Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2012
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January 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 1
- How to recruit others to help out
- Number of watchers
- Re: My Edits & Reverts
- non-breaking hyphen
- Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
- a simple thank you!!
- Indicating "sic" in reference title
- Feature request: displaying mathematical equations as png images with solid background
- Photo switching option
- userboxes
- Wikipedia Android App
- Offensive comment
- Donations 4
- Charlie Brooks (Eastenders actress)
- Wikipedia
- Robert E Lee Museum, in Biloxi, MS
- Blue dots show up only on thumbnail image??
- Seeking article feedback
- Stats on Unregistered Editors
January 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 2
- Fictional universe of Avatar
- Team Rosters for phillips 66ers
- Can we use Australian Case Law in U.K
- Seeking article feedback 2
- Creating new article and copyright and more
- Please run page size tool on Fluorine
- element of set, how do i do it?
- Year-end page view tool availability for 2011?
- Collaboration of the month nominations
- Spelling of D'Arcy
- Donation
- In the News section
- todays featuread photo
- Magic word variable for sections/anchors
- Missing image on Wikicommons
- Is it OK to go back and changing a non-compliant signature from
alternateretired account? - Looking for a French friend who was deported back to France in 1975 by Vietnamese communist
- Hi
- Moving to Commons
- a question about some custom vector.css
- !vote
- Creating Bio Page
- Pledge drive
- Articles on California Smog Check - one is a treatise on air pollution, one is poorly written
- The use of the word LAME to describe edit wars is offensive to people with physical disabilites.
January 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 3
- Need help with category
- how to reference
- Use of minority languages
- recent recessed article - list of adaptogens
- someone is deleting the updated info on my Wikipedia entry and leaving outdated info
- speedy close requested
- Photo captions.
- That little cross...
- I want to register
- Dear Sir,
- Uploading
- first row live sports
- David Polglass - death
- Food supply -wild animals
- Logging-in after username change
- Russian articles need for translation
- Wikipedia Security and Higher Education
- Requring a static IP address to have a Wikipedia account in order to edit.
- Why don't graphics show?
- Block Own IP?
January 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 4
- Blatant rules violation
- Can't access Sue Gardner message with IE
- Use Wikipedia image for my book
- page references
- How to handle problematic IP user
- new element discovery of ashish kaushik
- Fix this
- Categories - wrapping
- Ref desk q re Nigeria
- Coord template
- rick manasa keyboardist for bob seger
- How do i make a numbered list
- Special Pages:User contributions *as of* specific dates instead of before certain dates
- David T . Beers Article
- My Account
- Major Wikis hosted by .EDU
- I added an item to column 2, but it appears in column 1.
- Renaming an article
- Please Delete Article
January 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 5
- How do I create an account
- Pressurized Dew Point
- $1000.00 Walmart Gift Certificate
- Sirius radio
- User page question
- "Theft" of an article
- Aust hiphop history
- Vital records
- scaggdaddys, life lesson
- Need help with a title name change, incorrect spelling
- Questions not in the public eye that candidates need to answer
- Stuck in Chineese.
- unkind comments
- The Edit window task bar
- Fixing double redirects
January 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 6
- Roger Blackwell Article
- Improvement to the IPA link in Wikipedia subjects
- Submission Rejected
- Please help with questions for my article
- Help:Merging
- Littlejohn's Wiki Page
- My page Tony Samara
- Trying to contact a User directly
- Unreviewed new articles
- Can tables work a bit like a spreadsheet?
- Limiting Category by "namespace"
- How do i figure out the categories to put my article into
- previous editor creating a new Wikipedia article
- Citation Error/Need assistance
- Dr. Chester M. Pierce - correction
- Musician infobox (?) help
- add my new wikipedia site
- Where do I find your comments on my sumission?
- Is there a place to request a source?
- Virus question
- What are the green numbers in my watchlist?
January 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 7
- Personalised Signatures
- Page creation
- Lost my password and confirmation email.
- how to translate an English article into Bengali.
- Talk page categories
- Portal Perils
- Suspicious posting/Self publicity
- Homework question
- Trouble with editing "Bernard's Watch"
- Book cover images
- Sandbox
- Would like to put article on the web
- Where is the View Source tab on a subject page? So I can locate the Submit an edit request link to do so.
