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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 1

  1. Firefox issue
  2. specific dead link scenario
  3. Attempt to erase jesus christ from history
  4. I want to create wikipedia of Birla Group
  5. Kolachalam Venkata Rao
  6. adding 'draft namespace'
  7. Michael Nicholson
  8. Russian Nationalist
  9. Correct mis-named uploaded image
  10. Proud Boys
  11. 2020-21 NBA transactions

October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 1

  1. How to get image deleted?
  2. How to look up?

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 2

  1. in The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon please remove LEVEL1 "cohosts" & "H"
  2. Logging in to closed projects
  3. Wikipedia Authors - Evil Men and Seducers
  4. Vandalism help request from PunkAndromeda
  5. Login issues
  6. I want to create a page on iqoo mobile
  7. Rights
  8. Sushant Sing Rajput / Wrong info
  9. hi i need help
  10. Black Egypt
  11. Wrong Redirect from Cryptojacking to Monero
  12. In state of Alabama
  13. How do I report that the page on Abortion Statistics has been vandalized and apparently locked?
  14. Help for page creation
  15. 1989: Man vs. Chinese Tank Tiananmen Square Pro-Democracy Protest

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 3

  1. Uploading videos
  2. Rotating files
  3. Page Size tool has disappeared and pop-up referencing anchors aren't working either.
  4. Citing paragraphs in a document

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 4

  1. How do I upload photo files
  2. Vandalism
  3. Top tourist destination in the world
  4. Can't publish the file linked to the page even if the link is correct
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  6. Need help but I am French
  7. Collapsed image in ATP top material
  8. Semicolons
  9. Group right losses

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 5

  1. weather bug
  2. Can't reset password
  3. Password compromised
  4. Captain General Royal Marines
  5. Translation of Official EU (DG EMPL) Created Page
  6. Which characters are not allowed in Wikipedia article names?
  7. Twinkle
  8. Louise Goodman
  9. Want to post a Profile
  10. Foreign language template

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 6

  1. Amendments on the title "Sa Sa International Holdings"
  2. Image not showing properly
  3. Having two non-free images to illustrate an article
  4. Question about comma usage
  5. Facism
  6. De-clutter talk pages
  7. Edit something
  8. wiki article on Makau W. Mutua - personal vendetta
  9. Links
  10. birth certificate
  11. i have send about my company but you didnt publish it
  12. A "long comment" in French?
  13. Здравствуйте прошу пересмотреть описание данной статьи https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell
  14. PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award
  15. Translation of a Wikipedia Article

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 7

  1. Afc Draft:Tyler Adkison review with Copyright violation
  2. David duke has endorsed biden so not far right also white supremacy is a far left thing not far right
  3. Amit Gefen page
  4. Page incomplete information
  5. Questions about the entry European Energy Exchange
  6. How to Create Company Wikipedia Page?
  7. A barn for you!
  8. Getting my business its own wiki page
  9. Correcting the title of an article
  10. First ever edit ditched by someone called Serols
  11. Please can somebody reinstate RYAN SWAIN (Presenter) wiki
  12. 2020-21 NBA season by team
  13. How to add a company to the list?
  14. copyright issue from copy pasting
  15. Auto-hidden title?

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 8

  1. Ozzy wiesblatt
  2. изменение названия
  3. Wikipedia gift
  4. Title of actor credited under different names
  5. first things to do in wikipedia when uploading
  6. incorrect page that needs to be changed
  7. Article Approval
  8. Publishing first article issues
  9. Saving a sandbox
  10. Incorrect plural usage

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 9

  1. Donation requests
  2. Zoe Saldana Signature
  3. Misinformation involving Marvel Cenamatic Universe
  4. My Wiki
  5. Applying Manual of Style to redirect pages
  6. adding a line to webpages
  7. What links here - Shew redirects only
  8. Any ideas for formatting this map?
  9. Suggesting a keep be merged away?
  10. Kamala Harris
  11. Copyright
  12. The article CelebHeights needs to be created
  13. Quitting jobs as an admin

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 10

  1. Adding fair use images 80 years old from a personal collection
  2. Something seems to be wrong with this template.
  3. One of my edits was rolled back, why?
  4. Is there a guide on how (or even whether) to split surname pages into subsections?
  5. BIOGRAPHY
  6. Interlanguage links
  7. Can I copy an existing template and use?

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 11

  1. PMID error
  2. I want to add a pro indian bodybuilder
  3. How to undo a sequence of unacceptable edits?
  4. New page
  5. What format is the www Main Page
  6. Case-insensitive page names

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 12

  1. Is Rachel Vanderthorne the first transgendered person to be appointed public office in the State of Oregon? Who is?
  2. Wikitia, a clone site of Wikipedia has completely copied my Wikipedia draft
  3. can anyone help me to translate this page
  4. Incorrect India Map
  5. Old page needs updating
  6. Guangxi
  7. Draft 2021–22 United States Network Television Schedule
  8. A page I contributed to has been deleted.
  9. Disambiguation page Dilys Price
  10. Can a redirect point to a section?

