Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/March 2012

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March 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 1

1. Why have the colors changed when viewing diffs?
2. Server acting weird
3. Continent Travel Userboxes
4. sSick of australian content
5. Not sure how to propose for deletion
6. Need someone who speaks German and is friendly
7. About errors on the page Orange Orange. We want to clarify info about the band Orange Orange.We have the RIGHT BIOGRAPHY
8. WikiProject proposal
9. Printable editing information?
10. Display of "My contributions" has changed for the worse
11. Redirect Failed nation to Failed state ?
12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gerald_Charles_Dickens
13. Welsh Development Agency
14. Archive Setup
15. List of people diagnosed with dyslexia
16. Joan Wolf - references
17. reformating partitioned C: drive
18. Math formula rendering
19. Demotion to Good
20. Article is outdated tag
21. Edit conflict
22. IE9 compatability with Wikipedia

March 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 2

1. Can you edit content on the mobile version?
2. What are the green and red +/- numbers in an articles Revision History?
3. Issue with concert list
4. Help on an editnotice
5. Updating link in a gadget
6. Deleting the User "Autofan"
7. HOW TO CHANGE WIKIPEDIA'S FONT COLOR SETTING?
8. submitted article
9. HOW TO CHANGE WIKIPEDIA'S FONT COLOR SETTING? Section 2
10. Redirect the redirect?
11. missing children
12. Tag for partial deletion proposal ?
13. Creating a box around text
14. Requests for comments/discussion on talk pages
15. How to find out how many people have contributed to a wiki page or made a contribution in the last two weeks? ( University question)
16. File name above uploaded picture
17. Broken Link

March 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 3

1. Image problem
2. Where is my Wiki Article
3. Aderoll/ridlyn
4. Liver Disease
5. Wyatt
6. Contributions
7. interwiki
8. Wikipedia -> XKCD
9. Front page bot failure?
10. Templates for Displaying Military Ribbons/Medals as Worn?
11. Cannabis Tax Stamp
12. Becoming an administrator
13. Contributions rendering error?
14. Cite reference

March 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 4

1. Appointment of new Foreign Secretary for Pakistan
2. loisiana red
3. Disambiguation marked as stub?
4. why cant I edit anything
5. Trouble placing image
6. Progeria
7. Where to request block of some accounts I control?
8. Named reference definition placement
9. Name of Company is wrong
10. Cite error
11. Post from User:Comcargru6
12. Permission to reproduce map
13. Article title formatting
14. Why is it so difficult to add a userbox to a userpage?
15. Incorrect information on Roshumba Williams article
16. Creating pages that get deleted.
17. Creating an arrow like an n-dash
18. Oddity on front page
19. Federal Detention Center Miami
20. Fanning & Coles

March 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 5

1. Google Earth kmz file reference
2. Ginger Baker's Drumming - How to add info
3. Seeking explanation and some assistance
4. Help moving article from sandbox to main space
5. I'm new - help
6. Paul Newman/marriage & family
7. Draft article
8. Upload a picture
9. Ariel Sharon
10. Winning by endurance
11. A place to ask for help improving language
12. Question regarding image copyright
13. Removing copyrighted material or vandalism
14. Correct kerning when using a quote in a citation
15. How do I create a new user sub-category
16. Death of Ralph McQuarrie should be "In the news"
17. need an article on macarthur scale of subjective socioeconomic status

March 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 6

1. Incorrect reference
2. WP guidelines or policy for deciding what constitutes a political endorsement?
3. Where's my saved article?
4. Redirects of words from other languages to English
5. Image problem
6. Interwiki on mobile wp
7. Twinkle
8. Twinkle auto-watchlisting
9. My page is not getting approved and no update on the status
10. Extraneous |} in an article
11. Looking under spirit I found an error
12. Quoting
13. How is wiki markup stripped from search results?
14. Alan Ladd Biography
15. How do I get to the search page?
16. Huggle issue
17. Expansion of an existing article -- how does one request this?
18. Report on a personal attack of a wiki user

