Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2010

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May 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 1

1. Help! This page is partly unreadable
2. Procedure during RfCs
3. User page design
4. help,
5. Reverting edits prob
6. External links not appearing?
7. I'm perplexed...
8. Resizing animations
9. Creating a wikipedia page
10. Where can I change the appearance of my user signature?
11. link at William McDonough
12. Confused
13. multiple persons with same name
14. standard punctuation
15. Time to first fix
16. WikiProject Central America template
17. Can't log in

May 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 2

1. Scammers using identities of American Military Men
2. I've been blocked on Meta-Wiki and Wikiquote
3. Toki Wright
4. Re: Edit Notice
5. eventration of diaphragm
6. Amos Wilson
7. Photo and picture captions
8. Bold text problem
9. Discussing content of vandalism delete1
10. Confluence Parallel
11. Can't get script to work
12. How does one keep a page up?
13. How to get a mediawiki extension added to wikipedia?

May 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 3

1. Wikipedia Upload
2. add a new page
3. Citation
4. Italicise manuscript titles?
5. clock
6. how to make an article about upcoming Hollywood actor? 20 films in 2 years, some very popular
7. Login Successful page
8. footballers loans
9. How to Flag an Article that Needs Many Corrections?
10. Editing Mobile Version?
11. Dinka
12. People keep deleting reference to my Wikimedia commons photo
13. where are the videos?
14. Image slideshow?
15. Determined to stop deletion of template
16. Exporting an older revision of an article
17. questions regarding webcomic articles
18. linking from many articles

May 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 4

1. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
2. AfD vote question
3. The Blorenge
4. Really strange problem with Peace Candle infobox
5. Trouble adding a monobook script
6. Differences between revisions
7. Chives plant
8. Listing my program in some article's "Links" section, where similar programs from another vendors are reffered
9. <email removed>
10. SVG Logo Conversion
11. Check an edit please?
12. BLSC Blastomere Like Stem Cells
13. My new template I created
14. notes
15. On This Day
16. Incorrect Information in VMI Article
17. AAPI link
18. Image code syntax?
19. Something needs to be added
20. Wikipadia Logo not on it's proper place
21. Please delete my article
22. Switching to a new account.
23. Please Help a new user
24. pdf file
25. Archive
26. Articles deleted in a similar name

May 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 5

1. In Puerto Rico: A red oval poison worm with about 50 claw legs
2. Typing special characters
3. Upload
4. question about Vitamin
5. Palm Centro
6. Page view tool not working
7. Mobile
8. Infobox error
9. Pictures
10. WIKI TO HTML
11. Blocked Crats able to access User Rights control panel
12. Vandalism from my school's IP
13. finding a product
14. Why won't an image caption show up?
15. Friedrich Gerstacker
16. Eddie Snyder
17. peppo biscarini

May 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 6

1. Task Force Question
2. Can't figure out copyright tag to save article
3. my edits don't appear
4. Monobook js
5. Converting a svg-file to html/css
6. Editing mr brainwash page
7. Marking pages as patrolled not via Special:NewPages.
8. Is it Vandalism?
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stackjones
10. Deepwater Horizon oil spill
11. Commercial vandalism?
12. citations removed - is this valid?
13. How do I change a Logo?
14. Adil Khan
15. needed to get new password but it wouldn't work
16. Repeated "page not found message" from wikipedia
17. Advice needed for cleanup
18. My edits broken down by month
19. Unsearchable Entry
20. Search engine results: same article in different languages
21. Harassment!

