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August 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 1

  1. Please help me sort out complaint and Complaint (disambiguation)
  2. MLM Network Marketing
  3. Website with the Wikipedia Template
  4. Unattended article
  5. Collapsable Nav Boxes
  6. Civil List
  7. Userbox categories - noinclude, incude etc
  8. Publishing a document
  9. Numbered Lists
  10. WikiProject
  11. Article traffic statistics
  12. HOW DO I PUBLISH FROM MY USER PAGE?

August 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 2

  1. how do I search for article titles?
  2. Sortable Table problem - Recent change in format
  3. Rating for questions in reference desk
  4. Blacklist
  5. SoCo Lime Recipe Mixes
  6. Another blacklist question
  7. Image deletion problem
  8. Images deleted, please help
  9. Stub Icon
  10. Facebook
  11. Biography posting
  12. redirect keywords/terms
  13. Google in Wikipedia
  14. Deleting Advertisement
  15. Need Article Information That Was Deleated!
  16. Sources Allowed and Forbidden
  17. When opening an article it asks to download a file
  18. WP:FOO
  19. Comic strip reference
  20. Query: "CITRIS" doesn't link to CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society)
  21. Constant glitches while editing
  22. help please
  23. Dyson Peabody
  24. Screenshot

August 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 3

  1. Editing the Title of a Wiki page
  2. Requesting assistance
  3. Businesses?
  4. Faith Healing page - website links - advertising?
  5. Question about posting a story
  6. is adding categories actually helpful?
  7. Hide a picture
  8. New design is terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's the bug?
  9. Productora de Software Ltda, PSL
  10. tree fruiti or vegetable?
  11. RE: www.teachmyselfsmarts.com .biz, .net, .info and .org cannot be found
  12. Removing an Unreviewed Article Tag
  13. Is there a place for heavier duty public article re-development work that provides both a project page and a talk page?
  14. Devon and Cornwall Police Logo
  15. Pending revisions and edit-wars
  16. Twinkle

August 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 4

  1. Rename
  2. Strange edit by One bot
  3. How to update or replace existing photo in wikipedia?
  4. How do I edit?
  5. TELEPHONE NO. OF BANDRA SMALL CAUSES COURT
  6. Where do I report a major security problem about repeated vandalism and block evasion?
  7. Templates For Scripts Similar To {{nihongo}}
  8. Old user accounts - reviving them
  9. How long does it take for an article to be available?
  10. Infoboxes
  11. New Question
  12. Problems with user Recon.Army
  13. Supreme Court of Canada Ruling in Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Company
  14. Laryngoscope
  15. Related to Someone Who Should, but Doesn't have Wikipedia Entry
  16. New temporary password for Wikipedia
  17. Unable to verify facts re Donn Finney bio article
  18. bibi balwant kaur ji
  19. Check mark

August 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 5

  1. Colorado will not load, but most other's will
  2. Team Kit Editing
  3. How to edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Beer_vessels_and_serving ?
  4. Rollback rights
  5. When does a correct-the-following banner disappear?
  6. Article history separated from moved article
  7. Automatic Archiving
  8. Page Deletion Question
  9. Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over three million articles...
  10. Inappropriately aligned image

August 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 6

  1. Can a block be cleaned from your record?
  2. Review this code change, please
  3. Conflict of Interest
  4. Selling stuff
  5. how to update old logos and pictures
  6. Military Awards and Decorations
  7. replace outdated images
  8. Cannot confirm email from 'my preferences'.
  9. Copyright
  10. Incorrect reversion
  11. Fixing broken link
  12. page i created
  13. Friday Night Cranks
  14. Why can't I edit certain pages only?
  15. Cant seem to remove [edit] tag from harp page

August 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 7

  1. Information with No Supporting Sources
  2. Uploading a photo here or to Commons?
  3. Photo in the Commons
  4. Vatul(city) Title change to Vatul (Village)
  5. How do I add a reference to table without screwing up the formatting?
  6. Please post neutrality notice to Antisemitism page
  7. The case of "Specifically human basic need".
  8. batch searches on Wikip?
  9. Date check template
  10. Can't upload song
  11. movie search
  12. Question

August 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 8

  1. How to update the image displayed on the right side of the page for a politician?
  2. change user name
  3. Photos and Collages
  4. Facebook page creation automatic from Wikipedia page creation?
  5. northern kentucky delicacy
  6. Any idea who these 'authors' are on these published articles from Wikipedia
  7. Colorado redux

