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November 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 1

  1. How do we get the article reviewed after being marked "like an advertisement?"
  2. stolen Unncovered Painting from the New York City Area for a novel
  3. Advanced search
  4. Creating wikipedia for an actress
  5. Please Take This Into Consideration:
  6. Task force, work group and subproject
  7. violation droits d'auteur
  8. reset my page
  9. Where to report copyright violators?
  10. United States
  11. User:Perseus, Son of Zeus
  12. Parameters for template "user"
  13. Logo entry for Wikipedia entry "Linux Professional Institute"
  14. Screenplay Submission
  15. finding a deleted page and un deleting it
  16. Deletion of an article

November 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 2

  1. ref tags error
  2. How to recover an account without the password?
  3. Strange glitch has been bothering me lately.
  4. Can I get a Wikipedia administrator to write an article about my professional gaming organization www.highrolleragaming.com
  5. Creating a wiki page
  6. Citation questions and Google News & Archive
  7. Siddha Yoga category
  8. User:Perseus, Son of Zeus
  9. fix template pls
  10. The Wiki for PETN Is Dangerously Complete
  11. Images
  12. IMAGE DOESN'T APPEAR!!!
  13. Portia de Rossi
  14. More info for you to see Portia de Rossi credits in the movie THE SHIFT.
  15. Too difficult
  16. NOTE TO JAYRON32
  17. References in section titles
  18. Formatting
  19. Looking to make a wikipedia page but worried about slander/defamation
  20. Right to vanish
  21. Quick AFD help
  22. Flags not showing up
  23. Professor22 looking for input on NOR
  24. Getting logged out
  25. Multiple images

November 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 3

  1. Image fail
  2. Qantity of Categories in english Wikipedia?
  3. Image problem with new page
  4. Persons of National Historic Significance
  5. Religion of Firoz Gandhi
  6. merging siren articles
  7. rev list
  8. Edit war
  9. cannot save page, because of forbidden page
  10. adding quotations in the correct place
  11. Table problems
  12. National Consumer Council (UK)
  13. Serious POV in Article locked for edit warring
  14. Link from Wikipedia to Apple Pages application.
  15. I forgot the email i use in wikipedeia
  16. Marcelline Jayakody
  17. Removing a clean-up category
  18. big png logo

November 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 4

  1. Changing "edited by (IP address)" to "edited by Adrian-from-london"
  2. "Dynamic"-sorting the table at The 100 Best Books of All Time
  3. Tracking Appropriate Copyright Permissions For Satelite Images Taken Over Air Spaces
  4. I have an account, but it probably is under a account address
  5. Power Down Shifting
  6. images in categories
  7. A BarrAssociation Honorable
  8. Uploading images - Prior's Field School
  9. City of Vaughan - new logo
  10. Requesting edits, meeting indifference
  11. fraudulent amalgamation of Israel/Palestine references with Israel alone
  12. Image problem...yet again
  13. Problem with rating
  14. Tracing my father
  15. Image problem
  16. Vandalism
  17. Article Activation
  18. How to mark an article as needing examples or sample code?
  19. A Help desk entry that had no heading

November 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 5

  1. User Talk: IP Address
  2. Syntax error
  3. Another question with no heading
  4. british ancestary
  5. List of characters in The Simpsons
  6. Quotation Marks and Common Phrases/Cliches
  7. Dealing with vandalism in article talk pages
  8. Verbal permission to use photos
  9. Feedback plea
  10. Revert this change
  11. my ip address.....
  12. Links to an online history guide
  13. Requesting help with an article for a company recently added to WikiProject Companies
  14. Where should I highlight a wiki collaboration project?
  15. Entries designed as orphans or not meeting notability guideline
  16. Notes in tables

November 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 6

  1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  2. Name of author cited in article is wrong
  3. Jimbo wales
  4. Home page
  5. Question about notability
  6. Liane Cartman
  7. purchase additional s-z
  8. Help with template
  9. Image problems plus legal threats

November 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 7

  1. New Orleans Musicians Clinic
  2. New article
  3. References for Star Trek Actors
  4. SUMMAEIES THROUGH WIKIPIDIA
  5. Need to edit some family history on Wikipedia
  6. Martyn Godfrey
  7. Change entry header/part of title
  8. Donald Graves biography
  9. Can't login
  10. Messaging a member list
  11. Two issues: Notes vs. References and Page Visitation Count.
  12. London Underground stations - new name for each page
  13. "Ronnie Jagday" Page: Help with Removing Error/Violation message from my Page
  14. Jackaroo ( Occupation)
  15. fake wiki

November 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 8

  1. How do I back up all Wikipedia to my hard drive?
  2. How to change "government type" in the sidebar for a city?
  3. Delete Wikipedia Search Engine...
  4. problem with redirect, I think
  5. Adding Community / Information Website about area
  6. Vandalism?
  7. New school slang words,what does this mean?
  8. entry creation
  9. How can I undo or roll back?
  10. Article text doesn't appear on edit text!

