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September 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 1

  1. Steve Sandvoss Section Blanking
  2. Kip Morgan
  3. Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Bath
  4. page deleted - Amotz Shemi
  5. Deleted page
  6. Featured Template
  7. Track ISBN usage on Wikipedia?
  8. Mistakes in an article
  9. Map
  10. Why is it when i add something to another article, the next time i check it, it is gone?
  11. Violin with Wilhelmj imprinted on back.
  12. Category sorting
  13. What is philosophy of kaaba?
  14. Donate content of web site to article
  15. pepperdine university article
  16. Entry Deletion
  17. Does this page already exist?
  18. When I search something on yahoo or google

September 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 2

  1. Is the subject of VEDIC ASTROLOGY approved by UGC.
  2. Language to Language translation
  3. On Wikipedia, < math >A< / math > does not render as expected
  4. Chamber Orchestra of Europe page
  5. Domjur
  6. Good sockpuppets
  7. Irina Shayk
  8. Authorization to copy the abstracts from a Journal. How should I manage this information.
  9. Image file won't revert
  10. Current fundraiser

September 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 3

  1. How Do I Create a Page for a Term Automatically Redirecting to Another Page?
  2. Historical diff of a moved page
  3. another editor to my account
  4. How to report an abuser coordinator?
  5. Dutch Het
  6. Google Map
  7. Same page, different languages?
  8. What is the procedure when an RS has not updated their site?
  9. Standard time zone
  10. Gen Joseph Taluto General Commanded Infantry Divition Vew York
  11. New Listing
  12. fullurl and external data
  13. Where do I report hoaxes ?

September 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 4

  1. Need a Translation of Kanji
  2. Nested deletions
  3. Where Should I Post Full Articles to be Reviewed?
  4. News front-page suggestions
  5. Scientific papers
  6. Panorama picture
  7. New articles which were redirects
  8. "intitle" and "lookfrom" Wikipedia search options for finding section titles ?
  9. SAFE DRINKING WATER
  10. statistics support
  11. Pictures sizes within body of an article
  12. PRINT TOO LARGE

September 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 5

  1. Mass deletion procedure?
  2. Check an edit, please
  3. Władysław
  4. corporate lies from Whitefish Mountain Resort, Montana
  5. Primary source related question
  6. Article: Department of History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge
  7. Pieces of paper

September 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 6

  1. Write an article
  2. Iqbal_Theba
  3. Someone look at the Labor Day article, please
  4. please add more information for General Mariano Trias
  5. How to view Watch List
  6. Problem
  7. Speedy delete without the chance of correcting what is wrong
  8. Picture deletion
  9. Hide User profile
  10. What's wrong with this coding?
  11. Television Series - Number of Seasons
  12. Userboxes with a whole lot of parameters...
  13. Reproducing signatures
  14. Trying to find a tag
  15. Blocked on Japanese Wikipedia

September 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 7

  1. Conflict with Admin
  2. Please review my article again
  3. Wikipedia now incompatible with Firefox.
  4. hi
  5. merging cells in a table
  6. Labeling ISP ownership of not-logged-in address pools?
  7. Larkin 25 vandalism by DGG and Steve Quinn
  8. Auto numbering of figures
  9. change of the auther's name
  10. Vandalism
  11. Signature removal
  12. search a phrase in particula portal
  13. Incorrect information continually posted about The Causeway Retreat
  14. Teach Myself Smarts
  15. Providing information about new Master's in Human Behavior program
  16. A big request
  17. Can't find my user page
  18. Policy on name changes?
  19. The signature textbox is too short to make a complex custom signature.
  20. Suggestions
  21. deletion of unwanted images/mistakes
  22. sdorting out unwanted image uploads and problems
  23. Question regarding figure use
  24. References
  25. Wiki language for deletion?
  26. DAF 600

September 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 8

  1. New testament entries vandalized
  2. Linking a locator map image to a
  3. 3rd Party insight on Arrow keys addition
  4. How to change title
  5. category link from article stops working
  6. Article reverted again
  7. website
  8. Multiple books
  9. Logo uploaded twice
  10. French Wikipedia
  11. Lost faith
  12. Can't figure how to delete this article
  13. How do you get people to write a wiki article about a given topic?
  14. Wikipedia suggestion
  15. Display
  16. Referred to by other Wikipedia articles
  17. Accessing my account.
  18. how do I officially submit an article?
  19. Image captions
  20. Argonaut Motor Machine Page Author?

