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August 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 1

  1. Creating Wikipedia pages for a client
  2. What is this symbol?
  3. Help me writing Link
  4. twitter
  5. I want to add my name as an Syrian oil painter
  6. Vandalism in search results
  7. Video file
  8. first edit
  9. WIKI help in creating a new WIKI Page
  10. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  11. Could it be that the cancer is in remission?
  12. Deleted page/article
  13. Advice about possible COI editing on Berkeley College
  14. Publishing article
  15. What to do about the racism and western centric biases I face here?

August 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 2

  1. Really Red
  2. The Indian-flag-designed-by-a-hyderabadi-woman ( Suraiya Badruddin Tayyabji)
  3. Wrong picture
  4. Loren Gray
  5. Maintenance categories
  6. Setting up a Wikipedia page for Freshworks/Freshdesk
  7. Deletion
  8. Editing the Two Ton Baker article

August 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 3

  1. Concerning about Buddha Birth Place.
  2. Template Infobox artist
  3. Copyright
  4. Issue with article http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Datta_Meghe_College_of_Engineering
  5. Potentially (ongoing) compromised account
  6. Is it possible to transfer contributions from one account to another?
  7. Roth Capital Partners Wikipedia page has been vandalized.
  8. NCAA Division 1 basketball most overtimes
  9. List of 2018 Albums
  10. Bot that reverts certain content additions

August 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 4

  1. Roth Capital Partners, capitalisation
  2. Problem with WP:ERRORS
  3. Use of "(radio series)" in titles
  4. Bizarre stuff at Sever's disease
  5. There should be a disambiguation page for Slender Man and/or Slenderman.
  6. Gary The Goat
  7. Notifying all other editions of Wikipedia at once
  8. Why can't new users create new articles?

August 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 5

  1. How to find my book in Wikipedia
  2. DOUBLE JEOPARDY
  3. Not happy with the Anti-conservative wiki posts
  4. 2019 MLB All-Star Logo
  5. Autoconfirmed
  6. Mahatama gandhi....
  7. I wish to quit editing. How to do it? ---
  8. Search by infobox parameter?
  9. Help with reflinks
  10. John Lear
  11. Daily Counter

August 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 6

  1. Where are wikidata links recorded?
  2. Minor edits
  3. Where can I see the deleted pages?
  4. COI and other issues
  5. Template map size
  6. Help changing page name.
  7. Coord template within Location map template does not work properly
  8. User talk:Carriearchdale
  9. 2018 MLB Postseason Logos
  10. How do I declare an alternative account to the Arbitration Committee?
  11. foreign language quote, indented?
  12. Can one add a translation= at the quote template?
  13. Finding an image

August 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 7

  1. Wikidata alerts
  2. Add more relevant information to page
  3. Delete Irrelevant Sections from a Page
  4. How to create a company business page ?
  5. How to put together an article about a non-profit not already on Wikipedia
  6. Jimmy Brown ex Footballer
  7. Removed
  8. New User - New Edits

August 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 8

  1. Reverting edits by a single user across multiple pages
  2. How to create a new item?
  3. How long could a item be published after edtied?
  4. How to delete an useless information?
  5. Embedding OSM map
  6. Replacing an erroneous image
  7. Article content does not belong here
  8. When the address to my father's page is copied and pasted it will NOT display and insteads redirects to a "article not found" when the page is actually there.

August 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 9

  1. Adding external links to an article from a PDF file located on my computer
  2. Jay Panchamiya- The Pianist
  3. Infinix headquater
  4. Wikipedia's wordmark typeface
  5. Relatively new and trying to edit a photo
  6. Catalan or Spanish
  7. delete my pages http://id.wiki.x.io/wiki/SMK_Karya_Guna_2_Bekasi
  8. Update logo and other text on a Private School's page
  9. Blue link without an article
  10. Wikidata and duplicate display of geophysical coordinates
  11. Posting a Picture
  12. Bonnie and Clyde problem

August 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 10

  1. How to locate the record of question?
  2. The quantity limitation of question asked everday?
  3. The decades articles 2000s, 1990s and others
  4. Iván Duque Marquez
  5. Requesting sources
  6. Why doesnt Wikipedia sue other companies that use similar content and software
  7. Talk page archive
  8. Add image to default portal link icon
  9. firing for nothing at all
  10. 2018-19 NBA season

August 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 11

  1. Automatic numbering rows on a table?
  2. How long 'til page is published?
  3. How long til approved?
  4. Section headings
  5. My article has been rejected because it is about multiple potteries.

