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July 1 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 1

  1. Help me
  2. Kindle location instead of page numbers
  3. Commas in image file names
  4. Writing and editing in Wikipedia

July 2 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 2

  1. Page seems to have disappeared
  2. Vandalism by User:Garrymust506
  3. Biased article Growth_Hacker_Marketing
  4. :File:Ottoman Hungary dancer.jpg
  5. A question on dispute resolutions
  6. How can I turn off Wikipedia's encryption?
  7. Inaccurate and Outdated Information
  8. question
  9. being threatened and accused of harassment

July 3 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 3

  1. Question about logo upload
  2. ClimaCell (weather forecaster)
  3. List of Coronation Street characters (2017)
  4. pete davies
  5. I Can't stay logged in
  6. Denial of creative credit
  7. Enormous table
  8. About my first article declined
  9. Maintenance tag not appearing in article
  10. Lenticular printing

July 4 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 4

  1. One Page Protection
  2. New page
  3. Categories in redirects
  4. Disable images is no longer an option on mobile view
  5. Editing exisiting pages on Wiki
  6. Categorize templates: Should categorization line be put in template page or its documentation page?
  7. Link that creates a new section with default title
  8. Verifiability issue
  9. Editing a biography
  10. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  11. Preventing bot creation of a page

July 5 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 5

  1. Wrong redirection of a page
  2. Bannockburn, Victoria
  3. How can i use wikipedia for creating my modelling agency brand page " Cashgate Scandal Malawi "
  4. Cannot log in to Wikipedia
  5. information about a subject's personality in their biography?
  6. Disabling automatic login across projects
  7. Can't seem to remove and replace

July 6 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 6

  1. WMF Labs crop tool
  2. Can't Upload Photo
  3. My edits appear when logged in but not when logged out
  4. Sudarshan Venu - Noindex tag to be removed
  5. Draft version with Categories
  6. US National Security Council Special Assistant to The President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism
  7. article about Kate Moore Composer
  8. 2018 NCAA Baseball season
  9. Jack Atley
  10. Creating an article with a lower-case title

July 7 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 7

  1. Carole Middleton
  2. Pagudpud Ilocos Norte 2013-2016 Vice mayor
  3. making a page for a band and need help with citations and such.
  4. Administrator needed to close two interpersonal ANIs
  5. Problematic link on page - course of action.
  6. Need help regarding Reference on Wikipedia
  7. want to write an article about other person...
  8. List of countries by length of expressways: Question
  9. Template question
  10. Category 2018 NCAA Baseball season
  11. needed page
  12. Avoiding an edit war over new article tag
  13. Unreferenced section tag
  14. The Volkswagen Kubelwagen page

July 8 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 8

  1. Looking for a similar template
  2. Where can I see template source code
  3. Change in settings?
  4. Unverifiable additions to the Henry Abner page
  5. ABC News American Broadcasting Co.
  6. Questions about template syntax

July 9 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 9

  1. Trevor Engelson
  2. asking question
  3. What is 'references responsive'
  4. Dianne Evers (Tennis player)
  5. How to add missing information relate a stub in an article.
  6. COI Flag
  7. Edit conflicts

July 10 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 10

  1. Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
  2. People cannot find my page if they do not know my middle initial
  3. How do you post about our edit?
  4. Lupton family
  5. Infoboxes for Art Galleries
  6. A Page Title
  7. Username Conflict of Interest for people
  8. Approval of draft page
  9. Lets me login but after loading a new page I am logged out
  10. Can Wiki article titles be too long ?
  11. Barnstar not working on Wikimedia Commons
  12. Editor with changing IP address?
  13. Duplicate entries
  14. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  15. Need access to an old account
  16. Wikipedia and Jimbo Wales; a complaint.
  17. kingskidd74
  18. Reminders on backlogs

July 11 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 11

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Nitrous Oxide Medication page.
  3. Fresno State Baseball
  4. Uploading a photo for the first time
  5. Source for Article
  6. Converting bare urls
  7. Deletion of article
  8. LOCATING COMPANIES
  9. Can't save edits - capcha not accepted from iphone
  10. Cannot add any images to Wikipedia page

