikipedia from the Google Search Engine
11. Autocomplete / suggest
12. Can Photographs be used as Evidence?
13. Can i use wikipedia outside
14. Strange things happen when I log in
15. How can I contact another user?
16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_Roman_Catholic_High_School,_Chesterfield
17. meta-editing
18. An easier way to edit
19. infoboxes and section-edit links
20. Autolink to vandalism

February 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 10

1. What happened to the search suggestion?
2. Helen Thomas page
3. I have a question about the style of typing/writing
4. CafePress?
5. Editing issue
6. Degree symbol
7. Policy on profanity/racial slurs on talk pages
8. Scores on the doors
9. Merge two articles about same topic
10. Chandigarh Monument.JPG
11. How do I change the image on a page?
12. editing talk page insert box
13. create an entry
14. Help with Bio
15. Difference Between
16. How do I start an article when there is already an article of the same name?
17. Where to report minor technical glitches in Wikipedia pages?
18. hi kinda newbie/ clicking link wont bring up a page to edit
19. program crash
20. User vandalising "Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan" entry
21. Blacklisted User name from creation

February 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 11

1. Categorically a problem
2. Copy from DVD and upload to Wikipedia?
3. James Woods
4. Need assistance correcting infobox template
5. Changing the Title of my Article
6. Discography on RuPaul
7. Vandalism on Miguel de Cervantes
8. Category query (Severe weather and convection)
9. serious matter
10. Submitting an online museum to wikipedia
11. Ref Error?
12. Adding UK village
13. Logging in
14. Editing Title
15. Ability to write around embedded images
16. Can I speed up the "confirm" process?
17. Reverting Vandalism
18. Twinkle
19. Question about Watchlist?
20. Fonts for signature
21. How many people are needed to support Wikipedia?

February 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 12

1. Editing A Section
2. Legitimate website blocked by Wikipedia's spam blocker
3. Pro career
4. merging 2 topics?
5. Setting up contents
6. Adding an article in list of languages in which it is available
7. How do I edit the page for "Iron"?
8. Rollbacks with Twinkle
9. Syntax problem - ref after RTL foreign language place name
10. How to send a file to a mail id
11. Deleting a wikipedia entry I have just created
12. Autocomplete
13. Deleting a redirect
14. Taxes
15. Edit
16. Cats on Commons files?
17. How do I see when my account was created
18. Grammar

February 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 13

1. Chat room
2. Error in audio article
3. Is There A Way to Add a New Article to Wikipedia
4. I'm a bit confused
5. Protection of “Mainpage”
6. unknown metallic properities.
7. nonsense added to BTU entry
8. Moving text from "see also" section to the main body of the article
9. Is it a good source?
10. Article translation
11. Huggle
12. Indexing
13. post photo
14. Want to delete userpages
15. Posting Stub Notes
16. How to remove Wikipedia warnings
17. saying i changed things when i haven't
18. Tilde Problem

February 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 14

1. Bin Laden
2. Article assessment gadget
3. Vanishing InfoBox Information (displayed)
4. Searching
5. Using a photograph
6. Accused of vandalism
7. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
8. Equipment used by Sir Edmund Hillary on his expedition.
9. Resplitting split list articles
10. Auto suggest
11. PNG resize glitch
12. Golf / PGA tour question
13. How do I get something to redirect?
14. revert?
15. Warning
16. Unable to access my watchlist or preference page
17. Personal attacks
18. Font
19. Template placement
20. Link to an editing page
21. Template in infobox
22. focus field on page load
23. Plagiarism ?
24. Wikitable
25. Film date question
26. Preventing headlines from overlapping the text
27. Printing images-problem
28. Template question
29. Printing page 2
30. How to upload a film poster?

February 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 15

1. It is posible to delete unfair my user/sandbox page ?
2. policy on naming convention
3. AFD template help
4. I know who killed me
5. Can I use text for my web site?
6. Data Communication
7. Denzel Washington is hacked
8. Missing out the word 'the'
9. new flight roots
10. Uploading album covers
11. Category Deletion
12. Talk pages
13. Saved text doesn't reflect edits made
14. Having your own wiki?
15. Jade Goody
16. Is there a magic word for this? (template question)
17. article send
18. Sid Ryan
19. title capitalization
20. Warning of quick deletion of a photo
21. creating an account

February 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 16

1. Recreating a previously deleted article
2. Oldest/youngest
3. Project Page for Educational Project?
4. Help me
5. Warnings
6. Repeat Offender - Can Anyone Help??
7. :
8. How to measure a distance of a light year?
9. Changing Username
10. Adrienne Bailon
11. Undoing link removal to my 4shared page:- "Spam blacklist" ?
12. Administrator help required to rename a page
13. ACC
14. Request For A Particular Article entitled The Tide Of Life: A Summary
15. Query
16. Some questions from Litherlandsand...
17. Archiving
18. Lists of products?
19. Infobox
20. Standard way to address links to wrong page with same name
21. Changing a redirect
22. HOW TO SEARCH IN WIKIPEDIA
23. PLEASE STOP SENDING ME JUNK e-MAIL
24. Selecting a random article
25. technical question
26. deleting
27. External Links
28. Talk:Shlom bayit
29. Herman J. Mankiewicz
30. red letter entries
31. #ifexist
32. Image scrollbox
33. summaries of novels

