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May 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 1

1. Super Bowl Template needs to be fixed
2. Incorrect Edits
3. after I did what I was asked
4. "Kefir" mentions kefir grains but does not define the grains.
5. Initiating Deletion of a Redirect
6. Unwanted & sign in Notes
7. Unsalting
8. How to make a reference to explanatory text in a different article
9. Article for fanfiction
10. Archive bot mistake
11. How to ask a question?
12. Translation

May 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 2

1. Article not listed in category?
2. Nicola Horlick
3. Sourcing using subject's website
4. Delete a page from wikipedia
5. Unsure what to do with article about a living person
6. Collapse
7. Rollback vs Twinkle?

May 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 3

1. SandBox questions
2. Apparent inconsistency in rollback links
3. Regarding deletion of a Wiki page I created
4. Issue with sortable table
5. How much interpretation is acceptable?
6. First Drug Submarine found in United States
7. Facebook Page
8. Photo
9. adding link to online book
10. Please help. How to stop someone from maliciously editing and adding inaccurate information to an article?
11. A bot has archived my talk page post
12. Dennis Neilson-Terry
13. What is the correct "Line Break" command or template?

May 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 4

1. Hiding visited pages from watchlist?
2. Why is the age column not sorting correctly?
3. COMPASS
4. is there a way to collapse a Category?
5. new wiki page
6. What to do when the "unreliable" source happens to be right, and the "reliable" sources mostly wrong?
7. Category:Tamil Brahmins
8. pair of articles on French and English Wikipedia
9. Please remove name from Wiki page
10. Wolf Lake (New York)
11. Copyright infringement
12. Non-free image

May 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 5

1. redirects vs aliases vs moves vs inaction
2. Script error?
3. Italics for foreign words and proper names
4. How to change an image if I do not have 10 edits to make.
5. List of energy drinks
6. Weird interwiki problem
7. Tagging a source as possibly being of doubtful authority
8. SahBabii

May 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 6

1. What does the 3F in this URL mean?
2. how to block a wikipedia user
3. Folllow up to previous question "redirects vs aliases vs moves vs inaction"
4. The user Nickag989 is vandalizing the WrestleMania24 Wrestling article, misuse of power, please help!
5. Archaic term
6. My first edit
7. Sun Yawei
8. Why can't I copy and paste mathematical equations into Microsoft Word?

May 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 7

1. Layout problems with geobox template
2. Acceptable source?
3. Luke Jumeau
4. Rainbow Ruby title card
5. Verifiable source
6. Need to create Company / Personala Wikipedia page
7. tHE TOWN OF MARIANNA ARKANSAS
8. Explanatory footnote
9. Hi I would like to know how I can create a page about my dad

May 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 8

1. Need help reverting vandal
2. Deletion of Lemenemene
3. Navbox "collapse" setting not working
4. Attributing map/CC license
5. change the name of the article
6. The page I created need to be developed with the geoboxes
7. same film?
8. doubled-up entries in contribution history
9. How do I change my username?
10. 2017–18 NCAA Football Bowl Games Template
11. how to change Bridgeport fire department Wikipedia page
12. Noni Jabavu
13. How do you end RFCs?
14. Attempting to change article photo

May 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 9

1. Spencer Matthews
2. About Wikipedia page
3. Use of Wikipedia and it content.
4. Correction in the name Sri Madhopur as Shrimadhopur
5. Use some pictures from another language wikipedia
6. Scanned image quality
7. Question about persistent changing of info
8. Need help I forgot my password to my Fredia Gibbs wikipedia account
9. how to insert "show"/"hide" in infoboxes

May 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 10

1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
2. How do I effectively research a topic?
3. All articles matching a certain pattern
4. External link search
5. Edit not being allowed to remain

May 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 11

1. Wikiproject United States
2. Quote
3. Please add bable boxes in the page "Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone"
4. Delete a section
5. services, TASO annual report 2010
6. Gallery from foreign pictures
7. Add new content
8. 'Better source needed'
9. Question about duplicate pages and disambiguation
10. Counter Vandalism Unit Academy

May 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 12

1. 2017–18 NCAA men's division I Basketball season Template
2. can i create Indian performing right society page now ?
3. Why prohibit editing?
4. Purposeful Defaming
5. Including Sigiriya archaeological site
6. PD-India-URAA
7. Company Page
8. Population density question
9. New article
10. Super Bowl Golden Shovel from Houston To Minnesota
11. Page deleted on Alexandra Allred
12. Blocking
13. Can ProteinBoxBot be sent to a task?

May 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 13

1. AfD !votes not showing up in my AfD log.
2. How to add pictures
3. User talk page problems
4. User talk pages (continued)
5. Log in/Edit
6. Monksville reservoir
7. love
8. Longterm username plan
9. Proper/How to refer to a book, but not as a citation source? (Tag mention of a book with metadata?)
10. Referencing error
11. Strikethroughs use in articles
12. In-universe template for religious content

May 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 14

1. Jennifer Crouse - Mary Anne Arsenault Curling
2. Why isn't volume= LVIII bold?
3. How do I add an info box and photo to draft I have?
4. AfD/MfD on meta?
5. How to remove sanctions on an article
6. To report an inappropriate edit on the 'Indira Gandhi page'.
7. Problem With Punjabi Wikipedia Source Editor
8. Google Search Results
9. template for edit summary when reverting

May 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 15

1. Can I recover an edit which has frozen?
2. Wikiproject templates
3. "See also" columns issue
4. Charlie Rose interview
5. Wrong status of a country
6. Convention about listing TV episode credits

May 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 16

1. White Pride
2. James von Brunn
3. WMF seesion log out problems
4. giraffes
5. Laird
6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
7. Edit a particular section in visual editor?
8. Belleville New Jersey
9. Should West Coast Style be deleted?
10. Need urgently to delete a page
11. New article not detected by search engines

