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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 1

  1. Updating SFBA statistics table
  2. Photo license
  3. How to I change a picture on a page?
  4. False information about my company
  5. APEC Logo Change
  6. Huh?!
  7. wikitext bullet-point markup question
  8. Public Domain (film)
  9. Copyright uncertain tag?
  10. User/IP address removing template messages from recently-created article
  11. Edit Count.
  12. What does a blocked user see?
  13. Transwiki/importing articles
  14. Editing a discussion page
  15. Parts lists?
  16. discovering my password
  17. JS

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 2

  1. Passenger on board missing air france flight
  2. rainbows
  3. Wiki style for TV program times
  4. Importing Ansfelden heraldic image from de.WP
  5. Deletion for A7, How to Correct?
  6. Unable to give a server link in Wiki
  7. Richard North
  8. Changing font size
  9. Using an image from another Wiki.
  10. Question
  11. Tagging {{Stub}} articles as Unreferenced?
  12. Name change
  13. Editing content
  14. City infobox
  15. submitting an article
  16. Inserting photographs
  17. Insert a date template in a template
  18. Help creating a page
  19. Cropping Flickr image
  20. Sandy Sweet Wiki page deleted...
  21. help me, 1987 Honda 1.5L D15A3 to the D15a2?
  22. Access to my wikipedia account suddenly blocked??
  23. looking for pictures

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 3

  1. Date of electronic publication
  2. Inline Citations
  3. www.wikipedia.org's main page has a text display problem...
  4. Application forms and admission procedures
  5. Edit option from the pages should be removed because anybody can change the information and may provide us a wrong info.
  6. Requested moves
  7. If someone uploaded a false image into a article
  8. languages
  9. TOWN VEHICLE
  10. Nephrops norvegicus
  11. new article
  12. Banned but have never used wiki account creation or even logged in!
  13. Question about NASA photo
  14. Articles statistics...
  15. Improving search engine?
  16. Question regarding Reliable sources
  17. Assignment symbol in formulae
  18. Using inline templates ("tags")
  19. External Link with invalid characters
  20. Wikipedia in other languages
  21. how do you create a citation in Microsoft Word That Will Work for Wikipedia
  22. Upgrade of Wikimagic for ISBN
  23. May I borrow your brain?
  24. Uploading images
  25. About biographic note in the list of Opera Directors
  26. Making 2 to 1 ?
  27. Bot
  28. Popup sticking

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 4

  1. Table question - when to collapse, how to maintain uniform color
  2. monsterVisionTV
  3. Hi
  4. problems hitting internal links
  5. glossary
  6. mediawiki shortcuts definition
  7. Editing existing articles
  8. Making a template
  9. User Page
  10. Colored link
  11. Private school infobox template
  12. Pictures
  13. Problems with an infobox
  14. Possibly bad claim of fair use
  15. Freezing a web page for use as a citation
  16. Hi I started an article last night come back to try and work on it today and it has been redirected
  17. Need an admin to undelete article
  18. Jobs at Wikipedia?
  19. Am I allowed to Edit my own Talk Page?
  20. louis phillipe medallian
  21. Pictures in Commons
  22. Font Question
  23. Alphabetical list of Wikipedias
  24. Rewriting an article

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 5

  1. popups
  2. Blank Space
  3. Journalists
  4. Image copyright
  5. Copyright holder
  6. Can't see pictures
  7. Taskforce templating
  8. Work at Wikipedia?
  9. Movie Poster
  10. SVG strangeness
  11. Joy F. Evans
  12. Missing help desk pages
  13. Huggle
  14. Category Tree
  15. creating a new article with a tilte that gets redirected to another article.
  16. Updating hyperlinks in citations
  17. Importance of Person
  18. An article I want to edit does not have an "Edit" tab
  19. german sheperd puppy
  20. retinal detachment and use of a sclerol buckle
  21. deletion log
  22. request for comment
  23. Hello
  24. How to submit my page
  25. Putting scrollbar in a sidebar
  26. Reliable source with possible original research

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 6

  1. Patron Estates: speedy delete
  2. RMS. LACONIA (1921) - found postard
  3. Copyright violation
  4. How to alter image in Wikimedia Commons?
  5. Can a blog be a reliable source?
  6. Terri Schiavo case
  7. images
  8. Clifford Brown, Trumpeteer. American.
  9. Tables in disambiguation pages
  10. Problem removing extraneous text
  11. Posting a Page
  12. Something wrong with the mobile interface?

