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December 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 1

  1. Is there a way to remove auto-saved edit summaries from the VisualEditor?
  2. How to add/subtract numbers by column in the table?
  3. Somebody maliciously edits my Dad's Page;
  4. Possible glitch?
  5. Draft to mainspace
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref 2
  7. Template html formatting question
  8. Request to Move a Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Child_Heritage_Museum_of_the_1000_Islands)
  9. screen size
  10. Fair use rationale
  11. How to handle copyrighted pictures of notable figures
  12. Fees
  13. When should an actor/actress or a musician get a separate filmography or discography page?
  14. TYPO in the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States
  15. Text is not being show on page after a save
  16. Please stop harassing me

December 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 2

  1. Contributions
  2. Dialogue with the editor on requesting an insertion into a semi-protected page
  3. Reference image published by CDC via tableau?

December 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 3

  1. Want to use countries national flags
  2. What are the Ways to Get Admin access for my wiki page
  3. Donations
  4. Using sortname for disambiguated name
  5. Duplicate film
  6. Could the donation requests be made clearer?
  7. Inline template: independent source?
  8. Question about Edit Warring
  9. Invalid URL Here Come the Hawks
  10. Infobox sportsperson - how to add children?
  11. To give or not to give URLs to DOI-indexed sources?
  12. Question

December 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 4

  1. Question on BLP policy for recently deceased individuals.
  2. Question about donations
  3. Template:single chart
  4. Zaid Shakir
  5. conflicting user information?
  6. Jack Downer
  7. Editing the Egidio Marzona page
  8. Newspapers.com subscription
  9. Publishing a Army unit wiki page
  10. Appeal
  11. Placement of audio file
  12. You are not independent

December 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 5

  1. Cross-wiki notification issue
  2. Please add Joseph Merrick (the elephant man) to the article on the 27 Club
  3. Citing lengthy lists of authors
  4. How to understand "diff" in "View History" tab?
  5. stop asking for donations
  6. Why does wikipedia donation banner look similar to Internet Archive?
  7. How did Ser Amantio di Nicolao add "authority control" in so many articles in short period of time?
  8. Donating to Wikipedia
  9. BLP flag does not apply -what sets it, and why does it not apply to events in a persons life?
  10. Archiving - How added, default settings, how do you find changes, do discretional sanctions change the defaults
  11. Best tool to add categories to new article
  12. How would I send a Vid of players cheating to the Devs
  13. Are textbooks reliable sources?
  14. nuovo logo agenzia spaziale italiana
  15. Why User:DarTar not listed in "Category:Members of the Fifteen Year Society of Wikipedia editors"?
  16. kancoll.org appears to now be a malware site
  17. Donations
  18. Donating by mail

December 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 6

  1. Image of Renaissance tapestry question
  2. Submitting a Draft to AfC
  3. Question about donations
  4. Units of measure for editing wikipedia content
  5. User who repeatedly blanked article now requesting deletion by PROD
  6. New articles on search engines
  7. Picture not accepted
  8. Will magic links be disabled?
  9. iOs display problems
  10. SVG version of English Wikipedia file

December 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 7

  1. How to request to create a page for BLP Biography of a living person?
  2. David igham. Aberdeen high court
  3. I already donated, the first day you asked me for money. Would you please stop asking me?
  4. Donations
  5. The FBI removed my personal page
  6. "Edit appears to be not constructive"
  7. urumi page references edit
  8. Repetitive alerts
  9. Donations
  10. Need to Remove "Draft:" from the title of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Lashings_Cricket
  11. Correct Information
  12. Incorrect thumbnail picture
  13. Photo permissions

December 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 8

  1. Guidelines for representing both sides of an argument
  2. Henry Cavill Yahoo Profile Vandalism
  3. Regarding Wikipedia essay process.
  4. i would like to contribute photos of historical places
  5. company owned image
  6. Business page + company owner page
  7. No more donations
  8. Armando Varricchio
  9. Younique false claims
  10. Making donations to Wikipedia
  11. Administrative decision on dispute over article content
  12. Won't upload company logo

December 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 9

  1. How to suggest a correction to an "Extended Confirmed Protected" page?
  2. Fix An error on a Reference
  3. Why Authority control is not showing in this article?
  4. MISS SWISS
  5. How do I archive my Userpage?
  6. Three-time deleting my post ?
  7. Review
  8. Is there a quick way to standardize citation and date formats?
  9. Potential problematic editing pattern...or potential overreaction

