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August 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 1

  1. Curiousness over at Playstation (console)
  2. Article protection
  3. VAT rules
  4. deletion query
  5. Did You Know...
  6. Need list of comparison chart pages
  7. submission
  8. Trying to improve article so that tags (needs citations) and (reads like a news release) can be removed
  9. Assistance needed to fix incorrect information in Accenture article
  10. long web address
  11. creating
  12. pumpkin seeds

August 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 2

  1. Pop Up Ads
  2. font size
  3. franchise
  4. My profile
  5. Error on front page again
  6. How to add references and upload documents
  7. InfoBox
  8. LABRYS
  9. Linking within the same page
  10. DENNIES KAG FUTURE POPSTAR
  11. Error message: Database Error: User 'daniel_www' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' r
  12. complaint
  13. Hoverflies
  14. Unified login doesn't log me into French Wikipedia?
  15. Length of a template parameter?
  16. Deaths in 2013

August 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 3

  1. Name
  2. Infobox Non-profit
  3. Please change biography information for Fiona Forbes
  4. Correct format for reference
  5. Jat
  6. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  7. list of people from Sacramento, CA
  8. :File:Johnny Angel Wendell LA, CA Oct. 2012.jpg
  9. How to add a translation of an article in a different language
  10. Need support posting about a new fitness concept

August 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 4

  1. Correcting article in mainspace commencing "User:"
  2. References not saving??
  3. change of name
  4. BinfordCarlo/InspectRealEstate
  5. User name problems
  6. Getting back to my draft in order to edit it
  7. Cheating / Fraud by Chinese Companies.
  8. Article tagging
  9. anketell moutray read page
  10. Name change
  11. Orphan articles
  12. Tunbridge Wells

August 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 5

  1. Australian National Botanic Gardens opening hours
  2. Removal of external references
  3. After school page Neo Ttaemun-e Name change to fit?
  4. Item with no article on a disambiguation page
  5. Albert Kitson
  6. virtual librarians
  7. Telugu
  8. Number of new articles created
  9. New Article
  10. Company Information Outdated
  11. Permanent Deletion
  12. Removing {{user sandbox}} from top of page
  13. Cite Error
  14. Why
  15. User name
  16. Transfer my account
  17. How To Update the picture on our page
  18. Sandbox help
  19. What is a U. S. Marine Brigade by Sam Savage

August 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 6

  1. Boulder City High School
  2. NOR/CITE/MOS in the context of external links - suggestions of best page to post this question at?
  3. Wrong Information provided by editor
  4. How to make an article?
  5. Email erasure
  6. Template question
  7. difficulty posting to Deletion Review
  8. Link to open in a newly spawned tab or window?
  9. unable to remove irrelevant superman statement through editor
  10. Tracking changes
  11. How do I remove "This biographical article needs additional citations for verification." banner?

August 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 7

  1. Trying to update information on agency page
  2. DOTI BOGATAN KINGDOM, NEPAL>
  3. Englebert Humperdink Typo
  4. Porn from external link site
  5. Problems to add a reference.
  6. junior leader regiments,British Army.
  7. Godfrey Bloom's recent statement
  8. Why is Sound Synthesis redirected?
  9. Transclusion using <onlyinclude>
  10. Articles created
  11. Fake article
  12. Foklarama
  13. Finding articles linking to another
  14. Shanar/ chanar Caste redirects to Nadar Caste - Wikipedia please create separate Link (Wrong Information copied and posted from other websites)
  15. Problem with wysiwyg redactor
  16. What is this code?
  17. Use of Magic Words or Other Options to Generate Username
  18. Sessionville War at is reported to be held Abeville, SC
  19. footnotes- moving the long ones to the section end
  20. Dashboard
  21. Template loop warnings
  22. How do you add new people?

August 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 8

  1. Link Rot Warning: Should I remove it?
  2. Adding a box with biographical summary
  3. Ontario Genealogical Society
  4. Shah Jahan
  5. MOTROC FLORIN
  6. SEVENTEEN (band)
  7. How to delete specific revision logs from a Wikipedia page ?
  8. Paul thirwell
  9. M.phil approval
  10. how do I close down my page for good?
  11. unsigned and unclear message
  12. Maged khoury
  13. Bury Jack
  14. How long till new listing is posted?
  15. my search
  16. The England cricket team page

August 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 9

  1. Confused about RS , FRINGE and NPOV
  2. Mobile communication products
  3. Change of spelling of 'Yeung Kui-wan' to 'Yeung Ku-wan'
  4. HasteurBot
  5. share article on facebook
  6. Pictures go down
  7. blocking an IP user
  8. How to make a b c d e f g h from same book source
  9. Getting Started
  10. Questions from a beginner
  11. ready to submit
  12. Gardiner Lyceum
  13. Pointing to test on another page.
  14. Editing a page
  15. Irish History
  16. New article

