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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 1

  1. Christian Darnton and James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale
  2. Linda Ikeji
  3. Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde
  4. Different versions sorting
  5. Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
  6. Can you make articles "drill-down"?
  7. Citing Coronial Inquiries/Inquests/Reports?
  8. Living Person
  9. Uncollapsing tables

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 2

  1. Mysterious public logs
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  3. How do I upload a photograph onto a Wikipedia Reference Desk page?

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 3

  1. Total count of person-articles?
  2. The Wiseman Baronets
  3. New article
  4. Wyoming State Files 12 & 80 2015
  5. West Papua Expert
  6. entry deleted and modified to a previous inaccurate version
  7. Inability to edit
  8. Wiki Approval
  9. What is the minimum word or character limit for good articles?
  10. Remove DOB from my bio?

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 4

  1. In the news
  2. Pronunciation guide
  3. Redirect
  4. Getting Access to Semi-Protected Page
  5. Centering templates in a table
  6. How to add a picture
  7. Referencing question
  8. Diff Problems
  9. I would like to change article name
  10. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  11. Need to change title of a page
  12. Leo Dunson page
  13. Talk Page
  14. How do I make an IMDb link work correctly?

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 5

  1. Shahaji II
  2. disambiguations with redlinks
  3. Regarding article - Sridhar
  4. Move (Redirect?) Page
  5. Brigitte Fontaine discography
  6. Are there any statistics about how accurate Wikipedia is?
  7. Citation in section heading
  8. Please update page: PA 8th congressional district race for 2016:
  9. Infobox map

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 6

  1. The Centron Wiki Page
  2. Template:Europe topic
  3. Case-sensitive search?
  4. What constitutes notability for a church?
  5. History of Telenet
  6. Literally I Can’t
  7. Images are not displaying
  8. Referencing errors on Draft:D. Scott Martinez
  9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 7

  1. Referencing errors on Mary Catherine Lamb
  2. Template problem
  3. Regarding your comment in the page we've created: This article has multiple issues
  4. link
  5. Difficulty adding a link to an archive.
  6. DYK Template issue
  7. thermonuclear bomb

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 8

  1. AfD for ISOBL?
  2. Removing "unreviewed" tag
  3. List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
  4. uk centenarians
  5. Links to the University of Denmark
  6. Translating a wikipedia article
  7. Confusion about rules regarding submitting articles about yourself
  8. Editing a Wikipedia article to add a photograph by linking to a publicly available copyrighted online photograph in the archives of a news magazine
  9. List of songs about Elvis

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 9

  1. Request for undeletion? Remake? Help!
  2. Unintentional blanking of others' comments in a talk page
  3. University of St Andrews
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  5. Emma Thompson
  6. Help:Cite errors/Universal background checks - cite#3
  7. Signon oversight
  8. University of St Andrews
  9. I have checked - but my questions regarding refs. remain unanswered
  10. Talk page update.
  11. Getting information posted
  12. Denise Pearson
  13. Sesame street (saskia resume role). gameo or web serie?
  14. Robert Aloysius McMahon Jr

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 10

  1. Ulysses S. Grant High School, Valley View, California
  2. Articles about names
  3. Maryse Warda
  4. Updating templates
  5. Question of G12.
  6. Question in some foreign language
  7. Catalonia and the Basque Country, Spain

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 11

  1. New at NPP and stumped
  2. Fixing page titles
  3. Add information
  4. yolasite
  5. Page Editing for my client
  6. Profile Image
  7. Editorial Problems: Draft:Feargus Hetherington
  8. Tom Sandow

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 12

  1. Légion d'honneur recipients
  2. Referencing errors on Roger Morgan (designer)
  3. Creating a page for a person
  4. Rachael Lillis (Faragonda winx)
  5. Charles 'Kid' Keinath
  6. Deletion Question About Poshter Girl (2016)
  7. Need help changing pagename
  8. Copyright question
  9. Book= Solar System - Rendering Failed (two separate days)

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 13

  1. How to edit the PageName
  2. is it okay to put links to Spotify in a discography page?
  3. Pippa Middleton
  4. Removing "unreviewed" tag
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  6. traduction d'une petite lettre du francais a l'hebreu merci
  7. Eden Rock, St Barths
  8. Grammar
  9. University of Leeds
  10. Redirected or deleted article?
  11. Clinton
  12. New article - Michal Cander: polish artist
  13. Help: How do I define my identity so I can edit an article on "Herbert Gutman"?
  14. New article - Skulpt : fitness device
  15. How to define my identity so I can edit Wikipedia entry
  16. page
  17. Yale Materials Handling Corporation Information
  18. Template parameter resolution
  19. Tracking categories