- Articles for creation
- re your artical on cowboys etc
January 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 8
- Page Deletion
- Mass talk page mailing
- False Warning from Bot
- my page Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
- For review: StarCore (software distributor) article
- how to merge an artical that written in bengali languge to written same article in english
- Please restore missing text to Wikipedia page for Deroy Murdock
- Help financially to keep the last World Dreadnought Battleship afloat (BB-35 USS TEXAS) please!
- user id
- Advice for EDU admins
- Agapemone or Agapemonites
- moving text to the right
- The photo of me removed and replaced by one which is not me in a biography of me
January 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 9
- unlock ipod 2nd generation
- Notability concern
- Journalists vs. reporters
- Capital Cities by Altitude
- Download PDF Is Broken
- About Music director Johnson wkipedia--ame
- Renaming Templates
- Not sure where to put this
- Dramaout
- Donator's email address changed
- Articles for creation/Daniel Snowman
- OPTIMIZATION
- External links to celebrity interviews
- Page not appearing in Categories etc.
- Reverse large text in Wikipedia
- Daylight Savings Time on Wikipedia
- Rejection of Article
- Updating a bibliography
- Billabong International page
- Help, please
- Previewing a draft article
- article about Cyrus Eaton
January 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 10
- right of entry
- Help: I want to delete my own photo-comments from photo-files.
- Migrating page after a similarly named page has been deleted
- finding an old contributor
- Joe Greene (American football) template font bolding
- Gabby West "Gabrielle D West"
- Login option - how to bypass "Logging you into other wikis" page?
- :File:Sardis_synagogue_pavement.jpg
- Language redirect issue
- Deleted Kaseya Article
- Contacting Wikipedia monitor?
- Bot on the loose
- Sandbox 2
- Executions at the Tower of London
- Advice for page content regarding listing businesses
- How can I change a name in a category list for a redirect
- article on phila school for performing arts
January 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 11
- Use of present tense for historical events
- I submitted an article but forgot to create a subpage first so I could play around.
- how to edit
- reporting an offensive page
- How to post English translation of a French quote found in English article (!) on English Wikipedia ?
- please some body help or assist
- Finding your edited page has been changed back to the outdated content
- Draft article question
- Jon Driver
- Account
- infoboxes on manufacturers' pages
- Edit removed for insufficient reference ... what to do?
- every time i search the web my internet explorer stops working what can i do to fix this problem?
- Citing a documented that was updated twice
- The thoroughbred Ahonoora
- Advertising Wikiprojects
- Unveiling old myths: procedures and expected effects (ref song "Ging gang goolie" and Robert Baden-Powell, etc)
January 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 12
- channel numbers for fox footy
- Rap Group Cali Swag
- Security Code/Picture problem
- Can't find an old TFD
- URL points to Incorrect article
- Reporting vandalism
- recently added 'Eric Arnott' article
- Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy
- Special:DeadendPages
- complaint against biju rasheed
- Ugh
- Unable to locate article
- I got two warning notices
- Why does redirect point to an old/obsolete page???
- Edititing page title
- SOPA Sucks
- Search facility
- Eaton Bay Financial
- Photo Removed
- Contributing a photo which is relevant to an encyclopedia article already on Wikipedia
- Please Consider Helping
- Formatting error on Wikipedia Page
- Request assistance:Moving a category
- User name change went wrong!
January 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 13
- Is it gluten-free?
- Is this a scam
- Verification
- Sorry for inconvenience I have done an unintentional mistake on one of your pages.
- Redirect problem
- Worm
- How to load images and link it with a new article created
- About size of articles
- Warning function
- VIRUS IN TETRAHYDRAFURAN ARTICLE WHEN CONVERTED TO PDF
- Is this acceptable
- native speaker review wanted for pointing machine
- Best way to display alternative years of birth
- Marcin Kasprzak
- wikitable, cellspacing, cellpadding
- How do I create a page?
- That IS Paul McCartney In The Nickelback Rockstar Video
January 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 14
- How to contact a user when he appears to not read talk pages (even his own)?
- DYK messup on my part.
- How do you stop a merger?
