Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/September 2014

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September 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 1

1. Request for Extension
2. Fixing a ref tag
3. The problems are in not correctness or in plagiarizm?
4. History of Islam
5. High traffic articles
6. User name
7. Quotations from sources
8. submission
9. Upload an image
10. Is some category like "Category:Works by protagonists" in English Wikipedia?
11. Labor Day
12. UNABLE ADD REFRENCES TO MY ARTICLE
13. Removing the bar 'this article cites no references' after having added references
14. Wikipedia in other languages
15. Unicode, oh Unicode
16. Wikipedia language versions as list of interwiki links
17. Making YouTube videos commons-compatible

September 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 2

1. Assistance with article
2. Policy/warnings on swearing
3. skitzo (which is me) got erased?
4. Why was my edit removed, though I provided proper sources?
5. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Cure Parkinson's Trust
6. Profile picture
7. Articles in several languages missing in English Wikipedia
8. No Devotion Band
9. Captcha Error
10. Recommend Article Creation
11. Image use

September 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 3

1. Fixing copyright issue
2. How do you remove incorrect cross-language links?
3. Disambiguation pages and transliterations
4. Reference link shows a 404 error page
5. Creating an article
6. The American Civil War
7. Creating Content Boxes & Key Information Box (right side)
8. Images disappeared
9. E.L. James photo

September 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 4

1. C.E. Poverman
2. Help Desk:Holy Child College of Davao
3. User contributions
4. having neutrality of article checked
5. University of Skövde
6. An addition to the article on Saint Ambrose, which was submitted for review.
7. Dates on information given in Wikipedia
8. How to write about someone on wikipedia
9. Article For Submission Needs Worked On

September 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 5

1. Remove Old title
2. CApTCHA
3. Column width in References section
4. Adding autobiography to the Wikipedia Notable Academics
5. Request to approve article Ollia Rarisame
6. tor
7. Link to Amazon
8. Disappeared page
9. Order of precedence between ANI and DRN
10. AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON
11. Checking veracity of edit
12. Robert Henri - Eulabee Dix in Wedding Gown image
13. Joust Videogame

September 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 6

1. Donations
2. could someone please fix a page? (list of top gear episodes)
3. Fair Use Licensing Issue
4. Page view stats down
5. Interlanguage link bug
6. Lost password email never arrives
7. Delete a Profile
8. Creative Commons question
9. creating article and images
10. Deletion
11. Ed Ayres biography

September 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 7

1. Do categories follow a merge?
2. Ethnic categories
3. Lede
4. Today's featured article
5. Info box picture size
6. Can't recover my lost password because I had no email recorded when I created my Wikipedia account plz help
7. About Indian map on page 'INDIA'
8. User:Kober

September 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 8

1. Infratonic Therapy
2. Uploading images
3. Editing Mobile CSS Overrides
4. Human penis size
5. Uploading Images for the band article - pictures from shows, logos and album covers
6. Serbian State Guard
7. Referencing errors on Youth culture
8. Zak Ibsen
9. How to ask for a copyright check on a file uploaded to Commons

September 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 9

1. Carl Lee (Superfly)
2. Reporting Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman page
3. All pages with something in the title
4. Wikipedia Android app and accented Greek letters
5. Can't insert spaces in article
6. Problem with entry about me
7. Citing References
8. please help
9. achiving talk page

September 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 10

1. Commercial external links
2. Weather in eastern Bihar
3. How do I locate an entry that was being reviewed by your editors?
4. Tracking progress of wikipedia article
5. Not yet fixed
6. Company logo on Cambridge Imaging Systems won't show
7. important matter concerning my band page
8. page Prague in english language URGENT
9. phone locked by FBI
10. American Flyers Flight 280

September 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 11

1. flickr and cc 2.0
2. Referencing errors on Jackson Srivathsan
3. Electrical
4. Referencing errors on Siege of Bastogne
5. Fair use images and embittered IP addresses
6. Priscilla And The Wimps

