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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 1

  1. Schrodinger's User
  2. article issue problem
  3. Determining when an article title is ambiguous
  4. Misplaced deletion nomination
  5. Novopolotsk State Musical College
  6. 2017 MAC Football Championship Game Article
  7. Finding Wiki-Writers
  8. Add recipient of Soldiers Medal
  9. Shane Roiser
  10. IP reverting editions
  11. How do I report a user?
  12. Portal:Sierra Leone

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 2

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Need help writing an article on Orange is the New Black actress
  3. Link to specific section of an article
  4. Barry Mannakee
  5. Jack Atley
  6. Name Change
  7. How to use Sandbox for new draft when it is redirected with a submitted article pending review?
  8. Why I won't give a penny to Wikipedia
  9. Joe Plumb
  10. School Paper for School Colors
  11. Do they add the rating?
  12. can't find my page
  13. interwiki categories
  14. Liv and Maddie
  15. Picture edits
  16. Author of a reference amending misrepresentation of his work
  17. The Towering Inferno

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 3

  1. regarding references.
  2. Accidentally edited while logged out
  3. Morton Toe
  4. Lupton family
  5. BABEL Speech Corpus
  6. Restore article moved to drafts
  7. 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?
  8. Adding 'citations'
  9. Pornographic images in the graphical search results on the home page
  10. Question
  11. Page move help
  12. Otto warmbier

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 4

  1. Glen Affric
  2. Reference error
  3. Confirming my email address
  4. 2018 Major League Baseball season article
  5. question
  6. Template:Infobox Doctor Who doctor
  7. Counting the number of rows on a table
  8. links/citations

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 5

  1. Fabio (Seba) Sebastianelli page
  2. I cannot view the wikipedia page that i created in google
  3. Support/Oppose/etc
  4. Incorrect links in a page - security concern (attempt to hijack links?)
  5. Marshall Bouldin
  6. Plugins question
  7. Redirect / Disambiguation
  8. Too many citations

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 6

  1. Lupton family
  2. Hi.
  3. possible mistakes
  4. where do I find older

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 7

  1. Scottish clan chief
  2. Trouble with alignment
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  4. Protected from creation
  5. The "alt right" page is entirely biased
  6. how to insert jpeg files to article
  7. Cite template for leaflets and signage
  8. William Oke - Add two images
  9. How to indicate that a book chapter is "in press"
  10. Red banners
  11. uploading a photo onto a page

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 8

  1. Pippa Middleton
  2. Blueberry Markets deleted page
  3. Confirmation of ownership when uploading an image
  4. I asked a simple question, names and pictures of the 1982 eagles cheerleaders
  5. Adding information
  6. Problems finding comments page on "Alternative Medicine"
  7. Category: 2018 in baseball
  8. Question about translation from another language Wikipedia

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 9

  1. The Next Web (TNW) wikipedia page
  2. music
  3. Can I find and view a taxonomy of organization types and focus?
  4. Derek Chatterton
  5. User header
  6. Edit Wikipedia Title
  7. Background image for a table
  8. Links
  9. Hanoi
  10. Changing a picture
  11. Article not appearing on non-Wikipedia search engines
  12. Username

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 10

  1. Who is copying from whom?
  2. SpongeBob season 4?
  3. WP:Activity
  4. Theodore George Davenport
  5. Articles linking to the wrong person
  6. SELF FIXED AfD !votes not showing up in my AfD log, Round2
  7. Copyright and Trademark symbols
  8. template tag
  9. 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.
  10. Someone is changing a biographical page with negative unsubstantiated edits

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 11

  1. Infobox Journal - cover option?
  2. Vicuna, Chile (town)
  3. Nintendo games
  4. Articles mentioning a word, but not linking to them?
  5. 2017–18 United States Network Schedule ((Weekday))
  6. Barbara Hewson
  7. Pointer to policy decisions on whether or not to add infoboxes to articles about classical music composers
  8. Submitting a draft article for review

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 12

  1. Collage images
  2. malicious code found at Landgraviate_of_Hesse-Kassel
  3. Infobox
  4. Login error
  5. Pedro Miguel Caratini
  6. Really confused

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 13

  1. Best practices: how to credit an unconfirmed user for their suggested edit to a semiprotected page?
  2. Potternewton
  3. Having trouble in improving my article
  4. Potternewton
  5. Picture Uploading Not Showing
  6. My recent changes to the Berlin Connecticut Railroad Station history page.
  7. Please delete this suspicious entry. It is not my doing.
  8. Related articles
  9. edit and reference section with valid link.
  10. Converting unformatted dates
  11. Line numbers in diffs
  12. old school photos
  13. My new contribution doesn't show up on google
  14. Potternewton

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 14

  1. removing {{UDP|date=August 2017}}
  2. adding a business to the wikipedia page
  3. Trouble uploading a picture
  4. Edits by Catharine Smith

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 15

  1. Where did my profile on Wiki go?
  2. question
  3. Removal of maintenance template
  4. Forcing a column break
  5. Done my first merge... did I miss anything?
  6. Google Search Image connected to Wikipedia Page
  7. Otters
  8. how to cite a book chapter in multi-author book?
  9. Please Edit

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 16

  1. Leatherback sea turtle article
  2. What qualifies as trivia, and what is a reliable source?
  3. New version of file (replace photo with rendering to improve resolution)
  4. Hidden links to Wikidata: how to make more obvious?
  5. rectifying contains content written as advertisement.
  6. editing an article
  7. getting a new page live
  8. Create a page
  9. Wikipedia article not appearing in google search
  10. Edit Request
  11. A false information regarding a company named Business Initiative Directions
  12. Purpose of main pages 2-5

