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May 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2014 May 1

  1. Referencing errors on Orchestral jazz
  2. Hermes
  3. Do you need 3D computer graphics?
  4. Reviving previously redirected article
  5. Objectionable text.
  6. Barnstars
  7. Edit counter opt-in problem
  8. Duplicate Drafts
  9. General Petersen
  10. Wikipedia talk:Article for creation/Philip Nevill Green
  11. R. Seth Williams Page
  12. Offline Reference of newspaper.
  13. Incorrect edit
  14. Unambiguous copyright infringement
  15. How do I get back to seeing my entire article?

May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2014 May 2

  1. Collapsing tables
  2. Peter Rees defamatory material
  3. Bible translations
  4. How do I print an article?
  5. waiting on page to appear
  6. WCIF an article on Catholic studies or Lutheran studies, as opposed Mormon studies?
  7. Editing an information page about an organization
  8. Delete History
  9. administrators
  10. Just noticed a possible conflict of interest edit
  11. Requested edits for Rio Tinto Kennecott/Kennecott Utah Copper page
  12. Kristen Stewart Charity Work
  13. Most inter-wiki links
  14. Report wrong data

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2014 May 3

  1. 322d Bombardment Squadron
  2. Newspapers listings
  3. COI v "Outing"
  4. Corrupted archive list
  5. Referencing errors on Category:Medical mnemonics
  6. I want to complain about your "Public holidays in Singapore" article!
  7. Reflinks
  8. AfD
  9. I need some content removed from Wikipedia.
  10. Charles de Lorencez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

May 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2014 May 4

  1. 5 Boro Ride
  2. Articles for creation
  3. Question about references
  4. Dynamic IP? Do you understand?
  5. Request to Review Newly Created Page
  6. Earl Durand

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 5

  1. Getting #if to work
  2. How to appeal against an administrator's actions?
  3. Hiding a page from my watchlist
  4. Cerritos College
  5. Badges
  6. References
  7. principle residence real estate tax
  8. Malaysia's coat of arms in Malaysia page is incorrect
  9. student profile
  10. Edit Review - Predator Ridge Resort
  11. Austin organ page seems suspiciously biased
  12. Articles that need fine-tuning
  13. Timothy Bloom wikipedia page
  14. TrueCar Page
  15. history of user page
  16. Rihanna
  17. Zak Bucia

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 6

  1. False edits
  2. List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
  3. How to delete?
  4. Finding an Article I Recently Wrote
  5. lies against Islam
  6. Fabian Christopher
  7. Personal attack
  8. Edit a Wikipedia Listing

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 7

  1. Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup Not good.
  2. File licenses
  3. False Accusations about Muslims with no PROOF!!!!
  4. Dispensing medical advice?
  5. What is an 'AFCH error'???
  6. David Gutierrez Arvidsson
  7. Opening "history" without opening the article
  8. my page which i create in sandbox doesn't show on google
  9. What if I wish to take an unused account?
  10. Publishing from sandbox
  11. List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
  12. Alan Watson Featherstone
  13. i want to change the photo on a page that someone has made on me
  14. Heading
  15. Copyrighted material
  16. exporting print version to MS Word
  17. Baselios Geevarghese I
  18. Can't find RFC that bot asked me to comment on
  19. Change to the article on 'Positive Christianity"
  20. Mistakes on Idaho Congressional Districts page
  21. how do i cite my information
  22. adding photo
  23. Anthropology

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 8

  1. IX 127 World War II ship
  2. requesting archive bot check
  3. Reflinks
  4. Change article title
  5. Editing save after a few hours the edit is finished
  6. Largest 100 pages with *one* editor?
  7. Submitting a Draft Article for Review
  8. Single/One Source question.
  9. Frank E. Petersen
  10. Contacting a contributor?
  11. Referencing errors on Gwinnett Place Mall
  12. car gaes
  13. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface
  14. Computing reference desk too wide?
  15. I created a wiki page on Anastasia S. Fontaines and it was deleted. I need help with this article. New to this.
  16. certified latitude and longitude coordinates
  17. Genuine information blocked

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 9

  1. Cleanup question
  2. Copyright and company logo question.
  3. Trying to contact you is insane. I can't even leave a respectable e-mail. But I'll try again. I had the lyrics for a few songs stolen from me in a practice basement in 1987. One of them was a song called Paragons Of Purity. I think you know the rest. I kn
  4. Help Required
  5. Sir Reginald Brade - additional information
  6. new article acceptance
  7. language version
  8. Guidance when sources are in error
  9. How do I change my username?
  10. Naqvi Sadat Bukhari
  11. Autobiographies as a source?
  12. Help with user account issue
  13. Non Accurate Data

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 10

  1. Referencing errors on Gary Null
  2. Images and Copyrights
  3. Is polaris (the youtube network and sub-network of maker studios) a notable enough for a wikipedia page?
  4. Headline text
  5. Could someone please appoint me a mentor to help in editing Wikipedia?
  6. Edit article page title
  7. I have provided references. Why do you keep asking for 'a reference'?
  8. Template?