September 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 9

  1. Talking to Wiki Admins about articles
  2. Previously deleted picture, but I own.
  3. Need help with code
  4. Image pushed into background
  5. A question that had no heading, about books
  6. What To Do If Articles In Different Languages Don't Match Up?
  7. ICICI Bank Information.
  8. Test of urinary sodium (Na) & urinary osmolarity
  9. How do I edit the title of my site?
  10. Balkanization animation broken
  11. conflicting sources
  12. Dr. Bert M Petersen Page
  13. What are the steps to submitting an article?
  14. changed user name
  15. Archive 91 is not showing up in Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts
  16. NEOPAGANISM???
  17. Trademarked Logo(s) in Templates?

September 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 10

  1. Substitute word that begins with V
  2. Materials that have been considered copyrighted when writing and article
  3. Isolate Music Tracks
  4. article about John Birch society.
  5. Closing Wikipedia Account
  6. How do we handle this?
  7. RS - suitable for Wikipedia
  8. Help with finding images
  9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan
  10. Why is the Bruce Blakeman article locked.
  11. Peace Corps Volunteer needs your help
  12. Offensive article
  13. Offline Editor
  14. Image of a US HIGH SCHOOL Coat-of-Arms or Crest
  15. Wiki Think Tank?
  16. Trying to add photo to my bio page
  17. Edits not appearing in article
  18. What are the better usernames?
  19. stepney
  20. Researchers
  21. new users and image upload

September 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 11

  1. Dr. Leigh-Davis
  2. Bot
  3. Paragraph reads like an instruction manual
  4. Article Disappeared
  5. Template:Infobox view source tabs
  6. Table within a template
  7. Private sandbox
  8. rookie question
  9. How to add an article
  10. Dotted line around a Sentence
  11. Centering a chart

September 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 12

  1. Yayasanbaiturrohim
  2. Uploading own image
  3. NPOV troll running a move proposal
  4. Deletion and protection logs in watchlist
  5. Move live a draft page
  6. Help removing a peer review
  7. Naming "blacklist"
  8. my content edits are removed.
  9. Cleaning up after an AfD
  10. How do I get an Admin to reveiw image I uploaded here from Flicker?
  11. Pictures to add

September 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 13

  1. Feedback requests
  2. Vancouver Island Article Cleanup
  3. Feedback requests
  4. Not sure what (if anything) to do with this....
  5. Non attendance at court
  6. User dictionary
  7. Route template
  8. Deleted Article
  9. Edit links messed up
  10. Use of picture
  11. Changes in multiple languages
  12. Creating a New Article in the place of one that was previously deleted
  13. Redirecting to other version of Wikipedia
  14. Country hits
  15. Challenging

September 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 14

  1. Logging in and editing
  2. Some external links look wrong
  3. Main page featuring Julia Gillard
  4. help finding film
  5. share cetificate withdraw
  6. Section in Wiki article identical to website - not sure what to do
  7. Editing a wrongly spelled Name.
  8. Where has my user draft article gone?
  9. Line break protection for "Mac OS X" in wiki markup?
  10. Changing My Account Name to Wish Group with a space
  11. About a mention of "copy editing" and "clean up" on an article
  12. infobox musical artist
  13. Wikipedia's Sequoyah article contains faulty tags
  14. Font tiny
  15. HELP! Says it sounds like an advertisment and not notable
  16. Intel
  17. How to edit the reference frame?
  18. Historical currency converter
  19. ipod shuffle
  20. Hipstamatic - Page name change
  21. Displaying Content only of Wiki pages
  22. Uploading an image

September 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 15

  1. Wrong/Incorrect News on Wikipedia's home page today , 15th Sept 2010
  2. Removal of header alerts/ neutrality concerns
  3. When editing in Monobook, insert options no longer work
  4. garibaldi group miskate fixed
  5. DELETE ACCOUNT
  6. IT Help
  7. Cite an image?
  8. Make an "unreviewed article" reviewed and official
  9. Curious about my 'Deleted Edits', where/how may they be found?
  10. E-mail contact or mailing address for Hans Kung
  11. Ads on Wiki
  12. Unblock request on behalf of the blocked user
  13. Edits have disappeared
  14. I am totally new here and just started the "Cooper Edens" entry (NONE existed before!) and i am a total techno newbie senior citizen..
  15. problem printing article