May 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 7

1. accurasy
2. "They did it in another article so I can do it here"
3. Why do we have to use geek formatting to enter articles?
4. New (dated) Article not in Search-box - Old Article undated
5. Notability tag for a specific person in a list of names?
6. Toyoto Yaris Interior on Door Handle and the plastic panel on A/C flip , Radio, or A/C control buttons
7. Robert Simon Telfer Scott DSM and HMS Havelock
8. References
9. HOT TO LOOK FOR AN ANSWER
10. Troubling inserting logo into article
11. Local fraternity chapter Fakepage warning?
12. "Take 5" Jazz Tune as a TV/Movie Theme?
13. makeing a page
14. Need assistance cleaning up
15. special ops us
16. Avatar/anuerisms
17. User Redirect
18. Affiliate Link on an index page
19. OUT OF COUNTRY

May 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 8

1. Citing interpretation boards
2. Userpage inaccessibility
3. User namespace category
4. Hot Air Balloon Rides
5. I can't log in, even with new password sent by Wikipedia
6. Images don't show up
7. Images don't show up (again)
8. Is my editing all right?
9. Linking to my website under 'External Links'
10. Is this an article Article Incubator/Nineteen Nightmares/Valley Entertainment Monthly?
11. Citing a foriegn wiki
12. Question about using an image on the article body painting

May 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 9

1. 2nd nomination of an article--what did I do wrong?
2. Replace old material with new.
3. login failure
4. Requesting a tech fix
5. Copy right of our page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svpnpa
6. When I am editing a page and I see informative placards above the edit field ... where do they come from?
7. Non-notable content in a notable article
8. Link goes to wrong place -Public debate
9. Nationality
10. Advanced Wikimarkup
11. Truck?
12. Viewing a deleted article
13. Extend the list at MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels
14. User:TonyTheTiger/Table
15. How do you make on of these?
16. Infoboxes?
17. Need help with "Shirley, Illinois"
18. Geobox River

May 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 10

1. new entry
2. I have a cough that someone needs to check out
3. articles on TV episodes
4. Why does my watchlist have entries like "(+377)" or "(-448)?"
5. I cannot download my created book
6. Troulbe opening programs
7. Edit Date/Time
8. Archive
9. Log in
10. new section to an article
11. adding a new section
12. Inaction on requested edit
13. Watchlist
14. How do I become an authorized user to be able to upload a file to link to a page I am working on?
15. New mentor/adopter person
16. Glucaid
17. speedy deletion tag on a talk page
18. How does one permanently close a Wikipedia account?
19. Copying within Wikipedia with citations
20. request to move draft to main space
21. editing an erroneous image caption
22. How Do I Update a Logo on a Wiki Page

May 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 11

1. Pictures of dead people
2. Unknown license for images
3. Can't find existing article - R&D orgs by country & focus
4. can't create user page
5. To seek details about "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandher#References"
6. Why am I not autoconfirmed?
7. Fearful
8. Account Merge Failure
9. Staniforth Surname
10. Withdrawing a deletion proposal
11. Continous numbering
12. Level of warning after a block
13. Question on Henry VIII
14. The tag "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" at the top of the page
15. Fair use argument
16. The banner won't hide
17. Vandalism
18. When was text added?

May 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 12

1. How to limit depth of ToC
2. Abusefilter
3. needed to get new password but it wouldn't work, round 2
4. How to write an email message to maury povick show
5. Deleted pages in user contribution
6. New subheading in existing article, problems with references not appearing from edit page
7. Fixing my signature
8. Username or IP removed
9. What is the template for an article overhaul?
10. "Black Dolls"
11. How do I get rid of this big, empty box?

May 13

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 13

1. Why would you destroy a good article and leave only the negative information which happens to be incorrect anyway.
2. User talk page question
3. Beta today
4. Socks 01 - WWE Socks
5. Need help on creating page.
6. Get rid of beta
7. a new look for the environment
8. New Article to appear when searching wikipedia
9. Why is there hundreds of German place articles tagged here?
10. Coord not working
11. What's happened
12. Contacting someone on the Supreme Court
13. Oxybenzone page problem
14. Need to be able to upload an image to replace an outdated one
15. IP up to no good
16. Help me choose a username!
17. Is this customary?
18. How to go back to the new (improved) wikipedia?
19. Added a biography
20. Change to account name
21. Sourcing a Reality TV Show plot summary - what to do?
22. New features
23. Interlanguage links
24. Spelling
25. Adjusting View
26. What just happened to the font
27. Redirects vs. Disambiguation
28. Articles for same-named folks
29. Wikipedia doesn't work on the PS3 browser
30. im not a spammer i just want to help people