November 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 9

  1. Help fighting the dispute on my page.
  2. Vandal Recently Changed our Company's Wikipedia Page Repeatedly
  3. Images
  4. moving an artical from he.wikipedia.org to en.wikipedia.org
  5. Fallout Characters page
  6. The Missing manual - Chapter 2 - broken link
  7. Proceed from work-in-progress to Live
  8. Hearing Aids Page
  9. Broken Link
  10. cannonball
  11. article content error
  12. How to remove an alert
  13. Wikipedia image vs. Commons image

November 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 10

  1. Length of a string
  2. Just a thought
  3. Payment of matured policyJeewan suraksha
  4. Little red x top right of edit box
  5. Reviewing
  6. Adding a one-line comment to a keyword in a Wikipedia page
  7. John L. Locke article
  8. Kitchen
  9. Wikipedia with green theme for ENGINEERING articles
  10. Two articles about the same subject
  11. Electronic Bagpipes Page

November 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 11

  1. Fundraising banner suppression
  2. El Salvador national football team article
  3. Peer Review
  4. Formatting problem
  5. Alida Vázquez and Cornelia Tautu
  6. Roller Derby League
  7. Editing existing page
  8. Portals
  9. No record in the log of the article I posted
  10. Why does wikipedia always make Firefox freeze?
  11. External Links in article body
  12. I've lost my password.
  13. like to about church
  14. Redirecting an article
  15. hello
  16. Alphabiotics
  17. Want to use my interview to update a Wiki page
  18. Photo change
  19. I operate a site WikI media and I want to translate pages.
  20. malicious statistics

November 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 12

  1. Query gone astray
  2. Should publisher of a research paper be wikilinked in main text?
  3. TCP/IP & ISO/OSI Model or Protocol??
  4. Regarding Wikipedia BOOKS (WIKIBOOKS)
  5. HEATING LUB OIL IN EXPLOSIVE FLAME PROOF CONDITIONS
  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use
  7. Nokia e71
  8. Autoarchive talk page
  9. Image Copyright
  10. login / username help
  11. Wiki pages reffed in the references section
  12. I lost my login.
  13. Deleted Image Peter Kilmartin
  14. Page hijack/usurpation
  15. Reinhardt University
  16. Cite an image

November 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 13

  1. please blank IP address
  2. Watchlist
  3. resume
  4. Copying from Wikipedia?
  5. Removal of help desk like entries on talk pages
  6. Add an article in a new language to a topic that exists
  7. Jimmy Wales appeal can not open
  8. Hatnote to section of another article
  9. Hod do I find all article names containing a particular word?
  10. Possible hoax
  11. No recognition whatsoever of donation given
  12. Roller-Bot
  13. PROBLEM WITH "Flameless Luminary by Febreze"
  14. Can I Use this Picture?
  15. Rubstones (Wellington boots)
  16. Jonathan Pillado

November 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 14

  1. Why does Rotten Tomatoes always in the lead instead of Metacritic?
  2. How to remove the scary glassy-eyed stare of Jimbo from the top of every page
  3. Talk page stalker
  4. Evidence of Revision
  5. Getting corrections acknowledged
  6. Alexandra Powers
  7. Schizophrenia
  8. Jonah Hill
  9. Adding A Reference
  10. Monument on Wilshire Blvd
  11. "No sleep" problem
  12. How to find sheet music
  13. Template for marking misplaced content
  14. Child Abuse
  15. how to donate in Indian rupees?
  16. Article name change and status of entry
  17. wrong name
  18. Underground bands

November 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 15

  1. Contribution by Botanical Artist
  2. Executive Director of organization featured in a Wikipedia article wants to learn more about how to use Wikipedia
  3. Images with copyright released by a PR firm...
  4. Grameen Foundation Australia
  5. Wikipedia links in section titles
  6. Account registration dates
  7. Why was I removed from writers' lists?
  8. How to replace/update a image
  9. New page was deleted
  10. Book?
  11. Wikipedia Survey Question
  12. Warnings about editing misuse
  13. i want to donate for wikipedia in indian rupees.
  14. Add a page
  15. Belfast
  16. Donation feature does not work
  17. how are subjects in Wikipedia cross-referenced?

