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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 1

  1. Blacklist
  2. Ferus Gallery
  3. Kumiko Higa
  4. Check a diff, please?
  5. how to pronounce
  6. WikiProject Hip hop
  7. post or entry
  8. Script for preventing access to my contributions page
  9. Article Coretta Scott King
  10. Gerontology
  11. Save articles to account...
  12. Plagiarism?
  13. Copying your information for another website.
  14. Notability Noticeboard
  15. Help with links
  16. Adding photos to my article
  17. Page View Counter
  18. What happened to the May 5 archives?
  19. Nowiki Problem

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 2

  1. Revision Numbers
  2. building a fence
  3. unknown painting #2
  4. Special page for protecting
  5. Deletion
  6. User status
  7. Requested Page
  8. Brit vs. American spelling?
  9. Talk page
  10. Problems connecting to Wikipedia via Internet Explorer
  11. word-wrap
  12. Portal problem....
  13. medicine
  14. sub headings...
  15. editing help
  16. Urine therapy??? - RSVP ASAP
  17. "Spam blacklist"
  18. changing out of the disambiguation classification
  19. Adding a picture

July 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 3

  1. Images scrolling incorrectly
  2. the word, there
  3. User committed identity
  4. Industry bias!
  5. Suspected Socks
  6. References
  7. Advertising Business
  8. Anon IP contributions
  9. blocked petition
  10. How do I take a case to Arbitration
  11. Positioning and help with the Div and Span
  12. Locking an article
  13. Photo captions

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 4

  1. WP:AIV report
  2. Foreign links
  3. My Problem
  4. Photo captions again
  5. Japanese
  6. User discussion page won't archive
  7. Low importance articles
  8. Connection
  9. Link to User page
  10. Special templates
  11. Institute of Sport and Recreation Management
  12. Forbidden
  13. Delete my account.
  14. A question on sourcing
  15. Forward slash in article title
  16. looking for a name
  17. Uploading Copyrighted Pictures With No Known Website Available
  18. Editing a Featured Article
  19. Dispute Resolution

July 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 5

  1. Skip to the top/bottom
  2. Help with Action Buttons
  3. How to make page come up on google search
  4. Signature
  5. Speedy Deletion Tags
  6. trouble adding an image to an article
  7. User Pages
  8. Hidden text question
  9. diploma colleges in mumbai
  10. CSS code to change monobook background
  11. why we cannot copy an audio cd to a hard disk?61.2.193.231 (talk) 18:43, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
  12. About my IP
  13. Detailed Template Question
  14. Oddball Image question
  15. Closing proposed policies
  16. Total nubcakealamode question

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 6

  1. Moving the toolbox
  2. Barnstars, awards
  3. Need to "market" my template
  4. G.Shankar- Creating beauty out of mud in the shape of buildings.
  5. How do I create pages that only i can view?
  6. Help, someone is removing my material
  7. Abbey Building Society
  8. How?
  9. Menu bars
  10. Signature
  11. Creating a new article, but another article has the same title.
  12. DELETE
  13. Javascript collection
  14. Span and Div
  15. Alignment
  16. Formatting question
  17. Wikipedia a host for fan fiction?
  18. How to determine who "this user" is
  19. How do I report admin abuse?
  20. User Page Errors
  21. Menus

July 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 7

  1. Signature
  2. Blocked images
  3. Offline Editing of Wikipedia article
  4. Wikipedia article using another Wikipedia article as a source
  5. Um, what?
  6. Vandalism - I've run out of time
  7. Still having trouble creating categories
  8. Using Wikipedia Content to Teach Marketing Courses in English
  9. User Profile
  10. What's going on with this article please?
  11. Locking Down Sites
  12. Globe thing
  13. LINKING
  14. histories
  15. Need to contact administrator.
  16. Geography
  17. Link colors
  18. Parser Function
  19. Need help spelling
  20. editting headline
  21. editting headlines
  22. Special:PrefixIndex
  23. Deleting a sandbox
  24. Search Query Direction
  25. New Parser Function
  26. Edit a semiprotect article

July 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 8

  1. !vote?
  2. Missing Something... Ashamed
  3. Categorization
  4. how can i upload my company's profile in wikipedia
  5. AFD creation failed
  6. Creating halftone (gray) text
  7. Collapsible
  8. recent changes
  9. Listing pages created by a specific user
  10. Underage?
  11. Archived talk page in main space
  12. Please Tersen Search Results pre-amble.
  13. Creating a port page.

