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February 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 1

  1. IP address and User name
  2. Company Infobox bug - changes to source code not reflected on published page
  3. Campaignbox state collapsed
  4. Wikipedia skin?
  5. Reporting disruption
  6. Nonprofit organization disclose COI
  7. Infobox image
  8. You have two article entries about the same person
  9. Mongolia is not part of the East Asian Cultural Sphere.
  10. Download Images
  11. Linda cropper AGE
  12. Hello
  13. 1975 leaving Viet Nam
  14. Screwed up table
  15. Help needed in officially updating my father's page as he has passed away
  16. Table poem column formatting
  17. How to remedy the deletion of an article

February 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 2

  1. slight change to user name
  2. Does it count as a conflict of interest if I edit my school's Wikipedia article?
  3. How can I edit Wikipedia in China?
  4. LLC or separate company
  5. Adding Information about a Creative studies.
  6. Creating a new Article
  7. Changing to English language.
  8. Becoming a autoconfirmed user.
  9. William Leslie Hooper
  10. Creating a draft Page.
  11. Nahal Ha'Arava
  12. Page Status is Still in Draft Since A Week
  13. How to list my company information on Wiki pedia
  14. Where has "Integrated Management" gone.
  15. Trotsky
  16. How to change map location information
  17. Cannot receive Wikipedia on my new Samsung tablet. Every first 2 letters put in for my user name is rejected
  18. Sutton Hoo Helmet article issues
  19. List copyright question
  20. Contribute an Article
  21. Short descriptions for Swahili Wikipedia
  22. WikiKids
  23. Editing my watch list
  24. Weird text on Requested moves/Current discussions page
  25. Closing alternate account
  26. Misinformation
  27. Forgot password, no e-mail
  28. Page deleted or archived
  29. Lithuanian Jewish History
  30. My edits were deleted
  31. Super Bowl LVI Logo

February 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 3

  1. Edits getting deleted
  2. Edit of Northwestern Mutual Company Shows
  3. Creating a super-category
  4. How to change a mistake in name
  5. Alvin the Architect - Music Artist
  6. Political slant.
  7. Trans people's Wikipedia entries
  8. Articles without talk pages
  9. AutoWikiBrowser
  10. National Amateur Boxing Featherweight Champions

February 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 4

  1. What does W?F mean?
  2. Adding material and having it deleted
  3. How to search for literal '?' ?
  4. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 4#.7B.7Btl.7CWebarchive.7D.7D_template|{{Webarchive}} template]]
  5. Learning
  6. Signature
  7. HoustonCon
  8. Editing this page
  9. Electric battery
  10. Changed the letter case for NEO when it is referring to the blockchain, as the blockchain is officially identified as "Neo", and "NEO" is only being used as the token ticker.
  11. Balancing Wikipedia and Life
  12. Reference tag does not close
  13. Adding pictures
  14. hanold claqueyu
  15. Slim Gaillard
  16. Creating a company page
  17. permission to use a Wikipedia image
  18. Article declining
  19. Geoff Lloyd
  20. Restoration of deleted page
  21. How does Wikipedia display captions for audio files?

February 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 5

  1. Letter writing
  2. How can I block Wikipedia users
  3. How can I change my user name
  4. Political Partisan Person messed up entry
  5. Abusive power
  6. Mom
  7. Leslie Jordan-actor
  8. January 14
  9. image adding
  10. Harold M. Koenig
  11. Gallery parameters
  12. Fa
  13. When Submitting an article for creation
  14. Display issue in Template

February 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 6

  1. NBA All-Star Game Logo
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto
  3. Sense of humour
  4. Suggestions?
  5. Question about tables
  6. Roxanne Russell article
  7. subject: Heathfield Senior High School Gateshead
  8. Generic Question - Do Wikipedia Admins "Speak for Wikipedia"?
  9. two mountains with same name

February 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 7

  1. Cleanup after promoting to mainspace
  2. Super Bowl Handoff
  3. Should I mention Google blunder mistakes in Ravi Shastri page?
  4. Response to previous kelp me answer.
  5. Editcountit
  6. Hiding Wikidata from watchlist
  7. English
  8. Notifications not working
  9. Duplicate articles
  10. Vandalism help request from 71.238.67.218
  11. How to add a request for new feature
  12. Timestamp ahead 5 hours

