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[edit] March 1
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 1
- Most popular articles
- URLs being removed
- Plagiarism
- Archived Disupute template
- uses for hard drives
- PRINTING
- technical support
- Merge decision
- name meaning
- Resizing
- creating a page
- automatic signatures
- skiriderexp.com
- Are Wikipedia Bookmarks Possible?
- Mirpur Thana - GR error
- After editing a page, browser returns to top of article
- I hate my watchlist.
- Unifying wikipedia
[edit] March 2
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 2
- Wood Brothers Racing
- Talk page question
- New article for a word already listed (under unrelated meaning)
- No obvious insertion point in existing article
- your recent edit has been reverted.
- Template problem?
- Image error
- viewing answer to a question
- LUUS:AP
- Release dates using "hemisphere dependant" seasons (predominantly software).
- Reinstating Deleted Page: Cary Peppermint
- using wikipedia
- Help desk regulars: please vote for bug fix
- Kitchen Pass
- Contents
- Not sure what to do
- cast
- How Do I Make A Wikipedia Page?
- Incorrect birth name listed for a certain person
- Jack Kemp Library of Congress image
- Templates such as Template:Saskatchewan Provincial Highways
- Trying to Setup Personal Wikipedia
[edit] March 3
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 3
- parser function "#if"
- Removing Search History
- Welcome template
- Names of people on disambiguation pages
- confusing box "multiple issues"
- Viral text reference in article?
- How do I use an image...
- AWB help
- clicking on edit-this-page brings up index.php as a save-file option
- stub files
- export page
- Printing Categories
- Copying my own work from another wikipedia
- Number of administrators in 2008
- Creating a New Term.
- Citation broken
- Country - United Kingdom being added whereEngland used.
- Creating a category
- Wikipedia Essay Contest
[edit] March 4
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 4
- Changing the shape of the Contents list
- template help
- Images
- Deletion review
- Container of 6 lines with vertical scrollbars
- Renaming a Page
- question
- offensive content
- re http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_united
- I can not edit with my username
- team india
- How to export a page with prefix 'Special'?
- notibility?
- adding image
- conversion tables for measures
- copyright
- Notability (people)
- export page
- how to email
- IFTHENELSE
- Public proxy?
- Zorro Series
- No copyright violation if it's my own work.
- Meth song edit
- how to link to sections of a page
- Newsweek Wrong?
- IP address
- Chatter Box
[edit] March 5
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 5
- Can't change my skin
- Userbox question
- Page division
- identity theft
- Someone is linking to a commercial site from an article with suspect credentials
- Please do not post ubseen pics
- about fix maintenance in ibm aix
- Unethical Use of Volunteers (adm) for FAN CLUB BIOGRAPHY
- could somebody please help me?
- Adding a Business Listing
- RURAL ENGINEERING
- WP:HD: old revision shown when logged out
- Log in
- Use of Wikimedia photo images
- Crediting piracy groups with releases
- medicine Raynaud's disease
- Up to date picture
- Growing Up Sitka Deer
- logged out
- My Account
[edit] March 6
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 6
- How do I put in hyperlinks
- Asking Question
- Adding a Quote Header
- Help with article, please
- White blood cells
- Removing Warning Boxes on Talk Pages
- Correcting an ambiguous link
- Unsuccessful log on/create account
- editing a new name
- adding a new model/socialite entry
- Google Google everywhere
- Template interwiki links
- Chemistry
- How to create a new page
- science / aircraft
- I want to improve
- statistical analysis/test of hypothesis
- palm date suppliers od manufacturing machines and suppliers of wrapping materials
- How do I propose an article for deletion?
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 6#How to includ an I am online in my profile?|How to includ an I am online in my profile?]]
- Login in different language versions
- Uploading Promotional band photo
- How do I allow any user to edit but the edited pages only updated on wiki after being approved by moderators?
- Jason Castro
- Doppleganger Accounts
- Writing about a term that has a deferent meaning
- Looking for rule/guideline/template/essay on "Don't make intentional bad edits to test WP"
- List of Article I wrote
- Mercian regiment
- are women suppose to be desciples or preaching in seventh-day-adventist church
- Editing External Links
- Talk Page
- Posting an article
- Wikipedia spam being sent from "Wikimedia.org?"