August 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 12

  1. Minor redirect clean-up - best process if any?
  2. Stop accidental rollbacks
  3. Delta_IV_Heavy#Upcoming_launches
  4. What do with obvious non-declared COI editing that abides by discussion rules??
  5. Assessing consensus

August 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 13

  1. Adding a Youtube video as a reference.
  2. How to reedit item after published?
  3. Is there any other language could be used when edting an item?
  4. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  5. Using some old photos taken in Japan via 1979
  6. 2018-19 United states tv Schedule
  7. What's the deal with the user right headers?
  8. How to edit references?

August 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 14

  1. notwithstanding ( not comparable)
  2. Thomas Davis (priest)
  3. Categorisation for people trying multiple times
  4. FRSLABS DRAFT APPROVAL
  5. Help !
  6. Column formatting
  7. How long does it usually take to process a copyright violation on English Wikipedia?
  8. Gray box at top of history at International Congress of Mathematicians
  9. Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39
  10. Responding to comments
  11. Ref date consistency in talk page
  12. Module mistake
  13. Some articles with page images do not show with page images icons in Special:Nearby lists
  14. Changing photograph
  15. FA suggestions??
  16. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

August 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 15

  1. Margery Wentworth
  2. Most livable cities in the world 2018
  3. Using sfn to distinguish between books by the same authors published in the same year
  4. What happened to Wikipedia's partnership with HighBeam?
  5. Subj's; Nicholas II, and U.S.S.R.
  6. Removing templates message on the top of the Winnipeg Table Hockey League (WTHL) page
  7. Addis Ababa Zoo Park Center
  8. SLANDER http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/InfoWars
  9. Trying to add an image to a Wiki page after uploading it through Commons
  10. What exactly does it mean if a template is "deprecated"?
  11. Linking to an article based on its Wikidata id

August 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 16

  1. procedure to improve an already-deleted page
  2. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  3. A copy of Salvation Testment
  4. Bad interlanguage links (wikidata?)
  5. delete a page
  6. Change language in infobox
  7. Published author with a Wikipedia page
  8. ToC
  9. Matthew Falder
  10. Professor Correct Spelling
  11. ASCII Art strangeness
  12. Moving fair-use images from Commons
  13. microcytosis
  14. Changing an article header
  15. Mobile Formating
  16. Footnote linking to wrong reference

August 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 17

  1. JSTOR Access
  2. KHAWAJA REAZUDDIN ATASH
  3. Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham
  4. amitor
  5. Transwiki notification
  6. Bravissimo company page
  7. Does nationality need to be verified?
  8. Dragon boat
  9. the WIKI Page: Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  10. Publishing
  11. Uploading a Page on Wikipedia

August 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 18

  1. Imran Khan
  2. Scam external link
  3. Kinderdijk
  4. Problem with content of history of "Bhumihar" topic of Wikipedia
  5. Problem with Peruvian location maps and Zip files

August 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 19

  1. Another map problem
  2. LT Bobby Ross
  3. AC/DC CORRECTIONS
  4. Adding hidden text to a citation
  5. Giving accounts to other people
  6. Retirement
  7. How to create preview text for Wikipedia searches
  8. HARD COPY REFERENCES
  9. The Three-Revert Rule

August 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 20

  1. How to correctly do a template
  2. ez wider
  3. Categories
  4. Infobox issues
  5. John from Idegon
  6. Hello!
  7. Ensuring up to date research/references for an article for a company
  8. Someone keeps reposting inaccurate information about me
  9. List of 2018 albums
  10. RECUPERATE ACCOUNT
  11. Glen Affric
  12. Spider-Man in film

August 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 21

  1. I just fullfilled one :Category:Wikipedia requested images, adding one image to Bragança Paulista. How do I remove this article from the list?
  2. How to Correct Article Subtitle (as it appears on mobile, Wikipedia Beta app)
  3. Cliffe Castle Museum
  4. Notability questions
  5. help
  6. Why can't create Topic Miss Grand International
  7. Is transclusion as wrapped in <code><nowiki></nowiki></code> possible?
  8. Jenny Thomann-Koller
  9. Re: New Page Submission
  10. George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood

August 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 22

  1. Redirect Issue
  2. I need to change the page name
  3. To block my username
  4. how to get your wikipedia page accepted
  5. Help for chinese writing
  6. Reminders to self?
  7. Página pessoal
  8. Lyrics
  9. User Review2018 vandalism
  10. How do I uncreate an article
  11. Question about adding a business profile listing

