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February 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 1

  1. How do I remove user/sandbox information?
  2. Use of someone else's photo of myself on my userpage
  3. First article

February 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 2

  1. Referencing errors on James McMaster
  2. Adding a subsection in the middle of a table
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurelle_Mehus
  5. talking to the user who edited the page last
  6. S-line Templates: Railjet
  7. Surname lists
  8. Green font
  9. My page is repeatedly deleted why?
  10. Changing or adding a photo
  11. Laurelle Mehus again
  12. Difference between safesubst: and subst:
  13. Louisa Bone page is not a legitmate page
  14. Article title MOS Question
  15. correcting a date of birth
  16. Article written about me by one of my students

February 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 3

  1. ISBN usage and articles with invalid ISBNs
  2. Is a statement by the official facebook account of an organization permissible as a source for an article about that organization?
  3. Recovering a sandbox page deleted by Ceredon for copyright infringement
  4. A cyber bully is using your site for personal gain!
  5. Links to Wikis in other languages?
  6. Moved talk page
  7. Grammatical and typographical error
  8. adding a podcast
  9. Add a podcast
  10. Citation spam?
  11. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  12. can you?
  13. Editing for spelling and grammar
  14. Readership levels of Wiki articles seem to have halved in 2 years
  15. Upload a draft?

February 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 4

  1. Blocking an IP user whose IP address continually changes?
  2. Page Pointer
  3. Karsan
  4. "EUCXBOG" file extensions
  5. Delhi Ganesh
  6. Help with editing page. Christina Katrakis
  7. Replicating and article in Portuguese to the English Wikipedia Version?
  8. Uncontroversial_technical_requests - Moving a page in Wikipedia German version
  9. arranging tables in a tabular arrangement
  10. Page Title - How to edit?
  11. Help:Cite errors David Wetzel30 Problem with Templates
  12. Move Hard Labor Creek Reservoir to Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir
  13. Why was vixx filmography deleted?
  14. Edits to Gus Gordon page

February 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 5

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  2. Michael Cole
  3. Cant get wikidata to save
  4. Korean influence on Japanese culture
  5. Does it violate WP:CANVAS to...
  6. Watchlist
  7. ENTRY Name Change, Language Change and Content Change All Change!
  8. First Women IPS officer INDIA is Late. Surjit Kaur NOT Kiran Bedi.
  9. hi I cant login after Wikipedia went down and then came back up
  10. Access to account
  11. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  12. request for correction of errors and defamation
  13. Obituary or Profile on model April Joyce Paulin
  14. Dr. April Joyce Paulin, a.k.a. April Paul

February 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 6

  1. Review the code
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  3. Help me
  4. Help needed for new entry
  5. image info box
  6. Adding information to an existing page.
  7. Accidently created page: Irradiation Mantle
  8. Non-free reduce tag
  9. Firefox stops responding on large pages
  10. Copy-editing a draft article
  11. Old Text templates?

February 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 7

  1. Consistent Misspelling
  2. Adding an entry to disambugation page
  3. editing the article on RaheQamar
  4. Actor credited under different name
  5. i want to add information on wikipedia
  6. FUR upload
  7. Moving an article
  8. Persistent IP user (73.171.187.134) vandalizing article
  9. Can't Get Image to Appear in InfoBox
  10. Improper image of salher fory
  11. Connected User?
  12. Guidelines for the use of Template:Archive top and Template:Archive bottom
  13. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  14. Can you merge users from different wikipedias?
  15. Speedy Deletion Request

February 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 8

  1. Someone keeps replacing fantastic planet image with Lovers and Other Strangers in Wikipedia. ( can someone fix it once and all !!! )
  2. Can someone clean up an article I I edited
  3. Joe Cox (cricketer)
  4. Real date, but an error "Check date values in: |date= (help)"
  5. Need pointer to guideline/policy that describes that asking celebrities on social media as original research
  6. Jim Watkins
  7. Protocol-relative URLs
  8. Move image to Commons?
  9. alfhild trying to add a music review reference to Andy McKee page
  10. Copyright on UK Gov/BBC image

