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October 1 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 1

  1. List item deleted but not the redirect that points there
  2. finding search content's key words
  3. How do I upload audio on Wikipedia?
  4. Jackson Hastings
  5. Info Box UK School
  6. how much time to edit a proposed article?
  7. reverting advertising - 3RR
  8. Family of T.B.Narasimhachar gave me a photos for use along with the article. It is not copyrighted. How do I tag it?
  9. Available no. of abbreviation
  10. What's the current stance on "...in Popular Culture" sections?
  11. My wikipage

October 2 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 2

  1. Adding a link to a user's block log
  2. Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002
  3. how to add information
  4. How to hide user page or else edit its name
  5. Why is HHVM stalking my edits
  6. Application layer protocol article-With reference to september 28 query
  7. financial help
  8. Copyvio? More than Paris seems to have been "liberated".
  9. BIRTH AND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES
  10. Inserting Photograph in Wiki Page
  11. References pasted into talk page encroaching on the next message
  12. editing article title ...please!
  13. How do I create a page for a well known environmentalist not on Wikipedia?
  14. Matthew Frost
  15. Editing request
  16. I misspelled a photographer's name for photos I uploaded to Commons - can I edit it?
  17. No Devotion Band

October 3 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 3

  1. Assistance in page
  2. Problem with Arabic script templates
  3. Heading / Name change
  4. Contacting Administrator
  5. I would like to delete my account and every articles inside of it...
  6. Need to move page, but can't...
  7. Jorge Grant
  8. How can I check on a user's block/ban history?
  9. Creating new page for something which has a page but is redirected to a different page.
  10. Adding a picture in a table with background color?
  11. North Shields FC Wikipedia Page
  12. First DYK nomination
  13. Show improved diff view not working
  14. References and reliable sources

October 4 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 4

  1. Editing
  2. backtracking nuisance requests
  3. Help getting started making infobox templates for Cyber Threat Actor and other STIX entity types
  4. I want to remove my picture
  5. Locked article
  6. Group AfDs
  7. During the Alabama game you have them rank 1 when Florida state is number one!!!! Get it right
  8. Page Tracker
  9. Sortability lost in table

October 5 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 5

  1. Logo problem emanating from polish wikipedia
  2. Please do not include links or templates in subheadings
  3. Translation
  4. Deleting a redirect with several revisions in its history
  5. Major Kurt Chew Een Lee
  6. CONCERNING THE TERM MACEDONIA (FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC or VARDRSKA AS PART OF PRE WWII SERBIA)
  7. ref tags
  8. Category:Television shows set in Queensland by city
  9. Using wikidata coordinates

October 6 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 6

  1. Question regarding intra-article notability
  2. List of countries each in their National Language?
  3. Transliteration of proper names with common nouns to English
  4. Professional medical help on an article
  5. code-nowiki
  6. Removing categories from pages
  7. Deletion of my entry about Michael Lenson
  8. How do I request a watchlist notice?
  9. Huge chunk of German
  10. How to submit an article?
  11. Delegate Phil Hamilton
  12. COI edit request
  13. Photo
  14. Download a wikipedia article as PDF, with code not showing correctly.
  15. Script suddenly working again after years

October 7 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 7

  1. Qgal Jackson
  2. Content is copied Please help me to remove that article
  3. Tags
  4. Constructing a "Foo by country" navbox
  5. I made edits but they have gone from my user log
  6. warning?
  7. Do we keep website information on defunct tv projects?
  8. Helen Keller
  9. Unprotecting/redirecting articles
  10. CrowdFlower
  11. i need help to write article

October 8 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 8

  1. previous username no longer recognized, need to remove picture
  2. "Did you mean" box
  3. Can someone help me with the IPA template?
  4. Referencing errors on Burmese Buddhist Temple
  5. Download book as EPUB
  6. Category specific export
  7. DEARBHLA WALSH
  8. Page edit query
  9. Proper way to edit or change a photo on a profile page
  10. Dates: AD or CE
  11. Publisher parameter in cite templates
  12. images or graphic
  13. This page is full of errors
  14. Recent Submission
  15. IP question
  16. haneous
  17. Columbine High School massacre

October 9 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 9

  1. OTRS editors
  2. Formatting challenge
  3. confirm email address
  4. Allied Irish Banks
  5. Nessa Childers wikepedia page
  6. Use of Wicipedia by the blind
  7. German - English translation
  8. Stop harassment and vandalism by rogue editors and bots
  9. How do I alert Wiki to apparent NPOV violations & begin the process of getting a non-NPOV banner posted?
  10. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/National Identities

October 10 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 10

  1. Why does this article show a different navigation menu?
  2. How to create a wikipedia page for a movie?
  3. Missing People
  4. ceil phone records of numbers to see how there linked together
  5. Section will not show up in the read portion of my sandbox
  6. User Billy Cioffi
  7. Multiple Issues
  8. Are these images free and clear?
  9. User script suddenly not working any more
  10. Margaret Gibson Spier
  11. Chinese script
  12. Adding new article to my personal sandbox?

