Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/May 2020

= May 1 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 1


 * 1) Contacting author(s)
 * 2) Please review an article I created
 * 3) informations
 * 4) my edits were reverted!
 * 5) Page
 * 6) Attributing a CC license inside a reference
 * 7) Translating Poetry
 * 8) how should i contribute?
 * 9) retrieving a deleted page's content
 * 10) Comprehensive Geographically-Specific Chronology
 * 11) Fuschia Phlox Update
 * 12) Ax09tongo78

= May 2 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 2


 * 1) Withdrawing DYK nomination.
 * 2) Cheyenne Mcnutt Marion Indiana
 * 3) My Article Is Marked As "Draft"
 * 4) Hasty actions
 * 5) Fake website list
 * 6) question about a tv series plot
 * 7) Content Assessment for articles in a category
 * 8) useless ref names in vis ed
 * 9) Question about infoboxes
 * 10) My profile
 * 11) Beth Hirsch from Tampa Florida does not exist
 * 12) Ax09tongo78
 * 13) Adding content
 * 14) Article titles
 * 15) Karen Harper (author) Born April 6, 1945
 * 16) Removal of Depiction of God
 * 17) Features in GeoJSON Maps for Highways
 * 18) Wikilink question
 * 19) Quickly Delete image
 * 20) Removal of link of a namesake on my Wikipedia page

= May 3 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 3


 * 1) Draft question for edit?
 * 2) Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
 * 3) Create own wikipedia
 * 4) Edit warring
 * 5) Please help replacing the company logo
 * 6) contacting people
 * 7) How to submit a page or article
 * 8) Need help in order to submit a draft for reviewing and wanting to publish it as a main page
 * 9) My entire editing history has been removed -- why and by whom?
 * 10) Article creation
 * 11) Attribution requirement leading to AfD
 * 12) Template
 * 13) Why does this article have words Etymology 1 through 3?
 * 14) misleading information regarding Mandaeans

= May 4 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 4


 * 1) covid 19 death numbers
 * 2) Did I do this correctly?
 * 3) Redirects
 * 4) Add reference or dead link
 * 5) User on multiple IPs on reality show articles—how to handle?
 * 6) Hi
 * 7) Question about links
 * 8) how to add village details
 * 9) Spam links?
 * 10) Citing an article spreading over more than one issue
 * 11) President Trumps page is political Prejudice
 * 12) Someone keeps reporting me for no reason
 * 13) Cross-wiki watchlisting?
 * 14) Category Market research companies  by country, formerly (and should be) Marketing research
 * 15) Disambiguation hatnote if there is no article?
 * 16) Query from 1106kathleen
 * 17) Editing my Page on the site didn't work and now information is missing. Below is the original and I would appreciate if it could be reinserted. Thank-you

= May 5 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 5


 * 1) Change of User name
 * 2) Image Copyright
 * 3) Language/Spelling
 * 4) Using a single reference across multiple articles
 * 5) Minor Edits
 * 6) Deleted question
 * 7) Regarding anthem of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
 * 8) I am the owner of a page and people are erasing my updates
 * 9) Requesting Flickr images to be uploaded to Commons
 * 10) Iwilsonp made a change that I don’t agree with.
 * 11) printing of a broad page doesn't work
 * 12) I just received a FINAL WARNING for an ordinary edit (please see the last post on the TALK page of my username)
 * 13) Wikidata list template

= May 6 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 6


 * 1) How can inappropriate content be removed from the Nanking Massacre page/
 * 2) Link
 * 3) File:Limonese Authentic Party flag.png not public domain?
 * 4) Musa S. Dibadj
 * 5) HotCat
 * 6) Jaya Suberg as a biography candidate
 * 7) Benson, Arizona
 * 8) Table sorting
 * 9) Deleted Page
 * 10) Deleted Logo in Infobox
 * 11) Editing Bill Adderley's Page,
 * 12) How to save draft before submitting for review?
 * 13) Kayvan Khalatbari - How can I resolve the alert at the top of his page?
 * 14) Fictional characters named Martin
 * 15) Is there a category for streets or landmarks that have been renamed?
 * 16) Remove plot synopses from article about books
 * 17) No ISBN Numbers in older books?
 * 18) Change the typeface when viewing different revisions of an article

