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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 1

  1. How to challenge a reference
  2. samssung corby plus(hydrid)
  3. External Editor
  4. Permanent Wiki URL?
  5. Lisney Ltd
  6. How long does a new article takes to appear in Search Result
  7. Time to celebrate?
  8. Diff between two shortish bits of text
  9. How to delete temporary article
  10. Lost login ID and Password i know which Email i made it from ...
  11. Deletion of Tri Shakthi
  12. Signing my post
  13. False Usernames
  14. Drive-By Downloads on the site! found by Norton Safe Web
  15. RSS Feeds
  16. Computer threat from wikipedia.org
  17. Biography deleted
  18. Edit in infobox doesn't show
  19. Can pages be blocked from people editing?
  20. Article claimed to be vandalism
  21. Created article
  22. Page tagged with template not showing up in category

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 2

  1. Wiki stopped working on BlackBerry Fri May-07-2010
  2. Problem
  3. Difference between Twinkle's built-in reverter and Rollback?
  4. Is there a place to request help in verifying material in pay only sites?
  5. Performance
  6. Applying {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} to a different page
  7. Wayne Bonney
  8. Recycling bin
  9. Political affiliation
  10. Cannot change one detail of a page I moved and edited.
  11. Article translated by friend - does he need an account?
  12. File extension does not match MIME type
  13. Site change or is it me
  14. I had a login and it does no longer work. Please Help!
  15. Wilhelm Scream soundbyte removed
  16. Request clean up of talk page at the Wrap-up tab of Wikipedia:Tutorial
  17. General Aristide Razu article ,photos upload in the article?
  18. Autograph-Cards LLC
  19. Improper citation resource
  20. General Aristide Razu
  21. Teardown actually contains two articles
  22. Why are my edits being deleted?
  23. Image not showing up
  24. What year was it established that IP addresses could not edit?

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 3

  1. LA Rams - My Father?
  2. Stadler Image
  3. remove this pic
  4. be alert! ip address stolen
  5. How to place my article on another blog on Wikipedia?
  6. Image shrunk to a point
  7. Which Language is it?
  8. Wrong name of article
  9. Background color no longer uses my Windows setting
  10. COI question
  11. General Aristide Razu
  12. Lady Gaga
  13. figure it out episodes
  14. General Aristide Razu's resources
  15. I can't get to mobile mode!
  16. Parsing Wiki XML Dumps ver0.4 just got tough
  17. Aurora Organic Dairy - factual errors in content
  18. new page
  19. Photographs?
  20. TFA - What is the point of this?

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 4

  1. Ventro-ventral should be renamed
  2. have photos etc to contribute for Steve Fossett bio re the search
  3. Gary Coleman
  4. I didn't disagree with you
  5. How do I resize an image?
  6. Thea Garrett (Controversy section)
  7. Writing in red
  8. Threats on my user page
  9. linking to sub heading
  10. Recreating an article
  11. Adminship
  12. uploading a new corporate logo to a company's existing article/page
  13. templates with a number of red links
  14. Vandalism
  15. User account redirect to article page OK?
  16. report abuse, IP issue
  17. how do i extend the width of a section. The line only goes halfway across the page

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 5

  1. Code can't be hidden in infobox
  2. Complexity
  3. Mobil wiki not working
  4. Blocking?
  5. Need help to revert the changes and add new subcategory on the config examples page.
  6. Quick question
  7. STiki
  8. Mobile Wiki
  9. iPhone devise browser format of Wikipedia articles has stopped working
  10. Abusive comment
  11. Making a page: will it be deleted if?
  12. General of Division Aristide Razu
  13. References
  14. Mystery template
  15. Jointing references?
  16. Ancestry.com & Wikipedia
  17. How to protest decision

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 6

  1. Please forward my email to actor Eric Roberts
  2. Archiving
  3. What is the best warning template to use?
  4. Ambulance passenger(s)
  5. Trying to get an image file renamed, and am not allowed to upload
  6. making link text a different color.
  7. Deletion of Pages With an Outside Source
  8. Substandard old FA articles
  9. Errors on several articles
  10. Looking for a template.
  11. Wow!Thanks!
  12. Login issues
  13. references help - formatting
  14. Musical notation
  15. May I copy an article/chart for use in a lecture without written permission? If I need permission, how do I get it?
  16. search engine
  17. New messages
  18. Admitting defeat: protected pages with expiry expired.
  19. Uploading Pictures Created Created on Photoshop

