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March 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 1

  1. Boilerplate prose copied from another article
  2. uss ward dd139
  3. Heinz Tomate juice 50% les sodium
  4. Saisha
  5. A bot not archiving my page properly
  6. Cardiac dysrhythmia
  7. Page wiggles?
  8. Merge or combine two user accounts
  9. Leading space in if statements
  10. Mathematical formatting and illustrations
  11. how to publish an articel
  12. How to find templates?
  13. My other account
  14. Redirect or section link
  15. Citing a website based on a book
  16. French speaking editor
  17. editing ISDA page
  18. Removing a Reference on A Page
  19. What are these watchlist notices?
  20. Is it okay to upload a non-free image for an AfC article?
  21. Porn stars
  22. Renata Adler. In the non-fiction section. Correction.
  23. Help deleting multiple confusing articles about the same person
  24. Problem with math symbols on Win 8 with IE
  25. Previewing a redirect edit (again)
  26. Missing up/down arrows on sortable table
  27. how to do a block entry for an article

March 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 2

  1. Requesting peer review confusion.
  2. I have tow E-mail
  3. Page: Lodhian Khas, Title & Place Name needs correction
  4. Citations behind paywalls
  5. Upload
  6. wiki evaluation tool
  7. A personal problem
  8. I added info and now want to remove it.
  9. Template parameter test categories
  10. Unintended behavior of display of maintenance category
  11. Beggars Belief

March 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 3

  1. INCORRECT IDENTIFICATION PICTURES OF THE INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRIC CIGARETTE, HERBERT A. GILBERT THE PATENT DRAWINGS ARE CORRECT THE PICTURES ARE NOT.
  2. June Amrie Kimple
  3. Help in Articles
  4. Broken wikicode on User:Wing gundam
  5. false information
  6. hannah waddingham
  7. create account
  8. About Wasa Entrainment in disambiguation page Wasa
  9. Wrong image for " 2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash "
  10. music download
  11. Please help
  12. Where do I go.....
  13. How do I disable donation message keeping cookies disabled
  14. IMDb Plagiarizing Your Movie Plot or Vice Versa
  15. Uploading new version of a logo
  16. Climate change in Kiribati
  17. Mission statements
  18. Stan Bowles and Brian Brendan Wright
  19. inaccurate facts about Benoit Charest
  20. Fancy stuff
  21. facebook

March 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 4

  1. STILL no Pacific drift band page..?
  2. The lost years of Jesus
  3. errors on this page should be fixed.
  4. Blocked users contribs hidden?
  5. Aimee Sun Picture
  6. Expanding an existing entry
  7. problem with my password
  8. Citing straight line distances on maps
  9. Obtaining a list of articles containing the Infobox company template
  10. Oyster cards
  11. Article Request
  12. fear of flying
  13. Personality rights
  14. Adding information
  15. Guadalcanal veterans
  16. LUNSERS
  17. Juno Roxas
  18. Lingering vandalism
  19. How to get rid of the annoying box with bold red text
  20. Autobiography on a user subpage - violation or not?
  21. Question re Hank Risan article

March 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 5

  1. How do I save a book?
  2. request table editor help
  3. My contribution to Television Pilots
  4. how to create an autobiography, if i feel that i fulfill the basic criteria of notability
  5. Official company profile of Quam Limited
  6. Infoboxes at Line 2 (Metro Bilbao)
  7. Chat
  8. sorry but i ruined an article
  9. how to make the title and intro paragraph sit above the contents box
  10. Article help
  11. leon lissek
  12. Copyright message confusuing
  13. Citations in list articles
  14. Help needed with lengthy footnote
  15. Bible template
  16. Changing Username
  17. National Book Award for Nonfiction not working.
  18. References
  19. Categories in userfied article
  20. Crachach article (Crachach)
  21. WLAN 802.11 US 5 GHz Channels