= May 7 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 7


 * 1) Two similar categories on English Wikipedia - do we need both ?
 * 2) Looking for help to publish a page
 * 3) Nominees for Best Actress
 * 4) CHYDARU
 * 5) Intentionally erroneous information in page preview for "Geneva Convention"
 * 6) Block wikidata value import/override into infobox
 * 7) Judy mikovitz
 * 8) Finding fonts for special characters
 * 9) Using a photograph found on Wikipedia.
 * 10) Regarding User:Makwanasahil
 * 11) Dr. William Longshaw
 * 12) "Ben Weprin" Page
 * 13) Category list
 * 14) is it possible to do a link to another wikipedia language
 * 15) Is there a tool to replace reftag.appspot.com now that Google Books URL format has changed?

= May 8 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 8


 * 1) Popular culture
 * 2) Delete an account
 * 3) Image creation
 * 4) how to search for a key word within an article in Wikipedia
 * 5) I have now been told due to my 4 star Rolling Stone award rock history book (20 years in circulation) being published, its not legitimate
 * 6)  Speedy deletion
 * 7) Redlinks to removed pages
 * 8) compromised account?
 * 9) Draft:Wonho (singer)
 * 10) Wikipedia cries out for contributors in specialist fields, so if the contributor overlooks the system why not take his info and insert yourself
 * 11) Audio with timed captioning
 * 12) How do I access my drafts?
 * 13) Why?
 * 14) California Department of Real Estate
 * 15) Please help me with making a profile..

= May 9 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 9


 * 1) AfD generating red-link to discussion that acts strange
 * 2) Ankit Kumar Pandey
 * 3) Rod Steiger photo
 * 4) Edit Summary
 * 5) Lists for Wikipedia
 * 6) Newer version of file not appearing in the article
 * 7) Font size/
 * 8) Hi guys my article was moved to draftspace
 * 9) Moving a page
 * 10) *IDENTIFYING*
 * 11) Please help me locate a Wiki group/project interested in rock climbing
 * 12) Driveby tagging
 * 13) Misattributed Contributions
 * 14) Editing list
 * 15) Font
 * 16) Article title spelling

= May 10 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 10


 * 1) Citing a site that displays content based on javascript
 * 2) Pending revisions
 * 3) Copyvio? on some information I moved? Maybe verifiability problems
 * 4) Problem with editing infobox
 * 5) How to report a misleading edit.
 * 6) Linking to a category, and a more specific question
 * 7) question re viewing some individual data for other editors
 * 8) Bulgaria
 * 9) Use of Congressional Record.
 * 10) Starting Fresh
 * 11) How to publish and sustain my Company's information on Wikipedia?
 * 12) blue crawfish/crayfish
 * 13) Contradiction
 * 14) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 15) Usage of the pronoun "it" without a particular noun it's referring to
 * 16) Importing a Wikipedia XML dump into a MediaWiki 1.34.1 website

= May 11 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 11


 * 1) User page guidelines: Interwiki links
 * 2) Page still shows "official website" field in infobox even though it isn't explicitly on the page
 * 3) Hunger strikers in notable deaths article
 * 4) question re groups contact methods
 * 5) Infobox after the lead paragraph on mobile
 * 6)  Removed my corrections to the Komal Rao Article
 * 7) Draft:Hella Brock
 * 8) Deletion of my draft Draft:City of Mist
 * 9) Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
 * 10) How to deal with an SPA
 * 11) Wikipedia
 * 12) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Souness#Rangers_2
 * 13) Is there a tool to rename references?
 * 14) Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
 * 15) Preview appearance
 * 16) History of Parliamentary Select Committees
 * 17) Artist webpages

