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April 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 1

  1. "Create PDF" option
  2. uploading image
  3. User account for link spam. What to do?
  4. AFD
  5. Templates
  6. How do I edit the title of an article?
  7. Approval of revised version of Wikipedia article
  8. Broken new messages banner
  9. Notification that I have new messages
  10. soxred93
  11. Using Book Creator

April 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 2

  1. Search
  2. Scientology case?
  3. blackbox vs smoke test
  4. Inappropriate Userboxes
  5. The page for the 2009-10 stanford cardinal women's college basketball team needs editing.
  6. Music
  7. Error in locked article
  8. Version 1.0 Editorial Team index/statistics for our WikiProject?
  9. Editing football players appearances and goals
  10. Font size too small
  11. How do I make an indented list without bullets or numbers?
  12. Conflict of Interest Help Needed
  13. Concerned about possible edit warring
  14. school basketball
  15. soccer vandalism
  16. Paolo nutini vandalism
  17. Adminship
  18. tank wars,bomb
  19. "Sysops" and "Crats"
  20. Higher res version of image doesn't seem to exist
  21. My watchlist
  22. Admin Self unblocking
  23. Any other stuff I should show this editor?
  24. Dead link?
  25. Newbie needs help
  26. search for cleanup tag
  27. Issue on Military uniform
  28. question
  29. Saved changes deleted

April 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 3

  1. Proxy Error
  2. Image as svg
  3. Will not allow me to save my page, keeps asking for security code over and over again
  4. HELLO
  5. Bans
  6. Errors on convert template page
  7. Barnstars
  8. Template Link GA
  9. Default Cursor Position
  10. Popup TORTURE
  11. unsigned comments...
  12. Video

April 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 4

  1. Picture showing up in wrong section?
  2. Proposed merger has been completed --> delete the article
  3. Ribbons
  4. WikepediaLiberia
  5. Moving images
  6. partnering
  7. Football appearances and goals
  8. infobox creation
  9. Database Owner
  10. Image requested tag.
  11. Translation
  12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
  13. What's wrong?
  14. Wikipedia 2010 April Fool Item
  15. no title
  16. Image question
  17. 2 copies of a page, older one has less info

April 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 5

  1. WikiPetrol
  2. NPOV for fictional characters?
  3. "Edit" links to wrong page
  4. Is there a List of logged in users with idle-time less than 40minutes?
  5. Sienna Miller
  6. Problems with the Pirates of the Caribbean template
  7. source tag
  8. Wikipedia Mobile
  9. Centered caption
  10. My page not visable
  11. Fair-use license questions
  12. Unrequested Password request?
  13. Vanishing footnotes using Microsoft word
  14. suicide bombings list
  15. Removal of Primarysources box
  16. Almonte -- Re the Almonte Train Disaster
  17. Import XML dump
  18. Jump button?

April 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 6

  1. Refering 2 references
  2. Table Coloring
  3. joining a Discussion and the quadruple tilde
  4. Dynamic IP
  5. Prior WIkipedia Entries
  6. Edit filters "Hidden from public view"
  7. Line Spacing
  8. Replacement of images
  9. Did I do this move request correctly?
  10. Fair Use Part 2
  11. What is the correct procedure to show that this image is being used properly (legally)
  12. Account Retrieval
  13. Highlighting text
  14. New ref-system
  15. Deleting files
  16. How do I stop the text from moving in the edit box?
  17. Confirmation
  18. Template mis-sorting categories
  19. when will my article be searchable
  20. Accessdate working/not working?
  21. Script to display revision number
  22. Table alignment
  23. Disambiguation pages
  24. Seeking source for listed data
  25. Confusing answers on Helpme, can not find editor's comments
  26. Back in 2009 I ....
  27. In need of a template fixer...
  28. Laserpacific
  29. Redirects
  30. E-mail as a source

April 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 7

  1. A user's gender
  2. insurance comapnies
  3. writing about a new methodology
  4. uploading an article
  5. About multilingual coordination, etc.
  6. "44th President of the United States" redirects to Hiter?
  7. Images not displaying
  8. "Allmusic is a bunch of retards who know nothing about music whatsoever."
  9. How do I create a link in a current MITREpedia document to another *.doc or *.pdf?
  10. How to detach an accepted word from its roots, to bring their roots to life as a new (old) word?
  11. broken link
  12. Minor updates
  13. How to add a neologism
  14. adding refs
  15. Decimal places output of function {{#expr: ''expression''}}
  16. Partisan tone
  17. Urgent
  18. No line breaks
  19. Re: Stemming eLayaway to the Layaway article
  20. Infobox settlement: inconsistencies, questions, and fixes
  21. PROD
  22. What is the talk page? and how do I post something on it like suggestions?
  23. archway cookies
  24. Garfield Heights Ohio
  25. Help with userpage