October 11 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 11

  1. Advice sought about tendentious editing
  2. security agency
  3. Gujarati language
  4. Using the Teahouse
  5. Editing a template and 'TemplateData'
  6. why i am not autoconfirmed yet?
  7. A proposed high level change to the article layout
  8. My submitted entry is still in draft...how long will it take to go live?
  9. Contributing new article
  10. Inter-language links: indeed must be one-to-one?
  11. Layout problem (only here)
  12. How do you create single column PDF files from wikipedia pages?

October 12 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 12

  1. Finding keywords in articles
  2. IT Wire
  3. Module:Citation/CS1
  4. Auto-asking me to edit pages - why did it stop?
  5. Deleted wiki article still in the search results on google
  6. I see mismatch in Dates but I do not know the proper answer
  7. User creation date
  8. MS Windows Media Player as default Wikipedia player
  9. Closing bracket ignored

October 13 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 13

  1. Get list of reverted edits
  2. How to get rid of the spam filter
  3. reliable source
  4. About Pachalam
  5. Carroll Baker Order Of Canada recipient Country Music Singer /Songwriter Born Bridgewater , Nova Scotia
  6. Placing repeatedly-used pages into Template space
  7. Settlement Attorneys Girardi/Keese
  8. Green Day Timeline
  9. Infobox multiple images
  10. accessdate errors showing in references despite using template and ALL references have current URL's!
  11. Green Day Timeline
  12. Infobox Picture
  13. My client wants dob removed from the wikipedia description that comes up when searched in google

October 14 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 14

  1. Wiki article on Gilbert Ling Associated Induction Hypothesis now redirects
  2. Centering
  3. Illinois Army National Guard Page
  4. Self-referential edit
  5. Correcting a general decade/century reference
  6. Marco Cornaro
  7. Admins
  8. Baghel Singh
  9. what should i do if i disagree with another editor about the content of an article?
  10. Edit Conflict
  11. Editing problem
  12. Editing expanded template text before saving
  13. Date conversion templates
  14. Johnny Forzani Amendments
  15. Refreshing image in infobox

October 15 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 15

  1. someone has recently died
  2. Need to create a page in alternate language.
  3. The use of Wikipedia free articles in ,y book.
  4. Conduct disorder
  5. Need to create a page in alternate language.
  6. Montana State Bobcats football

October 16 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 16

  1. Definitions of word parts (Hyphenated)
  2. price list for gold and silver coins
  3. "revision history statistics" link
  4. about debate
  5. Rich Dad Education
  6. Baronets
  7. Search for... External links to en.wikipedia.org in mainspace
  8. Star trek online image upload
  9. A question about numbered lists

October 17 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 17

  1. negligence of Wikipedia
  2. Protect Userpage
  3. revision history statistics
  4. WikiProject banners on Categories
  5. Add to list of communities on Wikipedia
  6. Town Linke Church
  7. Need to upload correct logo
  8. Can you highlight text, and press something to surround it with colons to get a nested reply?

October 18 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 18

  1. posting article to facebook
  2. i edited "List of tropical cyclone records" wikipedia article...
  3. Template:Contemporary Jewish religious music
  4. User pages
  5. "u" template notification clarification
  6. Spamming accounts

October 19 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 19

  1. Policy on cross-namespace redirects
  2. Find a photo
  3. Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250
  4. I would like to make a complaint about a Wikipedia editor, but I'm unsure of the correct complaint process.
  5. Gadget proposal
  6. Some articles look strange
  7. Draft page DC Grays
  8. numbered lists
  9. Paste move
  10. How do I correct an erroneous date of birth?
  11. Translation to Catlan
  12. Gekkos of Zimbabwe
  13. Is this worth a checkuser's time?

