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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 1

  1. Alex Mapelli-Mozzi
  2. Deleted page
  3. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
  4. Removing my dads year of birth and age
  5. Reason for my content deletion
  6. article
  7. US DOS border maps
  8. Request page deletion
  9. In a Wikitable, is there a way to combine "colspan" and "rowspan" on the same cell entry?

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 2

  1. Publish date
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  3. How long does it take to review a contribution draft?
  4. How do I publish a new page?
  5. Problem opening a page
  6. User Deleted-Cannot login- User Page No longer Available
  7. Creating a page for our company website
  8. Glynn Wolfe
  9. India

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 3

  1. Starred Articles
  2. when will article be reviewed and accepted
  3. new article not showing up on google search
  4. climate change alarmism
  5. place to request semi-urgent help with an article?
  6. Reg: My entry under "painting" page got deleted
  7. rowspan does not work
  8. Translation
  9. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2019 Najran attack
  10. wrong latin translation-please f***king change.

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 4

  1. Need help to upload photos
  2. Visual editor (still) acting weirdly
  3. Alex Mapelli-Mozzi
  4. Date formatting not working?
  5. Need to have a page deleted by an admin
  6. Creation Date of a Wikipedia Page
  7. Link Alerts
  8. Bombing articles with a capital B
  9. Question about copyright violations
  10. I received a "copyright violation warning". How can I look at that warning? It seems to be deleted / inaccessible.
  11. Making redirect of popular article name
  12. Help with my article
  13. printing Wikipedia pages for a genealogical project
  14. False Positive
  15. Fascism

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 5

  1. G5 REFUND
  2. I want to say "Thank you"!
  3. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  4. I want to help the world on all types of environmental science and technology including spiritualism.. Want to know any rules restrict etc
  5. Extended confirmed protection, but not?
  6. Untitled
  7. E789999
  8. JerzyA (talk) 14:57, 5 October 2019 (UTC) my issue is not urgent for me personally, but I would describe it as a project security issue.
  9. How Do I Edit an Info Box?
  10. Old maps - unsure if I can use them in articles

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 6

  1. How to find redirects of a specific article
  2. Promoting a draft article
  3. Uploading content
  4. Deletions
  5. Contribs & tag filter
  6. Printing pages from wikipedia

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 7

  1. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
  2. HTML attributes for combining two colours within a single table cell
  3. Interlanguage links problem
  4. Incomplete and wrong feature
  5. Will There Ever Be A Dark Mode Available ?
  6. HOW I CAN PROVIDE RELIABLE SOURCE
  7. question re template
  8. Naturland English page
  9. Citation Titles missing
  10. Template-protected edit request (done)
  11. Uploading Photos With The Photographers Permission
  12. Twinkle and CSD
  13. How do I create a wikipedia page for someone?
  14. Published a page on the Talk Page but not able to view publicly

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 8

  1. Creating a Topic
  2. Cyclist
  3. MediaWiki:Scribunto-lua-notarrayreturn
  4. clerical error maybe?
  5. The article modification problem
  6. OK. Some issues...
  7. Stranger Synths
  8. Reply link script
  9. The YTB 803 Article is incorrect.
  10. Problem with OpenStreetMap
  11. Idea - Why articles are top read
  12. Super Bowl LV Article
  13. Our name has been hijacked on Wikipedia and is linked to another page

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 9

  1. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
  2. The Hun Sen page
  3. Help logging in
  4. can i create my own wikipedia page? my profile?
  5. Hi
  6. Reverting a move when there's an ongoing move discussion
  7. What did I break?
  8. Change the picture.
  9. Posters
  10. Why is this Wikitable missing a border?

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 10

  1. The Wikipedia page I have edited has disappeared and the url has merged with a different page
  2. Whitespace in Forced Witness article
  3. Request page move
  4. Publishing physical Wikipedia as other encyclopedia
  5. Is there a Somali Wikipedia?
  6. Having trouble with footnotes/references
  7. Hunter Biden article
  8. Page has many gramatical errors
  9. Forum for merging articles
  10. Contextual Law suit
  11. Fan opinions allowed in Cinebench Article?
  12. adding a footnote to a reference

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 11

  1. Request edit to title of Article
  2. Article
  3. Wikipedia statistics or teaching resources
  4. Articles
  5. Needs Update
  6. Commenting on a page move
  7. Ways to contribute

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 12

  1. Article for deletion doesn't shop up
  2. Change article's name
  3. Number of contributions
  4. Table seems to misformatted
  5. /* Conflict of interest editing */
  6. Namespace numbers
  7. My page was deleted?

