Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/July 2014

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July 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 1

1. Referencing errors on North Adelaide District Football Association
2. Spam account
3. Second account
4. Request for comment, queries on posting
5. problem with article creation
6. Why links to archive.is are not allowed?
7. John Cornford
8. Drop-down
9. Sports stadiums
10. "No legal threats" policy and serious criminal conduct
11. What Motivates People To Edit?
12. contribution error
13. Piped links supplied to templates that expect the article name without the linking square brackets
14. Is there an alternative to Reflinks
15. Image
16. Italics in titles
17. Attribution
18. Referencing errors on Draft:Masuma Rahman Nabila
19. Sonia Pressman Fuentes
20. How upload an autobiographical article

July 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 2

1. Tell the truth from the top down to the nation
2. Unable to search for page
3. i want to ask a question
4. Referencing
5. Image License and Submission reviews
6. Filling out references
7. No results on searches
8. Interwiki link
9. Photo adding to article
10. Deleted Article
11. Suspicious donation header
12. Retrieving content from my sandbox
13. Copying text direct from website with permission
14. Deleted Wikipedia Page- request for source code for editing
15. Added the references you requested
16. E,employment Scams
17. Brewster hughes.brewster hughes was my father and the information about his son Emmanuel hughes being born in 1957 is wrong.i was actually born in 1956.if there is someone who can rectify this piece I would be grateful
18. Reporting web pages which disseminate viruses
19. Frederick Russell Burnham
20. speedy deletion of Meincraft and Meinkraft

July 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 3

1. FIFA World Cup all-time table
2. where's linkrot when you need it
3. ms shoes
4. Nutroxx
5. Admin's activity
6. Andrew Marriott
7. Referencing errors on Corallina officinalis
8. lost title
9. Flowchart or work-flow template
10. Quick fix for references
11. Corrections & Clarifications for Flocabulary

July 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 4

1. Printing
2. Purple Heart
3. Why wikipedia have strict policy about BLPs?
4. Content about our company is permanently delited even if it is not a spam.
5. Where and how to propose a merger of several separate articles
6. finding my book
7. effective date issue for George Washington
8. Guide to editing
9. Disambiguation and redirect issues
10. Flags in Infoboxes

July 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 5

1. Editing a page due to inadequate sources
2. how do iget my army records
3. Company Mergers & Acquisitions: date announced or date finalised?
4. How to correctly format web references for featured articles?

July 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 6

1. Castle Calatubo
2. Sockpuppetry in internet cafes/free wifi
3. Galician Inventors
4. barnard bee
5. a page was violated and now i cant access it becouse its semi protected
6. Bhumihar

July 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 7

1. How to edit a document
2. Templates, navboxes, categories, and my utter, utter confusion
3. Edits to "SAE Institute" Wiki page
4. Submitting An Entry For Review
5. Not very nice language
6. Question
7. Reference errors on Protein Wisdom (blog)
8. Submitting information
9. Concern on AjoChhand machine
10. Peter Liguori bio entry
11. references
12. Edit reference?
13. Beta

July 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 8

1. Referencing errors on Robert Frederick Foster
2. Policy/Guideline about admin accountability about admin actions
3. How can "Pariah (play)" be included in the search box list when searching "Pariah"?
4. semipositone
5. tutorials on internet application
6. deth toll
7. info-box image size
8. Brendon David Yohance Harris
9. Books and WP:REX
10. Adding a Picture to an existing page that has pictures in a table
11. Request a new article
12. The Capitol Symphonic Youth Orchestras
13. Britain strongest man
14. Flickr Question

July 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 9

1. Godzilla: Unleashed
2. Changing Username...
3. Page deletion
4. Foreign Wiki picture
5. Writing an article for a charity
6. Using text from a government document
7. on 6/27/14 someone may be using my accout emails etc. doug h. i need your help.how can i, we,fix and find out whos this doing roblem because if i know i never postwd anything
8. Referencing errors on Ralph Garman
9. Rating location
10. World Cup on frontpage

July 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 10

1. User talk page auto-archiving
2. The portal CSDs are useless!
3. Erica Durance ( Pregnant ).
4. Dabsolver and disambiguation
5. Requiring/checking Sort criteria on "List of" articles in "Lists of" category.
6. how to contact a contributor
7. Wrong date of birth and age for Joan McCall
8. Deletion tag log
9. request edit

July 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 11

1. Issues with page transitions using Explorer 10
2. How did these refs appear?
3. Request language translation of an existing wiki written in one language that has not been translated into an existing wiki in another language available on Wikipedia?
4. Powerflush
5. Michael Farrell (Activist) Google search Tab
6. Ed Mezvinsky. former congressman from Iowa
7. Tag: possible BLP issue or vandalism??