March 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 7

1. Tryign to make a user account
2. western weds
3. Nelson Mandela
4. Wiki article about 19th-century American anthropologist Samuel Haven is in Spanish, but not English
5. Unstable search engine
6. Why was my talk deleted?
7. Wikipedia:Twinkle
8. International Reply Coupons
9. Units of measure - distance
10. Emmerdale and Coronation Street on Wikepeadia
11. HOW TO CORRECT A FACTUALLY STATED ERROR IN A BIOGRAPHY?
12. Please help fix a table
13. Redirect at Service Data Objects
14. Incorrect Information
15. Where can I find out about those hidden items after the categories in an article?
16. Katy Perry Uploaded Images

March 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 8

1. Editing the title to an article.
2. Help creating template
3. Alpha Phi
4. Wallyball
5. Image problem
6. On Luther's Bible page - link missing
7. Is this blatant advertising?
8. Help please with subtitling
9. Handling an extremely doubtful article?
10. Adding an external website link
11. USS Thresher submarine disaster in 1963
12. Information lacking
13. advice needed about reference errors in citatons
14. Why is info I submitted being deleted
15. Is it possible to request for this to be reviewed soon please?
16. Is there any way of printing the whole of a page with links e.g. List of British monarchs?
17. Writing an article
18. Mobile site
19. "Dual posting" reverse?
20. "Community Pages" from Wikipedia on Facebook
21. Who produces the rules by which Wikipedia works ?
22. move from User space to Template space (doc) needs repair?
23. Username

March 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 9

1. Tables and line spacing
2. inserting unconventional symbols
3. Confused about needing references
4. How do I find pages that need proof-reading?
5. Reply to Matt Deres (?)
6. My first article is the biography of a living person.
7. Yes, please help set this up
8. Columns breaking
9. Wallkill Valley
10. Lady Greyhound
11. Where is the "user problem report" page on Wikipedia ?
12. problems producing an article in the Wikipedia assault course
13. Someone who knows WP:CORP well required
14. How to use <span class="noprint">
15. ballon D'or
16. ADDING THE FACT BOX DOWN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE
17. Contradicting a Public Work with a Private One and determining a reference to be inappropriate for Wikipedia.
18. Jad Adams
19. Updating a Widely Used Image
20. Wikipedia page exists, but google cannot find any record of it
21. Banner adverts on Wikipedia
22. Recent Changes
23. Login up to 180 days?

March 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 10

1. US Presidents
2. Guideline on subsequent name use
3. I left an external link that may be spam
4. ProQuest Archiver
5. Request for Scanning/Review
6. Carla facciolo
7. Help with correcting big mistake
8. Moving an article
9. citing the info
10. New article, fun, safe, easy, etc.
11. Help - :Template:Sfnm
12. Question about redirect guideline
13. Close discussions
14. RAW Design Wikipedia
15. Converting Spreadsheets Into Tables
16. Legitimate or Linkspam?
17. stock portfollio magement
18. Reviewer right
19. Canary Lee Burton
20. Permissions
21. Redirect question
22. Delete
23. Tables

March 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 11

1. Wikipedia won't let me edit articles. WHAT DO I DO?
2. Don't receive password reminder for forgotten password
3. broken markup, what's the problem?
4. How do you find someone when you only know a last name?
5. Log in problem
6. Deleted pages in own userspace
7. Changing font
8. Guideline / help page for writing help pages
9. 911 response - claims we invaded AFGHANISTAN. Ii think we invaded IRAQ! AFGHANISTAN CAME LATER.
10. Hoverbox Suggestion
11. Nominating another User
12. Forgotte my Password
13. Self-promotion in userspaces?
14. I have 14 different butterfly pupa images
15. Canvasing to a degree but not what it sounds please read
16. A bug - doubling the homepage info - in infobox writer
17. ref desk archive missing question
18. User reverted changes
19. New website
20. What's the correct wikipunctuation for antiAmericanenergy?
21. Inappropriate link in a political party page
22. help with personal attacks
23. Could someone please format a hatnote properly for me
24. first article mistake
25. Where is appropriate place to consult about advertisement like a content ?
26. Another editor sanitized a direct quote in Steven Landsburg article - what to do?