November 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 16

  1. making mobile wiki default?
  2. Dead people with Twitter links
  3. Userboxes
  4. wanted: someone to post my biography onto wikipedia
  5. Donation through Indian Rupee
  6. Trying to add to the 'All's Well That Ends Well' information on staging of the play...
  7. Is there a UK specific version of Wikipedia?
  8. mise en examen pour un délit mineur (la personne est maghrébine)
  9. Trying to change my contact name on Corporate Wiki
  10. Incorrect info in 'Eastside Sun'
  11. Periodic table template
  12. Translate
  13. Jewellery article inaccuracy
  14. Citations/ Sources

November 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 17

  1. IP Address Removal
  2. confused
  3. Articles with missing definition of their subject
  4. Is it possible to have edits made while logged out moved to "My Contributions"?
  5. I have created a new page but it does not show up in the search
  6. Theresa May vandalism
  7. Replace a Picture
  8. Sadhana Sivdasani
  9. Advertise
  10. Sandbox Operations
  11. Kate Middleton
  12. Help!
  13. Simple template help required
  14. Same name
  15. Wikipedia statistics number of stubs VS comprehensive articles
  16. Baby Doe Tabor
  17. WP:AIV
  18. Donations
  19. page not posted, cannot find link to help myself
  20. request for a job
  21. Subject of Wikipedia article able to delete it?
  22. Wikipedia - Wikileaks Affilliated?
  23. A Page I created
  24. Gruesome "Contract Killer face" on every Wikipedia page.
  25. i resubmitted an article on claremont rug company and can't tell if it has been read yet
  26. Removal and Reinstatement of Article, "Diane Austin"

November 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 18

  1. Lost Head gear.
  2. Donation ad
  3. Got a message about vandalism..?
  4. WHO HACKED MY POSTS?
  5. Problem with template's timestamp
  6. Help needed with map placement and bunching
  7. Commons
  8. Master access to our information
  9. permission to adapt an illustration
  10. In text referencing in article
  11. Didk Gibson former F1/F2 driver.
  12. What is the minimum amount that we can contribute to Wikipedia?
  13. Attn: Archives Dept. Help/Info PLEASE
  14. Licensing
  15. Wrong text when searching in google
  16. Using Wikipedia as a reference
  17. Is there a Suggestions Desk?
  18. Finding an image
  19. Suggestion for 'A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales'
  20. Page Redirection
  21. Since I can't actually edit wikipedia, why should I pay anything?

November 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 19

  1. Additional "cost" of multiple edits?
  2. How do I keep content changed and accurate?
  3. Possible BarrAssociation Honorable Threat
  4. editing weblink on biography
  5. ADD A BIO
  6. please blank IP address
  7. Change official picture
  8. Sock Puppet
  9. IP Address
  10. Abuse and page sabotage
  11. how can i aaply for exam
  12. Encyclopedia Dramatica
  13. HP Print JOB Storage Police not working on Server(64bit) to Clint(32bit)
  14. Contact
  15. FONT SIZE
  16. hi will you stop useing my money elegally stop takeing my money as ive never bought from you before please get back to me on
  17. Add on to Possible Johnson County Honorable
  18. Dell Inc.
  19. Edit a reference list
  20. Pépinières Arboretum Adeline
  21. Swapping out a photo
  22. title change for an article
  23. Boyfriends death
  24. Browser's tab title
  25. Give Feedback on article feature

November 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 20

  1. The picture of Jimmy Wales
  2. that ugly face
  3. My daughter wants to become a doctor
  4. Test edits
  5. Pictures of Jimmy Wales
  6. DONATION TO WIKIPEDIA
  7. Editing
  8. Chevy Cruze
  9. can i copy and paste info out of wikiPedia and paste into my company website?
  10. Hotmail
  11. References
  12. Instructional video?
  13. How to remove that "personal appeal"??
  14. Where can I request an image?

November 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 21

  1. how to fix what i accidently messed up when editing a section
  2. Collapsable
  3. raid levels
  4. Where do I post to get someone to create coding for a template?
  5. COMPUTER ACCESSORY
  6. How to join TUSC
  7. Wikipedia font
  8. User talk:a.b.c.d
  9. Targeted messages at top of screen
  10. Page move

November 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 22

  1. Jimmy Wales picture
  2. Cleanup template for bad English
  3. Inserting New Words?
  4. Harassment
  5. Is there any other way to retrieve my password other than email?
  6. question regarding health
  7. Question about moving an article draft
  8. to get full suggestions from technical experts
  9. English
  10. Disappearing Text
  11. Wikipedia Funding
  12. Commons
  13. Question from Georgia
  14. Book-->Download PDF failed: Error message: "An error occurred on the render server:"
  15. Add new category
  16. Help with vandalism
  17. Website widgets for donation
  18. FifthWheel
  19. Wiki files for patients
  20. Dear Help Desk
  21. Please correct the error in the page
  22. how can a person write something about there self like an auto biography?
  23. Missing move tab
  24. Moving deleted revisions of an article