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 14

  1. What happens to USER Infoboxes when we die?
  2. Denver Pyle
  3. Draft:Paul Brubaker : Request for review
  4. Ross Turnbull (rugby union)
  5. Prince George of Cambridge
  6. How do I post this announcement?
  7. Infinite Speed F1 Team
  8. Citing search results pages (website seems to use PHP)
  9. creating a page in wikipedia
  10. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no key
  11. Sarah McCullough
  12. Linking from English language page to non-English page

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 15

  1. Change name of Spoto Wines
  2. Removing Deletion flag
  3. what is wikipedia?
  4. Nightwing.UK.
  5. solutions to the problems of marriage/concepts of marriage
  6. Hello, is there a way to block a page from being edited?
  7. Taharrush gamea
  8. Hello, is there a way to block a page from being edited?
  9. Problems with my article
  10. A free photo to Maria Farantouri
  11. Uploading pictures
  12. dubious about B. Alijani
  13. Damian Aspinall

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 16

  1. Clock in personal toolbar
  2. St. Louis Rams: admin attn needed
  3. Damian Aspinall
  4. How to create an account on wikipedia
  5. Page size
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  7. Including quotations (in this case from a primary source)
  8. Unusual coordinate format

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 17

  1. Twinkle
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  4. Moving page on sustainable consumption teaching from userspace to Wikipedia
  5. I would like to write on Wikipedia about a person I know
  6. Help with footnote 17 on Gilles (stock character) page.
  7. My userpage
  8. Nigel Poett
  9. can i download w.p.
  10. Wikipedia means to me
  11. New article - Michal Cander: polish artist -> better version
  12. Morrissey
  13. Oakland Plantation
  14. Change of our companies description on Wikipedia
  15. Recently Uploaded Content Repeatedly Deleted

January 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2016 January 18

  1. External links and infoboxes
  2. Nigel Poett
  3. Damian Aspinall
  4. How do I find all the articles that I started?
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  6. Speakers needed
  7. Possible copyright issue on Sakha wiki.

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2016 January 19

  1. Joel Barnes WeatherNation page deleted, Alex Wilson Weather channel page still up?
  2. Thank you. Please assist with some more answers.
  3. a gif image
  4. Knights Hospitaller
  5. How to reference properly
  6. API access to Special:Linksearch
  7. Possible to link infoboxes?
  8. Frustrated with table
  9. Can't open page. it says: The page "Karat Faye" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created.
  10. to remove or archive talk page entry?
  11. Could someone please add Jenny's_Wedding on the List_of_lesbian,_gay,_bisexual_or_transgender-related_films_of_2015?
  12. Category rename

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2016 January 20

  1. Lupton family
  2. Help on uploading images/licenses
  3. Kinnelon High School, Kinnelon Road, Kinnelon, NJ
  4. How to create a table with sorting feature?
  5. Peter Kavanagh
  6. For the should know better file
  7. ECPMF article proposal
  8. Succession box template not working

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2016 January 21

  1. Archimedes' planetarium
  2. Does Wikipedia use the concept of archiving?
  3. A new article
  4. Send me the reference model
  5. How do I add my company to your reference list ?
  6. Nelsonville York High School
  7. how to post page after edits
  8. Google Images question
  9. Le Creuset Logo
  10. Help with Thoro-Vac Central Vacuum System
  11. Citing same book but different pages
  12. Ready?