May 14

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 14

1. EDIT BAR
2. password recovery
3. Searching without mouse
4. Can't log into my account, why?
5. Special:MergeAccount
6. gemma jones
7. Return to page logged in from
8. Edit bar error
9. How to create the table of contents
10. Eddie Glaude
11. Someone keeps undoing my edits. What can I do?
12. user contributions
13. Cite an application
14. Why was the search box moved to the top right?
15. Wrong photo link
16. Feedback repository
17. I cannot believe this blatant display of biasness and downright racist way of conducting wiki all Information was substanciated

May 15

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 15

1. collapse left side of the page
2. Creating userbox problem
3. Personal font preferences
4. submitted new word how long does it take to post
5. Signing posts
6. Link aliasing
7. User successful XfD counter
8. An article on Wikipedia referring to the Spanish diplomat Francisco Javier Ruperez Rubio.
9. New format
10. Search Box location an inconvenience!
11. editing error
12. Computer Meridian Diagnostics
13. Dave the Chameleon
14. Why was article about the Kruger Brothers deleted?
15. Designations -
16. Sugarloaf Mountain in New Brunswick, Canada

May 16

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 16

1. How do I nominate an article for deletion?
2. Skin
3. Quesitonable claim
4. page does not exist message is appearing, why?
5. Looking for a BOT
6. Calling template experts
7. Apple Dictionary App
8. Signing
9. children music
10. Wikipedia:Article wizard/Wizard-New edit instructions A
11. How to get my contribution to show when using Google search
12. Template help needed
13. Changing vector skin
14. For those that subst: in shared IP templates...
15. Where has the search field gone? 21:46, 16 May 2010 (UTC)~~
16. Image variable in URL
17. Bot

May 17

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 17

1. Colorful userpage
2. signing
3. Image
4. Editing redirects
5. This media file may meet the criteria for speedy deletion.
6. Image upload
7. Company Articles
8. I tried to put my nomination for afd of Ergogenic aid on the discussion list, but it's not working.
9. Delete An Image
10. Username as false claim?
11. Upload a Company Logo
12. Autoconfirmed status?
13. Parts per million
14. E-mails about my password
15. Need help in creating and uploading a page for a feature film that I have written, Produced, and directed.
16. Clarifying Consensus
17. Uploading a Logo
18. How I can create a film page?
19. Mac OS X dictionary
20. Reverting
21. longer loading time...
22. HF TARIFF CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
23. Infoboxes
24. redirecting

May 18

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 18

1. Blackberry v4.5.0.169 Wiki English Load Error
2. Edit filter triggered when creating new article
3. Chinese name
4. Logo
5. Disambiguation page - linking new article
6. Article
7. new wikipedia appearance.
8. Accusation
9. Please Answer
10. Font size makes Wikipedia unusable
11. Random article within a specific portal :/
12. Text
13. Brian Leung
14. Link to a section or sub-section
15. Pictures.
16. How long before my article appears live?
17. University of Health Sciences Antigua
18. Warning 4im
19. Font size
20. 30 seconds and a laptop
21. Question Regarding Templates and Indenting
22. Why all the images not shown?
23. questions related to engineering.........
24. Needed to get new password but it wouldn't work, round 3
25. Adding my own images
26. Searching with vector skin
27. Notability

May 19

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 19

1. Italian descent, sports people
2. subst
3. The archive term "threads"
4. How to find a person or way (for a dummy) to have offline copy of Wikipedia- even if a year old
5. how can i submit a page
6. How do I create a new page or article?
7. Different images with the same name on wikipedia and commons
8. How to "search" as opposed to "go" in new interface - with Firefox
9. How can I change the title of an article?
10. qwuiting
11. The Hidden Blade
12. Addres of Alphen hospital
13. Resubmitted Question: Need to know why the article about the Kruger Brothers was deleted
14. individual inline citations
15. Pages created
16. Place Alexis Nihon content improvement and update
17. How Can I load my web page in Wikpedia ?
18. Broken: The Wikipedia Part of the Mac Dictionary App
19. Referencing

