Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/June 2023

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June 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 1

1. Copying URL for citation.
2. Jono Macbeth
3. Referencing errors on Automatic lubrication system
4. How to cite and arrange citations for movies and videogame content?
5. Another Cite AV question
6. Greenwashing of oil industry pollution by President of Cop 28 in Wikipedia
7. Confirming an account
8. New Wiki Page
9. Short descriptions
10. Ay Ay Ay (song)
11. Notable Alumni

June 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 2

1. Wrongly warning someone
2. Password forgot
3. Does there exist a way to render Wikipedia with simplified, read-only layout?
4. Categories in wikiprojects
5. My article never got published
6. Why am I blocked?
7. British vs English vs...
8. charges on my credit card
9. Mainspace question

June 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 3

1. Horace Walpole
2. List of mayors of Norwich
3. References
4. Charles de Choiseul-Praslin
5. Broken Reference list using wikidata at F-Droid
6. Philip Meadows (died 1781)
7. writing about yourself
8. Help
9. Main Page Picture

June 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 4

1. Guideline reference
2. Why do you love Wikipedia?
3. Philip Meadowes
4. Italics or not?
5. Misunderstanding
6. Creating articles
7. Question about image
8. Difference between "sources" and "references". Page: History of East Pakistan
9. Logged in when editing, but my newest published edits now show up as anonymous
10. Bauffremont
11. Tree model

June 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 5

1. How can I see what pages I've created under a previous username?
2. Starlight Tours article
3. Image placement help
4. Category Creation Problems
5. Creating a new category
6. Torta Barozzi
7. how to post article on wikpedia
8. Need help italicizing title of new article
9. Paola Cortellesi
10. "Personal life"
11. Mario Magnotta
12. Dark mode

June 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 6

1. Cleanup after article deletion?
2. Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard has inserted a new dispute into a closed discussion. help.
3. Image description
4. Company Page Updates
5. Choosing the best method for dispute resolution
6. Waiting to hear back from "permissions-en at wikimedia.org"
7. Searches for without accents...
8. Ensuring the Edits submitted my me does not violate the wikipedia norms.
9. "Central Base Section"
10. Changing a graphic display on a page

June 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 7

1. Missing preview text
2. Changing Category:Historic German cabinets
3. Image I uploaded back in 2006 is currently unlisted in Commons, would like to approve it's use
4. Searching refs?
5. Help! I created an alternate account by accident
6. List of all Wikipedia pages I've added references to?
7. what is :Category:People of Nazi Germany for?
8. Displaying more than 10 connected IPs and users
9. Updating Our Logo
10. Consensus for an edit request
11. Creating a page for my Start up here in NYC
12. Evidence of COI editing by a company: where do I report?
13. Mathml Error in it wiki
14. I don't love Wikipedia anymore. You changed the format
15. Spam-Blacklist
16. Magda László

June 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 8

1. Regards Wiki Page Publish
2. Can't see previous versions of deleted article
3. How can I publish a biography
4. Policy or MOS Entry for using boroughs in lieu of a city name

June 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 9

1. Mary Delany
2. About the evaluation level of the article Mount Japfü.
3. Need help correcting a serious error
4. Editing problems
5. Today's Help desk
6. "Sempre Lontano"
7. Closing a discussion with no responses
8. Fixing links generated from neurolex/interlex IDs

June 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 10

1. Chinese book titles shouldn't be italicized
2. Philip Meadowes
3. page deleted
4. Infobox journal
5. Wide view mode
6. User pages guideline
7. Economic data
8. Dr. Theodore J. Kaczynski
9. How to add names to a Category

June 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 11

1. Superman (1940s animated film series)
2. Image use on articles of historical personalities
3. Copyright status of uploads to the Internet Archive
4. Promotional words?
5. If I upload my personal correspondence to Wikimedia Commons can I then cite it?
6. Sandbox page deletion
7. Pizzino
8. Page: Sergio Leone; paragraph: "Career"

June 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 12

1. Using "Infobox book series" for an encyclopedia
2. I had a Wiki and it has been taken down
3. Help on DAB
4. source
5. How can I publish my sandbox page?
6. Honest question regarding objectivity.
7. Publishing from sandbox
8. Edit deletion request
9. Anna Laetitia Barbauld
10. Anna Laetitia Barbauld
11. Process of uploading a university seal
12. Aligning to center
13. Image wanders up and down through different article sections depending on page width
14. Zephyr Teachout
15. Group of articles that need attention
16. How to resolve differences over covering multiple efforts towards "Libre" booting or "Libreboot" at Libreboot
17. Very slow

June 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 13

1. Unacceptable interlanguage links.
2. Why isn't my ParserFunction working?
3. Why Editing option is not visible for a Page on Wikipedia?
4. Text on certain page previews are missing
5. Deleting a user page
6. My profile

June 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 14

1. How To Keep Track Of Number Of Views?
2. Help me creat a wikipedia Page.
3. Header Request
4. My books
5. Como incluir uma página de empresa na wikipédia?
6. Difficulty with edits with templates and other "issues."
7. Notification Deletion

