Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/July 2018
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July 1
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- Discuss/propose a change in policy
- I got harassed by another editor...
- Can you add your own page?
- Is citing a software script allowed?
July 2
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- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- Help moving Second Phase Campaign (Korean War) to draft space
- Proof of winning a DIC claims from VA as significant other
- Name missspelled in URL
- Username
- Relationship status
- Pop ups
- Portal Bridge
- William A. Baum
July 3
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- DOI's not connecting?
- Tables
- Italian Wikipedia not accessible
- Dynamic map: Line with valid Wikidata-ID does not show up
- Program Design
- KAMRAN
- Christopher Scott (choreographer) was deleted
July 4
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- Conditional template markup
- Relating to a merge and blanking of page without merge consensus being arrived at: 2018 Kulgam encounter
- Chapel Allerton Hospital
- The Sinking City wikipedia page
- James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale
- Jean de Brabant
- Can't see the "more" dropdown
- Re: Citing same book repeatedly, but different pages.
July 5
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July 6
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- Fifth Harmony Edit
- How can I find a better website for getting professional wrestling tag teams
- I just signed up
- Tool to script changing or creating wikilinks?
- General Rules for Archive Settings
- removing articile
- Robert p Workman American artist 1961-
- help
July 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 7
- A draft is a copy of an existing article
- Need simple instructions for how to nominate an article for assessment
- Typing error in the Content of- List of largest California cities by population
- how to write a article in wikipedia?
- How to reference the same text more than once and have it appear in Notes section once
- Is it acceptable to upload a secondary logo to use at the bottom of a university infobox?
- Trying to upload a photo that I took myself.
- Colour of text on my user page
- The Elephant's Foot
July 8
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- Change edit to be under username
- Which pronoun to use?
- Publish
- List of American sculptors exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
- Creating a margin around an object or table
- Which citation parameters to use
- Unsourced content
July 9
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- Hacked Page
- Where do I post a request for a correction to a .png file from the Commons?
- Is there a policy or guideline for this?
- Shahid Afridi: reference to Javed Afridi as his cousin
- External wiki copyvio?
- Single out the State of MI
- Question regarding redirect pages.
- Group AfD
- Padding around a wikitable
- 2018-19 MAAC Basketball standings template
- edit
- Nominating a user's sandbox for speedy deletion (self promotion)
July 10
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- Request help with wikilink to a non-English article
- Book Creator Book Contents Disappeared
- Wiki links
- The first Superman
- How to create a disambiguation page?
- "Internal error" : unable to edit a page
- Help
July 11
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- Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Archiving my CSD log
- Definition of a Source
- Sorting a table
- Change of headline
- Creating a page for a company you work with/for
- Page deletion without reason
- Neerali
- Phishing Email Fruad Using Wikipedia
- Can I disable flyovers?
July 12
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- we need contact no
- File deletion
- More than one account
- Indicate telaga caste as forward caste in the right column/table
- γεια
- Reverting messages and how to add them?
- Relativity
- Do not understand the talk page and two other questions
- Gloria Lynne info on her nomination and induction to The Historymakers
- Gerard Casey artist
July 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 13
- Exclude subpages in search
- Kevin Stocker page has false info under post playing career
- Well this is embarrasing
- Edward IV of England
- Can I annotate my contributions list?
- Edward IV
- Changes won't save
- Where to put an abbreviation definition
- The three-revert rule
- Non-free image
- Question about page mover
- My Archive
- Wrong Museum Title
- hostile and misleading information placed in my biography
July 14
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- Deletion of several articles with hoax information
- Caption error in infobox military conflict with a location map
- why are the reviewers politically driven instead of fact driven?
- Incorrect Name
- Question: What is the purpose of article Talk Pages?
- Egypt national football team
- Help with formatting CC0
- Help with formatting CC0 (font demonstration)
- Where can I find information on assessment of Wikipedia moving to CC BY-SA. 4.0?
- Junior bridgeman
July 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 15
- Help with citation
- Missing info
- im new and have mental illness i need support from someone or someones
- Help with a translated page
- HOW TO DELETE PERSONAL SUBJECT MATTER INSERTED IN AN ARTICLE REGARDING MY PERSONA
- New section
- The template to announce article copied by newspaper
- Macrons on n
- Editing
- redirect to ask here
- Nobvak Djokovic
- Incorrect information from a spam bot source regarding fantasies about the blackhill transmitter in scotland
July 16
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- List of countries by time devoted to leisure and personal care
- elisha shapiro page
- Is it a COI?
- Sorting active v. inactive WikiProject participants
- Text small in latter part of article
- Linking to Wikipedia administration pages in the content of articles
- Please refer me to tips about resubmission of biographies of living persons, thank you.
- Against All Will
- Colon Terminology question.
- How to Cite a Public Government Record
- Formatting issue with article tags?
- Tagging copyvio, but I don't think I did it correctly
- Mayor of Spaulding Illinois
- Bot accounts that can be triggered by any user
- why is there no article on this guy?
