Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2010

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December 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 1

1. Contributions by Companies
2. How to EDIT a season of TV episodes to realign Episode Numbers with correct Episode Names.
3. Help
4. Readable content in a WP article?
5. Admins pushing POV
6. cappos
7. Names of Large French Company CEOs?
8. images
9. Jimmy Wales
10. Help
11. Urgent Post on Talk:Live television
12. Wikipedia fundraising ads worse than banner ads

December 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 2

1. A few things to discuss
2. Question
3. Further to my last
4. obtaining a copy of a will
5. Limited access vs dead links
6. November 2010 disappeared in page view statistics
7. What happened to Phil Schneider's page?
8. Protected article
9. where does my donation go?
10. The repeated displays of banners
11. Broken "Kartika" and "Lilaroja" and "Joan Goma" banners
12. Wikipedia Mobile formatting problem on Palm Pre/WebOS
13. Donation via BACS in the UK
14. softening seawater before desalination using Sodium r Sodium Hydroxide
15. Edit comparison tool
16. Wikipedia in Nahuatl
17. Page moves and archives

December 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 3

1. Photo Hanayo
2. My additions to an article were removed
3. Canvassing?
4. German question
5. Wrong dog photo
6. :Category:Free software programmed in Tcl tkwww is listed under M
7. Logged in signal desired
8. oxygen and carbon di oxide
9. Where is the Artisian page?
10. Yugoslavian languages problem
11. Returning editor
12. Meaning of Wikipedia
13. Question from 187.15.23.96
14. Chem Symbols
15. Wikitables
16. Picture Formatting
17. Is my article moving forward?
18. Mark up text

December 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 4

1. Two thing to discuss
2. Infoboxes of my own
3. Contents
4. Uploading pictures
5. WP:NPOV and WP:TITLE
6. Dear Wikipedia
7. we would love to donate but....
8. Two sharks for sister Sarah
9. Could someone please remove Jimmy Wales' photo from Wikipedia? It's doing my nut in.
10. August Heinrich Petermann
11. Ochromonas malhamensis and Vitamin B-12
12. Suddenly no possibility to edit
13. My submission was declined
14. Subscribing
15. wiki and lyrics
16. Questions about donating...
17. Image name problem

December 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 5

1. Maps on Wikipedia
2. My Page Was Redirected & Maybe Deleted...Help!
3. changes made to a "see also" section of a page on wikipedia.
4. disappeared?
5. Time stamp
6. text deleted but did not save a copy.
7. Donations from India
8. infoboxes show up as half the width long for some people but not others!
9. Draft article
10. User sandbox
11. Reviewer
12. Format
13. Remove Intrusive Jimmy Wales Banner
14. info box Netherlands
15. Fixing Horribly Malformed Talk Pages
16. On other wikis
17. Template
18. Legitemate link removed
19. write the truth

December 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 6

1. Wikipedia pages not displaying properly
2. Language problem
3. Problem with "new external links" message
4. What is archive url and what is url?????????????????
5. Wikipedia's sister projects
6. Promostyl should be in Wikipedia
7. Is There An Automated User Box for Edits / Contributions?
8. Help needed with page move
9. www.softpedia.com keeps deleting my (and others) contribution to the wikipedia articol about them, because that truth is not good for their image
10. Collapsing sections via options
11. Dear Mr. Wales
12. Deletion Log
13. Mescalero Apache
14. Heidolph Image Deletion/ Page HELP
15. How I do I use code to insert blank spaces in an article? Want to space infobox and other sections properly.
16. A comment on NotabilityGuidelines.
17. Leaks
18. HELP blues clues
19. Pro coder
20. Merging 2 articles - Beauchamps School and Beauchamps High School

December 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 7

1. English language problem
2. WP:???
3. Wikipedia logo use
4. Maybe now...
5. Need help from someone experienced with the backend of the ref tag
6. Image upload
7. Submitted an entry but can't find it unless I do to my 'contributions' page
8. Uppercase 'i's and lowercase 'L's
9. Bracked link to a redirect page
10. Page layout problem
11. Adding a PDF file containing his war time experiences to my fathers listing in Wikipedia
12. Need to rename/move article
13. Ophthalmology
14. Henry Hopwood
15. Help -- I made extensive updates a few weeks ago and the updates are not showing!
16. portuguese version of wiki
17. Philabundance Wiki Page- please help
18. Place-Based Social Media
19. uploading picture
20. Julian
21. Curtis J Hopfenbeck
22. Posting Company Information

