Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2008
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[edit] May 1
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 1
- What the HELL?!
- symbols
- PhD Thesis
- ACTUALLY changing the capitalization for article headers
- collapsing text
- Protecting my IPs
- Lock
- Please remove statement from Wikipedia's Amdocs page
- How do I reset my password without email on my account?
- How can I get someone banned or blocked from editing?
- Image question
- infobox problem
- wikitravel webpage
- Dutch Acadie
- Need advice: Private wiki or Wikipedia?
[edit] May 2
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 2
- Contribs
- Lake Qaraoun
- References
- Is there something in place for this?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola
- Wikipedia Static HTML Dumps
- Closing XFDs
- Leonidas
- Feedback wanted on editing
- Is there a way to watchlist additions and removals to a category?
- Eye Spy Publishing LTD
- change the default graphic on Wiki pages
- Single braces - usage
- What the wiki!
- Moving an image to a new name
- how to revert move of the talk page?
[edit] May 3
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 3
- Collapsible tables
- Record labels
- WikiCite like tool for Mac OSX?
- New Project
- Bug Report
- Graphical display wikipedia browsing
- Explain jargon
- Legal terminology: "without valid charge"
- Crime on wikipedia
- Advertising my commercial website(s)
- How do you change the name of an article?
- Project Quality Stats
- Want to make my new article template official
- Notability?
- Wikipedia in other languages
- Business advertising details
- Strange merge of articles
- Query about archives
- Questionable edits to license plate articles
- Image not visible
- Kazue Takahashi
- talisman the board game
[edit] May 4
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 4
- uploading source files
- uploading images
- How can I correct the page name "Image:Lotus79.jpg" to "Image:Lotus77.jpg" please?
- How do I ask for a third opinion?
- Link Blacklisting Filter
- Category Bug?
- Album covers for band article
- Add language
- Organization listed on Wikipedia
- Filing Wills and Living Trusts
- article for deletion
- encyclopedia
[edit] May 5
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 5
[edit] May 6
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 6
- Migrating project templates
- Date format inconsistency
- Tools gone
- How to post question related to an article.
- Foreign Language Templates
- About Bots
- References
- Ads
- Someone is misusing my name or email address.
- Whistleblowing Resource
- Another image question
- Racism blocking
- Admin 2
- Public domain image
- How do I change the case of a title?
- NowCommons Template
- lists
[edit] May 7
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 7
- Record Labels
- Closing Pictures
- Administrators
- Question
- Shared accounts
- Do not understand why my edits were reverted
- Wikipedia Editor
- Editing/changing jpegs
- Please add the page on a new topic
- Deleting
- Revoke blacklisting please
- Making articles/subarticles/charts
- Articles
- MS Word will not spell-check copied Wikipedia paragraph.
- Request to unblock the website www.batanguenos.com for adding to the external links of Batangas Municipalities in Philippines.
- wiki is down
- Darkstar, the video game. HOAX issue.
- Now I find he is asking other(s) to remove the POV tag again for him.
- E.E. Smith Article reference
[edit] May 8
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 8
- Forgot to sign in
- Page-history Merging
- Wikipedia formatted for mobile devices
- HELLO
- Userbox code query
- Human read articles
- I need help
- Broken monobook.js
- Donation
- Barack Obama's win in North Carolina
- Attention: uncorrected vandalism - suggest block anon. editing
- What policy is being violated here? ( fake "You have messages " notifier )
- Vandals actually include edit summaries?
- can't edit my watchlist anymore
- References 2
- Edits removed from 'Reclaimed Water' page
- Archiving tak page?
- Spinal Spinsoses
- Messed up my talk page....
- Trying to e-mail Judge Price in the Hillsboro, Oregon Court
[edit] May 9
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 9
- How can I move a page back?
- Signature
- Aus govt material copyright
- Deleting A Page
- to upload an article into my data base in Wikipedia
- Trying to edit Environmental organisations based in Australia
- Signature Designing Help?