August 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 9

  1. Please email me my user name.
  2. Taranaki Daily News - NEW EDITOR
  3. Problems with floating elements
  4. Navbox
  5. Orphaned page and possible reason
  6. Text size
  7. RSN Vandalism or just wry humor?
  8. Photograph licensing advice - help request
  9. Revisions
  10. 2006 Login
  11. How can I search for use of ":)" and other emoticons in Wikipedia?
  12. Rangeblocks
  13. Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY
  14. Uploading articles in other languages
  15. Help needed with adding the right tags for copyright where permission has already been given for use of a photo of an actor
  16. how do I move my user page content to mainspace?
  17. File:Nara.Y (Light my fire).jpg
  18. Deactivation

August 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 10

  1. White pill
  2. specific MediaWiki pages
  3. creating a page
  4. Name
  5. Question
  6. USO of North Carolina
  7. Compact Flourescent bulbs
  8. Editing
  9. editing
  10. financial aid from readers
  11. Google Docs
  12. Italian Image
  13. Erroneous editing in the name of Education
  14. Can't see logo in different browsers.
  15. Comment on Ed Olczyk hockey Player/Announcer
  16. error in formatting of References
  17. Help
  18. unable to view any picture
  19. Templates for user pages

August 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 11

  1. Zooming_articles_problem (further discussion)
  2. How do I get license for photos I want to upload?
  3. Why can't I edit "Category:African American rappers"
  4. Online Jobs
  5. File copyright problem
  6. how do I fix a typo in a headline/page name?
  7. Most Efficient Way to Edit or Correct Copy
  8. Lost Account
  9. "Find" command
  10. I keep getting error 404 and I'm asked to reenter what I was searching for. I DIDN'T SEARCH FOR ANYTHING.
  11. Changing names
  12. bookcreator table of contents and index

August 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 12

  1. Cute, cuddly kitty cats
  2. Re: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
  3. Picture in Chinese wiki
  4. Redirect, special case
  5. Class E power amplifier using low cost power mosfet.
  6. Adding Someone
  7. How to restore an article after accidental deletion of references
  8. Editing a template: WWII DP camps
  9. Twitter link in above post
  10. Fix
  11. username and password
  12. New passwort needed
  13. neutrality and Duplicity
  14. New Name, but....
  15. New link?
  16. [Edit] bunching on Roy Oswalt
  17. MWD as Wiki Page
  18. Photos
  19. Signature
  20. updating the picture for pennywise

August 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 13

  1. I accidentally deleted information on Juice Plus listing.
  2. Conservation status
  3. finding/checking on status of article
  4. Renaming Category
  5. Another talk page up for speedy deletion
  6. RfA number thing broken
  7. Secure login
  8. removing Wikipedia warnings on references
  9. Jukeball (game)
  10. I've got a few points
  11. Square brackets in external link
  12. Abusive content
  13. 2nd Opinion Please..
  14. New article
  15. A question about Prague that had no heading
  16. Mediawiki
  17. Template:Cite prefix search is inundated
  18. Removing note article relying on single citation after updating article
  19. Automation
  20. Two open move/rename requests for same article
  21. Dan Pawson
  22. Song title within an album title

August 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 14

  1. error logging in and someone appears to be using my account
  2. What constitutes a "noteworthy" musical group?
  3. Search Index
  4. Help
  5. IRC password
  6. Title mistake
  7. Article in Wikipedia
  8. Curious question about images
  9. About partnerships
  10. How do I edit an infobox that has no edit facility?
  11. Two classes in one
  12. WP:Wikipedia is not a field guide
  13. Change name
  14. What do editors in the Uk and the US see when they click on this link?
  15. Help needed
  16. Slow loading from Internet to Wikipedia x 6 weeks
  17. Is posting information about yourself considered a conflict of interest

August 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 15

  1. How can I find out if a featured article has made it into a future release version?
  2. I lost my product key
  3. Adding our Company in WIKIpedia Articles
  4. Wrong namespace for article
  5. articles
  6. Please add name
  7. eric white (artist)
  8. image upload
  9. How to determine defaultsort
  10. Are you going to answer this OR NOT - Please Read this and answer me as soon is possible My Friend Need full Support from face book Team

August 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 16

  1. John Jarvis
  2. Blacklist
  3. union
  4. How do I
  5. Film Page for Vampires Suck (Twilight Parody)
  6. copyright question
  7. I redirected a page and now it is not searchable on google
  8. Copy and paste - AfD votes
  9. How to store a page

August 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 17

  1. Sound file on userpage
  2. Edit link not appearing
  3. A person was accusing me of vandalism when I don't
  4. Windows 7
  5. Creating Wikipedia Username: Name already registered, but with no contributions
  6. Ehow[.]com
  7. Picture thumbs
  8. Editorial comments in articles
  9. Football kit colours
  10. Vlado Popovic politician exists in serbocroat language Wiki -
  11. Title/Heading
  12. New pages stuck in user box
  13. Policy for commercial Links?
  14. Dan Pawson
  15. History of the CB&Q Railroad in Galesburg, IL.
  16. MOS: Best known for?
  17. replace image with png
  18. Why does the Google spell check not work on Wikipedia?
  19. Cal State University Fullerton Alumni ( Forrest Whitaker not on your listing? )
  20. How to remove citation box
  21. Change Username Question
  22. Logo Change
  23. Cavalier
  24. How do I publish an article to the website when it has been edited, it has been more than 4 days, and it is cited? I do not see a "publish to web" button?
  25. taylor swift spell check
  26. pastor Robert Morris
  27. Hyphen

