Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/August 2024

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August 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 1

1. Help with WP.1.0 Assessment
2. usa federal government
3. 1992 Olympic Dream Team
4. How does anyone get a Wikipedia page?
5. Das Agile Manifest
6. Unable to move my article from Sandbox to main page
7. Category:Actors who committed suicide
8. Secure a "celebrity" super model page
9. Template:Wikisource
10. Claude McKay
11. Making infoboxes appear in one section
12. Why do so many of your editors incorrectly say that books are "entitled"?
13. Feedback for Choosing text color/background
14. sub-subcategories and pages in a category

August 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 2

1. Wiki Page is having false information
2. Repeatedly occurrence of Vandalised activity while utilising undo method for wrong intentions
3. Documentaries
4. Images as background
5. RE Creating a page
6. notability of a living author

August 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 3

1. Boobapedia
2. When will be my wikipage shown on Google SERP?
3. How to deal with the inconsistencies in Security Council membership maps
4. Technology
5. Wikipedia Information and Subject Pages
6. Mistakes in the article Notes on Muscovite Affairs
7. Article unable to edit
8. I need help

August 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 4

1. Citing single source for list
2. Bug
3. What to do when an editor is potentially connected to the subject of the article?
4. Doccia porcelain (rename)
5. dark mode hyperlink color has insufficient contrast
6. How to unhide a hidden file/folder to nominate an article for A-class review
7. Collapsing Template:Infobox nutritional value

August 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 5

1. Obligations to comply with PROD contested by p-blocked editor
2. Please remove
3. undo edit
4. All my edits are being reverting by the same two users
5. Table moved to bottom of the page
6. Referencing errors on Julius Perlis
7. Is there a way to see the "Compare versions" view in the editor before submitting?
8. Problem with search function

August 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 6

1. Removing something
2. Posted on talk page about modifying article title. No one responding. What to do?
3. Missouri Court Plan Manipulation in Alaska Retention Elections
4. Could I please have help
5. Su Bingtian page
6. I added an accidental ' in the title of the article
7. VP Harris
8. Article dispute
9. Finer grained difference.
10. TO&E of Soviet union Tanks in WWII

August 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 7

1. Disable book-creation tooltip
2. Wikipedia page
3. Trying to retire from mentoring
4. Top left menu
5. Why can’t I convert lira to USD for 2023?
6. How to nominate an anniversary in Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries?
7. Appropriate to describe and cite copyright concerns in an article?
8. Assistance Needed with Draft Approval: Silent Hands Support Inc.
9. Should I specify in a software infobox's "License" section if the software is not available to the public?
10. Help for publishing a translation from PT-BR
11. Purchase Orders

August 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 8

1. Questions
2. Harris
3. most test pepper question
4. Incorrect information
5. Image displaying weird
6. Family tree chart and things
7. How do I fix a page?
8. Being listed on Wikipedia

August 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 9

1. referencing - will not edit in visual editor
2. error message problem
3. Use this without an account
4. Do Not Archive Until Tag
5. How should one translate 10 Lives to 10 Lives (album) to preserve the album article history?
6. Will I get in trouble?
7. I want to add that there is a roblox game made after brookhaven georgia and is very popular millions of players but it got reverted
8. Train Stops
9. OS Grid references

August 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 10

1. "User is blocked" message
2. Request for Assistance in Creating/Updating Author and TV Show Creator Page
3. Suspicious user
4. Mohamed Siad Barre
5. Misapplication of 'the' in description of an individual
6. Trouble Submitting Translated Article
7. Embed hatnote in page-top template, one transclusion only

August 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 11

1. Infobox video game and DISPLAYTITLE
2. Edit reversion on Land Rover Defender (L663)
3. US Interests Section Havana Cuba
4. Fix the dignitaries of Closing Ceremony Paris 2024

August 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 12

1. Delete a page on wikipedia
2. DELETE MY ACCOUNT
3. Assistance Needed with Sourcing for Draft Article on Koorosh Ghorbani
4. Templates, Prekmurje Slovene
5. Clarification Needed: Adding External Link to UAE's Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) Website
6. edit help
7. Notability
8. translation of the Persian article for Koorosh Ghorbani
9. Ben Gurion Canal page revival
10. User interface
11. Track listings for Soundtrack section of films
12. Template:Advert has content but comes up blank

August 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 13

1. Problem while fixing Errors
2. Your edit of JD Vance
3. How do i remove statements that persecute based on religion?
4. Rename the page title and url
5. How to Properly Integrate Cited References for New Technological Advances in Existing Articles?
6. Navbox and sidebar consistency
7. How can I protect important information from a vandal?
8. how to create account
9. Updating company page
10. Proper use of "van"
11. Dress code of gumboot dance
12. TOC not displayed for non-logged in users

August 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 14

1. I can't log in!!!!
2. Citing video interviews referencing sworn testimony vs court reporting documents (WWE EDITION)
3. Request for Review of Resubmitted Article
4. Defunct taskforce
5. Rule not to add a message on top of a section on a talk page
6. Unsubstantiated polemics
7. How do I add another archive to my talk page?
8. Pop-up's Donation.

August 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 15

1. Forget Password
2. Help
3. Siegel & McGehee (redirects to)
4. My edit was removed for no reason
5. Infobox template
6. Request for Review of Re-Submitted Article
7. i want to delete my account
8. Enemy bot action
9. Help with Harvnb refs
10. Phone IP blocked

August 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 16

1. Who can add an important consensus information to an article?
2. Problem with Mount Everst article
3. Garland Case
4. Template:Gamessport
5. Watch List
6. Is editing relating to/referencing open-source projects you've contributed to a COI?

