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December 1 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 1

  1. Different files with the same name
  2. 2268 failed login attempts
  3. NCAA Football season navbox template
  4. Donation solicitation
  5. Creating a New Page for Johnny Reed
  6. References for an Artist who is an illustrator
  7. you guys rock
  8. Ref icon not working?
  9. Plus 9
  10. You have enabled both this script and the MediaViewer ...
  11. Editing
  12. Automatically counting list items?
  13. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key

December 2 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 2

  1. Stephen Garvin VC
  2. A question about the editing layout and html tool ASAP
  3. Find anon-edit history for a range of IPs
  4. account opening
  5. I want to create an article on wikipedia!
  6. Atp
  7. Yoga Psychotherapy
  8. Subpage issue
  9. How to view Special:RecentChanges for recent 2,000 changes? (again)
  10. Editing Wikipedia via TOR from under a registred account?
  11. Can Signbot be invoked manually
  12. How to request a protected talk page edit?
  13. Standards for restored content

December 3 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 3

  1. qtp 10 when run input ??? in the textbox
  2. Coat of arms in Italian comune
  3. What is original research
  4. How to submit article
  5. About the "Liancourt Rocks"
  6. Update org logo
  7. Unknown edits on Simmba
  8. Importance, indication of (A7)
  9. Google not indexing the page
  10. How to search Wikipedia
  11. Submission for review

December 4 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 4

  1. How to edit source against dead links?
  2. Control character on Limalok
  3. Maps and coordinates
  4. Pending change reviewer
  5. How to Recover a Deleted Article
  6. Creating articles
  7. Moving from sandbox
  8. Article Doubt
  9. Can some body update the Wiki on Mimi Belete Gebregeiorges.

December 5 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 5

  1. Can I cite Urban Dictionary as a source?
  2. Today's Request For Donations
  3. Sorry
  4. Properly creating an RfC after non-neutral introduction
  5. Featured pictures
  6. Name change of page
  7. How to open a new page
  8. Incorrect (opposite) information on this page
  9. How can I change the name of a company's Wikipedia page that has rebranded to a new name?
  10. Wikipedia as a non profit in Canada
  11. What is fastest way to get a wikipedia page edited?
  12. How do I cite published magazine articles that no longer have a web presence or link?
  13. 9jashows.com.ng
  14. Wikipedia won't let me publish newly added media and photos
  15. articles without talk pages
  16. What are the rules around turning an article into a redirect?
  17. Things that are "not helpful or constructive" vs "humorous and creative"
  18. 2019 Pro Bowl Logo

December 6 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 6

  1. How to remove My website from Spam list
  2. Siri Knowledge on iOS shows information sourced from Wikipedia which is incorrect, can't figure out how to edit
  3. Donations
  4. Table sorting
  5. WNOZ New Orleans Smooth Jazz

December 7 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 7

  1. Right of Foreigners to vote
  2. How to delete an old user account
  3. British Science Association
  4. Answering Reference Desk Questions
  5. where to check for articles for review
  6. need your assistance to upload the picture
  7. Moving an article into articlespace
  8. km
  9. Splitting table cells
  10. Donations
  11. Waiting Period
  12. Suggestions for how Wikipedia works
  13. 2019 Pro Bowl Logo
  14. Talk button

December 8 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 8

  1. St. Michael church
  2. Wikipedia entry "Yang yanbao"
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  4. No subject
  5. How to show hindi details
  6. Infobox in English Wikipedia
  7. Karfagen (band) page translation
  8. Article changed to draft
  9. Pictures

December 9 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 9

  1. Fixing Odd Formatting on Article
  2. Sources for a song article
  3. good article
  4. Article is full of discredited information, but I have a conflict of interest
  5. License translation
  6. How can I get more feedback regarding "Safran Seats"?
  7. Template:Metallica songs
  8. Password problems

December 10 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 10

  1. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  2. Promotional image use?
  3. Cathy Haase page edits--error showing
  4. Good faith (but low quality) edit identified as vandalism.
  5. Where Are Mobile Article Subtitles Stored?
  6. Article created in the wrong wiki
  7. Name suppression? (NZ murder trial)

December 11 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 11

  1. Unable to donate to Wikipedia
  2. Controversial Content
  3. how to correct erroneous crosslinks between different language versions ?
  4. Wikipedia provide wrong information
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input trying to correct omissions from consecutive 40 home run seasons
  6. Use of text from doctoral thesis?
  7. Should i translate articles from finnish Wikipedia?

December 12 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 12

  1. Reza kaihani
  2. i have already donated i do not want to be asked again to donate
  3. Shanghai People's Congress
  4. Account issue
  5. Trying to correct wrong information
  6. Header at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
  7. What if i can't use "feet"
  8. spelling "Ageing"
  9. New article
  10. Editing Question
  11. Donation
  12. Blanca Aljibes page request

December 13 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 13

  1. correcting info on a wiki page
  2. Asking for donations
  3. How to protect page from unauthorized edit
  4. Citations
  5. How to edit a page title
  6. Inserting Footnotes
  7. Archiving my talk page
  8. Article declined
  9. Dispute about toyota land cruiser (read the page history)
  10. Italian Ministry of Education: is Liceo Scientifico Statale Paolio Lioy vicenza Italy 36100 a accredited school. Can I receive a letter Accredition from that school?
  11. Donations Popup
  12. 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football navbox
  13. Adding Images to the profile that I am creating
  14. Potternewton
  15. Wikipedia for a School Project

December 14 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 14

  1. My First edit - did I get it right?
  2. Pics
  3. updates being reverted
  4. Why can't I simply make a new article?
  5. Catriona Gray
  6. Deleting versions