June 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 7

  1. Anthony Bustos and Sara Isaacson, DADT activists
  2. How to Report Duplicate Pages?
  3. parts
  4. Can anyone fix this?
  5. vmware
  6. wikitable formatting problem
  7. Babels
  8. Red text, blue text
  9. Want a job in Wikipedia
  10. Ps3 browser problems
  11. Deleted pages
  12. Lowercasing an article name
  13. Hiding IP address
  14. wikipedia
  15. article about General Aristide Razu deleted?
  16. page move
  17. Edmonton Clinic
  18. Pokemon cheat codes
  19. Mobile Redirect Disabled on My Android Device
  20. Archiving my user talk page
  21. User:Palu
  22. Heavily referenced article disappears in only two weeks
  23. Template:Cite journal not adding quote marks

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 8

  1. Requesting unblock of User:45g
  2. i can't add pictures
  3. D
  4. Citing an Image
  5. missing determination
  6. Create a biography
  7. Lost account... help
  8. Creating a new personal page on wikipedia
  9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today
  10. Freemont
  11. File:Ye Htoon.jpg
  12. Wrong link to Miles Davis album on 'Miles Davis Discography' Wiki page
  13. Siggy problem
  14. help with the virtual retinal display article.
  15. ethics
  16. How to watchlist an article
  17. How do I post a biography?
  18. changing pages' colors to other than white
  19. List of holby city characters
  20. Audio and video sources
  21. Book input

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 9

  1. Wrong link for Light Up the Sky
  2. Reporting vandalism on ChildFund International page
  3. Dr Who cast list
  4. Screenshot
  5. Help writing either a template or a bit of inline wizardry
  6. Glendon & Rushton Station website
  7. Yacht racing photo
  8. Book Creator Toolbox
  9. Nominating an article for deletion.
  10. Placing two images side by side
  11. Reference to non-free newspaper from the google news archive.
  12. Use of the word "British"
  13. Someone who has some time on their hands
  14. AIR FORCE GENERALS
  15. Multiple archived urls, one source

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 10

  1. My page was deleted, is not in the deletion log and not on deletionpedia
  2. Puzzled, my page has references and still marked for deletion
  3. DinoCroc
  4. Alternative accounts
  5. Updating an article on a person of historical importance
  6. Are there any front-end programs for Wikipedia?
  7. Clicking the Wiki markup features
  8. How to view my user space's contents?
  9. Dodgy Display
  10. Trying to find a word starting with A
  11. Possible BLP violation
  12. I wish to sponsor a Wikipedia page. How much would it cost to get an ad there?
  13. add a line to my talk without getting the line boxed
  14. VP nominator template needed
  15. Uploading Photos
  16. Acceptable rates for automated access
  17. Greyhound Lines-Wipedia the free encyclopedia
  18. Watchlist
  19. user name
  20. General Aristide Razu's photos?

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 11

  1. Global account
  2. Second User Account Created
  3. Image editing error
  4. FONT TOO BIG
  5. Signatures: How to link them to an actual userpage?
  6. Help fix Wikipedia page
  7. Upload a Delphi application to Wikipedia.
  8. To Admins
  9. Fighter
  10. edit charcterisation software bug?
  11. Taking vitamins
  12. downloading wikepedia??
  13. Universal Absolutism
  14. Incorrect info on the 45th Grammy Awards Wikipedia page
  15. Editing with factual content
  16. residency code

June 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 12

  1. Section shows nothing but a link when I clcik edit
  2. figure of speech
  3. Category Suppression based on Namespace
  4. Archiving
  5. Some recent Site change Instantly crashes my browser on every Wikipedia page!
  6. P. L. Travers
  7. Twinkle
  8. Arabic
  9. phonetics help
  10. Scientific Notification in Wikipedia using unicode
  11. gramatical question.
  12. new page
  13. Warnings
  14. Problems with illustrations
  15. Randomly placng Speedy Deletion tags

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 13

  1. Warnings
  2. Episodes
  3. Collapsible Table
  4. Spell checking in the editing box
  5. Accidentally clicked "Email New Password"; can't remember which email address I had linked to wikipedia.
  6. Virus - Wiki or Google
  7. sort of racism in Zwahili language article
  8. Uncollapsing a template
  9. talk page doesn't show last sections
  10. False Information About Ariana Afghan Airlines
  11. User-Agent blocking problem !
  12. Need delete chatroulette article!
  13. How to Add Headings to a Wiki Page?
  14. Translated books in citation templates
  15. Marcelo Bielsa Bio
  16. small computer memory made from switches
  17. I am trying to figure out hoe to move my article from my user page to 'out there'. I see no move arrow that someone else talked about.Statenisland777 (talk)

