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September 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 1

  1. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  2. How should a list of princes look like?
  3. RfC
  4. Disputed image license?
  5. My Privacy
  6. Editing Mobius Motors Information
  7. Ever appropriate to do "Random Order"?
  8. Picture appearing in wrong place
  9. Concerning RfC
  10. Bot to create lists of articles with assessment and page view info?

September 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 2

  1. Lupton family
  2. How do I edit a submitted draft?

September 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 3

  1. Sophie, Countess of Wessex
  2. Reference won't work
  3. Brackets
  4. I like to write about few politicians and entrepreneurs who do not have pages on wikipedia yet
  5. Historical page versions
  6. Changing categories on a userpage
  7. Can I create an anime episode list using episode titles and airdates from Anime News Network?
  8. Marking an offline external link
  9. Withdrawing from RfC question
  10. Book creator
  11. Using multiple image
  12. Unable to get a mixed rowspan & colspan table to display yes/no templates (cell styling), renders the pipe instead
  13. Template:Campaignbox Sheeba Farms conflict title
  14. Faulty underware

September 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 4

  1. Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
  2. Press conference
  3. Best practice for "tying" a WP:SOCK#LEGIT to my primary account
  4. Query
  5. Closing my Wikipedia account. How to do it please?
  6. Sorting a Wikitable in Wikipedia: Can a column remain static?
  7. Review my article
  8. How can I change the date of a movie? There is an incorrect release date on an existing article.

September 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 5

  1. Can someone reset my sandbox
  2. Adding citations, Footnotes, and References
  3. Brian Edwards
  4. Best way to toggle sidebar for reading
  5. International Phonetic Alphabet
  6. citation parity ?
  7. Help coding Wikidata into template
  8. 2017-18 Saturday Morning Schedule

September 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 6

  1. Sortable Wikitables: How to "bypass" or override/alter the sorting ability?
  2. Help me disable Beta Feature: Wikitext syntax highlighting
  3. Can I ask to be intentionally blocked?
  4. How do I get Cluebot to work when embedded inside a template?
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  6. Adam Saleh - self-promotional additions to wikipage
  7. Inserting a link
  8. Unable to move pages that have blank target pages
  9. Where should I ask for a re-assessment of an article?

September 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 7

  1. Someone keeps putting fake information on Dakota Ridge High School Page
  2. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  3. Adding photos from other language versions of Wikipedia
  4. Requesting to enter the school name in the list.
  5. Jason McCarthy
  6. Draft:Kesari Tours
  7. wikipedia reference
  8. Bump previous
  9. 2018 MLB Season
  10. Popup survey
  11. 2018 in baseball

September 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 8

  1. Article "Touchard polynomials"
  2. Template
  3. Naming of Dab pages
  4. I have been working on the World's Columbian Exposition article
  5. Adding subcategories?
  6. Template for 2017–18 National League 1 table
  7. Hurricane Irma and Wikipedia
  8. Walloon or Flemish speaker
  9. New page
  10. Great Tea Race of 1866 edit 15:56, 8 September 2017
  11. how to remove visible IP address

September 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 9

  1. University of Leeds
  2. Request help with renewing CreditMantri page
  3. Getting wikidata to appear with an Authority Control tag
  4. Yandex
  5. To remove WIKI PAGE ON " TAN RUI XIANG"
  6. Size of type
  7. Trouble completing edit
  8. Adding Wikidata to template
  9. Book Reviews
  10. Good guess

September 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 10

  1. Edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations
  2. George Goodman
  3. WP:XCON
  4. More on dab pages
  5. Compromised password
  6. Wikia as reference?
  7. ADM

September 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 11

  1. Possible to find a dead link
  2. Meghan Markle
  3. Tracking category question
  4. DACA
  5. cross wiki spam cleanup?
  6. Formatting of actuarial notation
  7. How do i create my page ?
  8. Recovering dead links
  9. Photo is wrong
  10. How to replace a photo
  11. Translation
  12. BAND TRANSCRIPTIONS
  13. Adding Article
  14. Help me remove the codes from my talk page please
  15. Deleting image?

September 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 12

  1. Skin Changing
  2. How to edit an article which is under semi-protected category ?
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  4. How do I add a DVD cover to Wikipedia please?
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  6. Editing a Saved Book
  7. Info and photo to add to my Wikipedia page link from Reaching for the Skies - Lynn Rippelmeyer
  8. visually browse wikipedia
  9. Can I close this archived discussion listed at WP:ANRFC?
  10. 2018 Major League Baseball season
  11. Template:Lunisolar calendar
  12. Garden City Movement
  13. Photo change

September 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 13

  1. Picture error
  2. Editing a template
  3. Personal details about Yahya Khan
  4. Donating to wikipedia by mail
  5. Twycross Zoo - problems updating page
  6. Getting photographs to display on map
  7. Do I have the right to delete a section that I added to an article?

September 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 14

  1. Spell check is not working
  2. Is there a process on French or Spanish Wikipedia to reuse open license text
  3. Citations (multiples thereof)
  4. Citation tool
  5. formatting literature
  6. GA bot?
  7. Page Summary Help
  8. Personal attack
  9. I want to make changes but refused by another user
  10. Find ibrahim ineke wiki page
  11. error UNESCO Formed in 2045?

