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February 1 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 1

  1. interwiki links do not work
  2. User page not created after sign up
  3. Try to provide a verifiable link for "Niticeability".
  4. navigation box help
  5. How long do I have to wait before setting up a proposed new WikiProject?
  6. Dorial Green Beckham
  7. PDF off computer as reference?
  8. wp access
  9. Disambiguation
  10. Quick question
  11. My name on the list of Akoko Sons
  12. Speedy Deletions...
  13. Interwiki links are broken
  14. No links to digital pages
  15. Twinkle
  16. Libelous writing
  17. KBDI-TV

February 2 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 2

  1. Bill C-11. Look out.
  2. Artists Discography
  3. What about ACTA?
  4. the india map
  5. Re advetorial changes to article and need for monitoring
  6. MathML rendering
  7. Shanks Group image
  8. There might be an factual error running through multiple articles
  9. REVISION TO SECTION ON A COMPANY I FOUNDED
  10. Correcting a name of someone
  11. I don't know what I want to learn
  12. The Flowers of War article's rating box
  13. editing
  14. Add a new external link to our (very interesting) Research Guides on different wiki pages.
  15. Reading Wikipedia
  16. Was endash the right choice?
  17. Disruptive editing
  18. Redirects showing out-of-date content
  19. I want to correct references at page Andritz AG
  20. Spaces or TABs for indenting source code?
  21. reference gone = citation no longer available
  22. Edit Israel page
  23. Image help
  24. AfC help
  25. People's Action Party (Singapore) - Article
  26. Afttest

February 3 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 3

  1. Make a page
  2. Rich Price
  3. Re: J. Joseph Garrahy
  4. how to join a wikipedia classroom group?
  5. Job at Wikipedia
  6. New Article
  7. Article Feedback Request
  8. Style issue
  9. Rowspan command not working in a table
  10. Why was my BlahBlahBia page deleted?
  11. Regular password expiration
  12. New User needing Experienced Editor
  13. How do I shrink the font on Wikipedia?
  14. Please help me help - re "Articles for creation"
  15. Wikipeetia
  16. Copywrite
  17. How to save a Wikipedia book
  18. Quadripoint

February 4 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 4

  1. I don't even know where to start?!?!
  2. King Elementary - noteworthy?
  3. Deleted image still shows
  4. Rejected Article
  5. about delivery of new city Honda 1.5 V MT Exclusive with sun roof
  6. Program For Editing
  7. Where can external links go?
  8. The Nurturing Network
  9. I seek some advice re a user who marks most edits as minor.
  10. How do I view a deleted page ?
  11. About Prophet Muhammad
  12. A page exists in English Wikipedia but not on French Wikipedia
  13. Infobox & image layout
  14. Boma
  15. Disambig page
  16. forwarding wikipedia articles
  17. Apropriate User Talk page content
  18. Request moving a category
  19. Map coordinates, no seconds?
  20. Problem With Wikipedia App for iOS

February 5 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 5

  1. flagging a page with a possible copyright problem
  2. Can we "Freeze panes" in Wikipedia tables?
  3. How come it never logs me in across all wikis?
  4. How to Change Erroenous Article Title and Links?
  5. adding new science fiction authors
  6. Demographics is COMPLETELY WRONG on Melbourne, Fl.
  7. Translation of an English page to an already existing page in a different language
  8. Request for feedback
  9. Tables next to each other
  10. uploading an image
  11. Porsche 991
  12. Blacklist
  13. Gross misinformation
  14. Multiple external links
  15. Hans Kammerlander
  16. color in links
  17. Pine Burr Area Council

February 6 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 6

  1. automatic highlighted add
  2. Ref: User:Yasmin_Karim also :File:A. K. Nazmul Karim.jpg
  3. What is the difference between the "Update" and "Out of date" templates?
  4. I messed up a reference list
  5. I corrupted a reference list
  6. Restoring page on "IMP³rove"
  7. Paul M. Ellwood, Jr.
  8. Frances Raday
  9. Reference
  10. How to subscribe
  11. how do i delete my wiki history?
  12. BASCA logo
  13. whereabouts of school
  14. Editing external links for an organisation
  15. concern about a posting on the page of Barack Obama
  16. Saint Just book image
  17. Edit Displaying.
  18. What does RPO mean
  19. Editing an Article
  20. Creating links to places within articles that do not have separate articles in their own right.
  21. Retrieving only articles (main namespace) via external search engine like Google
  22. Deletion of orphaned non-free file
  23. how to edit
  24. How should units be designated in table headers?