February 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 17

1. User names
2. How do I create a link that opens within the Wikipedia frame?
3. Contribute a photo
4. Screen
5. Disagreement with statement in article
6. How come the movie Tiger Claws doesn't have a page here?
7. Duplicate image
8. Template Infobox Planet
9. I want to know about the type of techniques and methods for Removing of Arsenic Impurity from Air.
10. Syntax for linking to an image's File page
11. bushfire danger area for The Basin
12. Alert if someone edits your text entry
13. '+363'? On watchlist
14. Changed Username
15. uploading a word document
16. How to add Google Maps reference to Wikipedia article?
17. Can you change what was originally put on wikipedi?
18. Why can't I...
19. How to remove a tag that is a hidden category
20. Change to title of article
21. How to change contents of boiler-plate text that appears on many pages?
22. knowledge and belief
23. my article doesn't appear but it isn't rejected either...
24. school assignment on HIV/AIDS
25. Moving userspace articles to main article space
26. Help for Article in the scope of "Computing WikiProject"
27. Which Wikipedian said this?
28. How do I find the history of a building?
29. Centering a Template
30. Al Pacino biography _ administrator
31. Scrollable Userbox box

February 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 18

1. Al Pacino biography : Problems with editing process for references
2. free speech
3. How can I cancel my account?
4. Request an article
5. Addition of new term
6. Adding a university's name to a list
7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
8. Archive 1.0000000000000000
9. windows has lost accesss to hard drive partitions
10. is pornograph a word??????
11. Egypt under fatimid dynasty
12. Article name
13. ROHI TV
14. Updating the logo on the Aviva Investors page
15. How long would it take for google search to NOT list a deleted wikipedia biography article?
16. Printing problems
17. Approaching Commercial Entities For Copyright Permission
18. Image Upload Problems
19. Is this alternate account acceptable??
20. What should be done when an anonymous editor posts his/her personal information on a talk page?
21. wikipedia
22. Username Concern
23. Unable to edit pages through Firefox - Error received upon clicking Save page
24. a lil confused about discussion page content...
25. Huggle Substitute?
26. Problems with links in archives
27. Request
28. How do I delete an Image I've uploaded?
29. Internal link to a commons image
30. Link a Company Name to its website (URL)
31. add new page to a category ?
32. Free use of information
33. First Article
34. Photo

February 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 19

1. pearlscale
2. Seeing edits since last visit or last patrol
3. Are these persons from this site, notable enough for a WP:ATHLETE article?
4. I Messed Up the Title of My New Page-How to Change?
5. How much research should be use as well as the type needed for a wikipedia
6. Link refers to incorrect person
7. Ready To Launch article
8. to find out a medicine
9. email articles
10. Shortcut
11. Cite error
12. How do i request input on an article which has a relatively inactive talk page?
13. What is causing this whitespace?
14. Request for Title
15. How do I add a subject into Wikepedia?
16. Add a Name to "People from Clairton, Pennsylvania" Page
17. Deleted edits
18. Career Directioning, A Practical Guide for Job Seekers
19. How can I add a book title to Wikipedia?
20. printing Wiki articles
21. New Article?
22. Divine Service Foundation
23. help on paragraphs

February 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 20

1. Gothic (Film)
2. Barackberry Sectera Edge
3. New double redirect display
4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 20#{{anchorencode:where does {{at}} go?|where does {{tl|at}} go?]]
5. How do I put a photo on a page that I have uploaded to Wiki commons?
6. How do verify content?
7. Images not loading on Wikipedia -- several weeks now.
8. Category history
9. IP editor making... weird statements.
10. Conflict of Interest, repeated edits
11. Signature
12. thin blue border?
13. Creating a Company Page
14. A tricky move question
15. AfD
16. Wrapping text
17. rollback links
18. Table help

February 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 21

1. Persondata
2. Downtime?
3. What does Wikipedia say about periods at the end of caption-sentences?
4. A question for template hackers
5. probe selection.
6. Objection to Subcategory of Category:Indian fascists
7. About Semiconductor memories
8. wier-tapping
9. King's College London Coat of Arms
10. Copying text from another article and preserving the GFDL terms
11. Change and rename the title of my article
12. Primary page & disambiguation
13. Edit summary for new sections
14. Why post rumors?
15. plz solve my problem
16. you guys dont have a good idea
17. Tag for article with non-encyclopedic lists
18. check me
19. Printing

February 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 22

1. Darwin's evolution theory and related ideas
2. New page
3. CHURCH WEBSITE ON WIKIPEDIA
4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 22#|]]
5. A member of congress and I share the same name and he has the listing on Wikipedia for the name tied up...
6. Getting revision of "lacking references"
7. Aligning Text
8. Question
9. Handling contradictory articles
10. wikipedia toolbar
11. Correct way to distinguish two British actresses of the same name?
12. Collapsing talk page discussion
13. 1993 Brazilian Referendum
14. What administrators do..
15. Auto named refs?
16. Machine translation