June 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 7

  1. my name
  2. Do we have a list of WikiProjects?
  3. Column equivalent to line word wrap for long two column tables
  4. Reliable sources and external links
  5. Category link lists
  6. Help would be welcome
  7. changing the correct information of the person and abusing it.
  8. Citing references - same source, with and without page numbers
  9. BRD cycle and contested material in article.
  10. alfred james taylor
  11. Formatting
  12. answer to Todd
  13. How to submit a question to Wikipedia ?
  14. Wikipedia BLP.
  15. Wikilink to an image file

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 8

  1. Formatting
  2. New look?
  3. Submission for reviewal?
  4. Where to find the archive of a redirected page?
  5. I can't see any picture
  6. Tables (episode list format)
  7. Canonical Law
  8. I can't find the move button
  9. How to stop a redirect and create a disabiguation in one foul swoop.
  10. Efron's dice image
  11. Author
  12. Category:Manufacturer of recreational vehicles
  13. Deleted article but not one I wrote ???
  14. Genealogy for families 17:06, 8 June 2009 (UTC)~~
  15. Multilingual Wiki links
  16. How do I get my article removed from the orphan category?
  17. question about "This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from other articles related to it."
  18. My Addition to wikipedia
  19. Upload
  20. A new kind of vandalism? Or no?
  21. References Section
  22. Do we need an independent secondary source for a statement of opinion from the Anti-Defamation League?

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 9

  1. Create Biography
  2. Page move gone wrong. Please help!
  3. eteeap policies for recruitment and admission
  4. Solid Axles
  5. login account lost?
  6. Annoying mobile redirection...
  7. want to join
  8. procedure to obtain an oekotex certificte for apparel garment
  9. Same file name
  10. Advice on request to remove a photo
  11. Sign Talk page automatically
  12. How do I properly attribute my information to another article?
  13. microsoft medications for bert sugarman
  14. To histmerge or not to histmerge
  15. Duplicate title, different info/person
  16. creating a new topic
  17. List_of_Jewish_actors
  18. Can't see the article I just wrote and saved ....

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 10

  1. How to edit an image?
  2. Reference Desk for biz
  3. delete wikipedia defamatory pages
  4. User's created pages
  5. Random statement on user page refresh
  6. Is it possible to contact an editor of a page so that we may collaborate on the information before publishing.
  7. Emailing an article to a friend outside of Wikipedia from within Wikipedia
  8. Image Uploaded to "Commons." Now what? How do I get it to the article I want?
  9. I have a personal anecdote to share about the late actor David Carradine
  10. Quick question
  11. Public Domain
  12. I want to upload a picture for Richard Krawiec, how do I do it?
  13. Editing an Article for a different meaning but with the same name...
  14. Problem with formatting of footnotes

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 11

  1. Improper category listings in article
  2. using interwikis as sources
  3. Booker T. Washington High School
  4. arch corses
  5. Tool to find a Wikipedian's contributions to one article
  6. Sub Page
  7. admission in engineering college
  8. CITY College, Affiliated Institution of Sheffield, Thessaloniki-page deleted
  9. Signature help?
  10. Tom Van Flandern?
  11. Classification as a stub?
  12. Lyrics Pages
  13. where to comment
  14. Bot for searching
  15. Romanian Map
  16. Checking articles created by user
  17. creating a page
  18. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 11#.7B.7Btl.7CCell_wall_disruptive_antibiotics.7D.7D|{{Cell wall disruptive antibiotics}}]]
  19. Bakugan Editing
  20. PDF won't appear

June 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 12

  1. Article renders incorrectly with Firefox
  2. Table Problem
  3. Image Permission
  4. runtime error
  5. Hebat, and other unsourced speculative articles
  6. Factual article always deleted, but others exist
  7. 'Adult' picture on the Help Desk?
  8. link directly to a person rather than to the disambiguation page
  9. How to Edit Series Box
  10. New Page
  11. moving a page
  12. Original research
  13. Something tells me...
  14. Unclear on photo usage for reprinting- Please tell me if I can do the following with the photos
  15. How do I PUBLISH a page?
  16. My User Box
  17. What is the different between WP:HELPDESK and WP:NCHP?
  18. The Canyons' Info Box

