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May 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 1

  1. Help! This page is partly unreadable
  2. Procedure during RfCs
  3. User page design
  4. help,
  5. Reverting edits prob
  6. External links not appearing?
  7. I'm perplexed...
  8. Resizing animations
  9. Creating a wikipedia page
  10. Where can I change the appearance of my user signature?
  11. link at William McDonough
  12. Confused
  13. multiple persons with same name
  14. standard punctuation
  15. Time to first fix
  16. WikiProject Central America template
  17. Can't log in

May 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 2

  1. Scammers using identities of American Military Men
  2. I've been blocked on Meta-Wiki and Wikiquote
  3. Toki Wright
  4. Re: Edit Notice
  5. eventration of diaphragm
  6. Amos Wilson
  7. Photo and picture captions
  8. Bold text problem
  9. Discussing content of vandalism delete1
  10. Confluence Parallel
  11. Can't get script to work
  12. How does one keep a page up?
  13. How to get a mediawiki extension added to wikipedia?

May 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 3

  1. Wikipedia Upload
  2. add a new page
  3. Citation
  4. Italicise manuscript titles?
  5. clock
  6. how to make an article about upcoming Hollywood actor? 20 films in 2 years, some very popular
  7. Login Successful page
  8. footballers loans
  9. How to Flag an Article that Needs Many Corrections?
  10. Editing Mobile Version?
  11. Dinka
  12. People keep deleting reference to my Wikimedia commons photo
  13. where are the videos?
  14. Image slideshow?
  15. Determined to stop deletion of template
  16. Exporting an older revision of an article
  17. questions regarding webcomic articles
  18. linking from many articles

May 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 4

  1. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
  2. AfD vote question
  3. The Blorenge
  4. Really strange problem with Peace Candle infobox
  5. Trouble adding a monobook script
  6. Differences between revisions
  7. Chives plant
  8. Listing my program in some article's "Links" section, where similar programs from another vendors are reffered
  9. <email removed>
  10. SVG Logo Conversion
  11. Check an edit please?
  12. BLSC Blastomere Like Stem Cells
  13. My new template I created
  14. notes
  15. On This Day
  16. Incorrect Information in VMI Article
  17. AAPI link
  18. Image code syntax?
  19. Something needs to be added
  20. Wikipadia Logo not on it's proper place
  21. Please delete my article
  22. Switching to a new account.
  23. Please Help a new user
  24. pdf file
  25. Archive
  26. Articles deleted in a similar name

May 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 5

  1. In Puerto Rico: A red oval poison worm with about 50 claw legs
  2. Typing special characters
  3. Upload
  4. question about Vitamin
  5. Palm Centro
  6. Page view tool not working
  7. Mobile
  8. Infobox error
  9. Pictures
  10. WIKI TO HTML
  11. Blocked Crats able to access User Rights control panel
  12. Vandalism from my school's IP
  13. finding a product
  14. Why won't an image caption show up?
  15. Friedrich Gerstacker
  16. Eddie Snyder
  17. peppo biscarini

May 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 6

  1. Task Force Question
  2. Can't figure out copyright tag to save article
  3. my edits don't appear
  4. Monobook js
  5. Converting a svg-file to html/css
  6. Editing mr brainwash page
  7. Marking pages as patrolled not via Special:NewPages.
  8. Is it Vandalism?
  9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stackjones
  10. Deepwater Horizon oil spill
  11. Commercial vandalism?
  12. citations removed - is this valid?
  13. How do I change a Logo?
  14. Adil Khan
  15. needed to get new password but it wouldn't work
  16. Repeated "page not found message" from wikipedia
  17. Advice needed for cleanup
  18. My edits broken down by month
  19. Unsearchable Entry
  20. Search engine results: same article in different languages
  21. Harassment!

