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October 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 1

  1. How to change the title of a Wikipedia Article?
  2. Image not scaling
  3. Problem with editing. Have I deleted half an article accidentally?
  4. can i add my own content (about my site & buseiness) using wikipedia.
  5. Why cant I add a page about a band I like??
  6. Michael Hemmingson
  7. Is SVG the best format?
  8. Watch my Page
  9. hy
  10. Fixing "edit section" boxes
  11. WP colour
  12. transclusion of page with categories without duplicating category count
  13. Warning Vandals
  14. youtube as a source
  15. I found an error
  16. Which Came First?
  17. Editing content that has no edit link
  18. Can I find out why a particular article has been deleted from WP?

October 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 2

  1. Lists of (x) alumni
  2. Editing the Wikipedia Page on Morgan Freeman
  3. Can you mark articles as 'read'?
  4. Wikipedia futurology section
  5. a list what sells the most online
  6. 40 corrections to Wiki Battleship Texas BB35 - recommendations how to proceed
  7. Adding a section to a page
  8. Dr. Joyce Cherono Laboso
  9. Sync of portal and boxes
  10. Can't get multiple college students signed on to do a project on Wikipedia!
  11. How do I tell if a wiki page is 'semi-protected' or 'protected'?
  12. Translators (radio)
  13. Essay
  14. Darts problem
  15. Page disappearance
  16. All movie

October 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 3

  1. Citing Wikipedia
  2. Cats Singapore.
  3. Postcard's License
  4. Leighrayment.com
  5. New question - wealth
  6. Infobox?
  7. Single and double spacing

October 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 4

  1. Namecalling, to-do list, and any general words of wisdom
  2. Reporting Vandelism
  3. Deletion of Regan Mizrahi Article
  4. notability/shared name/disambiguation
  5. Table of contents
  6. did i do it correctly?
  7. Category:People from Yolo County, California
  8. an incomplte/not correct bio on me published on Wikipedia to be deleted
  9. Privileges
  10. Sidemenu creation
  11. What programming language do you use on wikipedia?
  12. Long Beach, California
  13. Missing out full stops
  14. movie synopsis
  15. Company Lists
  16. Google Chrome - IPA problem
  17. USS New York LPD 21
  18. perjury

October 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 5

  1. Listing all pages created by a user
  2. Deletion of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Marshall+Hall%2C+Tennessee+Technological+University&year=&month=-1 Marshall Hall, Tennessee Technological University]: It was deleted with no clear reason given against Wikipedia English Policy.
  3. Editing Albert Schweitzer
  4. I want to nominate a deletion
  5. How do you move a page?
  6. Withdrawing an AFD
  7. Transclusion question regarding the Notability RFC Compromise page
  8. Hyperlinks without underscore
  9. Modify template or create slightly different one?
  10. Help with listing an aritcle for deletion
  11. Add a page in a Category
  12. global account
  13. R.E.M. ROCKPALAST DVD
  14. Can an admin please reinstate a previously deleted article please?
  15. 2008 Presidential Candidate Ruth Bryant White
  16. Merge histories

October 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 6

  1. Box Characters
  2. Update problem with SSP report
  3. displaying eastern characters
  4. Combining two categories
  5. I Can't Make An Info box
  6. slow growth of mutual fund industry in pakistan
  7. WRITTING AN ARTICLE ON WIKIPEDIA
  8. Create an Account Problem
  9. un-sudo?
  10. Posting copy for Desperados beer
  11. Yearbook pictures...public domain?
  12. Can't get checkmate to load
  13. creating a page
  14. Trouble sending message to Bzuk
  15. advertising as part of an image
  16. Blocking a vandal's account
  17. About a tab
  18. Understanding Wikipedia
  19. Notable Figures
  20. Converting table types

October 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 7

  1. how do you find pages which are tagged non notable?
  2. saving pages to work when offline
  3. Wikimedia pings
  4. Phishing site?
  5. Template for top of article
  6. Tipi article vandalised
  7. Why is a particular picture locally uploaded instead of on Commons?
  8. What font or typeface is used for Wikipedia?
  9. Moving a reference desk question
  10. Wikipedia:Help desk - Typing password at Wikipedia
  11. Deleted article
  12. picture
  13. How can this image be properly displayed?
  14. I keep getting spammed for adding external links
  15. Check an edit, please
  16. Malformed MfD

