Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/January 2023

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= January 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 1


 * 1) "What links here" with templates excluded?
 * 2) Meaning of 'subpr' in template
 * 3) Setting a main 'external link' as reference in multiple places
 * 4) Why don't dinosaur species have their own pages?
 * 5) Actor page
 * 6) Calculating distance
 * 7) Make article
 * 8) Notability of 76ers-Bucks rivalry
 * 9) Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

= January 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 2


 * 1) What to do if you are in the middle of creating an article and you highlight something and accidentally delete some of the source . How do you get it back.
 * 2) Is there a way to place more urgency on an article involving "WP:CHILDPROTECT" and "WP:SUSPECT"?
 * 3) List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll (formatting issue)
 * 4) Stopping Vandalism
 * 5) Help about the reference section number 20 Opening Ceremony Athens 2004 Olympics Olympic flag
 * 6) This is about "reliable sources" and "NPOV" policies
 * 7) External Link
 * 8) Is there a policy for/against creating "WP:" links to same-name "MOS:" shortcuts?
 * 9) Editing
 * 10) Policy on template capitalisation
 * 11) How do you link to a wikitionary definition
 * 12) Question about permissions to upload a photo
 * 13) Categories and indirect evidence
 * 14) Image Deletion Process
 * 15) Updates of 1985 in Greece of photos of references of Leaders
 * 16) Move a page

= January 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 3


 * 1) Moving the page of Georgios Dritsakos
 * 2) How to change stroke colors in Maplink?
 * 3) Please help
 * 4) Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
 * 5) The truth about adding the reference of the Closing Ceremony Athens 2004
 * 6) Page deletion
 * 7) Author name per book
 * 8) In Visual Editor is there any way to reuse a cite but with a different page number?
 * 9) Where do you go for userspace draft feedback WITHOUT submitting the draft?
 * 10) Traian Chelariu
 * 11) External links not in expected place

= January 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 4


 * 1) Business Detail
 * 2) I am an author
 * 3) Issues templates posted on this article
 * 4) Hello
 * 5) How to upload pictures to an article?
 * 6) Finding citations that are missing urls
 * 7) Editing articles with multiple templates causes massive memory issues.
 * 8) mjrnmrmrmrr.rrlr 0
 * 9) How to change article title from Chicago Artists' Coalition to Chicago Artists Coalition

= January 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 5


 * 1) Editing
 * 2) Looking for most verifiable citations
 * 3) COVID-19 apps
 * 4) Help with Chrome
 * 5) Upload pic
 * 6) Page move success?
 * 7) International Democrat Union
 * 8) How many games for a franchise
 * 9) Passing of time
 * 10) Write an Article on Felix (singer)

= January 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 6


 * 1) Question
 * 2) Question about first-person plural pronouns
 * 3) Remove "thank" button from watchlist?
 * 4) other edits link
 * 5) changing citation and date formats?
 * 6) Creating Profile
 * 7) getting a false positive but then it doesn't show up in reporting false positive page
 * 8) Editing templates
 * 9) Hakeem jeffries

= January 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 7


 * 1) Disabling Wikimedia shortcut keys
 * 2) Twinkle "follow site preferences" option for watchlist time
 * 3) Adarsh rai
 * 4) Wrong age. Under Kurt Miller (baseball)
 * 5) Posr articles
 * 6) Guideline on self-referencing links' section
 * 7) My page Sulumbek of Sagopshi and Akhmed Khuchbarov
 * 8) "This template has no documented parameters and may be intended for use without them."
 * 9) About submit for draft
 * 10) Editing
 * 11) Template Assistance (Copy/Paste isn't working)

= January 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 8


 * 1) Search on page belonging to two categories?
 * 2) What the heck is this symbol?
 * 3) include a photo
 * 4) Editing txt and sending photographs for inclusion where they don't exist.
 * 5) Background on NIF laser fusion experiments in 2022, specifically prior work by John Holzrichter and Livermore Laboratory Teams.
 * 6) Italicizing title
 * 7) Hiding the left sidebar

