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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 1

  1. Issue archiving certain EW.com articles using webcitation
  2. A7 speedy deletion...why?
  3. Editing Wikis and it showing up on the Facebook page
  4. Having trouble adding a header image correctly to an infobox template
  5. Re the removal of my article on Frederick Tibbenham
  6. Holidaysafe
  7. Check I'm not spamming
  8. GA
  9. New astray template
  10. Fix redirects post-move
  11. a copyeditor for me
  12. i had a call off the ombudsman to say i have won my case
  13. Placement of my Wikipedia entry in Google search results
  14. College Athletics pages -- team rosters -- Adding (W) to the LEGEND box and Q re: how to use the LEGEND codes
  15. How to change a photo on a page
  16. re- Frank Slide
  17. Co-opted link
  18. Translation copyright conflict
  19. Timing of controversial changes

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 2

  1. Dates federal budget was signed by presidents
  2. Racism and Pan-Turkism
  3. password dose not match
  4. Mark Ring Wales Rugby Union International
  5. Wrong spelling of the first name of Xhemail Mustafa
  6. wrong Chase Daniels
  7. Need help with the unblock template
  8. Profession added to Biographical Article
  9. Check-user
  10. Login problems
  11. Company article - infobox or prose?
  12. Edit Conflicts when Un-doing my edits
  13. Font conversion?!

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 3

  1. why was A great reference book deleted
  2. Reporting Users
  3. Advice re marine boiler needed
  4. How to add my organisation details
  5. Peter Bodo, sports writer and blogger about Tennis
  6. Sorry
  7. Please help with a Merge
  8. Company info
  9. Article declined, reviewer doesn't answer/talk
  10. Dead Birds film by Robert Gardner
  11. Seems like there's no help for me, unfortunately
  12. Alert message is unfair and should be removed
  13. Editing
  14. messages
  15. 100 questions by FACEBOOK members asked to anyone seeking political office
  16. Autoconfirmed question
  17. abot factor

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 4

  1. Ip address
  2. Rosa Diamante
  3. Wrap in ToC
  4. Editors/groups with an agenda
  5. Santa Paula Airport
  6. Changing incorrect information on my profile.
  7. Place for discussing changes to watchlist style script
  8. some queries
  9. Request for advice
  10. Problems with other users
  11. Mr. Wales contact info
  12. Talk:Tiger versus lion
  13. A full list of LaTeX commands
  14. Request for feedback
  15. Python
  16. Is there a place to discuss articles on Wikipedia?

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 5

  1. Regarding FLC and FAC
  2. data flow diagram
  3. Caravanim
  4. HOW DO I GET A PAGE ABOUT ME ON WIKIPEDIA?
  5. Can redirects be ProDed?
  6. How to clarify this?
  7. Starmania (TV series)
  8. I would like to recreate an article
  9. BIO on CLAUDE RAINS
  10. Help with finding a journal article
  11. Problems with Bulla Kutta Page
  12. Narula Institute of Technology
  13. Why does {{ESp|m}} expand to the wrong message?
  14. Building a new article.

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 6

  1. Bad link on "List of Futurologists" Page
  2. Foundary factory
  3. PLEASE HELP
  4. Location
  5. List of rail-road related periodicals
  6. What to do if you suspect an editor may be mentally ill or incompetent
  7. Move Title
  8. New Wikipedia Format?
  9. Primary sources
  10. User Mdann52 keeps deleting a page I created that needs to be made
  11. The Silo - Information Was Removed
  12. <math>fint</math> in wikipedia
  13. Disagreement about using Cite templates
  14. What to do?
  15. STRATHAIRD ESTATE ,ISLE OF SKYE
  16. Víctor Jara

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 7

  1. Why do my edits/external links disappear?
  2. AWB help
  3. Disappearing Box-with-an-Arrow
  4. Production
  5. Categories "Art genres" vs "Art movements"
  6. for zooming wiki page
  7. Regarding 2012 mesh terms
  8. Userbox
  9. Missing Article
  10. Question about formatting references
  11. Wikipedia XML data
  12. himalayas
  13. TRAIN TO GANDHIDHAM/BHUJ.
  14. "sortable" table does not sort
  15. URGENTLY NEEDS CHANGING
  16. Taylor Swift
  17. Sir Arthur Edward Trevor Benson Colonial Governor Nothern Rhodesia
  18. Redirection - Iestism
  19. Redirection - Jubilee School
  20. changing/uploading a photograph
  21. Avant Garde filmmakers
  22. My image