October 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 8

  1. semi-protected...
  2. Linking images from Wikimedia
  3. Heads of Governments
  4. Uploading query
  5. is this image up for deletion or not?
  6. Want to know the synonyms of Logistics
  7. Delete this article?
  8. Galleries
  9. Clearly non-notable software articles
  10. Deriative FX at commons
  11. Weird link on user page
  12. Need ability to post a picture Vontra --Vontra (talk) 16:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
  13. Question regarding donating information
  14. tag for logical contradiction
  15. div background-image in wikipedia
  16. User Pages
  17. Barack Obama
  18. Country Music Pictures
  19. Where to obtain help on writing a template?
  20. Can't move page
  21. Muhammad Kamal

October 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 9

  1. e-Mail
  2. A "Jimbo Wales" subpage
  3. Article Fjolla
  4. Asking for votes?
  5. Image copyright question
  6. I want to report a sock-puppet
  7. Electrical Engineering
  8. Vandalism
  9. Zaccanopoli
  10. Help
  11. Requested Template:User Good Topic
  12. Album page infoboxes are missing genres
  13. Upload a Piciture I created
  14. Translating pages
  15. Glasses that are too big;)
  16. 'The Workers in the Vineyard'
  17. Prize for improving articles?
  18. Making a new article that needs the title of a redirect...
  19. Is it worth putting my band on Wiki or will it just be deleted?

October 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 10

  1. Faster-than-light
  2. I request this account to be deleted under blant advertising and promotion
  3. "What links here" counter?
  4. can the evolution societal and cultural linked directly to th perception of the impairment associated to disability
  5. Photo upload
  6. How can I fix a typo in a title when a page move does not appear to have worked?
  7. Green (Positive) and Red (Negetive) Number on 'my watchlist'
  8. Music genres
  9. Template:Hidden
  10. can someone do a wikipedia article on me and my music company
  11. How to remove history data
  12. What order do results from a prefix query come in?
  13. Moving article/list
  14. Question/Comment?
  15. attention plz

October 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 11

  1. Munster Rugby - protected templete deletion?
  2. Sources in infoboxes
  3. Content box
  4. electricity produced using nuclear fuel
  5. New page patrol backlog (patrolled edits)
  6. WP:AWB
  7. Hi
  8. Music Genres in the Background Information
  9. Started articles?
  10. Wikipedia:Help Desk/Preview before post
  11. Williams,alex gar-field football player
  12. change of email
  13. Bug another
  14. proofs in articles

October 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 12

  1. article referencing as per GFDL
  2. Template column spacing
  3. Notability requirements for restaurants?
  4. email received
  5. Person Data
  6. Reverting vandalism
  7. New Page
  8. Pictures
  9. Collapsing on tables (colour of "[hide] / [show]")
  10. Texture Filtering
  11. Combining categories
  12. No idea how to create my page
  13. Dubious sources
  14. Can't find my article
  15. meaning of names
  16. Can't see article text when editing...
  17. Random question
  18. Red Warning label
  19. Melvin Mora
  20. Pictures
  21. new redirects minor or major edits?

October 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 13

  1. DRAGNET
  2. Trees and global warming
  3. Category moves
  4. Can I create a page without publishing it?
  5. TO SUPLY TIRES MARSHAL TO SYRIA
  6. Help change article Title
  7. Editing a Football Strip Caption
  8. Contents Box
  9. how can one spread spam?
  10. remove a picture
  11. MBS
  12. Forgot to log in before editing
  13. VF substitutes
  14. Thanks a lot for what you are doing but regarding Farsi you did not put any beautiful pictures from Iran , ( Northren part of Iran , Isfahan, Shiraz or Teharan ..)
  15. Names in different languages
  16. Wikipedia tries to download files to my computer?
  17. Larger text
  18. help in editing gelfand pairs

