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December 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 1

  1. I am new,,,
  2. :Template:Infobox U.S. legislation
  3. Monobook code
  4. Username Change Unfulfilled
  5. Purging
  6. External Links to Commercial Websites
  7. Santa Claus/Father Christmas
  8. Unfair and unbalaced contributions
  9. Citing annual reports
  10. Dynamically requesting wikipedia content to include in another site.
  11. Need help Changing IP address to User Name
  12. Moving a page
  13. Interpage diffs
  14. Katt Williams
  15. Seeking approval for Pete Snyder article
  16. somthing wrong with display of a page
  17. putting ref tags in a hidden article section
  18. Canvassing
  19. How do I?

December 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 2

  1. Open All Hours table looking odd
  2. Is there anything else that I should be doing?
  3. Writing and Making an article
  4. When an article's name has changed for a different category
  5. Deleted Page
  6. An RfA
  7. server information access fail. please ask help desk
  8. About Wikimapia
  9. Is there a sandbox-type-thing that has footnotes when a reference is cited?
  10. photos.
  11. Help deleting a page
  12. Using requests for comment in an Arbitration Enforcement case
  13. captcha
  14. Login Problems
  15. Volatile Works
  16. Sound sample box

December 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 3

  1. Journalistic
  2. How??
  3. Templates not updating?
  4. Restore logs
  5. electrical field
  6. Citation Question
  7. Hayley Williams
  8. Citation Needed
  9. access of links
  10. Changing from an anonymous edit to my user name
  11. language link
  12. Dutch names
  13. how do i reference a journal cited in wikipedia
  14. Rollback
  15. Wiktionary
  16. Printing issue
  17. Deleted Page
  18. Deleted article
  19. Adding images to articles
  20. Request for Work on Article
  21. WP:NPW
  22. Adding images and refrences to sources outside of wikipedia

December 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 4

  1. Changing information referred to between double brackets
  2. Fundraising Notice
  3. Help with database dumping?
  4. Using WikiMapia Images on Wikipedia
  5. bracket templates
  6. A problem on a discussion page
  7. Bot operating
  8. Advert
  9. Quick way of adding articles to your watchlist
  10. edit tag is unavailable!
  11. Question about removing false/unverifiable/defamatory information
  12. Banned
  13. IPs signing posts
  14. Editing a Page.
  15. extensive rewrite of existing article
  16. Page version control on userpage
  17. Editing (deleting) an ostensibly promotional link in an article CLETE BOYER
  18. printing an article
  19. Joke categories on Book of Proverbs
  20. "Save page" times out for logged-in user (proxy IP blocked for anonymous)

December 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 5

  1. Date when first published
  2. defaultsort
  3. help.
  4. Rollback?
  5. advice, please: How do I tag an article for possible "re-naming"?
  6. How do I add a picture of an album cover and the other things in the square of information?
  7. Categories don't display on a particular page
  8. John Kennedy test
  9. Can a Category be redirected?
  10. Copy and Paste Symbols
  11. Archibald Bell Jr
  12. My Home page
  13. New template grammar
  14. where do I go to complain about the way Wikipedia works?
  15. Expired E-mail addresses
  16. What to do with an incoherent article?
  17. Webpage Expired when using Back button
  18. Music notability
  19. Recognition for DYK nomination.
  20. how do i enter a biography?
  21. What is considered notable information or articles? My page got deleted because of lack of notability.
  22. How to steal Empire State Building
  23. How To Email An Article
  24. bray cary
  25. Can importance ratings be updated??
  26. How to delete a page
  27. Talk page

December 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 6

  1. Book Cover image for infobox
  2. Copy and Paste Symbols
  3. Too many citations?
  4. People rewriting History
  5. Suggesting a new section: what NOT to put in edit summaries
  6. "Hiding" a template
  7. Why
  8. Renaming an account
  9. help with footnotes/references

December 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 7

  1. Where to ask about de-listing a link from spam list
  2. Watchlisting user contributions
  3. font change
  4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 7#Footnote won't hyperlink correctly. I think it is because the URL contains a {<.2Fnowiki> and a <nowiki>}<.2Fnowiki>|Footnote won't hyperlink correctly. I think it is because the URL contains a <nowiki>{ and a }]]
  5. Medaglie, decorazioni ed ordini cavallereschi italiani
  6. Using Wikipedia Info on my own site
  7. Bad interwiki links

December 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 8

  1. Hiding the donate bar
  2. Is this trolling
  3. Template Substitution
  4. help needed
  5. Some ads deleted some stay intact
  6. Template:Current US state Chief Justices
  7. Account creator
  8. Personal Ads
  9. Author, Skip Stover
  10. Question for Wikipedia regarding monetary contributions
  11. I got this feeling, Wikipedians are watching me
  12. language interwiki question (linkings)
  13. language interwiki question (size and number of articles)
  14. My ISP is blocked
  15. Orphaned AfD
  16. Help

