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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 1

  1. I am not a coder, but I think I have a major addition to an entry that dates the "oldest surviving wooden structures in Massachusetts"
  2. When I create an article, why does the title come out in italics?
  3. how to publish a page from my user space
  4. Creating and properly referencing a page
  5. Issues with edits to our wikipedia pages
  6. Advanced search question
  7. Tech feature request: high-res images for mathematical formulae
  8. is it wp:or OR it is an extension of Wikipedia:You don't need to cite that the sky is blue
  9. Idiot (me!) accidentally hits "patrolled button; how to undo?
  10. trouble using "move" function
  11. Can person's entry be deleted if it endangers them?
  12. Long image name

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 2

  1. Genesis 3:21
  2. Unclear question from 197.210.248.50
  3. doughs on editing
  4. Can I take help from Wikipedia article in writing a book?
  5. problem
  6. images in an article: Is there a 1 image per section limit? Are extra images a POV problem?
  7. Galliane
  8. Ever a reason for a left bracket followed by a space (particularly prior to http:)?
  9. Request to archive Talk:Verizon Communications
  10. Pictures
  11. All My Changes are Gone
  12. Packing Squares with Side 1/n
  13. JETGO edit potentially defamatory and posted with malicious intent
  14. What do you call....

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 3

  1. My edits have been falsely tagged as vandalism
  2. Neville Garrick- Art Director
  3. EASki wikipedia page
  4. info is not in B. G. Kher
  5. Watchlist indication for reverted edits
  6. What's happened to this reference?
  7. Brigadier Jerry
  8. spam blacklist
  9. Template for future/planned events
  10. temporary/new/retype password
  11. Silver star recipient
  12. Assassination attempt
  13. Susan G Komen; Breast Cancer Awareness
  14. Equal sign in Redirect template
  15. Wierd notification
  16. wiki pages in different languages
  17. Changing company logo
  18. Potentially libellous?
  19. Benjamin F. Johnson
  20. report changes being made

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 4

  1. Error in entry entitled War on Terror
  2. wikipedia on google maps
  3. I am stupid
  4. Hide TFD notices?
  5. how to develop a family tree
  6. Article for deletion
  7. Institute of Translation and Interpreting page
  8. New page redirect error
  9. I am forced to use https
  10. Development Department
  11. What's Wikipedia's definition of criminal?
  12. New Subject Request
  13. David Dutton Page
  14. Getting input without forum shopping
  15. Deleted pages
  16. Why does the talk page of an article redirect to the talk page of a different article?
  17. Statistics
  18. Newbie Q's, can I create an article if I lack of DOB and DOD?
  19. How can I avoid being redirected to the HTTPS ("secure") site?

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 5

  1. Paul Ashwood
  2. Elision of Animus
  3. article to generate discussion, cannot follow process to upload
  4. Batch linking request
  5. Request a class article on bromofluorocarbons
  6. Addressing users
  7. Adding and editing my page on WIkipedia
  8. lost books of the bible
  9. Please report readable prose for Fluorine
  10. HMS kite
  11. Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton) Regiment

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 6

  1. Pageview tool
  2. i beege for help
  3. A dispute
  4. About my bot
  5. hi
  6. Cite template for inscription on a monument or memorial
  7. web cite: vertical bar in title
  8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native_American_tribes_in_Georgia_%28U.S._state%29
  9. FRAUD and Missing Person on Wikipedia
  10. Error
  11. Questions

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 7

  1. Need advice on "edit war"
  2. NE AZ communities
  3. Redirect page
  4. How to add a new topic in the Wikipedia?
  5. Cite fix request
  6. Hot Cat - making it work
  7. Jeton Kelmendi
  8. Archiving
  9. exoplanation of out of body and near death experiences
  10. How to enable feedback?
  11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy Please remove this page
  12. Copyright of image
  13. How do i find pages that need spelling/grammar fixes?
  14. a manuscript to publish in yr journals
  15. Blue is the Warmest Color

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 8

  1. Academics Notability
  2. redirect a page
  3. Using software 'mwdumper'
  4. sirvi or seervi caste community certificate pali zilla which category it belongs
  5. Can't find recently created article
  6. deleting a wiki page
  7. History of gunpowder and gunpowder
  8. Wikipedia editing policy
  9. Unwanted page, which is also inaccurate
  10. Watchlisting pages outside of Wikipedia
  11. Block or semi-protection?
  12. Gerard Catholic High School
  13. starting a new page
  14. PoIgb template
  15. Changing an Article Title
  16. Help with WikiBlame
  17. dele jegede
  18. Account
  19. I've just created a help page
  20. Notification of changes to my company's page
  21. Pageview tool missing days although data seems to exist
  22. Henry F. Holden

