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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 1

  1. Lupton family
  2. Some image is not displaying properly on safari.
  3. Article requiring extensive/total rewrite - What can I do?
  4. Question about translating articles
  5. Image comment Rae Loch
  6. Adding an image to an article
  7. Vito Genovese why removed our company page
  8. How do I create a Wikipedia page?
  9. What clock does Wikipedia follow?
  10. Rendering error in Hebrew cantillation article
  11. Editor not showing as autoconfirmed
  12. Why no age verification for 18+ wiki articles?

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 2

  1. Realyn Nelson
  2. "Musical scores are temporarily disabled" – Why and until when?
  3. Incorrect information
  4. How should names of computer files and folders be formatted?
  5. Dr Fritz Indra information not available in English?
  6. Delete account
  7. Reason why contribution was declined
  8. Sics making me woozy
  9. Question
  10. Correct music label for releases?
  11. Antikult
  12. Discography
  13. Band
  14. External links
  15. simple inflation template
  16. Template help
  17. Family tree on Talk Page of article
  18. Spam blacklist
  19. Vandalism and misinformation on 'Rajput', Rajputisation' articles..
  20. WP:UST article talk pages say inactive
  21. Reaching consensus
  22. adding name
  23. Renaming a Wikipedia's url
  24. WP 1.0
  25. Timeout Error 28

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 3

  1. language
  2. Spelling help
  3. Kiev Day and Night#Soundtracks splitting
  4. can you help me review changes please
  5. How to find permanent link of questions in reference desk?
  6. Rollbacks on article Dhar
  7. Editing and adding information
  8. Wikipedia loading in Hindi by default

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 4

  1. Trying to Add Voice Module to Infobox person with Infobox musical artists enbedded
  2. I need to know about how to create a Wikipedia Article
  3. Referring Wikipedia on my website
  4. using info in wikipedia in clinic website
  5. Hubert Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
  6. Spain's daily Covid death toll
  7. Prepration for IELTS exam
  8. my ineptitude
  9. Archiving talk pages
  10. OPPO X 2021
  11. Where can I find list of Wikipedia logos from 2001?
  12. Is my request of adding info at COVID19 strain not satisfactory?
  13. What CSS has Wikipedia applied to it infoboxes?
  14. Fact check on this user.
  15. Convert Wikipedia equations and math symbols to Microsoft Word format
  16. I need two templates

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 5

  1. Creating a link to another Wikipedia page.
  2. Mick Wheble MBE
  3. Sorting search results
  4. [HELP] Uploading Image
  5. Lee J Hopper
  6. Find which pages I created that are reviewed
  7. Want to rectify the mistakes in MARAVAR
  8. How to edit.
  9. Mescalero Sands National Natural Landmark
  10. Ira Needles
  11. Report about wrong information
  12. Ukraine article in safari is not showing its flag
  13. OPERATION TAYLOR COMMON (Vietnam)
  14. Lisl Frank article
  15. The Merced Gateway News
  16. Guidelines for election pages

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 6

  1. Use a group note/reference multiple times
  2. To remove and edit info on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Pacific
  3. Naming conventions for air marshals
  4. Account compromised
  5. Why is my link redirecting to help desk but not my question?
  6. Question about IBAN
  7. SPA problems
  8. Negative contents in a category
  9. "Preserves"
  10. Orange County
  11. How to link pages in different languages
  12. Does two articles in a county newspaper meet WP:GNG?
  13. Edits undone

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 7

  1. Vandalism help request from 2601:5CC:8200:190D:A940:6857:BA5A:6EEB
  2. Chigan Madu Article is not available yet
  3. how do i add a person ?
  4. WP e-mail
  5. divorce not between husband and wife
  6. Hide bot edits in watchlist
  7. Blocking Kiev Day and Night
  8. AD & BC
  9. Interpol pictures
  10. Gas question
  11. File:Southall FC 1883-84 team.jpg
  12. Capitalisation of literal translations of titles
  13. The People's Supermarket
  14. Link that no longer relates to article
  15. Moving draft to sandbox
  16. Can't reset email address for Username

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 8

  1. Judge Merrick Garland voice - possible Cancer
  2. JAN 6, 3021
  3. How to make Sample redirect to different page?
  4. How to advanced search the deleted tweets in web archive?
  5. Publishing wikipedia page
  6. Resubmit After a Rejection
  7. Finding the reason for a blacklisting
  8. Name correction
  9. No 'more' option is showing in my Wikipedia sandbox page.
  10. Please somebody add KGF chapter 2 teaser to [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_online_videos_in_the_first_24_hours here]
  11. JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
  12. reference OK

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 9

  1. Citing a PhD dissertation in author's biography
  2. Distric Name Change
  3. Hello
  4. Parler
  5. Font size
  6. Mesne lord
  7. Mathematics
  8. Account Deletion
  9. queries regarding publishing a page on Wikipedia
  10. Question - Automatic linking or always manual?
  11. My words at talk page of Tapan Misra was ignored.
  12. Maps
  13. Link color
  14. Can I reset password using Committed Identity?

