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November 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 1

  1. Help with infobox.. What is Template:CPDM/meta/shortname?
  2. Squeegee_man article talking false thing about me
  3. Editing notices
  4. I have submitted my article, no one reviews it!
  5. Chris Merritt
  6. Citations
  7. Treatment of citations made by a quoted author
  8. Add incoming links for orphaned article
  9. Infobox image not working
  10. Michael Licona
  11. Format of initials in titles of biographies
  12. Jump the queue? (doi)

November 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 2

  1. im a bit confused on how the process works...
  2. URL with funny characters
  3. Feedback
  4. 1210s
  5. Move discussion
  6. Distinguish note/Hat note for non existing article
  7. Blocked Article
  8. :Category:Altaic multilingual support templates seems inappropriate
  9. Ted Arcidi
  10. Davey moore
  11. Recent post revison
  12. Xtra!
  13. Amber
  14. Akash Maharaj Wikipedia Article
  15. Section Header capitalization...

November 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 3

  1. Lincoln mass hangings
  2. Lana Marks
  3. Pasting in plain text
  4. Censorship settings?
  5. Wiki page deleted and redirected
  6. how do I create a page?
  7. linking to a wikipedia article
  8. On The definition of Efik.
  9. i have 4 days and 13 edits and still cant edit semi protected pages
  10. Please, help me quickly
  11. Main page Section is HORRIBLE
  12. Editing
  13. Appropriate for semi-protection? Or another solution?
  14. Reliable Source for CD Recordings
  15. Copying Wikipedia articles
  16. Weird citation error that appeared independently of edits

November 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 4

  1. Nominating image as featured image
  2. top league japan
  3. Phillip Wilcher
  4. Wiz account
  5. Wikipedia survey
  6. re: Sidney DeWayne on wikipeda
  7. Climate Disclosure Standards Board - can I put up revised page?
  8. Problem with a reference
  9. see the link
  10. biography
  11. My uploads
  12. How to....????
  13. UFC events

November 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 5

  1. Help with references
  2. Barry County
  3. Adding a new column to a table
  4. 2012 Editor Survey
  5. File
  6. Casino NSW notable people
  7. Erica Lennard birthdate incorrect
  8. Deleting a page
  9. Bug report
  10. How to share my view about something?
  11. How to change an article written and rejected.
  12. Jonfoerster

November 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 6

  1. Table help
  2. Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed? > Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
  3. Nineteenth-century end-times cult
  4. no complete content as a list
  5. NetZealous LLC
  6. Definitive fact, referenced fact, referenced opinion
  7. Help adding Geo-coords for Butts Bridge in List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
  8. Ask about semi protection
  9. Title formats
  10. Chateau Marmont Wikipedia revisions
  11. Page Taken Down
  12. Is this WP:OUTING?
  13. Punte Balurte vs. Mullau Viaduct
  14. False Postings
  15. Problem, someone keeps changing my entry
  16. Suggest article
  17. Need to redirect to disambiguation page
  18. :Category:Navboxes using background colours

November 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 7

  1. New article
  2. Skip to bottom
  3. Two Coordinates, One Page
  4. WP links prohibited?
  5. Dracorex page.
  6. Template:Did you know nominations/Apollo 11 lunar sample display, Apollo 17 lunar sample display
  7. Submission
  8. Help with box format
  9. Martial Artist
  10. Notability
  11. The Supper Club page
  12. Suhail Abdul Lateef Galadar
  13. Merging articles
  14. Use of Article Text

November 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 8

  1. A question about acceptable citations
  2. Navigation within reference desk archives
  3. How can I edit my Artilce Headline
  4. New article rejected for lack of references
  5. Activating an account over all different projects
  6. Please clarify that anagrams are not regarded as original research?
  7. Hello.
  8. Fraudulent editors still allowed to post and comment on topics they have been shown to manipulate fraudulently!!!!! Really?? !!! Wikipedia loses credibitity.
  9. delete Henley Management College, South Africa
  10. Second help needed: Template:Did you know nominations/Apollo 11 lunar sample display, Apollo 17 lunar sample display
  11. Assistance with a requested edit
  12. Article written about me which is complete nonsense
  13. help in setup wikipedia page for a Recording Artist from the Bahamas
  14. article
  15. Problem with chess template
  16. easterhouse the band from 1980 onwards.

