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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 1

  1. How do I add my name
  2. Looking for any old records Tommy Dorsey early days with a singer
  3. Creating a page
  4. New to Wikipedia
  5. Title of an article
  6. Subject: The title for this page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBC_children%27s_television_programmes
  7. Userpage Templates
  8. Picture next to name

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 2

  1. "Wikibious" appears to be a misinformation website posing as wikibios.
  2. Move without leaving Redirect
  3. Accidental File Naming Process.
  4. block
  5. Footnotes in headings
  6. Laïka Fatien
  7. Regarding Donation
  8. Archiving messages on my talk page?
  9. Is it Wikipedia requesting for Donations?
  10. Uploading a new logo
  11. To remove template in my page
  12. Confused
  13. password

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 3

  1. Dominos
  2. How to edit/update the language template of a <> Code block
  3. Notability, and WHat
  4. Notability, and What Wikipedia Is Not (^I accidentally clicked enter before I was finished)
  5. Question about edit notes
  6. Citing how widely cited a paper is
  7. how to change my user name here?
  8. Substituting a dead source?
  9. Time in Indiana
  10. emptying empties
  11. Guidelines?
  12. Quick question
  13. Can I use Grammarly to help me write and correct articles?
  14. how to make a link pubic which is yet in draft
  15. iPhone 9
  16. Editing with IOS 9.4
  17. The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
  18. Kosoko
  19. Wikipedia Indeed

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 4

  1. About my card
  2. How to see history?
  3. Search "baike.baidu" ，about 1,051 pages，it`s unreliable sources.
  4. how to create a page
  5. Natalie Wood Famous Actress and Film star
  6. Dev Patel has an Emmy nomination
  7. Page version history - sorting by section title
  8. Hello! Big mistake in this text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingush_people
  9. Checking some information on Independent Premium?
  10. Alessandra Paonessa IS Alexa Ray
  11. Query about donation
  12. Creating a biography on wiki
  13. Problem with coord template/Location map
  14. Wikipedia page for Sarah Murdoch
  15. Download subset of the database (HTML Pages)
  16. Autopatrolled user
  17. Red Links

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 5

  1. Leonid Bolotine
  2. References from propaganda articles and events that have no reference
  3. Citing myself, in publicly published works
  4. Reference VS Cite
  5. Updating image file
  6. Whereabouts of an Wikipedia Article about my Family that I have been contributing to
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error empty references define - 2020 Beirut explosions - rhosus.shiparrested
  8. How to cite direct knowledge regarding a member of my family
  9. New account has marked all edits as minor
  10. Url needed
  11. Open Street Map - Make map display in English
  12. How to ? help needed with guidance
  13. IFPRI page - Please review talk page
  14. Being blocked
  15. Your notice that wikipedia has neutral content is laughable
  16. Anyone know why there was a spike on this chart in early 2020

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 6

  1. help for the final step to publish my wikipedia article Treehouse135 (talk) 10:30, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
  2. Printing The Signpost
  3. Need help with archiving on Talk:Politics of J. K. Rowling, I messed up when setting up MiszaBot
  4. What Happened To A Page - Deleted?
  5. Edit to Wandering Jew Plant
  6. Photo upload
  7. Photo Update to Wikipedia page
  8. Flagging an irrelevant reference
  9. Zerem Freier temp value
  10. Possible Source of Editing Without Meaning found in a wikipedia page
  11. citations

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 7

  1. Nick Robertson's mother (ice hockey)
  2. Can I link to Wikipedia page with table sorted on a particular column
  3. Question regaring page deletion
  4. How much time dose it take for Wikipedia to Review and Publish a Article if its written by a New Creator
  5. My Domain Blocked By Wikipedia
  6. Vapepal e liquid brand
  7. Refering Ayodhay Ram janbhumo as Disputed Land - as on date
  8. nationality, ethnicity, origin, identity
  9. Adding a link
  10. kkk
  11. Locked up pages vs editable pages
  12. Adding company details
  13. Infobox spacing
  14. Correcting incorrect submission
  15. Disable Unnecessary Link Pop-ups?