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 13

  1. Picture of Leif Garrett
  2. accesso in lingua inglese
  3. Ending a section title with a quotation mark
  4. Link not working
  5. Adding person to list?
  6. How Do I start to create a biography for a friend?
  7. Pls help me to translate this page in english https://hi.wikipedia.org/s/irc2
  8. declined article query
  9. John Lewis/Edmund Pettus Bridge
  10. Ryan Farquhar
  11. Article On Qutab/Qutb Minar Is Incorrect And Is Filled With Biased
  12. Urgent change to Daniel Sachs article/alias
  13. Logo update Saxo Bank
  14. "Search Wikipedia" box issues
  15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacov_Agam
  16. Restore accessibility of article page that has been to redirected to less-relevant article
  17. Hermann von Siemens
  18. Reflist on Phil Gallagher
  19. The award business
  20. Congratulations, Android user! You've won!

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 14

  1. Something very weird happened when I made an edit
  2. Formatting help requested
  3. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/İlbilge Hatun
  4. Social
  5. Logo on Team Wikipage
  6. WP:MOSLEADLANG help
  7. Talk:Killing of George Floyd
  8. A question about reverting edits
  9. #
  10. Help With Wikitia Article
  11. Change User Name
  12. Wikipedia
  13. How to publsh a draft

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 15

  1. Kion Shariff Fulton Wilson
  2. Extended-confirmed?
  3. Most Mysterious song on the internet
  4. There is incorrect information on the Adderall page
  5. My request
  6. Enable previews button does not work
  7. How to cite with "et al" in the Visual Editor
  8. Visual editor: citing the same source with different page numbers?
  9. Surname
  10. "Table within a table" coding
  11. Vivo Energy Page
  12. How to edit suggested articles?
  13. Question about cryptic wikilinks
  14. Minor infraction

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 16

  1. Regarding Staff and Contractors of Wikimedia
  2. Interwiki links
  3. Create a page
  4. I can't create new articles.
  5. When will my page be approved ?
  6. Article Vote Alert - Question
  7. Signature changes
  8. New to Wiki
  9. lathom..
  10. English pound symbol
  11. References all changed (my first sandbox article)

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 17

  1. how to express date when the source only gives a (northern hemisphere) season
  2. Julia Holcomb was a 16 year old child. She was not a groupie. She was a victim of statutory rape by a then 27 year old Steven Tyler.
  3. Incorrect Photo - Dr. Henry McBay
  4. Help removing a username
  5. LTA?
  6. brit box
  7. correction
  8. Are There Templates for Different Kinds of Articles?

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 18

  1. Adding Name as a Cast Member
  2. Auto-filling edit summary suddenly stopped working
  3. There is a page about me with errors
  4. Issues with infoboxes on Chrome?
  5. Centering a route map in an infobox
  6. My pages on Wikipedia and Wikimedia
  7. Big Error In Tonight Show Episode Numbers
  8. Is there a way to display all articles in a specific folder in my userspace?
  9. Tim Curry
  10. Final publication

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 19

  1. Hello - could I ask for a little help with adding a copyright image to an article - fair/free use?
  2. Wrong information on General Henry "Hap" Arnold
  3. how can i start using wikipedia. i want to post a resume of my boss
  4. I can't locate a list of admin to stop a edit war/censorship
  5. Asking help to articles approval / publication
  6. Is it possible to add an inputbox into a gallery?
  7. Want to edit Wikipedia page that has ill-defined issues.
  8. Transmitter Frequency 1458 - Lyca Radio
  9. Jane Weaver album ref
  10. NEVER Donating Again
  11. Template:Uir
  12. Lola Flanery
  13. Willairwin question
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Mill
  15. Misinformation spreading fast on Wikipedia
  16. Emergency Request to Have My Bio Page (Krissy Marlene Ramsey) Immediately Deleted

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 20

  1. Page Creation
  2. berkely public library
  3. Do these stand-alone lists comply with Wikipedia guidelines?
  4. Is Wikiprofessionais.Inc a legitimate company, and do work in cooperation with it?
  5. Need help with sublists, in navbox
  6. Selected Poems 2011
  7. How to check on the progress of a new article submission

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 21

  1. Bias at Wikipedia
  2. Searching by tags?
  3. Edit by mistake
  4. photo question
  5. Help fix a table heading
  6. someone else's photo now appears in the Wikpedia window
  7. Sarah, Geoff & Hilda Lancashire (MacCormack)
  8. NFCC: How to reduce image size
  9. Malicious Edits to Page - Association for Behavior Analysis International
  10. Page Creation
  11. Article creation
  12. Congestive heart failure
  13. Adding an extra couple of boxes to a family tree on Wikipedia
  14. Edit request on the Talk:VERITAS_(spacecraft) page