July 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 9

  1. weird click errors
  2. Internet Archive
  3. Inserting footnote?
  4. Accessing deleted content
  5. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 9#[redacted]|[redacted]]]
  6. Question
  7. Using index.php
  8. Monitor width template
  9. Is wikipedia gonna be around for a while?
  10. Twinkle
  11. How to centre a gallery
  12. Watchlisting categories?
  13. Formatting question
  14. Incorrect web address for link in article on Harlem, Georgia
  15. Removing a Flag
  16. How would you?
  17. offering help to edit the "Adstream" profile
  18. Vandalism on Gregory Peck?
  19. Starting my own wiki
  20. Default sort

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 10

  1. Liverpool Gay Quarter and Stanley Street, Liverpool articles
  2. Problem signing talk pages
  3. List of articles needing copyedits?
  4. long missing friend
  5. Gameplay
  6. is there a search feature for village pump discussions?
  7. What's that image?
  8. Spaces vanishing after links
  9. How to create a wiki profile
  10. Article deletion
  11. user name
  12. Calculating Seconds to YDHMS
  13. Template:Ft to m is out of order
  14. Able to access deleted page through google Search
  15. Summary deletion of template
  16. Multiple AFDs
  17. Searching for a special template
  18. changing main headline
  19. what is the max amount of times you can change your username?
  20. Death certificate
  21. Stanley Street, Liverpool
  22. Mos SoS
  23. IS IT OK?
  24. I can't log in - I'm a first time user
  25. Adding categories to images located on commons

July 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 11

  1. Mac Wiki Software
  2. Page location
  3. Um Style...
  4. Is there a way to omit a particular bot's edits from your watchlist?
  5. Am I qualified for Autoconfirmed status?
  6. Primary Historical Documents and offline, published sources
  7. Picture Vandalism?
  8. catwatch.js
  9. Other statistics
  10. Docking Stations
  11. Template
  12. Need help with wikilink problems
  13. Question about article title formatting
  14. Image problem
  15. Adding Flash Mp3 Player to Wiki
  16. Article request
  17. Title capitalisation: move help needed
  18. Another archive issue
  19. Wikiproject for watching featured content
  20. Linking Images
  21. The factual quality of Wikipedia
  22. gadges
  23. Tallest Lighted Living Christmas Tree
  24. Article on Lebanon elections
  25. How to create an alternative definition?

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 12

  1. Rock of Love 2 - edit information
  2. Prime Factorization
  3. Possible Link Spam?
  4. Liverpool and Manchester articles
  5. Slow to update
  6. Download Wikipedia
  7. WP traffic patterns
  8. Changing an article's name
  9. Museum
  10. How to find a line number?
  11. Article rating
  12. How can I in an article make the Table of Content appear?
  13. How to create pages?
  14. Liverpool gay quarter
  15. Equation numbers

July 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 13

  1. Wikipedia On Desktop
  2. opening fixed deposit account
  3. Ensuring that my username doesn't come up in google
  4. Create a new Subcategory
  5. Problems with Password and Email address
  6. How can I auto reference wiki articles from outside wiki?
  7. Using Wikipedia on a mobile phone
  8. signatures
  9. Atlas
  10. How should sourcing be done in templates?
  11. Odd characters
  12. Delete search history
  13. help fix references
  14. old news papers
  15. Invalid confirmation code. The code may have expired.
  16. Account creator

July 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 14

  1. deleted image
  2. Utah State Cleanup
  3. job interview
  4. Help asked to post RfA
  5. Where is a page...
  6. Other languages added to Wikipedia
  7. Slow link to Wikipedia and unavailability of images
  8. Edits to a specific page
  9. Page looks different, when logged in or logged out
  10. T:ITN
  11. Adding button (next previous)
  12. When will article appear?
  13. I Can't Find the Right Template
  14. Renaming an image
  15. Help with delicate issue
  16. Copying a page
  17. Subpages
  18. create an account
  19. Was my account removed?

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 15

  1. Pedantry
  2. Prawn
  3. Two questions about Richard Krawiec article:
  4. Sockpuppet question
  5. Bingham Canyon Mine
  6. accidentely deleted some words in crc based framing article.....................what should i do.............?i have no login id........
  7. I forgot my password, and I do not receive an email from wiki concerning my password
  8. Looking for a third party
  9. i am sister nancy and i see that my article was deleted or remove
  10. Moving to an already existent page
  11. PICUM title
  12. google images
  13. Changing PNG to SVG in an article
  14. Email Trouble
  15. Marchand de Bien
  16. HELP!!!! Images not displaying.
  17. Lupin's tool

