Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2011

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<< Jul | Help Desk | Sep >>
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on the current Help desk page.



August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 1

  1. List of past titles?
  2. Where do I submit a request for an article?
  3. Can someone help me create an article?
  4. Table help
  5. X
  6. Forced addition of dot in middle initial?
  7. What do you do when someone joins Wikipedia to edit to promote his own agenda?
  8. Need to edit a page, but option is no longer available.
  9. Searching for Improper Latin replacements for Greek Letters.
  10. Value of card
  11. Anxious to help?
  12. User name
  13. help
  14. I experiment in my sandbox
  15. Congratulations Wikipedia User..
  16. Move multiple pages
  17. I added dalasta in List_of_women_warriors_in_folklore#Historical_Czech_Lands
  18. Spam protection filter
  19. Help Link

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 2

  1. Article "San Francisco Choral Society"
  2. my hp printer
  3. Does the site "Dear God please help me" on freewebs contain some kind of virus?
  4. I started a new article on Dlasta
  5. Wikipedia article rule...?
  6. Acceptable username?
  7. Wrong URL leads to Wrong Article
  8. WHY can I not figure out how to request an article!!!?
  9. Editing Janet Ross - Adding Sections
  10. Cannot create "Copal Partners" page on Wikipedia
  11. TEXT STYLE
  12. Deleting an account
  13. Usage of titles in articles
  14. Image not showing
  15. When are redirects considered useful?
  16. I can be logged in only on my country's wikipedia page. Why?
  17. Requesting an Article
  18. 2010 U.S. Census data bot?
  19. Creating a page for a company I work for. Is this kosher?
  20. Tool for creating wikilinks from all entries in a category
  21. Split history
  22. Adding items to Discography
  23. IN ERROR I BLOCKED AN ACTIVE GAME OF FRONTIERVILLE`````.
  24. Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
  25. Adding a photo to an article.

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 3

  1. Website
  2. Should the article Dlasta get deleted
  3. New to Wiki (except for reading); I do not know where to go to address an issue.
  4. Posts deleted
  5. adding to an article.
  6. Reference question
  7. Can I flag users?
  8. Wiktionary wikilink
  9. Commons
  10. Standards for naming articles about buildings
  11. Number of deleted article?
  12. Deleted Links to Richard Ebeling
  13. Looking to reach consensus on minor update to BLP
  14. Talk:Anders Behring Breivik: New section becomes new subsection.
  15. Misspelled word through out Wikipedia
  16. Incorrect spelling of town on map
  17. Where is the articles for improvement page?
  18. Need advice
  19. Is there a way to get one contributor's permission to authorize an article for publication that has over 500 anonymous and robot authors?
  20. Deleting vs. merging
  21. How is this possible?
  22. I joined your book club

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 4

  1. reticular theory
  2. IP addresses
  3. How do I move my Content Box?
  4. Help needed with Harvnb references
  5. New entry
  6. How to remove 'User' from main title of Wikipedia entry?
  7. Speedy deletion needed please
  8. Wiki users request money
  9. Wikipedia Nazis on power trips who "dominate" and act like little Hitler's in determining content on some pretty important subject matter
  10. Author identification for Confidence in Factual Correctness
  11. Citation taskforce
  12. Editing in General
  13. Linking new picture to facebook info.
  14. Uncategorized template
  15. Russell Crow
  16. How do I create a page for a songwriter?
  17. Scott_Evil
  18. Live help

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 5

  1. Protecting my wp account
  2. Vector images of trademarks
  3. Article accreditation
  4. template for code of federal reguations
  5. It's unfair to add such Allegations/Controversies on a biography when nothing has been proved yet. Article Subrata Roy
  6. Changes to Country Risk wiki page and editing country pages
  7. Privacy and Safety
  8. Drop of Contributors
  9. Reporting an error
  10. Usablenet Wikipedia Page Status
  11. Wonder Man comic book
  12. Making coords visible through infobox
  13. List of Publications critical of the Latter Day Saint movement
  14. Image info
  15. Technical help about moving two articles

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 6

  1. Internet Explorer and Firefox
  2. Add new article
  3. Why is Wikipedia so slow?
  4. Why the hell am I banned in IRC???
  5. Help finding anything on vixon Ayala
  6. Please help
  7. Foreign language redirects
  8. about thevenin theorem
  9. Belly amphora and wierd title
  10. Non-free
  11. Exact copying from Government forms OK?
  12. Locating records from Moryn, Poland
  13. posting box
  14. i want to make my artcle permanent
  15. publishing a specialized resume

