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July 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 1

  1. external link icon
  2. Three questions about IP addresses
  3. Extended Confirmed user question
  4. HOW TO SIZE AN IMAGE, AND WHERE TO FIND PREVIOUS UPLOADED IMAGES!
  5. Exclude certain pages from auto-watch?
  6. Craig McLachlan
  7. Templates prefixing links with ":"
  8. re existing entries on Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason and her timelline
  9. Orphan talk page
  10. Source query
  11. How to login without a registered email if forgot password
  12. I want to suggest a change to the page at www.wikipedia.org
  13. MICHAEL MOORE BIO ON WIKIPEDIA

July 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 2

  1. Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
  2. For the title "Sihcao Wetlands", shouldn't it use the Pinyin transliteration instead of the English spelling?
  3. Lupton family
  4. Number of characters in a Wikipedia article
  5. Editing in English & French on Wikipedia
  6. Archive Question
  7. Making either a pdf or html file out of sandbox content
  8. Referencing errors on Draft:Untold News
  9. Citing a newspaper article where one of the words in the title is illegible

July 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 3

  1. Italic title for ship article Grace Quan
  2. Brooklyn nine nine composer information
  3. Edit Help and Re-Submission Verification

July 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 4

  1. Find edited article
  2. Bishnupriya Manipuri not cast names in India
  3. Creating articles
  4. Adding titles
  5. Lupton family
  6. Lupton family
  7. Sudan
  8. Inviting members to join a discussion
  9. Mountain Home Listing is incorrectly titled
  10. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  11. Rollback indicator on current events edits

July 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 5

  1. military ranks page is template with no info
  2. When posting a Help Desk question on Italian Wikipedia, can I post in English? Or Italian only?
  3. Can someone give me a link for the "Entertainment Help Desk" in Italian Wikipedia?
  4. I just added
  5. please respect the naming by Chinese people
  6. leaky colo+open proxy from User:Ahmadrizo
  7. XML Parsing Error in Complete History XML Documents of Pages with Large Histories
  8. polyurethane golf ball cover
  9. Don Black
  10. Haven Bio

July 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 6

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  2. Attica Rebellion
  3. New logo
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  5. Veracity of biography bloodlines
  6. I look for a mentor
  7. editing main content and fact box
  8. Editing an existing infobox
  9. Need Help Creating a Page.

July 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 7

  1. Referencing errors on Politics of Somaliland
  2. Alfred David Coxall Awarded George Medal 1961, no mention of this award????
  3. Category question
  4. Purge
  5. Songs and singles
  6. Guru Nanak
  7. Subscription newspaper
  8. Blank WebCite page

July 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 8

  1. Problem with templates
  2. Deleting drafts
  3. Referencing in Cuttlefish
  4. Inputbox
  5. Login without password
  6. Request
  7. Question RE Mike Turkovich
  8. Help

July 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 9

  1. Why are the fields with information in not showing on this template?
  2. Problem with Harvard referencing
  3. Lupton family
  4. Mistake
  5. Login without password and email
  6. Referencing errors on Trinity Seven
  7. Gadget-Cat-a-lot
  8. Removing automatically-added categories to transcluded pages
  9. Issue with photo
  10. Colon trick with links to Wiktionary?
  11. why do you censor

July 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 10

  1. Lupton family
  2. Dixon, Illinois
  3. unverifiable death
  4. Creating
  5. False Information
  6. Is this allowed?
  7. El_Shorouk_Academy
  8. Images
  9. Login without password
  10. Dyro discography
  11. Inaccurate information on page titled "Joe Eszterhas"
  12. Referencing errors on Denialism
  13. Mokume-gane

July 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 11

  1. Why an empty category?
  2. Aspendale
  3. Deletion request on page titled "Joe Eszterhas"
  4. How do I delete a profile? I have two.
  5. reliable source
  6. Hans von Blixen-Finecke
  7. Harv Error detection tool
  8. How to upload word documents to Wikipedia
  9. Global 'Latest_stable_software_release'
  10. 3rr
  11. Help needed at Glendale, Arizona
  12. Page regarding myself
  13. Why aren't my sfn references working?
  14. Determine if a topic is noteworthy enough for its own article?
  15. Why does this url break and how can I fix it?

July 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 12

  1. Offer to create a BLP for pay
  2. Karen Blixen
  3. Lisa Lewis (adult entertainer) NEEDS TO BE DELETED
  4. New page patrolling help
  5. Karen Blixen
  6. few questions
  7. Karen Blixen
  8. editor refuses to go to to dispute resolution
  9. Uploading an image
  10. References for the same material on two separate pages

July 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 13

  1. Lady Susan
  2. Articles based on a fallacious premise - relevant policies?
  3. Barrister
  4. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  5. Laura Bingham Page
  6. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  7. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge - one tiny thing more please
  8. Arthur Cyrus Warner
  9. "Official" fan site
  10. I have added sources to my deleted/unposted page and I've personally deleted info that cannot be sourced. How can I make this page live?
  11. False copyright claim
  12. Use of "Flourished"
  13. KLRD (KLoRD) or Shepherd Communications page gone
  14. Redirect and/or name change?
  15. I'd like to create a page for info on the book I've written.....

