Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/October 2014
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October 1
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- List item deleted but not the redirect that points there
- finding search content's key words
- How do I upload audio on Wikipedia?
- Jackson Hastings
- Info Box UK School
- how much time to edit a proposed article?
- reverting advertising - 3RR
- Family of T.B.Narasimhachar gave me a photos for use along with the article. It is not copyrighted. How do I tag it?
- Available no. of abbreviation
- What's the current stance on "...in Popular Culture" sections?
- My wikipage
October 2
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- Adding a link to a user's block log
- Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002
- how to add information
- How to hide user page or else edit its name
- Why is HHVM stalking my edits
- Application layer protocol article-With reference to september 28 query
- financial help
- Copyvio? More than Paris seems to have been "liberated".
- BIRTH AND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES
- Inserting Photograph in Wiki Page
- References pasted into talk page encroaching on the next message
- editing article title ...please!
- How do I create a page for a well known environmentalist not on Wikipedia?
- Matthew Frost
- Editing request
- I misspelled a photographer's name for photos I uploaded to Commons - can I edit it?
- No Devotion Band
October 3
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- Assistance in page
- Problem with Arabic script templates
- Heading / Name change
- Contacting Administrator
- I would like to delete my account and every articles inside of it...
- Need to move page, but can't...
- Jorge Grant
- How can I check on a user's block/ban history?
- Creating new page for something which has a page but is redirected to a different page.
- Adding a picture in a table with background color?
- North Shields FC Wikipedia Page
- First DYK nomination
- Show improved diff view not working
- References and reliable sources
October 4
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- Editing
- backtracking nuisance requests
- Help getting started making infobox templates for Cyber Threat Actor and other STIX entity types
- I want to remove my picture
- Locked article
- Group AfDs
- During the Alabama game you have them rank 1 when Florida state is number one!!!! Get it right
- Page Tracker
- Sortability lost in table
October 5
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- Logo problem emanating from polish wikipedia
- Please do not include links or templates in subheadings
- Translation
- Deleting a redirect with several revisions in its history
- Major Kurt Chew Een Lee
- CONCERNING THE TERM MACEDONIA (FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC or VARDRSKA AS PART OF PRE WWII SERBIA)
- ref tags
- Category:Television shows set in Queensland by city
- Using wikidata coordinates
October 6
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- Question regarding intra-article notability
- List of countries each in their National Language?
- Transliteration of proper names with common nouns to English
- Professional medical help on an article
- code-nowiki
- Removing categories from pages
- Deletion of my entry about Michael Lenson
- How do I request a watchlist notice?
- Huge chunk of German
- How to submit an article?
- Delegate Phil Hamilton
- COI edit request
- Photo
- Download a wikipedia article as PDF, with code not showing correctly.
- Script suddenly working again after years
October 7
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- Qgal Jackson
- Content is copied Please help me to remove that article
- Tags
- Constructing a "Foo by country" navbox
- I made edits but they have gone from my user log
- warning?
- Do we keep website information on defunct tv projects?
- Helen Keller
- Unprotecting/redirecting articles
- CrowdFlower
- i need help to write article
October 8
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- previous username no longer recognized, need to remove picture
- "Did you mean" box
- Can someone help me with the IPA template?
- Referencing errors on Burmese Buddhist Temple
- Download book as EPUB
- Category specific export
- DEARBHLA WALSH
- Page edit query
- Proper way to edit or change a photo on a profile page
- Dates: AD or CE
- Publisher parameter in cite templates
- images or graphic
- This page is full of errors
- Recent Submission
- IP question
- haneous
- Columbine High School massacre
October 9
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- OTRS editors
- Formatting challenge
- confirm email address
- Allied Irish Banks
- Nessa Childers wikepedia page
- Use of Wicipedia by the blind
- German - English translation
- Stop harassment and vandalism by rogue editors and bots
- How do I alert Wiki to apparent NPOV violations & begin the process of getting a non-NPOV banner posted?
- Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/National Identities
October 10
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- Why does this article show a different navigation menu?