September 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 12

1. Inaccurate information about me / libel
2. How To Disable => After Edit Saved, Prompt to Edit "Similar Article"?
3. How to add a new company article
4. how to use referencing in an article of mia baudot
5. how to change the title of the page?
6. Wrong link
7. creating a page
8. cantuse
9. Referencing errors on The Hype Magazine
10. Peer review issue
11. Laptop touch screen not working
12. vandalism at Serbia national basketball team

September 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 13

1. user page deleted
2. Tranclusion and references
3. Edit Conflicts with myself
4. Article vandalized
5. Australian International Three Day Event
6. Spelling mistakes in titles of the articles
7. Teodoras Daukantas
8. Coton de Tulear

September 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 14

1. Reuse of Wikipedia data
2. Referencing errors on Dick Oatts
3. Pakistan Air Force
4. Interaction tool thingy
5. Why am I never "randomly selected" to comment?
6. SCHLOS EGENBERG
7. Author affiliation in citation template
8. international detention rules
9. Translation of Wikipedia Articles
10. Is there another medication like Provigil/Nuvigil/Modafinil?
11. Notice that LestorLloyd is vandalizing "John de Ruiter' article and has not ceased after repeated warnings.
12. File move
13. Teodoras Daukantas article
14. ‎MediaWiki message delivery

September 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 15

1. help android
2. Chip davis
3. Wikipedia Pictures Won't Enlarge
4. Referencing errors on Duff Goldman
5. Robert Ghiz
6. Content pages on alcohol redirect to a much less helpful content page
7. Add interwiki
8. Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument, help Wikipedia and win!
9. Deletion
10. Made correction now lost page.

September 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 16

1. Port Columbus International Airport
2. request edit
3. Adding links
4. Request for the book " Bhakti Rasayan" by - Madhusudan Saraswati
5. Unidentifiable cite error
6. Watchlists - easy way to see diffs
7. editing company information on a brand's page - by a representative of the brand
8. Reference sources
9. tom keene of bloomberg
10. Orphan tag not displaying
11. Either including wikipedia links or wikipedia content on my website
12. A knowledgeable chap/chapess, please
13. Summer of Monuments header
14. Is it necessary to !vote negatively if you propose a draft for deletion?
15. If there is a lock or authority control on a personal individual page..

September 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 17

1. Empty ref tag errors
2. Marking some pages as visited in watchlist, in one go
3. Referencing errors on Sablan, Benguet
4. User Warning Template
5. St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
6. "After Tiller"
7. Durango Discovery Museum
8. Science.gov
9. Untitled section

September 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 18

1. Sum
2. CCNV improved
3. Finding the version in history closest to a particular time
4. Reformatting coordinates
5. Jamie Soward
6. My Use of Wikipedia
7. Russian Wikipedia Image files
8. Tools for converting to LDR
9. Libelous orphan recently added to living biography - McPhedran
10. Permanent link

September 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 19

1. Basic page sections order
2. Sri Late Duddilla Sripada rao former speaker of AP assemly is not figured in political elites in Telangana also
3. Cas and Jonesy
4. Interwiki links
5. Biography of an artist
6. How can i verify? or submit source
7. Why does toolbar disappear
8. Would like to request article about Chamila asanka
9. Article talk pages in Mobile Wikipedia
10. Public watchlists, related changes and templates
11. Search field size on Main Page
12. Is there a template for quick linking to a user's contributions page?
13. Editing Oklahoma Aquarium
14. Users who refuse to discuss
15. Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee--

September 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 20

1. Using small tags and br in infoboxes
2. Finding a template
3. Very old stubs
4. Software companies based in California
5. User page interference
6. Some "meta" questions about wikipedia.
7. Search indexing not working?
8. Citing Social Media esp. Twitter
9. The Captain America Bike
10. Links to Wikipedia in other languages
11. ttrain station in bic
12. Gadget coding
13. Original research
14. Deleting a page for the first time
15. Reverting an edit without triggering notification

September 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 21

1. question about photo
2. Twinkle
3. Why is Special:Getting started is placed?
4. Proper venue
5. Userboxes
6. Extermal links to pages requiring registering
7. Unidentifiable cite error, revisited

September 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 22

1. Balzan F.C.
2. John Lester Miller
3. urgent incorrect content about Demet Muftuoglu.
4. I think that the definition of False Cognate is wrong in the article about False Cognate.
5. staigue fort entry
6. I owned a website. Whether i can put article of my business in wikipedia.. If possible could you explain
7. ethical to add something you have authored
8. HOW TO IMPROVE THE WEB-PAGE
9. Adding image to infobox
10. Merging 2 usernames
11. Where is my course page?

