Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/December 2020

= December 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 1


 * 1) Is there a way to remove auto-saved edit summaries from the VisualEditor?
 * 2) How to add/subtract numbers by column in the table?
 * 3) Somebody maliciously edits my Dad's Page;
 * 4) Possible glitch?
 * 5) Draft to mainspace
 * 6) Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref 2
 * 7) Template html formatting question
 * 8) Request to Move a Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Child_Heritage_Museum_of_the_1000_Islands)
 * 9) screen size
 * 10) Fair use rationale
 * 11) How to handle copyrighted pictures of notable figures
 * 12) Fees
 * 13) When should an actor/actress or a musician get a separate filmography or discography page?
 * 14) TYPO in the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States
 * 15) Text is not being show on page after a save
 * 16) Please stop harassing me

= December 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 2


 * 1) Contributions
 * 2) Dialogue with the editor on requesting an insertion into a semi-protected page
 * 3) Reference image published by CDC via tableau?

= December 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 3


 * 1) Want to use countries national flags
 * 2) What are the Ways to Get Admin access for my wiki page
 * 3) Donations
 * 4) Using sortname for disambiguated name
 * 5) Duplicate film
 * 6) Could the donation requests be made clearer?
 * 7) Inline template: independent source?
 * 8) Question about Edit Warring
 * 9) Invalid URL Here Come the Hawks
 * 10) Infobox sportsperson - how to add children?
 * 11) To give or not to give URLs to DOI-indexed sources?
 * 12) Question

= December 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 4


 * 1) Question on BLP policy for recently deceased individuals.
 * 2) Question about donations
 * 3) Template:single chart
 * 4) Zaid Shakir
 * 5) conflicting user information?
 * 6) Jack Downer
 * 7) Editing the Egidio Marzona page
 * 8) Newspapers.com subscription
 * 9) Publishing a Army unit wiki page
 * 10) Appeal
 * 11) Placement of audio file
 * 12) You are not independent

= December 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 5


 * 1) Cross-wiki notification issue
 * 2) Please add Joseph Merrick (the elephant man) to the article on the 27 Club
 * 3) Citing lengthy lists of authors
 * 4) How to understand "diff" in "View History" tab?
 * 5) stop asking for donations
 * 6) Why does wikipedia donation banner look similar to Internet Archive?
 * 7) How did Ser Amantio di Nicolao add "authority control" in so many articles in short period of time?
 * 8) Donating to Wikipedia
 * 9) BLP flag does not apply -what sets it, and why does it not apply to events in a persons life?
 * 10) Archiving - How added, default settings, how do you find changes, do discretional sanctions change the defaults
 * 11) Best tool to add categories to new article
 * 12) How would I send a Vid of players cheating to the Devs
 * 13) Are textbooks reliable sources?
 * 14) nuovo logo agenzia spaziale italiana
 * 15) Why User:DarTar not listed in "Category:Members of the Fifteen Year Society of Wikipedia editors"?
 * 16) kancoll.org appears to now be a malware site
 * 17) Donations
 * 18) Donating by mail

= December 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 6


 * 1) Image of Renaissance tapestry question
 * 2) Submitting a Draft to AfC
 * 3) Question about donations
 * 4) Units of measure for editing wikipedia content
 * 5) User who repeatedly blanked article now requesting deletion by PROD
 * 6) New articles on search engines
 * 7) Picture not accepted
 * 8) Will magic links be disabled?
 * 9) iOs display problems
 * 10) SVG version of English Wikipedia file

= December 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 7


 * 1) How to request to create a page for BLP Biography of a living person?
 * 2) David igham. Aberdeen high court
 * 3) I already donated, the first day you asked me for money. Would you please stop asking me?
 * 4) Donations
 * 5) The FBI removed my personal page
 * 6) "Edit appears to be not constructive"
 * 7) urumi page references edit
 * 8) Repetitive alerts
 * 9) Donations
 * 10) Need to Remove "Draft:" from the title of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Lashings_Cricket
 * 11) Correct Information
 * 12) Incorrect thumbnail picture
 * 13) Photo permissions