- Main Page Down!
- Twinkle
[edit] March 7
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 7
- Infobox
- Talk:Bathrobe
- Is not allowing students to go to the bathroom legal?
- Somebody erased a talk page.
- Link to foreign language Wiki, yet again
- something
- Psoriatic Arthritis page
- Article marked for deletion
- question about mathematic formulae support
- How to set table max width
- logging out
- Template for lack of an external link
- chemistry
- How can I create a dynamic wiki page
- External Link check
- Ebay seller is plagurizing Wikipedia
- Putting a box on a film page that contains poster and film info?
- Can someone please tell me how to upload and post a picture to wikipedia article?
- Speedy Deletion of my biography
- Making a table from 4 columns
[edit] March 8
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 8
- how can I fix a page that someone else moved, prematurely, from my user area to the public area, without getting blocked?
- um...
- DB tags showing as minor edits
- Extreme Croquet
- Article Title
- Closing my account
- File sharing
- find a translation for Mi Corazoncito?
- Google indexing time minimum?
- computer hardware
- I can't find anything I need!!!
- adding in someone's signature stamp?
- Random album art deletion
- Trying to delete a pic
- How do I edit this box?
- Whose web site is it?
- How do I make a contents on a page?
- Help on Assessment Categories needed
- Is it OK to include a contextually appropriate commercial link?
- Stub size
- Professional help in publishing profile on Wikipedia
- Log in
- Mentioning a song that's about the subject of a biographical article
[edit] March 9
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 9
- Is there a way to find out how many hits/visits a particular item has received?
- turkey
- Redirects
- How do you make an article?
- Information from a single source
- problem with a page?
- Uploading image
- Red links to an existing userpage
- BC vs BCE
- Bossons
- Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
- name change
- Heparin recall - please supply more information!!!
- Kosovo and the death penalty.
- There is no entry for "Post-consumer society" - is there a reason that entry is excluded?
- heroin
- Plano Senior High School
[edit] March 10
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 10
[edit] March 10
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 10
- Adding a Picture to Wikipedia
- "Surfboard"
- Link unfailry removed
- Question about tables.
- Kashmir Observer english language daily newspaper from Indian administered Kashmir
- Where to change my name?
- Action Asia magazine worthy of a nod?
- Putting blank articles into category listings
- What the...?
- How can I modify a date in infobox?
- Erroneous Category for tobacco plant
- Filtering out articles I started (First edits)
- How to display the page based on setting of flag in the"text" table of wiki database
- Working on newly added article
- Watchlist reformat?
- Habeas corpus article
- Redirecting
- How to achieve consensus
- GTA Poster
- Restriction/Limitations
- Wrong font
- Hi am the daughter of parents that commited a crime back in 1972 and am looking for an artivcle
[edit] March 11
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 11
- Script conks out on every preview
- Edit count stat tool
- Need help on a table
- Citations of Shakespeare
- Recent changes and large size changes
- Removing content from user talk pages.
- Why could I not open the Japanese Wiki
- Holman Fenwick & Willan
- New Users
- Halo 'o Vave
- Moving images from en to commons
- "Even when we were no more, sun and moon would be there."
- Edits are not visible
- Sortable table problem
- Freezing computer
- contributing
- creating a page
- Richard Leiterman
- Entering Book Information
- Editing an article and adding footnote
- ?
- inclusion of college technical reports
- Equation numbering
- Is it possible to restore a userpage/talk page after a username change?
- Gadgets
[edit] March 12
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 12
- Article Format
- Move Tab is missing
- Mark A. Moore
- Part 145 Line Maintenance
- I need some one who operates bots on OS X
- what is out put of that prog. and why why??
- Linking articles
- MAPs
- corporation making it's own article
- Featured Article
- vandalism?
- removing a link
- NYSE
- I applaud what you are doing about not removing the pictures
- Karen R. Hitchcock - Somebody keeps reverting the article
- peristent anon vandal
- Name mispelled
- Problem with Text Header
- Is there a better way to deal with on going vandalism?
