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February 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 1

  1. Laird
  2. Creating a wiki page for a celebrity
  3. Editing road infobox problem
  4. Please end an "Edit War"
  5. Submit
  6. combine page
  7. Information
  8. HMS Victory
  9. Colorblind
  10. Link to English Wikipedia in Meta
  11. No infographics in articles about movies allowed?
  12. How to edit title of my listing
  13. Weird capitalization of article title
  14. I want to create a page about the artist Dolya Goutman
  15. User Name
  16. Talk:Donald Trump
  17. Carol Rosin Account

February 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 2

  1. The Much Honoured
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  3. WRONG message displayed
  4. Unattributed book directly copied from article
  5. Random article landed on non-article
  6. Jay Cutler
  7. Linked in
  8. New article
  9. Creating Company Profile
  10. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  11. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  12. AfD closed as redirect caused confusing/incorrect redirect, what to do?
  13. Miss Cayman Islands 2016 Monyque Brooks
  14. Require to modify an EXPIRED passage
  15. Where did my sandbox content go?
  16. Mike Nichols: American Masters
  17. My Standard Online IQ Test.

February 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 3

  1. Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
  2. Help Saving Page
  3. Glen Affric
  4. Japanese Spitz page
  5. Draft:The Buffelsdraai Landfill Site Community Reforestation Project
  6. Strange [edit] links in section headings
  7. School Based Selective Mutism Treatment
  8. Samuel Bischoff
  9. Solidarity (Polish trade union)
  10. Mountain View at Edinboro
  11. Ashlynn Yennie
  12. editing wikipedia

February 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 4

  1. help with navigation of wikipedia
  2. Christiane WOOPEN
  3. I would like to revise the information of my professor.
  4. Reference problems
  5. Need help on proper capitalization/correcting article name
  6. article deleted
  7. Translating an article
  8. Tables
  9. New Article in Draft
  10. Help with the username
  11. Betty Clemo
  12. cite box not appearing
  13. HELP...please.

February 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 5

  1. Email question
  2. Issues with justifying text properly in infobox
  3. What to name a page?
  4. Flag day parade addition
  5. Help:How to move a draft for submittance for feedback
  6. Mobile format not for use with iPad ? (See, below)
  7. asking a question
  8. Spam on this talk page
  9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  10. Overlined text does not display properly in table of contents
  11. Draft review
  12. HTML markup in my sig breaks archive tag??

February 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 6

  1. Bullock family
  2. New article ratings
  3. Edits on other Wikipedias that mirror my edits here?

February 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 7

  1. How do I auto archive talkpages?
  2. Marking an article as unreviewed
  3. Strange issue where "=" symbol in links mangles up display on my user page
  4. Diverging birth dates

February 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 8

  1. What to do with dead external links.
  2. Speedy deletion nomination of Christians' True Spirit
  3. Removal of speedy deletion tag by an IP
  4. Formatting of Related Articles
  5. Templated links with specified deletion rationale
  6. Fancy quotations
  7. Editing changes didn't stick
  8. Referencing errors on Evaristo Márquez Contreras
  9. Citing sources: source within a source
  10. Entry partially trashed--please help
  11. Welcoming committee directing people to wrong page(s)?
  12. Stefan Roloff

February 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 9

  1. Include a self-updating category in another page
  2. Watch List Question
  3. Fate of Drafts and Draft Redirects
  4. Rola (model)
  5. Structure and Template not working
  6. German template for "citation needed"
  7. Administrative feedback requested
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  9. Getting approval to use images in reports
  10. Problems with editing Wikidata
  11. Problem with e-mail
  12. Image problem
  13. White Pride article page

February 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 10

  1. Browser Requirements
  2. Flag templates producing inconsistent spacing
  3. Erchless Castle
  4. InternetCorruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia
  5. External video in the body of an article
  6. How to replace graphic file linked to article by File:Xxxxxxx ?
  7. Autofill not working on Cite template toolbar
  8. Nizami Ganjevi is not Persian, he is Azerbaijanian poet.
  9. How do I raise a question about an article?
  10. List of organizations opposing mainstream science
  11. Please can you edit ISLAM page
  12. Erchless Castle
  13. Has the appearance of Wikipedia changed

