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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 1

  1. About editing
  2. Two featured pictures up for speedy
  3. Bot or not Bot?
  4. Some Stupids are destroying my article
  5. Table Alignment
  6. Need some help creating a new article
  7. Missing information
  8. Phishing email targeting Wiki users
  9. Just received an email saying that I've registered with wikipedia but I have not
  10. Glossary of terms for ...
  11. Is this a valid Wikipedia email?
  12. kaine page on facebook
  13. strange mail from you or...?
  14. Report an user
  15. Archiving
  16. Links in images
  17. wikipedia as a virtual art gallery
  18. mystery address
  19. gay.com

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 2

  1. Hospital article guidelines
  2. Why person feels to increase zone setpoint??
  3. Episode lists
  4. Tool on Simple not here
  5. Image deleted?
  6. Reverting Vandalism Format
  7. New Article
  8. Transferring IP edits to a username
  9. Naming section headers
  10. Tahiti national football team
  11. HTTP message format
  12. Incorrect links
  13. what can doc types can be embedded/inserted? PDFs?
  14. Who is the American wrestler that reported his own death on Wikipedia?
  15. Twinkle
  16. Rude names
  17. Company Changed Name, Best way to handle in approved manner?
  18. Speedy Deletion Unfair
  19. Enabling the Wikipedia Book maker

July 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 3

  1. Article page and redirect page swap
  2. Fair-use conundrum
  3. Search Bug
  4. Privacy
  5. Charles Roth
  6. Talk Page
  7. Reviewers
  8. Book compiled but download corrupted
  9. Huggle
  10. Huggle
  11. How do I make this box thing?
  12. Asking Other Editors...
  13. How to feed pages such as 'My contributions' to a self-written editor?
  14. Add information
  15. 2010–11 Ipswich Town F.C. season
  16. Naomh Conaill

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 4

  1. How do I go about proposing a new notability standard for schools?
  2. How to upload a picture for my profile & presentation Bio page???
  3. Case Conversion?
  4. #1 albums categories
  5. page about NEARU martial art is missing
  6. Problem
  7. Talk Page
  8. This article has multiple issues
  9. Portal Box Location
  10. placing article
  11. Double redirect
  12. Roll back

July 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 5

  1. Login Problems
  2. Database error
  3. Search box
  4. Wikipedia and Twitter
  5. Changing fonts and adding backgrounds
  6. Editing old revisions using custom tabs
  7. Daddy Long Legs article issue
  8. 1989 car craft conversion
  9. Sploofus
  10. Google Books reference, with or without highlighting?
  11. Location for debate with other wikipedians
  12. Can't Move New Article Out Of My UserPage - What Now?
  13. Uploading Images
  14. Bank of Montreal
  15. Template:Userspace draft

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 6

  1. Remove prod blp tag
  2. overview of allowed sources
  3. Creating a template
  4. Trouble with using picture from Japanese Wikipedia.
  5. Questions about your article on the Shaker song Simple Gifts
  6. administrator
  7. Improper redirection of our trade name hotel Tanjung Rhu Resort
  8. Fast way to replace a deleted image?
  9. CSD Tag
  10. Where does the phrase "walking in a crocodile" come from?
  11. Formatting
  12. Can news articles depicting negative events be added to University's Wikipedia page?
  13. Sortable Table Question
  14. Mile run redirect
  15. Aristide Razu article
  16. Preferred method to force literal non-list interpretation of infobox data field
  17. editing Infobox

July 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 7

  1. How to delete my username from wikipedia?
  2. Delete all categories?
  3. Editing a page
  4. MySpace links in body of text
  5. page deletion
  6. Question
  7. Who is the uploader? Empty log
  8. Directories
  9. Bracket error
  10. Man, I really dislike the play sushi ads
  11. Spelling of search terms
  12. US Court question
  13. Names of jailed entertainers?
  14. Deleted article
  15. Cannot edit reference section
  16. References
  17. Stop users from editing my page
  18. How do I...... Post a page on WIkipedia
  19. Salam
  20. Bizarre template with leading colon transcluding from the beyond
  21. Merge IP with User

July 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 8

  1. deleted
  2. Userpage problem
  3. Reporting a suspected "sockpuppet"
  4. Allowance of an article about a psychological test.
  5. Translations
  6. Different standards for the Dutch en English Wikipedia?
  7. What the f*#& happened to this article?
  8. font
  9. Pending changes Question asked here for quick response
  10. audio file
  11. Moving half an edit history?
  12. Filmography
  13. What to do about offensive or soapbox material on a talk page.
  14. Using excerpts and images for third party articles?
  15. BLP - Nuno Lupi (Reliable sources)
  16. Changing an article name
  17. advertising on wikipedia