February 7 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 7

  1. color vs colour
  2. infobox and image conflicting (IE9)
  3. Definition on Wiki of "Evil"
  4. Link user CSS and JavaScript across different Wikimedia sites
  5. Template problem
  6. Assistance with article. Autobot said references were not verifiable?
  7. i think some the info people put in dictionaries and in other places should be changed or removed
  8. New article - wrong name
  9. Categorizing events known by Islamic calendar year
  10. How and where to suggest a policy or a procedure to Wikipedia?
  11. hurricane RINA!!! :D
  12. addition to table and then reference it in footnote--confused...
  13. How to Write an Article Citing Primary Sources?
  14. Adding a section of a page to a category
  15. Asian font for punctuation character?
  16. incorrect page
  17. Submission + Credibility
  18. Trying to propose an article for deletion
  19. Merrick Systems page deleted
  20. Advise for Startup Company's Article Revision

February 8 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 8

  1. Someone is Selling Wikipedia on PlayBook?
  2. James Frain
  3. Smithsonian Channel counter-diction
  4. how to request a user ban
  5. Contrib count by edit prefix
  6. Defining two url parameters in citation template
  7. Contribution keeps getting removed
  8. 2012
  9. wrong pix
  10. Show me the money
  11. Wrong flag used for 2 years now
  12. My article for Serge Lamothe
  13. Gerry Zaragemca
  14. Formatting Issue on a specific page
  15. Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection
  16. What reference format is in use here?
  17. Looking for logs except a certain type
  18. Date Calculating Incorrectly in Info Box
  19. Specific litmus for COI edit and promotional user name

February 9 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 9

  1. Global account username change
  2. Google 'Define British Person'
  3. What template to use?
  4. Referencing
  5. Untitled section
  6. Need help on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
  7. Math codes
  8. How do you display a Coat of Arms in an InfoBox?
  9. Broken thumbnail
  10. why is my edit continuously deleted?
  11. A lack in Languages..
  12. Glue
  13. User contributions
  14. Blue background
  15. Double vote
  16. Web Page Format
  17. Review
  18. Revision History Statistics Broken?
  19. trouble with code
  20. Unable to locate article in search function
  21. Broken edit statistics
  22. User John Petrov's image source website seems to be getting deleted
  23. Republicanism in the United States--a bright shining lie masquerading as an encyclopedia article
  24. Local info
  25. check my work?

February 10 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 10

  1. How to reply in the Talk section
  2. Spammy links
  3. TORONTO ONTARIO
  4. Who and When
  5. Adding a citation
  6. advice notice of iten on Wikipedia
  7. Mexican Built Sand Cats
  8. deactivate of an account
  9. So Where is Rule 16 ??
  10. Mysterious file disappearances.

February 11 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 11

  1. Wrong date
  2. The Ox-Bow Incident
  3. ip redirect
  4. michael socha
  5. Finding why a file was deleted
  6. Auto Confirmed
  7. Wiki Admin upsurping power
  8. What to do with a particular redirect?
  9. major religion
  10. Can I write an article about Gaynor Sports, Ambleside. UK
  11. Undo move
  12. Random page, but with guidelines?
  13. Wayne Rooney
  14. Green and Red numbers on My Watchlist
  15. Jordan McCabe
  16. Unreviewed article
  17. Blue type overused
  18. Bureaucrat criteria

February 12 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 12

  1. Admin needed for protected template
  2. MAGPIE article weird statistics results
  3. Render server error while creating book
  4. White-Pool House
  5. Citing a piece of literature / media.
  6. Why can only administrators view deleted pages?
  7. Editing a page that later gets deleted
  8. How do I put a reference in a endnote?
  9. Ullswater
  10. Spelling error in the title of an article I have created
  11. looking for admission

February 13 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 13

  1. Quotation box & URLs
  2. quercetrin
  3. New to Wikki
  4. Chinese version of Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
  5. English Usage
  6. Adding an Entertainer to Wikipedia
  7. CDC data primary source
  8. What sort of place is Wikipedia?
  9. Article completed. Wat's next ?
  10. Sociology paper 7 Emergence of sociological concern in india
  11. Emotional Therapy
  12. Huggle
  13. Incorrect Spelling Of Product Name
  14. Image not appearing
  15. George Shinn/Purchase of Hornets
  16. Job seeker

