Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/October 2011

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October 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 1

1. Finding out about deleted article XtreemOS
2. does wikipedia spam you?
3. Complicated contributions
4. Tryed to add the following links
5. Abuse Filter
6. THE CASPIAN HORSE
7. person reported missing that has not been missing
8. I can't access mobile.wikipedia.org since October 1, 2011. My browser gives me a parser error.
9. Editing
10. Template trouble
11. Username Eio
12. How many attempts to log in allowed?
13. template collapse-show

October 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 2

1. case tools
2. Luddenham, Kent, England - Luddenham, New South Wales, Australia - Wrong Links
3. Pages incorrectly shown as read only
4. Issues with alignment at WP:MEDCAB
5. Patriot Missile
6. Error in my Wikipedia Entry
7. Financial help
8. I Cant see my page when i google search
9. Identify last entry
10. U.S. NPS photos
11. Periodic table
12. Red print
13. Infobox all screwed up
14. London City Airport article
15. America's Next Top Model....
16. Table of contents disappeared from my user talkpage
17. An event that happened during WWII that I can find no reference to.
18. Name a Star Memorial
19. Edit Not Working

October 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 3

1. Does anyone have any other information about Sonny Bonos family back in detroit, Michigan area?
2. Account and article information
3. Redirecting an article
4. Use image in English Wiki. which has been uploaded to another language Wikip.
5. Mulatto
6. citation provided for Nietsche's aphorism on "Kindness":
7. Polite request for help with question numeration
8. Render Server Error since October 2, 2011
9. Messed up a table
10. Ottawa Fire Department
11. Talk:McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II non-U.S. operators
12. Colorado Springs Crusaders
13. Luzern
14. Libelous/Slanderous entry
15. Can I change a redirect?
16. LOGIN TROUBLE
17. The Play button does not work on IE 9
18. Added a refrence
19. Need expert in South Africa that can help with Wikipedia.
20. name entered in her deatils are not correct
21. Good faith user who writes only in Spanish
22. Represenative Les Gara

October 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 4

1. Image upload request?
2. Can the 1969 film 'Alfred the Great' be purchased anywhere?
3. Plea for Henrik's 'Page View Statistics'
4. False and misleading information
5. White Hart pub Aston on Trent
6. Wikipedia-specific URL shortening service
7. Updating articles on channel
8. Welcomes and warnings
9. be bold
10. Titles
11. Review of article
12. Appropriateness of something I want to put on my userpage
13. Information not showing in the final page after saving
14. Trouble adding logo image to university infobox
15. Foreign language templates
16. article will not print
17. Chat trouble!!!
18. Year of death of Hortensia Bussi, Salvador Allende´s spouse
19. Historical places in india
20. Signature
21. Book on a 155 Howitzer
22. how to get film article titles to display in italics
23. Article submission rejected on obviously ridiculous grounds
24. Written an article, now what do I do?
25. Every pages of Wikipedia in Italian is currently blocked. Who can decide to block the whole Wikipedia?
26. What happened to the picture of the bumblebee bat?
27. book

October 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 5

1. Intricate Inflation Template help
2. Browser/editor randomly removing spaces
3. Jupiter (mythology)
4. wiktionary link template
5. Important: how to do with Wiki-Italian lang problem due an uncorrect italian government law
6. Twinkle
7. Petain
8. Rubber SGG 20 Grade
9. coupon steeling
10. Skin question
11. Show/hide template boxes
12. did my article "move"?
13. ancient maps
14. Minor edits no longer bolded
15. keith olbermann page
16. Exworks for a Mitsubishi Lancer Engine
17. Wikipedia has been obscured in Italy
18. Sept. 07, 2008 Meet The Press Senator Barrack Obama making statements about the Flag and the National Anthem
19. Help with tables
20. Copyright enquiry
21. adding a category.
22. time trevel
23. Won't save my edits
24. Internet Explorer 8 is now consistently crashing on ALL Wikipedia articles as of 04-OCT-2011
25. differences in compare selected versions
26. "Namespace" select gone from "my contributions"
27. Creating an account
28. joe arpaio
29. How to cite books easier?
30. wrong information
31. captcha
32. are references to password protected sites allowed?
33. Daniel Meltzer article
34. Change the language
35. My contribution of "adam Hats" is not displaying right.
36. Can implatation bleeding accure weeks after conception?
37. Very Weird Event