December 15 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 15

  1. Cannot figure out how to mark a page that needs to be updated and I don't know the information to do so
  2. Texas Civil Air Patrol patch on Wikipedia
  3. how to delete pages spreading false rumours ?
  4. James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale
  5. Autobiographies
  6. Leeds General Infirmary
  7. Presentacion
  8. 2019 Pro Bowl Logo

December 16 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 16

  1. Required status column for Telaga caste. Mark as Forward caste
  2. Submit ArticleKyoho (talk) 00:37, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
  3. Wikiquote
  4. Indexation of my article on google search
  5. Contact Wiki Dubai
  6. References / External links
  7. Adding filming location citations

December 17 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 17

  1. How can I change the title of a wikipedia page?
  2. Book Author
  3. ADDRESS
  4. donation
  5. Photo image rights, syntax, for (English) article Yisroel Zev Gustman
  6. Request for deletion hanging fire
  7. Page for an athlete
  8. Is the text formatted properly?
  9. Peer review process
  10. List of wedding guests of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
  11. Submission of article drafts

December 18 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 18

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. Serge Lazareff Page
  3. How to you comment on the revision section of a page if you are undoing an edit?
  4. Activating structured discussions on my talk page
  5. Use of "via" and "free access" symbol in Newspapers.com citations
  6. template fix request
  7. Cannot Edit My Own Wikipedia Page
  8. Irish speaker required
  9. Update Achronix Logo
  10. Link in Riceland Foods
  11. How can Wikipedia justify deleting the profile of Scottish GP Dr Malcolm Kendrick?

December 19 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 19

  1. How to add an article to Wikipedia? how can i change the display title of my article and to put on the company logo?
  2. How do I get help on the coords template?
  3. Wang Hai biography page
  4. Bernards Township, New Jersey
  5. 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season article
  6. Editor inserts additional unwanted newlines

December 20 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 20

  1. How to suppress the auto generated contents table
  2. Updating someone's name on their Wiki page
  3. I want to NGO operating in pakistan
  4. Jaydogg1994
  5. Making an article
  6. How to entry in Starjalsha Parivar award
  7. Bad behavior
  8. There is no article about web shell on Wikipedia so i created a draft regarding web shell.
  9. Why aren't the sections at this meta-wikimedia article collapsible?
  10. The "ill" template
  11. Wikipedia search
  12. Down or blocked for GDPR reasons?

December 21 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 21

  1. Business Information
  2. How to handle vandalism only account
  3. 1940 Canberra air disaster
  4. Variable question
  5. book cover jpg
  6. Bloomington, Indiana
  7. Packing references
  8. How to add images

December 22 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 22

  1. 2019 Pac-12 football season template
  2. False information posted
  3. Discography for Shakila Karim and not showing up on the page
  4. Portals overwhelming our community page?
  5. YouTube Sign
  6. Should Template:cite press release be used for quoted texts?
  7. Request to restoring an article
  8. Archive issue
  9. I want to create a page for "Hamza Hamry"
  10. Diego Simonet

December 23 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 23

  1. Receiving constant warnings and captchas for adding links to "too many pages"
  2. Embed image with sub-header in infobox
  3. Easier way to make pages?
  4. Spaces in the infobox
  5. Replacing a redirect page
  6. Adding edit templates
  7. Looking for help in determining fitness of new technology related page
  8. Found an error
  9. Converting from artivle to psge
  10. Can you please block me for 1 year ?

December 24 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 24

  1. A Notable Current Event?
  2. Hamza Hamry
  3. Requesting for approval
  4. I'm here since 2013 and I'm not listed / José Ney
  5. Umbrella (song)
  6. Autoconfirmed
  7. Fix my user talk header
  8. Twinkl
  9. Logo

December 25 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 25

  1. How to start
  2. Page move

December 26 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 26

  1. My Heart Will Go On
  2. Inaccuracies in article
  3. Referring someone with his previous username
  4. sorry I did not write anything about the Nativity of Our Lord
  5. Puerto Rican poet/writer not included in list of Puerto Rican Writers
  6. Dove Smith
  7. Formatting error

December 27 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 27

  1. Qanon
  2. Night skin
  3. Can someone fix the layout of Phenix Building (Chicago)?
  4. Please delete my account
  5. First Step Act of 2018 is not the same as HR 5682 First Step Act for inmates.
  6. Editing articles

December 28 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 28

  1. Amber Heard Page
  2. offensive picture on Richard Overtons page
  3. Need help translating (Mandarin Chinese) and creating relevant page for a relative who passed away before I was born
  4. A problem with long Tree list
  5. Dissertation as a Source
  6. Lucas callaghan
  7. Lost Edit Button
  8. New Page Review
  9. Current Events Portal Problems Again

December 29 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 29

  1. no sand box
  2. Languages list - "Simple English"
  3. Template:Authority control is invisible
  4. minor edit
  5. Want to edit United Worlds of Institute of Design Content
  6. Infobox location map does not show up
  7. Safran Seats
  8. Lilia Maraviglia
  9. Confirming my email address
  10. German project?
  11. Special:ChangeContentModel

December 30 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 30

  1. Why XTools links doesn't show at one user's Contributions page ?
  2. Cancel Account
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  4. Removal of Stub Template from an Article
  5. Can neither change link nor "talk" (as suggested)
  6. Citing References
  7. Help for SKYC Organization article
  8. Subscription
  9. Write-In Elections
  10. Technical question: Making "Lad: A Dog" render as a wikilink

December 31 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 December 31

  1. End of the year donation
  2. Need help with German and Danish language
  3. Apna Naam Kaise edit kare
  4. Help with flags
  5. not editing. fair use
  6. 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season article
  7. Can Wikipedia article titles include a :
  8. request help restoring edit environment
  9. Trusting what you read on Wikipedia...
  10. Force smaller pictures