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June 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 1

  1. Style questions go where?
  2. "I Hate Everything" page deleted. Please restore the page.
  3. Citations
  4. Mary Boleyn
  5. Missing equation images
  6. Renaming a redirect
  7. Being flagged for advertising
  8. Question about fixing Laverne Cox page
  9. COI blocks
  10. Image array
  11. Please Help
  12. Ghost (Fake) Artists Lists
  13. Blocked
  14. TINY MEEKER ALL-TIME BENCH PRESS WORLD RECORD
  15. Page admin not responding to update requests
  16. Pictures upload
  17. Does use of Template:Current attract more editor attention, making it easier for articles to develop faster?

June 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 2

  1. Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
  2. Mary Boleyn
  3. Watchlist changes
  4. Can we Create a Wikipedia page For Normal Person
  5. Please help
  6. Blair McDonough
  7. Mary Boleyn
  8. Automated merge tool (+ policy question about multiple merge proposals)
  9. Help needed on 4 queries
  10. I am being bullied by a prominent Wikipedia admin..
  11. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  12. Page Disappearance
  13. Reconciliation Day
  14. Policy on developing articles in mainspace?
  15. click on coordinates not working
  16. Creating an article
  17. Mary Boleyn
  18. Article switched to foreign language
  19. Damian Callinan
  20. Julie Eckersley

June 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 3

  1. Revision History Statistics Page Not Working
  2. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
  3. Mid atlantic ridge north of Iceland
  4. Applying preferences on all wikis
  5. Gallery formatting in Fausto Veranzio
  6. Removal of flag
  7. Queenie van de Zandt
  8. Mary Boleyn
  9. Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald
  10. info needed
  11. Due process of blocks
  12. Editing by a company representaive
  13. Question on Policy Changes
  14. Problem loading page
  15. File does not exist but link is blue.

June 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 4

  1. Referencing errors on Model Penal Code
  2. f word
  3. Info you didn't know
  4. Where to categorise Ships built in the United States Virgin Islands?
  5. Guy Stockwell, Dean Stockwell
  6. How to create links from a file with the names of the wiki pages to the pages from the offline version of a wiki, and a what is the best way to create offline versions of wiki for this aim?
  7. Revised article
  8. Regarding the article: Long Day's Journey into Night
  9. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

June 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 5

  1. Help creating a map that links to the list in a template
  2. What is the proper format for the "line break" command?
  3. Uploading images for an article
  4. Wingless flies

June 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 6

  1. Referencing errors on Draft:Brendan Dassey
  2. Monash University
  3. John Reed (art patron)
  4. 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup
  5. They're Violating the MOS
  6. Rick Springfield
  7. Racism in South Korea
  8. play hearts card game
  9. Submitting my page
  10. Writing a new article in another language than english

June 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 7

  1. Urgent issue with company story
  2. This page is protected from creation
  3. Photos
  4. Changing an image on Wikipedia
  5. URL enconding - archive.today/jt83s
  6. Publishing a Draft
  7. Referencing errors on The Australian Ballet
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  9. Images of old TV Guides
  10. How do I put categories at the top of the article?
  11. Vandal?
  12. Referencing errors on Helen Clark

June 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 8

  1. RE: home page suggestion
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  3. Conversion to pdf fails
  4. Very short entry deleted immediately and I was then blocked for asking about it for a reason that seemed odd...
  5. On articles that use shortened footnotes, is it possible to check if cited sources are never invoked?
  6. Adding Image to Existing Wikipedia Page
  7. User Subpages

June 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 9

  1. Museum infobox questions
  2. Change of language style on Royal Mail
  3. About editing?
  4. New Users
  5. Copy & paste
  6. Missing spaces after hyperlinks in Irkut MC-21 lede
  7. Steve Pisanos
  8. An admin closed my discussion prematurely
  9. Regarding giving reference in Wikipedia article
  10. Registration Procedures
  11. Ogg video subtitles will not activate on the Wikipedia