March 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 6

  1. Is there a list of WP editing projects?
  2. Where is the best place to discuss something affecting multiple pages?
  3. Can't change the article title.
  4. Talk page template for collecting potential sources/links that aren't yet used in an article
  5. Business Related
  6. Longest disambiguation pages
  7. François Vermeille aliase Onésime Grosbois recognitions
  8. Edit toolbar - signing
  9. Most populous state in US
  10. can you include a share button?
  11. What are the criteria for "notable people" in an article about a town/city?
  12. Which hatnote?
  13. Adding customized image for kits/uniform in the infobax
  14. Proper Use of Redirects
  15. comment about Prince
  16. I am proposing deletion of Vonbluvens Show article
  17. promotional articles
  18. Not a problem
  19. Hi
  20. hello I need help with removal of program on my computer
  21. Using Wikipedia

March 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 7

  1. Derivation of "Bembe" in Bembe Beach
  2. Long Term Disability and Social Security Benefits
  3. Citing a Journal
  4. Upload a picture
  5. What to do about a page that was better in the far past
  6. make a redirect right in edit summary
  7. How do I make a Wiki Page
  8. Undelete an article
  9. Pratham page on wikipedia
  10. Searching for user contributions
  11. Wrong Title of Trident Chennai
  12. Hugo Inglis - Hockey NZ
  13. Academic Boosterism
  14. Help
  15. Hi
  16. Copyright Violation
  17. Minor edits
  18. PREMIO TUDINI
  19. Mbouschor
  20. reviewing the Frank Holger Rothkamm page
  21. Creating new articles

March 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 8

  1. Slanderous article
  2. Should Hypothetical types of stars be a list?
  3. Someone please revert this vandalism on Germaine Greer
  4. vandalizing
  5. History of Russia: Lenin Stalin Picture has inaccurate caption/description
  6. do you sell ipads 4 if so how much is it in the duty free airport in the uk
  7. I made a mess at AfD, please help me fix it
  8. Edits / email
  9. Russian stress marks
  10. HELP NEEDED TO PRESENT A CONTRIBUTION IN WIIKIPEDIA TO BE SEEN ON GOOGLE
  11. Thin Yellow Line
  12. Nikki Giovanni
  13. Strange edits
  14. Link
  15. Number of accounts?
  16. removing a wrong birth date, as well as libelous citation?
  17. NLP article
  18. Limoges figurine
  19. page was deleted
  20. Questionable content on "Plymouth Plantation" article
  21. Hello
  22. Merging two pages
  23. Free School
  24. Virus threat in a reference?

March 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 9

  1. What should I do if I doubt whether a source relates to a claim?
  2. Curation Toolbar
  3. Reducing a non free image without messing it up!
  4. pronunciation audio files
  5. References
  6. Copyright problem
  7. Issues with a BLP
  8. Article classes and references
  9. Pop-up ads and intrusive code
  10. Eastern lightning
  11. Table wizard required!
  12. New paragraph difficulty

March 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 10

  1. Latin translation
  2. Infobox issue
  3. Mistakes
  4. Lawyer on demand
  5. a using wikipedia question...
  6. reviews
  7. Linking an image to my article
  8. Comprehensive Peace Agreement - Contains My Little Pony References
  9. Starting Subject
  10. New members "characters"
  11. Wrapping a caption in a template
  12. buffer between table and text

March 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 11

  1. report of events still in the future
  2. it it for school
  3. When someone writes on my talk page where do I respond so that the person will see it?
  4. Reference (section)
  5. using portal
  6. Bot
  7. Launchball
  8. 2013 Holidays
  9. How far can Wikipedia go?
  10. Italcising article titles
  11. Semi-Protection
  12. Use of inference as a reference
  13. Solar System Ambassadors Program and notability

March 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 12

  1. Horrie the Wog Dog
  2. Article createdby me: Hellenoturkism
  3. Stadium name change
  4. Ouabi; Or the Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos
  5. Readability for visually challenged folks
  6. Kelly Carrinton
  7. RE: Company Write Up
  8. putting pics in article
  9. Any idea why this table does not let sorting based on its columns?
  10. External link at the top of all pages while logged in
  11. A Question About Editing
  12. Phone numbers
  13. Use of Webservice
  14. I am listed on Wikpedia Germany, but not in the UK
  15. Bhumihar political & social movement section
  16. Dana H. Born and USAFA
  17. exactley what is this port hole of communication.
  18. CherryOS article extension by unrelated, untrue and offensive information
  19. New biography page for someone whose name is already in use
  20. Australian artists list

