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April 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 1

  1. April Fool's AfD
  2. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag;
  3. Zodiac date
  4. I need help
  5. Autocomplete off
  6. Template returning the second-largest number of a set?
  7. List of monoclonal antibodies
  8. IP adding links
  9. how to cite an article in a book
  10. Burca
  11. photographs
  12. Human rights in Japan
  13. Positioning blockquotes
  14. Gene Kelly
  15. de:wikipedia image needed in en:wikipedia
  16. Why can't I print a pdf rendering of the Luisitania Page?
  17. Can preview tell me if there is an edit conflict?

April 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 2

  1. Princeton High School, princeton West Virginia
  2. movie missing in article on film noir
  3. Watching sections of pages
  4. Duck Tape®
  5. commenting on the mistake in an article
  6. NCR
  7. Language setting
  8. Athletes changing name after winning an event
  9. navigating
  10. Cointreau photo upload
  11. HTML Displayed in all Wikipedia Titles
  12. Username conflict
  13. Add info
  14. Mobile Link comes-up in a Google Search
  15. Change of page name
  16. Userbox Float
  17. HOW DO I GET MY SCHOOL LISTED IN WIKIPEDIA?
  18. Being Confirmed

April 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 3

  1. Blue article in Google Chrome
  2. Simple English Wiktionary userbox
  3. One-Day International cricket statistics
  4. Should a fact be removed from an articale that describe the context of events when it is related to POV ?
  5. John Copley
  6. Company info published on Facebook
  7. Scott Hamilton error
  8. How to retire
  9. IMDB and an official television network's forum
  10. Prostaglandin D2
  11. "Shrapnel" in articles
  12. Altering text size in edit mode
  13. Article rejection, no recourse
  14. References that do not resolve
  15. Requesting update of company article
  16. Never had this happen, not sure how to proceed on The Right One/Together Dating (apparently a defunct website)
  17. Where'd my Search go?
  18. Ralph BIRKETT
  19. Signature

April 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 4

  1. Preserved Florida Plantations and Antebellum Homes
  2. I'm not sure where to ask
  3. Libel & slander posted on our page
  4. Acehnese Wikipedia infobox country template
  5. Dear Wikipedia,
  6. Edits by Kristijh
  7. article about the Arts District in Los Angeles is a baltant ad for an organization that overstates its significance
  8. Accutron
  9. Editing external link
  10. send email link
  11. Help needed:
  12. RfA and RfB Notification Update
  13. Footnote numbering
  14. Probable spam user
  15. Suggested minor wording-improvement is offered, for the "My Watchlist"'s status message (which reports the total number of pages that one is Watching)
  16. blue background
  17. My sandbox problem
  18. trouble adding caption for image
  19. User page

April 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 5

  1. kimberella question
  2. Dorothy Rabinowitz biography Controversial Comments section
  3. Talk:Axilla seems to be complete nonsense. Editor please have a look!
  4. Request articles page is not editable (or link to it is wrong)
  5. Article Updating
  6. External links and twitter
  7. "Which came first...?"
  8. Request for review
  9. Help with a cite url that contains spaces
  10. not able to create a page
  11. Template:Disambiguation
  12. Wikipedia search function not working very well?
  13. Citing Philosophy
  14. marilyn lightstone biography
  15. Pilkingtons Buses

April 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 6

  1. Template:Rfc used incorrectly. Do you know how to fix it?
  2. hidden
  3. Corinthian bronze
  4. User:Marcus Qwertyus
  5. why has this page been deleted? can someone please respond back to me? All content was real and valid and not subject to the parameters listed for deletion.
  6. Stevi B's Pizza restaurant
  7. title of contribution
  8. Is a Disambiguation page allowed to contain redlinks?
  9. An article I created has been deleted. Also who can I complain to?
  10. Advertisments
  11. fujifilm of greenwood
  12. I get one read of any wiki page, a second read results in an error.
  13. JOSÉ VASCONCELOS
  14. A quick & easy one:
  15. Bayfield, WI. Population
  16. METAL-HALIDE LAMPS

