Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2016

= December 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 1


 * 1) Referencing errors on Barnsdall Main Street Well Site
 * 2) How to fight Vandalism
 * 3) Updation Required in Maharaja Agrasen University link
 * 4) Referencing errors on Townville Elementary School shooting
 * 5) User deleted proposed deletion notice from talk page
 * 6) Duplicate articles
 * 7) Repeated vandalism & personal information
 * 8) Bolding of Watchlist items
 * 9) List guidelines

= December 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 2


 * 1) Referencing errors on Liquid smoke
 * 2) Personality cult surrounding Jimbo Wales
 * 3) Wikipedia Classwork
 * 4) Prevent speedy deletion
 * 5) Missing Persons picture
 * 6) Proposed deletion question
 * 7) Trisha Greenhalgh
 * 8) Help with school page
 * 9) How do i change color of some text - such as from black font to blue?
 * 10) Dolores Cross
 * 11) Referencing errors on Paragon Pro Wrestling
 * 12) Default image size
 * 13) Contents and linking to paragraphs
 * 14) References

= December 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 3


 * 1) Referring to organizations within other articles
 * 2) Adding Correct Information
 * 3) Reversing a redirect
 * 4) Black light revenue
 * 5) My Business Information Page is blocked. What should I do?
 * 6) Facebook

= December 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 4


 * 1) Problems concern American and British pronunication differences
 * 2) Referencing errors on The Aspern Papers False alarm about Cite Error on The Aspern Papers page
 * 3) Is this a good use of the edit filter?
 * 4) Bright Eyes (British Band)
 * 5) The list of all the skulls movies and there should be 4 or 5.
 * 6) Al Cheznovitz / Alan Chesnovitz
 * 7) Insignia / flag sizes in templates
 * 8) Login problems
 * 9) Africa destubathon windup
 * 10) Help for liscense
 * 11) How to send email to a user that you mentioned in an email

= December 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 5


 * 1) Referencing errors on Julia Möller
 * 2) Moving A wikipedia page
 * 3) Upload picture
 * 4) Referencing errors on Cabinet of Donald Trump
 * 5) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 6) Missing or empty |title= (help)
 * 7) 500 - Internal Server Error/ 502 Bad Gateway
 * 8) What type of page protection?
 * 9) Copyvio on talk page
 * 10) Unable to determine why the page was deleted, deletion logs missing
 * 11) Naming a new BLP
 * 12) Kappa Alpha Theta
 * 13) Mark Damazer
 * 14) Splitting: should important content be duplicated in both pages?
 * 15) George Keppel (soldier)
 * 16) Superstition Meadery

= December 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 6


 * 1) Michel's Patisserie Logo
 * 2) "Murder of ..." article titles
 * 3) suggesting an article
 * 4) Wikipedia is being mentioned
 * 5) UNPROTECT A PAGE
 * 6) Narrative psychology
 * 7) Kolkata Christmas Festival edit help
 * 8) Editing the page for a publicly listed company
 * 9) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephanie Retuya
 * 10) Online sources
 * 11) Forcing "new lines" within a wikitable cell
 * 12) Font name
 * 13) Taxononomy related question
 * 14) 2017 College Football conference templates
 * 15) Is my signature acceptable?
 * 16) BLP violation- removal of content backed by reputed citations

= December 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 7


 * 1) I would like to add my company to wikipedia as a video hosting website...
 * 2) Suitability of non-English article subjects
 * 3) Talk page deletion
 * 4) Looking for Hilary Clinton
 * 5) Junaid Jamshed
 * 6) Changing headline / title page
 * 7) Criteria of printworthiness
 * 8) changing title of page
 * 9) Deleting my personal page
 * 10) RFCs
 * 11) Watermarks in photos

