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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 1

  1. Greg Speirs
  2. inline Citation
  3. ?!Crashing the sandbox
  4. Change ring tone
  5. incorrect map shown, international boundaries of india
  6. Infoboxes
  7. Using Harvtxt with Cite Doi
  8. Discussion page
  9. How Is Editing Done on Wikipedia And Who Does The Editing To Correct Or Update Information
  10. Stone Art of a Lost World
  11. 8 Foot Sativa page changes 2nd Jan 2014, mistake
  12. Help for Submitting a New Bio
  13. User talk page patrolled

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 2

  1. Deletion of talk page comments
  2. how to edit an article to remove advertisement warning
  3. Please rewrite an article because I'm not able with my simple English knowledge
  4. Box for Sharedupload-desc-here/it (Italian language interface of en.wiki)
  5. Removing Schmalkalden from :Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from before 1990
  6. Can't find information on an Actor
  7. How do you update a picture?
  8. Template editor user right
  9. "Ensoulment" Abortion not permitted in Judaism
  10. Links on templates won't disappear
  11. "This article has multiple issues" note at the top of the page I created

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 3

  1. So I'm a nurs and I'm Arminien so juife rehab hospital in Canada at Laval chomedey has 6 million debt so we need to pay the debt and I want to be had of this hospital .thank you.
  2. How Long Till Changes To Conflict Edit Are Reflected?
  3. Request about unspecified article
  4. Opening a deletion discussion
  5. Article
  6. Rename article
  7. Paclobutrazol
  8. Someone design an email signature about donation to wikipedia?
  9. This article: Hindi magazines?
  10. DGCX
  11. Edit a Wikipedia page
  12. Church Of India-CIPBC
  13. Ashish nanda
  14. reflist requested altough it exists
  15. 'Live' article in my Sandbox?
  16. Edit Help Page directions do not show up

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 4

  1. Whit Bissell
  2. Insert an image
  3. About .net Training in Patna
  4. :Category:Articles with missing files
  5. using talkbox and sandbox
  6. editsummary notice in Twinkle
  7. Acting in the porn (sex) movie
  8. help accessing account
  9. Vijaywada
  10. Why was the link for Requiem For Delinquency's album Hobs End and associated text "edited" to point at Phillip Segal?
  11. How to create a multi-row multiple image

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 5

  1. Whether to put a proposal in the 'Proposals' section or the 'Idea lab' section
  2. Connect an article in English with the same article in other language
  3. Creating Wiki Pages and avoid Deletion
  4. Titanic again
  5. Problem With: Lake Bled
  6. There are some problems with the Shima Province Wiki Page
  7. Deletion of a deletion discussion
  8. Category:Lists of film characters
  9. MarianoRivero
  10. talk page
  11. Article view counter
  12. Image/Logo Upload in Wikipedia Spanish
  13. Transclusion question
  14. print size
  15. O'Donnell page move has caused talk page to be shared
  16. Fixing double redirects - are they "minor" edits or major?

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 6

  1. Search terms lead to incorrect entry
  2. correct mark up code for links
  3. Pagename for User:SpaceJace
  4. Who is the editor now watching our page?
  5. Errors in titles of articles.
  6. ruth madevitt
  7. Re-submitting.
  8. watch list
  9. Probably easy question about image layout.
  10. Wrong Article title
  11. Fake profile
  12. Wikipedia Language
  13. DrVita
  14. Login problem
  15. Staysure - blacklisted?
  16. File: Sarah Moore Grimke.jpg
  17. EPHEMERAL shortcut
  18. Overlink bot?
  19. Merge talk page of reverted move without discussion
  20. Did I resubmit my article incorrectly?
  21. Semiprotection question
  22. I don't know if my proposed page has been submitted.
  23. editing page monkey bar

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 7

  1. How can I add a new word and definition to wikipedia
  2. Referencing errors on Poser Holocaust
  3. How to replace an existing photo in a page.
  4. Audio pronouncing of words to help kids read or learn new words; do you have such a feature?
  5. How to create a your own page on a topic?
  6. Nizamuddin Station
  7. Trouble referencing a url
  8. Regarding the page : Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Goa Campus
  9. DH SMITH - WRESTLER
  10. Page Name Edit
  11. Where/how does one suggest a page be protected or semi-protected?
  12. entry for "Paul Wonnacott"
  13. How to find out which edits have been deleted.
  14. Inaccurate Business Information - Loughborough Town Hall Theatre, Venue and Art Gallery
  15. Etain
  16. Entry for the film LADY KILLERS
  17. How Do I Edit Page Name?

