Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2009

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May 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 1

1. Marketing career moves with a CIM professional certificate
2. Off-site Wikipedia Rules
3. cannot edit site on phoshatidylinositol
4. Where am I supposed to ask a question like this?
5. Search for languages
6. Contact Deletion
7. Issuing a three-revert rule warning when involved?
8. People referenced by their own websites?
9. General notability criterion changed?
10. Toolserver question
11. "Nonsense movies?"
12. Editing colors
13. Moving my article from my subpage to main article space?
14. Removing sockpuppeteer tag?
15. Gallery
16. Page title issues
17. Literacy ambassador
18. Admin help
19. Moving Notepad: false release dates keep getting added, what can I do?
20. Template:Infobox computer missing "sound"..
21. violation codes
22. How to make it stick?

May 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 2

1. Help with missing information
2. Coordinates for a map
3. New users
4. Quick question about Userpage?
5. New Page Patrol
6. Shirley Temple vs. Categories
7. Who is Chrissy Schimmel
8. cheathouse.com for free?
9. portal article
10. Is there a simple German Wikipedia?
11. "page under construction"
12. iron level
13. my AfD using Twinkle hasn't worked properly
14. Still unable to upload images
15. U.S.Railroads
16. If you know an entry contains lies, what should one do?

May 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 3

1. new video
2. diff shows changes that I didn't make
3. loading cartridge for an ERM VRL-36 typesetter
4. mechanical
5. Question about measurement unit names and abbreviations.
6. Very slow browsing
7. Page vandalized
8. Leave Out All the Rest
9. Is hotlinking to images on Wikipedia allowed?
10. Formation of trans fat.
11. Redirected instead of moved
12. Merging question
13. Finding the page I first saw when I registered
14. In-line citations
15. New User Log
16. Transcluding from Commons
17. Add a logo
18. Posting deleted, why?

May 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 4

1. Deleted threads / articles etc
2. Editor for my wikimedia
3. Six Flags
4. Vandalism Report
5. Speedy deletion of stubs
6. Text outside main text area
7. plastic bag with (PET , MPEC , LLDPE) delaminate after WET tissue insert into bag
8. Type size in edit box
9. for starting a new business regarding GEARS
10. Euro bank note
11. AM/PM
12. Image Stack-Up
13. Ahmed Deedat
14. What bot am I thinking of?
15. Logged out when trying to make a Map request
16. Don't know how to post an article
17. Autoconfirmed users
18. Uploading pictures
19. Notability of Subject
20. Special:Tags
21. my edits wont save
22. Title spacing in sidebar
23. Quick Information Box
24. Deleting Accounts

May 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 5

1. Enzo Ferrari (automobile)
2. Im not new but how do I create?
3. Viewing IP Userpages
4. References help
5. Adding name to chronological list of names
6. Date/time format
7. SEARCHING FOR A JOB
8. oxcarbazepine with Quetiapine
9. Google and/or Yahoo Search Capabilities
10. How to read weekly CDF file with GrADS
11. Reclaiming an old and inactive account
12. Deletion notice
13. What's the code to create a random article link in a wiki page?
14. problems hitting internal connections
15. commercial real estate leases
16. Where do I find job descriptions
17. Opening Wikipedia in MIME
18. How to get message alerts removed from article
19. Internal links on the fritz?
20. Adding a template to pages
21. Computers(Unix Security)
22. copyright constraints?
23. Image requesting a photo of a living person
24. Can I make a reference to a CD sleeve and the internet wayback machine?

