Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2020
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August 1
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- How do I add my name
- Looking for any old records Tommy Dorsey early days with a singer
- Creating a page
- New to Wikipedia
- Title of an article
- Subject: The title for this page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBC_children%27s_television_programmes
- Userpage Templates
- Picture next to name
August 2
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- "Wikibious" appears to be a misinformation website posing as wikibios.
- Move without leaving Redirect
- Accidental File Naming Process.
- block
- Footnotes in headings
- Laïka Fatien
- Regarding Donation
- Archiving messages on my talk page?
- Is it Wikipedia requesting for Donations?
- Uploading a new logo
- To remove template in my page
- Confused
- password
August 3
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- Dominos
- How to edit/update the language template of a <> Code block
- Notability, and WHat
- Notability, and What Wikipedia Is Not (^I accidentally clicked enter before I was finished)
- Question about edit notes
- Citing how widely cited a paper is
- how to change my user name here?
- Substituting a dead source?
- Time in Indiana
- emptying empties
- Guidelines?
- Quick question
- Can I use Grammarly to help me write and correct articles?
- how to make a link pubic which is yet in draft
- iPhone 9
- Editing with IOS 9.4
- The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- Kosoko
- Wikipedia Indeed
August 4
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- About my card
- How to see history?
- Search "baike.baidu" ,about 1,051 pages,it`s unreliable sources.
- how to create a page
- Natalie Wood Famous Actress and Film star
- Dev Patel has an Emmy nomination
- Page version history - sorting by section title
- Hello! Big mistake in this text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingush_people
- Checking some information on Independent Premium?
- Alessandra Paonessa IS Alexa Ray
- Query about donation
- Creating a biography on wiki
- Problem with coord template/Location map
- Wikipedia page for Sarah Murdoch
- Download subset of the database (HTML Pages)
- Autopatrolled user
- Red Links
August 5
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- Leonid Bolotine
- References from propaganda articles and events that have no reference
- Citing myself, in publicly published works
- Reference VS Cite
- Updating image file
- Whereabouts of an Wikipedia Article about my Family that I have been contributing to
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error empty references define - 2020 Beirut explosions - rhosus.shiparrested
- How to cite direct knowledge regarding a member of my family
- New account has marked all edits as minor
- Url needed
- Open Street Map - Make map display in English
- How to ? help needed with guidance
- IFPRI page - Please review talk page
- Being blocked
- Your notice that wikipedia has neutral content is laughable
- Anyone know why there was a spike on this chart in early 2020
August 6
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- help for the final step to publish my wikipedia article Treehouse135 (talk) 10:30, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
- Printing The Signpost
- Need help with archiving on Talk:Politics of J. K. Rowling, I messed up when setting up MiszaBot
- What Happened To A Page - Deleted?
- Edit to Wandering Jew Plant
- Photo upload
- Photo Update to Wikipedia page
- Flagging an irrelevant reference
- Zerem Freier temp value
- Possible Source of Editing Without Meaning found in a wikipedia page
- citations
August 7
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- Nick Robertson's mother (ice hockey)
- Can I link to Wikipedia page with table sorted on a particular column
- Question regaring page deletion
- How much time dose it take for Wikipedia to Review and Publish a Article if its written by a New Creator
- My Domain Blocked By Wikipedia
- Vapepal e liquid brand
- Refering Ayodhay Ram janbhumo as Disputed Land - as on date
- nationality, ethnicity, origin, identity
- Adding a link
- kkk
- Locked up pages vs editable pages
- Adding company details
- Infobox spacing
- Correcting incorrect submission
- Disable Unnecessary Link Pop-ups?
August 8
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- I'm having trouble setting up my page
- Obtaining copyright permission
- Getting back my subject on wikipedia
- Taipanusa's question
- Redirects that break existing comments
- Toyota 2E engine
- 15 mins on Wiki and DELETED?
- Article on Concert pitch
August 9
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- Help correcting a date link
- Vandalism help request from Sdkb
- Knaresborough / Knaresborough Online
- How reliable are archive.is links as reference?
- Article version numbers
- how do i make a page to publish
- Questions
- importance of nationality
- Password
August 10
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- Use of acronyms in quotation marks
- List of people who died climbing Mount Everest table in Android app
- MY NAME AND DETAILS DOES NOT APPEAR WIKIPEDIA
- Account User
- Downloading a table
- Deleting pages
- Donations
- I m reporting wrong permotion on Wikipedia
- Accessing Wikidata
- Cronyism
- request edit
August 11
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- Html table help
- creating an historical wikipedia page
- Requests to edits have not been answered on multiple talk sections of pages
- Donation
- Requesting another opinion on a source
- Waaris (1988 film)
- Contribution value
- Something or other
- Category: Films set in [year]
- Kamala Harris page
- Template:Alabama (band) 1977–1989 singles
- MV Rhosus
- Help
August 12
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- Don't know location of book publisher
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Sushant Singh Rajput Death
- Photogenic
- font size
- infobox at end of article -- by reader preference
- Find and replace
- Arnab goswami
- GA
- Draft Page Heinz Trökes to main page
- ITN
- Mention of Brand Name
- Chloe Jones
- Someone messed up an article
- 2022 Olympic Games might be delayed until 2023
- Sushant Singh Rajput
- Move article
- CANNOT LOG IN, AND YOU WANT ME TO DONATE AGAIN?
