Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2017

= May 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 1


 * 1) Super Bowl Template needs to be fixed
 * 2) Incorrect Edits
 * 3) after I did what I was asked
 * 4) "Kefir" mentions kefir grains but does not define the grains.
 * 5) Initiating Deletion of a Redirect
 * 6) Unwanted & sign in Notes
 * 7) Unsalting
 * 8) How to make a reference to explanatory text in a different article
 * 9) Article for fanfiction
 * 10) Archive bot mistake
 * 11) How to ask a question?
 * 12) Translation

= May 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 2


 * 1) Article not listed in category?
 * 2) Nicola Horlick
 * 3) Sourcing using subject's website
 * 4) Delete a page from wikipedia
 * 5) Unsure what to do with article about a living person
 * 6) Collapse
 * 7) Rollback vs Twinkle?

= May 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 3


 * 1) SandBox questions
 * 2) Apparent inconsistency in rollback links
 * 3) Regarding deletion of a Wiki page I created
 * 4) Issue with sortable table
 * 5) How much interpretation is acceptable?
 * 6) First Drug Submarine found in United States
 * 7) Facebook Page
 * 8) Photo
 * 9) adding link to online book
 * 10) Please help. How to stop someone from maliciously editing and adding inaccurate information to an article?
 * 11) A bot has archived my talk page post
 * 12) Dennis Neilson-Terry
 * 13) What is the correct "Line Break" command or template?

= May 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 4


 * 1) Hiding visited pages from watchlist?
 * 2) Why is the age column not sorting correctly?
 * 3) COMPASS
 * 4) is there a way to collapse a Category?
 * 5) new wiki page
 * 6) What to do when the "unreliable" source happens to be right, and the "reliable" sources mostly wrong?
 * 7) Category:Tamil Brahmins
 * 8) pair of articles on French and English Wikipedia
 * 9) Please remove name from Wiki page
 * 10) Wolf Lake (New York)
 * 11) Copyright infringement
 * 12) Non-free image

= May 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 5


 * 1) redirects vs aliases vs moves vs inaction
 * 2) Script error?
 * 3) Italics for foreign words and proper names
 * 4) How to change an image if I do not have 10 edits to make.
 * 5) List of energy drinks
 * 6) Weird interwiki problem
 * 7) Tagging a source as possibly being of doubtful authority
 * 8) SahBabii

= May 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 6


 * 1) What does the 3F in this URL mean?
 * 2) how to block a wikipedia user
 * 3) Folllow up to previous question "redirects vs aliases vs moves vs inaction"
 * 4) The user Nickag989 is vandalizing the WrestleMania24 Wrestling article, misuse of power, please help!
 * 5) Archaic term
 * 6) My first edit
 * 7) Sun Yawei
 * 8) Why can't I copy and paste mathematical equations into Microsoft Word?

= May 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 7


 * 1) Layout problems with geobox template
 * 2) Acceptable source?
 * 3) Luke Jumeau
 * 4) Rainbow Ruby title card
 * 5) Verifiable source
 * 6) Need  to create Company / Personala Wikipedia page
 * 7) tHE TOWN OF MARIANNA ARKANSAS
 * 8) Explanatory footnote
 * 9) Hi I would like to know how I can create a page about my dad

= May 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 8


 * 1) Need help reverting vandal
 * 2) Deletion of Lemenemene
 * 3) Navbox "collapse" setting not working
 * 4) Attributing map/CC license
 * 5) change the name of the article
 * 6) The page I created need to be developed with the geoboxes
 * 7) same film?
 * 8) doubled-up entries in contribution history
 * 9) How do I change my username?
 * 10) 2017–18 NCAA Football Bowl Games Template
 * 11) how to change Bridgeport fire department Wikipedia page
 * 12) Noni Jabavu
 * 13) How do you end RFCs?
 * 14) Attempting to change article photo

= May 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 9


 * 1) Spencer Matthews
 * 2) About Wikipedia page
 * 3) Use of Wikipedia and it content.
 * 4) Correction in the name Sri Madhopur as Shrimadhopur
 * 5) Use some pictures from another language wikipedia
 * 6) Scanned image quality
 * 7) Question about persistent changing of info
 * 8) Need help I forgot my password to my Fredia Gibbs wikipedia account
 * 9) how to insert "show"/"hide" in infoboxes

= May 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 10


 * 1) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 2) How do I effectively research a topic?
 * 3) All articles matching a certain pattern
 * 4) External link search
 * 5) Edit not being allowed to remain

