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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 1

  1. Editing difference in Firefox
  2. Object Properties
  3. i have forgot my email address for my yahoo account but i have also forgot my password for my primary email address and the phone numbers are old ones
  4. Martin Bresnick
  5. Circular template?
  6. How do I fix it?
  7. cannot access my account
  8. Which RefDesk for a question from video technology history?
  9. Changing main title to an article
  10. ‘Cybercrime Prevention Act unconstitutional’
  11. Capitalization of references
  12. Not so much arguing with an admin, just bending over backwards and saying "**** it"
  13. Tim Gorman / Editing information on my own biography and discography.
  14. Apollonius' Theorem
  15. Unable to upload an image I own the copyright to
  16. Help in making a navbox . . .
  17. Removal of "Theoverviewer.com" page.
  18. Overlap problems with Rio de Janeiro article

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 2

  1. how i set up a personal wikipedia
  2. MY FIRST ARTICLE IS MARKED FOR DELETION.
  3. subject matter
  4. Class project
  5. kannada Wikipedia page
  6. ® symbol
  7. Wikipedia Article entitled "Eshmunazar" and transcription in Hebrew.
  8. Section Repeatedly Deleted
  9. How can I edit some content on your site?
  10. Place symbol insert back to former position
  11. Alice Askew
  12. how to create, save and perpetually recall a book
  13. So confused and frustrated
  14. Nii Ōshima and Ōshima, Ehime
  15. imagine that you are in search of employment with a company or government department,what do and dont your would keep in mind in your job hunt
  16. citation source
  17. Adding information to an article
  18. 乌拉跨氪
  19. Maple Jam Music Group
  20. Suggestion for WIKIPEDIA to add this Person Encyclopedia

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 3

  1. a page deleted
  2. Photo requirements
  3. Suggestion for programmers - finding images
  4. new editor needs guidance
  5. Confermation about teacher Name Verra Seekra
  6. Random information visible on article page
  7. Editing of information
  8. ARTICLES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
  9. Display the archives
  10. Question re Dominican Republic
  11. Factual errors on United States presidential election, 1864
  12. Questions on speedy deletion
  13. About template
  14. Amado Crowley
  15. Combining or cross-referencing categories
  16. Question about my User talk page
  17. Trouble setting up an account
  18. Help

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 4

  1. Redirect error
  2. insert ½
  3. KURU Family tree in page"Mahabharata" Indian epic
  4. common phrases and proper names
  5. Article incorrectly indexed in categories
  6. Bath Rugby - Past and Present
  7. Navbox options not showing
  8. iPhones and editing
  9. Printing out a single page from a long article.
  10. Changing title to a page or moving the page
  11. inaccurate information posted about me...how can I correct it?
  12. Deleted contributions"
  13. jAYBIRDS OF aMERICA
  14. Change to editing page

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 5

  1. About Editing
  2. John Ulrich Giesy
  3. Where should I contest an award of featured article status?
  4. Detail of "salt" in urdu language
  5. On This Day 13 October
  6. Libel - Inaccurate entry on Inter City West Coast Entry
  7. How do I delete my account?
  8. finding it very difficult to get the page I am creating right
  9. Porn found on the Morality article
  10. Adding a disambiguation page for the name Anne Mortimer
  11. endless effort to delete
  12. Hour of last edit
  13. American History
  14. Sybilphd
  15. Removing a deletion tag from an empty category

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 6

  1. Am I allowed to delete my own post from a Talk page?
  2. Correct procedure to request additional uninvolved editors take a look at a problematic article
  3. Deletion of edited information
  4. deleting user subpages
  5. About Wiki and for editing knowledge
  6. Inaccurate data
  7. Breaking up is hard to do
  8. Image thought to be copyrighted in the public domain?
  9. Article about Udo Kier
  10. Changing a toolbox link?
  11. Red link should be blue
  12. Advertising on Wikipedia
  13. WWE LIST