September 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 15

  1. Bold and italic letters
  2. Dr. imam M. Jowad Al-Ansari
  3. ma uias a asasm maqsa sada asa dam na
  4. Entry for "Rafey Habib"
  5. Pop Ups
  6. Logo
  7. Avner Halperin
  8. Request comment on a non-admin Afd closure
  9. Religion
  10. How do i create an entry for my company?
  11. Samsung galaxy j5 smart phone

September 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 16

  1. submit draft
  2. Editing my page
  3. Thomas's London Day Schools
  4. Find A Grave
  5. Thomas's London Day Schools
  6. New user landing page
  7. Semi-protected edit
  8. Portal:Holy Roman Empire/Article management
  9. Metroid Article Vandalism
  10. Preview Wikipedia Entry from Bing Search Results
  11. Category problem
  12. Add portal icon
  13. How to call Wikidata qualifier value
  14. How can I format automatic counting
  15. Move draft to become public

September 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 17

  1. Want to create page for me social contriter friend
  2. Ricardo Cortez
  3. re-apply to have a page allowed
  4. About the link of :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablighi_Jamaat
  5. wiki bio notable person
  6. Dysfunctional navbox
  7. Infobox broken
  8. Template:Quote, Template:Quotation
  9. Template issues
  10. Pornographic Material

September 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 18

  1. GAYS against GUNS page
  2. Interlanguage mess
  3. The question about the page [https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%8E%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AA https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ etc]
  4. How to claim a public school page
  5. Editing Program ?
  6. Jamie Oliver
  7. New red link page
  8. Correction to a name
  9. 2018 Major League Baseball season
  10. Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth

September 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 19

  1. Odd alert
  2. Multiple sandboxes?
  3. Coast to Coast Funding Group
  4. I need to delete my wiki page or delete the info on it
  5. Correction
  6. Consistent citation style with legislation

September 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 20

  1. EBSCO access
  2. Kindly make my write up an encyclopedia article
  3. My Page has not been published
  4. Admiral John C. Harvey, Jr Wikipedia page
  5. Reference citation looks like a comment from the articles editor
  6. Non-official language in city infobox head
  7. Total number of bytes added/removed by an editor
  8. Help needed to find a source
  9. My profile
  10. Copyright issues

September 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 21

  1. New logo for our organisation
  2. Australian classificatory systems. Help needed
  3. Public Domain Material ?
  4. Moonbeam1812
  5. Research paper about Wikipedia
  6. Harvard errors
  7. Michael Haley married to Nikki Haley U.S. UN Amb
  8. Adding References

September 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 22

  1. IPA help
  2. Adding an Infographic
  3. Collapsing a table
  4. Looking for image copyright help.
  5. Hocoma
  6. Mark E. Kingdon
  7. Richard Coons
  8. How to change title
  9. Help needed on writing a new page
  10. Using group= with efn template
  11. Profile Image - PGA of America CEO
  12. Is there a template for this?
  13. Wikipedia Page edits
  14. Map Editing Help

September 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 23

  1. Collapsible Row in a Table
  2. File Split - Did I do this correctly
  3. Construction request
  4. Create imagemap template
  5. Atlas Consortium.....com vs. info
  6. Asima Chatterjee bio
  7. Cliff Taylor, American Actor
  8. Hiding text
  9. I was wondering if you could tell me what I did wrong and how I violated the content policy by creating a page explaining new readers what BuyCustomGeofilters.com is and the major publications that are connected with it.

September 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 24

  1. I don't understand why my page was deleted
  2. Meghan Markle

September 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 25

  1. Edits deleted.
  2. Use of wikipedia in class
  3. Fair use image given to me by press/pr department - what to enter to be allowed to use?
  4. Template issue
  5. Layout issue with DJ Mag article
  6. BeLight Software
  7. Article deleted
  8. My sandbox was deleted

September 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 26

  1. Tracking video views?
  2. wanting to contribute to a discussion page and make a correction, but accidentally made an edit, (now deleted) but still wanting to make a correction
  3. Published Author notability?
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  5. New Orleans Fire Department logo
  6. Vegetarianism by country
  7. Tom C. Clark HS in San Antonio, TX
  8. Longest serving U.S. mayors.
  9. List of images uploaded
  10. This Info is Fake

September 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 27

  1. Adding wikidata info
  2. BYU Mens Basketball Page
  3. How to make, store and use a smaller template
  4. Meghan Markle
  5. Clan of cave bear - book
  6. Predictive edit summaries
  7. WIKI article does not appear in Google search.
  8. Editing Comparison Tables
  9. Password problem
  10. Donating by phone
  11. Wayback Machine returned PDF instead of web page
  12. Adding References
  13. Quote symbol template for annotated harvp citation
  14. Name change
  15. See Also
  16. moving Tommy Boy Records and its category pages?
  17. Misaligned table

September 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 28

  1. FLYING TIGERS, A.V.G.
  2. How to handle coordinates in articles that have more than one location?
  3. Registration of my company
  4. Help with template parameter
  5. Review ASAP!
  6. Research Papers Citation
  7. We are looking for a volunteer, to help and to write and with a wikipedia artist page
  8. found a duplicate while editing wikidata - please merge ?
  9. Mysteriously heavy letters
  10. Link question
  11. M Music Bit
  12. Quote within a quote that starts with <apostrophe>cause
  13. display of mathematical formulas
  14. Citation problems
  15. Removing legitimate female authors of mysteries from List of female detective/mystery writers

September 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 29

  1. Article and talk page don't have the same title.
  2. Blur tag number in a photo of a car?
  3. Suggestion
  4. Multiple failed attempts
  5. Change official website
  6. Monobook problems
  7. Page not archiving properly
  8. 2018 In American Music
  9. Adding internal citations
  10. The biography of a living person I created haven't been reviewed and approved yet.
  11. Findagrave
  12. Peer review not showing up on lists
  13. help me

September 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2017 September 30

  1. Picture keeps get deleted.
  2. Creating a new page for my son, The Backpack Kid
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  4. Icons invisible
  5. Dhakre origin
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. How to collapse
  8. Term
  9. Trying to add new information on the page called 'Najaf'
  10. Talk page for "Sunshine pop"
  11. Delete User Page
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