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 16

  1. Java classes
  2. Using episode list template
  3. Navigation templates
  4. credir
  5. Is it wise for me to make an account?
  6. Uploading a organizations logo image
  7. Vascath used in medicine explain
  8. Customising a signature
  9. How do i make a page?
  10. templates
  11. equipment lists

July 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 17

  1. "Last Updated"
  2. Watermarked image
  3. Google
  4. I cannot access my account
  5. A mother in need!
  6. EFSA
  7. Restoration of Article
  8. Sea Cucumbers
  9. Do you know Dokdo??
  10. Wiki markup
  11. Reference:Excel
  12. Text NOT wrapping
  13. Account creator rights
  14. One last question...
  15. I Cannot See Any Photos on Wikipedia Pages
  16. Forgott Password
  17. USER page in google search results
  18. PLEASE delete my account
  19. StarMedia
  20. Message?

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 18

  1. Very Bizarre...
  2. DELETING-
  3. A Tale of Two References
  4. Moving displaced edit command back to proper spot ?
  5. Adding a section to a category
  6. WXXS FM Formatting Comments Available
  7. What to do?
  8. Marcus Giavanni
  9. Is there a tool that does this?
  10. Structure of articles
  11. wiki question
  12. My userpage header
  13. Boscos Pizza Company
  14. Watchlist Bug?
  15. Aligning templates
  16. When does the editing stop.
  17. Wikilinking to Categories
  18. Username
  19. What is this?
  20. Bosco's Pizza company
  21. I've busted an infobox
  22. Punctuation
  23. Interwiki links
  24. Flickr
  25. Problem viewing Hexapoda
  26. Popups
  27. Deleting History
  28. Gallery

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 19

  1. How old is my account?
  2. Vandal threatening suicide
  3. Hacker/spammer attack on a page
  4. Zodiac?
  5. Template:Ft to m still somewhat broken
  6. remove deceptive external link
  7. Searching titles?
  8. Need to site a reference for this????
  9. Zodiac bomb
  10. Whale tail
  11. Creating/Editing Article Entries with Multiple Names/Titles?
  12. Questioning an image

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 20

  1. Next step to take with user breaking rules?
  2. Login and Password
  3. UTC
  4. ref help
  5. Template:reflist
  6. A problem with apostrophes in the topic title?
  7. cheatsheet
  8. OK to create subpage within a talk page?
  9. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 20#|]]
  10. Cannot find new item, checked delete log
  11. image help
  12. New to Wikipedia.
  13. Account deletion
  14. Strange glitch
  15. Too speedy deletion
  16. Nissan Xterra

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 21

  1. Is there anyway I can block myself from WP
  2. Wikified
  3. Weird login problem
  4. Help with a table
  5. help
  6. mobile access
  7. Math fonts in wikipedia
  8. oversight?
  9. Can you reassess your own articles..?
  10. adding a new page to wikipedia
  11. puzzle question
  12. Adding an Acronym to a Page
  13. Creating an article
  14. Zodiac, again
  15. Copyright problem
  16. How do I include the edit box?
  17. Subsection edit tag positioning problem in Firefox
  18. Merging Templates

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 22

  1. blacklist
  2. the cost of extracting a barrel of oil
  3. Can someone help set up
  4. Wikipedia password limits
  5. 122.163.184.99 (talk) 06:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC) about mathematics content management
  6. Improving an article to save it from getting deleted
  7. software version numbers as original research
  8. Archiving old talk pages and article rating
  9. Autoconfirmed status for posting images
  10. Looking for credibility of weekly standard
  11. Mobile phone
  12. Email
  13. New field
  14. Collapsing templates
  15. Adding a Bio section chart on the side

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 23

  1. Children of Rev Ralph W L Tollemache (second marriage)
  2. Vandalism on main page
  3. Main Page issues
  4. Prod an orphaned image?
  5. How up to date / accurate is Help:Category?
  6. Where is the list of templates?
  7. Password reset requests
  8. article title capitalization
  9. WELDING TECHNOLOGY
  10. Edit Peru Page
  11. Quick look up Number of train station in specific area is created
  12. Portal:Afghanistan
  13. Show/hide box
  14. help
  15. Job Posting site?
  16. Unconfirmed user after 6 days
  17. children protective services

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 24

  1. how to create a wikipedia page
  2. How to report a wiki user who is deleting content?
  3. Help with templates and translation.
  4. mail address
  5. Reporting a bug?
  6. Venus Williams (edit 'war')
  7. edit visible when logged in but not visible otherwise
  8. Started articles
  9. Login email
  10. Second opinion
  11. I have been getting an error msg for almost a week, trying to create an account
  12. Editing categories
  13. If I use Wikipedia in my computer, will I be charged any extra payment or it is 100% free?
  14. Chat
  15. Correct Broken Web Links (2nd Notice)
  16. Number of references; when is enough, enough

