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May 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 1

  1. Can't edit as normal
  2. Social structure of the United Kingdom
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  4. Social structure of the United Kingdom
  5. Delete my account
  6. Social structure of the United Kingdom
  7. Looking for a maintenance template
  8. About the change of an article's name
  9. Deletion of a pic
  10. sukran pancholiya
  11. possible web-page error, causes hang while rendering
  12. how to use 3rd party references
  13. Sandbox
  14. Languages of other Wikipedias
  15. Correct usage of templates for website citations
  16. Footnotes

May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 2

  1. Social structure of the United Kingdom
  2. Can WP's "own" material/edits BECOME "copyrighted" and FORCIBLY removed from WP articles??
  3. Series on African Americans
  4. Two names for same thing; two different Wikipedia pages
  5. Lockout
  6. Entry Not Visible
  7. Need some assistance
  8. PUBLISHING MY USER DRAFT PAGE GLENDA DEL E
  9. re-editing article
  10. I need help in uploading images
  11. Quick access to WP functions

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 3

  1. publishing images
  2. Changing Title of Donora Hillard Hare
  3. Question about changing interior content on a topic banner
  4. How to get article reassessed?
  5. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  6. Citation template design
  7. How can I appeal against an SPI ruling ?
  8. Accusation of edit warning and threatening tone of editor
  9. Fix Wiki page name?
  10. How to Upload Photos and Avoid The Deletion
  11. Thomas Fairfax (Gilling)

May 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 4

  1. Article protection
  2. Zero width space character error
  3. "corrections" that are really just alternative spellings/usages
  4. Is there a way to copy a page?
  5. Prasad Appa Tarkar
  6. Sorting a table entry into multiple locations
  7. Copy Editing
  8. Robux
  9. Waiting for edit
  10. Austin Petersen
  11. Wikipedia Help
  12. getting a page re-instated after it has been deleted due to copyright violations.

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 5

  1. Vandalism By A Highly Regarded User
  2. Nine Network
  3. Don Orsillo Wikipedia page
  4. How to find/contact Dave/Transporterman
  5. Where and how are a user's GAs and FAs logged/recorded?
  6. Regarding giving Feedback
  7. Variations in spelling of names
  8. Reference from arc hive.is?
  9. Recommending
  10. re-writing a wikipedia page
  11. external links that won't produce right results because of incompaticle characters
  12. Anne Gascoigne

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 6

  1. Anne Gascoigne
  2. Could someone help me create 4 articles on people with down syndrome?
  3. copyright material
  4. World War II
  5. Change displayed link color via CSS
  6. Placement of Page needed
  7. Wanted to Add more information for Liberty Videocon General Isurance
  8. Deletion of an hoax
  9. Landry's
  10. Using geographic coordinates from Wikidata
  11. Page history blanked by turning into a redirect
  12. Change displayed link color for interwiki links
  13. Complex template help
  14. How to find articles with ending -ology
  15. bangyal rajput (more defined)
  16. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  17. Template help
  18. Reliable sources vs one event?

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 7

  1. Editing
  2. Referencing errors on Medici Chapel
  3. Company Details in Wikipedia
  4. Come back tomorrow night, we're going to do fractions.
  5. The Picture Here and a Contribution Offer
  6. Unusual Articles
  7. Mistake on List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016#External links
  8. Re positioning of picture and English pages for Spanish entries.
  9. Dreux winegrowers
  10. Why can't this german picture be used on en-wp?

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 8

  1. Vertical bar in URL causing error
  2. Update on CLARE TURLAY NEWBERRY
  3. Problem with GeoHack
  4. Spurious reversion of my own edit after I saved another edit
  5. Tool for comparing intersection of pages edited by users?
  6. Untitled
  7. Referencing errors on Beyonce discography
  8. Substituting a Better Image
  9. Moving AFC Draft to Mainspace by Non-Reviewer
  10. Request edit status
  11. "Subtitle" in search results
  12. User's sandbox listed on MOS page

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 9

  1. Edward IV
  2. Guidelines
  3. Saving without edit summary
  4. New COI Paid editor
  5. I want to write how write this comments in Wikipedia.
  6. speedy deletion of rambir singh sangwan
  7. Indian Map correction
  8. Morocco Map
  9. Looking for very simple step by step instructions for the system for copying text from CC-BY-SA licensed sources into Wikipedia articles.
  10. Toto Cup
  11. America's Missing,Abducted and Lost Persons aka A.M.A.L.P MINISTRY
  12. Change TRO Jung Brannen Wikipedia Name to TRO