May 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 7

  1. accurasy
  2. "They did it in another article so I can do it here"
  3. Why do we have to use geek formatting to enter articles?
  4. New (dated) Article not in Search-box - Old Article undated
  5. Notability tag for a specific person in a list of names?
  6. Toyoto Yaris Interior on Door Handle and the plastic panel on A/C flip , Radio, or A/C control buttons
  7. Robert Simon Telfer Scott DSM and HMS Havelock
  8. References
  9. HOT TO LOOK FOR AN ANSWER
  10. Troubling inserting logo into article
  11. Local fraternity chapter Fakepage warning?
  12. "Take 5" Jazz Tune as a TV/Movie Theme?
  13. makeing a page
  14. Need assistance cleaning up
  15. special ops us
  16. Avatar/anuerisms
  17. User Redirect
  18. Affiliate Link on an index page
  19. OUT OF COUNTRY

May 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 8

  1. Citing interpretation boards
  2. Userpage inaccessibility
  3. User namespace category
  4. Hot Air Balloon Rides
  5. I can't log in, even with new password sent by Wikipedia
  6. Images don't show up
  7. Images don't show up (again)
  8. Is my editing all right?
  9. Linking to my website under 'External Links'
  10. Is this an article Article Incubator/Nineteen Nightmares/Valley Entertainment Monthly?
  11. Citing a foriegn wiki
  12. Question about using an image on the article body painting

May 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 9

  1. 2nd nomination of an article--what did I do wrong?
  2. Replace old material with new.
  3. login failure
  4. Requesting a tech fix
  5. Copy right of our page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svpnpa
  6. When I am editing a page and I see informative placards above the edit field ... where do they come from?
  7. Non-notable content in a notable article
  8. Link goes to wrong place -Public debate
  9. Nationality
  10. Advanced Wikimarkup
  11. Truck?
  12. Viewing a deleted article
  13. Extend the list at MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels
  14. User:TonyTheTiger/Table
  15. How do you make on of these?
  16. Infoboxes?
  17. Need help with "Shirley, Illinois"
  18. Geobox River

May 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 10

  1. new entry
  2. I have a cough that someone needs to check out
  3. articles on TV episodes
  4. Why does my watchlist have entries like "(+377)" or "(-448)?"
  5. I cannot download my created book
  6. Troulbe opening programs
  7. Edit Date/Time
  8. Archive
  9. Log in
  10. new section to an article
  11. adding a new section
  12. Inaction on requested edit
  13. Watchlist
  14. How do I become an authorized user to be able to upload a file to link to a page I am working on?
  15. New mentor/adopter person
  16. Glucaid
  17. speedy deletion tag on a talk page
  18. How does one permanently close a Wikipedia account?
  19. Copying within Wikipedia with citations
  20. request to move draft to main space
  21. editing an erroneous image caption
  22. How Do I Update a Logo on a Wiki Page

May 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 11

  1. Pictures of dead people
  2. Unknown license for images
  3. Can't find existing article - R&D orgs by country & focus
  4. can't create user page
  5. To seek details about "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandher#References"
  6. Why am I not autoconfirmed?
  7. Fearful
  8. Account Merge Failure
  9. Staniforth Surname
  10. Withdrawing a deletion proposal
  11. Continous numbering
  12. Level of warning after a block
  13. Question on Henry VIII
  14. The tag "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" at the top of the page
  15. Fair use argument
  16. The banner won't hide
  17. Vandalism
  18. When was text added?

May 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 12

  1. How to limit depth of ToC
  2. Abusefilter
  3. needed to get new password but it wouldn't work, round 2
  4. How to write an email message to maury povick show
  5. Deleted pages in user contribution
  6. New subheading in existing article, problems with references not appearing from edit page
  7. Fixing my signature
  8. Username or IP removed
  9. What is the template for an article overhaul?
  10. "Black Dolls"
  11. How do I get rid of this big, empty box?

May 13

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 13

  1. Why would you destroy a good article and leave only the negative information which happens to be incorrect anyway.
  2. User talk page question
  3. Beta today
  4. Socks 01 - WWE Socks
  5. Need help on creating page.
  6. Get rid of beta
  7. a new look for the environment
  8. New Article to appear when searching wikipedia
  9. Why is there hundreds of German place articles tagged here?
  10. Coord not working
  11. What's happened
  12. Contacting someone on the Supreme Court
  13. Oxybenzone page problem
  14. Need to be able to upload an image to replace an outdated one
  15. IP up to no good
  16. Help me choose a username!
  17. Is this customary?
  18. How to go back to the new (improved) wikipedia?
  19. Added a biography
  20. Change to account name
  21. Sourcing a Reality TV Show plot summary - what to do?
  22. New features
  23. Interlanguage links
  24. Spelling
  25. Adjusting View
  26. What just happened to the font
  27. Redirects vs. Disambiguation
  28. Articles for same-named folks
  29. Wikipedia doesn't work on the PS3 browser
  30. im not a spammer i just want to help people