- The St. Patrick page
[edit] March 13
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 13
- Double redirect
- Images not working properly
- Title change
- User List
- Welcome message
- Michael Rogin
- Hide boxes in articles
- ILGA World Conference 2008 Quebec City
- Broken reference
- QUESTION ABOUT PAGE NOW MARKED AS ADVERTSDIMENT
- cherrytree
- Images
- DynamicCategoryMap not showing
- Page not edited
- Black Rock Mountain (World of Warcraft)
- search help
- side bar edit buttons
- Youth on Wikipedia
- WAAA
- Subpages
- MediaWiki Scripts
- Automation Tools
- Responding/Posting a Comment to an article already on the site
[edit] March 14
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 14
- Huy Nguyen
- Freezing computer II
- How do I tag an article for not being neutral?
- How to report someone that may be 3RR
- Brain Anuerysm
- Question about editing article on hemorrhoids
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history
- Using material licensed under Creative Commons license
- Tables
- Rude picture
- References
- References
- Moved image to Commons, now what?
- help with life
- Merging Infoboxes
- 3 things
- Speedy Deletion HELP
- Help! need to change email address on account
- Use of blogs as legitimate citations?
- please REMOVE ALL PICTURES under Artical PROPHET MUHAMMAD
- How Do I Add An Article?
[edit] March 15
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 15
- Guidelines on length of Further Reading sections
- Not sure if this is the right place
- Question about fair use
- Can't access my account
- I am trying to add a picture
- Who did $this and when did they do it?
- Mining_Simulation
- re directs
- What is this called
- Infobox image
- Article on William C. Marland
- Talk:Ralph Lauren vandalism
- Aligning text
- Why can't I post an article?
- Fair use questions- round 2
- making a wikipedia page
- WAAA Vol. 2
- Edit Rolled Back
- Uploading a replacement image
- Help!
- List of recent headers in article
- How do I get rid of my monobook.js?
- Page protection
[edit] March 16
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 16
- Why did I get these messages?
- Hey, my userpage
- Variables in template transclusion
- WXXS FM Ownership Update
- deleted page
- Add an article
- drinking laws in spain
- Citations
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
- Intra Wikipedia Copying
- Can someone quicker than me create a disambiguation page?
- graham stack disambiguation page
- Information Boxes
- Random article functionality
- Inserting Images
- Articles
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 16#|]]
- Nominations of Law Enforcement Officers - First responders
- Table backgrounds turning white on IE7?
- Urgent help requested: India
[edit] March 17
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 17
- Query re email
- unable to remove category from pages
- newbie
- How to I stop a revert war?
- username - it's mine - can't use
- user page info boxes
- vandalism of link from main page
- Need specific administrator
- pages
- Upload Mistake
- HI
- Summarize data from multiple page to one page
- e learninig
- full text of 1965 Hart-Celler immigration Act
- Freezing computer--the sequel
- "Robert Falls" page redirected?
- confirmation email
[edit] March 18
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 18
- REdirect a Company Name to a new domain
- Wildcard searching of my userspace
- How can I add more information to the Nutritionalvalue template
- Redirect goes back to an older version
- netblock for download of archive
- how to delete entry from page history
- Visually Impaired Access to Maths Expressions on Wikipedia
- Display text as entered
- stub files
- how to traslate from english to other languagess
- Text size
- mazo dela roache jalna mini series,
- John George Gough article
- Carex eburnea
- Making edits show up
- world war 1 Frankfoss (talk) 16:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- How Do I delete a Page I have made for myself?
- Change in editing mechanism?
- sig wrong- know nothing about code
- Odd history
- List of public universities in North Carolina
- Article reviewing
- Linking to images
- How do i create a new page?
- Semi-protection of a new article
- WAZZ/WFLB
- John Deere article
- Energy drink
[edit] March 19
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 19
- Template format
- Conversation about deleting a category
- Am I allowed to post this article?
- Help move
- Help with monobook
- Cyber Team Page?
- i need answer soon as possible...
- Deleted Work
- new article
- Creating a Wikipedia Page
- Blacklist removal
- Number of articles created
- Making additions to articles
- Question about diff
- Edit count
- Attention Editors of Wikipedia
- Moving (Renaming)
- Spelling anomaly
- Ayuda
[edit] March 20
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 20
- ?!?
- Article Singh
- using wikipedia to advertise
- Usage of hexadecimal colours in wikimarkup tags
- Template markup
- Total number of articles in categories
- i can't edit a page
- Quiz
- RFA Tool
- im not able to see telugu font in my system
- about project
- Created Articles?