April 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 7

  1. Odd edit that I don't understand
  2. Feedback request
  3. Time
  4. Open access template
  5. deuterosessionism
  6. Problems with the new Wiki I-Phone App
  7. My name appears in eo.wikipedia which I have never visited
  8. How to change casing in article title - 'The' to 'the'
  9. Fixing old vandalism
  10. Article comes up twice
  11. Ddate of birth and additional info
  12. External web links

April 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 8

  1. how do i create an entry about myself?
  2. Can I use pictures (photos) off wiki for use on my own website?
  3. Obama campaign ads are blocking article content.
  4. Neighborhood Unit article
  5. Intelligent Energy
  6. Editing 2012 Chicago White Sox game log
  7. Correcting Vandalised articles
  8. Loosing session data when trying to edit
  9. Please help me understand more of the culture of Wikipedia
  10. Bio information for Deryl Dodd
  11. Trying to determine why a number list is disappearing
  12. article on Moshe Feinstein
  13. Citation Invisible Children, Inc
  14. How do I create a page rather than editing it?
  15. I need help.
  16. Bob Pirie entry vandalized
  17. Viewing code of an article's past form
  18. Wikipedia is not working correctly
  19. Noinclude
  20. User page

April 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 9

  1. Background is blue
  2. Arabic language
  3. User:TheLongTone/Grande Semaine
  4. Bot request...
  5. Talk pages and images of references
  6. what does "bar" mean?
  7. Traditional Chinese pages containing Simplified Chinese
  8. TARGET attribute
  9. Multiple references from same source
  10. How do I allow people to search for my article by full-name
  11. Richardville house
  12. Don Peake
  13. Dashes
  14. Editing, removing, etc my contributions
  15. Editing Deleted!
  16. Mobile site in Google
  17. wikigraphist uploads
  18. Can someone teach me how to edit
  19. hierarchy
  20. Removing age from Background info.

April 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 10

  1. How can I persuade my teachers that Wikipedia is a reliable source?
  2. Lost HotCat with the new mods to Preferences page
  3. Glitch with saving/previewing pages
  4. Vandalized article
  5. Adding new portal
  6. for editing
  7. I can't get WP using Perl's get command...
  8. civility question
  9. Karimnagar district#Mandals
  10. Can someone delete an article written about themselves? Can someone request that certain information about themselves be removed from Wikipedia?
  11. Gospel ranch Allen google
  12. Watchlist feature addition
  13. Search for Otto-configuration
  14. External Links
  15. I have been notified that my page was up for deletion
  16. Was creating a page
  17. Page is blue
  18. Category tree viewing
  19. New at editing
  20. Fixed with vs. variable width templates
  21. Facebook Wikipedia pages
  22. Is there a way to add additional header lines to a long table

April 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 11

  1. My IE6 and mobile both crashes when visiting a page
  2. Infobox editing
  3. cats
  4. want know reality?
  5. Cognos Reporting using big data
  6. IP user breaching 1RR restrictions set out at WP:NCMAC
  7. Highly important -
  8. Regarding my merger request
  9. The powder coating process
  10. Link for toolserver edit count
  11. Does not cite sources?
  12. Image help
  13. New Editor
  14. Advertisements/"Ad Choices" are covering article content
  15. Animated flag
  16. DATE ERROR
  17. North Carolina/South Carolina border dispute
  18. Need to merge (delete actually) an article

April 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 12

  1. Is there any way to add a mobile phone verification to my account ?
  2. Annoying 'Improve this article' blue box
  3. List of banned sources
  4. My account is gone
  5. Please can I have some feedback on my new article please?
  6. How can i add another language?
  7. Page revision links
  8. Add a celebrity to the site
  9. Heroes Welcome UK
  10. Request for loss of adminship
  11. Is this article OK to publish
  12. Veteran Editors
  13. James Burke, James Burk
  14. username changing
  15. PETER LOCKE, (Producer)
  16. "ISBN Number page"
  17. Getting This Article Posted
  18. Uploading Images
  19. Editing references