April 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 8

  1. Copy-Editing temp. removal
  2. Transclusion
  3. Possible CC-noncompliance
  4. Wikipedia Article-User Data Dump
  5. Communicating with user talk & how do I learn about my submission
  6. wikiproject banner fixing
  7. Trouble with translations of articles
  8. Review Page
  9. two user account
  10. RfA error
  11. Providing an article importance rating
  12. Userbox list?
  13. general question
  14. Image help
  15. translations of articles
  16. wysiwyg wiki editor

April 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 9

  1. Help! Can't get second reference to work.
  2. Women are better driver than Men
  3. No such anchor: CITEREF...
  4. edit buttons in a table
  5. Someone trying to delete a credible article about Dr. Judy Wood
  6. RP system v. Bibiography/Footnotes system
  7. Removal of adminship
  8. Requirement of stoichiometric quanity of lime
  9. Page tagged for speedy deletion per CSD A7 not getting deleted
  10. How do I close an account, if possible?
  11. Exclaim!5
  12. Thomas Donilon profile
  13. Charity support
  14. Log In?
  15. How to cite a map of Lewis and Clark Expedition held in commons?
  16. template problem
  17. Bug with sorting in Category
  18. Userboxes
  19. Creating a disambiguation (Loose Balls)
  20. Is there wiki-database, a wiki-spreadsheet, a wiki-website software?
  21. Business Materials
  22. Starting up
  23. Printing an article

April 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 10

  1. plastic theory
  2. Category and template causing trouble
  3. Sort Dates in Table
  4. adding footnotes, citations
  5. Edit buttons going crazy
  6. Who is this man?
  7. Vandalism - dynamic IP addresses
  8. MATERIAL PROBLEM
  9. declearation
  10. Is our own legalese affecting Wikipedia prose?
  11. Future Events
  12. Identifying CSD initiators
  13. can you correct page deletion

April 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 11

  1. Template help
  2. Need to change contact email address
  3. Eric Tunney article google link.
  4. Table of Contents: Default Show or Hide?
  5. editing & adding
  6. Colour coded edits
  7. move from sandbox to article
  8. Alan Callan
  9. WP:CORP questions
  10. please fix wikisource article
  11. "Acceptable use"
  12. Admin power abuse

April 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 12

  1. Will I be allowed to usurp an account?
  2. Image not duplicating correctly from Wiki Media Commons
  3. Use an image as an external link?
  4. Science question
  5. I can't find a guideline
  6. Help with Preferences
  7. Wikipedia's text has changed
  8. Hooghalen - an Illustration obscures text
  9. Question
  10. Edit to list of Gentlemen's Clubs
  11. Changing Page Name
  12. Change the Author of a book
  13. Telenovelas
  14. Wikipedia Intranet
  15. Hindu priests
  16. Days
  17. User Access Review
  18. Image info edit question
  19. User page / Search page
  20. Help with Coordinates in an Infobox
  21. project banner problem

April 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 13

  1. Who decides what a "fact" is...
  2. Article into the news
  3. Needing a copy of GED
  4. How to edit
  5. Karl Duguid
  6. Gracie and Zarkov
  7. YOU SAY YOU WANT HELP
  8. Will I be contacted if my article is refused/deleted?
  9. Can't add wikilinks under photo at Wake Island Conference
  10. New and in need of some help with my article
  11. Wrong link on http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portugal
  12. Huggle
  13. Navbox
  14. How can I wikify this page?
  15. Continuous broken images after uploading first one
  16. Bold text problem
  17. Edit count
  18. Can't delete content
  19. Gosh
  20. Archiving
  21. Lost login details
  22. Citing Wikipedia in Wikipedia

April 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 14

  1. Submitting my name as an artist
  2. References
  3. Account problems
  4. Image is horribly wrong
  5. Bring out Wikipedia in KANNADA Language
  6. Login doesn't remember me
  7. Search function changes (no more redlink)
  8. Dates
  9. Legal Issues concerning Jimmy Noonan Page/Wikipedia Support system
  10. Linking to my blog
  11. using photos
  12. Userpage talk help
  13. John Burgess Karslake
  14. How long to get something posted or added in an article
  15. User talk page is an attack page
  16. I didn't find acces date on web page about balance of payments, it doesn't shown, I really need it!
  17. Edit Comments section of Image File
  18. incorrect link on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram
  19. Lego Universe fansite
  20. Capitalizing the title of an article
  21. Wikipedia Widget?
  22. Pserousis
  23. why wikipedia put website into spam????
  24. Login Credentials
  25. Making reference to other language wiki articles
  26. Bill Gates' wiki has erroneous entry

