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April 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 1

1. "Create PDF" option
2. uploading image
3. User account for link spam. What to do?
4. AFD
5. Templates
6. How do I edit the title of an article?
7. Approval of revised version of Wikipedia article
8. Broken new messages banner
9. Notification that I have new messages
10. soxred93
11. Using Book Creator

April 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 2

1. Search
2. Scientology case?
3. blackbox vs smoke test
4. Inappropriate Userboxes
5. The page for the 2009-10 stanford cardinal women's college basketball team needs editing.
6. Music
7. Error in locked article
8. Version 1.0 Editorial Team index/statistics for our WikiProject?
9. Editing football players appearances and goals
10. Font size too small
11. How do I make an indented list without bullets or numbers?
12. Conflict of Interest Help Needed
13. Concerned about possible edit warring
14. school basketball
15. soccer vandalism
16. Paolo nutini vandalism
17. Adminship
18. tank wars,bomb
19. "Sysops" and "Crats"
20. Higher res version of image doesn't seem to exist
21. My watchlist
22. Admin Self unblocking
23. Any other stuff I should show this editor?
24. Dead link?
25. Newbie needs help
26. search for cleanup tag
27. Issue on Military uniform
28. question
29. Saved changes deleted

April 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 3

1. Proxy Error
2. Image as svg
3. Will not allow me to save my page, keeps asking for security code over and over again
4. HELLO
5. Bans
6. Errors on convert template page
7. Barnstars
8. Template Link GA
9. Default Cursor Position
10. Popup TORTURE
11. unsigned comments...
12. Video

April 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 4

1. Picture showing up in wrong section?
2. Proposed merger has been completed --> delete the article
3. Ribbons
4. WikepediaLiberia
5. Moving images
6. partnering
7. Football appearances and goals
8. infobox creation
9. Database Owner
10. Image requested tag.
11. Translation
12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
13. What's wrong?
14. Wikipedia 2010 April Fool Item
15. no title
16. Image question
17. 2 copies of a page, older one has less info

April 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 5

1. WikiPetrol
2. NPOV for fictional characters?
3. "Edit" links to wrong page
4. Is there a List of logged in users with idle-time less than 40minutes?
5. Sienna Miller
6. Problems with the Pirates of the Caribbean template
7. source tag
8. Wikipedia Mobile
9. Centered caption
10. My page not visable
11. Fair-use license questions
12. Unrequested Password request?
13. Vanishing footnotes using Microsoft word
14. suicide bombings list
15. Removal of Primarysources box
16. Almonte -- Re the Almonte Train Disaster
17. Import XML dump
18. Jump button?

April 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 6

1. Refering 2 references
2. Table Coloring
3. joining a Discussion and the quadruple tilde
4. Dynamic IP
5. Prior WIkipedia Entries
6. Edit filters "Hidden from public view"
7. Line Spacing
8. Replacement of images
9. Did I do this move request correctly?
10. Fair Use Part 2
11. What is the correct procedure to show that this image is being used properly (legally)
12. Account Retrieval
13. Highlighting text
14. New ref-system
15. Deleting files
16. How do I stop the text from moving in the edit box?
17. Confirmation
18. Template mis-sorting categories
19. when will my article be searchable
20. Accessdate working/not working?
21. Script to display revision number
22. Table alignment
23. Disambiguation pages
24. Seeking source for listed data
25. Confusing answers on Helpme, can not find editor's comments
26. Back in 2009 I ....
27. In need of a template fixer...
28. Laserpacific
29. Redirects
30. E-mail as a source

April 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 7

1. A user's gender
2. insurance comapnies
3. writing about a new methodology
4. uploading an article
5. About multilingual coordination, etc.
6. "44th President of the United States" redirects to Hiter?
7. Images not displaying
8. "Allmusic is a bunch of retards who know nothing about music whatsoever."
9. How do I create a link in a current MITREpedia document to another *.doc or *.pdf?
10. How to detach an accepted word from its roots, to bring their roots to life as a new (old) word?
11. broken link
12. Minor updates
13. How to add a neologism
14. adding refs
15. Decimal places output of function {{#expr: ''expression''}}
16. Partisan tone
17. Urgent
18. No line breaks
19. Re: Stemming eLayaway to the Layaway article
20. Infobox settlement: inconsistencies, questions, and fixes
21. PROD
22. What is the talk page? and how do I post something on it like suggestions?
23. archway cookies
24. Garfield Heights Ohio
25. Help with userpage

