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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 1

  1. Saved edits do not appear
  2. OTRS Ticket
  3. Name Confict? What do I need to do? Who Is TowTrucker?
  4. How would one find a bot owner for a task?
  5. apurva palanpura
  6. Short footnotes
  7. Chemical structures, help on copyright status.
  8. Becoming a computing advisor and also submitting a company wiki page
  9. Need to make diffs edit changes more visible
  10. Winter Park High School, Winter Park Florida
  11. Updated financial figures that do not appear afterwards in the public page
  12. Diana, Princess of Wales
  13. HTML char refs for "[" & "]"
  14. Creating a new page in French and in English.....
  15. Collapse template
  16. How to add references?
  17. Sorry - I can't find a deleted article I wrote that I would like to download
  18. Changing top heading
  19. Crosswikispam
  20. people that makes the wikipedia an unfree webpage

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 2

  1. Clubman page
  2. Two users keep changing around constructive edits
  3. Confusion of two similary named sports teams
  4. How to create a page in wiki
  5. Grep - searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression
  6. hi
  7. Addition to article 'List of long place names
  8. Incorrect Link
  9. erroneous information in article
  10. Baburam Bhattarai being an ex-terrorist with interpol notice against him in the past
  11. Archiving at ANI
  12. Subpage
  13. Jayadevan's system and VJD System
  14. Template Unsolved TfD
  15. Books
  16. Template Unsolved follow up question

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 3

  1. Double brackets as "text"
  2. An edit on PARIS-SORBONNE UNIVERSITY
  3. Spacing
  4. How do I get this to display correctly?
  5. Marilyn Miller
  6. Disambiguation
  7. Documentary: FAT
  8. Fraternal Order of Eagles
  9. Birth/death templates
  10. Authoring Articles about Oneself
  11. Probable copyright violation
  12. James Graham Marquis of Montroes - Civil War under 17th Century History Scotland
  13. MiszaBot III struggling to archive my talk page correctly
  14. Stats

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 4

  1. What happened to my book? Snierman
  2. Problems with being Autoconfirmed
  3. Sorting issue
  4. Your link is somehow being connected to mine
  5. Creating a page basic
  6. there is a mix up?
  7. Joint Casualty Resolution Center article
  8. Category question
  9. Film capacitor
  10. F.G.Natesa Iyer
  11. Need review of my article.
  12. Is a Wikiproject allowed to have a "shared" sandbox?
  13. Local upload
  14. Transcluding only a section of a page into another page
  15. CPU overloading
  16. HOW TO UPLOAD A PICTURE
  17. How do I know if a picture is okay to use on wikipedia?
  18. incorrect link on Quad City Eagles page
  19. Need Review and Copy editing help
  20. Citation Not Needed..
  21. Flickr Images
  22. our wikipedia page was deleted
  23. Email password reminder not arrived
  24. Searching for wikipedia articles on the internet and article quality ratings.
  25. Page view question...
  26. False information keeps being re-posted on my page, please help!

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 5

  1. Help with deleting revision
  2. How do I add the "other languages" tab for a page that exists in other wikis????
  3. how do you create a wikipedia?
  4. Ocean acidification and rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere
  5. tim burns 3rd degree
  6. Editing MPNFL page
  7. Main image isn't displayed correctly
  8. pl confirm if form3019A is submitted in favor of diigvijay singh a 88 east of kailash new delhi india
  9. WikiProject as a one-man show
  10. Film Pages - Production Designers
  11. Up to day photo of this area in at the National Zoo
  12. War of 1812
  13. how can a student who has passed m.b.b.s. from india join your university
  14. I have played a part (the Italian nanny) in The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke
  15. External Link
  16. Broken Page?
  17. How to edit the lead title
  18. Page Ratings unaccessible
  19. Uploading an image
  20. Problems editing my Watchlist
  21. Creating article
  22. Monroe, LA
  23. The movie "Blue Sky"

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 6

  1. Toca Rivera
  2. Monitor what is being added to a category?
  3. Cite button missing
  4. image in interlanguange links
  5. Editing protected page
  6. Table
  7. Deletion of most of the Wikipedia entry for William Glen. Unauthorized. please restore to full entry as published for several years.
  8. Reference list
  9. ufc
  10. Australian Cricket Society
  11. renaming a page
  12. Admin
  13. new page?
  14. Testing
  15. Adding a Bio
  16. Individual questions
  17. Vandals
  18. Help with semi-protected of a wiki page and a banned user.
  19. External links question
  20. Should this be in an article?
  21. The Alhambra Decree Image Premission Request
  22. Compare all revisions of a single line

