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[edit] April 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 1

1. password
2. Firefox addins
3. Show button
4. Unified login system
5. Template help
6. Advice on Possible Goalline Blitz Article
7. top reference sites list?
8. Admissible photos of actors?
9. How Can i edit and add one information in Wikipedia? (repeat question)
10. Language and log-in question
11. How to "strike out", "strike through" or "rule through"?
12. page display of List of RAF stations
13. Can't see Edits
14. Admin
15. Network
16. Creating a page about my band
17. Help editing a page
18. How to add an notice in an template
19. i want to change my username
20. print to PDF
21. Search button captions
22. Requesting Unprotecting
23. Reverting my user talk page?
24. Companies

[edit] April 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 2

1. How Do I Delete?
2. Kanute or Canute?
3. Daily Emails
4. Protection of User pages
5. Help Using a Specific Infobox
6. info about youngest commercial pilot
7. First time user
8. When I search my article is not found.
9. American cities
10. I am not sure if my entry is fixed now
11. Signature
12. Editing articles
13. Trouble with Save page
14. Problem adding references
15. Gartner
16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Thinker
17. How do I upgrade the eSignal entry from stub status (I am not the original author)?
18. is this notable?
19. ADDING A PICTURE
20. Advice on knocking people out
21. help locating topic
22. Checking user levels
23. Make it bigger?
24. Bibliography on Wikepedia
25. Image from German Wikipedia
26. Help editing the title of my page
27. Willy on Wheels

[edit] April 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 3

1. Incorrect photo on page.
2. Appropriate edit summary for section zero
3. I thought I was doing it right... But now I... Help!
4. How can i upload word document or EXCEL document on my page
5. Direct article links in google
6. Fingerprint
7. How do I create a template?
8. PURPLE HEART LIST
9. Template
10. The Wikipedia Globe logo
11. Wikipedia Analytics
12. Why does this say [edit][edit][edit]?
13. about image uploading
14. News about Wikipedia
15. Memories of Worth Ranch
16. Keeping A Journal On Wikipedia
17. Improperly Cited Article?
18. accused of vandalism
19. ADDING AN ARTICLE ABOUT A BAND
20. How can this mistake be fixed?
21. login problem

[edit] April 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 4

1. Too much security
2. What is the protocol on articles under the banner of dead projects?
3. Strange error when trying to access pages
4. about running a bot
5. Users own verse on a page?
6. Editing removed
7. political science
8. How do you put a rationale on a image you uploaded
9. Finding reference
10. Username Case Problem
11. international standards
12. Shiatsu and Acupressure
13. Need help
14. Sarahmckem/Simon Bruce
15. New user creating pages
16. i cannot add my submission for the 2nd time!
17. The J.M. Smucker Company/Hungry Jack Link
18. Warning message
19. who was the father of the science fiction?
20. Links to Wikipedia articles
21. Copyright restrictions
22. Freezing computer which finally shut down
23. Corporate Listing Question
24. how to search for investment companies
25. Threats to "subpoena" IP Address, etc.
26. Help using IRC to fight vandalism
27. Can you post an article
28. Help using IRC
29. To edit article heading
30. Editing Conflict
31. DRAFT Article Creation
32. Vandalism Accusation

[edit] April 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 5

1. Vandal Report
2. Daytona Beach Notable inhabitants -- How to make Lee Apperson's Bio and many awards on the page accessable
3. call monitoring sys
4. How to make a big border in a table ?
5. Archiver not working again...
6. referencing
7. Uploading a file
8. Searches on Wikipedia
9. Starting this college
10. Qwanell Mosley
11. Own article
12. Coding boxes

[edit] April 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 6

1. Can not print graphs and other "illustration" type equations in wiipedia mathematics articles
2. posting PDF
3. Language
4. John Adams (miniseries) Inforbox
5. Adoption program
6. Uploading picture
7. Edit special page
8. Writing Practice Problems/Exercises for Wikipedia Articles
9. peer review - clock conflict
10. archiving own talk page
11. Album Citation
12. Hints to screen readers
13. WIKIPEDIA & PDA Accessibility
14. making articles