April 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 13

  1. Band notability
  2. Suspicious User Page
  3. RS or not?
  4. Timescale for new page upload
  5. URGENT : Error link on the Nelly Furtado
  6. we want to know from which place , ip address this page is being modified and the users name, details
  7. how long before uploaded image file becomes visible publicly?
  8. wehatesit.com and blackmatters101
  9. Persistent vandalism of Stanley Booth-Clibborn page
  10. Why do I keep being logged off WP today?
  11. Association for Rare Earth
  12. Saving changes I make in my sandbox version of an article I am writing
  13. Text alignment control in a navbox with collapsible groups
  14. Feedback about editing
  15. New pages for Pending Changes Testing
  16. Some input on redlink overkill
  17. i want to change my username but i am unable to do so.

April 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 14

  1. Getting article TO my sandbox, Cardiac catheterization
  2. About your messages to me
  3. Poorly translated synopsis
  4. volunteer
  5. Re Sunsanahut (film)
  6. Rugby Union Caps
  7. POV gatekeeping
  8. Deleting a Section
  9. int:pipe-separator
  10. George Soros
  11. Wikipedia comes up with a weird blue color.
  12. Redirect help

April 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 15

  1. screen is blue
  2. Graphics Lab archives
  3. SVGs wanted
  4. Looking for blueprints
  5. Rollback
  6. Quick wikitable fix please
  7. Source
  8. Is "Big-X" acceptable?
  9. Missing Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Armada
  10. Original composer of alexader's Rag Time Band
  11. Coding problem?
  12. Copyright Issue

April 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 16

  1. Hatfield and McCoy in Piegon Forge Tennessee
  2. How to delete my username
  3. What is the policy to stop a user from following my edits
  4. Watchlist
  5. Wikipedia article keeps disappearing
  6. How do you add information on top of an edit page?
  7. Downloading PDF documents
  8. User name hidden behind picture caption
  9. Humble Request
  10. Wikipedia "photoshop team"
  11. Article been moved without following request for move procedures

April 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 17

  1. Delete Account
  2. template for photo gallery
  3. Battle of Culloden
  4. Welding Institute link expired
  5. editing an article
  6. reusing an image
  7. about creating a page on wikipedia
  8. Errie Ball Golfer
  9. Wikipedia has turned blue.
  10. I accidently messed up this page WQTL
  11. Persistent vandalism of two pages - plus threat placed on my Talk page
  12. Having trouble putting together the pieces for an article
  13. Request for a Wiki to track promises politicians make in public
  14. Adding Texas to the article on Brevet Military Ranks
  15. Question about removing a section

April 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 18

  1. Remove my userpage
  2. Cannot Correct Content on Locked Page
  3. List of Presidents of the United States
  4. Edits in file namespace
  5. Capturing previous DYK main page screenshot
  6. Announcement
  7. Can't login to upload a photo
  8. Lack of SSL for login/registration on Wikipedia
  9. Extended captions for a photograph depicting an invidivual
  10. Having View History Logs Entries Removed or Changed
  11. What's next?
  12. Hidden Categories
  13. Deleted Text
  14. Where to add links to an "orphan" tagged entry?
  15. Awaiting approval
  16. Tool to find articles an editor created

April 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 19

  1. Citation Bot (DOI bot) is down?
  2. How do I find back and edit my uploaded files
  3. VPNV4
  4. Why do some templates blow up when Transcluded?
  5. Edit Mwakinyungu to denied.
  6. Sarah Wilson (journalist)
  7. Czechoslovakia
  8. I am Logged In, a New User, as " TEXTKNOWLEDGE ", and I have made a Talk Page re: an Article
  9. Template help
  10. Bank Merger-Houston, Texas
  11. Request for Move
  12. Template:UserStatus
  13. Stalker tool
  14. Infobox and template layout clash

