Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2009
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January 1
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- Sockpuppet alegation
- motorbike stunts
- Help with user
- Why was my articles deleted?
- Template guru
- How to add a translation to an existing page
- agri centres tie up with industries
- Search for special characters
- Hi
- Naming question - didn't find guidelines about this
- Using OpenID identity from another site as Wikipedia username?
January 2
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- Security info box
- Copyright
- New features
- Request for feedback
- Partily Protection on pages
- Table sorting problems in Firefox
- How to write algorithms for C functions
- How to put in locations on a map?
- Editing an article that is protected/semi-protected.
- Closing 'Rename Page' Proposal
- Howandy wikipedia game
- Category loops
- Servers getting out of sync
- Duplicate Titles
- Wrong Rated
- Deletion?
- Files uploaded
- helpme
- How do I alphabetize a subject in a list?
January 3
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- Is there an infobox for non-profit organizations?
- Providing citations/ supporting evidence
- Parser #if
- CheckUser
- Wikitable - Infobox interference
- Uploading stereoscopic compound models
- Image template
- CHANGE USER NAME
- library of congress picture
January 4
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- info on Fabiola Gatti doesn't appear
- Finding all articles by a particular editor
- Display settings
- Converting excel spreadsheet to wiki markup
- Agent.AWF
- Blunder at wikimedia
- Template for image links
- Wikipedia : A propaganda of UK Unioinism?
- Copyright violation?
January 5
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- How to add a search term to an already existing article?
- Bahia Honda MO or MOE giant hammerhead shark Florida Keys
- Pages fading
- printing of an article on E.C.T.
- Barack Obama image on United States presidential election, 2008
- Editing a title page
- Dhimmi
- Category Talk
- editing
- editing templates
- Template gone wonky?
- Making a photo visible in an article but unavailable for copying
- Deleted article still not on Deletionpedia
- Everything Channel Posting Deleted
January 6
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- Where to post for help on a dodgy-looking edit
- Check edits, please
- Text scans on Commons
- Table height problems
- Help with a template in development
- Deletion of this article
- Messages
- Delete article
- Image placement guideline
- Anderson
- education
- Legality of Palin email screenshots
- Internet Based
- Viewing Images
- New to Wikipedia editing and would like to add personal photos to expand on my edit topic.
- need address
- FInfo Tool - 403 Forbidden Error
- Help and FAQ's aren't helping me
January 7
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- sorting table
- Creating a sandbox or subpage for new article
- contribution disappeared by still listed under my contributions
- Why is everyone on here Unionist?
- Renaming a wiki entry title
- Fixing mistakes -- I tried to fix a mistake
- port folio management
- References & footnotes
- Move image to Commons?
- links removed
- Help with template
- Who can see my IP
- May a subject be part of more than one Wiki?
- Editing Own Article
- Insertion of factual information: Im still new to WIkipedia
- Image of map
- Subcategories
January 8
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- How to communicate with another wikipedian
- The Grannies page has vanished and i can't find it in the delete log
- Correct edits being reverted by admins
- Bibliography question
- getting the help for engineering
- Help with image tag
- Year Articles Format Problem
- Image filetype reformat
- OMG help me....
- WP:COI
- Photos of Mount Woods Antarctica
- Image
- admission
- A-class review
- Terrible use of general questions or subject criteria.... and use of computer technology...
- Types of blocks
- Becoming a Moderator
- Problem with using a Non-free use media on another page
- New Pages
- putting up an article
- Inappropriate deletion
- How to obtain real help.
- Need rollback
- need information
January 9
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- About images on Wikipedia
- No Article?
- Help with Book Titles
- Log-in
- Can I use an articel on ebay.
- unicru answer key
- Help:Comment tags
- Rename page
- Satyam Computer Services
- Who Posted this...
- Problem with deletion bots
- New to WIKI- how do I add internal reference and links?
- WAL-MART TOP MANAGEMENT
- non-display of italics in Opera for MacOS
- wiki markup problem
- Retail companies list
- Actually writing my article
- minor name in past history versions
January 10
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- ultra sound said i had thick womb lining witch is moving
- Created Articles
- Why Are Edits Not Showing Up On the Page?