April 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 8

1. Copy-Editing temp. removal
2. Transclusion
3. Possible CC-noncompliance
4. Wikipedia Article-User Data Dump
5. Communicating with user talk & how do I learn about my submission
6. wikiproject banner fixing
7. Trouble with translations of articles
8. Review Page
9. two user account
10. RfA error
11. Providing an article importance rating
12. Userbox list?
13. general question
14. Image help
15. translations of articles
16. wysiwyg wiki editor

April 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 9

1. Help! Can't get second reference to work.
2. Women are better driver than Men
3. No such anchor: CITEREF...
4. edit buttons in a table
5. Someone trying to delete a credible article about Dr. Judy Wood
6. RP system v. Bibiography/Footnotes system
7. Removal of adminship
8. Requirement of stoichiometric quanity of lime
9. Page tagged for speedy deletion per CSD A7 not getting deleted
10. How do I close an account, if possible?
11. Exclaim!5
12. Thomas Donilon profile
13. Charity support
14. Log In?
15. How to cite a map of Lewis and Clark Expedition held in commons?
16. template problem
17. Bug with sorting in Category
18. Userboxes
19. Creating a disambiguation (Loose Balls)
20. Is there wiki-database, a wiki-spreadsheet, a wiki-website software?
21. Business Materials
22. Starting up
23. Printing an article

April 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 10

1. plastic theory
2. Category and template causing trouble
3. Sort Dates in Table
4. adding footnotes, citations
5. Edit buttons going crazy
6. Who is this man?
7. Vandalism - dynamic IP addresses
8. MATERIAL PROBLEM
9. declearation
10. Is our own legalese affecting Wikipedia prose?
11. Future Events
12. Identifying CSD initiators
13. can you correct page deletion

April 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 11

1. Template help
2. Need to change contact email address
3. Eric Tunney article google link.
4. Table of Contents: Default Show or Hide?
5. editing & adding
6. Colour coded edits
7. move from sandbox to article
8. Alan Callan
9. WP:CORP questions
10. please fix wikisource article
11. "Acceptable use"
12. Admin power abuse

April 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 12

1. Will I be allowed to usurp an account?
2. Image not duplicating correctly from Wiki Media Commons
3. Use an image as an external link?
4. Science question
5. I can't find a guideline
6. Help with Preferences
7. Wikipedia's text has changed
8. Hooghalen - an Illustration obscures text
9. Question
10. Edit to list of Gentlemen's Clubs
11. Changing Page Name
12. Change the Author of a book
13. Telenovelas
14. Wikipedia Intranet
15. Hindu priests
16. Days
17. User Access Review
18. Image info edit question
19. User page / Search page
20. Help with Coordinates in an Infobox
21. project banner problem

April 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 13

1. Who decides what a "fact" is...
2. Article into the news
3. Needing a copy of GED
4. How to edit
5. Karl Duguid
6. Gracie and Zarkov
7. YOU SAY YOU WANT HELP
8. Will I be contacted if my article is refused/deleted?
9. Can't add wikilinks under photo at Wake Island Conference
10. New and in need of some help with my article
11. Wrong link on http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portugal
12. Huggle
13. Navbox
14. How can I wikify this page?
15. Continuous broken images after uploading first one
16. Bold text problem
17. Edit count
18. Can't delete content
19. Gosh
20. Archiving
21. Lost login details
22. Citing Wikipedia in Wikipedia

April 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 14

1. Submitting my name as an artist
2. References
3. Account problems
4. Image is horribly wrong
5. Bring out Wikipedia in KANNADA Language
6. Login doesn't remember me
7. Search function changes (no more redlink)
8. Dates
9. Legal Issues concerning Jimmy Noonan Page/Wikipedia Support system
10. Linking to my blog
11. using photos
12. Userpage talk help
13. John Burgess Karslake
14. How long to get something posted or added in an article
15. User talk page is an attack page
16. I didn't find acces date on web page about balance of payments, it doesn't shown, I really need it!
17. Edit Comments section of Image File
18. incorrect link on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram
19. Lego Universe fansite
20. Capitalizing the title of an article
21. Wikipedia Widget?
22. Pserousis
23. why wikipedia put website into spam????
24. Login Credentials
25. Making reference to other language wiki articles
26. Bill Gates' wiki has erroneous entry

