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September 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 1

  1. Forgot my email/password
  2. Unsigned signed edits
  3. Text overlaps picture box
  4. (силе) Helping the (рдин) encyclopedia wikipedia edit?
  5. what is god
  6. my 1st posting for encyclopedia wikipedia (европейско)
  7. Creating a New Userpage
  8. Pagenames in templates
  9. How dare you send this to me
  10. Template
  11. Do I get paid yet?
  12. Can I create a Page about....
  13. Images
  14. Editing conflicts (technical)
  15. Spam
  16. How long does a db-move take?
  17. Administration Access
  18. Who gets to decline speedies?
  19. Warning for vandlism
  20. k a s designs
  21. Graeme Macdonald Music section
  22. Moving pages

September 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 2

  1. How to refer to a specific section within a Wikipedia article?
  2. an error
  3. Use of Wikipedia for Commercial Research
  4. Password request
  5. Removing large amounts of white space?
  6. How does this Harvard citation work?
  7. Unable to save page after edit
  8. Multiple reference styles
  9. Poisson process article
  10. English Wikipedia Internal Account Creation Interface
  11. I am looking for a job
  12. Crime and rent prices in city articles
  13. How do you create timelines?
  14. Featured B&W
  15. Adding a navbox to a template
  16. Double redirects

September 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 3

  1. Justify text on the right side
  2. Publishing my article with Wikipedia
  3. Uploading Copyrighted image
  4. Switching account names
  5. journalism
  6. Chop or crop?
  7. Assistance required
  8. Users with access to magazine archive
  9. Las Vegas City Public Schools
  10. Requesting wider participation in an RfD
  11. External Links on User Pages
  12. Four Level Interchange image

September 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 4

  1. Is Wikipedia slow?
  2. Zooming articles problem
  3. Uploading image/logo
  4. Language problem
  5. Two requests, if possible
  6. Occasional "Advanced search" option
  7. Help Assistance - Author making claims of ownership to intellectual property
  8. E-mail addresses in infoboxes
  9. WitteBros Exchange
  10. SlimBrowser
  11. Turn external links green

September 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 5

  1. Stride Piano Artists / Re: Adding Jerry White To Listing Of Artists
  2. auction history
  3. Government IPs
  4. Links
  5. Reporting and warning vandals
  6. I didnt confirm on time
  7. translating articles
  8. translate
  9. What website to use in screenshots?
  10. Why o Why are bands (music) not allowed in an encyclopedia? like wikipedia. To me that is ridiculous, sorry..
  11. IP conflict
  12. 404
  13. Design
  14. what kind of english?
  15. Teacake problamatique
  16. Image credits
  17. Group Change
  18. External Myspace Links
  19. How to delate
  20. Remove an article's title
  21. Downloadable/Static Help Section?
  22. Can't get this image to generate a thumbnail...
  23. Monobook background
  24. How to archive
  25. How to add catagories to uploaded images
  26. J K Jaiswal (Jeet)

September 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 6

  1. Deleting Articles
  2. Image Technical Difficulties - Wesley College, Melbourne
  3. Can an article be closed to editing?
  4. Hello
  5. New pages in a category
  6. Signature problems
  7. JMU, Rankings, Forbes.com
  8. Linking User Pages
  9. Any way to change the default search language at www.wikipedia.org main page?
  10. Editing Leeds
  11. Some Wiki Browser
  12. How do I execute JS
  13. Article count
  14. Recovering an account / username

September 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 7

  1. Userboxes
  2. Uploading Pictures?
  3. Auto confirmed user message
  4. Navbox transclusion
  5. Vanuatu Articles
  6. Stage names - which name to redirect and which to use?
  7. Image Use
  8. Articles created
  9. Getting rid of a table of contents
  10. Check an edit, please

September 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 8

  1. Translations
  2. Query on Neutrality(???) Policy
  3. Any PDA Version of Wikipedia
  4. Uploading photos please
  5. searching for information about authoritative article guidelines
  6. Freedom Of Press In India
  7. Upload article unsuccesfull
  8. Images not displaying
  9. asking for peer review
  10. Krishna Das Swami
  11. How do I insert an image within an article?
  12. Tight tabs
  13. Black gospel redirects to Urban contemporary gospel
  14. NavFrames
  15. translating into Welsh Language
  16. cant find what im looking for Help Me
  17. Facts and information on articles.
  18. no color samples when printing "color list" page
  19. a question
  20. help
  21. Political groups
  22. Usurping user name failure