- Inciting edit warring
- Dictionary built into Wikipedia?
- New Accounts from abroad
- adding to the lexicon
- My pages have been hounded
- Not offered Edit links when looking at most recent Diff
- Can't find the article I submitted about H.T. Lockard
- under The Mistletoe
- What have I done wrong to the reference tags?
- Images setting by %age
- Still cannot find my submission on H.T. Lockard
- symbols
- DISCUSSION v. TALK page
- Darryl Read
- Non free image problem
- Articles for Creation Appeal
- Infobox spacing
- Making a suggestions for Special:Watchlist
- Memory parody song
- Problem with Template:Portalbox
- Service in Nevada
- Shared account
- Please dont review article yet
- Experienced Article Writer Needed
January 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 15
- how to get novel purchased
- Remember a Day Darryl Read pages
- French-German or German-French? Dutch-Belgian or Belgian-Dutch?
- Ko i zašto[...]
- wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flemish_people
- I don't understand how it is ok
- Moving images from Commons to en.Wikipedia
- Suicide Article
- does wikipedia have a policy against links to newsreels?
- BLACKOUT donation question
- Twinkle
- It's been a while..
- important
- location of ram mandir, Peterborough
- People not highlighted to link with Wiki.
- Audio files autoplay
- WRONG INFORMATION THIS SITE IS NOT ACCURATE.
- Expansion needed tag
- Citations In Leads
- Uploading a new version of an image
- searching for music keys in English--
- Global Usage
- can't find submission
January 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 16
- Notability affecting shared name?
- Mala Aravindan
- Still cannot find my submission
- aritcle in punjabi of 'global warming'
- Technical glitch with URLs
- scientist who was killed in a homicide
- Not canvassing
- Template help
- Minor Vandalism on article?
- Date format in accessdate parameter
- How to move an article to the “waiting to be reviewed” category of articles for creation
- 3 Stooges
- finding article
- Broken link to a sound recording on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Va,_pensiero
- how to write an effective book proposal
- TOC help
- disruptive editing from user
- Simplon eagle.jpg
- There are <ref> tags on this page, but...
- Need help editing
- Going Dark
- Userpage snapshot
- New User Help
- Sunday Sharpe... remove date of birth
- Is there
January 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 17
- "Who are you to say that the author released this under CC?"
- Typo in the global blackout banner
- SOPA blackout
- 24 hour black out is not enough
- How do i add [by who?] to uncited parts of an article
- Venezia Giulia Police Force
- Wikia and Wikipedia
- School project related Question - How should I go about this?
- Blackout complaint
- How to change information in "Spoken Articles" tag in file upload?
- Article for creation
- I would like help with my biography please
- Nice job Wikipedia!!!!
- Possible illogical confusion over my intended (frequently used) user name.
- Taking off notations from Wiki at top of a page.
- Blackout
- Bad preview of a picture
- using wikipedia in other languages
- Deletion of some one elses editing
- My competitors created a wikipedia page about me with false information
- Radial engine image
- Complaint against the SOPA protest?
- why no banner
- Personally archived news articles
- Help
- IRC channel links
January 18
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January 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 19
- Page creation?
- How do I use a Wikimedia shortcut here?
- DNA (Rapper)
- Help: moving category
- shinee jonghuyn
- Wikipedia protest 18th January 2012
- article on 'The Grey'
- Image help
- Greenville Trace
- Creating an article for a new society
- I cannot sent to photosubmissionwikimedia.org
- Article on putting pictures on userpage
- hyperlinks
- inaccuracy needs correcting asap -- have requested before and nothing done....Diane Francis (subject of page)
- Updating an article's title
- Where do images go once you have uploaded them?
- Fixing bunching
- thank you
- PDF Download Problem
- Is this word banned from section headers
- D'oh! Need to remove a "timestamp" from a page I edited.
- Sagres bottle
- Baseball player Honus Wagner and his Pittsburgh store
- Self work
- Blackout 1
- Delay in requested update
- BCE instead of BC/CE instead of AD
- How do you figure out when a wikipedia page is made?
- "Download as PDF" to print in Letter size instead of A4 size
January 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 20
- Making picture align right
- how many languages are spoken in the world?