April 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 20

  1. Disambig and redirect
  2. How does one ask a question about an article I read? I could find no follow-up on this interesting article. Since I don't belong to the upper crust which seems seems to flock here, I might need more help that most.
  3. Talk banner
  4. Harv errors
  5. Calcium carbonate
  6. Citation covering many points and vice versa
  7. References within Talk page sections
  8. Please provide feedback for a page about Markus Vinzent
  9. Request to Unblock ArmadaBackupServices
  10. REQUEST FOR YOUR GOOD BOOKS
  11. Help with a non-English Speaker
  12. How can I upload my picture to my site?
  13. Entry for United States Presidential Election Results, 2000 (detail)
  14. Broken source links

April 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 21

  1. Thumbnail in Economic history of Colombia screwed up
  2. A BIG PROBLEM!!!!
  3. Article talk page
  4. Forum Club Handball-Adding a new article
  5. Help with reviewing Good article nominations
  6. Wikimarkup for a single newline after a displayed box?
  7. How can I disable the spam filter?
  8. ~ Wikipedia Most Visited Page ~
  9. Language Identification Guide
  10. Young justice Episodes Somebody Deleted all the episode names and dates
  11. Attribution question
  12. Attempt to request Flickr (CC-BY) image upload declined as "File is corrupt. Still not able to view the image."
  13. Firefox article needs help
  14. Tarzan
  15. Typo Note 3 and in body of text, Article about Joan Szymko
  16. Answer
  17. No ratings options on President Obama's article
  18. Is there any way I can get rid of that awful "Improve this page" box that seems to accompany Article Feedback 5?

April 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 22

  1. Pronunciation of English words: IPA hover-key and phonetic respelling
  2. Jeff Pope TV Producer
  3. link to a virus
  4. setting up an online curriculum for high school students - advanced learning
  5. Charles William Paddock's nickname/byname is "CHARLEY",,, NOT `Charlie` !
  6. Lisa wife of Paul Burlison and former Playboy Bunnie in Chicago, also Lisa was a Diplomatic Courier for the Fifth Corp, 70's out of AG Farben Building, Germany
  7. Undoing a redirct
  8. Trans terms
  9. Suggestion: When rolling over a link to an article, display a small summary of the article in a tool-tip.
  10. WHO HAS ACCESS TO ARTICLE 18 USC SECTION 2257
  11. 2012RIQUIER
  12. Please help re Leila Berg, author, who died 17/4/12
  13. Comparison of ...
  14. Defining several parameters of a specific template
  15. appearance/skin for unregistered user in FireFox
  16. THE VOICE UK FINAL CONTESTANTS KATE READ
  17. BLP Rule
  18. What is appropriate content for an article?
  19. submission for name inclusion in list
  20. Writing Article
  21. Tables
  22. Founder Parmesan
  23. Roots
  24. Ending a Deletion Discussion
  25. Need help on a Move
  26. Isn't something wrong with this article?
  27. bridges
  28. Phishing email under wikipedia banner ?

April 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 23

  1. Why is contacting actual Wikipedia people so hard?
  2. Confirming quality for first page - So it won't be deleted
  3. Upload an article from My sandbox field
  4. categorize the watchlist by subject
  5. Moving an article from my sandbox to Wikipedia
  6. Protest Internet censorship in India
  7. Deleted page on James Wing Woo
  8. List of online translators
  9. Head Restraints
  10. I am missing Twinkle
  11. what has happened to restore to previous version?
  12. creating a list of large jewelry chain stores by country
  13. publishing a page
  14. Revert single-instance of image use?
  15. How to update images?
  16. Gmail
  17. gmail
  18. Viewer Ship Tool?
  19. Asshole Wikipedia editor changes Carnivore entry I made
  20. My login has been compromised
  21. Making political propaganda

