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January 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 1

  1. Good enough references
  2. Excessive/irrelevant detail in image captions
  3. Article maintenace template question
  4. Writing about oneself
  5. Volney Howard
  6. Pauline Adam de la Bruyère

January 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 2

  1. IRC bot channel
  2. IPs at AN/I
  3. Collapsed boxes on Safari
  4. Khuzh village
  5. Problem with language
  6. When a secondary source has a factual error

January 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 3

  1. Flickr uploads
  2. Page that needs editing that I cannot figure out how to do!
  3. Clarification on Conflict of Interest Policy
  4. How to DELETE a book?
  5. Tampering with the Dominican International School's page.
  6. Art Uytendaal
  7. Book of Martyrs
  8. hi helpdesk
  9. Articles with large unfinished sections
  10. Translating from German
  11. Huge Reference Section - can it be collapsed?
  12. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input: want to delete space between reference
  13. Converting templates to use
  14. I'm being patrolled?
  15. Can someone please, help me ??

January 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 4

  1. User rights (again)
  2. Bruce Poliquin
  3. HTML5 popup spam
  4. Image help
  5. Vienna Conservatory
  6. Want to Create Own Profile
  7. Hatnotes linking to combined disambiguation page
  8. removing my account

January 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 5

  1. Changing Pictures
  2. Transclusion help
  3. Reference for Hungarian composer
  4. ADDITION TO WIKIPEDIA PAGE
  5. how can i message a email?
  6. How to provide references and avoid deletion
  7. How do I continue to edit my sandbox page?
  8. Changing project for large number of pages
  9. Conflicting information
  10. Page Submission
  11. Myverick Garcia should have a page just like her successor.
  12. Want to upload an image to an article
  13. Changes to the PACNET page

January 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 6

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Trying to edit an bad post
  3. merging 2 articles
  4. Limit on signatures
  5. Dusty Springfield
  6. Authority control
  7. editing sidebars??
  8. Moral Action Committee and Dr. John Adams
  9. Citing wikipedia in wikipedia
  10. Foreign language fonts
  11. Adding a photo
  12. How to replace image on page
  13. WP:TAFIACCOMP
  14. Reusing content
  15. brown playdoh
  16. Hyper Link

January 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 7

  1. Upcoming concert tours
  2. Cyber bullying on the Chebo people article
  3. The Harley Street Clinic
  4. Website upgraded; URLs changed; refs broken
  5. Reinstating a deleted page
  6. Page deletion
  7. Anne F. Walker
  8. Liz Johnson (Swimmer)
  9. deleted local article
  10. Redirect/disambiguation help needed
  11. PDF book creation
  12. Korean war vet
  13. Confused about merger vs redirect for duplicate stub
  14. How do you add sub headings to the contents box ?

January 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 8

  1. Partner(s) vs. Domestic partner
  2. Family tree
  3. The Patten University logo is out of date and it needs to be updated. How would I go about uploading the new logo file and replacing the old logo?
  4. Referencing errors on Misicuni Dam
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  6. Source template?
  7. http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Calen5/JawoCO2-Eng.html
  8. Whatapp
  9. Trouble with infoboxes
  10. Converting non-free logos to SVG
  11. i want to create my wikipedia
  12. Medical advise given by RN contrary to MD
  13. Robert Hooks profile/bio page
  14. links to other language Wikipedias
  15. Request to change a picture
  16. Content on a website I manage was deleted
  17. Getting results of a change proposal - what now?
  18. How do I create the box on teh left with photo and date of birth
  19. How/where can I seek input on how topics are discussed in articles?
  20. Ann Margret autobiography

January 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 9

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  2. Format of titles on a Talk Page
  3. Improve this Page
  4. Archive help
  5. My changes are being undone
  6. The Backyardigans
  7. Croat historical bias and inaccuracies
  8. Page deletion ??
  9. Proper Name Spelling
  10. E-mail help
  11. Use of family trees
  12. I can't edit links to other languages in an article.