September 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 23

1. Death of editor
2. Removing citation after an episode airs
3. Leaving a message
4. Unidentifiable cite error caused by cite doi
5. Fishing
6. HELP me, please I was only selfish......the name of your site has rendered use of my computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. Balzan FC kit colour
8. Encyclopedia
9. Buick customer feedback survey
10. Weird external link created
11. Large amounts of primary material on social media necessary for article. How do I use it?
12. Need help an article
13. Davido
14. Reviving sleeper account
15. Please check a reference for me?

September 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 24

1. antique guns
2. Article "Oil war"
3. Indian Map
4. algorithms
5. Editing "hypertext"
6. Chikwe Nkemnacho
7. Spam Link in Medical Mutual of Ohio Article
8. Arnold Perl bio
9. using "of Jewish" origin", but any other religions etc.
10. Mahfouz Bin Marei Bin Mahfouz / The Mahfouz Foundation

September 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 25

1. How to alphabetize contents
2. Can't get into page
3. do not allow notes at top of page.
4. Esther Hicks
5. Ref Marks Without Content
6. Cite errors caused by Certification Table Entry
7. Kerwin Swint
8. Deleted OTRS submission
9. Guidance helping to set up a community of contributors to write articles on historic sites in Normandy France linked to GPS apps.
10. How not to have your page deleted?
11. Adding a link to primary sources
12. "You have made an edit"- which I didn't
13. Regarding my account and connection with other users on Wikipedia
14. Outdated reference links
15. re: entry about Beith Parish Church
16. Addressing Wikipedia's old age and conservatism

September 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 26

1. Name of page wrong
2. Edit War at Yoshukai Karate
3. Kanaka Durga temple
4. having trouble with Football Kit Arms
5. How does WP:Conflict of Interest work on English Wikipedia?
6. Horrible little box on this page
7. M-dashes and N-dashes
8. Adding info about a business
9. Relisting a section of a talk page
10. Change of User icon
11. A NORTH AMERICAN IS FACTUALLY AN AMERICAN.
12. Reflinks tool
13. page about ``Jesper Vrugt; not sure whether it fits for deletion
14. Units of measurement

September 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 27

1. Commons vs. Wikipedia
2. Linking through redirect
3. where is The Federalist entry?
4. Sockpuppetry question
5. New user icon
6. Army vs navy

September 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 28

1. Politician's spouse
2. Create new article under existing title
3. Teopad
4. Basic help for a first-time editor
5. License of an image produced by a US State
6. Creating a page
7. Many in-line references from one source - page numbers
8. Redirected pages
9. Application layer protocol article (:Category:Application layer protocols)
10. Incorrect statistics
11. OMG so confusing and way way way too many steps
12. I just want to report some incorrect information
13. African-American Categories

September 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 29

1. Named ref tags syntax - what is the space for?
2. The Australian Film Sons of Matthew circa 1949 .
3. I have "broken" a template
4. Question apparently unrelated to Wikipedia
5. Share button
6. Assistance with Uploading a registered Logo
7. Requesting an article
8. image sizing
9. Mass message log

September 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 September 30

1. Automatic Unit Conversion
2. Ghost series of footnotes following me around and tacking onto the end of what I write
3. Skyquake
4. Please delete
5. Edit conflicts
6. indecent link and access to personal data
7. HELP - ARTICLE KEEPS GETTING TAKEN DOWN
8. Any quick way to build a diff template?
9. question about moving content to new articles
10. Responsive?
11. Archiving User Page
12. Did all msg from face book
13. Userboxes--pictures disappeared, deleted?
14. Mobile version of Wikipedia ( ios ) : no language column to the left, how to switch?
15. Math symbols via Unicode.