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 8

  1. I'm having trouble setting up my page
  2. Obtaining copyright permission
  3. Getting back my subject on wikipedia
  4. Taipanusa's question
  5. Redirects that break existing comments
  6. Toyota 2E engine
  7. 15 mins on Wiki and DELETED?
  8. Article on Concert pitch

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 9

  1. Help correcting a date link
  2. Vandalism help request from Sdkb
  3. Knaresborough / Knaresborough Online
  4. How reliable are archive.is links as reference?
  5. Article version numbers
  6. how do i make a page to publish
  7. Questions
  8. importance of nationality
  9. Password

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 10

  1. Use of acronyms in quotation marks
  2. List of people who died climbing Mount Everest table in Android app
  3. MY NAME AND DETAILS DOES NOT APPEAR WIKIPEDIA
  4. Account User
  5. Downloading a table
  6. Deleting pages
  7. Donations
  8. I m reporting wrong permotion on Wikipedia
  9. Accessing Wikidata
  10. Cronyism
  11. request edit

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 11

  1. Html table help
  2. creating an historical wikipedia page
  3. Requests to edits have not been answered on multiple talk sections of pages
  4. Donation
  5. Requesting another opinion on a source
  6. Waaris (1988 film)
  7. Contribution value
  8. Something or other
  9. Category: Films set in [year]
  10. Kamala Harris page
  11. Template:Alabama (band) 1977–1989 singles
  12. MV Rhosus
  13. Help

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 12

  1. Don't know location of book publisher
  2. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  3. Sushant Singh Rajput Death
  4. Photogenic
  5. font size
  6. infobox at end of article -- by reader preference
  7. Find and replace
  8. Arnab goswami
  9. GA
  10. Draft Page Heinz Trökes to main page
  11. ITN
  12. Mention of Brand Name
  13. Chloe Jones
  14. Someone messed up an article
  15. 2022 Olympic Games might be delayed until 2023
  16. Sushant Singh Rajput
  17. Move article
  18. CANNOT LOG IN, AND YOU WANT ME TO DONATE AGAIN?
  19. Language code list
  20. Imelda Marcos MOS issues
  21. Antifa

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 13

  1. Kamala Harris
  2. How can I get a template for writing my biography?
  3. I mucked it up
  4. Changing title of the article
  5. KAMALA HARRIS (2)
  6. banglore riot wikipedia page
  7. Creating A New Article With A Name That's Already In Use
  8. Mari Katayama
  9. Help writing a user space essay
  10. Capitalization of first letter of "island" in "Sakhalin Island"

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 14

  1. Syntax highlighting in 2017 wikitext editor
  2. Editing an info box
  3. Creating multiple sandboxes
  4. akhtar raza khan
  5. Black Privilege is not yet a title
  6. How do I make a new infobox template?
  7. How should a recently renamed organization be referred to in its article?
  8. i wrote a few lines on my pet research Thoughtonics this morning. where do i find them?
  9. Money conversion?
  10. Misleading article description
  11. Unstructured list references
  12. Undo: re Corrour railway station
  13. ‪New user message‬ left a message on your talk page.
  14. Vandalism taking place at "List of countries by system of government"
  15. Change page to a Disambiguation page
  16. Find not working right

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 15

  1. Donald Harris Date Of U.S. Citizenship
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Valentine
  3. Guy Nattiv photos and information.
  4. Split an inputed argument into two arguments
  5. Talk page deletion
  6. Truganini
  7. new page submission
  8. Jai Shree Ram
  9. South Africa
  10. List of 2020-21 NBA Transactions Article
  11. Map push pin size
  12. Breck Girl 1977
  13. 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.
  14. Signature
  15. How to edit articles that do NOT have a standard, normal "edit' link?
  16. Red links on English wiki while article exists on Italian wiki
  17. Cancelation of Classmates
  18. Die Hard Citations