- help its driving me crazy lol
- Firstly there are two many help desks
- support for your actions yesterday
- Adding my site link to semi protected Humpback Whale page
- Multiple Accounts
- re entry for Nigel Lawson
- Don Ciccone
- RE: define an english person search
- Does Wikipedia post pages on Facebook?
- Factual Errors
- Table Sorting
- Verifiable page
- special characters
- Links to guitar chords site.
- Potential article merge
- My DOB
- Warning user adding links to .exe files
January 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 21
- wiki and censorship
- Internet Legislation
- This is an awkward question...
- Verification of edit, ramifications
- What is the standard heading of a "used in further works" section ?
- how to make a new ad?
- When will wiki articles be available in audio, click and listen rather than read.. like an audiobook?
- Add aspect from, Special:FeedbackDashboard onto my userpage
- Life Raft Debate wikipedia page copyright issues
- Capitals
- Paul Norton Musician Australia
- Random Article
- Mass flow estimation
- Search Results
- Category conflict
- old help request, done, thanks
- Looking for policy on redirects
- i was looking for information about Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.
- Shangri-La Correlation
- Re-editing request of Lurs article at Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurs)
- george washington meditation/dark in 1906 Ency. Brit.
- Problem with editing
- Need help on Interlanguage links
- Updating image content
January 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 22
- How to say needs citations?
- Article on Robert Peernock
- Wikipedia blackout
- Are these images unuseable
- Baridhara Mohila Samobaya Samity, Ltd.
- Sulu archipelago article
- Wikipedia:Tags
- second AfD
- IP112.203.42.16 VANDALISM
- President of Benin
- List of pages exempt from NFCC 9
- WP:UTT
- Where do I request site improvements?
- Wacky diffs
- Kai Bird
- Fair use issue
- Number of visits
- Only login on hungarian pages
- How to deal with citations that Redirects 301
- bloodgroup
- Tim Berners-Lee invents WWW / World Wide Web
- Google searches go astray
- New Photo To A Article
- Code needed
- Can you see how many people look at your Wikipedia pages?
- Deleted due to advertising?? Huh?
- Peer review desired
- Request
- Article traffic statistics
January 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 23
- List of Startling by Each Step episodes
- Question about page deletion
- Inserting Photo
- Kateri vs. Catherine
- error on the Tony Acquaviva article
- I would like an answer to this please help. Thanks
- How to fix a talk link?
- How to archive my talk page?
- a confusion of editing the wikipedia
- Never Been Marcused
- Article Title Editing Question
- Help for correction
- Permission from living persons
- Creating a biography
- Cookies
- Picastro photo mistake
- Blog for novels
- What citation template would be best to use?
- Copyedit?
- Reading History?
- Request for page protection
- Repeatedly Attempted Search
January 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 24
- Guidance request
- Oops, I broke it
- Contactmusic.com on marital breakup
- Creating existing page in another language
- Article Errors
- How do I answer a question asked at the Reference Desk?
- delete account
- Redirecting/merging
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meols
- jop
- Broken image?
- Vulgar Language about the school's assistant principal
- Libelous information being posted
- about correction of posting period of Lt. Governor, Andaman and Nicobar islands (INDIA) reg.
- carnie
- Translate a page.
- 2 wrong notes in "The Washington Post (march)
- Getting mentioned in "Blairites" page
- Removing an Image
- Where do I go
- how to edit the title of a page?
- Really Big Coloring Books article
- Is there a place where you can look up the amount of articles and/or users that were here at a given time?
- How do I add pages, photo's, etc.
- Vandalism of John P. Surma
- Page - Atsuma, Hokkaido
January 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 25
- Article for creation - AVANCE
- Help with Frederick C. Leonard
- Can't log in
- User name issue
- Keyboarding Pro 5 & Keyboarding Pro 6
- Keyboarding Pro 4, Pro 5, Pro 6 andKeyboarding Course 1 -25Pro 6
- How to contribute
- Krygzstan article on mobile device
- Israel's page: All links lead to pornography.