May 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 6

1. Image with copyright problem
2. Legobot restores vandalism
3. Appropriate RfC topic area(s) for Internet homicide?
4. Getting A Reply
5. Span templates
6. Can I simply translate a wikipedia entry about a topic to another language?
7. Referencing a programme for a musical.
8. How does one display a photo from another language area's Wiki Common?
9. navbox class loses collapsible argument?
10. Content of "discussion" page
11. John Boyd Dunlop - two people with same name
12. How to use the the tranlation toll
13. Can I reduce Svg's & Png's image size online ?
14. Renaming file
15. Posting a picture

May 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 7

1. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 7#|]]
2. Automatic protection
3. How to Save?
4. Userboxes and transclusion
5. Quality of article
6. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 7#|]]
7. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 7#|]]
8. External links
9. how can i know if the changes are right or not?
10. Need someone with rollback privilages to revert an accidental article change
11. Info box
12. Mistake: :File:Crystal Palace.svg
13. AWB
14. Complaint
15. Price Mechanism
16. Lost images
17. how can I improve my article which was deleted
18. A Question re. changing my name.
19. Translating a non-english wiki page into english
20. Copyright violation and virus
21. Style suggestions for complex academic topic
22. how do i copy an article from simple wikipedia to wikipedia?
23. Misuse of a personal name

May 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 8

1. David Krikorian
2. Living person's biography
3. Double Oval.jpg
4. How do i set up a brand new page?
5. question
6. Citation of Wikipedia in an article
7. Compress SVG file
8. Cite Errors
9. Please review new article
10. protection for consumers
11. wikipedia downloadable version?
12. Infobox Templates
13. How to find a list of articles that links to a given article.
14. Where do I add this new info to the article Grove City College
15. Edits and Abuse
16. "Edit conflict" on this page
17. "Expert Needed" tag
18. Wrong info at PS3 main article.

May 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 9

1. problems hitting internal connections
2. Query
3. printed ref
4. Category deletion
5. prosesize.js
6. Disambiguation related!
7. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
8. ACCESSIBLE PAGES for JAWS Users
9. Citing the secondary source
10. Clarification of copyright rules.
11. How do I edit the Notes section of an article?
12. Bizarre entry on a talk page
13. how to convert this C program to assembly language for 8086 ???
14. supporting
15. Simple Edits Gone Awry
16. Jason O'Toole

May 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 10

1. Having trouble with some tables
2. Is this legal?
3. Date of publishing
4. Word Usage on wikipedia
5. Twinkle
6. Outlook Express
7. Saving good contributions from bad users
8. RE: Radio Freq 26.965 - 27.995 mhz
9. Watchlist
10. ItsJustSomeRandomGuy
11. PDF version messing up
12. Publish Judicial Decisions???
13. Links in Lead? Not in MOS or Linking article
14. HELP, Im lost I have been reading for hours
15. Irish Immigrants to 1840's America
16. How to Cite a Nickname

May 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 11

1. Hiring a developer
2. Mistakes made with AWB
3. Putting a picture in a article
4. Obsessed talk page
5. how to add a picture?
6. How do you propose for a featured picture
7. Charles Paterson Park
8. having troubles referencing.
9. Amending the logo image on my Company's wikipedia entry
10. Font Size
11. Richard Bamping article
12. One of my edits was signed with my computer number instead of my name... UNDO?
13. Help required in creating a wikipedia content on - Software Testing : Cloud Testing Awarness please advice.
14. Problem with refs
15. Watchlist2
16. Change title
17. moving an article
18. Contents Box
19. Request
20. Edit section links aligning left?
21. Passing parameters through templates and substitution
22. What Should a Director's InfoBox Look Like?

May 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 12

1. My profile page
2. How to rename an uploaded file to its correct name
3. problems hitting internal links
4. Deleting a Page
5. How to create a whole new innovative existing new subject?
6. Searching by Language
7. WikiProject
8. Dario Minieri
9. Deleted page, can't understand instructions for having it undeleted
10. change password of my account
11. Changing the listing title.
12. Question about Editing Titles
13. Borderless section — maybe pages - while using the Modern skin
14. is it possible to get an EXTERNAL website to cause wikification to redirect to wikipedia?
15. tomalley.
16. layman's terms?

