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June 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 1

  1. Can't find link?
  2. 2 articles that need work
  3. Draft article
  4. Pearl Harbor Survivers
  5. andrew c, bloy page was deleted
  6. checkuser question
  7. Kirup Western Austalia
  8. Writing an article.
  9. User:Fext
  10. Infobox out of alignment
  11. Th e Warsaw Concerto
  12. no internal links in signature
  13. Adding an article
  14. Soliciting Administrator for Comment - WP:BLP
  15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
  16. Correct spelling of my first name
  17. How can I edit the title of an article?
  18. Album
  19. problems with people searching for the page I have just completed.

June 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 2

  1. Book Creator Problem
  2. Wikipedia cache isn't flushing out older image file
  3. Largest talk pages?
  4. A quick favor
  5. :File:Haleh Sahabi.jpg
  6. Christie Whelan
  7. When is a Encyclopedia not an encyclopedia?
  8. Footnoting the article about myself with specific citations
  9. Urdu Language
  10. Most needed article by redlinks?
  11. references and using reflist template
  12. threatening edit summ - what to do?
  13. Wiki article of Dick Fuld contains ethnicity field listed as Jewish. Other Wall Street players so not have this descriptive element.

June 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 3

  1. Lower case titles, upper case titles...
  2. Petición
  3. QUI - settings
  4. Convention for disambiguation pages
  5. need to remove wiki page from facebook
  6. Question
  7. Olympia Meida Group Title isn't capitalized
  8. Physics article
  9. Paul Haber Hot Hands,Hot Nights Handball/Racquetball Documentary movie
  10. No "Move" Option
  11. Please remove prophet Muhammad's physical picture's.............
  12. How do I correct reference errors in citations?
  13. Capitalization of fraternity or sorority
  14. Images immediately beneath headers
  15. Who may implement new features (options) in the preferences?
  16. Hotmail
  17. Semi-Protecting my own user talk page.
  18. how do I left align a portal template?

June 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 4

  1. Ethnic group naming
  2. Image upload not working - MIME error?
  3. confirming biography data re: another person
  4. Syntax help. I screwed up
  5. Assessment process question
  6. Osama bin Laden
  7. Promotional Help
  8. Can i create my own personal Wiki project ?
  9. how to get the W icon on the browser
  10. OPANA ER
  11. Legality of photo use
  12. Infobox usage
  13. Moving only part of a page's history
  14. Note on edit pages when the article is too long
  15. moving an article created in a user page
  16. Paul Lukather
  17. Wikipedia:Most referenced articles

June 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 5

  1. CSD criteria explanation
  2. Suggesting new Article
  3. Mentioning bias against certain groups on userpage
  4. Earthquake
  5. I want to add something but wiki considers it 'spamming'
  6. Can't log in - Wikipedia wrongly says I have cookies disabled
  7. Main page error
  8. need friends to interchange stamps
  9. is this PDTextlogo/simple shapes eligible?
  10. topix forum for whitley city ky. what can be done about slander to a person.
  11. Hulu copyright question
  12. Searching for image files
  13. grep is dead, what now?
  14. Verification and dead links

June 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 6

  1. Overwhelmed - Getting Started
  2. Speedy Deletion after hours of work.
  3. Rejected for things I think are clearly in the article?
  4. Data clustering applications in software project development environment
  5. Unreferenced "List of ...." article kept at AfD
  6. De-salting Borgore
  7. Why are some people missing from Wiki
  8. procedure concerning the copyright
  9. Uploading a file for our school
  10. Main Page Summary Addition
  11. how to fix mistake in Afd?
  12. Need a tool
  13. cannot enter new information in an article in the right format
  14. 2011 in film
  15. Are Links To Film Trailers & Fragments re Wikipedia Film Articles *Completely* OK?
  16. Importing fonts and BGs
  17. General notability
  18. BLOCKED
  19. What does being named a "Surf" in the 7th Century England mean?

June 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 7

  1. Looking for a template and can't seem to find it
  2. vanishing vandalism?
  3. paul revere
  4. I cant create a page
  5. editing the page... :Category:Colorectal cancer survivors
  6. Keyboard shortcuts question - desire an anti scrolling shortcut re VIEW SOURCE
  7. talk page blanked?
  8. How to add reference material to an article
  9. Possible error on Nelson Mandela page
  10. Missing check boxes
  11. Resolving disputes about warnings on the user talk page
  12. A TeX performance problem
  13. JUMPING ABILITY OF LANGOOR
  14. Not edible pages
  15. Article citation banner
  16. Account for the wife
  17. Freddie Lindstrom
  18. Fordson High School Fact Error
  19. Reporting for Baiting
  20. user name
  21. FIA competition racing engines
  22. Hello
  23. please do not delete
  24. Dead End Article
  25. Unexplained reverts
  26. Hiding ArticleFeedback