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 16

  1. inaccuracies jn locked article
  2. Citation error on Cory Marks
  3. Connie Francis
  4. Would someone please help
  5. Quote box question
  6. Confusion with references
  7. Adding content
  8. Template overflow
  9. Tried to upload a photo that I personally made but WIKI rejected claiming it was not mine. How do I dispute that?
  10. When to use the RfC process?
  11. Citations and references

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 17

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. How do I report broken links?
  3. Minor edit
  4. Luke Swindlehurst
  5. Am I included in the list of graduates in 1967?
  6. Unified Login Question
  7. Biased page
  8. publishing
  9. Adding Information to WIkipedia
  10. Unsigned Comment
  11. Creating a new page
  12. Request to increase ggsradius > 10000
  13. Searching on Wikipedia
  14. Lead author formatting
  15. How to remove any info I've added in Wikipedia and delete my page?

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 18

  1. Robert Downey Jr.
  2. Editors for hire
  3. How to let administrator know that temporary draft was changed?
  4. Removing Old Edits from 14 years ago.
  5. How to change title and URL
  6. Interlanguage links in lists of people
  7. Why I can’t make a article?
  8. Disclosed my indirect affiliation with an article subject, still waiting
  9. Expansion of BLP for Peter Klopfer
  10. How to change a file name
  11. Base-level Wikipedian introductory
  12. Interwiki contributions

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 19

  1. List of pages matching search
  2. Using Wikipedia as a resource for school
  3. Democratic national convention 2020
  4. NBA divisional tables
  5. Lupton family
  6. Wikipedia's official policies and guidelines overrule consensus?
  7. Nike Dattani
  8. Mahaveer swami
  9. Problem with article Lahore Front
  10. Jeffrey Royal article
  11. Re HG Wells novel The War in the Air
  12. gadget or script
  13. How Date of birth and place can be changed
  14. Will Wikipedia merge their site to fb or google like whatsapp did?
  15. My Non Profit Organization
  16. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 20

  1. Effective Way to Find Vandalism
  2. Help:Email confirmation
  3. Wiki markup/Insert box
  4. How to Access Past Wikipedia Article Archives
  5. Intentionally derivative work?
  6. I'm lost
  7. :QAnon
  8. student assignment
  9. I am confused and I need help
  10. info regarding afd
  11. Charles Nordby
  12. Italic entries in categories
  13. donations
  14. Donations
  15. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref-How to remove an incorrect reference page and correct a name
  16. Admin got involved with a very minor issue
  17. Coordination between Japanese and English pages

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 21

  1. Christian Darnton
  2. News source had a different publisher at time of citing
  3. Sushant Singh Rajput Death Related
  4. Changing user name
  5. Leader of the Opposition (British Columbia)
  6. Stamma BSA 1 and the British Stammering Association
  7. Draft re AFL player
  8. Translation of Wikipedia articls in Indian Regional Langauge--Marathi
  9. Adding Company President/CEO Info on Wikipedia
  10. candidates, election dates, and the main page
  11. Help with publishing a Draft

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 22

  1. class assignment using student sandboxes
  2. Someone is using Wikipedia to libel me and reveal the location of my home
  3. Wikipedia's stance on essay summaries?
  4. An editor keep adding wrong content on the article
  5. Colouring the code in my user page notes about a non-breaking space
  6. Please suggest Wikiproject templates in Biochemistry/Cancer/Gastroenterology to have this draft revised - Draft:Scott Waldman
  7. Does Wikipedia consider Alaeddin Pasha 1 or 2 people?
  8. Report an edit rejection made by someone who doesn't know the facts
  9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  10. Changing an article name
  11. Beirut Blast

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 23

  1. correct misinformation in wikipedia on La Dame aux Camélias.
  2. Adding item to a list
  3. trying to add source link to added information but bot removes it
  4. Mistake on the most viewed online video in the first 24 hours
  5. A reference originating in an Infobox does not go to the linked website
  6. Update request
  7. Questions about a table
  8. 1111
  9. Skeptical about edit

