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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 1

  1. Ferdinand Porsch
  2. About ARE's 500-word limit
  3. Creating AfD screw-up
  4. Refund on donation
  5. Writing a page
  6. The corrections of Athens 2004 Organizing Committee
  7. Why is there someone changing or removing the FACTS on the artist Nikki Hornsby's wikipedia Page?

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 2

  1. How to update a LUA global variable between multiple Module function calls from a wiki page?
  2. Requesting Deletion of a Draft
  3. Undelete
  4. Being accused of something I didn't do
  5. Reliability of birth certificates
  6. My talk page
  7. Global distribution of readers
  8. Book Series template
  9. Remove foreign language wikis from my account
  10. Formatting columns in {{Wikitable}}
  11. Page: Bouffant; paragraph: "History"

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 3

  1. Google quotes Wikipedia
  2. Amelia Opie
  3. Purging test edits
  4. publication time
  5. Disputed head of states
  6. Naming conventions for church buildings
  7. Removal of search queries tool
  8. "List of colors by shade" colors do not load on the page.
  9. Why does wikipedia now have CAPTCHA
  10. Proof from user and edit - Question
  11. Vin Scully - Wikipedia
  12. error in content
  13. Question on submission
  14. Trouble editing an existing page
  15. Subjects that meet GNG but are news-y? (Nigel Farage Coutts bank scandal)

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 4

  1. Submitting a page to Wikipedia
  2. Editing Junta (game) page
  3. Change a page name
  4. Baháʼu'lláh/Photo
  5. Someone needs help making an account (VPN issues)
  6. Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues
  7. Why is LK-99 Not on the new pages feed?

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 5

  1. Eton College
  2. Why CAPTCHA to show changes and show previews?
  3. an Emmanuel Daniel page has disappeared
  4. Link to Specific Comment in Archived Talk?
  5. Hyphen vs. En dash usage (Wikidata)?
  6. Access coding sites
  7. Eton College
  8. searching for non-alphanumeric character
  9. URL with a ?disabled back button
  10. Page move and subsequent content replacement - flow-on effects for other wikipedias?
  11. Correction of Company Name & Logo
  12. Meaning of phrase

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 6

  1. Confirmation
  2. Fair use photograph of subject serving life sentence
  3. Looks like a big mess
  4. close my account
  5. Fix the Maurice Dantin
  6. Fix 1998 in Greece
  7. Bethany (given name)
  8. Infobox question
  9. how do i make a new article?

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 7

  1. Reccomended Editing
  2. Rod Gardin
  3. Can you help me edit it?
  4. Urgent: I lost my draft
  5. Unnecessary footnote

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 8

  1. problem moving an article
  2. Missing TOC
  3. new article
  4. several sources that can be taken as a reference for more than one statement
  5. Login and editing issues
  6. Incorrect attribution of photograph
  7. WP won't let me publish my edit
  8. Why does the main page featured picture credit the creator?
  9. Regarding Population Density of Counties/Parishes/Burroughs with a Significant Percentage of Water for their Total Area
  10. Istro-Romanian-language sources
  11. Who to complain about chauvinism?

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 9

  1. Electrical Principal
  2. Guidance on Creating a New Wikipedia Page and Initiating Content Creation
  3. Blank user script
  4. Referencing errors on Montgomery Riverfront Brawl
  5. Naming - or not naming - the perpetrators of crimes
  6. britannica . com
  7. Admin help
  8. Tool for mobile edits
  9. Strange link result
  10. Fix comma category
  11. Highway junction list missing mile marker signs

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 10

  1. create new page
  2. OJ Simpson cases
  3. KUSI San Diego
  4. Referencing errors on Yiliang Ding
  5. How to reuqest a new article on Wikipedia Request Article pages without hyperlinking to a disambiguation page on source code?
  6. Importing from Geograph
  7. What to do about an article of uncertain notability?
  8. Can names be copyrighted?

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 11

  1. Copyright/attribution clarification
  2. Quality of Nationality Index
  3. Endorsing prod
  4. Locked out of my account
  5. Can you make recommendations about a page without a specific edit?

