Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2016
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May 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 1
- Can't edit as normal
- Social structure of the United Kingdom
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- Social structure of the United Kingdom
- Delete my account
- Social structure of the United Kingdom
- Looking for a maintenance template
- About the change of an article's name
- Deletion of a pic
- sukran pancholiya
- possible web-page error, causes hang while rendering
- how to use 3rd party references
- Sandbox
- Languages of other Wikipedias
- Correct usage of templates for website citations
- Footnotes
May 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 2
- Social structure of the United Kingdom
- Can WP's "own" material/edits BECOME "copyrighted" and FORCIBLY removed from WP articles??
- Series on African Americans
- Two names for same thing; two different Wikipedia pages
- Lockout
- Entry Not Visible
- Need some assistance
- PUBLISHING MY USER DRAFT PAGE GLENDA DEL E
- re-editing article
- I need help in uploading images
- Quick access to WP functions
May 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 3
- publishing images
- Changing Title of Donora Hillard Hare
- Question about changing interior content on a topic banner
- How to get article reassessed?
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Citation template design
- How can I appeal against an SPI ruling ?
- Accusation of edit warning and threatening tone of editor
- Fix Wiki page name?
- How to Upload Photos and Avoid The Deletion
- Thomas Fairfax (Gilling)
May 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 4
- Article protection
- Zero width space character error
- "corrections" that are really just alternative spellings/usages
- Is there a way to copy a page?
- Prasad Appa Tarkar
- Sorting a table entry into multiple locations
- Copy Editing
- Robux
- Waiting for edit
- Austin Petersen
- Wikipedia Help
- getting a page re-instated after it has been deleted due to copyright violations.
May 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 5
- Vandalism By A Highly Regarded User
- Nine Network
- Don Orsillo Wikipedia page
- How to find/contact Dave/Transporterman
- Where and how are a user's GAs and FAs logged/recorded?
- Regarding giving Feedback
- Variations in spelling of names
- Reference from arc hive.is?
- Recommending
- re-writing a wikipedia page
- external links that won't produce right results because of incompaticle characters
- Anne Gascoigne
May 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 6
- Anne Gascoigne
- Could someone help me create 4 articles on people with down syndrome?
- copyright material
- World War II
- Change displayed link color via CSS
- Placement of Page needed
- Wanted to Add more information for Liberty Videocon General Isurance
- Deletion of an hoax
- Landry's
- Using geographic coordinates from Wikidata
- Page history blanked by turning into a redirect
- Change displayed link color for interwiki links
- Complex template help
- How to find articles with ending -ology
- bangyal rajput (more defined)
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- Template help
- Reliable sources vs one event?
May 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 7
- Editing
- Referencing errors on Medici Chapel
- Company Details in Wikipedia
- Come back tomorrow night, we're going to do fractions.
- The Picture Here and a Contribution Offer
- Unusual Articles
- Mistake on List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016#External links
- Re positioning of picture and English pages for Spanish entries.
- Dreux winegrowers
- Why can't this german picture be used on en-wp?
May 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 8
- Vertical bar in URL causing error
- Update on CLARE TURLAY NEWBERRY
- Problem with GeoHack
- Spurious reversion of my own edit after I saved another edit
- Tool for comparing intersection of pages edited by users?
- Untitled
- Referencing errors on Beyonce discography
- Substituting a Better Image
- Moving AFC Draft to Mainspace by Non-Reviewer
- Request edit status
- "Subtitle" in search results
- User's sandbox listed on MOS page
May 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 9
- Edward IV
- Guidelines
- Saving without edit summary
- New COI Paid editor
- I want to write how write this comments in Wikipedia.
- speedy deletion of rambir singh sangwan
- Indian Map correction
- Morocco Map
- Looking for very simple step by step instructions for the system for copying text from CC-BY-SA licensed sources into Wikipedia articles.
- Toto Cup
- America's Missing,Abducted and Lost Persons aka A.M.A.L.P MINISTRY
- Change TRO Jung Brannen Wikipedia Name to TRO
May 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 10
- Referencing errors on Whig Party (United States)
- Lupton family
- Barotseland Music
- A user breaks the civility code
- David Cameron
- Starting/Editing a Wikipedia Page
- New bracket template
- How do I edit the main entry on a name
- Article Content Question
- Change of Supervisor
- Youtube personalities and notability
- difficulty creating an account
- Wasiu Adelani
- Poster upload
- An Autobiography Page
May 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 11
- help on wiki
- Edit Article
- create a book
- Can I add just a section to my watchlist
- I am planning something different with whom I need to contact for record or to note or to update in Wikipedia
- Page view layout
- Lina Joseph P Karam
May 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 12
- Trying to avoid reverts and snarky talk about a controversial topic
- Cant login
- HFA134a addition to that site
- Editing Article
- Descriptive terms
- disruptive editing?
- Urgent: Help needed with article, repeated removal of material, and repeated claims by remover that reinstatement is "edit warring"
- An oddity
May 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 13
- Louisville population
- "suspended" president?
- Lady Nicholas Windsor
- Wikipedia:Redirect
- Pronounciasion
- Is there any way to remove the table of contents ...
- Referencing errors on Identity theft
- Criticizing present entries
- Non-WMF wikilinks
- International Charter Space and Major Disasters
May 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 14
- approval of article
- About To Create Autobiography Of Ajay Thakar
- Forced linebreak
- How get rid of all colour white?
- Text left margin issue in between images to the left and right
- reference
- Who do i contact to remove a bias picture of me
May 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 15
- Rejection by wiki editor "TimTrent" of the proposed WIKI entry on WAC [Women's Action Coalition] by Taylor Kuhn 2015
- Sandbox Article
- Incorrect BIO
- false statements and damaging information within the following page : Victoria University, Switzerland
- Delete image file
- How can I make image 6 left justified ?