March 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 13

  1. Where do I propose a new Wikipedia feature for discussion?
  2. University of Toledo College of Law
  3. THe right picture won't display in Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012
  4. buland darwaza,
  5. Redlink
  6. Twinkle not working anymore
  7. Einstein
  8. comment other users
  9. putting pics in infobox
  10. Operation Frequent Wind. Vietnam
  11. Please can you tell me how you put information in tables
  12. Mary rose
  13. Anthony Ausgang
  14. Smiths Grove, Kentucky history
  15. Book creator links gone?
  16. The book creator button ??
  17. Avoiding Disambiguation Pages
  18. Pope Francis is NOT "non white"
  19. Sajiv Dhawan - is this page beyond hope?
  20. Linking two articles in different languages
  21. California Legal Document Assistant Definition Page
  22. Tan Son Nhut Air Base

March 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 14

  1. finding specific things
  2. wikify a article
  3. my article
  4. st. malachy
  5. Article help
  6. Is it just me?
  7. Objecting Deletion Nomination of the Page "Zac poonen"
  8. Category page "Political funding"
  9. Upload a picture
  10. omissions
  11. MASSIVE BUG in Special:Upload. Please help!
  12. Copywright issue on a web site
  13. Adding information to articles
  14. Luka Magnotta's trial
  15. References received via email
  16. Merbina A. Castaneda
  17. Confirmed account
  18. RPS in Edit summary
  19. Infobox
  20. Eva Fidjeland
  21. MWW Article Declined
  22. List of people who played Rugby for wales
  23. ANGOSTURA AROMATIC BITTERS
  24. Audie Murphy
  25. I'm disabled,with a cognitive problem being able to follow the instructions given which would be very clear to most,but I can not use.
  26. Teddy Williams (American Football Player)
  27. Rumi's Place of birth
  28. Stompin' Tom Connors images
  29. complete BullShit
  30. Missing name

March 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 15

  1. Nationality
  2. Bobby Rondinelli
  3. :category:Hovercraft albums
  4. Blocked user
  5. A really, really orphaned page
  6. Title
  7. My edits to Monsanto
  8. проблема поиска на нескольких языках
  9. Put picture on an infobox which is not in Commons
  10. How can I join a task force?
  11. Images compiled on Powerpoint
  12. Dulaman (song)

March 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 16

  1. User delete request
  2. "remember me for 180 days" checkbox doesn't work
  3. "File Not Found" in Wikipedia Book Creator
  4. Famous French speakers
  5. Latvian Legion Day
  6. Question about Links
  7. Question
  8. Adding photos
  9. I copied a text from my own website
  10. Link incorrect
  11. Colan
  12. Miszabot Problem
  13. Large size JPG download failure

March 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 17

  1. Editing a page
  2. Tool Missing from my Tool Box
  3. Creating new articles
  4. I think my talk page contribution Obamacare wasn't spam.
  5. jonathon goldsmith
  6. Hannah Aitchison, tattoo artist
  7. Meaning of /* ... */ in pre-filled edit summary
  8. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liz Willows
  9. Archive setup
  10. External link not working
  11. A possible bug in the "Categories" area - need advice
  12. Wikidata ??
  13. convert duplicated refs to named refs?
  14. Fixing the page title to the correct one Vysochanskij-Petunin inequality

March 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 18

  1. Deletion
  2. rude comments on TV
  3. Want to publish an article
  4. How to create Template:Location map Eastern Bloc?
  5. Roger L. Schlaifer
  6. Upload Company Logo
  7. Guidelines for cutting out copywritten text?
  8. Category:Direct-to-video films
  9. Grammatical Error in Article on "David Geffen."
  10. Proposed New Article: "Widney Origins"
  11. How to post a page about our ministry and the Supernatural Photographs in Wikipedia
  12. copy rights
  13. how to create a page
  14. Download SVG
  15. 3 Dots
  16. I need to build a company page in order to be included on another page
  17. Why was my article deleted?
  18. Canadian Right to Food Trial
  19. Osunlade Page
  20. iam interested to learn more on the accounting
  21. Regarding two separate articles

