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[edit] April 1
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 1
- password
- Firefox addins
- Show button
- Unified login system
- Template help
- Advice on Possible Goalline Blitz Article
- top reference sites list?
- Admissible photos of actors?
- How Can i edit and add one information in Wikipedia? (repeat question)
- Language and log-in question
- How to "strike out", "strike through" or "rule through"?
- page display of List of RAF stations
- Can't see Edits
- Admin
- Network
- Creating a page about my band
- Help editing a page
- How to add an notice in an template
- i want to change my username
- print to PDF
- Search button captions
- Requesting Unprotecting
- Reverting my user talk page?
- Companies
[edit] April 2
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 2
- How Do I Delete?
- Kanute or Canute?
- Daily Emails
- Protection of User pages
- Help Using a Specific Infobox
- info about youngest commercial pilot
- First time user
- When I search my article is not found.
- American cities
- I am not sure if my entry is fixed now
- Signature
- Editing articles
- Trouble with Save page
- Problem adding references
- Gartner
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Thinker
- How do I upgrade the eSignal entry from stub status (I am not the original author)?
- is this notable?
- ADDING A PICTURE
- Advice on knocking people out
- help locating topic
- Checking user levels
- Make it bigger?
- Bibliography on Wikepedia
- Image from German Wikipedia
- Help editing the title of my page
- Willy on Wheels
[edit] April 3
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 3
- Incorrect photo on page.
- Appropriate edit summary for section zero
- I thought I was doing it right... But now I... Help!
- How can i upload word document or EXCEL document on my page
- Direct article links in google
- Fingerprint
- How do I create a template?
- PURPLE HEART LIST
- Template
- The Wikipedia Globe logo
- Wikipedia Analytics
- Why does this say [edit][edit][edit]?
- about image uploading
- News about Wikipedia
- Memories of Worth Ranch
- Keeping A Journal On Wikipedia
- Improperly Cited Article?
- accused of vandalism
- ADDING AN ARTICLE ABOUT A BAND
- How can this mistake be fixed?
- login problem
[edit] April 4
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 4
- Too much security
- What is the protocol on articles under the banner of dead projects?
- Strange error when trying to access pages
- about running a bot
- Users own verse on a page?
- Editing removed
- political science
- How do you put a rationale on a image you uploaded
- Finding reference
- Username Case Problem
- international standards
- Shiatsu and Acupressure
- Need help
- Sarahmckem/Simon Bruce
- New user creating pages
- i cannot add my submission for the 2nd time!
- The J.M. Smucker Company/Hungry Jack Link
- Warning message
- who was the father of the science fiction?
- Links to Wikipedia articles
- Copyright restrictions
- Freezing computer which finally shut down
- Corporate Listing Question
- how to search for investment companies
- Threats to "subpoena" IP Address, etc.
- Help using IRC to fight vandalism
- Can you post an article
- Help using IRC
- To edit article heading
- Editing Conflict
- DRAFT Article Creation
- Vandalism Accusation
[edit] April 5
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 5
- Vandal Report
- Daytona Beach Notable inhabitants -- How to make Lee Apperson's Bio and many awards on the page accessable
- call monitoring sys
- How to make a big border in a table ?
- Archiver not working again...
- referencing
- Uploading a file
- Searches on Wikipedia
- Starting this college
- Qwanell Mosley
- Own article
- Coding boxes
[edit] April 6
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 6
- Can not print graphs and other "illustration" type equations in wiipedia mathematics articles
- posting PDF
- Language
- John Adams (miniseries) Inforbox
- Adoption program
- Uploading picture
- Edit special page
- Writing Practice Problems/Exercises for Wikipedia Articles
- peer review - clock conflict
- archiving own talk page
- Album Citation
- Hints to screen readers
- WIKIPEDIA & PDA Accessibility
- making articles
[edit] April 7
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 7
- How to add external link wiht good information?
- People born in 1926
- commercial self promotional edits
- How to correct date format?
- How to nominate picture from Commons for Featured Picture
- Copy text from WIKIpedia in order to use it on my website
- use of colors
- links
- spanish page wanted in english
- commodity tracking system
- help pls
- next 2010 football world cup
- Georgia On My Mind
- Indicating Ancestry in BLP articles
- Can I change my username?
- Where did the archive go?
- Explaining red-linked terms
- For finding an author of a poem
- Question
- IfD
- Centre alignment in tables
- Some IFD formatting errors
- License
- Create Your Own Article
- I just need a little help
- Redirects
- Jimmy Carter
[edit] April 8
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 8
- List of Mosques
- Adding my full text
- Help with bad editors
- Image upload
- Contents box
- equity share in standerd medicals and pharmasuticals ltd
- Missing image?
- page search
- red links
- Account email address reset
- Template help
- Cite error
- History
- page "Nosle" gets deleted
- Cut and paste content about music
- How do I upload an image?