February 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 11

  1. Kevin Durant (NBA Player)
  2. Are RfCs binding?
  3. Village of Kaslo - photo
  4. Who are the specific editors watching a particular Wikipedia article page?
  5. Are there any statistics to identify the rank or popularity of a Wikipedia article?
  6. Need to create gorgons head story in Hindi
  7. Cherno Barra Touray
  8. Thank you Help Desk!
  9. Laird
  10. Protest
  11. Posting photos for people who can't post photos
  12. Creating Article
  13. Harv applet

February 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 12

  1. Error in reference
  2. Referencing errors on Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar
  3. template for references to section which may or may not be on the same page
  4. Resubmission
  5. Alternatives to oversight
  6. Values used for an Infobox field...
  7. Div col level 2 header alignment
  8. Help with image
  9. Locking user pages

February 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 13

  1. Good Editors Beginning as Vandals?
  2. Why Are So Many Test Sandbox Drafts Submitted for AFC?
  3. Problem with missing spaces
  4. I'm looking for a specific template or function
  5. batch complete source removal advice
  6. Image placement
  7. Edit summary
  8. Marlies Somers

February 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 14

  1. List of United States Supreme Court Justices by age
  2. HOW TO UPLOAD OUR WIKIPEDIA ON GOOGLE??
  3. Overlined text does not display properly in table of contents
  4. Map has wrong location
  5. DJ Oamen
  6. Deleted/removed article - Betty X
  7. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

February 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 15

  1. References on episode guide
  2. Wikipedia-wide Rfc
  3. North Melbourne and Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  4. North Melbourne
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  6. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  7. IP Nominate
  8. Two Philippine name templates
  9. North Melbourne
  10. Images in article not being displayed
  11. new page
  12. Sill Problems
  13. Slight or
  14. References
  15. Delete Page Request
  16. the page is too big. The fonts are too large. How do I reduce the size?
  17. Jakob S. Boeskov
  18. Fixing broken redirects to specific article sections
  19. Page Deleted
  20. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input I wish to add some personal details about my family background, but you keep deleting them
  21. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  22. Westroads Mall shooting
  23. erreur de photo pour l'amiral tainguy
  24. Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood

February 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 16

  1. Mysterious deletion of topic at RSN.
  2. Are stand-alone lists of U.S. Supreme Court law clerks notable?
  3. Any admin willing to chat/email off-wiki?
  4. Got a meg for Spaming, why??
  5. Change of profile photo
  6. Japheth Callen Memorial Foundation
  7. Suvigya Sharma
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input - no help with combo refn and "tags on this page without content "
  9. Question
  10. I think the "Narrative Therapy" article has been hacked?
  11. no content on Wikipedia sites ...just an opportunity to edit
  12. User:Dawid2009 needs assistance with his sandbox
  13. Transfer
  14. Attribution when copying material under CC-BY-SA
  15. Redirected category

February 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 17

  1. Article creation
  2. My Page is up for Speedy deletion
  3. how to get published?
  4. methodology for wikipedia creation
  5. AUBURN GALLIPOLI MOSQUE
  6. Creating and posting and article
  7. Zimbabwe First Party page
  8. Television shows produced and set in foo
  9. Draft Edit
  10. Delete a duplicate page
  11. MFD Question - Please confirm that COI and OR do not warrant MFD of draft
  12. AFC Question - Can we reduce number of clueless good-faith submissions without discouraging clueless editors from becoming clueful editors?
  13. SpartacusEducational
  14. Hit List
  15. Watching a section?

February 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 18

  1. Opt-out of Visual Editor
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no key
  3. New article deleted
  4. Image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors
  5. Replacing images on Wiki page
  6. Incomplete MFD template
  7. Guido Guidi
  8. Number of edits made by a user
  9. Please create a disambiguation page.
  10. Process when AfD subject later becomes notable?
  11. How do I avoid outing when investigating possible COI editing?
  12. James Martineau

February 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 19

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref of indian castes and tribes of souther india
  3. Referencing errors on various pages
  4. how To make my site a reliable source
  5. Interwiki problem
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  7. My talk page not archiving
  8. Problem with references
  9. who was the firsth Roman emperor?
  10. When do I get paid?
  11. Creating/parameterising a template to categorise broken section anchors
  12. User GSheaNY ‎and DeSimone Consulting Engineers
  13. Question about Redirect