March 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 19

  1. JOHN MARTIN
  2. spam
  3. importance of water for our body
  4. Gary Brain Orchestra conductor
  5. Scientific research
  6. Template:Diff vs. Template:Diff2
  7. Linking to my HTML5 animation in an article's "external links" section brands me a spammer
  8. Amy Reeder, nix on the Hadley
  9. PCT Camp Wardon
  10. Eyebrow threading
  11. copyright
  12. coord missing|Australia
  13. Question on monitoring a page you created.
  14. Israel

March 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 20

  1. External links to digitized regimental histories
  2. item correction
  3. Deletion of article
  4. New Entry in Wikipedia
  5. references
  6. Why was the work I created in a sandbox page published as an article wikipedia without my approval?
  7. adding citations to articles with existing ones
  8. Content Error
  9. Historical record of deleted articles. History of edits of deleted articles.
  10. Main page not updating (again)
  11. JASENIK=Јасеник
  12. need help citing website as reference
  13. Missing info
  14. Reference List
  15. Merging accounts
  16. annotate/blame tool
  17. External Website link not working properly Article Barqueiros
  18. Chattakpur, sonada, Darjeeling
  19. My proposed article
  20. Verifying quotes from newspaper article in personal possession, but not available online

March 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 21

  1. ISBN problem
  2. Cataloguing
  3. Help moving an article with a redirect named the same as the new article name
  4. National Defense Mediation Board
  5. Article star ratings have gone - why ?
  6. Inaccuracy Problem
  7. Annual General Meetings
  8. Phantom spacing on Citroën DS4
  9. Richard Nixon
  10. Tagging an article for violating WP:NOTHOW?
  11. help me with article
  12. The Organization Workshop
  13. Lauren Christy
  14. Free operation
  15. bourke /burke
  16. "Article Feedback page not enabled for this page"
  17. Help me with my draft
  18. I want to get serious
  19. Need pointers on dealing with "sneaky vandalism"
  20. Notable People
  21. coloured print
  22. Footnotes

March 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 22

  1. view large category without pagination?
  2. Vancouver, Washington
  3. Broken links (articles) in disambiguation pages?
  4. derogatory statement-demeaning
  5. Picture upload
  6. Double identity
  7. Ashley cole
  8. Renaming an article
  9. Deletion request
  10. About the article I wrote
  11. Cite error
  12. Clickatell's Wikipedia Page
  13. Why there is no number in front of my references? Do I have to add it manually?
  14. Documents
  15. Should this be italicized? (video-game related)
  16. wiki page publishing problem

March 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 23

  1. Anchors
  2. Incorrect statement
  3. Disambiguation Links
  4. On new userbox
  5. Viewing high-quality photos on Wikipedia
  6. Images and getting them visible
  7. Translation of existing articles
  8. Erroneous edit to a wiki page/Restore to previous
  9. References
  10. Rose Breeding - List of Rose Breeders
  11. Review
  12. WP edits from RFC1918 IPs

March 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 24

  1. Start button lost
  2. Javascript and Wikipedia
  3. Location map
  4. Seeing my "deleted edits"?
  5. Caroline Dinenage MP
  6. Proper use of templates?

March 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 25

  1. HELP
  2. Copyvio
  3. Incorrect information
  4. Automatic logging in to Wikimedia's projects
  5. Regarding review of my article on Cullen Investments
  6. Oz Pressler
  7. Tool to find edit history intersection
  8. Copyright question
  9. Remove unrelated image from a Wikipedia page
  10. YouTube referencing overkill
  11. Giving Recognition to Other Writers
  12. Source use
  13. Mirakill
  14. Coding expert needed
  15. joining a police force
  16. Why does the watchlist fail?
  17. Wrong infobox
  18. commercial movie on first aviators (possibly Gustav Whitehead) Movie produced in the 1930's or 40's
  19. Inappropriate Subjective Editing
  20. Bot warnings
  21. Printing problem at Seven Virtues
  22. wikicode and wikigames