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 9

  1. Readable prose for Fluorine please
  2. Attracting outside input
  3. Essay
  4. bob grant.actor
  5. drive-by POV tag search
  6. Walt Disney Concert Hall
  7. please dont delete as i elections are coming and i have also updated references.
  8. List of Grand Theft Auto V characters
  9. correction for Minneapoli , MN Chief of police
  10. article re: Social Botany
  11. How to locate in Wikipedia Material I Published.
  12. Flag of Canada
  13. Idea for Wikipedia to Synergize with Open Source Software: Requirements Pages for Articles which are about Sciences, Technologies or Processes.
  14. Capitalization question
  15. Searching within an article..
  16. Viewing own deleted userpages
  17. Is there a bot/script to remove ELs?
  18. Editing the entry Quantum Healing
  19. Permission to use photo from Wikipedia
  20. purchased an image from Getty Images
  21. Signature gallery
  22. Problems with use of <math> tag
  23. Revision history "thank"
  24. Editing bias articles

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 10

  1. Juno
  2. new topic
  3. BACKLOG OF THE WEEK Category:Pages with broken reference names
  4. Chembox
  5. How to add a title to my article
  6. Changing username
  7. CS errors caused by ISBN's
  8. List of Malayalam films of 2013
  9. Adding References
  10. Robin Bigsnake
  11. Wikiproject Japan?
  12. Uploading Images

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 11

  1. Please explain the edit filter
  2. Crooklands
  3. Virus on source website
  4. How can people be allowed to lie in Wikipedia? Article 'Charles Towns' belladonna cure
  5. linking to Wikipedia pages when the text you want to link is different from the headline of the article
  6. Where to find the boxes in a simple biography
  7. Removing information
  8. Leon Roger Payne
  9. Wikipedia bio on Fernando Fischmann privacy concerns
  10. Blocked from moving when I shouldn't be?
  11. Finding problem articles by category
  12. How to add an article for clean up
  13. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 11#Using_ASIN_parameter_in_.7B.7Btl.7CCite_AV_media.7D.7D|Using ASIN parameter in {{Cite AV media}}]]
  14. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment
  15. comments to editors

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 12

  1. Removal of Unauthorised Religious Images
  2. Lack of bias and improper linking in Sparkman High School page related to recent student death
  3. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1975–79)...under this article I tried to post an entry about a t33 crash in elma. iv got it posted under the 1977 year , 11 feb. its all there, but doesn't look right. can someone fix it..
  4. Language changed from English
  5. unanswered edit request
  6. Putting back site reference I accidentally erased
  7. Undo 2 or more Versions
  8. WILLIAMSON AMPLIFIER
  9. Ann Winterton - parliamentary career
  10. Sharing WP pages to social websites
  11. Von Glocken
  12. Pushpin map help plz!
  13. Feedback
  14. asap
  15. Referencing an article
  16. Solution for Name Dilemma/Ambiguity
  17. Copyright violation
  18. Arnis did not originate from India
  19. remove

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 13

  1. Black Philosophers?
  2. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. McCann
  4. Edits to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barry_McCaffrey
  5. please delete this page
  6. Asking for Help on a Page
  7. Why was my article deleted?
  8. Liccardo using Wikipedia as a campaign mechanism
  9. What is the first step: A wp:rs or a talkpage consensus?
  10. Protesting Against the Deletion of a Page
  11. Editting name on Wikipedia
  12. Concern regarding another editor

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 14

  1. Page title needs changing
  2. reporting problem with an article WP:International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
  3. Cal Smith
  4. Carrier Strike Group Five Wikipedia-page Update
  5. citing references
  6. Hebrew wikipedia editors racism
  7. Sandbox
  8. "Biosphere Conciousness"
  9. Help with the table needed
  10. Content submission - revised
  11. Request for unprotection
  12. Hide Order of Battle list?
  13. Adding a photo to an infobox issues
  14. Adding references and citations
  15. Archive date for Australia's Pandora archive?
  16. JUNKUNU DANCE
  17. dele jegede edit
  18. Pool queue is full
  19. Edit conflict question
  20. image upload etc question
  21. Why do my edits keep getting deleted?
  22. Political Violence Page
  23. the praia grande macau
  24. Help
  25. guarding an article against malicious editing

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 15

  1. flickr2commons
  2. What is loan mart
  3. We need advice regarding WP:PLACE
  4. Forgot my password
  5. biblical images
  6. Captcha insanity
  7. Updating articles/removing warnings
  8. how to creat a article
  9. non free image used for an Article for creation/Target Project
  10. Wiki mess up!
  11. Martin Caidin
  12. Re Edits to Comparison of Project Managment Software
  13. How to post an Article on WikipediA?
  14. Can you please review my article?
  15. help

