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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 1

  1. Linking to other wikis
  2. HELP
  3. Assuring me that if ever I accomplish anything, Wiki will not post a page about me ever? Is that possible?
  4. Please help I'm new to wiki editing
  5. Why doesn't my photo show up in my gallery?
  6. Request History Merge USS Kansas City (CA-128) and Kansas City (CA-128)
  7. unbale to move/publish

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 2

  1. Help adding a new version of an image
  2. mis-categorized page
  3. Is there a way to left justify an Infobox?
  4. Being Threatened Or Harrassed.
  5. Thecla Gumbo
  6. MIT GAR
  7. Who is able to see my watchlist?
  8. Reference styling
  9. Heart icon
  10. Ocean Rowing
  11. very long citation style

July 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 3

  1. Category:Bruce Springsteen songs
  2. Talk page
  3. Checking Article Traffic
  4. Light Emitting Diodes
  5. Why can't we see if an article is nominated for good article?
  6. JavaScript issue in Google Chrome
  7. Downloadable sources
  8. Abnormal adding of « user’s guides » portions inside an article
  9. Interlanguage links
  10. Fort Hood Killer
  11. Edits not posting
  12. Change my user name
  13. Is it possible to edit protected pages and not become an administrator?
  14. No response to my Talk with WBOSITG or Garden Editor
  15. Changing name of article
  16. The Hot Dog Program
  17. Changing how the Watchlist works
  18. Please fix ref tag

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 4

  1. Where in the MOS
  2. Help in Lebak, Sultan Kudarat
  3. Can I post feedback on a company to wikipedia
  4. Viability of a re-direct
  5. changing wiki content on facebook searches: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ferial-Haffajee/133052846729789?sk=info
  6. I am in the USA and want to edit an entry on the Wikipedia Japanese site
  7. IHU,new party
  8. I can't log in
  9. cyberrevolution
  10. Quoting Wikipedia Articles
  11. Image Links
  12. Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah
  13. user sandbox link name on user page munged
  14. any branch in Doha Qatar,or any mosque where Ijtima is held?
  15. edit foot notes
  16. CONTENT WEB PAGE
  17. Number of States in the United States of America

July 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 5

  1. More problems with new page
  2. How to search for any articles with a section named "X"
  3. Phony password change
  4. Democratic Politics
  5. Need to Change Company Name
  6. Cannot find my page or any history of its deletion
  7. Worst Vandal
  8. Userboxes
  9. Template Usage
  10. Identical duplicate pages

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 6

  1. Our Stories Films information
  2. Books Go Poof - Is There Light At THe End Of This Tunnel Or Is That Let Another Train?
  3. edit conflict
  4. Maggots are also known commonly as gentiles
  5. Can I post a completed article to get feedback here? Just want to make sure that the article is Wiki correct and that it does not get deleted?
  6. Transwiki a template
  7. An update I did is visible only to me
  8. Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC
  9. 'Quarter-Final' vs 'Quarterfinal'
  10. Wikipedia:New_contributors%27_help_page
  11. middletons black and mild
  12. Why do so many Wikipedia place pages read like a travel brochure or real esate broker's article
  13. Notification of subject
  14. RMS AMP
  15. Article idea - South African artist named Portchie
  16. just a help i can do
  17. ELECTRIC POWER
  18. Uncyclopedia
  19. New category - African American Women
  20. Have tried to nominate the page but just won't delete
  21. new article developing a subject already covered in part by an existing article
  22. Watchlist the contents of a category
  23. Clueless question about the article table I am using as a model
  24. copyright infringement
  25. Easy way to tell when a user was last active
  26. Challenge of uncited allegation in CenterPoint Energy article
  27. Deleted Picture
  28. Racist and Harassment of Iberian in Wikipedia

July 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 7

  1. Override template default
  2. pic
  3. Bundling citations: Can same ref be bundled in one place and stand alone in another?
  4. Archiving
  5. need help
  6. Time Stamp
  7. retriving a page that was seen earlier
  8. Circumventor IP
  9. Image update problems
  10. ELECTRIC POWER 2
  11. bits
  12. hwy 385 correction
  13. Jamie Floyd
  14. Assistance to disambiguate
  15. How do you edit a title of a page?

