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January 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 1

  1. Location map error
  2. why is there no Wikipedia: #Edit2016
  3. Mistake made on article;
  4. Edit dispute re: Carrie Fisher & Sarah Lawrence College
  5. William Christopher passed away on December 31,2016
  6. Need help understanding the comments editors are providing
  7. How long it takes for Google indexing
  8. What to do when no consensus is achieved?

January 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 2

  1. New draft article replacing old draft
  2. Formatting help
  3. PG&E Hinkley
  4. Beatport
  5. how to get latest update on this encyclopedia project and the wikimedia project as a whole?
  6. Fleeting notice?
  7. Section tagging with Twinkle
  8. Transferring a Radio Station's Logo (I'll Try This Again)
  9. Cher is broken
  10. I need help
  11. List of compositions by César Franck
  12. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  13. Steve Vaillancourt
  14. Dueling notabilities

January 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 3

  1. Afghan names
  2. Help
  3. Editing a page
  4. Referencing music charts
  5. Access
  6. Article name Vs real name Vs referred to in article as...
  7. Electrostatic discharge
  8. Clean slate
  9. 2017 in music
  10. Picture sources not loaded on the internet
  11. Poor teacher needs help

January 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 4

  1. Please help, our draft has been deleted, but the reason why i did not work on it recently is that i got cancer
  2. Exclude all subpages from search
  3. Permanent link?
  4. Inaccuracies
  5. "New" editors with suspiciously advanced knowledge of Wikipedia
  6. Is this file properly published under OGL?
  7. ISBN
  8. Deletion of a page
  9. Why does my page show Wikipedia before title?
  10. Bot to detect spam pages?
  11. Changing "Other Uses" Text
  12. Canada+province of Manitoba+Queen's Printer
  13. Wikipedia citation format (WCF) bibliographic database project
  14. I need someone at Wikipedia to help me restore a page that has been taken down
  15. :Draft:Pickspace
  16. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  17. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  18. Hier

January 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 5

  1. page warning
  2. Creating a draft article
  3. How do I delete a wikipedia draft page that I created?
  4. Brigham Young two edits I placed yesterday ??
  5. how to respond to talk box?
  6. getting a start. articles I can write
  7. Can I submit an article
  8. English vs. British
  9. Best way to respond to an archived thread?
  10. Verbs

January 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 6

  1. intrigation
  2. Can I add reference of the site while editing articles
  3. commercial sites used as citations
  4. Deleted Page?
  5. help with removing an obsolete logo
  6. Reach the World page
  7. George Motola Wiki
  8. Checking on new article submission status

January 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 7

  1. How to request moving 1 existing article back to 4 other articles that make it up
  2. Indian Boxer's Page removed from Draft
  3. Request to restore deleted talk page
  4. Question about image I want to upload and include in article
  5. Ukrainian Christmas
  6. Never mind, question retracted
  7. Problem in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star_Citizen&action=history
  8. Is this a COPYVIO?
  9. Search bar suggestion
  10. email removal
  11. Template Variables/Paramaters
  12. Draft Article for Jesse Ridgway prevented from being moved to Article
  13. Adding and image

January 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 8

  1. Keyword search
  2. Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection
  3. Specific Linking (to Wikipedia Article Sections?)
  4. Vandal requires blocking
  5. Alt spelling/pronunciation
  6. Harassment at own talk page
  7. Football result
  8. August Walk
  9. gujarati cinema
  10. speedy delete issue
  11. Are autopatrolled articles in fact noindexed?
  12. Inconsistent template

January 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 9

  1. Rod Fathers
  2. Joy Felizardo
  3. Merging
  4. Deletion of Page Fix?
  5. How to get details of old image long since cross-loaded to Commons
  6. Copyright
  7. ARTIST PAGE
  8. How to resolve DISPLAYTITLE conflicts
  9. "Edit failed!" on Wikipedia app
  10. Brendan Kelly (politician)
  11. Copyright on Film Poster

January 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 10

  1. How to enable two factor authorization if not admin
  2. PROBLEM WITH AN ARTICLE I WROTE
  3. Trouble logging in on an iPad
  4. Editing page
  5. Skip Burkle
  6. organization page deleted
  7. How to use an email as Permission of Proof?
  8. Substitution in Grande Arche
  9. Do I need to do any more?
  10. Search engines
  11. I believe this image is usable on Wikipedia. Am I right?
  12. notice template for updating a section
  13. Image looks wrong