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 10

  1. Draft
  2. Merging talk pages and archives of pages
  3. (Talk) Wissotzky Tea: What needs attention
  4. Common wikipedia doubt: Why is my link not qualified as reliable source link?
  5. All charts are missing on all pages
  6. Do Wikipedia allow editors to post match results before TV telecast?
  7. Citing RogerEbert.com and Chicago Sun-Times together?
  8. Archiving at climate change
  9. Minus sign in <math> formula does not show in browser
  10. What is this?
  11. Adding/Updating External Links to an Updated Version of a Website

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 11

  1. Should I edit the Wikipedia article about my school to reflect changes due to COVID-19?
  2. (Semi-)automated monitoring of links/references
  3. Yesterday
  4. adding some info to author stub for Resmaa Menakem
  5. How to find which article recieved most edits of all time?
  6. Why is my archive link not working?
  7. Table goes below infobox; how can I make it adjacent?
  8. Is there a way to change what the title says?
  9. External Links
  10. Kalmar Union as a symbol for Scandinavia
  11. A Critique of Pure Tolerance
  12. How to cite multiple quotations from the same source
  13. Copying content across multiple articles
  14. Disruptive overseas-based editor: verifying earlier other-Wiki blocks
  15. Citations in Incorporated Text
  16. Feb 14 1970The USS POINT DEFIANCE We Had a COLLISON With the REFULING SHIP

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 12

  1. Question about cooking show
  2. Spelling
  3. Why isn't DEFAULTSORT ordering working in this category?
  4. Australian Institute of Polish Affairs
  5. Wikipedia is broken, why no one wants to fix it?
  6. Tricky issue
  7. Editing on Android
  8. Restore material
  9. The information aboud my bio is incorrect
  10. i am free editor
  11. Asking for the effect of a table template
  12. number of edits compared to oldid?
  13. Mescalero Sands Natural National Landmark update
  14. you as info are not judge and jury
  15. Should football club article names be transliterated, if they are from a country that doesn't use a Latin alphabet?
  16. 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season
  17. Rollback doesn't use the edit summary it asks me for
  18. How to submit a new word...
  19. Suggested citation change
  20. Donor potential and subject for publication

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 13

  1. Translation wanted
  2. What's the difference between "authorship" and "top edits" in page history of "Xtools" site?
  3. Wikipedia is broken, why no one wants to fix it?
  4. List of all people
  5. Declined Article Submittion
  6. Help with watchlist/recent changes display
  7. Public url
  8. Requested Correction for Article Titled 'Starving Time'
  9. Left leaning, anti conservative
  10. How to suggest a picture be edited
  11. Wikidata item exists but doesn't show on Wikipedia article page
  12. Updating spouse details marriage & divorce info

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 14

  1. sfn template question
  2. an article on Tongan/Uvean pre-European history.
  3. Makaronopizza
  4. Does this violate the rules?
  5. How to find articles to edit?
  6. Try to make a correction on my information Axel Addy and lost most of the content - How do I get it back
  7. Repeated Warning Message
  8. wikipedia
  9. Suppressed files blocking export to Commons
  10. Why this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosford_yield_criterion#Logan-Hosford_criterion_in_plane_stress section] not getting scanned by "Who Wrote That" addon?
  11. Collapse family tree by default
  12. Libra (astrology)
  13. Article about Dr. Vladimir Lumelsky
  14. Different answers/information.
  15. Why is there is no "pornography" in this category?
  16. Klete Keller photo error
  17. Wrong citations
  18. Edit an article
  19. Template:Redirect with multiple redirects

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 15

  1. President Donald Trump's Wikipedia has been vandalized
  2. Machine-translated source?
  3. Correct Template
  4. George Floyd
  5. Wikipedia logo needs update
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Punic_Wars
  7. Issues with my Archive Box
  8. Adding photos to my great uncle's wiki page: Sir Alan Smith (RAF officer, spitfire pilot) and businessman
  9. Looking for someone who might be interested in creating a article with me on 'KashBook'.
  10. Defamation of US leaders in their Wikipedia pages
  11. why is wikidata employee count not shown in infobox company
  12. Interlanguage links
  13. Putting text in columns for printable version
  14. Is there a dashboard or forums page that shows suggested changes?
  15. How best to improve a small paraphrased list added without consideration for style or placement
  16. What happened to all the Entertainment Weekly links?