July 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 8

  1. Injure in spinal card/lower butt
  2. bus nos
  3. a template won't allow an image to site beside it
  4. What is the meaning of these colors
  5. Article display problem
  6. applications for nokiac7-00 symbian^3 mobiles
  7. References aren't showing up
  8. I made changes to an article which are not registering except when I log in myself
  9. fools gold jewelry
  10. Reference Help
  11. Links deleted
  12. Splitting and renaming an article
  13. how do I close an unsigned entry?
  14. WLTN-FM and WLTN-AM Traded In IRN USA Radio Network For CBS Radio Network News
  15. Cheney Mason
  16. help uploading larger size images, but that have changed file extension
  17. page for historic company with a lot of references on wiki
  18. Photo
  19. Out of date tag
  20. Requesting Input on Policy Proposal
  21. Reference Desk Trolling
  22. Extension

July 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 9

  1. Template help
  2. Number_1_Ladies_Detective_Agency
  3. Fix Reference
  4. WP:SALT
  5. Looking for help
  6. Help on what is a reliable source
  7. Deleted articles
  8. Downloading wikitext
  9. Is there an equivalent of BLP1E for articles about dead people?
  10. Editing raw watch list
  11. Sean Burch article
  12. X5 Winner
  13. Disambiguation page please
  14. adding attribution
  15. username
  16. CLOSED CAPTIONED UNDER SPENCER FAMILY AS HENRY FONDA AND JAMES MACARTHUR
  17. Searchable table number order
  18. File:William Hearn umpire.jpg
  19. Photo confusion

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 10

  1. The edit feature is missing off the page I am looking at for the NJ mob
  2. Need help with adding reliable sources for Living Biography Entry (Joe Cabot)
  3. does wikipedia reference desk draw its knowledge only from wikipedia
  4. Please don't delete the following categories
  5. Is there a way to view someone's speedy deletion tags for articles that were deleted?
  6. Infobox error
  7. Template parameters
  8. vandalism
  9. Inappropriate and misleading picture on your WWII article in Facebook with promoting Hitler instead of telling the truth on the outcome of this war and of crimes against humanity by the person you are promoting on Facebook with Hitler picture.
  10. TeX font size
  11. Requests for Articles
  12. edit conflict
  13. I can't log in to the Chinese version of Wikipedia
  14. please provide us wikipedia in hindi...........
  15. Can't login
  16. I want to run this by you all of you
  17. Accessibility for colour blind people
  18. I would like to merge my old userpage with my new userpage
  19. removal of date of birth from profile

July 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 11

  1. Reference error
  2. Account recovery - old/dead account
  3. place
  4. My images are not right aligned
  5. How to cite a web source that has new information since previously visited?
  6. Infobox high court
  7. Italic Text and Bold Text vandalism cleanup.
  8. Search Box will not take focus nor can type into the box
  9. Requested move of page. Not showing up on queue.
  10. Multiple coordinates for geographic list articles
  11. Image Description Contains Mistakes
  12. Wrong information featured on Corporation Wiki.
  13. Yu Yu Hakusho episode list/Seasons
  14. Paul Pratt Biography Page
  15. m
  16. Can someone check I've started an AfD properly?

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 12

  1. pay
  2. Adding my name
  3. Surname listing
  4. Column titles on comparison pages
  5. Problem with a template (or something)
  6. Template:Miss Universe Organization titleholders
  7. Wikipedia Experiment FAIL
  8. Elizabeth Street, Sydney
  9. Is the Pothole article violating NOTHOW?
  10. Correct place for for language icon template inside a reference using a citation template
  11. Wrong redirect
  12. Please do not delete my page
  13. Why Does the page revert to the old one after edits?
  14. What was changed in this edit?

July 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 13

  1. Removed and replaced article for this day in history. July 12th
  2. Gadget Request: Quick Diff Viewer
  3. John_Mahoney
  4. how do you use images
  5. Paying a bill
  6. Can i update some software information for ESC(Electronics System Cooling), Its not there in this website?
  7. Reliable source?
  8. flagellar undular movement
  9. sorting error
  10. coord missing
  11. Show Page
  12. The article entitled "Music"
  13. What do you do with snippet sources?
  14. Moving an article from my sandbox
  15. Articles number excluding lists and outlines
  16. A strange, seemingly pointless page