May 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 13

1. Jehovah's Witnesses
2. mosfet
3. fire box
4. Request for translation?
5. Speedy delete, AfD, or prod?
6. Archived talkpage in category
7. Uploading Photos.....
8. Sandwich effect when using the 1024x768 screen resolution?
9. How to rewrite/repost a deleted Article
10. reference links
11. How do I get people to come edit my sandbox?
12. Tagging pictures
13. Image or File sandbox existed ?
14. Translations

May 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 14

1. Wiki Statistic abilities
2. Report a Page
3. Message while editing?
4. Wiktionary html dump
5. What time zone are you using?
6. Question
7. Currently redirects to different article
8. Spoken Articles
9. HELP WITH UNDERSTANDING WHY MY PAGE WAS DELETED - Page - Kim Donaldson
10. Getting warning messages without reason.
11. Lyrics on song pages.
12. Is there a certain length limit to a page in MediaWiki
13. need some help with autoEd
14. Questions
15. Big quote marks
16. Printing information
17. DOWNLOADING
18. Conflict of Interest
19. Phase 3
20. Printing
21. Just wondering...
22. Where is that essay about "don't call it 'The Wiki'"
23. Problem with printing
24. Tinitus Relief
25. Re.Bernard Pearson
26. Uploaded a new logo, but no go.
27. "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
28. Problem with the infobox Template:Infobox Company
29. adding a new page
30. Red links: To remove or not to remove?

May 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 15

1. Why was bobba reverted
2. Creating a Template
3. Invisible picture
4. Merger of two articles that are about the same darn thing
5. Russ Laribee
6. Tuanku Jaafar Power Station (Port Dickson) 2009 UNITEN Trainees
7. Specifying a date/time range for Recent changes
8. publishing an article , modify it , make people vote for these changes
9. Make this file transparent
10. Referencing a webpage that changes frequently
11. Disambiguation page or Other source page for Multiple-Part Article?
12. Spaces
13. Can someone look at a suspected copyvio?
14. Remove warnings
15. can a DVD cover be used without copyvio?
16. Help
17. Deleted page by Speedy Deletion - would like help on making the article exist
18. Question
19. the house on the rock
20. Changing incorrect info
21. Any way to retrieve a password without an email attached to the username?

May 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 16

1. Square bracket in external link
2. Sources needed
3. Delete the older version image
4. pgp encryption and decryption?
5. Increased attention to articles
6. I have made a huge mistake!
7. how to upload a artists drawing dated c.1830 AD?
8. Demands for quality of pictures?
9. Delete the changes made
10. Infobox overload
11. Removing an alternate name from an existing article in order to create an article on that subject?
12. Font colour
13. Footnote issues
14. Today's Featured Article, Super Mario Bros.
15. new entry - Kevan Shaw

May 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 17

1. content editing
2. Linking to Talk / Discussion possible?
3. Drinkicidal not found as a word or any reference
4. How do I ask for the wiki community to answer a question or compose a new entry on the definition of a "ton" of certain gas?
5. Riverport Riot
6. Religion related articles
7. printer friendly option

May 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 18

1. Reliable Source
2. How Do I Make My Biographical Article in My User Page Go Live?
3. How to link to the same article in another language?
4. Space shuttles
5. Keep getting an error message
6. Ruth Padel image problem
7. Misbehaving TOC
8. How do you know?
9. How to add an article in Wikipedia?
10. reporting a useR?
11. Fair use
12. Barnstars
13. commercial Links
14. I can't see the article I wrote, how do I see it using the search.
15. Help Me
16. Orkut
17. one last check please
18. Fedora mediawiki installation problem
19. New article not showing up when searched
20. Requesting Extensions
21. Can't find instructions or tutorial on how to interact or talk with users
22. Unrequested "new password" emails
23. Edits made
24. deflation
25. Can new article name be changed?
26. Disputed reliable sources.
27. Creating sub wikiproject within a project
28. Vandal
29. Does this article need re-writing?
30. Does this article need re-writing?
31. Trying to get article reviewed
32. creating new wiki page about a company i work for?
33. How do I create a page in wikipedia?
34. Trivia
35. new landscaping has caused water problems
36. Move Final Article from User Subpage to Wikipedia