January 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 10

  1. Work-related Change Requests to an Article
  2. article request
  3. How to successfully upload an image
  4. Old Tappan, New Jersey
  5. Infobox problem
  6. Change title of wiki page
  7. Emily's Army
  8. Finding A Question
  9. How to find a non-biased newspaper

January 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 11

  1. Great Dissapointment
  2. Redirect Question
  3. Autolatina
  4. Rollback
  5. traditional Chinese
  6. Misplaced Afd comment
  7. Magic spam link
  8. Coyotes (song)
  9. Where do I report someone who issues threats and abuse? And might something be done to stop this?
  10. incorrect info on google search that links to wikipeia page

January 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 12

  1. Authority of Wikipedia.
  2. Yanchep National Park
  3. why there is a wiki article on yify torrents?
  4. Anyone good with nested tables?
  5. Add visual content to articles and write articles about summer destinations in Greece, Spain, Italy, France and more
  6. Forgot to login and still edited an article
  7. "Sickle"
  8. Livingston Taylor entry
  9. Biography of Admirals of the US Navy
  10. howard style referencing
  11. Roger Caron

January 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 13

  1. Referencing errors on 2015 in British television
  2. Henry Harpending article
  3. I thought I registered and edited things years ago - please check 'n inform me...
  4. Can someone crop File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Man drinkt bier (pombe) op het bordes van Dr. Thoden van Velzen terwijl kinderen toekijken TMnr 20014576.jpg ?
  5. Eric Garner Can't Edit
  6. Slow Dance hoax 2
  7. schedule of outdoor patients
  8. RfC/U
  9. Regius Professor of Natural History, University of Aberdeen
  10. Public figures
  11. Updating Lennys Sub Shop Data
  12. Editing went wrong...
  13. Death Spells
  14. deleted article
  15. klrg am 880
  16. Ann Chandonnet:

January 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 14

  1. creating a page for a not for profit (charity)
  2. Footnote numbers listed separately from their text
  3. Uploading Vital Records?
  4. Chronotron disambiguation request
  5. I want to insert a counter (number of days past since an incident)
  6. Copying and pasting articles
  7. Accessdate=
  8. Need HELP in moving article
  9. Tim Drummond
  10. Referencing errors on Shabab sabri
  11. Wiki Page needed
  12. Help on Michiel Huisman's account

January 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 15

  1. Please check Template:WikiLove-cupcake
  2. what's the meaning of "There is no success like failure?"
  3. Dyslexia
  4. When Will My Wiki Page Go Live?
  5. Can someone help post an image of our company brand?
  6. subways.

January 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 16

  1. Template:Infobox former country
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error re General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy page.
  3. Submission of sandbox draft
  4. Referencing errors on Riptide (album)
  5. request edit
  6. Using Amazon and iTunes for references of singles and albums
  7. Verification
  8. SS Sultana
  9. Creating a bio page
  10. Documentation on "thank" feature?

January 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 17

  1. somen salad
  2. Pelco UK Page
  3. Mikael Colville-Andersen
  4. File deletion
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  6. Miss Black Teen Tennessee 1972
  7. Wikipedia page for Michael Reich
  8. Martin Cooper (inventor)

January 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 18

  1. Bio box info display of the following sentence in two fragments:
  2. Plural article title
  3. Info from preferences available to templates?
  4. Institute Of Engineering & Science IPS Academy Indore
  5. Research question re specialized expertise (Law in this case, but medicine, engineering and so on have equivalents.)
  6. Wikipedia article count
  7. deactivate account
  8. Two questions
  9. Electric Egyptology
  10. Lost login info
  11. I am The Original [Trademarked] PANDAMAN! How do I enter PANDAMAN into Wikipedia?
  12. Joe Boyer
  13. John Johnson reporter
  14. Referencing errors on GM Futurliner
  15. Best vandalism tool?

January 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 19

  1. Adding Mozambique funeral beer poisoning map to infobox
  2. Correction to institution name
  3. Referencing errors on PKS 1302-102
  4. Imran Pratapgarhi
  5. Referencing errors on The Kerplunks
  6. Wrong name for the Democrat party In numerous places the Party is called the democratic party - this is wrong!
  7. Who wrote the Frederick Douglass web page
  8. Link to Wikidata entry
  9. Citation

January 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 20

  1. Referencing errors on Princeton High School (New Jersey)
  2. Rotating sphere
  3. Uni research
  4. "Mobile view"
  5. The article Indranil Roychowdhury has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references.
  6. Slow Dance Hoax 2 addendum
  7. External links
  8. Constance Briscoe - Notable alumni section
  9. Edit summary search
  10. Morjana Alaoui
  11. Mention of a WP article
  12. listening to audio
  13. A query about copyvio
  14. Wikipedia e-mail
  15. Edit beta
  16. Article Evan Gattis