April 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 15

1. Using images from commons
2. FACT OR FRAUD
3. i need help..
4. cookie logon problem
5. Formatting references in a draft
6. Quality and importance rating
7. Sit-up Ltd Channels System
8. 'Wiki' article
9. Autoconfirmed user cannot edit semi-protected entries
10. Editing When Signed in: Downloads index.php file?
11. Checkuser Access
12. Images are negative
13. :File:RSeymour.jpg
14. Profile not displaying when i log out
15. Highest Peaks in California
16. Seeing a list of my sub-pages
17. recent changes patrol
18. My signature

April 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 16

1. Copyrighted image in userbox
2. Histroy
3. How to join WikiProjects?
4. Accidentally disabled mobile site
5. Adding links to specific revisions in edit summary.
6. WikiCommons permissions
7. Honey
8. How to add a up and coming actor?
9. Template not transcluded correctly
10. Meta template problem
11. Personalising a Table of Contents
12. TELE ATLAS
13. Header Globe Displaced to the Right
14. Inflation
15. Adequate Cite for proposed edit and addition to entry
16. Want To Right-align
17. To work with wiki.
18. RfA
19. Changing the Title of the entry
20. Can't determine if a movie poster image is Template:Non-freepromotional or some other form of creative commons

April 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 17

1. Wiktionary
2. Animations not showing up
3. Adding sections to IFSB article
4. inquiry
5. Disambiguation pages editnotice
6. Third Opinion
7. The Backward "R"
8. Privacy concerns about IPs versus usernames
9. Policy on editing other people's user pages
10. Biography of Living Persons question
11. Re article: List of persons who have walked across the United States
12. asking for fair use permission
13. User page

April 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 18

1. My edit count
2. Article has disappeared... help!
3. News
4. I can't log into my original user account
5. How to mark a discussion on a Talk page after it is over?
6. digital electronics
7. What is the max limit of groups in a navigational box?
8. Licensing schemes which are not available in Upload form
9. User History
10. Rounding numbers
11. Follow-up to my previous post
12. I want a date
13. A small query
14. eMail
15. Userboxes
16. Generally Unfriendly User
17. Picture as background?
18. Just created a page and I'm new as registered editor to wikipedia
19. Userbox wikitable
20. Subcats not showing
21. Deleted Page
22. G.S.Khaparde on Wikipedia free encyclopedia

April 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 19

1. When and where will the answer be found?
2. help with table
3. Be afreid, very afreid
4. Too much text breaks table formatting?
5. Transfer of an image to Commons.
6. Request for help protecting article (security issue)
7. reliability
8. Mongoose_Cricket_Bat
9. Newsbank
10. Stamps from Nyassa
11. BUB (Belgian Union)
12. Article problem
13. You don't have to be an Einstein to figure this out

April 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 20

1. Broken anchor links for all Viceroys of Peru
2. BLOCKING unproven information.
3. deleting account
4. download images
5. Unfriendly User again
6. Mistake on page 181Appendix B of "The Good Regiment"
7. Question on Page Layout
8. Internet search
9. Kelly
10. Periodontitis citations
11. Signature not working
12. Connecting to commons
13. Phi Gamma Delta Issue
14. Question Regarding Article References
15. User page
16. List of youngest birth mothers
17. TOC - Collapsing by Default
18. Punctuation suppression in citation templates
19. Account creator
20. Tagging articles without references?

April 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 21

1. Follow up to Sit-up Ltd Channels System
2. ClueBot
3. Udine page is broken
4. Date time format: ISO 8601 but without the 'T'
5. I'm sorry but I can't see how to make my first wiki page live
6. warning message
7. Tracking Viewers
8. Table placement
9. wrong link to an article
10. Impasse
11. Using Wikipedia to edit product manuals
12. Request clarification on the definition of autoconfirmed status
13. User page writing
14. Virus
15. User page gone and no deletion log
16. Page being deleted

April 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 22

1. interlanguage links problem
2. How do I publish an article without being deleted?
3. Manuel Serrano-Gil
4. Researcher Right
5. Re: TATA DAEWOO F4CEF model truck
6. Confused
7. "Atelier du Web "
8. Inormation Technology
9. wikipedia icon interfering with articles
10. Adding contibs to signature.
11. Wiring problem
12. Urgent fact check for article
13. New page
14. Help with socking case
15. Naval Air Station Memphis
16. Mobile phone GSM 900 &1800 MHz
17. I am (opinion) a fairly longtime wikipedian
18. copy write tag for own work
19. Unsourced article