July 12 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 12

  1. Question about template
  2. How to request arbitrary sanctions onto an article
  3. Translation of my German wiki article /username is red
  4. Ack
  5. Created Page about Person - Deleted
  6. Last template questions
  7. Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation

July 13 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 13

  1. Mina Edison
  2. Need someone who knows spoken Chinese
  3. Remove or replace picture located inside an infobox
  4. Help with adding Info. from a published article
  5. Compte bloqué
  6. Changing entry name
  7. Question about search features
  8. Facebook page linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Bowen_School_of_Law
  9. i need admin help asap

July 14 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 14

  1. Ay-Rock page deleted
  2. How to embed parameters in a template
  3. About talk page
  4. Correction on Mayuto Correa's Discography
  5. Error in posting about public figure
  6. www.lawcancer.cf - Edit
  7. Fixing journal template citation errors in editors name
  8. Kindly provide steps of making page
  9. Error on map
  10. Question About New Page Creation - Invictus
  11. What kind of source to show that a phrase is not in widespread use?
  12. Tracking categories are over-inclusive
  13. Deerfoot the runner

July 15 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 15

  1. Glen Affric
  2. Mass-changing dashes
  3. {{Models.com}} not working
  4. Cannot log in
  5. Notable people who didn't graduate - alumni?

July 16 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 16

  1. request to have another writer create an article
  2. Adding Film Poster; Resolving Page Issues
  3. "Ramaswamy S"- The page is categorized. Yet, the page shows that it doesn't belong to any category
  4. adding a book to Publications
  5. Square thumb
  6. Why do the bots revert every edit I make?
  7. Adding Film Poster; Resolving Page Issues
  8. English Wikipedia's most popular articles...by country (Question from WP:THQ, where it's been ignored)
  9. Editing the title of the Wiki Article
  10. Assistance on requesting an article
  11. Glen Affric

July 17 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 17

  1. Glen Affric
  2. About Template:Chinese and Template:Infobox WorldScouting and the typesetting problems with aligned pictures in an article
  3. Edit Wikipedia article to appear in Google search
  4. "Followed by..." in book infobox
  5. add my client to Wikipedia
  6. request edit for Colantonio Incorporated
  7. Death Euphemisms...

July 18 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 18

  1. 2017 American And National League Wild Card Game Logos
  2. Old Article name lingering
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  4. Imserting linls into infoboxes
  5. Ref tag error message
  6. help with page
  7. Upload infobox JPG image without worse-quality version being displayed
  8. how to help

July 19 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 19

  1. User name spelt incorrectly
  2. Updates Removed by One the Heyman Pleas Guide What to Do or Should I Just Leave This
  3. GNAA link when viewing Amazon.com article
  4. ref materials. Can i use?
  5. defacing edits!
  6. Question on references
  7. Changing an article title (4 years out of date)
  8. Wikipedia Page for Google, redirects towards trolling-group's website
  9. Edit count
  10. Object animation.
  11. Page rendering problems of Dinesh Lal Yadav
  12. 2018 MLB season by team Template
  13. Updated user interface in editing
  14. Help Requested with COI editor who *just* doesn't get it
  15. Issue on the "The Walt Disney Company" page
  16. Hack on SodaStream page
  17. Wrong Language used for Indian Military
  18. Problem with the Ankara Province infobox
  19. Copyvio tool isn't working

July 20 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 20

  1. Template 2018 Big 12 Baseball Standings
  2. I manage a band, and they have an old picture with a member no longer in the group on their page. How can I get it updated?
  3. no more use of talk pages?
  4. Weird placement of photos in iPhone 7 article
  5. Suggestion regarding addition of a new page in Rafael Nadal.
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  7. Citations
  8. Help: Coke Studio
  9. Paul Concus
  10. Anonymous Hacking Collective Correction
  11. Related autoblocks

July 21 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 21

  1. Robert Lloyd Sherriff Poet Actor Author Singer Australia how do i add his details on your site? or i want is place to load all his details
  2. Martineau family
  3. How to change Wikipedia font size?
  4. Linkin Park
  5. Living Computers: Museum + Labs - two sections don't work
  6. Publishing drafts
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  8. Fred Durst
  9. My page disappeared
  10. Tool to change wikipedia urls to wikilinks?
  11. Edit Name of Article
  12. How to get article reviewed for Wikipedia publish
  13. Change page title
  14. Edit conflict check: why not at preview?