- about expecting a normal child after getting married in relatives
- Lupin's anti-vandal tool and Twinkle have disappeared
- Creation of a sourced article in the place of an unsourced one that was deleted and protected.
- Bad sites for referencing
- Contibution
- Is it considered OK to remove any unreferenced material from an article?
[edit] March 21
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 21
- The Bolles-Brendamour Company
- Editing a page
- Problem bolding
- copyright tag for mug shot
- Delete an article
- Lost (TV series) page move
- My external link gets deleted by another user for his own selfish gains
- History on NAFTA creditng stating NAFTA was the #1 priority under Clinton's admin. changed
- Skrewdriver article
- User Name
- changes to page
- Edits
- Oggcodecs: Help in getting this to work.
- Edit reverted
- italic font problem
- Share marketing
- Policicy changes at methodone clinics.
- H. P. Grice not listed as "Alumni of Corpus Christi", Oxford
- Adding An Article to a Disambiguation
- mouseover problems
- Translation of sources
- Visitors
- Top contributors to this page
- Mystery: New article is first search result in Google, now result does not appear at all.
- problems with reflist. citations at University of California, Riverside
- Vaccine controversy
- How do you get a picture deleted?
- Editcountitis
- Watchlist preferences
- Ferdinand A Brader edit
- List of accounts?
- Edit page info not showing up on main article
- confirmation email again
[edit] March 22
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 22
- Point system
- Template problems
- Wikipedia Edition
- Resolving proposed merger of several articles involving Blue-green article
- Semi-Protection request
- I cannot get picture to insert
- Nashi pear - what it is NOT good for
- uploading
- Rollback image
- WikiProject Ad help
[edit] March 23
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 23
- I think my article is broke!
- Correct use of template for a "cited in" circumstance
- trouble adding album cover to exsisting article
- Academia Estadounidense de la Lengua EspaƱola
- Category Template creation
- How is it that some businesses get selected to be listed in Wikipedia, and others do not?
- Inserting a picture
- Hard copy references
- Im confused
- Talk page archiving
- old format of searching
- user.gif
[edit] March 24
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 24
- Dodgy source
- Staying logged in to Wikipedia (redux)
- Change email address; forgot password
- clarity is nice: a follow up question with more info
- Deletion of my page, Poet To Arms Dealer
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 24#How to include an I am online in my profile?|How to include an I am online in my profile?]]
- Spam on a user's own talkpage as opposed to his/her userpage
- Page of "Frozen Noodles"
- Weird
- Afd?
- Horizontal line
- Images on article "Azione Capital" are not displaying at all
- British United Airways
- I do not have access to my email address
- Help with Userpage?
- Needed Information about an article,..which was deleted for no real reason.
- North Broad Station
- Help creating an article!
- Crossword Problem
- Wild Car is first card - call color and play draw four?
- General Help
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 24#Template:La.7CThumb wrestling| ]]
- Laptop for poor.
[edit] March 25
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 25
- Terry Finn & Terry Finn photograph
- What should "Keyboards" link to?
- Problem Uploading An Article
- Comparison articles
- Vandalism by Ajjay
- Non free images in template space BUT on the doc page ?
- Please don'0t delete my page- and give me help!
- My account is going haywire
- how do i print just two pages of an articel with out printing the whole article
- link to a section
- My navigation bar
- Turning a portrait 90 degrees
- Account name
- Uploading a file
- Creating a randomized object on my userpage
- Hebrew language in infobox of Tel Aviv
- I would like to get a special export
- Citations
- Daniel Hunt, Actor
- HELP
- Header
- ref tag Mouseoverproblems not solved
- Make template contents searchable on including page?
- Navbar problem
- how to cite this site?
[edit] March 26
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 26
- Adoption
- globalization
- Help! Trying to add bio.
- hansborough article
- Search different from a link
- toplogy
- the electoral 1824
- Images not appearing
- Creating a new page related to an exisiting one
- learn to fly planes
- my talkpage
- password problems
- creating page, same name
- Article Naming Conflict
- second image at top
- Opening IRC
- adobe reader
- watch page
- Pattern identification
- Another Fair Use question
- Infobox Image
- "Deleted contributions"
[edit] March 27
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 27
- Wi-Fi and Wi-Max Ownership
- Create an article
- General WikiProject help
- Creating an article
- Where are you?