November 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 9

  1. Adding a new page
  2. Vandal on The Sims 3 Page proposal of block
  3. Adding a Map to an Infobox
  4. Benefits of effective management system
  5. Hindi-language Wikipedia
  6. Printing a page with the sidebar
  7. Co-aligned images in pdf format of articles
  8. Correction on Intelsat 23
  9. i NEED HELP FOR INSERTING A TRANSLATED ARTICLE
  10. Mount Mansfield Union High School State Championships
  11. Stiff Person Syndrome
  12. The River Thames
  13. RESCUELIST
  14. Conde Nast Traveler - Editor Needed for Page Accuracy
  15. Suddenly I can't search
  16. Problems with sortable table displays - rowspan is not correct
  17. How to stop unwarranted reporting of vandalism

November 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 10

  1. Trying to create a biography of a race car driver(my son)
  2. Sources tagged as unreliable
  3. Vandalism
  4. USvUK-bot?
  5. Using the Kindle version of a book as a reference
  6. Hi!
  7. Icon to insert signature no longer appears when editing pages
  8. Luke moore- swansea
  9. Search not functioning
  10. lost facilities
  11. Waterloo rugby page
  12. Added information on "Jaybirds of America"
  13. Kristjan Glibo
  14. John F. Harris
  15. Sensory deficits
  16. Missing edit toolbar

November 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 11

  1. Watchlist
  2. Complaint?
  3. Userboxes
  4. Chess.com
  5. Re: Tecoma Victoria page
  6. "Minor edit" checkbox is selected by default
  7. Search function no longer works!
  8. The Science of Reincarnation
  9. Article up for speedy deletion
  10. Second opinion needed before reverting 25+ recent edits!
  11. Communication
  12. Search Box won't work.
  13. I was looking at the list for the Silver Mother 's and
  14. Infobox Settlement

November 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 12

  1. t
  2. NNDB appropriate as ref?
  3. Category:Adultery in fiction: new subcategories
  4. Hosptial Police
  5. Collapsible box template woes
  6. Ireland
  7. Please vote. Anagrams inclusion/non inclusion when it comes to non-straight text
  8. Napkin PC
  9. Nikola Tesla - Nicolae Tesla
  10. Search and replace function in edit window
  11. First article
  12. Navigation problems
  13. Search Box
  14. Article merger
  15. Sir Peter Hayman
  16. JOHANN HARI
  17. Is there another way to retrieve a cached copy of a dead link?
  18. User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD
  19. File:Lamppost-singapore.jpg
  20. Bullets in image summary
  21. WP guidelines on linking people to their social online presence.
  22. Copyright - Maps, Real Estate Photos
  23. Medal table
  24. Missing editing tools

November 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 13

  1. Karina Smiroff Bio
  2. Image history and fair use
  3. Recovering failed page previews
  4. Need help inserting references..Urgent please..
  5. please correct the name of nazir hussain actor
  6. username contains someone else's personal information without their permission
  7. Education in Aden before 1967.
  8. Travel-related information in wikipedia articles
  9. About my work regarding treatment of cancer with citric acid.
  10. wikipedia rrs
  11. Nerissa Jane Irene Bowes Lyon
  12. Contacting another user
  13. Editing pages from a specific IP address
  14. Talk
  15. Robert A. Bell
  16. white owl

November 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 14

  1. Photo as source
  2. Article deleted due to copyright infringement
  3. National Socialism
  4. Deletion of a page
  5. About CIDER International School
  6. edit in wikipedia will not accept my external url
  7. Doug Hoffer
  8. Error when updating watchlist
  9. Redacting email address in edit summary
  10. Change Article Name
  11. Person alive, character dead
  12. Why is notability important in Wikipedia?
  13. AC/DC (electricity)
  14. About the article Best selling music artists of all time
  15. Assistance required
  16. Help acquiring an image
  17. Operation New Life
  18. Is the Secure Server down?
  19. Upload Pic to Scott Antol article

November 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 15

  1. Roh Moo-hyun
  2. User:Mr.Z-man/rollbackSummary.js
  3. Template:Display time problems
  4. Editing an infobox
  5. Can I request a username usurpation if I am a new user?
  6. Lindau
  7. List of songs recorded by Take That
  8. Generating sulphuric acid
  9. How to break apart an existing talk page to create a new one?
  10. Lost content
  11. Press credentials
  12. Is this in violation?
  13. Creating a new article/ title
  14. Dan Peres for Details Magazine
  15. Dozier Adolphus DeVane
  16. Thomas Nelson Community College
  17. Swat valley
  18. Dorothy Johnston Australian author