May 14

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 14

  1. EDIT BAR
  2. password recovery
  3. Searching without mouse
  4. Can't log into my account, why?
  5. Special:MergeAccount
  6. gemma jones
  7. Return to page logged in from
  8. Edit bar error
  9. How to create the table of contents
  10. Eddie Glaude
  11. Someone keeps undoing my edits. What can I do?
  12. user contributions
  13. Cite an application
  14. Why was the search box moved to the top right?
  15. Wrong photo link
  16. Feedback repository
  17. I cannot believe this blatant display of biasness and downright racist way of conducting wiki all Information was substanciated

May 15

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 15

  1. collapse left side of the page
  2. Creating userbox problem
  3. Personal font preferences
  4. submitted new word how long does it take to post
  5. Signing posts
  6. Link aliasing
  7. User successful XfD counter
  8. An article on Wikipedia referring to the Spanish diplomat Francisco Javier Ruperez Rubio.
  9. New format
  10. Search Box location an inconvenience!
  11. editing error
  12. Computer Meridian Diagnostics
  13. Dave the Chameleon
  14. Why was article about the Kruger Brothers deleted?
  15. Designations -
  16. Sugarloaf Mountain in New Brunswick, Canada

May 16

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 16

  1. How do I nominate an article for deletion?
  2. Skin
  3. Quesitonable claim
  4. page does not exist message is appearing, why?
  5. Looking for a BOT
  6. Calling template experts
  7. Apple Dictionary App
  8. Signing
  9. children music
  10. Wikipedia:Article wizard/Wizard-New edit instructions A
  11. How to get my contribution to show when using Google search
  12. Template help needed
  13. Changing vector skin
  14. For those that subst: in shared IP templates...
  15. Where has the search field gone? 21:46, 16 May 2010 (UTC)~~
  16. Image variable in URL
  17. Bot

May 17

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 17

  1. Colorful userpage
  2. signing
  3. Image
  4. Editing redirects
  5. This media file may meet the criteria for speedy deletion.
  6. Image upload
  7. Company Articles
  8. I tried to put my nomination for afd of Ergogenic aid on the discussion list, but it's not working.
  9. Delete An Image
  10. Username as false claim?
  11. Upload a Company Logo
  12. Autoconfirmed status?
  13. Parts per million
  14. E-mails about my password
  15. Need help in creating and uploading a page for a feature film that I have written, Produced, and directed.
  16. Clarifying Consensus
  17. Uploading a Logo
  18. How I can create a film page?
  19. Mac OS X dictionary
  20. Reverting
  21. longer loading time...
  22. HF TARIFF CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
  23. Infoboxes
  24. redirecting

May 18

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 18

  1. Blackberry v4.5.0.169 Wiki English Load Error
  2. Edit filter triggered when creating new article
  3. Chinese name
  4. Logo
  5. Disambiguation page - linking new article
  6. Article
  7. new wikipedia appearance.
  8. Accusation
  9. Please Answer
  10. Font size makes Wikipedia unusable
  11. Random article within a specific portal :/
  12. Text
  13. Brian Leung
  14. Link to a section or sub-section
  15. Pictures.
  16. How long before my article appears live?
  17. University of Health Sciences Antigua
  18. Warning 4im
  19. Font size
  20. 30 seconds and a laptop
  21. Question Regarding Templates and Indenting
  22. Why all the images not shown?
  23. questions related to engineering.........
  24. Needed to get new password but it wouldn't work, round 3
  25. Adding my own images
  26. Searching with vector skin
  27. Notability

May 19

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 19

  1. Italian descent, sports people
  2. subst
  3. The archive term "threads"
  4. How to find a person or way (for a dummy) to have offline copy of Wikipedia- even if a year old
  5. how can i submit a page
  6. How do I create a new page or article?
  7. Different images with the same name on wikipedia and commons
  8. How to "search" as opposed to "go" in new interface - with Firefox
  9. How can I change the title of an article?
  10. qwuiting
  11. The Hidden Blade
  12. Addres of Alphen hospital
  13. Resubmitted Question: Need to know why the article about the Kruger Brothers was deleted
  14. individual inline citations
  15. Pages created
  16. Place Alexis Nihon content improvement and update
  17. How Can I load my web page in Wikpedia ?
  18. Broken: The Wikipedia Part of the Mac Dictionary App
  19. Referencing