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 13

  1. I SAID DON'T CHANGE THIS
  2. Duplication
  3. Use of Google Earth Images
  4. CAT TOEBEANS'S QUESTION ABOUT ACCOUNTS
  5. how to create a wiki
  6. Skins/6th millionth article
  7. Medusa
  8. Euclid
  9. Illegal

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 14

  1. policy on trivia/gossip?
  2. Help editing a table
  3. no access to visual editor
  4. Noorul Chouhury
  5. Not Able To Add Images In My Article.
  6. How to create an account from a country where Wikipedia is blocked?
  7. Deleted model
  8. contents relating to a slow dispute
  9. How do you add a reference
  10. Help set up a wikipedia page
  11. How to reference
  12. Richard Huckle wiki
  13. a webpage for Vladimir Nedqlkov Kolev
  14. Restore Wikipedia page
  15. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references missing key
  16. not my editing
  17. Does Wikipedia have a page that teaches an editor how to create a User Box?

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 15

  1. I need this corrected !
  2. History of Seacroft
  3. Help me! Photo removals that I own the copyright of and want on my wiki page.
  4. Weird formatting in infobox
  5. list of vegans
  6. Indexed in search engine.
  7. Geraldine McCaughrean
  8. Tools for removing non-section redirects in templates?
  9. Diane Enos
  10. Unacceptable Admin Article Conduct
  11. Created an article
  12. New wikipedia page for website www.bandhanghar.com
  13. User Box question
  14. Carole Radziwill
  15. City of Modena

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 16

  1. When you see a typo, then what?
  2. Alerts, Notices, VPN
  3. Help with yesno and TH in Template:Sydney Trains patronage by line
  4. Should i ask someone to write an article on my behalf?
  5. What is Insurance Cosumer Service Department
  6. Help:No content cite tags IBBS
  7. I need help requesting an article
  8. Loading Pics to the area I updated
  9. Pippa Middleton
  10. Badges and editing

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 17

  1. BRAD PITT
  2. When did Wikipedia switch from Chicago to APA citation style?
  3. To I or not to I, that is the question
  4. Creating a new wikipage
  5. Botany Files
  6. Is there anything like TEMPLATENAME variable? (for transcluded templates)
  7. When will the page i created go live?
  8. Contribute
  9. Help with Publishing
  10. Distinguish name for math function
  11. How to make a User Box bigger

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 18

  1. Two questions
  2. Capitalization of prepositions when part of the name of an institution (also "the", when it's within instead of before the name)
  3. Consensus
  4. Visual Editor problems
  5. When could my draft be accepted?
  6. Grouping references
  7. Changing your username
  8. Foreign edit summary
  9. Efficient way to mass-ReFill?
  10. Auto-updating edit count

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 19

  1. Notability of First Nations reservation locations
  2. How to increase font size for printed pages
  3. Can a person have two User pages?
  4. Using Data in Table, we would like to express them as a Figure.
  5. Roundhay
  6. Different colors: verbal names versus 6-digit code numbers
  7. complaint(what is the meaning of aragon crown they were not crown rule.)

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 20

  1. (no header)
  2. Exclude day of week from a date?
  3. The true creators of the constitution
  4. Why is a pole considered the tallest building? The US Bank IS the tallest building in Los Angeles.
  5. How can I write new article?
  6. Correcting/Updating/Removing Incorrect Information
  7. how to remove wikidata link from article
  8. Vandalism?

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 21

  1. Changing font
  2. Martineau family
  3. Martineau family
  4. deleting my user page
  5. Creating my first article
  6. Invite others for help in creating new page.
  7. National Association of Women Artists
  8. Steve Scutt
  9. Colorado Inferno FC - Coach
  10. Finding A Publisher / Editor
  11. Why did my article get rejected
  12. Script fonts that "work" in CSS and in Wikipedia

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 22

  1. Problems with links to sources on Google Books
  2. Croatian language
  3. Jarred Rome
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  5. Omission/Suggested Addition to "C-5 Galaxy"
  6. Atatürk Üniversitesinin Kurumsal Kimlik Reformu
  7. About my editing history
  8. New full automatic backup of Wikipedia into archive.is
  9. Veena Malik image
  10. Draft declined
  11. My article is stuck on Draft
  12. Wiki page
  13. I'm getting mixed messages

