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Welcome to the Wikipedia Reference Desk Archives

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This is an archive where you can browse all of the old questions and answers from the reference desk. Not all questions have been archived (nonsense and questions not meant for the reference desk have not been saved). Some of these pages are very large and may crash even high-end computers. We recommend you don't open many windows at the same time. If your question has been archived but you feel that it hasn't been adequately answered, ask your question again on the reference desk. Link to the archived discussion here and attempt to be clearer and provide more information in your new question.

Searching the archives

The best way to search the archives is probably to use our internal search engine via the box below.

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Alternatively, you may want to use an external search engine, such as Google, by using this search string for the post-October 2006 archives, and this search string for the pre-October 2006 archives. You can also browse manually by clicking on the links below.

To see which of the archives are active, check the following pages with recent changes to the archives:

For archivers

This archive is designed to be updated by a bot. If you notice any problems, please leave a note on the reference desk talk page.

An alternate index produced by Lua script tracks some additional details such as usernames of contributors. It is under development at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Lua.