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November 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 1

  1. Letterman Current Singers
  2. Deletion
  3. Uploading Photos to Wikipedia Articles
  4. Disambiguation question
  5. Kris Humphries article says he graduated from Hopkins High School, Minnetonka, Mn
  6. Question about Article Creation
  7. please replace with accurate photo
  8. Freidoune Sahebjam
  9. table conversion
  10. Setting up specialised recent changes template
  11. MOS question about arabic names
  12. IP block exemption
  13. Question about EDIT page
  14. Usage of the help me template
  15. What does this mean?
  16. Wikipedia box at the top of an article
  17. Mistake about my authorship
  18. Watchlist
  19. Disambiguation page statistics
  20. Random Article
  21. What happens if you discover dozens of reliable sources incorect?
  22. Why can't I embed my imge?
  23. Changing the User: name at the top of the article
  24. Can't work out how to put the article on Wikipedia
  25. All Magazines List
  26. Edit tool info request
  27. Error
  28. writing help - meeting ntibil;ity rquirements
  29. Citing a pamphlet
  30. Regarding a website on reliable source noticeboard.

November 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 2

  1. Band notability
  2. Hello
  3. chemistry/catalyst
  4. full form
  5. JIMMY SAVILLE RIP
  6. Rescue me u.s t.v series
  7. Name of Macedonia
  8. Honda ASIMO Revisions
  9. thumbnail not showing up
  10. Date showing incorrectly
  11. contents
  12. Hattusa
  13. Request to mainspace article

November 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 3

  1. Cleveland State University Poetry Center page
  2. Editing English spellings to other English Spellings
  3. Just a quick question
  4. S. Thaman
  5. Editing
  6. The Statement of Randolph Carter
  7. Eslicarbazepine acetate origin and duplication
  8. Moving essay into WP namespace
  9. Correct Name
  10. David Burton-Richardson
  11. Problem with reflist

November 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 4

  1. Multilingual support
  2. Porno on the page for Narcissism
  3. Why can't I edit this page?
  4. getting an error page when searching for israel
  5. Looking for an "Advice for expert editors" page
  6. Picture Problems
  7. An addition has been Removed
  8. History of an address
  9. Add Author info to a county page?
  10. sources to prove the notability of a band
  11. Chart for comparing different philosophical ideas
  12. Welcoming Templates
  13. Editing

November 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 5

  1. Italics
  2. Provelt reference tool
  3. erie canal
  4. Text size
  5. How to request semi-protection
  6. wrong link
  7. Link to external web site
  8. Correction
  9. Preview works but not after Save

November 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 6

  1. How do I do this with the "cite news" template?
  2. user talk limitions?
  3. Use of the link-interwiki model
  4. dialer tune
  5. new documenta13 page is inviting helpers to translate German to English
  6. 1954 Greada Treaty
  7. Global Media Post
  8. New article
  9. contribution of multimedia content
  10. Jim Glaser Discography
  11. Untitled
  12. Inline citations and wikilinks
  13. boys hostel
  14. Is a screenshot of a video considered "own work"

November 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 7

  1. factualy error
  2. Master Dana Wong article deleted
  3. I want to delete a file I uploaded.
  4. Pictorial Illustrations
  5. Deletion review
  6. mark howard goalkeeper
  7. Article Publication and Third-Party Verification
  8. adding Bangla language
  9. Dysentery
  10. Page Name
  11. Picture rotation problem
  12. Adaptive Planning
  13. PROD of BLP

November 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 8

  1. Problem with Redir Page
  2. Ben Schwartz's Bio
  3. Youtube clips
  4. Markup query
  5. Request to edit page of 'Mehdi Hasan'
  6. Page review
  7. Italic title
  8. How to change multiple categories quickly
  9. ted hughes - dick straightup
  10. who put my article on Wikipedia?
  11. someone keeps moving my LINK to the bottom
  12. Via Margutta entry
  13. Images
  14. united baseball league
  15. nonconstructive editing
  16. moving a wikipedia page

