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May 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 1

  1. How can you change a template title?
  2. Regarding an apparent ambiguity in the way a Category name is worded at "Category:American journalists by ethnic or national origin"
  3. Digital Downloads
  4. Middleton family
  5. Can I add a link to a non-English Wikipedia page?
  6. Bertha Benz
  7. Quasicristals
  8. It says there is an article already named this.
  9. Policy question
  10. Restore my page
  11. Caste organizations are spreading false information
  12. Copy of license in Albania
  13. Referencing errors on Alathurpadi Dars
  14. how can I ask a question
  15. Image modification
  16. Is dangerous content allowed?
  17. Adding photos with the permission of owner

May 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 2

  1. Shortcomings of a policy prohibiting original research
  2. Good faith and bad faith edits
  3. RfC
  4. Navboxes balanced...
  5. Clarification on Reliable sources
  6. Need help registering for Heinonline
  7. Question about appropriateness of an addition
  8. What would I have to do to become a helper on the IRC channel?
  9. Can someone help me improve my page
  10. How can I change my user name?
  11. Adding my "about me" page to Wikipedia
  12. Carly Simon’s birth year
  13. Information about the Kimmorley Name

May 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 3

  1. Eggplant multiple image (help needed)
  2. What would be the proper category to include both :Category:Years in India by state or union territory and :Category:Years in the United States by state?
  3. Sunderland
  4. Adding Information on Wikipedia
  5. What happens when you use the same named reference more than 26 times?
  6. missing info
  7. Losing login
  8. Upper or lowercase? Vice President of the United States
  9. Help requested
  10. Translating tool
  11. Conflict
  12. Infobox picture
  13. Pop-up notification
  14. Publish my draft
  15. Referencing errors on Marjorie Yates
  16. Wikipedia Help IRC

May 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 4

  1. Derby Day USA
  2. Upload file?
  3. Improving sentence structure
  4. uploading image in infobox but says connection error
  5. Article counter per saved articles folder is fake
  6. Change to relevant category
  7. Copyright
  8. HotCat not loading
  9. Merging an article
  10. Changing the name of a page
  11. What to do if the administration of Wikipedia ignores the request?
  12. IP Addresses
  13. Dash

May 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 5

  1. Mzee jomo kenyatta son
  2. How to change the preview of Lusitania
  3. Possible incorrect licensing on a commons image
  4. Carla "KC" Hanson article
  5. Second order disambiguation
  6. Why is my account blocked?
  7. Redirects
  8. Supergrass & Informant
  9. i want to use one image from wikipedia article for publication in a scientific journal. How do i get permission from wikipedia for the same ?
  10. Article feels weird
  11. Citation query
  12. Adding an artist
  13. Title
  14. Translating French Wikipedia page into English
  15. Stripping personal info from reference URLs?

May 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 6

  1. Person profile
  2. Couldn't Wikipedia find a more respectful image/photograph of our lovely person of colour who married into the British Royal family? Compared to Kate Megan's introductory picture is disgraceful!!
  3. Can I copy and modify a table
  4. MOS:UPRIGHT

May 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 7

  1. Turkish cuisine
  2. How to bookmark pages within Wiki account (logged in user)?
  3. Referencing errors on Cadillac CT5
  4. Redlinks
  5. Candi_CdeBaca article formatting error?
  6. "Plot" of this article
  7. ChatGPT
  8. Naming a article
  9. Netflix
  10. New Article Submitted
  11. Partially expanded navbox?
  12. I created a translation of a Wikipedia article as a draft & the draft does not have a way to submit it. How do I submit it?
  13. Becoming "Notable"
  14. Citing personal correspondence

May 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 8

  1. What infobox should I use?
  2. Citation with unverifiable content
  3. Signifying ability to use Content Translation Tool
  4. About VGSCOPE
  5. amarcord (ensemble)
  6. Search box
  7. Weird redirect
  8. Question in French
  9. NPOV
  10. Ideology
  11. Attach photo to related text
  12. Provide Article about Horace A Crosswell?