August 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 17

1. I can't search wiki.
2. I want to create a wiki page for an inventor
3. Fix an archive
4. Posting Someone's Private Information
5. Thumbnails not created
6. VIDEO ON EDITING WIKIPEDIA
7. dispute
8. IPA
9. Me or i
10. How to Save Articles but NOT download them to iOS devices

August 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 18

1. Project banner shell
2. Please delete my submission
3. How would I make it so that Wikipedia shows the Incubator in the language list?
4. Looking for an NPOV contributor to clean up article | Music Technology
5. Patrolling article hatnotes?
6. How can I apply for university in Wikipedia
7. Idea
8. Changing a Wikimedia Commons image license to a less restrictive one?

August 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 19

1. Bot is marking images for deletion because of non-use, but isn't following the full chain, and there's not a great way to chat about it
2. Question about non-traditional sources
3. Vandalism help request from Aubrey.eliza
4. Linkspam
5. My utube video views is not increase please help
6. mdkawshar1
7. Citing multiple chapters
8. USS Kidd (DD-661) page

August 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 20

1. The previous Wikipedia
2. Subheading not being recognised
3. Caret in article title
4. Deleted contributions
5. Need to change our editors of and make multiple edits to a university Wikipedia page
6. Wikipedia Page has disappeared?
7. Draft declined, wondering why.
8. Help with Harvnb refs (Again)
9. St Anne's College, Oxford

August 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 21

1. When it says "the code is incorrect" what do I do?
2. Requesting authorization to update the Lally School Wikipedia page
3. How do I link a section of an article into a category page?
4. Possible to get info into box by name of wikidata item?
5. Is it possible to get WSOP free chips from websites that provides links?
6. Can I create a wikipedia for my company
7. Please Correct Tim Walz's Page
8. Donald S. Rugoff | Film producer
9. Why is 2FA only enableable on your account through making a special request?
10. Help Needed with Vaibhav Palhade Draft Article

August 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 22

1. Two queries
2. Blocked for using wrong username
3. "my article"
4. Help with maintenance message
5. Changing template text
6. "Start a discussion" on Talk Pages
7. Joseph Hill violin
8. Where to advertise/promote a proposed rework of a page for critique and other review?
9. Can I use Google Translate?
10. How to restore deleted wikipedia page

August 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 23

1. How To Make a Article
2. Thoughts on notability of these three academics?
3. article cant be published
4. Name change of otherwise non-notable transgender person in another article
5. Editing a curious "notes" section on a Wiki page
6. Pronunciation
7. Need Help! Accidentally deleted Heading "Gyroklystron" in article "Klystron"
8. media permission

August 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 24

1. Re: Archie Henderson (comedian)
2. I want to make a draft page but it is a redirect.
3. St Anne's College, Oxford
4. Regensburg subcamp
5. Change Display Name of Article
6. Link to a subheading within a Wikipedia article
7. Emojis
8. Looking for a second set of eyes on this userspace draft
9. Can socks override SNOW?

August 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 25

1. Request for Guidance on Creating a Wikipedia Article for Orkhan Hasani
2. Photo
3. Cite from Wikidata
4. Accessing and clearing the notification counter
5. Template provides incorrect information. The reference cited does not support the information mentioned.
6. Application of WP:CRYSTAL to unscheduled pageant
7. ALSA, TEXAS

August 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 26

1. Creating a new page for family member
2. Jack Churchill (1880–1947)
3. UK copyright query
4. Publishing My Work Entirely
5. Harvey milk
6. Membership in a diffusing subcategory and also in its supercategory
7. Trying to set an account and create a wikipedia page

August 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 27

1. reliable sources about computer games.
2. Jack Churchill (1880–1947)
3. Organization as author in website citation template
4. Citations in headers?
5. Want to know about new biography page
6. Notability for royal titles?
7. how to keep line breaks, in pasted text??
8. Requested Citation
9. Notability template guidelines
10. Changing a profile photo
11. How to get article on de.wikipedia.org to be posted on wikipedia.org?
12. Bot Request: Numb3rs Cleanup

August 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 28

1. Accessibility question
2. Pushpin map
3. Banner shell format
4. Coding problem
5. Many W's
6. question re category role
7. Wikipedia inaccuracies
8. Editing Under Categories
9. Regarding adding relationship information to "Personal Life" section of page
10. New page submission

August 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 29

1. Cite web error because URL contains spaces
2. I am seeing inaccurate information.
3. Logs
4. First time editing - help needed
5. videos
6. How to get two templates next to each other in info boxes, and not on top
7. draft article
8. Della Reese's filmography
9. Delegated legislation (United Kingdom); mass AFD

August 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 30

1. Submitting written, verified information.
2. Are users allowed to falsely claim they are banned on their userpage if they mark it as a joke?
3. EDIT REVERT
4. Preview
5. Doubts regarding using photos from this wiki in another one
6. generalleutnant friedrich- wilhelm muller.
7. Brian Lamb
8. I accidentally messed up the Wikipedia page for Earth Zero/Htrae/Bizarro World if anyone could fix it please do, thank you!
9. Updating Search result information

August 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2024 August 31

1. Immediate delete request
2. Donate without filling out information. Users want to donate with total anonymity
3. Tom Taylor (Yorkshire cricketer)
4. templatedata not showing up
5. "Lua error: too many expensive function calls." in references
6. Naming conventions for churches
7. Converting music score png to Lilypond
8. How can I add a official photo of Debashish Bhattacharya
9. Page refreshing
10. Resistance from correcting a fact and publish
11. create an article in sandbox. couldn't publish it and now it has disappeared
12. Using live data templates inside Syntax Highlight
13. Referencing errors on 2024 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence
14. Cross-wiki abuse
15. WIKIWAND