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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 1

  1. WP Crash
  2. "File Download - Security Warning"
  3. Image Map
  4. Add an Image
  5. Tor Issues
  6. Is an article consisting mostly of links acceptable?
  7. Book photos relating to films
  8. UBX columns
  9. Managing global account
  10. Template problems
  11. how to edit page in order to add notability and references!
  12. How Wikipedia Survey is possible?
  13. currior dout
  14. United States Mint
  15. Brett Salisbury was deleted from Wikipedia...
  16. Changes to my Official Website
  17. Requesting creation of an image
  18. Tracing cross references to an article
  19. Recognisable people in images of public places
  20. Creating a page for a client
  21. Obama
  22. Most frequent editors for a page
  23. Is there a noticeboard to ask about possible non-free images?
  24. Admin pls deleted this own made file ASAP
  25. Categories
  26. Logging out
  27. Having difficulty with "en.wikipedia.org" login on Internet Explorer 8.0
  28. References

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 2

  1. Going On - Disambiguation
  2. Signature Error
  3. Disambiguation of "reel"
  4. Question
  5. External appear Internal
  6. Hw to name an article?
  7. in 1mg of magnesium sulphate what is the quantity of magnesium and sulphate
  8. Is this information correct?
  9. All pages starting with...
  10. Wikipedia pages
  11. how can i save the page
  12. Merchant Navy
  13. Sortable tables
  14. Why is there ActiveX on WP?
  15. Lara Croft
  16. Using the same reference
  17. Live bookmark in Firefox
  18. Template for "over-prosed" biographies?
  19. Asking questions

July 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 3

  1. Blocking Defaults
  2. Appropriate Infobox for Brooklyn Borough Hall?
  3. Logo Copying
  4. Aligning text to the center
  5. Forest Schools
  6. Other website appearance
  7. Recipients of the Legion of Merit
  8. Infobox image not working
  9. Press Council
  10. Starting a new article
  11. SMTP outgoing address for your e-mail server
  12. handling e-mail notifications
  13. Email Confirmations Not Working For Me
  14. How correct internal link pointing to disambiguation page?
  15. Page view statistics
  16. What is the best approach to sections copied from other articles?
  17. Copyright infringement
  18. Image linking
  19. Jay Adams
  20. Wikipedia font displayed hard to read
  21. A Bay Area philosifer said:

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 4

  1. Article Searchability
  2. credit card fraud
  3. PNG better than SVG if the logo is copyrighted ?
  4. Trouble with FaQ and sandboxes
  5. saving options
  6. color in content
  7. Using a Social Network site in External Links.
  8. Edit Process
  9. Searching for or linking to "wiki:foo" redirects to a blank page at c2.com
  10. Filth embedded in document
  11. Deleting my Wikipedia account
  12. Why doesn't my new page here come up when I type in its subject?

July 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 5

  1. Writing a New Article
  2. Retrieving articles
  3. how do i write in here
  4. I had IntrudersAlert from bonzi.com years ago and had lost it by now disposing of my PC.
  5. IE8 issues
  6. Invisible "Reference Section"
  7. Categorizing images
  8. 1988 chevy blazer
  9. Please remove the following line from the following page
  10. Contributing
  11. book blurb as reference?
  12. Problem with a table
  13. can you store lard at room temp?
  14. hi
  15. Thank You
  16. court arrangments
  17. Petro Mart
  18. Won't let me post any regular people
  19. Convert/merge to commons
  20. Uploading an image

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 6

  1. Writing Articles About Companies
  2. Why isn't my new article in the list of new pages?
  3. Changing an Image
  4. Data inconsistency
  5. Order of template messages
  6. re:Mary Katherine Day-Petrano -- U.S. Autistic Savant
  7. Aligning
  8. Counters
  9. Translation questions
  10. Copyright tag
  11. I cannot see the changes I made yesterday for an article
  12. Strange template in Evernote
  13. Offensive Content
  14. How Can I Dispute An Article
  15. Image question
  16. Cleanup and Pictures
  17. researches
  18. Hotlinking a section rather than a whole page
  19. Moving important discussion
  20. How to move a meta:Wikipedia content article to a different namespace
  21. Misdirecting editors