= May 12 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 12


 * 1) Search with both insource operator and OR failing
 * 2) I want to receive a notification when someone links to an article
 * 3) Primary vs. Secondary sourcing for election results
 * 4) Page deletion
 * 5) How to move a page properly, when the old page is a redirect... or, what I did wrong.
 * 6) CC-licensed video on Youtube → Commons?
 * 7) For the Novice Wikipedia Editor Who Refers to Himself as Hippeus
 * 8) Gaurav Khanna
 * 9) I'm brand new here & need help!
 * 10) Sukant Kadam
 * 11) Inappropriate behavior in the Ritual (film) article
 * 12) Question about pending changes
 * 13) Try to make English page and Turkish page same
 * 14) Every Single Word - Youtube Infobox being very weird
 * 15) Mistake Posted PDF
 * 16) Warned when trying to add lyrics
 * 17) Delete Wikipedia app

= May 13 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 13


 * 1) Submission of a multi-section text for creation the Wikipedia article about a notable physician/researcher/academic
 * 2) Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
 * 3) It says that I have 1 page on my watchlist. Where do I see this page?
 * 4) Change picture in article
 * 5) How to upload image file of historical document?
 * 6) Lupton family
 * 7) Amendment to Template:Trans-Australian Railway
 * 8) I can't find a page that I've been to in the past
 * 9) Facts that are contrary to date
 * 10) Adding every page in a category to my watchlist
 * 11) Wikipedia page updates
 * 12) photo update
 * 13) Is there a way to search Wikipedia for reference to a particular book?
 * 14) Picture Upload Issues
 * 15) Sarah and Catherine Isabella Losh.

= May 14 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 14


 * 1) Change dates and some prayers time
 * 2) How to delete templates?
 * 3) Is it OK to copy from TALK to Article? The Rise of David Levinsky
 * 4) Spam filtre now blocks me from contributing to the COVID-19 article
 * 5) Draft
 * 6) How to increase font for certain election box templates
 * 7) HMS Maidstone
 * 8) Indian Claims Commission errors
 * 9) A part of the song (for music theory and idea illustration)
 * 10) How do I make a table of contents go to a certain page?
 * 11) BLP in cases of "ruled dead in absentia"
 * 12) kukri or khukuri
 * 13) Added info re sexual orientation ... it was deleted.

= May 15 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 15


 * 1) Xtools - external links
 * 2) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 3) Draft disappeared
 * 4) RE: Four Star Mary
 * 5) Meaning of a notification
 * 6) Kayvan Khalatbari - How can I resolve the alert at the top of his page?
 * 7) Bing Liu (scientist)
 * 8) Mobile version v. desktop
 * 9) Is it safe to ask a question in users talk page?
 * 10) Cylindrical equal-area projection

= May 16 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 16


 * 1) how is it you can get focus 1 for pyra
 * 2) Is there a way to recover access to an old account?
 * 3) Khukri = Khukuri
 * 4) Ax09tongo67
 * 5) WP:BLP violation on talk page?

= May 17 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 17


 * 1) Claiming a automatically generated page/place by wikipedia on facebook
 * 2) How to upload my biography so it can be on Google search.
 * 3) Copying Wikipedia for questions on a question answer college test
 * 4) delete my wikivoyage page and remove me from that program
 * 5) Potternewton
 * 6) Query about Indian locomotive class
 * 7) The saltwater crocodile distribution section is full of factual errors but cannot be edited
 * 8) I want to upload Info about a writer.
 * 9) How to see my wikipedia posts?
 * 10) Wrong information about me
 * 11) Help with formatting citation
 * 12) Are you able to put in a link on an edit summary?
 * 13) font that Wiki uses

= May 18 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 18


 * 1) Notifications
 * 2) Creating a new category
 * 3) Islam and slavery
 * 4) Referring to an artist that keeps changing stage name
 * 5) Disruptive and stalker
 * 6) Help with large charts
 * 7) Edit code instead Edit
 * 8) Adding a non- profit organisation profile on WIkipedia
 * 9) Pages are misplaced in a category page
 * 10) How do my favourite artist Wikipedia page be searched and found in google
 * 11) Reference list
 * 12) Help:Cite errors/Cite error group refs without references
 * 13) Help Needed in Removing a photo file