- Language code list
- Imelda Marcos MOS issues
- Antifa
August 13
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- Kamala Harris
- How can I get a template for writing my biography?
- I mucked it up
- Changing title of the article
- KAMALA HARRIS (2)
- banglore riot wikipedia page
- Creating A New Article With A Name That's Already In Use
- Mari Katayama
- Help writing a user space essay
- Capitalization of first letter of "island" in "Sakhalin Island"
August 14
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- Syntax highlighting in 2017 wikitext editor
- Editing an info box
- Creating multiple sandboxes
- akhtar raza khan
- Black Privilege is not yet a title
- How do I make a new infobox template?
- How should a recently renamed organization be referred to in its article?
- i wrote a few lines on my pet research Thoughtonics this morning. where do i find them?
- Money conversion?
- Misleading article description
- Unstructured list references
- Undo: re Corrour railway station
- New user message left a message on your talk page.
- Vandalism taking place at "List of countries by system of government"
- Change page to a Disambiguation page
- Find not working right
August 15
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- Donald Harris Date Of U.S. Citizenship
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Valentine
- Guy Nattiv photos and information.
- Split an inputed argument into two arguments
- Talk page deletion
- Truganini
- new page submission
- Jai Shree Ram
- South Africa
- List of 2020-21 NBA Transactions Article
- Map push pin size
- Breck Girl 1977
- my name is John Pappas and you say I have no page. well type my name on Google and my Wikipedia page comes up. I gave a donation to you yesterday. I have donated many times. I'd to clear this up.
- Signature
- How to edit articles that do NOT have a standard, normal "edit' link?
- Red links on English wiki while article exists on Italian wiki
- Cancelation of Classmates
- Die Hard Citations
August 16
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- inaccuracies jn locked article
- Citation error on Cory Marks
- Connie Francis
- Would someone please help
- Quote box question
- Confusion with references
- Adding content
- Template overflow
- Tried to upload a photo that I personally made but WIKI rejected claiming it was not mine. How do I dispute that?
- When to use the RfC process?
- Citations and references
August 17
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- Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- How do I report broken links?
- Minor edit
- Luke Swindlehurst
- Am I included in the list of graduates in 1967?
- Unified Login Question
- Biased page
- publishing
- Adding Information to WIkipedia
- Unsigned Comment
- Creating a new page
- Request to increase ggsradius > 10000
- Searching on Wikipedia
- Lead author formatting
- How to remove any info I've added in Wikipedia and delete my page?
August 18
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- Robert Downey Jr.
- Editors for hire
- How to let administrator know that temporary draft was changed?
- Removing Old Edits from 14 years ago.
- How to change title and URL
- Interlanguage links in lists of people
- Why I can’t make a article?
- Disclosed my indirect affiliation with an article subject, still waiting
- Expansion of BLP for Peter Klopfer
- How to change a file name
- Base-level Wikipedian introductory
- Interwiki contributions
August 19
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- List of pages matching search
- Using Wikipedia as a resource for school
- Democratic national convention 2020
- NBA divisional tables
- Lupton family
- Wikipedia's official policies and guidelines overrule consensus?
- Nike Dattani
- Mahaveer swami
- Problem with article Lahore Front
- Jeffrey Royal article
- Re HG Wells novel The War in the Air
- gadget or script
- How Date of birth and place can be changed
- Will Wikipedia merge their site to fb or google like whatsapp did?
- My Non Profit Organization
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
August 20
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- Effective Way to Find Vandalism
- Help:Email confirmation
- Wiki markup/Insert box
- How to Access Past Wikipedia Article Archives
- Intentionally derivative work?
- I'm lost
- :QAnon
- student assignment
- I am confused and I need help
- info regarding afd
- Charles Nordby
- Italic entries in categories
- donations
- Donations
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref-How to remove an incorrect reference page and correct a name
- Admin got involved with a very minor issue
- Coordination between Japanese and English pages
August 21
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- Christian Darnton
- News source had a different publisher at time of citing
- Sushant Singh Rajput Death Related
- Changing user name
- Leader of the Opposition (British Columbia)
- Stamma BSA 1 and the British Stammering Association
- Draft re AFL player
- Translation of Wikipedia articls in Indian Regional Langauge--Marathi
- Adding Company President/CEO Info on Wikipedia
- candidates, election dates, and the main page
- Help with publishing a Draft
August 22
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- class assignment using student sandboxes
- Someone is using Wikipedia to libel me and reveal the location of my home
- Wikipedia's stance on essay summaries?