July 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 7

  1. editing spouse information
  2. US Census
  3. WHH disambiguation
  4. New Mobile Format
  5. Radioactive Contamination
  6. How to delete spam links on many pages
  7. Adding an image to infobox
  8. Use of pictures in other websites
  9. CTM
  10. Infobox picture: only file name appears
  11. Naming conventions for articles on Buddhist monks
  12. Blatant advertising
  13. External link verification
  14. Is there an archive of old help messages?
  15. Conway Hall article
  16. conflict of interest in including pharmaceuticals in Wikipedia as such inclusion is used by the drug owners as advertising/propaganda

July 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 8

  1. lost in wiki
  2. consumer behaviour
  3. Articles relying on mostly single sources
  4. Article inaccessable - link
  5. Reference list...?
  6. background check
  7. Minor Grammar Change
  8. entry test medical
  9. engineering
  10. Change of Email Address
  11. Bowler question
  12. Regarding Kannada Movie YODHA.
  13. I did not ask the correct question
  14. Side Bar Information
  15. Featured List
  16. Vanishing
  17. How do I make a case for my article's "importance"?
  18. Chaning entry name
  19. Account creator interface
  20. Cross-Reference Categories
  21. Convert/merge to commons
  22. Timex Clock Type Push Buttom Electric 125V 15A Timer.
  23. BQ
  24. Copyright status of license plates
  25. Is oli filth really an administrator?

July 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 9

  1. What If I Find An Article That Is Offensive Or Uses Offence Language?
  2. Editing Pages
  3. Incorrect internal link
  4. BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
  5. Redhat - Sendmail
  6. Can I direct web links to WIKIPEDIA in my APPLICATION about accounting ? ,Can i save webpages like an offline ?
  7. Question about the Forgot Your Password option
  8. Gropecunt featured article
  9. unification of reference citation formats?
  10. literature
  11. Generic content for sports people - cycling prejudice
  12. References
  13. Anonymous edits credited to new named account?
  14. removing a completely inaccurate page until corrected?

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 10

  1. help updating
  2. Creating A Biography
  3. Left alligned
  4. Discography images
  5. IE8
  6. Reconnecting with old account; want to upload photo
  7. Photo and copyright usage
  8. Linking to Graphics on Other WikiPedias
  9. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 10#|]]
  10. References
  11. help!!
  12. Hi
  13. asking
  14. Mahjongg Master 4
  15. my talk
  16. Article Creation and linkage to google.
  17. Paid Propaganda
  18. Nalere Family
  19. Becoming an admin
  20. Inappropriate tone
  21. Request for approval/comment on creating new article with potential COI
  22. verifacation
  23. :File:Amstrad PCW 16 01.png
  24. People With Same Name
  25. Warren Etheredge
  26. Farrah Fawcett's siblings???

July 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 11

  1. Right to request another user stop posting on my talk page?
  2. The Transitition To Shad Moss
  3. Editing during vacation
  4. lebanese nationality law
  5. INFO ON VIDA GUERRA & MARIA CHECA.
  6. Wikipedia loading time
  7. Vandalism?
  8. Is Twitter a reliable source?
  9. Template help
  10. Back to the Future III

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 12

  1. Left allign
  2. Uploading a new version of an existing image
  3. Referencing articles
  4. help -- attaching a photo at President's_Surveillance_Program
  5. User names
  6. Hi how do I dispute the neutrality of an article?
  7. When do I reallly need to give a source while editing?
  8. comic covers frontier times
  9. Nicholas Rockefeller any relations to John D. Rockefeller or David Rockefeller? biography lacking
  10. Green Globe

July 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 13

  1. Sections
  2. Change in how posts are 'signed'
  3. E-Health
  4. Deletion
  5. problem with an administrator
  6. Article Review
  7. Listing "N"ew contributions...
  8. where can I read more about ;starting line with semicolon
  9. I changed my name, and now i lost twinkle. what do i do?
  10. El Centro, CA
  11. Dragon Rouge
  12. Changing picture size in Infobox
  13. Reference is German Wiki
  14. what is a user page?!
  15. video games

