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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 1

  1. Lupton family
  2. I have done it again!
  3. request edit
  4. How do you correct the spelling of my Dad's last name on Wikipedia?
  5. editing Lanni Marchant personal info
  6. Wiki markup language and Word: a problem
  7. WW II Germany
  8. question about GA reassesment
  9. Live links
  10. Can any script do this?

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 2

  1. Peyronies124.180.237.213 (talk) 06:18, 2 August 2015 (UTC) Disease
  2. Wikiproject Watchlist
  3. references no. 84 and 85
  4. Me again with a "link" problem
  5. Please check ref 95 on the Lupton family page
  6. should this reference be in a "web page" format?
  7. Installing AFC Script
  8. is the subject speaking in an interview an independent reliable source
  9. If I cite a YouTube video, should I include a "Retrieved on" date?
  10. How does an editor create fancy individualized signatures on Wikipedia?
  11. Sumter High School Sumter South Carolina
  12. Age at death

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 3

  1. IPv6 transition mechanisms
  2. Blank maps
  3. Salman Farooq
  4. Wrong information on a Pharmaceutical Page
  5. How to merge articles' wikilinks
  6. Retail business page
  7. Draft:The Cash Box Kings
  8. Adding a "notable person" to a City/States Wikipedia page
  9. External in-line link

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 4

  1. Signature
  2. Referencing errors on Business 2 Community
  3. To whom it may concern
  4. User claiming to be a "Wikipedia Superuser"?
  5. Wiki API's?
  6. AutoEd problem
  7. Too many responses?
  8. Proposed deletion

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 5

  1. Street Charge page errors
  2. A Second "(list of episodes)"
  3. How to change Wikipedia User Name
  4. Request for donations from Wikipedia
  5. When was Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 featured on the Main Page?
  6. Resolving Links Between English and Spanish Pages
  7. Errors in my late husbands biography
  8. Custom thumb of an image
  9. Uploading modified image File to a page in WP namespace
  10. I incorrectly titled an article I created
  11. HOW DO I THANK YOU AMAZING PEOPLE!
  12. How to ask a new question
  13. Talk page archiving stopped??
  14. Userspace search
  15. language conversion?

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 6

  1. An added link created two citations
  2. Page and URL renaming issue
  3. How to move user sandbox talk page
  4. Custom Signature
  5. Updated Details on the Medochemie Page (Medochemie)
  6. One reference covering several sentences or even a whole paragraph...
  7. Referencing errors on Jimmy Gauld
  8. AFC Grading Scheme
  9. Emails Of Wikipedia articles
  10. List of notable X, include references to descriptions that don't include X?
  11. Issues on my page
  12. Recurrent COI and reversion

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 7

  1. Swear words in porn star bio's
  2. Wikitable help on the list of NFL quarterbacks who have passed for 400 or more yards in a game
  3. Gap between templates
  4. MUSIKANIMAL
  5. Wikipedia page: Michael Lawrence (writer)

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 8

  1. Including computer output in a page
  2. Listed buildings in Birmingham
  3. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  4. Wildlife, fauna, flora
  5. User Page
  6. James William Middleton
  7. Sacred Heart Catholic High School, Newcastle Upon Tyne
  8. Comparison of DNS blacklists article completeness
  9. How do you start to write an article?
  10. See also: Category:People educated at Strathallan School
  11. Major change of article
  12. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  13. la popalazione della sicilia
  14. Notifications

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 9

  1. Stern warning in source
  2. Sacred Heart Catholic High School, Newcastle upon Tyne
  3. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  4. Martineau family
  5. About Signature
  6. St Andrew's School, Pangbourne
  7. Zensar Technologies
  8. Correcting a Wikipedia Content's Title
  9. Section heading help

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 10

  1. High profile users who are dishonest - Who can I talk to about them?
  2. Referencing errors on Little Mix discography
  3. Changing page title
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  5. template issue
  6. Userbox box questions
  7. I have two others that I want to submit... when I go my sandbox it is full of the text, etc for the article i just submitted. how can i get a new page?
  8. Change of username
  9. Theory Regarding the Origin and Future of Our Planet Earth