August 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 18

  1. AIRES Flight 8250
  2. Saving a wiki book?
  3. help moving a draft article to a new article
  4. Help Collapsing
  5. Image Upload
  6. Looking for a word
  7. Writing an article in a different language than sources
  8. Improper link within an article
  9. Accessing the internet
  10. Template:Infobox video game
  11. I would like to create a Wiki page for my web site Movie Review Intelligence, which is a professional movie review web site
  12. adding a link
  13. proof-wiki - Template:Equation
  14. Carlo Dini
  15. Trying to link to spanish wiki

August 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 19

  1. Table
  2. User accounts
  3. Wikiproject
  4. User:Raj6644/National Waterway 4 - Template:InfoboxWatertransit - Help
  5. Tallest Building in Singapore
  6. Substitution Templates
  7. Additional information about the Sweedish actress Martha Hedman.
  8. how to make contents list in an article?
  9. Age
  10. Need a second set of eyes: can you see this picture?
  11. Modflow
  12. MonaVie Wikipedia
  13. Image Display Problems on Existing Page
  14. Image not rendered
  15. Table doesn't sort properly
  16. upload page protected
  17. HOW CAN I RESEARCH THE NONES LANGUAGE (NOT LADIN) ?
  18. Conversion
  19. Search by suffix?
  20. Substituting new passage for old one
  21. Contacting a "celebrity" family member via any method, esp. E-mail
  22. Article question
  23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Emirati_Association
  24. Media upload or Commons sandbox?
  25. Wikipedia article Featured in most Languages
  26. gastric bypass
  27. Show/hide text box thingy...

August 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 20

  1. Change didn't save
  2. This month's queue
  3. Making time tables
  4. Ligatures
  5. anonymous contributions
  6. Can I use HTML on my user page?
  7. How to I start a new Post/topic
  8. Changing the title of a page.
  9. External links
  10. Box requesting citations at top of page
  11. Highlighting spelling errors
  12. Mark Lowenthal
  13. getting p.hd in water resources management
  14. What can I do about anonymous users making improper changes?
  15. Phantoms in my watched list
  16. re: Linda Christas College

August 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 21

  1. User's stats
  2. Can not log in
  3. How to add another disambiguation or contact the admin to add it?
  4. how do I make an entry about myself?
  5. Uploaded a file
  6. help needed help in font size
  7. Categories
  8. Authority to Semi-Protect Articles
  9. Lasting links to specific sections of often-archived pages

August 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 22

  1. Days of the week in articles
  2. Graham Chapman
  3. How do I capitalize a title???
  4. How do I add Company Wikipedia
  5. Reference fix?
  6. Layout Problem
  7. Main image problem
  8. Singapore Karate-Do Federation
  9. slightly odd one - drawing of BLP
  10. problen with photo

August 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 23

  1. birth dates
  2. Uploaded image does not display
  3. Help me find a quote
  4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 23#.7B.7Btl.7Cadminhelp.7D.7D_duck.3F|{{adminhelp}} duck?]]
  5. Image speedy deleted despite mail to OTRS
  6. Useragent messages
  7. Images in articles not showing?
  8. Errors in my contribution
  9. Forgotten password
  10. Historical income data for US
  11. God
  12. Cerebral Palsy and Retardation
  13. WRONG SPELLING
  14. Suspect I'm being "stalked" by a Wikipedia user
  15. Regarding the page "Brown University",
  16. How do I delete a page from my user space?
  17. Footnote list format
  18. where can i send a letter of appreciation to Chuck Hagel
  19. Requests for feedback
  20. Who wrote specific article content
  21. Template formatting issues
  22. Sourcing question
  23. Article completion

August 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 24

  1. Article title revision
  2. Regarding usefulness of articles
  3. name change issue
  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing is getting blocked - virus alert
  5. Linking CD Cover Art to Article
  6. Article copy and paste into userspace
  7. How to restore photo that no longer displays
  8. In the article pertaining to Largest Exporter of Steel
  9. Dual licensing
  10. Euthanasia
  11. Computer code warning
  12. Please explain categories to me
  13. Archives