May 20

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 20

  1. Having sexual realations with MSRA
  2. Eclipse with UT
  3. I'm a network administrator for a large school district with a dilemma related to the "porn" flap
  4. Sortable tables
  5. help please ````
  6. You broken Wikipedia and I can't find ANYTHING explaining how to edit!
  7. Is an approval mark copyrighted?
  8. How does "Watch this page work"?
  9. Big Brother and the Holding Company
  10. Dilema with whether or not to use a very in-detail ref
  11. Template problem
  12. WHICH IS THE MOST ECONOMICAL FUEL FOR A GENERATOR?
  13. searching an article providing detailed information for BORDER MOULDING MATERIALS USED IN DENTISTRY.
  14. Global opt-in
  15. Translation into English of an existing Romanian article
  16. Meadows, Illinois. Help needed
  17. Nominate articles for review
  18. wikipedia font is now so small I can't use the resource anymore
  19. Negative title

May 21

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 May 21

  1. Type Size
  2. What is the requirement for making a page about somebody?
  3. Number of page views
  4. replacing unauthorized photo with correct photo?
  5. Unreferenced tables
  6. Aberdor the beautiful small village in Fife,Scotland
  7. viewing statistics of an article
  8. casting lots
  9. Wiki logo
  10. Article inaccuracy
  11. School Editing
  12. How do sumit a page you have made?
  13. How do I find my Village Pump contributions?
  14. Keeping updated on new WikiProjects
  15. Citing the same reference more than once
  16. Problems with Edit Conflicts
  17. Category watching
  18. multiple &nbsp
  19. article: Republic of Macedonia
  20. Auto-Confirm Question
  21. Loading a page on a Facebook tab.

May 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 22

  1. "Photograph by xxx" image captions
  2. The article Hangul needs to change to Hangeul.
  3. Scant reference to Italian contributions in the "Music" article
  4. Why did you change the Best Blog on the 'net,' into something that is just bearly usuable? WPM!
  5. Italian contributions to music
  6. Grief with pipes in my signature
  7. 2 last changes on Page History
  8. Line cutting through infobox
  9. Warning from a vandal
  10. Saxondale
  11. Movie
  12. Link IP edits to account
  13. Inappropriate Article
  14. How to submit a new article

May 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 23

  1. Removing notification that this biographical article needs additional citations
  2. What is a "Links in Headings?"
  3. Do we need this article?
  4. David R. Bryant, Perkin Medal recipient, 1998
  5. Need to delete a file I uploaded
  6. May 22 2010
  7. Is there a way to add blank space on either side of centered text?
  8. Project status propagation to talk page tags
  9. Formatting Question
  10. Vector APR
  11. Hacked Link on the Square_Foot_Gardening page
  12. pronunciation
  13. Wikify backlog random article feature broken
  14. Source word
  15. Deleting history
  16. Pushing own writing and published material as sources
  17. File Description Anomaly
  18. Hyphens in article searches
  19. dark power
  20. Downloading PDF files
  21. Search
  22. Signing posts: four tildes not working properly
  23. Tables problem
  24. Collapsing Sections
  25. malicious link

May 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 24

  1. What if I'd like to make a contribution/edit a page that is semi-protected?
  2. unable to access diffrent language in cellphone
  3. Dictionary application for iMac
  4. Redirect
  5. i was wondering if you need any help
  6. Meta account
  7. Disambiguation procedure/etiquette
  8. Edit box size?
  9. Approving An AFC Request
  10. your page on the Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
  11. Editing page title
  12. Reversed image?
  13. oxygen
  14. Those little "who I am" boxes
  15. How do I publish my wikipedia article?
  16. Old user new question
  17. Is my topic Encyclopediac in nature?
  18. How do I get a cause put into your wikipedia page
  19. the the
  20. Invite people to an article in your userspace that you created
  21. What if there's no red link?