May 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 9

  1. Retrieving a book that i uploaded
  2. where to put programs
  3. Feedback
  4. how to get rid of the new layout
  5. HR
  6. Referencing errors on Lakho Phulani
  7. Notability disagreement
  8. Ways to have page on myself updated (academic and industry)
  9. I fixed out an article. How to do this?
  10. report inappropriate content
  11. Translation but cross-namespace redirect
  12. Dies Shalie Lipp
  13. Article Submission
  14. ai
  15. Page submission
  16. Streamlining watchlist checks

May 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 10

  1. Not sure how to deal with this situation
  2. Peculiar dates in cite journal
  3. Genfixes
  4. Aligning two cropped images next to each other, gallery style
  5. Regis Cordic
  6. can i collapse/remove old topics on my talkpage
  7. How to edit
  8. Change of Profile Image
  9. Replying
  10. Editing pages

May 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 11

  1. Referencing errors on Deira Corniche
  2. Jayne Owen Bruner
  3. Cats
  4. Finding references from old sources
  5. Continuous removal of ethnic descent info from Albanian biographies
  6. Nutritional value table
  7. Review my article
  8. Guiding notability
  9. Todorov
  10. What are the next steps to get this page up?
  11. Article was copied from draft space into main space
  12. Mathematics
  13. Wikipedia trolls

May 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 12

  1. [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 12#.7B.7Btl.7Cn.2Fa.7D.7D_template_in_a_tabl|{{n/a}} template in a tabl]]
  2. 2023 Toronto Blue Jays season
  3. Username
  4. Info on the search engine results includes wrong information
  5. WB Yeats.
  6. Sports game results templates
  7. My draft is not getting reviewed what to do?
  8. Academic papers
  9. publish changes

May 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 13

  1. Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne
  2. John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer
  3. Archiving on talk pages
  4. Willard Scott
  5. How do you make your own page?
  6. iffy editor
  7. Dortmund
  8. Suggested languages
  9. Please replace wrong photograph on my wikipedia page.
  10. Going dotty over dots
  11. Question about moving/renaming pages
  12. Edits that don't stick

May 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 14

  1. Referencing errors on Federal University of Technology Akure
  2. John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer
  3. How
  4. Requirements for Wikipedia
  5. Edit summary search
  6. Tags:
  7. Redirect From Translated Article
  8. Pinging meta wiki users
  9. Attempted-and-failed redirects

May 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 15

  1. two tables
  2. Species article based on one good source
  3. Redirect to draft page
  4. Archiving a source that is inaccessible from archiving websites
  5. Italics in the title. Page: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
  6. Parliament Template
  7. Linking a Wikipedia entry with a company profile in Google.
  8. Web page Palme d'Or ‎ →‎Multiple Nominations missing
  9. Request to Change Article Title
  10. Pauline Cucharo Amelickx
  11. Why blacklist URL soar . earth ?
  12. Photograph copyright

May 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 16

  1. Editor using both account and IP
  2. Referencing errors on Flirting
  3. Page: Rostov-on-Don; paragraph: "Notable people"
  4. Make sandbox edit live
  5. What is the threshold needed for a female pornstar to get an article?
  6. Editting - Error
  7. Cost of building a church structure
  8. Durham Report

May 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 17

  1. Rollback rights
  2. How do I use Template:Episode table (/list)?
  3. Pictures on articles
  4. please help
  5. Closing the spaces between refs
  6. Referencing errors on Chronophilia
  7. Formatting a table next to an infobox
  8. Kevin John Conway (from Canada)
  9. Is there's a way to find low res images in an article list.

May 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 18

  1. SFNP
  2. chatgpt
  3. Adding a reference link on Mobile commerce page
  4. Additing citation that is on a blacklist
  5. WP:ER on WP:LTA
  6. Problem with ZooOrg template
  7. How do I anchor references to a block of text on a talk page?
  8. Delete my account
  9. Why is this allowed?
  10. Question about events portal
  11. How to use non-free media
  12. Canadian General Electric
  13. Can I place a personal ad with Wikipedia

May 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 19

  1. Request for Undeletion of Biographies: Professor Matjaž Klemenčič and Professor Mitja Žagar
  2. How to work with tables
  3. Hatnote for article that is available on another language wikipedia
  4. Why?
  5. change page name
  6. A friend just sent me an ad from a spam operation using our name on their website and in their URL

May 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 20

  1. Pet care?
  2. i didnt exsacly violate the community guidelines!
  3. Aversion security
  4. Logspeed CZ Arena
  5. Joseph Ferris Perry House article
  6. it was a misunderstanding, I apologize
  7. hyperlink
  8. AAN doesn't work

May 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 21

  1. Pescara
  2. I’ve been accused of abusing multiple accounts, yet I only have one account, so what recourse do I have?
  3. Links with unicode fails
  4. Creating Serebii.net
  5. Gianni Morandi
  6. programming element. valid?
  7. :File:0x10c_logo.png is probably in the Public Domain
  8. 2017 Wikitext Editor
  9. Sarve
  10. Can I make a page on "Tripper (Chess)" over redirect to Fairy chess pieces?
  11. New template category not populating?
  12. How to locate WP initiaties?