- How to create a wikipedia page for a movie?
- Missing People
- ceil phone records of numbers to see how there linked together
- Section will not show up in the read portion of my sandbox
- User Billy Cioffi
- Multiple Issues
- Are these images free and clear?
- User script suddenly not working any more
- Margaret Gibson Spier
- Chinese script
- Adding new article to my personal sandbox?
October 11
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- Advice sought about tendentious editing
- security agency
- Gujarati language
- Using the Teahouse
- Editing a template and 'TemplateData'
- why i am not autoconfirmed yet?
- A proposed high level change to the article layout
- My submitted entry is still in draft...how long will it take to go live?
- Contributing new article
- Inter-language links: indeed must be one-to-one?
- Layout problem (only here)
- How do you create single column PDF files from wikipedia pages?
October 12
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- Finding keywords in articles
- IT Wire
- Module:Citation/CS1
- Auto-asking me to edit pages - why did it stop?
- Deleted wiki article still in the search results on google
- I see mismatch in Dates but I do not know the proper answer
- User creation date
- MS Windows Media Player as default Wikipedia player
- Closing bracket ignored
October 13
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- Get list of reverted edits
- How to get rid of the spam filter
- reliable source
- About Pachalam
- Carroll Baker Order Of Canada recipient Country Music Singer /Songwriter Born Bridgewater , Nova Scotia
- Placing repeatedly-used pages into Template space
- Settlement Attorneys Girardi/Keese
- Green Day Timeline
- Infobox multiple images
- accessdate errors showing in references despite using template and ALL references have current URL's!
- Green Day Timeline
- Infobox Picture
- My client wants dob removed from the wikipedia description that comes up when searched in google
October 14
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- Wiki article on Gilbert Ling Associated Induction Hypothesis now redirects
- Centering
- Illinois Army National Guard Page
- Self-referential edit
- Correcting a general decade/century reference
- Marco Cornaro
- Admins
- Baghel Singh
- what should i do if i disagree with another editor about the content of an article?
- Edit Conflict
- Editing problem
- Editing expanded template text before saving
- Date conversion templates
- Johnny Forzani Amendments
- Refreshing image in infobox
October 15
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- someone has recently died
- Need to create a page in alternate language.
- The use of Wikipedia free articles in ,y book.
- Conduct disorder
- Need to create a page in alternate language.
- Montana State Bobcats football
October 16
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- Definitions of word parts (Hyphenated)
- price list for gold and silver coins
- "revision history statistics" link
- about debate
- Rich Dad Education
- Baronets
- Search for... External links to en.wikipedia.org in mainspace
- Star trek online image upload
- A question about numbered lists
October 17
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- negligence of Wikipedia
- Protect Userpage
- revision history statistics
- WikiProject banners on Categories
- Add to list of communities on Wikipedia
- Town Linke Church
- Need to upload correct logo
- Can you highlight text, and press something to surround it with colons to get a nested reply?
October 18
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- posting article to facebook
- i edited "List of tropical cyclone records" wikipedia article...
- Template:Contemporary Jewish religious music
- User pages
- "u" template notification clarification
- Spamming accounts
October 19
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- Policy on cross-namespace redirects
- Find a photo
- Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250
- I would like to make a complaint about a Wikipedia editor, but I'm unsure of the correct complaint process.
- Gadget proposal
- Some articles look strange
- Draft page DC Grays
- numbered lists
- Paste move
- How do I correct an erroneous date of birth?
- Translation to Catlan
- Gekkos of Zimbabwe
- Is this worth a checkuser's time?
October 20
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- Revalidation article said "good"
- Chemistry
- sources of other language
- Converting Word formatting to Wikipaedia
- Change Ayn al arab to kobane
- A list and a template - is it appropriate to have both?
- Question about citations
- From someone who donates!
- Procedural question regarding references
October 21
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- Inexplicable negative net size change
- Help upload pictures - Masters Environmental Management student!!