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 24

  1. Kerala Blockchain Academy
  2. Please help me improve this article
  3. How to change my User name
  4. Could non-admin user vote on "Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard" proposals?
  5. Uploading an image
  6. [URGENT] Request additional information
  7. PLEASE HELP ME.....
  8. How to move files to Commons
  9. Disambiguation/redirection problem
  10. reliable sources for my article
  11. Extra markup
  12. Incorrect facts on the entry for GW Pharmaceuticals
  13. Article
  14. wiki text to avoid line split before a comma

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 25

  1. Added two edit notes about the same thing
  2. Articles about India
  3. Ayurveda
  4. Reading mode
  5. Containt is not correct
  6. How to edit a protected pages
  7. Block Quotation
  8. Mistake on my fathers page, please help, his name is wrong and i dont know how to edit it
  9. Not sure how to parse moderator message and make successful changes to a page
  10. Convert template for acre
  11. Scrolling images
  12. False Definition
  13. Bullet points in ref
  14. I am a newbie

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 26

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. East Sea, the South Korean name of the Sea of Japan->[incorrect]
  3. Scots Wikipedia
  4. Death names
  5. Asking for assistance in creating a draft
  6. User talk:ThisIsaTest
  7. Template:Collapsible large category TOC
  8. NBA season 2019/20
  9. Wikipedia:Five pillars
  10. Korean War Was a Stalemate
  11. Wrongfully deleted entry
  12. How to make the mobile interface the default for all users?
  13. Chicks on Right
  14. Adding edit notes explaining/apologizing for strikethroughs
  15. Colin Higgins -- correction of resting place

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 27

  1. article submission
  2. Wildcat Strikes
  3. Using an example from a paper/textbook or thesis
  4. Sushant Singh Rajput death or murder
  5. How do I create a new Wikipedia article for my grandfather?
  6. Ayurveda (2)
  7. Issue uploading my companies new logo
  8. Abt wikipedia
  9. Photo upload
  10. Deleted BLP and copyright
  11. Editing Wiki
  12. Dr Linda Campbell

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 28

  1. Vague article made by bot in the Cebuano language
  2. Table formatting
  3. SCIENCE
  4. Chemistry
  5. Jacob Blake Shooting Is An Act Of War
  6. help to complete the final step of publishing my wikipedia article
  7. Editing: citing a book; volume #  ???
  8. Automatic translations
  9. Wiki link
  10. Q Article suggestion for Tasmania-based skincare brand Beauty and the Bees (3 references cited)
  11. Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
  12. Glossary of Brazil investigative terms/Compact ToC
  13. Centering text in the chart columns

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 29

  1. Twinkle
  2. Template:listen
  3. Saint Urho
  4. Intersection Observer alternative
  5. Using Other People's Flickr Images
  6. BLP referencing question
  7. Awb replace moving one line forward
  8. Gallery of Videos
  9. Jim Watkins 8chan guy
  10. Music
  11. Historical populations template formatting
  12. Can you please block someone called Urmomisfat100010001000
  13. Which is the better document to cite?
  14. Article Title Edit
  15. How to handle "... has made few or no other edits outside this topic"
  16. 2020 NBA Playoffs

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 30

  1. Old English period
  2. Sushant Singh Rajpoot
  3. Please restore my translation
  4. How do i create a page and make it visible
  5. ISBN trouble
  6. Netflix charts
  7. Adding different meaning to existing entry
  8. Numbered list with paragraphs between the examples
  9. far-right but not far-left?
  10. Archiving problem
  11. Wont let me edit

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 August 31

  1. Amway Australia
  2. How do I report a page that may have been created to put out false information about the 2020 US Election
  3. How do I stay logged into Wikipedia on Safari iOS (iPhone)?
  4. How to create an article
  5. Codes
  6. Category lists
  7. Article Publishing.
  8. Public Schools Club
  9. 1000 ha. or square kilometre.
  10. Importing images from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia articles.
  11. Question on "Discussion procedure on merging Wikipedia articles"
  12. Mismatching the link provided.
  13. Article for Review
  14. High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
  15. Personal Profile
  16. Green Grabbing/Johan Eliasch
  17. Help to create Sapna Choudhary and Swarup Solanki Articles
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