November 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 9

  1. A Simple Suggestion (or two)
  2. submitting bio. to wikipedia
  3. Where do I go to have an article rated?
  4. help
  5. duplicating Matt Bolan covers
  6. Editing {{reflist}}
  7. Editing Help Needed
  8. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 9#Forum_advice_on_.7B.7Btl.7CKennedy_Center_Honorees.7D.7D|Forum advice on {{Kennedy Center Honorees}}]]
  9. How can I post my institution's profile?
  10. New user
  11. Highlighting links
  12. unit formatting guidelines
  13. hooliganism
  14. H.A.A.R.P.
  15. Copyright for logo
  16. Retitling page
  17. Josee Nadeau
  18. Do I have insurance coverage through your company
  19. Login error: Username entered already in use. Please choose a different name.
  20. recent edit I suggested

November 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 10

  1. I didn´t find more information about a book, but I don´t want the deletion of the article
  2. Need to Change Username or Immediately Delete current Wikipedia and start over
  3. Stray question
  4. RE: Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
  5. Problems with an image
  6. Atribution
  7. Request to add new section for the 'Mehdi Hasan' entry
  8. Can i administrater please help?
  9. Following on from my previous request to edit 'Mehdi Hasan' page...
  10. Making two columns
  11. Searching Wikipedia
  12. RE: Please read: A personal appeal from an author of 549 Wikipedia articles
  13. Remove myself from occupied
  14. Why have the colors of the language templates become so pale all of a sudden?
  15. Article Has Missing Information
  16. How to move a page when the "move' option isn't showing
  17. Get my draft off Google
  18. Live Chat
  19. Permission to Use Photo, But Requires Logo to Remain on Photo
  20. Editing is blocked on the page?
  21. want to fil a complaint on donald smith
  22. Fan Fiction

November 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 11

  1. page created redirected to another title, why?
  2. Emmerdale
  3. Harry Potter/Christopher Columbus
  4. Wikipedia article on Facebook
  5. Recreation?
  6. Maths rating
  7. Strange Redirect
  8. Lists of blues artists by decade
  9. Archive search and indexing
  10. Infoboxes
  11. How do you add a ciatacon needed?
  12. 2 issues - one request and one more bothersome issue
  13. Paypal donation link error
  14. Cree Q5
  15. Autobiography

November 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 12

  1. Publishing
  2. OK, so how to create a user page?
  3. Error on page "Bittu Sahgal"
  4. Flow of Consciousness
  5. Images
  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadnagar
  7. A good edit has been removed and wrongly cited as "did not appear to be constructive".
  8. I want to translate poetry &literature works
  9. Deciphering this citation
  10. regarding GOUTRA OF ANY BUNT
  11. Deleted contributions
  12. sayfada örnek hatası
  13. A little help please
  14. American River College
  15. filter bag to be used in coal pulverising
  16. Special characters
  17. Graciela Rivera opera singer
  18. "African American" diffusing or non-diffusing subcat of "American"?
  19. Is there or do we need a portal on the world power struggle?
  20. Category:Feminist television series
  21. Dead links

November 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 13

  1. Weird Layout
  2. I need help with a page I started.
  3. PP
  4. "You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)"
  5. "Rate this page."
  6. The Hands Resist Him
  7. Fixbunching
  8. Copy and paste
  9. Can't find cite error in article
  10. What should I do now
  11. "Rate this page."

November 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 14

  1. Creating a list of ways to die by nature or notable poisons and nature accidents.plus change my user name account
  2. Acorns
  3. B-class troubles
  4. Redirect and new page.
  5. Moving content between articles
  6. Publishing a draft
  7. Edit/delete
  8. about reply
  9. General Emile Armand Gibon (1813-1870)
  10. BBc News
  11. adding reference and external links
  12. two conflict of intrest questions.
  13. Licensing and reusing WP articles
  14. 10c enforcement
  15. How can I add references?
  16. Miscredited Donations
  17. sources vs references
  18. Recent Changes Tag Filter
  19. Sentence disappared in template