August 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 23

  1. Adding a new category?
  2. The true origin of Romanian people -the edited article is incomplete How do I make additions ? Q2:The Primary andf Secondary Sources
  3. Autoconfirmed, yet not?
  4. Problems editing table
  5. Citation bot
  6. An addage to Wikipedia's Howard University graduate alumni notables
  7. Following up on a page I created
  8. Zaandijk
  9. Lynyrd Skynyrd Current Band Members
  10. Editing problem
  11. missing article and deletion log

August 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 24

  1. Is my submission 'important' enough for a wiki?
  2. Sustainable Development Goals of 2030
  3. Azerbaijani language
  4. Missing article
  5. How to find all templates with specific string as part of parameter?

August 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 25

  1. William Nassau Molesworth
  2. John Mogg (British Army officer)
  3. Lists with show / hide tables -- edit ?s
  4. How to search for HTML coding?
  5. NETV
  6. Tried to create account
  7. How to edit my article's title and opening paragraphs
  8. Why has the archiving here stopped?
  9. A little guide on analysing Wikipedia text locally
  10. I hate table markup
  11. Writing a wiki about a public figure

August 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 26

  1. John Mogg (British Army officer)
  2. Help with "noindex" tag for article M. H. Krishna
  3. Julie Bishop MP (Australian politician)
  4. Bot for en.wikipedia
  5. About my watchlist
  6. New page creation for Vijay Babu Sreedharan - edit 1
  7. reference numbers
  8. Question
  9. Does this website work for anyone?

August 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 27

  1. A lot of source website about "Miss Grand International" but can't create in wikipedia page (always was report by filipino)
  2. Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
  3. Analyse the lyrics
  4. Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
  5. Why do ants avoid salt? How does salt affect ants?
  6. Looking for Redlinks that meet a regex.
  7. Infobox colour change
  8. Writing about ourself
  9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  10. How to deal with an obvious sock with an unknown master
  11. any lawyers here on copyright-themes?
  12. Odinic Rite
  13. Large Edits to Page
  14. Rollback Rights
  15. question about region label for Template:Coord
  16. Helping a disabled user

August 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 28

  1. grosse pointe, city of
  2. Talk page of redirect
  3. Contributing
  4. My page was deleted?
  5. how do I rectify the year of birth which is incorrectly shown as 1919. Actual year of birth was 1918, and the musical fraternity in Mumbai has just celebrated Jaidevji's 100th Birth Anniversary
  6. Where to request local IP block exemption
  7. How to edit Special:Statistics
  8. Copyright violations of tables?
  9. List of 2018 albums

August 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 29

  1. Usage of Blockquotes in the article text and citations
  2. Lord mayor
  3. Citing proof to substantiate criticism of article about a business enterprise
  4. My article got deleted
  5. Lord mayor
  6. Don't understand why you keep deleting the definition I am submitting
  7. Two talkpages
  8. Vertical galleries
  9. Question about Wikipedia reuse
  10. Editing my company's page
  11. Query to users of AWB or scripts
  12. donation
  13. Content Reversion
  14. Easy creation of an AfD discussion
  15. help with links
  16. Article history dragged along
  17. Eric Carr (Boxer)
  18. How to create/translate an official wikipedia page from an other language?
  19. Coming out of retirement in Wikipedia
  20. Name Correction Edits
  21. Blocked account

August 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 30

  1. What are the advantages of creating an account?
  2. Bullock family
  3. Template
  4. Help:Please help with syntax on my ref name=JDavidB (FOLLOWUP)
  5. Mongol religion
  6. Pageview analysis - country information?
  7. Add a name to a page
  8. James Averdieck
  9. Couple of questions over
  10. Editor disputes on Talk:South African farm attacks
  11. Help with an edit that keeps being deleted after I submit it

August 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 August 31

  1. languages that I want to use
  2. Hovering pop-ups
  3. Help needed from someone who understands Korean
  4. Edit needs to be "burned"
  5. Required status column for Telaga caste. Mark as Forward caste
  6. Automatic row numbering?
  7. Poland
  8. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Dafer_Sahib#External_links
  9. What is difference between Teahouse and Help desk?
  10. Help repairing text of the website.
  11. Condensing multiple citations
  12. Nested infobox templates
  13. JOE (R&B Singer)
  14. adding an article
  15. Downloading and using images from Wikipedia
  16. No December 2018 Albums
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