April 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 24

  1. About hotel Prag Continental which is in guwahati ,Assam,India.
  2. Date format error didn't show up for 2½ years
  3. Article versions comparison gone bad ??
  4. Tom Vanden Brook#Wikipedia entry
  5. entries on wikipedia
  6. Watchlist changes
  7. I feel like I'm outnumbered by ignorant people on an article. What should my next move be?
  8. How do I learn if changes/updates are enough to eliminate the "problems with this article" box? article is Eva Feldman
  9. Newspaper archives online page deleted (!)
  10. I need help regarding moving a page

April 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 25

  1. use of restricted image
  2. Picture not updating
  3. Ads
  4. Urgent problem: Category misuse on Filipino people's articles
  5. Through one of these interesting wikilink things
  6. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Modulate -Resubmission
  7. How can I?
  8. New to this please help! - Finished article in Sandbox
  9. License plates with 0
  10. Error message using Book Creator
  11. "Miracle on Ice" correction needed
  12. Attach a photo to an existing article
  13. A bluish box in the article
  14. Interwiki bots
  15. Name spelling correction edit reversed?
  16. rucker/woods
  17. Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates
  18. Advice on subtitling
  19. Blocking Users and IPs
  20. Red links turned to blue
  21. Temp IP
  22. Search engine results
  23. Going back a few revisions
  24. Previewing a redirect edit
  25. New Draft Page
  26. I am new
  27. Business proposition

April 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 26

  1. Portal:Current events's Wikinews articles question
  2. Historical figures sometimes considered autistic & List of people with autism spectrum disorders
  3. Files
  4. Housewives of NJ
  5. Unverified statements and potential correction?
  6. New to Wikipedia editing
  7. A tool maybe?
  8. deleting
  9. Watchlist
  10. Reference
  11. Love dont live here anymore
  12. Vandalism, too broad a term?
  13. trying to do an Afd
  14. Password
  15. Category:People by century
  16. Changes made between revisions
  17. Incremental search suggestions
  18. skin pressure

April 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 27

  1. Users with articles
  2. Citations
  3. I'd like to search all articles in a category; can't figure out how...
  4. Question about creating a page for a small business
  5. reinstating Excelsior Jet
  6. Can I create a page about myself?
  7. Bullcrap
  8. Erroneous Data
  9. ~ THERE NEEDS TO BE AN UPDATED MOST VISITED ARTICLES BY UNIQUE VISITOR ANYWHERE ON THE ENTIRE WEB ~
  10. Pretty Good Privacy page 2 digital signatures
  11. Editing sections
  12. {HELP ME} How do I edit an info box?

April 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 28

  1. toolbar
  2. New page, need some input
  3. Senators of Sri Lanka
  4. Need some image help
  5. Charles Boyer
  6. Avoiding displaying of non-defined parameters
  7. Regarding Copyrights and using and citing of such material
  8. Due weight beyond just viewpoints
  9. If I want to have an article rated for quality...
  10. True Blue
  11. My sandbox

April 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 29

  1. Book vs Wikipedia
  2. Page view counter
  3. Pencil icon
  4. How long does one wait for another editor to reply on a proposal of an article
  5. On a mobile device, how do you switch the default back from desktop view to mobile view?
  6. Edit summaries in sandboxes?
  7. Differences
  8. I have a general question
  9. counting number of readers of an article
  10. the little start on featured articles
  11. Merging articles.
  12. Article section deletions
  13. C5, CV

April 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2012 April 30

  1. Cite journal, pmc parameter
  2. Strange password problem
  3. Erdos-Bacon number
  4. Bayonet
  5. wikipedia color issue in chrome
  6. Getting a response from Wikimedia Permissions
  7. Showing a picture to left of an infobox
  8. Fraudulent Account Set up under a 13 year name
  9. 'Show' button in a collapsible template obscuring some words
  10. Steyr GB
  11. Image not appearing
  12. Looking for Edits
  13. Version mismatch on Collections extension
  14. wikipedia When opened in a google chrome with zoom 90% the background screen is blue
  15. jewelers initials