November 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 15

  1. RS question
  2. Can I turn off the Personal Appeal by donating ?
  3. Number of sensors
  4. How to upload pictures to a Wikipedia page
  5. Translation of a bengali article
  6. Downloading in a format other than PDF
  7. Date ranges
  8. Sorry to bother
  9. looking for a friend
  10. Mamadou Doudou Diouf
  11. Request for name change is in delay
  12. Editing a user page
  13. Biggest wave surfers
  14. RfC on existing discussion or new?
  15. All-Time Chicago Bear Roster

November 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 16

  1. what's wrong with banners?
  2. Editing Wikipedia:Help desk (new section)
  3. How much money does it take to get Jimbo's face off of the internet forever?
  4. foot notes
  5. User page and watch list and more
  6. Finding top-importance stubs?
  7. Aligning userboxes with text
  8. Rotated image
  9. Kimiko Zakreski
  10. fiery fingers
  11. Capitalization of preposition "o'".
  12. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales appeal
  13. HELP: article seems to have been truncated!
  14. new email Addy.
  15. Original contribution
  16. My user page is doing something weird D:
  17. Image citation question
  18. Header
  19. Search for edits by ip subnet
  20. Mobile version on desktop
  21. Peculiar layout problem
  22. Geo coordinates
  23. Splitting an article
  24. Rating a page
  25. Can we PLEASE get Jimmy Wales' picture off of EVERY PAGE?
  26. Using magazines as a source

November 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 17

  1. What Wikipedia policies apply to the notability of article content?
  2. Image not showing in a template
  3. Someone deleted my edit. How do I find out why?
  4. About the topic- Dhenkanal (Princely State)
  5. Your Anti-christian policy
  6. My username is my article title ?
  7. LTJ Bukem
  8. How do I increase the text size on wikipedia?
  9. Change the layout of the appeal on the top of the pages
  10. Lyudmila Pavlichenko
  11. adding multiple external links
  12. Question boxes
  13. Keeping sources confidential except to Wikipedia editors
  14. copying external articles with a creative commons license to WP
  15. rules
  16. re: facebook link - it's up to you. She has frequent updates over there, including salons, articles, etc.

November 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 18

  1. How to quote an interview
  2. Are the Wikipedians really serious about Userboxitis?
  3. meta/color ???
  4. PETER SELLERS
  5. Turn off donation ads
  6. Wikipedia mailing address to include in my matching grant contribution
  7. employment
  8. thomas davidson
  9. Please edit something for me
  10. Automatically generate list of all pages a user has edited and extract coords, if any
  11. knowledge economy
  12. logo under non profitable education purpose
  13. Unified account conflicts
  14. Editing photo captions
  15. President oath
  16. making donation
  17. how to see the old students names?
  18. Curb stomp
  19. |last= and |first= links in parameters
  20. how does one report a wikipedia editor for poor performance?
  21. A few citation questions
  22. Naval Sea Cadet Corps
  23. "Some content was originally published at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion"
  24. Facebook / Twitter links for easy posting of your donation appeal?
  25. Searches: How to make search of plural go to same place as search of singular
  26. can the page be expanded so the left hand column shrinks?
  27. Signpost missed

November 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 19

  1. Sources?
  2. If my name is referenced in an approved article, can I create an entry to explain who I am?
  3. Baiji
  4. About wikibooks
  5. Transclusion of TPS template
  6. User Papaursa
  7. DONATION
  8. Variables
  9. PubMed
  10. Cannot move a draft into mainspace
  11. chnage it please!!1
  12. Editors keep nominating a page for deletion, even though it is labeled as a new project!
  13. Is there a way
  14. Edit status credit/ create article
  15. Article Title Capitalization

November 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 20

  1. acceptable usage of profanity
  2. Lincoln High Brooklyn NY. Sing
  3. Finding top-importance stubs?
  4. optic nerve damged
  5. İnserting HTML code as part of a page edit
  6. What to do with this article?
  7. A good idea (I hope) and no clue where to put it
  8. Application for Fund for Foster Child
  9. Capitalizing article title: Infinity walk or Infinity Walk
  10. difference between standard and redirected articles
  11. Someone using Wikipedia content without attribution
  12. Adding family details- editing a wikipedia entry and want to add that the person is the great-grandson
  13. I need help with from "The Help Desk" please
  14. archive bot settings
  15. Pharaoh's Curse
  16. Infobox width
  17. Wikisource image
  18. Info box template for School Districts?