February 14 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 14

  1. Kathleen Adams
  2. Facebook pages created by Wikipedia
  3. AfD Removal
  4. Error on Leland, Iowa page
  5. Trevor Treharne
  6. Add a new section to the Contents List
  7. Glitch?
  8. Translation Problem
  9. Keith Haring Infobox
  10. Untitled section about MRSA
  11. Araldite English reverting
  12. Kudos for excellent work and standing your ground
  13. Debating notability
  14. Wikilinking as COI?
  15. POSTING A DRAFT OF AN ARTICLE
  16. Misspelled and apparently uneditable (by me) Category heading
  17. multiple unsourced chart rankings for ZX Spectrum games
  18. Joseph Fischoff
  19. National varieties question
  20. Question about language translation
  21. Adding a page of guidelines
  22. Moving and re-title

February 15 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 15

  1. downloading books i created
  2. Does logging in again affect one's edit?
  3. Shogun page appears to have been deleted.
  4. Request move listing
  5. blacklisted but don't know why or how to correct
  6. Is there a way to hide the "my sandbox" link in the links at the top of the page?
  7. Help
  8. HOW DO I ADD TO OR DELETE MY UNIFIED ACCOUNTS?
  9. Group shot
  10. E MAIL ADDRESS
  11. Updating pages
  12. Reference in info box?
  13. Talk page new sections problem
  14. Hank Stickney wikipedia page
  15. First page
  16. Portals
  17. Uploading pictures
  18. Changing a title / adding a redirect
  19. A couple image issues
  20. Category-generating template is broken?

February 16 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 16

  1. Uploading photos that are not yours
  2. IPA When Editing
  3. Report on your (todays featured picture)
  4. for 2/16/2012
  5. Consensus
  6. wikipedia as homepage
  7. About FAHRENHEITº magazine
  8. Copy editing request tag
  9. Help please on how to get a table back!
  10. Images from Project Gutenberg
  11. Belgium - History of Louis de Potter - Data quality
  12. TeX formatting for maths articles - help needed.
  13. Bluetooth spam
  14. Error in information in the article about Edward Brian (Ted) Seago
  15. Luminato festival Wikipedia entry
  16. Move to commons
  17. My article draft is ready. How long will it take to be published ?
  18. Add birthday
  19. Questions
  20. editing of pages in Hungarian Wikipedia
  21. Charles Dana Gibson illustrator
  22. 2nd Ammendment To The American Constitution Page
  23. editing reference question

February 17 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 17

  1. Adding RSS Feeds to Wikipedia
  2. Formatting for Heading
  3. Putting image on userspace
  4. Clock
  5. how do i put something on wikipedia, a new contribution
  6. re J W Miller & Sons
  7. Converting Word to wiki markup
  8. Deleted Edits?
  9. How to credit translations
  10. Page about "Ferdinand A. Hermens"
  11. Requesting general review by non-creator for new article
  12. Placement of photos
  13. referances request
  14. Franklin Hansen incorrect information
  15. Film reference as an RS

February 18 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 18

  1. Possibly malicious link in page about Royal Thai Police.
  2. Baldiwn of Forde article may have been vandalized
  3. Mass vandalism through editing unprotected templates
  4. Throat cancer
  5. All links on OS X page linking to 9/11 site.
  6. The page of Autism appears to have been hacked with an overlay that provides a link to a racist 9/11 conspircy site
  7. marcus collins
  8. Translation of articles existing in french and not entirely translated in english
  9. SEARCH FOR PAGE UNSUCCESSFUL - WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG
  10. Anti-Israel Redirects?
  11. User:Richhoncho
  12. page hijack - ashley tisdale
  13. "Nocat" option into navboxes
  14. Problem with map on Bosnia and Herzegovina
  15. Bosnia Article is Hacked
  16. Wikipedia Offline Support
  17. Should they still be listed?
  18. how do i find wiring diagrams for cars