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 8

  1. Jacob Michelson
  2. New Page
  3. Michael Blakey
  4. Review
  5. famous residents frankfort indiaba
  6. basic skills wiki
  7. One Ton Cup in English
  8. Editing my watchlist
  9. death of Aurangzeb
  10. cannot write an article about myself
  11. Vandal report
  12. Broken link
  13. Username problem
  14. Referemce on talk page
  15. Button or box
  16. Uploading image help
  17. Disputed statement
  18. Random page in category not working
  19. Influence matrix
  20. Finding the source of a formula image by LaTex
  21. Protected pages of Republican politicians
  22. MAJOR Wikipedia injustice

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 9

  1. All in info bar
  2. Help
  3. Where I can find a template for requesting plot summary of articles for television series and novel?
  4. National Historic Fleet Core Collection
  5. refs
  6. How to use a first-letter-lowercase Username
  7. Wanna to write URDU font
  8. archived before answer
  9. Create a company's page
  10. Width of Infobox tennis biography template
  11. SPA
  12. Table sorting broken?
  13. CBS Morning Problem
  14. Proper Name Appearing in Lowercase
  15. Heroes Welcome UK
  16. Help on offer
  17. Error on page
  18. Wikipedia Hong Kong
  19. Removing "unreferenced stub" tag?
  20. Deleted page still appears
  21. hepatitis c
  22. how do I create a user box?
  23. Just a quick headsup
  24. Correct article title for Katerina Bailey
  25. What does the olympic symbol next to a listed athlete mean?
  26. Disambiguation for Sauk language
  27. Ranks in Tables
  28. New user needs help
  29. Unable to get a locator map to work

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 10

  1. Adding my Gamer Tag
  2. Table
  3. Uploading a photograph
  4. marketswiki
  5. Michael Schofield: Researcher and Campaigner
  6. Pertaining to the United States of America page.
  7. Page Vandalism
  8. jim varney article
  9. Allowing the PLAY on words within Wiki
  10. Weird unified login problem
  11. Son of BOSS
  12. Is it legitimate to edit others' sandbox? + A question about AFC
  13. "Celtic Cross-Roads", 2003 - Martyn Richards
  14. BBC trying to sensationalise Wikipedia
  15. I have uploaded a picture but can not place it where I want.
  16. Original research?

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 11

  1. Can someone delete Template:Spoken_Wikipedia-n
  2. GA reviews
  3. How to add a redirect link to Wikipedia?
  4. Kindly Advice!!!
  5. Units of Measurement
  6. What do I do next?
  7. Thomas F. Murphy
  8. Brief announcement: More opportunities for you to access free research databases
  9. Mpharmacy pass class eligibilty colleges
  10. the kamba
  11. Someone keeps changing my correct edit into the incorrect statistic
  12. Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 12

  1. Translators
  2. Removing "needs cleanup"
  3. Indus Script and Indus Valley Civilization
  4. Fair use for statues?
  5. frozen iris
  6. why kashmir is showed as territory claimed by india on wiki?
  7. Translators (ATTN: PHANTOM STEVE)
  8. The Prospect Before Us
  9. Exporting templates to a private wiki
  10. Block log
  11. how to burn a cd with copyright protection
  12. Reusing Wikipedia article content in a private wiki
  13. Missing reference in Chinese Wikipedia 'Hong Kong Tramways'article
  14. Firefox on Kubuntu link funktion
  15. Sources and cleanup tag
  16. the footnote appears in the text, but nothing shows up in the reference information
  17. Product is dead, but no official word so nothing to document?
  18. Flood myth
  19. YOU ARE A LIFESAVER IF CAN HELP THIS OLD(83 DUCK)
  20. User:Michelle19660620/Jan Hofmeyer Community Services
  21. Brown University people entry literature