- Someone deleted our link
- Citations
- Creations
- Logins Repeatedly Stop Working
- please, tell me
- New Page
- Placing tags in wrong places
- Image Dilemma
- A strange stub template
- Signature
- Paraphrasing terms definitions from published books
January 11
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- Associating user id with talk page id in wiki dumps
- PAGESINCATEGORY question
- Edit no-show
- Delete
- assessing articles
- Children/people who inspire
- Time lag for updates to "What links here"
- Updates not appearing
- MOTD lag
- image weirdness
- Tweaking Special:LinkSearch
January 12
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- pictures
- WP:GA
- Signpost on my Watchlist?
- Company listing has disappeared
- Uploading images without being auto-confirmed
- How do I edit a Category title?
- Discussion pages and policies
- Notice
- random on mediawiki -- how/possible?
- Addition of climate information
- How to write an article in Wikipedia?
- Polish Question
- Edit Count
- Canada Election Map
- StatusBot
- Some problems caused by renamed image
- Use of references inside templates
- Username conflicts
January 13
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- Request for comment and appropiate topic area
- linking articles
- Uploading photo
- KenConklins Page on Hawaiian Epistomology and Native Hawaiian Education
- Check an edit, please
- Quality / Important Scales - How to edit?
- Duplicate article - what to do?
- Tabs and other whitespace
- Removing watermarks from images
- Dan Carey Lacrosse
- The Brand Union
- Placement of footnotes
- Watchlist
- Purple links
- Why
- Editing a page but not showing it
- peculiar character
- Engineering Economics
- Etiquette for article talk pages.
- Trying to upload a team logo
- Changing article titles?
- Changing image licenses
January 14
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- Forgot Log In information
- Adding an internet link
- Notability
- diff used to show "rollback vandal"
- Autocollapsing TOC
- How to Contact the Australian Survey Corps in relation to finding Maps done in 1970/71 Tour of South Vietnam
- How to publish an article so it is seen by the public?
- fund
- Reinstating a title
- Coats of arm
- Cannot upload image
- Moving "lead" thread on talk page below TOC
- Printable Version
- Half the content in the entry is not visible in the product
- Scrollable timeline
- How to create my own page?
- How can one revert a page move?
January 15
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- Accounts
- Signature help
- Video conversion question
- mistake on Larry Elder's profile
- "What links here" time lag
- Deleting my page
- Trying to amend the 'key people' listed on the Airlines PNG page
- Setting cell size in tables
- Sorting Numeric Fields
- "Orphaned" image?
- deleted posting
- Local holidays in Vijayawada
- Barnstar needed for AGF
- multicolumn format
- sortable tables
- Dealing with Vandalism
- Stacking Edits
- Hobartimus is some dictator .. or what?
- Citing a court case
- italy
- Template help
January 16
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- Fair Use or my licence?
- Confirming famous wiki editors
- sorry, but...
- Poor image source
- Long pages
- Article Title is wrong
- Adding a Photo
- Images Beside a Table
- Undo vs Revert
- What did I screw up?
- Starting a new Topic
- Could someone here explain any foreign Wikipedia GA process?
- Past Weather
- Wrong link
- Changing the page name/headline of an article
- Site-wide blanking
January 17
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- Confusion and A Question....
- Biographys
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 17#<.2Fbr><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki></br>]]
- Image in dire need of modification
- Made vector graphic out of raster - how to say it's from that raster?
- Greek surname: Chondroyannos
- Deleting New Topic that is Valid
- Translation
- Fair Use
- Missing references
- the promble of creating a new account
- Editing page for school I work for
- Deletion without entry in Revision History
- Instructions
January 18
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- User pages
- posting pictures or diagrams
- Vandalism tools
- Non-English Sources
- my biography
- Can't login to new account after username change.
- Page source characters inverted right-to-left
- Infobox image
- Feedback on editing
- alpha within cats
- I would like to vanish and would like my user page deleted
- copyright laws
- backlinks
January 19
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- Putting an article in the mainspace
- IRC is just like wikipedia: Jibberish to the casual eye
- AUTHOR OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DE TOLOSA ARTICLE
- Merging two (or three) articles
- soceity
- Having one user account across Wikipedia.
- Help me
- Can't log in
- U K Culture
- HELP
- Why did the Wiki for the RSS Reader FeedGhost get deleted?
- badminton
- does Wikipedia has any feature which enables internal discussion forum
- Redirects
- How to code a telnet link (telnet://1.1.1.1) on a wiki page
- BALLARAT RED DEVILS
- Table coding on Juliette Lewis
- 3RR Question
- Why not create a new part of Wikipedia where users could combine words to make new ones?
