Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2021

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May 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 1

1. Need to move/delete a page
2. translated to chinese
3. Dave Smukler died on February 22, 1971
4. Nobody to delete my files. I really want then deleted. Please help!
5. Editing section title on talk page or help desk
6. copyrigh
7. Computer error while making edit
8. Why does my recent page not show up?
9. Need Wikipedia page
10. Where can I write notes about the sources that I read for editing an article?
11. Is there typical names for sections on "who said what"?
12. Falcon disservice
13. Interlinking language to Nový život
14. How do I suggest a possible edit? Not sure if I remember a specific fact correctly from 70 years ago.
15. List of United States senators in the 115th Congress by seniority

May 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 2

1. Cite tweet and emojis
2. Erika song and Herms Niel
3. Languages in english
4. Age restrictions on user rights
5. How do I change my Wikipedia settings to disable the 2017 wikitext editor?
6. Birthdate with month and year only
7. Editing a title and title use throughout page - Escape The Field
8. White House Office of Personnel
9. Ios 10.3.3
10. False information about passi surname in your website
11. How can I edit Pristina article on Wikipedia?

May 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 3

1. Any way to expedite an old proposal?
2. CitationClass=web and CitationClass=book giving an unknown parameter
3. TV air dates
4. incorrect image shown on wikipedia article when showing excerpt on google search
5. Remove draft from page title
6. I seem to have misplaced a template.
7. content not showing up on page
8. How to use wikipedia
9. YouTube videos: for biography of living person
10. False information
11. Offers to sell images embedded in Commons images
12. Updating article so that redirect can be removed.
13. List when an identical category exists
14. Confusing info
15. Creating an article

May 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 4

1. Category depopulation?
2. Israel/Palestine
3. NUDO
4. Logo_size problem
5. How can I message all online admins for cross-language wiki help?
6. Help regarding the Turkish War of Independence page
7. Request to add images
8. Page ownership/Edits
9. What age do you need to edit wikipedia
10. Question.
11. Is it a good idea to use Springer Shareable Links in Citations?
12. display image automatically
13. Question about making templates
14. Hi Wikipidia
15. There is openly anti-Turkish propaganda.
16. Accident

May 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 5

1. Military issues...
2. hiding URLs
3. Style of References in articles
4. My create username not except
5. Talk:Microsoft and archiving
6. Under this heading, anti-Turkish propaganda continues.
7. Notability guidelines
8. Diagram
9. publish a page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ckk76/sandbox
10. Might I use Farsi references to write my article?
11. Conference chairman in cite conference?
12. WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU
13. Cite confetence: linking to external author page?
14. Statements without citation
15. Wikidata edit link gone
16. Edit heading of page
17. Confused about copyright of images
18. How should companies that have been phoenixed be presented.
19. Continental Miss World Philippines USA
20. Text wouldn't indent
21. Another user has deleted my user page
22. Won’t send new info to wikipedia
23. Can't find the submit an edit-request link

May 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 6

1. Marsha Taylor Greene
2. Covid 19 Pandemic by location Table
3. Appeal against 'message undone'
4. New Page Request
5. 2021 in albums
6. Am I allowed to nominate one of my own photos for being a Featured Photo?
7. How to link to an English Wikipedia article from another another language Wikipedia article (Italian Wikipedia)
8. Draft:Sankovskaya
9. Ban with no valid explanation or way to reverse it
10. Newspapers.com
11. Infobox book not working
12. how to add a personality over wikipedia
13. Any updates on system for displaying music notation?

May 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 7

1. Samuel De Veaux
2. Reclassify minor edit
3. Duplicate item in Talk:Oliver Lodge
4. Large edit sections - requesting a Bot
5. Wikicounsellor.com
6. Edit Collisions
7. page approval
8. How to cite both an actual document and a summary
9. Automatic edit filters have identified problematic content in your translation. Filter hit: Caractere repetate
10. How to move a page.
11. Request Edit
12. Weird invisible red-linked category
13. Biography Page

May 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 8

1. Errors in reporting vandalism
2. Can I limit the list of displayed categories?
3. When is it acceptable to change the name on biography of a living person?
4. Additional proof I have no life outside Wikipedia

May 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 9

1. Need to edit/remove link from this article
2. Watchlist
3. New user (?)
4. Can someone help me set up ClueBot or lowercase sigmabot on my user talk page?
5. Film entries
6. Is leaked content allowed?
7. Moo
8. Editing 'Stable version' field

May 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 10

1. Colouring in ward/constituency maps?
2. Pinoso Wikipedia
3. Thanks you Timtempleton
4. Requesting small change to article "Gamergate controversy"
5. Editing an article
6. Deleted article.
7. Airport Name Changed - Need Help Updating
8. Creating an account
9. Conflict of interest edit request_No response
10. Requesting admin control
11. Wikipedia home page
12. Do IP editors get ping?
13. Email confirmation code
14. Bridgewater Interiors, LLC.
15. Once an article about a notable person is published, who has the ability to edit it over time?