May 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 17

1. Hi, this page has city/country messed up and I can't edit it.
2. Newspaper photos
3. User talk:Mramoeba
4. Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
5. My Wikipedia page not shown in google
6. Talk page, not Article itself, is indexed by search engines
7. email as a reference
8. Missing Hide/Show?
9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
10. Recovering the content of my page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqeel_Solangi
11. Entries that don't appear to meet criteria for notability or neutrality
12. Pressing Issue
13. Irving Penn, the photographer
14. I wan t to change my password

May 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 18

1. Positioning a template
2. Can we reference magazines and books without violating Wikipedia guidelines as long as we reference and paraphrase?
3. What if a company wishes that information reflected on their websites is copied almost ad verbatim?
4. Edit request explanation
5. How we can use wikipedia without using code?
6. Correct use of Jr./Sr. in article titles.
7. How do we add picture to the infobox? And how to find that jpg thing?
8. Henrys Silva
9. stopping speedy deletion of image
10. cant i put my own password?
11. External website using wikipedia content to sell goods and services
12. Original theories on talk pages

May 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 19

1. Template:Poem
2. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 19#Insult_by_.7B.7Bping.7CUser:MonsterHunter32.7D.7D|Insult by @MonsterHunter32:]]
3. how to add to existing to list of malaysian swimmer ?
4. Editing the first part of A biography

May 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 20

1. Use emails as RS's
2. Citing as a family member
3. Archives for Discussion-Pages
4. I need to quote an article that was published in the pre-internet era.
5. Inserting new tagline
6. How to link
7. Accessing older answers
8. Molly Hatchet
9. No entering an edit summary for new section?
10. Infobox books
11. 2017 Army Black knights Football schedule

May 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 21

1. Archaic warnings and unblock requests
2. Authority Control and wikidata
3. Strange unit artifacts
4. Lady
5. Line breaks
6. Having problems with Pop-ups
7. Etymology MOS

May 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 22

1. Email or Contact Information
2. Seth RIch -
3. Spencer Matthews
4. Archive a web source
5. Spam classification
6. need help with IP
7. Both username and password lost
8. CAN MH2 SOUNDCRAFT CONSOLE RECORD LIVE
9. Database query error
10. List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- Correction needed for Delaware State University founding name
11. comment about the Amos Larkins deletes
12. 2017 Army Black Knights football schedule

May 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 23

1. Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom
2. James Matthews (racing driver)
3. How do you create a page on an author?
4. Spencer Matthews
5. How to get a version hidden of a certain article
6. Creating a Wiki Page for a Organization
7. 1971 INDIA PAKISTAN WAR
8. questions regarding $wgAllowExternalImages

May 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 24

1. Wikilobby page
2. Automatic categorization of articles on a template
3. Yoon jik-yeon
4. New article for politician
5. Citing the same source multiple times throughout the Wikipedia page
6. Help editing
7. Template help
8. Can photographs taken illegally be used on Wikipedia?
9. Adding pictures to an article
10. Need help
11. Download as PDF
12. How do I contact a Volunteer/contributor
13. New article

May 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 25

1. Infobox books
2. AFD record
3. 2019 NBA All–Star Game article
4. Userfication
5. Cory Stillman
6. Syntax error introduced by AnomieBOT

May 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 26

1. Page not appearing on Google Search
2. safari wikipedia summary preview shows differently than actual summary on page
3. Removal of offline sources
4. Information on Roger Noriega's biography contains false and libelous statements
5. wikitable sortable problem
6. References for personal observations.
7. Sheetala Traders
8. Reference type.
9. infobox size (or infonox size)
10. Template, help to add a section
11. 2019 NBA All-Star Game article

May 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 27

1. What's the name of this instrument
2. Inter-wiki link phantom?
3. Help with template, url was changed
4. Edit Count
5. Bible ref
6. MyHeritage

May 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 28

1. Moosehead Special
2. Wondering about ban
3. How to change default preview size of an image ?
4. Minuteman article
5. List of subcategories?
6. Spencer Matthews
7. HOW TO AVOID ARTICLE DELETION OF YOUNG STUNNA (MUSICIAN)

May 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 29

1. Mitchell Trubisky
2. donations
3. Image Size
4. Pseudophilosophy
5. Orlando, Florida, entry.
6. Non-free content
7. Business CV
8. The Famous People: Reliable?
9. externals not adhering to Wiki Creative common share-alike license.
10. Tutorial
11. Imagemap
12. TO CHANGE STREAM
13. Layout help
14. Friendly Fire Incidents

May 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 30

1. Englefield House
2. kttw tv
3. Defaultsort glitch
4. Two different birth dates of Ben Cropp is written....January 7, 1936 and January 19. 1936. The correct one is January 19,1936
5. Logo edit request
6. Article Deletion
7. I want to translate articles
8. Removal of the Symphonic rock page
9. GB Group (UK) Update Required
10. Rick Nicita
11. Infobox books
12. Using wildcards/regular expressions in Wikipedia search (box)

May 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 31

1. I am confused on locking a page?
2. Marie Cosindas. Tried to correct the year of birth for my deceased aunt. Got ref content error.
3. Potential hate speech / vandalism on a talk page
4. Wrong Picture on Michael Webb's Archigram Page
5. refs
6. How to show archive entries on talk page
7. Talk about personal contacts, issues tht been created at home by the presence of the same Name like still hearing in the talk.
8. Adding references from a hardcopy journal
9. deleted page/banned editor
10. Wrong Information
11. The following page was possibly vandalized. How can it be fixed?
12. Search engines adding a "www" to wikipage
13. Vc fuller
14. How do I create a bot?
15. Englefield House