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 10

  1. Referencing errors on Whig Party (United States)
  2. Lupton family
  3. Barotseland Music
  4. A user breaks the civility code
  5. David Cameron
  6. Starting/Editing a Wikipedia Page
  7. New bracket template
  8. How do I edit the main entry on a name
  9. Article Content Question
  10. Change of Supervisor
  11. Youtube personalities and notability
  12. difficulty creating an account
  13. Wasiu Adelani
  14. Poster upload
  15. An Autobiography Page

May 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 11

  1. help on wiki
  2. Edit Article
  3. create a book
  4. Can I add just a section to my watchlist
  5. I am planning something different with whom I need to contact for record or to note or to update in Wikipedia
  6. Page view layout
  7. Lina Joseph P Karam

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 12

  1. Trying to avoid reverts and snarky talk about a controversial topic
  2. Cant login
  3. HFA134a addition to that site
  4. Editing Article
  5. Descriptive terms
  6. disruptive editing?
  7. Urgent: Help needed with article, repeated removal of material, and repeated claims by remover that reinstatement is "edit warring"
  8. An oddity

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 13

  1. Louisville population
  2. "suspended" president?
  3. Lady Nicholas Windsor
  4. Wikipedia:Redirect
  5. Pronounciasion
  6. Is there any way to remove the table of contents ...
  7. Referencing errors on Identity theft
  8. Criticizing present entries
  9. Non-WMF wikilinks
  10. International Charter Space and Major Disasters

May 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 14

  1. approval of article
  2. About To Create Autobiography Of Ajay Thakar
  3. Forced linebreak
  4. How get rid of all colour white?
  5. Text left margin issue in between images to the left and right
  6. reference
  7. Who do i contact to remove a bias picture of me

May 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 15

  1. Rejection by wiki editor "TimTrent" of the proposed WIKI entry on WAC [Women's Action Coalition] by Taylor Kuhn 2015
  2. Sandbox Article
  3. Incorrect BIO
  4. false statements and damaging information within the following page : Victoria University, Switzerland
  5. Delete image file
  6. How can I make image 6 left justified ?
  7. Creating new article
  8. Edward IV of England

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 16

  1. Potential conflict of interest
  2. Laird
  3. Laird
  4. Save Page botton
  5. Help in a community falling apart
  6. Change Settings - password and email
  7. Citing primary source from Russian
  8. Deacktivate account
  9. Correction require on Democratic Primary schedules wins (Nebraska)
  10. Any anti-POV cliques mechanisms
  11. Edit summary comment, after the fact
  12. top level registries ie. rightsidereg
  13. How to get rid of red text.
  14. Where is the best place to ask a question about disambiguation?
  15. References

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 17

  1. Order of the Double Dragon
  2. Where is the credential upload link?
  3. New International School
  4. Javad Marandi
  5. :The World's 50 Best Restaurants
  6. Portal 2000s is facing a major problem
  7. light and colour
  8. Speedily Deleted
  9. Wiki Ed - unable to connect
  10. changing the article name
  11. Mark Gruenwald Page
  12. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  13. Stitching edit histories
  14. How do I add an article?
  15. Bikrami calendar

May 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 18

  1. I am trying to incorporate the "rowspan" feature into a chart.
  2. Adding an article that has the same title as an existing article

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 19

  1. Pending change review process question
  2. Home Page
  3. Magazine Logo
  4. personal biography entry
  5. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  8. Page flagged
  9. a doubt regarding with further communication
  10. sourcing question
  11. Help With Article
  12. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  13. Sources

May 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 20

  1. Odd message
  2. Review Edit Aditi Singh
  3. Communication on talk pages
  4. Problem with Shashi kumar(Arjun)
  5. Interlanguage wikilinks
  6. Using two infobox templates on the same page
  7. Too much depth template?
  8. Bangladesh Green Building Council
  9. Article revisions getting reverted
  10. hey
  11. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 21