July 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 14

  1. recent Edit not visible
  2. Free image clutter
  3. question regarding different layouts of viewing
  4. Policy discussion
  5. Is it appropriate for me to give this IP a 'final warning', or is that something only for admins to do?
  6. i have introduced an article months ago and it is not "taking"
  7. Template acting strange
  8. Finding anon user contribs
  9. Opening MIDI files in Wikipedia
  10. Autoreview
  11. In-N-Out Burger article
  12. Page size
  13. white space at top of article because of pictures
  14. Wikipedia Mobile
  15. stubs
  16. Fullscreen mode in Opera
  17. Requested article.
  18. Number of pages in a given namespace
  19. No emails from my watchlist
  20. Need Help linking page to imdb...also do not want my page to be deleted
  21. Rating
  22. dispute process
  23. User Committed Identity
  24. maps?
  25. Archiving a talk page
  26. I cannot use the 'Compare selected revisions' tab in history
  27. Page about myself
  28. Template names
  29. Does wikipedia ever delete anything? ever?
  30. Writing an article

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 15

  1. J Smith
  2. 3,000,000 English Articles
  3. Fixing vandalism - John Gay
  4. Making Malicious Bots for wiki
  5. interwiki links
  6. pages
  7. Can templates do arithmetic?
  8. Colours and Links
  9. Phone Assistance
  10. media
  11. History section of Traffic Lights and Dummy Lights
  12. Non-free reduce
  13. Disambiguation
  14. Reference desk edit sorting
  15. Userbox codes
  16. human right in pre independence nigeria
  17. How do I respond?
  18. How to incorporate a calender into wiki page
  19. Simple corrections.
  20. Adding Image
  21. "Create Account" link is not working...
  22. problem regestering
  23. conflict of interest - clarification
  24. Disappearing edit buttons
  25. How does this article need cleanup?
  26. I wish to create a wiki for Reddit.com [it is not for advertising!]
  27. I need to change the title of my article
  28. Wikipedia article for artist

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 16

  1. alfalfa pills (vitamins)
  2. ARTIST ARTICLES
  3. Non-breaking space
  4. Images
  5. Name change
  6. Policy on rumors
  7. Concerning Jackobillia
  8. question, please how can I link wikipedia site to my normal email site?
  9. adding external links to others' articles
  10. Moving new article to "live" wikipedia
  11. Disambiguation links
  12. Category:Football League of Ireland Players
  13. Question
  14. symbols
  15. How to make a new topic?
  16. How to use Template:Random portal component
  17. Password Forgotten
  18. File:Veitshakmah.png

July 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 17

  1. Avoiding sexual images
  2. Deleting images from the Commons
  3. plainlinksneverexpand
  4. Yellow background
  5. School seal/logo image
  6. Wikipages as pdf
  7. how to use wikipedia?
  8. Question on Transwiki Import
  9. first time on the net
  10. RTL languages
  11. posting my article
  12. Sock puppet report thingy
  13. Changing Several Wikipedia topic pages in a short time
  14. how do I flag an article to semi protect?
  15. New article
  16. Converting a user page to an article page

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 18

  1. New account and password not honored
  2. Incorporating a brief article into a longer one
  3. Official web site of biographical subjects
  4. cars
  5. Poetry form description "How Fortunate the Man with None" by Bertolt Brecht
  6. About Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Article
  7. Help! Messages not being displayed on my talk page
  8. Font styles
  9. Picture vandalism
  10. Images
  11. WARNING
  12. It's Westerly Armory Museum not Westerly Army Museum
  13. EDITING
  14. Disambigaution
  15. Musician page
  16. How do you find reasons or information about deletions?
  17. cant find saved new document in my space
  18. How to link to an ambigious term

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 19

  1. Strange site
  2. What's acceptable for corporation article?
  3. Help with categories
  4. Update to Special page
  5. Creating a Page
  6. Non-notable content
  7. The lists of TV series episodes
  8. Confusing user page
  9. Copyright query
  10. Molecular structure
  11. Question
  12. Root Meaning of the Egyptial word?symbol(ankh)(Ancla) (anchor to physical form ie.Life?)
  13. Editing rejected
  14. How to collapse
  15. to creat a new article

