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January 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 1

  1. Sockpuppet alegation
  2. motorbike stunts
  3. Help with user
  4. Why was my articles deleted?
  5. Template guru
  6. How to add a translation to an existing page
  7. agri centres tie up with industries
  8. Search for special characters
  9. Hi
  10. Naming question - didn't find guidelines about this
  11. Using OpenID identity from another site as Wikipedia username?

January 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 2

  1. Security info box
  2. Copyright
  3. New features
  4. Request for feedback
  5. Partily Protection on pages
  6. Table sorting problems in Firefox
  7. How to write algorithms for C functions
  8. How to put in locations on a map?
  9. Editing an article that is protected/semi-protected.
  10. Closing 'Rename Page' Proposal
  11. Howandy wikipedia game‎
  12. Category loops
  13. Servers getting out of sync
  14. Duplicate Titles
  15. Wrong Rated
  16. Deletion?
  17. Files uploaded
  18. helpme
  19. How do I alphabetize a subject in a list?

January 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 3

  1. Is there an infobox for non-profit organizations?
  2. Providing citations/ supporting evidence
  3. Parser #if
  4. CheckUser
  5. Wikitable - Infobox interference
  6. Uploading stereoscopic compound models
  7. Image template
  8. CHANGE USER NAME
  9. library of congress picture

January 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 4

  1. info on Fabiola Gatti doesn't appear
  2. Finding all articles by a particular editor
  3. Display settings
  4. Converting excel spreadsheet to wiki markup
  5. Agent.AWF
  6. Blunder at wikimedia
  7. Template for image links
  8. Wikipedia : A propaganda of UK Unioinism?
  9. Copyright violation?

January 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 5

  1. How to add a search term to an already existing article?
  2. Bahia Honda MO or MOE giant hammerhead shark Florida Keys
  3. Pages fading
  4. printing of an article on E.C.T.
  5. Barack Obama image on United States presidential election, 2008
  6. Editing a title page
  7. Dhimmi
  8. Category Talk
  9. editing
  10. editing templates
  11. Template gone wonky?
  12. Making a photo visible in an article but unavailable for copying
  13. Deleted article still not on Deletionpedia
  14. Everything Channel Posting Deleted

January 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 6

  1. Where to post for help on a dodgy-looking edit
  2. Check edits, please
  3. Text scans on Commons
  4. Table height problems
  5. Help with a template in development
  6. Deletion of this article
  7. Messages
  8. Delete article
  9. Image placement guideline
  10. Anderson
  11. education
  12. Legality of Palin email screenshots
  13. Internet Based
  14. Viewing Images
  15. New to Wikipedia editing and would like to add personal photos to expand on my edit topic.
  16. need address
  17. FInfo Tool - 403 Forbidden Error
  18. Help and FAQ's aren't helping me

January 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 7

  1. sorting table
  2. Creating a sandbox or subpage for new article
  3. contribution disappeared by still listed under my contributions
  4. Why is everyone on here Unionist?
  5. Renaming a wiki entry title
  6. Fixing mistakes -- I tried to fix a mistake
  7. port folio management
  8. References & footnotes
  9. Move image to Commons?
  10. links removed
  11. Help with template
  12. Who can see my IP
  13. May a subject be part of more than one Wiki?
  14. Editing Own Article
  15. Insertion of factual information: Im still new to WIkipedia
  16. Image of map
  17. Subcategories

January 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 8

  1. How to communicate with another wikipedian
  2. The Grannies page has vanished and i can't find it in the delete log
  3. Correct edits being reverted by admins
  4. Bibliography question
  5. getting the help for engineering
  6. Help with image tag
  7. Year Articles Format Problem
  8. Image filetype reformat
  9. OMG help me....
  10. WP:COI
  11. Photos of Mount Woods Antarctica
  12. Image
  13. admission
  14. A-class review
  15. Terrible use of general questions or subject criteria.... and use of computer technology...
  16. Types of blocks
  17. Becoming a Moderator
  18. Problem with using a Non-free use media on another page
  19. New Pages
  20. putting up an article
  21. Inappropriate deletion
  22. How to obtain real help.
  23. Need rollback
  24. need information