- Beginner's help
- PHOTO COPYRIGHT INFO - WHERE TO ENTER IT!!
- Spam Block
- Category sort by number
- Assigning work to those apt to complete it
- Redundant pages
- Question about an image
- IMAGE CANDIDATE FOR SPEEDY DELETION
- q
- Pro Wrestler naming conventions
- We have been accused of major wrong doings in a bias article
- Did you know
- Invalid confirmation code. The code may have expired.
- Wayne Bridges
[edit] May 10
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 10
- Removing category from userboxes?
- image link
- Some image questions - be afraid, be very afraid :)
- Formatting
- Some content seems to have vanished!
- For non-logged-in users, every page has headers that run into each other
- How to make a page when it redirects you.
- Images
- Wiki markup for alphanumeric outline format?
- Getting "Article Needs Additional Citations" Removed
- Revoke blacklisitng
- Deletion of warning templates etc
- Does this topic deserve an article?
[edit] May 11
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 11
- help
- Delete an article
- Kazue Takahashi
- Uploading image
- IP address question
- Risk of deletion
- Citations for sections
- Something fishy
- Reclaimed water
- copy-pasting "public domain" texts // or texts only with a "reference"
- Links to a certain section
- Speedy Deletion
- Periods at the end of article names
- :Image:Mileydog.PNG
- how do i get article PlaySpace undeleted
- Hurricane Rita
- PLEASE POST OUR INFO
- Images
- Article
- Image will not post.
- can't log in
- Infobox road image caption
[edit] May 12
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 12
- The Grudge Match Article
- Infoboxes going across section headings
- person
- copyright tag
- Linking to an article
- Book citation
- Searching History of articles
- Attacked on Meta
- Grr.
- The word "terd"
- Recent Changes/Watchlist
- Namespace trouble
- Citations necessary within infoboxes?
- Username/Password
- IP block exemption
- Valentine O'Hara
- ICO Global Communications/ICO Satellite Management
- Finding relevant info in other articles to create inbound links
- images
- LOC-image Template
- Secure Wiki page
- Text bleeds into infobox
- Help with Wikimarkup tables
- Comments on cleanup
[edit] May 13
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 13
- How to edit an infobox? When there is no Edit butto to it?
- Another image question - but easier this time
- Behavior question
- Tehuacán
- American Actor John Howard article
- Password Change
- Userbox Code
- resarch methodology
- Commons pic of questionable origin
- Site author indicates wikipedia copyright violation
- Redirect?
- Austrian admins
- Courier text
- Block Bots
- Should ref numbers appear before or after periods?
- Siting a Reference More than Once
- Signature
- Finishing Wikipedia!
[edit] May 14
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 14
- Wikiproject Template
- Posting articles on talk pages
- Non-bold collapsable table
- User page
- Someone check a reference, please?
- User Talk Page problem
- how to make diet tuna mornay
- Does the Three-revert rule apply to talk pages?
- Couple questions.
- Uploads
- Timeouts While Editing?
- A question about wikipedia's stance on pedophilia
- Confused about :Image:Nypdpatch.jpg
- RfC - What Now?
- changing a google books search reference into a more direct/prettier hyperlink
- oversight
- The pipe (|) in templates
- Problem with PointyRemote, or just a cache problem
- ყოლბაია
- help
[edit] May 15
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 15
- User Account
- Restoring Text From My Deleted Page
- Upload an image without giving up the rights?
- Changes are not visible
- Questions
- Tuition centres/ home tutors in S'pore
- Yarn
- Pls help sort my signature
- I want to find which administrator deleted my page
- What are the main differnces between a Stub and an Article-How do I create a Stub?
- MY QUESTION
- categorys?
- How do I create a page for Wikipedia?
- Internal References
- How do I use Blocking Padlocks?
- Finding the origin of a phrase / author
- Hindu Gods
- User Talk Page Archive Bots
- A person showing up in a category listed alphabetically by first name rather than last name.