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 16

  1. Is the correct parameter |displayauthors= or is it |display-authors=  ? The Cite template documentation doesn't agree with the CS1 errors documentation on that issue.
  2. Correcting Korean Director Kim Jee-woon's name
  3. How to change the article title?
  4. United States Senate election in California, 2012
  5. Can someone please fix some edits I did on 3 articles about 3 different actors?
  6. Speedy Deletion Flag
  7. Create Wiki page for internal company only
  8. Beauty Ngxongo's wikipedia page
  9. Headline on NCFE page has been changed to Northern Council for Further Education - INCORRECT
  10. Mladina classification of nasal septal deformities
  11. Help me
  12. Carlisle
  13. Not Sure if my article was submitted for review
  14. Lana Clarkson images
  15. Changing an article and verifying information

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 17

  1. article is incorrect
  2. Santa Fe Springs burial
  3. spelling
  4. Bogo City - Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
  5. MIS PRINT ON BRANDON MARSHALL!!!!
  6. Two articles with same name
  7. Should be a disambiguation page
  8. Table format problem
  9. watchlist for a specific section?
  10. Etretat
  11. MediaWiki API: Orphan pages
  12. Navbox on other pages
  13. Russian language Wikipedia
  14. Question about my father
  15. User pages and Google
  16. 'about me' page
  17. Articles created in main-space despite being rejected at Articles for creation
  18. how can I edit my user name?
  19. Format for initials

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 18

  1. Can I report my employer for editing their own Wikipedia article?
  2. Minor Location articles in other countries
  3. Edit page
  4. Popularity section of Blog article, following up/expanding
  5. Searching Wikipedia's other languages
  6. Dooley Wilson, actor
  7. Horsham, Pennsylvania
  8. 2014 Kansas Governor race.
  9. Request for an editor to review the errors on the Whole Foods Market article
  10. insurance
  11. Three clicks to get to a footnote
  12. Correction to AL RAI newspaper Kuwait
  13. Adam Dreamhealer
  14. Editing photo caption
  15. Why am I being constantly logged out?
  16. How long does it take to register an account? What if I receive no password?
  17. Where do I ask a BLP notability question?
  18. Spelling Error

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 19

  1. Remove bio
  2. William Bowes
  3. Search and Replace
  4. Domain inactive
  5. Alumni L. I. U. C. W. Post UNIVERSITY
  6. articles
  7. John Hunter (physician)
  8. Moving an archive page
  9. Facebook chat
  10. Major General Sir Michael Creagh
  11. Mackenzie Lee
  12. Reversing a redirect
  13. subject "Epic" not properly represented
  14. adding a artist
  15. Misdirected Message

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 20

  1. I have info about claims made in a Wikipedia article; unfortunately it's OR. What can I do?
  2. Contact
  3. Searching in Wikipedia
  4. Anisa Moghaddam
  5. What to do with this article?
  6. how to add name on wikipedia
  7. my account

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 21

  1. bolekaja on Dele Jegede
  2. Start a new entry
  3. Watchlist filtering of user talk pages
  4. Asking for article expansion
  5. from Olga Papkovitch, creator of PopImpressKA
  6. Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908) - Lanoe Falconer
  7. Bio-Graph
  8. Significance of article.
  9. Hallo i wanto be on your page! wo work wery hard and fore free
  10. Campden Media
  11. Search tips for editors
  12. Incorrectly titled article and a new correct one
  13. Can't get pdf file to link properly
  14. I would like to know the difference between English and Francais Wikipedia versions because:
  15. Vandalism by User:Chriv77?
  16. we want in

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 22

  1. Can't seem to create a thumbnail! Help.
  2. 15:05, 21 October 2013 Deb (talk | contribs) deleted page Nanda Mallawaarachchi (G2: Test page)
  3. Reflist Problem
  4. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Switzerland
  5. Reversing a redirect
  6. Adding content to a previously deleted page.
  7. Pajala-Ylläs Airport
  8. Typeface Size
  9. Brackets Around Reference
  10. defining custom constants in a wiki page
  11. New article, but the page with the same name already exists
  12. Need help with a figure file
  13. The entire Commons has disappeared (or seems like it)
  14. Creating an article
  15. Unclear question
  16. Is there a rule concerning the deletion of quotes?
  17. Table with different number of rows in each column?
  18. Wiki page edits
  19. XOWA
  20. Andrew Lloyd Webber
  21. Speed of signup