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 20

  1. Help with messed up ref tag
  2. Assistance with Pages
  3. Michael Jackson height and weight
  4. article doesn't show up on search
  5. Articles that read like ad copy or a press release
  6. NORTH ORISSA UNIVERSITY LAwexam result 2008
  7. Past help desk records
  8. Finding category intersections
  9. legend for a picture
  10. Display problems.
  11. unemployment ?
  12. movie posters
  13. Can I adjust the "new section" feature on my talk page?
  14. copyright
  15. How do I spread awareness of a nifty new template I co-created?
  16. Manfred Mann song Blinded by the Light written Bruce Springsteen
  17. deleting wiki pages
  18. new EDA company page created and inserted into EDA company book?
  19. Change Email Address
  20. Biotechnic & Histochemistry
  21. :File:Gijoeofficialposter.jpg
  22. Recent Vandalism
  23. McDonalds
  24. See how many hits your articles get
  25. Biographical Info Box
  26. Page move vandalism
  27. Help with references
  28. articles
  29. Page move

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 21

  1. How to repeat a background image in Wikipedia?
  2. HOW DO I MAKE A MATRIX???
  3. Transferring a template to another Wiki
  4. Wikipedia Media Player
  5. Failed access to certain pages
  6. steel scrap
  7. Admin Help
  8. Computer organization
  9. Language
  10. Citing Own Articles
  11. Hiding categories
  12. Signature in Infobox Artist
  13. Adding a link to wikipedia
  14. editing a page
  15. rainbow larakeet
  16. VandalStop name blacklisted??
  17. photo help
  18. Sorting tables with rowspan and colspan
  19. Including an article in a project
  20. User space
  21. WikiSummaries

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 22

  1. Headlines Page
  2. Confused and wondering
  3. main header
  4. How to apply as Editor
  5. "conjoined" images
  6. EDITING WIKIPEDIA
  7. Shaw Theatre
  8. Age Limit
  9. how can I link to a citation that has already been made?
  10. How to creat a medal table!?
  11. my input
  12. ®
  13. First FA
  14. Delete my contribution article
  15. Multiple log-ins
  16. Inserting a photo
  17. Better Business Bureau
  18. BiDi help request
  19. Template
  20. Good Portal?
  21. No images

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 23

  1. How to create a PDF file for free?
  2. I've broken the tables
  3. Template functionality help
  4. real estate
  5. Signpost
  6. relationship
  7. translating articles into french
  8. non-free images on Commons, which really should only be at en:Wiki
  9. hey
  10. Adding an image
  11. Oval shape
  12. How can I see what my overall contribution has been to a particular article? Does such a facility exist?
  13. How do I make an undisputed article draft in my user page to an actual article?
  14. What to make of recent edit activity
  15. router mechanism
  16. Help
  17. Editing Entry for "Eleison Group"
  18. Barnstars
  19. How do I add custom links to the sidebar.
  20. Copyright Infringement Issue
  21. Link to old revision

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 24

  1. if it possible
  2. Second opinions
  3. plagiarism
  4. Image Linking
  5. Publishing partial material - and provide link to original
  6. Long-term vandalism/IP harassment
  7. Problem with an image: Displays 250px|
  8. mumps
  9. Can somebody who has "Rollback" sort this vandalism out?
  10. Internal wikipedia link exists but are shown as non-existent and does not link directly.
  11. coperative movements in india
  12. Question
  13. Reference and External Link sections aren't showing on my article
  14. I got a message that I was vandalizing wikipedia
  15. reality behind the neil armstrongs and his groups moon walk in 1969
  16. Mark Buerhle
  17. Query on legal articles on wikipedia
  18. Creating
  19. Article Deletion
  20. John Willison (musician)
  21. Refering to other sections of an article within an article
  22. wanted: someone who's nimble with tables to clean up my mess
  23. Citing An Article
  24. Putting images from Croatian wiki to English wiki

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 25

  1. User:TonyTheTiger/monobook.css
  2. How do I delete an entry?
  3. Article on George Mandler
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache#Internet_Explorer
  5. HARD DISK
  6. "Seed" in Portals
  7. Creating an account
  8. Notability process
  9. Translations
  10. Spacecraft Endeavour
  11. Speedy delete
  12. Content dispute
  13. Question
  14. Reverting edits on talk pages
  15. Robert V. Decareau
  16. Duplicate account : Joe.mambo and Joe.Mambo are the same user, but different accounts

July 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 26

  1. Why is my domain blacklisted from creation?
  2. blackberry storm
  3. antique oriental fan
  4. Question for Template experts
  5. How much experiance is needed to participate at ACC?
  6. Pictures
  7. dates?
  8. How do I program a bot in JavaScript code?
  9. What links here
  10. missing fonts?
  11. talk page vs discussion page
  12. What would be the appropriate way to comment?