May 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 11

  1. Serious problem with the "Roots-type supercharger" article...
  2. Is removal of a recent edit warring warning from one's talk page allowed?
  3. translated page
  4. How do I remove an image that I have uploaded to Wikipedia?
  5. Using Subscription Research Services...
  6. Whitespace in List of film production companies by country
  7. Theodore Abu Qurrah / Abucara

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 12

  1. Edits to German WP
  2. Referencing errors on Media representation of Hugo Chávez
  3. My 23 years of research at Stanford Research Institute has suddenly been defamed and libeled on my bio page
  4. Add a photograph to an article
  5. Talk:Greater_Romania_(political_concept)#Combination_of_material_from_multiple_sources
  6. Prof Alfred Kona, Chairman Board of Directors, UBA Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
  7. Creating a redirect
  8. An article about a living person needs to be changed because the person is now deceased.
  9. Statement
  10. Combine fields from multiple infoboxes
  11. update athlete information
  12. The amount of time it takes for the Veteran's Administration to process claims.

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 13

  1. Contributions page
  2. Creating new categories/subsections in a page
  3. Change my username please
  4. your site has double standards
  5. Loading a photo to a Wikipedia page
  6. Repeating "Cite book" with different page numbers
  7. WikiProject Assessment tables - Four hundred and four!
  8. List of most expensive buildings in the world
  9. Partyfine
  10. How do I find users cross-language?
  11. Primary sources
  12. Recent Deletion of page named "Alere"
  13. Reflinks tool
  14. Sir Trevor Corry
  15. Geobox River or Infobox River?
  16. Why evertime I'm adding a photographs they are being deleted the day after?
  17. Booking
  18. History merge question
  19. Edit button dysfunctional (possible bug)
  20. Up loading a picture to change the current "Bhagavad-Gita As It is" article

May 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 14

  1. Added Hard Hat Records to the list of record labels
  2. United states senate missing from your page
  3. Unbiased Information?
  4. Mobile view turn off
  5. What is this page?
  6. maharashtra
  7. Fixing a Title
  8. secondary or tertiary sources
  9. Citing pdf files
  10. Password.
  11. Typo in category header
  12. Restrictions on who can edit a page
  13. Question about lead sentences in Wikipedia articles
  14. Insurance Policy
  15. add external link to my Wikipedia biography
  16. Reference in a foreign language

May 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 15

  1. Bare URLs
  2. Portal:Current events
  3. Bibliography template questions.
  4. Factual Error
  5. Correction to date of birth
  6. Searching articles created
  7. Inter-wiki links
  8. Copying a Wikipedia article
  9. User:182.225.181.183's recent edits
  10. Recent changes of articles in category
  11. Article Gone
  12. Elaine Brown Wikipedia Page
  13. Yuri Kovchegov and formulas
  14. Presumably, this is a WP:copyvio, even if it was apparently added by the organisation?
  15. Is there a way to see the former content of deleted articles?
  16. Editing the Definition of a Circle

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 16

  1. Getting rid of an error message
  2. Citation needed notices
  3. How do I make triplets in the score element?
  4. Article Submission and Approval
  5. Warfarin
  6. Company Wikipedia Page
  7. Daniel Craig
  8. Sertoli cell tumour
  9. Creating a NavBox
  10. Wrong state and address
  11. Index of MS-DOS games
  12. Newspaper Articles
  13. Reverting Good Faith, No Clue, and Vandalism edits. And Also Twinkle
  14. lowercase title help (such as iPad, eBay)
  15. Find a conversation

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 17

  1. Centering a table
  2. Opinion needed for article name
  3. The article about Nathan (given name)
  4. Old: Paulo Bitencourt --> New: Paulo Béthencourt
  5. i want to write a article on what just happening in pharmacy in andhrapradesh but i am getting some problems
  6. Service Level Agreements of Wikipedia
  7. How to
  8. New user and image uploads
  9. Question about logos
  10. Q about administrator actions

May 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 18

  1. Footnotes
  2. Referencing errors on Douglas Blazek
  3. Images
  4. Complaint
  5. Language independet link on a wikipedia page
  6. AfD candidate and history merge
  7. deletion talk
  8. kind of money system is london using...euros or pounds?
  9. Partially collapsible table
  10. Problem with citations on Historic Wintersburg page
  11. vishnu/shiva
  12. Wiki Page
  13. What is the correct way for an organisation to edit its own Wikipedia page?