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 22

  1. Deletion of page
  2. easy contact
  3. Requesting a screenshot
  4. Watchlist broken?
  5. How to upload image
  6. Question about merging
  7. Edits do not show up after Saving
  8. Jews for Jesus Wikipedia: Opinionated or Not Opinionated
  9. Can one make a _small_ space?
  10. Transcluding a category
  11. Cuneiform

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 23

  1. SVG image only shows background in detail view, bug?
  2. Category already exists
  3. text not left-justified after nested tables
  4. Eden Rock, St Barths and Pippa Middleton
  5. How to move an article from general User: to personal userspace?
  6. Melise de Winter
  7. Hawaii Five-0 article mistitled Hawaii Five-o
  8. do gadgets affect computer speed / performance?
  9. teahouse "ask a question" box appears partially off my screen to the left, so I can't see what I am typing in it.
  10. Sarah Palin
  11. Question about formatting of quotation marks
  12. Format to name a page

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 24

  1. Eden Rock, St Barths
  2. Referencing errors on Australia Act 1986
  3. Glen Affric and Eden Rock, St Barths
  4. Reference not taken
  5. Eden Rock, St Barths
  6. Glen Affric
  7. how I can add reference link?
  8. 2009 dura max
  9. publishing
  10. Referencing errors on Numerical Stroop effect
  11. Ryan Lindsay (actor)
  12. How do I change misinformation on my Wikipedia page?

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 25

  1. Large links for "edit" on a section
  2. Re information on start a page for prominent organization
  3. Referencing errors on 2016 in American television
  4. How to respond to article messages such as Refimprove ?
  5. David Cobb, Green Party
  6. New article
  7. Stats broken. again
  8. Spam question
  9. Issues with wikipage
  10. How To Create Article Links
  11. What edit was my first mainspace page create?
  12. Layout on Mean Machine Angel
  13. John F Kennedy

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 26

  1. Robert Canetti
  2. Replacing Bio photo
  3. Adding map to a page
  4. Re-nominating a page for deletion.
  5. Is there a Wikipedia template that calculates a person's current age?
  6. How to resolve issue with rude and unwelcoming user
  7. Promotional Article
  8. Title blacklist question: - Draft: AFIYA FUNKYSOULSTRESS BEY
  9. Glen Affric
  10. Relate Institute page
  11. Glen Affric
  12. Amos John
  13. Glen Affric
  14. Feedback?
  15. Weird edit link
  16. Bessacarr and Cantley politics
  17. mentioning isolated crime on town's page
  18. Main page
  19. Can't get to the commons
  20. White Castle (restaurant)
  21. Problems with the Page on "Mahdavia"
  22. Referencing errors on Angelina Jolie
  23. Take down a redundant page

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 27

  1. Who can edit?
  2. Article Source
  3. Tables lose their sorting ability when a background color is added
  4. Biografia Italo Salizzato
  5. HDFC Bank vs ICICI Bank
  6. Laird
  7. Melvin Holmes is deceased
  8. Help:~how do I fix the following error? Cite Error: The named reference 'patent' was invoked but never defined
  9. Bio
  10. Doi filler
  11. Background colors for tables
  12. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  13. Square brackets in front of a link
  14. Automated warning edit error
  15. No way to report abusive editor

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 28

  1. Referencing errors on List of tallest buildings in Miami
  2. bill cosby's Wikipedia page
  3. Question about quality of image in article
  4. Does Wikipedia have any category for "age-related lists"?
  5. Statistics of hits
  6. Just registered an account after being a long time reader
  7. Jack Nusan Porter subcategory amendment and additions edit request
  8. PLEASE READ! Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, January 28, 1986 Thirty Year Anniversary
  9. Australian Sidecar Speedway Championship
  10. If a page is simply a redirect page to another page, can you place that page in a Wikipedia category?
  11. How to locate a saved draft?
  12. Cast lists
  13. Pages with no archive

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 29

  1. Neighbours
  2. Amitash Pradhan
  3. 'Undefined' tags
  4. Is it not best to have paragraphs written by known experts to be highlighted in some way?
  5. WHAT THE CRAP?
  6. Hurriya
  7. Lappin Foundation
  8. Here is the problem.
  9. Referencing errors on M. C. Richards

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 30

  1. Changing the photo for Eddie Van Halen
  2. Connect with http instead of https?
  3. Referencing errors on Bob Power
  4. Logo upload
  5. Introduction
  6. Laird
  7. Mimsa International Airport
  8. General Requests Lab?
  9. Undoing move of Hospitaller colonization of the Americas to Territorial possessions of the Knights Hospitaller

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 January 31

  1. "List of Copywriter" addition
  2. Fix
  3. Laird
  4. Article is not being published
  5. How to translate infobox?
  6. Teddybears (TV series)
  7. Looking for a Bot to list imageless articles in a given category
  8. Should raster graphic be maintained when a vector graphic exists?
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