Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/November 2024

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November 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 1

1. Question about uploading a photo of a person to their wiki page
2. Red Links are All blue now
3. Indus Valley Script
4. Manipulation in Wikipedia
5. Permanently Banned on Hebrew Wikipedia
6. add new article
7. question regarding charts
8. How do I speed up the process to review the page I created?
9. question re article featured on main page
10. i need someone to review my draft
11. Problematic Search Suggestion
12. Thumbnail doesn't match full image
13. User Edit Count
14. Candidates
15. Photos by museums, auctioneers, and authors
16. Adjusting photo sizes

November 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 2

1. Wrong photo
2. Seeking Deleted Article and Talkpage
3. Be careful of autotranslate in Google Chrome
4. Article draft
5. Contributions feedback
6. How do I edit sources for an infobox?
7. Ken Eberts has been dead for ~2 months and page isnt updated
8. Timecard
9. Help
10. somebody's been rude to me in their talk page
11. The page on The Region Palestine has been heavily altered with information both added and removed this is not right and is misleading
12. IP Address

November 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 3

1. im having issues finding my draft article
2. Help with transcluding a section to a new article
3. Pointer needed to guideline regarding adhering to established terminology and characterisation
4. Attribution after splitting problem
5. Can I edit or write an article about a thing I made?
6. Uploading SVG replacement
7. question
8. Wiki Article cleanup help
9. I need help to move 3 redirections i created and delete the 4th.

November 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 4

1. Odd question.
2. AI-generated response in consensus building
3. Article history...
4. :Category:Caves
5. how do i change the screen back to how it was?
6. Autobiographies by Indian Authors
7. Copy edit
8. Married name
9. Logging in
10. Url =value
11. Adding drafts to main space categories

November 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 5

1. Funny search results
2. Talking about inappropriate or too personal topics with other people on Wikipedia
3. Urgent request to sustain the credibility of two pages.
4. Edit filter triggered
5. How judicious should we be when we choose which articles to write for Wikipedia?
6. Mobile version
7. Multnomah tribe/people
8. reuse of information
9. License
10. Wildly wrong fact, no idea whether to remove or what

November 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 6

1. Blocking of my addition at Quit India Movement page by user Dympies
2. My reputation has been ruined. I need help trying to stop an unauthorized person vandalizing articles in my account.
3. my edit was reverted because “ it did not appear constructive”?
4. Questions about drafts
5. How to make a new page?
6. LGBT or LGBTQ?
7. Inline links to other wikipedias
8. Sockpuppet account

November 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 7

1. Error Message
2. Correction of birthday
3. Could someone have a look on a draft and help me with sending it for the approval?
4. The lastest recommended method of copying equations from wikipedia pages
5. What criteria does this article fall in under speedy deletion.
6. COI?
7. Pronunciation help
8. Correcting a statement consistently mistranslated by (otherwise) reliable sources
9. Article rejection
10. Declaration of Interest? Translation? Narrative Reconciliation?
11. Removal of the entire section on 'Works' from the WIKI entry of Seta B. Dadoyan
12. how to create my name and details in Wikipedia?
13. What to do with apparent unsourced material
14. Pages with Dropper.YA Trojans

November 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 8

1. Newspapers.com
2. Search not working on main page using Chrome
3. How many readers, and percentage figures (thanks)
4. Walter Coy article
5. using push pin map to demarcate area and perimeter
6. Table rowspan interaction with headings may have changed in Chrome
7. Why are people allowed to write lies on my wikipedia about me. I want to rectify this
8. Hacked accounts
9. Several hurricane remembrance templates need to be fixed
10. Publish Changes Button not Working
11. question about vandalism warnings and reporting to AIV

November 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 9

1. Formatting fixes to closed discussions
2. Quincy Jones
3. Talk:List of pholidotans
4. A link on the semi-protected redirects category page is inproperly spelled
5. Lyricists, Song Writers, Poets, Composers, Musicians, Musical Instrument Innovators
6. ALL "redlinks" are blue - PLEASE help
7. Hello
8. Refs, Sources, Citations

November 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 10

1. Sources for topicn
2. How can i found my home screen
3. Looking to get discussion/approval on planned updates to a list
4. article writing
5. Could someone who knows WP:MEDRS, please look at these changes?
6. How do you make it so the Contributions page doesn't automatically default to hiding good edits?
7. Oustanding edit requests on archived pages

November 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 11

1. how do I create a Wikipedia page for myself?
2. How do I find an editior to help me with an article
3. Acroterion is editing my identity without my approval.
4. My page deleted help
5. I was instructed to change my name. I need help with an article I'll list it below
6. Admin help needed to move articles related to continued fraction
7. Draft Article and Conflict with Existing Article
8. Math help desk?
9. Linking to pages
10. Organization infobox
11. Deletion of Ben McKay (actor)
12. pervasive anti Israel bias. please take note
13. filing complaint
14. Notability inside lists
15. Creating an article
16. Referencing errors on Alonzo Horton
17. Need some help with personal CSS (not urgent)
18. headphone