- How to upload pictures
- Is it advisable to edit/improve an article undergoing AfD discussion?
- Whether a reference makes a company notable
July 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 17
- Can I copy/paste an article in my sandbox to organize a course of edits instead of doing them on the original page one by one?
- References for the article
- References for an article
- Unreviewed Article List Confusion
- WMF legal advice
- Failed to parse MathML error that I can not fix
- Frustration in creating and editing Wikipedia pages
- Disagree with Editor jessicapiece@Wikipedia re edits to Big Mound City
July 18
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- allmusic
- Odd history at "Pay it forward"
- opening?
- Request: Guest Blog Entry
- Question about page mover
- Template:Infobox road
- How to remove NRHP Infobox
- Inserting background color in unusual table cells
- Lake County Historical Courthouse, in Tavares, FL.
- Help with making proportional, accessible table to visualize units of time
- request edit
- abreham
- Longest User Talk pages
- " Wikimedia requires notification of when leaving the Foundation's sphere of influence."
July 19
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- Does a composer need to be credited as a songwriter in the infobox?
- reFill appears to be not working
- How to add citations to an article, "http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Battle_of_Britain"
- Help I could just cry.
- Moving a task force
- Sunteck Realty
- Contributor undoing my revisions.
July 20
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- Henry Ford High School, Detroit, MI
- Broken Link on Honeymoon destination
- My biography
- Cannot change my organization's wikiprofile.org homepage link
- Image from a company
- How to fix incorrect sorting in a table that uses templates (instead of numbers) to calculate a value
- Archive.org
July 21
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- violation of contents
- how to edit the wiki pedia title
- Revert policy during discussion of content
- A question
- Natalie Woods
- How to upload a photo?
July 22
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- MOS question - Alpha sort with diacritics
- Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
- Update on current information
- Strange referencing problem
- 1915 Post card with photo of Santa Barbara baseball team dated 1915
- Including a reference containing a URL in a footnote
- Runaway fonts, colors, underlines, and strikeouts.
- Acme Mapper working?
July 23
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- referencing question
- Encyclopedia about a character
- Open Media on mobile?
- Making a page live
- Brief factual academic bio
- Question about Posting/editing
July 24
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- luther grosvenor
- Wikipedia api to display content
- False biography information on Noordin Ahmad.
- Add new Logo
- Remove wikipedia page about me
- Portal for vaudeville?
- Enlarging font size in wikitable heading
July 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 25
- Undo edit
- Medical ref
- Line break symbols
- In der Falle
- Expedite Process for Article Awaiting Review
- Josh Gold
- Kabini -Title Language Error
- Make British English (actual English) an option please!!!
- error in date
- Conflict of Interest/Museum Curator type
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Rivers_State_Ministry_of_Transport
- Removing Conflicting Page
- Nepal at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics = how to word results
- :Template:Chart appearance problem
- Section on Controversy in Wiipedia's article on James M. Buchanan
- Rinne Tsujikubo
- Corrected the dates and reason for the radio broadcasts being stopped in 2002, as confirmed by the Chicago Tribune Sept. 13, 2002
- Citing Lecture and Presentation materials, and a book via a website
July 26
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- Map wrongly placed
- Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham
- Missing information
- Correcting an entry written about me
- Category specification
- Remediate an error - how to change a minor edit to a major edit after publishing.
- Creating a page that is redirecting to another one
- Incorrect treatment of characters as emoji
- Entering the ISBN numbers in an Info Box for Books
- Changes to editing pages
- Editing Bad Photo
- "we should corupt wikipedia" (sic)
- Ann Patricia Bowling
- Image use?
July 27
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- George Soros
- revisions
- Question about requested moves
- Where can I solicit suggestions for renaming the title of an article?
- Question
- How To Edit on Wikipedia
- Game rulebook as a reference
July 28
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- Mass Merging of Articles
- Linking Google
- Question regarding the duration of Article publishing.
- Mankapur Junction
- Please confirm Resubmit of edited article
- Missing articles search
- Why does this User Box about Shakespeare not work?
- Help starting an RfC?
- Infobox sportsperson
- New article not showing up on Google
July 29
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- Citing Lecture and Presentation materials, and a book via a website, 2nd try
- Wikitable question about using rowspan and colspan simultaneously
- Admininstrators
- A lot of "multiple failed attempts"
- How do i create a wikipedia Page?
- Name displayed in link to a Wikibook
- Show Main Page in local time
- urgent - obscene photo needs removing
- Orphaned Talk Page archive
July 30
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- Thomas Markle
- List of all transcluded pages
- How do I select which way I want to view editable pages?
- Page protection
- How to cite my own Journal Article?
- User talk:Carriearchdale
- That was one line about me
- Notability for High Schools
- Berkeley College
- How to create a new page
- Template problem
- Twinkle Help
- Please help-keeps adding things
- Proper style in writing Chess articles