October 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 6

1. PFC CSKA Sofia in Europe article
2. Why is someone blamig me for nothing i did?
3. Searching contributions by namespace in the URL
4. My Talk page keeps crashing
5. "Mount Si High School" Page
6. 'Scrable' page
7. An error occured while trying to add page to watchlist
8. Help with a userbox
9. Freedom in Italy
10. about oxidation number of halogens
11. comprehensive guide to creating/editing pages, when and how to insert references, notations on what text needs to be bolded or italicized.
12. Creating & Editing...
13. HOME HEALTH CARE AIDE ADVICE
14. Want to use Template:Cite to cite a source cited by another source
15. The edit summary question needs answering please?
16. Wikipedia is crashing IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) on many articles, this is a new problem
17. Minus signs in time zones
18. Article on Anantanand Rambachan has been altered in ways that are constitute libel.
19. Wikipedia Mobile Beta
20. New Wiki software

October 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 7

1. what are the names in the world war Monument of Indianapolis
2. You need to fix an error
3. Fundraiser story message won't go away
4. how to annotate images for other information
5. Basic Angle called out on Lead Thread
6. set free
7. Adding pages to books.
8. Integration of Picture
9. Does mediaWiki support cross domain Gadget development?
10. Unable to remove PDF from internet that was uploaded with wiki
11. Neathergate
12. city
13. Fundraiser banner
14. Merging user accounts
15. Bunching
16. Categories appearance
17. It Gets Better Project & Youtube as a reference.
18. Opinion on image copyright appreciated
19. Error on my laptop while opening any wikipedia article
20. Piping links to Special pages
21. your web page
22. Create a template page that redirects?
23. if then else using numbers
24. Search for tagged pages and included templates.
25. Pakistani Cricketer's Imran Khan's Date of birth is wrong, year shouldn't be 1997

October 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 8

1. Ratings panel problems
2. Variations of English
3. Questions about WP:LQ
4. Updation of WP:OR#Translations and transcriptions
5. Simple English Editing
6. Noise in File:Richard W. Fisher, FRBD.gif
7. Mirror threads
8. Sortable tables stop sorting
9. Deregistering an account
10. Template:Maintained
11. Interlanguage links
12. Criticism about the decision of obscuration of the Italian Wikipedia
13. Missing move button
14. Broken Afd link on article tag??
15. Broken Links
16. Template lead not optimum
17. Fradelle
18. "as of"
19. Website Removal.
20. AfD category
21. Use of Photograph in a my Proposed book

October 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 9

1. Please remove my name from Wikipedia
2. Al Hirschfeld photo
3. Dealing with threats
4. password reset or compromised account problem
5. Cannot re-upload a recently deleted file
6. dvorak online typing
7. What is the name of this sign: # ?
8. Why "Contents" cannot be collapsed?
9. Skins other than Vector not working on desktop machine
10. Can I still opt out of ACH deposits of my checks for bill payment?
11. Does a redirect satisfy a condition for deletion?
12. Article: Battle of Franklin, TN 1864
13. "You have new messages" pop-up desktop notification for Chrome
14. Mouseover not working
15. Liscence for image of something I built which contains very visible parts supplied which are trademarked
16. Lost subpage

October 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 10

1. table sorting
2. Possible wrong image
3. Articles that link to an image
4. Redirecting to wrong country edition
5. hallo Bruderrrrrr :*** :****
6. virus on computer
7. Shortcuts
8. The book History of Commonwealth Engineering by John Dunn
9. TeenScreen merge request
10. Reliable Sources
11. What is the talk page for Special:Upload?
12. My Removed Article
13. on what ellipsoid are the coordinates of Wikipedia?
14. Footnote code
15. Richard Winsor Biography
16. How to make a list of contents?

October 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 11

1. Is non-free image proper?
2. not being allowed to upload a file
3. article on dead island console game
4. Wrongly deleting article because of copyright infringment (it was published but I am copyright holder)
5. Search Photos Sgt. Robert J. Lingo
6. Determining the source of a huge spike in "Page View Statistics".
7. Error when attempting to create new book
8. Seriously broken article
9. Chitra Singh, w/o Jagjit Singh
10. David Willey
11. Adding book title to a Further Reading section
12. Editing name
13. Missing User page
14. Dangerous Links
15. getting a page published
16. Musicals/theatre
17. Mata Hari Page
18. Printing suggestion
19. spam on my page
20. Communicating with Wiki admins
21. americas