April 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 15

  1. Using images from commons
  2. FACT OR FRAUD
  3. i need help..
  4. cookie logon problem
  5. Formatting references in a draft
  6. Quality and importance rating
  7. Sit-up Ltd Channels System
  8. 'Wiki' article
  9. Autoconfirmed user cannot edit semi-protected entries
  10. Editing When Signed in: Downloads index.php file?
  11. Checkuser Access
  12. Images are negative
  13. :File:RSeymour.jpg
  14. Profile not displaying when i log out
  15. Highest Peaks in California
  16. Seeing a list of my sub-pages
  17. recent changes patrol
  18. My signature

April 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 16

  1. Copyrighted image in userbox
  2. Histroy
  3. How to join WikiProjects?
  4. Accidentally disabled mobile site
  5. Adding links to specific revisions in edit summary.
  6. WikiCommons permissions
  7. Honey
  8. How to add a up and coming actor?
  9. Template not transcluded correctly
  10. Meta template problem
  11. Personalising a Table of Contents
  12. TELE ATLAS
  13. Header Globe Displaced to the Right
  14. Inflation
  15. Adequate Cite for proposed edit and addition to entry
  16. Want To Right-align
  17. To work with wiki.
  18. RfA
  19. Changing the Title of the entry
  20. Can't determine if a movie poster image is Template:Non-freepromotional or some other form of creative commons

April 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 17

  1. Wiktionary
  2. Animations not showing up
  3. Adding sections to IFSB article
  4. inquiry
  5. Disambiguation pages editnotice
  6. Third Opinion
  7. The Backward "R"
  8. Privacy concerns about IPs versus usernames
  9. Policy on editing other people's user pages
  10. Biography of Living Persons question
  11. Re article: List of persons who have walked across the United States
  12. asking for fair use permission
  13. User page

April 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 18

  1. My edit count
  2. Article has disappeared... help!
  3. News
  4. I can't log into my original user account
  5. How to mark a discussion on a Talk page after it is over?
  6. digital electronics
  7. What is the max limit of groups in a navigational box?
  8. Licensing schemes which are not available in Upload form
  9. User History
  10. Rounding numbers
  11. Follow-up to my previous post
  12. I want a date
  13. A small query
  14. eMail
  15. Userboxes
  16. Generally Unfriendly User
  17. Picture as background?
  18. Just created a page and I'm new as registered editor to wikipedia
  19. Userbox wikitable
  20. Subcats not showing
  21. Deleted Page
  22. G.S.Khaparde on Wikipedia free encyclopedia

April 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 19

  1. When and where will the answer be found?
  2. help with table
  3. Be afreid, very afreid
  4. Too much text breaks table formatting?
  5. Transfer of an image to Commons.
  6. Request for help protecting article (security issue)
  7. reliability
  8. Mongoose_Cricket_Bat
  9. Newsbank
  10. Stamps from Nyassa
  11. BUB (Belgian Union)
  12. Article problem
  13. You don't have to be an Einstein to figure this out

April 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 20

  1. Broken anchor links for all Viceroys of Peru
  2. BLOCKING unproven information.
  3. deleting account
  4. download images
  5. Unfriendly User again
  6. Mistake on page 181Appendix B of "The Good Regiment"
  7. Question on Page Layout
  8. Internet search
  9. Kelly
  10. Periodontitis citations
  11. Signature not working
  12. Connecting to commons
  13. Phi Gamma Delta Issue
  14. Question Regarding Article References
  15. User page
  16. List of youngest birth mothers
  17. TOC - Collapsing by Default
  18. Punctuation suppression in citation templates
  19. Account creator
  20. Tagging articles without references?

April 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 21

  1. Follow up to Sit-up Ltd Channels System
  2. ClueBot
  3. Udine page is broken
  4. Date time format: ISO 8601 but without the 'T'
  5. I'm sorry but I can't see how to make my first wiki page live
  6. warning message
  7. Tracking Viewers
  8. Table placement
  9. wrong link to an article
  10. Impasse
  11. Using Wikipedia to edit product manuals
  12. Request clarification on the definition of autoconfirmed status
  13. User page writing
  14. Virus
  15. User page gone and no deletion log
  16. Page being deleted

April 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 22

  1. interlanguage links problem
  2. How do I publish an article without being deleted?
  3. Manuel Serrano-Gil
  4. Researcher Right
  5. Re: TATA DAEWOO F4CEF model truck
  6. Confused
  7. "Atelier du Web "
  8. Inormation Technology
  9. wikipedia icon interfering with articles
  10. Adding contibs to signature.
  11. Wiring problem
  12. Urgent fact check for article
  13. New page
  14. Help with socking case
  15. Naval Air Station Memphis
  16. Mobile phone GSM 900 &1800 MHz
  17. I am (opinion) a fairly longtime wikipedian
  18. copy write tag for own work
  19. Unsourced article