February 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 20

  1. How do I edit the {{Infobox film awards}} template?
  2. Why is the article title in italics?
  3. Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Uncontroversial_technical_requests
  4. WP:V; Things to source??
  5. Strange gap in reference text
  6. Minor formatting problem in infobox film
  7. List of Essential Mix episodes
  8. Update a Picture
  9. What will you do to pages that get too big
  10. Wrongful use of information
  11. Proposing Additional Twinkle Warnings

February 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 21

  1. Removal of link
  2. Section Watching
  3. What's different between "Edit source" and "Edit"?
  4. Jorjafak
  5. Help filing an SPI?
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird
  7. Please consider a closure of this Rfc
  8. Kashmir is a disputed territory??
  9. Non-English sources
  10. site wikipedia

February 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 22

  1. Jorjafk
  2. Batch download
  3. Referencing errors on Skrull
  4. obstacle course racing
  5. Odd page format
  6. Can I hear the content as audio form instead of reading it?
  7. Creating a public figure profile
  8. Urgent
  9. Move request
  10. Conflict of interest but not paid for contributions
  11. Bibles
  12. How to edit?
  13. My page
  14. Have I warned this IP appropriately?
  15. Merge Pages
  16. Setting up an archive
  17. Changing username - rewriting old talk page signatures? AKA global find and replace.

February 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 23

  1. Success Academy Wikipedia Page
  2. Are wikipedia communities arranged at all by topic? How to find them?
  3. Jeremy McConnell
  4. List-defined reference markup
  5. Show preview
  6. Deputy attorney general of United States
  7. Why photo was removed?
  8. Help
  9. Page ranges in references
  10. Constellation Research Page - Deleted without Contest

February 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 24

  1. Guilford Lindsey Molesworth
  2. Name of one of the article needs to be changed
  3. Hassan Tajideen WIKI
  4. TRAMPOLINE
  5. Updating/Editing Client's Wikipedia Info.
  6. PROBLEMS WITH PAGES
  7. Copyrights: Using a Wikipedia Image in a Commercial Book

February 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 25

  1. Joan Lindsay
  2. The proposal to include enable 'block' edits filter on Russian Wikipedia
  3. Block bot removing RfC template?
  4. Tag for article where a major contributor cites himself
  5. Wrong page title to be changed
  6. how do I add a link to an early rock and roll music portal
  7. "This-article-does-not-cite-any-sources-Box"
  8. Logging in
  9. 2nd package of cream
  10. Studio 58
  11. Is there a Style Guide to edit articles with long paragraphs and/or run-on sentences?
  12. suggestion to improve wikipedia.
  13. James Smith 1737-1813

February 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 26

  1. Current events
  2. Malicious edits
  3. Article not being displayed in categories
  4. Adding organized references to redirect
  5. finding reliable sources
  6. Getting Article Created
  7. date= field for a bimonthly publication
  8. fixing wrong article/page title
  9. Page getting flagged and delted
  10. Queen Letizia of Spain

February 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 27

  1. Randy Clark article submission
  2. Hoax
  3. Font
  4. References in Stand-Alone List Articles
  5. uploading information on wikipedia
  6. :Mehmet Adil
  7. How to create a wiki page for a person
  8. Credits lost/freezing game!!!!!!!!!!!!
  9. Sharing Edits With Others

February 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 28

  1. Mickey G Information
  2. Two editors are at an impasse ...
  3. Referencing errors on Japanese Sign Language
  4. SpongeBob SquarePants - Giant star
  5. Side box info
  6. Need help with something on my sandbox.
  7. Difficulty following talk page conversations
  8. Is there any way to watch the related changes for the subcategories of a given category
  9. Hell Gate Bridge

February 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 February 29

  1. book with Wikipedia text
  2. The structure of CCK-4 in the article of that title - is wrong !
  3. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  4. SORRY
  5. Tool to remove spaces before and after ref tags
  6. :Paul Muldoon
  7. Tables as part of ordered lists
  8. Entries on Wikipedia
  9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  10. File-in-use discrepancy
  11. introducing Rodolfo Frascoli in the sub categfory italian Motorcicle Designers
  12. Galaxy World of Alisa=Real or Fake?
  13. Turning thanks off
  14. I am seeking the template for when an article is undergoing a major revamping.
  15. How to indent in a chart column