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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 1

  1. CSD A7
  2. Vague external link
  3. Images
  4. FYI for the Help Desk volunteers
  5. Avril Lavigne attack?
  6. Using the wikipedia articles
  7. listing a person on wikipedia
  8. Cannot find articles anymore. Please help me!
  9. Search box
  10. commons flickr uploader bot
  11. Combining category and template search
  12. My wikilink doesn't work

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 2

  1. creating article lead section that is not included in article outline
  2. problem with search bar
  3. Need help
  4. Page listing
  5. Sort user contributions
  6. User Box
  7. mars moon was it eclipsed
  8. referencing my edit to the article on Carmenere wine
  9. Sort table by numbers
  10. Request for welcome message
  11. Speedy deletion of Vladimir Pak
  12. matlab problem with nonlinear curve fitting
  13. Does this page need wiki cleanup?
  14. Becoming a wikipedia page patroler
  15. Superhero boxes
  16. Changing Template?

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 3

  1. using linux
  2. technical difficulties?
  3. adding categories to my user page
  4. My question
  5. Starting new page with existing template
  6. ?????
  7. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 3#*Category:Fractions<.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki>*Category:Fractions]]
  8. Citing encyclopædia
  9. Modifying an inaccurate entry about me
  10. St. Francis High School (La Canada Flintridge) Notable Alumni
  11. Hello
  12. IP address of sender in google group
  13. MostLinked, filter by namespace
  14. citation for personal communication
  15. Could you help out this editor, most courteous ever
  16. Comparing pages for criteria
  17. Single User Login
  18. Video
  19. length of contributions
  20. german to english
  21. What days do we get paid.

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 4

  1. Template problem
  2. Twin Peak Towers - Wikipedia
  3. Janine Habeck
  4. Deletion of Chetan Ramlu
  5. copy picture
  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Academy_of_English
  7. how can i upload any picture in my article?
  8. Why were my posts deleted
  9. TeeNAgerS~Manga/Anime
  10. Referencing
  11. Why is the print so small on 'printable version'?
  12. Stub
  13. Colour Background Codes?
  14. How many...
  15. Colonial Tavern
  16. Means?

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 5

  1. 'huggle whitelist'
  2. External Links Question
  3. geometry
  4. Information
  5. Can someone help with my page
  6. general forums
  7. Problems with svg
  8. Alpha
  9. My Watchlist
  10. Delete
  11. More than one title for an article
  12. 222.239.26.175 (talk) 19:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)forgetting password
  13. Limiting my watch list

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 6

  1. Messed up jumble of HTML?
  2. Upload File Problem
  3. Footnote color
  4. Style query about referencing
  5. Table help
  6. please clarify one sentence in spoken english
  7. I don't understand
  8. Verifiability requirements
  9. I did mistake while archiving....help.
  10. to edit the first part of the entry
  11. Revert edits, protecting a article
  12. Number of edits
  13. Pandemonium article
  14. Maple tree seeds
  15. 2 Megs Of Nothing
  16. citation

June 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 7

  1. Stronger Rewrite Template
  2. to hear how a word is pronounced
  3. Unable to copy and paste from Wikipedia to a word document
  4. Moving a page using AutoWiki Browser
  5. List of characters in Maximum Ride
  6. Forum for reporting NOR
  7. RfC on Burmyanmar
  8. Table Editing: How do I centre a column?

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 8

  1. HTML?
  2. Creating page?
  3. Font
  4. Page protection and notices
  5. Possible copyvios
  6. Citation Templates
  7. Question
  8. Replacing an common image
  9. How to edit a wrong fact in the box on the top right of the Wikipedia page about Soko Morinaga Roshi?
  10. MediaWiki
  11. how to make my posting appear on web
  12. Content Box on Userpage?
  13. Language question
  14. Sharon Johnston Park
  15. Magic words

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 9

  1. Helping nominating Allegations of Israeli Apartheid for deletion
  2. Admin help may be required at Steve Peters
  3. Disappearance of an entry...
  4. Box Art and Screenshots for Video Games
  5. What to do
  6. Wiki information pop-ups on other homepages
  7. Reuse license on images
  8. Help
  9. Photo question
  10. query.php
  11. Danger Guys Series - Notable?
  12. toolserver problem
  13. image
  14. Non-admin accounts can move pages over redirects??