- Creating new article
- Edward IV of England
May 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 16
- Potential conflict of interest
- Laird
- Laird
- Save Page botton
- Help in a community falling apart
- Change Settings - password and email
- Citing primary source from Russian
- Deacktivate account
- Correction require on Democratic Primary schedules wins (Nebraska)
- Any anti-POV cliques mechanisms
- Edit summary comment, after the fact
- top level registries ie. rightsidereg
- How to get rid of red text.
- Where is the best place to ask a question about disambiguation?
- References
May 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 17
- Order of the Double Dragon
- Where is the credential upload link?
- New International School
- Javad Marandi
- :The World's 50 Best Restaurants
- Portal 2000s is facing a major problem
- light and colour
- Speedily Deleted
- Wiki Ed - unable to connect
- changing the article name
- Mark Gruenwald Page
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
- Stitching edit histories
- How do I add an article?
- Bikrami calendar
May 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 18
- I am trying to incorporate the "rowspan" feature into a chart.
- Adding an article that has the same title as an existing article
May 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 19
- Pending change review process question
- Home Page
- Magazine Logo
- personal biography entry
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
- Page flagged
- a doubt regarding with further communication
- sourcing question
- Help With Article
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Sources
May 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 20
- Odd message
- Review Edit Aditi Singh
- Communication on talk pages
- Problem with Shashi kumar(Arjun)
- Interlanguage wikilinks
- Using two infobox templates on the same page
- Too much depth template?
- Bangladesh Green Building Council
- Article revisions getting reverted
- hey
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
May 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 21
- Request for Review
- 3ncryp710n
- Referencing errors on Paradesi Jews
- Deleted Article about prominent Chicago Architect / Want to resubmit without involving :UserJohnCD /Need feedback
- Injunction
- Questions and sorry for repost re William M Cooley Re Ian.Thomson - still need assistance
- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
- Customized citation (possible WP:OWN violation)
- downloand a book
- Requesting an amendment to a page that has been courtesy-blanked?
- My edits?
- References
- Where will I find the answer to my question about placing references?
- Template anomalies
May 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 22
- Re assistance William M Cooley
- Changing an image
- Trouble with Twinkle and a CfD
- Duplicate found
- Meaningless edit summaries
- Why are these two charts acting differently? One results in bold text, while the other does not.
- Notifications, and ping-template when manually archiving a talk page
- Where to report non-free images?
- Hide one user's edits from watchlist
- Difficulty patrolling back-of-queue for NPP
May 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 23
- John Thurso
- I, Daniel Blake is being vandalized right at this moment
- Edits to original article on Maharajbag Zoo, Nagpur, India
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
- Re assistance William M Cooley
- Re assistance William M Cooley
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref Henry Phillips
- Help with logging in to existing account - wont let me advised to use different URL - what does that mean
- Quentin Carnaille
- Wiki page for my friend
- Referencing errors on Electronic Data Systems
- converting links
- Wikipedia
- I Want to make my Wikipedia Account
- I messed up an infobox
May 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 24
- Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth
- Pippa Middleton
- Georg von Trapp
- Phillip Lynch
- Information box
- Georg von Trapp
- Seek help on Image replacement
- Action figure and toy merger
May 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 25
- encyclopedic prose
- Alderman
- No sense that autoclave is two articles, one hidden, and one not fully describing
- Living person category
- Update OWSLA logo
May 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 26
- Title Blacklist
- "Did you know" box formatting issue on History Portal?
- TOMAS MACCURTAIN
- Pulitzer?
- Legal Medical Marijuana - All states
- How to quickly make a copy (to word or excel) of the index / titles of all articles?
- Revised article
- External links in article "Ibrahim B. Syed" have problems - one is dead, other "Temporarily Unavailable"
- Problem with source.
- looking for work i am sanjeev puktar
- Prince Michael of Kent
May 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 27
- change nickname
- Twitter photos
- unblock requests
- Question about WP:NLT
- Move an article to (its own) already redirected article name
- how many admins are there?
- Tagging a copyvio image
- Italics for spacecraft names?
- Publish a page developed in the Wikipedia Sandbox
- Guideline about not appending "United States" to addresses in the US
- Citing a legal complaint
- Posting a .png file
- New Article
May 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 28
- Password reset operation broken?
- Katrina Mathers
- about uploading information on wikipedia
- Why speedy deletion?
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no key
May 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 29
- Harold C Helgeson
- Signature Problem.
- HowTo? smarter searches within Wiki a'la Google with markup or Boolean logic?
- Extreme and persistent page vandalism
- username
- addition
- Is this link behind a paywall?
- How do I go about proposing an article rename?
- Please delete my entry
- Katrina Mathers
- Help with Original Research
May 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 30
- Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- Portland Public Schools
- Pilot (Sit Down, Shut Up)
- Marg Downey
- Independent school (United Kingdom)
- 9th infantry Division in Vietnam
- How to request a photo
- Adding to Discography
- Adding to Discography
- Capitalising a page name - Orix = ORIX
- Rotating images on Wikipedia
May 31
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 31
- Roger Lupton
- Phillip Lynch
- Emmanuel College, Warrnambool
- changing languages
- How to create a wiki page
- Phillip Lynch
- Bot archive loss
- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
- Phillip Lynch
- View another user's sandbox?
- Articles about what?
- Saving your latest version
- converting links
- 3rd battalion 4th marines
- omission of Sunderland UK on your latitudes of cities site
- WRONG TITLE
- Lymans S. Ayres II article
- Submitted draft