October 20 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 20

  1. Revalidation article said "good"
  2. Chemistry
  3. sources of other language
  4. Converting Word formatting to Wikipaedia
  5. Change Ayn al arab to kobane
  6. A list and a template - is it appropriate to have both?
  7. Question about citations
  8. From someone who donates!
  9. Procedural question regarding references

October 21 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 21

  1. Inexplicable negative net size change
  2. Help upload pictures - Masters Environmental Management student!!
  3. Referencing problem
  4. Clueless user handling
  5. Watchlist dots
  6. advertising or inappropriate external links
  7. The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC)
  8. Request name change to article 'P.J. Polyp'
  9. interwiki link for categories
  10. EPD eukaryotic promoter database
  11. Pirates of the Carribean 5
  12. HELP Request: Please help reinstate/improve article. Earlier edits have removed copyright violations in question. Continually blocked.
  13. Southbridge, MA
  14. Epinephrine went wrong
  15. Removing heading from page; creating link in heading

October 22 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 22

  1. Editor's Question
  2. all wrong
  3. Printing issues
  4. trouble logging into Wikipedia and commons
  5. "revision history statistics" link
  6. Avenel, Victoria link addition
  7. Article assessment
  8. Changing Article Name
  9. Questions
  10. Title difference of opinion
  11. Mail problems?
  12. Changing interface language for all Wikipedia language versions
  13. Book Creator....

October 23 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 23

  1. Checks
  2. Fault Mitigation
  3. Owning copyright of external text used in Wikipedia article
  4. 1911 ACP pistol
  5. Only joined today, please forgive if this is wrong place to post...I searched for ages
  6. locked pages which shouldn't be locked
  7. .webm format issues

October 24 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 24

  1. Stuck Over an Article
  2. References
  3. How to edit Title for Saved & unpublished article page
  4. Why was my article deleted?
  5. Paid editing
  6. Weird question about extracting IPs from edit summary search
  7. Cannot edit a move-locked page
  8. Changes to my wikipedia
  9. image help request
  10. Change username?
  11. Could someone please move a page?
  12. In the course of a recent move
  13. Paola Bacchetta
  14. Book Creator issues

October 25 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 25

  1. How to replace an erroneous image?
  2. Staff
  3. my information has been deleted
  4. Pending changes on?
  5. Paraphrasing articles in the media
  6. drop down menu
  7. Formatting
  8. Heading background color on sortable tables

October 26 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 26

  1. Check an edit please?
  2. Template error
  3. Information Change
  4. Tundra Nomadics
  5. Important information
  6. Someone here to help?
  7. Preventing education by Wikipedia
  8. i want to update the article but....
  9. Edit title ?
  10. Which which?
  11. Anyone with free access to the New York Times online?
  12. Can good articles be deleted?
  13. Help with article
  14. I want to request a page
  15. Requesting advice on Politecnico di Studi Aziendali
  16. How can I change my e-mail address?

October 27 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 27

  1. Adding sources
  2. which is re-usable for another mission: Rockets, Space-Craft or Space Flight?
  3. Margarine - an observation
  4. Edit request at the Gamergate controversy page
  5. Problem with way biography is ordering itself by first not surname in categories
  6. portal de internet
  7. Soyuz (spacecraft) wikipedia article is wrong please modify it....
  8. revision history statistics
  9. Request edit
  10. Questions about searching.
  11. Leon Johnson
  12. Peer reviews and when to act on them
  13. obscenity in Francis Crick bio
  14. Moscow

October 28 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 28

  1. Print/export:Create a book features ...
  2. Athletes
  3. Witches Bru page by Roger Gary
  4. Article submission
  5. drop down menus
  6. Quarterly journal date format
  7. Is there a tool to send RFC to eds who contributed to discussions that are now archived?
  8. AFRICAN JEWISH HALAL
  9. Citing patents by inventor with duplicate name
  10. Template Help - Global Way of Centering Group Titles - or not?
  11. Mobile Search Field Won't Accept Input
  12. Categories
  13. Nodalotaluk
  14. How about actual balance in commentary -- not just progressive political views as the norm
  15. Timeline
  16. Developing a page

October 29 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 29

  1. Adding new sites for our displays to be found
  2. Created an article
  3. The Daily Star article on "Stone Taking Over Farmlands”
  4. HOW TO EDIT AN ARTICLE TITLE
  5. Difficult editor
  6. Redirects with no incoming links
  7. Gregory Lewis
  8. Pyrex
  9. How do I get a page created?
  10. Gay Dad (Band) Transmission Album (2001) Track Listing

October 30 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 30

  1. Subject: Fwd: Armenian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  2. Cambell Kenneford Wikipedia Page
  3. Unusual Username
  4. Shared universe
  5. Infoboxes
  6. External Links Removed because they seemed inappropriate.

October 31 edit

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 October 31

  1. Assistance needed!
  2. Template bug?
  3. Declined
  4. Linking to a Polish language page
  5. editing in delhi assembly election data
  6. Infobox coordinates broken
  7. The article about GamerGate is a blatant attack on GamerGate supporters
  8. My reference section isn't working!
  9. annie claus is coming to rown
  10. sub-headings
  11. Help from another experienced editor?
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