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 16

  1. Creating an article
  2. Locked edit page
  3. Locking certain 'facts' and not locking others is censoring your primary purpose.
  4. work and learn
  5. Questioning the Artikel?
  6. locked pages
  7. Praxidicae actions are becoming tantamount to chasing 'Africa Composers' page off Wikipedia and stopping any page updates and edits.
  8. Mistake in the content
  9. Merging proposition
  10. The Influence of Sea Power upon History - Showing its Wikisource info more clearly
  11. Visual Editor Not Working
  12. Psychology
  13. Remove My Profile Please

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 17

  1. Use of tense for reviews and books?
  2. Adding an option to the rocket infobox, and can't place in the proper place in the sample infobox.
  3. IP tagged as a sock appears to still be editing 2 months later, in same subject areas
  4. Need a bot to change hundreds of hyperlinks
  5. Total? erasure of talk material
  6. Repeated Case of Vandalism
  7. How can I include my name in Wikipedia
  8. Help getting whole post
  9. New wikipedia entry
  10. Account name change
  11. Citation error
  12. where do i view my lists?
  13. How to be sure no one else is drafting the same subject
  14. New section not appearing after closed discussion
  15. Hi!, question about military service
  16. Account closure - HammadManzoor
  17. Please review my article

January 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 18

  1. كيف آخذ مراجع صفحة محمية How do I take protected page references
  2. censorship issue
  3. Movie
  4. HOW TO GET STARTED
  5. Edgar "Gemini" Porter from the Group Men at Large died on January 18, 2021 from Covid 19 related complications.
  6. Changes I made were changed.
  7. zip code for this city
  8. hindi language
  9. How do I create an article that redirects to another article?

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 19

  1. Do wikipedia allow incomplete sentence like this?
  2. Pritchy the Black Rose
  3. Is my first edit acceptable?
  4. I need help finding a freely licensed image
  5. Referencing errors on Impact factor
  6. Vandalism help request from Ds7717
  7. Upload page to Wikipedia
  8. Please get back the original version of Reign of X
  9. Emile Gouws
  10. Is there a feature for personalization?
  11. Uploading Image - Movie Poster
  12. Review a particular page.
  13. Should discussion on whether an article should go on a template occur on the template’s talk page or the article’s talk page?
  14. Deleted page (Draft:Rainbowfatface)
  15. New page
  16. Trying to fix protected page
  17. list of french municipalities
  18. Gazau
  19. Hatnotes
  20. Ludington, Michigan
  21. I need help seeing if I properly uploaded a photo
  22. I need help editing a image file
  23. Seeking the status of an article that I submitted in November

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 20

  1. Update
  2. List of job titles and dates
  3. Will I get an email when my page is approved?
  4. Where should I propose that a pair of pages be moved?
  5. Punctuation cleanup by bot
  6. Harold Bloom
  7. Why is this section not asking for citations?
  8. What are the dispute resolution channels for user conduct disputes?
  9. Blocked
  10. Translation conflict
  11. Lawrence Stroll Profile
  12. Its not Adam bridge its Ram setu build by Lord Rama.
  13. Help with creating new username
  14. How recent is "recent edits"?
  15. On this day page January 20
  16. Am I permitted to evasively self-Draftify

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 21

  1. Submitting a business
  2. Coronavirus updates
  3. Forgot password
  4. Article with a lot of issues - help?
  5. please help me make a page
  6. Where is the Create a book button?
  7. Help in publishing an article
  8. publication
  9. SUBSÍDIOS PARA A LINGUAGEM AGRÍCOLA DE VERMIOSA
  10. Wikipedia's liberal bias is disgusting and transparent.
  11. Can't find a certain script I added to my account
  12. Scientific accuracy on the Third Planet from the Sun
  13. My Page in My Language
  14. editing a semi-protected page
  15. How to submit a complete rewrite
  16. May I please read the deleted essay Wikipedia:Why Santa Really Is Important?
  17. Page for Cox Convention Center
  18. Inserting sub-headings into list of enteries
  19. Changing a birth date
  20. Dave Arneson, no mention of

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 22

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberith_Virtualizer
  2. Editing Mishap
  3. NZSA ( New Zealand Space Agency Limited ) Cease and Desist
  4. Alts
  5. Reference defined in template
  6. HELP!
  7. Good Day
  8. Musical bio
  9. prolific writers page
  10. International Organization of Securities Commission (IOCSO) articles in Spanish and English (wrong information and outdated data)
  11. Incorrect information about Noemí de Miguel
  12. Please delete page for Campbell X as the subject's request
  13. Urgent
  14. Can't edit wiki
  15. Xtools – Page History
  16. Search history for signed-in members
  17. User Hxcg
  18. Draft 2021 in baseball
  19. wikibidia
  20. Creating a webpage for an user
  21. Help
  22. Query about categorisation
  23. Formatting question
  24. to prove the project