December 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 8

1. Is there a simple way to change my user name?
2. Kennedy Western University
3. Public-key cryptography Encryption explanation is encrypted!
4. Could somebody delete this page
5. Oldid
6. Viable reference
7. Translation
8. How do I change the name of my article from the default name?
9. How to include or point to software supporting Wiki topics?
10. How to Change the User name
11. Un-publish temporarily
12. How can I donate from India?
13. Are we allowed to create a page for personal websites?
14. Assamese Christian Literature
15. Do we have a Wiki Project for music?
16. automatic notification of edits
17. Automatic Update of Edit Count
18. ConvaTec Wikipedia Page Correction Request
19. Pet Shop Boys category
20. help userfying a deleted article
21. Section Redirect
22. Tear down of existing article and restart almost from scratch. How?
23. Company selling books of Wikipedia articles possibly without attribution
24. Twitter as a source sucks, right?
25. translating
26. Getting rid of this personal appeal at the top of every page!

December 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 9

1. problem with page
2. Help is needed!
3. Inviation
4. unwritten history
5. Downloading specific categories from wikimedia dumps
6. Facebook displays an obsolete link to a wikipedia picture
7. Two questions
8. Default font size change?
9. My post was altered
10. How can I get responses to discussions that I start?
11. your story on terrance deon long
12. Publish
13. Request photo
14. Company Listing
15. Referencing images
16. Change Fitchburg, WI Reference
17. Feedback
18. The Trade Wiki Beta
19. Please review
20. Personal appeal from Lilaroja or Jimmy Wales

December 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 10

1. Editing a page
2. Hawaii Bowl 2010
3. Provide an Option for donation in Indian Currency
4. How do I remove the banner from the top from the founder and, currently, Wikimedia Executive Director Sue Gardner?
5. crossbow mote works problem
6. Homework question
7. Creative Commons
8. Conflict question.
9. Technical/Editorial problem in a page
10. link between an english wiki page and another in french.
11. Pronunciation
12. Need someone with a NYT online subscription to check out a reference for me
13. Lost page
14. XXXCupid.com
15. How to insert infobox, images?
16. sandbox(?) article has been completely reproduced on a non wikipedia site. any options for removal?
17. New Page
18. Factual error on a locked page.
19. search box

December 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 11

1. Search box gone--not in upper right, not anywhere...?
2. Search box no longer appears
3. seinfeld characters
4. tinyurl.com/000psy psychiatry is a fraud
5. Complicated cut and paste mess - Assyrian language
6. help
7. How to edit/delete uploaded jpegs?
8. Bad faith
9. hand chiseled stone water trough
10. business plan
11. background colour into grey !
12. Page not accessible ..
13. Need help with template
14. IP blocking
15. Additional film for Capucine
16. Mentoring a disruptive editor
17. Need help entering article in Wikipedia

December 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 12

1. Signature issues
2. Disappearing Tabs
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra
4. Background image
5. New Webcast & Website Links for Radio Stations
6. What Is The Template For "moving a user page into mainspace"?
7. SUBMISSION OF CITATION
8. Whom should be notified of potential breaking of mass numbers of FactFinder references
9. How can I donate I dont have Credit card
10. Contents of my talk page as a list !
11. Wikipedian Categories
12. On psychology
13. Please can Wiki stop the begging spam at the top ove EVERY page !!!!???????
14. Use of Photos
15. Preventing Libel on Wikipedia
16. cable leaks
17. AfD creation problem
18. Fear and Trembling
19. Flag carrier page

December 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 13

1. First time Commons user, help por favor!
2. Need help..
3. embedding photo in article
4. Links that have square brackets in the URL
5. Redirect
6. Conflict of interest
7. forensic doctor
8. Editing WP with Kindle
9. Table subjugated to external links
10. Flattr
11. TV channels
12. Navigating among languages in which Wikipedia articles are written
13. Inclusion of indian rupee
14. If Wikipedia is ad-free, as it claims, then why are we bothered by countless "personal appeal[s]" to stuff Mr Wales pockets?
15. Thumbplay
16. Question about reliable sources
17. showing Arabic and Hebrew
18. Temporary strip references out of text

December 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 14

1. Xoloitzcuintli infomation
2. including a name of a village
3. Sharing a reference
4. Dual accounts
5. Change Name of Article without Confirmed status
6. Rix Centre help with Wikipedia project groups
7. Janet Graham
8. Edit Associated Acts under a band wiki
9. Help editing page