August 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 10

  1. TFD notice not displaying
  2. list of reliable sources in Chinese media?
  3. A question
  4. Moving Article
  5. Sharing a back link with Wikipedia
  6. Location of Oakleigh Grammar
  7. Key files
  8. Edits Required
  9. Change Username
  10. Deleted pages
  11. fund raising
  12. wrong data reported in wikipedia by one particular site
  13. tyrone hayes
  14. Cleanup help needed
  15. Friday pageview stats
  16. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Natalina_Maggio -- seeking approval

August 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 11

  1. Trouble creating an account
  2. font size
  3. Adding articles on a book I have written
  4. Editing
  5. parabola.
  6. My technical mistake about a new page review
  7. How do you use the same webpage as a source more than once?
  8. Wrong Information Provided
  9. A HotCat-like tool for stub sorting?
  10. Broadchurch
  11. wiki icon
  12. Mundgod Information And helfline
  13. ADD TO WIKI

August 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 12

  1. New article with same title as existing article
  2. Total Customer Value Management, Neutrality of the article is disputed
  3. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Common diseases and their treatment
  4. This box thing
  5. Renaming URL in reference section when sourcing it
  6. Unable to edit title
  7. Discussion separated from its article
  8. Hi
  9. war office
  10. donate
  11. Copyright question
  12. References in french only
  13. wrong mayor on this page...

August 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 13

  1. Want to upload a picture to add to page. Standard account Can you upload for me?
  2. Can't change title!
  3. Citations and Verification disclaimer
  4. Wikipedia's responsibility to society
  5. Spell Check
  6. My article deleted from wikipedia
  7. Mobile page format
  8. Sources
  9. Importing a script to my */.js or */.css or whatevs
  10. Rule Broadcast Systems
  11. Determining first version equal to the current version.
  12. Ref: http://pl.wiki.x.io/wiki/Domena_magnetyczna
  13. Icon next to username
  14. Silly Page
  15. Speedy deletion of an article
  16. Yamaguchi arson and murders
  17. Response to racist edits
  18. How to show which page is which when using a footnote more than once?
  19. Armenian genocide
  20. created a new page directly from the person I wrote it about, how do I show proof
  21. Sun Plus
  22. Rect and Poly
  23. Page was deleted

August 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 14

  1. Landing gear problems
  2. Ref tag question
  3. Deleted article - Sadat Institute of Higher Education
  4. Christopher Miles (Director) page
  5. Adding "Authority control"
  6. Humanities
  7. tabs help
  8. template on my article says i dont have reliable sources
  9. Demande de publication
  10. temporarily shut down page
  11. ClueBot edit didn't stick

August 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 15

  1. How to create a square of 4 images
  2. Imperial Sugar Company
  3. Convert weights to stone?
  4. Book article titles
  5. Many similar user names
  6. Biographical article by spouse?
  7. Citation template markup format
  8. dis lock
  9. Updating company logo with new version? I am stuck!
  10. Conflict of Interest, Company Article
  11. I found an incorrect information in your website....
  12. St. Angelo Airport Enniskillen Co- Fermanagh
  13. Neon (Jay Sean Album)
  14. IFEQ
  15. Religion by...
  16. Donation question
  17. What does (current) mean when you go into your contributions?
  18. Making my article 'exist.'
  19. Editing "Microcontroller" but getting undefined reference.. that exist and is triple checked
  20. Recreating a page
  21. Major General David Common Chief USMTM has wrong information

August 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 16

  1. Man, I'm so lost!
  2. Phantom section on a page
  3. My page was deleted in error!
  4. Adding the Definition of a Word
  5. I have copies of the salesman Urban (Oban)
  6. language transfer
  7. What's the deal with 66.208.111.99?
  8. Floating table below infobox
  9. Citing a marriage certificate
  10. Email
  11. eric robert goulden
  12. Adding a redirect.
  13. WikiGroup
  14. Why has this appeared in my infobox?
  15. posting on facebook
  16. Other users' sandboxes
  17. Afd August 13

August 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 17

  1. Baba Rampuri article
  2. Multiple Pages on Subject at obscure level
  3. svg file
  4. To browse main page of particular date in past.
  5. WikiArcheology
  6. Can't convert to global user account
  7. water
  8. Biograph page
  9. What happened to HotCats?
  10. eric owens
  11. Monthly pageview stats