June 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 7

  1. parsing error on wikipedia page for 'poundal'
  2. Image request
  3. Writing numerals from right to left
  4. Someone copied my user page as his/her own
  5. User attrition data
  6. Is Editing with a first account after editing with IP prohibited ?
  7. Short sections
  8. How does one enter a footnote?
  9. How do you change the title of a page?
  10. How can I give wikipedia permission to use my copyrighted picture?
  11. 'Jeroen Speak' proposed for deletion
  12. numerical ordering
  13. Search finding previous title
  14. HELP
  15. Cite Button
  16. 3RR
  17. Legal duties of a c.m.
  18. Accidental Category Creation.
  19. Vandals on the Wikipedia
  20. Citing
  21. M
  22. Subject of new article has the same name as subject of an existing article
  23. Sock puppet template not working properly

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 8

  1. Software Error
  2. National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee (wrong title)
  3. Must I be a famous person to create a new entry about myself?
  4. How to delete pages
  5. My Page does not appear when searching.
  6. Magic words
  7. Incorrect information about me in article harming my reputation
  8. Change photograph
  9. Definition of censorship
  10. Unwanted indentation
  11. Created article with wrong name
  12. new article
  13. Peacock warning and order of operations when writing an article for Wikipedia
  14. Football matches live information
  15. Talk page contribution
  16. Quick question regarding Peer Reviews

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 9

  1. Model release required?
  2. I can't search my new article
  3. Policy about vandalism
  4. Actress in the movie Prometheous
  5. First time creator...thank you
  6. Creating an article
  7. hello?
  8. Page sources
  9. New admission
  10. restore
  11. Exact search
  12. Help getting my band onto Wikipedia (Search results)
  13. How do I use an image within the text, as a "character"?
  14. Publishing an article that is meant to be viewed from a link within a major article
  15. removing flags from edited page
  16. Movie quotes
  17. Finding a (hopefully) published Wiki Page "the National Capitol Radio & Television Museum"
  18. template section
  19. Error on Bernie Sanders Page
  20. Citing what I've added.

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 10

  1. harsh, delayed messages displayed indefinitely
  2. delete account
  3. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 10#.7B.7Bt.7CCite_JSTOR.7D.7D|{{Cite jstor}}]]
  4. Unsure of how to flag an article for improper form
  5. Help needed with project banner code
  6. Sign
  7. Sackett
  8. I have donated money to Wikipedia...
  9. Several things
  10. time difference in roza iftikar
  11. inaccurate link for Tony Osborne on this wiki page Black Gunn (1972)
  12. search
  13. What to do with unused user sandbox page?
  14. How to cite this book
  15. Average article size
  16. Setting up pictures for access on Wikimedia Commons and appropriate licensing
  17. Question about foreign sources
  18. Not able to use wikitravel on iphone
  19. Articles for creation/Ballyhannon Castle (aka Castlefergus).

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 11

  1. JSTOR Access!
  2. Book search
  3. Created an account at Commons... and found that I inadvertently created a new account here
  4. Rendering problem on New Stevenston?
  5. Can a title be changed?
  6. Madonna
  7. General Enquiry
  8. Inaccurate University of Wales article
  9. Francois Lamore
  10. Help required immediately. What should I do now? Whom should I approach?
  11. How can I read entries WITHOUT the distracting blue links and citation numbers
  12. Science articles
  13. User abuse on vandalism flagging/reverting
  14. Wikipedia search
  15. digital signal processing
  16. External Link
  17. Exposure to radiation
  18. I want to make for Thomas W. Jones born in 1841, but a different Thomas W. Jones born in 1956 already has a page.
  19. Jonathan Waxman (physician)
  20. review
  21. Bias against Ron Paul

June 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 12

  1. Chemspider, pubchem, CAS. Are they reliable sources?
  2. Article about Boeing 777 (or other commercial aircraft for that matter)
  3. Is Lexisnexis a valid source to use to make an edit on a page?
  4. delays in updated posts/publishing
  5. Retreiving a draft article
  6. How can I add a page about my company?
  7. additional mathematics
  8. Edward Ladd Betts Article
  9. Stub RAF West Kirby
  10. WP:non-free content review
  11. Userbox issues
  12. Literature reference incorrect in literature list
  13. Updating the content on the google search
  14. Changing the path name of an article on Wikipedia
  15. Participating in discussions
  16. Sorting problem
  17. IDEA - Accelerate the learning process...
  18. Upload Wizard Help
  19. Searching a page (ctrl f) can't find terms that are hyperlinked
  20. Is logic allowed?
  21. been hackedsorry name is dion berriman
  22. Setting a link from Wikipedia article to Wikimedia to do a search against all categories?
  23. my wikipedia page is not longer visible.
  24. Please help students like me make pages expand in size without having to scroll from side to side