April 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 23

1. Biography entry
2. How to install and operate User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool
3. Missing references in "Emma Willard" need help
4. can a company have an article?
5. Wikipedia: Images
6. New article - Copyright issue
7. William Laud
8. I need your help in proving a point!
9. table borders
10. Facebook and the usage of Wikipedia to validate a group, cause, business, etc...
11. Headache
12. orphan / wikify

April 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 24

1. Articles on Tebuke Rotan and Rotan Tito
2. New ad
3. school supervision
4. Source markup syntax highlighting issue
5. Help, tabs
6. Enquiry regarding Journal of Pharmacy and bioallied sciences
7. Hatnote
8. Archiving
9. Archive
10. Featured article
11. Dates around broad statements?
12. database dumps

April 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 25

1. Can I merge my two accounts?
2. Old account watchlist
3. A clarification on my web site
4. How to quickly add templates to articles?
5. Printing
6. Genealogy of Nawab Family of Baroda
7. Unused XFD logs
8. Replacing a section on Koch Indsutries article
9. I uploaded a picture and it was removed. Why?
10. Trans → Subst
11. How do I upload a picture to a Wikipedia article?
12. Delete User Account
13. Editing Introduction to "Siege of Louisbourg 1745"
14. link to edit references appears to be incorrect
15. I am unable to edit articles

April 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 26

1. Nominating an article for deletion
2. detele please
3. What is happening when I add {{category:airports}} to a page?
4. The Ship called "The Increase"
5. Bad faith edit
6. Hi
7. Using an image used in French wikipedia
8. Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
9. Logo
10. Reporting a user
11. automatic keep or delete?
12. Content removal issues
13. Louis XIV article vandalism
14. Apple Wikipedia Antoinette Maria Kerr's Work
15. Naperville, IL
16. flag salute
17. List of articles in category needing pictures
18. MIME type image upload

April 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 27

1. User edits for an IP address
2. Virus?
3. Image changed, license didn't?
4. Changes I Didn't Make
5. Misinformation
6. Cristovao Vilela
7. {{NOINDEX}}
8. Cannot login
9. Beta
10. Pixelation to start screen on OGV video I uploaded
11. New type of semi-protection?

April 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 28

1. Please help a lowly IP ...
2. I am trying to establish a subsection for history "Lexington, Illinois" but my edits do not appear
3. Forgot a shortcut to somewhere
4. WikiProject
5. about seribu rupia
6. Redirecting to special pages
7. An IP address
8. Losing my home
9. Locked out
10. Text to Speech
11. Text to Speech (further comment)
12. My addition removed without explanation, at least that I can find
13. Opening and Library and information science in Hebrew
14. How can I add a new category?
15. Wikipedia use ontologies for manage the knowledge?
16. Notes vs References
17. Where can I share my retail line, art gallery and my article..

April 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 29

1. Category:Converts to atheism from Eastern Orthodoxy
2. Adding info...
3. I don't receive a new password
4. Creating userboxes
5. Ref syntax problem
6. Shippen Street (Weehawken) infobox formatting
7. hyphenated name; redirect??
8. Route diagram formatting and differences
9. Question about over-sighted Articles (those with removed revisions)
10. I have been warned that I am vandalising a site by user Bidgee
11. Struggling with gallery formatting
12. UbiPetz--How to unlock the code?
13. Starting an article with the?
14. Point of Light = Notable?
15. music of the song "stand"by Rascal Flatts
16. Printing only the article (in other wikis)
17. Create a new entry
18. Image with permission
19. Gibault_Catholic_High_School
20. tags
21. Pictures

April 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 April 30

1. editing issue
2. Recreating articles.
3. Welcome template
4. Welcome from Sphilbrick
5. Copying files to Commons
6. How do you post a topic / contributions?
7. Wiki page info borders on libel
8. Author of a page improperly removes a speedy-deletion notice
9. for wikiperdia my external link is Spam!
10. Moving company
11. Adding self taken images
12. netajibosemysteryrevealed.org
13. Identifying an article's author
14. Signature
15. Spam?
16. Help with good article nomination
17. AfD article issue--1st or 2nd time?
18. User page ends up listed under "New pages"
19. link to Wikipedia article from my website
20. My post was taken down
21. Adding a wikilink