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 13

  1. This page was last modified on 30 December 2010 at 21:56.
  2. How access "deleted" pages?
  3. Rename of "The Qube" back to "Chase Tower"
  4. Italicized article titles?
  5. I want someone to help me write a biography About a Notable Music Producer in my country
  6. What's the namespace number for articles starting with Wikipedia: (e.g. Wikipedia:No_original_research)
  7. problems posting first article
  8. Article declined, reviewer doesn't answer/talk
  9. Hello
  10. Natalia Kuchinskaya
  11. Archive usage when first citing source?
  12. Same person keeps posting libelous material on my site
  13. Uploading a photo
  14. Bare link question
  15. How can I create a new page?
  16. external links
  17. USAF Pararescue Beret
  18. pindown inquiry
  19. Translating existing articles into English
  20. How can I create content and upload it on wikipedia?
  21. Bethel University (tennessee) page
  22. editing my page to include updated source information
  23. Content not showing up on AfD
  24. Internet Explorer wipedout

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 14

  1. Tone – Gossip! Need Help!
  2. What is wrong with an article about a book series?
  3. Mahua Roy Chowdhury
  4. Changing copyright status of uploaded image
  5. Economy of Wikipedia
  6. Miscellenious question
  7. in the news
  8. Need help to removed red-links.
  9. Linking from a Wikipedia page to my business website
  10. File deletion
  11. II Field Force Viet Nam Hq Co
  12. Article edit count?
  13. Language addition

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 15

  1. Number of visitors
  2. IE versus FireFox brower
  3. Organic cotton clothes.
  4. Declined AfC submissions
  5. Block me.
  6. Jack Brabham
  7. Title change query
  8. Angela Gregovic
  9. Wikipedia Language in Coded Messages
  10. Is there any way to see "Feedbacks linked" or "Related feedbacks" just like Special:RecentChangesLinked.
  11. footballer
  12. can i request a spi on myself?
  13. likeness law
  14. Providing Sources
  15. I work for a government agency. The law was recently changed regarding the student services we provide. We need to edit the page.
  16. Article Title Incorrect
  17. Must every article have a lead?
  18. Exceeding template limits - what should I look for?
  19. Noforum restrictions
  20. Problems with viewing the Computing Reference Desk with Firefox on Windows 7
  21. Cannot Log In

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 16

  1. Submitting a 7-in-1 DYK hook
  2. Ambrose!
  3. Ambrose! From a band called The Leaves.
  4. Redonda Stamps- Whence?
  5. Odd Seach Result
  6. My talk page
  7. Why is a template and sig not showing on an article talk page?
  8. Is this a reliable source?
  9. Obtaining images for Death of Tia Sharp
  10. How do I license two Wikipedia images with my own image.
  11. Original research/computer example
  12. How to create an external link to a wikipedia page and section?
  13. Link added but name needs to appear instead of number assigned.
  14. Repeating items on the Help Desk
  15. Homotopy retract
  16. Cannot login
  17. Another way to assist - responding to article feedback
  18. re ww.2 MIA pilot NORMAN WHITTREDGE, shot down over Kakeroma Island 1945.
  19. ROM 5:12 should be moved to Rom 5:12, but the page already exists
  20. Questions Needing to Be Answered
  21. Paul Ryan

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 17

  1. Multiple Infoboxes
  2. Do I create draft article in 'user page' or 'sandbox'?
  3. ISBN
  4. Indira Parthasarthy
  5. Image provided by a company for use in a press pack
  6. Internal consistency error
  7. word pronounciation
  8. Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
  9. Declined Article
  10. Unnecessary italic title
  11. family history
  12. Churches
  13. Lenzie
  14. Hydrocephalus article
  15. Frank Pace (TV producer) and multiple issues template and COI
  16. Two questions about the Chipman NB page
  17. Trailers/Teasers in film articles?
  18. Trouble uploading

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 18

  1. David Friede
  2. how to find out size of a page after citations etc took out
  3. Wikibin
  4. probable link towards a virus on the 'Quoridor' page
  5. 1.0 assessment chart seems to be forbidden for me, any help?
  6. how to find hcard information
  7. BOT
  8. Requests for file renaming
  9. Making a new Rugby Union Flag Template.
  10. Spamlist on preview

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 19

  1. Help with submitting an edited article
  2. CHANGE DISPLAYTITLE OF GAYLORD DUBOIS PAGE TO GAYLORD DU BOIS
  3. Screwy layout for ordered lists
  4. New Features
  5. replacing an old logo with a new one
  6. Question for administrator
  7. Article submitted for review
  8. Thank you, Jarkeld, for help on New Article for Review
  9. Changing User Names While Article is Being reviewed