July 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 9

  1. Help with uploading a new image to a friend's Wikipedia
  2. Could somebody please upload this file for me?
  3. Possible virus link in article reference
  4. Rollback
  5. Dear Sirs
  6. Operation
  7. Template problem
  8. Interstate 244
  9. Gadget issue with browser update
  10. page not reviewed
  11. Edits are seriously attributed to wrong username
  12. LaTeX
  13. Case Sensitivity
  14. Help with the infobox template
  15. Unspecified Login errors
  16. Adding a table of contents entry for Spiritual Healing in Faith Healing article?
  17. Feedback about my Spiritual Healing text being reverted by User:BullRangifer?

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 10

  1. Door
  2. These pages appear to collapsible into one page
  3. Stone cold steve austin
  4. User name vs. IP address in change log.
  5. Posting link to Wikipedia
  6. Wiki Documentation
  7. Virginia State Route 17
  8. Unable to register account
  9. adding to the lamda alumni list
  10. iCarly Season 4 Episode One: iGot a Hot Room
  11. Book authors violating their own copyright?
  12. harry potter page is down
  13. Why is article tagged orphan although it has over 30 links and how can the orphan tag be removed?

July 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 11

  1. Mods and Policies....
  2. U of Kentucky policy regarding holocaust studies
  3. Bug in Lupin's AVT
  4. User keeps unediting every edit I make without being reasonable
  5. Wikiprojects
  6. Download a list of pages I have contributed to
  7. Fran Merida
  8. At what educational level should Wiki articles on technical subjects be written?
  9. User:Willy_on_Wheels
  10. Page Creation
  11. Lloyd Kerry
  12. Create an Author Page, How?
  13. Naruto Shippuden 4: The Lost Tower
  14. Donald Goines
  15. References Vs. External Links
  16. Family tree of characters of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung from mkirs54321
  17. How do I contact a Wikipedia writer?

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 12

  1. Missing Photo files
  2. Where can I request a logo for an article?
  3. Template Error - State Highway - Help Pls
  4. No response regarding my article
  5. Start a new page.?
  6. marking or shrinking the rollback button
  7. My article doesn't show up in Wikipedia
  8. page deleted
  9. How can I move an article from my user page to the mainspace
  10. Suspicious emails that may not be coming from Wikipedia
  11. Alexander's Ragtime Band
  12. Eidur Gudjohnsen or Eiður Guðjohnsen
  13. warnings when there is no violation
  14. concerning references in Mean Free Path
  15. Sound version of an article
  16. e-mailing articles
  17. Getting a list of articles in a category
  18. How to locate afd's one has created
  19. Fields of science
  20. Retrieving information from deleted account
  21. Non-italics alternative
  22. PRV Engine is ambiguous

July 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 13

  1. PROBLEM TABLE SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES?
  2. Re: Inappropriate Link PLEASE REMOVE
  3. Template to indicate foreign language in ref citation
  4. How do I get a picture I have uploaded to Wikipedia Commons to my article?
  5. How do you edit the very first section of an article?
  6. Could you help me with a picture?
  7. Can you curb the antisemitism?
  8. OPPOSITE OF BOREDOM
  9. Why is email from the holder of a photo right not sufficient as permission?
  10. county tax
  11. Link to Dropbox
  12. Deleting a subpage of my userpage
  13. Please help
  14. Images
  15. How do we handle a situation where a large number of users are vandalizing articles?
  16. London Metropolitan University edits
  17. How do you change an incorrect redirect?
  18. Malicious user page linked in Category:Cancer_treatments
  19. prevention of inclusion of email addresses on this page?
  20. Greetings
  21. Friendly
  22. Vandalism?