February 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 23

1. Are these references enough to add a new article?
2. Defense vs Defence
3. creating table
4. how do you add citations?
5. My username
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO#History
7. Moving information from talk to main page?
8. Citations and references not showing at the bottom of the page
9. INLAND STEEL - RoHS Compliance Data Collection
10. Why my wikipedia english pages so strange like this
11. About elements
12. gold rate
13. Racist Article?
14. Article Author on these two articles?
15. pallbearers
16. Novels with identical names
17. Can I at least correct a page about myself?
18. replacement battery
19. Uploading an image
20. Annote an entry as violating the principal of neutrality
21. Table formatting help
22. Indian Reserves
23. Can I add my self to wikipedia?
24. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 23#|]]
25. Username Red
26. Page Moved?
27. Page moved
28. Removing an article to a user subpage
29. Displaying only a portion of an image in a thumbnail
30. Content removal without stated reason
31. SFRoH Meaning
32. Regarding the various conflict, cleanup, etc icons
33. Getting hold of a developer

February 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 24

1. The lede
2. Cinema's Exiles
3. change e mail address
4. :File:Urantia logo.png
5. Ways to handle non-cooperative IP user
6. Article Merger/Starting a new project
7. Release Item to "Public"
8. Vandalism
9. Chandigarn open arm monument 23.02.09
10. no cross, no crown.
11. Unknown File Type
12. I would like to ask a question concerning the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act on that page, how to?
13. LANGUAGE
14. Referencing Press Releases not on the web?
15. opening a file
16. Creating A New Page [HELP!]
17. SVG not showing
18. dissertations
19. chemistry
20. Infobox pictures
21. Question put on discussion page of List of statues by height never answered
22. How do I direct someone to another page by clicking on an image (versus clicking on text)?
23. Incorrect heading on Page
24. HELP! Please rename this image
25. New double redirect feature
26. Appeal against a claim of vandalism
27. Special:Newpages

February 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 25

1. Augmentation to article: People's Park
2. burningadvdvialaptop
3. wikimedia commons account mysteriously created automatically
4. Fair use
5. Category problem
6. Zachary Turner hi-jacked
7. Licensing tags?
8. How to nominate multiple articles for deletion
9. Copyright Violation
10. Glitchy Wikias
11. Links to Userpages in mainspace
12. Finding information on Woman's Guide to Management Success
13. Template Troubles
14. Remove user and user-talk pages
15. How to merge two articles
16. Template for IPs registered to schools
17. Text Problem
18. Reposting revised content for deleted article
19. Image of a politician
20. How do I format a bullet-list into multiple columns?
21. Duplicate file names
22. Requesting an external link to a locked page
23. account creator

February 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 26

1. Creating a wiki page for my band
2. Category
3. Spam filter notice
4. Question on the font style for every page.
5. I wish to create an atrical on "Foxen"
6. Help with reverting a undiscussed move over redirect
7. Rihanna
8. Reflist strangeness
9. ABOUT UPFC
10. Lost.
11. McMansion
12. User box
13. Adding an article to wikipedia
14. Editing Reference links
15. Problem requesting an IRC cloak
16. Calling all non-free use experts
17. Deleating an image
18. New page
19. Abusive Content
20. Sock puppet investigation notification
21. how to change article header?
22. I did everything right!
23. How do I move a page?
24. Removing talk page warnings
25. Content Deleted
26. Template question
27. Company article - conflict of interest

February 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 27

1. tag on public domain image
2. How do I go about adding IPA pronunciations to Wikipedia?
3. external link to file on HD
4. Sandbox
5. Creating a Sandbox - Help Please
6. Saving one's own files
7. :Category:Uncategorized pages
8. adolf hitler
9. IEEE logo
10. I don't see text
11. Printing Wikipedia articles
12. England Test cricket team colours
13. Can not delete a user page
14. Filariasis
15. Modifying Wikipedia:IPA table
16. Review of entry on Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company
17. Advertisements
18. How to change a file name from Commons
19. Stephen Joseph Christopher (Change Needed To Information Please...)

February 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 February 28

1. Is wiki broke?
2. Signature problem
3. COI
4. disambiguation
5. Would any of the actresses/actors in this reliable local newspaper article pass as notable?
6. Twin cities of U.S. cities
7. I am not finding my name
8. User page rediredcting to article I created and moved.
9. font
10. How to add images
11. How to format a second response in a Talk page thread
12. Prayers for the sick-
13. hello
14. downloading music score
15. Keep getting logged out
16. Uploading picture
17. WP:MOS
18. How can I fix a GFDL historical issue long after the violation?
19. New Account
20. I'm lost...
21. force category to show all its subcategories
22. Homeowner Associations (HOA) Problems and Solutions
23. How do you create an article?