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 13

  1. Biography of living person references
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miami_cannibal_attack&diff=497323169&oldid=497319028
  3. Did Monobook die?
  4. World's Tallest People
  5. Acknowledging Sources
  6. Radical change in average page ratings of an article
  7. Classical Pantheism
  8. Possible vandalism?
  9. changing Grammatical error on title
  10. Titles - forms of address
  11. Wallachian Revolution of 1848
  12. Citation formatting: Jayne Mansfield
  13. Wikibreak template on my user page
  14. Word definition - help!?
  15. a need to have copy of Encyclopedia of Psychological Problems, Naramore
  16. Claiming an article edit
  17. IWhat to do to create an encyclopedia articele?
  18. Cite news
  19. Archiving Talk page
  20. sorry, need a quick help to place foot note
  21. Template:WikiProject Seinfeld
  22. Redirects!

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 14

  1. How can I add information to a article in Wikipedia?
  2. Adding facts in article that are not included.
  3. Allowed to seek help as an IP user? Being followed around Wikipedia?
  4. Geographical coordinates
  5. David Lewis (trumpeter/pianist/composer)
  6. AFD Summary ArkyBot Dragons flight
  7. Wikipe-tan on porn website
  8. Muslim divorce
  9. THREE TIME TALAQ TALAQ TALAQ IN ONE SITTING IS IT ACCEPTED ?
  10. MDT-FIT
  11. From Movie Farm Awards to Movie Farm
  12. Query about why some wikilinks are in red
  13. Imagini Page under investigation for potential copyright issue
  14. Colorado Mounted Rangers
  15. Thanks for wikipedia
  16. Javascript!
  17. Message about editing/vandalism
  18. Search Engine
  19. What code does media wiki use for bold and italics or where would I go to find out
  20. Submitting article from Sandbox
  21. Joe Robbie article

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 15

  1. Monobook question
  2. earmarking a page
  3. Could someone watch a page for me?
  4. Any way to have different display settings for phone browser?
  5. Missing bulleye
  6. Archiving
  7. AGF / Wikiquette
  8. Redirect
  9. Fasting
  10. Football / Soccer Prediction League
  11. Help with citations!!
  12. rebecca holden
  13. I wrote an article but I can´t find him on the internet
  14. Would this be allowed on a userpage?
  15. Please add us to your site
  16. Deering High School notable Alumni
  17. "Jiffy Lube"
  18. Infobox edits
  19. Damon Dash
  20. Question about double-checking for sockpuppetry without violating WP:AGF
  21. info in wrong place
  22. So Tired of POV Edit Warriors

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 16

  1. SUPER (software)
  2. Headrest on Chrysler Sebring
  3. Shaunna Hall : recent edit caused factual error of personal history
  4. Iranian filters put on the web?I wish to contact the Iranian Govt. Before ...Ya know....Thanks.
  5. I'm nervous of Template:you have new messages, how can I alter it using my preferences?
  6. phony account using my cell phone number
  7. Potentiometer
  8. line numbers as cited in diffs
  9. How do I report a factual error?
  10. Can an Article's notability prevent it from being merged/deleted?
  11. induced polarization
  12. Inventions

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 17

  1. Large tasks, backlogs, etc
  2. What would happen if a page was transcluded onto itself?
  3. ONLY YOU AND GOD CAN HELP........
  4. Weird vandalism just moments ago
  5. Logo field necessary
  6. Sortable table
  7. Possible socking
  8. Repairing links to disambig pages
  9. Is this considered vandalism?
  10. Where to propose new admin backlogs?
  11. Repairing a butchered entry
  12. New entry submitted 4 June 2012 - still not live
  13. Using photos given to me by a friend
  14. Article On Unification
  15. APC history

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 18

  1. See also rules
  2. Wikifrustrated! I want to create a template!
  3. request length report for Fluorine
  4. Pictures
  5. Unwanted markup fragment on target page
  6. Multiple questions
  7. Stephen Hinchliffe
  8. HOW TO DE-ORPHANE AN ARTICLE
  9. No English version
  10. Account Deletion
  11. Cloud.com
  12. Snafu re category move to new name
  13. Adding shortcuts to this page
  14. How do I add the Reflinks tool (Toolserver) to my Toolbox menu?
  15. Incorrect information on my page
  16. Removing a tag/flag
  17. Change name of new page
  18. Addding a citation
  19. Wrong Founder
  20. (my)Deleted wiki page still shows in Google Search
  21. IRC
  22. Self Grandizing