- Referencing problem
- Clueless user handling
- Watchlist dots
- advertising or inappropriate external links
- The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC)
- Request name change to article 'P.J. Polyp'
- interwiki link for categories
- EPD eukaryotic promoter database
- Pirates of the Carribean 5
- HELP Request: Please help reinstate/improve article. Earlier edits have removed copyright violations in question. Continually blocked.
- Southbridge, MA
- Epinephrine went wrong
- Removing heading from page; creating link in heading
October 22
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- Editor's Question
- all wrong
- Printing issues
- trouble logging into Wikipedia and commons
- "revision history statistics" link
- Avenel, Victoria link addition
- Article assessment
- Changing Article Name
- Questions
- Title difference of opinion
- Mail problems?
- Changing interface language for all Wikipedia language versions
- Book Creator....
October 23
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- Checks
- Fault Mitigation
- Owning copyright of external text used in Wikipedia article
- 1911 ACP pistol
- Only joined today, please forgive if this is wrong place to post...I searched for ages
- locked pages which shouldn't be locked
- .webm format issues
October 24
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- Stuck Over an Article
- References
- How to edit Title for Saved & unpublished article page
- Why was my article deleted?
- Paid editing
- Weird question about extracting IPs from edit summary search
- Cannot edit a move-locked page
- Changes to my wikipedia
- image help request
- Change username?
- Could someone please move a page?
- In the course of a recent move
- Paola Bacchetta
- Book Creator issues
October 25
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- How to replace an erroneous image?
- Staff
- my information has been deleted
- Pending changes on?
- Paraphrasing articles in the media
- drop down menu
- Formatting
- Heading background color on sortable tables
October 26
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- Check an edit please?
- Template error
- Information Change
- Tundra Nomadics
- Important information
- Someone here to help?
- Preventing education by Wikipedia
- i want to update the article but....
- Edit title ?
- Which which?
- Anyone with free access to the New York Times online?
- Can good articles be deleted?
- Help with article
- I want to request a page
- Requesting advice on Politecnico di Studi Aziendali
- How can I change my e-mail address?
October 27
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- Adding sources
- which is re-usable for another mission: Rockets, Space-Craft or Space Flight?
- Margarine - an observation
- Edit request at the Gamergate controversy page
- Problem with way biography is ordering itself by first not surname in categories
- portal de internet
- Soyuz (spacecraft) wikipedia article is wrong please modify it....
- revision history statistics
- Request edit
- Questions about searching.
- Leon Johnson
- Peer reviews and when to act on them
- obscenity in Francis Crick bio
- Moscow
October 28
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- Print/export:Create a book features ...
- Athletes
- Witches Bru page by Roger Gary
- Article submission
- drop down menus
- Quarterly journal date format
- Is there a tool to send RFC to eds who contributed to discussions that are now archived?
- AFRICAN JEWISH HALAL
- Citing patents by inventor with duplicate name
- Template Help - Global Way of Centering Group Titles - or not?
- Mobile Search Field Won't Accept Input
- Categories
- Nodalotaluk
- How about actual balance in commentary -- not just progressive political views as the norm
- Timeline
- Developing a page
October 29
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- Adding new sites for our displays to be found
- Created an article
- The Daily Star article on "Stone Taking Over Farmlands”
- HOW TO EDIT AN ARTICLE TITLE
- Difficult editor
- Redirects with no incoming links
- Gregory Lewis
- Pyrex
- How do I get a page created?
- Gay Dad (Band) Transmission Album (2001) Track Listing
October 30
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- Subject: Fwd: Armenian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cambell Kenneford Wikipedia Page
- Unusual Username
- Shared universe
- Infoboxes
- External Links Removed because they seemed inappropriate.
October 31
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- Assistance needed!
- Template bug?
- Declined
- Linking to a Polish language page
- editing in delhi assembly election data
- Infobox coordinates broken
- The article about GamerGate is a blatant attack on GamerGate supporters
- My reference section isn't working!
- annie claus is coming to rown
- sub-headings
- Help from another experienced editor?