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 12

  1. Iginio Massari
  2. PSILOCYBIN
  3. Admin capabilities
  4. How to view full-sized versions of images with overlays?
  5. "Saved List" on the cellphone where to find it on Desktop

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 13

  1. How do i return to my draft page ...
  2. How to fix a talk page archive mess?
  3. Linking infobox to Wikidata
  4. stats on my activity on Wikipedia
  5. Tour
  6. Basingstoke media
  7. Fixing an archiving mistake
  8. copyri
  9. Blue Highlighted Words In Articles

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 14

  1. Table column sorting
  2. Weekipedea Page not showning on google search
  3. Admin Rights to A Business Page
  4. Preview bug?
  5. Deleting a page
  6. New format
  7. Musical Artist Infobox - Years Active (Disband/Reform Same Year)
  8. Use the citation template to produce CS1 citations

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 15

  1. Reference error
  2. trying to open a new article
  3. Getting a new library database included on the Book sources page?
  4. How do I fix the layout of wikipedia to be normal again and not narrow on my wide computer screen?
  5. Report Link
  6. Italics in templates
  7. Indicating geographically limited access to sources in CS1/2 citation templates

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 16

  1. Shortcut
  2. Updating my Wikipedia page
  3. Wiki Page with incorrect information
  4. Misuse of booking template reference
  5. have a nice day
  6. Referencing errors on Yu-Shan Lin
  7. Salakanagara, a modern myth
  8. Article titles
  9. need editor help - Add photo for Michael Yamashita

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 17

  1. Fix the reference of Georgios Dritsakos
  2. dates of wiki articles
  3. Why?
  4. Remove user page history
  5. Missing page
  6. Draft:Zvi Landsman
  7. I no longer see by whom the article was created at the head

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 18

  1. mri scan
  2. How to add correct refrence?
  3. Natural science Interview questions
  4. Delete ?
  5. Update the number of English articles outside of the official page
  6. Conflict of Interest Query
  7. Images are deleted for copyright issues
  8. Reference link redirects to various spam pages

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 19

  1. Charles Wigram Long
  2. Correcting birthdate
  3. Middleton family
  4. Connected templates
  5. Draft:HD 85628 Ab
  6. What is the link of Wiki translation AI in English version?
  7. Filesize calculation template
  8. What is this link? And how to access it directly?
  9. forget my user name
  10. Where to move an article?
  11. CAPTCHA kept on repeating when already submitting
  12. Wikipedia going down hill with biased garbage writing.
  13. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment.
  14. Typing a password
  15. Wiki citations

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 20

  1. KELT-20b
  2. Eton College
  3. Alert notification
  4. Grave of Ivan Blavatskyi
  5. Finding old insertion
  6. Someone keeps removing my info that's backed with scientific journals
  7. Prevent unintended log out
  8. Publishing Farzad Pak Page

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 21

  1. Image Policies - HELP
  2. Sourcing & notability for draft
  3. position of hide/show in table
  4. Hedgehog pathway inhibitor: link addition
  5. Eton College
  6. page of a pdf
  7. Updating logo for the company I work for.
  8. Was I supposed to
  9. List of islands of Cambodia: ISLAND STUDY & Wikipedia Revision history
  10. What are the rules for creating business articles
  11. When you know a document will change. archive-url?
  12. Hello wikipedia
  13. confusion as to new account and a talk page.... need to verify my submission for review
  14. My page on wikipedia
  15. is there an area where bios of academics needs to be entered?

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 22

  1. Knee Games
  2. New York Times Paywall Help!!!
  3. Fix the host cities of Olympics in France
  4. How to edit the original named reference
  5. ECAL (disambiguation)
  6. PCH. Com
  7. my future career
  8. Company page
  9. Capitalize title
  10. Sankar, Ajith (2015
  11. Publishing a new article
  12. Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
  13. Inca Gold by Clive Cussler -
  14. X Page
  15. position of hide/show in table

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 23

  1. donations
  2. Berney baronets
  3. Where?
  4. Template:Infobox artist
  5. Where Might I Ask For Writing Help?