September 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 9

  1. Why was my page deleted?
  2. How to fix AfC review that I messed up?
  3. Some problems with an infobox
  4. PRINTING
  5. Autobiography
  6. Marking General text-based references to validate page content
  7. forcythia
  8. not like the others?
  9. Creating an Article
  10. Wikilinking from a table
  11. Wiki Bullying
  12. Images not displaying in articles
  13. Authoring an Article for Wikipedia
  14. Redlink that isn't.
  15. Contents Navigation links within articles - not working! :s

September 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 10

  1. Report
  2. Yes i would like some information
  3. Cajun Dance Party
  4. Rollback
  5. Changing the name of a page
  6. How to make something searchable as an article
  7. Image Size
  8. Repeated inline references to the same source
  9. ASKING A QUESTION
  10. Petronas infobox
  11. Polly Young-Eisendrath correction and update
  12. Page Deletion question
  13. Hellas S.C.
  14. Username
  15. Awards and Achievements Box
  16. Image captions

September 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 11

  1. Defining "massacre"
  2. Notability criteria for journalists
  3. NGO DONATION
  4. Special:Log/newusers
  5. how do I get my article on Jumeau Dolls restored???
  6. Waboba exploiting an old invention
  7. Edit Facts and Statistics
  8. HOW TO CREATE AN ARTICLE
  9. hello
  10. Create split cells in table
  11. Tracking visits to Wiki page
  12. How to Upload a PDF file as a reference
  13. Is it possible to crop an image that has already been uploaded
  14. Submitting short bios of famous people not already in Wikipedia.
  15. How does one actually SEND a submission?
  16. "What links" is broken? Or is my brain broken?
  17. Wrong date on Main Page
  18. Problem with an English page on the Sinhalese version of Wikipedia
  19. Inline {{tlx|Advert}} template?
  20. translate an article
  21. Making Infobox

September 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 12

  1. Fair use?
  2. I do not see how to categorize or submit an article
  3. browser text size
  4. IP giving article assessment
  5. Brief explanation to appear above the text
  6. dictionary
  7. How do I copy tables from a wiki article to say OpenOffice. Live table, not a screen shot
  8. How can a page which is a complete fabrication be deleted?
  9. re-posted......Yes i would like some information
  10. Wikipedia or Wikisource for Parliamentary votes?
  11. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 12#{{numberingroup}}<.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki>{{numberingroup}}]]
  12. Need help, desperately
  13. Merge edit
  14. Deleted to erased
  15. Template for tagging articles about works of fiction in which the summary is too long?
  16. How do you edit a category page?
  17. I cannot log in to my account anymore
  18. Reverting "poor quality" contributions

September 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 13

  1. Malicious Page?
  2. Martin John Callanan
  3. Length of route 95 in South Carolina
  4. Relisting an Afd
  5. HOW TO MAKE AN ARTICLE
  6. Modifying infoboxes
  7. Fan made drawings: suitable for Wikipedia?

September 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 14

  1. Military intelligence
  2. Replacements
  3. Right to vanish, and not "vanished"
  4. Signature
  5. Defining notability
  6. Text align
  7. Help with a wikiproject banner
  8. Should I add WikiProject templates if I'm not part of the project?
  9. Check required for moved image?
  10. I'm trying to edit Leeds
  11. Hyperlinks
  12. Accounts on other wikis
  13. texas flag
  14. Mario Superstar Baseball
  15. Sarah Palin:

September 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 15

  1. Chinese Chess Association
  2. Pronunciation key
  3. Why was this article deleted?
  4. DO YOU HAVE A SECTION FOR LEARNING / TUTORIAL FOR PRINT LAYOUT DESIGNER IN SAP BUSINESS ONE
  5. Niqab
  6. account information
  7. olde photos for user page
  8. edit request
  9. I can't find my article & I haven't received a notice of deletion
  10. Querie
  11. Image:20070621 Crown Fountain Water.JPG
  12. taking a page live
  13. Viewing articles in the past