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 23

  1. creating an new article with unique page name
  2. Profanity
  3. Need to create a topic in Wikipedia
  4. Correction of an article written on our company
  5. Help with my signature.
  6. Saarang
  7. Professor Jonathan Shepherd
  8. British Chambers of Commerce
  9. article
  10. Pilling's Lock Marina
  11. Credits on the page about Lone Wolf (gamebooks series)
  12. I have been trying to add links to our web-site
  13. About an edit I have made
  14. Foundations, Institutions and paid advocacy
  15. User needs help retrieving deleted article from sandbox
  16. Change Logo
  17. Compromised account?
  18. Reverting page name change
  19. Is this person notable?
  20. Re-naming a Wikipedia page?
  21. Non-English sources
  22. How to remove and add a photo in wikipedia?
  23. Edit Warring

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 24

  1. Interaction ban
  2. Citing Personal Correspondence?
  3. Multiple Personal Sandboxes?
  4. Hateful Content on a Page
  5. Edits for the page on the Economy of Cyprus
  6. Linguistic issues
  7. Quote request
  8. What is Talk?
  9. Wikilinks
  10. Organization Chart
  11. Copyright
  12. Article star rating feedback system where is it ?
  13. The correct Bulembu description
  14. Copyright question
  15. >Bad interwiki links
  16. New formatting of "IP editors"?
  17. SOROTI UNIVERSITY
  18. Creating an article 2
  19. What does a proper sandbox look like
  20. Not showing up in category
  21. medication and low blood pressure
  22. Can this new category be created?

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 25

  1. Sappi Fine Paper
  2. Used a wrong user name while creating account on wikipedia.
  3. largest malls in india
  4. Searching within a category
  5. denada versus De Nada
  6. Edit the Title of my Company's Wikipedia Page
  7. How do I change the name of a Wikipedia Category?
  8. Now that someone has redirected the Connect-a-Ride page, it isn't showing correctly
  9. Slaight Communications
  10. RW Johnson
  11. Eli Harvey
  12. Photo uploaded for article on Thomas Wakem Caldwell

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 26

  1. Just a quick question
  2. Canaanism
  3. Can not get a diff
  4. How to add another language's article on the same subject?
  5. about divorce

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 27

  1. CANTONISTS
  2. Teahouse Skins
  3. The Moon is made of green cheese
  4. Requesting Neutral Arbitration Regarding Speedy Deletion of Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership
  5. How to lock the posted / edited content in wikipedia
  6. Uploading a photo
  7. Proposed food wikilove template
  8. Boris Duncan is the same person as Ronald Duncan (alpine skier)
  9. Dobos torte boxes are too long
  10. Elevation Church & Steven Furtick.
  11. Vandalism fix

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 28

  1. A lack of capitalisation in respect to the Emperor
  2. WP:EPHEMERAL
  3. Mislabled Picture Bar and Bat Mitzvah
  4. Ingie Chalhoub
  5. Notice
  6. Article problems
  7. Finding a reference
  8. Copyrighted Logo Uploading
  9. Article Title Not Changing
  10. contribute a new entry
  11. Australia's PM Page Hacked.
  12. photographs

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 29

  1. incomplete information on an article.
  2. Lead length
  3. re Book Creator - My book of over 300 pages just disappeared! What do I do? I didn't cancel it! Please Help
  4. Drummondville Voltigeurs
  5. Incorrect Information in Article
  6. Repeated citations in infoboxes
  7. Duplicate Page - one is incorrect
  8. looking for stats
  9. Writing up references
  10. The astronomical researcher Adnan Al-Shawafi reveals the secret behind the movement of planet Pluto
  11. A possible gender categorisation issue brewing...
  12. expired copyright?
  13. Pablo Picasso error
  14. Deletion of file
  15. Editing help

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 30

  1. Eleanor Tomlinson
  2. New articles
  3. Not possible to log in using IE8
  4. please delete article published under my user name
  5. HOME FARM FC
  6. Submitted Article
  7. Why is that policy called Biographies of living persons?
  8. Adding an image
  9. John Henderson Sinclair
  10. samuel h silberkrus
  11. I would like for an article i found on Russian Wiki to be on English site; bing translation is good
  12. Image at Bonilla de la Sierra
  13. ImaCor
  14. 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards
  15. Can someone review my article and how can I upload a photo of the person in the article
  16. Can Korbajram
  17. My user name was on the Feedback Page, but I did not make the edit

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 October 31

  1. Move-to-commons assistant broken?
  2. Gustakh dil
  3. Appropriate content
  4. Non-free image and its Commons' counterpart
  5. help on editing Food and drink subjects
  6. Links deleted?
  7. Accidental post
  8. Joseph D. Lyons House, Sunderland, MD
  9. Primož Trubar: refs
  10. New Wikipedia articles
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