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 8

  1. How to retrieve an article from the review queue
  2. Most References?
  3. Patrolled page
  4. The Inflated Sales of the K-POP Groups in the Best-Selling Boy/Girl Groups Pages
  5. Freddie and the Dreamers
  6. Whitby Gazette Newspapers
  7. Making collapsible table hidden when page is opened
  8. Guilt
  9. editing page
  10. Add A Novel Series to Wikipedia?
  11. Wikipedia in course
  12. Information Section
  13. How to be the only Editor for a Page
  14. Snap-on Tools
  15. a notice from someone claiming to be a "General Council"
  16. help
  17. Bruno Letort
  18. Edit semi-protected template
  19. Place SVG help request template on image talkpage
  20. Edit a protected page
  21. CV-41 correction
  22. Upper case letter on last name
  23. All Arms Junior Leaders' Regiment
  24. Customize the preview image on videos?

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 9

  1. Stelly Stell PROD
  2. Addition of a new name to Wikipedia
  3. Leroy Dean chambers
  4. List of Bollywood films of 2013
  5. For new artical
  6. JOHN HENRY OSHAWA MAYOR CONTENT BEING WRONGLY REMOVED
  7. incorrect statement on ALDO NOVA PAGE he was not a one hit wonder please remove negative comment!
  8. War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II: Request for mediation

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 10

  1. Business
  2. There are ref tags on this page, but the references will not show without a reflist template (see the help page).
  3. The Article: "Harold Y. McSween"
  4. Visual problems
  5. Sticky findings
  6. Reference list
  7. please i want know how much is the pay for watchman for watching a ship for twelve (12) hours?
  8. Removing tags on a German Wiki page
  9. Commercial site that contains encylopedic information
  10. Illeagal movie review Drishyam
  11. :Template:Greece-journalist-stub
  12. Operation Redwings
  13. Inappropriate username
  14. How to clear edit history?
  15. Correct Citation for Stock Info
  16. Templates not updating
  17. Wonky quotation marks
  18. article still says "needs additional citations for verification"

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 11

  1. Formatting is broken on all pages?
  2. Featured Article Error
  3. Autobiography as only source
  4. acounts
  5. DB Primary
  6. Template
  7. Use of Wikipedia to study Persian
  8. Boston Bar, Yale, BC, Canada
  9. Granting a license
  10. References within footnotes
  11. Scandalous
  12. Article, Music of Cuba
  13. Writing An Article Question

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 12

  1. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ben Levin
  2. New added tool
  3. Where to suggest ideas
  4. Talk:British Rail Class 458
  5. rock climbing
  6. can i restart dowloading from where it failed
  7. Non Commercial Use
  8. Page history lists me as the first author of an article I've never seen before
  9. Chavín de Huantar
  10. Cartoon pornography depicting sexual acts? WTF?
  11. Is there a way to disable a Wikipedia account in a specific location?
  12. Reference to site Briglin.com

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 13

  1. Tom Brady
  2. How the process of publishing an article works.
  3. Sandboxes
  4. Mysterious image darkening
  5. Text of deleted article
  6. Notability discussion
  7. Page attacked by malicious editing
  8. Checking a user's activity
  9. How to install a link
  10. SafeSquid
  11. Is this true? 96.52.164.89 (talk) 14:15, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
  12. Remove this page?
  13. Birthday
  14. why was I deleted
  15. Borderline article in Wikipedia space
  16. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=590169803 BP Logix, Inc.]
  17. My page lissette garcia
  18. Julian A. Pitt-Rivers
  19. Eric Tillman Biography page
  20. Wikipedia version of Cat-A-Lot
  21. Philanthropy/charities
  22. Beyoncé Album incorrect information!

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 14

  1. Abby Martin page DELETED
  2. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=590155803 The New 52]
  3. cal bears 2012-2013 women basketball rooster also 2013-2014
  4. Fleemish Search
  5. Robert munroe m-5000 audio tape Hemi-Sync containing binaurai beats
  6. Chem Trails
  7. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Carlo Hallacq
  8. Stoddard NH
  9. Fire Department Page Photos
  10. lost my NSC
  11. Convention center article requested
  12. RESET PASSWORD
  13. incorrect photo on Ruth Draper page
  14. Requesting an Edit/Conflict of Interest
  15. Biased portrayed of Yassir Henry
  16. Abby Martin - what's up?
  17. How come there are red links which go to existing articles?

