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Welcome to the Wikipedia Reference Desk Archives
This is an archive where you can browse all of the old questions and answers from the reference desk. Not all questions have been archived (nonsense and questions not meant for the reference desk have not been saved). Some of these pages are very large and may crash even high-end computers. We recommend you don't open many windows at the same time. If your question has been archived but you feel that it hasn't been adequately answered, copy and paste the archived discussion as a new question.
Searching the archives
The best way to search the archives is probably to use a search engine, such as Google by using this search string for the post-October 2006 archives, and this search string for the pre-October 2006 archives. You can also browse manually by clicking on the links below.

To see which of the archives are active, check the following pages with recent changes to the archives:
For archivers
This archive is designed to be updated by a bot. If you notice any problems, please leave a note on the reference desk talk page.


 

Answered questions, January 2008 – present

This is an archive of recent questions archived in the /Archives subpages.
Mathematics

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008
Computing/IT

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008
Language

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008
Humanities

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008
Science

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008
Miscellaneous

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008
Entertainment

Jan 2008 Feb 2008 Mar 2008 Apr 2008 May 2008 Jun 2008


Answered questions, October 2006 – December 2007

This is an archive of older questions archived in the /Archives subpages.
Mathematics

Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007
Computing/IT

Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007
Language

Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007
Humanities

Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007
Science

Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007
Miscellaneous

Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007
Entertainment

Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007


Answered questions, August 2005 – October 2006

Answered questions from the newly split reference desk, archived in the Wikipedia:Reference desk archive project page.
Humanities Science Mathematics Computing/IT Language Miscellaneous
August 2005 August 2005 August 2005 August 2005
September 2005 September 2005 September 2005 September 2005
October 2005 October 2005 October 2005 October 2005
November 2005 November 2005 November 2005 November 2005 November 2005
December 2005 December 2005 December 2005 December 2005 December 2005
January 2006 January 2006 January 2006 January 2006 January 2006
February 2006 February 2006 February 2006 February 2006 February 2006
March 2006 March 2006 March 2006 March 2006 March 2006
April 2006 April 2006 April 2006 April 2006 April 2006
May 2006 May 2006 May 2006 May 2006 May 2006
June 2006 June 2006 June 2006 Early June 2006 June 2006
July 2006 July 2006 July 2006 July 2006 July 2006 July 2006
August 2006 August 2006 August 2006 August 2006 August 2006 August 2006
September 2006 September 2006 September 2006 September 2006 September 2006 September 2006
October 2006 October 2006 October 2006 October 2006 October 2006 October 2006

 

Unanswered questions (deprecated)

These are archives of older questions that never received any answers.
Current

2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002

 

Old answered questions, Start - August 2005

These are the archives of answered questions before the reference desk had been split into categories.

2005: Jan Feb 2005|Jan Feb 2005 - Mar 2005 - Mar 2005 II - April 2005 - April 2005 - Suspected Duplicates - May 2005 - May 2005 II some unanswered - June 2005 - July 2005 - July 2005 II - July 2005 III - July 2005 IV - August 2005 - August 2005 II - August 2005 III

2004: January 2004 I - January 2004 II - February 2004 I - February 2004 II - March 2004 I - March 2004 II - April 2004 - May 2004 - June 2004 - July 2004 - August 2004 - September 2004 I - September 2004 II - October 2004 I - October 2004 II - October 2004 III - November 2004 I - November 2004 II - November 2004 III - November 2004 IV - December 2004 - December 2004 II

Earlier: Archive 1 - Archive 2 - Archive 3 - Archive 4 - Archive 5 - Archive 6 - Archive 7 - Archive 8