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 27

  1. Insects
  2. Unlink tab
  3. Wrong info or right one? Please answer!
  4. Jimmy Alvarez
  5. Fraternity articles
  6. Template:Infobox NFLactive
  7. question
  8. I screwed up the formatting of an article
  9. Company Logo change
  10. k-box
  11. left justification of right-to-left text?
  12. center aligned userboxes
  13. Typing a colon ":" in the search box
  14. Live Articles
  15. Adding book references
  16. How do I delete a sentence in a biographical entry?
  17. Medical School Admissions
  18. Nationality category

July 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 28

  1. Dynamic template question
  2. Create the Wikilympics
  3. Image help
  4. Retirement question
  5. Retrieving an account
  6. I accidently made an edit to an entry without logging in to my account
  7. How do I prevent a contribution/topic from deletion?
  8. ITI
  9. add website field to infobox
  10. Problem within your setup a new user menu ???
  11. Country Province/State City Database
  12. Coordinate display
  13. I jacked up an article, how do I fix?
  14. hello
  15. Page click stats
  16. Why doesn't edit appear in my watch list?
  17. how do i start a new page?
  18. names and their meaning
  19. Discrepancy between a diff and its final revision
  20. Editing Geo Hack links
  21. Dead Links
  22. move a page from user space to real space
  23. RSS FEEDS
  24. Related articles
  25. Harvard referincing problem
  26. Categories
  27. How to gain "confirmed status" to be able to upload photographs.
  28. Publish article error
  29. Create tables
  30. Template substitution within a ref tag
  31. Adding subpages/ subsections to articles
  32. Cannot find my released article
  33. Admin sanctions best practice when misbehaiviour recurs after a temporary sanction expires? - Is there a guideline, policy or ArbCom precedentt that addresses this?

July 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 29

  1. Questions re citation form and other matters
  2. Trustee vote
  3. syllables
  4. I need help...
  5. ArbCom policy for interwiki issues
  6. how
  7. In a quandry
  8. How to add a new topic to Wikipedia
  9. reference format
  10. I forgot to log in
  11. Ogg sources
  12. Licensing
  13. How do I move a TALK page out of my account to a "live" page that is visible to all?
  14. Photo Removal/Replacement
  15. Formula to programming example popups
  16. Copyright question
  17. printable with IE7
  18. unable to edit particular article
  19. Could someone please update my bio?
  20. artist profiles

July 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 30

  1. Citing specific pages
  2. Wikitable
  3. Wiki editing tool?
  4. email to upload image
  5. Clearing a block log
  6. Problems with images
  7. Human Genome Organization (HUGO) Article
  8. Redirecting a page
  9. Speedy deletion and deletion discussions
  10. 1) How to insert non-breaking space 2) How to insert borders around a table I have imported from Word.
  11. How to remove the speedy deletion tag the 'proper' way
  12. How do you change a picture?
  13. Twinkle vs Rollback
  14. "Caution" warning when I try to save a new page
  15. Move request
  16. Please vote... just kidding?
  17. Editing a table
  18. The name
  19. mastadon tusk.
  20. Moving a page
  21. "What links here" question
  22. hello
  23. need the help of a more experienced wiki editor
  24. Review Process

July 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 31

  1. What Is the "Users Talk Page"?
  2. The Killers' page crashes Wikipanion for iPhone
  3. How can I help to translate a page to another language?
  4. possible misuse of CATEGORY Speedy Deletion
  5. Date formatting
  6. UK English or US English?
  7. Not Logged In on Main Page
  8. About MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, IL
  9. movie mahabharat made by Pitar burk
  10. I think wrong information is posted on Bobby Charlton's profile...
  11. Black rectangles on vandalism level images
  12. Bunk Johnson
  13. Using MediaWiki extensions: Wiki2LaTeX
  14. How to specify multiple articles in Non-free software screenshot Template
  15. Font problem
  16. Footnote question
  17. How do I embed the results of Special:WhatLinksHere in an article?
  18. explaination

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 July 15

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