June 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 8

  1. Vandalism Warning
  2. Template Error
  3. Why no defination
  4. Category: Artists who performed on Rockpalast
  5. Categories not showing up
  6. Merge users request
  7. Awards in lead
  8. Editor has created an article about himself on his userpage
  9. Removing discussion content
  10. Rebuilt container to store material
  11. Headlines
  12. name changes
  13. Bell (Disambiguation Page) & Sarah Palin
  14. copy/paste equations
  15. I need help moving a completed article
  16. Entry re Edna Savage
  17. Looking for policy re ALL CAPS
  18. Palin, Revere

June 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 9

  1. Unsuccessful attempt to add to list at WP:RFCN
  2. help please
  3. Why was I warned?
  4. Question about dealing with a troll
  5. Wikipedia crash support
  6. Distinction between names in red and in black on the page with death notices
  7. Upload file option in toolbox
  8. Deborah Dingell BIO
  9. Sources contradicting the majority of other sources
  10. Creating a disambiguation page for a name
  11. Becoming a Member
  12. WBGU-TV Wikipedia Page Deletion (Needed ASAP)
  13. I have improved the tone and readabily on the plant stress measuring article .

June 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 10

  1. User warning templates
  2. Need Wikipedia Guidelines for writing a personal Bio for some one who is notable.
  3. Temp. restore of user page
  4. creating a page
  5. Thanks for the input
  6. Jean Elliott, Astrologer
  7. consistent error in my son's name
  8. Cannot get rid of "printable" layout
  9. List of dictators in the world

June 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 11

  1. adding logo to a institution page
  2. Atlin_Gold_Rush
  3. Dangling footnote link
  4. How can I get my article into the main Wikipedia?
  5. How to complain the administrator?
  6. Mandy Clark
  7. What's going on with Chinese version?
  8. typo in the entry
  9. How can I delete an AfD?
  10. Bidirectionality of text juxtaposed with numeral characters
  11. unusual email
  12. Color Templates
  13. Board of Trustees Voting
  14. Foreign Language Reference Sources
  15. Does something noteworthy about a group member belong on a page about the group?
  16. links with text

June 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 12

  1. How do you create a countdown timer?
  2. Unanswered question in the WP:WQA
  3. COI editing guide
  4. sound template help
  5. computer will not start up
  6. Quoting a Source
  7. Signatures
  8. adding pictures
  9. Purpose of a parameter in welcome template
  10. Photo policy
  11. Wrong complaint
  12. French Canadian
  13. Nickelodeon Shows are a Problem
  14. Wildbot Updates
  15. Large space after col template
  16. Lamont Dozier Wikipedia Updates
  17. Stuff not showing up for users who are not logged in.
  18. How do you add a table?
  19. Recently created articles from redirects
  20. William Willard "Bill" Sanders (nationally known political cartoonist
  21. Carbon fixation
  22. Picture on Thomas Bridges (Anglican missionary)
  23. Dario Suro Images
  24. Wagner SOlar INc

June 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 13

  1. Adding content
  2. Bible Verses
  3. Template markup
  4. Template coding help
  5. Weird page
  6. log in dates
  7. Password help
  8. Uploading a Copyrighted Image w/ Permission
  9. I recently discovered
  10. transcluding userbox formula
  11. My own wiki entry
  12. Norele
  13. freemasons
  14. Geoffrey Chaucer
  15. WikiProject Buses
  16. incorrect information
  17. Associated Acts
  18. Help inserting table into template (coding assistance please)
  19. Justin Bieber

June 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 14

  1. Listing on your site crashes firefox
  2. Zwinger?
  3. Image reuse
  4. Orphan Article Fixed
  5. Problem in Kurmi page
  6. have year membership with pogo changed email address have forgot password andscreen name Judy Anderson
  7. Attempt at censorship at Korean Pop Music Scandals by an "insider"?
  8. Any idea when we will get our "insert signature" button back?
  9. Personal Biography
  10. amending a family tree (gif)
  11. Uploading a picture
  12. deadlinked username Communikat
  13. Similar user name
  14. Printing Wikipedia Pages
  15. New external links false positives
  16. Facebook and Wikipedia
  17. Elisabeth Nordberg Schulz
  18. Harassment
  19. Craig Dargo
  20. hey wiki .... German nationality page link that dosent work
  21. Tagging articles
  22. Where to post
  23. citations for Ed Ayres
  24. Change a logo
  25. How To Form A Team?
  26. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Hagerman
  27. suggestion

