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May 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 1

  1. What the HELL?!
  2. symbols
  3. PhD Thesis
  4. ACTUALLY changing the capitalization for article headers
  5. collapsing text
  6. Protecting my IPs
  7. Lock
  8. Please remove statement from Wikipedia's Amdocs page
  9. How do I reset my password without email on my account?
  10. How can I get someone banned or blocked from editing?
  11. Image question
  12. infobox problem
  13. wikitravel webpage
  14. Dutch Acadie
  15. Need advice: Private wiki or Wikipedia?

May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 2

  1. Contribs
  2. Lake Qaraoun
  3. References
  4. Is there something in place for this?
  5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola
  6. Wikipedia Static HTML Dumps
  7. Closing XFDs
  8. Leonidas
  9. Feedback wanted on editing
  10. Is there a way to watchlist additions and removals to a category?
  11. Eye Spy Publishing LTD
  12. change the default graphic on Wiki pages
  13. Single braces - usage
  14. What the wiki!
  15. Moving an image to a new name
  16. how to revert move of the talk page?

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 3

  1. Collapsible tables
  2. Record labels
  3. WikiCite like tool for Mac OSX?
  4. New Project
  5. Bug Report
  6. Graphical display wikipedia browsing
  7. Explain jargon
  8. Legal terminology: "without valid charge"
  9. Crime on wikipedia
  10. Advertising my commercial website(s)
  11. How do you change the name of an article?
  12. Project Quality Stats
  13. Want to make my new article template official
  14. Notability?
  15. Wikipedia in other languages
  16. Business advertising details
  17. Strange merge of articles
  18. Query about archives
  19. Questionable edits to license plate articles
  20. Image not visible
  21. Kazue Takahashi
  22. talisman the board game

May 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 4

  1. uploading source files
  2. uploading images
  3. How can I correct the page name "Image:Lotus79.jpg" to "Image:Lotus77.jpg" please?
  4. How do I ask for a third opinion?
  5. Link Blacklisting Filter
  6. Category Bug?
  7. Album covers for band article
  8. Add language
  9. Organization listed on Wikipedia
  10. Filing Wills and Living Trusts
  11. article for deletion
  12. encyclopedia

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 5

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 6

  1. Migrating project templates
  2. Date format inconsistency
  3. Tools gone
  4. How to post question related to an article.
  5. Foreign Language Templates
  6. About Bots
  7. References
  8. Ads
  9. Someone is misusing my name or email address.
  10. Whistleblowing Resource
  11. Another image question
  12. Racism blocking
  13. Admin 2
  14. Public domain image
  15. How do I change the case of a title?
  16. NowCommons Template
  17. lists

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 7

  1. Record Labels
  2. Closing Pictures
  3. Administrators
  4. Question
  5. Shared accounts
  6. Do not understand why my edits were reverted
  7. Wikipedia Editor
  8. Editing/changing jpegs
  9. Please add the page on a new topic
  10. Deleting
  11. Revoke blacklisting please
  12. Making articles/subarticles/charts
  13. Articles
  14. MS Word will not spell-check copied Wikipedia paragraph.
  15. Request to unblock the website www.batanguenos.com for adding to the external links of Batangas Municipalities in Philippines.
  16. wiki is down
  17. Darkstar, the video game. HOAX issue.
  18. Now I find he is asking other(s) to remove the POV tag again for him.
  19. E.E. Smith Article reference

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 8

  1. Forgot to sign in
  2. Page-history Merging
  3. Wikipedia formatted for mobile devices
  4. HELLO
  5. Userbox code query
  6. Human read articles
  7. I need help
  8. Broken monobook.js
  9. Donation
  10. Barack Obama's win in North Carolina
  11. Attention: uncorrected vandalism - suggest block anon. editing
  12. What policy is being violated here? ( fake "You have messages " notifier )
  13. Vandals actually include edit summaries?
  14. can't edit my watchlist anymore
  15. References 2
  16. Edits removed from 'Reclaimed Water' page
  17. Archiving tak page?
  18. Spinal Spinsoses
  19. Messed up my talk page....
  20. Trying to e-mail Judge Price in the Hillsboro, Oregon Court

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 9

  1. How can I move a page back?
  2. Signature
  3. Aus govt material copyright
  4. Deleting A Page
  5. to upload an article into my data base in Wikipedia
  6. Trying to edit Environmental organisations based in Australia
  7. Signature Designing Help?
  8. Beginner's help
  9. PHOTO COPYRIGHT INFO - WHERE TO ENTER IT!!
  10. Spam Block
  11. Category sort by number
  12. Assigning work to those apt to complete it
  13. Redundant pages
  14. Question about an image
  15. IMAGE CANDIDATE FOR SPEEDY DELETION
  16. q
  17. Pro Wrestler naming conventions
  18. We have been accused of major wrong doings in a bias article
  19. Did you know
  20. Invalid confirmation code. The code may have expired.
  21. Wayne Bridges