May 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 19

1. Tabernaculo Biblico Bautista Amigos de Israel
2. Name of an old song !?
3. How do I insert Images
4. Legal question? Not really(?).
5. Sports Edition magazine is not defunct nor has been
6. Freemasonry page vandalized
7. I'm totally baffled at how to start a new Wikipedia entry for a product I've invented recently.
8. My talk page
9. Malaysian Speaker in High Impact Jurnal Writing
10. Reporting a user to admin
11. My entry had relevance etc. so I can't understand why it was deleted
12. Username
13. suggested improvements
14. Content Deleted for Lack of Notability--Would like to improve
15. Random text appearing
16. new user -- many questions
17. need help
18. Free
19. Image Frames
20. Is the table too long - if so what to do?
21. change the language on my facebook
22. Image copyright/license/fair use rationale
23. Image widths as a percentage
24. Photo Upload
25. YouTube Link

May 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 20

1. problem using an image on a template
2. List of all Wikipedia articles?
3. Multiple AfD
4. How do i start a new page on a particular topic on Wikipedia? There is no existing page on this topic on Wikipedia.
5. Sound file help
6. Wiki updates
7. Remove my user name from title of article
8. Do you know of software that will check the validity of local anchor links in a wikipedia page?
9. Formulaes
10. (+13) (-27)
11. enrollment @ washington college for 2009
12. Gray line
13. Referencing
14. Linking image
15. Image Not Displaying
16. auto edit summary?
17. Getting page to go live
18. username
19. Wiki markup/bracket question
20. A quick question
21. Deleting Page History
22. Portal:Wine
23. Infobox - Ice Hockey Player
24. How many times is the location needed?
25. Malicious Lockout
26. Forums
27. Where's the Policy?
28. How do I update a .PNG image?
29. submit a photo a topic ?
30. Press Release
31. How can I document work cited of this online source.
32. Log of 'new page patrolled' ?
33. I do not receive password recovery emails (recently unified login)

May 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 21

1. Image file problem
2. New word
3. Preview image before upload
4. Procedure for grant of licence/ approval by Walt disney for manufacture of textile garments
5. How to View Messages?
6. two simon hill's - i'm in a bit of a mess!
7. What to do about incomplete AfD
8. how do I become a New Page Patroller?
9. History portal
10. Removing quotations on page title
11. VAI, Vormittag Associates Inc.
12. 3RR
13. World Record
14. Mediation Cabal
15. Change title of an article
16. mba
17. problem with yo-yo BP due to faulty baro-receptor?
18. Use of Wikipedia text without attribution
19. 2009 Graduation date for Belgorod State University Russia
20. USER UNFRIENDLY
21. Title Changes
22. Naming a New Article

May 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 22

1. Help With Math Formatting
2. Citing foreign language Wikipedia?
3. 2 x User_talk page questions
4. What does it place JaRon Harris under the last name J and not H?
5. Arbitration/Requests/Case/.../Evidence: Is this an appropriate entry?
6. Is this vandalism or not?
7. Parser Function for AM and PM
8. Evaluating quality of articles
9. Evaluating importance of articles
10. German Wiki: YES - Worldwide Wiki: NO
11. Image problems
12. Spacing
13. How to identify editor/edit?
14. Paragraph breaks
15. Someone Left a Message on my IP address discussion page and my edits underneath this person's message won't appear, can someone help me with this problem?