May 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 11

1. question about an edit
2. @Arch dude, please see all of the major entities in which it has been referenced or celebrated
3. Notability - Vaev
4. Problem printing Wikipedia pages
5. Template edit request: DCdatabase
6. DEFAMATION
7. How can i Publish a translation?
8. What Happened to an article that I submitted on December 22, 2020 entitled, "Alpha Tau Medical, Ltd."?
9. A Question
10. CLEAN UP AND CORRECTIONS REQUIRED: Page "Sheikh Zahed Gilani"
11. Homero Biography
12. Israel–Gaza recent tensions
13. Undo contribution

May 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 12

1. Why do I keep getting 504 errors when publishing
2. Did anyone see my response?
3. -Arch dude (talk) Thank you very much! Also, how do I submit this to the volunteers then to review it?
4. Interwikis don't work in user space?
5. HELP! How can you remove an Everybody's Wiki page?
6. can only see categories when i try to translate
7. Conseil canadien des normes
8. Finding connected socks
9. I have put the translation on Draft namespace, what to do next?
10. useless redirect on Preferment (Church)
11. The Office (tv-series), season 5, episode 12
12. updating a source
13. Manually add reply button to conversation
14. Can I put non-free images in my user page or other pages?
15. Issues with Recent changes

May 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 13

1. Not able to edit my post at WP:ANI
2. How to make my wikipedia page?
3. Adding information on former Nazi scientists
4. Lumens.com Article
5. Could I get some advice on this page
6. Varieties of English in references

May 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 14

1. Banu Chichek
2. INNOCENT PREY
3. Git repository for Wikimedia Commons image gallery interface?
4. The dates given in ArbCom guide just don't add up with each other
5. How to submit my draft for review
6. Image formatting
7. Removal of Word In Headline
8. Renaming an article?
9. modificarea paginei Meditatie Transcedentala in Romana
10. Ill Nino Article

May 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 15

1. Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2021
2. Henry VIII
3. Rotating an image
4. please help me how to use wikipedia external links and edit post
5. How do I properly question the verifiability and reliability of a source?
6. Need help to be a article blogger
7. Infobox images of people
8. FULL TEXT PAGE EMAILS
9. Description of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam needs to be corrected
10. Talk page
11. history
12. Template capitalization

May 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 16

1. Green ribbon
2. User box templates?
3. Meet Ajetomobi oluwatobiloba joshua
4. Add an other language version of an article.
5. Recent edit
6. Using image as userpage background
7. External link clarification
8. Does CHAOS (operating system) really have a promotional tone to it?

May 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 17

1. My own photo has been "speedily removed" from my wiki page
2. Public defamation
3. Citation #5 at Dan Torten Fixing style/layout errors
4. William Bentvena
5. Auto-correction tool
6. Posting
7. sister sledge
8. Which template would I use to cite a city report?
9. Connect edits to existing pages
10. Patton a word
11. submission approval
12. Mildred Mottahedeh
13. biography
14. Non-Census sources in the US Census population infobox
15. Arcane template question about sfn's within notetag text
16. Publishing my biography

May 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 18

1. St Monica's College Page
2. Olivia Rodrigo -- adding main image
3. Table help
4. Reliable Source??
5. Writing an article
6. How do I change "intermediate revisions not shown" when looking at diffs?
7. OBSCENE PHOTO added, needs to be removed right away
8. Doubt
9. Question about sockpuppetry
10. Racial demographics of the Arbitration Committee

May 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 19

1. Question regarding retroactively adding edit summaries.
2. A Very Large Blanking, which shouldn't have been −12,228‎ KB
3. Sources
4. Adamant Editor won't allow Edits.
5. how we can change this draft page on pubblic page ?
6. Swansea City AFC Logo
7. How best to add/edit for Wikipedia an article already drafted with the help of a former Swedish civil engineer and typed in MS Word?
8. Paplaj mata dausa Rajasthan India
9. User creation log filtering
10. Update Nicki Minaj Website on Google results
11. Section removal
12. Image Copyright on WW2 image

May 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 20

1. Inappropriate edits
2. Help with content work
3. Everyone keeps saying "apple music" but it doesn't have lengths?
4. Account Name in Red Color
5. Editing our coops page
6. Can't upload an image
7. Draft Review
8. Attempting to Edit Content
9. change my old article ( New Article is Darveshpur Shikarpur Bulandshahr Uttar Pradesh )
10. Phelan Cemetery
11. Copy-paste issue not working correctly
12. Editing talk pages
13. Location on infobox map different in different langauge.
14. What am I doing?
15. Guadalupe, Colorado
16. Ok to remove template message?