September 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 16

  1. Are press articles subject to WP:REUSE?
  2. Help with statustop Template
  3. I can't sign in, using the correct name and password
  4. Simple name differences
  5. Help with the new editing chooser
  6. Natascha Engel MP
  7. My user name
  8. Article ratings
  9. I would like to edit but....
  10. My page is being deleted?
  11. editing my page
  12. PDF file-DOD file
  13. I've had problems with publish userboxes in my user page... then my page completely vanished!
  14. sharing Wikipedia accounts
  15. script size
  16. my peculiar list or category of cities
  17. question about links to my User Page
  18. would it be spamming or not
  19. Ref tags and substing Userspace templates
  20. Incorrect Information Cite
  21. Template footnotes
  22. Picture error?
  23. Vandalism

September 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 17

  1. Bobby Trendy Article
  2. ARTICLE TITLE
  3. What's the best way to expand the editing base?
  4. manufacturing industry
  5. How to determine contents of a list
  6. Coord not working
  7. Poetry
  8. Bottom of Page
  9. hacking
  10. Image displacement
  11. Asif Ali Zardari - President of Pakistan
  12. MAKE A SYMBOL AS EMBLEM FOR NEW VENTURE WITH THE LETTERS SHD,DHS,HSD OR DHHS
  13. create an entry
  14. Image problem?
  15. Printing
  16. Universal Express currections
  17. Rename article

September 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 18

  1. All about ME!!
  2. Bodies Exhibition.jpg
  3. edits and deletion of pages
  4. Blanking a page
  5. Help Editing A Page
  6. Reporting possible copyright violation
  7. HTML Code for Text Box
  8. Accused of "vandalism" by adding a fact
  9. Can't find "proportional to" symbol in character insert thingy.
  10. Can't find my changes - what have I done wrong?
  11. Magazines
  12. Edit missing from watchlist

September 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 19

  1. Is it possible?
  2. using Wikipedia photographs in a newsletter
  3. Portal selection
  4. Article redirect
  5. Public housing in the United States and Canada split
  6. New member questions
  7. Fixing article on Socrates
  8. installation of UNICODE
  9. reply to received messages
  10. help renaming a category please!
  11. term
  12. Industrial and labour law
  13. Requests for comment: User
  14. User Page Deleted - Why?
  15. chat
  16. How do I keep my additions to a site
  17. Fake Page
  18. Using emails as references
  19. Editing Pictures
  20. Internet Explorer 6 SP2 Issues ~ Wiki Base Code Change?
  21. Math/Practice Problems
  22. Question
  23. Harry Lumley
  24. Question

September 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 20

  1. Is there an error in the Wikipedia list of soundtracks featuring Nina Simone?
  2. uploading images
  3. Article Is Spam?
  4. Myriapoda has sprouted legs (or at least edit section links)
  5. Why is information I've added being automaticly deleted?
  6. enlarging the font of gileki wikipedia
  7. Copy-pasting tables from Excel
  8. strange duplication
  9. :Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg
  10. {{tl|helpme}} needs a fix
  11. James Taylor discography
  12. Special pages histories
  13. wrong info
  14. Internal error
  15. Has to be notable for more than one thing?
  16. Question on Internet
  17. Fountain of the Mermaid of Lleida
  18. Commons
  19. american radio personalities section inclusion

September 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 21

  1. IE editing font, Firefox slow on images
  2. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 21#Correctly using the <ref name><.2Fnowiki> citation format|Correctly using the <nowiki><ref name> citation format]]
  3. Changing TItle/Name of an Article?
  4. link to WWII Military Grop
  5. just need help
  6. Help on an image
  7. copying article onto adobe PDF format
  8. Why do wp:wiki and WP:WIKI redirect differently?
  9. Help with image
  10. NEW ARTICLE
  11. WP:RTV
  12. Sniffer Rats
  13. Odd edit
  14. the user page
  15. Changing Name/Title of an Article
  16. Ip block?
  17. Updates aren't showing

September 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 22

  1. Image Size Question
  2. Side lobes
  3. Linking to the Latin Wikisource?
  4. How to "join" a wikiproject
  5. Hidden discussions
  6. Adding an article to WikiProjects
  7. edit bots
  8. playing audio files
  9. Creating an article with an existing title
  10. HELP!!!!
  11. Transcluding Templates onto Talk Pages
  12. A schizophrenic template
  13. WikiMonitor
  14. Archivists of the United States