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 15

  1. Hymn tunes
  2. Scott Davie (pianist)
  3. education
  4. self development
  5. wrong statistics
  6. Citation Notes
  7. Disclaimer at the top of an article
  8. how to live happy
  9. Maurice O Driscoll ex football player in league of ireland
  10. User pages

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 16

  1. How to repair cam position sensor 1990 BMw 750il
  2. How to announce a radio program about Wikipedia
  3. US Politicians' parties customarily mentioned?
  4. Mission Viejo
  5. In view of the public funding that Wikipedia uses, how is the article approval process kept fair?
  6. Stockton Beach
  7. request for copying of some photographs
  8. query about venue
  9. how to add a picture on the infobox
  10. Steve Freeman
  11. designated class of my biography
  12. Is this a Notifications bug??
  13. David Camm third trial
  14. I can not find the last article which i was addinig Lately?
  15. Edit request for James Harris Simons page - COI
  16. Template for Academy Award lists
  17. Vinland Map
  18. I find it extremely weird that warning signs like "You are not logged in" appear when I have an honest question
  19. Odd wording in notification
  20. Timing of posting
  21. Creating an article in Wikipedia without violeteing the regulations
  22. Submitted content but it was deleted
  23. Wikipedia editing/writing needed
  24. Blood and Sand (cocktail)

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 17

  1. Not sure what to do about this vandal
  2. How to correct link rot?
  3. James E Mandler
  4. Tool to search user contributions
  5. Alcohol content
  6. can you edit the referenxe I added
  7. sandbox in Wikipedia talk namespace?
  8. Where do I nominate an image for deletion?
  9. Is that modification a breach of 1RR rule?
  10. Deleting a page
  11. Full width viewing of articles
  12. incomplete artical
  13. Adding to a closed discussion
  14. how to create a box like the one in another article?
  15. How to use tl:DEFAULTSORT ?
  16. Help with Jack Dorsey BLP

January 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 18

  1. UN geoscheme overuse (abuse)
  2. Requested move
  3. What to do with user scrubbing his bad-faith uncivil comments on article Talk page
  4. Confused article name and talk pages
  5. Cannot edit or login from Chrome
  6. Our radio network page was deleted and I want to know why
  7. adding photos to articles without them
  8. Article untrue
  9. citing of sources.
  10. Infobox Help
  11. i dont know whats the answer can you help meee!!
  12. Hart's Island
  13. Lungfish
  14. No author to cite book help please
  15. Why aren't my articles published?
  16. entry for surname ...Mumma.
  17. submitting article for creation
  18. List is nothing but external links
  19. Lists of lists
  20. The Nanny
  21. Alphabetical order
  22. How to change redirect
  23. WARNING!! Don't use our school's name on Wikipedia anymore. Otherwise will will take an action under copyright law against Wikipedia and their editors who is trying to change the information! Thanks!
  24. User contribution link

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 19

  1. Referencing errors on Category:Internet security
  2. What happened with the Wikipedia navigation boxes?
  3. Update main heading
  4. What to do about possible vandalism
  5. How to cite reviews
  6. Problem with Algebra
  7. Copyright owner of File:Rotated map of Europe.png

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 20

  1. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=591352508 Harpy Eagle]
  2. Information Clarification on Courtice Ontario
  3. Notability and tourism sites
  4. content of page "Dinas Island"
  5. Twoo.com wiki issue orphan
  6. My links don't work!
  7. Getting started de-merging files
  8. referencing
  9. Helen Marie Grant
  10. Please keep an eye on the martin Luther King day page
  11. Richard Sherman / Seattle Seahawks
  12. how do i export all famous people?
  13. Can't remember where I asked before
  14. Seattle Seahawks entry.
  15. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Andrew Gunadie
  16. The biographical information on ROBERT GARDNER (CO-WRITER) LE CRIE DU COEUR Film is wrong.
  17. Referencing errors on Category:Medical mnemonics

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 21

  1. Edit protection problem
  2. Create a page about myself
  3. Referencing errors on Martineau family
  4. Andrew Niccol Birthdate
  5. false, libellous claims against me on Wikipedia
  6. no confirmation of entry after osting article
  7. font size
  8. Merge pages
  9. yano website correction
  10. List of supercentenarian Canadians
  11. Uploading my attached professional/biographical profile on wikipedia
  12. Anyone able to convert gif to png?
  13. "Span id" references in 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
  14. Math notation with text instead of numbers
  15. Jamin Gilbert's Wikipedia Page
  16. no new password received

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 22

  1. downloads now screwed up
  2. Arrangement of images in an article
  3. Majid Al Futtaim Group
  4. Placing the TOC immediately after the first paragraph in the lead
  5. Question related ton article for creation
  6. Checking for copyright problems in hidden edits
  7. Morecambe Bay in Lancashire England
  8. request edit
  9. Population Services International
  10. VOGENAUER Ernst Vogenauer
  11. Numbered list in two columns
  12. 1911 revolutionary women's army in China
  13. Reference Desk
  14. Updating Company Logo
  15. saving locations on google maps
  16. Help with Wikitables
  17. Raun Larose
  18. Earshot : request edit : History : Formation and Letting Go
  19. Mediumship. The content on this page is incorrect, as an international tutor on this subject this is a major issue!
  20. Problem with Rolfing page
  21. confirmed account
  22. Removing redirection to publish an article
  23. image viewing
  24. Saving an article in the Article Wizard

