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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 1

  1. How to find my draft article and continue writing
  2. Wikidata question
  3. Laird
  4. Accounts
  5. Joseph Stalin
  6. Adding a Figure
  7. Editing Page of a Research and Education Organization
  8. Weird vandalism on lactic acid, only visible via app
  9. comment on article for deletion
  10. Article already in another language
  11. I added my reliable source to my page and it still says the page might be deleted

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 2

  1. Internet Archive / web.archive.org
  2. Talk: 'Criticism of Facebook'
  3. Message sent by Semi-protected account
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  5. Can a new entry be made when the "title" is being used to refer to another organization by the same name?
  6. Notifying editors to comment on a sockpuppeting case
  7. Baffling reference errors

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 3

  1. URGENT
  2. pretty cheesed my article was deleted djdarroo
  3. Havelock Nelson
  4. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  5. How to create a new page for company information in wikipedia
  6. Changing a page image
  7. Hungarian help desk?
  8. name and page name
  9. Pyrotech Workspace Solutions
  10. Nested Footnotes not working on Chhinnamasta
  11. Movie
  12. Abuse Filter False Positive
  13. the use of footnotes that are not citations
  14. Have template only add category in main namespace
  15. J. F. Kamara

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 4

  1. Human-readable font
  2. Glen Affric
  3. Create new page
  4. Referencing errors on VConnect
  5. Interwiki links
  6. Glen Affric
  7. Edit reversed
  8. articles for creation?
  9. request edit

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 5

  1. DJKAM page: Cite errors/Cite error references no text please help
  2. Strange User Account
  3. James Matthews (racing driver)
  4. Joseph Stalin
  5. Merging two articles about the same ship
  6. Entries in different languages
  7. Blanking
  8. Help me with music single articles please!!

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 6

  1. Quick question about MfD's
  2. /doc on other Wikipedias
  3. Using a pushpin map in infobox template
  4. Administrator activity
  5. What happened to the parser profiling data displayed when previewing a page?
  6. gif to svg, bot to replace?
  7. i need to know from where the source came from
  8. Removal of Image
  9. Accidentally Submitted Duplicate Articles
  10. Infobox image that I added suddenly disappeared after a few weeks, now I can't add it anymore

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 7

  1. Lists
  2. The Tulsa Sound.
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  4. Why is everyone in a rush to delete

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 8

  1. How can I remove the Template citations
  2. Can doing paid work on Wikipedia harm future endeavours?
  3. Adding a photo to an Infobox
  4. Who relists deletion discussions?
  5. Deletions across different languages of that article.
  6. Richard Whittington
  7. iGreet's page title name
  8. Fair use image misnamed and used on wrong page
  9. Mistake in your update
  10. Alex Winston - Edits to page
  11. Consensus about a photo choice in United states presidential election 2016
  12. Disambiguation when only one of the articles exist
  13. Biography issues with subject of bio
  14. can you sell wikipedia pages in a book

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 9

  1. Obama's page
  2. Alt acct?
  3. Pix entry problem for draft article on Oliver LaGrone
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  5. Business article
  6. Mr. Pearly
  7. Have an engine and Questions.Thank You!!

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 10

  1. Photo Request Template
  2. Would this work?
  3. want to start a article abour a medical association ISVIR
  4. Referencing errors on Frederick Woodward Branson
  5. Gadgets function erratically
  6. Any way to mass purge articles?
  7. correction to article on Sue Bird
  8. removing an account
  9. Transclusion time sensitivity
  10. Underwood International College
  11. Page created with last name lowercase
  12. Chhinnamasta: using quotes in reference (efn) causing error
  13. Withdraw FAC
  14. Entry for Leon Ware , Edgar winner
  15. Page Deleted
  16. Claw of Slime is missing since last month
  17. About the existing article about EINSTEIN

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 11

  1. How to add archive search to talk page
  2. Referencing errors on J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport
  3. Downloading list of hospitals
  4. Newington House
  5. Referencing errors on Sinhalese people
  6. Getting images to appear in the right place
  7. Saving My New Edits
  8. i HAVE an article
  9. Literature
  10. Sortable chart at All-time Olympic Games medal table: why are sorting arrows not visible?