October 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 12

1. family tree coding
2. locate
3. flocking
4. Adding new product to List of object-relational mapping software article
5. about the article "Macedonians_(ethnic_group)"
6. Request for translation
7. Use of first name vs. family name in a biographical wiki
8. How to add course number for APSWI?
9. Invalid time error in Template:ArticleHistory
10. Delete a thread on a Talk Page
11. The line does not respect the right margin.
12. Malware warning
13. How do I stop someone repeatedly tampering with material I have placed on a WikiPedia page and deleting it
14. Wikipedia editting seems to be made by programmers, for programmers
15. Edit/update
16. Company Info
17. Receive The Signpost on a page other than my talkpage
18. Watchlist question
19. Hanks
20. Offer and acceptance
21. identying author of subject or person

October 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 13

1. MfD question
2. Wide self-propomoting links added
3. Lost !
4. Move article back mainspace from incubator
5. How to create page?
6. VNUS
7. Uterus-like mass
8. [File:|frameless|alt= above photo in infobox]]
9. How can I go into a random article within a certain category?
10. Warkany syndrome - Arcadian
11. railway in stone mills (moscow road)
12. Dennis Meyer
13. Where is the feedback page for the beta mobile site? Might I suggest not using javascript until its presence in the mobile browser is proven?
14. AK-47
15. Problem in js
16. Cannot view Wikipedia in Vietnamese
17. Moving comment of another user at a third users talk page to a new section
18. Tagging pictures

October 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 14

1. Ligature problems
2. timberland shoes
3. FLOODING IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE YEARS 2008, 2009, 2010 AND 2011
4. Is this file blacklisted or something?
5. Breach of license?
6. Biography importance scale and the science & academia workgroup
7. Error in revenue of syntel
8. Hiding "ratings" section
9. Shortcut theft?
10. Reviews
11. How do you upload images to Wikipedia?
12. Pc running slow
13. 2 Qs
14. Article draft
15. Lawful excuses in tort
16. Far too huge break between paragraphs

October 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 15

1. Category for Cuban American
2. Font color?
3. germany as germany have never won the world cup (football) ?
4. Fibrocartilaginous mesenchymoma of bone
5. New project
6. Active voice passive voice in English
7. Find a logo in page markup
8. Unable to log in after numerous attempts.
9. Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle entry
10. can i start a biography on a photographer
11. Search problem
12. Download as PDF: Image not centered
13. Also log me in to other wikis of the Wikimedia Foundation
14. Title change
15. Title displays in a weird way
16. Rights of a liscense holder to describe a photo in an article
17. WP:NOTFORUM warning
18. Moving an archived discussion from VPR to VPRPP
19. Archive bots

October 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 16

1. publication of wikipedia article edited by someone else
2. Page Header is MISSPELLED
3. I tried to update a page but I don't know how to correctly do it.
4. Titles are not appearing in italics.
5. Change The Username
6. italian Wp
7. User created file perhaps incorrectly tagged as non-free
8. best data card (price+speed)
9. Bug in ISO citation style in spanish
10. How do I find the top Facebook Fan pages on Facebook?
11. Robert Elegant
12. Census-designated place . . .
13. Images
14. unable to use embedded ogg media files on smartphone devices
15. Template shortcut
16. Help me
17. How can I contribute ton Wikipedia?
18. Finding inline interwiki links?
19. Mobile View does not work on Windows Phone IE 9 Mobile, or IE 9 on Windows 7 PC.

October 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 17

1. Dutch
2. Bending The Rules In Certain Medical Articles?
3. I want to make a short comment about one article.
4. Reference Question
5. Lawyers Capacity
6. deleted editing
7. PLEOMORPHIC ANAPLASTIC NEUROBLASTOMA
8. Archive bot use
9. Confirm e-mail address - fails - invalid code?
10. about bharat ratna
11. Odd text in AFD log
12. Alan j morgan
13. Gail Sheridan, actor
14. Wikipedia down for 2 days - but only for me!
15. web question
16. Incorrect image of person: how to replace?
17. TRIED TO REPAIR BLIND LINK...... in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Higby_Schweitzer
18. TRANSLATE WIKIPEDIA IN SINDHI LANGUAGE
19. Hakim Din Muhammad Junejo (Akram Borirai ) Sindh