= December 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 8


 * 1) Censorship
 * 2) Citing a scene from a movie?
 * 3) Referencing errors on What in the World? (television show)
 * 4) can't post anywhere
 * 5) Social Media Plugins or Icons in Wiki pedia page
 * 6) Help with notability flag
 * 7) "Interlanguage" links
 * 8) modification of the Title
 * 9) Possible to export Wikitables to CSV
 * 10) Preventing a line break
 * 11) Reference help
 * 12) Is there a template like for wikilinks?
 * 13) De-registered username
 * 14) Wrong categorisation
 * 15) Notability question
 * 16) review
 * 17) Repeated reverts without plausible explanation since 2 years
 * 18) Help:ned help finishing my page. citation issues

= December 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 9


 * 1) Proposal to consolidate articles in the marketing communications/ advertising subject area
 * 2) Image help
 * 3) Set up archive on talk page
 * 4) Is my sandbox private?
 * 5) Contributing. Donating and why.
 * 6) Template help & disambiguation
 * 7) Where can I find guidance on criticizing another editor for making some corrections while not fixing other parts of an article?
 * 8) Change of copyright status
 * 9) Seeing your own edits on your watchlist ?
 * 10) Uploads in mobile version
 * 11) The Sinclair Method - Why has this page been deleted? And why is there no deletion log?
 * 12) Odd behavior in navigation popups
 * 13) Deleted contributions
 * 14) mita overvliet
 * 15) Silly formatting question
 * 16) Homeopathy is not Psuedoscience
 * 17) 2017 in baseball and music articles
 * 18) Clint Conque Wiki Page
 * 19) Question about redirects/not automatically following them
 * 20) 2017 NCAA Division I FBS Football template

= December 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 10


 * 1) Donation problem
 * 2) Search for files on Wikipedia, but not on Commons
 * 3) Brooksbank baronets
 * 4) How can I add a question in brackets?
 * 5) About uploading pictures
 * 6) updation about kayastha community
 * 7) Website in infobox & external links
 * 8) Why has User:Bishonen deleted my user page?
 * 9) Change photo on existing page
 * 10) so why can I still not post to creep catcher talk page?
 * 11) Canvassing
 * 12) Why I will never again donate to Wikipedia

= December 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 11


 * 1) How do I add a picture to a page?
 * 2) I created a duplicate without realizing. Now what?
 * 3) Agha
 * 4) December 2016
 * 5) Oops
 * 6) pdf file
 * 7) Brooksbank baronets
 * 8) XFactor Matt Terry

= December 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 12


 * 1) Donation
 * 2) World Miss University Nigeria
 * 3) Meg White
 * 4) Aaaaaaaaargh reftoolbar
 * 5) About Autonomous aircraft and  history of aviation
 * 6) ESFS picture
 * 7) Looking for Hilary Clinton again
 * 8) pointing out article errors
 * 9) Deforestation page missing information
 * 10) Setting different languages
 * 11) Tension between WP:SYNTH and WP:WEIGHT; how to resolve?
 * 12) Remove Tor from our server
 * 13) RODEL NAVAL
 * 14) Wiki entry made by 3rd party. I am the person the entry is about yet I can't make any changes.
 * 15) Verifying a recent date of death
 * 16) Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text

= December 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 13


 * 1) Adding to a Wikipedia entry
 * 2) Advertisement
 * 3) The article was overwritten with text in another language
 * 4) Simi Valley Adult School
 * 5) User MYRIADGT
 * 6) Adding a grid to a sandbox test.

= December 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 14


 * 1) Special:Uploads
 * 2) Overlinking geographical features
 * 3) Kiss
 * 4) Is this the right place?
 * 5) University Repository
 * 6) New page creation
 * 7) Template usage statistics
 * 8) Where can I request visibility of edits to be removed?
 * 9) Copy/Pasted Material
 * 10) Are watermarked images allowed on the WikiMedia Commons, if they've been released through the proper licensing?
 * 11) HELP!
 * 12) Linking honorifics like "Sir"