December 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 10

  1. Donation question
  2. Locked out of Bot account, 2 days wait?
  3. Info box
  4. No matter how often I donate you keep asking.
  5. Creating a page for a non-profit
  6. Submission of User:Draft for consideration, Draft of the Outline of Colorado for WikiProject Colorado, at their request for improvement of the Outline of Colorado
  7. Filter out specific tags: Recent Changes
  8. Wikipedia request for funding.
  9. What type of infobox
  10. Formatting a table

December 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 11

  1. Proud boys
  2. Colorado County is missing on the Colorado 2012 Election Results
  3. Donate by mail
  4. Hi!
  5. I have already donated but Wiki keeps asking me to donate
  6. Archive of messages/announcements which appear at top of Watchlist and below tabs/above page header?
  7. Infobox trouble?
  8. Health speculation
  9. Your asking for donations
  10. I updated an SVG file on commons, PNG is not updating
  11. Big Kahuna Luau
  12. American soldiers killed in WWII
  13. Adding WikiProjects to articles
  14. Update image
  15. CP24
  16. Appropriate
  17. Appeal
  18. Donation
  19. Extra Charge TO BE REMOVED .

December 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 12

  1. just a question
  2. Deceptive and incomplete or inaccurate information
  3. Advice
  4. Nagging for contributions.
  5. De-archiving a talk page when an archived template is affecting other pages (eg. dashboard).
  6. Using G7 to foil AFD
  7. How to fix a LUA error in Module:Location map
  8. invalid capture index %2 in replacement string
  9. Articles that start with Death of with the person's name redirecting to that article
  10. I am having problem with content add.
  11. A fully cited section was removed by an anonymous user, no need to prove
  12. Army navy game
  13. Wikipedia glorification of Nazi criminals

December 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 13

  1. Edit: Pregnancy
  2. James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
  3. Wikipedia: Deletes names of scientists who disagree with the concept of global warming? Act of Censorship?
  4. Is there a restriction on what a blocked user can use his talk page for?
  5. Donation requests
  6. Please help to publish People's Reporter Page which has been declined
  7. The line between WP:Synth and editorial
  8. World Burlesque Day - edit added
  9. File:S.M.I.L.A by Alexander Ozolin .mp3
  10. List of Sculptors
  11. Correction to Adolf Hitler Article
  12. Poison
  13. Edit summary search?
  14. Emergency shutoff-compliant?
  15. Lead image choice
  16. Editing Clive Llewellyn
  17. Caliphate requests
  18. Sarbedaran
  19. Draft:Global Sustainable Tourism Council
  20. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  21. Louis Awad
  22. Changing font size to print an article for visually impaired?
  23. How can I be helpful for Wikipedia?
  24. difficulty editing and adding citations

December 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 14

  1. Publicar / añadir contenido
  2. need help to create a wikipedia page
  3. Please create a wiki article on "uptobox.com", which alexa rank is < 2000.
  4. agenda to create disturbance
  5. Source/visual editing, edit summary text box, lookup values - how to clean them?
  6. editor
  7. I can't download the PDF file of the reference
  8. Page won't go online
  9. Replacing non-free images
  10. Taking my name out
  11. Brigading
  12. Changing <references/> to {{reflist}}
  13. Jeanette Magel
  14. Blue Air BMS/0B Blue Messenger

December 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 15

  1. Sushant Singh Rajput
  2. Donation
  3. Mater Christi College
  4. Donation
  5. Where can I find newly created articles on wikipedia?
  6. Gerard Schurmann
  7. Press Release as a source
  8. Notable person?
  9. Northwestern Dispensary image: OK for Wiki?
  10. Not at all important, but curious
  11. What is status of Live Chat?

December 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 16

  1. Lost my draft in a sandbox
  2. references displaying in page footer not in "References" section
  3. Maximum number of references rendered?
  4. That certain "connected contributor" template
  5. Quoting paragraph
  6. Update on WMF GoFundMe donations page
  7. Where is the list of Hypocorism?
  8. Including template parameters in a math block
  9. Real name of minor
  10. Noor Allattar Article
  11. Wikilinks and plurals?
  12. How Do I Create a Wikipedia Page
  13. Uploading old photographs
  14. DELHI Riots 2020

December 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 17

  1. Where can I get list of creation date of all articles?
  2. asking for donations
  3. Contribution
  4. how to create wikipedia page
  5. Should I capitalize a middle letter used to form an acronym?
  6. ACK
  7. Can we continue to disable VE after beta?
  8. Speedy deletion notice on talk page
  9. Donate to Wikipedia
  10. how do I fix Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref>/Cite error included ref
  11. Why is my external link being flagged?
  12. Official report/complaint about content on a page