November 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 21

  1. Bone conduction hearing aid fitting procedure
  2. Multiple citations: same book, different page numbers
  3. Nazzi symbols...
  4. Created new article need little help
  5. Employment question
  6. office 7 question
  7. Multilingual support
  8. Why I will not donate to your site
  9. Targeted Deletions
  10. Is it possible to find out when you post updates?
  11. Francis Higginson Cabot (1925-2011)
  12. Am I really that confused and that much missing the point?
  13. Italicized titles chopping off J's
  14. Modifying link colors?
  15. What should I do if an unregistered user of Wikipedia keeps making negative and unsubstantiated changes to a wiki page?
  16. Errors in Thom Calandra profile
  17. Please can you chnage a mis-spelling in a page title
  18. lost temple
  19. Header
  20. Peter Greenaway

November 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 22

  1. new unreviewed article needs to be reviewed but how
  2. How to Donate
  3. Citing references
  4. Preload text
  5. does wikipedia have a word finder tool to search an article for a specific word?
  6. UNITY IN DIVERSITY
  7. Style conflict
  8. Redirects for spelling difference
  9. Ro icon - Technical issue
  10. Adding a colletion of images to an established reference article
  11. Bettendorf High School
  12. Why all the begging?
  13. Help naming this article name
  14. Add hyperlink to text
  15. Donation to WikiPedia
  16. External Link info
  17. How does article name suddenly get deleted from watchlist?
  18. Polyorcahdism
  19. Why does Wikipedia believe that ads tarnish the educational value of the website and invade people's privacy?
  20. bot and lingonberries
  21. Messages
  22. Policy status of "singular they"
  23. Links for Spanish Wikipedia on English Wikipedia site

November 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 23

  1. Hebrew lettering, drop-down feature
  2. Trouble formating a table
  3. Editing an Article - No 'Edit' Button
  4. Can't make a smaller version of an image
  5. metallic microlattice
  6. Ted Serong :Correction
  7. Pasting options and more
  8. rate this page - I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional)
  9. Cable Co. going HD
  10. Adding information to a Wikipedia article
  11. Removing AfD template from articles
  12. renaming a page
  13. Banque de Credit National, s.a.l.
  14. Source of funding for Wikipedia
  15. Ban templates
  16. I'm using a "PS3" and I can't disable the mobile version of Wikipedia
  17. Editing a link
  18. Help with Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
  19. PUBLIC COMPANY USING WIKI NAME - COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
  20. I have new info ?
  21. Creating a page
  22. Paypal link

November 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 24

  1. Jimmy Wales' Appeal
  2. Help Me Figure Out Where To Practice Article Creation
  3. Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation link expired
  4. Contact
  5. De-DABing a disambiguation page
  6. Another Question
  7. NONAVAILABILITY OF INDUS VISION TV CHANNEL
  8. Need to find out Enginnering schools as per city in the USA
  9. Old Submission
  10. picture of Merton Russell-Cotes
  11. RFC tag not working
  12. 3RR question
  13. Cannot locate privacy settings for living biographies
  14. Cursor Position on Home Page
  15. Why won't this work?
  16. Correction
  17. where to report advertising
  18. Fund Transfer
  19. Translation

November 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 25

  1. Stuck in a live chat where no one can hear me
  2. Korean War Quote
  3. General Sir Charles Asgill
  4. Need help changing page name
  5. The longhair
  6. Did not get email for PW reset
  7. How do I create an opaque background on my talk page?
  8. How do I change the color of the contents box on my talk page?
  9. Shameful!
  10. File information
  11. Entries deleted
  12. Where has my article gone?
  13. Help me AJA
  14. Wikigear
  15. Benigno S. Aquino Jr.
  16. Insightful book review by book group on a blog
  17. Impossible to Navigate Your Process
  18. Title change
  19. Funds
  20. James Arbuthnot
  21. photos