March 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 12

1. Nanban(Film)
2. technical trouble with mobile site.
3. Table of contents numbering
4. Historic math error.
5. How to edit the factually incorrect article: Original Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)
6. Admin may want to see this log
7. Can't remember a song
8. How do you refind the BOOK that you made from articles?
9. Collapsing elements of a table
10. Good Lists
11. Request page move - Opus interrasile
12. Charles Viracoloa's Birth date
13. Errors in Oklahoma Corporation Commission article
14. "Wikimania 2012" link opens in current tab even when using "open link in new tab".
15. Getting someone to upload an image file that is an organization logo for an unconfirmed account
16. Attention parameter?
17. Hello
18. Now What

March 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 13

1. How do I withdraw an AfD nomination?
2. Db-attack doesn't think the page has been blanked?
3. Notability in question for about 200 articles linked from 1 likely notable page
4. Sir, Dr Punit Sethi, an Engineer cum Author from India have been declared World's Most Popular Social media/Facebook Expert. Mai I request to open a bio-graphic page of Wikipedia of mine with my photographs?
5. Lost article/file
6. ELI MANNING PHOTO
7. Johann Sebastian Bach ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach )
8. All bold?
9. diagrams for articles
10. Douglas Adams.
11. T.V. MOVIE RIGHT TO DIE
12. Need help with copyright/links issue
13. Sama ECH
14. Help with New Entries
15. Standard or Standards?

March 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 14

1. Daily pictures
2. a "suggestion for improvement" for Wikipedia
3. Depiction of Prophet Mohammed(PUBH)
4. Hospital de Sant Pau Barcelona Spain.
5. "blame" command for Wikipedia
6. Reg article on Malik Barkat Ali
7. Orphan Article
8. Oracle Business Process Architect
9. Where post about something that needs fixing (needing topic expertise) on a page?
10. Changing an article name from italics to non italics
11. Page views
12. How can I publish an article here?
13. editing an edit summary
14. Suggestions for article on Rodney Barnes
15. Page flow problem
16. Copyright Information
17. Incorrect zip code
18. How to get rid of message on bottom of page?

March 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 15

1. Clogged up edit history due to an overactive user
2. Copy Editing complete - article remains "requiring editing"
3. Forced edit summary?
4. Overly helpful edit box
5. I want to delete pics i uploaded.
6. pictures
7. Bollocks about reference lists
8. Winners of the Bronze Star (USA)
9. Disambiguation Page
10. The Meeting School, Rindge, NH
11. Comparison of free video converters : new insertion
12. Problems with uploads
13. I just posted a note to my talk page. Will author see it?
14. Collaboration on safety valves page
15. Entry for "Autosexual" redirects to "masturbation." NOT THE SAME!!!!

March 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 16

1. Wiki tool: Kiki?
2. Usage of tools
3. :Template:Cite video
4. help please (public problem)
5. How can I see previous versions of a page.
6. Recent edits by User:213.196.211.166 needs a check
7. Categorization in navbox
8. How do we demote and remove moderators? My story.
9. FreeRepublic.com in footnote
10. Template docs lacking helpful info
11. Using a track on an album as a reference
12. Image title
13. Racism in talk page?

March 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 17

1. At first glance this looked to be outright plagiarism but I've had second thoughts due to its unusual formatting. I don't want to create havoc by deleting but.......
2. I was wanting to know if there was a child that needed attention in another world but is a citizen of the us.
3. Shortening section headings
4. Did not put in Reason for edit before I hit save
5. Public Domain Issues
6. Why was my page deleted?
7. When I click on "Edit," only a list of factoids appears
8. Angry Birds
9. If someone steals password
10. Constant visibility of Template:FilemoverTalkpageNotice on my userpage
11. Previous name
12. Help???
13. How was this article created?
14. I found and U.S.ARMY DOG TAG .in and old house in Canada and would like to know who it was.
15. Security breach??
16. NUCLEAR POWERS

March 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 18

1. Charles-Edmond Duponchel (architect)
2. Ads on wikipedia
3. Help fix a broken reference
4. SPAM MESSAGE.
5. Searching for specific text within an article
6. Section of page shows in Firefox but not IE
7. Blaise Pascal article/editing
8. Repeated unsourced edits by an unregistered user
9. Category intersection
10. Categories for WikiProject assessment
11. Uncensored SSN