= December 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 8


 * 1) Guidelines for representing both sides of an argument
 * 2) Henry Cavill Yahoo Profile Vandalism
 * 3) Regarding Wikipedia essay process.
 * 4) i would like to contribute photos of historical places
 * 5) company owned image
 * 6) Business page + company owner page
 * 7) No more donations
 * 8) Armando Varricchio
 * 9) Younique false claims
 * 10) Making donations to Wikipedia
 * 11) Administrative decision on dispute over article content
 * 12) Won't upload company logo

= December 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 9


 * 1) How to suggest a correction to an "Extended Confirmed Protected" page?
 * 2) Fix An error on a Reference
 * 3) Why Authority control is not showing in this article?
 * 4) MISS SWISS
 * 5) How do I archive my Userpage?
 * 6) Three-time deleting my post ?
 * 7) Review
 * 8) Is there a quick way to standardize citation and date formats?
 * 9) Potential problematic editing pattern...or potential overreaction

= December 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 10


 * 1) Donation question
 * 2) Locked out of Bot account, 2 days wait?
 * 3) Info box
 * 4) No matter how often I donate you keep asking.
 * 5) Creating a page for a non-profit
 * 6) Submission of User:Draft for consideration, Draft of the Outline of Colorado for WikiProject Colorado, at their request for improvement of the Outline of Colorado
 * 7) Filter out specific tags: Recent Changes
 * 8) Wikipedia request for funding.
 * 9) What type of infobox
 * 10) Formatting a table

= December 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 11


 * 1) Proud boys
 * 2) Colorado County is missing on the Colorado 2012 Election Results
 * 3) Donate by mail
 * 4) Hi!
 * 5) I have already donated but Wiki keeps asking me to donate
 * 6) Archive of messages/announcements which appear at top of Watchlist and below tabs/above page header?
 * 7) Infobox trouble?
 * 8) Health speculation
 * 9) Your asking for donations
 * 10) I updated an SVG file on commons, PNG is not updating
 * 11) Big Kahuna Luau
 * 12) American soldiers killed in WWII
 * 13) Adding WikiProjects to articles
 * 14) Update image
 * 15) CP24
 * 16) Appropriate
 * 17) Appeal
 * 18) Donation
 * 19) Extra Charge TO BE REMOVED.

= December 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 12


 * 1) just a question
 * 2) Deceptive and incomplete or inaccurate information
 * 3) Advice
 * 4) Nagging for contributions.
 * 5) De-archiving a talk page when an archived template is affecting other pages (eg. dashboard).
 * 6) Using G7 to foil AFD
 * 7) How to fix a LUA error in Module:Location map
 * 8) invalid capture index %2 in replacement string
 * 9) Articles that start with Death of with the person's name redirecting to that article
 * 10) I am having problem with content add.
 * 11) A fully cited section was removed by an anonymous user, no need to prove
 * 12) Army navy game
 * 13) Wikipedia glorification of Nazi criminals

= December 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 13


 * 1) Edit: Pregnancy
 * 2) James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
 * 3) Wikipedia: Deletes names of scientists who disagree with the concept of global warming? Act of Censorship?
 * 4) Is there a restriction on what a blocked user can use his talk page for?
 * 5) Donation requests
 * 6) Please help to publish People's Reporter Page which has been declined
 * 7) The line between WP:Synth and editorial
 * 8) World Burlesque Day - edit added
 * 9) File:S.M.I.L.A by Alexander Ozolin .mp3
 * 10) List of Sculptors
 * 11) Correction to Adolf Hitler Article
 * 12) Poison
 * 13) Edit summary search?
 * 14) Emergency shutoff-compliant?
 * 15) Lead image choice
 * 16) Editing  Clive Llewellyn
 * 17) Caliphate requests
 * 18) Sarbedaran
 * 19) Draft:Global Sustainable Tourism Council
 * 20) Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
 * 21) Louis Awad
 * 22) Changing font size to print an article for visually impaired?
 * 23) How can I be helpful for Wikipedia?
 * 24) difficulty editing and adding citations