= May 19 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 19


 * 1) Infobox parameter confusion
 * 2) Seeking advice on creating an article from a subheading
 * 3) Haneet Narang
 * 4) Template for excessively positive sources, esp. movie articles
 * 5) How to edit on wiki ?
 * 6) MOS:FOREIGNITALIC
 * 7) Creating an article in another language on the basis of an article existing in English
 * 8) Procedure to report suspicious edits?
 * 9) Correction of a mistake on your search engine
 * 10) Help:Cite errors/Cite error empty references define

= May 20 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 20


 * 1) Doc Antle Visual Editing
 * 2) EdiT
 * 3) soda stream
 * 4) How to globally edit all similar citations across Wikipedia
 * 5) Last article i wrote about new technology invention hypercapacitor
 * 6) Help required
 * 7) The Common Sense Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_Party_(UK)
 * 8) Inquiry
 * 9) Q&A regarding requesting to edit certain articles
 * 10) Subject Mount Everest:
 * 11) Today's mess courtesy of me
 * 12) Regarding A edit and claim a Page
 * 13) Is it possible to retrieve an edit made by me?
 * 14) Uploaded Link/PDF missing title

= May 21 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 21


 * 1) Adding a new writing method
 * 2) Editing for religious group
 * 3) Yo
 * 4) Vandalism found in this page.
 * 5) Wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones
 * 6) Deletion
 * 7) pku
 * 8) DAMS IN KERALA
 * 9) Article review
 * 10) A list of people who came from India to Guyana during the 1800’s.
 * 11) Change wat appears when people search my name
 * 12) Kendell Jenner
 * 13) Linking to gadgets?
 * 14) "LOST" EARLY-TALKIE FEATURE FILMS

= May 22 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 22


 * 1) Joey Fatone
 * 2) Citing different articles/titles from the same journal
 * 3) Can i say to people that i wrote the page if i actually did? Also can i tell them my youtube channel so they can subscribe?
 * 4) About awrds
 * 5) Remove Prod BLP box from article
 * 6) A very active user with privileges over me, is going to delete again a page about a legal political party which I had recently restored
 * 7) Kennedy of Knocknalling Genealogy
 * 8) Please help
 * 9) Link to an image; but don't display it
 * 10) Talk page of Tara Reade
 * 11) List of Banks
 * 12) Where to report a user with multiple accounts?
 * 13) Fix reference
 * 14) Find edits in history page by edit summary

= May 23 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 23


 * 1) Can’t create a WP book
 * 2) How can I propose the creation of pages
 * 3) Capitalization
 * 4) Delete duplicate article
 * 5) Files on Commons not coming through
 * 6) Reporting IP socks
 * 7) Why is it necessary to provide a source for something that is its own source?
 * 8) This page is a fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Carrillo

= May 24 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 24


 * 1) Television shows by topic
 * 2) Question re interwiki linking
 * 3) Deceased wikipedians
 * 4) question re odd wikimedia site
 * 5) John Proctor
 * 6) Copyright violation?
 * 7) Gaurav Khanna (badminton)
 * 8) Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
 * 9) Looking for a hatnote name template

= May 25 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 25


 * 1) Permission to recreate page Anjunadeep
 * 2) Edited article
 * 3) Marketing and Market, mark it Round and Round, CfD, Help, CfD, etc
 * 4) Looking for help cleaning up a table
 * 5) Where is a list of templates?
 * 6) Editing Assistance to remove "Promotional Language"
 * 7) CREATING A LINK that goes to another spot under the SAME heading
 * 8) How do I make a suggestion for a page?
 * 9) My Wikipedia page does not appear on google search when l search it's title(name of the page)
 * 10) Regex matching in templates