[edit] April 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 7

1. How to add external link wiht good information?
2. People born in 1926
3. commercial self promotional edits
4. How to correct date format?
5. How to nominate picture from Commons for Featured Picture
6. Copy text from WIKIpedia in order to use it on my website
7. use of colors
8. links
9. spanish page wanted in english
10. commodity tracking system
11. help pls
12. next 2010 football world cup
13. Georgia On My Mind
14. Indicating Ancestry in BLP articles
15. Can I change my username?
16. Where did the archive go?
17. Explaining red-linked terms
18. For finding an author of a poem
19. Question
20. IfD
21. Centre alignment in tables
22. Some IFD formatting errors
23. License
24. Create Your Own Article
25. I just need a little help
26. Redirects
27. Jimmy Carter

[edit] April 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 8

1. List of Mosques
2. Adding my full text
3. Help with bad editors
4. Image upload
5. Contents box
6. equity share in standerd medicals and pharmasuticals ltd
7. Missing image?
8. page search
9. red links
10. Account email address reset
11. Template help
12. Cite error
13. History
14. page "Nosle" gets deleted
15. Cut and paste content about music
16. How do I upload an image?
17. retaining wall
18. :Image:Mick Jagger August 6, 2006 - Dübendorf, ZH.jpg
19. gold from rock
20. Plagerism
21. Unicode
22. WikiProject Spam
23. Using watchlist
24. Contribs bug?
25. Contributions
26. Redirect to section of article containing apostrophe
27. IRC?
28. Heather King
29. General help
30. Afroyim Soshana

[edit] April 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 9

1. Template for Welcoming Users, and suggesting creation of an account?
2. hilp
3. How to rename article page
4. Hide bars/navboxes on subpages
5. Changing the title of an article
6. how to edit the main heading
7. Offensive Image
8. Loughborough Echo
9. Gallery tag
10. Uncyclopedia copyright
11. Wikipedia math notations don't print correctly anymore. How to fix that?
12. Justin Tuck
13. How can I sign my name properly
14. FRUSTRATED AND NEEDING ANSWERS! :-(
15. Can I still write the same article after I got deletion?
16. Can you help my friend please
17. Hi
18. would my article about making improck be advertisement?
19. Is it possible to view WP accounts?
20. Citeing a forum
21. Cannot delete link on page
22. download
23. Question
24. Comparative Distance Links

[edit] April 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 10

1. Editing changes not sticking
2. OceanLab and Oceanlab
3. Wikiproject
4. A State of Trance
5. Missing character
6. Why my article shows my user name?
7. RAILROAD TRACKS
8. Watchlist changes?
9. Restoring deleted email using windows vista
10. How do I leave a comment about use of a particular tag?
11. Talk:Asif Farrukhi
12. Watch All Live Indian TV Channels Here
13. In need of help
14. search my brother
15. Page redirected
16. What the heck is this rubbish?
17. How do I include my firm in the "Advertising Agencies of the United States" list?
18. Do you like helping out on the help desk??
19. is this the right place?
20. Is Wikipedia supposed to be a democratic community?
21. Contributions from a range of IP
22. Lost Password
23. deleted article, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
24. Wrong article name
25. archiving own talk pages
26. how do I create new articles?
27. WSSM call letter and format switch to WRQR
28. Adding Edit Summary after your Edit
29. multiple image template request
30. Convert template
31. OK can someone help me with this...
32. debate result for AFD was KEEP but page has been removed?
33. Cannot edit from phone
34. creating a new article

[edit] April 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 11

1. Uploading a city's official seal
2. Permission to use illustration.
3. FAA PDF of old accident reports
4. Do you allow curse words?
5. How do I...?
6. Creating a Bibliography on a Separate Page
7. NEW LANGUAGE
8. User boxes
9. Changing an article's name
10. Contact details of Portal manager
11. Why is their no category for pages needing to be wikified?
12. Adding an in-line message box
13. Email Change Confirmation Not Received
14. Talk Page Formatting
15. Using text from my organization's website. Still need copyright permission?
16. stuck in the sandbox
17. Black blocks on image
18. Crossing Categories
19. Network wikipedians
20. problem with the font
21. Unique pages