July 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 12

1. Please start article
2. How do I change the title of an article?
3. Infobox issue for a person with two birth dates
4. Twinkle vs Rollback
5. Making a draft article live
6. Bathurst gaol
7. Free subscriptions
8. Referencing errors on Colour Me Pop
9. Creation of article
10. Possibly issue with category naming
11. adding a map based on a map already in commons
12. Upload copyright material
13. Is it ok to advertise paid Wikipedia editing on own blog?
14. Layout question
15. Assistance with a Draft Article
16. Wonky alphabetization
17. Checking that an article has moved from draft to live
18. Heraldry
19. Forum page vandalised

July 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 13

1. Referencing errors on Phil Kessel
2. Speedy Deleter Statistics
3. The day and month on whichVaralakshmi vratam is celebrate d
4. Problems with WelcomeMenu
5. Micropolitan Statistical Area
6. User Rights under Clean Start
7. Micropolitan Statistical Area
8. adding a reference
9. Lead Azide Story with Reagan's ass- attempt
10. Filter Page List

July 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 14

1. Overloading archive?
2. Uploading from an Android tablet
3. Uploading Image
4. Info on Andrew Walford
5. Barnstars
6. Template does not show images
7. Properly editing a reference
8. Addition needed for Thomas Kean
9. I m not able to save an article
10. adding a couple of contributions
11. Wikipedia Username - Not correct
12. Copyright on a signature
13. Issues with page transitions using Explorer 10
14. Reordering list numbers
15. Authorship of an article

July 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 15

1. Antarctic snow cruiser
2. How to add map/Picture?
3. Help:Footnotes#Footnotes:_groups
4. Inconsistent Nationality inserts and descriptions with famous people.
5. Error in 'Australia–Papua New Guinea relations'
6. Discussion from last year
7. Cancel redirect from sandbox
8. Articles for Deletion - unresolved
9. biography
10. Info box, sufficient edits for publishing, footnote descriptions! Help!
11. City and Community Entry should be City & Community
12. dad served on both the From and Blyskawica.
13. Paul Van Cleef, chief scientist and partner of Van Cleef Bros.
14. Verbal autopsy
15. Defective car

July 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 16

1. Unable disable Statustop feature
2. Copy & Paste Wikipedia articles & pictures/images into my book?
3. Displaying URLs in reference list
4. Article
5. Alyson Stoner
6. Referencing errors on Tony Purnell
7. James Gaylyn - Actor
8. How do you change the title of an article
9. Question about the Status of an Article
10. BLPs solely referenced by another language Wikipedia
11. What is the proper way to cite a reference from an autobiography?
12. Physical Sciences
13. Excluding pages from a category
14. HELP - Create Redirect => Illustris to Illustris project

July 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 17

1. When will my Article appear on Wikipedia
2. Page statistics
3. Celebes today
4. Do other people have access to my article?
5. search within wiki
6. New Party Logo
7. Traditions of Texas A&M University
8. How to completely remove the wikipedia page created due to ignorance.
9. My page redirects to my user page
10. new bank account with you from the states!
11. How To REQUEST Statistics Not Shown
12. Clarification of Community topic-ban status

July 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 18

1. Tesla Coil
2. Talk request
3. Strange sizing in external links on KET station article
4. Exclamation mark
5. Article I created
6. Fixing a template
7. Untitled
8. Broadening searches
9. Article deleted by admin
10. The Crash Landing of United Flight #232
11. Offensive term
12. wikipedia

July 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 19

1. Collapsing tables
2. Request deletion of incorrect birth date on wikepedia person profile Nivedita Bhattacharya
3. Preuss filter
4. creating a book
5. Proper depiction of the Argentine flag
6. Current Events Portal
7. Hi!

July 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 20

1. Detect a redirect
2. JOY OF COOKING
3. Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention — removals by non-administrators
4. Faulty plagiarism
5. Message
6. Unexplained deletion
7. Greek speaker needed to check change of etymology on bruxism
8. Multiple Incorrect Information About Me
9. Italic title
10. Paul Nicholson ( Darts Player)
11. Creating a draft to work on an existing article
12. Spam-like entry on my user talk page
13. How do you retrieve a Wikipedia page using its Page ID number?
14. Email address

July 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 21

1. File
2. Moving one's own user subpage that has sub-subpages
3. How to create a Wiki
4. Are interviews considered original research?
5. Tag or template Removing
6. photos
7. Thanking someone for an edit.
8. Shell House Massacre
9. Self-referencing in Wikipedia
10. Bogus "Daniel Teague" references and info
11. References at bottom of talk page
12. Create a Wikipedia page