= May 26 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 26


 * 1) Television shows by topic
 * 2) Andy Coulson
 * 3) citation does not identify source adequately
 * 4) All black
 * 5) Updating a page
 * 6) Copyright of copied passage: Edward Albert's "A History of English Literature"
 * 7) UPLB Museum of Natural History
 * 8) “King Arthur”
 * 9) Double redirects from subpages used as draft
 * 10) Abdelslam elaskary
 * 11) Someone hijacked the links of my company's article page, and editing it back caused our actual homepage to get added to the global blacklist so we cannot undo the hijacked edit
 * 12) Getting listed on Wikipedia
 * 13) How to add an image that wikicommons doesn't recognize?
 * 14) Trying to adjust a client's wikipedia career page

= May 27 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 27


 * 1) New article about a scientist for the Women in Science project - by a first-time Wikipedia writer-dude
 * 2) Mudança da foto principal
 * 3) Website
 * 4) How to find an expert willing to / already in charge of reviewing quality of articles in a specific expertise domain?
 * 5) Current time in IST
 * 6) Mouse over images incorrect
 * 7) Translating articles into English
 * 8) Leaf Peeper advertising link
 * 9) edit
 * 10) Default language of not-logged in user
 * 11) Changing a picture
 * 12) List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, February 2020
 * 13) possible wikipedia editing scam

= May 28 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 28


 * 1) ¡Exijo! que borren mi cuenta y toda la información de que disponga Wikipedia asociada a esa cuenta.
 * 2) Can't upload ogg fair-use file from my mac using File Upload Wizard
 * 3) Discrepancy between spelling in title of page and title of talk page
 * 4) Mater Christi College
 * 5) How many days should I wait to see my information added to the wiki article?
 * 6) Locking a page for a specific reason.
 * 7) My page deleted, I need content to edit.
 * 8) Make a Biography page for Actor
 * 9) Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
 * 10) Speedy deletion of David Sakvarelidze (director)
 * 11) Wikimedia Commons Cannot be opened
 * 12) How to
 * 13) How to report when someone deletes others contirbutions?
 * 14) English
 * 15) Side by side Commons templates
 * 16) problem at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bands and musicians

= May 29 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 29


 * 1) Ref Desk Science Table of Contents is hidden
 * 2) Article Posted
 * 3) How can I publish my wiki article to the public wiki? Neil Patel - Dentist
 * 4) Bogus draft help
 * 5) Links to other languages
 * 6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
 * 7) Inquiry
 * 8) Incorrect edit
 * 9) template for editing talk page archives?
 * 10) Hi, How can I ask someone to review the article I have submitted to wikipedia
 * 11) Hya I've received a message from Luk3 saying I edited something....
 * 12) I have previously set up 2 factor authentication; now I have a new device and don't know what to do
 * 13) Infobox logo
 * 14) Received spam from company claiming to edit wikipedia for money
 * 15) Help with splitting and merging article

= May 30 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 30


 * 1) Difference between resources and external links?
 * 2) How wikipedia lost its old edits?
 * 3) IsiXhosa
 * 4) English
 * 5) Delsort archiving
 * 6) If wikipedia is free for everyone/editors why donation banner at the top?
 * 7) Long-running vandalism
 * 8) Why do editors risk their accounts by editing?
 * 9) how to use help channel
 * 10) using text from website on wiki about page?
 * 11) error when i want to publish an edited article

= May 31 = Help_desk/Archives/2020 May 31


 * 1) I edited some information about my dad. When I clicked "publish" they cited ERROR, ref tag . How do I edit a passage without this ref error coming up?
 * 2) What ban imposed on me?
 * 3) Germ theory
 * 4) The main page talk page is not a talk page?
 * 5) Is there a clean method for exporting articles as .docx?
 * 6) Draupadi
 * 7) Feature proposal to Module:Interlinear
 * 8) Justine Harun-Mahdavi deleting the page
 * 9) How to Make Our Organization Page Live
 * 10) Wrong information
 * 11) Article not reviewed after my latest edits since February 24
 * 12) Adding images
 * 13) Talk page in disorder
 * 14) Some misdirection?
 * 15) Bringing articles to featured status
 * 16) Haymarket affair - no picture of newer statue
 * 17) Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria shriver