Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/July 2008
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July 1
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- Blacklist
- Ferus Gallery
- Kumiko Higa
- Check a diff, please?
- how to pronounce
- WikiProject Hip hop
- post or entry
- Script for preventing access to my contributions page
- Article Coretta Scott King
- Gerontology
- Save articles to account...
- Plagiarism?
- Copying your information for another website.
- Notability Noticeboard
- Help with links
- Adding photos to my article
- Page View Counter
- What happened to the May 5 archives?
- Nowiki Problem
July 2
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- Revision Numbers
- building a fence
- unknown painting #2
- Special page for protecting
- Deletion
- User status
- Requested Page
- Brit vs. American spelling?
- Talk page
- Problems connecting to Wikipedia via Internet Explorer
- word-wrap
- Portal problem....
- medicine
- sub headings...
- editing help
- Urine therapy??? - RSVP ASAP
- "Spam blacklist"
- changing out of the disambiguation classification
- Adding a picture
July 3
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- Images scrolling incorrectly
- the word, there
- User committed identity
- Industry bias!
- Suspected Socks
- References
- Advertising Business
- Anon IP contributions
- blocked petition
- How do I take a case to Arbitration
- Positioning and help with the Div and Span
- Locking an article
- Photo captions
July 4
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- WP:AIV report
- Foreign links
- My Problem
- Photo captions again
- Japanese
- User discussion page won't archive
- Low importance articles
- Connection
- Link to User page
- Special templates
- Institute of Sport and Recreation Management
- Forbidden
- Delete my account.
- A question on sourcing
- Forward slash in article title
- looking for a name
- Uploading Copyrighted Pictures With No Known Website Available
- Editing a Featured Article
- Dispute Resolution
July 5
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- Skip to the top/bottom
- Help with Action Buttons
- How to make page come up on google search
- Signature
- Speedy Deletion Tags
- trouble adding an image to an article
- User Pages
- Hidden text question
- diploma colleges in mumbai
- CSS code to change monobook background
- why we cannot copy an audio cd to a hard disk?61.2.193.231 (talk) 18:43, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
- About my IP
- Detailed Template Question
- Oddball Image question
- Closing proposed policies
- Total nubcakealamode question
July 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 6
- Moving the toolbox
- Barnstars, awards
- Need to "market" my template
- G.Shankar- Creating beauty out of mud in the shape of buildings.
- How do I create pages that only i can view?
- Help, someone is removing my material
- Abbey Building Society
- How?
- Menu bars
- Signature
- Creating a new article, but another article has the same title.
- DELETE
- Javascript collection
- Span and Div
- Alignment
- Formatting question
- Wikipedia a host for fan fiction?
- How to determine who "this user" is
- How do I report admin abuse?
- User Page Errors
- Menus
July 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 7
- Signature
- Blocked images
- Offline Editing of Wikipedia article
- Wikipedia article using another Wikipedia article as a source
- Um, what?
- Vandalism - I've run out of time
- Still having trouble creating categories
- Using Wikipedia Content to Teach Marketing Courses in English
- User Profile
- What's going on with this article please?
- Locking Down Sites
- Globe thing
- LINKING
- histories
- Need to contact administrator.
- Geography
- Link colors
- Parser Function
- Need help spelling
- editting headline
- editting headlines
- Special:PrefixIndex
- Deleting a sandbox
- Search Query Direction
- New Parser Function
- Edit a semiprotect article
July 8
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- !vote?
- Missing Something... Ashamed
- Categorization
- how can i upload my company's profile in wikipedia
- AFD creation failed
- Creating halftone (gray) text
- Collapsible
- recent changes
- Listing pages created by a specific user
- Underage?
- Archived talk page in main space
- Please Tersen Search Results pre-amble.
- Creating a port page.
July 9
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- weird click errors
- Internet Archive
- Inserting footnote?
