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April 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 1

  1. HTML, or XHTML?
  2. Number of Wikipedia registered users?
  3. Botswana LGBT-related films
  4. Scraping & reusing statistics
  5. Dates in history - main page
  6. Help Wanted
  7. Did you know....
  8. Non-free book scan licensing template
  9. Query about subject chosen for a new article
  10. Cork ladies's footballers
  11. Preventing the addition of interwiki links
  12. Google Earth Geohack problem
  13. Image Tag for Copyright
  14. User:Peaceworld111/Ahmadiyya-related vandalism statistics
  15. Two Articles (clarification needed on whether or not terms from FAQ are met)
  16. Image upload
  17. Contributing new photos
  18. Creating brief bio box
  19. Can I change my Wikipedia font?
  20. north pole

April 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 2

  1. The_Seventh_Coin
  2. DAB Watchlist?
  3. Running MediaWiki extensions when browsing en.wikipedia.org
  4. ref tags/templates
  5. Times New Roman Page
  6. do ou have any industries in india
  7. Please somebody help me
  8. Editing
  9. Username disappearance
  10. DNA trait
  11. Adding an External Link
  12. how to create info page
  13. the message from the hacker .now is taking over my face book page
  14. Sino-Platonic Papers
  15. CRAZY GIRL SHIN BIA
  16. Attribution history
  17. Inter-language attribution

April 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 3

  1. Difficulty printing one specific Wikipedia article
  2. Why is this article in this encyclopaedia?
  3. Commons filesize limits
  4. Meta file Problem Uploading PNG
  5. Issues with images
  6. brending
  7. Does T:MI work when embedded in Template:Listen?
  8. Flags not showing up
  9. Chestefield refs
  10. How to submit an article
  11. Hangon tag
  12. Date sorting in tables
  13. Did I mess up something?
  14. SCAMED

April 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 4

  1. Naming of article
  2. Problem with signature
  3. Creating a button
  4. WikiProject Dentistry -- Inactive??
  5. Simon Gales
  6. Editing
  7. calibri font
  8. What do you mean by frequency of a circuit?
  9. Reading a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike article
  10. Problems with reference desk (and other) pages
  11. Fair use of non-free book pages on Wikipedia
  12. Disappearing Messages
  13. Removal of "nofootnotes" and "Orphan" status.
  14. Cannot move page over redirect
  15. Semi protected pages and Internet Explorer 8
  16. Editing another editor's talk page comments
  17. what is the best way to introduce a "reliable source" in an article?
  18. Magic words for first character?
  19. Editing page as an authority
  20. William Styron
  21. The Lord of the Rings (theatre)

April 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 5

  1. Properly create infobox?
  2. County Court page
  3. following archived sections
  4. help with password
  5. Rodney Davies (author)
  6. Unable to view Wikipedia pics in China
  7. Please delete or redirect misspelled article
  8. William Procter Profile
  9. Moving Pictures from Commons to Wikipedia
  10. Fixing Categories.
  11. Naming convention for biographical sections splitting off into separate articles?
  12. Wilmington, DE, stats
  13. Adding a new section
  14. What's the point of categories?

April 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 6

  1. Parser help
  2. How to make my article LIVE
  3. Cannot link to Wrka article.
  4. Older article copied onto other sites - how do I deal with this?
  5. Strange appearance of Wikipedia pages
  6. Christ the King College in Sierra Leone
  7. Changes the old user name Despotovic in the new user name Despotović
  8. How to get a TOC to appear on a Discussion page
  9. Reproducing Transient Technical Documentation
  10. what to do? Found serious innacuracy in a Wikipedia article
  11. How do I create a page about myself?
  12. When did congress remove money from Social Security
  13. adult literature program
  14. 'followed by' and 'preceded by'
  15. Keeping track of AfDs
  16. Talk page created in error
  17. Wikipedia Symbol