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 20

  1. Listing page for Hungary in the Olympic games
  2. File deleted for lack of license
  3. Templates and expansion depth
  4. highest score for spider solitaire
  5. About a deleted page
  6. Edit please
  7. Reference formatting
  8. Help with appearance of Wikipedia (font size) in Mozilla Firefox
  9. sources
  10. outdated information please updated
  11. Setting Background color for Table Header Row
  12. MHA logo
  13. declined submission - style
  14. Could it be possible to watch move logs, deletion logs etc. separately?
  15. Edit count numbers are different even after subtracting deleted edits
  16. A new article
  17. How do I submit photos?
  18. Doreen Giuliano's page was vandalized
  19. I got a message saying I edited something (or someone at my ISP address did) yet I did not, what is going on?
  20. Trusts

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 21

  1. Bo Guagua's nationality is UNKNOWN.
  2. Gary Kong Elkerton
  3. After translate, it become blocks...
  4. s...m...l
  5. Trying to link to Nick Harkaway
  6. comms between submarines and frigates in WW2 (known as SST)
  7. Bellevue Washington article
  8. Partial histomerge required
  9. Follow up question:history merging always be done by sysop
  10. Frank E. Snodgrass
  11. Iron Man: Armored Legacy
  12. How to strike comments
  13. deleted while creating first page
  14. Images
  15. Uploading photos to already existing pages.
  16. Importing a template to a non-WMF project

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 22

  1. Location of MediaWiki page for account creation
  2. New stuff
  3. Deleting preliminary article from userspace
  4. Dead citation
  5. Will our website suffer a lower ranking if we have a wikipedia page about us?
  6. BibISBN in reflist not visible
  7. digger indian
  8. inter wiki links
  9. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 22#.7B.7Btl.7Cunreferenced.7D.7D_tags_on_dates.3F|{{unreferenced}} tags on dates?]]
  10. Single purpose RfA
  11. Atalaya in Huntington Beach State Park
  12. Registering a village
  13. Most up to date image used in lead of BLP
  14. How to request a page
  15. Default activation of the search field on: Main Page
  16. Naming Children of celebs
  17. My user page
  18. Notability of software
  19. Broken image
  20. Missing article.
  21. tables
  22. want to add wiki search in my won web site
  23. Irrelevant link
  24. Uploading source material
  25. Portuguese rule in Malvan (India)
  26. Using multiple IP accounts
  27. Compressing notes at top of page
  28. I want russian country names as in url (appear country in russian) can you provide a list?
  29. Inline Citations
  30. change of info
  31. Change new user's username...

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 23

  1. IPA guideline
  2. World War II
  3. Help me with public domain copyright help me
  4. health problem
  5. Geelong West Football Club
  6. Someone responsible for this?
  7. Dougie Brimson entry - changes
  8. Editor acronyms/codes are not covered in the Wikipedia Glossary, makes discussing with them difficult.
  9. VolkerRail
  10. Coby Electronics
  11. Problems with editing an article of someone I represent
  12. Page not updating?
  13. stats on pages in a category
  14. Proper header
  15. Students altering my bio page
  16. Table formatting
  17. Ken Russell

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 24

  1. Joan Hinde
  2. Ulrich W. Schiefer
  3. Biased P.O.V.
  4. Article-on Rodney Ontong written by www.walesonline.co.uk/topicsrodneyontong
  5. Two unrelated articles under the same URL
  6. here tis
  7. Harriet Jessica Phoebe Bywater (Hetti), was born on the 10th September, 1994 in Reigate, Surrey
  8. Article about Dr. Neema Moraveji
  9. Follow up question
  10. Verify source
  11. Highway sign on exit lists
  12. Triple crown nomination
  13. Using Template:Double image within Template:Multiple image
  14. Deletion.
  15. search for a winebago to rent
  16. sortable wikitable
  17. Phantom categories

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 25

  1. Handicap card replacement
  2. Table border colour
  3. WP:ALT
  4. Unified login with Commons
  5. API Limits?
  6. permission to use photo
  7. I want wikipedia to prove to us that Bo Guagua has a chinese passport.
  8. wikipdea admins are vandalizing your own page!
  9. Bonjour
  10. Code needed for a specific template
  11. Specific Year Quotes
  12. Scott Joplin
  13. Images in Wikipedia will not enlarge
  14. New section tab gone
  15. editing my page
  16. name blacklisted?
  17. Links in page not working
  18. Taishan
  19. rename page
  20. How to register an email?

