Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2017
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May 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 1
- Super Bowl Template needs to be fixed
- Incorrect Edits
- after I did what I was asked
- "Kefir" mentions kefir grains but does not define the grains.
- Initiating Deletion of a Redirect
- Unwanted & sign in Notes
- Unsalting
- How to make a reference to explanatory text in a different article
- Article for fanfiction
- Archive bot mistake
- How to ask a question?
- Translation
May 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 2
- Article not listed in category?
- Nicola Horlick
- Sourcing using subject's website
- Delete a page from wikipedia
- Unsure what to do with article about a living person
- Collapse
- Rollback vs Twinkle?
May 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 3
- SandBox questions
- Apparent inconsistency in rollback links
- Regarding deletion of a Wiki page I created
- Issue with sortable table
- How much interpretation is acceptable?
- First Drug Submarine found in United States
- Facebook Page
- Photo
- adding link to online book
- Please help. How to stop someone from maliciously editing and adding inaccurate information to an article?
- A bot has archived my talk page post
- Dennis Neilson-Terry
- What is the correct "Line Break" command or template?
May 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 4
- Hiding visited pages from watchlist?
- Why is the age column not sorting correctly?
- COMPASS
- is there a way to collapse a Category?
- new wiki page
- What to do when the "unreliable" source happens to be right, and the "reliable" sources mostly wrong?
- Category:Tamil Brahmins
- pair of articles on French and English Wikipedia
- Please remove name from Wiki page
- Wolf Lake (New York)
- Copyright infringement
- Non-free image
May 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 5
- redirects vs aliases vs moves vs inaction
- Script error?
- Italics for foreign words and proper names
- How to change an image if I do not have 10 edits to make.
- List of energy drinks
- Weird interwiki problem
- Tagging a source as possibly being of doubtful authority
- SahBabii
May 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 6
- What does the 3F in this URL mean?
- how to block a wikipedia user
- Folllow up to previous question "redirects vs aliases vs moves vs inaction"
- The user Nickag989 is vandalizing the WrestleMania24 Wrestling article, misuse of power, please help!
- Archaic term
- My first edit
- Sun Yawei
- Why can't I copy and paste mathematical equations into Microsoft Word?
May 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 7
- Layout problems with geobox template
- Acceptable source?
- Luke Jumeau
- Rainbow Ruby title card
- Verifiable source
- Need to create Company / Personala Wikipedia page
- tHE TOWN OF MARIANNA ARKANSAS
- Explanatory footnote
- Hi I would like to know how I can create a page about my dad
May 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 8
- Need help reverting vandal
- Deletion of Lemenemene
- Navbox "collapse" setting not working
- Attributing map/CC license
- change the name of the article
- The page I created need to be developed with the geoboxes
- same film?
- doubled-up entries in contribution history
- How do I change my username?
- 2017–18 NCAA Football Bowl Games Template
- how to change Bridgeport fire department Wikipedia page
- Noni Jabavu
- How do you end RFCs?
- Attempting to change article photo
May 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 9
- Spencer Matthews
- About Wikipedia page
- Use of Wikipedia and it content.
- Correction in the name Sri Madhopur as Shrimadhopur
- Use some pictures from another language wikipedia
- Scanned image quality
- Question about persistent changing of info
- Need help I forgot my password to my Fredia Gibbs wikipedia account
- how to insert "show"/"hide" in infoboxes
May 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 10
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- How do I effectively research a topic?
- All articles matching a certain pattern
- External link search
- Edit not being allowed to remain
May 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 11
- Wikiproject United States
- Quote
- Please add bable boxes in the page "Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone"
- Delete a section
- services, TASO annual report 2010
- Gallery from foreign pictures
- Add new content
- 'Better source needed'
- Question about duplicate pages and disambiguation
- Counter Vandalism Unit Academy
May 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 12
- 2017–18 NCAA men's division I Basketball season Template
- can i create Indian performing right society page now ?
- Why prohibit editing?
- Purposeful Defaming
- Including Sigiriya archaeological site
- PD-India-URAA
- Company Page
- Population density question
- New article
- Super Bowl Golden Shovel from Houston To Minnesota
- Page deleted on Alexandra Allred
- Blocking
- Can ProteinBoxBot be sent to a task?
May 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 13
- AfD !votes not showing up in my AfD log.
- How to add pictures
- User talk page problems
- User talk pages (continued)
- Log in/Edit
- Monksville reservoir
- love
- Longterm username plan
- Proper/How to refer to a book, but not as a citation source? (Tag mention of a book with metadata?)
- Referencing error
- Strikethroughs use in articles
- In-universe template for religious content
May 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 14
- Jennifer Crouse - Mary Anne Arsenault Curling
- Why isn't volume= LVIII bold?
- How do I add an info box and photo to draft I have?
- AfD/MfD on meta?
- How to remove sanctions on an article
- To report an inappropriate edit on the 'Indira Gandhi page'.
- Problem With Punjabi Wikipedia Source Editor
- Google Search Results
- template for edit summary when reverting
May 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 15
- Can I recover an edit which has frozen?
- Wikiproject templates
- "See also" columns issue
- Charlie Rose interview
- Wrong status of a country
- Convention about listing TV episode credits
May 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 16
- White Pride
- James von Brunn
- WMF seesion log out problems
- giraffes
- Laird
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- Edit a particular section in visual editor?