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 13

  1. Apparent vandalism of article redirect
  2. Random Question About Page Moves
  3. How does category page know under which letter to list an article?
  4. What justifies links per words in an article
  5. change the text size
  6. Image Renaming
  7. Difference between the templates
  8. Why do my edits keep disappearing?
  9. rules / guidelines for editing an existing article
  10. Template find
  11. Special:New pages
  12. about Vieta : important question (for me)
  13. fix urls
  14. Review Sites as References
  15. Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California
  16. Merging
  17. template to hat a non-improvemnt talk page topic
  18. File CSD Criteria
  19. Infobox Confusion
  20. ArchiverWhy is my avrcive bot not working?

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 14

  1. Messed up talk page template
  2. FAQ template
  3. Speedy Deletion
  4. Need an administrator's help with an article name
  5. gallery tag
  6. Bugzilla
  7. chnges saved twise?
  8. Edit war
  9. "Fit"
  10. Can't edit a template
  11. login account lost (2)
  12. Image placement
  13. why my article hasn't been posted yet
  14. Engineering college rankings in India article
  15. Italics in article titles
  16. Name Change
  17. updating search engine for single word search?
  18. Submission on artist to Wikipedia
  19. Is citing a book by an article's subject by nature OR?
  20. Template that should be used

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 15

  1. Link to article without it showing up on "what links here"
  2. Nightingale birds
  3. My date of birth & profession
  4. Help
  5. Linking dates: Who won the war?
  6. Can we use our User IDs for more than Wikipedia?
  7. Pages in Script font - help
  8. Replacing the incorrect logo with the correct one
  9. Acronyms
  10. Article abused with advertising
  11. WP:GAN help?
  12. Why does every edit I try to do create an exception error?
  13. MediaWiki internal error
  14. Donations To Wikipedia
  15. Editing the titles of articles
  16. Editing Existing Article Titles
  17. Viewing a commons image page through wp
  18. Number of edits, and signature
  19. Now...
  20. creating French pages and linking to them from English
  21. Deletion of an article in the space of other user
  22. Bot creating nonsense articles

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 16

  1. Moving free license to Commons without furthur edit
  2. IP Editor using my real name
  3. History of cricket
  4. importing .doc file to wikipedia
  5. Link to Commons description changed?
  6. Finding all edits a user made to a certain page
  7. Moon (film)
  8. Collapsible navboxes
  9. Uploading new verisons of images that should be in SVG format
  10. Please block this account
  11. Become an Administrator
  12. Were Adam and Eve the first humans?
  13. Question on images from another Wikipedia
  14. ????????
  15. SET UP
  16. newer technologies of Microsoft .net
  17. Italics or Bold
  18. References for Yellow Alder Article
  19. Can't see image on page
  20. Flashback (radio program) page error
  21. Deletion
  22. Why do so many pages attempt to download when I click on the link?

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 17

  1. Today's featured picture
  2. Intermitent problems with Twinkle
  3. Italics in section headings?
  4. How do I find the correct copyright tag?
  5. Deletion templates
  6. reliable source?
  7. External Link - Contribution or spamming?
  8. Image map errors at Area code 480 and Area code 602
  9. Creating a new page
  10. A supreme move is needed.
  11. Edit Problem
  12. Tracing
  13. Correcting factual errors
  14. Is there a way...
  15. "Footnote"-type question
  16. Sin City
  17. Userifying Autobiographical articles?
  18. How do you create a "rough draft" article?
  19. Swedish handball biography stubs
  20. Steganography
  21. Trouble Moving an edited page
  22. Pictures
  23. Use of talk page
  24. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 17#Suggestion_regarding_.7B.7Btlx.7Ccatmore.7D.7D:_how_do_I_make_sure_it_gets_wide_consideration.3F|Suggestion regarding {{catmore}}: how do I make sure it gets wide consideration?]]
  25. Importing CSS or JS code

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 18

  1. Faxing a Scanned Picture
  2. photo in my wiki page
  3. Would like to retrieve my username
  4. small TeX request
  5. How to make page about a school
  6. Football match image file
  7. How do I cite an RAIB report?
  8. Why can't I post a photo?
  9. Side effect of masturbation
  10. explorer timeline
  11. How do you create a wikepeedia page
  12. Poorly formatted table
  13. cost
  14. it wasn't unconstructive!
  15. MediaWiki Internal Error
  16. Login problem
  17. I find myself in a dilemma
  18. Portal:Contents/Portals
  19. Image help
  20. My contributions were deleted, why?
  21. democratic is a form of govt. Democrats should call themselves, the Democrat Party, not the Democratic Party. Am I correct here?
  22. 76.223.79.208
  23. Where do I find the "guidance" for Wikipedia participation as indicated in your email today?
  24. CC compatibility question
  25. Would like to make my own a rticle.