= December 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 15


 * 1) 2017 NCAA Division I FBS Template
 * 2) Where to request image renaming
 * 3) Beit She'an
 * 4) INDEXING ARTICLES TO SEARCH ENGINES
 * 5) Article Not Indexed
 * 6) HELP: Safety concern
 * 7) Can one editor edited another editor like this?
 * 8) What links here
 * 9) What's going on here?
 * 10) Help with page move

= December 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 16


 * 1) Using Talk pages as a link dump
 * 2) Change photo image
 * 3) Referencing errors on List of museums in Devon
 * 4) Assistance to do edits in Wikipedia
 * 5) Referencing errors on Paper tiger
 * 6) File:Lady-Gaga-Perfect-Illusion-sample.ogg
 * 7) Do I have to have consensus to remove a screenshot?

= December 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 17


 * 1) Electronic harassment
 * 2) Prevention of speedy deletion
 * 3) Tag: 2017 source edit
 * 4) Request to review the Introduction and Daily Routine sub header of the article Naxalite
 * 5) A disambiguated article where the article at the main title has been deleted
 * 6) How can i contribute an image
 * 7) GitLab
 * 8) Astronomical Optical Interferometry
 * 9) Missing information
 * 10) Website in infobox can't be removed

= December 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 18


 * 1) Removal of Commons template
 * 2) Referencing errors on S-CRY-ed
 * 3) "at least X years old"
 * 4) Speedy deletion recreation
 * 5) pasport date is expiry lockt up in hin hungary for 37 days
 * 6) Citations doubling up
 * 7) wrong title
 * 8) Title format
 * 9) Learning how to edit
 * 10) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input On Queensborough Bridge. The Proper term is Borough. There is NO SUCH word as boro. It is NOT in any dictionary!
 * 11) Paid editing
 * 12) Main page / Did you know section

= December 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 19


 * 1) Referencing errors on Drug policy of Canada
 * 2) Rumson, New Jersey
 * 3) USS  Mahopac ATA 196
 * 4) The 💡 character
 * 5) The Maltings Theatre and Cinema
 * 6) Estiahwiki
 * 7) Non-English speaking editor making tons of articles

= December 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 20


 * 1) Articles missing WikiProjects
 * 2) Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text - Sunburst
 * 3) Your removing content
 * 4) Leaving A Legacy
 * 5) HELP
 * 6) Posting new article as a Draft
 * 7) LinuxInsider
 * 8) New section in mobile
 * 9) FRW?

= December 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 21


 * 1) DYK articles in certain categories
 * 2) Tricia Santos
 * 3) How do I use the convert template for the numbers 1–9?
 * 4) orphan subject
 * 5) Account deletion
 * 6) Unable to edit part of an article
 * 7) Bioggraphy of Song TAKE ME HOME TONGHT SUNG BY EDDIE MONEY
 * 8) 2017 College Football Templates
 * 9) AFD as first thing for new account?
 * 10) A new wiki page for a personality"
 * 11) IAT not extension of AT
 * 12) Changing name/info
 * 13) Glossary_of_cue_sports_terms not displaying correctly. maybe too long?

= December 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 22


 * 1) Submitting my article
 * 2) About a username
 * 3) Twinkle
 * 4) Creating New Company Page
 * 5) Oops!
 * 6) new IP address
 * 7) Google directions as references
 * 8) Editing 'Manifesto'
 * 9) Big misconception about yoga-meditation
 * 10) Made Extensive Edits, but then they disappeared
 * 11) 2017 NCAA Division I FBS Template
 * 12) Guidelines for posting photos in BLP
 * 13) New feature
 * 14) Sherman Oaks Galleria

= December 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 23


 * 1) Inclusion in subcategory negating inclusion in parent category?
 * 2) Secret's talk page
 * 3) page for Christine Chubbuck
 * 4) How to get I my personal profile on Wikepedia? Thanks.
 * 5) Rules regarding other editor's contribs?
 * 6) Resubmitting - starting over or recovering from years ago
 * 7) Template for references suspect of WP:citogenesis?
 * 8) Second opinion

= December 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 24


 * 1) Talk page archive help?
 * 2) Using imdb.com as a Reliable reference for Actor/Actress Birthday/Family Names (Dec 2016)
 * 3) reference desk
 * 4) Problem with a template? Or PEBKAC?
 * 5) Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
 * 6) aus??

