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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 1

  1. Discuss/propose a change in policy
  2. I got harassed by another editor...
  3. Can you add your own page?
  4. Is citing a software script allowed?

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 2

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Help moving Second Phase Campaign (Korean War) to draft space
  3. Proof of winning a DIC claims from VA as significant other
  4. Name missspelled in URL
  5. Username
  6. Relationship status
  7. Pop ups
  8. Portal Bridge
  9. William A. Baum

July 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 3

  1. DOI's not connecting?
  2. Tables
  3. Italian Wikipedia not accessible
  4. Dynamic map: Line with valid Wikidata-ID does not show up
  5. Program Design
  6. KAMRAN
  7. Christopher Scott (choreographer) was deleted

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 4

  1. Conditional template markup
  2. Relating to a merge and blanking of page without merge consensus being arrived at: 2018 Kulgam encounter
  3. Chapel Allerton Hospital
  4. The Sinking City wikipedia page
  5. James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale
  6. Jean de Brabant
  7. Can't see the "more" dropdown
  8. Re: Citing same book repeatedly, but different pages.

July 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 5

  1. Merqui Sosa
  2. Sandbox Code
  3. Duplicate articles

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 6

  1. Fifth Harmony Edit
  2. How can I find a better website for getting professional wrestling tag teams
  3. I just signed up
  4. Tool to script changing or creating wikilinks?
  5. General Rules for Archive Settings
  6. removing articile
  7. Robert p Workman American artist 1961-
  8. help

July 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 7

  1. A draft is a copy of an existing article
  2. Need simple instructions for how to nominate an article for assessment
  3. Typing error in the Content of- List of largest California cities by population
  4. how to write a article in wikipedia?
  5. How to reference the same text more than once and have it appear in Notes section once
  6. Is it acceptable to upload a secondary logo to use at the bottom of a university infobox?
  7. Trying to upload a photo that I took myself.
  8. Colour of text on my user page
  9. The Elephant's Foot

July 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 8

  1. Change edit to be under username
  2. Which pronoun to use?
  3. Publish
  4. List of American sculptors exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
  5. Creating a margin around an object or table
  6. Which citation parameters to use
  7. Unsourced content

July 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 9

  1. Hacked Page
  2. Where do I post a request for a correction to a .png file from the Commons?
  3. Is there a policy or guideline for this?
  4. Shahid Afridi: reference to Javed Afridi as his cousin
  5. External wiki copyvio?
  6. Single out the State of MI
  7. Question regarding redirect pages.
  8. Group AfD
  9. Padding around a wikitable
  10. 2018-19 MAAC Basketball standings template
  11. edit
  12. Nominating a user's sandbox for speedy deletion (self promotion)

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 10

  1. Request help with wikilink to a non-English article
  2. Book Creator Book Contents Disappeared
  3. Wiki links
  4. The first Superman
  5. How to create a disambiguation page?
  6. "Internal error" : unable to edit a page
  7. Help

July 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 11

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. Archiving my CSD log
  3. Definition of a Source
  4. Sorting a table
  5. Change of headline
  6. Creating a page for a company you work with/for
  7. Page deletion without reason
  8. Neerali
  9. Phishing Email Fruad Using Wikipedia
  10. Can I disable flyovers?

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 12

  1. we need contact no
  2. File deletion
  3. More than one account
  4. Indicate telaga caste as forward caste in the right column/table
  5. γεια
  6. Reverting messages and how to add them?
  7. Relativity
  8. Do not understand the talk page and two other questions
  9. Gloria Lynne info on her nomination and induction to The Historymakers
  10. Gerard Casey artist

July 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 13

  1. Exclude subpages in search
  2. Kevin Stocker page has false info under post playing career
  3. Well this is embarrasing
  4. Edward IV of England
  5. Can I annotate my contributions list?
  6. Edward IV
  7. Changes won't save
  8. Where to put an abbreviation definition
  9. The three-revert rule
  10. Non-free image
  11. Question about page mover
  12. My Archive
  13. Wrong Museum Title
  14. hostile and misleading information placed in my biography

July 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 14

  1. Deletion of several articles with hoax information
  2. Caption error in infobox military conflict with a location map
  3. why are the reviewers politically driven instead of fact driven?
  4. Incorrect Name
  5. Question: What is the purpose of article Talk Pages?
  6. Egypt national football team
  7. Help with formatting CC0
  8. Help with formatting CC0 (font demonstration)
  9. Where can I find information on assessment of Wikipedia moving to CC BY-SA. 4.0?
  10. Junior bridgeman

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 15

  1. Help with citation
  2. Missing info
  3. im new and have mental illness i need support from someone or someones
  4. Help with a translated page
  5. HOW TO DELETE PERSONAL SUBJECT MATTER INSERTED IN AN ARTICLE REGARDING MY PERSONA
  6. New section
  7. The template to announce article copied by newspaper
  8. Macrons on n
  9. Editing
  10. redirect to ask here
  11. Nobvak Djokovic
  12. Incorrect information from a spam bot source regarding fantasies about the blackhill transmitter in scotland

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 16

  1. List of countries by time devoted to leisure and personal care
  2. elisha shapiro page
  3. Is it a COI?
  4. Sorting active v. inactive WikiProject participants
  5. Text small in latter part of article
  6. Linking to Wikipedia administration pages in the content of articles
  7. Please refer me to tips about resubmission of biographies of living persons, thank you.
  8. Against All Will
  9. Colon Terminology question.
  10. How to Cite a Public Government Record
  11. Formatting issue with article tags?
  12. Tagging copyvio, but I don't think I did it correctly
  13. Mayor of Spaulding Illinois
  14. Bot accounts that can be triggered by any user
  15. why is there no article on this guy?
  16. How to upload pictures
  17. Is it advisable to edit/improve an article undergoing AfD discussion?
  18. Whether a reference makes a company notable