January 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 11

  1. Two similar articles
  2. Do I need references if I am creating a page about myself?
  3. Could I have some help navigating? Comment
  4. Reference to Africans as Black African.
  5. quick end-of-page-link not working / malfucntional report
  6. Glen Burnie Mall

January 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 12

  1. False and slanderous statement about me
  2. Forcing character-wrap
  3. Year end video from 2014
  4. Company page monitoring
  5. How to edit a table
  6. Multi-genre glitch in Comic Book infobox
  7. Titles of foreign untranslated works
  8. 2017 Mountian West football Conference season article
  9. Archiving pages with apostrophes
  10. getting some help, how?
  11. Cameo and the recent deletions and additions
  12. Complaint from Traffickfree
  13. :Emit (artist)
  14. Edit summary typo

January 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 13

  1. Photo
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  3. Delete a Wiki Page
  4. know.cf ???
  5. how to print Wikipedia material
  6. Ranked list guidance
  7. Adding Link to Google Scholar
  8. Color pollution on my Talk page from a well-wisher
  9. Edit for Poplar Bluff Mayoral List
  10. Spelling fix
  11. How do I improve the appearance on mobile?
  12. Someone keeps changing the Adam Haslett photo

January 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 14

  1. Trying to customize my sig, not working
  2. How can I add a new page in English?
  3. External Link
  4. :Jonathan Capehart
  5. Article name
  6. failed edit

January 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 15

  1. Maurizio Pellegrin
  2. How do I add images to my article?'
  3. Referencing errors on Marcellus High School
  4. Fictitious subjects
  5. Very confusing UX when trying to create a new account re: usernames
  6. Article Title Needs Changing
  7. Can't find the right place to post this question. Perhaps you can help out?
  8. Gold, Platinum and Diamond certification capitalization
  9. No include for related changes

January 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 16

  1. Change Username
  2. Chinese text: traditional characters
  3. Corsican Wikipedia
  4. Wikipedia database schema
  5. Insurance
  6. An article that has different titles but have the same content
  7. No extra link
  8. Starting a new article.
  9. Fake Plot in a movie article
  10. Remove invalid reference? Or edit it?

January 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 17

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  2. Is it a violation of WP:NOR or WP:CRYSTAL to include flags in a knockout diagram when the nationality but not the identity of the player is known?
  3. Redirect help
  4. Referencing errors on Summit Award
  5. What's the difference between Template:Nonspecific and Template:Full citation needed?
  6. Problem faced due to sharing of the same IP address
  7. copyright concerns
  8. Southend High School for Girls page
  9. An article from the Japanese language Wikipedia
  10. Campaignbox Collapse
  11. The mystery of the invisible DYK
  12. Huggle automated messages
  13. OMISSION FROM LIST OF (FORMER) 'BEDFORDSHIRE CRICKETERS'
  14. Paul Clark (Christian musician)
  15. Userbox question

January 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 18

  1. Frederick Burkle's page
  2. 2013-2015 RMPBS Schedule from 5am to 11am, weekdays and 5am to 11am Weekends
  3. Promotional Content
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lerner_Spectre
  5. Validation error in "Check |url=value" for single letter domain names? Comment
  6. Confused about non-English article titles
  7. Change Page Name/Move Page
  8. COI issue | Being upfront
  9. :Jay Tornado Brooks

January 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 19

  1. Sean T WIKIPEDIA Page
  2. Broken references
  3. How to report articles currently only being edited by POV-pushers?
  4. Abbreviating month names in date computing templates
  5. You Owe Me Three Wishes
  6. List of fake news websites
  7. Changing the text size in the source editor editing box?
  8. More than one President
  9. Darwin Chambers Company
  10. Pageviews Analysis tool is broken, again
  11. How to identify a name in the text of the article that is linked in Wikipedia
  12. Super Bowl LI
  13. Sentence deleted
  14. Removing "BLP sources" tag
  15. A page I created for Clay Road Baptist School in Houston was deleted

January 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 20

  1. Sudden Basque user page
  2. Editing My New Draft Page Titled "Jean Jepson"
  3. Road Infobox Template help
  4. How do we say “we don’t know”?
  5. Uploading files from a networkdrive location.
  6. Deletion of Page Recovery
  7. Creature
  8. School badge
  9. Userpages
  10. Ole Paus (General)
  11. Even if I add references to my article, there is still a warning
  12. Dr. Sam Sheppard Article
  13. Shore Capital Partners Page
  14. Paragraph break not displaying