January 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 9

  1. About images on Wikipedia
  2. No Article?
  3. Help with Book Titles
  4. Log-in
  5. Can I use an articel on ebay.
  6. unicru answer key
  7. Help:Comment tags
  8. Rename page
  9. Satyam Computer Services
  10. Who Posted this...
  11. Problem with deletion bots
  12. New to WIKI- how do I add internal reference and links?
  13. WAL-MART TOP MANAGEMENT
  14. non-display of italics in Opera for MacOS
  15. wiki markup problem
  16. Retail companies list
  17. Actually writing my article
  18. minor name in past history versions

January 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 10

  1. ultra sound said i had thick womb lining witch is moving
  2. Created Articles
  3. Why Are Edits Not Showing Up On the Page?
  4. Someone deleted our link
  5. Citations
  6. Creations
  7. Logins Repeatedly Stop Working
  8. please, tell me
  9. New Page
  10. Placing tags in wrong places
  11. Image Dilemma
  12. A strange stub template
  13. Signature
  14. Paraphrasing terms definitions from published books

January 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 11

  1. Associating user id with talk page id in wiki dumps
  2. PAGESINCATEGORY question
  3. Edit no-show
  4. Delete
  5. assessing articles
  6. Google
  7. Children/people who inspire
  8. Time lag for updates to "What links here"
  9. Updates not appearing
  10. MOTD lag
  11. image weirdness
  12. Tweaking Special:LinkSearch

January 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 12

  1. pictures
  2. WP:GA
  3. Signpost on my Watchlist?
  4. Company listing has disappeared
  5. Uploading images without being auto-confirmed
  6. How do I edit a Category title?
  7. Discussion pages and policies
  8. Notice
  9. random on mediawiki -- how/possible?
  10. Addition of climate information
  11. How to write an article in Wikipedia?
  12. Polish Question
  13. Edit Count
  14. Canada Election Map
  15. StatusBot
  16. Some problems caused by renamed image
  17. Use of references inside templates
  18. Username conflicts

January 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 13

  1. Request for comment and appropiate topic area
  2. linking articles
  3. Uploading photo
  4. KenConklins Page on Hawaiian Epistomology and Native Hawaiian Education
  5. Check an edit, please
  6. Quality / Important Scales - How to edit?
  7. Duplicate article - what to do?
  8. Tabs and other whitespace
  9. Removing watermarks from images
  10. Dan Carey Lacrosse
  11. The Brand Union
  12. Placement of footnotes
  13. Watchlist
  14. Purple links
  15. Why
  16. Editing a page but not showing it
  17. peculiar character
  18. Engineering Economics
  19. Etiquette for article talk pages.
  20. Trying to upload a team logo
  21. Changing article titles?
  22. Changing image licenses

January 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 14

  1. Forgot Log In information
  2. Adding an internet link
  3. Notability
  4. diff used to show "rollback vandal"
  5. Autocollapsing TOC
  6. How to Contact the Australian Survey Corps in relation to finding Maps done in 1970/71 Tour of South Vietnam
  7. How to publish an article so it is seen by the public?
  8. fund
  9. Reinstating a title
  10. Coats of arm
  11. Cannot upload image
  12. Moving "lead" thread on talk page below TOC
  13. Printable Version
  14. Half the content in the entry is not visible in the product
  15. Scrollable timeline
  16. How to create my own page?
  17. How can one revert a page move?

January 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 15

  1. Accounts
  2. Signature help
  3. Video conversion question
  4. mistake on Larry Elder's profile
  5. "What links here" time lag
  6. Deleting my page
  7. Trying to amend the 'key people' listed on the Airlines PNG page
  8. Setting cell size in tables
  9. Sorting Numeric Fields
  10. "Orphaned" image?
  11. deleted posting
  12. Local holidays in Vijayawada
  13. Barnstar needed for AGF
  14. multicolumn format
  15. sortable tables
  16. Dealing with Vandalism
  17. Stacking Edits
  18. Hobartimus is some dictator .. or what?
  19. Citing a court case
  20. italy
  21. Template help

