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October 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 1

1. How to use spreadsheet in wikipedia
2. Colin kaepernicks page racist towards african american men
3. Unnecessary line break protection
4. Shahnaz Pahlavi
5. Redirects
6. Odd display issue
7. hi
8. Submitting a draft article

October 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 2

1. How to enter a new article
2. Getting an image to fit neatly within an article
3. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
4. Conflict of interest edits list
5. Watchlist not showing
6. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
7. Notability of responses of elected officials to events
8. Giancarlo Molero
9. Women's rights in Saudi Arabia is too long
10. Upload File Issue - Your account has not become confirmed yet
11. Template Removed

October 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 3

1. Does anyone subscribe to Billboard? I need to know some boxscore data for a tour article.
2. WP:PROPORTION
3. I am newbie and wants to create my personal page
4. how to change the article from sandbox to article wizard
5. Photo upload
6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
7. Cluebot
8. Question about the star trek discovery article
9. SSRN validation too restrictive
10. Pictures
11. Create a page.

October 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 4

1. Is there a good alternative to "black", when it's not country specific?
2. McKee City New Jersey
3. Toon Boom Animation's removed filmography sections
4. Export GTT→Wikipedia
5. Found a help request
6. Bio page link to userpage?
7. French Senate
8. Unsalting

October 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 5

1. Lydia Mercedes Silvestry
2. Userbox insert question
3. Page Creation
4. Formatting for Articles.
5. Can anyone remove blantant spam in this article?
6. Unable to login
7. Steal The Night by Cindy Bullens
8. Adding a photo to a Infobox

October 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 6

1. Guilford Lindsey Molesworth
2. LEAD Graduate School & Research Network article
3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref too many keys
4. Building-Site-Template?
5. Merge help
6. Photo Upload
7. No one caring my words at "internet censorship in india"
8. Crosskeys Inn Toomebridge County Antrim
9. How can I delete an incorrect link?
10. Reverted changes
11. Using a website written in a foreign language as a reference
12. I need help providing more of a rationale against deletion about The Refugees
13. Citation errors at Foxes discography
14. I am trying to create Miguel Paredes Wikipedia
15. I am trying to create Miguel Paredes Wikipedia and I try to upload one of his art and I couldn't

October 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 7

1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references missing key
2. John Adams
3. Calvin Hooker Goddard
4. Filter problem
5. Template does not align right side properly
6. Multiple articles erroneously state Nadezhda (cockroach) was the first earth creature to give birth in space
7. Query
8. something weird
9. How to create a new page in a series based on pre-existing pages
10. How to add articles?
11. How to collapse a table
12. Template:Formerly
13. Accessing draft pages

October 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 8

1. Creating category of pictures
2. Format issue with reference numbers
3. Photomontage
4. Did I do this template conversion right?
5. How do edit my profile?
6. Citation title
7. TemplateData not working
8. reverted external links by another user/administrator?
9. Florence Mary Bird - I created This page and it has been deleted and sent to DRAFT status
10. How can I change the title of my Wikipedia page?
11. Wiki Page Creation for Rapper "Brick God Sosa"
12. Need help with formatting
13. "En dashes" in dates

October 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 9

1. List of cover versions of "I Won't Back Down"
2. Creating new Subcategory?
3. Bebe & Bassy Tour
4. ref name irritation in the Heiner Thiel-article
5. Userbox insert question #2
6. Random Phase Multiple Access company technology page removed from Wikipedia
7. Samovili / Samodivi
8. Osu Caste practice in Igboland
9. Submitted article
10. Tagging something that need clarification

October 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 10

1. Move image?
2. Outdated article about me
3. Reporting hounding
4. Page name title change
5. Seem to have page vandalism
6. How To Write An Article
7. Poppin' Pete Dancer
8. English
9. How do I correct incorrect information in Wikidata?
10. Contents and headings
11. Erik Stocklin actor article possible vandalism
12. Please help me to find out why a page was deleted and possibly help restore it
13. Wrong Picture
14. Seeking action against another user
15. SVG appears black and white