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 10

  1. Huh
  2. Renaming an Article/Changing Articles Titles
  3. Posting articles
  4. how to
  5. Template for edit-mode-only in dab pages
  6. blacklisted?
  7. How can I create a link to a section of another article?
  8. cookies are n, you woon't accept tham.
  9. Shredding
  10. railway platform
  11. Downloading Flickr images
  12. Hindi Translation
  13. Possible Plagerism
  14. man made disaster
  15. Linking to Wikipedia in a frame
  16. Tag image for speedy delete
  17. SUL
  18. How do you create branches in the Route Diagram Template for Railways?
  19. Wikipedia Traffic stats
  20. Wait Time After Submitting Article Request
  21. Wikipedia Contributors
  22. Creating a new Wikipedia page
  23. watchlist-compatible rollback?
  24. Graphical timelines problem
  25. Contributions/Edits
  26. block
  27. Changing Signature

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 11

  1. S. Scott Bullock
  2. Unusual text
  3. Edit not appearing
  4. Please do not filter JCN and KICS email as spam
  5. Please Help Me.
  6. writing new article
  7. columned tables
  8. how to contact OTRS email system
  9. Template:Infobox Museum Image caption
  10. printing
  11. Changing a page's title
  12. Using "Commons" Files to Edit Wikipedia Article
  13. Printing pages from Wikipedia
  14. Column problem
  15. Creating Discussions / Requesting Page Edits
  16. help with footnote
  17. image formating
  18. Help with Portuguese

June 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 12

  1. possible sockpuppets
  2. business ethics
  3. Simple question
  4. Drawing
  5. Talk:BP Pedestrian Bridge/GA1
  6. Optical fiber question
  7. not able to attach a photo to a topic
  8. Automatic reverts
  9. Time in signature
  10. Right place to post that stuff ?
  11. Multli Column bulleted list
  12. cannot log in
  13. Hurricane Katrina editing
  14. Help POV Pushing Tag Team In Play What To DO?
  15. using referense desk archives
  16. Silkscreen (typeface)
  17. Company link in "Gasket" article
  18. "Back to Top" Link
  19. in text wiktionary link
  20. Verifiability for fiction articles
  21. Possible risk of copyright infringement.
  22. how can i have video on a wiki page?

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 13

  1. Trouble Formatting
  2. What's the point?
  3. Bathams - Black Country Brewers
  4. plagiarism
  5. New Subject
  6. Table formatting
  7. Follow up on reporting NOR violations
  8. ADDING A PAGE
  9. My own private wiki
  10. DEATH INTERVENTION SPECIALIST
  11. Difference?
  12. Wikipedian protester
  13. can you track page visits on Wikipedia
  14. GAR
  15. Article Copy/Paste
  16. Account Creator on Listuser?
  17. Licensing review
  18. Live scores of sports events
  19. Speedy Deletion of a Image that exisits on Commons
  20. New page
  21. Automatically Archive
  22. adding accounts to unified profile
  23. Image
  24. Badge for HMCS Port Colborne
  25. can I somehow upload a photo I took showing an informative state historical marker at a nearby public park?
  26. New Language Wikipedia
  27. Copyright?
  28. Tim Russert's page

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 14

  1. absolutely inactive users
  2. Colour Codes
  3. Edit conflict
  4. Wikiprojects
  5. Copyright makes my head spin [image copyright question]
  6. Many many users
  7. Wiki logo
  8. Problem at WP:NOR
  9. How do I become an auto confirmed User? HELP ME!
  10. Babel/userbox error.
  11. Formatting around a left-justified image
  12. HELP!! THANKS!!
  13. Really long references/URLs

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 15

  1. User Page Problems
  2. Risks of old software
  3. age
  4. "Do not move to commons" tag
  5. please help me
  6. How do I add myself to Wikipedia?
  7. Duplicate a watchlist
  8. A URL that leads nowhere
  9. Please .. from it.wiki user
  10. Image that covers the links
  11. Editing the lead
  12. BOY GEORGE page error - a quick link change please
  13. Talk Page Archive Boxes?
  14. Linking to a site which violates copyright?
  15. What's an outing website?
  16. Subject of harassment campaign - what can I do?

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 16

  1. New Account Confirmation Email Invalid
  2. science/big universe
  3. What is the template to say an image needs a fair use rationale?
  4. Delete Double gammas Delete
  5. Wikipedia as webhost
  6. Articles "Under Construction"
  7. Regarding providing wikipedia with Telugu version.
  8. Template
  9. Copying the "Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas" to an Exce Spread Sheet
  10. Kindle EBook
  11. How to embed our logo
  12. AFD
  13. Deleting my Wiki Account
  14. Translation from Wikipedia to external site
  15. One more Boy George link to change
  16. All pages by DEFAULTSORT

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 17

  1. Links and spam
  2. F: namespace
  3. Template
  4. Citation/Opinion Answer?
  5. Just received spam from Wiki email address. See below
  6. Specificity
  7. profile
  8. deletion
  9. Part time professional business
  10. How many articles in Wikipedia exist on a given topic?
  11. HTML link behavior change?
  12. Creating a company profile
  13. :Template:Geobox
  14. Edit summaries
  15. missing contribution
  16. Inacurracy with Electronic Data Systems page
  17. Adding a page to the site
  18. Template?
  19. More template trouble

