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April 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 1

  1. Using an image
  2. local consensus
  3. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
  4. Redirecting a page because the name of the institution has changed. How?
  5. registered user
  6. not certain why I'm receiving this, it seems harassing to me

April 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 2

  1. request edit of page about me: Richard Crasta
  2. Bot issue?
  3. How to get a user to read their talk page?
  4. Death notice posted on my page for March 29
  5. Filter out list of article based on my expertise
  6. Informational notes
  7. Are quotation marks allowed or disallowed in Wikipedia article titles?
  8. This Page: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chedi%27s) Has Been Deleted And There Is No Response From the Deleting Admin
  9. Location of Ole Miss campus in Jackson, MS
  10. Is there a simple way to take an Excel spreadsheet and convert it into a Wikitable?
  11. Use of 'in character' images in BLPs
  12. Comparison of the renewable energy plants

April 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 3

  1. Editing a partially blocked site--Rugrats
  2. info-en@wikimedia.org
  3. Profile
  4. How do I make the bottom row to be double in height, by using the "rowspan=2" command?
  5. How do I disable sorting for only one column in a table?
  6. Is it possible to add zebra stripes to a Wikipedia table?
  7. Wi-Fi in Moscow Metro
  8. Merge requests
  9. How to create an article
  10. Which revision of an article was nominated as good or featured?
  11. New Welcome Templates
  12. Collapsible list
  13. News stories
  14. Category problem

April 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 4

  1. Title Blacklist
  2. Creating new article
  3. permanently disable or delete Wikipedia account
  4. Correcting Article Wesley Douglas
  5. Page title change
  6. Renaming the article "Roberto Menotti" to "Menotti"
  7. Horace Silver Wikipedia Page
  8. What is the standard default height of a row in a Wikipedia table?
  9. what takes precedence
  10. Google images - can I use?
  11. Where can I find a list of all the Wikipedia markup codes?
  12. Neutrality

April 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 5

  1. How do I move an article to a redirect page that points to it?
  2. Chico Scimone
  3. Regarding north Carolinas men's basketball page
  4. Section started by 27.33.147.245
  5. rename request
  6. security numbers
  7. MLK anniversary unmarked
  8. Can we CSD a user page
  9. Wikiscan
  10. moving my questions
  11. How Do I add A Graphic To A Portal?
  12. Question
  13. Is this reuse allowed?

April 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 6

  1. Table problem
  2. ISLISP site
  3. Referencing errors on FreeBSD
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  5. Editing a template
  6. User rights log
  7. A sock puppet has got to my page
  8. what options, if any, do I have here??
  9. Tiny font in Chrome edit box
  10. Protecting Sierra Academy of Aeronautics permanently
  11. Read
  12. Templates
  13. Blackhillsguy
  14. How to write a music on wikipedia
  15. How to set a music password
  16. how to ...
  17. How do I request a draft review?
  18. African American vs. Black

April 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 7

  1. Help needed with Authority control
  2. Why am I blocked for editing?
  3. wiki page
  4. Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index
  5. Visual Editor Talk Pages
  6. amending page name
  7. EHelp with 'orphan' pages
  8. Text in patents that has expired
  9. Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers
  10. Problems trying to save
  11. How to Complain a user ?
  12. extended confirmed user
  13. Wikipedia Policy
  14. Train Route

April 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 8

  1. What is wrong with the EB1911 template?
  2. rename request
  3. Use of Wikipedia brand to sell a product
  4. floyd salas
  5. Help! I can't log in.
  6. Purpose of Wikipedia
  7. Uploading my own image work to an Wikipedia article
  8. Problems adding a date to an image
  9. Find Sources
  10. Image in the infobox is misleading but referred to automatically
  11. Saved Pages on mobile aren't found on desktop site
  12. David Jolly
  13. How to "center" an Infobox
  14. The ethics of creating and disambiguating an entry
  15. How do I report a Wikipedia-admin?

April 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 9

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  2. Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers
  3. I have found a page that requires attention
  4. The Removal of Chris Russo Solutions from CRS wiki
  5. Referencing errors on Parrotfish
  6. Is this page self promotion? Thanks
  7. Hausa Language and Wikipedia and Languages
  8. Do not delete the article Stonehenge Kick
  9. I need help to get a passcode off my iphone
  10. Ask for help
  11. Adding to the Days Of The Year list

April 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 10

  1. Partial italic title
  2. Article not appearing in categories
  3. How to help write article
  4. Help with article on Jay Richard Bonin