May 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 25

  1. Changing Interfaces
  2. Bad link in Eric Clapton discography
  3. not receiving emailj
  4. Uploading final file
  5. Linking images
  6. An admin is accusing me of vandalism and blocked my access to edit articles even though what I was doing does not constitute vandalism
  7. blackberry compatibility
  8. at the moment, a template in a DYK article looks haywire
  9. milton keynes parish/coulcil
  10. Mysterious vandalism
  11. Very problematic page
  12. Translations
  13. Alphabetical "What links here"?
  14. How can text blocks be numbered automatically?
  15. Masks (1998 film)
  16. Image corrupted?
  17. Editing of "Boom (Containment)"
  18. Other language articles
  19. Need to upload a picture...
  20. Vandalism
  21. Is the image infobox on Wikipedia broken?
  22. Summary
  23. uploaded images
  24. logged out while edditing
  25. Posting Pages to Foreign Languages Versions of Wikipedia
  26. Requesting image updates

May 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 26

  1. Movuy article
  2. Pioneer 11
  3. Repeat vandal
  4. Help in changing Text display size!
  5. Do you have a widget or a web gadget?
  6. Uploading a Picture with permission given by the UN
  7. phonetic words
  8. social upliftment funding for western cape south africa
  9. My username does not work i Think
  10. Mysteriously, the last edit in this page does not show
  11. Show only BOT edits
  12. help so my text is not delete
  13. Deleting old username from talk page
  14. Suggestion box
  15. A concept with double meanings
  16. Full Page History Download
  17. I quit!
  18. Unsuccessful adding links
  19. General Aristide Razu(can't find the article I made)

May 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 27

  1. Photo gallery
  2. Avoiding Wrongful Association With Disruptive IP (Via CheckUser)
  3. Help
  4. Purpose of Category Modification
  5. Help With
  6. Piped Character
  7. Why you ban us
  8. Searching with Vector skin
  9. Emailing the company to ask them to help update/expand their own page
  10. Creating a new infobox
  11. Correction of information on our organization.
  12. Hidden text in the new design
  13. Rfc/u listing
  14. Re-use of articles
  15. Number of articles in subcategories
  16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_%28Ciara_song%29
  17. Decision on submitted article
  18. Does the subject of an article have the final say?
  19. Transferring images to Commons?
  20. I can't add a title to the collapsable sections on my user page
  21. spam
  22. Report Abuse
  23. Phantom subcategory
  24. CHAT
  25. Uploading a photograph
  26. Katrina Lynn Shoe & Bag Collection

May 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 28

  1. Help required with Reference desk archives
  2. How long does article review take?
  3. Found an odd article that covers a lot of political and science ground, figured I'd mention it here
  4. Being logged out
  5. please anyone who knows
  6. DYK entry, Dwight, Illinois. Prince Albert
  7. Commercially Interested Censorship
  8. How to parse (English) XML dump to extract individual wikipedia articles
  9. Uploading flickr live performance photograph?
  10. Userpage with category tags
  11. New wikipedia page
  12. How to Copyright Images Owned by a Local Government
  13. False vandalism warnings from NerdyScienceDude
  14. My bio
  15. Readability
  16. John Wayne Gacy

May 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 29

  1. page deleted
  2. Question about user protection
  3. Centering Short Image Captions to Improve Wikipedia
  4. How do I change the name of an article?
  5. Referencing to wikipedia articles
  6. Fix Main Text to Thumb?
  7. Wikipedia Categorywise XML Dumps
  8. Know how to use the parser functions? Can you look at my code?
  9. New Discovery
  10. Nominating pages for deletion
  11. No article or section about side-exit exhaust pipes?
  12. I can't find the cat tag!
  13. Professor Julius A. Okojie
  14. Question about deleting contributions
  15. Restored file
  16. NBA 2010 finals

May 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 30

  1. Remove the deleting tag ?
  2. Locating a company
  3. Redirect
  4. Rediret The Michelangelo to Taft Hotel
  5. Wikipedia access from BlackBerry Internet browser not working
  6. unable to access diffrent language in cellphone
  7. Sales extension counter
  8. Suggest Salting of Deleted Page(s)?
  9. How Do I create a userbox for my profile???
  10. Healer; Merriam-Webster's definition; 1. One who heals 2. Christian Science Practitioner
  11. Citing newspapers from Google News Archive
  12. Change of the HTML-page-title, for Wikipedia pages, from vector.js ?
  13. authors
  14. Triple Entries

May 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 May 31

  1. Please delete
  2. Infobox on geographical articles.
  3. Company Information profit/loss up/down arrows in red and green
  4. contributing photo to bio page
  5. Request that an article be deleted
  6. Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison
  7. Strange location for an article
  8. RfA tool
  9. proposed deletion
  10. Posting info about a new invention at Wikipedia
  11. Benny Hinn
  12. fyi
  13. OTRS question
  14. Legal threat?