= May 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 11


 * 1) Wikiproject United States
 * 2) Quote
 * 3) Please add bable boxes in the page "Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone"
 * 4) Delete a section
 * 5) services, TASO annual report 2010
 * 6) Gallery from foreign pictures
 * 7) Add new content
 * 8) 'Better source needed'
 * 9) Question about duplicate pages and disambiguation
 * 10) Counter Vandalism Unit Academy

= May 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 12


 * 1) 2017–18 NCAA men's division I Basketball season Template
 * 2) can i create Indian performing right society page now ?
 * 3) Why prohibit editing?
 * 4) Purposeful Defaming
 * 5) Including Sigiriya archaeological site
 * 6) PD-India-URAA
 * 7) Company Page
 * 8) Population density question
 * 9) New article
 * 10) Super Bowl Golden Shovel from Houston To Minnesota
 * 11) Page deleted on Alexandra Allred
 * 12) Blocking
 * 13) Can ProteinBoxBot be sent to a task?

= May 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 13


 * 1) AfD !votes not showing up in my AfD log.
 * 2) How to add pictures
 * 3) User talk page problems
 * 4) User talk pages (continued)
 * 5) Log in/Edit
 * 6) Monksville reservoir
 * 7) love
 * 8) Longterm username plan
 * 9) Proper/How to refer to a book, but not as a citation source? (Tag mention of a book with metadata?)
 * 10) Referencing error
 * 11) Strikethroughs use in articles
 * 12) In-universe template for religious content

= May 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 14


 * 1) Jennifer Crouse - Mary Anne Arsenault Curling
 * 2) Why isn't volume= LVIII bold?
 * 3) How do I add an info box and photo to draft I have?
 * 4) AfD/MfD on meta?
 * 5) How to remove sanctions on an article
 * 6) To report an inappropriate edit on the 'Indira Gandhi page'.
 * 7) Problem With Punjabi Wikipedia Source Editor
 * 8) Google Search Results
 * 9) template for edit summary when reverting

= May 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 15


 * 1) Can I recover an edit which has frozen?
 * 2) Wikiproject templates
 * 3) "See also" columns issue
 * 4) Charlie Rose interview
 * 5) Wrong status of a country
 * 6) Convention about listing TV episode credits

= May 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 16


 * 1) White Pride
 * 2) James von Brunn
 * 3) WMF seesion log out problems
 * 4) giraffes
 * 5) Laird
 * 6) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 7) Edit a particular section in visual editor?
 * 8) Belleville New Jersey
 * 9) Should West Coast Style be deleted?
 * 10) Need urgently to delete a page
 * 11) New article not detected by search engines

= May 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 17


 * 1) Hi, this page has city/country messed up and I can't edit it.
 * 2) Newspaper photos
 * 3) User talk:Mramoeba
 * 4) Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
 * 5) My Wikipedia page not shown in google
 * 6) Talk page, not Article itself, is indexed by search engines
 * 7) email as a reference
 * 8) Missing Hide/Show?
 * 9) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 10) Recovering the content of my page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqeel_Solangi
 * 11) Entries that don't appear to meet criteria for notability or neutrality
 * 12) Pressing Issue
 * 13) Irving Penn, the photographer
 * 14) I wan t to change my password

= May 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 18


 * 1) Positioning a template
 * 2) Can we reference magazines and books without violating Wikipedia guidelines as long as we reference and paraphrase?
 * 3) What if a company wishes that information reflected on their websites is copied almost ad verbatim?
 * 4) Edit request explanation
 * 5) How   we can use wikipedia without  using  code?
 * 6) Correct use of Jr./Sr. in article titles.
 * 7) How do we add picture to the infobox? And how to find that jpg thing?
 * 8) Henrys Silva
 * 9) stopping speedy deletion of image
 * 10) cant i put my own password?
 * 11) External website using wikipedia content to sell goods and services
 * 12) Original theories on talk pages

= May 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 19


 * 1) Template:Poem
 * 2) Insult by
 * 3) how to add to existing to list of malaysian swimmer ?
 * 4) Editing the first part of A biography

= May 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 20


 * 1) Use emails as RS's
 * 2) Citing as a family member
 * 3) Archives for Discussion-Pages
 * 4) I need to quote an article that was published in the pre-internet era.
 * 5) Inserting new tagline
 * 6) How to link
 * 7) Accessing older answers
 * 8) Molly Hatchet
 * 9) No entering an edit summary for new section?
 * 10) Infobox books
 * 11) 2017 Army Black knights Football schedule

= May 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 21


 * 1) Archaic warnings and unblock requests
 * 2) Authority Control and wikidata
 * 3) Strange unit artifacts
 * 4) Lady
 * 5) Line breaks
 * 6) Having problems with Pop-ups
 * 7) Etymology MOS