April 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 11

  1. Mis-information and classification
  2. Uploading new picture of logo for a company
  3. rename request
  4. User:Asastikar sandbox, etc.
  5. UFC 157
  6. collaborating and posting a completed article
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  8. Talk pages and Fraternity Secrets...
  9. Musical Password
  10. Can you place Wikipedia blue links in section headings of Wikipedia articles?
  11. WP:1RR
  12. Women subcategories

April 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 12

  1. delete my account please
  2. Begin a new page
  3. MADAM/SIR G'AFTERNOON
  4. 'Compare selected revisions' query
  5. Someone keeps adding racial and non factual terms to a page
  6. "List of cities with the most high-rise buildings"
  7. my corrections on a page pertaining to me keep reverting, i keep reporting, please help
  8. What exactly happened [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APlayer072&type=revision&diff=714913166&oldid=711121157 here?]
  9. Editsource
  10. Question about pending changes
  11. Problems with using "Edit" option on my sandbox
  12. Edit source?
  13. The 'Howie Schwab' wikipedia is a blatant farce

April 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 13

  1. rename request
  2. "Editing" option changing to "Edit source"
  3. updates without references
  4. 1981 Collage World Series
  5. hacker
  6. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  7. Deleting a failed contribution
  8. Surviving WWII Veteran
  9. Change spelling of Golden Lions CEO
  10. flying rods
  11. Agnes Repplier bibliography
  12. Copyright violation
  13. Delete the page i created completely
  14. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  15. Article talkpage archiving
  16. How to edit with a friend

April 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 14

  1. Dead Links
  2. rename request
  3. How to create a wikipedia page
  4. Peter Jannetta, MD
  5. Please fix the table in List of Republican National Conventions.
  6. D.O.B.
  7. Birth names in parentheses in intros
  8. Referencing errors on 2016–17 NHL season
  9. Adding an external link to an article about condo hotels
  10. How to access the visual editor offline?
  11. help
  12. Typography style in Wikipedia articles
  13. rename request
  14. White Lodge, Richmond Park

April 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 15

  1. Article moved against consensus.
  2. Images
  3. how to watch all pages in a category?
  4. Michael Mount Waldorf School
  5. Missing edit summary on desktop view from iPad
  6. How to define a date for an ancient source?
  7. an article that appears to have been written as a resume/brochure
  8. Help moving a page
  9. Can CC-BY-SA/GFDL be revoked?
  10. WP:BRD
  11. How does a Saved article get in the process?
  12. Joker venom

April 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 16

  1. Need help!! Is Geacron.com a reliable source for articles?
  2. Wikipedia:Autopatrolled
  3. Persondata
  4. Persondata tools?
  5. infobox book does not work
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error group refs without references
  7. delete / rename request

April 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 17

  1. Deletion of an article
  2. Wikipedia article traffic statistics
  3. Image copyright problem
  4. Obvious difficulty is my age (92) and I was too busy to publish scholarly article

April 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 18

  1. Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde
  2. UFC 157
  3. restriction by editing to many external links
  4. Problem in Editing the page of our own institution
  5. Clarification on attribution vs plagiarism, please
  6. Posting an Article
  7. Authority control (Normativnyi kontrol')
  8. How many editors watching a page?
  9. Search redirecting
  10. swans
  11. Ram Gopal Varma

April 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 19

  1. How to
  2. Properly reference an entry substitution
  3. Problem with signing
  4. Broken links to sections
  5. Can't save edits from the default editor?
  6. salmaan taseer
  7. Double check on plagiarism and copyright question
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  9. Peer review an article
  10. Please re write article
  11. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  12. collapsed section
  13. Visual editor
  14. Removal of content from one's own personal talk page
  15. confused about uploading an image from an artist
  16. PDF copy of article Not Downloading
  17. versions of an article

April 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 20

  1. James William Middleton
  2. Moira Dunbar
  3. Wrong geodata added by bot
  4. Adding link
  5. Replacing dead cite urls with archive.org versions
  6. William Cheung
  7. Request for medical advice
  8. Tag for "source too old"
  9. need help- Patricia Driscoll (business executive)
  10. Watchlist
  11. I Have A Question

April 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 21

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  2. Jackson on U.S. currency
  3. the history of vedic culture as explained in wikipedia is false , eroneous information
  4. Where exactly do the references come from?
  5. Problems with WiDaR
  6. Gibside
  7. Adding Category Box to the end of an article?
  8. Fixing problems on contribution
  9. greatest horror films list
  10. Recourse for abusive reverts with or without targeting/hazing
  11. Display option?
  12. Start a wikipedia page
  13. Referencing errors on 2016 in American television
  14. definition how to find a word by
  15. alt text
  16. Help with Wikipedia
  17. Can't find the incorrect ref formatting error
  18. Johann Sebastian Bach
  19. Copyright question
  20. uploading IRS Form 990 and other documents legislatively mandated for wide public scrutiny