August 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 18

  1. Advanced Search
  2. Mistake in the protected article: Anders Celsius
  3. changes to serena williams page
  4. WP:DEFINING
  5. Sandbox in personal toolbar area.
  6. Whitworth University article
  7. Kalina de Moura's page
  8. Teton Valley Article
  9. Fake Jimbo Wales book.
  10. Paranoia Doesn't Help
  11. Reporting a technical issue
  12. ref and bio

August 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 19

  1. How do you make columns?
  2. How do you the amount of edit reverts are in my account
  3. Rescuing information and sources from a page that may be deleted
  4. History of 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam
  5. Use of a user page
  6. Need help in image replacement
  7. hi i am not understanding
  8. referencing problems
  9. How to make my orphan article become not orphan?
  10. Hotcat n/a ?
  11. Looking for an erased phrase in Timeline of World War II (1941)
  12. Wrong Information
  13. How to tackle a conflict of interest?
  14. Setting up page.
  15. Need new logo on 'UAS Laboratories' page
  16. Interlink
  17. Account update
  18. Ashmore Group logo
  19. Need help with issues on an article
  20. John grant (footballer)
  21. Rescuing article history of a page that's being reused
  22. Is it copyright to copy word by word text from a source such as a book?
  23. Latina
  24. How to add icons to portals
  25. Tracing names
  26. A photo with NO copyright problems has been removed; please help
  27. Uploading a photograph
  28. How to publish an article?

August 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 20

  1. Still not added
  2. James Lafferty
  3. How do I remove my wikipedia account?
  4. "USER:SA Brit/sandbox"
  5. UPDATING AN ARTICLE ON ME
  6. Signature
  7. Image correction on the article
  8. How Do I Re-submit an article after making requested changes?
  9. City State link question
  10. Missing article history?
  11. Donating photos
  12. Rock Paper Photo Edit
  13. References
  14. CURRENT CONGRESS:
  15. Footnotes
  16. Help to avoid deletion: Articles for Creation space
  17. Chemophobia page
  18. OTRS pending
  19. Help with article
  20. Login Problem
  21. Updating IMS Health entry
  22. Encyclopedic Bias of Some Admins

August 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 21

  1. Assistance with changing name of page on Wikipedia?
  2. Copying article to new correct official titled article
  3. Copied photos?
  4. re article 'Jensen's Swamp' submitted in January 2013.
  5. How is an article assessed?
  6. I need to create a genuine page regarding the owner of company.
  7. Page declined, what to do now?
  8. World Firefighters Games
  9. can i connect my any mobile with directly to pen drive
  10. Citation popup window failing
  11. Rejection and Submission
  12. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ekin Tunçay Turan
  13. Pronunciation
  14. improve/deletion warning
  15. I didn't realize wikipedia is a political site
  16. Redirect requests
  17. Assistance with article
  18. Wikipedia article "Lewis Lockwood"
  19. Assistance with article
  20. use of 'fair use' information when writing a ancestry history book
  21. Creating reference section on talk page
  22. Citing new media sources
  23. location on map in infobox

August 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 22

  1. Article text missing when attempting to edit
  2. Regarding my personal profile page title(URL address)
  3. Changing the title of the page
  4. Golia
  5. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Komrads FC
  6. lordquest page
  7. Al Dobmeyer
  8. War in the Vendée
  9. The article was deleted before i managed to edit it and add more essential information. Is it possible to re-delete it?
  10. Help
  11. Lost password is the tip of the iceberg
  12. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dino Mikanović and Dino Mikanović
  13. article
  14. Faribault, Minnesota
  15. about gnats
  16. Unexplained image removal

August 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 23

  1. Meridian Energy page is out of date
  2. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Król julian
  3. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Korah Babu Varghese
  4. Calculation Error suspected on page http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Definite_integral
  5. Bio on Indian Actor like Harish Patel
  6. Obvious error that Wikipedia is blocking me from fixing
  7. Citing
  8. big bad beetle borgs
  9. Christopher Bullock
  10. Difference between inputting fact, citation needed or cn?
  11. Template:Convinfobox
  12. Melanie Castleman
  13. Douglas Gansler
  14. influences/influenced movie directors
  15. Adding a photo

August 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 24

  1. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Logos
  2. Need Assistance
  3. The naming of many tribes who are working in the tea industry of Assam.
  4. Thank You Wikipedia Donors
  5. Not sure where to ask for Header Hierarchy Questions
  6. Dab solver
  7. Copied personal Bio on wiki. It says it may be copied from another website.
  8. Playing short foreign language recordings on Wiki
  9. Orthodox Christian Church
  10. What happens if the talkpage consensus is wrong?
  11. Kissing Shakespeare