February 19 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 19

  1. Error on Eric Griffin page
  2. New message prompt reveals 2007 messaage (reverted or removed)
  3. About speedy deletions
  4. fake link form All's Well that Ends well to a very suspicious site
  5. Answer to College Accounting 20th Edition Ch 6 pg 222-226
  6. Fate/Stay Characters page is hacked too
  7. How to add a sandbox article to main Wikipedia pl?
  8. Why are people allowed to talk and act like this?
  9. Naming conventions
  10. Request for Feedback
  11. Roman Catholic Churches in NYC
  12. hip goverment program for homeless intervention funding

February 20 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 20

February 20 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 20

  1. Help me I sumitted the wrong article
  2. Name
  3. Forgotton Username
  4. what is half pk ? What is full and half mold in leather gloves
  5. Uploading mistake
  6. reviewing an artile called: Sakib
  7. Down Loading pictures/photos from wikipedia "athenic" site
  8. Looking for a specific policy page
  9. Deleting Published User page articles and Deleting my account
  10. Image copyright?
  11. The Visit Album - references
  12. I want to request a new article to be made, but I don't want to create it myself
  13. Uploading journal cover image
  14. To Whom It May Concern
  15. Images Permissions
  16. Age to be on Wikipedia.
  17. Unable to save a document to CD/RW
  18. Geologic(al) subdivisions: capitalisation
  19. Accidental Multi-gesture?
  20. Template 'pp-full'
  21. IP hopping
  22. Question about "As Of" template
  23. Uploading Google Street view screenshots, permissible?

February 21 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 21

  1. Please help with filling in file info
  2. Missing stack in User:Tompw/bookshelf, Wikipedia:Size in volumes etc.
  3. Harvard references
  4. My New Submission Keeps Getting Rejected
  5. Search engine fails
  6. Font size changed?
  7. Email
  8. Deaf and hard of hearing
  9. 2008 Channel 4 documentary controversy
  10. Reflist template
  11. Help Re-write deleted Merrick Systems article
  12. How to get an article publised
  13. Reordering account links at the top of all pages
  14. Please assist me in deleting the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine page
  15. Wapiti
  16. I really have tried

February 22 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 22

  1. thread answering
  2. Request for Feedback
  3. Global Positioning System article feedback
  4. whitney houston
  5. The tools above the edit box -- Internet Explorer vs. Chrome
  6. Redefine "My Sandbox"?
  7. Should they still be listed?
  8. warning of Jacques Cousteau about our seas pollution
  9. italics
  10. Suggestions greatly appreciated
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Giving compliments
  13. Only one reference
  14. Feedback please - I have worked hard on this article!
  15. Search has gone very bad for several hours.
  16. Name is written
  17. Mad Magizine History... Under Mad Music
  18. News Create a wiki unbiased news site

February 23 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 23

  1. Adding picture of sports team uniforms?
  2. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/SpiderGraph chart - Notability & 3rd party Sources
  3. problem of zh_tw version of wikipedia
  4. Question about article submission
  5. Reliability & NPOV. Clarification of policy.
  6. Did I just screw up royally? "Wikipedia Commons" (resolved)
  7. Templates overflowing out of screen
  8. Downloading a photo of Athenic.
  9. Unable to enter site directly
  10. Eva marcille pigford
  11. Copying text out of an Abuse Filter log entry?
  12. Need help making this page work
  13. How do I remove the Wikipedia search
  14. Dab help
  15. Axioche's stub status, and similar cases.
  16. History of topic changes
  17. Question on sources
  18. Personalized sports jerseys, etc. sold to fans
  19. Custom drop down options on special pages
  20. Delete edit
  21. Bad link
  22. What to do when BRD cycle can't be made?
  23. Article on cheese
  24. additional information

February 24 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 24

  1. User Fastily/E deleted my article and suggests in his user page that Help Desk can help to review re-submitted articles
  2. My new edit has stayed red ?
  3. F.MOLINA CAMPOS/929
  4. Wikipedia and Wikia
  5. article's
  6. Need a third party to verify neutrality
  7. Watchlist bot (no, not that one)
  8. Changing the "d" to "t" in templates
  9. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 24#Placing_section_below_image.2C_but_alongside_infobox-_.7B.7Btl.7Cclear.7D.7D_doesn.27t_do_it|Placing section below image, but alongside infobox- {{clear}} doesn't do it]]
  10. FC Anzhi Makhachkala
  11. Wikia
  12. Username refusal
  13. For Scholarship
  14. Crosswiki pictures
  15. Searching for specific types of images
  16. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Wynne Theater
  17. What does the lock icon after a link mean?
  18. :Category:American anti-communists
  19. rational point article is mysteriously messed up
  20. Setting up a page
  21. Request for Page Restoration