July 22 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 22

  1. Deletion of Maria Luisa Hernandez
  2. Gamergate controversy
  3. How to resolve the issues from an article:
  4. Cite an essay inside a book

July 23 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 23

  1. Requesting Salting
  2. Someone please write about India Syndrome
  3. Change case
  4. Very useful and necessary updates deleted by mindless robot
  5. Nadarajah Selvarajah
  6. Citing problems
  7. Buzz Sawyer

July 24 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 24

  1. a problem
  2. How to create my organisation's page?
  3. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  4. AfD question
  5. Stupid question

July 25 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 25

  1. Burly
  2. I do not have permission to create any pages.
  3. aditing of an existing page
  4. How can I contribute to Wikipedia with small contributions?
  5. Eldridge Cleaver
  6. Submit article for review
  7. Appeal to correct erroneous information in the entry for the movie PET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_(film)

July 26 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 26

  1. Oleg Bezuglov - <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> in the code
  2. Alignment of quote box
  3. Lupton family
  4. Request to edit the title of the page.
  5. What authorized neutral athletes (ANA) will use at 2017 World Championships in Athletics?
  6. This Wiki entry looks A LOT like an advertisement.
  7. 2nd AfD
  8. There is a typo in the value of the Geobox field composed as whs_number_label
  9. Can the categories displayed at the bottom of an article differ from the categories that include the article?
  10. Wikipedia page for our organization - non-profit, for academic institutions
  11. Correcting a surname
  12. The google search summary
  13. 2018 MLB All-Star Game Logo
  14. What is SORTKEY/Default sort?

July 27 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 27

  1. Net neutrality banner
  2. 2018 Major League Baseball Game Logo
  3. Special:Contributions/Plistszo
  4. The template to use for "Archived from the original"?
  5. Company Page
  6. Data-Computer or Phone
  7. chevrolet camaro
  8. Post 2 - Need to Provide Some Sources To Prove Notability As Suggested By An Admin From This Helpdesk
  9. Southwest Miami High School
  10. Image
  11. Creating a page for an existing actor.

July 28 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 28

  1. Three Futures
  2. About the page or article
  3. Reverted Page
  4. Issues with Objectivity and NPOV
  5. References for not charting?
  6. Race and intelligence
  7. Edits were removed on ALICAFORSEN
  8. How to request an admin to join the talk page of my article?
  9. Making a wikipedia go live
  10. greetings wkipidia team

July 29 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 29

  1. The Towering Inferno
  2. How do we get Modelbane_europa
  3. Ca you please delete user-account "Stefano Gatto 11" I created by mistake?
  4. Book Creator
  5. how to do attached
  6. Password Reset

July 30 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 30

  1. Change information
  2. Taylor Webb - does he exist?
  3. CSD / PROD logs
  4. Scan of a book cover
  5. Hi. I just made a page representing my client who is an actor. Our page is not showing in the google search . Kindly help with this issue. Thanks
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_of_Lebanese_descent
  7. Translation of an nonexistent article in wiki in english
  8. blocked external link
  9. Are red links not allowed on Wikipedia?
  10. language for informations
  11. use an image on another Wiki
  12. 2018 Major League Baseball All Star Game Logo
  13. Jillian Loyden's Place of Birth
  14. "Technical" error message on Russia

July 31 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 July 31

  1. how to view a talk page on a mobile device
  2. XFD !voting helper?
  3. Dirk Coetsee / Coetsenburg / Stellenbosch Mountain
  4. broken reference links
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
  6. Company page
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