- Does wikipedia charge
[edit] May 16
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 16
- List of Online Admins
- Aromatherapy
- deleted article
- Removal of a warning
- Editing footer templates
- hearing a word
- Image help
- what next on helping get aritcle on toni jo henry created?
- Javed Iqbal (serial killer)
- Copyright question about images produced by hospital
- wikitable at List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University of Chicago
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 16#|]]
- Dorchester Hotel
- enochian magic
[edit] May 17
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 17
- adding to bibliography
- Wikipedia roles
- Finding WP pages
- Userboxes
- User
- Why can't a page be edited?
- Image upload troubles
- Side
[edit] May 18
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 18
- Photograph licensing - how do I share?
- Title issues
- Nominate image for deletion question
- Integrating a list notable news sources
- Live Map On Wikipedia !!!
- Intersection of categories on article and talk pages
- spinal
- One simple question
- Commons image editing?
- Infobox Theatre image width parameter
- StatusChanger - HAU not yet working
- Two articles in need of merging
- logging in / logging out
- Help needed with copyright rationale
- User scripts
- Copyright permission
- Wikipedia blacklisted?
- Print Wikipedia
[edit] May 19
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 19
- monopolizing the editing of a page
- Searching for pages sharing several categories
- Checkuser
- Frowned upon words
- Redirecting an image?
- How do you move one page to its redirect page?
- creating a new article
- Title for My Organization's Wiki Page
- blue dotted line in my article
- NPOV
- Use of the word "location"
- Events in England during the year 1978.
- Aight - Referencing In Wiki
- posting an article
- Blocking Wikipedia in search engines
- Ads
- hi
- Journal of Forensic Accounting
- Log in / create account page
[edit] May 20
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 20
- Template:Infobox image
- Resetting "left" alignment
- Losing the "References" index
- making Javascript click on "edit this page"
- complaining for nagercoil town secretery
- Signature
- how do you look up the meaning of a word in wikipedia?
- Wikipedia:WikiProject South America template banner
- Username
- Userpage
- Talk page GA icon
- Image Upload from Commons
- Problems with new account
- Exporting images
- how to publish an article? The Speaker's House (talk) 18:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Secure login incompatible with editng?
- log-in issue...
- Infobox Company Error
- Javascript question
- Tagging or reporting HTML/CSS errors
[edit] May 21
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 21
- Registered name not appearing after edition
- conflict of interest: neutral editor sought to make correction
- How to allow only Wikipedia editors to edit an article
- is Kerala land ecsclamated from the sea?
- invisible spans
- Uploading Images - size and method question
- Need help archiving my talk page.
- Infobox_road map size
- Wikilinks
- WikiProject
- Howto link a definition?
- Search For User Contributions On A Specific Talk Page, Article Page, Category Page, Etc. Etc.
- External Links for blogs
- review new article
- Request for new entry?
- help
[edit] May 22
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 22
- Status of a requested translation
- Carah Faye, Carah Faye Charnow, Mikey Martin, Michael Martin
- IPs cannot create articles?
- E-mail as a Source
- user name - fallrome
- ArticleHistory Template
- Image
- KPI/SWITCH GEAR
- Display most recent history entry on an article page
- IP
- Mike Zito
- Thierry Roussel
- Kannst mir die deine setzen aber als der
- Ancient Egypt
- Super/subscripts in verbatim text
- how safe is floresent twist light bulbs
- LOGO
- new user needs help, i am a little confused
- How do I make...
- Inappropriate? Usernames
[edit] May 23
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 23
- Non-existant References
- Vandalism
- What happened to the + button?
- Yesterday, news reports about the English Wikipedia.
- Mark Cavendish, misplaced edit-buttons
- RSS feeds
- How do I merge two articles?
- Requesting references
- Question
- "Tasks" or "Things to do" page
- Add picture to page
- Ghost text
- Steven A Lee
- Research Method
- article does not show up in search after 72 hours
- An article's "importance"
- Two items on same line, should be on different lines
- Two items on same line, should be on different lines
- Wikipedia on DVD
- New page tool
[edit] May 24
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 24
- Templates in their own auto-categories
- Transwiki bot?