= January 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 9


 * 1) country
 * 2) Maintenance category visibility
 * 3) Person biography eligibility
 * 4) how to block a user
 * 5) Couple formatting questions
 * 6) Time between repeat nominations of a requested move

= January 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 10


 * 1) my page in Wikipedia
 * 2) HA ha I found an error
 * 3) Is this reference reliable?
 * 4) How an Indian educator qualify for Wikipedia?
 * 5) Content publishing

= January 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 11


 * 1) Searching for keywords within pages and titles that belong to a certain category
 * 2) Finding articles to create
 * 3) Closing an RfC
 * 4) Keep getting message when trying to publish changes "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404): (no message)"
 * 5) Deleted pages / accounts
 * 6) Accounts that have been created just to claim a name
 * 7) Mount Rushmore monument
 * 8) Is Amit Sharma notable?
 * 9) Why is the article not showing up on the Articles for Deletion page?
 * 10) Issue with IP block affecting account editing.
 * 11) Table keeps going to bottom of page no matter what I do
 * 12) Spanish compound surnames & name-date citation

= January 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 12


 * 1) Reset Password with Inaccessible Email Address
 * 2) List of tallest buildings in Dubai
 * 3) Main page for a category is disambig
 * 4) How to access deleted talkpages
 * 5) How do you extend tables in list pages of Wikipedia?
 * 6) How to be sure the article is neutral enough?
 * 7) How a teacher or educator notable for Wikipedia?
 * 8) Assistance in trying to determine notability
 * 9) Select Wikidata fields that has a qualified equal to the subclass of something
 * 10) personal attack

= January 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 13


 * 1) blacklisted
 * 2) Signature and timestamp button
 * 3) Fair use photos
 * 4) How do I request to get this redirect deleted?
 * 5) Massive bug

= January 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 14


 * 1) How do I approve and disprove articles?
 * 2) Restoration of an article that was previously deleted
 * 3) Drafts vs. Sandboxes / Moving pages
 * 4) PROFESSIONAL WRITERS
 * 5) Theo Stavropoulos, artist
 * 6) Redirecting articles I created

= January 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 15


 * 1) For Category:Clock Designs, why is Grandfather Clock listed under L?
 * 2) Tagging an uncredited translation from fr.wikipedia
 * 3) Does this count as a personal attack?
 * 4) Multiple tabs - on Windows desktop app
 * 5) I edited a stub template--problem
 * 6) Nominate a .css or .js for deletion
 * 7) Needed Backlink
 * 8) Clarification of DEFAULTSORT usage
 * 9) Template parameters
 * 10) My page Khamekits
 * 11) Harrassment by a Bot
 * 12) new to editing
 * 13) Adding football team colors
 * 14) Policy differences between wikipedias
 * 15) Page says it has "multiple issues"
 * 16) Request for a review

= January 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 16


 * 1) Non-English call signs for airlines
 * 2) Cliff Thorburn
 * 3) Using MediaWiki buttons
 * 4) Confusion in creating new categories - don't know how to get started

= January 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 17


 * 1) publish the article
 * 2) Why are my changes being undone ?
 * 3) Timestamp help
 * 4) Backlogs and dead external links
 * 5) Tema Harbour
 * 6) Deleted updates to our page
 * 7) How to add a key information box on the right-hand side of the wiki page?
 * 8) Delete Account
 * 9) Former Greek Royal bios
 * 10) How do I add a neutrality disputed tag?
 * 11) Informational Pages on Airlines
 * 12) How to refer to Joe Biden when describing an event that took place after he ceased to be VPOTUS and before be became POTUS?
 * 13) Delete account
 * 14) when will wikipedia help their editors imprisoned in Saudi Arabia?
 * 15) Page is not opening