November 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 26

  1. Tomorrow's featured article?
  2. Unicorn (Dungeons & Dragons)
  3. LIBRARY SC
  4. Deinosuchus skull reconstruction
  5. Peter Hellier vs Rove Mc Mannus
  6. Connecting character name with actor/actress to also make list at bottom of article & to link actor actress to other accomplishments in their life.
  7. Soaked
  8. about a page redirect
  9. MULARAM DEPAN
  10. Rate this page box
  11. What makes a user a member of a WikiProject?
  12. Donation to Wikimedia Foundation
  13. List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte
  14. Menieredisease
  15. URGENT
  16. Showing archives

November 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 27

  1. Incorrect movie reference
  2. USE OF WIKIPEDIA
  3. Is there supposed to be another word?
  4. How could this article deletion happen?
  5. Sir Robert L. Borden high school
  6. Assuming You are the new Local Chief Executive of one of the Municipalities here int he Philippines. What measures will you undertake to improve the services and the economy of the Local Government Unit?
  7. Add NetBanking Options in the donation Page
  8. Watching an article that's being created, and maybe helping with it
  9. Photograph of subject
  10. Wiki and my bookmarks
  11. How do I turn off the table of contents
  12. Need Help To Correct Title Of Wikipedia Article?
  13. fat quotes
  14. Check/Edit My Efforts?
  15. The Penny Project
  16. MISS EARTH 2011
  17. Assistance
  18. New subcatagories within :Category:Television programs based on video games
  19. What happened to wikipedia's server why did it crash
  20. Correcting biography of a living person

November 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 28

  1. donation by BPay
  2. Padhavi
  3. Edit request
  4. Link icon on every link
  5. I want to suggest a historical research on a subject
  6. Requesting code for a template
  7. cannot edit Reference page, only ...
  8. Lost!
  9. Dismay
  10. retire
  11. "QuickiWiki Look Up"
  12. Entry on Diane Coyle
  13. Old version at redirect
  14. help
  15. meaning of geographic coordinates listed on Wikipedia
  16. I want to donate to wikipedia but unable to
  17. Want to have the school I work at listed on wikipedia- Alexander Montessori School in Miami, FL
  18. Donation requests
  19. Copyright status of screenshots of Wikipedia pages
  20. character encoding
  21. Joseph Leo Mcglynn attended Mount Saint Mary's College/ now mms university in Maryland. Not California .
  22. concern about windows
  23. How to revert this vandalism?

November 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 29

  1. Copyright
  2. R.Narasimha
  3. Run Ads...
  4. how to move subpage to mainspace
  5. Possible inappropriate comment
  6. For Franamax on mispelling in title of article on Guy Leverne Fake
  7. My username on another Wikipedia
  8. Italic tags in titles seen in Firefox on Windows
  9. Dealing with poor sources
  10. republishing
  11. Tag for "please expand this acronym"
  12. Taking a picture
  13. Fundraising question
  14. US Open (tennis) editions
  15. How to make the ref list?
  16. Showing personal appeal again
  17. help (2)
  18. Protecting your page
  19. More money for Wikipedia: Provide - against a donation - whole(!) portals, such as science, fixed(!) on DVD.
  20. Media/Logo question
  21. Splitting from existing article to new page -- policy?
  22. Article removed for copyright infringement
  23. Flight Express, Inc.
  24. Mark Henry TD mayo North Ireland 1927 to 1932.
  25. Deleting footnote mistakes under the reference section of an article

November 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 November 30

  1. Compromised account
  2. Oddball image-orientation question
  3. funds through donation or advertisement
  4. Claudia Lennear
  5. Adding Urdu text to articles/pages
  6. Help with certain article words and more
  7. Odd "unpatrolled" notice on watchlist
  8. Apprise Software logo
  9. Application of zinc sulfate as ors
  10. Contribution problems
  11. removing my links
  12. need to change link
  13. Updated category sort order
  14. adding an article about my dad
  15. I created a new section in an existing article, but it does not seem to be showing up.
  16. Cat picture
  17. Donation Payment Mode
  18. Image gallery question