January 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 21

  1. Bot flagging
  2. Huggle issue
  3. What is going on with 'Contributions'?
  4. making contact with another editor who has just undone my work
  5. Is there a problem with a search engine or bot, or am I experiencing a PEBCAK error?
  6. archiving
  7. Source Selection Guidance

January 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 22

  1. Printing downloaded PDF
  2. How can I change the name of an article to make it more accurate?
  3. Template:Superimpose
  4. Link to particular edit
  5. same film

January 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 23

  1. Apparently homework question
  2. Referencing errors on Huawei Honor 6
  3. Notability of Quicksand (Welsh band)
  4. Help with Uploading Photos
  5. Communicating with user who is repeatedly deleting content
  6. 206.211.35.4
  7. Reference problem
  8. Revise an inline citation for Signals Through The Flames
  9. Infoboxes in certain articles
  10. Red-linked talk page
  11. search by date

January 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 24

  1. Referencing errors on Draft:Bret Shuford
  2. Günther Friedländer
  3. What links here clickthrough rankings
  4. Asking a cleanup bot to drop by on a page
  5. Little Red Hen
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  7. Switching reviewer?
  8. Norman Brown
  9. Source??
  10. Biographies
  11. Kim Rogers page
  12. Brian Skerry
  13. Reinstate Spinutech page with edits
  14. How to edit in another language
  15. Erik Angra
  16. User:Meister und Margarita/Praha

January 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 25

  1. Permanent Deletion?
  2. Content translation tool affecting Special:Contributions
  3. wikishovel undid all what I did in 2016 about [Jason Zhang]
  4. Change article name Coworth Park Hotel
  5. Eileen_Olszewski
  6. problem posting article

January 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 26

  1. Are "Thanks" public or private?
  2. Editing search result subtitles
  3. Article Creation
  4. Regaining use of vanished account after leave of absence
  5. Contribs for IP range
  6. First African-American woman aviator
  7. Can you check my English in this article please! :(
  8. 'Personal life' section header policy
  9. when/how do substandard pages get deleted?
  10. 2017 NCAA Division I FBS season
  11. A contact for help with creating a page
  12. Page not displaying

January 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 27

  1. Tom Joyce
  2. New and need guidance...
  3. Duchess of Cambridge
  4. Biography
  5. my edits no longer appear
  6. Deleted draft
  7. Problems with biography of Dave Carley

January 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 28

  1. contents of wikiproject "articles by quality and importance" tables
  2. Language in interface messages
  3. The Absinthe Drinkers (film)
  4. Where do I find the discussion regarding the deletion of an article after it has been deleted?
  5. Diane Larsen-Freeman article
  6. Transliteration category
  7. Referencing errors on Minute to Win It (Philippine game show)
  8. Author's blog as a source
  9. COI question
  10. How to experiment with edit filters?
  11. Business Efficacy

January 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 29

  1. Page heading spelling mistake
  2. Vile attack on President Trump at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump (under list of children)
  3. Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
  4. Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
  5. Twinkle
  6. Edward Marjoribanks
  7. Mahira Khan
  8. Radio Tatras International
  9. stamp cancellation date
  10. Article: Lahore; Education
  11. a word with "crunchyroll" in it?
  12. My book is mentioned but not cited
  13. Article only using self-hosted references

January 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 30

  1. Referencing errors on Squanto
  2. Make images larger?
  3. Referencing errors on Gurbani Judge
  4. 1932
  5. changing logo & editing content
  6. What is inappropriate about "pinging"?
  7. How to go from Draft to published?
  8. Problem with Yotsuya Kaidan page
  9. Comic Relief
  10. Problem with the Armenian language code?
  11. Magic link ISBNs
  12. Marking an article as not notable
  13. Wikipedia page for Thomas B. Sheridan

January 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 January 31

  1. Judge Thomas Hardiman's religion?
  2. Signing Posts
  3. "sanctuary cities" in Canada
  4. GEMS
  5. Whoops
  6. editing
  7. Breaks in a row of icons
  8. FinDev / TransGaming Wrong Article
  9. Notification
  10. Category overlap tool
  11. Request Edit
  12. Moving article
  13. Laney Amplification Update Request
  14. adding photo
  15. Please review 176.179.191.228's contribs
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