April 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 22

  1. Referencing errors on Gummawala
  2. Biography
  3. :Averil Leimon
  4. One of my students broke Wikpedia
  5. dead dependent source links
  6. That monkey selfie
  7. Notable Alumni
  8. Name change

April 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 23

  1. Thomas Frey
  2. weird watchlist notifications
  3. main page articles
  4. Inter-wiki amount of Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
  5. Communication between Wikipedians
  6. Referencing errors on CLLI code
  7. Alec Harris
  8. Template redirect
  9. How do I make several rows in a Wikitable have a colored background?
  10. Is there a template that calculates how many years elapsed from a given year until today (the current day)?
  11. Deletions since I began reviewing new articles
  12. DAB page or Anthroponymy page?
  13. Kootenay Formation page
  14. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  15. extended confirmed user ‎

April 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 24

  1. A draft left in limbo...
  2. The Laverne_Cox needs fixing
  3. Linda Brava
  4. James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale
  5. Lupton family
  6. Website name vs. article title in citations
  7. can i publish an article with security?
  8. Earlier queries
  9. Why was my page deleted??
  10. :House of Bartoli and :Bartoli family
  11. Lupton family
  12. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  13. External tools: Revision history statistics
  14. How do I insert a html id into a page?
  15. General question about using Google Books
  16. Is there a way to calculate a value and to also have it sort correctly in a table?
  17. Is there a way to add a colored background to the "Sequence" Template?
  18. Editing on mobile
  19. My WIKI page is deleted !
  20. I have a few concerns about the Hillary Clinton nomination page.
  21. My User Page

April 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 25

  1. If I have the hex code for a color, how do I incrementally change the hex code to make the color become a little lighter or darker?
  2. Could someone please wikify three articles?
  3. How to find a list of my edits with a particular edit summary?
  4. how to change the article
  5. The Browser (website)
  6. Attempted fraud via Wikipedia site
  7. Changing MyDriver to myDriver
  8. New Section
  9. Hunt of a Lifetime Foundation
  10. How can I create a forward to a page in another Wiki
  11. Threatening tone by editor
  12. joey davis ncaa record
  13. Edit Content
  14. Broken logo in article

April 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 26

  1. Reference error on the Legacy section of the Bonanza page.
  2. Referencing errors on Orthostatic headache
  3. Creating Two Draft Articles and Unmerging Their Histories
  4. Talk:Buddhism
  5. Collapsible list
  6. we want to register wikipedia
  7. Moving an Infobox
  8. Complementary colors: is there some mathematical way to determine the hex code of its complementary color?
  9. New Article Submission
  10. Issue in Article Name
  11. Talk:Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  12. Phallocentrism
  13. Music quotation
  14. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
  15. Finding a contribution
  16. Patrolling query
  17. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  18. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  19. Patrick Moten
  20. Semiprotected page
  21. Error/possible trolling on page "Feminist theory"
  22. ClueBot
  23. BOXES
  24. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

April 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 27

  1. Review of and feedback regarding artist promotional activity
  2. character case
  3. Princess Aisha bint Hussein
  4. Rina Charaniya
  5. Help with correcting a page
  6. Possible unfree image
  7. Unusual mail, with link to wikipedia.

April 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 28

  1. Greg Murphy
  2. Date citation error
  3. Template translation
  4. copy of Lydia O. Arefeva
  5. Wikipedia submission process
  6. pressure change through hole
  7. Plot inaccuracies?
  8. User who isn't signed up to Wikipedia repeatedly section blanking without reason.
  9. Background colours
  10. Sheffield Wednesday FC - request edit
  11. Luis Rubiales
  12. Referencing a Wikipedia article
  13. Louis E. Eliasberg
  14. Table apearing beneath the references... why?

April 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 29

  1. Edit Page
  2. Publishing a Draft Page
  3. Automated map coloring?
  4. Searching for individual usage of a word.
  5. Verifiability
  6. Global lock
  7. Age of tree
  8. Password help

April 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 April 30

  1. Searching Multiple Archives for a String
  2. A redirect deletion discussion that needs to be renewed/repeated or speedied
  3. Non-verifiable information.
  4. Making a wiki about myself - proposed for being deleted?
  5. Canadian second world war veterans still alive
  6. List of Essential Mix episodes
  7. Referencing errors on Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits
  8. Referencing errors on Microphone
  9. How to lock a page from vandalism or malicious edits
  10. Other Editors I cannot find on the search button
  11. J. R. Bareis
  12. More information about Florida history
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