July 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 14

  1. usertalkpage
  2. I have contributed to "The Milpitas Monster" reference just to have it all deleted.
  3. Changes not showing
  4. Converting AfD to speedy delete
  5. Breaking story hatnote
  6. No Clue???
  7. Two identical articles, how to merge or remove one?
  8. CASEY ANTHONY
  9. Find refs with missing accessdate fields?
  10. Source Disappears
  11. Edit summary
  12. currious
  13. Accessing direct wiki code for official templates
  14. News citations, agency article: where?
  15. Mattress Giant
  16. My edits are persecuted
  17. How to add factual information to an existing Topic?
  18. New wiki for my company
  19. 2 things to dicuss
  20. template
  21. sandbox

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 15

  1. Reviewer JRCLA2 is rogue. He should be restricted.
  2. I would like to "like" comments :-)
  3. someone was rude to me and deleted my questions from the reference desk even thought they were of a highly intelligent and intresting nature
  4. Looking for broken wikilinks that no longer anchor to a section header
  5. finding sources
  6. My own article got deleted
  7. external links - isn't it possible to have links to internet forums and commercial websites?
  8. How do I include information and data from a report that is only available for purchase and isn't in Library of Congress etc?
  9. Forgot to sign in can I remove my IP address to my user account?
  10. wikipedia and facebook
  11. using your images
  12. A user is spamming a suspicious link
  13. Does GFDL apply to lists?
  14. For the first time I justmmade an edit to a page. I see it listed as a contribution
  15. Template for dated article sections
  16. username
  17. wikicup
  18. Depleted Uranium talk page being used to advocate positions not accepted for the article.

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 16

  1. WikiGolf
  2. Deleted page not showing in deletion log
  3. Delete a site but on a page that copies from wikipedia
  4. Difficulty editing Wikipedia articles
  5. Image query
  6. Watchlist notice while using secure server
  7. Denice Lewis
  8. Rate this page feature
  9. Tabloid sources template/ Improve sources?
  10. Disambiguation page
  11. george wahington crosssing the Delaware

July 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 17

  1. How specifically - step by step - do I literally enter a citation to support a citation request in an article.
  2. Thomas F. Wilson, just an FYI
  3. Can't find our article that we posted in draft form and want to edit
  4. Way to create an article
  5. A template and date formats
  6. Orange Mike
  7. Controlled schizophrenia is Kundalini Yoga
  8. Overlapping
  9. Article for deletion
  10. Multiple editors working in common sandbox
  11. Move from Commons
  12. Blocking User:Jimbo Wales
  13. Arcola MS
  14. Rowspan in Filmography
  15. Edward Scissorhands (dance) San Francisco Chronicle references appearing as bare URLs
  16. inks to printer ?
  17. Please repair Altoona, PA page for me!
  18. Range block request
  19. Wikipedia layout
  20. Malicious program in my computer
  21. General John A.Logan and the BATTLE OF ATLANTA cyclorama
  22. Saint Anne
  23. Dab page and redirect

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 18

  1. why hasnt any medication / therapy helped for my ptsd?
  2. How to add our event on Wikimedia?
  3. Colorpuncture page edit- alternative view point not given space
  4. Wikitable sortable
  5. Could somebody please check this diff?
  6. to understand abt new website abt saam learning---
  7. Time is off 1 hour
  8. Spoiler Option for Wikipedia
  9. Confused about new articles/articles for creation/talk article etc.
  10. "You Can Ask for It To Be Created" info
  11. changing language
  12. language
  13. County categories on highway pages
  14. First True Native Americans.........

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 19

  1. isp question
  2. Account wizard
  3. Don Bevan
  4. HI
  5. hi2
  6. English translation for Mexican song - Cielito Lindo
  7. Stalis Crete photo not good representation of stalis
  8. Question adding mods to softwares
  9. Adding a Sl. No: column
  10. Hindu
  11. Editing Title
  12. Question on info boxes
  13. printing Wiki mathematical articles (eg Laplace Transform) so that full math notation is reproduced faithfully
  14. How to see if your rough draft page has been review
  15. Email Alerts
  16. Where to go?
  17. Blocked
  18. Advice on edits for Menthol Cigarette
  19. Checkuser question
  20. Citation Requirements
  21. privacy issue - deleting history
  22. delete