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 18

  1. chaning page font size
  2. Cancel Account
  3. Appropriate Infobox
  4. Is this article consider encyclopedic?
  5. Coming back
  6. Repeated Deletions
  7. Function
  8. Huggle
  9. flowers
  10. Username history
  11. Is this e-mail OK?
  12. the player's guide movie unfair deletion
  13. How to add a filmography
  14. Editing Article Titles
  15. Stupid bots
  16. disappearing emails
  17. revert 3 edits

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 19

  1. WP:USURP date section probs
  2. More than a stub
  3. Removing dead URLs?
  4. Edit an edit summary?
  5. No Sources(References)
  6. Where to Request New Reliable Sources
  7. Moving images
  8. Seattle Public High Schools template
  9. Messed up categories by mistake, sorry
  10. Deleting unwanted italics from several paragraphs.
  11. SignIDlike (talk) 13:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
  12. Numbers and letters
  13. Short cut to my Desktop
  14. Clarification of 3RR
  15. Images being migrated to Commons
  16. Page history
  17. Have I been blacklisted.
  18. Help with the Div tag
  19. Bouncing Wikipedia Logo
  20. Twinkle on Wii
  21. McDonald's Cycle Center infobox help
  22. How to contact the last editor to update information
  23. How to upload logo

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 20

  1. Movie with Mare Winngham
  2. NZ Winegrowers
  3. alphabetization of category articles.
  4. Citing pamphlets
  5. User Boxes
  6. Deleted Content
  7. Jacqueline Amuzie
  8. Can't view images
  9. Huggle
  10. Posting
  11. Vandalism on image page which seems to sort of not exist
  12. Blackberry Site
  13. Did you know
  14. References not displaying
  15. Adding to the "Professional reviews" section of an album
  16. First entry.. need some advice.
  17. new articles
  18. Overlapping "section lines"?
  19. Adding new articles to WikiProjects
  20. Prayer assistance
  21. Hide
  22. Link from an article to a Category WITHOUT the word "Category" appearing
  23. new articles
  24. Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
  25. school marm
  26. List of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 21

  1. Signature
  2. Watchlist
  3. Odd topics appearing in my Watchlist
  4. My Userboxes
  5. Surnames
  6. Copyright question - sketches of copyrighted images
  7. Infobox capitalisation
  8. Claim the anonymous contributions
  9. Removing unencyclopedic image.
  10. Personal attacks
  11. WP fair usage licensing authentication for properly licensed flickr images placed on commons.
  12. Can't find an article
  13. New user
  14. Submission offering
  15. Nbsp inside template parameter
  16. Wood carving patterns
  17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 21#|]]
  18. Cannot use IRC
  19. Forcing the first section to not begin until TOC ends
  20. showing "bytes changed" in Special:Contributions
  21. Account Age

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 22

  1. iTunes question
  2. flight
  3. Trying to fix a page transclusion error
  4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 22#<span id="43_—_George_Walh".2F><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki><span id="43_—_George_Walh"/>]]
  5. ITALIAN
  6. FORECLOSURE
  7. Contributing material
  8. Where do I find all the food articles?
  9. italian football shirts
  10. Showing up in a wiki search?
  11. How do I add a picture to Wikipedia?
  12. Consensus
  13. Grawp -- How'd he get past it?
  14. Log in
  15. If a possible page title leads to a different page and I think it should have its own page

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 23

  1. Printing From a Server
  2. find a Wikipedian with an account on a subscription-only website
  3. High school sports and CSD A7
  4. Unified userpage
  5. New article re a superhero in children's book series
  6. 10th mark sheet lost
  7. Sockpuppetting
  8. Altering Edit Summaries After Submitted
  9. Differecnes
  10. Including / listing company names in your website
  11. Viewing user subpages
  12. Get rid of an account
  13. blacklist
  14. where to enter a new person on Wikipedia
  15. How to Edit "Semi-Protected" Article
  16. Linking to Wikipedia
  17. Why is all the text displaying as Thai or something?
  18. Uploading images from other WP versions
  19. WYSIWYG edits
  20. Helicopter Airlines
  21. Still no reply
  22. Weird user inserting weird info, busy for months
  23. External links - blogs
  24. Need some teamwork
  25. Totally Lost
  26. Deleting Accounts