- retaining wall
- :Image:Mick Jagger August 6, 2006 - Dübendorf, ZH.jpg
- gold from rock
- Plagerism
- Unicode
- WikiProject Spam
- Using watchlist
- Contribs bug?
- Contributions
- Redirect to section of article containing apostrophe
- IRC?
- Heather King
- General help
- Afroyim Soshana
[edit] April 9
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 9
- Template for Welcoming Users, and suggesting creation of an account?
- hilp
- How to rename article page
- Hide bars/navboxes on subpages
- Changing the title of an article
- how to edit the main heading
- Offensive Image
- Loughborough Echo
- Gallery tag
- Uncyclopedia copyright
- Wikipedia math notations don't print correctly anymore. How to fix that?
- Justin Tuck
- How can I sign my name properly
- FRUSTRATED AND NEEDING ANSWERS! :-(
- Can I still write the same article after I got deletion?
- Can you help my friend please
- Hi
- would my article about making improck be advertisement?
- Is it possible to view WP accounts?
- Citeing a forum
- Cannot delete link on page
- download
- Question
- Comparative Distance Links
[edit] April 10
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 10
- Editing changes not sticking
- OceanLab and Oceanlab
- Wikiproject
- A State of Trance
- Missing character
- Why my article shows my user name?
- RAILROAD TRACKS
- Watchlist changes?
- Restoring deleted email using windows vista
- How do I leave a comment about use of a particular tag?
- Talk:Asif Farrukhi
- Watch All Live Indian TV Channels Here
- In need of help
- search my brother
- Page redirected
- What the heck is this rubbish?
- How do I include my firm in the "Advertising Agencies of the United States" list?
- Do you like helping out on the help desk??
- is this the right place?
- Is Wikipedia supposed to be a democratic community?
- Contributions from a range of IP
- Lost Password
- deleted article, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
- Wrong article name
- archiving own talk pages
- how do I create new articles?
- WSSM call letter and format switch to WRQR
- Adding Edit Summary after your Edit
- multiple image template request
- Convert template
- OK can someone help me with this...
- debate result for AFD was KEEP but page has been removed?
- Cannot edit from phone
- creating a new article
[edit] April 11
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 11
- Uploading a city's official seal
- Permission to use illustration.
- FAA PDF of old accident reports
- Do you allow curse words?
- How do I...?
- Creating a Bibliography on a Separate Page
- NEW LANGUAGE
- User boxes
- Changing an article's name
- Contact details of Portal manager
- Why is their no category for pages needing to be wikified?
- Adding an in-line message box
- Email Change Confirmation Not Received
- Talk Page Formatting
- Using text from my organization's website. Still need copyright permission?
- stuck in the sandbox
- Black blocks on image
- Crossing Categories
- Network wikipedians
- problem with the font
- Unique pages
[edit] April 12
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 12
- Monitor recent changes in real time
- Account merging
- LaTeX
- Article on Hugo Diaz
- Using Wikipedia in Iternet Explorer 7's Instant Search box
- Ventilation system in hydro project tunnels
- GEORGE STEPHENSON
- userbox
- Logging on
- Search through a user's contributions
- Rationales
- References and redirects
- finding deleted articles
- Coloured world map
- trying to contact an administrator with a request but can't find a talk option
- Wikipedia Toolbar IE7: changeíng language
- How to question an article's nuetrality
- How to move an article to a page with a history
- Account Creation
- Map Making
- Anti vandal tools
- Hiding long item in talk page
- capitalization of "white" and "black" in chess
- My teacher article deleted Wikipedia.
- SAPPORO
- Fair use
[edit] April 13
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 13
- Help on my talk page
- How do I delete an article?
- One image on top of another
- Top and bottom buttons
- Malicious Entries on My User Page
- Name change
- Help please
- English Wikipedia wants to registration my teacher article.
- Excel to wiki converter
- Rob Stewart Canadian actor dob 7/23/1961
- AWB
- Wikipedia Time
- what is the time difference between North carolina and missouri?
- Reliability
- ToC
[edit] April 14
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 14
- Show/hide.
- All images missing!
- password and new e-mail address
- search history
- Internal links
- Changing Case in article title
- Please help me to know "the infetious rate of Japanese B encephalitis in bat...
- Adding page to category
- wikipedias to survive
- Publish articles
- Edit count
- plagarism
- where can i report a bad admin?
- Template Problem
- [[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]]
- Infobox width
- [[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?]]
- Adding A Photo
- Network
- Insurance policy
- Non-inline references
- Deleted contributions
- Question about citations
- Kate Jackson
- Change of User Name
- Old deletion discussion
- Linking to categories
[edit] April 15
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 15
- Common Wikimedia account
- Rev. Benjamin Durell Weeks
- Heraldic artist needed
- Sponsoring institution
- Soho Housing Association speedy deletion
- Religion demographics
- Problem redirecting to an anchor
- Username
- Redirect
- Template and Extension help forums?