April 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 7

  1. Calculating population density
  2. Editing a link in a reference
  3. Is there no encrypted connection offered for when visiting https://secure.wikimedia.org ?
  4. Peter O'Toole
  5. Australian War Memorial images
  6. How to locate where a wikilink originates from
  7. Can i remove teachers names from a Wikipedia page?
  8. Referencing URLs that contain square brackets
  9. Is the relevant? The Open to Hope Foundation
  10. Where would I request rollback/Twinkle rights re-added?
  11. Can't move userspace draft into mainspace
  12. WANT TO BE A MEMBER
  13. Automatic facebook page
  14. Please Integrate Wikipedia with Social Media Sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc
  15. Marie Cirile Bibliography

April 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 8

  1. Articles transcluding articles
  2. tap content changing
  3. Citing Twitter tweets?
  4. Chase Aldredge
  5. sometimes articles are outdated. Jimmy, what do you think of adding a "last updated: X/X/20XX" to each page ?
  6. Fraternity/Sorority (racial/religious) membership changes
  7. Delete Revision History
  8. Fixing page range dashes
  9. Signature not workin
  10. submitting an article
  11. Can someone make a situation map for me?

April 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 9

  1. Plagiarism
  2. Julie Kavner
  3. Eli Wallach
  4. federal budget
  5. vibrational energy
  6. Report Broken Link
  7. Problem with singlechart template
  8. Video linking
  9. Fixed width
  10. Article "Human energy"
  11. Why are innapropriate graphics allowed on Wikipedia?
  12. Nicki Manaj article
  13. Cancel Account/Changer User Name
  14. Error in automatic geographic coordinates?
  15. Problem In Article Translation
  16. Twinkle watchlists every page i make an undo too
  17. Deletion history of articles
  18. Syed Enam Ahammad

April 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 10

  1. :CAT:CSD
  2. Template help
  3. Patroller on Simple English
  4. Speaking different languages
  5. Global search and replace
  6. "Bold text" in Ramen
  7. referencing problem
  8. Wikipedia slow?
  9. Image file help
  10. Names of Mpindi
  11. Blue box above editing section
  12. Photo montage

April 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 11

  1. Citation compatibility with Refworks
  2. Stupid question
  3. Whether to create a disambig page or a hatnote
  4. Wiki-Project Iran simplification
  5. Upload a Word document
  6. Finding Someone to Make a Wikipedia Page
  7. Can't figure out why Talk:Whittemore Peterson Institute is missing table of contents
  8. Bad image
  9. Reference page on google docs

April 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 12

  1. Conflict of interest template
  2. blocked
  3. Bots
  4. Random search
  5. Page View Statistics
  6. Reprinting article I wrote from MormonWiki to Wikipedia
  7. Acceptable or OR on its face?
  8. Nip it in the bud
  9. An article reads like an advertisement.
  10. NBTVlive
  11. Slashed tables
  12. how can i get my page re-reviewed?
  13. It wont let me change my article's Title
  14. Adding logo to Infobox on article "University of South Dakota School of Law"
  15. Images up to their old tricks
  16. Olivia Buckley

April 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 13

  1. Counterfeit
  2. Uploading file for internal use
  3. Messed up AfD log entry
  4. add pictures
  5. Cleanup request
  6. Unified Login with Account Lacking Email Address for Password Recovery?
  7. TICKS
  8. Can a search be directed to a dab page?
  9. Complex web: Die cutting, the very hungry caterpillar, arts and crafts, childrens literature
  10. How do I delete a redirect page?
  11. PAGE BREAKS?
  12. Six O'clock Swill
  13. Entering Featured photo of the day
  14. New official company logo
  15. Company's page deleted while 100s of others similar exist
  16. adding a link or reference
  17. Offline editing
  18. judge harry pregerson

April 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 14

  1. Problem with the edit toolbar
  2. What can we do if we discovered contents with irrelevant reference/ links?
  3. national output world comparison map dot placement
  4. How do I get a global account?
  5. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 14#.7B.7Btl.7Csign.7D.7D_redirected|{{sign}} redirected]]
  6. MIMI
  7. error! Ellicott Creek Article
  8. Removing a notability tag
  9. Unable to confirm my email address
  10. LOGIN PROBLEMS
  11. Arsène Lupin
  12. How many fair use images can be used in an article
  13. Multiple Chris Masons, I'm one of them...