November 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 16

  1. Article of "Christopher Busby"
  2. Ray Guarendi
  3. Can't find my page
  4. Gadgets
  5. Nigerian Civil War
  6. Highlighting Diff text
  7. Image Upload Policy
  8. Continuing Image Upload Policy
  9. Correction : Kashmiri Pandit festivals
  10. A captcha for deleting a link
  11. List of largest buildings in the world
  12. Emma Handy
  13. How to make my talk page blue
  14. Template:Navbox help
  15. wrong info
  16. Brother Of Vicki Spencer
  17. WikiTable not working
  18. Final decider?
  19. Imagine This: You have credited the wrong lyricist
  20. Page Needs correction

November 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 17

  1. login problems
  2. Rendering problem
  3. hierarchy posts
  4. Inclusion criteria
  5. How do I find ISBN?
  6. shape of earth
  7. Help me please
  8. Sinc numerical methods
  9. REVISIONUSER
  10. Wrong info about a song
  11. Solidiers's Award
  12. SwedishDiaspora
  13. Hawaiian Wiikipedia
  14. Why did you remove external link and description of the book 'Savage To Savvy' I posted up on Wikipedia?
  15. :File:Batman The Dark Knight Returns (films) part 1 (DVD cover).jpg
  16. Bad links?

November 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 18

  1. Someone Replaced My Photograph
  2. Merging My Name
  3. Wrong link
  4. About creating a page on "Awtar Singh Virdi"
  5. Displayed article doesn't match latest revision in history
  6. Image reversed
  7. Why someone accused me being sockpuppet?
  8. Is there truth to these written statements?
  9. Wikipedia and/or Firefox is acting really weird
  10. The California Dreams Tour and New Article
  11. mailing

November 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 19

  1. Ballantine Brewery
  2. Please create a redirect at Carzola to Santi Cazorla.
  3. About Wikipedia -Simple English (simple.wikipedia.org)
  4. Requesting changing of duration of a page protect?
  5. incorrect data presented
  6. RANI LAXMI BAI'S DATE OF BIRTH--19 November 2012
  7. Old Russian steam engine photo?
  8. Mark Rudan wiki page
  9. User Talk page archive
  10. Interwiki bots
  11. Renaming to Cultur in Wrocław recommended
  12. How many wikipages can I create?? Pepe
  13. Article's content
  14. Delete Michael Boatengs wiki profile
  15. Licence for Google Translate audio file
  16. Please help about "Nirmal Baba" BLP, Couple of users are trying to Vandalize under the pretext of Vandalism.
  17. Linking an article to a bio on wikipedia
  18. The Ignorance of Blood - MadmanBot error
  19. how can i complaint agaist royal bank and obus chaimbers uk
  20. Rupual's Drag Race Season 5 article.
  21. I have created
  22. Another posting
  23. machine key
  24. Loire page move has caused problems

November 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 20

  1. Fraudulent information about Falk Rovik on Wikipedia
  2. Image Upload
  3. Screenshots of News Anchors from TV?
  4. Where's my new password?
  5. Why is this requested move not listed?
  6. Help needed for Non-Free content & licensing
  7. Migration
  8. deleat a book out of my reader
  9. Where are disambiguation pages listed for deletion?
  10. I have questions about conduct on the Talk pages
  11. Wikipedia page for a singer
  12. File Uploading
  13. File Uploading
  14. Changing the name at the top of a company page
  15. Formatting on Rogue trader
  16. Hello again
  17. Why are some edits striked out?

November 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 21

  1. Technical Problem with Article
  2. I Need Help -
  3. Citing a website
  4. betty h fairfax
  5. Quote-box poem
  6. Does an "external link" constitute a "source or reference?"
  7. Wishart Campbell
  8. sammy stopford
  9. WP:RFC/USER: Reopen old or create new?
  10. translating a Wikipedia entry to another language
  11. News article taken down, can be archived?
  12. Not sure how to contribute
  13. Download Pictures
  14. What the hell is this?
  15. RE: Atricle: Jon Bon Jovi

November 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 22

  1. asking for a picture
  2. Article Error - Thanksgiving
  3. Publication and picture
  4. Trisha Roy - Poet and a Writer
  5. Handling a formal request for removal of text from Talk Page.
  6. The Ruum infobox won't set up properly - need help here
  7. I have image copyright permission but still image is flagged
  8. sex
  9. About administrators
  10. Stlukelions
  11. Green Bicycle Case. UK Reprint

November 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 23

  1. Question about SUL conflict
  2. Missing notices at WP:TW
  3. interested scholar: devoted to faith.
  4. Fluoride
  5. Photo of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, successor to Osama Bin Laden
  6. Uxbridge High School (London)
  7. Other languages
  8. faulty referral
  9. resubmission of article
  10. IP Addresses
  11. President of Egypt
  12. File:MANTIS (intertitle).jpg
  13. Feedback from my watched pages not working
  14. Wikipedia lost my user history
  15. editing