- An editor keep adding wrong content on the article
- Colouring the code in my user page notes about a non-breaking space
- Please suggest Wikiproject templates in Biochemistry/Cancer/Gastroenterology to have this draft revised - Draft:Scott Waldman
- Does Wikipedia consider Alaeddin Pasha 1 or 2 people?
- Report an edit rejection made by someone who doesn't know the facts
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
- Changing an article name
- Beirut Blast
August 23
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- correct misinformation in wikipedia on La Dame aux Camélias.
- Adding item to a list
- trying to add source link to added information but bot removes it
- Mistake on the most viewed online video in the first 24 hours
- A reference originating in an Infobox does not go to the linked website
- Update request
- Questions about a table
- 1111
- Skeptical about edit
August 24
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- Kerala Blockchain Academy
- Please help me improve this article
- How to change my User name
- Could non-admin user vote on "Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard" proposals?
- Uploading an image
- [URGENT] Request additional information
- PLEASE HELP ME.....
- How to move files to Commons
- Disambiguation/redirection problem
- reliable sources for my article
- Extra markup
- Incorrect facts on the entry for GW Pharmaceuticals
- Article
- wiki text to avoid line split before a comma
August 25
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- Added two edit notes about the same thing
- Articles about India
- Ayurveda
- Reading mode
- Containt is not correct
- How to edit a protected pages
- Block Quotation
- Mistake on my fathers page, please help, his name is wrong and i dont know how to edit it
- Not sure how to parse moderator message and make successful changes to a page
- Convert template for acre
- Scrolling images
- False Definition
- Bullet points in ref
- I am a newbie
August 26
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- Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- East Sea, the South Korean name of the Sea of Japan->[incorrect]
- Scots Wikipedia
- Death names
- Asking for assistance in creating a draft
- User talk:ThisIsaTest
- Template:Collapsible large category TOC
- NBA season 2019/20
- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Korean War Was a Stalemate
- Wrongfully deleted entry
- How to make the mobile interface the default for all users?
- Chicks on Right
- Adding edit notes explaining/apologizing for strikethroughs
- Colin Higgins -- correction of resting place
August 27
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- article submission
- Wildcat Strikes
- Using an example from a paper/textbook or thesis
- Sushant Singh Rajput death or murder
- How do I create a new Wikipedia article for my grandfather?
- Ayurveda (2)
- Issue uploading my companies new logo
- Abt wikipedia
- Photo upload
- Deleted BLP and copyright
- Editing Wiki
- Dr Linda Campbell
August 28
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- Vague article made by bot in the Cebuano language
- Table formatting
- SCIENCE
- Chemistry
- Jacob Blake Shooting Is An Act Of War
- help to complete the final step of publishing my wikipedia article
- Editing: citing a book; volume # ???
- Automatic translations
- Wiki link
- Q Article suggestion for Tasmania-based skincare brand Beauty and the Bees (3 references cited)
- Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
- Glossary of Brazil investigative terms/Compact ToC
- Centering text in the chart columns
August 29
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- Twinkle
- Template:listen
- Saint Urho
- Intersection Observer alternative
- Using Other People's Flickr Images
- BLP referencing question
- Awb replace moving one line forward
- Gallery of Videos
- Jim Watkins 8chan guy
- Music
- Historical populations template formatting
- Can you please block someone called Urmomisfat100010001000
- Which is the better document to cite?
- Article Title Edit
- How to handle "... has made few or no other edits outside this topic"
- 2020 NBA Playoffs
August 30
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- Old English period
- Sushant Singh Rajpoot
- Please restore my translation
- How do i create a page and make it visible
- ISBN trouble
- Netflix charts
- Adding different meaning to existing entry
- Numbered list with paragraphs between the examples
- far-right but not far-left?
- Archiving problem
- Wont let me edit
August 31
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- Amway Australia
- How do I report a page that may have been created to put out false information about the 2020 US Election
- How do I stay logged into Wikipedia on Safari iOS (iPhone)?
- How to create an article
- Codes
- Category lists
- Article Publishing.
- Public Schools Club
- 1000 ha. or square kilometre.
- Importing images from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia articles.
- Question on "Discussion procedure on merging Wikipedia articles"
- Mismatching the link provided.
- Article for Review
- High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
- Personal Profile
- Green Grabbing/Johan Eliasch
- Help to create Sapna Choudhary and Swarup Solanki Articles