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February 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 1

  1. Featured article by author
  2. Impro-Visor
  3. Scott B & Beth B
  4. pre pay tolls
  5. Help - Article not posted on the wikipedia?
  6. Way to pull up a file list?
  7. Saving articles
  8. WP:NOTAFORUM
  9. Licking county children services and there neglect!!!!!!
  10. dicussion-EGLISE VIEILLE CATHOLIQUE ROMAINE
  11. Gridiron football card
  12. Template:HD
  13. Aiuto
  14. Article on Jhulelal
  15. Need to make a disambiguation page + redirect for "Tatau"
  16. Concern
  17. Medium spaces in mathematical formulas causing error without MathJax

February 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 2

  1. I need to insert a correction along with the proof to Wikipedia
  2. Can't Edit (text disappears)
  3. Downloading
  4. Dead link on Portal:Current events calendar
  5. Trouble with Lua
  6. Reusing nested |encyclopedia referencves
  7. Balletine, Mississippi

February 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 3

  1. DANFS Look-alike
  2. Account deletion
  3. editing an infobox
  4. Need to change subject header of the wikipedia page
  5. Wikipedia for businesses
  6. What do you call this?
  7. Help editing the pudsey wiki
  8. KSGMEWA
  9. Harry Marshall Jr.
  10. How do I display a list of all new articles created by me? by another editor?
  11. Europe map question
  12. Change of username, contributions and SUL
  13. A new section starts here
  14. How do I use a named footnote more than once?
  15. A problem
  16. Resubmitting an article
  17. remove my name and nero name from alliance larp entry.

February 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 4

  1. sterling club sets up nasty groups!
  2. Jack Parsons (rocket propulsion engineer)
  3. Incorrect 'other language link'
  4. Referencing error
  5. How to show rejected wiki page after editing
  6. editing a page
  7. Hausner ratio
  8. BAFTA's Film Awards ceremony articles - incorrect years!
  9. Broken link -- Bunny Rugs of Third World Page
  10. replace current logo on wikipedia page
  11. Disambiguation page needed
  12. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=593448042 Trio hellenique]
  13. Change my Username
  14. Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Christiane Robbins
  15. Please tweak this Category page
  16. Linking to another Wiki page
  17. Removing page from dead-end catagory?
  18. sandbox
  19. The image that you have for the bio of Thutmose III has undergone an alteration

February 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 5

  1. Wrong picture in article
  2. what If ...
  3. copyright of non-free image
  4. preemptively block network
  5. Manipulation with provided links to my website
    Ram Bahadur Bomjon
  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  7. Using print/ export download as pdf
  8. Searching for Redirects from Greek to English
  9. Kilmarnock & Troon Railway.
  10. user name
  11. How can I get our article "verified"?
  12. Selective italicization of article titles
  13. Appealing results of discussions
  14. Removing disclaimer box with broom at top of page
  15. messin up a deletion discussion
  16. citing personal knowledge
  17. Icon image not displayed on table
  18. Editing John Cena's page under Personal Life

February 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 6

  1. CRNE
  2. Frank menechino
  3. Changing the name of an article
  4. (Unclear) new section
  5. Company page
  6. REFUSAL OF WIKIPEDIA PAGE
  7. Requesting The Upload Of A Better Logo For WCQL
  8. my entry on Wikipedia
  9. Big Horn Mountains Page
  10. Referencing errors on The Michael Kay Show
  11. Trauma Quality Improvement Program submission
  12. Formatting of Ancient Greek text in Physics

February 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 7

  1. Facebook help
  2. Could someone please fix my userpage on wikipedia?
  3. Please explain
  4. Pine tree sap.
  5. Editing User Name
  6. Uploading pictures
  7. removed porn links
  8. Personal information- Image.
  9. LaTex rendering error on some pages
  10. my photo won't upload
  11. I was getting ready
  12. Which TCP ports does Wikipedia use?
  13. Math parsing problem
  14. OLIVER LOVING :
  15. math markup broken
  16. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Decon Records discography

February 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 8

  1. all <math> are not working
  2. wiki entry being used for kickstarter/press. This isn't worthy of wiki entry
  3. Cain's Ballroom
  4. list of artists british
  5. John Grindal at Grindal Shoals SC
  6. tastexperience
  7. EDIT REQUEST
  8. How to
  9. Houston Chronicle - Hearst Corporation Era
  10. How do you thank an editor for his edits?
  11. When is a stub not a stub?
  12. Reid Hazelton