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 20

  1. Use magazine's old name?
  2. Changing a wiki entry
  3. prescient
  4. Ricci tensor
  5. Facebook integration
  6. nanded airport
  7. Orchestra JB
  8. Blocked from editing own talk page
  9. Article Vandalism- Marash / Kahramanmaraş
  10. Possible inaccuracy in article
  11. Bullet - Incorrect Rendering to PDF and PediaPress
  12. A question
  13. M2 Browning - Incorrect Rendering to PDF and PediaPress
  14. Pre-upload before posting?
  15. Disable Moblie Wikipedia
  16. Wendi Deng - Birthdate of last child?? It says 2005 for Chloe, but in Ruperts wiki page it says 17 July 2003  ???... I think Ruperts wiki page is correct (i.e., it should be 2003)
  17. quraan surah
  18. Warning message at top of post

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 21

  1. Need help with misc questions
  2. Hoax on Bejeweled Twist
  3. MystBot keeps removing zh: link from new article
  4. Confusing wikitext
  5. Problem with the reference tags
  6. Question again: Notability
  7. Google's crawling of secure.wikimedia.org.
  8. Template_talk:Infobox_television#creator
  9. Feedback on a template
  10. Speedy Watchlist
  11. Using interactive Flash animations to illustrate articles
  12. Picture he
  13. WHERE IS "invisible hand" mentioned?
  14. Gio-Goi pronounciation
  15. Suppression of the External Link icon?
  16. Email
  17. Albert Pyun Article - Please Cease and Desist
  18. Tense of "to star" in film articles
  19. PDF for Book Creator always blank
  20. List of Nitrome Limited games
  21. Creating Alternate Pages for Major Cities
  22. AfD deletion process step 3 not working for me

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 22

  1. FEED
  2. Lowercase title
  3. Can't make a redirect
  4. HELP ~ Having trouble getting started?????
  5. adding relevant links that appear to the computer as spam
  6. Created Books In Wikipedia Missing
  7. Can you
  8. Struggling with page layout after adding a photo
  9. Is it OK to delete old article and write new topic with the same title?
  10. Personal narratives
  11. New article on Will Packwood
  12. Fictitious Articles
  13. Missing post on Talk page
  14. Page is looking for an expert
  15. Copyright question about File:Eden Pastora 02.jpg
  16. Is a wikipedia username the same thing as a wikipedia article title
  17. Infobox interfering with image placement
  18. Anchors for section headings
  19. Missing rating system
  20. Journal of Cosmology WIKI--biased, libelous, slanderous,
  21. A question on "Debye–Hückel equation"
  22. notability

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 23

  1. Aldo (musician)
  2. how to find new articles
  3. New Article inquiry
  4. Articles on chemicals inclusion of space-filling or ball and stick models
  5. New University of London Logo
  6. Kindle editions
  7. Adddition to Janet Reno entry
  8. 91/0/0 norsk op
  9. article paragraphing
  10. University of London Logo
  11. What to do here?
  12. Why is there a re-direct from Guillaume de Melun to William the Carpenter?
  13. Law of Attraction
  14. Can't login

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 24

  1. List of reptiles of Minnesota table sorting
  2. I want to start a section of pages on Crosman Air Guns and Airsoft Guns and I was wondering if there is a template for that and am also wondering how I would create a page.
  3. Articles are not appearing at Special:NewPages
  4. The time of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash as reported in the biographie of Billy Powell.
  5. William Jennings Bryan
  6. Image not visible in infobox
  7. template for remember mediation
  8. Noah Wylie
  9. Adding external links to multiple pages (not spamming)
  10. Is there a special page to store private notes ?
  11. C-grade movies
  12. Photographer credit in photo caption

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 25

  1. Mobile Wikipedia
  2. Welcoming Template
  3. Navbox with collapsible groups liststyle not working
  4. How do I submit a new article
  5. Ritu Beri
  6. Format of links to items on other Wikimedia Project sites
  7. Question
  8. Pesquisa Sobre a família Nolêto em Pontremolli
  9. Adding copyrights/source information to a logo or image
  10. Exhaust gas emission
  11. Article
  12. Need a review for my article
  13. Infoboxes, what is going on?
  14. Image Dump from Suisun Bay, west coast US Mothball Fleet, USS Iowa, pics taken yesterday
  15. Policy re dropped criminal charges in BLPs
  16. K&E drafting machine
  17. Broken page layout
  18. Editing issues