October 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 18

1. Writing an article about a project I am working on
2. international Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering-IJEE
3. update DETAIL OF THE GATEWAY POLYTECHNIC SAAPADE IN YOUR POLYTECHNICS DIRECTORTY
4. Custer hit
5. How to provide an external link if the URL has "["?
6. Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Paola_Davoli
7. Files for Deletion
8. I am not accepted as member from wikipedia. I am pure mathematician and16:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
9. Can't see images.
10. cant edit david beckhams' internet external links section
11. Wikipedia content displaying on Facebook
12. My article was not accepted
13. Children's version of Wikipedia?
14. Talk Page tagging
15. Editing a New Article

October 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 19

1. Wish to submit an article for deletion based on lack of notability
2. user talk page discussion
3. Is their an oil essey on the Brent Crude oil
4. Semi-protected pages
5. help me with footnotes
6. A page listing me, deadends with my link
7. Pull article back to edit only - not public
8. baker, nevada
9. Time display
10. Please remove tag
11. I want to buy some LED Bulbs, but I don't know how can find a reliable online store.
12. How do I add a Tag
13. Way to retrieve only the top section of an article?
14. 2 pages with the same title, but with slightly different information
15. Opta page
16. How To Use "Talk" page
17. My Watchlist
18. Wikipedia on Andriod; no internet
19. Incorrect info on Western Province United FC
20. Dragon book
21. sending out multiple notices to talk pages
22. error on Beauty and the Beast page
23. Tabs gone "List of NCAA college football rivalry games" page
24. Converting
25. Question regarding notability
26. Using lists associated with surname pages
27. DYK template help
28. PDF icon in external links
29. Difficulty with reference list
30. Suggesting a Biography Article About the Artist Lari Pittman
31. Image Upload
32. iCIMS wiki
33. List of blues musicians
34. A question that had no heading

October 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 20

1. WP Atlanta Braves
2. WP:FOUR achievement ribbons
3. Is Wikmedia helping Wikipedia?
4. Lord ??? comforteth his troops
5. Creative commons image
6. Add a third link to the two existing links of magnetic "Toys" in the "Magnet" article
7. IPA Rendering
8. Altina Schinasi
9. How to remove quality flags on a Wikipedia page
10. List of Companies in Atlanta
11. AND vs PHRASE
12. Column width on a table
13. monobook.js editing tools not a working
14. Has Preview got mucked up or is it me?
15. spammy external links in wikipedia whose language I ignore
16. Creating a new entry on a person who hasn't received much attention

October 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 21

1. Re-establishing speedy deleted article name
2. Hindi logo - reads "CHIKRI" instead of WIKI
3. Question regarding sources/citations
4. Deletion of article Lotte Pakistan PTA
5. I have deleted a part of Vijay Mallya's webpage by mistake
6. Richard Davisson/ bio
7. Message at top of editing page.
8. Amy nuttall
9. User name not recognize
10. Multiple people with same name
11. adding something to my page
12. Donation in INR
13. HELP! I fear that I have done something wrong!

October 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 22

1. Editing an article based on magazines
2. Contact Wikipedia
3. Error
4. Talk pages: out of topic discussions - should we archive or simply delete them?
5. Double-neck guitar player Ian Ethan
6. Under-edited articles
7. miscellaneous
8. why was the reference i added removed
9. Creating an article with no references
10. Capitalization error in the Title
11. Alternative for Reflinks
12. Tab:Talk or Discussion
13. article shows old version
14. How to restrict access to a user subpage

October 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 23

1. Move page back to original titled page.
2. Adding images
3. Are two references enough for a biography article?
4. Changing article name
5. Frank Sinatra's song
6. Logged out
7. Tink
8. Exquisite Scents article deleted

October 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 24

1. Subjects of a Photo I took.
2. Chapter URL appears in long, open form while using cite book template
3. Replace and Update an Image
4. Theory of relativity
5. Bad Link
6. text label for external link?
7. whom template giving wrong output
8. Policy re Table of Contents of periodicals; use of database
9. Hearing Loops
10. Photo/logo thumbnail
11. Lycoming County incorrect seal
12. international beneficiary funds
13. How can I re-instate a deleted page after userifying it?
14. User talk:74.114.172.106
15. So frustrated with password recovery.
16. Rangeblock search
17. sylvia
18. My account has been removed
19. Seraching for EugeneOregon Department of Transportation Office
20. How to recover a deleted wiki page?
21. Archiving a page
22. Identity theft