March 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 26

  1. not sure how to correct citation error
  2. Genitalia in photo to left in "Hello Kitty" article
  3. A user with two identities
  4. Help to Remove Child Abusive Sexually Explicit Content.
  5. Creating Wikipedia page
  6. WHAT IS THE BEST APP/SOFTWARE TO CREATE COLOR CODED MAPS LIKE YOU SEE ON THIS... AMAZING.... SITE CALL WIKIPEDIA
  7. listed buildings
  8. Best selling album
  9. Update info please
  10. Just a question for curiosity's sake
  11. Valid editing has to be applied and approved...
  12. Book disappeared
  13. Article star ratings have gone - TAKE 2
  14. CSD log constantly deleting chunks of itself
  15. Help with someone vandalizing a page
  16. Old Manuscript
  17. Dj Steel
  18. Frank Darby new article
  19. Formatting break

March 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 27

  1. Category being added to my talk page by another user
  2. Error that made it into Russian Wikipedia -- how to alert them?
  3. Steve Warren Masters V
  4. Third-party hosted source
  5. sockpuppets
  6. Alaska Libertarian Party
  7. Tony Ward
  8. Bernie Nolan
  9. right-clicking h2;mw-headline opens the edit page ?
  10. How do I make a link to google books appear in the list of references?
  11. Macular Disease Society page
  12. Carl B. Squier
  13. Table simplification
  14. Navboxes no longer collapsible
  15. Using templates
  16. Can't find an image selection guideline/preference an editor claimed existed
  17. Searching in history
  18. citation requirement

March 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 28

  1. How to cite article within a book
  2. Strong anti Russian bias in Wikipedia article Morjim
  3. Judge Judy article should be labeled as fiction
  4. Royal Jordanian Falcons
  5. Easter
  6. Help finding town
  7. Inspiration art article
  8. BOT for template
  9. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/killision
  10. Entry not being accepted
  11. Images template

March 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 29

  1. Jack Radics
  2. Measurements
  3. Adding protection to a article.
  4. Our Company page
  5. Deleted Edits
  6. What causes a page to be flagged as like 'an advertisement'?
  7. Possible actions against non objective admin
  8. incorrect information regarding Marion Ravn
  9. Worshiping in Moscow
  10. Help
  11. How to make a orphan page unorphaned on Wikipedia?
  12. Template:cite episode
  13. Table doesn't render as it should
  14. Using templates
  15. Help moderating contentious material (Actinidia arguta page)
  16. Roosevelt-Bentman Trust for American Voters
  17. How to list lost information.
  18. help
  19. CSS: Wikitable borders
  20. AFC Helper Script

March 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 30

  1. Lloyd Center mall
  2. how to add a picture from Hebrew Wikipedia to the English Version?
  3. Phyllis Calvert.
  4. Account unused and with forgotten pass/email combination
  5. Changing page title "User:Stargaze!1/sandbox" to "Shweta Wahi"
  6. Please change name of Page
  7. Change username
  8. My edit won't show?
  9. Referencing help needed
  10. how do I remove my e mail and pass word from automatically log in ?
  11. I've misunderstood an infobox
  12. Missing a dot
  13. Main text column width
  14. Merging a page
  15. Incorrect Name - not married
  16. Align=left not working at Template:External media
  17. Robert Cristian Trif

March 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 March 31

  1. Finding the origin of the views an article has.
  2. Death of an editor
  3. Disambiguation page formatting
  4. Disambiguation page
  5. Rolf Harris
  6. Old Japanese Medical Images and Copyright Settings for Public Domain
  7. HELP ME TO ADD IN ARTICLE...
  8. Rail transport in Benin
  9. lost article within wikipedia
  10. BLP
  11. User Page section edits
  12. Conrado Colina Tudtud
  13. Missing links golf course on your web page
  14. Image link
  15. "the crap on this page"
  16. Article I made about my band
  17. Additional Announcers on 2KA
  18. Music chart problem?