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 7

  1. Templates not wrapping in articles
  2. WP:WikiProject Apple Inc. page is all messed up
  3. Editing
  4. Unintentional damaging content while attempting to fix a trivial mistake
  5. deletions of alternate covers
  6. Graeme Burton
  7. Space before text
  8. what do i do if ppl change to an unclear verison?
  9. Categorisation
  10. how can you easiely see what is inside an edit, like when you have a reply on help, how can i see if it was for me or not?
  11. Statistics
  12. Exhilar Innovative Solutions

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 8

  1. music &etc
  2. CSD log going awol
  3. Looking for talk page template when F5ing non-free image
  4. Morgan horse: rendering error
  5. Edit an article heading
  6. Proceudre for opening a new wiki page for my company.
  7. una america
  8. I have other pictures
  9. Deletions by the Uniformed
  10. Unknown account
  11. creating columns
  12. seeking information/data on early history of page protection
  13. Help with colour tables, with headings
  14. Covers/Images on Music Pages
  15. Inclusion Standards / Reliable Sources
  16. changes
  17. Deleting Empty Pages
  18. Are Op-Eds OR?
  19. My book seems to be frozen
  20. About the donation I made.
  21. Talk:Winster.com
  22. Annotated picture

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 9

  1. Correcting an error on the "Portal:Australian cars" page
  2. Image and Unblocking
  3. Need help with article List of states in the Holy Roman Empire
  4. Can I use a public domain picture in wikipedia?
  5. "Brant House" difficulties
  6. Eshmunazar Article - Font Problem
  7. Mobile wikipedia
  8. Failed to donate
  9. Concerning 'Notes' (or 'References') section in article
  10. LAN connection facilities not available
  11. Rijeka Tourist Board - problems editing article on the City of Rijeka
  12. wrong date (1948 should be 1848) - Gustave Kahnt
  13. Non-editable Wikipedia Pages
  14. Submitting Translation
  15. facebook shortcuts
  16. Article Title Changed When Accepted
  17. How to italicized article titles
  18. Dennis Stratton - Ex member of Iron Maiden
  19. Change main Photo
  20. Worth Mitchell
  21. I have received an email saying that I wrote a wiki page on myself. Which I didn't.

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 10

  1. Resubmitted entry twice. 1st time forgot to make changes. 2nd time after changes
  2. Contents box
  3. Help with edit
  4. Help with parcer functions in a template
  5. Pending deletion and user problem
  6. History link deported into javascript hell
  7. Nationalisation of Northern Rock
  8. pictures
  9. Upload a picture
  10. wrong rules for classification cant be edited
  11. Artin Dadyan Pasha
  12. organization of prohibition chemical weapon.
  13. Help regarding FGFC820 article
  14. Jain University
  15. Tsalas
  16. Spam link help
  17. Starting a new account to avoid hounding
  18. Please delete copyvios

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 11

  1. My photos
  2. Beltracchi Wolfgang wiki page external links.
  3. Repeated Selected Article, Selected Picture, Dou You Know and News
  4. Template:Infobox theatre group
  5. WP:SPI or WP:AE
  6. Authority control template
  7. Graph view of past edits to a page
  8. Ambiguity Page MVP Needs To Be Edited And Am Not Certain How
  9. Resolving issues in order to remove the banner atop an existing entry.
  10. Possible Translation list based on high number of Interwiki links but none for in Language X
  11. How to remove boxes which refer to a page's "Orphan" state?
  12. Fair use rationale
  13. Exchanging photo on my brother in laws page
  14. House Price Index

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 12

  1. The biography on Thomas Sneddon Jr. did not mention his religion. Catholic?
  2. Safari Mac tgz search bug
  3. biographical article - date of death unknown
  4. Template in a bulleted list
  5. Open in edit mode
  6. Article's layout
  7. Copyright
  8. putting a website address on the link list
  9. How can I edit a Reference on a Wikipedia article ?
  10. Redirecting to a section
  11. size of the type on the page
  12. Plot image not showing up
  13. Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names
  14. Education Program
  15. Can several users edit page before it goes 'live'?
  16. Page Janadala (Princely State) Should Be Deleted
  17. adding photos in webpage