February 25 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 25

  1. Removing the template name and swimming to properly say rowing
  2. To the subtopic under heading sikhism
  3. What to do about a user's sandbox
  4. Dispute on article "Nair"
  5. can we undo what we just saved?
  6. a good school Article
  7. digitizer
  8. National park,Sanctuary,Biosphere
  9. I added a navigation bar to my userpage and now text is small!
  10. User page
  11. Pictures
  12. image on the left screws up left-justification

February 26 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 26

  1. how do I undo the most recent edit?
  2. Car In "Keeping Up Appearances"
  3. Painter by the name E. T. Whitesides
  4. Add a word to the dictionary
  5. waste of time for myself and other contributers
  6. How to make a page on wikipedia
  7. Nassim Haramein
  8. Want to work with and contribute to Wikipedia for Summer
  9. Naming conventions
  10. Roughly how many percent of the Wikipedia articles are semi protected?
  11. Category Post-Impressionist painters
  12. User name is appearing online!!
  13. User page is redirected
  14. New section
  15. music lyrics and chords
  16. How do I dispute an edit performed by another editor
  17. cannot enter my account
  18. Premier League table
  19. How do I hide a user page (which I have created)
  20. Time zone setting -- where does it apply?
  21. Delete please.
  22. What happened here?
  23. Snopes
  24. Need to add a parameter to a template

February 27 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 27

  1. Page editor
  2. help
  3. Wikipedia not working??
  4. Promotional content from a neutral point of view
  5. WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
  6. Demand for help
  7. Correction submition for Bilady, Bilady, Bilady
  8. Hope Keng-Wai Lee page should be Hope Keng-Wei Lee. The entry title can not be edited.
  9. Warnings and scoldings but NEVER EVER edited anything, NOT AOL user
  10. Odds of being born on a millennium leap year
  11. Gang Stalking / Cause Stalking
  12. Newbie file uploader questions
  13. Permission to use of a section of wikiHOW in a book about Design and Designing
  14. ARTICLE
  15. My article has not been published yet after 2 weeks of waiting...
  16. Sandbox as training ground?
  17. Two different URLs for same page comes up as different versions.
  18. Problem with Judge Tena Campbell's article?

February 28 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 28

  1. Removing orphaned images
  2. Sorting troubles
  3. Making the 'Show' button on a collapsed table look right
  4. improve this article template removal
  5. Inserting improved photo
  6. How to handle situations when a fellow editor appears to be mentally/cognitively deficient in some or other way
  7. "current" AFD out of whack
  8. Planespottingworld.
  9. Watchlist quiery
  10. Archiving DYK nom page
  11. Role of agriculture in economic development
  12. closeing account
  13. Technical request
  14. Tool
  15. My user name does not exist
  16. Referencing problem
  17. Table needs fixing
  18. economics
  19. Deleted Images
  20. Viewing talkpage datestamps in local time
  21. The copyright status of images with quoted text in them
  22. Is it possible to submit a sound clip?
  23. Query a fact
  24. Why are the periods stripped out?

February 29 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 February 29

  1. Guenter A. Rieger
  2. OTRS and non-free use
  3. nonprofit laws on charitable giving
  4. Removing 'citations needed' category from an article
  5. 3D television
  6. Missing stack in User:Tompw/bookshelf, Wikipedia:Size in volumes etc.
  7. Horizontal borders for tables
  8. Template collapsing
  9. Help with random
  10. wiki Login Issue - Email expired and not working
  11. Large white space
  12. Links in References do not appear for editing, need to be changed
  13. Historians, &c.
  14. Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame
  15. Music Chart template problem?
  16. irrelevant wikipedia article
  17. Whole article a copyvio?
  18. Diagrams for articles
  19. About my new page
  20. Wiki to facebook.
  21. Lost uploaded image
  22. How in the world is this an advertisement??
  23. What does the Improve this Page tab man?
  24. Is there any way to remove the "Improve this page" tab?
  25. Image frame in a thumbnail
  26. iPad 3
  27. HTML tags in page titles
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