August 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 25

  1. About logged data for Checkuser over 3 months
  2. Overediting?
  3. scams
  4. Changing user name
  5. usage of the sentence
  6. Drop down
  7. Protecting an Article
  8. Article on Poliomyelitis
  9. Wikipedia posting for Fred Barney Taylor
  10. Is a request for secondary sources appropriate?
  11. On June 6, 2014, is the 1944 of the Invasion
  12. Talk page for search drop down box
  13. Citing globes
  14. Correction to my earlier post
  15. Long tables, floating first row
  16. Richard Cebra

August 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 26

  1. Richard Cebra
  2. Wrong Person Credited
  3. Unnecessary CAPTCHA
  4. Kelly Blackwell
  5. Jacksonville Maritime Heritage Center Jacksonville FL
  6. Category:Foo vs. Category:Foo|Bar
  7. Reflist Template
  8. Review of image for copyright eligibility?
  9. Law in india will help me?
  10. Remove the link between a name and a page
  11. Help finding "Super Mom"
  12. Offensive material?
  13. University fees
  14. restoring the ubercart article because it is notable, commonly used in drupal
  15. Help to check and finish the creation of a new template
  16. Pictures
  17. How to make it appear on the main page.
  18. Deleted Article

August 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 27

  1. Template parameter doesn't work correctly
  2. How do I go about adding information and creating a new page for a new person?
  3. History of unspecified village
  4. Replace Obsolete Image
  5. Help Needed - Page Flagged
  6. RE: missing info on page relating to meaning of word/name 'Kala'
  7. Video template
  8. Lists being broken into individual articles for no reason
  9. Legal rights
  10. How insert some information about my organiation ( Agnivesh World Foundation Society )
  11. Fake information
  12. Putting myself in Wikipedia
  13. Roman Legion → Pay
  14. Adding Images and linking
  15. Looking for help with Accenture article
  16. BLis
  17. Replace Obsolete Image 2
  18. Withdrawing a WikiProject proposal
  19. Writing and saving

August 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 28

  1. Username
  2. M.E. Hart Entry
  3. Washington Circle
  4. Wrong Information uploaded in OQYANA page
  5. International Language Programs ILP
  6. El artículo referente a Gaitè Parisienne, en la Wikipedia.
  7. please make article on bradley manning less confusing for readers
  8. Request for comment: Keeley Hazell biography being linked to pornography portal.
  9. Greenfield Community School Edits
  10. Florian Froehlich
  11. Manning
  12. 2nd Infantry Regiment
  13. Web site update
  14. Lost track of new page I created!
  15. Nicky Slim Ting Walker
  16. new article not published?
  17. Requests for changes to Fully Protected Talk pages?
  18. Noteable person where secondary sources are not available in digital form
  19. English and Spanish
  20. Co-Writer Needed!
  21. How do I add myself to a wikiproject?
  22. Table width of personal userspace table

August 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 29

  1. Move to Commons
  2. Always use secure connection - checked off by default now?
  3. Deleting an account
  4. abhijeet bhatcharya
  5. V. Revd Alan Warren
  6. Tables
  7. Quality on Wikipedia is slowly deteriorating
  8. Central Login?
  9. please check page for american bison
  10. Captcha required
  11. 'Insert' menu, personalisation
  12. Résumés
  13. Changing company logos that are outdatined and updating informaition
  14. Updating a company logo
  15. Username and/or password is invalid, which it is not
  16. Pancreatic cancer
  17. Please add my name to the "Notable Residents" list. Catherine Gaffigan Actress, Acting Teacher, Author
  18. On little viewed articles
  19. Question about creating a song article
  20. Harvnb
  21. Login
  22. This page is a new unreviewed article...
  23. Article List??

August 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 30

  1. Redirect literature question
  2. Redirects and Wikipedia search
  3. Logo different on PC vs Smartphone
  4. Printing the article MATRIX CALCULUS on PDF
  5. Edit War
  6. Book creator
  7. History merge requests
  8. Article Stubs
  9. Draft article help request
  10. Format for citations
  11. I need to know what my editing options are
  12. User name on another Wikimedia area
  13. Issue with using CE rather than AD in establishing a time period
  14. when can i write something about my efforts ?

August 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 August 31

  1. boron fuels (Zip Fuels or HEF High Energy Fuels)
  2. The nuances of edit warring
  3. Page Hemu: dispute on the fact if Hemu was a Brahmin or Vaishya by birth
  4. Descartes and his findings.
  5. Protect my article
  6. Number alignment and format in table cells
  7. where is my Company ?
  8. Ted Bundy's article
  9. How do I get out ?
  10. Template question
  11. Redirect from feodary
  12. Cancellation of account
  13. Van Nuys
  14. EPUB book downloads
  15. Horizontal lines (blocked users)
  16. A numbered list that can include more than 1 count in one line