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 24

  1. Force subst
  2. Problem with display of local map in the infobox
  3. T.V.Gopalakrishnan
  4. Article on forthcoming Rolling Stones album
  5. Donation
  6. Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
  7. Link to 1911 Britannica
  8. The approval to use WW2 Maps in my New Book
  9. Problem in article
  10. The International Centre for Birds of Prey
  11. Segregate UPE/COI
  12. wiki page link draft_theworklabs to theworklabs need to be changed
  13. How to put an image on a page?

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 25

  1. Wiki page deleted, how to reinstate?
  2. Can people remove things that they do not want on their bio?
  3. Can I find a person who can edit a section for me, to include my theories about Artificial Intelligence?
  4. Input energy
  5. Template tries to use a nonexistent file
  6. CBD Gummies
  7. Promotional-appearing edits to Travelodge (British company)
  8. Confusing copyright issue re: ALS article
  9. Question with talk page
  10. New entry declined, is it because of insufficient footnotes?
  11. Can another editor publish a draft article of an IP without asking?
  12. How do I become a contributor and or editor of articles?

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 26

  1. Endnote references
  2. Coordinates and blank hover preview
  3. Fix top to bottom of Romanian People's Republic and Socialist Republic of Romania
  4. Hello
  5. How do I delete my account?
  6. WikiLove extension
  7. Banner shell with only 1 Wikiproject banner?
  8. Vandalism only account criteria
  9. DAX Shepard
  10. Will Smith
  11. changes reverted
  12. Lowercase naming preferences
  13. Bob Barker wife
  14. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page)
  15. Burmese or Myanma?

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 27

  1. Update card details
  2. About my changes feedback
  3. Seneca Vocational High School Buffalo, NY article Typo
  4. Donation
  5. Poem
  6. Hostility
  7. Roberto Vannacci
  8. Need help to swap main article page with its redirect page
  9. How do I create a new page for Joe Burrus, I feel it's mad he doesn't have one.
  10. What links here: hide links from templates
  11. Can we still use Visual Editor or am i just not seeing it?

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 28

  1. How to look at a ticket?
  2. Einstein's Rest Energy
  3. I have corrected some data under the heading of the 100 largest US cities by crime rate
  4. Are the old stuff still available from 2016 and 2017?
  5. I want to create a page for my company
  6. Possible copyvio
  7. Yorkshire Ramblers' Club
  8. When is "abortion controversy" anything encyclopedic?
  9. :Template:Graph:Lines
  10. How to create organization
  11. Table Column count Check
  12. Changing filenames
  13. Potential Error in Wikipedia Library Access
  14. Donations

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 29

  1. search
  2. Reporting malicious editor
  3. About Back Link
  4. Middleton family
  5. Editing NCYC page
  6. Merging articles
  7. Alphabetical Order
  8. My edit for myobacterium marinum
  9. Reviewed or rejected?

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 30

  1. BinHex,MorseaCode,
  2. Middleton family
  3. downloading Wikipedia
  4. Anyone with access to Flickr...
  5. Fair use about picture films
  6. New England Patriots
  7. Life Orientation
  8. additional survivor ? Edward Francis Rorke? He was a sargeant in the army core of engineers #82.
  9. asking for someone else to look at a ref
  10. publish?
  11. Make redirect page an article
  12. False Positive Report Deleted by Anonymous IP

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 August 31

  1. Deleted Wikipedia for Artist Alexander Chen
  2. How can I get more eyes on Talk:Volt Technical Resources?
  3. Mater Christi College
  4. Citing a source within another source
  5. List of awards and honours received by Angela Merkel
  6. Title is salty
  7. ChatGPT
  8. SEO for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Japuonj_Eliud_Nyonje_Otieno
  9. Update Content getting Reverted
  10. My citations disappeared
  11. When primary topic redirect promotes a secondary topic
  12. Fix the reference Kathy Johnson
  13. Add on Wikipedia
  14. Referencing errors on Tulane University
  15. Deleted Page Reason Request
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