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 17

  1. Lupton family
  2. Copyright License
  3. A question regarding use of titles of nobility
  4. Submit
  5. hi
  6. Security problem
  7. Help - in a discussion that is partly deleted
  8. Getting an article published in Wikipedia
  9. Template error
  10. mobile device language selector
  11. On the history of Louise Troy
  12. How to create a page
  13. Put a footnote in notes section rather than references
  14. listing

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 18

  1. How can I find out
  2. Getting Headlines synchronized in different lanugages
  3. Re-edit and re-submit a deleted submission
  4. FC Utrecht
  5. New details for Copper Dragon Brewery
  6. Handling spaces in a URL
  7. 2017–18 United States Network Televison Schedule (late night)
  8. Content deleted
  9. Special:NewPages not highlighting
  10. Copyright Format

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 19

  1. Heath Ledger
  2. Amy Beach's 150th birthday
  3. Bone Wars
  4. add a colon?
  5. Ireland's Waterfrod Co
  6. Just need an advise about translation English page into Russian
  7. Offensive term used in an article, obviously edited by people opposed to the person's political ideology.
  8. Where can I find data (statistics) about use of a template?
  9. My edits being constantly deleted.
  10. Eminem on list of all time album sales
  11. Wikipedia has my photo with the wrong person

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 20

  1. Porn image detected in todays page
  2. Biswajit Chatterjee
  3. Seems to be the same person too
  4. Deletion request
  5. Matyu Elliott Article.
  6. Brian Gardner
  7. Use of units

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 21

  1. Wiki for islands needs to include how they generate electric power..
  2. How do I report users?
  3. using old news and advertisments
  4. Links in refn?
  5. New subtopics for country profiles
  6. Please do not delete my site - revision requested
  7. Article to be wriiten
  8. Marvel?s Spider-Man
  9. Regarding User Talk Section
  10. Searching by edit size
  11. Frideswide Square
  12. [[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}}]]
  13. edits being taken down

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 22

  1. Undeletion
  2. Help: can you remove the maintenance template?
  3. How do I keep my article?
  4. Metal foams
  5. changes keeps on changing back.
  6. Writing a page for the company
  7. Updating pages across different languages
  8. Malware?
  9. Double parenthetical disambiguation?

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 23

  1. wrong photo
  2. Create a Wikipedia for Jason Innocent
  3. Help merging
  4. Dhananjoy Chatterjee
  5. Multiple issues with article
  6. Editing images
  7. Questions about vandalism by a user reverting ClueBot NG's correctly identified vandalism
  8. Odd edit conflict
  9. 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
  10. Media Viewer
  11. C1 control character in |title= at position 31

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 24

  1. Hacking images
  2. Key Art - please tell me
  3. Denise Oliver-Velez
  4. How to return the content of possibly lost article Feudal tenures?
  5. Dana Tai Soon Burgess wiki
  6. 2017 dengue outbreak in Peshawar
  7. Lupin Anti-Vandal Tool not working

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 25

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  3. Permanent edit
  4. Sources of a living person

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 26

  1. Lupton family
  2. Hurghada Grand Aquarium
  3. Draft Article is not Viewed 26 days ago
  4. Typing some paragraphs
  5. My sandbox
  6. Johnny's Turtleneck Jamboree title
  7. Mark Levin

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 27

  1. Formatting Table Headers
  2. Diffs of edits to extremely long pages
  3. Heather Morris.
  4. The Alienist
  5. MacGregor
  6. Regarding Brigadier General John R. D'Araujo Jr.'s Wikipedia Page
  7. /* undefined */ undefined
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_galvanism

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 28

  1. List of Downton Abbey characters
  2. Russia Disqualified by decision of the IAAF Council for 8 years?
  3. Thomas Mathew
  4. Updating company page
  5. Listing subpages in WP
  6. 2018 Major League Baseball season
  7. Editing
  8. ARB Template Link?
  9. How to get more editors to vote on article content
  10. Assitance needed in aligning barnstars
  11. Diane Kochilas Draft
  12. list of Chinese Canadians
  13. mevn.net
  14. Colour of links and citations.

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 29

  1. Is it acceptable for a user to place a talk page warning on my user page?
  2. remove instagram and all photos
  3. Captcha
  4. Reverting
  5. mobile view lacks language selection
  6. Persistent "editor"
  7. Turning off Redirects?
  8. Article on Eola Texas has been vandalized
  9. add info about artist jason innocent prefer a wiki editor to do so. To aviod claims of spam and promotion

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 30

  1. School wikipedia page keeps getting modified by a user that includes malicious and false accusations
  2. Editing
  3. Duplicate accounts
  4. My edit is being reverted
  5. Reference grouping at Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
  6. Regarding misleading information about IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
  7. Default sort
  8. Gavin Rayna Russom
  9. Idea for DYK and/or Unusual article
  10. Sergio Cotta article, formatting in Publications wont display properly.
  11. Naked singularity

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 August 31

  1. When does a new day begin, for Wikipedia?
  2. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  3. Lowercase sigmabot III Not archiving?
  4. References
  5. User rapidly stalking new human rights post to delete
  6. Images not displaying properly
  7. logo
  8. Yearly or monthly Archives
  9. Multiple redirect confusion
  10. Template:Wide image
  11. Mortal Sin Definition
  12. "Your user page" icon link
  13. LINGUISTIC MYSTERY
  14. sandeep mehta
  15. How do I report copyvio?
  16. Request for clarification of OR rule
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