= December 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 14


 * 1) Publicar / añadir contenido
 * 2) need help to create a wikipedia page
 * 3) Please create a wiki article on "uptobox.com", which alexa rank is < 2000.
 * 4) agenda to create disturbance
 * 5) Source/visual editing, edit summary text box, lookup values - how to clean them?
 * 6) editor
 * 7) I can't download the PDF file of the reference
 * 8) Page won't go online
 * 9) Replacing non-free images
 * 10) Taking my name out
 * 11) Brigading
 * 12) Changing to
 * 13) Jeanette Magel
 * 14) Blue Air BMS/0B Blue Messenger

= December 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 15


 * 1) Sushant Singh Rajput
 * 2) Donation
 * 3) Mater Christi College
 * 4) Donation
 * 5) Where can I find newly created articles on wikipedia?
 * 6) Gerard Schurmann
 * 7) Press Release as a source
 * 8) Notable person?
 * 9) Northwestern Dispensary image: OK for Wiki?
 * 10) Not at all important, but curious
 * 11) What is status of Live Chat?

= December 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 16


 * 1) Lost my draft in a sandbox
 * 2) references displaying in page footer not in "References" section
 * 3) Maximum number of references rendered?
 * 4) That certain "connected contributor" template
 * 5) Quoting paragraph
 * 6) Update on WMF GoFundMe donations page
 * 7) Where is the list of Hypocorism?
 * 8) Including template parameters in a math block
 * 9) Real name of minor
 * 10) Noor Allattar Article
 * 11) Wikilinks and plurals?
 * 12) How Do I Create a Wikipedia Page
 * 13) Uploading old photographs
 * 14) DELHI Riots 2020

= December 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 17


 * 1) Where can I get list of creation date of all articles?
 * 2) asking for donations
 * 3) Contribution
 * 4) how to create wikipedia page
 * 5) Should I capitalize a middle letter used to form an acronym?
 * 6) ACK
 * 7) Can we continue to disable VE after beta?
 * 8) Speedy deletion notice on talk page
 * 9) Donate to Wikipedia
 * 10) how do I fix Cite error: A /Cite error included ref
 * 11) Why is my external link being flagged?
 * 12) Official report/complaint about content on a page

= December 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 18


 * 1) lack of information on??
 * 2) Why do bots not leave all new IP users a welcome template with links?
 * 3) Monaco-Monte-Carlo station
 * 4) Muting thanks.
 * 5) How to get a list of editors according to their bytes on a particular pages?
 * 6) Deprecated math tag
 * 7) Wondering how to submit an article for review
 * 8) Creating a wikipedia page
 * 9) Larry the Cat
 * 10) AWB
 * 11) Historical pages on watchlist
 * 12) What is the correct way of asking for opinions from users who speak a foriegn language/live in a particular country?
 * 13) My edits are not being posted!
 * 14) When asking for donations
 * 15) Is WikiProject Palestine asleep?
 * 16) Minus sign in html math is failing to appear in some cases
 * 17) Extended Confirmed User Question
 * 18) Donations to Wikipedia
 * 19) Chicken and egg "copyvio" dilemma
 * 20) Linking Wikipedia Articles to Google Maps
 * 21) Information panels on YouTube
 * 22) Vandalism to Page

= December 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 19


 * 1) REQUEST EDIT
 * 2) Bee gees 1976 tour
 * 3) Can't see text posted to discussion threads
 * 4) How to use WikiBlame tool?
 * 5) Hello!
 * 6) wikitable lighttable help
 * 7) Help to make a custom Wikipedia US election map
 * 8) Moving pages
 * 9) Content change
 * 10) Request for deletion
 * 11) List of portals on main page includes Biography, should be Biology?
 * 12) Help editing title of a page, or name of page.
 * 13) Edit vanished but not REVDELed?
 * 14) Donations
 * 15) Looking for resources
 * 16) Solicitation

