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October 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 1

  1. Template help
  2. Mainstreaming essays
  3. Moving my biographical article on a person from Draft to main wikipedia namespace
  4. Java Script Disabled
  5. Unsourced & unencyclopedic article
  6. Referencing errors on Devil facial tumour disease
  7. How does an individual edit the page summary that appears on Wikipedia's mobile apps?
  8. Page Missing
  9. History of the main Wikipedia article on 9/11

October 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 2

  1. How to Semi-protect an article?
  2. Help needed: Categories
  3. Merging 20 articles into a single article
  4. I am unable to upload photo
  5. Proof of Riemann Hypothesis
  6. Please check
  7. Add link to template
  8. font size/references
  9. A question about diffs
  10. Help

October 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 3

  1. Help #2
  2. Cant upload image... unknown error
  3. Help #3
  4. How to cite documents
  5. Translation of article from Japanese Wikipedia
  6. Orphaned Talkpage
  7. "a link was made from [other article] to [my article]"
  8. Calum Von Moger Page Request
  9. Page Not Translating
  10. Joel Pereira
  11. Request for Message in Greek

October 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 4

  1. Arnold Lupton
  2. Referencing errors on Template:Infobox tram/doc
  3. William Gascoigne
  4. Why is Avani Technology Solutions Inc nominated for deletion?
  5. "you have yet to find a single editor to agree with you" ?
  6. Please edit Yom Kippur
  7. Adding Images to my user page
  8. Change Password
  9. Address has changed
  10. References

October 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 5

  1. We have a problem our page
  2. Aggressive, abusive editing
  3. Table help
  4. Why my article is marked for delation
  5. Political soapbox
  6. Please check the article you wrote on the emperor list of Ethiopia.
  7. Personal correspondence in talk pages
  8. Merge Civil service and Civil servant across languages.
  9. Deleting 'Draft' history
  10. Reviews in main space
  11. Grey Gardens conflict of interest?

October 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 6

  1. 2017 in music
  2. Edmund Royds
  3. I've invented a thing.
  4. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  5. Finding Steve Bassett (disambiguation problem)
  6. Redirection of existing page
  7. Need correction
  8. question regarding BizBon deletion
  9. Change picture in a page
  10. Multiple issues regarding article Minolta Dimage 7 series
  11. Authorities
  12. Renaming a whole Wikipedia category
  13. 2017 NBA All–Star Logo
  14. Page creation
  15. Rael Levitt rights
  16. Template:List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, Yearly NavBox
  17. Logging me out
  18. Assistance to add an Institution and Course Page
  19. Referencing errors on Savelugu

October 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 7

  1. Mean page edit (vandalism?) nobody spotted
  2. "Too good to be true" at NPP?
  3. DYk
  4. After voting resulted to keep and rename an article user just deletes it no matter wikilinks pointing to it
  5. Searching the Wikipedia citation space
  6. Long filenames
  7. Alex Avery Actor
  8. Images policy?
  9. Help chat
  10. My user talk page keeps attracting posts in the wrong places
  11. Tool for changing default sort order of existing Wiki tables?
  12. Kappa Sigma Kappa
  13. Alison Walker Sports broadcaster

October 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 8

  1. Preserved an archive of a web pge for a reference
  2. Breaking ties in date sorting (datetime sorting)
  3. Bold items in watchlist
  4. Help:Error for entry regarding Peter Curtin
  5. Deletion of Charles Hugh Smith page
  6. Page ghost writer?
  7. Proposed navbox on energy modeling
  8. Oldest Library in Texas
  9. my mother is being framed

October 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 9

  1. This article has information that isn't sourced.
  2. subject for women protection in our religions .
  3. Tomato page semi-protected
  4. Oversighted talk page
  5. Possible removal of word "video" in /Spanish_Civil_War

October 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 10

  1. False accusation of vandalism
  2. Expand article in German page using English page as basis for expansion
  3. User talk:Patient Zero/Archive 1
  4. Contacting legal: not an emergency
  5. How can one get a list of all the files a user has uploaded?
  6. Central Park jogger case
  7. WMF staff accounts

October 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 11

  1. Adding pictures to infobox
  2. My edits of the Kali page is always reverted for a long time
  3. Jaipur Jewellery Show details
  4. adoption - qld - think your stats are wrong
  5. Updating logo
  6. banners on talk pages of pages that survived a deletion process
  7. How can I stop the pages on my watchlist from appearing in bold?
  8. Repeated error, please advise - Cite errors
  9. My own page?
  10. References
  11. Elizabeth Stafford

October 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 12

  1. Delete a photo that is my own work because it has an incorrect title
  2. Request for Wikipedia Editing Rights for a Semi-Protected Wikipedia article
  3. Created a Wikipedia article and I want to change the name of the Article
  4. Referencing errors on List of Medal of Honor recipients
  5. Possible hoax
  6. w.hancel.net
  7. Good reasons for a previous AFD not to be linked?
  8. HTML File Name "the free encyclopedia" removed ?
  9. Can't Add My Own Photo
  10. Linking to a Wikipedia Article
  11. Lost wikipedia page
  12. Adding new material

October 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 13

  1. Harold Evans
  2. Tina Brown
  3. How to mention source of article content?
  4. Sitewide text replace
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  6. Incorrect character listing
  7. Image File Help
  8. Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
  9. Proposals

October 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 14

  1. How do add references to our article?
  2. No deletion log - Quite urgent
  3. György Droppa
  4. Referencing errors on Death
  5. Stray noinclude

October 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 15

  1. I uploaded a file (jpeg image) but forgot how to link or add it to a page
  2. About Logo in pa.wikipedia.org
  3. Edit Notice Help
  4. cant find my wikipedia when i search for it on google
  5. Revising a disambiguation page
  6. :Category:Iranian Azerbaïdjani politicians
  7. Question