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 24

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 24

  1. Number of disambiguation pages
  2. Deleting a sub page of my userpage
  3. IMDb as a source
  4. adding to content
  5. C-class Shannara articles
  6. Difference between Communication & Transport
  7. Citing from closed sources
  8. semi-protection of "Christopher Columbus"
  9. I am an autoconfirmed member but I am not being allowed to post images. Why not?
  10. Adding content in Hindi language
  11. Danica Patrick
  12. Edit on a template doesn't appear
  13. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 24#Formatting questions: <gallery><.2Fnowiki> and "collapsible"|Formatting questions: <nowiki><gallery> and "collapsible"]]
  14. Self Bio
  15. Correct Broken Web Links
  16. Listing an editor's contributions to an article
  17. External link???
  18. RfC artificially kept alive
  19. No answering yet ...
  20. adding/writing an article to wikipedia
  21. How to move page?
  22. Joining a Discussion
  23. Isaac Burkett
  24. How Do I edit a Semi Protected Page?
  25. Templates and new external links captcha

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 25

  1. Request admin help
  2. Changing my user id
  3. How do I tell someone about the hacked Barack Obama page?
  4. Problem Displaying American Airlines Flight 77
  5. FLAGGING
  6. Viewing deleted articles
  7. Filiquarian Publishing appears to be publishing Wikipedia articles with no acknowledgement
  8. Footnote styling
  9. responding to comment without signature
  10. Userpage
  11. Speedy delete tags
  12. SupporttoBioBus (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
  13. Vandal
  14. Question about Infoboxes?
  15. How to you submit for assessment/get comments on the editing you have done.
  16. How do I add words to wikipedia
  17. Recent Changes for two namespaces?
  18. Changes to article page tabs
  19. National Income
  20. Request Moves on Talk Pages
  21. Adding Images to page
  22. flagged articles

June 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 26

  1. Citations
  2. Mirror sites
  3. Personal Attacks
  4. Blocking a user from moving
  5. English Article
  6. Move of XChat to XChat Aqua
  7. Trouble uploading an image
  8. Starting a new subject
  9. Copyright attribution on Wikipedia
  10. fibroddysplasia
  11. Multiple lines in second column of table
  12. Quantitative Technique in Management
  13. My user Account
  14. Wikipedia election results?
  15. Printing in Printable Version
  16. Redirects in WP:AFC
  17. Wikipedia Stalkers

June 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 27

  1. wikiporno?
  2. My Signature
  3. Cultural Backgrounds
  4. Hypercard - changes that eliminated a reference to my stack Unprotect XCMD
  5. Financial aid
  6. Differecnes
  7. Citing References
  8. Forgottan Login Password
  9. Statistical analysis
  10. LOOKING FOR A JOB AT SINGAPORE
  11. Signpost
  12. Drawn images, licensing?
  13. Ancient Middle-Eastern Mythology Templates
  14. How to use Contents in Navigation
  15. Add

June 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 28

  1. No longer autoconfirmed
  2. Adding a picture?
  3. Is it possible to shrink an infobox?
  4. Putting category= inside a thing inside a thing
  5. Google picks up my sandbox contents
  6. Creating a new page: 2 persons with the same name
  7. Article creation
  8. external links
  9. FIRE DEPARTMENT DISPATCH LOG
  10. Copyright question
  11. import a photo into a article
  12. Article titles
  13. Template for incomprehensible article
  14. Require List of India's pincodes by State in xl or Pdf file
  15. Sandbox
  16. New template Talkarchivehist
  17. Editing
  18. Arabic wiki

June 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 29

  1. Anyone who knows David Banner
  2. cyclone, typhoon, storm
  3. 334 M.O.B.B.
  4. Firefox looses my cookie
  5. main heading
  6. Deleting my page
  7. trees
  8. can we find a user identity from a username
  9. Resizing images already used on Wikipedia
  10. Templates
  11. Multiple images
  12. Editing a redirect
  13. References causing gapping
  14. Copyright and references
  15. citation bullets in References section
  16. References
  17. AfD mess
  18. SPAM OR VIUS ON YOUR SYSTEM ?
  19. Clearing Search (wikipedia)
  20. Topic-Relevance

June 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 June 30

  1. More vandalism
  2. Image linking to page
  3. direct searches for areas in which wikipedia is deficient
  4. Instillation of Active directory
  5. Pasting stuff on talk pages: Wiki Policy on copy pasting edit material on its talk page
  6. Someone else to write my article
  7. List of Copyeditors
  8. Trouble uploading images
  9. Using a bot to correct spellings
  10. Userpage request
  11. Incorrect logo for SportEngland.org
  12. Articles in multiple categories
  13. Avient Aviation Incomplete and Jouranslistic Content
  14. WikiProjects
  15. image file destination
  16. Referencing files (such as readmes)
  17. Hörspiel interwiki links
  18. Why does the heading of my article say it needs citations and links?
  19. Image under wrong copyright?
  20. how to use?
  21. New article / Copyright issue
  22. How to make a reference
  23. Wikified?
  24. wikipedia convert function
  25. uploadding a graphic of a chemical structure
  26. User Page
  27. Ralph Sall
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