- Request for Article Feedback
- there is something wrong with article regarding Islam religion
- finding pages titles
- Article on Israel vandalized
- inquiry about article which is reviewed by your volunteer
- Include old versionof the images from Image history
- The Earlier Tribes Of the Eskimos Thule ,Mythology and Social Groups
- Home Visiting Provider Network HVPN
- Oakleigh Race Course
- How to do a Redirect for Discussion
- Interwiki templating
- problems with the content of the Turin School of Development page
- T-90
- Free Encyclopedia
- text from another site that was originally on Wikipedia is now a copyright violation?
- Fake user writing false and unverified content
- Translation
- Article disappears?/
- Someone keeps deleting my posts
- Finding links
- Questions about account creation
- logo and license applicability
- In regards to books ofthe bible
- Trojan Horse
- auto focus
- Changing the city for a company listing.
- Trimming books.google.com links.
- How to edit
January 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 26
- Automatically remove piped links
- Article traffic and redirects
- How to Change the Title of a Page
- SRMSAT and SRMSAT (satellite): two articles, both alike in dignity, about the same subject
- User in mourning
- Star rises 4 minutes earlier everyday than previous day
- My article: Apples & Oranges
- scanned newspaper articles
- adding a new section in the "London Borough of Sutton page"
- A Tribe Called Quest: History
- editing wikipedia: need help
- WRONG COUNTRY FOR LOURES - LOURES IS IN FRANCE - NOT PORTUGAL
- Hassi Messaoud (Algeria)
- missing 'book'
- Use pictures of banknotes in WikiMedia Commons?
- Notability George Atallah
- Question
- Article deletion
- "In the news" entry's notability
- Userpage question
January 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 27
- fraud setup of my name
- Article creation advice
- WelcomeBot - Other Languages
- Infobox with a show/hide option
- Editing Issues
- Not capitalising an article title on its Talk page
- User:Vivvt/35th National Film Awards listed at Redirects for discussion
- How to type a new topic in wikipedia?
- Wiki entry for an American exists in German, but not in English
- Password Request Not Working
- Lede?
- Underworld (film series)
- Problem with sections
- How to format a reference if it contains [ and/or ] on the URL?
- converting an article to spanish
- is Really Big Coloring Books article ready?
- Question regarding abbreviations and DPLs
- red pimple like bumps after sex
- Uploading My Non-Profit's Photos- do I need to get them copyrighted?
January 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 28
- Filtering recent changes
- 2012 NFL Draft
- Hands produce heat sweat all time
- Facts About Lassie...
- Removing IP address
- Camp All Saints
- payment not payed
- changing from subpage to article space?
- Olivier Ripley filmography section
- Request for Les Lalanne Article Feedback
- Help with image copyright
- Cannot find a submit button after creating an article.
- Possibly silly lack of confidence in removing tag
January 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 29
- How do I add a comment to one particular article?
- Nanette Hassall
- Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content; Message on Wikipedia Page
- Question about whether or not a citation can be used in a specific instance.
- Font Size
- How do I see "more hidden content"?
- Rainbow Rosaries
- making tables the easy way?
- searching foreign Wiki?
- Britney Spear's Biography
- Shapell.org
- Editing and adding a link (which was from a Social Networking site)
- Category
- Table of Contents on Live at the Apollo (TV series)
- creating a page for person
- Bad reference (misinterpreted source)
- Mass deletion of security-related articles
- Book: Disconnected from my Account
- List of Startling by Each Step episodes
- Account unification
- Fixing dead external links
- Tax deduction?
- fraud setup of my name 2
- Help creating article about social action group
- False album page made
January 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 30
- editiing citation number sequencing
- Making a Page for Occupy San Antonio
- Population of Pashtun
- Prospectus
- Howto unwatch talkpge of articles + Howto watch specific section in Help Desk + Addon not working?
- Handling a potential edit war
- Shanks Group plc format error
- False edit
- CSD for Unneeded Topics
- Hieronymous Bosch article: what are “autonomous sketches”?
- pipe link not working
- Severe layout problem on article!
- Page corrupted?
January 31
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 January 31
- I need help with adding info to a page.
- The wiki on "Sciatica"
- Article feedback request
- Capital lettered acronyms in page titles
- Sandbox operation
- Article appeared to be missing info, but it was there all along?
- Please make the biography of the living person Herbert Guðmundsson semi protected because somebody just recently put slander on it wh.
- Vertical bar!