June 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 15

  1. Neutrality concerns
  2. Video Uploading
  3. Hi there.
  4. pablo picasso
  5. Please help with sorting
  6. Non-free content in userspace
  7. Change the entry to NPTA
  8. How to Upload photos
  9. TSYS
  10. Gah! Those damn javascript things!
  11. Lost a discussion
  12. #STUPiDFACEDD
  13. Quality Scale
  14. how do I delete an account?
  15. Delete Article
  16. Received "Proposed deletions needing attention" & a question
  17. Using Template:IP address
  18. changing a figure

June 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 16

  1. Citations, how do I "do an Ibid"
  2. Umm...
  3. Help with page layout problem
  4. how do I find out who is watching my talk page
  5. Mutant human a redirection to Human
  6. South Africa article. Bug?
  7. registration for wikipedia
  8. uriel linn - mistype of the name
  9. Discussion Question
  10. Avoid being categorized when demonstrating a template
  11. Vincent Browne
  12. Pashtun Wikipedia
  13. Theflyonthewall.com
  14. BLPs with risky words - help
  15. Expand Language template seems not to work
  16. my info

June 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 17

  1. Tep Zepi
  2. Etymology of Taiwan, please check for syntax
  3. Subscription/Daily Article
  4. Accidentally creating a duplicate article
  5. Disambiguation
  6. Help restoring a deleted category
  7. Little help here
  8. Commercial link for an international only product
  9. I can't find out how to request an article.
  10. Centenial Place Calgary Inaccurate height info
  11. Rick Ross consultant entry
  12. Linking custom search URLs from our company website
  13. Problem on the Mein Kampf Page Discussion; " Editor" Saddhiyami
  14. Viewing another user's watchlist
  15. Etymology of Taiwan please check for syntax
  16. Disambiguation within disambiguation
  17. Deletion Log
  18. Using the content from Wikipedia on my website
  19. Text View

June 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 18

  1. Request for Comment
  2. Horrible image appeared when clicked the link to info about the Wiknik event
  3. Translation
  4. Status hyphens and dashes?
  5. Remove all images on prophet Muhammad PBUH .
  6. FA Topicon
  7. Former Miss Gay Texas winners
  8. Articles
  9. Haggis Hurling

June 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 19

  1. moving new short article to article space
  2. phonetics
  3. How to customize username?
  4. DVD region release dates
  5. Google/WP search
  6. Snake Cube chart
  7. Carthaginian parrot tattoos
  8. MfD problematic?
  9. The IoE Template
  10. Looking for a better warning template
  11. ISBN numbers used in article space

June 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 20

  1. Div tags vs. {{clear}}
  2. Replacing an image with TeX
  3. I am being told the content of my article seems to have been taken from a web page.
  4. Information on location of military bases
  5. Someone has deleted my sourced information
  6. Tongan Rugby Player Profile : Kisi Pulu
  7. [Meta] Wikitable help
  8. Need technical assistance creating Wikipedia page
  9. Should this redirect be kept?
  10. Articles for Deletion
  11. Watching only a single TfD?
  12. How to track TfDs
  13. Based only on the person's autobiography?
  14. Google link for wikipedia's Sean Avery page
  15. EXTERNAL LINK ON SOMEONE ELSE'S PAGE
  16. War of the Worlds: Goliath

June 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 21

  1. Editing a table to the side of an article??
  2. Electric Ink
  3. Something dodgy with my edits
  4. Have I made a posting for review
  5. POSTAL CODE
  6. Inline citations
  7. moving new short article to article space
  8. Robert Jordan redirect
  9. Template:TonyAward PlayLeadActor below command not working
  10. Instant deleting
  11. Amount of Non-free image per article

June 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 22

  1. Help please
  2. User talk page template
  3. Moving other people's comments
  4. Move article
  5. Nurtrional value of wheat grass
  6. Watchlist troubles
  7. Totally messed up AFD.
  8. steve wright DJ
  9. List of Local D.O. Doctors
  10. listen to .mid files
  11. How to clean up a specific article
  12. Logo Removal
  13. Offline editing program
  14. Was this racist?
  15. Editing a Deleted Page
  16. Irrational edits
  17. christopher plummer movies (including televiosion or cable) about time travel and JFK
  18. Page move history
  19. video from youtube as referance
  20. Why My Article every time deleted.
  21. RSS - disputed structure not mosque

June 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 23

  1. Oil platforms
  2. Double redirect bot
  3. Fluid columns for image galleries
  4. Mysterious background in template
  5. Your site has omitted
  6. article on Ronnie Reed
  7. hair transplantation
  8. Removin the Wikipedia Tag from the top
  9. Request for Visa
  10. about addmission
  11. RE: editing the article title
  12. Spamming Inquiry
  13. RefToolbar extra sapce
  14. MESSAGE TO PRESIDENTE DIMITRIJ MIEDVIEW FROM ANDRZEJ S
  15. book
  16. Deleting a page
  17. Odd reference format
  18. text color on wiki edit