February 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 9

  1. Moving comments from a draft talk page to a mainspace talk page?
  2. Image uploading (infobox) - Basics
  3. adding references to an article
  4. how to invoke a reference to use several times
  5. Curate this page language settings
  6. Help with GPG company URL
  7. Adding a graphic
  8. What links here
  9. Deceased - Andrew Lingen-Stallard
  10. how do I get my draft article on Patricia McConnell approved and finalized?
  11. Redirect from mainspace to a WikiProject?
  12. Inexplicable reverts
  13. Carl Smith (American Football) photo incorrect.
  14. North Bergen, New Jersey

February 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 10

  1. How to indicate that I have copyright permission
  2. Finding instances of source
  3. Search for recently added text
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurelle_Mehus
  5. Referencing errors on C. K. Nayudu
  6. Change name of an article
  7. Change title of a topic
  8. Conference transcript citation help
  9. Tagging citation needed
  10. interwikilinks, tool unuseable, could need some help
  11. Anchor link
  12. Martin Luther signature

February 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 11

  1. Page View Statistics
  2. Telfaz11
  3. Using talk pages
  4. Year in United Kingdom infobox
  5. Advantages of becoming an editor
  6. Ernst Rudin
  7. Posting a company on Wikipedia
  8. Question regarding WP:BLPTALK
  9. Pages on non-existent DVD releases

February 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 12

  1. Anti-nuclear partisans editing out balance
  2. Advice on dealing with this IP vandal?
  3. What is considered "reverting"?
  4. 319th Artillery regiment Wikipedia page
  5. Biography
  6. Cant find article I created
  7. Incorrect company listing for Exterion Media
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  9. Please help with my questions
  10. Policy
  11. Kennel cough
  12. Referencing your site

February 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 13

  1. Preserving history with pagemove
  2. Question by WilliamPollock
  3. Wrong date on the NCR Corporation article
  4. Comment
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref too many keys
  6. Hindu Rashtra Dal
  7. Block evasion noticeboard?
  8. How to upload an article
  9. Lord Toby Jug
  10. Need account help
  11. I forgot how to Wiki, what's the best way to include page numbers when using a book
  12. How does one thank the Arbitration Committee for their service?

February 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 14

  1. Would it be possible to delete an article I gave the wrong title to?
  2. Missing statistics
  3. signature
  4. How to fix recent edit box font problem (Windows 2003, Vista, 7, 8 ,8.1)
  5. Editing op responses.
  6. Refuting Deletion
  7. Correct addition of reference supporting my edit to the <in popular culture> section in the Button Gwinnett article

February 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 15

  1. Is this logo free content?
  2. How do I create an Awareness Day for Schnitzler's Syndrome?
  3. Using my own picture of a bottle
  4. Need help explaining WP:V and WP:OR
  5. Aidan Gillen
  6. My created articles
  7. Insertion of a new entry
  8. Talk page history redaction
  9. Awards and nominations table
  10. Fire point
  11. question about a closed(?) AfD
  12. v.t.e.
  13. My Profile Page Has Been Hacked
  14. Spelling dissonance

February 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 16

  1. Blurred out laptop and computer screens
  2. isolation transformer
  3. External Links
  4. Logo
  5. Images keep getting deleted
  6. Why?

February 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 17

  1. Cherry Valley Village Historic District page
  2. wont run in drive
  3. Wanted pages
  4. Is there an advantage to using Cite Web?
  5. Please help! Can't edit the box on the right
  6. Captcha
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  8. please remove drugs section in artical on punjab it hurts my fellings.
  9. Birmingham Alabama channel 6 news journalist an writer of Great Expectations
  10. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  11. I'm trying to upload two pictures into an info box, but they won't let me!
  12. Fairfield_and_Suisun_Transit

February 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 18

  1. Uploading a photograph
  2. Move log
  3. Karla Turner
  4. understand how to use Wikipedia
  5. My page has been deleted!
  6. referencing
  7. Missing Table of Contents?
  8. request for an article:
  9. Please fix Archiving of this talk page and enable auto-archiving
  10. Help
  11. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  12. Copies