September 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 16

  1. Include texbook
  2. Redirect a Redirect
  3. How best to welcome
  4. need to ask john francome a question about a photo i have
  5. Icon for a lightbulb
  6. Movie suggestion
  7. Is it appropriate for companies to have a WikiPedia Page?
  8. Section Organization
  9. Picture marked Speedydelete
  10. Proposal for rational basis of ley lines
  11. Publishing?
  12. My article disappeared

September 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 17

  1. roger rice
  2. Impartial reviewer(s)
  3. Flickr copying
  4. W3C Validation
  5. Untitled thanks
  6. my article was removed
  7. solitaire games
  8. Church Rates (England)
  9. ვიკიპედიის გამოყენება
  10. tOPICAL ANESTESIA
  11. Need Help With .pdf File That Is So Big It's Problematic
  12. Archive bot
  13. Identification of policies
  14. Editing multiple wikis simultaneously
  15. Language reference problem
  16. Wikipedia has a problem

September 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 18

  1. Wavin' Flag
  2. Infobox glitch
  3. subnetting for 10000 host
  4. Font of search box text
  5. Inquire about semen and its impact on the face
  6. play-mp3.exe (known trojan)
  7. Contacting someone in your dictionary
  8. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of The Moon"
  9. Difficulty in Editing and adding to a subject
  10. How to create a wikipedia page
  11. Coding help-Fixing the instructions for file moves
  12. The Book Thief

September 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 19

  1. Hover board
  2. Francis Bacon
  3. cutting chicken claws
  4. Bigotry at Wikipedia
  5. References
  6. THE ``RIYASAT```
  7. Is there an under construction template?
  8. Is there a way to sort my watchlist by the date I last edited the page
  9. Which place to talk?

September 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 20

  1. Proper way to handle problematic deletion
  2. New style of disambig'ing article titles?
  3. A new term
  4. I beam etc
  5. Article by quality
  6. Problem with non-neutral POV and justification under WP:LABEL
  7. Wikimedia Commons image has same name as Wikipedia image
  8. Some problems
  9. Registered trademark removed from quotation
  10. Wikipedia search misses
  11. Robert Duvall
  12. Sorting
  13. Ionfly
  14. Cell phone use while driving
  15. The Non-free use Template hates me

September 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 21

  1. article title
  2. HTTP 500 error
  3. How to change lower case letter to upper case letter in a title?
  4. Could someone please clean up 2 articles on I've started
  5. Errors
  6. Please do not delete 'Urutur catholics'
  7. Why has my blog been blacklisted by Wikipedia?
  8. Full moon
  9. when do move proposals end?
  10. This June 2010 needs additional citations for verification. This article is written like an advertisement
  11. kAIC
  12. Newbie question: Seemingly erroneous error message
  13. Grayed-out, lined-through date/time info in a page edit history
  14. Suspected IP Sock
  15. Virus on a web link?
  16. Question
  17. Music template
  18. About BOUML - Copyright and consequences
  19. Mandie Movie
  20. Dollar Car rental dispute
  21. asked to update a logo and cannot do so

September 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 22

  1. Adding to existing articles
  2. Bob Pritchard - differentiating between articles with same name
  3. Image licensing question
  4. Wikipedia deleted my name from my family surname page
  5. Infobox doc mix-up
  6. Ownership issues on John Calvin, where do we go?
  7. how to move my article from english wikipedia to latvian wikipedia.
  8. Moving an AfD to the "Articles for deletion/Old" page
  9. Google Search
  10. Looking for the copyvio template
  11. article uploading
  12. Changing the demographics of wikipedia

September 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 23

  1. What exactly is critical commentary?
  2. Weasel words?
  3. Request for a small bit of wiki code
  4. Edit
  5. overriding default collapsed/expanded state of template
  6. Interserve - logo incorrect
  7. how to move downward
  8. User pages as personal websites
  9. Someone has an account name I wanted when I first signed up...
  10. How do I resolve a debate over an entry about my company?
  11. Efficient way of downloading Featured Content ONLY?
  12. Help
  13. Movement in the US similar to Chipko Movement
  14. Printing Hebrew from Wikipedia
  15. Is there a template which, when saved, creates a URL pointing to that revision of the page?
  16. Where should a source related subpage go?