- Barnstars and the Sort
- Section shortcuts don't seem to work at the moment
- Adding software in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software"
- AfD nomination problems
- how do I
- FORWARDING A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE VIA E-MAIL
- citations
- editing protected articles
- Hidden cats
- How do I get the tagged for deletion box off my page since the vote is to keep it?
- Creating a historical page for a company that no longer exists?
- Vandals who become good editors
- A dilemma
- How can I check when an article was created?
- How to find when text was added to an article
- Category
- the truth
[edit] April 16
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 16
- Why is my username showing up in red?
- Too Much Vandalism
- How to create my own page or file
- Need information pertaining to magic
- A scale of clarity for articles,
- United States-Vatican City relations image
- Fair use rationale - Whats the point?
- becoming a user
- Companies should not be allowed to place their commercial advertisement on WikiPedia
- getting a small column in a table
- Irony: blocking of editing on WP:RSN
- what is square integrable
- Peace Abbey award articles
- What the Fxck?!!
- Tags for previously speedied articles
- My talkpage
- Did I upload pics correctly
- Article exists but links to another person
- Is it permissible to link to Wikipedia?
- Shared account or something; what to do?
- Infobox on Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill
- Lost account
- How does the "protecting a page" work?
- How do you change the name of an article
- Posting something
[edit] April 17
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 17
- Patrol
- Automatic Columns?
- Reposting of prodded content
- who?
- Copy wiki text or place link to wikitext on web site
- Using Colors to Edit
- Placing link on my web site
- I added category, but the page doesn't appear in the category list...
- How do you delete the warning on your talk page?
- The truth must be revealed
- Editing
- water in the lower part of the brain
- John Carroll (VC)
- Albert Malam
- Editing the HK ICAC page
- Cannot confirm my email address. The code I receive is always "invalid" and "may have expired."
- Forum for template and extension developers?
- wikipedia
- y does this site suck so bad
- Creating a page for Human Kinetics (Biomechanics)
- How to remove a redirect so the redirecting article can be written.
- Turning link color
- citing source
- Signing Wikipedia entries
- Adding photos
- Royal Dutch Shell
- Can you talk to other users?
- My Password and email have been switched
[edit] April 18
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 18
- Delete a category
- Squadrons aboard U.S. Aircraft Carriers
- Artistic
- Watchlist problem
- inappropriate statements made on our school wikipage
- Incorrect label from google on Neptune article
- short sale on my house?
- URL blocked
- what happened to acount : joseph031164 ?
- adrenoleucodistrofia
- image description pages
- Unknown file type when loading the page "Circuit complexity"
- How do I make a new article all together?
- Detecting hex code
- A quick question
- My article was deleted but I can't find it in the deletion log
[edit] April 19
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 19
- Userpage
- Can't cofirm email; copying URL doesn't help
- Who is the "Editing Admin"
- Length of file names
- Wikipedia:Upload and MediaWiki
- Email Headaches
- AfD
- Holidays in Egypt
- Brachial Plexus Page
- Vandalism
- Page moved - new title question
- What is allowed on a user page
- External links
- New section
- Where to comment on Watchlist "spam" (SF mailing list)
- The Used
- change user name
- 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
- Is there any way....
- Disputing content
- Four years I have suffered a stroke.
- coffee mug
- Wikipedia:Help desk/Instructions
- Huggle
- Similar Username
- Disabling the ability to wikilink to a page?
- Legality of vandalism
- Email.
- Nonsense situation
- World Market Center Las Vegas entry
- Deleting a page
- Signatures in templates
- Table
- images
- Put a user's contributions on the watchlist?
- WSMR map
- Request for comment
[edit] April 21
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 21
- Weeping Silence
- Removing tags
- Infobox_Public_transit template editing help
- Sortable tables
- ”an” or “a” historic
- where to buy music "More than Wonderful"?
- about my editing on Crepes
- Printed page margins too small
- hi
- Web RC stream
- Sections of an article has blended together
- What to cite if I translate them from Thai Wikipedia?
- the deleted page
- How to create an article on wikipedia
- Editing question
- detoxification from marijuana
- Guidelines & templates for treating [silly] vandalism
- Retirement
- 'new section'
- System software
- Signing question
- Need assistance with disambiguation
- Changing minimum searching size to 3 chars +
- Make your own page
- Another silly question
- Bitches ain't shit
[edit] April 22
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 22
- Lag
- Change to Subject Title "Health Realization"
- Seach
- Ref tag problem
- Editing the HK ICAC chapter
- citation box
- Incidental advertising
- Search
- :Image:Sophie Marceau.jpg
- LINUS
- Hey
- Annoying Changes
- MS DOS
- Libelous entry by Charles Leo
- Regaining control of a hacked account
- Link deleted
- wiki wikipedia archive has my e-mail address - how can I change, delete, edit
- Nearly every article has had the most activity in Fall 2006
[edit] April 23
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 23
- AfD problem with Vilnius letter
- Drop Down Menu?