April 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 15

  1. Russian Incubator
  2. New Article
  3. Question
  4. Vowlgar
  5. I feel like a dimwit
  6. cached image problems
  7. Cunard Ships
  8. Looking for input
  9. Badly formatted AfD entry
  10. Text removal question
  11. Subject Box
  12. etown radio program article - not an advertisement - rewritten in more neutral tone
  13. corrigated steel homes

April 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 16

  1. Firefox 4 losing menu and tabs
  2. Search by article class?
  3. Page Backgrounds
  4. How to transfer a watchlist from one user account to another user account
  5. Auto-signature
  6. A TOPIC ABOUT A SMALL TOWN NOT IN WIKIPEDIA
  7. Entries missing
  8. Referencing Question
  9. A bio does not mention derogatory information
  10. MA HE Teaching
  11. debugger
  12. Non-disambiguating hatnote
  13. Adelbert Ames Jr, Opthamologist, in Hanover, NH
  14. Help formatting a list
  15. Present day facts about Co Durham, England
  16. Rebuttal to Feigned Biography of Joseph Smith
  17. Recover data from compromised account?

April 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 17

  1. Changing the row height in tables
  2. How do you bring up the editing toolbar?
  3. How can I find out which "Good Article" I edited?
  4. Book tool
  5. Three things I like to discuss
  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wellingtonia/The_Ballarat_Star
  7. Featured Article and Image
  8. Former US Presidents
  9. Urine therapy
  10. Where can I request comment from other editors on my actions in a particular case
  11. uninstall old windows live messanger
  12. Watch pages I delete by default
  13. Disasters
  14. Can an editor use a map they have created and uploaded to the commons for an article they are involved in editing
  15. the phi gamma delta or fiji page
  16. Ideas
  17. Italic title - why isn't it working?
  18. How to direct search result to Carnival Magic (disambiguation)..?
  19. Message to an individual on Facebook

April 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 18

  1. Merging 2 articles together
  2. Right venue needed
  3. Open proxies blocked
  4. Editorial policy regarding a second secondary source to justify using a first secondary source
  5. Overcoming a reverse, left-language carriage return POV, humorously
  6. How to proceed?
  7. Would someone verify this target, please?
  8. business research methods
  9. "Putting his/her foot down"
  10. huge asteroid spotted flyby nov 8 2011 jpl nasa
  11. Algae Cultures
  12. IP user removing speedy template
  13. Establishing verifiability of an otherwise unverifiable source
  14. External links to apps
  15. Disambiguation page
  16. Adding color to infobox for writer

April 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 19

  1. Exes and Ohs
  2. Charlie Storms
  3. Template:Non-free DVD cover
  4. Latest News
  5. Translation
  6. Wiki SDK for internal use
  7. False copyright claim on image
  8. Need Your Help
  9. Is this a joke?
  10. Seeking a guideline for alphabetization of "notable people" lists
  11. Foldable template
  12. Unknown source of quote in popular book
  13. Infobox image
  14. Pending changes
  15. Comparing two versions of a page

April 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 20

  1. Sharing Wikipedia Articles With Facebook Friends
  2. Removing pornographic spam
  3. Coursework
  4. removing the 'outdated' boxes at top of page
  5. One single conductor in metal conduit
  6. how to submit draft article for approval and consesnus
  7. Use of movenotice and moverequest templates for an (in my opinion) uncontroversial page move
  8. Page will not display after I hit save page
  9. How many pages of each namespace pages
  10. Userspace drafts?
  11. Closing a name change
  12. Criteria to keep a template?

April 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 21

  1. Template link colors
  2. Mulberry Tea
  3. Main Page not updating
  4. Categories loop
  5. Feedback requested
  6. Copyright Issues When it's Your Own Content on Another Website
  7. Dear sir.
  8. Clickable Facebook icons on your pages, so my Facebook friends can click on the heading and read the Wikipedia page.
  9. "CSPWC's Royal Collection Project" deleted.
  10. Adding a Canadian Poet to the list.

April 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 22

  1. Template coding
  2. Cedella
  3. Public domain unfree image icon?
  4. edit vs. move page
  5. getting to user page
  6. manuals
  7. Afd Soxman
  8. edits dont show up
  9. What the hell you are Mr. Wikipedia
  10. How to resolve image collision?