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 14

  1. Why am I not autoconfirmed?
  2. Does anybody know how to bypass Chrome's cache?
  3. prjects on commercial mathematics
  4. WATERBURY , CONNECTICUT PICTURES
  5. Activate Window XP
  6. Dark matter question/hypothesis
  7. Adding Commons images to en Wiki categories
  8. Music Genre
  9. Interwiki links between the nine Language RDs
  10. Identifying the original contributor of article text
  11. move-ing on...but not sure i did it right!
  12. Medals
  13. page view stats - down sharply
  14. Link to a picture within an article
  15. Edit Count and Oversight?
  16. Aristide Razu
  17. User Name to Name
  18. Copy and paste?
  19. Oops, did I make a mistake?
  20. What's up with Collapsible tables

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 15

  1. Naming help
  2. IP address
  3. about rajkot
  4. The Passion of Christ
  5. My Own Automated Archiving
  6. BioControl article
  7. Use of Wikipedia logo
  8. Want to Check with Wikipedia Editors - Several Articles About the College Where I Teach Have Been Deleted in the Past. Don't Want to Write an Article in Vain - Dr. Lara
  9. picture won't show
  10. Merge editor accounts
  11. Unable to export article with sanskrit font Alinel (talk) 10:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Bala
  12. Help with translation of WW11 japanese medal
  13. Using Images
  14. Only qualify for one?
  15. Spanish vandal
  16. eutimes.net
  17. Interwikis displaying twice at WP:MCQ?
  18. Adding a journal reference to an article
  19. Internet Explorer 8 no longer defaulting to search box
  20. Where does one see the flagged revisions edits?
  21. List of newest accounts
  22. How should I convert currencies?
  23. Business Cited Incorrectly in the "Freestone, CA" entry
  24. 2 dias sin badoo
  25. Blocked account creation...

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 16

  1. Can't create an account
  2. is someone else passing off my ip address as their own?
  3. "Bump"
  4. Unsigned comment by 74.104.31.56 (talk • contribs • [http://dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall/?ip=74.104.31.56/ info] • [http://toolserver.org/~chm/whois.php?ip=74.104.31.56 WHOIS])
  5. Kinda new here...
  6. Signature problem
  7. Eliminating Duplicate Userboxes by merge?
  8. Copy Right Permission ( to add on my Website)
  9. Need to update the wikipedia entry on the organisation I work for
  10. SD-TTSurekh Font not recognised by the wiki editor. Need help in exporting an english article with Sanskrit font (SD-TTSurekh - Devanagari). This is my second posting. Please Help !!
  11. Guides Logo
  12. Can wikipedia content be copied/pasted to create another webpage?
  13. Pending changes' impact on Lupin's AVT
  14. Fair Use
  15. hi
  16. CALA Page removal
  17. parking
  18. change my page name
  19. I recently created a Userspace Draft and I'm not sure how to get it posted (I've tried to figure it out myself and have become hopeless)
  20. Autofilling comments filter
  21. Links to resources for parents (books) or support groups (external links)
  22. HELP
  23. Stubs
  24. Good faith misuse of DAB page
  25. how to change a draft page into a wikipedia page
  26. Old Format
  27. Move articles
  28. Yodel Australia?

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 17

  1. Template trouble
  2. Tags in the lede
  3. I made mistake in my article title HELP!
  4. Substituting Magic Words In Templates
  5. Linking Commons
  6. Adding Links to References
  7. how do i vote to keep a person in Wikipedia who is threatened with deletion of his listing?
  8. CONTACT NOS. OF MR. MUSTAFA JAFFER
  9. Why was a Link Removed?
  10. Deleting Bad Images
  11. Cape buffalo in Cape Agulhas
  12. Help
  13. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
  14. Magnesium
  15. Unable to edit original successfully
  16. talk page archiving