April 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 23

  1. Biography entry
  2. How to install and operate User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool
  3. Missing references in "Emma Willard" need help
  4. can a company have an article?
  5. Wikipedia: Images
  6. New article - Copyright issue
  7. William Laud
  8. I need your help in proving a point!
  9. table borders
  10. Facebook and the usage of Wikipedia to validate a group, cause, business, etc...
  11. Headache
  12. orphan / wikify

April 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 24

  1. Articles on Tebuke Rotan and Rotan Tito
  2. New ad
  3. school supervision
  4. Source markup syntax highlighting issue
  5. Help, tabs
  6. Enquiry regarding Journal of Pharmacy and bioallied sciences
  7. Hatnote
  8. Archiving
  9. Archive
  10. Featured article
  11. Dates around broad statements?
  12. database dumps

April 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 25

  1. Can I merge my two accounts?
  2. Old account watchlist
  3. A clarification on my web site
  4. How to quickly add templates to articles?
  5. Printing
  6. Genealogy of Nawab Family of Baroda
  7. Unused XFD logs
  8. Replacing a section on Koch Indsutries article
  9. I uploaded a picture and it was removed. Why?
  10. Trans → Subst
  11. How do I upload a picture to a Wikipedia article?
  12. Delete User Account
  13. Editing Introduction to "Siege of Louisbourg 1745"
  14. link to edit references appears to be incorrect
  15. I am unable to edit articles

April 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 26

  1. Nominating an article for deletion
  2. detele please
  3. What is happening when I add {{category:airports}} to a page?
  4. The Ship called "The Increase"
  5. Bad faith edit
  6. Hi
  7. Using an image used in French wikipedia
  8. Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
  9. Logo
  10. Reporting a user
  11. automatic keep or delete?
  12. Content removal issues
  13. Louis XIV article vandalism
  14. Apple Wikipedia Antoinette Maria Kerr's Work
  15. Naperville, IL
  16. flag salute
  17. List of articles in category needing pictures
  18. MIME type image upload

April 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 27

  1. User edits for an IP address
  2. Virus?
  3. Image changed, license didn't?
  4. Changes I Didn't Make
  5. Misinformation
  6. Cristovao Vilela
  7. {{NOINDEX}}
  8. Cannot login
  9. Beta
  10. Pixelation to start screen on OGV video I uploaded
  11. New type of semi-protection?

April 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 28

  1. Please help a lowly IP ...
  2. I am trying to establish a subsection for history "Lexington, Illinois" but my edits do not appear
  3. Forgot a shortcut to somewhere
  4. WikiProject
  5. about seribu rupia
  6. Redirecting to special pages
  7. An IP address
  8. Losing my home
  9. Locked out
  10. Text to Speech
  11. Text to Speech (further comment)
  12. My addition removed without explanation, at least that I can find
  13. Opening and Library and information science in Hebrew
  14. How can I add a new category?
  15. Wikipedia use ontologies for manage the knowledge?
  16. Notes vs References
  17. Where can I share my retail line, art gallery and my article..

April 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 29

  1. Category:Converts to atheism from Eastern Orthodoxy
  2. Adding info...
  3. I don't receive a new password
  4. Creating userboxes
  5. Ref syntax problem
  6. Shippen Street (Weehawken) infobox formatting
  7. hyphenated name; redirect??
  8. Route diagram formatting and differences
  9. Question about over-sighted Articles (those with removed revisions)
  10. I have been warned that I am vandalising a site by user Bidgee
  11. Struggling with gallery formatting
  12. UbiPetz--How to unlock the code?
  13. Starting an article with the?
  14. Point of Light = Notable?
  15. music of the song "stand"by Rascal Flatts
  16. Printing only the article (in other wikis)
  17. Create a new entry
  18. Image with permission
  19. Gibault_Catholic_High_School
  20. tags
  21. Pictures

April 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 30

  1. editing issue
  2. Recreating articles.
  3. Welcome template
  4. Welcome from Sphilbrick
  5. Copying files to Commons
  6. How do you post a topic / contributions?
  7. Wiki page info borders on libel
  8. Author of a page improperly removes a speedy-deletion notice
  9. for wikiperdia my external link is Spam!
  10. Moving company
  11. Adding self taken images
  12. netajibosemysteryrevealed.org
  13. Identifying an article's author
  14. Signature
  15. Spam?
  16. Help with good article nomination
  17. AfD article issue--1st or 2nd time?
  18. User page ends up listed under "New pages"
  19. link to Wikipedia article from my website
  20. My post was taken down
  21. Adding a wikilink