December 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 9

  1. Vandalism on user page
  2. Unifying account has given me two usernames
  3. "Encore Suites" page
  4. Tag requested
  5. Fishery templates
  6. Question
  7. List of documentary films
  8. Date de-linking
  9. Shaun Costello
  10. Head Title
  11. Templated category
  12. User Pages and Deletion of Comments
  13. I need to see a comparison of Mobile Phones Operating Systems
  14. Rollback Userbox
  15. image display
  16. HOUSE OF PAIN disambiguation
  17. Block
  18. Inserting Images and Catagorizing in Commons
  19. IP Blocking indefinity for proxies
  20. Functions to manipulate strings in templates
  21. wiki home pages

December 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 10

  1. Login question
  2. New messages
  3. Template date autoformatting
  4. Official links in infobox and external links
  5. Bar with buttons missing
  6. right aligned thumbnails push down table
  7. Help finding a template
  8. Request lost in limbo?
  9. A recent attempt to attack your computer was blocked
  10. Leaking info while in SSL mode?
  11. New Message message
  12. Font Question
  13. Edit went wrong...
  14. First post just got removed, need guidance
  15. Help with infobox publisher

December 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 11

  1. Account deletion
  2. avoiding a bot
  3. envci sci
  4. First Post
  5. Re-inserting deleted article
  6. Unified Login with Wiktionary removed editing privilege
  7. Template Pages
  8. Please answer
  9. Album cover images in discographies
  10. WikiAdmin?

December 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 12

  1. Help Desk Templates
  2. Delete Userbox
  3. customizing signature
  4. JOHN BLOOM
  5. Pan-Wikipedia "New message" alert for my User account?
  6. Use of colon before wikilink
  7. Template font changes
  8. Resume Question
  9. Firouz Naderi
  10. Suedeheads
  11. Declining blatantly bad faith unblock requests
  12. Links on my user page
  13. Tionne Watkins/T-Boz
  14. photo
  15. I can't use pictures from Commons!!!
  16. .js Pages

December 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 13

  1. Quoting a foreign language
  2. Pictures?
  3. Archives
  4. Wapedia
  5. Category list order
  6. How to Get Someone To Help Edit A Protected Entry
  7. edit protected request
  8. File space vs. image space
  9. Buttons
  10. Changing Password

December 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 14

  1. Allied control council
  2. Need help controlling image size and position
  3. SEALs page
  4. Statrep
  5. RfA Percentage
  6. Blank space in article
  7. Gloria Stuart Titanic
  8. Box
  9. Copy image to Commons
  10. List of chess books
  11. Problem Solved
  12. modern skin issues
  13. step by step help making an archive on talk
  14. Using StatCounter in own user space
  15. no width but line-break-able

December 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 15

  1. Fair use
  2. So I can't figure out what this is called to look it up...the +/- thing
  3. Why is my page designated as "vandalism"?
  4. How does the average reader report VERY BASIC vandalism?
  5. Offering photographs to Wikipedia authors
  6. Issue with an image
  7. Self assessment of articles
  8. posting some ones profile to wikipedia
  9. ApawkG
  10. Changing my signature
  11. Uploading Photos Correctly
  12. Citations in infoboxes
  13. How do I
  14. POV Vandalism
  15. Assistance regarding a controversy
  16. question about contributors to a page
  17. Transcluding My Subpage
  18. server crash by deleting the sandbox?

December 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 16

  1. Assessing articles
  2. Infobox problems
  3. Question about portal/template
  4. Geobox - River - Using _type for coordinates
  5. madison pettis
  6. Article referencing
  7. Using photo threads on forums to reference
  8. Printing Color
  9. Ask a question
  10. DEFAULTSORT Conflict With Listas Parameter
  11. template
  12. Redlinked image related to moving from wikipedia to commons
  13. Article was deleted and replaced with useless info
  14. Logging into my alternative account
  15. Want to copy articles on wikipedia onto my website
  16. Writing a bibliography about wikipedia?

December 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 17

  1. Help displaying text onto a project page
  2. How do I submit an article?
  3. Warning I.P.
  4. Question on columns in Portal
  5. Very Simple English
  6. Apostrophe immediately following italics markup
  7. depth problem
  8. Archiving
  9. Did you know

December 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 18

  1. WikiTravel
  2. How to edit the bugzilla guide?
  3. Deleting User Subpages
  4. Requesting an IP Address Block
  5. Recruitment/Vacancies
  6. Adjacent tables
  7. Submitting an English version of an existing article on another language Wikipedia site
  8. Where to put?
  9. clarification of wp:outing
  10. New Account Email Confirmation
  11. Pages not loading completely
  12. Editing the actual title of an article....
  13. Nominate for DYK
  14. User:Gracenotes/rollback.js will not install

December 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 19

  1. External links question
  2. Ira Hayes
  3. Subdirectories
  4. Question added by User:Johntcullen
  5. Password-protected pages as sources
  6. How to edit title of a page?
  7. About admission in Class V from Class IV in same School under Govt. of West Bengal.
  8. I want to update a picture on an article
  9. Table sorting
  10. Watchlist RSS feed for Google Reader
  11. Template
  12. Saving references
  13. Can someone fix Infobox ski area?
  14. Picture related formatting errors
  15. What is the art work you see if a page loads slowly?
  16. inline template forcing line breaks in one article only