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 23

  1. Dealing with Vandalism
  2. Article Submission Inquiry
  3. Planet
  4. Mangi Tungi have Lift to go up ?
  5. vaccine
  6. How to upload contribution
  7. WikiData interlanguage not appearing
  8. incorrect information about 1975 international world cross country championships senior women's race
  9. "Edit size" in XTools Edit Counter
  10. I have a problem with my sandbox

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 24

  1. tim matheson
  2. Comments on Wikipedia
  3. Infobox fix reverted for being "unconstructive"
  4. Hi
  5. Nookazon
  6. My RFC is not displaying correctly.
  7. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 24#Moving_the_reference_point_in_a_.7B.7Btl.7Cannotation.7D.7D|Moving the reference point in a {{annotation}}]]
  8. How do I create a wikipedia
  9. Picture on template
  10. Question about pinging
  11. How to link articles between different languages without wikidata
  12. hanging a LED flat screen TV
  13. moving beyond draft
  14. Momolu Massaquoi

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 25

  1. I may have messed up a big companies Wiki page
  2. What kind of books can we create in Wikipedia?
  3. Australian Institute of Polish Affairs
  4. Are Tumbler Aesthetics notable?
  5. "Historical most first-day album streams" Is Not Up to date!
  6. Coordinates for 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
  7. My first wikipedia entry
  8. How do I move an article from sandbox to publish?
  9. General
  10. Article title on Good Job! (game) in italics for me, but not everyone?
  11. Error when I try to publish
  12. A question about Wikipedia:No Nazis
  13. Picasa 3
  14. How to upload a image without it being deleted
  15. Proposed Scottish Independence Referendum

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 26

  1. Becoming an auto-confirm user.
  2. To prove that I wrote
  3. rollback to 20Jan2021
  4. Force font for special characters?
  5. Citing page numbers from Google Books
  6. Was trying to edit a page and now all the content is missing!!
  7. Recieved this after trying to edit!!!
  8. Contradictory data about river Derwent, Derbyshire.

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 27

  1. Meenah Prime
  2. New Patrolled articles on daily basis
  3. Vandalism help request from 82.129.57.243
  4. edit to page Jim McGinty
  5. Valerio Cardamone
  6. Lost access to account - how do I remove it
  7. Transgender
  8. Is there a template to mention a current discussion that isn’t an Rfc
  9. Article
  10. Creating a Wikipedia Page
  11. Canceling Donations
  12. Okamoto Keito

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 28

  1. Citing a dataset of GIS information
  2. Cloris Leachman
  3. I'm getting warned for nothing,
  4. I just want to email my partner, how do I send them
  5. removal of templates
  6. Open spam in this wiki article.
  7. Can you be banned if you don't submit a profile in time?
  8. Page Previews
  9. What is the limit for pinging members in ref desk?
  10. Nokian Tyres
  11. What to do about citations for Communities, (ie LGBTQIA+) under-represented in "Legitimate" Sources

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 29

  1. Barry N. Haack
  2. What does URL live status mean at the end of a reference
  3. Sandbox
  4. An authorized user on my account
  5. Recreation of the merged article
  6. Question about categories
  7. Economics
  8. Wikipedia Twitter Handle and iPhone / Android App ...
  9. Help wanted: template documentation expert
  10. live help channel
  11. Jimmy Savile
  12. Move my article from sandbox to publishing
  13. help editing wiki page
  14. Please help with updating article
  15. Wikipedia Says Trump Jr Is a ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Who ‘Colluded With Russia’ And ‘Incited Capitol Riot’
  16. Wikipedia Information!
  17. Edits to the Page Deric Angelettie
  18. Query about Autoconfirmed users template
  19. Question by CountryCoolGuy12345
  20. Question by 88.145.154.86
  21. page humiliating Rajput community
  22. İlker Kaleli
  23. Rename
  24. Draft:2019−20 Coppa Italia Dilettanti

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 30

  1. Category question
  2. edit
  3. Page Protection question
  4. What’s the point of archiving references and how do you do it?
  5. Draft or sandbox?
  6. Portal:Countries missing
  7. How can Wikipedia support flat out slander.
  8. Columns
  9. Radiography
  10. HeroWars
  11. COVID-19 pandemic index table removal
  12. Hidden text goes wrong
  13. Categorisation question
  14. Is it okay if references on a article aren’t archived?
  15. Marked a small content edit as minor. Can the "minor" tag be removed?
  16. Recently created page not shown in Google search

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 January 31

  1. Why does wikipedia support having an encyclopedia use definitions that do not align with their past articles?
  2. Editing Attempt to Christine Lahti's Article
  3. Enable dark mode on wikipedia
  4. Account gone
  5. hanoldclaqueyu
  6. Film release year wrong
  7. Drawings of old buildings from the United States
  8. The Founding Date of NOAA
  9. Hi
  10. Find transclusions of a template selected by number of parameters
  11. Handball notability
  12. Stylized in...
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