- Fireside Bowl
- Possibly redundant categories
- I need to know who the last one to edit a page was
- Undo of vandalism: one step instead of two, how?
January 20
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- help with Listusers
- Italicize shows and club nights?
- Searching the deletion logs
- how can I get the lyrics of songs using the wikipedia?
- [edit] buttons disappeared on Wikipedia talk:Help desk
- jetting a motorcycle
- Problem with coordinates
- About db-author
- Using quotations in reference templates
- Dutch Antilles Express (Airline)
- Where is Monobook?!
- Cruft on user page
- US Army Iraq
- please, i need help with creating a page.
- Issue uploading PNGs
- Article Vandalism
- tag tab
January 21
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- How do I change a snippet?
- About accounts
- Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
- Help on deleted article
- Which CSD applies to...
- How to get KHATHA for a Registered site
- Some pages extremely slow if logged in, fast if not
- Photo Submission
- Inputbox search problem
- Columns
- general question
- CSS question
- Printout text is black only - how to print the "tags" in blue?
- Contents disappeared
- prankster information on Wikipedia listings for "hydrail" and "hydrolley"
- Pretty Taxonomic/Single-access Key
- Request to be Removed from Blacklist
- Magnetic Survey(Geology)
- The Quick Index is vandalized!
- How do I add an article?????????
- How replace IP Address with username in an edited article?
- Flagged Revisions
- Small But Meaningfull
- How do I change the picture for Joel McHale?
January 22
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- Dumb question from an experienced user
- How do i create a page?
- physics-GRAVITATION
- New heading
- Essay
- Copyright
- Stub search engine
- Fact keeps being changed to fiction. Now unable to edit page. What's up?
- questions form a new user!
- Changing a page title
- Dawn and sunset times in Cuba
- nigeria news
- In the news user box
- Plants and flowers question
- Watch Talk Pages
- Renamed accounts' contribs
- Messages
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Group
- Is this site reliable?
- Searching deletion debates?
- Job queue
- Unable to Edit Taylor Swift
- Watching Contributions
- Created pages
- Los Angeles County California Schools
- Wikipedia font is very difficult to read
- Important question
- How can I suggest a new article- I'm not very good at writing myself
- Category merge
- stubs
- Watchlist too big
- purging?
- Nav box
- Watch list Question
January 23
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- Article Help
- link to my image in Wikimedia
- can I take sibutramine with cinarizine
- Contributing to Wiktionary
- Adding a person to a dismbiguation page
- Finding a reference
- Location of Pancake Restaurant in Music Within
- stub
- Uploading images from en-wiki to the Simple English
- 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...
- Topicon-notice issues
- i cant start a new account
- Embedd Visio
- add my company profile to wikipedia
- Questionable picture
- Women Graphic Designers: A Suggested list
- Adding last name to entry of film director Nahid Persson (now Nahid Persson Sarvestani)
- How to fix a crazy redirect
- Twinkle gone in Safari
- How to move Vegeta to Vegeta (Dragon Ball)?
- Legal threat over article language
- Wikipedia Blackberry Phonetop Icon: How to use, find, locate, suggest, etc . . .
- Creating an article
- Recent changes special page
- Wassup wit dat?
January 24
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- References
- Refer to ships as it or she?
- Convert template not closing
- How do you search for keywords located in articles?
- get a substring in a template
- Hello
- Red link appears even though there is definately a page.
- Elements song
- Question about adding a new article regarding notability and referencing
- How to display Ming typeface cross-platform
- Adding an External LInk
- Template help
- Pages created
- Rename of articles
- Disambiguation
- Default English IPA
- Fair Use of Commercial DVD Screen Captures
- Reference or template problem on The Bahamas
- Rolf Steiner
- ecce homo
- Vandalism on Eclipse (novel)
- Strange virus alert trigger when viewing an article
- meta description tags
- How do I post a video?
January 25
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- adventure game
- Date relative linking
- How do I rename a page and redirect a page.
- Why can't I find a page in AllPages?
- (Invalid) new messages alerts?
- Solved: Correct use of double curly brackets/ aka braces : templates (and variable delimiters)
- Searching
- Far East people name order policy
- Just diffs, not current version
- Mariana Bridi
- Request for Netural Party
- Names
- Details of WP:OR
- style question
- Wikipedia page on "Samar Chatterjee"
- EDITING ("Fascism/Etymology of the word "fasces"") & TALK PAGES
January 26
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- Same template
- Style Guidelines?