March 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 19

1. Israel and US interests
2. How do I turn on "New Message" notification?
3. Long templates
4. TV Episode Pages
5. Biography Upon Haile Selassie I & Menen Selassie I, I Father & Mother
6. A Place to Bookmark Favorite or Notable Wikipedia Articles
7. Removing a Wikipedia Page Immediately
8. Reuse of text from the talk page or main article.
9. Mitch Gaylord
10. picture problem
11. location of toguchin, siberia
12. Dateless coin references
13. Katy Perry Unreleased Music Videos and (A) Katy Perry
14. Google search results
15. U.S. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Complaint 2012
16. Repeat citations
17. Printing URL citations in article references
18. Unicode superscript and subscript characters + non breaking space
19. When and when not to use {{refbegin}}

March 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 20

1. image on the left screws up left-justification
2. New article help
3. Citing a tweet? What should be used as a title?
4. Infobox - added one, and now can't find where to edit it
5. images upload
6. The Ryan and Johnny Podcast Show
7. Reducing size of image on the article page
8. homeopathy
9. Proposed deletion problem
10. Recording an exact moment into "now, nowadays, not yet, etc." words
11. Stable, stability
12. Your article about Evangelist David R. Wilkerson
13. What defines location coordinates?
14. Stale e-mail entry
15. Could not submit my information to a page for a new entry
16. you have to see this
17. Wikipedia talk:Articles for Creation/Jordan Wolfson
18. Fidelity Walk of Life
19. Editing Articles
20. new article
21. state capitalism and three gorges corporation
22. farmville
23. Hits per page
24. User is taking my free speech away and censoring me!
25. Log-In Problems
26. Request correction:
27. Question about certain trivialities in an article
28. quick help

March 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 21

1. User's script labelling my edits "unproductive"
2. Submission
3. Requesting feedback on new article: "Steph St. Laurent
4. Dictionary
5. is porn allowed? Nikki Benz photo.
6. Soundtrack album
7. New article
8. New to Wikipedia
9. AVATARS ABODE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY.
10. Where to get article feedback?
11. Upgraded Wiki appearance
12. Peer review
13. ads on wiki
14. Mistake in the article Toyger
15. Important advice
16. Toyger
17. Pop up's
18. Muriel Humphrey Error
19. reftags, etc.
20. Discharge papers
21. Creating and editing wiki pages
22. Dictionary

March 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 22

1. Incorrect information on article.
2. Finding File Names and Locations
3. Mobile browser
4. Mobile interface
5. Incorrct id
6. Finland language links
7. latin
8. Looking for a tool
9. Bare URL help?
10. iso (in search of)
11. On the Wiki facebook page for the BuxMont Torch FC
12. "The Son of Man" by Emil Ludwig
13. Does this type of thing need to be sourced?
14. glitch!?!
15. Looking for a specific deleted page in my userspace
16. Search History?
17. Templates in captions

March 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 23

1. Trojan Horse
2. POV pushing - Question for administrator
3. trouble linking an external link regarding congenital erythropoietic porphyria
4. Category:Pejorative Categories
5. C. M. Prasad
6. Looking for feedback
7. Please fix
8. Failure to post
9. All titles are showing html tags like span dir=auto Wikipedia:Help desk span
10. new episodes
11. Account?
12. How to deal with socks
13. quick question

March 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 24

1. BTOLA Pty Ltd reads like a classic advertorial
2. Laura Marano
3. "CROSSROADS NOVEL"
4. Name display issue
5. can you cut the monster tables ?
6. Edit automatically removed, should I re-post?
7. Where are deleted articles?
8. Viewing a list of pages I have made
9. Userboxes
10. Hidden category for articles containing living people
11. Possible legal threat ?
12. Using non-WP narrative style
13. Page layout problem
14. Policy/guideline query
15. Problem with Mahon Tribunal page
16. X!'s Edit Counter
17. Request renaming

March 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 25

1. Finding the ID# for Template:British pathe
2. Request for Permissions-?
3. Editing reflist tags?
4. Band article request
5. Free speech
6. Fair use image resolution
7. Unable to upload scans from a magazine to list as references

