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September 1
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 1
Forgot my email/password
Unsigned signed edits
Text overlaps picture box
(силе) Helping the (рдин) encyclopedia wikipedia edit?
what is god
my 1st posting for encyclopedia wikipedia (европейско)
Creating a New Userpage
Pagenames in templates
How dare you send this to me
Template
Do I get paid yet?
Can I create a Page about....
Images
Editing conflicts (technical)
Spam
How long does a db-move take?
Administration Access
Who gets to decline speedies?
Warning for vandlism
k a s designs
Graeme Macdonald Music section
Moving pages
September 2
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 2
How to refer to a specific section within a Wikipedia article?
an error
Use of Wikipedia for Commercial Research
Password request
Removing large amounts of white space?
How does this Harvard citation work?
Unable to save page after edit
Multiple reference styles
Poisson process article
English Wikipedia Internal Account Creation Interface
I am looking for a job
Crime and rent prices in city articles
How do you create timelines?
Featured B&W
Adding a navbox to a template
Double redirects
September 3
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 3
Justify text on the right side
Publishing my article with Wikipedia
Uploading Copyrighted image
Switching account names
journalism
Chop or crop?
Assistance required
Users with access to magazine archive
Las Vegas City Public Schools
Requesting wider participation in an RfD
External Links on User Pages
Four Level Interchange image
September 4
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 4
Is Wikipedia slow?
Zooming articles problem
Uploading image/logo
Language problem
Two requests, if possible
Occasional "Advanced search" option
Help Assistance - Author making claims of ownership to intellectual property
E-mail addresses in infoboxes
WitteBros Exchange
SlimBrowser
Turn external links green
September 5
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 5
Stride Piano Artists / Re: Adding Jerry White To Listing Of Artists
auction history
Government IPs
Links
Reporting and warning vandals
I didnt confirm on time
translating articles
translate
What website to use in screenshots?
Why o Why are bands (music) not allowed in an encyclopedia? like wikipedia. To me that is ridiculous, sorry..
IP conflict
404
Design
what kind of english?
Teacake problamatique
Image credits
Group Change
External Myspace Links
How to delate
Remove an article's title
Downloadable/Static Help Section?
Can't get this image to generate a thumbnail...
Monobook background
How to archive
How to add catagories to uploaded images
J K Jaiswal (Jeet)
September 6
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 6
Deleting Articles
Image Technical Difficulties - Wesley College, Melbourne
Can an article be closed to editing?
Hello
New pages in a category
Signature problems
JMU, Rankings, Forbes.com
Linking User Pages
Any way to change the default search language at www.wikipedia.org main page?
Editing Leeds
Some Wiki Browser
How do I execute JS
Article count
Recovering an account / username
September 7
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 7
Userboxes
Uploading Pictures?
Auto confirmed user message
Navbox transclusion
Vanuatu Articles
Stage names - which name to redirect and which to use?
Image Use
Articles created
Getting rid of a table of contents
Check an edit, please
September 8
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 8
Translations
Query on Neutrality(???) Policy
Any PDA Version of Wikipedia
Uploading photos please
searching for information about authoritative article guidelines
Freedom Of Press In India
Upload article unsuccesfull
Images not displaying
asking for peer review
Krishna Das Swami
How do I insert an image within an article?
Tight tabs
Black gospel redirects to Urban contemporary gospel
NavFrames
translating into Welsh Language
cant find what im looking for Help Me
Facts and information on articles.
no color samples when printing "color list" page
a question
help
Political groups
Usurping user name failure
September 9
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 9
Why was my page deleted?
How to fix AfC review that I messed up?
Some problems with an infobox
PRINTING
Autobiography
Marking General text-based references to validate page content
forcythia
not like the others?
Creating an Article
Wikilinking from a table
Wiki Bullying
Images not displaying in articles
Authoring an Article for Wikipedia
Redlink that isn't.
Contents Navigation links within articles - not working! :s
September 10
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 10
Report
Yes i would like some information
Cajun Dance Party
Rollback
Changing the name of a page
How to make something searchable as an article
Image Size
Repeated inline references to the same source
ASKING A QUESTION
Petronas infobox
Polly Young-Eisendrath correction and update
Page Deletion question
Hellas S.C.
Username
Awards and Achievements Box
Image captions
September 11
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 11
Defining "massacre"
Notability criteria for journalists
NGO DONATION
Special:Log/newusers
how do I get my article on Jumeau Dolls restored???