July 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 14

  1. saving articles
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  3. Article topic question
  4. Moving typo issue
  5. Infobox picture
  6. Is there a way to fork the page history?
  7. Linking 2 Wikipedia accounts

July 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 15

  1. Reference name and|or tag errors
  2. Image slideshows?
  3. GRENADA CARRIACOU AND PETITE MARTINIQUE
  4. Top icons: Custom sort/order
  5. Making a new page
  6. Coat of arms template doesn't work for some cities
  7. Linking a name to Wikidata
  8. Search terms
  9. How to find edits with "no summary"?
  10. World cities
  11. Birth name parameter
  12. Cannot update image

July 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 16

  1. Changing one's username
  2. Surname map
  3. Coding problem: old versions of WP:ARBCOM only display current members
  4. Rohini Balakrishnan
  5. Checkboxes
  6. I am new to wikipedia
  7. Renaming a page with a special character

July 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 17

  1. Category:Pages with URL errors
  2. Marianne Faithfull
  3. Talk page as forum
  4. SOMEONE HAS DELETED CONTENT OF MY HISTORY - TOYIN ADEKALE
  5. What do I do about a well meaning person who keeps reverting an article back to incorrect?
  6. Oversighting?
  7. Table
  8. Old discussion on AFD sort list
  9. Cite template formatting
  10. Subgroup in templates
  11. Marianne Faithfull

July 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 18

  1. Reference problem
  2. Why does this sorting of calendar dates work correctly, without using the "dts" sorting template?
  3. Upload a new version of this file...
  4. Wrong information provided on Television series details of Neha Pendse
  5. Wierd edits by User:Dr.Endocrinolog
  6. SALLY RIDE IS FIRST FEMALE ASTRONAUT AND NOT FIRST FEMALE OR WOMAN

July 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 19

  1. Census
  2. List of Old Cliftonians
  3. 2 articles need tweaking article
  4. List of Old Cliftonians
  5. Error when trying to create a pdf
  6. my edit got deleted.I am new.
  7. Creating a reading list?
  8. What constitutes an official website?
  9. Watchlist
  10. Tracker or false positive?
  11. Adding a picture
  12. About table export/import
  13. File not depicting as edited.

July 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 20

  1. Laird
  2. Toilet
  3. Laird
  4. Pinery bushfire.
  5. Template:یادکرد وب et Co.
  6. help: Change page name
  7. How do I reach out to specific contributors of celebrity pages?
  8. Redirects for images?
  9. Glitch
  10. Seperated list in decades
  11. Does Wikipedia have any rules or guidelines about the use (or non-use) of the serial comma?
  12. Draft:Coming Through the Rye (2015 film)
  13. French language references on English language page?
  14. uncomfortable music sample
  15. The Main Google Releases Blogspot Page is broken
  16. Qulsar, Inc.
  17. I am visually impaired and can't edit articles without being asked to fill in the capcha
  18. redirect
  19. follow up on deletion of page

July 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 21

  1. COMO Parrot Cay
  2. Pippa Middleton
  3. Glen Affric
  4. Pippa Middleton
  5. Referencing errors on Vinod Bhatt
  6. Info box or geo box templates
  7. Summit Medical Group
  8. Title blacklist question - Draft:Puttana Venkatramana Raju
  9. Re: Images for Harry Jackson (artist) article
  10. Pippa Middleton

July 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 22

  1. The word Latino
  2. Adding an external link
  3. Unheadered
  4. Image hover
  5. Create mistake
  6. Still cannot update image
  7. Upload New Company Logo Image for Page

July 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 23

  1. Signpost
  2. Glen Affric
  3. Please help
  4. Insert live value from external website
  5. HELP ME NOW PLZ
  6. Jackie Guerra
  7. Tim Kaine

July 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 24

  1. Seperated tables by decades and proof-reading
  2. Referencing errors on Draft:Osama Chandio
  3. Search suggestions list - typo there in 'entry type', but not in article body
  4. Deleting my own article
  5. No response on Talk Page
  6. The Malaysian Insider

July 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 25

  1. article
  2. Why would a list of Wikipedia articles have red links on it?
  3. IP address
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  5. Custom flag links in a template
  6. Ormoc City
  7. Change company page logo (ITE Group, :File:ITE_Group_(logo).png)
  8. Before I make a real mess
  9. Download-only sources
  10. Debbie wasserman schultz
  11. New page
  12. New page problem

July 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 26

  1. Glen Affric
  2. False comments
  3. What are the notability requirements for the Current events Portal?
  4. How does one re-list an RfC to seek further input?
  5. Sources ?
  6. Rich Riley
  7. Unknown topic
  8. Comparison between Wikipédias
  9. Cassiel

July 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 27

  1. deleted page, wasn't given options to fix
  2. Make the text bigger or smaller
  3. Ping
  4. Why is the mobile website confusing
  5. New article
  6. Todd Russaw
  7. First woman nominated to run for president

July 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 28

  1. Problem on Spanish Wikipedia
  2. Page view stats
  3. Lupo (dog)
  4. How can I get assistance getting rid of these Wikipedia error messages
  5. The Esha braille page was deleted and our account is blocked
  6. how can i make a bot for my some hard works?
  7. Difficult to use
  8. Is reliability necessary for verifiability?
  9. Spam e-mail
  10. Login without password and email
  11. The Gerry Zaragemca article
  12. New link colors in my watchlist
  13. Request edit

July 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 29

  1. Avoiding duplication of external linking on a page
  2. Apparent bug in Wikimedia Software
  3. Why No Text In Article?
  4. Help with a chart
  5. attributing free content correctly

July 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 30

  1. Copyright question
  2. Table won't allow ref link number
  3. Mentioning a TVTropes entry
  4. Editing Police & Fire information for Stockton-on-Tees
  5. How do I determine who created an article that was moved?
  6. change the Title of the article?
  7. Article Talk
  8. Samantha Newark
  9. Copyright laws in Spain
  10. Mobile site search summaries
  11. Refill
  12. Is there a page on Wikipedia that displays all of the available User Boxes that an editor might want to add to his User Page?

July 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 July 31

  1. Talk Page Merger
  2. Serious issue report
  3. Family tree software
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