[edit] April 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 12

1. Monitor recent changes in real time
2. Account merging
3. LaTeX
4. Article on Hugo Diaz
5. Using Wikipedia in Iternet Explorer 7's Instant Search box
6. Ventilation system in hydro project tunnels
7. GEORGE STEPHENSON
8. userbox
9. Logging on
10. Search through a user's contributions
11. Rationales
12. References and redirects
13. finding deleted articles
14. Coloured world map
15. trying to contact an administrator with a request but can't find a talk option
16. Wikipedia Toolbar IE7: changeíng language
17. How to question an article's nuetrality
18. How to move an article to a page with a history
19. Account Creation
20. Map Making
21. Anti vandal tools
22. Hiding long item in talk page
23. capitalization of "white" and "black" in chess
24. My teacher article deleted Wikipedia.
25. SAPPORO
26. Fair use

[edit] April 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 13

1. Help on my talk page
2. How do I delete an article?
3. One image on top of another
4. Top and bottom buttons
5. Malicious Entries on My User Page
6. Name change
7. Help please
8. English Wikipedia wants to registration my teacher article.
9. Excel to wiki converter
10. Rob Stewart Canadian actor dob 7/23/1961
11. AWB
12. Wikipedia Time
13. what is the time difference between North carolina and missouri?
14. Reliability
15. ToC

[edit] April 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 14

1. Show/hide.
2. All images missing!
3. password and new e-mail address
4. search history
5. Internal links
6. Changing Case in article title
7. Please help me to know "the infetious rate of Japanese B encephalitis in bat...
8. Adding page to category
9. wikipedias to survive
10. Publish articles
11. Edit count
12. plagarism
13. where can i report a bad admin?
14. Template Problem
15. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 14#Looking for others to reduce unnecessary conflict and drama at source|Looking for others to reduce unnecessary conflict and drama at source]]
16. Infobox width
17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 14#Is there a way to make Wikipedia display serifs?|Is there a way to make Wikipedia display serifs?]]
18. Adding A Photo
19. Network
20. Insurance policy
21. Non-inline references
22. Deleted contributions
23. Question about citations
24. Kate Jackson
25. Change of User Name
26. Old deletion discussion
27. Linking to categories

[edit] April 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 15

1. Common Wikimedia account
2. Rev. Benjamin Durell Weeks
3. Heraldic artist needed
4. Sponsoring institution
5. Soho Housing Association speedy deletion
6. Religion demographics
7. Problem redirecting to an anchor
8. Username
9. Redirect
10. Template and Extension help forums?
11. Barnstars and the Sort
12. Section shortcuts don't seem to work at the moment
13. Adding software in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software"
14. AfD nomination problems
15. how do I
16. FORWARDING A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE VIA E-MAIL
17. citations
18. editing protected articles
19. Hidden cats
20. How do I get the tagged for deletion box off my page since the vote is to keep it?
21. Creating a historical page for a company that no longer exists?
22. Vandals who become good editors
23. A dilemma
24. How can I check when an article was created?
25. How to find when text was added to an article
26. Category
27. the truth

[edit] April 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 16

1. Why is my username showing up in red?
2. Too Much Vandalism
3. How to create my own page or file
4. Need information pertaining to magic
5. A scale of clarity for articles,
6. United States-Vatican City relations image
7. Fair use rationale - Whats the point?
8. becoming a user
9. Companies should not be allowed to place their commercial advertisement on WikiPedia
10. getting a small column in a table
11. Irony: blocking of editing on WP:RSN
12. what is square integrable
13. Peace Abbey award articles
14. What the Fxck?!!
15. Tags for previously speedied articles
16. My talkpage
17. Did I upload pics correctly
18. Article exists but links to another person
19. Is it permissible to link to Wikipedia?
20. Shared account or something; what to do?
21. Infobox on Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill
22. Lost account
23. How does the "protecting a page" work?
24. How do you change the name of an article
25. Posting something

[edit] April 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 17

1. Patrol
2. Automatic Columns?
3. Reposting of prodded content
4. who?
5. Copy wiki text or place link to wikitext on web site
6. Using Colors to Edit
7. Placing link on my web site
8. I added category, but the page doesn't appear in the category list...
9. How do you delete the warning on your talk page?
10. The truth must be revealed
11. Editing
12. water in the lower part of the brain
13. John Carroll (VC)
14. Albert Malam
15. Editing the HK ICAC page
16. Cannot confirm my email address. The code I receive is always "invalid" and "may have expired."
17. Forum for template and extension developers?
18. wikipedia
19. y does this site suck so bad
20. Creating a page for Human Kinetics (Biomechanics)
21. How to remove a redirect so the redirecting article can be written.
22. Turning link color
23. citing source
24. Signing Wikipedia entries
25. Adding photos
26. Royal Dutch Shell
27. Can you talk to other users?
28. My Password and email have been switched