= December 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 25


 * 1) Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
 * 2) Insignia / flag sizes in templates

= December 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 26


 * 1) Referencing errors on Grand Pabos River
 * 2) What is the correct citation template for a standards document?
 * 3) Reid Technique?
 * 4) How to use location map in Template: Infobox rail accident
 * 5) Confusion with notability and style
 * 6) Sockpuppet investigation
 * 7) "line feed character"
 * 8) Phone missing
 * 9) Penny James
 * 10) 1st billboard hot 100 of 2017

= December 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 27


 * 1) UK nationality edit warring
 * 2) How do I turn off auto-spell correct?
 * 3) Linking to a category with a piped link
 * 4) Citation links to copyright works
 * 5) Vandalism in "RELATED PAGES" link
 * 6) Terrible vocabulary and spellings
 * 7) Joseph Delteil
 * 8) Galaxy note
 * 9) Out of date article
 * 10) Marketing Firm Wikipedia.
 * 11) Can't Find an "Edit" Link
 * 12) Topic: crowd funding - new page or article "Community Capital Marketplace" or "Hybrid Funding"
 * 13) Someone Keeps Deleting Things Off Of The Page That I Monitor
 * 14) Rena Sofar current star in The bold & Beautiful

= December 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 28


 * 1) Not sure what's up - a page is (or isn't) being redirected, but it doesn't seem to be a cache or move issue.
 * 2) How do I get back to the wikitext editor?
 * 3) Source
 * 4) Quote within a quote
 * 5) CWC bracket
 * 6) Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
 * 7) Chinese stealth fighter: J-31 vs FC-31 nomenclature
 * 8) Font size in German Wikipedia smaller than in other language versions
 * 9) same person
 * 10) wrong information on Hassan Rouhani Iranian president
 * 11) Login problems

= December 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 29


 * 1) Referencing errors on Nikita Khrushchev
 * 2) Referencing errors on Thomas H. Stix
 * 3) How to keep others from editing Name
 * 4) Referencing errors on John M. Lloyd
 * 5) Help
 * 6) Aas Mohammad Abbasi
 * 7) Trying to understand some odd swproxy.wmflabs.org behavior
 * 8) Assistance in creating a new article
 * 9) Lamaze technique/Lamaze International Page
 * 10) Asking for a blacklisting modification - any way for it to be done in a prompt fashion?
 * 11) Submitting and article and creating reference list
 * 12) Using Subscribed Software for Image Creation
 * 13) Help
 * 14) Finding "my" XFDs that are still open

= December 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 30


 * 1) Regarding GA
 * 2) same film
 * 3) New Editor - Adding Content
 * 4) Central discussion forum for content issues
 * 5) Publish in Hindi language also. It will help spreading your knowledge at least one billion people.
 * 6) Brook Benton Goldmine Article - "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy"
 * 7) Notables
 * 8) template for citation not specific enough?
 * 9) WikiProject: Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
 * 10) Odd Squad encyclopedic tone COMPLETE VIOLATION
 * 11) Another try (3rd time)...
 * 12) Edit title of page

= December 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2016 December 31


 * 1) Illegible userboxes
 * 2) Arul selvan
 * 3) Subject of article changes name
 * 4) File:TNAF PMAY Remixes.jpg
 * 5) attention members,help me
 * 6) Edited Article
 * 7) find a brother
 * 8) New 'Billboard Music' Page
 * 9) Another tool not working: Edits by user
 * 10) Club
 * 11) Porsche Lynn page, I am new, hit "reference" button in error, please undo to fix.  Thanks.  Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 12) Nickname coloring
 * 13) Where do I submit a change in a Biography?