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 18

  1. change a microformatted article to a form Google can find.
  2. Category:LGBT people of Puerto Rican descent
  3. Wrong photo
  4. Sharing my journals/blogs..
  5. IP Address inadvertent use
  6. What Links Here ... order?
  7. How to find coordinates
  8. a readable map
  9. Editor abuse
  10. How to change title of article?
  11. Wikibreak Enforcer
  12. Submitting an article on a subject that has been protected
  13. How do i tag a section of an article to highlight that it needs references
  14. Loss of Log In ID
  15. Reverting edits
  16. Question
  17. Wikifood
  18. copyright permission
  19. Log In ID
  20. Weird image problem

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 19

  1. Can somebody help
  2. Editing english version of page for hometown
  3. Confusing administrative double-standards
  4. Uploading Google Map.
  5. Bookmarking favourite articles.
  6. Maps for Streams via External Link
  7. Election - member tables.
  8. Is my article published?
  9. Manchester Apollo Manchster
  10. Carburetor Dung
  11. Mancheste
  12. Link a dispute template to the associated "talk" section
  13. General Aristide Razu /pictures are disappearing?
  14. The wallbirds
  15. Is there anyway I can convert your tables to excel sheets
  16. Seeing the Mainpage from previous times
  17. we went on criags list and ended up here
  18. Citing sources

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 20

  1. Is there an automated way to determine if an article has broken links?
  2. Huge White Space at bottom of Wiki pages
  3. Mystery Diagnosis TV Show
  4. Undo / Revert
  5. Mediawiki spam blacklist
  6. Problem printing with "New Features" on Wikipedia...
  7. Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  8. Reaching for the Moon
  9. quoting complex URLs to "cite web", etc.
  10. Question about creating pages for a company and its owner (probable COI)
  11. chewing tobacco
  12. Wikipedia categories by size
  13. Babylon & Wikipedia
  14. Photographs - how do they get uploaded onto a wikipedia page?
  15. Signature
  16. Page editing - why are my [edit] links bunched at bottom of page?
  17. sortability with two row headers

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 21

  1. When do birthdays start?
  2. Anyone ever gotten 403 errors for all Wikipedia/Wikimedia images?
  3. beta webs
  4. We sent this info on nowsthetime.org two weeks ago and it has not
  5. Wikibooks - awesome idea, but what about a "disable notes, references and external links"-function?
  6. Image from wikitravel.org
  7. Uploading photo
  8. jabber chat
  9. Oracle
  10. Suitability of picture
  11. Problems linking to a video
  12. Clarification
  13. Greetings-Researcher Permission?
  14. Interaction
  15. Replacing company logo
  16. Embeded video
  17. Infoboxes
  18. Image problem
  19. Requesting a new infobox

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 22

  1. encrypting special characters letters in the ps2 console game, for call of duty.
  2. Video in article
  3. Speed limit thru round about
  4. 9mm luger bullets
  5. mobile sim manufacturing
  6. Retrospectively linking IP and wiki ID
  7. Wiki Statistics about articles/pages etc.
  8. statistics on user profiles
  9. how to create column at the right
  10. New user to upload photo
  11. Problems in creating a Wilki Book
  12. Interpretation of policy
  13. Problem with printing
  14. Vertical text
  15. Namechange- Password etc.
  16. Need help correcting an image
  17. Toad Outbreak
  18. Copyright
  19. Delete the page title "Farmleigh Fellowship"
  20. bug in pdf creation script for multi-language entries
  21. Researchers
  22. Tabulating machine content about Nazi Germany
  23. Michelle Morgan
  24. Semi-Protected Pages
  25. Verifiability / web page disappeared
  26. I can't find out . .
  27. ellipsis and quotations.
  28. What if voters in an AFD contradict Wiki guidelines
  29. May I publish original research about origins of 5 Wikipedia articles on my user talk page?
  30. How do I transfer or copy and paste an article I prepared in my log-in page and submit it for review. Can it be reviewed in my user page?

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 23

  1. Question about articles
  2. Can't log into account
  3. Reversing a redirect
  4. about XML Schema of "pages-articles.xml" dump
  5. translation
  6. Photo licensing
  7. How to use image found in Chinese Wikipedia?
  8. Holy Apostles
  9. Subpage
  10. Blocking Content From Being Edited By Unauthorized Individuals
  11. referencing birthdates
  12. There was a bit of an earthquake just now here in Toronto. Now what?
  13. Persecution complex
  14. NOT creating an account & adding onto someone else's post
  15. Logged me out
  16. Review log?
  17. User contribution search on specific articles
  18. to know what are the companies which provides free recharge for mobile research panel.