June 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 15

1. Do some templates require an assessment rating?
2. How to Maximize Exposure to My Article Via the Version of the Subject's Name I Use in the Title?
3. vaccines deaths from COVID 19 2021-2023
4. How to add placeholders to categories to prevent deletion?
5. Trying to add information to the Infobox
6. Group Blocking of Accounts
7. Michele Santoro
8. Wikipedia can't generate automatic references from the IUCN redlist website
9. Possible to get subject matter expert assistance in an AfD?
10. dispute
11. Conensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 181#Forgive former vandals

June 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 16

1. How to stay logged in?
2. Paolo Meneguzzi
3. Is there a template for Wikipedia being used in scams?
4. Serbo-Croatian in wikipedia
5. Speedy deletion nomination of User: Donnellyeditor by 64andtim
6. Bare and dead URLs
7. Scipione Tadolini

June 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 17

1. Does TemplateData affect templates that call the primary template?
2. Personal attack from multiple people
3. Languages list
4. how to creat an artical
5. Unviewble edits
6. Search function
7. Archiving talk pages

June 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 18

1. Want to edit and post our company information?
2. Deleted Page: Question for administrator
3. Joyce Green MacDonald
4. create a new page
5. I want to cite a book published before 1970
6. Martineau family
7. Redirect
8. Recent changes filters
9. Override policy
10. Questions
11. Animated gifs
12. Twinkle Welcoming Prefs

June 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 19

1. Link a category without making it part of the category
2. Adding references in multiple languages
3. Edit counter
4. John Taylor (Unitarian hymn writer)
5. John Taylor (Unitarian hymn writer)
6. Template
7. Punch Cards and how did they change business
8. my name
9. What is the "Country study" template used for?
10. Wikipedia is not....
11. Ernest Radjen Basketball Coach
12. Notability and references

June 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 20

1. Delete pages
2. Contant edit
3. The page about Volker Sorger is gone
4. Wikipedia page and the floating menu
5. Email notifications not working?
6. Additional content translation restriction

June 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 21

1. Creating musician/artist page
2. Hiding the article name/profile etc. bar at the top of the screen
3. Deleting biographical wikipedia page
4. Question re template:navbox
5. Re: A muddled page on the two series named "The Terror"

June 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 22

1. Currency conversions?
2. EFN template problem
3. Eliminate or correct distribution map
4. Lack of References found
5. Delete my account

June 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 23

1. new page
2. References not showing
3. Copyediting, proofreading and changes
4. Mobile ‘Reply’. Any way to get it to stop autosaving?
5. Martineau family
6. Column break
7. question; any inline template or tag for "humor"?
8. Is there a good way to provide a list on an article but some of what would be in the article is listed on another page?
9. Is there a nice template to draw in the title and infobox image from an article into another article

June 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 24

1. Martineau family
2. How do I get "contribute" live on an individual page?
3. About autopatrolled...
4. Bulk removal of link spam
5. Adding an obituary as a reference?
6. Citing a speech
7. Editor creating multiple poorly written articles about Sesame Street
8. Is there a specific program / website used to make Opinion Poll Graphs?

June 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 25

1. Cleanup
2. How to tag for deletion
3. Referencing errors on Andreu Jacob
4. What to do when brand new user deleting many phrases tagged with "citation needed" tag across multiple articles
5. Kevin Penix

June 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 26

1. Tag missing
2. Glossary of cricket terms
3. Need help to start merge discussions
4. Editing a Wikipedia page for a living person
5. Policy/guideline question
6. Cookie Gilchrist
7. If mobile?

June 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 27

1. Founders' kin
2. Why does the Wikipedia English main page feature a disproportionate number of Indonesian deaths?
3. My mistakes in DYK nomination
4. Not listed
5. How to note additional info about an image on the image page
6. English
7. Adding a New person
8. How do I save my Sandbox page WITHOUT publishing it?
9. How to find total number of edits under username
10. Where Can I Get Suggested Articles to Edit From Wikipedia?
11. Public Figure
12. Which policies/guidelines forbid parenthetical further readings in text and transitions at the end of sections?

June 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 28

1. Has the search bar become smaller?
2. Cruciform churches in Norway Cruciform churches
3. Afd
4. Proposed change to results of Template:Expand language
5. editing citation - unknown error?
6. Is there a way to get my page out of limbo?

June 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 29

1. Template limits
2. How to remove upper centuries from navseasoncats template?
3. page publish
4. Domingo Quiñones
5. Is it just my impression?
6. Tool to help "translate" text-form refs to sfn and similar formats?
7. Song by African American male
8. Questions regarding a long standing page. Can I speak in person to someone
9. Halal or not
10. assistance
11. Including hats (tables) in talk pages (lists)
12. How do I add photos of my work, to my Wikipwdia page?
13. Edit errors in my husband's wikipedia page

June 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 June 30

1. I Can't Find 4 Hours of Edits On My Draft :( Please Help
2. I can't publish an article. Please help.
3. New article
4. Cybercriminality
5. I have posted on "time Ball". please help me
6. Uploaded my photo
7. It *says* collapsed...
8. Logo in the infobox needs to be changed