September 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 24

  1. How do I make search point to an article where the name is a bit different
  2. Oops.
  3. Help renaming an image
  4. article
  5. 8th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers
  6. My page
  7. HISTORY
  8. Lower case letter in Surname in title
  9. Dub solver
  10. Old Monk
  11. Category:Proofreaders es-en
  12. identify this item
  13. Need Editing Help
  14. fall guy
  15. Do I need permission to copy and use a picture of a particular vegetable on your website?
  16. Is there a consensus around WP 1.0, WP:Core, and Vital Articles?
  17. Please Help!
  18. Total numbersof Murata Punching machines in New Zealand
  19. List of articles by size

September 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 25

  1. need help explaining wikipedia rules to another user
  2. Renaming an article
  3. loggin out when closing browser
  4. Functionality of thumbnails?
  5. Collapsing div
  6. play chess online
  7. Move
  8. Creating a link to a website
  9. Kykeon And Kikayon Are Probably The Same!! What Do You Want To Bet?
  10. help me with citations

September 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 26

  1. 1939 serial lone ranger with Robert Livingston and Chief Thunder cloud
  2. vidya
  3. Table sorting
  4. James O. Young
  5. Redlinks
  6. Searching Page History
  7. Article links to controversial sides. Race and IQ debate
  8. Step by Step guide to creating a portal
  9. Featured article/good article (or others with stars) articles with the biggest average rate
  10. Image for Wikipedia article Shesh Paul Vaid
  11. Editing a page
  12. Declan Henry
  13. monobook.js and .css
  14. Signature.
  15. What does "(top)" mean in contributions list?
  16. Interwiki question
  17. Infobox help
  18. Hi
  19. Where is my post?

September 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 27

  1. Completed article, but does not appear when searched for...
  2. Redirecting to correct page
  3. Betty Davis drawing by Betty Davis of herself
  4. Alexandra_Powers photo needed
  5. Info box
  6. German shepherd
  7. Renaming a Page/Article
  8. Flow or layout jumbled after article edit
  9. Birthday Alert/ List
  10. Declan Henry - Irish Author
  11. Deleted page
  12. Trying to move page to the mainspace
  13. Copied And Pasted Material From A Copyrighted Source
  14. box in a box
  15. Dean Kamen is not dead
  16. Canadian Electronic group "Exchange"
  17. Please help me make my page live
  18. User page "hosting" issue
  19. My White House President E-Card Liasion Enrollment to the Territory Governor Liasion
  20. Free Newspaper Articles

September 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 28

  1. how can I view the arbitrator and checkuser mailing lists?
  2. Hiding feedback box
  3. EN.wikipedia.org Appearance after Log in
  4. Alexandra Powers Photos
  5. Historical building
  6. PROBLEM IN ACCESSING TO THE TAGGED SITE OF ICONS - FRIENDS, MESSAGES
  7. Cool signature trick--how to do it
  8. My comapny would like to be part of Wikipedia
  9. Confused
  10. error
  11. Awareness Ribbons
  12. I could not find Shannon Grove in the deletion log
  13. Create a page about my company
  14. Unable to edit Reference List
  15. Autoconfirmation
  16. Using an image with full permission of the image's owner
  17. Fair Use Question

September 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 29

  1. Last Updated
  2. Uploading copyright protected image as an unconfirmed user
  3. photo usage or download
  4. Need help with picture formatting on article...
  5. Nominating Articles for Deletion (Step III)
  6. Move images from Wikipedia to Commons
  7. A Portal Page for the Confederate States
  8. Help with english
  9. Jimi Hendrix - Grammatical correction
  10. Mobile version
  11. Citation Needed
  12. Wall Tab
  13. Problem with userboxes
  14. SECRET OF SEX
  15. Incorrect Google Search result

September 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 September 30

  1. Moving an article from my user page to public space
  2. Finding pages whose protection recently expired?
  3. With You I'm Born Again
  4. IRC
  5. What is a 'Box Back Coat'
  6. Sorting numerical tables
  7. loading a new article
  8. Watchlist bug
  9. Wikipedia & HIPAA
  10. Can't use Wikipedia in my usual browser because Wiki thinks I am a Script
  11. Template for difference
  12. Is it possible to open the edit window in a separate tab?
  13. Where is the request for higher quality image page?
  14. Upload photo
  15. potential deletion of Mary Nissenson entry
  16. Adding information to whitelist talk page
  17. Difference between note, reference, external link and futher reading
  18. Photograph credits
  19. Categories
  20. Image link
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