February 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 19

  1. john kennedy plane crash
  2. dale Earnhardt
  3. how to create a new entry
  4. DGM Ltd
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error group refs without references
  6. Help Me to Make "Ismah" a Featured Article
  7. Find out reason behind error
  8. A board for discussing "polemic materials"
  9. Silent ping
  10. Question about free internet content
  11. speeches
  12. On this day help

February 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 20

  1. Image inside info box shows extra data
  2. Commercial propaganda?
  3. List of usernames
  4. Worldcat library count
  5. Copyright infringement
  6. Removing Orphan tag
  7. St Catherine's Catholic College, Singleton
  8. Centering text with background color in tables?

February 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 21

  1. donations
  2. Looking for a article about Signs NY
  3. I believe that I am citing my article right, however it keeps saying "cite error". Help please?
  4. Eliot Slater
  5. Finding translation candidates
  6. ADDITIONS TO THE ENDING OF MY COMMENT JO ANN SOWINSKI
  7. Question about uploading pictures
  8. Misplaced draft

February 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 22

  1. Should I create a separate list article or a collapsed table instead?
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  3. Complex table syntax question
  4. Need your help
  5. You do have it in Finnish
  6. Shorten the diffs, and redirect HTTPS to HTTP
  7. The Greater Britain Movement.
  8. Stats for Prolonged grief disorder

February 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 23

  1. Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District
  2. Infobox school, secondary school
  3. Incorrect House Opening Times
  4. Download file as PDF
  5. Help: Incorrect Unit (9th) was not aboard the USNS CORE when it docked in Saigon on Dec. 11, 1961.
  6. Creating offline/personal Wiki-style documents
  7. Oil Base Stain
  8. how to add geocoordinate data
  9. wrong person
  10. farhat hashmi
  11. Edit summary
  12. Alert at top of page about EYES WIDE OPEN: GOING BEHIND THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINES
  13. A change in credits for the Television Show SCORPION

February 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 24

  1. creating or transferring figures for an article
  2. Finding original page location in Redirects vs. Deletions
  3. William Witrock
  4. wrong picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichromorpha_viridis
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input in Dr. Strangelove
  6. Help Adding an Article
  7. copying or transferring images or figures from Excel
  8. St John's Catholic School for the Deaf- amendment to entry
  9. Deleted Contributions
  10. UK English
  11. Assistance with table formatting
  12. Edwin Battistella
  13. Need help editing the title of an article
  14. Watchlist
  15. Suggested updates to Tom Graves
  16. Background color on Wiki tables?
  17. Image Deletion

February 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 25

  1. Got a script for MOS:DATERANGE?
  2. URL?
  3. Hon. Lalith Athulthmudali P.C ( Sri Lanka Minister)
  4. How to Add an Article to the On This Day Queue
  5. How Can I Edit on Protected Pages
  6. Professor Dr.-Ing., Dr. h.c. mult, Dr. E.h. mult, Hon Prof. mult. José Luis Encarnação
  7. how to create an article about the intern company that I represent?
  8. CRISPR PAGE
  9. Referencing errors on Onsert
  10. How do I change the name of an article?

February 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 26

  1. Question about getting started
  2. Question about image caption
  3. Question about patent citations
  4. Saving the USS Ranger (CV-61)
  5. Is my Draft submitted for review?

February 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 27

  1. Searching for Words or Phrases
  2. How do i make a new file
  3. WP:MODERNPLACENAME
  4. How to change a Wikipedia page name
  5. Getting hex triplets from images
  6. Facebook and List of hooligan firms
  7. Problem in creating an article

February 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 February 28

  1. Deleting Administrator
  2. The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page).
  3. suggestion about content display
  4. using talk
  5. Problem with Wikipedia articles' images & PDFs
  6. urvashi rautela wikipedia the past is incorrect please delete fake id
  7. french wikipedia
  8. Mario Bernasconi article
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