May 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 21

1. Article title question
2. Finding the right OCLC
3. unable to login
4. Help
5. USE OF A PAINTING THAT IS DISPLAYED IN WKIPEDIA
6. Jose Patricio de la Barcena
7. Creating subpages
8. Infobox
9. Highlighted things being deleted when using copy-paste
10. Template:Coord
11. Very small font size
12. Christopher Froelich
13. moved misplaced question

May 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 22

1. Bruno Vain page deletion
2. File:Ye Ethiopia Lijoch TV.jpeg
3. What is Going on Here, Pronoun Confusion?
4. Malformed Afd
5. Help from Template editors needed

May 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 23

1. A certain move of mine — what happened?
2. Image problems
3. Mistake report
4. Renaming Category
5. Opening a new biography page
6. Template for historical currency rates?
7. to add a link to the article in the Hindi language
8. templates
9. Admin
10. Weird notification
11. How to change login password
12. add a name to notable former pupils: Alvin Blossom BBC Radio Leeds presenter, actor, accountant, newspaper editor
13. German Rieckehoff
14. Battle of Vimy Ridge
15. Help me add my father to list

May 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 24

1. Potential COI
2. Punctuation for quotes
3. Biog on myself
4. Editing direct quotations to use current pronouns
5. Not for advertising or promotion purposes.
6. My wikipedia page is not visible in google after searching my name
7. How to create an organization page?
8. not showing content
9. See the traffic to my business Wikipedia page
10. Help Request
11. Entry changes for Fritz Glatz, Austrian Race car driver
12. Archiving talk page spam filter problem
13. Sister Project Boxes and MOS Conflict
14. pages that are protected from creation
15. WP:AFCH
16. How do I cite a Plaque (such as one in front of a monument)?
17. Article about myself
18. Lithuania
19. Tags and warnings for whitewashing of article content?

May 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 25

1. data-sort-value=top?
2. Trying to start a page for an athlete
3. Automated tools
4. How can I change my wikipedia language to Indian English
5. topic about late mr Vishwanath Krishna Shrotriya
6. Wikipedia notifications
7. Oromia Region
8. Start a new page
9. Making a TOC more visible
10. regarding a topic, which need massive edits
11. Help with the creation of Victoria De Angelis' page
12. badly out of date page
13. Get series of split tables to same size
14. Trouble removing "in use" Template
15. Mobile menu translation

May 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 26

1. Self Nomination.
2. Proposed deletion Zygmunt Haas
3. How to get the QID of any page in a template?
4. Where can I request for an exception for "Deletion of all fair use images of living people"?
5. A certain article I think already exists...
6. Surname disambiguation — dual listing
7. Review
8. wikilink in External link (Becker's Hospital Review)
9. Wikitext question
10. Are screenshots of Wikipedia pages covered by the same license as the contents themselves?

May 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 27

1. Archive box formatting
2. Adding current time to entries for places
3. Intransigent new foreign editor DagneyGirl
4. DELETION OF THE ARTICLE
5. Change/move title or a submitted not yet reviewed draft
6. Reliable Source
7. Polish Video Games
8. Category:Kuge mon (Japanese crests of court nobles') → Category:Kuge mon (Japanese crests of court nobles)
9. Overwriting a redirect
10. Prevent False information from being added to the article created in 2017 by an unknow user
11. Kyiv and Kiev
12. "Subreferences"
13. Gondola Accidents
14. Article has vanished: LiveWorkPlay

May 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 28

1. The flag of the United States of America, only 41 stars?
2. In the context of page return
3. LiquidPiston article reads like marketing material
4. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
5. Suggested tasks
6. Drafts Deleted - What now?
7. my first article titled
8. Bias dillema
9. About deleting You Don't Know Jack: The Irreverent Collection
10. Is moving citations from the lede to the body Plagiarism?
11. Is chat help available? Nothing in FAQ answers my questions. I don't know how to use this help procedure.
12. search for Gallery
13. Moving an article, when the new name already exists as a redirect
14. How to create a page on Wikipedia?
15. proposed rename

May 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 29

1. Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra
2. Unclear message from an IP
3. 2023 NFL Draft
4. Edit Request
5. Walk overs and retirements in tournament brackets
6. Alt
7. About deleting Draft:The Talking Tom and Friends Movie
8. Would someone please help me understand the apparently biased criteria process of patrolled and admissible articles on Wikipedia.

May 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 30

1. Why is a wikitable sortable not able to sort?
2. There is 3 birth years listed on Pose actress Dominique Jackson (model) wikiedpia page
3. Upright lead images are auto-cropped in the popups that occur when one hovers over such an article reference. Can this cropping be controlled by hints in the referenced article's infobox parameters?
4. Search results need be changed :-" the strongest region in the world"
5. Question related to DYK
6. Create this article: Ezequiel Matthysse
7. Template requests go where?
8. Profiling a Foundation: <<Toyin Amuzu Foundation>>

May 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2021 May 31

1. Baron Airedale
2. Village page creation
3. Editnotice
4. Is local news considered to reliable source?
5. Question
6. Quantized Inertia: Article is riddled with unfounded negative comments.
7. Speedy deletion of User:Goanbutterflydays‬
8. Reporting problems
9. How do I manually introduce links to an orphan article?
10. Help with map pushpins
11. Suicide prevention NGO
12. Mrs Dene Degas his wife for 31years till his Death 3rd April 2020
13. Issue with editing