- Image linked to page?
- User subpage name showing on Category page
- Are financial donations the only way to express gratitude for articles?
- Airport code history
- Clean up references
- edit war
- adding a new language
- resolving disputes
- IP address impersonation
- Newpages offset
- Location map in infobox
- M-Tech(Master of Technology) Construction Managment
- Starting over again
- Arrangement of images beneath headings
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 26#<p align="justify"><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki><p align="justify">]]
- Non-free use rationale Questions
- Creating a page name for an event with advertising in its name
- Policy Page
- Creating a new article with a title which already exsists
- Can you center a caption?
- Redistrubuting information from Wikipedia?
- Height
January 27
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- Adding medal box to athletic profile
- Wikitionary Quick Links
- I create a page and save it but when I come back it is not there?
- adding stub template
- How to delete my account?
- can i create an article?
- Vandalism or update?
- My user page display problem
- ParserFunctions on a mythical date
- Incorrect photo?
- Changing "Edit Summary"
- Aim for the Heart
- Personal Attack - Copy Profile Definition
- Factual Error in "1967 Atlantic Hurricane Season" page
- Duplicate account
- AFD log
- How to create Topic Summary Table at the top
- How do you get started?
- How do i remove a picture that I uploaded onto wiki?
- AUDIO
January 28
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- Help with disambiguation "Anne Harris"
- knowing how to present papers (Scientific research) in international journals of my research work?
- Template:Catholicism
- Template:NCAATeamSeason image size
- ZEEGRA TECHNOLOGIES information found deleted . Why?
- Explain the relationship between business and information systems
- Cornerstone
- Coordinate error in Google Earth
- Disambiguation 2
- Who checks the presidential candidates for verification?
- How do I add new pages?
- Birth dates
- New user creating another new user account?
- #expr
- question on categorising
- Twinkle
- problem on webpage
- drugs for hypomania
- How do I insert our Link
- Move article from user page to live Wikipedia
- picture placement
- Images
- why have you removed my edit?!
- I would like to rename an article I just started
- baby massage to aid bonding
- Duplicate or Similar Article
- Changing Existing Titles of Articles
- Ref tag error
January 29
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- print to pdf
- why is there nigger article
- general notability guideline
- Font Size
- new account
- Reference name / citing reference twice
- Persecution of IPs
- How to make an article more notable?
- Identity on contributions
- Seeing my deleted edits
- :Category:American electric guitarists
- It is not possible to rename the page
- New categories
- How do I change the coordinates of a location?
- Barack Obama Editing
- Multiple watch lists
- alumni lists
- Link for "jump to top of page"
- Images in list articles
- Guidance required.
- I know that this isnt exactly the place to talk about this but I think it is ergent
- Question about what it takes to get banned
- Where do I appeal a deletion if an administrator is abusing his positotion?
- Complementary contributions
January 30
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- Putting an article on Wikipedia
- Where do I enter text?
- Portal talk:Formula One
- Can't seem to add image, odd things happen
- Correcting error in a Help page copied from Meta
- An idea about Computer Game Articles.
- Publishing a submitted article to the World Wide Web
- Infobox shopping mall
- Moulsford - Award Winning Restuarant Link - Spammer
- Expanding existing article
- Translating for wikipedia
- Debt Schemes
- Gender
- unknown file type
- New edited information not appearing on article page.
- Subnetting and IP Address Classes
- Copyright??
- data warehousing
- publishing an article
- Tables
- creating a page
- I know this is the wrong place.
- Adding a timestamp
- History of searches
- Changing Case on Article Title
January 31
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- Can you search for...
- Userbox selection
- Picture problems
- Making a good passage with EFS for English study station
- Code for Infobox Ship
- ann coulter
- Composing articles in the correct font.
- Sentence placement
- Flabby categorization
- functions
- PAGE RELATING TO AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
- Display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header
- No of transclusions
- sterile reverts
- Link not showing
- Is there an inter-disciplinarian list of titles, and if so , then also hypothetical combinations of such?
- Barack Obama page 1 million views?
- freezing food
- cant get past first 20 listed of a search.
- Can't remove spam on a page
- Can't login, lost password, no email received
- help on my article.
- Section not in TOC
- terencce macswiney
- most goals scored by a player in a single fa cup match.
- how to use wikipedia on a cell phone