= January 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 18


 * 1) Include Company is Wiki
 * 2) help
 * 3) Adding content
 * 4) Once Notable, Always Notable...
 * 5) How do i fix wikipedia
 * 6) How to restore old Wikipedia page layout
 * 7) Disable limited content mode by default
 * 8) New interface?
 * 9) Editing a wiki page
 * 10) Please change it back
 * 11) where do I find the agreement between Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid
 * 12) Using the interface.
 * 13) Text someones is bold and blurry
 * 14) Revert to Old Design?
 * 15) Removing/hiding the "X languages"/ "Add languages" link
 * 16) Ability to go back to old version/increase width of articles
 * 17) Something has changed about Wikipedia formatting

= January 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 19


 * 1) My edits were reverted
 * 2) too much whitespace
 * 3) New look?
 * 4) Delbert McClinton
 * 5) Where is search?
 * 6) Inaccurate source
 * 7) Table of contents
 * 8) Hi, how do I change the design back please?
 * 9) Why am I logged out because I asked a question here!
 * 10) Can't fix a typo
 * 11) Main page new look
 * 12) Look up
 * 13) How to talk with other editors?
 * 14) Request for a help
 * 15) I liked the old page layout better. Here's why.
 * 16) new format
 * 17) changes.
 * 18) searching wikipedia
 * 19) Where are the language links?
 * 20) AWB regex to remove one WikiProject banner
 * 21) advertisement on main page
 * 22) Navbox Template?
 * 23) Does Wikipedia provide any tool to help Europe-based editors access Web sites which are unavailable to them because of GDPR?

= January 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 20


 * 1) New look is awful how do I revert it so it's usable again?
 * 2) Suggested languages list too long
 * 3) Delete My Account
 * 4) Articles
 * 5) The new look...
 * 6) how to unhide contents
 * 7) Section linking shenanigans
 * 8) Wikipedia Library worked then stopped working?
 * 9) Can I get an outside view point
 * 10) random article?
 * 11) Creating a Wikipedia for actor MICHELLE BERNARD
 * 12) Change in website format
 * 13) unwanted bold characters
 * 14) How do I duplicate a citation for different content
 * 15) Regarding the new website design
 * 16) How do I make a small correction?
 * 17) Question
 * 18) New layout change sucks where to send feedback
 * 19) Undersanding a reference

= January 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 21


 * 1) Random Search function missing
 * 2) Requested articles
 * 3) FONT SIZE
 * 4) long time user
 * 5) Twinkle
 * 6) Watchlist on IOS app
 * 7) The new Wikipedia format
 * 8) Using a Photo for My Article
 * 9) Contents Lists
 * 10) Authority control
 * 11) Why does wikipedia look like shit now?

= January 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 22


 * 1) Wikipedia's New Format
 * 2) Hide Toggle button
 * 3) Preview button in old skin
 * 4) New Format
 * 5) not my photo
 * 6) I like the new appearance
 * 7) How do I make link to sections of an article inside the article itself?
 * 8) Add xtools authorship to Template:GAR/header
 * 9) Save PDF
 * 10) need help with opening a Request for Comments
 * 11) Display name change
 * 12) unable to log into page
 * 13) Annamalai Kuppusamy
 * 14) Your website.

= January 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 23


 * 1) New look - random articles
 * 2) May I add a page for my self or someone else?
 * 3) Regarding editing of pages
 * 4) Saving after sorting table.
 * 5) Promotional article
 * 6) How to report a school IP with recent uptick in vandalism?
 * 7) Inserting note reference mark-up
 * 8) updated a page, but unable to provide footnote
 * 9) Notable
 * 10) Saving draft paper
 * 11) Help with my account

= January 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 24


 * 1) Uh not entirely fond of the new format
 * 2) Monobook Dark Mode
 * 3) Cfd
 * 4) Table of contents
 * 5) How do I italicize a book title for a new article?
 * 6) Another change to Vector skin
 * 7) how do I cause the Table of Contents to be collapsed by default?
 * 8) My own draft got unexpectedly submitted by someone else
 * 9) Social Science
 * 10) Where is the place to report users?
 * 11) old style
 * 12) Saline Valley Farm
 * 13) An article may need some update, but no one responds at the talk page