December 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 18

  1. lack of information on??
  2. Why do bots not leave all new IP users a welcome template with links?
  3. Monaco-Monte-Carlo station
  4. Muting thanks.
  5. How to get a list of editors according to their bytes on a particular pages?
  6. Deprecated math tag
  7. Wondering how to submit an article for review
  8. Creating a wikipedia page
  9. Larry the Cat
  10. AWB
  11. Historical pages on watchlist
  12. What is the correct way of asking for opinions from users who speak a foriegn language/live in a particular country?
  13. My edits are not being posted!
  14. When asking for donations
  15. Is WikiProject Palestine asleep?
  16. Minus sign in html math is failing to appear in some cases
  17. Extended Confirmed User Question
  18. Donations to Wikipedia
  19. Chicken and egg "copyvio" dilemma
  20. Linking Wikipedia Articles to Google Maps
  21. Information panels on YouTube
  22. Vandalism to Page

December 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 19

  1. REQUEST EDIT
  2. Bee gees 1976 tour
  3. Can't see text posted to discussion threads
  4. How to use WikiBlame tool?
  5. Hello!
  6. wikitable lighttable help
  7. Help to make a custom Wikipedia US election map
  8. Moving pages
  9. Content change
  10. Request for deletion
  11. List of portals on main page includes Biography, should be Biology?
  12. Help editing title of a page, or name of page.
  13. Edit vanished but not REVDELed?
  14. Donations
  15. Looking for resources
  16. Solicitation

December 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 20

  1. Why was my page deleted?
  2. Specific naming guideline for untitled projects
  3. Is there any wikiproject dedicated to pornography articles?
  4. What's the purpose of wikiprojects?
  5. Edit the page of Institute of Mass Communication Film and Television Studies
  6. How to report an inappropriate edit made by someone in an article
  7. What does "FA" in "FA class" quality?
  8. Pointless point
  9. New Article
  10. Watchlist notifications
  11. Vandalism help request from 76.71.44.36
  12. False information
  13. Faked reality television genre
  14. I have a question:
  15. WP:MOS references ( but for a few long lists of award recipients )

December 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 21

  1. Confused by claims of wikilawyering
  2. EXTREME BIAS IN DESCRIPTION OF THIS PLATFORM DOESN'T ADHERE TO WIKIPEIDA CONCEPT OF NEUTRALITY
  3. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 21#.7B.7Btl.7CSent_pause.7D.7D|{{Sent pause}}]]
  4. Noor Allatar
  5. Yoko Ono
  6. Primary source content being cited from a secondary source
  7. BET episode
  8. Updating company page
  9. Problems editing articles
  10. My Smart TV Samsung UE40 7000 (2015 model) stopped connecting with Wikipedia (thru internet)
  11. Redirects and whether or not to redirect the talk page

December 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 22

  1. Image copyright questions
  2. Jessie Beatrice Kitson
  3. Limitations on reference desks.
  4. Valentyn Buhlak and Oleksandr Savenchuk
  5. Edit requests not completed - October 23, 2020
  6. Winstar did not winnings
  7. Searching somebody with good infobox coding knowledgments and experience
  8. Wiki notebook/Wiki book
  9. Konza Metropolis City
  10. Too many good faith IP edits without sources
  11. Create a page off an existing link
  12. Sue Welch

December 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 23

  1. Why is it possible to edit one's own and other people's posts in the talk pages?
  2. Certification Officer
  3. Help! With citations.
  4. List of Christmas Charts and Number 1 for UK
  5. Why can't I upload a picture to an existing page?
  6. Interlanguage Good Article Problem
  7. Request a new page (e.g. Philosophy of Einstein)
  8. Luke Hemmings edit.
  9. Search Engine Blocked
  10. Why does wikipedia accept citation less edits at first place?
  11. Afraid that an edit war may be inevitable
  12. Creating a page.
  13. How to undo multiple edits?
  14. Problem with map making

December 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 24

  1. Mohamed Karim Labidi
  2. IABot Issue
  3. How do I talk in AFD submissions?
  4. Why some users allowed to have alternative accounts at Wikipedia?
  5. Huge Disservice
  6. Which type of deletion to attempt?
  7. Can someone approve The Death of Eishia Hudson
  8. Rukhshana
  9. Where to request help page updates/improvements?
  10. Editing an infobox to allow images alongside
  11. I have an question about the intent of this rule:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth
  12. Help to unify wikidata Mark tree
  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Sellner&direction=next&oldid=993649457