May 20

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 20

1. Having sexual realations with MSRA
2. Eclipse with UT
3. I'm a network administrator for a large school district with a dilemma related to the "porn" flap
4. Sortable tables
5. help please ````
6. You broken Wikipedia and I can't find ANYTHING explaining how to edit!
7. Is an approval mark copyrighted?
8. How does "Watch this page work"?
9. Big Brother and the Holding Company
10. Dilema with whether or not to use a very in-detail ref
11. Template problem
12. WHICH IS THE MOST ECONOMICAL FUEL FOR A GENERATOR?
13. searching an article providing detailed information for BORDER MOULDING MATERIALS USED IN DENTISTRY.
14. Global opt-in
15. Translation into English of an existing Romanian article
16. Meadows, Illinois. Help needed
17. Nominate articles for review
18. wikipedia font is now so small I can't use the resource anymore
19. Negative title

May 21

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 21

1. Type Size
2. What is the requirement for making a page about somebody?
3. Number of page views
4. replacing unauthorized photo with correct photo?
5. Unreferenced tables
6. Aberdor the beautiful small village in Fife,Scotland
7. viewing statistics of an article
8. casting lots
9. Wiki logo
10. Article inaccuracy
11. School Editing
12. How do sumit a page you have made?
13. How do I find my Village Pump contributions?
14. Keeping updated on new WikiProjects
15. Citing the same reference more than once
16. Problems with Edit Conflicts
17. Category watching
18. multiple &nbsp
19. article: Republic of Macedonia
20. Auto-Confirm Question
21. Loading a page on a Facebook tab.

May 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 22

1. "Photograph by xxx" image captions
2. The article Hangul needs to change to Hangeul.
3. Scant reference to Italian contributions in the "Music" article
4. Why did you change the Best Blog on the 'net,' into something that is just bearly usuable? WPM!
5. Italian contributions to music
6. Grief with pipes in my signature
7. 2 last changes on Page History
8. Line cutting through infobox
9. Warning from a vandal
10. Saxondale
11. Movie
12. Link IP edits to account
13. Inappropriate Article
14. How to submit a new article

May 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 23

1. Removing notification that this biographical article needs additional citations
2. What is a "Links in Headings?"
3. Do we need this article?
4. David R. Bryant, Perkin Medal recipient, 1998
5. Need to delete a file I uploaded
6. May 22 2010
7. Is there a way to add blank space on either side of centered text?
8. Project status propagation to talk page tags
9. Formatting Question
10. Vector APR
11. Hacked Link on the Square_Foot_Gardening page
12. pronunciation
13. Wikify backlog random article feature broken
14. Source word
15. Deleting history
16. Pushing own writing and published material as sources
17. File Description Anomaly
18. Hyphens in article searches
19. dark power
20. Downloading PDF files
21. Search
22. Signing posts: four tildes not working properly
23. Tables problem
24. Collapsing Sections
25. malicious link

May 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 24

1. What if I'd like to make a contribution/edit a page that is semi-protected?
2. unable to access diffrent language in cellphone
3. Dictionary application for iMac
4. Redirect
5. i was wondering if you need any help
6. Meta account
7. Disambiguation procedure/etiquette
8. Edit box size?
9. Approving An AFC Request
10. your page on the Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
11. Editing page title
12. Reversed image?
13. oxygen
14. Those little "who I am" boxes
15. How do I publish my wikipedia article?
16. Old user new question
17. Is my topic Encyclopediac in nature?
18. How do I get a cause put into your wikipedia page
19. the the
20. Invite people to an article in your userspace that you created
21. What if there's no red link?