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 19

  1. Two different pages for Core War, or not?
  2. Amber Alert first usage?
  3. deleting pages
  4. ETEKOSOFT
  5. HOW DO I CORRECT WRONG INFO ON THE INFAMOUS COLWICK MURDFERS?
  6. Circulating article contents by e-mail
  7. Another template question
  8. All Cap
  9. TWITTER Names
  10. Navigation box fix
  11. Month's top editor (count)!
  12. Duplicate ref button?
  13. Hollywood's Top Ten
  14. Wikipedia on my mobile(cell) phone.
  15. locking a book
  16. Article error?
  17. Quick question about the appropriate name for an article
  18. antique books
  19. CAN I PRINT A WIKIPEDIA REFERENCE
  20. How do I add a "see also" to a wiki entry in another language?
  21. Strange Mix of Capitals and lowercase Letters in Names of Languages in the 'Languages' Section of English Wikipedia.

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 20

  1. Private database report?
  2. hindu bangalis of northeast india
  3. Twinkle preferences
  4. Deering High School, Portland, Maine
  5. Reference irrelevant
  6. white text?!
  7. Page does not exist
  8. Sandbox showing
  9. Contacting the subject of an article
  10. Reverting page moves
  11. Mobile Wikipedia
  12. My edit keeps getting removed and shouldn't be
  13. change of software
  14. about me
  15. No email from either password/account information request or new account confirmation (already checked the spam filter)
  16. App creation
  17. How would you get some info on a person changed
  18. Edit Triggered a Filter to Warn Editors
  19. Geoiplookup.wikimedia.org bugging me on every page.
  20. Donating the contents of a website to wikipedia
  21. making a template in userspace?
  22. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/H. J. High Construction
  23. Pissed off
  24. Creating a Merger proposal after nomination for deletion fails?
  25. Copyright
  26. Major villages in Jalandhar District

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 21

  1. How do I remove unjustified warnings that appeared at the last edit?
  2. Insert citation access date
  3. A General George S. Patton, Jr. quote
  4. What should I do when I find an inactive user in HAU, project particpants, etc.
  5. Picture of a famous person
  6. A disambiguation problem encountered?
  7. Approval on photos?
  8. Bill Meek
  9. Seek a sincere opinion.
  10. need help
  11. Odd IW link
  12. Ref name tool
  13. Requesting aid in renaming category
  14. Wikipedia Clock Display
  15. How do I add a task force tag to an article's talk page?
  16. Best way forward with regards a major dispute involving multilpy editors
  17. Wikipedia:Featured articles
  18. publishing your sandbox content
  19. is the wiki site down

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 22

  1. problems with photo on foreign wikipedia
  2. disambiguity page
  3. Help with photo copyright status
  4. Footnotes
  5. I want my deleted page deleted entirely
  6. oldest woman on earth
  7. Managing Pain
  8. page translation
  9. Reference syntax at Mylène Farmer discography

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 23

  1. George Nader page
  2. American Jews
  3. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 23#This_sandbox_is_in_the_article_namespace._Either_move_this_page_into_your_userspace.2C_or_remove_the_.7B.7Btl.7CUser_sandbox.7D.7D_template.|This sandbox is in the article namespace. Either move this page into your userspace, or remove the {{User sandbox}} template.]]
  4. Cite web
  5. Ed Begley
  6. Languages names spelling in interwiki links
  7. Redlinks unlikely to be created
  8. Wikipedia page on Martin Gillingham
  9. Page View Counter
  10. Artistic depictions
  11. Global user info - Hidden Level?
  12. Nayko Island
  13. New editor feedback
  14. Interwiki case presentation

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 24

  1. reference list column
  2. http://lohere.net/kulkapedia/samuel/Genie
  3. Two questions: Watchlisting sections and (separately) random pages
  4. asking for deletion of personal information
  5. Twinkle
  6. Question
  7. Notable alumni
  8. Need help to modify Infobox template
  9. M. f. M. n.
  10. Adding studio musicians to album liner notes
  11. Language
  12. Help into archiving
  13. LANGUAGE
  14. I have a unique time lapse of the Transit of Venus and need help converting from .mov to .ogg
  15. Wiki page background color
  16. Copyright status of side box art photo?
  17. The page with my name jacqueline Ripstein
  18. Incorrect time zone specified for Svalbard, Norway in Barentsburg article