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 19

  1. Sister projects
  2. uploading a image
  3. From Vinhtantran: Photo review
  4. How do I create a corporate section / profile of an organization in Wikipedia?
  5. Pages in Categories
  6. How do I remove a template?
  7. Make citation needed and reference
  8. Infobox
  9. To submit an ommission? suggestion?
  10. My user page
  11. Error message
  12. Teaching project
  13. how to post or upload an artilce in wikipedia
  14. Tags for Challenging Neutrality
  15. How do I display number of edits?
  16. Game walkthrough or simple descriptive page
  17. Album Covers

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 20

  1. Collapsing a Template
  2. Difficulty logging in to Wikipedia
  3. References query
  4. energy and environment
  5. merge needed
  6. Edit Count
  7. What links here
  8. Vandalism
  9. Search Engine

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 21

  1. Mass Template Adding
  2. javascript/scripting language
  3. Short Explanations After Linked Words, Is It Acceptable Here?
  4. empty lines
  5. Moving files into Wikimedia commons
  6. Where's the board?
  7. My application of the {{editsemiprotected}} tag
  8. Setting up a vote on Wikipedia
  9. Infobox Festival
  10. changes in industrialization affects fertility
  11. Searching history
  12. Missing image :File:Allanblackia stuhlmannii (Clusiaceae).png

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 22

  1. gif "movie" image malfs on Mozilla
  2. Phantom Lapboard
  3. (top)
  4. Large Appearances [Resolved]
  5. The "user contributions" link
  6. Monobook
  7. Sub pages allowed in the user space.
  8. Wikify table
  9. Admin
  10. How do I find the thesaurus on Wikipedia?
  11. Reverting without seeking consensus
  12. Unsure of article placement?
  13. how to post a biography
  14. Health questions on reference desk.
  15. What's the tag for a broken link? [Resolved]
  16. Policy on People Articles
  17. Internet Explorer 8
  18. Where do I ask questions about wikiedia, ut not aout using wikipedia?
  19. NO MARKGORMLEY?!

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 23

  1. Put de: Nat Wolff on the article please.
  2. Accidental Non-Capitalization
  3. Just wondering
  4. talkback to another wiki's talk page (Commons to be specific)
  5. creating a book
  6. sending sms
  7. Tables
  8. Allocation of articles to namespaces fails
  9. Need help with Archival of this talk page [Resolved]
  10. Alberta Ridings infoboxes
  11. I'm having trouble finding a wiki.answers.com referenced file
  12. Yochanan Sofer [Resolved]
  13. Talk page template for WP:NOTSOAPBOX [Resolved]
  14. Today Genre [Resolved]
  15. Missing space in Glycosidic bond [Resolved]
  16. trouble logging in
  17. Wrongfully Deleted Entry
  18. Signature problems
  19. city
  20. Refinancing

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 24

  1. Assitant Manager
  2. final words in a news column
  3. Auto formatting of dates
  4. question?
  5. can't open wikipedia
  6. Infobox
  7. Speed?
  8. Image reversal
  9. Check link [Resolved]
  10. Typhoon affecting Vietnam between 8-1-1971 thru 12-26-1971
  11. Non-English Content
  12. musical lirics
  13. Can't talk to a user reversing my changes
  14. Problem with article content and editor disagreement [Resolved]
  15. Notability a must on new articles, but those with no sources are permitted?
  16. News article
  17. GA category question
  18. A Bot for resolved items?
  19. Rejected article - 'blank suggestions'
  20. Uploading an Article
  21. FIFA_World_Rankings vandalism
  22. How can I ask for a review for a sub page?
  23. Adding a definition
  24. Merging one's accounts