  1. Request for Review
  2. 3ncryp710n
  3. Referencing errors on Paradesi Jews
  4. Deleted Article about prominent Chicago Architect / Want to resubmit without involving :UserJohnCD /Need feedback
  5. Injunction
  6. Questions and sorry for repost re William M Cooley Re Ian.Thomson - still need assistance
  7. James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
  8. Customized citation (possible WP:OWN violation)
  9. downloand a book
  10. Requesting an amendment to a page that has been courtesy-blanked?
  11. My edits?
  12. References
  13. Where will I find the answer to my question about placing references?
  14. Template anomalies

May 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 22

  1. Re assistance William M Cooley
  2. Changing an image
  3. Trouble with Twinkle and a CfD
  4. Duplicate found
  5. Meaningless edit summaries
  6. Why are these two charts acting differently? One results in bold text, while the other does not.
  7. Notifications, and ping-template when manually archiving a talk page
  8. Where to report non-free images?
  9. Hide one user's edits from watchlist
  10. Difficulty patrolling back-of-queue for NPP

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 23

  1. John Thurso
  2. I, Daniel Blake is being vandalized right at this moment
  3. Edits to original article on Maharajbag Zoo, Nagpur, India
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  5. Re assistance William M Cooley
  6. Re assistance William M Cooley
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref Henry Phillips
  8. Help with logging in to existing account - wont let me advised to use different URL - what does that mean
  9. Quentin Carnaille
  10. Wiki page for my friend
  11. Referencing errors on Electronic Data Systems
  12. converting links
  13. Wikipedia
  14. I Want to make my Wikipedia Account
  15. I messed up an infobox

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 24

  1. Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth
  2. Pippa Middleton
  3. Georg von Trapp
  4. Phillip Lynch
  5. Information box
  6. Georg von Trapp
  7. Seek help on Image replacement
  8. Action figure and toy merger

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 25

  1. encyclopedic prose
  2. Alderman
  3. No sense that autoclave is two articles, one hidden, and one not fully describing
  4. Living person category
  5. Update OWSLA logo

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 26

  1. Title Blacklist
  2. "Did you know" box formatting issue on History Portal?
  3. TOMAS MACCURTAIN
  4. Pulitzer?
  5. Legal Medical Marijuana - All states
  6. How to quickly make a copy (to word or excel) of the index / titles of all articles?
  7. Revised article
  8. External links in article "Ibrahim B. Syed" have problems - one is dead, other "Temporarily Unavailable"
  9. Problem with source.
  10. looking for work i am sanjeev puktar
  11. Prince Michael of Kent

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 27

  1. change nickname
  2. Twitter photos
  3. unblock requests
  4. Question about WP:NLT
  5. Move an article to (its own) already redirected article name
  6. how many admins are there?
  7. Tagging a copyvio image
  8. Italics for spacecraft names?
  9. Publish a page developed in the Wikipedia Sandbox
  10. Guideline about not appending "United States" to addresses in the US
  11. Citing a legal complaint
  12. Posting a .png file
  13. New Article

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 28

  1. Password reset operation broken?
  2. Katrina Mathers
  3. about uploading information on wikipedia
  4. Why speedy deletion?
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no key

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 29

  1. Harold C Helgeson
  2. Signature Problem.
  3. HowTo? smarter searches within Wiki a'la Google with markup or Boolean logic?
  4. Extreme and persistent page vandalism
  5. username
  6. addition
  7. Is this link behind a paywall?
  8. How do I go about proposing an article rename?
  9. Please delete my entry
  10. Katrina Mathers
  11. Help with Original Research

May 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 30

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. Portland Public Schools
  3. Pilot (Sit Down, Shut Up)
  4. Marg Downey
  5. Independent school (United Kingdom)
  6. 9th infantry Division in Vietnam
  7. How to request a photo
  8. Adding to Discography
  9. Adding to Discography
  10. Capitalising a page name - Orix = ORIX
  11. Rotating images on Wikipedia

May 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 31

  1. Roger Lupton
  2. Phillip Lynch
  3. Emmanuel College, Warrnambool
  4. changing languages
  5. How to create a wiki page
  6. Phillip Lynch
  7. Bot archive loss
  8. James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
  9. Phillip Lynch
  10. View another user's sandbox?
  11. Articles about what?
  12. Saving your latest version
  13. converting links
  14. 3rd battalion 4th marines
  15. omission of Sunderland UK on your latitudes of cities site
  16. WRONG TITLE
  17. Lymans S. Ayres II article
  18. Submitted draft
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