February 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 9

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Digby
  3. Your staff is discriminating
  4. Question
  5. THE SIGNPOST NEEDS YOU TO HELP PUT TOGETHER THE NEXT ISSUE
  6. latex parser error
  7. Co-ords into a table
  8. digong kung fu
  9. company profile of my client company
  10. Paying to block advertisments
  11. SOCIAL MEDIA
  12. Possible bug regarding MathJax?
  13. Nominating an article for deletion: what did I do wrong?
  14. Referencing

February 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 10

  1. Help with a variable link within template
  2. Referencing errors on The Race of a Thousand Camels
  3. Help with in-line citation formatting
  4. False attribution of edit
  5. Trina Robbins
  6. Microsoft software screenshot
  7. "Changed visibility of the article feedback tool"
  8. Wikipedia mobile - keyboard doesn't appear
  9. How do I delete a page in my user space?

February 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 11

  1. Richard Sherman
  2. How do I start a page on my professional achievements?
  3. I can find no trace of an article created/submitted in the article wizard
  4. I am confused as to whether my article "stub" has been submitted to review or not. Also confused about the title of a page.
  5. Help regarding global account
  6. Tamar.com wikipedia
  7. Unbalanced tags
  8. professional; wiki article.
  9. help....
  10. Is there a recommended/standard article format for places (cities, towns, counties?)
  11. changing page
  12. Prominent Americans of Middle Eastern Descent, Norse Deities, and Role-Playing Games
  13. User:Brackenheim/markAdmins.js
  14. Second battle of Khe sahn
  15. Where should I report this old Afc submission
  16. Article "reviewing"
  17. American Jewish University
  18. Page move request
  19. Chandramathi

February 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 12

  1. Calling a fact/citation into question?
  2. Edit notice
  3. Click to enlarge photo
  4. Can't request a new article
  5. Malayam
  6. Help regarding adding image ?
  7. Tom Brokaw wiki page
  8. Citing different pages or chapters of the same reference with VisualEditor
  9. Images on Wikipedia page
  10. Where is these songs from?
  11. Lloyd's List - Edits now appearing
  12. Proper attribution when taking newspaper sources from a blog
  13. Edit Images
  14. Citing encyclopedias
  15. Wikipedia articles do not use my whole screen. (might have something to do with the Betas I'm in)
  16. Deletion of 'Laser Battle' page
  17. Arthur Melbourne-Cooper
  18. HELP with Adding relevant photograph to article abut artist Sueo Serisawa
  19. Bernard Carvalho
  20. Is oversight needed?

February 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 13

  1. Deleting categories
  2. Log funny business - move log and file upload log weirdness - where discussed? Why? Fixable?
  3. George P Coleman Bridge Yorktown Va
  4. How does one withdraw an AfD nomination?
  5. Requested Edit
  6. The Ultimate Unification Theory - the unification of Science & Spirituality / Mysticism
  7. Notability of villages, towns, blah blah blah
  8. How do I warn an admin that an anonymous user seems to be on a vandalizing rampage?
  9. How to create a user list of commonly referenced pages
  10. Diacritics in titles
  11. British Raj
  12. Henk Pieterse
  13. Referencing errors on Forum Boarium
  14. Username
  15. Robert H. Schuller
  16. AfC Review
  17. "mediagraphy"...?

February 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 14

  1. john walsh artist
  2. Who do I talk to about this? "Mental Health Literacy" - seems like gibberish to me.
  3. how to remove "user: name/sandbox...." from wiki search result
  4. help with revisions to my Wikipedia page
  5. Link to Chryssi Avgi
  6. Competitor for Great Britain
  7. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Nenad Perunicic
  8. First Time Contributor Needs Upload/Citation Help
  9. Email contact
  10. Re Wiki article on Harold E Puthoff and my edit on 11 February

February 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 15

  1. Disclosed email as source
  2. Citation
  3. Spam whitelist
  4. Annoying scrollbar
  5. PDF File downloads
  6. Edited Wiki articles
  7. Searching Georgia Breweries
  8. Changing Username
  9. Cats (musical) - last edit does not show
  10. User boxes
  11. How do I know that my article has been submitted for review?
  12. Color for the new season page
  13. help
  14. Linking Swedish article to English Sköna Helena
  15. Have both genders for template
  16. Template:Airport codes
  17. Is there a way to change the font in Vector skin?