July 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 26

  1. Help with JavaScript
  2. caverns in arkansas
  3. content
  4. National Bank of Georgia
  5. we need help
  6. waukegan, illinois
  7. Usurpation of an account with 35 edits
  8. Where do I ask if I just want some neutral people to add a page to their watchlist?
  9. Help with fixing Non-free media use rationale for a non-free file
  10. How do I work out what the problem is re Capitalization?
  11. Can't get wikipedia to email me when a page on my watchlist is edited - except for my own talk page
  12. So is there a place to discuss reform of wikipedia editors and resolving revision tyranny's by editors?
  13. External link question
  14. University of London Logo
  15. Template with exact edit count
  16. My first article "Penrose Prozess" was deleted within 2 minutes of it being online, help me get it back please
  17. Jonathan Tonge wikipedia entry
  18. HINDI TYPING PROBLEM IN WIKIPEDIA
  19. Forbidden 403
  20. Hiding the IP address
  21. Cardinal Mooney High School Principal
  22. How actively is that page monitored?
  23. private help availability
  24. About pages that do not give a neutral point of view

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 27

  1. ban
  2. Black page indicator link font color
  3. Font size
  4. Problems using <math>
  5. Valasca
  6. Fatal Wikimedia bug has returned, crashing older browsers (Netscape 7-9, etc.) in new skin
  7. Wikipedia Appearance Settings - Darker Theme?
  8. Going live
  9. symptoms of amoeboisis
  10. Thomas Quick: What has happened to the interwiki links?
  11. Error in URL and title
  12. Formatting wiping out categories and navboxes at Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  13. Controversy
  14. Unwieldy template
  15. oldest unsourced articles?
  16. Steve Lieberman
  17. replacing picture on my page
  18. Watching all the subpages of a topic
  19. Need help with the article

July 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 28

  1. Hillary Clinton Navboxes
  2. sorting of US state
  3. insurance
  4. Template interwiki links appearing in portals
  5. block
  6. Sharing
  7. Changing the image on a page of Wikipedia
  8. Great Yarmouth Town FC
  9. Editing sockpuppet archive
  10. Please help
  11. Help regarding Talk:Occidental_Petroleum#History_and_Environmental_record_sections
  12. Pourpourakis
  13. Memorials
  14. Template fix needed
  15. Front Cover of Vintage Book
  16. Image upload
  17. Renaming a page
  18. Need imput on Talk:Obadiah Parker
  19. Suppressing t:respell

July 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 29

  1. Information Needed on How My Corrections Have Been Deleted
  2. Need to have a comment I made redacted due to the threat of legal action
  3. Shuttle Columbia Disaster
  4. Express card slot.
  5. Part 2 of my question (here's a link to part 1)
  6. The page I edit comes blank !?
  7. iPhone
  8. tool to analyse breakdown of edits, etc
  9. Category:Non-English_welcome_messages for zh users
  10. References
  11. Debbie Johnson of Ham Lake MN
  12. How do I create an article?
  13. Anti-vandalism program
  14. Parent company
  15. Category: Dangerous Professions
  16. TIME- The Weekly News-Magazine Vol. 1 N0. 1 March 3,1923
  17. Vauxhall Page
  18. how to put reference

July 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 30

  1. Commons PD graphic is backwards
  2. Edwardsport Indiana
  3. How do I edit a page when there is no edit tab?
  4. Aligning tmboxes
  5. Whatever happened to the Mazda B-Series (North America) thread
  6. Surrey Police article not appearing
  7. Can you protect the bio for "Behnaz Sarafpour"
  8. about ias academy
  9. IP account blocked
  10. coley mccbe
  11. Problems with the article feedback tool
  12. Table messes up all sections below it
  13. PLEASE DELETE WIKEPEDIA ARTICLE ON ME
  14. NEW FONT IS NOT GOOD

July 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 31

  1. how can I edit the stacked blue boxes of related articles at the bottom of French Revolution ?
  2. Table help
  3. part 2 (please read part 1)
  4. wikioffense
  5. Regatta Day
  6. Naming a reference
  7. Trouble uploading photo to Commons
  8. Danni Xtravaganza
  9. International Organization membership template
  10. Where to ask copyright question about image uploads
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