January 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 21

  1. Using book reviews
  2. seige of constantinople
  3. Help?
  4. Naming
  5. Adding my website link to relevant wiki pages
  6. IB Textbooks as a source
  7. how to change a logo
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  9. Additional to 'using book reviews' above
  10. Poster
  11. WikiProject Musicians tag
  12. See also
  13. French translators
  14. Help me how to Update any Information
  15. Formatting help needed, List of trolleybus systems in the United States
  16. Ken Sibanda Page
  17. Sarah Palin page
  18. Wikiproject question
  19. Foreign alphabets in Template:cite wikisource

January 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 22

  1. timeline
  2. Upload Company Logo to Wikipedia Page
  3. Daddy Dewdrop
  4. Restore article
  5. sun also rises (novel) anti-Semitism
  6. Citations
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  8. Need help resolving neutrality flag
  9. infobox Film
  10. What to do on here

January 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 23

  1. how to write a article in wikipedia
  2. how I can join the mahila mandal
  3. Taariikhda Magaalada Buuhoodle
  4. Battle of the Hellespont (321 B.C)
  5. JOHN M. GREER
  6. Time line
  7. orphan articles
  8. Capitalization in a Wikipedia article
  9. Who are editors?
  10. How do you get more eyes on a discussion?

January 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 24

  1. Trying to Communicate with an IP... Looking for the right place to ask
  2. Font change
  3. Slow-motion edit war at Kelami
  4. User dropbox
  5. Ugly-looking URL in reference - any way to make it look better
  6. Requested categories
  7. Adding links to art website
  8. please update Anna Marie duff wiki
  9. Interesting Behavior
  10. PDF creation on iPad
  11. Ongoing vandalism by Da13rlene An3dre2ws1

January 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 25

  1. Biased Decision
  2. Delete/remove or correct inaccurate pages
  3. Fair Partisans?
  4. Automation Techniques Incorporated, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  5. The Netaji
  6. Problem with uploading information
  7. unable to upload logo in the Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur
  8. Add a new Page
  9. Mirrored Picture from unknown Uploader
  10. Creating User talk:Chbtech
  11. Adam Palmer

January 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 26

  1. Citations for Maps and other images
  2. Table help
  3. Referencing errors on Ono-i-Lau
  4. How to use citations for referencing multiple pages, from the same book, in different places on the article page.
  5. Editing Religion portal
  6. Map country Unasur
  7. Help on Downloading/Saving entire wiki pages in a PDF or other user friendly fashion for offline use.
  8. Why are the date pages protected?
  9. Fukurou House Dubai
  10. DEFAULTSORT
  11. Naming of Portuguese sports competition article
  12. Wikipedia part of Anti-Womens rights movement
  13. Random within group of pages
  14. Film poster policy
  15. User Friendly?

January 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 27

  1. Referencing errors on George Selden (author)
  2. Dead Rising: Watchtower (The Film)
  3. Bio for ElizaBeth Gilligan
  4. References not showing up
  5. 2015 Deaths - Lee Spick
  6. Editorial policy
  7. Can I have my name removed from a page from 7 years ago.
  8. Stratton St Margaret
  9. What page should I go to?
  10. Creating a new Wikipedia page
  11. Disambiguation
  12. Batch validating links
  13. Vandal

January 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 28

  1. Trial of Mahmoud ahmadinejad
  2. Problem with Wiki software
  3. How to fix a massive amount of wikilinks?
  4. Vandalism
  5. Uploading IMAGES in the Article Miss Universe
  6. AEROANDTECH
  7. request edit for Kimberley, British Columbia

January 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 29

  1. Units
  2. Obsolete template still working?
  3. Aarya Babbar
  4. Suggestion for improving inter language pages: template for standard section names
  5. Because my eyes
  6. Edward Mahon
  7. Company site referring to previous owner
  8. Manifestos
  9. Lines in tables
  10. Two similar dab pages

January 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 30

  1. updating info about myself on an page and it is getting removed
  2. Battle of Segale - copyright question
  3. Page should be deleted
  4. los coches rancho (sunol)
  5. Need Help Adding Information
  6. Category question
  7. The White people page is semi-protected; Yet completely discriminatory against Whites.

January 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 January 31

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Referencing errors on Gridlock (politics)
  3. Tel vs. tell
  4. Disgusting vandalism
  5. No block in block log
  6. Content adding
  7. Wikipedia v Wiktionary integration
  8. User:ClueBot III/Indices/Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Encyclopaedia Britannica
  9. Problem with unified login
  10. Mis-statement on Ella Fitzgerald page
  11. Russian Law Journal
  12. Referencing errors on Brier
  13. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input