- Belleville New Jersey
- Should West Coast Style be deleted?
- Need urgently to delete a page
- New article not detected by search engines
May 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 17
- Hi, this page has city/country messed up and I can't edit it.
- Newspaper photos
- User talk:Mramoeba
- Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
- My Wikipedia page not shown in google
- Talk page, not Article itself, is indexed by search engines
- email as a reference
- Missing Hide/Show?
- Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
- Recovering the content of my page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqeel_Solangi
- Entries that don't appear to meet criteria for notability or neutrality
- Pressing Issue
- Irving Penn, the photographer
- I wan t to change my password
May 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 18
- Positioning a template
- Can we reference magazines and books without violating Wikipedia guidelines as long as we reference and paraphrase?
- What if a company wishes that information reflected on their websites is copied almost ad verbatim?
- Edit request explanation
- How we can use wikipedia without using code?
- Correct use of Jr./Sr. in article titles.
- How do we add picture to the infobox? And how to find that jpg thing?
- Henrys Silva
- stopping speedy deletion of image
- cant i put my own password?
- External website using wikipedia content to sell goods and services
- Original theories on talk pages
May 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 19
- Template:Poem
- [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 19#Insult_by_.7B.7Bping.7CUser:MonsterHunter32.7D.7D|Insult by @MonsterHunter32:]]
- how to add to existing to list of malaysian swimmer ?
- Editing the first part of A biography
May 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 20
- Use emails as RS's
- Citing as a family member
- Archives for Discussion-Pages
- I need to quote an article that was published in the pre-internet era.
- Inserting new tagline
- How to link
- Accessing older answers
- Molly Hatchet
- No entering an edit summary for new section?
- Infobox books
- 2017 Army Black knights Football schedule
May 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 21
- Archaic warnings and unblock requests
- Authority Control and wikidata
- Strange unit artifacts
- Lady
- Line breaks
- Having problems with Pop-ups
- Etymology MOS
May 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 22
- Email or Contact Information
- Seth RIch -
- Spencer Matthews
- Archive a web source
- Spam classification
- need help with IP
- Both username and password lost
- CAN MH2 SOUNDCRAFT CONSOLE RECORD LIVE
- Database query error
- List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- Correction needed for Delaware State University founding name
- comment about the Amos Larkins deletes
- 2017 Army Black Knights football schedule
May 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 23
- Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom
- James Matthews (racing driver)
- How do you create a page on an author?
- Spencer Matthews
- How to get a version hidden of a certain article
- Creating a Wiki Page for a Organization
- 1971 INDIA PAKISTAN WAR
- questions regarding $wgAllowExternalImages
May 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 24
- Wikilobby page
- Automatic categorization of articles on a template
- Yoon jik-yeon
- New article for politician
- Citing the same source multiple times throughout the Wikipedia page
- Help editing
- Template help
- Can photographs taken illegally be used on Wikipedia?
- Adding pictures to an article
- Need help
- Download as PDF
- How do I contact a Volunteer/contributor
- New article
May 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 25
- Infobox books
- AFD record
- 2019 NBA All–Star Game article
- Userfication
- Cory Stillman
- Syntax error introduced by AnomieBOT
May 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 26
- Page not appearing on Google Search
- safari wikipedia summary preview shows differently than actual summary on page
- Removal of offline sources
- Information on Roger Noriega's biography contains false and libelous statements
- wikitable sortable problem
- References for personal observations.
- Sheetala Traders
- Reference type.
- infobox size (or infonox size)
- Template, help to add a section
- 2019 NBA All-Star Game article
May 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 27
- What's the name of this instrument
- Inter-wiki link phantom?
- Help with template, url was changed
- Edit Count
- Bible ref
- MyHeritage
May 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 28
- Moosehead Special
- Wondering about ban
- How to change default preview size of an image ?
- Minuteman article
- List of subcategories?
- Spencer Matthews
- HOW TO AVOID ARTICLE DELETION OF YOUNG STUNNA (MUSICIAN)
May 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 29
- Mitchell Trubisky
- donations
- Image Size
- Pseudophilosophy
- Orlando, Florida, entry.
- Non-free content
- Business CV
- The Famous People: Reliable?
- externals not adhering to Wiki Creative common share-alike license.
- Tutorial
- Imagemap
- TO CHANGE STREAM
- Layout help
- Friendly Fire Incidents
May 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 30
- Englefield House
- kttw tv
- Defaultsort glitch
- Two different birth dates of Ben Cropp is written....January 7, 1936 and January 19. 1936. The correct one is January 19,1936
- Logo edit request
- Article Deletion
- I want to translate articles
- Removal of the Symphonic rock page
- GB Group (UK) Update Required
- Rick Nicita
- Infobox books
- Using wildcards/regular expressions in Wikipedia search (box)
May 31
[edit]Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 31
- I am confused on locking a page?
- Marie Cosindas. Tried to correct the year of birth for my deceased aunt. Got ref content error.
- Potential hate speech / vandalism on a talk page
- Wrong Picture on Michael Webb's Archigram Page
- refs
- How to show archive entries on talk page
- Talk about personal contacts, issues tht been created at home by the presence of the same Name like still hearing in the talk.
- Adding references from a hardcopy journal
- deleted page/banned editor
- Wrong Information
- The following page was possibly vandalized. How can it be fixed?
- Search engines adding a "www" to wikipage
- Vc fuller
- How do I create a bot?
- Englefield House