- Accessing deleted content
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 9#[redacted]|[redacted]]]
- Question
- Using index.php
- Monitor width template
- Is wikipedia gonna be around for a while?
- Twinkle
- How to centre a gallery
- Watchlisting categories?
- Formatting question
- Incorrect web address for link in article on Harlem, Georgia
- Removing a Flag
- How would you?
- offering help to edit the "Adstream" profile
- Vandalism on Gregory Peck?
- Starting my own wiki
- Default sort
July 10
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- Liverpool Gay Quarter and Stanley Street, Liverpool articles
- Problem signing talk pages
- List of articles needing copyedits?
- long missing friend
- Gameplay
- is there a search feature for village pump discussions?
- What's that image?
- Spaces vanishing after links
- How to create a wiki profile
- Article deletion
- user name
- Calculating Seconds to YDHMS
- Template:Ft to m is out of order
- Able to access deleted page through google Search
- Summary deletion of template
- Multiple AFDs
- Searching for a special template
- changing main headline
- what is the max amount of times you can change your username?
- Death certificate
- Stanley Street, Liverpool
- Mos SoS
- IS IT OK?
- I can't log in - I'm a first time user
- Adding categories to images located on commons
July 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 11
- Mac Wiki Software
- Page location
- Um Style...
- Is there a way to omit a particular bot's edits from your watchlist?
- Am I qualified for Autoconfirmed status?
- Primary Historical Documents and offline, published sources
- Picture Vandalism?
- catwatch.js
- Other statistics
- Docking Stations
- Template
- Need help with wikilink problems
- Question about article title formatting
- Image problem
- Adding Flash Mp3 Player to Wiki
- Article request
- Title capitalisation: move help needed
- Another archive issue
- Wikiproject for watching featured content
- Linking Images
- The factual quality of Wikipedia
- gadges
- Tallest Lighted Living Christmas Tree
- Article on Lebanon elections
- How to create an alternative definition?
July 12
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- Rock of Love 2 - edit information
- Prime Factorization
- Possible Link Spam?
- Liverpool and Manchester articles
- Slow to update
- Download Wikipedia
- WP traffic patterns
- Changing an article's name
- Museum
- How to find a line number?
- Article rating
- How can I in an article make the Table of Content appear?
- How to create pages?
- Liverpool gay quarter
- Equation numbers
July 13
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- Wikipedia On Desktop
- opening fixed deposit account
- Ensuring that my username doesn't come up in google
- Create a new Subcategory
- Problems with Password and Email address
- How can I auto reference wiki articles from outside wiki?
- Using Wikipedia on a mobile phone
- signatures
- Atlas
- How should sourcing be done in templates?
- Odd characters
- Delete search history
- help fix references
- old news papers
- Invalid confirmation code. The code may have expired.
- Account creator
July 14
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- deleted image
- Utah State Cleanup
- job interview
- Help asked to post RfA
- Where is a page...
- Other languages added to Wikipedia
- Slow link to Wikipedia and unavailability of images
- Edits to a specific page
- Page looks different, when logged in or logged out
- T:ITN
- Adding button (next previous)
- When will article appear?
- I Can't Find the Right Template
- Renaming an image
- Help with delicate issue
- Copying a page
- Subpages
- create an account
- Was my account removed?
July 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 15
- Pedantry
- Prawn
- Two questions about Richard Krawiec article:
- Sockpuppet question
- Bingham Canyon Mine
- accidentely deleted some words in crc based framing article.....................what should i do.............?i have no login id........
- I forgot my password, and I do not receive an email from wiki concerning my password
- Looking for a third party
- i am sister nancy and i see that my article was deleted or remove
- Moving to an already existent page
- PICUM title
- google images
- Changing PNG to SVG in an article
- Email Trouble
- Marchand de Bien
- HELP!!!! Images not displaying.
- Lupin's tool
July 16
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- Java classes
- Using episode list template
- Navigation templates
- credir
- Is it wise for me to make an account?