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 11

  1. Please check the page which has been submitted
  2. Counteract
  3. Zac Harding
  4. Your Opinion/Vote
  5. According: Resubmit article
  6. Nawab of Swabi.... Nawab Zohaib Ali Khan.. one of the best outstanding cricketer. as well as best and romantic and charming . person.
  7. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  8. Lupton family
  9. Connector infobox in article section
  10. Lupton family
  11. Referencing errors on Draft:Devbridge Group
  12. How to solicit more input in a discussion to reach consensus
  13. Query regarding Grey Panel
  14. Sports people from Perth, Scotland
  15. Michelle Woods
  16. Wikipedia Description of Oceana Energy Company
  17. Gerry Zaragemca
  18. The Article on Hashtags
  19. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 12

  1. Johnnie Juanita Mohamed
  2. Wikidata help
  3. Uploading a copyrighted image you own
  4. Lupton family
  5. Notification about user scripts
  6. Templates with unbalanced brackets and braces
  7. JFK Assassination page
  8. Draft submitted: July 10th. re Peter R Hemming
  9. Atlanta Celebrates Photography
  10. "Cite" is intermittently missing from the editor toolbar
  11. Disclaimers
  12. Rj (Rapper)

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 13

  1. Margietta Voge
  2. Image shapes
  3. Booyzen Family Crest.
  4. The links to references are not getting reflected in the generated pdf as they are in the article on web
  5. Move help
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  7. Editing someone else's user space draft?
  8. resuming Carbon Tracker Initiative wiki page
  9. sani mander sardarshahar
  10. Name Change
  11. Major General Rollin B. Moore Jr.
  12. American Girl outfits

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 14

  1. No section editing of my sandbox page - why?
  2. Uploading a new headshot/image to Matthew Le Nevez
  3. Are google maps fair use?
  4. Problem copying a list of articles so that it is a column, not a mess
  5. Wikipedia articles no titles.
  6. Odd behaviour of user
  7. View history button of one article locks up browser
  8. CAPTCHA is not working while editing an article in beta.

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 15

  1. Referencing errors on Crips and Bloods: Made in America
  2. Many problems with cut and paste merger without discussion (several articles)
  3. Mahat
  4. The sample code at the top of Help:Using the Wayback Machine didn't work for me
  5. Adding pictures or links to signatories
  6. Adding a copy of a UK Will to an article
  7. undoing a bulleted list command
  8. Edit and add to existing page
  9. Articles created

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 16

  1. I'm curious
  2. Autumn Phillips
  3. Marquess of Lansdowne
  4. Create Citations
  5. Looking to create article but unable to do so
  6. Protecting a page
  7. Referencing errors on Draft:Accredo Business Software Ltd

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 17

  1. wikipedia says a felon is someone who was convicted who did a felony
  2. I can not create a wikipedia page
  3. How To Request Merger Of Similar Articles
  4. need to help in creating page of Veena Gupta
  5. locator map is not working
  6. rare photos of Australia rules footballers
  7. undelete of IFA Paris
  8. Stuck on Wikipedia space quest
  9. failing to upload my (first) photo
  10. Need Help
  11. Uploading Photos
  12. How to create a page on wi ki pedia
  13. wikipedia link to online drug stores
  14. Economic batch quantity
  15. Edits by user

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 18

  1. shutdown the PARED Foundation reference
  2. Vandalism on Wikipedia TR
  3. Adding an image
  4. Help
  5. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  6. setting up a small company profile
  7. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  8. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  9. Merger expert needed
  10. Citation link
  11. What does "patrolled" mean?
  12. Haliburtan
  13. Should the Xena:_Warrior_Princess article have news added that there is a reboot of the series coming out in fall of 2016?

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 19

  1. Defamatory Wiki Page
  2. WebM video
  3. Templates and categories
  4. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  5. Top of Psychosis page is broken - don't know how to fix
  6. New Post
  7. Why are some short prepositions consistently capitalized in composition titles (like, down, near, etc.)?
  8. Delete my account
  9. Kindly Update your Airlines Codes Details
  10. Where are my changes/edits?
  11. hi
  12. Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools has incorrect address and phone number
  13. Pre -1940 bicycle
  14. men's V-Neck T-Shirts
  15. I was banned unjustly while trying to engage with an individual.