= January 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 25


 * 1) Can Administrator ban Eliminator ?
 * 2) sluggishness
 * 3) how can i change my username
 * 4) [[Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 25#.5Bhttps:.2F.2Fwww.ghacks.net.2F2023.2F01.2F25.2Fhow-to-restore-wikipedias-old-design.2F_How_to_restore_Wikipedia.27s_old_design.5D|How to restore Wikipedia's old design]]
 * 5) What have you done to Wiki!!! The main page is a smaller size than before and cannot be made full size as before?
 * 6) how do i get the website back to normal?
 * 7) editing wikipedia page
 * 8) How do I make my edits, "Constructive"
 * 9) About Nazran uprising and Gligvi

= January 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 26


 * 1) Popups
 * 2) Hidden sidebar
 * 3) Images
 * 4) How to query a decision on a draft page
 * 5) Do not like the new format
 * 6) Write an article for Felix from Stray Kids
 * 7) How do i remove the TOC from the top of the article. It ALWAYS prints out no matter what edits I attempt
 * 8) Discrepancy in signature timestamp
 * 9) There are issues with the summaries in the preview function
 * 10) Commercial reuse without attribution
 * 11) Georgia Supreme Court pictures
 * 12) Download as PDF
 * 13) Paying for Clean Edits
 * 14) Manually changing color in an electionbox?

= January 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 27


 * 1) Correct the reference of Sandy Neilson
 * 2) help me
 * 3) Use WIkipedia content for my website
 * 4) User blocked
 * 5) Account recovery
 * 6) how do i put a navbox in the middle of my user page?
 * 7) Error message in a number of pages in Basque in wikipedia
 * 8) How to create a "reading list" and/or save Wikipedia articles - using the desktop application?
 * 9) How to attract Wikignomes?

= January 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 28


 * 1) How would I cite this journal article?
 * 2) Script / Bot for welcoming users
 * 3) Help about publish my biography as embassy
 * 4) Quotations in different colors
 * 5) Request for feedback of new article draft
 * 6) Correct template for a range of time at month/year precision
 * 7) Changes
 * 8) That new sizing toggle thingy does (almost) nothing
 * 9) Deleted Article - Restore?

= January 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 29


 * 1) Archiving
 * 2) Dante Leon Disambiguation Page
 * 3) Death notice (Floyd Sneed)
 * 4) Creating a list of articles based on content
 * 5) Request for a deleted article
 * 6) Consult sources of Chinese metro population data
 * 7) Potential disruptive editing on Ukraine article
 * 8) Why does Wikipedia log me out every time I go to the Commons or anywhere else?
 * 9) Simplifying Community Portal
 * 10) Can't find archive link
 * 11) Deleting a file
 * 12) Hide footnote markers?
 * 13) Donations
 * 14) Rauswurf

= January 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 30


 * 1) File talk:Elbert Benjamine AKA C. C. Zain.gif
 * 2) New format help on desktop
 * 3) redirectcreator
 * 4) Screen appearance
 * 5) Proof of articles
 * 6) Dichroic prism?
 * 7) Cannot insert images
 * 8) Arabic Wikipedia
 * 9) Wikipedia search querry string for suggestions
 * 10) Why make wikipaedia so complicated???
 * 11) Protection request
 * 12) BLP subject requests removal of birthdate
 * 13) Policy on articles providing "Pet Care", and what a reliable source for that looks like?
 * 14) Moving my article from my Sandbox to Wikipedia
 * 15) Wikipedia REST API under CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL
 * 16) A Wikipedia page is gone.

= January 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2023 January 31


 * 1) Redirection
 * 2) provincial-level cities vs province-level cities
 * 3) Copyright and drafts
 * 4) Very dubious reference, with pseudoscience in first sentence
 * 5) Hungarian Wikipedia
 * 6) New Layout ...
 * 7) Editing O.R. Melling Page (mine)
 * 8) What is accounting