- Uploading a organizations logo image
- Vascath used in medicine explain
- Customising a signature
- How do i make a page?
- templates
- equipment lists
July 17
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- "Last Updated"
- Watermarked image
- I cannot access my account
- A mother in need!
- EFSA
- Restoration of Article
- Sea Cucumbers
- Do you know Dokdo??
- Wiki markup
- Reference:Excel
- Text NOT wrapping
- Account creator rights
- One last question...
- I Cannot See Any Photos on Wikipedia Pages
- Forgott Password
- USER page in google search results
- PLEASE delete my account
- StarMedia
- Message?
July 18
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- Very Bizarre...
- DELETING-
- A Tale of Two References
- Moving displaced edit command back to proper spot ?
- Adding a section to a category
- WXXS FM Formatting Comments Available
- What to do?
- Marcus Giavanni
- Is there a tool that does this?
- Structure of articles
- wiki question
- My userpage header
- Boscos Pizza Company
- Watchlist Bug?
- Aligning templates
- When does the editing stop.
- Wikilinking to Categories
- Username
- What is this?
- Bosco's Pizza company
- I've busted an infobox
- Punctuation
- Interwiki links
- Flickr
- Problem viewing Hexapoda
- Popups
- Deleting History
- Gallery
July 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 19
- How old is my account?
- Vandal threatening suicide
- Hacker/spammer attack on a page
- Zodiac?
- Template:Ft to m still somewhat broken
- remove deceptive external link
- Searching titles?
- Need to site a reference for this????
- Zodiac bomb
- Whale tail
- Creating/Editing Article Entries with Multiple Names/Titles?
- Questioning an image
July 20
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- Next step to take with user breaking rules?
- Login and Password
- UTC
- ref help
- Template:reflist
- A problem with apostrophes in the topic title?
- cheatsheet
- OK to create subpage within a talk page?
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 20#|]]
- Cannot find new item, checked delete log
- image help
- New to Wikipedia.
- Account deletion
- Strange glitch
- Too speedy deletion
- Nissan Xterra
July 21
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- Is there anyway I can block myself from WP
- Wikified
- Weird login problem
- Help with a table
- help
- mobile access
- Math fonts in wikipedia
- oversight?
- Can you reassess your own articles..?
- adding a new page to wikipedia
- puzzle question
- Adding an Acronym to a Page
- Creating an article
- Zodiac, again
- Copyright problem
- How do I include the edit box?
- Subsection edit tag positioning problem in Firefox
- Merging Templates
July 22
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- blacklist
- the cost of extracting a barrel of oil
- Can someone help set up
- Wikipedia password limits
- 122.163.184.99 (talk) 06:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC) about mathematics content management
- Improving an article to save it from getting deleted
- software version numbers as original research
- Archiving old talk pages and article rating
- Autoconfirmed status for posting images
- Looking for credibility of weekly standard
- Mobile phone
- New field
- Collapsing templates
- Adding a Bio section chart on the side
July 23
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- Children of Rev Ralph W L Tollemache (second marriage)
- Vandalism on main page
- Main Page issues
- Prod an orphaned image?
- How up to date / accurate is Help:Category?
- Where is the list of templates?
- Password reset requests
- article title capitalization
- WELDING TECHNOLOGY
- Edit Peru Page
- Quick look up Number of train station in specific area is created
- Portal:Afghanistan
- Show/hide box
- help
- Job Posting site?
- Unconfirmed user after 6 days
- children protective services
July 24
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- how to create a wikipedia page
- How to report a wiki user who is deleting content?
- Help with templates and translation.
- mail address
- Reporting a bug?
- Venus Williams (edit 'war')
- edit visible when logged in but not visible otherwise
- Started articles
- Login email
- Second opinion
- I have been getting an error msg for almost a week, trying to create an account
- Editing categories
- If I use Wikipedia in my computer, will I be charged any extra payment or it is 100% free?