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 13

  1. Editing the page
  2. Wikipedia:AutoEd
  3. User name and account
  4. editorial incompetence
  5. List of Wiki markups and their uses
  6. Adding photo to article
  7. K2 peak
  8. Miszabot archives of User Talk
  9. Question about GA nominations
  10. Astrology
  11. highlight text for fact tag
  12. Disambiguation of human names
  13. Wrong Information
  14. Articles
  15. Template question: Duration of event in {{countdown}}

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 14

  1. Button for Facebook share
  2. This involves the death of Mary Vestera (sp) mistress of Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary
  3. how could i add the photo??
  4. Yitzhak Rabin
  5. Problem with archiving
  6. Redirect to itself??
  7. Quick replace link tools!
  8. Robert C. O'Brien
  9. Wikipedia Offline
  10. Common wiki markup commands
  11. no citation but it's me

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 15

  1. Citing the ODNB and Complete Peerage
  2. Inia Te Wiata
  3. Marshea D. Garner
  4. The page on Oren Laurent reads as an advert for his firm with issues both at SEC and BBB
  5. Logbook loans
  6. Relating to Article: John D. Rockefeller (Sr.)
  7. Help with edits
  8. Citation style
  9. taxobox error
  10. edit/upload
  11. I am being defamed on the PressTV Controversies Page
  12. Again error with the archive box
  13. name of Super Wings Group of Colleges is missing
  14. Can i use wikipedia elswhere
  15. Changing a page's title.
  16. Deletion of Frank Forte or Chuck Cooperstein and need help on keeping it by adding reliable sources
  17. How did my personal website end up as a citation/
  18. Jerba people

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 16

  1. Inconsistent Information
  2. You Forgot to Mention Information About Frank Marshall Davis
  3. Block/Restrict edits by IP address
  4. Who knows
  5. Help uploading an image to this page: The Price for Peace by Brayden Summerfield
  6. how do i create a new article?
  7. how do I check out/fix a national flag problem?
  8. Vertical text in Tables
  9. Disgruntled Edits
  10. View history question
  11. The Reformation
  12. View count not from yourself
  13. Multi-article RfC
  14. Walter Winterbottom
  15. Humans
  16. Wikipedia article on homosexuality and the Anglican Church of Canada

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 17

  1. Advertising on user pages
  2. A new contributor who has not received a welcome message.
  3. Regarding the Honda B series engine Article
  4. John Rockefeller IV
  5. edit question
  6. 2011–2012 Egyptian revolution references
  7. Template:Clear following TOC rather than before it
  8. Misleading but referenced information
  9. Not so free
  10. George ballantyne
  11. Article Locked-in syndrome#Catherine O'Leary
  12. Help with infobox
  13. Disambiguating two books with identical title
  14. 2011–2012 Egyptian revolution - Post revolution timeline article title
  15. gandhi memorial kanyakumari
  16. XfD gadget/tool
  17. Please, help
  18. Creating a page for something with a similar name - disambiguation, redirects and verbose page names
  19. Tom Hatton avoiding redirect
  20. What to do
  21. Wrong Pictures with the description
  22. Help Needed to LOCK a company page
  23. detailing the articles
  24. Vandalism
  25. What article would spending per death statistics be appropriate for?
  26. Upskirt report
  27. Irish Guards Cap Badge (Cap Star )
  28. Small flag of south korea is removed in all wikipedia.
  29. Tulloroan hurlers that played with Kilkenny
  30. All the new content is gone?!
  31. Help: Ira Cook page - need to re-write to eliminate copyrighted information.