June 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 24

  1. Citing the Same Source Multiple Times
  2. My Watchlist And Why Some Of The Bytes Are Bolded
  3. Wikilinking to users and files on the Commons
  4. List of POV problems?
  5. Google searches
  6. Buster Browns
  7. Website Inquiry
  8. Image loaded but does not appear
  9. PDF availibility of an older article version
  10. A request from NPS staff.
  11. where do I go (place or even just a user) to get some help with making a bot to do some data gathering and analysis?
  12. section link
  13. Error using the Book Creator

June 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 25

  1. Wikipedia "puzzle ball" ?
  2. Guidelines re verifiability of the content of quotations?
  3. Table sorting by surname
  4. Uploading an image under Creative Commons non-commercial license
  5. Wikilinks to disambiguation pages
  6. Anonymus IP constantly undoing my edits
  7. Back in Black's cover
  8. Request
  9. 8 resources not enough to save Pete Davis from Deletion?
  10. Byron White
  11. Fuji Bank old account enquiry
  12. Poorly referenced section of article - what is the correct template
  13. Wikipedia hangs with my Chrome
  14. changing username
  15. Toggling images

June 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 26

  1. Original Wikipedia
  2. Help with new Performing arts of Goa navbox
  3. Watchlist security flaw?
  4. My P.hd reserch about donagracia mendes
  5. Undo page move
  6. Looking for tool to fill out citation templates
  7. The Departed 2006 film
  8. Question about toolserver.org's webchecklinks
  9. Case Sensitive search on Wikipedia?
  10. Orphan status
  11. eggplants

June 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 27

  1. Getting new unreviewed articles reviewed
  2. Sucrose and Diabetes
  3. New Page Deletion - But Information Correct!
  4. Problems with two links posted on the net by hackers using wikipedia to install spyware and viruses
  5. On linking to those emails?
  6. Interwiki Watchlist
  7. Username
  8. Romagnola
  9. estate of george harrison (ex beatle)
  10. User talk creation
  11. Christopher Booker
  12. Userspace page in Google search
  13. embedding a file in an article
  14. Sometimes won't form a new line
  15. Linking Spanish and English versions of Wikipedia pages
  16. Feedback needs help
  17. Syrian desert
  18. Trying to find Tequila Avion
  19. Adding links to reviews
  20. How to edit templates?
  21. sort problem (numbers vs charters)
  22. large number of small edits
  23. Submission
  24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today
  25. Wikipedia
  26. Tagged article - can an editor please remove?
  27. External Link Correction Not Accepted
  28. language version
  29. Phone app?
  30. Map scale in infoboxes
  31. censor?
  32. block
  33. username change

June 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 28

  1. Color schemes
  2. Fantasy Suicide Football
  3. Un-redirect needed for Kit house
  4. Nicholas Cooke
  5. can someone please make an article on US Marine company echo 2/5
  6. How to add a link to a wiki page which has an apostrophe in the URL?
  7. I wish to be offered a sholarship by the academy
  8. Hillsborough Disaster Inaccurate
  9. Problem
  10. What is the "adopt user" program?
  11. Need 2 images cropped
  12. Roger Simon (journalist)
  13. Appropriate content for an article about a place.
  14. Arcadia Arcadian Order
  15. Editor review
  16. my saved edits didn't appear
  17. Finding about about your user stats
  18. Request to include surname belonging to GBS community
  19. Sandbox for User Pages/Problem with signing with 4 tildes

June 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 29

  1. Skin CSS and js files aren't where they're supposed to be, or so it seems.
  2. New section on talk page not showing
  3. Suppressing an italic title
  4. Architectural Photographs
  5. removed due to non-free use rationale
  6. Estate of George Harrison (ex Beatle)
  7. Help
  8. Length of time beyond experation date, when stored in a cool dry place
  9. John Wilson
  10. using ref name and ref group in cite
  11. Deleted Account
  12. Miss Guy
  13. Autoconfirmed Account?
  14. you made me loose my firefox i had anita freeoni
  15. Merging 'Radiocontrolledrobot International Release' with 'Radiocontrolledrobot'

June 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 June 30

  1. Navigating away from pages currently in edit
  2. Table of contents vanished on talk page
  3. Table went bizarre
  4. RSS feed for current events page
  5. disruption
  6. Re: Picture
  7. thumbnails of an image not updated
  8. http://wikien4.appspot.com/wiki/User:Alfred_ban/Aveos_Fleet_Performance
  9. Something has gone wrong with an article
  10. who gains from sensitizing communual issues like drawing of Muhammad etc.,, in the name of freedom of speech aren't we suppressing others freedom of belief and religion?
  11. Peter Belohlavek
  12. Profile Box with Article
  13. List of NBA players from Canada
  14. putting lists into columns