July 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 22

1. The Three Stooges
2. Live Chat No Help With This Question
3. An article that is not an article it is actually an avertisement
4. Change Redirect to BLP Stub
5. Talk page archived but archives disappeared
6. sa.wikipedia.org problem
7. archiving... sorta...
8. Creating an article page for my company
9. Arts Alliance Media
10. struggling to upload photos
11. What is the border line between a new photo and a minor change to an existing one?
12. Building a sentence from two or more references in a biography

July 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 23

1. Article mis-alphabetized in category - cause and how to solve?
2. Incorrect Wikipedia Google Search Result information
3. Mistake with my last name
4. Attribution after a content merge from a draft article
5. Irina Press
6. North Carolina Transportation Museum.
7. Need help with the Firefox Timeline Template
8. Unfair deletion of my article.
9. Citing a paper with ten authors
10. British/ UK culture - Folklore
11. Patrolling new pages

July 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 24

1. Regarding the creation of "Catharine R. Stimpson" wiki page
2. Ginger Rogers
3. VocalYogaVY
4. Can I "exact phrase" search on Wikipedia alone?
5. Copy pasting lists
6. What is reliable source
7. Change Foxy Brown's disrespectful profile
8. Inappropriate language and inaccurate information
9. "User:" in the heading
10. New Article did have third party verification cited
11. Formatting Contents
12. Christian Mythology Page
13. my edits were incorrectly reverted by cluebot
14. 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics
15. Brandon Barnes
16. searching wikipedia using internet explorer
17. Custom edit of :Template:Infobox language possible?
18. Referencing errors on Boko Haram

July 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 25

1. When a guideline conflicts with a policy
2. Changing Username
3. Reference Tooltip settings
4. Interwiki link required
5. Map of Auckland
6. Request for help re primary information
7. Is there someone I can email outside of Wikipedia?
8. Talk-about Semir Osmanagich
9. Need help satisfying Wiki's need for verification!
10. Deletion Assistance - Defamatory Post
11. Error Message
12. Ref and ref group
13. Username
14. Editing pages in Book Creator
15. Searching without stemming problem

July 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 26

1. Interwikis question
2. URGENT - Error in "In the News" on Main Page
3. UPDATE Justin Parrish Wikipedia
4. Apparent page hijacking only on Wikipedia, and related troubles
5. Big red warning
6. FA nomination closed before anyone commented about whether it gets approved or declined ?
7. References from a previous section showing up in my posting
8. ad to list of north texas museums
9. Editing a book created in Book creator
10. Content reliability
11. mobile view
12. Rogue editor?
13. This article of a actress named Maria_Vacratsis

July 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 27

1. We are writing an Article & need help with putting that Box on the right hand side
2. How to communicate with a contributor
3. Frustrated.
4. Script to add links to Navigation left sidebar
5. Depression Alliance
6. Entering mathematical formulas
7. Ed Gein reference link
8. Proper handling of the article circumcision, more/other admins
9. Infobox-Settlement type
10. poem by Balagogbo Mabel
11. Malware check

July 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 28

1. Somewhat difficult edit for a newbie, help?
2. Reporting an Admin
3. Deleted article
4. Can you remove an AfD if you change your mind?
5. how do I flag a controversial statement with no citation?
6. Can't create an article on a company ?
7. Deleting a Wikipedia article you published
8. Already existing wikipedia
9. Creating Wikipedia
10. Way to search many wikis at once?

July 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 29

1. How do I change the title of my article/page?
2. Native lang
3. Want to create my company profile in Wikipedia
4. I've been accused of vandalism
5. Sorry to bother you :/
6. Requested article for a company: status?
7. How to keep Google out of my userspace
8. Why was my bio page deleted when my co-author's was not?
9. I need your help:
10. Referencing errors on Draft:TearScience
11. Overcharge
12. HOK Sport, Populous
13. What does reliable sourcing include?

July 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 30

1. fix footnote error
2. Referencing errors on Wanderlei Silva
3. Block limit (out of interest)
4. United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
5. M.wikipedia
6. Bibliography
7. United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan 2
8. Image
9. Question on how to proceed in starting an article: I'd like to avoid a COI.
10. Corfu (city)
11. Purchase of encyclopedia
12. Buddy Deppenschmidt
13. Creating A Page For A College
14. Utagawa Hiroshige
15. Wikipedia in the news - where to post
16. Hyphen or en-dash?

July 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 July 31

1. Picture from the WP in Hebrew cannot be displayed here, at the WP in English
2. Naming an article about a pseudonym
3. Super Feed Me Duplicated article
4. Rich Constable
5. Request deletion of userpage subpages
6. Template is disappearing
7. NWSL shield vs Supporters' Shield text in football league infobox
8. Damaged template
9. Khoo Meng Yang
10. Expanding OCLC references
11. Coren Search Bot
12. Biography of a deceased minor with inappropriate references in AfC
13. Company Page
14. Disambiguation pages
15. Help requested for page in deletion process