December 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 20

  1. How to correct errors and upload photos?
  2. Red banner at bottom of article.
  3. Information is found to be incorrect
  4. Hungarian passports from the 1930s
  5. archives search
  6. Universal notability?
  7. Harry Meacher
  8. Cathodic protection
  9. Adding content
  10. Date of registration
  11. My new articles
  12. Page restore query
  13. Content Editing help
  14. Talk Page Template

December 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 21

  1. List of WikiProjects
  2. Requesting account reset/merge
  3. Requesting block of Hezzospike
  4. Problem with Chess article
  5. Please help complete afd nom
  6. Consumption of ink in Colour/Black cartridges in printer/copier/scanner
  7. Reference
  8. global turn off boxes at top of page
  9. Project to bring word like editing to wikisoftware?
  10. Edit counters
  11. Conflict of Interest
  12. Status template

December 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 22

  1. Getting out of "edit conflict" on ref. desk pages
  2. Creating new WikiProject
  3. Linking from an article to an userpage
  4. Purchasing an image
  5. A full delete of account?
  6. My account doesn't exist anymore. What?
  7. Spliting Cells
  8. Is List of films shot in Sonora, California deletable?
  9. business growth.
  10. Not legal
  11. How to edit, update, or replace an image
  12. External links to non-http urls
  13. Editing/Modifying "Musicians" Template.
  14. Attacks on an organization by a Wiki user

December 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 23

  1. Trying to get some help
  2. "this file has no extension"
  3. misplaced "edit" button
  4. Indian Election - 2009
  5. Question
  6. How do I go about deleting sections from an article
  7. New photo
  8. Reliable sources
  9. Question Regarding Creating Infoboxes
  10. military air force
  11. Userbox Icon
  12. Hi
  13. Linking my name
  14. Non-editable Footnotes section of an article

December 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 24

  1. Biographies of living persons policy
  2. Most viewed pages
  3. Donation
  4. Browsing in my mother tongue-Tamil
  5. How do I get a template?
  6. Editing Talk Pages
  7. Cite news
  8. Trivia
  9. Featured Picture

December 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 25

  1. Notes, References, See Also, Further Reading...
  2. Dispute on secondary source
  3. Deadlink clearing house
  4. search soundex
  5. Encyclopaedias

December 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 26

  1. Reverting old vandalism edits
  2. Hatrick Wickets Takers
  3. creating a new page
  4. Temperary transfur of land and house to remove someone from property
  5. Professional reviews
  6. Posting the same message on multiple users' talk pages
  7. Template:Infobox Fishery
  8. what are the steps (make it coherent please) to upload my new article? Please upload this article for me (see inside)

December 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 27

  1. redirects tagging
  2. Writing an article
  3. Binomial authority for article
  4. rating articles
  5. Siddha Yoga
  6. Category name correction
  7. forced un-alphabetical list within categories
  8. Who is watching
  9. publishing my CV in wikepedia
  10. Editing an Author's Name in the Reference List
  11. Meta References
  12. Getting information changed

December 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 28

  1. Template appearance
  2. New Words
  3. Signing posts?
  4. Fundraising banner message has a spelling mistake
  5. Adding a second user box via Educat
  6. New Articles
  7. Deleting an article
  8. Why is my IP address still logged if I have a username?
  9. Transwiki links and collation
  10. Steps to Update Corporate Logo
  11. Help please
  12. Suffix index
  13. Bennie Oosterbaan infobox

December 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 29

  1. Translating a template
  2. Need clarification on process to obtain necessary copyright for image use
  3. Sortable tables
  4. Something funny on my page
  5. Vandals at my userpage and Wikipedia reflection script
  6. Archiving 'Help talk' pages
  7. Photoshopped images?
  8. Need help - minor fix needed
  9. WP:GAR not updating/purging
  10. poor excuse for an article
  11. Could someone direct me to...
  12. Permanent Press doesn't work
  13. Gotta go, someone help please
  14. Need help recovering info

December 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 30

  1. Editing Question
  2. Userpage
  3. Request to be removed from blacklist
  4. Automatic clean up script
  5. number of articles created
  6. Alphabets used
  7. Embedded lists
  8. Reference Tags in Section Headers
  9. Text colors
  10. Template changes not reflected in templates in articles
  11. merging infoboxes
  12. obituary

December 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 December 31

  1. PRINTING PROBLEMS WITH WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES
  2. LMEX
  3. Question
  4. Turn crisis to Christmas
  5. Linking to a section header with a template included
  6. About Content
  7. Password
  8. Can I set a future expiration date for an article I create?
  9. 'Uploader' status requested to add photo from new account
  10. formatting with logo problem
  11. Runaways to GA
  12. User hash
  13. Editcounters
  14. Need an admin's help to fix Nut (hardware)
  15. Help with coordinates
  16. Link to page "Pingu Episodes Series 4"
  17. dealing with a frequent POV user
  18. Image tags
  19. author
  20. Admin
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