January 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 16

  1. Fair Use or my licence?
  2. Confirming famous wiki editors
  3. sorry, but...
  4. Poor image source
  5. Long pages
  6. Article Title is wrong
  7. Adding a Photo
  8. Images Beside a Table
  9. Undo vs Revert
  10. What did I screw up?
  11. Starting a new Topic
  12. Could someone here explain any foreign Wikipedia GA process?
  13. Past Weather
  14. Wrong link
  15. Changing the page name/headline of an article
  16. Site-wide blanking

January 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 17

  1. Confusion and A Question....
  2. Biographys
  3. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 17#<.2Fbr><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki></br>]]
  4. Image in dire need of modification
  5. Made vector graphic out of raster - how to say it's from that raster?
  6. Greek surname: Chondroyannos
  7. Deleting New Topic that is Valid
  8. Translation
  9. Fair Use
  10. Missing references
  11. the promble of creating a new account
  12. Editing page for school I work for
  13. Deletion without entry in Revision History
  14. Instructions

January 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 18

  1. User pages
  2. posting pictures or diagrams
  3. Vandalism tools
  4. Non-English Sources
  5. my biography
  6. Can't login to new account after username change.
  7. Page source characters inverted right-to-left
  8. Infobox image
  9. Feedback on editing
  10. alpha within cats
  11. I would like to vanish and would like my user page deleted
  12. copyright laws
  13. backlinks

January 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 19

  1. Putting an article in the mainspace
  2. IRC is just like wikipedia: Jibberish to the casual eye
  3. AUTHOR OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DE TOLOSA ARTICLE
  4. Merging two (or three) articles
  5. soceity
  6. Having one user account across Wikipedia.
  7. Help me
  8. Can't log in
  9. U K Culture
  10. HELP
  11. Why did the Wiki for the RSS Reader FeedGhost get deleted?
  12. badminton
  13. does Wikipedia has any feature which enables internal discussion forum
  14. Redirects
  15. How to code a telnet link (telnet://1.1.1.1) on a wiki page
  16. BALLARAT RED DEVILS
  17. Table coding on Juliette Lewis
  18. 3RR Question
  19. Why not create a new part of Wikipedia where users could combine words to make new ones?
  20. Fireside Bowl
  21. Possibly redundant categories
  22. I need to know who the last one to edit a page was
  23. Undo of vandalism: one step instead of two, how?

January 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 20

  1. help with Listusers
  2. Italicize shows and club nights?
  3. Searching the deletion logs
  4. how can I get the lyrics of songs using the wikipedia?
  5. [edit] buttons disappeared on Wikipedia talk:Help desk
  6. jetting a motorcycle
  7. Problem with coordinates
  8. About db-author
  9. Using quotations in reference templates
  10. Dutch Antilles Express (Airline)
  11. Where is Monobook?!
  12. Cruft on user page
  13. US Army Iraq
  14. please, i need help with creating a page.
  15. Issue uploading PNGs
  16. Article Vandalism
  17. tag tab

January 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 21

  1. How do I change a snippet?
  2. About accounts
  3. Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
  4. Help on deleted article
  5. Which CSD applies to...
  6. How to get KHATHA for a Registered site
  7. Some pages extremely slow if logged in, fast if not
  8. Photo Submission
  9. Inputbox search problem
  10. Columns
  11. general question
  12. CSS question
  13. Printout text is black only - how to print the "tags" in blue?
  14. Contents disappeared
  15. prankster information on Wikipedia listings for "hydrail" and "hydrolley"
  16. Pretty Taxonomic/Single-access Key
  17. Request to be Removed from Blacklist
  18. Magnetic Survey(Geology)
  19. The Quick Index is vandalized!
  20. How do I add an article?????????
  21. How replace IP Address with username in an edited article?
  22. Flagged Revisions
  23. Small But Meaningfull
  24. How do I change the picture for Joel McHale?