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 23

  1. Completely Appalled by your Profile
  2. Incorrect year
  3. Lost username and password
  4. Harvard ref not working
  5. G13. Abandoned Articles for creation submissions
  6. unable to find the link
  7. Square brackets in URLs
  8. guerillabookworm.com
  9. Malik Shabazz removed my article edit
  10. Feedback on Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
  11. news tips
  12. Requested images near me?
  13. Edit username
  14. How come some templates don't show up on my phone?
  15. Need help with changing the Page Title and URL for company page

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 24

  1. Name Change On an Article
  2. Correction on publisher & ISBN for "Bernard Peiffer"
  3. Category: Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
  4. Gamma Phi Gamma
  5. Can we measure TOR usage?
  6. Images of book covers
  7. Download into Excel
  8. My talk page
  9. Reference Desk
  10. Bad Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) translation to Spanish

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 25

  1. Disambiguation page
  2. Infobox award
  3. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=592213173 File:MalikJ.jpg]
  4. narayana naagha
  5. Reference help
  6. Adding Harvard ref citations to footnotes
  7. Town of Cutler Bay
  8. Editing dead link
  9. Martinique
  10. showing differences by hovering on "diff"
  11. Easy math-mode

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 26

  1. Name of article needs changing
  2. CREATED BOOK
  3. Special character for "comma"
  4. Rockford IL, Aviation
  5. German WP user Hedonil
  6. Searching for regular expressions
  7. Submitting a translation about an article
  8. Unable to Create
  9. Multiple Release Dates for Singles in an Album Infobox
  10. Wikipedia format

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 27

  1. Mepirodipine and Barnidipine
  2. Niall_Sheehy_(actor)
  3. Abusive picture linked to a Norwegian sportsman's page on Wikipedia
  4. Accidentally hit Esc in edit mode and it undid my changes, how do I redo?
  5. MCB Arif Habib Savings and Investments Limited (MCBAH)
  6. In WP terms
  7. Paul Newman, cricketer
  8. Change username
  9. Andrew Hook
  10. What are those 8-tuples of 4 hex digit numbers in Wikipedia article histories and how can my own edit show up like that?
  11. Problematic editor
  12. Outside link to Wikipedia
  13. Multiple issues
  14. Dispute Resolution is a Sham
  15. Resolving a dispute
  16. Give me my bloody page back you blood sucking scum!!!
  17. One's own search history
  18. Barry Sotero

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 28

  1. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/ASBIS and ASBIS
  2. Adding and submitting an article
  3. what's the template for something that needs to be verified from a source that's already been given?
  4. Move a page
  5. Issue with "beta" Nearby
  6. Contacting someone who has declined a submission
  7. DPL bot and corresponding tool
  8. how to change the username
  9. Disambiguation detector
  10. Edit to John A. Shaw entry
  11. Not sure where to ask this...

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 29

  1. Reference help requested
  2. Mess I just did while editing on Friends (season 10)
  3. Zephaniah Kingsley Sr. not coming up when searching 'Zephaniah Kingsley'
  4. Should there be inline citation in the lead?
  5. "Registering" my company on Wiki
  6. copyrights
  7. Visibility new wikipediapage
  8. drop down lists
  9. posting a new article
  10. Working edit counters
  11. Help with my Wikipedia page, References and Verification
  12. Robert C Fulford DO
  13. Image licence question
  14. Incorrect name for Madeline Island Museum

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 30

  1. Template parameter syntax
  2. Timeline of British Monarchs
  3. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=592987873 List of University of Michigan sporting alumni]
  4. Richard Charles Gould, American Shotokan Karate Federation (ASKF)., and David Gould
  5. Edit on "Casa Bey"
  6. Effects of Mortality Salience on 2004 Presidential Elections
  7. Image question
  8. Wrong Cincinnati head coach (Ed Jucker) listed for 1958-1959 season - it should be George Smith
  9. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=592983306 François Berléand]
  10. replacing current Mackinac College article

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 January 31

  1. How can I copy mathematical equation to external document editor?
  2. Adding a mini-icon for a flag onto a page.
  3. Referencing errors on [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=590739345 Fette Fraktur]
  4. Miss Mangalore - Copy right volition
  5. Moving house
  6. Edits and NPOV
  7. so, I had stroke 4yrs ago , have diabetes and HBP. finding it difficult to have orgasm.nothing helps, not even masturbation. need someadvice
  8. the scribing of ishitar
  9. Wikidata linking
  10. Antia-Submarine Squadron VS-36
  11. Adding image inside Taxobox
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