December 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 15

1. Image use
2. Cell phone view mode
3. Citing journals
4. how to donate other than USD, if i want to donate to Wikipedia?
5. Banner special pages
6. "Phase II" software
7. Can i look for a friend just by providing a photo of him because i forgot his name.
8. wrong city/state listed under info
9. ref
10. Photo copyright...
11. Jimmy Wales badly formatted
12. information on Botswana
13. Call out box for politicians, public figures
14. Where is Wikipolicy discussed?
15. Yagba West, Kogi State, Nig

December 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 16

1. Smaller Donations
2. Where is the article I wrote£
3. Occidental - suggested edits
4. Need someone to help find italic problem
5. IT'S NOT SHOWING UP
6. WikiLeaks
7. shared IP address?
8. Blocked Message from Wickipedia
9. Political figures
10. Wiki for Thomas Edison - Error listing schools named after him
11. Email domain change
12. Want some information about Amigotechs software
13. Inquiry about a recently deleted page... thank you for your help
14. Associated with Wikipedia?
15. Any existing template for listing projects undertaken by a charity/organisation
16. Submitting information about a musician
17. Table not accessible
18. Kjære Herr/Fru
19. New Page
20. Cursor not defaulting to search box upon opening Wikipedia
21. New text now displaying as centered, not left-justified
22. help deleting a redirect
23. I've buggered it up!
24. Process of creating
25. Math in templates using parameters
26. change back to original format
27. Logos

December 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 17

1. Piccirilli Brothers Wiki Site
2. Coca-Cola and wikipedia's coi
3. Some things I want to discuss
4. Wikistalk
5. Italics in links
6. 3.5 M
7. Wikipedia is NOT truly an Open Editable Model, and Jimmy Wales needs to be alerted
8. What to do
9. new version of bit defender
10. Forcibly logged out repeatedly
11. The Trade Wiki Beta--how is it related to Wikipedia
12. Changing a Wikipedia page for a course
13. Donate
14. article deleted
15. Important information that hasn't been published in English
16. long-term creation of an article
17. Link Appearance

December 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 18

1. Biased Article
2. Wikipedia's use of browser cookies
3. Punjabi programme
4. Formatting archived discussions nearly lost during page move
5. Aircraft compare
6. Saint Nicolass
7. rollback
8. about A.C CURRENT STORAGE
9. Article Rename
10. My Contribution for submission
11. error on page
12. Template trouble
13. Phone numbers
14. Is there a higher authority to appeal to, in the event of disagreement with an article's content?

December 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 19

1. Mischsprache
2. Procedure for uploading sounds ( Audios )
3. Post a school paper (which has bias) on sister project
4. Login Unification - Home wiki has different password?
5. How do i change a secure port to a non-secure port?
6. Soviet Union music recording certification - are there any???
7. Please add headlines
8. Rochville university
9. Help merge two articles.
10. Passerine
11. Two tables columns
12. Severe Disability Needs
13. Wikipedia default font size
14. Volunteer to Translate for Wikipedia (Spanish English)
15. Help needed to fix a layout problem on my user page
16. first time article writer question
17. Discussing a new article creation
18. My user page is screwed up!
19. Need admin help moving JuJu Chang to Juju Chang, changing redirect

December 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 20

1. Danish Jews
2. Help closing a discussion
3. rainfall
4. Same image name on WP and Commons
5. new army
6. Alexandra Powers
7. Tool of article readability
8. redirection
9. Source
10. Requesting assistance: Occidental Petroleum
11. Satellite
12. حجة
13. Article not being shown
14. Minor touchup for math?
15. Mark Gall
16. Image with a copyright statement in its filename
17. Lowery's painting of Ebbw Vale
18. Need category help
19. Political Bias Regarding UK Post Office/Royal Mail Description
20. The Lion King 4

December 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 21

1. Paris By Night
2. Patriot Guard Riders
3. Citing/Reference Question
4. Where are my images?
5. fonts
6. Article Being deleted
7. looking for a job
8. Sharing same account across WP & WN
9. Wikipedia content quoted without attribution/reference to the authors
10. Malfunction
11. Reclaiming an account with no email attached
12. Diana Dors
13. submitting the biography of an author
14. AFD help
15. why was my page on uiolentapneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosising deleted
16. Wikipedia should support advertisements for a revenue stream
17. Updating Abdul Khaliq Hazara, Formatting Error with RtL Font/Text
18. Sigma Gamme Rho