May 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 25

1. Changing Interfaces
2. Bad link in Eric Clapton discography
3. not receiving emailj
4. Uploading final file
5. Linking images
6. An admin is accusing me of vandalism and blocked my access to edit articles even though what I was doing does not constitute vandalism
7. blackberry compatibility
8. at the moment, a template in a DYK article looks haywire
9. milton keynes parish/coulcil
10. Mysterious vandalism
11. Very problematic page
12. Translations
13. Alphabetical "What links here"?
14. How can text blocks be numbered automatically?
15. Masks (1998 film)
16. Image corrupted?
17. Editing of "Boom (Containment)"
18. Other language articles
19. Need to upload a picture...
20. Vandalism
21. Is the image infobox on Wikipedia broken?
22. Summary
23. uploaded images
24. logged out while edditing
25. Posting Pages to Foreign Languages Versions of Wikipedia
26. Requesting image updates

May 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 26

1. Movuy article
2. Pioneer 11
3. Repeat vandal
4. Help in changing Text display size!
5. Do you have a widget or a web gadget?
6. Uploading a Picture with permission given by the UN
7. phonetic words
8. social upliftment funding for western cape south africa
9. My username does not work i Think
10. Mysteriously, the last edit in this page does not show
11. Show only BOT edits
12. help so my text is not delete
13. Deleting old username from talk page
14. Suggestion box
15. A concept with double meanings
16. Full Page History Download
17. I quit!
18. Unsuccessful adding links
19. General Aristide Razu(can't find the article I made)

May 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 27

1. Photo gallery
2. Avoiding Wrongful Association With Disruptive IP (Via CheckUser)
3. Help
4. Purpose of Category Modification
5. Help With
6. Piped Character
7. Why you ban us
8. Searching with Vector skin
9. Emailing the company to ask them to help update/expand their own page
10. Creating a new infobox
11. Correction of information on our organization.
12. Hidden text in the new design
13. Rfc/u listing
14. Re-use of articles
15. Number of articles in subcategories
16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_%28Ciara_song%29
17. Decision on submitted article
18. Does the subject of an article have the final say?
19. Transferring images to Commons?
20. I can't add a title to the collapsable sections on my user page
21. spam
22. Report Abuse
23. Phantom subcategory
24. CHAT
25. Uploading a photograph
26. Katrina Lynn Shoe & Bag Collection

May 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 28

1. Help required with Reference desk archives
2. How long does article review take?
3. Found an odd article that covers a lot of political and science ground, figured I'd mention it here
4. Being logged out
5. please anyone who knows
6. DYK entry, Dwight, Illinois. Prince Albert
7. Commercially Interested Censorship
8. How to parse (English) XML dump to extract individual wikipedia articles
9. Uploading flickr live performance photograph?
10. Userpage with category tags
11. New wikipedia page
12. How to Copyright Images Owned by a Local Government
13. False vandalism warnings from NerdyScienceDude
14. My bio
15. Readability
16. John Wayne Gacy

May 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 29

1. page deleted
2. Question about user protection
3. Centering Short Image Captions to Improve Wikipedia
4. How do I change the name of an article?
5. Referencing to wikipedia articles
6. Fix Main Text to Thumb?
7. Wikipedia Categorywise XML Dumps
8. Know how to use the parser functions? Can you look at my code?
9. New Discovery
10. Nominating pages for deletion
11. No article or section about side-exit exhaust pipes?
12. I can't find the cat tag!
13. Professor Julius A. Okojie
14. Question about deleting contributions
15. Restored file
16. NBA 2010 finals

May 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 30

1. Remove the deleting tag ?
2. Locating a company
3. Redirect
4. Rediret The Michelangelo to Taft Hotel
5. Wikipedia access from BlackBerry Internet browser not working
6. unable to access diffrent language in cellphone
7. Sales extension counter
8. Suggest Salting of Deleted Page(s)?
9. How Do I create a userbox for my profile???
10. Healer; Merriam-Webster's definition; 1. One who heals 2. Christian Science Practitioner
11. Citing newspapers from Google News Archive
12. Change of the HTML-page-title, for Wikipedia pages, from vector.js ?
13. authors
14. Triple Entries

May 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 31

1. Please delete
2. Infobox on geographical articles.
3. Company Information profit/loss up/down arrows in red and green
4. contributing photo to bio page
5. Request that an article be deleted
6. Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison
7. Strange location for an article
8. RfA tool
9. proposed deletion
10. Posting info about a new invention at Wikipedia
11. Benny Hinn
12. fyi
13. OTRS question
14. Legal threat?