= December 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 20


 * 1) Why was my page deleted?
 * 2) Specific naming guideline for untitled projects
 * 3) Is there any wikiproject dedicated to pornography articles?
 * 4) What's the purpose of wikiprojects?
 * 5) Edit the page of Institute of Mass Communication Film and Television Studies
 * 6) How to report an inappropriate edit made by someone in an article
 * 7) What does "FA" in "FA class" quality?
 * 8) Pointless point
 * 9) New Article
 * 10) Watchlist notifications
 * 11) Vandalism help request from 76.71.44.36
 * 12) False information
 * 13) Faked reality television genre
 * 14) I have a question:
 * 15) WP:MOS references ( but for a few long lists of award recipients )

= December 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 21


 * 1) Confused by claims of wikilawyering
 * 2) EXTREME BIAS IN DESCRIPTION OF THIS PLATFORM DOESN'T ADHERE TO WIKIPEIDA CONCEPT OF NEUTRALITY
 * 3) Sent pause
 * 4) Noor Allatar
 * 5) Yoko Ono
 * 6) Primary source content being cited from a secondary source
 * 7) BET episode
 * 8) Updating company page
 * 9) Problems editing articles
 * 10) My Smart TV Samsung UE40 7000 (2015 model) stopped connecting with Wikipedia (thru internet)
 * 11) Redirects and whether or not to redirect the talk page

= December 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 22


 * 1) Image copyright questions
 * 2) Jessie Beatrice Kitson
 * 3) Limitations on reference desks.
 * 4) Valentyn Buhlak and Oleksandr Savenchuk
 * 5) Edit requests not completed - October 23, 2020
 * 6) Winstar did not winnings
 * 7) Searching somebody with good infobox coding knowledgments and experience
 * 8) Wiki notebook/Wiki book
 * 9) Konza Metropolis City
 * 10) Too many good faith IP edits without sources
 * 11) Create a page off an existing link
 * 12) Sue Welch

= December 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 23


 * 1) Why is it possible to edit one's own and other people's posts in the talk pages?
 * 2) Certification Officer
 * 3) Help! With citations.
 * 4) List of Christmas Charts and Number 1 for UK
 * 5) Why can't I upload a picture to an existing page?
 * 6) Interlanguage Good Article Problem
 * 7) Request a new page (e.g. Philosophy of Einstein)
 * 8) Luke Hemmings edit.
 * 9) Search Engine Blocked
 * 10) Why does wikipedia accept citation less edits at first place?
 * 11) Afraid that an edit war may be inevitable
 * 12) Creating a page.
 * 13) How to undo multiple edits?
 * 14) Problem with map making

= December 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 24


 * 1) Mohamed Karim Labidi
 * 2) IABot Issue
 * 3) How do I talk in AFD submissions?
 * 4) Why some users allowed to have alternative accounts at Wikipedia?
 * 5) Huge Disservice
 * 6) Which type of deletion to attempt?
 * 7) Can someone approve The Death of Eishia Hudson
 * 8) Rukhshana
 * 9) Where to request help page updates/improvements?
 * 10) Editing an infobox to allow images alongside
 * 11) I have an question about the intent of this rule:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth
 * 12) Help to unify wikidata Mark tree
 * 13) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Sellner&direction=next&oldid=993649457

= December 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 25


 * 1) How to create an Article
 * 2) Renaming a template
 * 3) Mahashivratri
 * 4) RE: Notable People living in Myrtle Mississippi
 * 5) Is my first approach toward particular user is good practice here?
 * 6) "Who wrote that"  addon not working on cast section of films.
 * 7) Why can't I view user page of this user?
 * 8) Draft review
 * 9) Muffin man
 * 10) Wikipedia not posting edits
 * 11) Citing the same book multiple times
 * 12) What does "(username) deleted (page name) by overwriting" mean?
 * 13) Thomas Keith Wood

= December 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 26


 * 1) Softblock for joint user names
 * 2) Vandalism
 * 3) Problem
 * 4) type size
 * 5) Error in editing.
 * 6) Another Editing Error.
 * 7) Diyarbakır (English)
 * 8) Interlanguage semantic Wikipedia
 * 9) PLEASE HELP!
 * 10) When will "Who Wrote that" addon scan templates also?
 * 11) Best practice for user pages across multiple Wikimedia projects?
 * 12) Infobox US university rankings; adding QS's USA 2020 rankings Edit: need help with infobox
 * 13) Regarding Warren Thomas Farrell page.
 * 14) What is the difference between a "disruptive username" and an "offensive username"?