February 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 8

  1. Best place to escalate an issue
  2. CERTIFIED COPY
  3. Why Rachel Roxxx page deleted?
  4. David Andrew Polkinghorne
  5. Are my comments in this discussion considered a WP:WALLOFTEXT?
  6. How do I become an admin?
  7. Non professional footballers
  8. Matt Disero
  9. Daniels College of Business page edits
  10. Dealing with an Unproductive Moderator
  11. Philosophy of WP
  12. updating company profile to show new ownership..
  13. Template for found sources

February 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 9

  1. article about a company didnt get approval
  2. citations
  3. carl weather's death.
  4. Article Creation
  5. Editing assistance requested for article about non-profit
  6. How to sort porn actors articles according to their first edit?
  7. How to edit a page that is locked?
  8. Logo appears without image code
  9. Sandbox draft
  10. Moving a draft to a name that currently exists as a redirect
  11. translating my article in English into French and Italian
  12. Personal Life Update
  13. Wikipedia addressable?
  14. Richard Skinner (broadcaster)
  15. Draft:Ako Akhalaia

February 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 10

  1. live help channel
  2. Citations in lead
  3. People editing Wikipedia
  4. How to flag huge edits marked as "minor"?
  5. Regarding adding the "Curatorial Associate" , "IT Manager", "Coordinator Visitor Services" heading and their associated names
  6. Gab description
  7. Proper name for "battle cards/templates"
  8. Financial accounting
  9. Merging accounts
  10. Why are you changing people's personal pages?
  11. History Merge, we think?
  12. Money
  13. Where can I find deleted wiki articles list?
  14. Copyvio help?
  15. Page with two connected categories
  16. Redirect pages
  17. Milestone
  18. Tables
  19. Logos hosted on another language's Wikipedia

February 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 11

  1. My photos, someone else’s information.
  2. Vandalism-only accounts
  3. Christopher Bullock
  4. Terdema Ussery Article Edit
  5. no update on graph
  6. Deletion of my article Opinion Express
  7. Uploaded a copyrighted image accidently, not knowing it was copyrighted.
  8. Discussion page
  9. Finding pages in multiple categories
  10. Global-changing external links
  11. Adding information
  12. Question: How to add new documentary to Wikipedia
  13. draft article
  14. Billy sharp
  15. Insititute Institute 92
  16. Who actually funded Wikipedia before wikimedia foundation?
  17. 1324509732 homgwaa
  18. Why 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest is removed near "ongoing" at home page?
  19. Richard Thurston full-page make-over reverted
  20. Question about notifications
  21. William Hollingsworth Wood

February 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 12

  1. Why Will Roper name showed up in PET Scan results?
  2. How to resolve archive-date parameter requirement when there is no available archive date?
  3. How to get a 'full text size' note?
  4. Use of commas in disambiguation pages
  5. edit References
  6. Help needed in writing a article for a Ad agency
  7. External Links question
  8. How to help fill in refs
  9. Please help, Wikipedia doxed me
  10. boy scout jamboree winston salem,n.c.
  11. Women in the Pakistan Armed Forces
  12. CinemaScope - too many quotation marks?
  13. IP user(s) constantly removing or modifying (other people's) discussion on Talk:List of footballers with 500 or more goals
  14. French article

February 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 13

  1. Number of edits
  2. How to find Wikipedia articles which are very near to deletion?
  3. Addition to "notable people", in a U.S. City Wikipedia article
  4. wrong observatory location
  5. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  6. Can I protect any page?
  7. Page creation projects
  8. Photograph from 1939 copyright issue
  9. Mobile app
  10. Convert to SVG?
  11. Template:Book working weirdly
  12. What is the overarching group for articles about places?

February 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 14

  1. News & sports programming on the DuMont Television Network
  2. Updating numerous external links
  3. Question? Factual Error
  4. List of subpages in my userspace
  5. Как создать новую страницу ?
  6. Page Restore request for sandeep salwan
  7. help with creating a page
  8. Good Articles nominations
  9. communication difficulties with the editor
  10. Where does it talk about the fact that "once an article is created, there is no limit on how much information can be added to the article"?
  11. Peer review
  12. Talk page archive issue
  13. Lack of proper authority in Wikipedia
  14. Article about "D.C. Statehood" movement.
  15. How to handle a broken link in a reference
  16. How would I download multiple wikipedia pages as pdfs
  17. Where should I suggest a change in the way all articles are written?
  18. I recently set up an account and found my way to Sandbox, wrote my article, and now I can't figure out how to publish it
  19. Publishing
  20. Editing Chip Vaughn's page