December 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 25

  1. How to create an Article
  2. Renaming a template
  3. Mahashivratri
  4. RE: Notable People living in Myrtle Mississippi
  5. Is my first approach toward particular user is good practice here?
  6. "Who wrote that" addon not working on cast section of films.
  7. Why can't I view user page of this user?
  8. Draft review
  9. Muffin man
  10. Wikipedia not posting edits
  11. Citing the same book multiple times
  12. What does "(username) deleted (page name) by overwriting" mean?
  13. Thomas Keith Wood

December 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 26

  1. Softblock for joint user names
  2. Vandalism
  3. Problem
  4. type size
  5. Error in editing.
  6. Another Editing Error.
  7. Diyarbakır (English)
  8. Interlanguage semantic Wikipedia
  9. PLEASE HELP!
  10. When will "Who Wrote that" addon scan templates also?
  11. Best practice for user pages across multiple Wikimedia projects?
  12. Infobox US university rankings; adding QS's USA 2020 rankings Edit: need help with infobox
  13. Regarding Warren Thomas Farrell page.
  14. What is the difference between a "disruptive username" and an "offensive username"?

December 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 27

  1. Disambiguation needed
  2. Article edited by mistake
  3. Savion Einstein
  4. How to publish an article
  5. Help making edits
  6. Help
  7. Converting eighteenth-century English "pounds" to modern money
  8. Image Size
  9. Your article on Gary Webb (investigative journalist.
  10. Hayabusa (wrestler) directing to Haybusa (spacecraft)
  11. Edit request
  12. Editing a template

December 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 28

  1. John R. Gregg
  2. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  3. San Francisco Not northern california
  4. Yomari diaz
  5. Please explain this weird diff
  6. Amina Maher´s Page
  7. change nickname
  8. DAB guidance please
  9. My Wikipedia account
  10. Page and content administrator Help
  11. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  12. List of UK Christmas Charts and Christmas Number 1 for UK
  13. Adding text to images
  14. Deleting my account
  15. Duplicate name needs profession after name
  16. Moved Wikiquote article now has "Wikiquote:" in the title
  17. On creating a good page
  18. Question about the MediaWiki namespace
  19. my first entry is going nowhere
  20. Donations
  21. Wrong labelling
  22. How to see more than one revision in watchlist
  23. Linking to a specific page in a PDF
  24. no "edit source" option available
  25. Manual reverts or Twinkle rollback
  26. Designating a particular version of a photo
  27. Kitch-iti-kipi

December 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 29

  1. Donations
  2. Vice President Elect never donate again
  3. Donated last year
  4. Delete account
  5. Rename file
  6. Self-promoting problem
  7. CITICORP article
  8. A pitcher of Pearl Harbor
  9. Need urgent help
  10. How do i download music from platform
  11. Correction needed on the site "List of environmental books"
  12. Donations (2)
  13. Your opinions
  14. Linking to title that is inside collapsed template
  15. Proposed deletion of a stub
  16. Inserting CBB yearly record template

December 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 30

  1. English Project
  2. Until you actually be fair, STOP asking me for money
  3. Question on VOS article
  4. Adding translated content in Japanese
  5. Counting identical edits
  6. Delete the image of Muhammad(pbuh) in Wikipedia
  7. Pagew approval
  8. Infobox image seems to be wrong after new image created with Crop tool
  9. Why are WikiProjects never finished?
  10. Nuisance pop-ups
  11. Need help to move the article : https://en.everybodywiki.com/Kyle_Albertson to wikipedia
  12. Should severe BLP violations be revdelled or suppressed?
  13. False Information Posted on Wikipedia *** Need refund fro Donation
  14. "Tag: 2017 wikitext editor"
  15. Donations
  16. RAYETHON ARTICLES
  17. Problems with multiple use of a citation
  18. my wikipedia

December 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 31

  1. Add an article
  2. Send in some money
  3. External links in publications section
  4. Requesting help to remove extra spaces and carriage returns in templates
  5. Hate on Wikipedia
  6. I want to remove my name from a wiki page
  7. Question about sockpuppets who have had their usernames oversighted
  8. Did I just break the AIV input page?
  9. Sorting searches by size
  10. Creating a link to a picture file without actually showing the photograph
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