July 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 14

  1. Album citations?
  2. Which Ipswich
  3. My own wiki account
  4. Undeleting Article "Paul V. Kane"
  5. Peter Barton, Historian
  6. Peter Barton, Historian
  7. Neurotic over reactions via fight/flight impulse or protection of offspring
  8. Chennai
  9. Formatting glitch
  10. Creating/editing Grammar Pages
  11. Possible vandalism in use of delete tags?
  12. Is it O.K. to edit the part of an article that is currently being discussed in mediation?
  13. African American baseball players
  14. IMDB-only templates
  15. Skins
  16. Security settings
  17. Redirect
  18. Vandalism? (Seahorse JavaScript Library)
  19. More vandalism?
  20. Writing about myself
  21. redirect
  22. Where did the pictures I uploaded go?
  23. DIRECT LINK TO COMMONS

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 15

  1. tv scheduling
  2. Downloading PDFs on Wikisource
  3. Your Logo
  4. Why my article has been deleted when I followed all Wikipedia Instructions?
  5. Unified login for my account name
  6. I am trying to find anybody that knows anything about Mr. Ray Thomas or Mr.Reno Wolfe.
  7. London Metropolitan University edits
  8. Wikipedia Statistics
  9. Article Authors
  10. Photo displaying oddly
  11. {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{DISPLAYTITLE}}
  12. Where to look for the ranking of a page on Wikipedia
  13. Use of Wikipedia photographs
  14. Listing musical genres
  15. Pretty Ricky Wikipedia Page needs to be fixed!!
  16. Jeckyll Island
  17. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO USE POLISH VERSION OF THE WIKIPEDIA
  18. I can't find my article on Wikipedia
  19. Speedy deletion tag
  20. Thank you KarenJC!!!
  21. Citing references
  22. Wikipedia Droid App
  23. Norman Parker speedway rider
  24. Looking for a tool
  25. Referencing a company's website
  26. Question about article tags
  27. "ball" logos in userpage
  28. Woman's Tennis Draws ational championshipd

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 16

  1. Unable to login to wikipedia
  2. "Popular reference"
  3. Infoboxes
  4. required an essay on "joys and travails of travel"
  5. map coordinates
  6. Problem with DYK page
  7. Advertisement on user talk page
  8. Accessing and Manipulating books that I have created.
  9. Pressure in Deepwater Horizon well
  10. Vandalism?
  11. SUL
  12. !@#$%^&
  13. :File:NRA logo.png
  14. Self
  15. Please add information to the webpage
  16. Sheffield

July 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 17

  1. -Spaces
  2. Routemaster RMA
  3. Need help with a WikiProject
  4. move images to commons
  5. Changing an article name
  6. Edit summary help
  7. Reduction in numbar of slept admins
  8. Uploading PDFs for use as references
  9. Vandalism?
  10. dr who
  11. Vandalism?
  12. How to insert a TAB character when editing an article ?

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 18

  1. Templates
  2. Kobe Kaisei College
  3. Brian O'Brian shorts
  4. Page with an incorrect title that duplicates the subject of an additional page
  5. Six tabs gadgets
  6. Grammar help needed
  7. English only?
  8. Need advice: What's the best way to fix articles that are poorly sourced?
  9. How long should I wait for a response? and if I don't get it, what can I do?
  10. Creating a Family of Pages

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 19

  1. Right to vote
  2. Table of Contents
  3. How to refer to a user with no user page?
  4. Lost Book
  5. Wikipedia link that ends with a ")"
  6. Uploading a .JPG image file to an article
  7. Classic Cigarettes
  8. Citations and references
  9. Is there a reason for the underlining on this page?
  10. Facts related to an inground swimming pool
  11. Infobox question...
  12. Looking for a third opinion about revision to Rick Scott page
  13. To blog, or not to blog
  14. prob with article
  15. duplicated AFD report
  16. accommodation in shostka ukraine
  17. CONFIRMING RESOURSES
  18. Jellyfish

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 20

  1. 1 billionth user
  2. Problem with staying logged in
  3. how do i get the instution on how to get started
  4. "Congratulations! Wikipedia's one-billionth user. Click to collect your prize!"
  5. one billionth??
  6. Infobox, again...
  7. Honoring Brazilian architect Oscar Neimeyer . This could be in a Rio newspaper ., but nowhere on internet was any space for this .
  8. enwiki-20100130-pages-articles.xml.bz2
  9. Article disappeared - help! New article appeared published but days later cannot find it and re-directing to another article.
  10. Can someone help me upload my article?
  11. 2x silly questions
  12. Posting Information to Wikipedia
  13. Update my account
  14. Articles created by user Wiki tool
  15. Need help changing a heading
  16. Vermont Grassroots Party
  17. group=notes, named ref?
  18. Any MiszaBot gurus about?
  19. download file?
  20. Social Networking Icons
  21. locating stats
  22. How can I get a new browser window to open when clicking on a link?
  23. Piracy promoting articles
  24. incorrect paragraphs in info on Bogalusa, LA--none of this is correct nor even sensible-Bogalusa Chamber
  25. Undone edit
  26. Can someone do my homework for me?
  27. User page messed up, but I can't figure it out