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 24

  1. I HAVE A FUNK &WAGNALLS NEW STANDARD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNIVERSAL KMOWLEDFGE COPYRIGHT1931
  2. Tags & searching through my contributions
  3. How to make revisions requested by a wikipedia editor
  4. subject editing
  5. RIR readout and dynamic ip's?
  6. Editing reference list in entry?
  7. comment to talk page
  8. Intra-article link
  9. John Lehman Hyman Rickover
  10. Primary Source and Locations of Headquarters
  11. Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (television)
  12. flagged revisions turned on yet?
  13. Suggestion and log in issues
  14. Technical problem
  15. References
  16. help with making my page go live
  17. Link to wrong individual
  18. How to share a e-mail source of informations?
  19. Wierd overlap different by browsers Iodine pentoxide
  20. Was I automatically logged in?
  21. Accident
  22. new autobiography by NZ author

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 25

  1. Halp?
  2. question
  3. How to automate filling in info into cite web template?
  4. Tesco Kipa is a Turkish chain supermarket specialising in food. It is currently majority owned by Tesco and as such, uses the Tesco name. Tesco Kipa official site
  5. hate speech on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community
  6. Discussing a photo
  7. Tagging
  8. Bad Usernames
  9. Kish Khodro Ltd, Kish Island Iran
  10. Sloth (deadly sin) article layout problem
  11. Hello
  12. Tennis Gold Coast
  13. Topic
  14. Wiki "filtering"???

June 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 26

  1. What if i want to write an article about a local hero?
  2. External Link getting rejected
  3. Editing the semi-protected banner?
  4. Can anyone recommend a better tool for filling out cite templates?
  5. Texas State Highway 114
  6. Problem with tags
  7. Help me understand about No Original Research
  8. Unconstructive Editing, and Possible Vandalism
  9. Delete a page created by me
  10. Disambiguation issue with Béla Bartók article
  11. EDL
  12. How does draft become a mainspace article?
  13. Ozzy Osbourne's new single
  14. Tracy Wright, multiple references to same article
  15. why
  16. Improvement of "Aristide Razu" article
  17. "Zoe Mandrea " article

June 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 27

  1. I've got a range of Questions
  2. Trivia
  3. entry for 'RGS Atalanta'
  4. Delete an Article
  5. Improper "branching" of a template due to a copy/paste move
  6. image thumb problem
  7. Redirect
  8. MOS guidance wanted - capitalization for title of English work with French title
  9. diff for an archived page?
  10. Category merging - need help from experts
  11. Editor Gender
  12. Need an old version of a deleted article

June 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 28

  1. Help with editing an article
  2. Sources
  3. Problem with nonfactual comment tarnishing enterprise (Symmecon Marketing).
  4. On a UK-PBF and the UK aspect of Wikipedia
  5. for edit more
  6. Question about deleted article
  7. Unable to make edits to Patch (website) wiki page, or other town pages that have patch.com websites
  8. All your base are belong to us
  9. Strange message from T L Mles
  10. Please help me.
  11. WP:GAN changes
  12. Forgot to login before editing
  13. "berkeley food and housing project" >> Berkeley Food and Housing Project
  14. skye prison article
  15. How to change font for one character?

June 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 29

  1. Template to ignore/disregard discussion
  2. Potential conflict in naming article in English or Portuguese
  3. Articles for creation
  4. Pls. Allow Edit in " Ezhava "
  5. Maai Heeran
  6. How to get back on
  7. Locating businesses by zip code
  8. Several Wikipedia stuff
  9. Etiquette when attempting to calm incivility
  10. Bar of links on the top-right of my user/talk pages/subpages
  11. Reference footnote question
  12. Tool ?
  13. property owners rights
  14. formating
  15. I've got a range of Questions (2)

June 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 June 30

  1. Sandbox (how to make article hidden)
  2. How do I get my article to be posted?
  3. operations on amadeus crs
  4. article naming of 2 churches with the same dedication St Thomas à Becket
  5. Daniel J. Bernstein (1918-1970)
  6. Smurfs episode list
  7. Villiages and Towns Lost when State and Federal Parks are made
  8. Splitting page history
  9. What happens when you google "I can read wikipedia". The slur ni**er page appears.
  10. Intrinsic Identification of Surname
  11. Deletion of page
  12. images
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