Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2017
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August 1
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- Schrodinger's User
- article issue problem
- Determining when an article title is ambiguous
- Misplaced deletion nomination
- Novopolotsk State Musical College
- 2017 MAC Football Championship Game Article
- Finding Wiki-Writers
- Add recipient of Soldiers Medal
- Shane Roiser
- IP reverting editions
- How do I report a user?
- Portal:Sierra Leone
August 2
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- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- Need help writing an article on Orange is the New Black actress
- Link to specific section of an article
- Barry Mannakee
- Jack Atley
- Name Change
- How to use Sandbox for new draft when it is redirected with a submitted article pending review?
- Why I won't give a penny to Wikipedia
- Joe Plumb
- School Paper for School Colors
- Do they add the rating?
- can't find my page
- interwiki categories
- Liv and Maddie
- Picture edits
- Author of a reference amending misrepresentation of his work
- The Towering Inferno
August 3
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- regarding references.
- Accidentally edited while logged out
- Morton Toe
- Lupton family
- BABEL Speech Corpus
- Restore article moved to drafts
- Unable to edit at public library, because the IP is believed to be a "web host provider". What does this mean, and is there a solution?
- Adding 'citations'
- Pornographic images in the graphical search results on the home page
- Question
- Page move help
- Otto warmbier
August 4
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- Glen Affric
- Reference error
- Confirming my email address
- 2018 Major League Baseball season article
- question
- Template:Infobox Doctor Who doctor
- Counting the number of rows on a table
- links/citations
August 5
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- Fabio (Seba) Sebastianelli page
- I cannot view the wikipedia page that i created in google
- Support/Oppose/etc
- Incorrect links in a page - security concern (attempt to hijack links?)
- Marshall Bouldin
- Plugins question
- Redirect / Disambiguation
- Too many citations
August 6
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August 7
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- Scottish clan chief
- Trouble with alignment
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
- Protected from creation
- The "alt right" page is entirely biased
- how to insert jpeg files to article
- Cite template for leaflets and signage
- William Oke - Add two images
- How to indicate that a book chapter is "in press"
- Red banners
- uploading a photo onto a page
August 8
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- Pippa Middleton
- Blueberry Markets deleted page
- Confirmation of ownership when uploading an image
- I asked a simple question, names and pictures of the 1982 eagles cheerleaders
- Adding information
- Problems finding comments page on "Alternative Medicine"
- Category: 2018 in baseball
- Question about translation from another language Wikipedia
August 9
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- The Next Web (TNW) wikipedia page
- music
- Can I find and view a taxonomy of organization types and focus?
- Derek Chatterton
- User header
- Edit Wikipedia Title
- Background image for a table
- Links
- Hanoi
- Changing a picture
- Article not appearing on non-Wikipedia search engines
- Username
August 10
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- Who is copying from whom?
- SpongeBob season 4?
- WP:Activity
- Theodore George Davenport
- Articles linking to the wrong person
- SELF FIXED AfD !votes not showing up in my AfD log, Round2
- Copyright and Trademark symbols
- template tag
- My name is Sid Herring and I am the founder of The Gants. I am requesting that someone make the following corrections to the article about The Gants, which was posted long ago without my knowledge or input.
- Someone is changing a biographical page with negative unsubstantiated edits
August 11
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- Infobox Journal - cover option?
- Vicuna, Chile (town)
- Nintendo games
- Articles mentioning a word, but not linking to them?
- 2017–18 United States Network Schedule ((Weekday))
- Barbara Hewson
- Pointer to policy decisions on whether or not to add infoboxes to articles about classical music composers
- Submitting a draft article for review
August 12
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- Collage images
- malicious code found at Landgraviate_of_Hesse-Kassel
- Infobox
- Login error
- Pedro Miguel Caratini
- Really confused
August 13
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- Best practices: how to credit an unconfirmed user for their suggested edit to a semiprotected page?
- Potternewton
- Having trouble in improving my article
- Potternewton
- Picture Uploading Not Showing
- My recent changes to the Berlin Connecticut Railroad Station history page.
- Please delete this suspicious entry. It is not my doing.
- Related articles
- edit and reference section with valid link.
- Converting unformatted dates
- Line numbers in diffs
- old school photos
- My new contribution doesn't show up on google
- Potternewton
August 14
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- removing {{UDP|date=August 2017}}
- adding a business to the wikipedia page
- Trouble uploading a picture
- Edits by Catharine Smith
August 15
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- Where did my profile on Wiki go?
- question
- Removal of maintenance template
- Forcing a column break
- Done my first merge... did I miss anything?
- Google Search Image connected to Wikipedia Page
- Otters
- how to cite a book chapter in multi-author book?
- Please Edit
August 16
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- Leatherback sea turtle article
- What qualifies as trivia, and what is a reliable source?
- New version of file (replace photo with rendering to improve resolution)
- Hidden links to Wikidata: how to make more obvious?
- rectifying contains content written as advertisement.