November 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 23

  1. Signature
  2. Question about autobiography
  3. trouble with another user
  4. The ability to provide factual information
  5. adding visitors count
  6. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 23#Trouble_with_the_.7B.7BTl.7CHarvid.7D.7D_template|Trouble with the {{Harvid}} template]]
  7. Hugh Arbuthnot (British Army officer)
  8. How do I edit and add text to an 'information box' ?
  9. China study critique
  10. Wikipedia Appears with gltich.
  11. List of Not Existing Page Links
  12. Narrector
  13. Complaint
  14. Need help re DVD
  15. Alida Vázquez
  16. Am I able to update my own company's webpage or is that a conflict of interest?
  17. Constantly getting mobile site on Wii
  18. Are timelines useful
  19. Making Large Edits
  20. Holden Commodore
  21. Human name disambiguation page

November 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 24

  1. Plagiarism?
  2. Search results
  3. Derek Hough Bio
  4. Selective Sanitization
  5. please answers these questions
  6. LES (RIMOUSKI ROCKET) ANNING
  7. Clavering
  8. Download and edit file
  9. Personal Appeal to remove Jimmy Wales Face
  10. Referencing a Whole Page as a Source
  11. Problems with photos
  12. Different images with the same name on Wikipedia and Commons
  13. Similar to "as of"
  14. Viewing History of Deleted Pages
  15. Biography question
  16. Commons versus Commons category?
  17. how can I get information about my ex-husband's judgment or court case with the IRS in Florida which he lost?
  18. Updating flotrac vigileo under cardiac output
  19. I got a boner from a web article
  20. my search bar

November 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 25

  1. Is a seperate account for Wikimedia Commons considered Sock puppetry?
  2. Browser error that prevented me from reverting an accident
  3. Mobile user experience feedback
  4. Wikipedia fundraining . . . .
  5. Same reference used mulitple times in article is showing up multiple times in the reflist rather than once
  6. finding a subject which could relate to more than one field
  7. Mr Wales appeal for donations
  8. MITFORD
  9. Different image, duplicate name on Wikipedia and Commons
  10. Laid down your life for us
  11. Kyphoplasty
  12. translation

November 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 26

  1. Facebook Link
  2. delete image in gallery
  3. Martyn Godfrey image needed
  4. Lines through infoboxes
  5. Email from hotmail
  6. Birth year and age
  7. logging in
  8. How does a Wikipedia Editor Sign Up For Wiktionary?
  9. Citation of Trademark Application (template desired)
  10. House of hoenberg
  11. caste surename
  12. Source Verification
  13. Size of text on page
  14. How can I speak to the Reviewer ?
  15. Seguvara missing !

November 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 27

  1. Retirees
  2. RSS
  3. Unable to make a donation
  4. popups edit to robotics article
  5. Scottish Law
  6. pronunciation key
  7. შეკითხვა
  8. Copying Song Lyrics
  9. My page is not showing?
  10. References
  11. I added information to a motion picture entry and it disappears

November 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 28

  1. new subject
  2. How to search name changes
  3. How can I?
  4. make it public
  5. about archictecture
  6. User_committed_identity and SHA-512
  7. Permanently severing ties to an article
  8. Starchild
  9. table help
  10. What just happened?
  11. Censorship in Wikipedia?
  12. How to insert a name into a category with the surname first.
  13. Portuguese inter-wiki link
  14. Wikipedia Donations. Currency Issues
  15. "my contributions" has an edit to a page I have never even read and doesn't have the page I did edit
  16. access restrictions on articles - following a clean start
  17. Searching for exact text match
  18. Opinion of an administrator
  19. Wikipedia political pages on FaceBook? I object.
  20. how to contact an author

November 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 29

  1. SOS PLEASE
  2. Appeal from Jimmy Wales
  3. Image not displaying
  4. Top ten lists
  5. Add link to disambiguation page
  6. Can't edit my article and some how JAK45 bogarted half of my draft space article and put it in his "Cushions" article.
  7. Copyright
  8. Transcluding onlyinclude and includeonly tags
  9. Why Wikipedia doesn't show the counter/statistics of article views ?
  10. Removing IP address from history
  11. how to undo or fix
  12. Template question
  13. Remove Notifications/Alerts

November 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010 November 30

  1. Resizing text.
  2. Disgraceful
  3. coding error
  4. help with editor assuming bad faith
  5. world Wide gum co.
  6. Geonotice problem
  7. wp:vanish requests
  8. How to 'Review' or approve an article
  9. BOOK CREATOR IN HEBREW
  10. Google "Potassium atomic weight"
  11. first amendment rights
  12. New to Wikipedia
  13. Gossip Girl
  14. Help determining notability
  15. Gossip Girl
  16. Super and subscript
  17. help
  18. My Own Bio
  19. Want to contribute to Wikipedia
  20. Template
  21. Submitting information on someone