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 7

  1. User created a page for a file that is on Commons
  2. Producer forgotten on "Bangin' On Wax" album page
  3. Lawrence Tribe article- two versions??
  4. You got Frank AbeckNALE Jr in here as an American Consultant & And Colton Harris Moore! My God!
  5. a "Like" link for anything to for facebook
  6. {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
  7. THE SCENARIO OF THE DEPOSIT COLLECTORS IN INDIAN BANKS.
  8. Feature at WP:UTN not working
  9. Display of Wikipedia on my laptop
  10. Correcting instructions
  11. Kurt Russell
  12. Best Article of All?
  13. about GATE prepiration
  14. KISS
  15. University of Liverpool - Incorrect Crest
  16. add photos to Wikipedia

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 8

  1. Italicize species title
  2. What do I need to create a new Church page?
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/98.171.190.114
  4. Set an upper limit for the rendering resolution of uploaded images
  5. Islamic Mobiling
  6. References confirmed and requested to be validated
  7. Editing
  8. Interstate highways exit lists
  9. Talk page problems
  10. Older dumps of Italian Wikipedia
  11. backprocess of transmission of e-mail
  12. case sensitivity
  13. Impossible unicode combination?
  14. page move
  15. index error

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 9

  1. How do you rate an article?
  2. Will it blend, AWB?
  3. Vandal editors
  4. I keep getting a message that my article has missing end reference tags, & I need ((reflist)) at the end.
  5. ASSISTANCE IN COPYING A TABLE TO AVOID PRINTING OFF MORE THAN IS NECESSARY.
  6. Why was a subject removed?
  7. Can an admin please open Gabriel Obertan again
  8. Should I close the RFC?
  9. editing the page name
  10. Page view statistics question
  11. Question
  12. Help! What to do?
  13. Katharine's son?
  14. University of Liverpool Logo/Crest
  15. Error: no |title= specified when using Cite web
  16. Registered accounts, IPs and Checkuser
  17. article about Mike Hudock Jr.
  18. Multiple edits at one time
  19. Tool that ranks top contributors to a specific article
  20. Disambiguation redirect title question

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 10

  1. Editing window size
  2. Correcting rationale on picture file
  3. Wikihounding?
  4. So here is the deal
  5. Adding a picture which I own (personal)
  6. Deletion log
  7. Userbox help
  8. Shaikh Aziz- The Legend of Sindh
  9. remove my incorrect wikipedia page
  10. Problem with Login unification . . .
  11. Editing statistics
  12. Copy/Paste Prevention
  13. What are the guidelines regarding current lawsuits?
  14. Reason for deletion of a file
  15. Changing name of category
  16. Crop whitespace
  17. How to include email address in example code in article?
  18. Luke Evans page lockdown due to debate on notability of sexual preference
  19. The Mussolini-Montessori conflict described meeting the "citation needed" plea.
  20. Article Feedback Tool - can't disable it
  21. Define "review" as it pertains to film
  22. Page was deleted - we want it back!
  23. Issue with Google Chrome browser
  24. The word "hell" is replaced with "@#!*%"
  25. Sound Files
  26. WORLDS STRICTIST PARENTS

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 11

  1. Links can not be displayed in IE8
  2. External link problem
  3. MediaWiki 1.17wmf1
  4. Incorrect spelling
  5. Reference does not format correctly
  6. Who did the edit?
  7. Translation
  8. fixing page discussion for past
  9. Word Listing...
  10. Editing a protected page
  11. Expanding article
  12. How to remove the "This page is a new unreviewed article" tempelate from an article that I have reviewed ?
  13. List of all Bot's UserIDs
  14. Where are yesterday's pageview stats?
  15. Wikipedia policies on first-person
  16. Report users?
  17. a permalink to present version template?
  18. Possible redirect would have two equally valid targets
  19. Switch hitter's
  20. I was here recently

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 12

  1. Living person signatures for articles
  2. Help
  3. Watchlist disappeared
  4. May I ask YOU to help me to sign in?
  5. numbers in Tables
  6. Strange appearance of wikilinks
  7. Looking for son
  8. My editing didn't print the way i Wanted
  9. Remove my old edits from my autobiography
  10. Uploading a picture (Does not belong to me)