November 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 12

1. Help needed with logo in infobox
2. 1CA
3. cách thức duyệt bài trên wikipedia như thế nào
4. Amaran Movie Page
5. Publishing a page
6. John Molesworth (priest)

November 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 13

1. Middleton family
2. Map overlay
3. Not able to create global user for wikimedia
4. Do I need a citation for information about a species that is visibly obvious in images of it?
5. Short translation is disallowed by AbuseFilter for no apparent reason (I'm a new user)
6. Relisting: How many readers, and percentage figures (thanks)
7. Saving an article via Desktop view
8. I need help please
9. Sporadic LUA Error at line xxx in refs
10. Getting a page unflagged
11. Including tags while excluding others
12. Why is there a corruption index for the entire on Corruption in India even though the article is only for India.
13. Tool for generating ASCII URL does not work

November 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 14

1. I did not create this ... not intentionally, anyway
2. Jean Gabin
3. Editing a page
4. Where could i begin with editing? Like do i start with small entries then slowly level my way to higher ones?
5. Stacking infoboxes using Visual Editor
6. Another question
7. Lost friend
8. Updating the main image of a Wikipedia Article
9. How to add a page
10. Creation of -arguably- big topic

November 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 15

1. Wiki shielding convicted rapist?
2. User infobox
3. How to create a secret string
4. Block tally
5. Incorrect Information
6. Overlinking - guidance
7. Vector Legacy search acting up
8. A page for me
9. How do you create a page from screatch

November 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 16

1. Need advice on unknown birth-dates
2. What does 'authority control' do / mean?
3. Link to Wikisource
4. How to creat a Wikipedia page
5. Email Service Believes the best on Earth
6. incorrect information in preface
7. Methanogen entry has a nonsensical sentence

November 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 17

1. Donations
2. reasons for piping
3. Map overlay
4. When did Wikipedia begin Sponsoring Disinformation
5. Article moved to mainspace
6. Finding out the creator of a previously deleted article
7. Facebook link
8. My own picture in commons
9. editing
10. Anyone familiar with Turkish...
11. Desktop layout
12. New Article in Mainspace

November 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 18

1. Adding same link in multiple articles - is there an easier way?
2. Quotations - period inside or outside?
3. Introducing quotes - past / present tense?
4. What is needed most?
5. Searching
6. Arilus cristatus Article broken?
7. infobox

November 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 19

1. Does the edit notice on pages about given names apply to fictional characters?
2. Change of Place Name
3. History of miss vicki chips shrinkage of bag size
4. Misuse of "literal"
5. How to delete profile page
6. The friend not walk place friend yazini love
7. Policy on shifting IPs?
8. How to add a company logo?
9. I would like to donate by cheque from Canada ?
10. Delete Wikipedia Page

November 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 20

1. Why is a particular article protected?
2. Template for a pile of references
3. Restore or Draftify a deleted page
4. Edit, revert, ghost—How to proceed?
5. Searching through redirects

November 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 21

1. Need some help with pywikibot
2. Wikipedia Commons Copyright explanation help
3. "Inscriptions and Herostones" articles
4. Source hosted on a fanpage
5. Tsui Ming-sum
6. Named reference in infobox, unsure how to access
7. Friends Church (Yorba Linda)
8. User Page CSS Help

November 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 22

1. I give you every year all that I can afford. Please stop with the incessant begathon
2. Dr. Judy Mikovits page
3. Template question
4. how to better myself
5. Submitting an article
6. Understanding the correct usage of sources/citing
7. I need help logging in
8. Fixing Wikidata connection

November 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 23

1. Scraping Wikipedia for AI Training
2. sir dr raj shekhawat has a famous celebrity and political backgroud but have not any wiki pedia page he also karni sena president this should be fixxed
3. How do I make a proper bulleted list in a blockquote?
4. Watchlist filter
5. Chester Braddock deGavre
6. Yo i got a question on how to make a page?

November 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 24

1. Please remind me—how should I deal with an anonymous reversion of an edit of mine?
2. I would be happy to donate by check, but do not use electronic methods of payment. Please let me know how to donate. My email address is <redacted>. Thank you.
3. Template:Antisemitism sidebar
4. Citation template
5. Struggling with merging and moving articles in relation to the Emily Prentiss article.
6. Retain or remove citation indicators in quoted text?
7. Searching Wikipedia with Regex with Capture?

November 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 November 25

1. Dara Huang
2. Automated edit count?
3. (untitled)
4. Help with NPS sources
5. Signature
6. John Perrot Quaker - Add image
7. Margaret Greville
8. Username
9. Suggested edits paused