October 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 16

  1. Scale two different-sized images to be the same height
  2. 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake
  3. WP:OCA

October 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 17

  1. Reverted Edit Question
  2. Bot & an editor incorrectly "fix" my intentional cite before full stop.
  3. Appearance of a reference
  4. The extended unicode
  5. How can I remove a category from a page?
  6. Major issue with article on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  7. Trouble utilizing sources in bibliography
  8. Inappropriate message added to talk page

October 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 18

  1. Dark Skin Gadget Use a black background with green text on the Monobook skin is not fully working properly
  2. Making a table of information.
  3. Conflict of interest guidance
  4. Suggestion
  5. Asian Month

October 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 19

  1. Problem in my page
  2. Enlarge font in edit window
  3. HTTPS: Browser Recommendations
  4. Adding references
  5. Getting Wikipedia Page Published
  6. Question
  7. Aligning text in a table

October 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 20

  1. Creating a new page
  2. Missing word in message that appears after clicking on certain redlinked articles
  3. Removing the icon on the right of image cation boxes
  4. Inviting eyes to a discussion
  5. Question
  6. Populism portal
  7. nancy hemenway barton
  8. Submit a sandbox page for pre-evaluation
  9. Public Domain
  10. How to link to a free pdf, e.g. via Springer Sharedit, as part of of journal cite?
  11. Can't seem to edit the image description in the Tau_protein info box.
  12. Adding information
  13. John Swinton of Kimmerghame
  14. Morgellons Disease

October 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 21

  1. How to submit a proposal/question to an entire WikiProject
  2. Language links - getting pages to link both ways
  3. Need access to journal article
  4. Question
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  6. Adding a famous person to wiki
  7. would like to occasionally identify authors and affiliations

October 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 22

  1. Sports
  2. Templates and links
  3. Strange, possibly invalid citations
  4. Querying
  5. Purge this
  6. List-defined references
  7. Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer
  8. Adding the illustrator's name to a book citation
  9. Essays on Wikipedians growing weary?
  10. dab help
  11. Rewriting an article in sandbox
  12. Birmingham Small Arms Company

October 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 23

  1. Uploading image PD-PRE1978.
  2. Spencer Matthews
  3. Automatic watching of the TFA
  4. Referencing errors on OBD-II PIDs
  5. Are GANs logged or archived?
  6. Photo from PC
  7. Paintings
  8. Phone numbers
  9. From draft to publication
  10. Referencing errors on Draft:Nancy Hemenway Barton
  11. How to link to a section

October 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 24

  1. Metacritic question
  2. adding footnotes/inline references
  3. Personal C.V.
  4. Dubious article
  5. "hegelp204" not defined?
  6. Deputy Prime Minister (Denmark)
  7. Mel Blanc
  8. Ballarat Grammar School

October 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 25

  1. Simple inline audio, mostly for pronunciations?
  2. Wiki signature help
  3. ﺁب JUS I WANT TO KNOW HOW I CAN FREE FROM STRESS
  4. Have I done "Original research" in one section of Retrospect (software) article?
  5. mistake in front page
  6. Numbers in columns
  7. Help with merger
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no key
  9. Article Title Change Request
  10. More attention
  11. Save or publish changes?
  12. Copyright issue?
  13. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref re Kelly Hoppen MBE page.
  14. Referencing errors on The Rasmus
  15. List of wedding guests of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
  16. Referencing errors on University of Minnesota

October 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 26

  1. Are you aware that transitory ads appear on the pages of Wikipedia?
  2. 112th Fighter squadron deployments
  3. Impeachment of Nicolás Maduro?
  4. Census data for a specific person
  5. Sortable table no longer sortable
  6. GIFs in infoboxes
  7. German English Mathematician needed
  8. Template:Campaignbox Syrian Civil War
  9. Mansfield
  10. Need additional input on Articles for Deletion regarding various issues
  11. Vandalism
  12. Chance to work on page
  13. Sylvana Tomaselli
  14. how to add my name to list of recipients of Legion of Merit

October 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 27

  1. Pseudo headlines, semicolons and subheaders
  2. Two Transgender Articles
  3. Religion in the Infobox?
  4. Locking an article
  5. Name incorrectly quoted
  6. please change our location
  7. How to find article
  8. Editors
  9. Archiving noticeboard topic

October 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 28

  1. Notability for railway stations
  2. Drawings in infobox images of people
  3. Article or user page?
  4. Delete?
  5. Citing California Penal Codes
  6. Citing Veteran Records From The National Archives
  7. Images in navboxes on persons
  8. I need help in TALK section with advocating edits/corrections/verifications to my employer’s article stub

October 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 29

  1. Primary Colours (Eddy Current Suppression Ring album)
  2. United States State government attribution templates
  3. Deleted Content Page
  4. Moortown, Leeds
  5. Display Title
  6. Citation issue
  7. Shana - The Wolf's Music
  8. Editing blurbs on mobile
  9. My draft title has a typo.
  10. I am an American author published by Scribner Bantam Dell at Random House

October 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 30

  1. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  2. Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado
  3. Unanswered posting removed from Administrator's Helpdesk
  4. references
  5. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

October 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 October 31

  1. Brookline College
  2. Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra
  3. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  4. Pictures and articles on Wikipedia
  5. Link to new section
  6. Can we use foreign language referencing in a wikipedia page?
  7. Leon bailey Wikipedia page
  8. Page split, of sorts
  9. Redirects to the main page
  10. Carnegie library
  11. Linking to an image on German WP
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