- How to find if there's a sockpuppet
- Problem with interface
- Copyvio or not?
- Navbox below background color
- Image editing
- publish
- article
- doubts
- Do you offer working while studying in National University?
- Looking for something to do
- Spider life time
- Fools
- Replace current image option
- Commenting in article body bad form?
- Formatting references
- Advantages of Silver Oak tree
- Deleted Page Question
- List of recent headers in article
- Inserting an image 1/2 way
- publish my article
- Changing the title line of a page - how?
- Headline text
- Visitor numbers
- Adding to categories
- San Francisco (Whitney's) playland at the Beach Carousel
- Simple Spanish Wikipedia?
- My userpage
- Filing A Lawsuit against you!!!
[edit] March 28
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 28
- vCarding in Wikipedia - where is it at ?
- Anyone having a problem with the history or their watchlist?
- Username posts
- How to I get to the Wikipedia top 100 viewed pages?
- Help on mainpage article rv vandalism
- Confused
- HEY!!!
- Request for Tips on Reliable Sources
- mailing a page of an article in wikipedia
- updates to article not appearing immediately
- New Entry for Trimedia Group
- WP:DYKA AKA WP:Recent additions
- Giovanni Martinelli - Atlantic crossing
- Wapipedia stopped working
- When a bracket is just a bracket ...
- Help editing a page
- How do I prevent getting autoblocked?
- WikiProject Newsletters
- Contributions
- Franceca F is back,
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 28#|]]
- Editing a Wikipedia (?) page
[edit] March 29
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 29
- Combinatorial mathematics
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration (I'm not asking for medical info, I'm reminding everyone)
- Editing a template
- IP
- log on problems
- Further to articles in English on EXPO 67, the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967 in Montreal.
- Citation for "Elisabeth Rodriguez" article
- User edit counts
- Question about unified login
- paradox
- How Can i edit and add one information in Wikipedia?
- Question about future merging of accounts to a unified login
- Right ulnar anti sensory.
- I did not vandalize
- General availability of unified login
- Tournament Brackets
- Links in a table
- Can someone make a artikel on my website ?
- Editing Article Titles
- I am trying to create an article but whenever i submit it all the text is on one line going straight across the page for quite some space, what should I do?
- Personal Sandboxes?
- Wikipedia join date
- printable page
- Problems logging in
[edit] March 30
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 30
- Daylight savings time
- change username on wikipedia of another language
- Copyright
- deleting an article in a Mass moderated AFC archives page
- Transclusion problem
- Keyword Search
- Before Common Era or Anno Domini
- Driver licencing in New Zealand
- Format of citation
- Where to ask merging usernames?
- Contact an Admin SARAH?
- HELP!!! i screwed up an artical
- My PC crashed before I could click "save" for my Wiki work-in-progress! How can I recover it? HELP!
- Deleted entry
- Battle of Stoke Field
- Teaching profession
- Advertising
- New biography
- Talk page subpages
- SACEUR
- inserting a picture into a wikipedia article
- Hudson Cutler is a hoax?
- What happened here please?
- use of singular "they"
- Circular Redirect - Leave or Fix?
- Is the "collapsing" of references encouraged?
- adding notable Belizean artist to existing category
- RMS Mauretania
[edit] March 31
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 March 31
- Samantha Turba
- A Wolf in Bot's Clothing??
- Template:Cite press release
- JPI Image use
- Help with creating a company wiki and personal bio wiki
- clear history
- Somebody deleted what I had put up
- Coats of arms
- PROBLEM WITH THE LOG IN
- can't login even w/ new temporary pwd
- Translating texts
- Vandalism
- Hussein Chalayan Biography
- Alt codes
- Writing "invisible"
- picture upload
- no references/puffs
- new article
- american revolution
- LA's Prom Closet
- Creating Article
- Youtube, Myspace, and Fansite Refs
- My Biography
- Origin of the South Atlantic Medal
- art
- who is floxtar?
- My changes appears on some computers and not on others!
- Template for Media citations
- A-class article
- Infobox italics
- The official contents of a music page