October 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 14

  1. Image policy
  2. Third-party references
  3. Privacy Concerns Regarding Someone's E-mail Address in an AfD
  4. capital
  5. problem editing the "Pieing" article
  6. Alphabetical table
  7. Advice needed - slightly spammy editing
  8. Pictures at the Commons?
  9. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon infobox image
  10. Monobook
  11. Why aren't two images appearing at Stephen Crane?
  12. New Question
  13. add Wade Martin Bio to wikipedia
  14. Delete Attachments
  15. Is information for which a source, other than what's in my memory, disalllowed?
  16. a different definition of financial intelligence

October 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 15

  1. How do I add a citation when I find one?
  2. Change page name
  3. How to Request a Title of Article be Changed
  4. creating a redirect
  5. Government of New York
  6. Request for a bot to do something
  7. IE hangs when loading into wikipedia
  8. software that allows your files to speak to you
  9. Getting Started
  10. Help
  11. Using columns within a table cell

October 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 16

  1. Change of name
  2. Yeah, another question
  3. How to do a reverse dictionary lookup?
  4. i just posted my first creation on wikipedia and...
  5. Infobox State_Senator parameter
  6. Keeping my Biography accurate or 'locking' a biography.
  7. Cathal Crowe
  8. How do I make an SVG?
  9. How do I contact a user concerning a SUL account?
  10. lost
  11. Incorporating information from official government sources
  12. Connecting to Adobe Reader
  13. Font is messed up on Wikipedia only
  14. Changing default location of User
  15. Image Question
  16. Radio stations that trade frequencies
  17. Wikipedia
  18. Article section under discussion template
  19. Error on SanDisk page
  20. Template help
  21. Blocking

October 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 17

  1. Article Name Change
  2. FAQ section in some articles like CD, DVD etc...
  3. Naming of an article
  4. Biographies & First-Hand Knowledge
  5. Standardization
  6. User page signature
  7. wrong information
  8. Incumbent parameter value
  9. Google Earth
  10. Wikiprojects/guilds
  11. editing and search results
  12. Articles
  13. Advertising in an image
  14. ImageRemovalBot
  15. I'm a primary source to verify a basic statement of fact
  16. References question

October 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 18

  1. Un-redirect an article
  2. Request that a page be deleted
  3. advantage of career planning program
  4. Friendly template
  5. create disambiguation page?
  6. protocol
  7. Somebody take a look
  8. Who
  9. Jacobo Morales
  10. Code Enforcement Bureau
  11. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 18#Editing {{Reflist}}<.2Fnowiki>|Editing <nowiki>{{Reflist}}]]
  12. Hidden cats
  13. why cant Wikipedia have a 'did you mean' spell checker?

October 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 19

  1. Pic won't show up in infobox
  2. GA tip?
  3. Question on RfA
  4. Copyedit
  5. How do I delete a disambiguation page
  6. Online reference doesn't let you out
  7. How do I embed content from another article section?
  8. I have a serious problem
  9. Unauthorized Request to change password on my account
  10. Images
  11. MiszaBot's archiving
  12. MOS questions

October 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 20

  1. No Progress on Article Name Change
  2. User:HunterRaven and User:Pendragon
  3. Autoconfirmation
  4. Archive on Talk
  5. question about bridge
  6. I WANT TO BE UPGRADE MY PC
  7. Noinclude?
  8. Control over controversial issue pages
  9. Using Expressions With Variables In Templates
  10. Removing a section from the Table of Contents
  11. user acct in one language only?
  12. Broken Link
  13. DELETE
  14. Renaming
  15. A hoax?

October 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 21

  1. Barney's picture
  2. User box search...
  3. Indentation
  4. Troubles with new submission
  5. Article Size Graph
  6. Javascript link
  7. Expressions that call on Sums of Parameters
  8. lost password and email i cannot reset my password please help
  9. Deleted images
  10. PLEASE
  11. page go live
  12. My contributions were deleted
  13. Citing videos
  14. Previous Searches
  15. Creative Commons-licensed wiki
  16. Cannot use contents menus on articles

October 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 22

  1. Link to talk page in signature does not work
  2. Deleted Articles
  3. Unadministration member semiprotecting(?)
  4. Deleted Edits
  5. Le random communes
  6. Pan Cyber
  7. Accidentally log myself out
  8. can wikipedia be my homepage??
  9. Categories confusion
  10. Foreign language links
  11. Sources
  12. Barack Obama
  13. copy of proof of graduation
  14. Image Trouble
  15. help plz
  16. Admin help

October 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 23

  1. Lost draft of new page
  2. plz help
  3. Unnessary Page
  4. using google earth and wikipedia
  5. Problem editing sections and subsections
  6. Tables--major help needed!!!
  7. What's the right place for burdensome biographical details published by relatives?
  8. MIKE TYSON FACT PAGE INCORRECTION
  9. Editing introductory material
  10. fishing
  11. Cast in Films
  12. Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore. Television 1992
  13. Subtlety or Nonsense?