- editing an article
- getting a new page live
- Create a page
- Wikipedia article not appearing in google search
- Edit Request
- A false information regarding a company named Business Initiative Directions
- Purpose of main pages 2-5
August 17
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- Lupton family
- Copyright License
- A question regarding use of titles of nobility
- Submit
- hi
- Security problem
- Help - in a discussion that is partly deleted
- Getting an article published in Wikipedia
- Template error
- mobile device language selector
- On the history of Louise Troy
- How to create a page
- Put a footnote in notes section rather than references
- listing
August 18
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- How can I find out
- Getting Headlines synchronized in different lanugages
- Re-edit and re-submit a deleted submission
- FC Utrecht
- New details for Copper Dragon Brewery
- Handling spaces in a URL
- 2017–18 United States Network Televison Schedule (late night)
- Content deleted
- Special:NewPages not highlighting
- Copyright Format
August 19
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- Heath Ledger
- Amy Beach's 150th birthday
- Bone Wars
- add a colon?
- Ireland's Waterfrod Co
- Just need an advise about translation English page into Russian
- Offensive term used in an article, obviously edited by people opposed to the person's political ideology.
- Where can I find data (statistics) about use of a template?
- My edits being constantly deleted.
- Eminem on list of all time album sales
- Wikipedia has my photo with the wrong person
August 20
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- Porn image detected in todays page
- Biswajit Chatterjee
- Seems to be the same person too
- Deletion request
- Matyu Elliott Article.
- Brian Gardner
- Use of units
August 21
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- Wiki for islands needs to include how they generate electric power..
- How do I report users?
- using old news and advertisments
- Links in refn?
- New subtopics for country profiles
- Please do not delete my site - revision requested
- Article to be wriiten
- Marvel?s Spider-Man
- Regarding User Talk Section
- Searching by edit size
- Frideswide Square
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 21#.7B.7Btl.7CEmpty_section.7D.7D_and_.7B.7Btl.7CExpand_section.7D.7D|{{Empty section}} and {{Expand section}}]]
- edits being taken down
August 22
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- Undeletion
- Help: can you remove the maintenance template?
- How do I keep my article?
- Metal foams
- changes keeps on changing back.
- Writing a page for the company
- Updating pages across different languages
- Malware?
- Double parenthetical disambiguation?
August 23
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- wrong photo
- Create a Wikipedia for Jason Innocent
- Help merging
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee
- Multiple issues with article
- Editing images
- Questions about vandalism by a user reverting ClueBot NG's correctly identified vandalism
- Odd edit conflict
- Inserting photos in a page for a health institution -- page was created a year ago; updates of photos are not being allowed by Wikipedia system
- Media Viewer
- C1 control character in |title= at position 31
August 24
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- Hacking images
- Key Art - please tell me
- Denise Oliver-Velez
- How to return the content of possibly lost article Feudal tenures?
- Dana Tai Soon Burgess wiki
- 2017 dengue outbreak in Peshawar
- Lupin Anti-Vandal Tool not working
August 25
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- Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Permanent edit
- Sources of a living person
August 26
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- Lupton family
- Hurghada Grand Aquarium
- Draft Article is not Viewed 26 days ago
- Typing some paragraphs
- My sandbox
- Johnny's Turtleneck Jamboree title
- Mark Levin
August 27
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- Formatting Table Headers
- Diffs of edits to extremely long pages
- Heather Morris.
- The Alienist
- MacGregor
- Regarding Brigadier General John R. D'Araujo Jr.'s Wikipedia Page
- /* undefined */ undefined
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_galvanism
August 28
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- List of Downton Abbey characters
- Russia Disqualified by decision of the IAAF Council for 8 years?
- Thomas Mathew
- Updating company page
- Listing subpages in WP
- 2018 Major League Baseball season
- Editing
- ARB Template Link?
- How to get more editors to vote on article content
- Assitance needed in aligning barnstars
- Diane Kochilas Draft
- list of Chinese Canadians
- mevn.net
- Colour of links and citations.
August 29
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- Is it acceptable for a user to place a talk page warning on my user page?
- remove instagram and all photos
- Captcha
- Reverting
- mobile view lacks language selection
- Persistent "editor"
- Turning off Redirects?
- Article on Eola Texas has been vandalized
- add info about artist jason innocent prefer a wiki editor to do so. To aviod claims of spam and promotion
August 30
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- School wikipedia page keeps getting modified by a user that includes malicious and false accusations
- Editing
- Duplicate accounts
- My edit is being reverted
- Reference grouping at Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
- Regarding misleading information about IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
- Default sort
- Gavin Rayna Russom
- Idea for DYK and/or Unusual article
- Sergio Cotta article, formatting in Publications wont display properly.
- Naked singularity
August 31
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- When does a new day begin, for Wikipedia?
- Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
- Lowercase sigmabot III Not archiving?
- References
- User rapidly stalking new human rights post to delete
- Images not displaying properly
- logo
- Yearly or monthly Archives
- Multiple redirect confusion
- Template:Wide image
- Mortal Sin Definition
- "Your user page" icon link
- LINGUISTIC MYSTERY
- sandeep mehta
- How do I report copyvio?
- Request for clarification of OR rule