November 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 24

  1. Lynette White Murder
  2. Beacon Elementary School
  3. mathematics problems solutions
  4. Quick User Friendly Template
  5. How long to wait for discussion to end at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct?
  6. Can't edit semi-protected
  7. I just donated, but the banner is still there!
  8. Rare Ramayan handwritten on handmade paper circa 1700 AD
  9. Couple of questions about citing books
  10. The California Dreams Tour by Katy Perry
  11. Adding extra spaces between 2 words

November 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 25

  1. Talk Page Archiving
  2. Can Wikipedia be used as an advertising platform?
  3. Foreign non-free photos
  4. Gross domestic product
  5. Antonio Tomasulo
  6. Spam blacklist
  7. your vietnam history timeline is grossly ineffective in presenting facts about american involvement from 1955 to 1959
  8. Not working
  9. Help
  10. Rowspan not working
  11. Playworks the American Organisation
  12. Adding a please read note at the top of a talk page
  13. Diff and alternatives
  14. Title blacklist problem
  15. a new desighner drug supposadly sold as a showergell
  16. How to get a page created for a band?
  17. Hijacked page
  18. Killing Time, Star Trek Novel
  19. parsed coding in editor window
  20. conor stevenson scottish football player
  21. :File:Italy tropical cyclone 2006.jpg
  22. Grimms' Fairy Tales
  23. Why Hasn't Wiki expanded to sharing their content (pages) with social media like facebook, twitter, etc, as many websites have done so far?

November 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 26

  1. Citing sources when the info exists both in print and online
  2. Family Tree
  3. Problem Creating a Article
  4. Justin Welby
  5. Change to a Capital letter in article name
  6. SAMRO
  7. bug in rendering page as PDF
  8. What's the best licence for requesting photos?
  9. Notes and references
  10. death dato
  11. Wikitable sortable: ÁBCD instead of BCDÁ
  12. coupons
  13. Problems with partial transclusion within two wikipedia articles
  14. How to insert a photo?
  15. Civil Product Design
  16. Editing My Wikipedia Book
  17. User:Wilmamassucco/Life does not lose its value

November 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 27

  1. on copyrights
  2. COM shortcut doesn't work?
  3. BUZZ WARREN
  4. Untitled complaint
  5. Are the advertising banners intrusive and misleading?
  6. APPROVING ARTICLE!! BACKLOGGED HELP PLEASE WITH
  7. List of Jewish Newspapers in America
  8. Shadow Boxers
  9. I put in my e-mail address, how do I delete it?\
  10. Query about the article Dabble
  11. hydrogen bonding article submitted
  12. Official Facebook page for CSULA
  13. userspace background colour showing through some cells of a table
  14. How do I save/article/list a page for further reading later?
  15. Secret/Hidden Pages

November 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 28

  1. Help:Magic#Suffix trick
  2. David Rodriguez (heavyweight boxer)
  3. Move edit history (somehow), or start again?
  4. Image took from a film promotion event
  5. Suggestions for Brazil Nut page and information
  6. La Sierra High School
  7. Searching for a definition
  8. Definition of Internal controls and the reference
  9. Cleanup question
  10. Difference between line under "Anne Main" and "Anne Main MP"
  11. star trek tos actors obits
  12. How to donate to wikipedia
  13. New Page
  14. Author of 2 bestselling trilogies not listed, nor the books.
  15. Month count
  16. Conflict of interests

November 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 29

  1. i just spent several hours
  2. Can't edit
  3. How to submit sandbox
  4. Patrick Crofton
  5. Issue with File:NadiaAlibyTamaraSusa.jpeg
  6. Problem with an editor that keeps removing verifiable information. .
  7. Temporary collaboration page
  8. Difficulty uploading a photo and timeline details
  9. CHRIS CARY FOUNDER OF RADIO NOVA
  10. Bhavishya Chandra Kamineni
  11. John Cena page
  12. My Article
  13. Embed SVG
  14. Possible article
  15. Deletion review
  16. How to use AWB?
  17. Inquiries

November 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 November 30

  1. New user needs help
  2. Link not working on ur page
  3. Adding a word
  4. Creating and editing a user profile with a picture
  5. What should I do?
  6. FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
  7. how i create a new page
  8. Don't take it personally...
  9. Cat in limbo
  10. Copyright notification
  11. Can
  12. Heather Harlow Replies:
  13. article above about the Budwig diet
  14. Do IP users get the "new message" notification when a note is left on their IP talk page?
  15. create page
  16. Re: Georgetown District High School (GDHS)
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