- Disambiguation page needed
- Odd reference formatting
- Photos of dead people
- Patrol
- Unblock rules
- Arb Com Unblocking
- Merge discussions
- New user - problems re-finding articles
- Requesting Attention
- Characters
- Tucurinca contributions
- Prevent nosy onlookers from knowing your username
- Getting the Admins Attention
- Flickr
- Rosemary
- Font Face
- Java Script
[edit] May 25
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 25
- Google help
- Lone years and months
- Lightweight wikipedia entry page (search box only)
- Licensing question for uploading images
- Really big references
- Image
- Gyro Calideo
- Delete
- Delete... Proper
- Hidden Category?
[edit] May 26
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 26
- Starting a translation of an existing article
- Verifying Content
- Merger/unmerger at Piha
- Status of a requested translation - again
- Infobox background colour
- Image Copyright Question
- model and methodology
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 26#Exporting file of User contributions|Exporting file of User contributions]]
- Get added to Wikipedia.com
- Userpage help?
- IRC vs Windows Live
- Mental help
- Wiki-audiofiles
- Silesian language code
- Edit wars between IP address users
- SVG rendering
- unlinking two accounts with same IP address
- Not sure what to call a new article
- Online or Offline
[edit] May 27
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 27
- what was the name...
- What happened?
- Deletion of pages to save server space
- commerce
- Help!
- Page width
- Merge
- Infobox Spacecraft question
- Mexican University article (Faculty of engineering)
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 27# .7Ccolspan="2" align="center".7C <.2Fnowiki> showing up when image is added to Template:Infobox Organization|<nowiki> |colspan="2" align="center"| showing up when image is added to Template:Infobox Organization]]
- Image Copyright
- Editing Ancestors Templates
- Finding a class Wiki Page
- Tools not working
- reference
- Unified Login
- How do I....
- Reassignment of IPA edits
- Non English sources
- How do I find a romanization?
- Need Answer For Project
- Uploaded an image
- Table problem
[edit] May 28
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 28
- Why does this page (Category:Lists_of_science_fiction_television_series_episodes) show as essentially empty while being edited yet clearly is not empty when displayed?
- Images are not getting loaded when I see any article in Wikipedia.
- Grama Vidiyal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grama_vidiyal)
- new users and unified login
- computer buggage
- Upload Image Denial
- Unified Login Won't Let Me Rename
- Your Aricle on Fascism/Discrepancies
- Resetting the Main Page
- Template:Documentation: I don't know if it is the best to discuss that here...
- Question
- copyright infringement in article
- how do i report a page in which flase info has been published
- How does vandalism reversion happion?
- Single User LogIn
- Template "Section too long"
- Still about this image...
- Deleted info
- user name
- My Account
- Museum of Photographic Arts- page entry
[edit] May 29
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 29
- Company Wiki
- Page # in citations
- 66.244.103.145
- About Automatic payment program in fi/co
- Italic gobblygook
- nazi wikipedia
- Why Solaris 10 is preffered over Windows and Linux
- Using Files To Learn Pronunciation
- what pages use a particular template
- Hello.
- Image Distortion
- Talk page category sorting
- Coaches
- Page about myself
- access a page
- Making categories understant listas parameter
- Private communication with administrators?
- How do I do a major editing overhaul of an article?
- Whistling Woods International
- Whistling Woods International
- New Header
- Question about copyvios in articles
- Question about making a disambiguation page
[edit] May 30
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 May 30
- Organisations editing their own entries
- Non free use image in template problem.
- marriage
- My account seemed to be hacked
- DAB John Billingsley
- Text overlaps infobox
- How do i get collapsible tables on my wiki?
- Moved articles
- conversion from weight of sample taken to ppm
- references
- Found Vandalism
- I need to change the article on Kazakhstan
- User:Paul Vogel
- Infobox question
- Wiki mini atlas
- Deleting a Page from My Own Userspace
- Terrible Article
- Do non-account edits count?