October 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 25

1. How Do I add a title or name of an article in big bold letters?
2. mistake and a correction
3. Naming conventions and historical spellings
4. Who is Jasper33
5. Thomas Ball
6. publishing my page
7. Please help with formatting graphics
8. New children's book about Michael Jackson
9. How to add forms to a wiki?
10. Add information
11. Would You Be Interested In 3d Representations...
12. DVD/CD-rom drivers
13. Translating a Polish Wikipedia article into English
14. Suspected sockpuppetry
15. BCE or BC?
16. Error - Fisher Nuts on Mixed Nuts Page
17. WP article on organization AWCI
18. Page Harrassment
19. Untitled, please make headlines in future
20. TUI Travel
21. Canadian charity?

October 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 26

1. Sick of the green words and the popups
2. http://www.heraldic.org/heraldry.htm
3. editor removing article claiming copyright issues which are not correct
4. Where to get feedback on bulk-creation of redirects
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Burke
6. retrieve
7. Query on copyright deletion...
8. My newly created article about David Kenny has disappeared before I got a chance to add to it
9. canceling my sirius radio
10. Search box help?
11. About Lord Mahalakshmi & Kuberan
12. cleanup Ancient Mesopotamia template question
13. Romantic painter
14. Delray Beach
15. Cant Find Page I was Making
16. How do I add geo-coordinates to a location?
17. Photo
18. Carlos Alhinho
19. After a page is split and the original becomes redundant.
20. What is the 'Article of the Day' editor's fascination with Australian warships?

October 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 27

1. creating a thumbnail of a previous version of an image
2. Installing a wikipedia page for Semantic Designs: notability?
3. List of Theraphosidae species error i'm unable to edit.
4. How do i enter a charter service
5. Being a Software Engineer
6. Mickie James/Nick Aldis
7. Rudolph Cartier
8. Please make headers in future
9. Problem locating my article
10. Is there a way to configure my account so red talk page links don't open in the editor?
11. Agoston Haraszthy
12. How to create a wiki page
13. Grant Money
14. Created Account, Did not receive Comformation eMail
15. Magazine publishing byline as third-party source
16. Mobile site - language links
17. want a Rss account for online shopping for grocerie and products. Can you help me?
18. How to avoid breaking WP:CIVIL
19. Cannot replace an old artist photograph on the artist's page.
20. Lydia Lloyd Henry's birthday
21. references come up saying "no title". What shall I do?Art Experts (talk) 23:10, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
22. Getting red warning boxes at the top of my Wiki page
23. illicit amendment to an entry

October 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 28

1. The Article "Gabdulkhi Akhatov"
2. Lack of subpaging in WP namespace
3. Creating and publishing a new article
4. Lists
5. Uploading a photo / image
6. Rollback issue
7. User name and article name
8. Not-quite-original research awkwardness
9. Page Heading Should be Aricent Group
10. Jones Convenience Stores
11. Tagging an image file as a copyvio.
12. Legislative Court Document
13. what is wwe wrestler-the Big Shows address for fans?
14. Sudan at the 2012 Olympics
15. Editnotices
16. proposed that this article be deleted

October 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 29

1. Referring a person to be placed on Wikipedia
2. Washboard Jungle
3. Basic information of alloy E911 NF616 HCM12A
4. blocked access to wiki page by unauthorized agent
5. Problem with article: Scientific plagiarism in India
6. request people from my address book to fill missing details
7. glitch with the mobile site for phones, PSPs and other devices
8. Uploading screenshots of Amiga games?
9. pontypool vs Maoris 1927
10. The Article "Gabdulkhi Akhatov"
11. Looking for a tag

October 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 30

1. Deleting articles
2. Please help
3. Lists: Commas or en dashes?
4. Blood Atonement
5. Tjteetrt dalton
6. Font for mathematical formulas stored as images
7. Licensing template for a non-free image of a building
8. problem in editing Wikipedia site
9. My watchlist
10. Word
11. Broken tool?
12. search engine broken after update 1.12 to 1.17
13. Incorrect reference on Alexandrian Wicca
14. talkpage ITN template

October 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 October 31

1. Delete all my contributions?
2. PAUL BARRESI
3. What were you thinking.
4. Changes not saved
5. Talk pages on watchlist
6. Circumvent WP:COUNCIL/P
7. How to de-activate my account
8. Scripts
9. Help:Searching
10. edit of talk by layman