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 12

  1. Citation
  2. Incorrect name in article
  3. Most edited articles
  4. Literature
  5. Is it worth it to improve the Java Pathfinder page?
  6. Impostor claiming to be a member of a musical group
  7. Table and image layout
  8. Referencing errors on First Presbyterian Church (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 13

  1. efn issue
  2. Glen Affric
  3. Queries regarding uploading new information / my own Resarch finding
  4. Commercial venture?
  5. Removal of Pages
  6. How to start a biography?
  7. correction of history...
  8. Can't figure out cite error

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 14

  1. This is embarrassing
  2. Notability - actress with a single credit
  3. this is for michael uwezu
  4. Max Goldstein - trying to make edits -- August 2016
  5. Adding documentation to previously undocumented statements
  6. Wiki text formatting
  7. Lord Nicholas Windsor

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 15

  1. James Matthews (racing driver)
  2. Insertion and placement of an uploaded photo into a draft article
  3. Lady Nicholas Windsor
  4. Unified login template
  5. How do I re-use citations from a template?
  6. Problem with my new signature
  7. Mobile questions
  8. User:TwoOneTwo
  9. Change of Article Title
  10. Picture Upload Question
  11. How do I find my email account?
  12. date fix script

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 16

  1. “Reception” section best practices
  2. Lists of sources from the same author?
  3. Portal:Military of India
  4. Help
  5. HSBC Bank Bermuda Limited - requires editing
  6. Help! I need a file revived!
  7. Traducción del ingles

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 17

  1. List of images
  2. List of countries by length of expressways
  3. Should offices in an infobox be ranked chronologically or by importance?
  4. Robin Sherwood
  5. Fruit Shoot
  6. User:Akonstantino/Nicholas Jordan - Reviewing a draft to replace a deleted article
  7. Naming Conventions
  8. Please help

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 18

  1. Kat Coiro
  2. Knut Folkerts
  3. Adding a famous social activist details on wikipedia
  4. Referencing errors on Silverthorne, Colorado
  5. Ryan E. Gatti - Page Deletion
  6. Book Creation
  7. Bad title, please help
  8. Koga links
  9. Princess Michael of Kent

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 19

  1. I cant find my draft
  2. "Hide Page Categorization"
  3. Rabha Baptist Convention
  4. Adding a new triad in Neurology
  5. Is there any way to embed an audio or video clip from Commons but only play a section of the file?
  6. Two articles about the same topic
  7. Wikipedia search autocomplete
  8. Removal of editing restrictions
  9. Citing a book review
  10. Using an image in a proposal
  11. Did we reach consensus yet?
  12. How can I identify the set of Wikipedia pages that fall under category of AI that requires contribution?
  13. Richard_(Rich)_Vernon added refs/cites and still getting warning message
  14. Adding an image to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_York,_2016
  15. Automated ping reminder
  16. Peruvian New Sol Page Loophole

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 20

  1. Problems with viewing maps on Wikipedia
  2. Problem getting image caption to appear
  3. Childhood blindness

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 21

  1. Princess Michael of Kent
  2. You Tube Personality
  3. James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale
  4. Should the word "versus" be capitalized in titles?
  5. Ongoing semi-protection of the Race and intelligence talk page
  6. File on Commons with the same name as a file on Wikipedia
  7. Possible to edit text of a bar chart in Wikimedia commons?
  8. Abbr
  9. Inappropriate on today's English page
  10. ...Hello.. On your site there is a claim that the oldest "Eastern Cottontailed Rabbit" is 9 years old, is that a verified claim or not?