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 13

  1. Help with resizing an upright image in infobox
  2. Someone with nutritional knowledge could help.
  3. Requests for help
  4. User:krispin16/VSide
  5. Fantasy (Regine Velasquez album)
  6. Marketing activation
  7. Theft by finding
  8. ARC Energy
  9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cryer
  10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Roots
  11. Borje Oscar Rosaen inventor
  12. User:StoneCircleMetal/Stone_Circle_(Band)
  13. Hailey Dunn
  14. Andrew Abercromby
  15. ISAFF
  16. Music of the Soul (book)
  17. Obstacle Race
  18. Davies public affairs
  19. Stem Cell topic
  20. Templates to mark articles with problems due to a lack of historical depth of coverage?
  21. Deleted pages in raw watchlist
  22. Ryan Hobson
  23. latitude and longitude coordinates link
  24. Completing the "Featured article" nomination procedure
  25. making a templete collapsed.
  26. "upright=" in image tags
  27. jon the dentist (entry in wikipedia)
  28. U.K. Flash crime wave
  29. Alignment of a map legend
  30. Sisters of St. Joseph
  31. Spoliers!!!
  32. Title of page
  33. Mistake posting article - help!
  34. How to remove hypertexts ? [Feature request]
  35. I would like to get a copy of all the national parks in the USA, I really like what you have on the parks a picute and a description, please send a copy of this inforamtiion to David Conley, <redacted>
  36. Somebody wrote a false article about me on the Wiki and I would like it to be removed.
  37. Article on the "Personal Computer Industry" or "Personal Computing Industry."
  38. Editing M F K Fisher
  39. Need help to backtrack article to earlier version.
  40. Editing M F K Fisher (2)
  41. Template:Post-it small
  42. How to reach a consensus?
  43. Deletion.
  44. Joshophobia
  45. Inactive projects
  46. Wikipedia:User page design center/Menus and subpages

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 14

  1. Editing M F K Fisher
  2. Edit jumping
  3. Bahá'í Faith
  4. Entry for Montauk, New York Has a Link that Releases a Virus
  5. Another person by that name
  6. Westlawn cemetery canton ohio
  7. Copyright
  8. Unable to determine copyright informatioin on my photograph.

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 15

  1. Decade birth cats
  2. How do I get rid of unwanted visible code above / below an image from Wikimedia Commons in a Person Infobox?
  3. request
  4. Problem with the Scanning Electron Microscope page
  5. Template moved but subpage with references was not moved
  6. Indefinite blocked user
  7. what happened to my new article "Google Ideas"?
  8. content writer
  9. Jesse Lee Peterson and Linda Christas
  10. Rating articles
  11. ritual abuse
  12. Two Users
  13. Thicker vertical border in table
  14. Griffon Corporation Logo
  15. FA voting?
  16. My legitimate edits were flagged as vandalism
  17. Referencing help
  18. How can I change my article name?
  19. Facebook duplicate page
  20. facebook question
  21. REQUEST a New Article ?!

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 16

  1. Doesn't remember my login
  2. The rating of an article
  3. In re policy on ritual abuse.
  4. Split template does not generate a response
  5. How do I delete my whole contribution
  6. Can't contribute to referendum
  7. omanual - freeware need (container)or Program to open it.
  8. Problems with my Talk page: David J Johnson
  9. Rick Richter
  10. Editor count
  11. Olympus µ article naming
  12. Re: Michael Jingozian biography
  13. Article revision problem
  14. information missing in an article
  15. How to insert a photograph into a wikipedia article from your computer
  16. Wikipedia talk:Peer review
  17. Rename and Redirect?

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 17

  1. The League For Spiritual Discovery
  2. Bach's Minuet
  3. Touchscreen Article
  4. Browser troubles
  5. Formula One WikiProject template
  6. PayPal Topic Hacked / Hijacked
  7. Archive
  8. Pigment Volume Concentration
  9. time format
  10. pronunciation
  11. Image 'gremlin' in infobox template?
  12. Creating an article based on a foreign language stub
  13. Cancer treatment help
  14. About the section of Ancient Egyptian Mythology in popular culture.
  15. Ryan Moats false information
  16. Jean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D
  17. Adding sources to Wikipedia biographies of living people
  18. How to give a different colour to templates' lower lines.
  19. I need some help with IPA