Waboba exploiting an old invention
Edit Facts and Statistics
HOW TO CREATE AN ARTICLE
hello
Create split cells in table
Tracking visits to Wiki page
How to Upload a PDF file as a reference
Is it possible to crop an image that has already been uploaded
Submitting short bios of famous people not already in Wikipedia.
How does one actually SEND a submission?
"What links" is broken? Or is my brain broken?
Wrong date on Main Page
Problem with an English page on the Sinhalese version of Wikipedia
Inline {{tlx|Advert}} template?
translate an article
Making Infobox
September 12
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 12
Fair use?
I do not see how to categorize or submit an article
browser text size
IP giving article assessment
Brief explanation to appear above the text
dictionary
How do I copy tables from a wiki article to say OpenOffice. Live table, not a screen shot
How can a page which is a complete fabrication be deleted?
re-posted......Yes i would like some information
Wikipedia or Wikisource for Parliamentary votes?
[[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 12#{{numberingroup}}<.2Fnowiki>|<nowiki>{{numberingroup}}]]
Need help, desperately
Merge edit
Deleted to erased
Template for tagging articles about works of fiction in which the summary is too long?
How do you edit a category page?
I cannot log in to my account anymore
Reverting "poor quality" contributions
September 13
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 13
Malicious Page?
Martin John Callanan
Length of route 95 in South Carolina
Relisting an Afd
HOW TO MAKE AN ARTICLE
Modifying infoboxes
Fan made drawings: suitable for Wikipedia?
September 14
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 14
Military intelligence
Replacements
Right to vanish, and not "vanished"
Signature
Defining notability
Text align
Help with a wikiproject banner
Should I add WikiProject templates if I'm not part of the project?
Check required for moved image?
I'm trying to edit Leeds
Hyperlinks
Accounts on other wikis
texas flag
Mario Superstar Baseball
Sarah Palin:
September 15
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 15
Chinese Chess Association
Pronunciation key
Why was this article deleted?
DO YOU HAVE A SECTION FOR LEARNING / TUTORIAL FOR PRINT LAYOUT DESIGNER IN SAP BUSINESS ONE
Niqab
account information
olde photos for user page
edit request
I can't find my article & I haven't received a notice of deletion
Querie
Image:20070621 Crown Fountain Water.JPG
taking a page live
Viewing articles in the past
September 16
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 16
Are press articles subject to WP:REUSE?
Help with statustop Template
I can't sign in, using the correct name and password
Simple name differences
Help with the new editing chooser
Natascha Engel MP
My user name
Article ratings
I would like to edit but....
My page is being deleted?
editing my page
PDF file-DOD file
I've had problems with publish userboxes in my user page... then my page completely vanished!
sharing Wikipedia accounts
script size
my peculiar list or category of cities
question about links to my User Page
would it be spamming or not
Ref tags and substing Userspace templates
Incorrect Information Cite
Template footnotes
Picture error?
Vandalism
September 17
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 17
Bobby Trendy Article
ARTICLE TITLE
What's the best way to expand the editing base?
manufacturing industry
How to determine contents of a list
Coord not working
Poetry
Bottom of Page
hacking
Image displacement
Asif Ali Zardari - President of Pakistan
MAKE A SYMBOL AS EMBLEM FOR NEW VENTURE WITH THE LETTERS SHD,DHS,HSD OR DHHS
create an entry
Image problem?
Printing
Universal Express currections
Rename article
September 18
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 18
All about ME!!
Bodies Exhibition.jpg
edits and deletion of pages
Blanking a page
Help Editing A Page
Reporting possible copyright violation
HTML Code for Text Box
Accused of "vandalism" by adding a fact
Can't find "proportional to" symbol in character insert thingy.
Can't find my changes - what have I done wrong?
Magazines
Edit missing from watchlist
September 19
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 19
Is it possible?
using Wikipedia photographs in a newsletter
Portal selection
Article redirect
Public housing in the United States and Canada split
New member questions
Fixing article on Socrates
installation of UNICODE
reply to received messages
help renaming a category please!
term
Industrial and labour law
Requests for comment: User
User Page Deleted - Why?
chat
How do I keep my additions to a site
Fake Page
Using emails as references
Editing Pictures
Internet Explorer 6 SP2 Issues ~ Wiki Base Code Change?
Math/Practice Problems
Question
Harry Lumley
Question
September 20
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 20
Is there an error in the Wikipedia list of soundtracks featuring Nina Simone?
uploading images
Article Is Spam?