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 22

  1. Indenting issues in IPv4
  2. Writing and article
  3. References
  4. User Access Level for viewing a another user's watchlist?
  5. how to request help on my talk page
  6. how to use kimoji
  7. How to refresh WikiProject page
  8. Writing partners
  9. CE
  10. As discussed above
  11. how to use a map within a wikipedia article
  12. Libraian Credentials
  13. Getting a template edit to show up
  14. Writing and article

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 23

  1. Reg Ansett
  2. North Melbourne Football Club
  3. synchrony bank
  4. Created page linked to existing one ...
  5. Referencing errors on Polianthes tuberosa
  6. I need help fixing my error
  7. Reg Ansett
  8. The changes in one of my edits are not the changes I made; how did this happen.
  9. Lan Khuê
  10. How to create an english version of a russian page
  11. Format "Literary criticism"
  12. Suzy Miller
  13. Help me template for talk pages of protected pages
  14. Find all [[Special:MyPage/*.css]]
  15. Help with moving chart beside beside another chart.
  16. "free field" or "free-field"
  17. SFN template problem

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 24

  1. Referencing errors on Draft:Henry Miller Memorial Library
  2. How to create an account for L' Core Paris
  3. Laird
  4. Formulae do not display on Wikipedia pages - why, and how do I fix
  5. Pirate Amaro Pargo
  6. Editing toolbar
  7. Some articles
  8. Tool
  9. Non-working non-local links
  10. Question for administrator
  11. I want to reperted article to deletion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
  12. Article requires current photos

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 25

  1. URL encoding again
  2. Gladys Cooper
  3. Mexico, South Carolina
  4. Fountain of Youth Theory
  5. Disambiguation issue.
  6. Management of WP
  7. Disambiguation page DJ Paul
  8. How to post an bio of an actor
  9. How do I search an article for a specific phrase?
  10. Arjuna P. de Silva
  11. Techincal template question
  12. Page Creation - Bernie Matthew (Bernie Matthew Rau)

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 26

  1. Technical issue / glitch with Special:Watchlist
  2. How should I use this source in an article?
  3. Upload photos
  4. Major General Jonathan Hall CB OBE DL
  5. Submitting a page
  6. Searching edit summaries
  7. Watchlist messages
  8. Article name change - "The" removed from company/charity name plus other edits
  9. Image upload
  10. Why did the release templates get removed from Firefox for Android?
  11. Cross wiki upload problems
  12. My page was marked for deletion
  13. Prudence and Strickler originals
  14. Article subtitles on mobile

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 27

  1. On this day....
  2. Unable to reset my another account password
  3. When does the edit show
  4. Panting

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 28

  1. Problem with uploads
  2. New User Needing Some Help
  3. UIPM and Wikidata
  4. Math formulae do not display in a .docx document after a copy-paste from a Wikipedia page
  5. Fake Article
  6. plant vs zombies 2 world ideas
  7. publish
  8. sort name in a category different than a person's pagename
  9. Copyvio curiosity
  10. No page view statistics for August 27, 2016?

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 29

  1. Incoming link count
  2. Refdesk permalink
  3. Disable mobile site?
  4. List of infobox template subset
  5. creating a user page
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  7. about page creation
  8. Question du la polémique
  9. Mitchell Hamline School of Law page
  10. COI
  11. unwanted info on site
  12. How-to question
  13. articles for newspaper
  14. Clarification needed about WP:PIPELINK

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 30

  1. Referencing errors on Jay Kim
  2. Infobox Template not working
  3. How to insert hyperlinks to Wiki pages
  4. How to check history...and more
  5. Override NOGALLERY tag
  6. I wish to remove an article about me
  7. general user friendliness of wikipedia
  8. {{Expand section}} template not using full width of article
  9. Bajrang Dal Page
  10. Archiving talk page
  11. Help with tags

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 August 31

  1. Michael Valli
  2. unsupported arguments for Template:IPAc-en
  3. Link to Google
  4. Haringey 6th Form Centre change oage title
  5. Delete Sandbox
  6. Addition of a link to a community group on an existing page
  7. Article submission
  8. B, 0-9, A, N, C, D...
  9. Page removal
  10. Referencing errors on The Bride (2015 film)
  11. Empty citation
  12. Duplicate article
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