= December 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 27


 * 1) Disambiguation needed
 * 2) Article edited by mistake
 * 3) Savion Einstein
 * 4) How to publish an article
 * 5) Help making edits
 * 6) Help
 * 7) Converting eighteenth-century English "pounds" to modern money
 * 8) Image Size
 * 9) Your article on Gary Webb (investigative journalist.
 * 10) Hayabusa (wrestler) directing to Haybusa (spacecraft)
 * 11) Edit request
 * 12) Editing a template

= December 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 28


 * 1) John R. Gregg
 * 2) Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
 * 3) San Francisco Not northern california
 * 4) Yomari diaz
 * 5) Please explain this weird diff
 * 6) Amina Maher´s Page
 * 7) change nickname
 * 8) DAB guidance please
 * 9) My Wikipedia account
 * 10) Page and content administrator Help
 * 11) Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
 * 12) List of UK Christmas Charts and Christmas Number 1 for UK
 * 13) Adding text to images
 * 14) Deleting my account
 * 15) Duplicate name needs profession after name
 * 16) Moved Wikiquote article now has "Wikiquote:" in the title
 * 17) On creating a good page
 * 18) Question about the MediaWiki namespace
 * 19) my first entry is going nowhere
 * 20) Donations
 * 21) Wrong labelling
 * 22) How to see more than one revision in watchlist
 * 23) Linking to a specific page in a PDF
 * 24) no "edit source" option available
 * 25) Manual reverts or Twinkle rollback
 * 26) Designating a particular version of a photo
 * 27) Kitch-iti-kipi

= December 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 29


 * 1) Donations
 * 2) Vice President Elect    never donate again
 * 3) Donated last year
 * 4) Delete account
 * 5) Rename file
 * 6) Self-promoting problem
 * 7) CITICORP article
 * 8) A pitcher of Pearl Harbor
 * 9) Need urgent help
 * 10) How do i download music from platform
 * 11) Correction needed on the site "List of environmental books"
 * 12) Donations (2)
 * 13) Your opinions
 * 14) Linking to title that is inside collapsed template
 * 15) Proposed deletion of a stub
 * 16) Inserting CBB yearly record template

= December 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 30


 * 1) English Project
 * 2) Until you actually be fair, STOP asking me for money
 * 3) Question on VOS article
 * 4) Adding translated content in Japanese
 * 5) Counting identical edits
 * 6) Delete the image of Muhammad(pbuh) in Wikipedia
 * 7) Pagew approval
 * 8) Infobox image seems to be wrong after new image created with Crop tool
 * 9) Why are WikiProjects never finished?
 * 10) Nuisance pop-ups
 * 11) Need help to move the article : https://en.everybodywiki.com/Kyle_Albertson to wikipedia
 * 12) Should severe BLP violations be revdelled or suppressed?
 * 13) False Information Posted on Wikipedia *** Need refund fro Donation
 * 14) "Tag: 2017 wikitext editor"
 * 15) Donations
 * 16) RAYETHON ARTICLES
 * 17) Problems with multiple use of a citation
 * 18) my wikipedia

= December 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 December 31


 * 1) Add an article
 * 2) Send in some money
 * 3) External links in publications section
 * 4) Requesting help to remove extra spaces and carriage returns in templates
 * 5) Hate on Wikipedia
 * 6) I want to remove my name from a wiki page
 * 7) Question about sockpuppets who have had their usernames oversighted
 * 8) Did I just break the AIV input page?
 * 9) Sorting searches by size
 * 10) Creating a link to a picture file without actually showing the photograph