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 18

  1. Criticism/Controversy
  2. gandhi memorial,kanyakumari
  3. Signatures
  4. If this is a demonstration of the template...
  5. Wildside (band)
  6. Colt pistol
  7. Size comparisons in photos guideline page
  8. SIR WALTER WINTERBOTTOM
  9. hi i need help looking up history
  10. kennel clubs in Trinidad and Tobago
  11. Signatures
  12. Problems with navbox
  13. 1838 Mormon War
  14. Thank you for this wonderful project

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 19

  1. User page
  2. Rear blood types and % in each countries
  3. Confirm my account
  4. Proposing content for the landing page
  5. How to insert an image of the brand into a wikipedia page
  6. Reinstate the list of Verizon FiOS TV Channels
  7. Corrupt/Missing file from upload.wikimedia.org. How to fix?
  8. Images
  9. Change Picture - violating our company rights
  10. Uploading images
  11. Anonymous IP editor delete/wipe warnings on own talk page
  12. My Username
  13. Hacienda, CA
  14. Sovereign Grace Baptists
  15. BMO Bank
  16. Is it an Orphan?
  17. problems with listing about refractive surgery
  18. advice Needed
  19. IP talk page message

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 20

  1. Message from Curtaintoad
  2. celebrity listing?
  3. Yuri Fedorov
  4. Info Tables
  5. How can I disable edit confirmations?
  6. Barbara Hambly
  7. Aarticle
  8. Need help with California Secretary of State URL
  9. have 38person in kendari waiting for accept application for case n pls send 1 person for our case..them from iran
  10. Editing information
  11. Apollo Financial Group
  12. Windows 8 interface
  13. Self-empowered reviewers ....
  14. If I proposed a merger...
  15. Fastest recorded tennis serves
  16. Access to article in old DNB in WikiSource?

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 21

  1. my submission was deleted
  2. Apparel Technical designer info
  3. Image transfer from project to commons
  4. Limit search to pages in a category
  5. Archives
  6. Category for book resources
  7. noinclude text?
  8. Toolserver edit counter
  9. The presidential endorsements page needs updating. Fun project for someone who knows how to do this.
  10. Incidental people in photos
  11. how to change the wikipedia viewing font type?
  12. Getting old CSDs in the CSD Log.
  13. Twinkle CSD log
  14. Removing an article
  15. "talk" page of the article Ginza Rba is misused
  16. Correction about Naroda
  17. search problems?

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 22

  1. Create Page for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)
  2. Which is appropriate venue for my case ?
  3. Adding a note
  4. Making a collection of bookmarked articles
  5. Can I edit my reference desk entry?
  6. How do I put my biography on Wikipedia?
  7. Editing The Partnership at Drugfree.org's page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_at_Drugfree.org)
  8. ask about information
  9. Abortion
  10. Sortable table
  11. Questionable behaviour?
  12. To start
  13. Help with an edit war
  14. colleges and universities 1/2 Hour and 1 Hour from Boston Mass
  15. William Bower - Screen Writer Article Corruption.
  16. Updating Pages for Dolphin Encounters and Blue Lagoon Island ( Nassau, Bahamas)
  17. will that ref be there?
  18. Adding a listing
  19. Unintended Change
  20. Adding Spaces
  21. Please delete the article "David J. Strachman"

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 23

  1. Spacing in tables
  2. Sunil Gangopadyay passed away today please update
  3. justin p wilson
  4. User:HAMISHRB
  5. Template
  6. 20000leagues under the sea film
  7. Asking about what initials stand for
  8. Surveillance Detection Unit
  9. Bot source code list
  10. image copyright (PC game box art)
  11. vanished web page
  12. David Bolduc
  13. President Obama
  14. Inuktitut syllabics / Google Chrome
  15. "Edit saved"
  16. Audio Player
  17. Title in italics
  18. slander
  19. Someone deleted this page ...
  20. Mitra (gastropod) formatting
  21. Moving a particular portion from edit history to new article
  22. volume
  23. caisse
  24. Cite book with multiple volumes: 2 questions
  25. Print Edition