April 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 23

  1. What do I need to do to get a pic that is compliant
  2. Rate this page
  3. Preview function
  4. Submit for Review
  5. Wikibreak
  6. Conversion template
  7. How can I delete my account?
  8. Mobile site
  9. Updating templates in archives
  10. Gembrook

April 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 24

  1. How to join or list qualifications
  2. font too large
  3. wikipedia you are not free, here in Brazil, their moderators are dictators
  4. Was Multiple Issues Placed At The Same Time?
  5. Man in the mask
  6. Modifying the Wiki sidebar
  7. citation style
  8. Using Wikipedia
  9. List of sitcoms
  10. Australia and the minimum age to be elected to the House of Representatives.
  11. sphinx of Giza
  12. Sockmaster using proxy server to mask IP?
  13. Need to add a notable resident to the Winchester, VA page

April 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 25

  1. Gary L. Keady
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
  3. Speedy delete
  4. Buses
  5. Strange facebook page recording Wikipedia edits
  6. How to delete account?
  7. Debt question
  8. Seeing older watchlist items?
  9. Citing opinions
  10. Broom icons appeared
  11. What links here (but not there)
  12. Trying to determine if photo is OK to upload
  13. REF: Page of documentary American Radical the Trials of Norman Finkelstein
  14. Inuit authors
  15. renditions of the photo of Iowa Jima
  16. blurry-printing
  17. comic books.

April 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 26

  1. How do I change the font on my user name from lower case to other.
  2. Finding the unlinked
  3. Why is my page being deleted?
  4. ...a proud member of...
  5. Problem writing the title of a new article
  6. WikiProject Albums B-class checklist implementation
  7. Template coding question
  8. Editing and Animation
  9. stan musial
  10. Is it possible to upload a pdf file from my computer to a discussion page?
  11. ROADMAP FOR REVIEWERS
  12. MUCUOS ADENOCARCENOMA
  13. Frustration
  14. Any Admins around?
  15. Birds of the Amazon

April 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 27

  1. Vlan
  2. Varian Associates
  3. Creating new page
  4. On saving topics within Wikipedia
  5. The Holy HAJJ
  6. Persondata Box
  7. AFD help
  8. Pronunciation
  9. Why is the font size soo large on my Wiki view ?
  10. credits
  11. Susana Medina
  12. Deleted article
  13. Best way to delete a user space/sandbox type page

April 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 28

  1. Creating new page 2
  2. Changing my Page's Name
  3. Half space
  4. Saving pages to book(s) not working!
  5. adding to wiki entries
  6. Find a word in an article
  7. financial accounting
  8. Looking for an explanation of "back-end deal" and didn't find an explanation
  9. Title of Wikipedia Article
  10. Image server delays ?
  11. Project Rational Skepticism
  12. Searching for orphan templates
  13. something in Tabs template has run amok (vandalism in template)
  14. Additional word meaning
  15. Is it possible to link to an article whose name looks like an interwiki link?
  16. Polo originated in India, not in Persia
  17. Confidence and security-building measures
  18. email

April 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 29

  1. National Baptist Convention, USA
  2. problem
  3. Scare quotes
  4. Broom icon
  5. LaTeX vs HTML
  6. Trojan XP Home Security - Unregistered Version linked to Wikipedia Site
  7. Template:Listen breaking at Alisa Weilerstein
  8. Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data.
  9. embedding photos
  10. Edit Summary
  11. Edit insert box

April 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 April 30

  1. Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles Live @ 1972 Sunshine Festival, Diamondhead Crater, Hawaii
  2. Thank you
  3. File extension does not match MIME type
  4. How to change a color of a football player's infobox
  5. Template to convert from U.S. postal abbreviation to full state name
  6. Can someone fix my broken template?
  7. I've got a Broken Letter Problem.
  8. Merging two articles into a third (new) article
  9. Can I add pages about a company or organization?
  10. Edward the Confessor
  11. merged content from Humanure to Compost#Humanure / redirect not working; please help!
  12. Undectetable Single Failure Point on Scott system
  13. Sranan Tongo Babel Box Category
  14. Help
  15. Songs as references/sources
  16. Citation Style Help
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