August 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 25

  1. linking question
  2. Dear wikipedia.
  3. KVIC
  4. Mobile version on my iPod
  5. Mobile view on iPod touch
  6. File:SSL graphic.png
  7. Search question: No subpages?
  8. Unified account and bug in watchlist
  9. Courtesy Blanking
  10. Interwiki contributions
  11. images from German Wikipedia
  12. Deleted Article
  13. Mistake in article about Brussels Airlines
  14. Template tracking
  15. looking for a template
  16. images don't display on wikipedia
  17. Movie Review Intelligence would like to be white-listed -- how?
  18. bud day medal of honor recipient
  19. some one hacked in to my facebook, now I can't login to it, facebook says because of phishing that they are doing I can't get into my account
  20. I am trying to write an article about a company
  21. Tracking the number of people sent to an article from a specific link
  22. Batch article assessment without AWB
  23. UPLOADING CROPPED IMAGES

August 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 26

  1. -Why isn't there a section displaying a detailed listing of mathematics notions according to academic levels in the portal named Portal: Mathematics?
  2. Table Positioning
  3. navasha daya
  4. Image size/de-uglification
  5. Urban Definitions
  6. English literature
  7. detailed company history Vs promotional
  8. Change Username
  9. Reference Desk
  10. Vandalism Issue Not being Resolved
  11. Placename detail
  12. Bylines
  13. Priscilla Susan Bury - article
  14. Article Deleted Without My Notice

August 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 27

  1. Wikipedia balloon
  2. User Warnings
  3. Nigerian LGBT-related films
  4. Sorting by age
  5. Can you please restore a wikipedia article?
  6. Abuse of the Reed Midem MIPIM Congress Customer information
  7. Monetary value comparsions/In today's money
  8. Wikipedia university outreach
  9. I created a page using the wizard, but I don't know how to get it to actually show up?
  10. Can't figure out coding; please help
  11. TMobile
  12. Integrating Wikimedia Commons image into Wikipedia infobox
  13. advertising tag
  14. "intitle" & "lookfrom" search options for section titles ?
  15. Books
  16. anyway of getting new Wiki articles only relating to psychology ?
  17. Labshare

August 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 28

  1. Jane Greer (poet)
  2. NZ's Queen's Personal Flag
  3. Moving item from User page to general access
  4. Mount Kekneno, West Timor
  5. Mistake in 2nd nomination for deletion
  6. Article-count by category
  7. No Wikipedia symbol on map?
  8. Wiki instructions beyond my capacity to cope at the age of 80.
  9. Is this a weasel word?
  10. Redlinks question
  11. Article layout is messed up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumaranalloor
  12. TV identitiy
  13. Only road trip of Jerry Livingston at the Van Cleve Hotel in Dayton Ohio in 1940, where I took photos of the Orchestra the only pictures of the Road Trip
  14. I want to know how to make a new article.

August 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 29

  1. Including a Task force on a Wikiproject Template
  2. Major Bones , Muscles , Muscles Joints and Joint actions involved in Baseball batting.
  3. mounting my information on Wikipedia
  4. is my signature appropriate?
  5. template for unbreakable space but without conversion
  6. Requests for feedback
  7. Saint Julian of Norwich :
  8. Why is it "...likely to be deleted..."?
  9. How can an active editor have no edits logged?
  10. Copyright Material
  11. Archiving

August 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 30

  1. Problem with image file
  2. United States presidential election, 1896
  3. Change company logo
  4. Pasta supremacy
  5. Caboddle Ranch in Florida... not on Wikipedia
  6. Moving pages
  7. Delete of Userpage by OR or Webspace?
  8. Help with blank lines appearing above infobox
  9. Import procedure
  10. I NEED AN SVG FILE OF BRADYCARDIA ECG.
  11. I messed up checkuser
  12. I WISH TO HAVE LIST OF FORMER CHIEF JUSTICES OF SUPREME COURT OF INDIA WITH PRESENT CONTACT ADDRESSES,TELEPHONE NUMBER AND E MAIL ID
  13. A question on the right way to promote any wp-project site
  14. how to flag neutrality issues in article for other editors
  15. DVD purchase
  16. a new article

August 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 31

  1. where do I go on the site to write an article?
  2. how do i embed a photo?
  3. editing
  4. telugu translation
  5. Disrupting
  6. please help me we have already established orphan home but economically lift up the possibiletes
  7. HIGH YIELD INVESTMENT PROGRAM-
  8. Reference formatting in mephedrone
  9. the good old format
  10. Removing an incorrect link.
  11. Note at top of article - should it be there?
  12. my username is not allowing access
  13. text from wikia
  14. Temporarily not online much?
  15. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 August 31#.7B.7Bla.7CTunecrank.7D.7D|Tunecrank (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)]]
  16. this is checked Resolved - it is not resolved - my work is not on Wikipedia
  17. Hoax
  18. Wikipedia logo