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 10

  1. Removing category from userboxes?
  2. image link
  3. Some image questions - be afraid, be very afraid :)
  4. Formatting
  5. Some content seems to have vanished!
  6. For non-logged-in users, every page has headers that run into each other
  7. How to make a page when it redirects you.
  8. Images
  9. Wiki markup for alphanumeric outline format?
  10. Getting "Article Needs Additional Citations" Removed
  11. Revoke blacklisitng
  12. Deletion of warning templates etc
  13. Does this topic deserve an article?

May 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 11

  1. help
  2. Delete an article
  3. Kazue Takahashi
  4. Uploading image
  5. IP address question
  6. Risk of deletion
  7. Citations for sections
  8. Something fishy
  9. Reclaimed water
  10. copy-pasting "public domain" texts // or texts only with a "reference"
  11. Links to a certain section
  12. Speedy Deletion
  13. Periods at the end of article names
  14. :Image:Mileydog.PNG
  15. how do i get article PlaySpace undeleted
  16. Hurricane Rita
  17. PLEASE POST OUR INFO
  18. Images
  19. Article
  20. Image will not post.
  21. can't log in
  22. Infobox road image caption

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 12

  1. The Grudge Match Article
  2. Infoboxes going across section headings
  3. person
  4. copyright tag
  5. Linking to an article
  6. Book citation
  7. Searching History of articles
  8. Attacked on Meta
  9. Grr.
  10. The word "terd"
  11. Recent Changes/Watchlist
  12. Namespace trouble
  13. Citations necessary within infoboxes?
  14. Username/Password
  15. IP block exemption
  16. Valentine O'Hara
  17. ICO Global Communications/ICO Satellite Management
  18. Finding relevant info in other articles to create inbound links
  19. images
  20. LOC-image Template
  21. Secure Wiki page
  22. Text bleeds into infobox
  23. Help with Wikimarkup tables
  24. Comments on cleanup

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 13

  1. How to edit an infobox? When there is no Edit butto to it?
  2. Another image question - but easier this time
  3. Behavior question
  4. Tehuacán
  5. American Actor John Howard article
  6. Password Change
  7. Userbox Code
  8. resarch methodology
  9. Commons pic of questionable origin
  10. Site author indicates wikipedia copyright violation
  11. Redirect?
  12. Austrian admins
  13. Courier text
  14. Block Bots
  15. Should ref numbers appear before or after periods?
  16. Siting a Reference More than Once
  17. Signature
  18. Finishing Wikipedia!

May 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 14

  1. Wikiproject Template
  2. Posting articles on talk pages
  3. Non-bold collapsable table
  4. User page
  5. Someone check a reference, please?
  6. User Talk Page problem
  7. how to make diet tuna mornay
  8. Does the Three-revert rule apply to talk pages?
  9. Couple questions.
  10. Uploads
  11. Timeouts While Editing?
  12. A question about wikipedia's stance on pedophilia
  13. Confused about :Image:Nypdpatch.jpg
  14. RfC - What Now?
  15. changing a google books search reference into a more direct/prettier hyperlink
  16. oversight
  17. The pipe (|) in templates
  18. Problem with PointyRemote, or just a cache problem
  19. ყოლბაია
  20. help

May 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 15

  1. User Account
  2. Restoring Text From My Deleted Page
  3. Upload an image without giving up the rights?
  4. Changes are not visible
  5. Questions
  6. Tuition centres/ home tutors in S'pore
  7. Yarn
  8. Pls help sort my signature
  9. I want to find which administrator deleted my page
  10. What are the main differnces between a Stub and an Article-How do I create a Stub?
  11. MY QUESTION
  12. categorys?
  13. How do I create a page for Wikipedia?
  14. Internal References
  15. How do I use Blocking Padlocks?
  16. Finding the origin of a phrase / author
  17. Hindu Gods
  18. User Talk Page Archive Bots
  19. A person showing up in a category listed alphabetically by first name rather than last name.
  20. Does wikipedia charge

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 16

  1. List of Online Admins
  2. Aromatherapy
  3. deleted article
  4. Removal of a warning
  5. Editing footer templates
  6. hearing a word
  7. Image help
  8. what next on helping get aritcle on toni jo henry created?
  9. Javed Iqbal (serial killer)
  10. Copyright question about images produced by hospital
  11. wikitable at List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University of Chicago
  12. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 16#|]]
  13. Dorchester Hotel
  14. enochian magic