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 18

  1. Label for "British English" articles?
  2. Better than ref label note label?
  3. FIFA Soccer 12 Cache
  4. Incorrect photo caption
  5. Adding content on Transport related issues to Wikipedia
  6. line wrap in template
  7. income
  8. template talk:Authority_control#Bot_support_required
  9. Entertainment technology as an article category for Applied Technology
  10. Is User:Talktalk a misleading username?
  11. Dj Mike Whitfield
  12. Barnicklemusic
  13. A Problem finding an article that has been posted
  14. Dj Mike Whitfield - Malibu Vibes
  15. Orthomolecular Medicine
  16. Stupid question
  17. Please speedy delete
  18. Searchable content
  19. Can someone fix the citations for me?
  20. Problems with two references in article
  21. Template:Rfd2
  22. Wikipedia Policy
  23. Was my page deleted?
  24. Disturbed
  25. "Night Triangular" video
  26. "It appears you are adding external links to many different Wikipedia pages in rapid succession"
  27. updating my reflist

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 19

  1. Sort string length
  2. HАGGER?
  3. Tool for creating redirects
  4. Disable WikiLove
  5. correcting an article about me
  6. University of Liverpool
  7. Transclusion problem with footer
  8. how do i report vandels
  9. Feedback on Proposed Edit to Spotify Article
  10. wikimedia emails without a wikimedia account
  11. US Census question
  12. Photoshop help
  13. Quotations section

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 20

  1. viewing images
  2. Redirect question
  3. Photo of church
  4. Jordan Christopher Michael
  5. Information on pictures
  6. tokyo spam
  7. Helena Bonham Carter
  8. Capitalisation of "The" (etc.) in Movie (etc.) Titles
  9. Disabling mobile site
  10. Album cover
  11. Special:Export - Categories with Colons
  12. Can I restrict another users from editing the wiki-page which I create
  13. Illegal Wikipedia copy
  14. Edit Page Intro?

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 21

  1. Uploading copyrighted photos I own
  2. Copyright question
  3. Link photo with article
  4. Article talk page template for close connection
  5. Twinkle on an iPad?
  6. May 3, 2015
  7. "Yellow-billed pintail" article has a serious problem
  8. Template loop detected: User talk:George SJ XXI
  9. Hello can I mix ultram and naproxen
  10. adding a listing to a category
  11. How do I contact user HUGHPUGH
  12. Photo submitted for article
  13. Numbered and unnumbered references

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 22

  1. Help requested
  2. Using Books
  3. editing Marshall Hall (musician)
  4. Interlanguage links - Samuel Morris
  5. Marshall Hall (musician) again
  6. mistake about our coaches nationality
  7. article
  8. Wikipedia in other languages
  9. Adding a link to a Blog
  10. Unusual message notification on Wikipedia landing page
  11. Big Dig
  12. What if the acronym is already used?
  13. Regarding montly donation.
  14. arrest records expungement
  15. Incorrect information on the Brian Bendis page
  16. A company releasing an image under CC?
  17. Which date to use in citation?

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 23

  1. editing
  2. Merging help - my first merger attempt
  3. remove article
  4. Template question
  5. CSD G11, normal deletion WP:NOTPROMOTION or WP:COI, or cleanup?
  6. Missing option when uploading non-free image
  7. Random article function and browser "Back" button causes anomaly
  8. Different language, same topic
  9. What if a newspaper article wasn't microfilmed?
  10. uploading photos error
  11. Weird issue while editing
  12. problem with second to last userbox
  13. What should happen with an RFC?
  14. Leslie Brooks
  15. Schilieffern Plan
  16. 2000 visa free to europe by dangote
  17. What should happen with an RFC? (Continuation from four sections above)
  18. Incorrect link in article
  19. Image misspelled, how to fix?
  20. Fixation index

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 24

  1. How to reference an academic thesis?
  2. Formatting problem with section heading on my userpage
  3. Fixing links to the English Place-Name Society database
  4. Everyday I Wake Up On the Wrong Side of Capitalism
  5. How to USE Wikipedia to ask about general knowledge
  6. Wrong Birthday: Adam Gazda Bio
  7. Australian edition
  8. State Bank of Mauritius
  9. Transfer and rename
  10. subst
  11. Rex Rabbit title
  12. Image licence question
  13. Book in progress is gone
  14. Interlanguage map?