September 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 23

  1. Assuming Good Faith
  2. Problem this afternoon
  3. New Article Creation & Posting
  4. net work operation
  5. Check an edit please
  6. Images that are on Commons: when should they have a page here?
  7. how to start writing?
  8. Jaygray3 (talk) 09:06, 23 September 2008 (UTC)Johnny Gray Bio Page
  9. rename my article
  10. congo
  11. Comments finding their way to /Comments
  12. Communicate before editing
  13. glass icons
  14. Introduction of Potato in India
  15. How to use Template:Newdelrev?
  16. Delete an account
  17. economy

September 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 24

  1. Expandable table
  2. How do you create a new article? (moved from middle of page)
  3. RfA
  4. Cubs Win flag main image
  5. List of articles all Wikipedias should have
  6. Over Zealous Uncontrolled Rapid Deletion Thru Ignorance
  7. Technical help
  8. Following request
  9. New Question
  10. Photo Uploads
  11. Why is Wikipedia so broken today?
  12. Chronology
  13. Infobox Company template problem
  14. Stub tag and Navigational template placements
  15. Cancel my account
  16. How do I start a new article?
  17. Page Vandalism
  18. Administration
  19. Help Desk

September 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 25

  1. Google Earth screenshots
  2. Fair use image
  3. viewing one section of a page
  4. Vanishing and Reappearing
  5. speedy (i think) deletion request "category:inventor"
  6. SEARCH FUNCTION
  7. Vandalism only accounts
  8. How to deal with a redirect reference that redirects to a broken link
  9. indian stock market
  10. Active Users
  11. Article count
  12. Moving infobox/category listing
  13. Download to Pdf
  14. Problem adding merge template
  15. (Top)
  16. how to upload Image
  17. Written Consent to show Wikipedia.org in a demo
  18. Help with RfC, please and thank you?
  19. external link
  20. If I accidentally clicked 'off' on a bot...
  21. Bias tag
  22. Can you
  23. What does being blocked look like?

September 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 26

  1. editing
  2. move tab not activated
  3. Number of English Articles Statistics problem?
  4. Plz help
  5. disappearance of talkpage
  6. #expr non-raw display
  7. Treasure hunt in PSG College of Technology
  8. Captain Mack
  9. Section edit button on the right?
  10. Rabbi Benjamin Kelsen
  11. The Wikipedia Community would like to wish Avril Lavigne a happy birthday!
  12. My userboxen
  13. Old Book Cite
  14. Sparrowhawk Media
  15. Signature Help
  16. Removing WikiProject banners
  17. Temp and perm names for a WP translation

September 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 27

  1. editing/adding to new bio material
  2. FA nomination
  3. Snakes on a Plane
  4. Wikilinking within a page
  5. Question
  6. Page move/redirect
  7. Help to print a page
  8. Image not updating properly
  9. advise as to how to view past TV eipsodes
  10. Remove the external link icon
  11. single set of curly brackets
  12. Image address
  13. More expanding table questions

September 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 28

  1. Yo wassup peoplez
  2. How can i report signbot?
  3. Help with a timeline
  4. New Article: Seven News Melbourne
  5. Watchlist not updating
  6. New protection layout
  7. Translating articles
  8. Template transclusion update lag - bug or just me?
  9. Image License

September 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 29

  1. I Want a Phrase to Link to an Article
  2. essay
  3. computer syntax
  4. How A7 is meant to be interpreted
  5. Inline citations
  6. Deletion log mystery
  7. Help
  8. Be linked to other pages
  9. a page in need
  10. WP: CSI layout problem
  11. Posting HTML-3 Logo on Home Page.
  12. Image:20080920 Cubs Win flag on pennant clinching day.jpg
  13. FALSE INFORMATION APPEARS ABOUT OUR POLITICAL PARTY
  14. Starting an article versus developing a section of an existing article
  15. Upload images
  16. Signature Links
  17. How do Wiki Projects Work

September 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 30

  1. Don't know where to turn
  2. Template help
  3. Citation Help
  4. Creators of Wikipedia
  5. health care
  6. Wikipedia "Contents" in IE8
  7. Deleting History/Contributions
  8. How long...
  9. Citing books
  10. My Watchlist
  11. Number in my watchlist?
  12. New Question
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