= May 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 22


 * 1) Email or Contact Information
 * 2) Seth RIch -
 * 3) Spencer Matthews
 * 4) Archive a web source
 * 5) Spam classification
 * 6) need help with IP
 * 7) Both username and password lost
 * 8) CAN MH2 SOUNDCRAFT CONSOLE RECORD LIVE
 * 9) Database query error
 * 10) List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- Correction needed for Delaware State University founding name
 * 11) comment about the Amos Larkins deletes
 * 12) 2017 Army Black Knights football schedule

= May 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 23


 * 1) Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom
 * 2) James Matthews (racing driver)
 * 3) How do you create a page on an author?
 * 4) Spencer Matthews
 * 5) How to get a version hidden of a certain article
 * 6) Creating a Wiki Page for a Organization
 * 7) 1971 INDIA PAKISTAN WAR
 * 8) questions regarding $wgAllowExternalImages

= May 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 24


 * 1) Wikilobby page
 * 2) Automatic categorization of articles on a template
 * 3) Yoon jik-yeon
 * 4) New article for politician
 * 5) Citing the same source multiple times throughout the Wikipedia page
 * 6) Help editing
 * 7) Template help
 * 8) Can photographs taken illegally be used on Wikipedia?
 * 9) Adding pictures to an article
 * 10) Need help
 * 11) Download as PDF
 * 12) How do I contact a Volunteer/contributor
 * 13) New article

= May 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 25


 * 1) Infobox books
 * 2) AFD record
 * 3) 2019 NBA All–Star Game article
 * 4) Userfication
 * 5) Cory Stillman
 * 6) Syntax error introduced by AnomieBOT

= May 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 26


 * 1) Page not appearing on Google Search
 * 2) safari wikipedia summary preview shows differently than actual summary on page
 * 3) Removal of offline sources
 * 4) Information on Roger Noriega's biography contains false and libelous statements
 * 5) wikitable sortable problem
 * 6) References for personal observations.
 * 7) Sheetala Traders
 * 8) Reference type.
 * 9) infobox size (or infonox size)
 * 10) Template, help to add a section
 * 11) 2019 NBA All-Star Game article

= May 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 27


 * 1) What's the name of this instrument
 * 2) Inter-wiki link phantom?
 * 3) Help with template, url was changed
 * 4) Edit Count
 * 5) Bible ref
 * 6) MyHeritage

= May 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 28


 * 1) Moosehead Special
 * 2) Wondering about ban
 * 3) How to change default preview size of an image ?
 * 4) Minuteman article
 * 5) List of subcategories?
 * 6) Spencer Matthews
 * 7) HOW TO AVOID ARTICLE DELETION OF YOUNG STUNNA (MUSICIAN)

= May 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 29


 * 1) Mitchell Trubisky
 * 2) donations
 * 3) Image Size
 * 4) Pseudophilosophy
 * 5) Orlando, Florida, entry.
 * 6) Non-free content
 * 7) Business CV
 * 8) The Famous People: Reliable?
 * 9) externals not adhering to Wiki Creative common share-alike license.
 * 10) Tutorial
 * 11) Imagemap
 * 12) TO CHANGE STREAM
 * 13) Layout help
 * 14) Friendly Fire Incidents

= May 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 30


 * 1) Englefield House
 * 2) kttw tv
 * 3) Defaultsort glitch
 * 4) Two different birth dates of Ben Cropp is written....January 7, 1936 and January 19. 1936. The correct one is January 19,1936
 * 5) Logo edit request
 * 6) Article Deletion
 * 7) I want to translate articles
 * 8) Removal of the Symphonic rock page
 * 9) GB Group (UK) Update Required
 * 10) Rick Nicita
 * 11) Infobox books
 * 12) Using wildcards/regular expressions in Wikipedia search (box)

= May 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2017 May 31


 * 1) I am confused on locking a page?
 * 2) Marie Cosindas. Tried to correct the year of birth for my deceased aunt. Got ref content error.
 * 3) Potential hate speech / vandalism on a talk page
 * 4) Wrong Picture on Michael Webb's Archigram Page
 * 5) refs
 * 6) How to show archive entries on talk page
 * 7) Talk about personal contacts, issues tht been created at home by the presence of the same Name like still hearing in the talk.
 * 8) Adding references from a hardcopy journal
 * 9) deleted page/banned editor
 * 10) Wrong Information
 * 11) The following page was possibly vandalized. How can it be fixed?
 * 12) Search engines adding a "www" to wikipage
 * 13) Vc fuller
 * 14) How do I create a bot?
 * 15) Englefield House