December 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 22

1. James McGill (child actor)
2. Abbreviation "ce" used in edit summaries
3. What's it called
4. What are those insets normally at the top of the pages called?
5. email notification
6. Muhammad Zafrullah Khan
7. Every word a link.
8. Are you allowed to edit if....
9. WP: TWINKLE
10. "People from New York City" CATEGORY entry
11. Fixing table in Ecology#Population ecology
12. Problem with svg picture
13. How do I keep my information from being deleted before I can find out how to edit?
14. A-Class
15. Cannot find my article in user drafts anymore! Not even under contributions...
16. Newly created page not showing in search results
17. Jack Scoltock Irish author
18. Tuskegee Airmen
19. HELP! Some "Stalker" is SABOTAGING A SUBJECT! Someone is entering the article and totally sabotaging the article what shall one do?

December 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 23

1. Donation suggestion
2. Verifying data on Wikipedia
3. State Library of Queensland
4. Jimmy Wales
5. how to determine URL from image name
6. Removal of photo from wikipedia
7. linking accounts
8. Permanent text size change for logged in?
9. Error in editing page
10. Diff on page--what am I missing?
11. Can't properly add citation
12. How do I add a picture to an article I created?
13. When can tags to add references or clean up the page be removed?
14. Convert from IP user to registered user

December 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 24

1. Anything recourse for abusive user comments in Discussion?
2. Citing a source
3. Can I download the query log of wikipedia?
4. New user query re article creation & talk page
5. WHAT!!!!!!!
6. Alonzo Elliot: Composer
7. copyright or not?
8. going live with an entry
9. AN vs. ANI
10. Another file with one name, but FOUR images
11. Capitalization Issue In New Article Title
12. Doug Smail Ex Fife Flyers Player

December 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 25

1. Table help
2. Including words in the Russian (Cyrillic) language
3. Fundraising Banners
4. شركات مصنفه
5. How to Donate Here in Iran
6. Writing about one's self
7. New section tab missing
8. Template Change
9. Pop up or new tabs.

December 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 26

1. need to know
2. An ordinary average guy like to donate
3. Getting repeated errors when editing
4. Font size for MATH "${\displaystyle }$"
5. Making Donations To Wikipedia: Why Should I Have To Pay Through PayPal?
6. An ordinary average guy like to donate
7. DIVORCED WOMEN
8. User Bdb484 is changing everything to back to his version.
9. Login error
10. Filmography
11. Quickie...add reference for an 'orphan'
12. 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
13. Modifying a page without the Edit hyperlink

December 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 27

1. Some things I would like to discuss
2. Some non-question that had no heading
3. Alexandra Powers
4. Glen MacDonough
5. Regarding Policy Number: WTG1321908
6. geolocation
7. System does not accept any login name
8. Check information on a main page but also on individuals?
9. Template help
10. The use of ' vs >
11. Alexandra Powers
12. Sorting Wikipedia links?
13. Questions about using infobox templates
14. Unable to edit
15. Copy and paste vandalism
16. Advertisements

December 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 28

1. My browser reports a virus in the image on a La Sagrada Familia page
2. No apostrophe in the Broadway production of Hellzapoppin
3. Selected Works
4. What percentage of the world population plays golf?
5. Restricted Page, can't edit page Frankel Jewish Academy- Religious Lies about the Jewish School
6. Ratings for Movies
7. Stuff to help with
8. How do I delete an unused account?
9. Picture alignment
10. Most visited non-existent articles
11. Apply a monobook line only when using Safari
12. Rape Statistics
13. Wiki clock

December 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 29

1. About Donation
2. Johnson Tan Hiok Phuay
3. About Principles of photonics You can give me the useful webside also can give me the details
4. How do I create an entry?
5. Searching in category an subcategories
6. File extension does not match MIME type.
7. Question about the Writer Infobox

December 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 30

1. Fundraiser
2. Alexandra Powers
3. copyright fees
4. Creating an article
5. SUL Usurpation
6. Remove my photos from Wikipedia
7. Why doesn't My watchlist e-mail me new changes?
8. One discussion in multiple forums
9. Invisible anchors?
10. Hilite template not working
11. How do I edit an photo on Wiki?
12. Edwardian Funerals
13. Wife complaint

December 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 December 31

1. Tab
2. Australian football club logos and jumpers/guernseys
3. meters
4. Requesting assistance
5. why do you need money(donations)?
6. Kinuyo Yamashita
7. Send article by email
8. Rod Macqueen vs Rod MacQueen
9. Section Deleted
10. Easy way of finding articles I've created