- Title issue
- HI
- Citing the same source more than once in an article
- Phanart
- Clearing the search bar in Wiki
- Need 'one word' for a meaning.
- About this article - is it fake?
- DELL sales persons COMPANY email address
- My name is...
- Articles on years
- user pages
- MAIL LITERATURE
- I feel very stupid...
[edit] April 24
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 24
- Deleting personal monobook
- Email/sign in
- locatioin
- Help with Wikiseek
- Where to best ask? anonblock / schoolblock
- Illustration
- Joining
- How to colour a page?
- 69.145.123.171
- Template problems (conditionals?)
- "What links here" out of date -- purging cache doesn't work
- QUESTION!
- Adding external link
- Contesting a ruling
- How to best follow up on discussions
- Monobook.js not functioning
- Citation Question
- care centre
- Playing Wickipedia selection (Beethoven Sonata Op 111) on quick Time
- Article hits across the last month
- Font
- Why does my watch list not work
- ES Pictures
[edit] April 25
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 25
- E-mail confirmation…
- When can a users contributions be deleted?
- Wikipedia images not loading in SeaMonkey
- Please could you help me?
- article missing
- child abuse
- Change password
- Where is the right pace to discuss EB Webshare?
- Jack Kemp categories
- Brochure
- Cite
- Adding a Wikipedia page/topic
- Columns
- AutoWikiBrowser
- Link types
- RC userbox image
- Stalker
- Vandalism?
- Logos
- Unreferenced tags
- Nominating an article for features status
- ref help
- History
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 25#|]]
- External links
- "+" when editing talk page
[edit] April 26
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 26
- User Talkpage
- Question about moving and splitting an article
- Image use
- How to set the wiki logo at the upper left corner?
- Deleted pages disappear from a users contribution list
- Help find Merge template
- disabling search suggestion popups without login
- Formatting problem
- Contradictory information in article - okay to edit it out?
- Two pages
- special page: users listed by edits
- Why doesn't the main page FA get protected?
- help with the ref and cite tags at Skunk Ape
- User Namespace?
- posting a company on wikipedia
- help with recovering an accidental deletion of text & image
- Font in signature
- User Assistance
- Akamai University
- Port Charlotte High School's greatschools.net rating VS Charlotte High School's greatschools.net rating
- Adding symbols to TeX
[edit] April 27
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 27
- NFL Draft Template
- My page keeps getting deleted
- How to clear past searches on Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions
- medical
- Diffs/watchlist preference?
- Risk assessment
- Twinkle help
- betel leaves
- Sockpuppets
- New Articles and IPs
- Wikipedia = Facebook?
- Running out of patience
- users versus editors versus ???
- Indent and number headings
[edit] April 28
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 28
- best rated audio visual system
- Edit count tool limit
- Number of frogs in an average pond
- Template
- help
- Map co-ordinates link doesn't seem to work
- "New Section" vs. "+"
- Wikipedia Front Page
- Verfying a Source
- SPL records
- Boxes
- deletion
- articles
- Multiple images, single caption
- Those status thingies
- "Suggestions" in search are now not my previous searches.
- Top of page notices
- Edit This Page tab
- Becoming A Project Member
- Cancel button on edit page
- Downloading SVG files
[edit] April 29
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 April 29
- how can you put an image on a article?
- Spam image
- How do you put 2 templates beside each other?
- Reporting mistaken image
- slipring induction motor
- reading text of a publicatio/book
- Template:Cite web problem in X-Plane (simulator)
- Could someone check my IPA?
- wikitable sortable issue
- Vague or ambiguous time
- brownington mo
- Indenting a bulleted list
- brownington mo hendry country
- Censor
- Helping
- New page
- As a beginner, what are 3 specific things I could do to improve a "stub" page that has piqued my interest?
- Watchlist problem
- Wikitable Formating Question
- "Parts manufacture authority" is an incorrect term
- Blacklisted links
- KUDO 1080AM in Anchorage Alaska
- Question
- 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
- Timestamps at signatures
- Fair use of images with unknown copyright status
- Contacting Wikipedians of a certain sort
- Bug report
- How can I trace a deletion log?
- new Search feature
- edit reclaimed water page
- Time Stamp
- super coiling of double stranded dna. only in under graduate level only
- How do I post a question?
- Rename Category
- Links to PBS Videos
- changing password
- how do you make a new page
- UBX
- Archiving stuff up
- Different writing sizes
- WP:FAC readability tool malfunction
- Canceling an account:
- Wikimedia Temlpate doesnt float