Myriapoda has sprouted legs (or at least edit section links)
Why is information I've added being automaticly deleted?
enlarging the font of gileki wikipedia
Copy-pasting tables from Excel
strange duplication
:Image:WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising.jpg
{{tl|helpme}} needs a fix
James Taylor discography
Special pages histories
wrong info
Internal error
Has to be notable for more than one thing?
Question on Internet
Fountain of the Mermaid of Lleida
Commons
american radio personalities section inclusion
September 21
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 21
IE editing font, Firefox slow on images
[[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 21#Correctly using the <ref name><.2Fnowiki> citation format|Correctly using the <nowiki><ref name> citation format]]
Changing TItle/Name of an Article?
link to WWII Military Grop
just need help
Help on an image
copying article onto adobe PDF format
Why do wp:wiki and WP:WIKI redirect differently?
Help with image
NEW ARTICLE
WP:RTV
Sniffer Rats
Odd edit
the user page
Changing Name/Title of an Article
Ip block?
Updates aren't showing
September 22
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 22
Image Size Question
Side lobes
Linking to the Latin Wikisource?
How to "join" a wikiproject
Hidden discussions
Adding an article to WikiProjects
edit bots
playing audio files
Creating an article with an existing title
HELP!!!!
Transcluding Templates onto Talk Pages
A schizophrenic template
WikiMonitor
Archivists of the United States
September 23
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 23
Assuming Good Faith
Problem this afternoon
New Article Creation & Posting
net work operation
Check an edit please
Images that are on Commons: when should they have a page here?
how to start writing?
Jaygray3 (talk) 09:06, 23 September 2008 (UTC)Johnny Gray Bio Page
rename my article
congo
Comments finding their way to /Comments
Communicate before editing
glass icons
Introduction of Potato in India
How to use Template:Newdelrev?
Delete an account
economy
September 24
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 24
Expandable table
How do you create a new article? (moved from middle of page)
RfA
Cubs Win flag main image
List of articles all Wikipedias should have
Over Zealous Uncontrolled Rapid Deletion Thru Ignorance
Technical help
Following request
New Question
Photo Uploads
Why is Wikipedia so broken today?
Chronology
Infobox Company template problem
Stub tag and Navigational template placements
Cancel my account
How do I start a new article?
Page Vandalism
Administration
Help Desk
September 25
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 25
Google Earth screenshots
Fair use image
viewing one section of a page
Vanishing and Reappearing
speedy (i think) deletion request "category:inventor"
SEARCH FUNCTION
Vandalism only accounts
How to deal with a redirect reference that redirects to a broken link
indian stock market
Active Users
Article count
Moving infobox/category listing
Download to Pdf
Problem adding merge template
(Top)
how to upload Image
Written Consent to show Wikipedia.org in a demo
Help with RfC, please and thank you?
external link
If I accidentally clicked 'off' on a bot...
Bias tag
Can you
What does being blocked look like?
September 26
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 26
editing
move tab not activated
Number of English Articles Statistics problem?
Plz help
disappearance of talkpage
#expr non-raw display
Treasure hunt in PSG College of Technology
Captain Mack
Section edit button on the right?
Rabbi Benjamin Kelsen
The Wikipedia Community would like to wish Avril Lavigne a happy birthday!
My userboxen
Old Book Cite
Sparrowhawk Media
Signature Help
Removing WikiProject banners
Temp and perm names for a WP translation
September 27
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 27
editing/adding to new bio material
FA nomination
Snakes on a Plane
Wikilinking within a page
Question
Page move/redirect
Help to print a page
Image not updating properly
advise as to how to view past TV eipsodes
Remove the external link icon
single set of curly brackets
Image address
More expanding table questions
September 28
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 28
Yo wassup peoplez
How can i report signbot?
Help with a timeline
New Article: Seven News Melbourne
Watchlist not updating
New protection layout
Translating articles
Template transclusion update lag - bug or just me?
Image License
September 29
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 29
I Want a Phrase to Link to an Article
essay
computer syntax
How A7 is meant to be interpreted
Inline citations
Deletion log mystery
Help
Be linked to other pages
a page in need
WP: CSI layout problem
Posting HTML-3 Logo on Home Page.
Image:20080920 Cubs Win flag on pennant clinching day.jpg
FALSE INFORMATION APPEARS ABOUT OUR POLITICAL PARTY
Starting an article versus developing a section of an existing article
Upload images
Signature Links
How do Wiki Projects Work
September 30
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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008 September 30
Don't know where to turn
Template help
Citation Help
Creators of Wikipedia
health care
Wikipedia "Contents" in IE8
Deleting History/Contributions
How long...
Citing books
My Watchlist
Number in my watchlist?
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