Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2017
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January 1
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- Location map error
- why is there no Wikipedia: #Edit2016
- Mistake made on article;
- Edit dispute re: Carrie Fisher & Sarah Lawrence College
- William Christopher passed away on December 31,2016
- Need help understanding the comments editors are providing
- How long it takes for Google indexing
- What to do when no consensus is achieved?
January 2
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- New draft article replacing old draft
- Formatting help
- PG&E Hinkley
- Beatport
- how to get latest update on this encyclopedia project and the wikimedia project as a whole?
- Fleeting notice?
- Section tagging with Twinkle
- Transferring a Radio Station's Logo (I'll Try This Again)
- Cher is broken
- I need help
- List of compositions by César Franck
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
- Steve Vaillancourt
- Dueling notabilities
January 3
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- Afghan names
- Help
- Editing a page
- Referencing music charts
- Access
- Article name Vs real name Vs referred to in article as...
- Electrostatic discharge
- Clean slate
- 2017 in music
- Picture sources not loaded on the internet
- Poor teacher needs help
January 4
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- Please help, our draft has been deleted, but the reason why i did not work on it recently is that i got cancer
- Exclude all subpages from search
- Permanent link?
- Inaccuracies
- "New" editors with suspiciously advanced knowledge of Wikipedia
- Is this file properly published under OGL?
- ISBN
- Deletion of a page
- Why does my page show Wikipedia before title?
- Bot to detect spam pages?
- Changing "Other Uses" Text
- Canada+province of Manitoba+Queen's Printer
- Wikipedia citation format (WCF) bibliographic database project
- I need someone at Wikipedia to help me restore a page that has been taken down
- :Draft:Pickspace
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
- Hier
January 5
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- page warning
- Creating a draft article
- How do I delete a wikipedia draft page that I created?
- Brigham Young two edits I placed yesterday ??
- how to respond to talk box?
- getting a start. articles I can write
- Can I submit an article
- English vs. British
- Best way to respond to an archived thread?
- Verbs
January 6
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- intrigation
- Can I add reference of the site while editing articles
- commercial sites used as citations
- Deleted Page?
- help with removing an obsolete logo
- Reach the World page
- George Motola Wiki
- Checking on new article submission status
January 7
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- How to request moving 1 existing article back to 4 other articles that make it up
- Indian Boxer's Page removed from Draft
- Request to restore deleted talk page
- Question about image I want to upload and include in article
- Ukrainian Christmas
- Never mind, question retracted
- Problem in http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Star_Citizen&action=history
- Is this a COPYVIO?
- Search bar suggestion
- email removal
- Template Variables/Paramaters
- Draft Article for Jesse Ridgway prevented from being moved to Article
- Adding and image
January 8
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- Keyword search
- Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection
- Specific Linking (to Wikipedia Article Sections?)
- Vandal requires blocking
- Alt spelling/pronunciation
- Harassment at own talk page
- Football result
- August Walk
- gujarati cinema
- speedy delete issue
- Are autopatrolled articles in fact noindexed?
- Inconsistent template
January 9
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- Rod Fathers
- Joy Felizardo
- Merging
- Deletion of Page Fix?
- How to get details of old image long since cross-loaded to Commons
- Copyright
- ARTIST PAGE
- How to resolve DISPLAYTITLE conflicts
- "Edit failed!" on Wikipedia app
- Brendan Kelly (politician)
- Copyright on Film Poster
January 10
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- How to enable two factor authorization if not admin
- PROBLEM WITH AN ARTICLE I WROTE
- Trouble logging in on an iPad
- Editing page
- Skip Burkle
- organization page deleted
- How to use an email as Permission of Proof?
- Substitution in Grande Arche
- Do I need to do any more?
- Search engines
- I believe this image is usable on Wikipedia. Am I right?
- notice template for updating a section
- Image looks wrong
January 11
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- Two similar articles
- Do I need references if I am creating a page about myself?
- Could I have some help navigating? Comment
- Reference to Africans as Black African.
- quick end-of-page-link not working / malfucntional report
- Glen Burnie Mall
January 12
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- False and slanderous statement about me
- Forcing character-wrap
- Year end video from 2014
- Company page monitoring
- How to edit a table
- Multi-genre glitch in Comic Book infobox
- Titles of foreign untranslated works
- 2017 Mountian West football Conference season article
- Archiving pages with apostrophes
- getting some help, how?
- Cameo and the recent deletions and additions
- Complaint from Traffickfree
- :Emit (artist)
- Edit summary typo
January 13
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- Photo
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
- Delete a Wiki Page
- know.cf ???
- how to print Wikipedia material
- Ranked list guidance
- Adding Link to Google Scholar
- Color pollution on my Talk page from a well-wisher
- Edit for Poplar Bluff Mayoral List
- Spelling fix
- How do I improve the appearance on mobile?
- Someone keeps changing the Adam Haslett photo
January 14
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- Trying to customize my sig, not working
- How can I add a new page in English?
- External Link
- :Jonathan Capehart
- Article name
- failed edit
January 15
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- Maurizio Pellegrin
- How do I add images to my article?'
- Referencing errors on Marcellus High School
- Fictitious subjects
- Very confusing UX when trying to create a new account re: usernames
- Article Title Needs Changing
- Can't find the right place to post this question. Perhaps you can help out?
- Gold, Platinum and Diamond certification capitalization
- No include for related changes
January 16
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- Change Username
- Chinese text: traditional characters
- Corsican Wikipedia
- Wikipedia database schema
- Insurance
- An article that has different titles but have the same content
- No extra link
- Starting a new article.
- Fake Plot in a movie article
- Remove invalid reference? Or edit it?