May 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 22

  1. How do I delete my account?
  2. Glen Affric
  3. how to color a table in wikipedia
  4. Wikipedia Knowledge Block
  5. Which template to use: Strong or Em
  6. How do I crop a photo in an infobox picture?
  7. myself
  8. Where to find articles missing in English
  9. Mansfield bus station
  10. Igbo Jews
  11. Richard Fletcher Conductor Page
  12. WP:DISASTER

May 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 23

  1. Content about Swaraj Shetty - Guruva of Kantara
  2. About the correct pronunciation of the word Fuerdai
  3. "Zuppa inglese", not "zuppa Inglese"
  4. I put up a page authorized by the artist and it was rejected
  5. Invisible revision history
  6. Want to have my Company shown on Google results
  7. Accidentaly opening a sockpuppet investigation
  8. When will my page be live?
  9. Is it possible to query for literal "%" [percent] sign in advanced page search
  10. Tags
  11. Incorrect link
  12. How do I delete my own image
  13. References
  14. Does anyone know why Hanoi infobox is so wide?
  15. Two differing citations from the same magazine article?
  16. YYYY-MM-DD
  17. Set of eyes
  18. Department
  19. counter vandalism unit joining
  20. Problems with a Quote box in article Helen Fein

May 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 24

  1. Question on Mentioning if a Public Person Speaks Like Another Person
  2. Meaning of SIGCOV at NCORP
  3. How to change back to Vector skin?
  4. Discussion
  5. Issues with a user lacking WP:COMPETENCE
  6. Twice-rejected AfC article was created by different user without attribution: what to do?
  7. Quote (to be inserted in the page "Torta Barozzi")
  8. how to create an article
  9. User name
  10. creating a new page
  11. Can you delete a Wikipedia page that you've created?
  12. Referencing errors on Digamma function
  13. Film director of westerns
  14. Rollback
  15. Qui
  16. Archiving user talk pages
  17. How Do I Merge Accounts?
  18. Date of Death to page?

May 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 25

  1. change a article
  2. Issues from a Wikipedia project regarding SVGs
  3. سلام عليكم اسعد الله يومكم شو لازم اعمل
  4. Broken table on mobile phone using Wikipedia app
  5. Two-level list with arabic and lower-roman markers
  6. need help with placing a figure
  7. Adding Reference material
  8. Can I edit the Wikipedia page about me?
  9. "On this day" mailing list?
  10. Futility (poem)

May 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 26

  1. Why does it say
  2. History of Rome
  3. Section link does not consistently link to any section
  4. Seeking specific feedback on a deleted article
  5. Is semi-protection viable for a page in this scenario or just keep reverting edits?
  6. Someone defaming me on my Talk Page
  7. problems with conformation e-mail
  8. Comma or not?

May 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 27

  1. "Barbara D'Urso", not "Barbara d'Urso"
  2. Can you help me with this page?
  3. Berney baronets
  4. Referencing errors on Chronophilia
  5. Source integrity issue
  6. Technical problem with logged-in editing
  7. Hi all,
  8. Help me
  9. Converting drafts into userboxes
  10. Citation Errors
  11. My profile is not showing
  12. What counts as WP:GNG for movies?
  13. Deleted page
  14. Username policy violation on foreign-language Wikipedia
  15. Miss Italia

May 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 28

  1. New Page Reviewer
  2. hover page preview no longer working
  3. Postage stamps (fair use question)
  4. Quote
  5. Multiple vandalisms, not undoable without rollback
  6. disable the unsaved changes recovery?
  7. "Gemelli DiVersi", not "Gemelli Diversi"
  8. Adding information

May 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 29

  1. Help
  2. Philip Meadowes
  3. Suggestion/Instructions Required to get Speedy Approval
  4. Article requirements to post on wikipedia?
  5. Gianni Nazzaro
  6. [reply] button blocked by stalled “new section”
  7. intimidating user
  8. updating information
  9. picture deleted

May 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 30

  1. Referencing errors on Nikita Kucherov
  2. Christopher Bullock
  3. Missing personality
  4. Christopher Bullock
  5. Vegas Golden Knights..
  6. Editing Director
  7. Blackbody energy density
  8. Two questions
  9. Clint Eastwood
  10. Listing My Business (VoIP Solution) is remove from your end!
  11. Notice glitch

May 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 May 31

  1. Australian Pygmy race
  2. New page
  3. Wikiproject for NPOVs in articles similar to Guild of Copy Editors?
  4. Why can´t the people influenced by an economist be seen on their page
  5. Ruggero Deodato
  6. Charles de Choiseul-Praslin
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