January 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 22

  1. Dumb question from an experienced user
  2. How do i create a page?
  3. physics-GRAVITATION
  4. New heading
  5. Essay
  6. Copyright
  7. Stub search engine
  8. Fact keeps being changed to fiction. Now unable to edit page. What's up?
  9. questions form a new user!
  10. Changing a page title
  11. Dawn and sunset times in Cuba
  12. nigeria news
  13. In the news user box
  14. Plants and flowers question
  15. Watch Talk Pages
  16. Renamed accounts' contribs
  17. Messages
  18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Group
  19. Is this site reliable?
  20. Searching deletion debates?
  21. Job queue
  22. Unable to Edit Taylor Swift
  23. Watching Contributions
  24. Created pages
  25. Los Angeles County California Schools
  26. Wikipedia font is very difficult to read
  27. Important question
  28. How can I suggest a new article- I'm not very good at writing myself
  29. Category merge
  30. stubs
  31. Watchlist too big
  32. purging?
  33. Nav box
  34. Watch list Question

January 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 23

  1. Article Help
  2. link to my image in Wikimedia
  3. can I take sibutramine with cinarizine
  4. Contributing to Wiktionary
  5. Adding a person to a dismbiguation page
  6. Finding a reference
  7. Location of Pancake Restaurant in Music Within
  8. stub
  9. Uploading images from en-wiki to the Simple English
  10. When I click an internal link to a new wikipedia page, I want it to open in a new tab; not change the page I'm currently looking at...
  11. Topicon-notice issues
  12. i cant start a new account
  13. Embedd Visio
  14. add my company profile to wikipedia
  15. Questionable picture
  16. Women Graphic Designers: A Suggested list
  17. Adding last name to entry of film director Nahid Persson (now Nahid Persson Sarvestani)
  18. How to fix a crazy redirect
  19. Twinkle gone in Safari
  20. How to move Vegeta to Vegeta (Dragon Ball)?
  21. Legal threat over article language
  22. Wikipedia Blackberry Phonetop Icon: How to use, find, locate, suggest, etc . . .
  23. Creating an article
  24. Recent changes special page
  25. Wassup wit dat?

January 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 24

  1. References
  2. Refer to ships as it or she?
  3. Convert template not closing
  4. How do you search for keywords located in articles?
  5. get a substring in a template
  6. Hello
  7. Red link appears even though there is definately a page.
  8. Elements song
  9. Question about adding a new article regarding notability and referencing
  10. How to display Ming typeface cross-platform
  11. Adding an External LInk
  12. Template help
  13. Pages created
  14. Rename of articles
  15. Disambiguation
  16. Default English IPA
  17. Fair Use of Commercial DVD Screen Captures
  18. Reference or template problem on The Bahamas
  19. Rolf Steiner
  20. ecce homo
  21. Vandalism on Eclipse (novel)
  22. Strange virus alert trigger when viewing an article
  23. meta description tags
  24. How do I post a video?

January 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 25

  1. adventure game
  2. Date relative linking
  3. How do I rename a page and redirect a page.
  4. Why can't I find a page in AllPages?
  5. (Invalid) new messages alerts?
  6. Solved: Correct use of double curly brackets/ aka braces : templates (and variable delimiters)
  7. Searching
  8. Far East people name order policy
  9. Just diffs, not current version
  10. Mariana Bridi
  11. Request for Netural Party
  12. Names
  13. Details of WP:OR
  14. style question
  15. Wikipedia page on "Samar Chatterjee"
  16. EDITING ("Fascism/Etymology of the word "fasces"") & TALK PAGES

January 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 26

  1. Same template
  2. Style Guidelines?
  3. Image linked to page?
  4. User subpage name showing on Category page
  5. Are financial donations the only way to express gratitude for articles?
  6. Airport code history
  7. Clean up references
  8. edit war
  9. adding a new language
  10. resolving disputes
  11. IP address impersonation
  12. Newpages offset
  13. Location map in infobox
  14. M-Tech(Master of Technology) Construction Managment
  15. Starting over again
  16. Arrangement of images beneath headings
  17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 26#<p align="justify"><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki><p align="justify">]]
  18. Non-free use rationale Questions
  19. Creating a page name for an event with advertising in its name
  20. Policy Page
  21. Creating a new article with a title which already exsists
  22. Can you center a caption?
  23. Redistrubuting information from Wikipedia?
  24. Height