February 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 16

  1. Did the search change
  2. Editing a transcluded table
  3. How to contribute article?
  4. Raja Raja Chola I
  5. kulothunga Chola I
  6. Biography (scientist)
  7. When my write-up be fixed?
  8. How to include new secondary sources in article
  9. Request Edit

February 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 17

  1. Assessmemt
  2. Referencing errors on Type 97 Chi-Ha
  3. Inaccurate/Inappropriate Information
  4. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=591180362 Butler County, Ohio]
  5. Stock correlation networks
  6. Help, you keep deleting my photo that I have the right to post
  7. bad programing
  8. hike
  9. Edit Page Information
  10. Dental implant
  11. All my edits from February 12th are gone!
  12. Comer, GA, USA Mayor and Coincil
  13. Flickr Photos
  14. db-g13 eligibility
  15. High Sheriff of Merseyside
  16. Image up-loads

February 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 18

  1. Photographing an object at the British Museum and uploading it
  2. Shirley Temple listed in Recent Deaths on Main Page
  3. Correction to my biography
  4. Article by Dass Sheji
  5. User:Citation bot broken for several days.
  6. INDIAN ORIENTALIST FROM KOLKATA (INDIA)
  7. Quench polish quench
  8. Delete unreliable sources?
  9. Find out who wrote what in article
  10. Merged articles, how does this impact Wikidata
  11. reference
  12. where could ı change my relıgıon ın ıstanbul
  13. about references
  14. Watchlist shows only most recent change to each page
  15. Advantages and disadvantages of transcluding a sound file as "file" or as "media"?
  16. I heard from Oliver Stone about Stephen Kinzer need help
  17. Alhambra High School/Athletics

February 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 19

  1. Referencing help
  2. Please check an external link for me?
  3. I am trying to create a Wikipedia topic. It gets disallowed, every time. There isn't anything wrong with it legally, or redundancy wise, or ... So, what is wrong with it?
  4. F*ck on Main page
  5. Question
  6. File:Four white goose.JPG
  7. # Signatures petition
  8. my site Jim McArthur footballer Hibernian
  9. Copy and pasting into Wikipedia
  10. Napoleon Bonaparte
  11. Wikipedia Help
  12. Table formatting help
  13. User email update
  14. phone
  15. Username change?
  16. Preferences among choices for referencing
  17. How do I change the graphics/pictures on our site?
  18. DeLand, Florida
  19. Farmville

February 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 20

  1. I'm having a problem with my Wikipedia password
  2. Is there a function that will show a list of what other articles an article links TO?
  3. New page entirely in Arabic
  4. I need help coding my user page
  5. Non-free image question
  6. could someone please fix me an article?
  7. quoting paraphrased quotes
  8. Numbering diagrams
  9. conflict resolution
  10. how to edit an edit summary
  11. linking pages about same subject in hebrew and English versions of Wikipedia
  12. Deleted page
  13. help me
  14. Move image to commons
  15. Image weirdness: please tell me my phone isn't haunted!
  16. reference error
  17. Images in search

February 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 21

  1. Miracle on Ice-1980 Lake Placid
  2. Photograph of Taiichi Ohno
  3. search error
  4. Citation templates for web news
  5. BLPVIO edit summary
  6. LISTING
  7. Emaren19 and iOS 7
  8. How to Add a Biography
  9. Watchlist paramters
  10. Deletions
  11. Adding archive info for suspended link gets error, but help link doesn't help
  12. Abandoned account created an article draft in the wrong namespace, help with fix
  13. Changing an existing biography
  14. correction request
  15. Delinking template parameters
  16. Font size
  17. Page format
  18. Was this deliberately added?
  19. talk/discussion problem and I want WIKIPEDIA edit
  20. Changing multiple articles

February 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 22

  1. Wikipedia Account Maximum Amount Of Username Characters Question
  2. Michael Mansell
  3. Two pretty much unrelated questions on usernames and user space
  4. Examples appended to article
  5. Table problem
  6. Referencing errors on Excel Maritime
  7. Reporting SPAM
  8. Bolded template fonts
  9. uploading a picture taken by me
  10. Changing font size
  11. Editing a name
  12. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 22#John_Popper_and_.7B.7Btl.7CInfobox_musical_artist.7D.7D|John Popper and {{Infobox musical artist}}]]
  13. Trying to source information
  14. Sotomeyer Article
  15. MadmanBot notice re: copying from other sites
  16. Question