October 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 24

  1. Incumbent overload in template
  2. Countdown timer on userpage?
  3. Italacized text.
  4. propsed Deletion
  5. Wikipedia and Google Earth
  6. Can u get banned from WP for being a cr*p editor?
  7. Photo
  8. How to Display article in main area
  9. How to find where a template is used
  10. How do I add my article to other articles?
  11. Image Question
  12. Vandalism Templates...
  13. Delete vandal's image

October 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 25

  1. Signature problems
  2. Searching within categories
  3. Chart
  4. Bad news
  5. Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 40 problems
  6. Question about editing Wikipedia
  7. typo on the name of my article
  8. Graphical Timeline Template Not Editing Correctly
  9. Time to archive...
  10. Uploading images
  11. Adding a photography studio to the list under Photography Companies > Sub catagory Photography Studios
  12. How to HIDE a COLUMN in a TABLE
  13. Proposed deletion

October 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 26

  1. Getting Logged-Out
  2. George Osborne photo
  3. Mohammed_kaaba.jpg
  4. Article problem
  5. translation
  6. Script Package
  7. codes for mitsubishi
  8. HOW DO I CHANGE A DATE OF BIRTH WHICH IS WRONG?
  9. Reopening template
  10. Special pages
  11. Help Millennium Shakespeare
  12. Creating a template
  13. DISCUSSION PAGES

October 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 27

  1. How to report sabotage/abuse?
  2. When did France prevent the US from using its airspace?
  3. CAN NOT LOG IN
  4. help getting started
  5. Stuffed left alignment while editing table
  6. author
  7. When Will A Ban Be Unblocked AutoMatic?
  8. Follow up questions
  9. rogor gadavitano gadmoTargmnili gverdi wordidadn wikishi
  10. Unable to edit account preferences
  11. Refs
  12. Help request for image source on Wikimedia
  13. Replacing Incorrect Image
  14. What is wrong with article?
  15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bob_Dylan_songs
  16. User categories
  17. Re-direction problems (repositioned so I have a chance to get a response)
  18. WP nomenclature
  19. Copyright vio (mirror)
  20. How do I contact a specific Wikipedia member?
  21. Graphical Timeline Template Not Editing Correctly - part 2

October 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 28

  1. Template help needed
  2. Username change
  3. Did you know?
  4. Soliciting an informal opinion
  5. Contents table
  6. Snapshots
  7. Image renaming
  8. Misplaced Addition
  9. Quick Links
  10. Would this qualify as 3RR
  11. References
  12. Report Administrator Abuse
  13. wiki toolbar
  14. Compare selected versions
  15. :Image:Michael Lucas to David Shankbone on the Iraq War.ogg
  16. How do I create a new wikipedia article

October 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 29

  1. Can't Login
  2. Download Image
  3. Can't create article
  4. disaster management
  5. New page help
  6. number of pages edited help
  7. How do I make suggestbot leave me alone?
  8. VF IRC bots
  9. Reference to North America
  10. posting pictures
  11. Wikimedia
  12. new article

October 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 30

  1. Filmography Box
  2. Cannot log in to my account with password you sent
  3. How to announce a guidelines proposal?
  4. sending articles?
  5. Sources and AFD
  6. Getting preview screen
  7. How to become a registered user
  8. How can I download all my edits ?
  9. Adding to a page
  10. uploading a free image
  11. Page view counter for Wikipedia articles?
  12. Some symbols not showing up
  13. user page spam?

October 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 October 31

  1. Fixing a problem with a template
  2. Experts List?
  3. Can't access edit page
  4. What proportion of edits on here constitute vandalism?
  5. Medical Miracles
  6. Template help
  7. Sidebar code with template works in "Show preview", but not after "Save page"
  8. A suspected serial killer