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 25

  1. That message at the top
  2. Question
  3. New name
  4. Calendar-building help required
  5. Similar Article overides the Article I wrote.
  6. Logging in
  7. Copyvio image
  8. Glenn Letsch
  9. Unable to edit solely the lead sections of articles
  10. editing the header

July 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 26

  1. Merge accounts
  2. template
  3. new wikiprojects
  4. What to do when reference in Wikipedia article links to site with a Trojan ?
  5. Okay to create template for prominent family?
  6. vandalismon english wikipedia
  7. Enniskillen bombimg
  8. Username doesn't work.
  9. Uploading an image
  10. How did you do that?
  11. Userpage help
  12. i dont understand anything
  13. Question
  14. Account

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 27

  1. Putting photographs
  2. instantchess.com advertising?
  3. 80/20 Thinking
  4. Changing title name
  5. Style guide for former country
  6. Funny coding
  7. Suggestion for new page
  8. Speedy deletes
  9. Climate table
  10. Have my Article creating priviliedges been suspended?
  11. New heart surgery procedure
  12. disappearing edits

July 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 28

  1. Service Badge
  2. The edit summary
  3. Category question
  4. latest words
  5. Immersion Composition Society
  6. A survey
  7. What are the main anti-vandalism initiatives?
  8. Can no longer login with email that contains underscores [email protected]
  9. Broken link in AfD template
  10. Correcting the title of my newly-created entry
  11. Captain wants to speak to Bradbury
  12. Speedy deletion and copyright infringement
  13. Can a block record be purged?
  14. Wikipedia:Images for upload/Current Requests revert problem
  15. Main Page Protection?
  16. Some MOS-related questions
  17. List in chronological order?
  18. Scranton
  19. Alison Wright is a Photojournalist not a journalist
  20. Document transcluding

July 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 29

  1. Signature
  2. Unable to Access "Red Square" Moscow
  3. Bullet (*)
  4. Scrollable TOC
  5. Sort of water filter system in US
  6. The size of virus and heavy metal in water
  7. Am I wrong?
  8. Notability
  9. about e-books
  10. Local copy of Nature article?
  11. how do you add an article to wikipedia?
  12. Codes for styles
  13. Editing the entry: How to do that?
  14. Large Font Size
  15. Wikipedia for a company
  16. same topic in different language
  17. Bot Coding
  18. User Group Rights?
  19. looking up Company statistics/profile
  20. REGAINING ACCESS TO MY ACCOUNT AFTER LOSING THE EMAIL
  21. Never using your site again
  22. ZIRH International is now ZIRH Holdings, LLC
  23. Rename category
  24. Category searching
  25. Admin Abuse
  26. How do I get GNU License
  27. Tracking who visits the page
  28. Fundraising allowed?
  29. UNPUBLISHED PAGE???
  30. Photobucket
  31. What is guider.nl????? It takes you to wikipedia and stuff it is weird.
  32. Legal advice
  33. username and password
  34. How do I add an image to my article?

July 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 31

July 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 30

  1. Unable to edit pages on English Wikipedia using Firefox or Mozilla-based Browsers when logged in.
  2. Robert Braiden... where are you ???
  3. What happened to my article?
  4. New Article Name for defunct company
  5. Named references with only one cite
  6. Major revision to an established article
  7. redirect
  8. Transcluding special pages
  9. Creating Two Posts
  10. Changing search name for article
  11. file from computer into company infobox?
  12. Using quotations as headers?
  13. ? unexpected offer - slightly worrying
  14. eliminating duplicate citations/refs
  15. Blender wiki = reliable ref?
  16. email
  17. Question about regionalism
  18. Adding an audio/video clip
  19. Searching categories
  20. Michael Baxter
  21. How do I join a WikiProject?
  22. Accounts
  23. What is your policy on commercial sounding content?

July 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 July 31

  1. Using Chinese Traditional Characters
  2. using epinions what was the general rating of officemax
  3. Problem with my User Page
  4. Outlook Research
  5. Formatting in templates
  6. Deleted article
  7. search option
  8. Photos
  9. Quotations as Headers
  10. WHY
  11. notability/references
  12. sandbox possible?
  13. Revert Image
  14. No recipes in articles
  15. Create
  16. Autoconfirm
  17. Taylor Forrester (From Bold and the beautiful)
  18. Linking accounts on Wikipedia
  19. slanderous information
  20. Warning Message?
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