February 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 23

  1. No user names recognized
  2. NM owner changing history for their own profit
  3. Change of picture
  4. On how to use the help desk
  5. Incorporating information from a different language's Wikipedia on the English Wikipedia
  6. adding a photo to an existing profile of a person listed on Wikipedia
  7. Referencing errors on Prime Minister of Ukraine
  8. My Article : Sudha Jain (abusive/misleading/malafide edits)
  9. Need help choosing dubious/whom/citation-needed/weasel-words tag for article section
  10. Vietnam Memorial for the 362nd Signal Company
  11. I want to help Wikipedia.
  12. Referencing errors on English Council of State

February 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 24

  1. How do I favorite a portal.
  2. Changing the size of an image
  3. Quotation
  4. RecentChangesLinked
  5. Add Caps to the display title
  6. Weighting of anonymous contributors' input in RfCs
  7. New home for my article
  8. images
  9. Accessing Wiki's Help Desk and the proposed Wiki Amendment pages
  10. How do I address the notability issues in this article?
  11. Trumpeldor Cemetery
  12. Rejected article
  13. Tranquil, Mississippi
  14. j where do go
  15. Cashing a paycheck
  16. False positive duplication

February 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 25

  1. Audio files are missing the length
  2. Harold Ramis
  3. Birth/death dates in article text of subject's parents
  4. Referencing errors on Harsha Bhogle
  5. Notability of academic journals
  6. Create a page
  7. Moving article from Sandbox
  8. Charles Frederick Worth
  9. 2013 Bulgarian protests against the Borisov cabinet
  10. Caption layout
  11. Copy/Import a article from a foreign Wikipedia into English Wikipedia?
  12. What was that template?
  13. How to delete box at top of page asking for citations/verifications
  14. edited page but doesnt´get displayed
  15. How do I download a wikipedia PNG image to my Mac?
  16. Danny Care
  17. I created a book but it has disappeared!
  18. Ted Genoways Bio
  19. How to block editor
  20. My entry
  21. TV screenshot

February 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 26

  1. Query re Revision History pages
  2. Two pages I created
  3. Paul Gilbert had 2 daughters from previous marriages Susan Gilbert and Gigi Gilbert.
  4. Lauren Powers
  5. Having problem with figuring out a game
  6. Suggested Related Page for the History of Quesnel
  7. Disambiguation/Redirect
  8. Editing
  9. How do I add information to Wikipedia?
  10. Adding references
  11. Change thumbnail photo on Pete Pirsch wikipedia page
  12. Photograph of Taiichi Ohno
  13. Finding the culprit on a page with hundreds of transclusions
  14. COI
  15. The Segal Company article should be titled 'The Segal Group
  16. Error 'Search Help'
  17. What to do?
  18. Where is the article I wrote
  19. Large Blank Space After Moving Text for Eleonora Abbagnato
  20. Luca Valerio

February 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 27

  1. JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY
  2. Misstake in table on Mobile telephony in Africa
  3. Editing Gas Detector
  4. launguage changehttps
  5. about my company
  6. List of Hindu gurus and saints
  7. Paid editing
  8. My latest contribution to Wikipedia (external links)
  9. submission error
  10. Felllatio pictures
  11. Title is wrong
  12. It's totally false, and due to legal action that my own name is María Ángeles Rodríguez Gonzélez!
  13. Creating a new page
  14. (Question about editing) "Categories Box"
  15. Trouble editing normal text near foreign-language text
  16. Interviews..... Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tony Grey
  17. manual of style on synopsis of a book
  18. Kobe Carter Dixie Landin
  19. Why was my post removed?
  20. article about Diane Carey
  21. Someone is sabotaging my page
  22. araria district
  23. my edit keeps getting erased
  24. Redirect page prevents moving an article?

February 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 February 28

  1. Rejected article on AFC
  2. Creating a page for a Professional Disc Golf Athlete
  3. some nondescript title about an edit request
  4. Referencing errors on VBTP-MR Guarani
  5. Switching article and redirect page
  6. Feedback tool
  7. MediaWiki:User:Gabrielchihonglee/Main Page.css
  8. moron pioneers is wrong
  9. Ask another user to nominate Simon Mills (writer) for deletion...
  10. Widths of content on the right-hand side
  11. Should list-like "Popular culture" info be moved to an article or to a disambiguation page?
  12. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=593892111 Bogmalo Beach]
  13. Need an answer
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