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[edit] December 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 1

1. Youngest admin?

[edit] December 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 2

1. Dealing with images
2. Dealing with images
3. Magic word for user name?
4. Most In-line references
5. ditting Dispute
6. JNANA YOGA SADHANA
7. What should I name this article to distinguish it from others?
8. Different language, same article interelationship
9. How to delete
10. How do I edit a list of links?
11. evert a redirect
12. How to determine efficiently the title by means of the version id?
13. What?
14. How to filter "articles only" in Wikipedia XML dumps?
15. Get an XML version of an article through Special:Export by using the version id only?
16. Bocked IP
17. html code

[edit] December 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 3

1. Speedy delete?
2. My References are not accepted
3. eferences
4. ntitled Question
5. My article doesn't appear
6. Image licensing
7. how to add a listing to a category
8. Asking about processor
9. Images from other websites?
10. Using "director videos" from YouTube as sources/references...yay or nay?
11. How do I know the information is true and correct?
12. Translating pages
13. wiki pipe syntax in an Apache software v2 licensed project
14. Where's the best place to ask about an article (besides its talk page)
15. What happened to Special:My Contributions?
16. MAIL
17. Skeleton for starting assessment department
18. infobox div / Edit link alignment
19. way to tell when a category has a new member
20. "Silicon" page doesn't appear to print properly
21. Picture of the day
22. system integrity

[edit] December 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 4

1. OGG
2. Someone merged an article that I opposed on the talk page - what can I do?
3. pam?
4. Edit Summary
5. Wrong name on article - but can I prove it?
6. can I talk to an IP whose address keep changing?
7. Wikipedia has a problem.
8. Edit section link
9. User editing own bio
10. Numerous edits
11. Creating another disambiguation
12. Change Name from Michelemoore to MicheleMoore
13. radio
14. Skins
15. Dealing with .ogg files
16. Which kind of pages Wikipedia counts to achieve 1.5 million articles?
17. can i use picture/images
18. help me what to do now
19. rss feeds
20. Watchlists and logs
21. hydralic formulas
22. can any buddy explain it?
23. Deleting others' comments on one's own talk page
24. Adding a Category to an article without adding the article to a Category?
25. Tips for working on multiple sister projects?
26. A question about tables
27. deleting a page that has since been redirected to correct page
28. new article
29. helicopter parents
30. Those funky table thingies.
31. Where can one ask for more people to edit an article?
32. External Links
33. The Thursturain Chronicles
34. ever Mind...
35. HELP
36. Add anonymous contributions to my user account?
37. edlinks
38. New Article and No Original Research Question
39. Where to lodge a complaint
40. Figure not right
41. untitled question
42. My contribution
43. Reference Needed
44. eferences

[edit] December 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 5

1. Dealing with a dead link
2. 3RR in regards to speedies
3. font size
4. References/Page Numbers
5. Deleting My Account
6. erging History
7. KTM SCHEDULE TO KLUANG
8. Proper format?
9. Moving a Subpage
10. Special:Filepath
11. chlorination
12. ARTICLES
13. edits to since deleted articles
14. VFD (I think thats what its called)
15. creating my userpage
16. edit external links
17. uestion About Removing Links on other programs
18. Enfamil
19. Statitistics on paticular pages or search terms
20. Where'd that box come from?
21. Cannot log on
22. A tracker
23. stadium
24. nfo has disappeared from page
25. alk pages
26. eader text

[edit] December 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 6

1. Editing (spacing) question
2. errors on "Knight" entry page
3. Importing Maple 10 Workbook
4. Ellipsis
5. About the programs in the university
6. My Watchlist
7. tatement
8. The Road Less Travelled
9. Citing sources previously cited
10. AFD discussion template
11. Maurice 1900-2000
12. Removal of vandalism warning and other negative comments from user's talk page
13. image portrait/landscape problem
14. How to get our organisation listed?
15. Sending and Receiving messages
16. [Final Fantasy XI]] is somehow listed in Cleanup templates
17. Effecting a CfR
18. Short Story Analysis
19. Huge table
20. Infobox Template Help
21. ategories
22. mage Tags
23. How????
24. Thanks
25. dits not showing
26. WikiProject banners
27. Hmm...
28. Also
29. Fair Use Image Licence
30. Infobox
31. Mediocre response to a poll
32. Encyclopedia?
33. New topics
34. Album and song articles
35. copyedit tag runs over?

[edit] December 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 7

1. Uploading a Picture
2. Where's the right place to ask about specific articles?
3. revert
4. Indirect references
5. Posting poetry in justified columns
6. What is the copyright status of the User namespace?
7. Can edit history be removed?
8. Watch list questions
9. Can I record Vocals?
10. Parental controls on wikipedia
11. How to become a moderator?
12. How can I get information about Goverment Grants with having a credit card
13. Cannot edit text I added
14. Hooge (hallig) vs Hooge, Germany
15. Links
16. CatScan, toolserver, argh
17. hiva vandalism
18. Protect or Semi-Protect an article
19. WP:CFDS
20. Problems seeing locator maps in infobox
21. Using Academic Sources
22. Login successful, but then "Not logged in"
23. Does Psychology/rewrite need to be deleted or turned into a redirect?
24. link to image on commons
25. Can an edit history be transferred to a page that already exists?

[edit] December 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 8

1. Author?
2. Lower and Upper Case
3. ochin estuary
4. nothing to edit in "edit this page"
5. DELETING IMAGES
6. Edit the Size of the Edit-Pane
7. Editing: Keyboard Shortcuts?
8. "I'm busy in real life" template
9. pload
10. changing my password
11. taking songs from ipod to computor
12. Contractions
13. Spell Checker?
14. The naming of disambiguation pages
15. Figures of Light Entry
16. German picture into English lemma
17. After several tries, I can't get the email confirmation to work Chris Follows 15:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
18. ORIGINS OF WIKIPEDIA
19. Adding <a name=> Tag (ANSWERED)
20. Some other part of the article
21. Some other article
22. Whoops, sorry
23. Lang Michener LLP Posting
24. Hmm
25. fix it
26. Um
27. rticle
28. geek
29. how will I know my page is approved?

[edit] December 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2006 December 9

1. sign in
2. ames bond parodies
3. why delete?
4. My Upload
5. I need help
6. usa patriot
7. Categories
8. A Page Full of External Links
9. Getting full (rather than subset) of category contents on single page
10. Spam, spyware in Wiki Link.
11. iki syntax
12. info
13. Blocking Malicious Spammers
14. Using Wikipedia/Commons images?
15. nternet connectivity Gprs
16. editing already posted text
17. Log-in Issues Related to Satellite Modem
18. author
19. how do you create pages?
20. Every time i edit a Moderator will change it back
21. Article contributors/administrators
22. username
23. who has final oversight over edits?
24. Broken bot?
25. start medicare
26. uggesting a merge
27. your NSDAP page
28. Two IP edit warriors
29. ysterious Template for Deletion
30. ASA