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 20

  1. On the Waterfront
  2. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  3. i edited a topic and accidentally screwed up a reference...
  4. I Want to Edit my Org's Details on Wiki
  5. Automatic review of new pages
  6. Same sex marriage country listings.
  7. Adding Links to other Articles
  8. Twinkle
  9. moving text from sandbox to article status
  10. Deletion nomination notification
  11. Why are the time stamps not in synch?
  12. Road miles of a city
  13. category issue
  14. Virtual Builders Exchange, LLC
  15. Burmese–Siamese War (1809-12)
  16. Housing/Landlord./Trouble.
  17. Citation bug

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 21

  1. Hurrem, a/k/a Roxelana
  2. Up for Deletion!
  3. Deleating images
  4. Archived version of reference page is useless because of robots.txt
  5. Lynn Walsh
  6. How to find a recent posting here (recursive problem?)
  7. Housing/LandLord/Breaking Judge"sOrder (Access)

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 22

  1. Referencing errors on Atlantic Coast Conference
  2. greenfield village
  3. Page layout
  4. Policy/Guideline on interlanguage interwiki links in article text?
  5. Curious about a edit suppression in the section "Why are the time stamps not in synch?" above
  6. Template for Wiktionary redlink-equivalent?
  7. Flag Represented
  8. Template or other best method to mark discrepancies between multiple articles?
  9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  10. <Subject Redacted>
  11. Is there a template for 3D diagrams that should be replaced with 2D?
  12. Biographical page update

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 23

  1. I'm lost around Wikipedia help pages
  2. Usurpation of blocked accounts
  3. Where can I find a list of redirect pages for a specific article?
  4. 2015 Belgian Grand Prix
  5. I botched an attempt to add an incident
  6. User Name Change

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 24

  1. Article about John Dehlin
  2. Universal Troubleshooting Flowchart
  3. Article provided for review
  4. Darioush_Bayandor
  5. Watchlist Bolded and then not...
  6. Adding external links
  7. World War 2 veteran, need to add my Dad
  8. User page global settings
  9. Regarding Notability Edits
  10. CIA
  11. General notability guideline?

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 25

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Weirdness
  3. Louvre Abu Dhabi Wikipedia Page
  4. External Link
  5. Sourcing
  6. Name of page "Macedonia" and reference of an ethnic group.
  7. Well known person
  8. Restarting a DYK page
  9. New to Wikipedia
  10. Error in coordinates for Saint-François, Laval
  11. Deleted Contributions

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 26

  1. Script error
  2. Multiple Infobox templates.
  3. Help with Son Boricua article
  4. How to review and verify non-English sources?
  5. Hithadhoo School
  6. How to register
  7. Sortable alphabetical tables
  8. Technical question on article expansion
  9. Notifications
  10. Referencing errors on Tourist attractions in Udaipur
  11. Page about me
  12. how to cite/quote/refer to a nonfiction book which is only in print and not online

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 27

  1. Feedback for the new user feature
  2. Deletion Review after Reviewed and added to the main space
  3. Template error
  4. How to create a company page on Wikipedia
  5. Page move please
  6. Assistant Organists of Manchester Cathedral
  7. blocked fro m site
  8. Autoconfirmation
  9. Account Vanishing
  10. University Canada West
  11. How to properly cite a letter
  12. How to have pictures next to sortable table
  13. inline citations
  14. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text in Q*bert article
  15. Hatting comments in an RfA or RfC

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 28

  1. Unknown reason for a script error
  2. Math question
  3. Title change
  4. How Can I Help?
  5. Usurpation Notification Template
  6. My own contributions list
  7. MSF Controversial in 2015 phantom movie.
  8. How do I edit the article title?
  9. Formatting References section
  10. received message from you that I had deleted information from an article
  11. Królewiec
  12. Incorrect Logo Image
  13. I suck at parser functions
  14. Speedy Deletion Nomination Notification Template
  15. gasport ny history

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 29

  1. Where's Twinkle?
  2. request edit
  3. Redlinked redirect
  4. Left justifying section headings
  5. Alex Salmond
  6. Being Charlie is broken
  7. Making us a Page?
  8. Pippa Middleton
  9. SVG not showing
  10. Namespaces
  11. Article overwritten
  12. Happy sailor no reference checks done.
  13. Copying for Wikipedia article
  14. convert: invalid number
  15. adding a jpg from my own files

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 30

  1. Image in signature
  2. Gorgi Coghlan
  3. PLEASE HELP ME WITH MY DELETED ARTICLE EDIT
  4. picture to articleTatyana barinova (talk) 16:21, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
  5. Request for review
  6. How to...

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 August 31

  1. Please block User:Skirtland in English Wikipedia who is identified as sockpuppet of Unypoly
  2. Autumn Phillips
  3. Trying to edit an existing company page that is wrong and out of date
  4. Creating a company page
  5. Lenoir City, TN
  6. My info keeps getting deleted.
  7. What is the proper way to ping a user?
  8. requested articles?
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