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 25

  1. Requesting editors to review AfD
  2. High Rock, North Carolina deletion
  3. On dead links in articles
  4. Taking information from other wikipedia pages
  5. Using EndNote or other bibliography programmes to add citations
  6. Notable parents
  7. User warning template for inappropriate profane personal opinion on an article talk page
  8. Disable automatically watching a page only for specific pages
  9. Preventing the protection & deletion logs from showing on a watchlist
  10. Song Lyrics missing?
  11. Pictures
  12. Simple watched pages list?
  13. abdomen pain
  14. does it violate wiki rules?
  15. No Edit this Article showing on a Wikipedia article.

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 26

  1. Uploads
  2. Infobox_album in artist article italicising title
  3. Uploading scanned images
  4. Request for archived page deletion
  5. Images in BLP
  6. Moved article with German interwiki link
  7. Image Opening in a New Tab
  8. Article about a company I work for
  9. Loud text
  10. Use of primary sources for verification of the entries in a list article
  11. Hurricane Irene (2011)
  12. Kitchen Nightmares
  13. Transliteration and (or against) sources
  14. I have a website I built and used Fortune to publish it,
  15. user talk message: how to respond
  16. Peer review

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 27

  1. 60 yr-old, low computer skills, wants to make 1 edit of an article
  2. Football
  3. Frank Zappa
  4. Introducing Myself
  5. User:Srobak
  6. Peg
  7. Military Log
  8. Finding articles belonging to two or more specific categories
  9. Where can I find guidelines on notability for video games?
  10. Image file speedy deletion
  11. Unreviewed article

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 28

  1. Help with template coding
  2. Looking for relatives in Germany
  3. Semi-protection and ANI
  4. Userbox issue
  5. Ownership question
  6. References Do Not Show Up On List of hard rock musicians; It Shows Up As Template:Reflist
  7. Linking text to another page on wikipedia
  8. References – style variation and consistency
  9. Coordinates on the left?
  10. Navbox autohide?

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 29

  1. i am a play in africa, looking for team
  2. Nasty WiKi on people who may be attacked for their logic
  3. Uploading scanned images of stamps
  4. Gath, (city).... Goliath.
  5. finding a family in other countrys
  6. Image in article pending review
  7. article about treasure hunt movie
  8. NFL Pages
  9. redlinked categories
  10. Photos of 1903 Cannstatt fire
  11. Using 'dashes' for sports scores etc.
  12. Company page, operated by others, no log-in available
  13. Personal Sandbox?
  14. "Mullingar"/people
  15. Tool to search character string in EDIT SUMMARIES across the PROJECT (not just a single article)
  16. Wikipedia source code syntax highlighting

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 30

  1. biography of Ann Chandonnet
  2. Can't login (Work PC)
  3. Update numbers in NRHP list
  4. Rules of providing a summary in a language other than the article's native language
  5. Wikipedia keeps crashing
  6. Three different Unicode characters for "micro"
  7. article is written like an advertisement
  8. Water Filter
  9. how to represent a capsule summary
  10. Strange transclusion
  11. Generated confirm email link appears to be broken (404 - File Not Found)
  12. Moving and categorizing a userbox
  13. Using sources written by myself
  14. There are 2 "Peter Lehmann", but only 1 to find with the search button
  15. List of publications for Bio of Living people
  16. David Platt Director
  17. Possible Inappropriate Link
  18. exclamation point banner at top of article
  19. Chocolate bars
  20. Text from AP
  21. Article about a local music artist who is quite unique in our country
  22. 328 BS error
  23. University of Liverpool Logo as Main Image
  24. Problems with images in info boxes

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 August 31

  1. Signing Talk contributions
  2. Cleaning Up Audio Files?
  3. Doppelgangers
  4. Withdraw nomination from RFD
  5. Case-sensitive on 1st letter in WP?
  6. Question about newspaper "Archive" citations
  7. How known are Hamburg?
  8. Security alert on a page
  9. download pages WITHOUT using webcrawlers
  10. new article saved - yet not visible to all
  11. Internal link help
  12. Old closed AFD's for books
  13. TurboCAD 16 Deluxe 2D/3D Tool Symbels
  14. A style question
  15. Two versions of "Medical University of the Americas – Nevis" depending on URL syntax; can this be fixed?
  16. Wikipedia Nederland does not appear on startpage
  17. Jayalaithaa
  18. Olympus camera category subcategorisation
  19. Is this photo really allowed?
  20. Disruptive behaviour again?
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/August_2011&oldid=1079697669"