October 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 11

1. Monash University
2. Old editor
3. Brooklyn100
4. Dr. George Doring Ludwig & Ultrasound
5. Monash University
6. Linking multiple pages to a main changed page (link changed)
7. Dan Enright page -- edits of John Birke
8. Changed company logo
9. £ s d translate into pounds and (new) pence
10. Adding a jpeg to a company page.
11. create entry
12. Warn
13. Groups/Sandbox
14. Found back Reference links, but don't know how to fix them
15. How to insert HTML code
16. Stephen Gatwick Actor
17. Request to review new article
18. Can I use TikZ in formulas?
19. Coordinate help needed

October 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 12

1. Image?
2. Question
3. Bio
4. Question

October 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 13

1. Review my page and approve it
2. Template for dubious relevancy?
3. why this page get deleted
4. Can an .eps file of purely vector graphics be uploaded as a supported (high-quality) image format to be shown at a Wikipedia entry?
5. Date conventions on biographical articles, both BLP and non-BLP
6. Someone using an organisation name and linking to their own website
7. Updating company logo

October 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 14

1. Sir Edward Bullock
2. Bullock family
3. Multiple reverts of non-vandalistic edits needed
4. Sonia Rosemary Keppel
5. Library Public Domain
6. Sonia Rosemary Keppel
7. reference error
8. Use and naming of article-specific templates
9. Infobox question
10. Invisible characters causing corruption
11. can't rename

October 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 15

1. Canadian Encyclopedia
2. Wikinews
3. Location map
4. The barnstar I awarded got messed up!
5. How to put a name on deaths in 2017
6. Removing PR from list after review
7. Discerning status of submitted drafts; making sure these are reaching correct Dept. for review and approval, thank you.
8. Article to edit?
9. Citing a radio programme
10. Bad Edit Rampage
11. Formatting problem
12. Help me

October 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 16

1. Thomas Fitzmaurice (MP)
2. Thomas Fitzmaurice (MP)
3. how do I find the most edited articles? or the most discussed articles?
4. How to write about missing(Our) Place?
5. Biography Page
6. Named ref undefined errors using {{r}}
7. References formatting and clickable sourcing
8. How to find all articles which link to a specific webpage?
9. Problems using foreign WP img

October 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 17

1. DLA Piper
2. A patrolled article is still not indexed by Google?
3. Von Joshua baseball player
4. Counter-Vandalism Question
5. TCM template?
6. Error saving data to server: Empty server response.
7. Page has been removed from Wikipedia
8. Federal employees
9. Advanced searching: all people with certain initials?
10. Wikipedia Account
11. Ukranian text appearing as wikilink

October 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 18

1. how do I add my artist profile on wikipedia
2. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
3. Von Joshua
4. Anthropology
5. in-article disambiguation template at the top of the page
6. Question about time for edits to be reviewed?
7. Irritating notices

October 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 19

1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
2. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
3. help me sir
4. Searching more accurately
5. change the name of article
6. Submission Declined
7. Article directly referencing the talk page.
8. Sources for a new article ?
9. Is a non-profit website a reputable source?
10. Federal Court Judge Okla Jones Tobacco ruling against Tobacco Industry
11. Waqar Zaka page
12. Problem with infobox dates
13. Oswald Birley

October 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 20

1. Problem with bot
2. James Martineau
3. Gnostic Gospels
4. How can I increase the size of Font .I cant read this size of font
5. About.com as a source
6. Geisslerlieder
7. Cannot create a Wiki article
8. Where are the instructions for making a notice appear whenever someone attempts to edit a page?
9. Problems with Wikilink
10. Added TemplateData for Template:Infobox_synthesizer, but no info is showing up in the visual editor.
11. "Break for editing"?
12. Album Art Help
13. Elijah Muhammad
14. Hide page HotCat categorisation in my watchlist