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 19

  1. Short footnotes with Cite news template
  2. Col William Howard Stovall and his son Lt William Howard Stovall, friendly fire incident
  3. wikipedia iphone and ipad app
  4. Biographer needed
  5. Tried to create a wiki page but it has been blocked
  6. Draft page resubmission
  7. Attribution question
  8. how to delete my page
  9. Editing sections within RfD - linking to wrong sections
  10. Adeline Genee Theatre
  11. Aleksandra Romanic
  12. Number 10
  13. How to submit a paper

May 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 20

  1. Query about deletion of all the editing i've done...
  2. WP:RFC on a WP:AFD discussion?
  3. Referencing errors on Wikipedia:Requested articles/Arts and entertainment/Literature
  4. mark melymick
  5. cannot log in!!!!
  6. The Death Of Marilyn Monroe
  7. Bullying and school bullying problem
  8. CODASYL Acknowledgement
  9. Acceptable sandbox use
  10. Creating a professional wikipedia article

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 21

  1. Popups/nags
  2. Khartoum
  3. Bad grammar in Wikipedia
  4. adding a graph
  5. Link rot
  6. new page
  7. copyright issue re graph
  8. The use of acronyms is not helpng the reader if the person does not know what the acronym represents.
  9. What template to use with this sort of article
  10. How long to spam IP editors with account creation messages?
  11. "Purging"
  12. Revised Article for the London Welbeck Hospital

May 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 22

  1. Question about Wikitables
  2. Peter_Olsson_(Motorsports_driver)
  3. Factual inaccuracies: The Cobra Group
  4. Bill Bohack
  5. Named references error
  6. Sending User Talk message to a list of users
  7. request edit
  8. NPOV and external links
  9. SAGE TELECOM
  10. Capitalization rules for cited publication titles
  11. Help with tables please
  12. Reminding an editor not to misuse WP:MINOR
  13. Updating info for a website

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 23

  1. Article header
  2. Defaultsort problem
  3. editing issues.....
  4. Conflict of interest?
  5. Deletion Box
  6. A.L. Simpkin & Co. Ltd
  7. Gaite Parisienne (ballet)
  8. Global account has been in migration for months
  9. Richard Cummings (writer)
  10. How users can verify already posted references
  11. A General Reminder
  12. Brian Zbydniewski

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 24

  1. How to get input on a Talk page question
  2. Image Deletion
  3. indo nepal relations
  4. help needed with the deletion of a duplicated article
  5. afi wiki log in
  6. Indian National Congress
  7. Topanaris
  8. How do I object to changes being declined by a moderator?
  9. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  10. Edit not accepted although fully referenced

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 25

  1. Beverungen
  2. Autistic editor asks: am I splitting hairs or just respecting copyright?
  3. "Contents" box
  4. Death toll articale
  5. insert a photograph to an article
  6. Question?
  7. No whitespace between templates
  8. Lledrod
  9. Edit Teenage Time Killer
  10. traduzir um texto que irei digitar

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 26

  1. DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN
  2. wat if they say they are retire but they keep edit
  3. Unwanted Wikipedia
  4. Should this article be locked?
  5. Wikitable problem?
  6. Dispute at Premise (programming language)
  7. Disruptive IP
  8. Changing creative commons to copyright
  9. Notable residents Keene, NH
  10. Can Wikipedia be deleted?
  11. NEW KURT COBAIN DEATH SCENE PHOTOS
  12. Watercolour Painting
  13. israel
  14. Non-breaking spaces
  15. Adding References - in my page

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 27

  1. Adding an article
  2. What is this?
  3. Dutch "van" names
  4. my website
  5. password reset
  6. List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War
  7. How to mark quotations of uncertain authenticity?
  8. Wrong information recorded - Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent - makes it to the top list of death toll ! What !?
  9. cannot use "Talk"
  10. Ivo Andric article in English language
  11. Bot notification question
  12. Category for attempted murders or spree killings
  13. Wiki entry question
  14. Sanjay Jha

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 28

  1. Blog
  2. Corporate name change - Do I redirect to new page or edit old page?
  3. Chart Color Inconsistency
  4. Indian Prime Minister details
  5. Bibliography addition for Oakland A's
  6. Disruptive behaviour
  7. How to deal with an emailed correction to an article?
  8. INHERITANCE FUNDS claim by GIVEN
  9. Project being submitted at AfC
  10. Wreck It Wreck It Ralph Song
  11. Facebook Timeline
  12. Recreation of deleted material
  13. Issues With Wikipedia Page for Text-to-Pledge
  14. Newbie - Biography - trouble with references
  15. Monica Massaro
  16. Edits to my Wikipedia Page were apparently not saved
  17. Cameramanager.com acquired by Panasonic. Please help in editing this
  18. Infobox
  19. prescription drugs
  20. removing an article template
  21. Jena Engstrom screenshot
  22. My image was speedy deleted

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 29

  1. 404
  2. How much do you follow the source?
  3. Article titles
  4. editing an entry-
  5. Tagging sandboxes for review
  6. Referencing errors on Vajiravudh
  7. SUL issues
  8. recently
  9. Phone number left on talk page
  10. Article Request

May 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 30

  1. External link currency
  2. Infobox Image size
  3. How to RFC on existing discussion initiated by another editor
  4. Facebook sourcing Wikipedia
  5. Unauthorized page
  6. Adding an article to Wikipedia
  7. Editing an image file
  8. Infoboxes!
  9. Wikipedia On Facebook / About and Location

May 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 May 31

  1. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
  2. Sergei Prokofiev - dab issue
  3. Publishing on Wikipedia
  4. Canvassing
  5. Submission help please
  6. please take down the page to my name, Marwan Bishara
  7. Why does Wikipedia keep deleting pages that I made
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