July 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 17

  1. Can I copy/paste an article in my sandbox to organize a course of edits instead of doing them on the original page one by one?
  2. References for the article
  3. References for an article
  4. Unreviewed Article List Confusion
  5. WMF legal advice
  6. Failed to parse MathML error that I can not fix
  7. Frustration in creating and editing Wikipedia pages
  8. Disagree with Editor jessicapiece@Wikipedia re edits to Big Mound City

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 18

  1. allmusic
  2. Odd history at "Pay it forward"
  3. opening?
  4. Request: Guest Blog Entry
  5. Question about page mover
  6. Template:Infobox road
  7. How to remove NRHP Infobox
  8. Inserting background color in unusual table cells
  9. Lake County Historical Courthouse, in Tavares, FL.
  10. Help with making proportional, accessible table to visualize units of time
  11. request edit
  12. abreham
  13. Longest User Talk pages
  14. " Wikimedia requires notification of when leaving the Foundation's sphere of influence."

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 19

  1. Does a composer need to be credited as a songwriter in the infobox?
  2. reFill appears to be not working
  3. How to add citations to an article, "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain"
  4. Help I could just cry.
  5. Moving a task force
  6. Sunteck Realty
  7. Contributor undoing my revisions.

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 20

  1. Henry Ford High School, Detroit, MI
  2. Broken Link on Honeymoon destination
  3. My biography
  4. Cannot change my organization's wikiprofile.org homepage link
  5. Image from a company
  6. How to fix incorrect sorting in a table that uses templates (instead of numbers) to calculate a value
  7. Archive.org

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 21

  1. violation of contents
  2. how to edit the wiki pedia title
  3. Revert policy during discussion of content
  4. A question
  5. Natalie Woods
  6. How to upload a photo?

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 22

  1. MOS question - Alpha sort with diacritics
  2. Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
  3. Update on current information
  4. Strange referencing problem
  5. 1915 Post card with photo of Santa Barbara baseball team dated 1915
  6. Including a reference containing a URL in a footnote
  7. Runaway fonts, colors, underlines, and strikeouts.
  8. Acme Mapper working?

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 23

  1. referencing question
  2. Encyclopedia about a character
  3. Open Media on mobile?
  4. Making a page live
  5. Brief factual academic bio
  6. Question about Posting/editing

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 24

  1. luther grosvenor
  2. Wikipedia api to display content
  3. False biography information on Noordin Ahmad.
  4. Add new Logo
  5. Remove wikipedia page about me
  6. Portal for vaudeville?
  7. Enlarging font size in wikitable heading

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 25

  1. Undo edit
  2. Medical ref
  3. Line break symbols
  4. In der Falle
  5. Expedite Process for Article Awaiting Review
  6. Josh Gold
  7. Kabini -Title Language Error
  8. Make British English (actual English) an option please!!!
  9. error in date
  10. Conflict of Interest/Museum Curator type
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_State_Ministry_of_Transport
  12. Removing Conflicting Page
  13. Nepal at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics = how to word results
  14. :Template:Chart appearance problem
  15. Section on Controversy in Wiipedia's article on James M. Buchanan
  16. Rinne Tsujikubo
  17. Corrected the dates and reason for the radio broadcasts being stopped in 2002, as confirmed by the Chicago Tribune Sept. 13, 2002
  18. Citing Lecture and Presentation materials, and a book via a website

July 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 26

  1. Map wrongly placed
  2. Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham
  3. Missing information
  4. Correcting an entry written about me
  5. Category specification
  6. Remediate an error - how to change a minor edit to a major edit after publishing.
  7. Creating a page that is redirecting to another one
  8. Incorrect treatment of characters as emoji
  9. Entering the ISBN numbers in an Info Box for Books
  10. Changes to editing pages
  11. Editing Bad Photo
  12. "we should corupt wikipedia" (sic)
  13. Ann Patricia Bowling
  14. Image use?

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 27

  1. George Soros
  2. revisions
  3. Question about requested moves
  4. Where can I solicit suggestions for renaming the title of an article?
  5. Question
  6. How To Edit on Wikipedia
  7. Game rulebook as a reference

July 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 28

  1. Mass Merging of Articles
  2. Linking Google
  3. Question regarding the duration of Article publishing.
  4. Mankapur Junction
  5. Please confirm Resubmit of edited article
  6. Missing articles search
  7. Why does this User Box about Shakespeare not work?
  8. Help starting an RfC?
  9. Infobox sportsperson
  10. New article not showing up on Google

July 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 29

  1. Citing Lecture and Presentation materials, and a book via a website, 2nd try
  2. Wikitable question about using rowspan and colspan simultaneously
  3. Admininstrators
  4. A lot of "multiple failed attempts"
  5. How do i create a wikipedia Page?
  6. Name displayed in link to a Wikibook
  7. Show Main Page in local time
  8. urgent - obscene photo needs removing
  9. Orphaned Talk Page archive

July 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 30

  1. Thomas Markle
  2. List of all transcluded pages
  3. How do I select which way I want to view editable pages?
  4. Page protection
  5. How to cite my own Journal Article?
  6. User talk:Carriearchdale
  7. That was one line about me
  8. Notability for High Schools
  9. Berkeley College
  10. How to create a new page
  11. Template problem
  12. Twinkle Help
  13. Please help-keeps adding things
  14. Proper style in writing Chess articles

July 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2018 July 31

  1. Hye jeong
  2. Pointless edits
  3. Is the following claim accurate?
  4. correction of article (Sotiris Ninis)
  5. compact language list
  6. Question about speedy deletion: copyright issue
  7. Eulalie Spence
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