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 22

  1. HELP! EDITION MISTAKE
  2. What’s happening to talk page signatures?
  3. LDS Temples
  4. LDR errors on Warner Bros. Movie World
  5. editing to correct a common sense mistake
  6. Soul Healers
  7. Pompeiopolis editing
  8. Moving a draft
  9. Whether my page has been submitted for review
  10. 2020-21 NCAA Division I men's Basketball season article
  11. Wrong scientific classification
  12. Link appears to be broken and perhaps linked to virus
  13. Sandbox Help
  14. Harry Black
  15. COVID-19_pandemic/sandbox

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 23

  1. Rao Sahib
  2. Contests
  3. No submit for review button
  4. Is there a way to find all of my created templates/navboxes?
  5. Reverting page move
  6. Search and replace using regex
  7. Page URGENTLY needs DELETING
  8. A newly created Wikipedia page does not show up in the Search Engine, and only its Talk Page shows up
  9. Аккаунт телеграмм
  10. delete my user account
  11. Prolific authors
  12. Move article from sandbox
  13. Major problems with automatic row numbers in the mobile app
  14. Yesim Yilmaz

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 24

  1. What is the procedure for removing a UPE Tag and redirect?
  2. Gender differences in the human brain
  3. Who can close an RfC early?
  4. The role of Hon. B. E. Dwira in the CPP (CONVENTION PEOPLE'S PARTY).
  5. Interlanguage link won't work
  6. Merlin, Ontario:
  7. pdf file used as reference
  8. Dr Malcolm Kendrick
  9. Old Egyptian navy

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 25

  1. Any templates or similar to set up reminders?
  2. How does one edit …
  3. Self redirects in Template:Interlanguage link
  4. Can I filter recent changes by category?
  5. Disambiguation pages linking to other disambiguation pages
  6. Question about dots
  7. Complaint
  8. Previews
  9. External website
  10. Hunter biden laptop

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 26

  1. Newbie, occasional edits: trying to understand edits query
  2. Referencing a birth records search
  3. Username and Edit source issues on my account
  4. Deletion
  5. How to add interlanguage links with a mobile phone
  6. Editing of article's title
  7. Saved reading Lists on Browser?
  8. Rename image file please
  9. Huggle Bot made reversion of my transclusion
  10. How to obtain a list of internal/ external links from a wikipedia page
  11. I can't upload my interview with my sources on Wikipedia
  12. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  13. Unable to watch videos on iPad
  14. Template:Episode
  15. Need Wikipedia to remove an unofficial Facebook page
  16. Is Amazon a reliable source?
  17. Intellectual Property Infringement (#DeafTalent®)

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 27

  1. A question about WP:NOINDEX
  2. Uploading Photo
  3. Archive
  4. New York Times articles (pre 1970's)
  5. Reliable sources
  6. Md Perwez Siddiqui
  7. Gross tons convert template
  8. Help???
  9. :File:Heroic Children book cover.jpg
  10. Editing the Summary and Side Panel
  11. Arthur Miles
  12. CNN description
  13. Page has been deleted, please recover
  14. Rolling back multiple edits that were vandalism.
  15. Suspected of spamming when adding national guidelines to health sites
  16. Clare Sheridan Copyright Holder
  17. how to change reading mode. White text on black(dark green) background

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 28

  1. spam in edit summaries
  2. Google search
  3. What template/s are most appropriate for showing in an infobox total project costs, who funded or loaned money to a project?
  4. Request to assist in being targeted and falsely banned by troll with biased agenda who's been repeatedly deleting factually sourced & constructive edits
  5. Unanswered question
  6. Information Creation
  7. Military women history timeline
  8. Limited Access
  9. Harrison Biggins (Barrow football club )
  10. Golf Page Posted about Karl Keffer
  11. NFAC
  12. General Editing
  13. Sky 5
  14. Major possible POV edits on a political figure's BLP - how to handle?
  15. Wikipedia iOS app editing error

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 29

  1. Mathematics
  2. Userpage
  3. Editing bug?
  4. vandalism by IP-adres
  5. How to handle am entry for a location with two possible actual places
  6. Confusion Regarding Zimbabwe Cricketer
  7. Logo

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 30

  1. Facebook
  2. published my page but its not visible by searching in google
  3. How to add userboxes on talk page
  4. Hotel workers
  5. Changed citation formatting because it was assigned in reference desk
  6. Map

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2020 October 31

  1. Help: Cite errors
  2. Misspelled name of a place
  3. Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for advertising
  4. Language of the references/sources
  5. My article has got a speedy deletion tag
  6. Donation
  7. MediaWiki supported CSS
  8. Making statements which are backed up only by text extracted from a resource which is not freely available
  9. How to exclude the Lua subpages from search of RD archives?
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