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 24

  1. Looking for someone to produce our article
  2. Uc Merced school colors def.
  3. Political bias
  4. How to reply to coment on Reference desk
  5. Hebrew: Giv'at
  6. Redacting edit summaries
  7. Hidden categories on my user subpage
  8. Talk page creation/assess
  9. What does "Userfy" mean?
  10. Paul B. Huff
  11. Vandalism ?
  12. corrupted page
  13. Using references that require a subscription
  14. Elliott Museum
  15. Morton Gould
  16. Copyright
  17. Renaming an article
  18. Battle of Vienna

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 25

  1. Ryobi Ltd. article factual error
  2. Recent changes from new accounts
  3. Redict
  4. How to extract information from wikipedia?
  5. Creating infoboxes
  6. Cross-category search
  7. Image is too big
  8. help with changing title of a page
  9. Changing the title of an article?
  10. Wikipedia article on the national sporting organization in Ireland
  11. New content addressing company and products behind the "Grub Hub" registered trademark.
  12. Leaving Messages

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 26

  1. Jamie Lee Curtis has two children Annie And Thomas Guest that are not listed on your site
  2. Delete entry about me please!
  3. Removing Citation and Referencing notification
  4. Kripalvananda
  5. LUTALO MUHAMMAD VANDALISED ENTRIES
  6. Idea for Article
  7. LUTALO MUHAMMAD VANDALISED ENTRIES
  8. Reece Robertson Page
  9. Tattoo Artist list, adding an artist
  10. Adding a Picture
  11. Minor edit check box is checked
  12. YMCA Camp Minikani
  13. Uploading images
  14. PCRL

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 27

  1. Tank Overhaul
  2. how to edit uploaded letters
  3. When uploading a video game box art cover
  4. Correction to Surname
  5. what software are you using for mathematical equations, mathematical symbols
  6. Turning off the watchlist pop-up messages
  7. Transclusion
  8. Category
  9. Categories in edit window
  10. Sock puppet suspicion
  11. Ipad app
  12. WP page editor
  13. Two articles on the same person?
  14. User Page Design!
  15. fraise
  16. logo box

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 28

  1. Incomplete list of metro systems
  2. Request for an article to be written on Tom van der Loo
  3. Page out of date
  4. Discouraged ...
  5. Henry Berry Lowrie
  6. Infobox error
  7. Mischa Barton Movie Addition

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 29

  1. Port Loko Teacher's College
  2. Deleted Chesapeake Conservancy entry
  3. User Name / Pass Word
  4. HSE Faculty of Sociology
  5. Self Published Book
  6. datasets on contributions to Wikipedia and/or sister websites
  7. WRONG COMPANY DIRECTION
  8. Robert Lombardo, composer, needs to be added...
  9. Deleted page: Climate Disclosure Standards Board
  10. Correction to the Carnegie Library List in Washington
  11. Watchlist now fully expanded always
  12. new wiki page / subject
  13. Weird category name
  14. Attempting to publish article
  15. images and references quotes
  16. Jeremiah Jones Article
  17. Wikipedia's CSS is just plain too hard to read from
  18. Citation

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 30

  1. word satan
  2. Celeda
  3. Mystery category
  4. Uploading of newspaper articles
  5. Evalueserve logo update
  6. editing on what grounds?
  7. The Bathroom Manufacturers Association
  8. women wikipedia editors
  9. Burn Std.
  10. Company name spelling needs correction
  11. additions deleted
  12. Online sources only?
  13. Help expanding an article
  14. Photos of State Congressmen
  15. adding information to sculpture parks list
  16. Nonsense date
  17. Asbury Park riot date error
  18. Template causing extra brackets to appear
  19. PcCareSupport article removed
  20. Contribution to Hurricane Wilma article
  21. Confirmation Of Account
  22. Moving a discussion
  23. How to gain exclusive editorial control over an article.

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 October 31

  1. Collapsible list
  2. Facebook groups for gay Mormons
  3. Credit
  4. Unique articles/article talk pages edited
  5. Fixing Incorrect Redirects
  6. wrong date of birth
  7. wild flowers
  8. another Luis Alberto Ojeda
  9. Hiding a Live article
  10. adding picture to article
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