[edit] April 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 18

1. Delete a category
2. Squadrons aboard U.S. Aircraft Carriers
3. Artistic
4. Watchlist problem
5. inappropriate statements made on our school wikipage
6. Incorrect label from google on Neptune article
7. short sale on my house?
8. URL blocked
9. what happened to acount : joseph031164 ?
10. adrenoleucodistrofia
11. image description pages
12. Unknown file type when loading the page "Circuit complexity"
13. How do I make a new article all together?
14. Detecting hex code
15. A quick question
16. My article was deleted but I can't find it in the deletion log

[edit] April 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 19

1. Userpage
2. Can't cofirm email; copying URL doesn't help
3. Who is the "Editing Admin"
4. Length of file names
5. Wikipedia:Upload and MediaWiki
6. Email Headaches
7. AfD
8. Holidays in Egypt
9. Brachial Plexus Page
10. Vandalism
11. Page moved - new title question
12. What is allowed on a user page
13. External links
14. New section
15. Where to comment on Watchlist "spam" (SF mailing list)
16. The Used
17. change user name
18. where do I go to ask a question about my stomach problems I have never used this but can't seem to find answers

[edit] April 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 20

1. Is there any way....
2. Disputing content
3. Four years I have suffered a stroke.
4. coffee mug
5. Wikipedia:Help desk/Instructions
6. Huggle
7. Similar Username
8. Disabling the ability to wikilink to a page?
9. Legality of vandalism
10. Email.
11. Nonsense situation
12. World Market Center Las Vegas entry
13. Deleting a page
14. Signatures in templates
15. Table
16. images
17. Put a user's contributions on the watchlist?
18. WSMR map
19. Request for comment

[edit] April 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 21

1. Weeping Silence
2. Removing tags
3. Infobox_Public_transit template editing help
4. Sortable tables
5. ”an” or “a” historic
6. where to buy music "More than Wonderful"?
7. about my editing on Crepes
8. Printed page margins too small
9. hi
10. Web RC stream
11. Sections of an article has blended together
12. What to cite if I translate them from Thai Wikipedia?
13. the deleted page
14. How to create an article on wikipedia
15. Editing question
16. detoxification from marijuana
17. Guidelines & templates for treating [silly] vandalism
18. Retirement
19. 'new section'
20. System software
21. Signing question
22. Need assistance with disambiguation
23. Changing minimum searching size to 3 chars +
24. Make your own page
25. Another silly question
26. Bitches ain't shit

[edit] April 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 22

1. Lag
2. Change to Subject Title "Health Realization"
3. Seach
4. Ref tag problem
5. Editing the HK ICAC chapter
6. citation box
7. Incidental advertising
8. Search
9. :Image:Sophie Marceau.jpg
10. LINUS
11. Hey
12. Annoying Changes
13. MS DOS
14. Libelous entry by Charles Leo
15. Regaining control of a hacked account
16. Link deleted
17. wiki wikipedia archive has my e-mail address - how can I change, delete, edit
18. Nearly every article has had the most activity in Fall 2006

[edit] April 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 23

1. AfD problem with Vilnius letter
2. Drop Down Menu?
3. Title issue
4. HI
5. Citing the same source more than once in an article
6. Phanart
7. Clearing the search bar in Wiki
8. Need 'one word' for a meaning.
9. About this article - is it fake?
10. DELL sales persons COMPANY email address
11. My name is...
12. Articles on years
13. user pages
14. MAIL LITERATURE
15. I feel very stupid...