January 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 27

  1. Adding medal box to athletic profile
  2. Wikitionary Quick Links
  3. I create a page and save it but when I come back it is not there?
  4. adding stub template
  5. How to delete my account?
  6. can i create an article?
  7. Vandalism or update?
  8. My user page display problem
  9. ParserFunctions on a mythical date
  10. Incorrect photo?
  11. Changing "Edit Summary"
  12. Aim for the Heart
  13. Personal Attack - Copy Profile Definition
  14. Factual Error in "1967 Atlantic Hurricane Season" page
  15. Duplicate account
  16. AFD log
  17. How to create Topic Summary Table at the top
  18. How do you get started?
  19. How do i remove a picture that I uploaded onto wiki?
  20. AUDIO

January 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 28

  1. Help with disambiguation "Anne Harris"
  2. knowing how to present papers (Scientific research) in international journals of my research work?
  3. Template:Catholicism
  4. Template:NCAATeamSeason image size
  5. ZEEGRA TECHNOLOGIES information found deleted . Why?
  6. Explain the relationship between business and information systems
  7. Cornerstone
  8. Coordinate error in Google Earth
  9. Disambiguation 2
  10. Who checks the presidential candidates for verification?
  11. How do I add new pages?
  12. Birth dates
  13. New user creating another new user account?
  14. #expr
  15. question on categorising
  16. Twinkle
  17. problem on webpage
  18. drugs for hypomania
  19. How do I insert our Link
  20. Move article from user page to live Wikipedia
  21. picture placement
  22. Images
  23. why have you removed my edit?!
  24. I would like to rename an article I just started
  25. baby massage to aid bonding
  26. Duplicate or Similar Article
  27. Changing Existing Titles of Articles
  28. Ref tag error

January 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 29

  1. print to pdf
  2. why is there nigger article
  3. general notability guideline
  4. Font Size
  5. new account
  6. Reference name / citing reference twice
  7. Persecution of IPs
  8. How to make an article more notable?
  9. Identity on contributions
  10. Seeing my deleted edits
  11. :Category:American electric guitarists
  12. It is not possible to rename the page
  13. New categories
  14. How do I change the coordinates of a location?
  15. Barack Obama Editing
  16. Multiple watch lists
  17. alumni lists
  18. Link for "jump to top of page"
  19. Images in list articles
  20. Guidance required.
  21. I know that this isnt exactly the place to talk about this but I think it is ergent
  22. Question about what it takes to get banned
  23. Where do I appeal a deletion if an administrator is abusing his positotion?
  24. Complementary contributions

January 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 30

  1. Putting an article on Wikipedia
  2. Where do I enter text?
  3. Portal talk:Formula One
  4. Can't seem to add image, odd things happen
  5. email
  6. Correcting error in a Help page copied from Meta
  7. An idea about Computer Game Articles.
  8. Publishing a submitted article to the World Wide Web
  9. Infobox shopping mall
  10. Moulsford - Award Winning Restuarant Link - Spammer
  11. Expanding existing article
  12. Translating for wikipedia
  13. Debt Schemes
  14. Gender
  15. unknown file type
  16. New edited information not appearing on article page.
  17. Subnetting and IP Address Classes
  18. Copyright??
  19. data warehousing
  20. publishing an article
  21. Tables
  22. creating a page
  23. I know this is the wrong place.
  24. Adding a timestamp
  25. History of searches
  26. Changing Case on Article Title

January 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 31

  1. Can you search for...
  2. Userbox selection
  3. Picture problems
  4. Making a good passage with EFS for English study station
  5. Code for Infobox Ship
  6. ann coulter
  7. Composing articles in the correct font.
  8. Sentence placement
  9. Flabby categorization
  10. functions
  11. PAGE RELATING TO AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
  12. Display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header
  13. No of transclusions
  14. sterile reverts
  15. Link not showing
  16. Is there an inter-disciplinarian list of titles, and if so , then also hypothetical combinations of such?
  17. Barack Obama page 1 million views?
  18. freezing food
  19. cant get past first 20 listed of a search.
  20. Can't remove spam on a page
  21. Can't login, lost password, no email received
  22. help on my article.
  23. Section not in TOC
  24. terencce macswiney
  25. most goals scored by a player in a single fa cup match.
  26. how to use wikipedia on a cell phone