May 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 23

1. User talk problem
2. problems hitting internal links
3. Page title
4. The Cancer Guy
5. How to disentangle Commissioning from Commission?
6. Special:Categories
7. Indian Passport cancellation
8. Strange cite error
9. Adding or Suggesting a Word
10. Editnotice please
11. Every page I edit gets watched in my watchlist

May 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 24

1. Logging in to wikipedia
2. capitol of california
3. File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg
4. Barbara Hillary (North Pole)
5. questions
6. Request deletion of 'lack of references' box
7. I Want To Include An Image Of Myself In The Stye Page.
8. Referencing question
9. Diff

May 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 25

1. Pembroke Welsh Corgi
2. Content Deletion for Oraganization(why Aptech and NIIT in Wikipedia)?
3. Password recovered (from memory), but Wikipedia's password recovery may be broken
4. How to remove an article?
5. while reading users would like to mark text so that they can pull up the pages and look for the marked text for future reference
6. List of audio (read aloud) articles?
7. Is there any way to get Articles for Deletion as an RSS feed?
8. How to submit an article for assessment?
9. Resetting password for account with no currently registered email address
10. Snakes In Missouri
11. UNREGISTER
12. User name
13. Adding New Content
14. Accessing Redshift
15. Redlinks
16. How can I log in under different langugaes?
17. Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
18. DYK hits
19. Bad editing

May 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 26

1. correcting footnotes
2. What name is it for the words that are spelled the same forward and backward
3. expanding an article
4. deleted article
5. Merging Articles
6. Advice on good-faith edit/bad-faith edit summary
7. Offline Wiki updates
8. screenplay contest
9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Squash
10. quoting a different part of a named reference
11. Reliable Source???
12. passport need
13. idea
14. Main Page question
15. how can I move an article from the sandbox to real wikipedia?
16. Young players
17. translation
18. Hebrew font
19. What is the procedure to suggest that an article be moved to Wiktionary?
20. New user question
21. Vandalism on the Phenylalanine page
22. Skateboard

May 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 27

1. How do I stop the [Edit] [Edit] [Edit] [Edit] bug?
2. Is a Freedom of Information request OR?
3. Ranking of Most Popular Pages on Wikipedia
4. problems hitting internal links
5. How to accelerate the creation of a requested article?
6. i need to delete the list of words shown in my articles list that i have typed before---how do i do it........
7. An image from Finnish wikipedia
8. Does this template exist already?
9. Discussion
10. Need to correct spelling in the TITLE of a page
11. Subpages
12. Referencing plots
13. Undocumented articles
14. Uploading a Biography Picture
15. Userpage Subpage
16. Number of edits to page

May 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 28

1. Editing article title
2. Forum for template coding issues?
3. How to edit a section in a tabbed page?
4. Creating those boxes
5. Using Zotero for references?
6. ParserFunctions question
7. Record Label/ companies
8. Jurisdictional districs by state
9. re Henry Tayali
10. Moving images
11. Photo use
12. Help finding Wikimedia Commons copyright help desk
13. Copyright Question
14. Account question
15. Random Article Screen
16. Huggle

May 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 29

1. How to put out a call for help in overhauling an article
2. How do I find out my user name?
3. electronics
4. Interface Mock-Up
5. destination
6. guestbook
7. Delete Page question
8. Friendly Problem
9. Customizing monobook skin
10. Name already used
11. Editor Awards
12. A box
13. help?
14. Error
15. How do I add photos to my artice/page?
16. question
17. Problem adding citation to Bhutan's area
18. Infobox question
19. Cross-wiki templates
20. Further Reading

May 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 30

1. Can you help me put this on a page
2. How do I report vandalism?
3. ADD ENTRY TO CATEGORY
4. Mohamed Altoumaimi and Bernoulli numbers
5. Duplication
6. two questions
7. telugu wikipedia member
8. Can Name Be Corrected?
9. Image deletion
10. Convert AI to SVG
11. page does not appear
12. Getting an image into an article.

May 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 May 31

1. Delicious redirect?
2. First time CfD attempt
3. Introductory, nontechnical hatnote
4. problems hitting internal links
5. What does "{semiprotected |small=yes}" mean?
6. File Upload
7. Colors
8. Thank You Australia
9. Uploading logos
10. Science portal
11. Corporations in the US
12. Stealth
13. Inserting an image from Italian Wikipedia in English Wikipedia
14. Putting references within ref tags
15. Concerning the GFDL
16. Categorizing company articles