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 17

  1. adding to bibliography
  2. Wikipedia roles
  3. Finding WP pages
  4. Userboxes
  5. User
  6. Why can't a page be edited?
  7. Image upload troubles
  8. Side

May 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 18

  1. Photograph licensing - how do I share?
  2. Title issues
  3. Nominate image for deletion question
  4. Integrating a list notable news sources
  5. Live Map On Wikipedia !!!
  6. Intersection of categories on article and talk pages
  7. spinal
  8. One simple question
  9. Commons image editing?
  10. Infobox Theatre image width parameter
  11. StatusChanger - HAU not yet working
  12. Two articles in need of merging
  13. logging in / logging out
  14. Help needed with copyright rationale
  15. User scripts
  16. Copyright permission
  17. Wikipedia blacklisted?
  18. Print Wikipedia

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 19

  1. monopolizing the editing of a page
  2. Searching for pages sharing several categories
  3. Checkuser
  4. Frowned upon words
  5. Redirecting an image?
  6. How do you move one page to its redirect page?
  7. creating a new article
  8. Title for My Organization's Wiki Page
  9. blue dotted line in my article
  10. NPOV
  11. Use of the word "location"
  12. Events in England during the year 1978.
  13. Aight - Referencing In Wiki
  14. posting an article
  15. Blocking Wikipedia in search engines
  16. Ads
  17. hi
  18. Journal of Forensic Accounting
  19. Log in / create account page

May 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 20

  1. Template:Infobox image
  2. Resetting "left" alignment
  3. Losing the "References" index
  4. making Javascript click on "edit this page"
  5. complaining for nagercoil town secretery
  6. Signature
  7. how do you look up the meaning of a word in wikipedia?
  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject South America template banner
  9. Username
  10. Userpage
  11. Talk page GA icon
  12. Image Upload from Commons
  13. Problems with new account
  14. Exporting images
  15. how to publish an article? The Speaker's House (talk) 18:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
  16. Secure login incompatible with editng?
  17. log-in issue...
  18. Infobox Company Error
  19. Javascript question
  20. Tagging or reporting HTML/CSS errors

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 21

  1. Registered name not appearing after edition
  2. conflict of interest: neutral editor sought to make correction
  3. How to allow only Wikipedia editors to edit an article
  4. is Kerala land ecsclamated from the sea?
  5. invisible spans
  6. Uploading Images - size and method question
  7. Need help archiving my talk page.
  8. Infobox_road map size
  9. Wikilinks
  10. WikiProject
  11. Howto link a definition?
  12. Search For User Contributions On A Specific Talk Page, Article Page, Category Page, Etc. Etc.
  13. External Links for blogs
  14. review new article
  15. Request for new entry?
  16. help

May 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 22

  1. Status of a requested translation
  2. Carah Faye, Carah Faye Charnow, Mikey Martin, Michael Martin
  3. IPs cannot create articles?
  4. E-mail as a Source
  5. user name - fallrome
  6. ArticleHistory Template
  7. Image
  8. KPI/SWITCH GEAR
  9. Display most recent history entry on an article page
  10. IP
  11. Mike Zito
  12. Thierry Roussel
  13. Kannst mir die deine setzen aber als der
  14. Ancient Egypt
  15. Super/subscripts in verbatim text
  16. how safe is floresent twist light bulbs
  17. LOGO
  18. new user needs help, i am a little confused
  19. How do I make...
  20. Inappropriate? Usernames

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 23

  1. Non-existant References
  2. Vandalism
  3. What happened to the + button?
  4. Yesterday, news reports about the English Wikipedia.
  5. Mark Cavendish, misplaced edit-buttons
  6. RSS feeds
  7. How do I merge two articles?
  8. Requesting references
  9. Question
  10. "Tasks" or "Things to do" page
  11. Add picture to page
  12. Ghost text
  13. Steven A Lee
  14. Research Method
  15. article does not show up in search after 72 hours
  16. An article's "importance"
  17. Two items on same line, should be on different lines
  18. Two items on same line, should be on different lines
  19. Wikipedia on DVD
  20. New page tool

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 24

  1. Templates in their own auto-categories
  2. Transwiki bot?
  3. Disambiguation page needed
  4. Odd reference formatting
  5. Photos of dead people
  6. Patrol
  7. Unblock rules
  8. Arb Com Unblocking
  9. Merge discussions
  10. New user - problems re-finding articles
  11. Requesting Attention
  12. Characters
  13. Tucurinca contributions
  14. Prevent nosy onlookers from knowing your username
  15. Getting the Admins Attention
  16. Flickr
  17. Rosemary
  18. Font Face
  19. Java Script

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 25

  1. Google help
  2. Lone years and months
  3. Lightweight wikipedia entry page (search box only)
  4. Licensing question for uploading images
  5. Really big references
  6. Image
  7. Gyro Calideo
  8. Delete
  9. Delete... Proper
  10. Hidden Category?