March 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 26

1. If I agree with a fact, and think everyone else does...
2. Sandbox
3. The subject is The city of Tala, Jalisco, Mexico
4. Move problem
5. Inversion in a sphere
6. IPhone app
7. André Simon Wikipedia page
8. Translation assessment required
9. Augmentation of existing page "Robert Hughes - Swimmer"
10. Notable residents (moved from reference desk)
11. Google translation of (Official) site
12. help!
13. not sure I understand deletion process
14. Is it OK to tell someone to f*** off on Wikipedia?
15. Farra or Farrah or Farraw - a grain crop. Maybe another spelling
16. Cuban economic reforms
17. How to change a talk page to a regular, searchable page

March 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 27

1. Contributing from a Business
2. no references
3. Nominating article for deletion
4. Category Request: Category:Alumni of the École nationale de l'aviation civile
5. Religion, reference to United Reformed Church
6. Somali National Demcoratic Reform Party. A newly founded reform-minded political party led by Dr. Khalif M. Duale
7. About a created page
8. proposed redirect
9. Creating an article, unsure on title choice and if content can be seen as advertising
10. Asking a question in Japanese
11. Page written as advertisement and contains buzzwords
12. How to post copy write material after permission has been granted.
13. Sortable table
14. List of transclusions?
15. My Own?
16. etymology is lacking for many entries
17. Twinkle rollback links
18. changing false information on for King andCountry
19. Posting on a talk page
20. Popups anyone?
21. Uploading an image that is copyrighted

March 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 28

1. Problem with 'PUF' template.
2. LISTENING TO A SONG
3. Span tags showing on titles
4. Looking for good software to help me edit wikipedia.
5. Query about the replication lag
6. Creating images with programs on my computer that use data from a Twitter post
7. Semi-protected article needs 'Cleanup' and/or 'Copy edit'
8. Paterson Mass Water flow meter
9. Tony Stewart Picture
10. bayou blast and collapse
11. Just in doubt.....
12. User Inputting False Information
13. Stock Answers
14. List of articles in List of categories without DEFAULTSORT or Sortkey
15. Diverse
16. using data
17. Request for feedback
18. Citing multiple non-sequential pages
19. James Dean page
20. Ansel E. Talbert Information

March 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 29

1. File:Second Revolution Flag 2x3.svg
2. List notability and styles
3. Mistake at "Marble Falls, TX"
4. How to make different versions in Wikipedia (Same Topic)
5. Blue background?
6. Problem with images
7. How does original research apply to images? WP:OI
8. doi pointing to jstor
9. The most recent Wikipedia Signpost issue is empty
10. How do I enable automatic categorization of tagged pages?
11. How much "notability" does a biography subject need?
12. New to Wikipedia
13. MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details
14. Old username on talk pages and changing username again
15. names of fields of profession or study - capital letter(s) or not?
16. Vincent Brian Wigglesworth page
17. External Linking
18. Translations within articles
19. adding external links
20. Editing Wikitables
21. Section
22. NJ Charter Study Commission
23. Time format

March 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 30

1. 'Listen' link
2. Looking for ancesters
3. Template help!
4. Under Miss Minnesota USA
5. image visibility
6. Want feedback on new article
7. Article creation problem
8. Error in Wikipedia
9. Ref sorting
10. Categorizing a template
11. Noticeboard
12. Non-factual polemic sources are clogging up Wikipedia
13. Need a second opinion
14. Question on Template:cite video
15. Problem
16. A weird case with interwiki
17. Linebreak prevention (in a link)
18. user channel- favourite
19. I would like my pre-2012 contributions to be deleted
20. How can I add a Category to an article but have the article appear on the Category page under a different name?
21. club pogo
22. "Log out" link

March 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 March 31

1. reporting disruptive editing
2. Wizard of the Grand and Honourable Order of Geeks required...
3. UFC Pages
4. Recent changes: what's the red exclamation mark against the new page indicator?
5. Verification of reliability
6. Contacting wikipedia is a nightmare!
7. user name on Commons
8. Vandalism
9. Menton
10. Does anyone know what's wrong with the edit counter?