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 26

  1. Flag of Yugoslavia vanished?
  2. Sue barker
  3. Nevado dl Tolima
  4. Akamai University is Accredited
  5. Autoarchiving of urls
  6. Problem with tooltips
  7. dominic blizzard born 2nd september 1985
  8. Script problems
  9. One article about two different record labels of the same name
  10. Problems updating our business logo
  11. Files for speedy deletion — notification template in infoboxes?
  12. Essay or guidline wanted
  13. Userbox alignment
  14. Request to review + undo an edit
  15. Why doesn't my template work?

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 27

  1. Can I use info from this site on mine
  2. File added in Wikipedia instead of Wikimedia Commons
  3. Crystal Ball from the past template?
  4. Nectar Design - COI - help seeking a community editor
  5. Help with title and map marking
  6. Alex Smith Cleveland Browns Born In Two Places
  7. Wikipedia displays without any formatting? (FF 14.0.1, Win7 64/OSX 10.6)
  8. Edit to the semi-protected page “Johann Sebastian Bach"?
  9. Found something, and then forgot the title
  10. New license required template at Wikisource article Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: A World that Stands as One
  11. How to gain approval for first page - submitted but no responses
  12. amazement surpassed only by frustration
  13. Are there any pages that are hidden from "ordinary" Wikipedians?
  14. Ro is short/slang for Camaro
  15. Moved page not working on facebook
  16. Uploading Picture
  17. Cinnamon Bear
  18. The Ropers
  19. Map Creation
  20. New page and can't find messages

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 28

  1. Main page vandalism
  2. WikiProjects
  3. Edit warning question
  4. How do I remove my IP address from the revision history?
  5. facts about shakargarh
  6. Is including a screenshot of a movie in an article about an actor considered fair use
  7. Challenging a closing
  8. Parsing a math formula fails
  9. Removing a Redirect
  10. wikireader does not work?
  11. Verifying Articles
  12. Finding incoming links
  13. Scott Moorhouse incorrect facts

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 29

  1. Can unregistered users create user pages?
  2. User:Root
  3. Tried to write a Wikipedia article about my school
  4. Is this notable?
  5. Wiki loves monuments
  6. The Student Room - editing this page
  7. Error when rendering NYC book as PDF
  8. template position
  9. Cannot edit note
  10. Sourcing a statement about university consortium
  11. Jimi Hendrix locked page contains factual error
  12. Representative of institution needs to upload image but is not autoconfirmed

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 30

  1. Clicking "edit" gives blank page
  2. How to propose an article for 'Wikipedia:In the news'
  3. Adding links into the text
  4. OJJDP and NIJ Facebook Pages
  5. Problems with editing and inserting a reference
  6. Reminder service
  7. Namibia
  8. GAs and FAs by length
  9. File requests
  10. Changing Article Name
  11. Is there a noticeboard on WP for seeking help with finding sources?
  12. Charlie Siem
  13. Book creator: Can't add linked wikipages, can't add chapters, and can't drag-and-drop article to change their order
  14. Afrikaans speaking Wikipedians
  15. length for GAs
  16. I am corresponding
  17. My ~ ~ ~ ~ fails to provide link to my userpage or talk page?
  18. new login

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 August 31

  1. Special:Export/SynchronizationStartTime
  2. incategory
  3. Translation to English
  4. Wikipedia:Long-term abuse
  5. What's happened to the revision history?
  6. Summary box
  7. Correct information being deleted/false info being inserted
  8. I submitted content to publish weeks ago and it has not yet been approved.
  9. reg MS DHONI wikipedia info
  10. SERIOUS MISTAKE LIBELOUS STATEMENT
  11. need to paste from excel
  12. Where to upload pictures
  13. Fixing wikilink
  14. Sky Blue Colour
  15. star ratings for medicare plaans
  16. Zoom up an zoom in
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