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 23

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  2. How to create an article for a name that already exists?!
  3. help with formatting
  4. Problem with an administrator
  5. What to reference
  6. Need Help Uploading an Image
  7. Wrong logo KTH
  8. Regarding Wikipedia page publishing.
  9. Question regarding source (whether it can it be used as a ref)
  10. How to collapse a section
  11. Hello Sir,
  12. Remotely editing a wiki page
  13. Addition of a Twinkle-like dropdown menu to p-views
  14. hi! how do i get a page published for a creator?
  15. How To Change An Incorrect Photo

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 24

  1. General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales
  2. need to create bussiness page kindly help
  3. Adding company wiki page to Categories
  4. Page moves
  5. Editing an Article
  6. Congressional map of Florida
  7. Spotify 'writer credits' to validate a post?
  8. User name
  9. Is there a clean wikipedia API just for retrieve content summary?
  10. Guidance Needed for Outdated Page
  11. Negative number in table
  12. how do you block somwone
  13. incorrect website listed as City website. How can we change?
  14. transphobia
  15. Fixing misplaced drafts for new users.

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 25

  1. Need help reading and understanding a protection log
  2. Signature
  3. Princess Beatrice of York
  4. Data on sitewide page traffic on specific dates
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  6. How to get an article approved in Sandbox?
  7. Disruptive editing
  8. Need to create a Wikipedia page

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 26

  1. Help me!
  2. Princess Beatrice of York
  3. Wikipedia search button and search results not working.
  4. Ford V8 Pilot

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 27

  1. Editing a BLP to include a birthday
  2. Saturday Night Football
  3. A user has violated 1RR
  4. Editing the page Comfort women
  5. How to get deleted page re-added
  6. Muhammad Tariq Waseem
  7. What will happen if the US will censor you?
  8. Work theft
  9. Creating a page for Brooke Besikof
  10. "Span style" change?
  11. CC BY-SA 2.0 and sui generis database right
  12. New Editor: Querying articles tagged with templates or mentioning key words in the talk page
  13. How to change the appearance of a page
  14. (Fancy shmancy searching) with (plain as rain hit list)
  15. Subpage in mainspace

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 28

  1. Whitespace in the Bangkok lede on Chrome
  2. Computer-aided engineering
  3. Facebook page
  4. Wikidata updates showing on Wikipedia
  5. Removing issue banner
  6. How authority management is created ?
  7. New submission
  8. Relisting?
  9. New bio?
  10. wiki
  11. Dr. Chang Yi Wang
  12. Userpage toolbar
  13. My page is no longer on Wikipedia?
  14. Not sure if I can use photo from library website for wikipedia page
  15. Sister Act (musical)

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 29

  1. Inflammatory Entry
  2. Navbox not collapsing
  3. Draft page Arts of Manipur
  4. ... mathematical ... or ...
  5. Constanze Mozart
  6. How to post information on a notable person
  7. Information onto Wikipedia
  8. HIERARCHICAL PROCESSING
  9. Making edits to a page
  10. Response on Suggested Edits
  11. Unarchiving material?
  12. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  13. Checking number of watchers for a page.
  14. Request for mediation
  15. Is this article written fully in British English?
  16. Handicapping Data

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 30

  1. Administration: Katherine Maher's email to me accidentally deleted.
  2. Using the verb "compare" without a direct object in the active voice
  3. New article
  4. Cannot register username Vulgaris
  5. Taking down an uploaded picture
  6. Wake Christian Academy
  7. Can you make an image smaller in an article?
  8. Please publish on my article article name khan Bela
  9. Efficiently verifying and where necessary correcting thousands of links to "Foo"
  10. edits disappeared

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 October 31

  1. Wikipedia search results come up in ICELANDIC (?) resetting my prefs doesn't help.
  2. Trying to move a page over a redirect
  3. 'Zero width space character' in a citation
  4. Count Nouns as Article Titles
  5. Exceptionally poor thumbnail quality
  6. Cannot access my account anymore
  7. Image Keeps Reverting Back After Changing
  8. Help with identical nesting footnotes
  9. Martineau family
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