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 21

  1. Translate to English
  2. Requesting closure
  3. Audio book of How to win friends and influance people.
  4. Question about a topic-banned user
  5. Link to closed deletion discussion
  6. Reference upload?
  7. copyright
  8. Is there a tag I can add for...
  9. Fun with wikicode!
  10. Orphaned non-free image File:MIJO LOGO.png
  11. Family members
  12. Denied a WIKI page without any real rational reason
  13. 2nd request
  14. Edited the page "National Minority AIDS Council"
  15. uploading a logo
  16. autobiography of author
  17. Another Bill Johnson
  18. person with same name not showing up on main page choices
  19. Using Friends of the Subject as Citations
  20. Pages started by the conversion script but not on Nostalgia
  21. Pichilemu#History

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 22

  1. User script help
  2. Delete Revisions?
  3. Aromatic Ring Structure
  4. delete this?
  5. Vandalism?
  6. picture on french wiki
  7. Band article (The Freewheelers)
  8. Share an Article
  9. Vandalism?
  10. Tables
  11. User Page cleanup
  12. Two bands
  13. List of football players with a Fooball League Championship winner's medal
  14. Citing another encyclopedia
  15. Vandalism
  16. Extend an foreign language article by translating the english article
  17. Languages
  18. Product vs. Company pages
  19. Title

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 23

  1. Inter-Wiki Translating, do I include the same references?
  2. Help with Wiki form
  3. Userboxes
  4. Difference between versions
  5. Help with Citation Fritz Zwicky
  6. Requests page lock
  7. Company name on page title is wrong
  8. link error
  9. Adding Details to Any Page
  10. Anonymous reviewer
  11. Appropriate to create a new page? And how do we maintain control of content?
  12. Reviewing Information
  13. Eastenders
  14. How to Number Equations
  15. Change User Name
  16. Help at the help desk

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 24

  1. Linking to Wiktionary
  2. Emailing talkpage?
  3. chiropractic
  4. Manute Bol
  5. Citadel Broadcasting Streaming Plan Change
  6. Citadel Broadcasting Radio Station Pages Updating Halted...
  7. Search
  8. Article created in the wrong place
  9. G3
  10. Bonding problem of plastics
  11. why different categories of info for different politicians?
  12. Citadel Broadcasting Websites and Malware
  13. Paging through long articles
  14. Insulting edit summeries and possible vandalism
  15. Edit OK?
  16. [http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page Deletionpedia]
  17. Tna alumni
  18. extra text visible above a dot map
  19. Articles that continuely need to be updated
  20. Is my edit ok?
  21. Disney Channel Latin America
  22. User Blocked
  23. References
  24. Fatehabad, Agra
  25. Warning

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 25

  1. subst and new messages alerts
  2. Multiple Russian Links
  3. I own the copyright of paper, but do not know how to prove that
  4. Delphic Games
  5. An interview as a reliable source...?
  6. Changing the display font of Wikipedia
  7. Photographer
  8. Vandalism on the Undertaker article
  9. Max Cleland
  10. More edit notices?
  11. Watchlist options
  12. Named References

July 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 26

  1. Pictures of tanks
  2. Edit ok?
  3. Welcome
  4. Page Deletion
  5. Illustrations image rights purchase
  6. Edit OK?
  7. Bill Williams (actor)
  8. Did I do this right?
  9. VCH - Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 1846-7 and other nonsense
  10. Deletion of page
  11. Deletion of page
  12. Edit count
  13. Editing a discussion after closure
  14. transferring edit credit
  15. Company's Marketing Manager Making updates to Page
  16. Stockport County F.C.

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 July 27

  1. Use of movereq template without subst
  2. Bible related movies
  3. Very old AFD RFA
  4. Page Deletion
  5. Are there notability guidelines for progidies?
  6. Twinkle
  7. Can someone please fix
  8. Manufacturing in HK
  9. creating a version of an article in a different language
  10. Contributions by [76.254.32.248]
  11. Page Deletion ???
  12. Problems with an article nontheism, the "word", and an AfD
  13. Sandpit (disambiguation)
  14. semi conductors
  15. Wikipedia arbitrage guidelines
  16. Is there an RSS feed for DYK?
  17. Erroneous edit as IP
  18. Image history
  19. Change username on Wikipedia account
  20. Automatically Shorten References By Bot?

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