[edit] April 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 24

1. Deleting personal monobook
2. Email/sign in
3. locatioin
4. Help with Wikiseek
5. Where to best ask? anonblock / schoolblock
6. Illustration
7. Joining
8. How to colour a page?
9. 69.145.123.171
10. Template problems (conditionals?)
11. "What links here" out of date -- purging cache doesn't work
12. QUESTION!
13. Adding external link
14. Contesting a ruling
15. How to best follow up on discussions
16. Monobook.js not functioning
17. Citation Question
18. care centre
19. Playing Wickipedia selection (Beethoven Sonata Op 111) on quick Time
20. Article hits across the last month
21. Font
22. Why does my watch list not work
23. ES Pictures

[edit] April 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 25

1. E-mail confirmation…
2. When can a users contributions be deleted?
3. Wikipedia images not loading in SeaMonkey
4. Please could you help me?
5. article missing
6. child abuse
7. Change password
8. Where is the right pace to discuss EB Webshare?
9. Jack Kemp categories
10. Brochure
11. Cite
12. Adding a Wikipedia page/topic
13. Columns
14. AutoWikiBrowser
15. Link types
16. RC userbox image
17. Stalker
18. Vandalism?
19. Logos
20. Unreferenced tags
21. Nominating an article for features status
22. ref help
23. History
24. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 25#|]]
25. External links
26. "+" when editing talk page

[edit] April 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 26

1. User Talkpage
2. Question about moving and splitting an article
3. Image use
4. How to set the wiki logo at the upper left corner?
5. Deleted pages disappear from a users contribution list
6. Help find Merge template
7. disabling search suggestion popups without login
8. Formatting problem
9. Contradictory information in article - okay to edit it out?
10. Two pages
11. special page: users listed by edits
12. Why doesn't the main page FA get protected?
13. help with the ref and cite tags at Skunk Ape
14. User Namespace?
15. posting a company on wikipedia
16. help with recovering an accidental deletion of text & image
17. Font in signature
18. User Assistance
19. Akamai University
20. Port Charlotte High School's greatschools.net rating VS Charlotte High School's greatschools.net rating
21. Adding symbols to TeX

[edit] April 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 27

1. NFL Draft Template
2. My page keeps getting deleted
3. How to clear past searches on Wikipedia?
4. Wikipedia:Naming conventions
5. medical
6. Diffs/watchlist preference?
7. Risk assessment
8. Twinkle help
9. betel leaves
10. Sockpuppets
11. New Articles and IPs
12. Wikipedia = Facebook?
13. Running out of patience
14. users versus editors versus ???
15. Indent and number headings

[edit] April 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 28

1. best rated audio visual system
2. Edit count tool limit
3. Number of frogs in an average pond
4. Template
5. help
6. Map co-ordinates link doesn't seem to work
7. "New Section" vs. "+"
8. Wikipedia Front Page
9. Verfying a Source
10. SPL records
11. Boxes
12. deletion
13. articles
14. Multiple images, single caption
15. Those status thingies
16. "Suggestions" in search are now not my previous searches.
17. Top of page notices
18. Edit This Page tab
19. Becoming A Project Member
20. Cancel button on edit page
21. Downloading SVG files

[edit] April 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 29

1. how can you put an image on a article?
2. Spam image
3. How do you put 2 templates beside each other?
4. Reporting mistaken image
5. slipring induction motor
6. reading text of a publicatio/book
7. Template:Cite web problem in X-Plane (simulator)
8. Could someone check my IPA?
9. wikitable sortable issue
10. Vague or ambiguous time
11. brownington mo
12. Indenting a bulleted list
13. brownington mo hendry country
14. Censor
15. Helping
16. New page
17. As a beginner, what are 3 specific things I could do to improve a "stub" page that has piqued my interest?
18. Watchlist problem
19. Wikitable Formating Question
20. "Parts manufacture authority" is an incorrect term
21. Blacklisted links
22. KUDO 1080AM in Anchorage Alaska
23. Question
24. can i add my deffinition to truth with out having messages of thretening to block me.

[edit] April 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 30

1. Timestamps at signatures
2. Fair use of images with unknown copyright status
3. Contacting Wikipedians of a certain sort
4. Bug report
5. How can I trace a deletion log?
6. new Search feature
7. edit reclaimed water page
8. Time Stamp
9. super coiling of double stranded dna. only in under graduate level only
10. How do I post a question?
11. Rename Category
12. Links to PBS Videos
13. changing password
14. how do you make a new page
15. UBX
16. Archiving stuff up
17. Different writing sizes
18. WP:FAC readability tool malfunction
19. Canceling an account:
20. Wikimedia Temlpate doesnt float