February 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 15

  1. Vandalism help request from 2600:1702:3E80:8A60:CD74:5B0B:FF:8235
  2. Editing my page
  3. Help Needed if my first written article is publishable
  4. Wikipedia content on Lulu.com
  5. Mid size pick-up truck
  6. Help for publishing a translated page
  7. RE: 'Forgot my password' doesn't work
  8. Editing interface
  9. Images in hyperlinks

February 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 16

  1. How to make a Facebook post archive in case the post disappears someday?
  2. Setting different sigfigs on a ranged convert template
  3. In the news
  4. Where to find list of old deleted physics related articles?
  5. Clarification
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Babs_Omotowa
  7. Section headers
  8. Not significant enough!
  9. Viewing Wikipedia with Safari on iPhones
  10. Editing links
  11. Re: "America's Voice Live"
  12. Shalev Alon
  13. not happy with statement about me in Wiki
  14. Tigurats
  15. Kamala Harris page
  16. Need Help Changing Broken Link Referenced on Wikipages
  17. SIGCOV or routine?
  18. Feedback on nominating page for deletion

February 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 17

  1. New user landing page
  2. How to move a page from draft
  3. Excessively aggressive editors
  4. I accidentally sent my sandbox.
  5. Copy and paste citations
  6. Legal question: photograph of public demonstration in Berlin showing minors
  7. CSS
  8. Blocked Ips and Users
  9. Question
  10. Table corrections needed on Jimmy Wakely
  11. Space after a colon within double square brackets in wiki markup?
  12. Confusão de identidade fotográfica e atribuição errónea de livros de uma autora para a outra.
  13. Where to edit "New section" code
  14. PIN
  15. GSM
  16. Academic bio: internal links for degrees, and when should I repeat links
  17. your graph for covid 19 is 7 days behind
  18. Using "thanks" while blocked
  19. May a COI editor delete "duplicate & over-links"?
  20. request edit

February 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 18

  1. Rush Limbaugh page
  2. about the covid 19 pandemic graph
  3. Need historical information about how Northern Russians immigrated to America.
  4. Notability guidelines
  5. Possibly malicious external link
  6. NNPOV linking?
  7. Why the weird letter-indexing in category pages?
  8. My eyes aren't working
  9. Photo montages of cities' articles
  10. Orca
  11. Change name of wiki page
  12. Editing and Referenceing
  13. About Brookes Shawnigan Lake

February 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 19

  1. help getting a business page up.
  2. Vandalism report
  3. 2021 NBA All-Star Game Logo
  4. 2021 NBA All-Star Game Article
  5. Quenstion about Ngân 98
  6. Adding Sir Manasseh Meyer International School to International Schools Singapore List
  7. How to choose a taxonomic name when the source uses a synonym?
  8. Changing Page Name
  9. I want to become a rollbacker
  10. How do I request a file upload? 
  11. Is monitoring topic falls under Internet censorship topic?
  12. Rollback button
  13. help editing wiki page
  14. Come on!
  15. Today’s edit of Turning Point USA
  16. Brand new to editing at Wikipedia and I made a category ("Awards") disappear re Cherrie Moraga
  17. Incorrect movie role listed

February 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 20

  1. Rush Limbaugh Biography Page
  2. Broken chart
  3. Why birth year mentioned in article Sidney Weintraub (economist, born 1914) name?
  4. Warning alert
  5. Warn Alert 2
  6. Layout
  7. Minimum age
  8. Creating a new page
  9. Sandbox draft
  10. Hello
  11. lack of information on John R. Gregg, Author

February 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 21

  1. Editing a page that is currently protected so that only extended confirmed users and administrators can edit it
  2. Talk:Confucius archiving unsigned/dated comments
  3. Procedure for Asking About Provenance of a Photograph in an Article
  4. incorrectly deleted
  5. Hello
  6. Yukio Mishima
  7. Articles about a 501(3)(c) charitable organisation
  8. Copying Wikipedia information
  9. Submitting A Draft
  10. How to ask for a page enlargement
  11. Content monitor dispute leading to a dubious act
  12. Non-native speaker users
  13. CfD for DuMont News & DuMont Sports
  14. TV seasons