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 25

  1. Political control on wikipedia in italian
  2. Help for new poster in Wikipedia...
  3. help
  4. Article suggestion
  5. This "unsigned" bla, bla, bla...
  6. verification of a biography of a living person & use of external links
  7. External / interwiki links search
  8. Helping with signature
  9. 1983 world Cup winning Indian Cricket Team data
  10. Article evaluation needed
  11. Robert S. Prattico
  12. Copyright
  13. Adding a new feature to Wikipedia
  14. Copyright
  15. Template question
  16. disambiguation / Fighting
  17. How to create a page for my book
  18. Transclusion
  19. Citing with same source but different sections
  20. I have a reference error on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sbones5/workshop

June 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 26

  1. correct error Bert Sugar
  2. copyright image and map
  3. Help with Twinkle
  4. tower instalation work by unitech india pvt ltd
  5. About the templates of translation
  6. Deletion
  7. TV show's broadcasting networks
  8. Making a page
  9. Incorrect Location Listed for Marycrest College
  10. Quote box and Infobox clashing
  11. Does wikipedia's policies allow for links to commercial sites?
  12. Wrong name of country.
  13. Fixing a table
  14. what is G P A?
  15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_GDP

June 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 27

  1. Why is the town of Lantana, Florida relying on a Census reading of 12 years old?
  2. I've updated a new corporate logo file, but I cannot link the new logo file to the corporate web page
  3. Colleges in Hawaii - incorrect Info on Remington College
  4. Huh?
  5. Israel Jiménez
  6. spare parts
  7. Unable to undo edit to Library (computing)
  8. new article creation
  9. Adding more than one extra column to Template:Track listing
  10. How to make pages live
  11. Help with changes to Jack Welch article
  12. Editing Information that is already present
  13. Toolbar issues
  14. Set-up stock portfolios
  15. block/ban related question
  16. Vandalism I don't know how to revert
  17. deleted text
  18. Re-enabling mobile redirection?
  19. IPv6 is now enabled but broken
  20. Photo on article infobox
  21. Disable individual section editing

June 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 28

  1. entry on Queensland Conservation Council has been vandalised
  2. Uploading an image
  3. CLAIMS FOR LOSSES IN KUWAIT INVASION
  4. Want to work on Translation from English to Tamil
  5. Article deletion
  6. Searching revisions
  7. Reply to administrator
  8. enquiry regarding liquid finish cotton
  9. How to be manager
  10. URL contains [ and ] characters
  11. how to write an article
  12. Speedy Deletion
  13. Nelson M. Cooke
  14. About An Article about Me
  15. Move picture from Wikimedia Commons to article page
  16. Is it ok if an employee of a company edits the company page within guidelines?
  17. Looking for template to link to English version's Good Article
  18. Layout errors on A14 (road) article on some browsers
  19. My edits to Richard I of England page
  20. Honor guard?

June 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 29

  1. Using Flickr images
  2. SVG logos
  3. rollback vs undo
  4. item that gives credence to an article
  5. disambiguation pages on Ken Scott
  6. How can I stop a page from being removed?
  7. I would like to add myself to wikipedia as i play for thehungarian national rugby team, how do i do this?? D toth
  8. Copypaste issue
  9. Template for name change of image file
  10. Pancreas
  11. Lucas Oil Stadium MEP Engineer of Record
  12. What MediaWiki page produces the text on the "Login Successful" page?
  13. How many prices should be listed in a tablet articles, such as Nexus 7
  14. Wikipedia page gone
  15. Editing Information
  16. Link Change Request
  17. My userpage
  18. ClueBot deleted my updates.
  19. adding an external link
  20. Long time but newly registered user wants to donate images to creative commons
  21. Mattress
  22. new artist page

June 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 June 30

  1. incorrect link
  2. Zeta Delta Xi
  3. From Louisville Kentuckh
  4. reading list
  5. Eric P. Hamp
  6. Registration
  7. faulty link
  8. New Evidence about Sapho the Ancient Poet
  9. Figuring out a good name for a new article
  10. editing reverted
  11. Downloading large numbers of pictures?
  12. Restoration of Article Zeta Delta Xi
  13. using many sources
  14. adding a reference
  15. No references in Constituent Assembly of Egypt despite adding Reference Reflist markup
  16. books that are notable biography guidellines
  17. Advertisments
  18. No tabs on Talk Page
  19. Remove copyright writings please
  20. Can't create a peer review page as an IP user?
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