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 25

  1. Login unification
  2. federal reserve bank application
  3. Help
  4. Wanted categories including ifexist
  5. Online Users
  6. Default languages
  7. Disputing the neutrality of an article
  8. User page RPP
  9. How to edit a page
  10. Guiding another user
  11. Blocked user message
  12. Flagged for spam, yet I see links like mine abound on wikipedia
  13. Horror Infobox
  14. Bronchitis
  15. Bots
  16. Talk 1450 WMIQ website address
  17. Talk Page
  18. General Notability, Orphan, and other article issues.
  19. Wine Distillery
  20. Wiki's for creating
  21. How do you stop wikipedia mobile from forcing itself on you via an iPhone 3G?
  22. uploading a logo to my article
  23. hi
  24. Can I narrow the "what links here" results?

June 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 26

  1. Proper copyright license for image of non-living person
  2. Advice regarding how to structure articles
  3. Infobox: Books and Wikicommons images
  4. Removing stamps from envelop.
  5. Editing special pages
  6. Nominating an article for Deletion
  7. Prisons in Ohio,
  8. Advocate for a refugee in Netherlands from Iran
  9. Sport soccer
  10. GFDL compliance following cut&paste copy
  11. I am Tanya Chalkin's manager trying to edit and correct and add to Tanya Chalkin's biography and informatiom.. it wont let me save her bio pls help thanks
  12. spam
  13. SineBot
  14. The plagiarism of (not by) Wikipedia
  15. Protected Title (Novarra) -- how can I reuse it?
  16. How do I move a new article from my user page to the "live" Wikipedia??
  17. Column width
  18. Where to find current Wikipedia usage rankings?
  19. adding an entry

June 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 27

  1. How do I move a new article from my user page to the "live" Wikipedia??
  2. make a link to a reference
  3. Controlling use of non-free images
  4. Whay Images doesn't disply in any web browsers?
  5. Hans1928
  6. Town Song Composer--May I Add My Info To My Town's Page?
  7. saif ur rahman
  8. IMDb infobox stuff
  9. Animated Gifs
  10. How to edit the reflist in a
  11. Found Jobs?????!!!!
  12. Separate accounts for French and English
  13. Making a box
  14. finding references to my new article in other articles
  15. Unanswered AN quest
  16. Michael Jackson contribution
  17. How to create a userbox
  18. How long?

June 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 28

  1. Repeated Copyright Violations
  2. How do I cite Song Lyrics?
  3. Accidentally edited page, thought I was editing sandbox
  4. Protecting user talk page against user
  5. Bole (color)#see also
  6. How do I attach a song to the wikipedia?
  7. Geography
  8. How to create your own article?
  9. YARIS
  10. I am a new user to the computer world
  11. Requesting account
  12. Category disambiguation question
  13. white blood cells
  14. Download wikipedia page
  15. Quoting lyrics in an article
  16. What to do after changing my username?
  17. Space around images
  18. how to make an info-type box at top of page?
  19. Tube maps - my new external link to Hubcapmap.com. Is it advertising??
  20. An uncooperating IP vandal
  21. Adding a Photo to an Article
  22. Image Correction

June 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 29

  1. Display of English units after conversion
  2. article deletion?
  3. Wikipedia view is suddenly quite large
  4. How can I resubmit a revision that has been deleted?
  5. share it
  6. Editing
  7. Curriculum Vitae as a source
  8. editing "catagory" pages
  9. Triangle
  10. Identifying foreign-language Wikipedias
  11. Can a content topic be linked in 2 spots?

June 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2009 June 30

  1. Updation of Old Url with the New Url Globally in all Pages
  2. Redirection of Old Url with New Url Globally in all Pages
  3. User Category
  4. Deleting a user sub-page
  5. Twinkle on Konqueror
  6. Publishing my change management framework
  7. Hi, I am very confused right now
  8. WikiQuote for Characters
  9. Multi-lingual contributions and redirects
  10. How can I create a Wikipedia page for my church?
  11. language
  12. i'm bored
  13. help
  14. How can I translate an article that already exists in English into another language?
  15. Image Correction
  16. How to report factual inconsistencies between articles
  17. How long does it take for my edit or additions to show up?
  18. song
  19. Am I being dumb or is this edit link broken?
  20. WikiMedia Commons as Source
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