- Chat
- Correct Broken Web Links (2nd Notice)
- Number of references; when is enough, enough
July 25
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- That message at the top
- Question
- New name
- Calendar-building help required
- Similar Article overides the Article I wrote.
- Logging in
- Copyvio image
- Glenn Letsch
- Unable to edit solely the lead sections of articles
- editing the header
July 26
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- Merge accounts
- template
- new wikiprojects
- What to do when reference in Wikipedia article links to site with a Trojan ?
- Okay to create template for prominent family?
- vandalismon english wikipedia
- Enniskillen bombimg
- Username doesn't work.
- Uploading an image
- How did you do that?
- Userpage help
- i dont understand anything
- Question
- Account
July 27
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- Putting photographs
- instantchess.com advertising?
- 80/20 Thinking
- Changing title name
- Style guide for former country
- Funny coding
- Suggestion for new page
- Speedy deletes
- Climate table
- Have my Article creating priviliedges been suspended?
- New heart surgery procedure
- disappearing edits
July 28
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- Service Badge
- The edit summary
- Category question
- latest words
- Immersion Composition Society
- A survey
- What are the main anti-vandalism initiatives?
- Can no longer login with email that contains underscores ABC___XYZ@hotmail.com
- Broken link in AfD template
- Correcting the title of my newly-created entry
- Captain wants to speak to Bradbury
- Speedy deletion and copyright infringement
- Can a block record be purged?
- Wikipedia:Images for upload/Current Requests revert problem
- Main Page Protection?
- Some MOS-related questions
- List in chronological order?
- Scranton
- Alison Wright is a Photojournalist not a journalist
- Document transcluding
July 29
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- Signature
- Unable to Access "Red Square" Moscow
- Bullet (*)
- Scrollable TOC
- Sort of water filter system in US
- The size of virus and heavy metal in water
- Am I wrong?
- Notability
- about e-books
- Local copy of Nature article?
- how do you add an article to wikipedia?
- Codes for styles
- Editing the entry: How to do that?
- Large Font Size
- Wikipedia for a company
- same topic in different language
- Bot Coding
- User Group Rights?
- looking up Company statistics/profile
- REGAINING ACCESS TO MY ACCOUNT AFTER LOSING THE EMAIL
- Never using your site again
- ZIRH International is now ZIRH Holdings, LLC
- Rename category
- Category searching
- Admin Abuse
- How do I get GNU License
- Tracking who visits the page
- Fundraising allowed?
- UNPUBLISHED PAGE???
- Photobucket
- What is guider.nl????? It takes you to wikipedia and stuff it is weird.
- Legal advice
- username and password
- How do I add an image to my article?
July 31
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July 30
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- Unable to edit pages on English Wikipedia using Firefox or Mozilla-based Browsers when logged in.
- Robert Braiden... where are you ???
- What happened to my article?
- New Article Name for defunct company
- Named references with only one cite
- Major revision to an established article
- redirect
- Transcluding special pages
- Creating Two Posts
- Changing search name for article
- file from computer into company infobox?
- Using quotations as headers?
- ? unexpected offer - slightly worrying
- eliminating duplicate citations/refs
- Blender wiki = reliable ref?
- Question about regionalism
- Adding an audio/video clip
- Searching categories
- Michael Baxter
- How do I join a WikiProject?
- Accounts
- What is your policy on commercial sounding content?
July 31
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- Using Chinese Traditional Characters
- using epinions what was the general rating of officemax
- Problem with my User Page
- Outlook Research
- Formatting in templates
- Deleted article
- search option
- Photos
- Quotations as Headers
- WHY
- notability/references
- sandbox possible?
- Revert Image
- No recipes in articles
- Create
- Autoconfirm
- Taylor Forrester (From Bold and the beautiful)
- Linking accounts on Wikipedia
- slanderous information
- Warning Message?