February 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 22

  1. Points of Light, non profit founded by George H W Bush
  2. There have been multiple failed attempts to log in to your account from a new device
  3. Permission to use photo
  4. Dallas Diesel Sports Club
  5. Help passing GA
  6. This article is about a living person and appears to have no references.
  7. Need someone to fix a talk page layout
  8. Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Coppa Italia finals/archive2
  9. Route map
  10. Deletion
  11. Deletion process gone wrong
  12. If I Write the CEO's Bio, Is it Likely to be Accepted?
  13. Request
  14. Can't get the syntax right to add image from Commons
  15. Publication Question

February 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 23

  1. When did he die
  2. how to remove public IP address on a past edit
  3. Name of WP Guideline Page
  4. Updating of Page's title
  5. How to cite journal item with no title
  6. Can we use grammarly on wikipedia?
  7. Help adding a photo of someone to their wiki page
  8. Query - Page Creation
  9. Deleted Page
  10. Is trasfermarkt.com a reliable source?
  11. Permission requests
  12. List of Coppa Italia finals
  13. Chatarpati Shivaji Maharaj
  14. web address posting help request for a wiki entry
  15. 2022 NCAA Men's Final Four Logo
  16. help theres a glitch
  17. A question about the 'Notability' test
  18. Blocked from the live chat
  19. Template Subtitle
  20. Lies on my biography jeane manson
  21. Changing the spelling for Diwali/ Divali

February 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 24

  1. Unwelcome censorship of reasonable content
  2. How are new visits to a Wikipedia determined?
  3. Google preview still showing deleted information from Wikipedia
  4. Why my edit request neglected here?
  5. Is there a recommended word limit on edits?
  6. New Laptop received from the company with VPN
  7. Orphan
  8. Regarding Page Deletion
  9. Why did i receive a message about Ukraine
  10. Communication?
  11. how i delete fake acccount
  12. MARKOOT
  13. Create a page
  14. How to start a new page ?
  15. Messed up a table
  16. The Disappearance of Malaysia Airline Flight MH370
  17. Template suggestion
  18. HappyHalo
  19. IS MY CREATED PAGE IS PUBLISH GLOBALLY OR NOT
  20. Introduction
  21. Updating Personal Life
  22. Uploading New Information

February 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 25

  1. Why is my Wikipedia birthday not appearing on the Category page list?
  2. How do I add a page for a celebrity?
  3. Please direct me appropriately
  4. Editing people's pages
  5. Babylon bee
  6. Company Page does not exist
  7. Stand-alone lists bold
  8. Hi
  9. Removing details about myself Pauline Janson
  10. Request for the Speedy deletion of this page as it contains false information
  11. Series of failed pings
  12. Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
  13. Creating a page for a living person
  14. Disambiguation of a name
  15. Question about splitting a paragraph

February 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 26

  1. Changing background color in a row of a table
  2. Inappropriate Comment
  3. Merging + re-creating original page?
  4. Creating a Street map with marks for London Wall
  5. Somebody vandalize Grandhi Srinivas .
  6. Lew Krausse Jr.
  7. Unsigned shout
  8. Is WikiSource a reliable source?
  9. Struments against vandalism

February 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 27

  1. Plagiarism Question
  2. Children's names in a BLP
  3. Editing pages in the Croatian-language Wikipedia
  4. issue about reference
  5. my birth date is wrong!!!
  6. I am scared for my security.
  7. Talk
  8. Rollback button
  9. I made a major edit to this article but messed with reference
  10. Chatting
  11. Font size discrepancies in Canada Revenue Agency
  12. new article
  13. Pending review edits

February 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 February 28

  1. Page protection question with arbcom decision
  2. Is this disambiguation page needed?
  3. How to add an image to a DYK nomination?
  4. Optional Class Parameter
  5. NLC General Secretary
  6. Applying for subscription
  7. How to make a page?
  8. Reference help
  9. Love Jihad
  10. Request to know the page status.
  11. Why does Wikipedia use Open Street Map
  12. Question
  13. Wikidata
  14. The Biles
  15. I would like an article to be created
  16. Files from social networks
  17. Not sure how to tag this article
  18. possible error in Clay, Wv article
  19. Geek Squad
  20. Computer
  21. long under-referenced page with original research
  22. TheChronium
  23. Amejiogbe Town History in Oyo Town
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