January 17
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- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Is it a violation of WP:NOR or WP:CRYSTAL to include flags in a knockout diagram when the nationality but not the identity of the player is known?
- Redirect help
- Referencing errors on Summit Award
- What's the difference between Template:Nonspecific and Template:Full citation needed?
- Problem faced due to sharing of the same IP address
- copyright concerns
- Southend High School for Girls page
- An article from the Japanese language Wikipedia
- Campaignbox Collapse
- The mystery of the invisible DYK
- Huggle automated messages
- OMISSION FROM LIST OF (FORMER) 'BEDFORDSHIRE CRICKETERS'
- Paul Clark (Christian musician)
- Userbox question
January 18
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- Frederick Burkle's page
- 2013-2015 RMPBS Schedule from 5am to 11am, weekdays and 5am to 11am Weekends
- Promotional Content
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Barbara_Lerner_Spectre
- Validation error in "Check |url=value" for single letter domain names? Comment
- Confused about non-English article titles
- Change Page Name/Move Page
- COI issue | Being upfront
- :Jay Tornado Brooks
January 19
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- Sean T WIKIPEDIA Page
- Broken references
- How to report articles currently only being edited by POV-pushers?
- Abbreviating month names in date computing templates
- You Owe Me Three Wishes
- List of fake news websites
- Changing the text size in the source editor editing box?
- More than one President
- Darwin Chambers Company
- Pageviews Analysis tool is broken, again
- How to identify a name in the text of the article that is linked in Wikipedia
- Super Bowl LI
- Sentence deleted
- Removing "BLP sources" tag
- A page I created for Clay Road Baptist School in Houston was deleted
January 20
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- Sudden Basque user page
- Editing My New Draft Page Titled "Jean Jepson"
- Road Infobox Template help
- How do we say “we don’t know”?
- Uploading files from a networkdrive location.
- Deletion of Page Recovery
- Creature
- School badge
- Userpages
- Ole Paus (General)
- Even if I add references to my article, there is still a warning
- Dr. Sam Sheppard Article
- Shore Capital Partners Page
- Paragraph break not displaying
January 21
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- Bot flagging
- Huggle issue
- What is going on with 'Contributions'?
- making contact with another editor who has just undone my work
- Is there a problem with a search engine or bot, or am I experiencing a PEBCAK error?
- archiving
- Source Selection Guidance
January 22
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- Printing downloaded PDF
- How can I change the name of an article to make it more accurate?
- Template:Superimpose
- Link to particular edit
- same film
January 23
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- Apparently homework question
- Referencing errors on Huawei Honor 6
- Notability of Quicksand (Welsh band)
- Help with Uploading Photos
- Communicating with user who is repeatedly deleting content
- 206.211.35.4
- Reference problem
- Revise an inline citation for Signals Through The Flames
- Infoboxes in certain articles
- Red-linked talk page
- search by date
January 24
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- Referencing errors on Draft:Bret Shuford
- Günther Friedländer
- What links here clickthrough rankings
- Asking a cleanup bot to drop by on a page
- Little Red Hen
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
- Switching reviewer?
- Norman Brown
- Source??
- Biographies
- Kim Rogers page
- Brian Skerry
- Reinstate Spinutech page with edits
- How to edit in another language
- Erik Angra
- User:Meister und Margarita/Praha
January 25
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- Permanent Deletion?
- Content translation tool affecting Special:Contributions
- wikishovel undid all what I did in 2016 about [Jason Zhang]
- Change article name Coworth Park Hotel
- Eileen_Olszewski
- problem posting article
January 26
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- Are "Thanks" public or private?
- Editing search result subtitles
- Article Creation
- Regaining use of vanished account after leave of absence
- Contribs for IP range
- First African-American woman aviator
- Can you check my English in this article please! :(
- 'Personal life' section header policy
- when/how do substandard pages get deleted?
- 2017 NCAA Division I FBS season
- A contact for help with creating a page
- Page not displaying
January 27
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- Tom Joyce
- New and need guidance...
- Duchess of Cambridge
- Biography
- my edits no longer appear
- Deleted draft
- Problems with biography of Dave Carley
January 28
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- contents of wikiproject "articles by quality and importance" tables
- Language in interface messages
- The Absinthe Drinkers (film)
- Where do I find the discussion regarding the deletion of an article after it has been deleted?
- Diane Larsen-Freeman article
- Transliteration category
- Referencing errors on Minute to Win It (Philippine game show)
- Author's blog as a source
- COI question
- How to experiment with edit filters?
- Business Efficacy
January 29
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- Page heading spelling mistake
- Vile attack on President Trump at http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Fred_Trump (under list of children)
- Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
- Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
- Twinkle
- Edward Marjoribanks
- Mahira Khan
- Radio Tatras International
- stamp cancellation date
- Article: Lahore; Education
- a word with "crunchyroll" in it?
- My book is mentioned but not cited
- Article only using self-hosted references
January 30
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- Referencing errors on Squanto
- Make images larger?
- Referencing errors on Gurbani Judge
- 1932
- changing logo & editing content
- What is inappropriate about "pinging"?
- How to go from Draft to published?
- Problem with Yotsuya Kaidan page
- Comic Relief
- Problem with the Armenian language code?
- Magic link ISBNs
- Marking an article as not notable
- Wikipedia page for Thomas B. Sheridan
January 31
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- Judge Thomas Hardiman's religion?
- Signing Posts
- "sanctuary cities" in Canada
- GEMS
- Whoops
- editing
- Breaks in a row of icons
- FinDev / TransGaming Wrong Article
- Notification
- Category overlap tool
- Request Edit
- Moving article
- Laney Amplification Update Request
- adding photo
- Please review 176.179.191.228's contribs