October 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 21

1. Correction to Telaga Caste page. Not interesting information to read and understand
2. Formatting
3. Changing title The Lens Biological Patent Tracker
4. The sidebar on the right
5. Add more content to telaga caste page
6. Automated edit job

October 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 22

1. Tyrique Jarrett
2. Something didn't go through
3. Please help
4. Counter-Vandalism Question
5. Archive Talk Page
6. 'TRNC' 'Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus'
7. Wiki data supporters/managers appear to use their power of political opinion
8. Translation
9. Google Chrome version history

October 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 23

1. History of Seacroft
2. History of Seacroft
3. Biased article
4. Al Imran Ft,
5. Page: "Larry Warren (Rendlesham)"
6. Using harvnb
7. Update Commanders name
8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references missing key
9. How to get an article published
10. Template and contents table
11. Finding all external links to a specific site on Wikipedia
12. Sahid Ansari(Bhai)
13. Essay
14. duplicate reference parameters

October 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 24

1. Need to rename a page
2. Photos I upload keep getting deleted
3. references
4. Stefflon Don
5. Actual "true" size of Wikipedia including Edit History -- in PETABYTES or EXABYTES disk space
6. Page unreviewed
7. What to do when somebody is using a talk page as advertisement

October 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 25

1. TOC right problem
2. Need Help to go Live with Change of User Name
3. How to change page title - European Landowners' Organization
4. how to influence/determine the width of a column?
5. Template parameter usage?
6. Problem with editing article.
7. 15th Century illustration
8. New Topics
9. Updating existing image jpg/png fails

October 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 26

1. Article subject wants info removed
2. Some images not being displayed
3. Unwanted apps on wikipedia
4. Rittenhouse
5. World Ballroom Dancing Champions
6. Telaga caste - Open questions
7. What is a user page for?
8. Creating a Page
9. Ali Safina
10. Question on naming Swiss LE agency article?

October 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 27

1. Tracy Anderson article is being vandalized.
2. Sparks Georgia Cook County
3. Revert the block interface
4. How to assess an article.
5. Notable individuals section in articles about towns
6. Need help transposing a table
7. Von joshua
8. Password reset requested by someone other than myself
9. Getting the Mobile watchlist results on non-mobile version and vice versa.
10. Where can I get help with tables?
11. R from Future Name
12. "Common names" headline in Bothrops asper?
13. deactivate
14. Where's the guideline on recognizing national sovereignty?

October 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 28

1. Article doesnt appear in google search
2. Your alerts
3. Charles Frederic Moberly Bell
4. Charles Frederic Moberly Bell
5. Notability
6. Publishing a Wikipedia page
7. Adding a picture to an infobox
8. Using the same reference repeatedly
9. Lists in prose
10. Biased articles

October 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 29

1. Getting a page for The Bedrocks.
2. Colored-map generator for per-country data
3. an australian citizen
4. John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford
5. Company Page Editing Issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajlan_%26_Brothers
6. Aeroknox XM556
7. Sudden new stuff
8. Daily Mail as an unreliable source
9. Why
10. Lord and Savior last comment...
11. Vandalism

October 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 30

1. Request to update the pages for Kapu, Telaga, Balija and Naidu caste
2. Administrators
3. All refs with archive links
4. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Abdul Ruff
5. Archiving Question
6. John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford
7. Amsterdam and The Hague
8. Help with page move
9. Gabor Sazbo
10. Changing the font of pages
11. Merging Templates
12. Printing font changes (from Calibri to Times)
13. Request to review new article
14. Deletion of previous version of uploaded image

October 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 October 31

1. A question of multi-language link
2. i think my redirect is wrong
3. My Wikimedia contributions - link has disappeared
4. Official Editor
5. What next?
6. 2018 In baseball