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 26

  1. Starting a translation of an existing article
  2. Verifying Content
  3. Merger/unmerger at Piha
  4. Status of a requested translation - again
  5. Infobox background colour
  6. Image Copyright Question
  7. model and methodology
  8. Exporting file of User contributions
  9. Get added to Wikipedia.com
  10. Userpage help?
  11. IRC vs Windows Live
  12. Mental help
  13. Wiki-audiofiles
  14. Silesian language code
  15. Edit wars between IP address users
  16. SVG rendering
  17. unlinking two accounts with same IP address
  18. Not sure what to call a new article
  19. Online or Offline

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 27

  1. what was the name...
  2. What happened?
  3. Deletion of pages to save server space
  4. commerce
  5. Help!
  6. Page width
  7. Merge
  8. Infobox Spacecraft question
  9. Mexican University article (Faculty of engineering)
  10. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 27# .7Ccolspan="2" align="center".7C <.2Fnowiki> showing up when image is added to Template:Infobox Organization|<nowiki> |colspan="2" align="center"| showing up when image is added to Template:Infobox Organization]]
  11. Image Copyright
  12. Editing Ancestors Templates
  13. Finding a class Wiki Page
  14. Tools not working
  15. reference
  16. Unified Login
  17. How do I....
  18. Reassignment of IPA edits
  19. Non English sources
  20. How do I find a romanization?
  21. Need Answer For Project
  22. Uploaded an image
  23. Table problem

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 28

  1. Why does this page (Category:Lists_of_science_fiction_television_series_episodes) show as essentially empty while being edited yet clearly is not empty when displayed?
  2. Images are not getting loaded when I see any article in Wikipedia.
  3. Grama Vidiyal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grama_vidiyal)
  4. new users and unified login
  5. computer buggage
  6. Upload Image Denial
  7. Unified Login Won't Let Me Rename
  8. Your Aricle on Fascism/Discrepancies
  9. Resetting the Main Page
  10. Template:Documentation: I don't know if it is the best to discuss that here...
  11. Question
  12. copyright infringement in article
  13. how do i report a page in which flase info has been published
  14. How does vandalism reversion happion?
  15. Single User LogIn
  16. Template "Section too long"
  17. Still about this image...
  18. Deleted info
  19. user name
  20. My Account
  21. Museum of Photographic Arts- page entry

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 29

  1. Company Wiki
  2. Page # in citations
  3. 66.244.103.145
  4. About Automatic payment program in fi/co
  5. Italic gobblygook
  6. nazi wikipedia
  7. Why Solaris 10 is preffered over Windows and Linux
  8. Using Files To Learn Pronunciation
  9. what pages use a particular template
  10. Hello.
  11. Image Distortion
  12. Talk page category sorting
  13. Coaches
  14. Page about myself
  15. access a page
  16. Making categories understant listas parameter
  17. Private communication with administrators?
  18. How do I do a major editing overhaul of an article?
  19. Whistling Woods International
  20. Whistling Woods International
  21. New Header
  22. Question about copyvios in articles
  23. Question about making a disambiguation page

May 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 30

  1. Organisations editing their own entries
  2. Non free use image in template problem.
  3. marriage
  4. My account seemed to be hacked
  5. DAB John Billingsley
  6. Text overlaps infobox
  7. How do i get collapsible tables on my wiki?
  8. Moved articles
  9. conversion from weight of sample taken to ppm
  10. references
  11. Found Vandalism
  12. I need to change the article on Kazakhstan
  13. User:Paul Vogel
  14. Infobox question
  15. Wiki mini atlas
  16. Deleting a Page from My Own Userspace
  17. Terrible Article
  18. Do non-account edits count?

May 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 31

  1. found a strange editor - vandalism ?
  2. Camp Rock (soundtrack)'s text
  3. Calumny of spam to giacomo.lorenzoni.name.
  4. A quick question...
  5. Deleting desktop icon?
  6. Wikipedia Font
  7. HELP
  8. Image deletion
  9. Copyright
  10. Globe logo
  11. How to relocate picture on Wikipedia article.
  12. Redirect
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