June 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 10

  1. TV Show Information
  2. Sir John St John, 1st Baronet
  3. How long to wait to act after leaving comment on talk page of IP user who made wrong edit?
  4. Upload article
  5. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  6. John Thurso
  7. Amending page titles?
  8. Need help!
  9. Is paragraph indentation possible? (i.e. indenting only 1st line of column of text, like word processors do via whitespace/tab) And is it used in Wikipedia?
  10. List of American cheerleaders
  11. Diana, Princess of Wales
  12. Translation

June 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 11

  1. Steve Winwood
  2. Sorting rows in a table
  3. Wikipedia's new formulas layout
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  5. Burke's Peerage
  6. Mass killings under Communist regimes
  7. Hey I would like to write an article
  8. William Henry Tayloe
  9. in correct spelling of my last name
  10. Flat White Coffee
  11. How do I properly cite paragraphs from a published text?

June 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 12

  1. Sock Puppetry Accusation on My Talk Page
  2. Uploading Pic's
  3. Burke's Peerage
  4. Josh Herbert
  5. article title change
  6. Proper use of WP:COMMENTs and the "|reason=" parameter in templates?
  7. Templates
  8. Edit counter issue

June 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 13

  1. Change draft status
  2. Change the name of institution
  3. Request for editing of this page
  4. Substitution
  5. Acceptable Website Crawlers
  6. Is This Blog citeable?
  7. CASCA
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  9. Make this page as patrolled
  10. General Question on the Review Process

June 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 14

  1. Referencing errors on Dan Avidan
  2. Archives on subproject talk pages
  3. Article review
  4. Merging of articles
  5. Fine-grained AfD searching for specific professions/occupations
  6. Uploading images
  7. Navigation box assistance
  8. Sorting rows in a table: What does this code do?
  9. Name change back to List of wars involving Georgia
  10. Problem with business page

June 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 15

  1. How to changed and upload new organisation logo
  2. Paul McCartney page
  3. Pictures won't display after tapping them in Wikipedia Android app
  4. How much time to reach WikiProject article quality grading of NA to FA and Importance scale ??? to Top Level
  5. Create a page of a self-made language in Wikipedia
  6. Little Royal
  7. How Can I create a page for my company Pemex Global Consultancy ?
  8. Rami disambiguation page
  9. References
  10. Still a red link, but page exists
  11. Editing a company page
  12. need check
  13. Pedro Henrique

June 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 16

  1. update school logo
  2. AthAbbr needed template
  3. 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment
  4. Notability
  5. Can't figure out rowspan
  6. Renaming a Template
  7. Unable to create a page titled "Udaya Pictures"
  8. Edit or rewrite Wikipedia article? Social Security Act of 1935
  9. Page Deleted Asking For Impossible
  10. Is this expired or copyrighted?

June 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 17

  1. COSAFA Cup article issue.
  2. My eyes aren't working
  3. RFC on setting up a separate section for BLPs at requests for page protection
  4. Frank DeFord article
  5. Ace Relocation Systems, Inc.
  6. Reflinks

June 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 18

  1. Referencing errors on Helmuth and Annemarie Sell
  2. A magic word that indicates how many pages link to a specific page
  3. New account

June 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 19

  1. Where to get feedback when creating a new article or new content?
  2. Photo upload error
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no key
  4. Picture shows in Section Preview, but not in article.
  5. Edit-warred into submission
  6. Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls

June 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 20

  1. Referencing errors on Willy Fick
  2. Help I'm lost
  3. Social geography
  4. Blocking mode
  5. The "date" template
  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies/Requests
  7. I have added the "reliable source" that is requested in the "tag" NOW how do I remove the "tag?
  8. Creation of page about Dr Pamela Schulz OAM
  9. Is this expired or copyrighted?
  10. Company advertising problem
  11. Drug pronunciation

June 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 21

  1. What action is required if AnomieBOT leaves a message?
  2. Headingley
  3. Page Protected from creation by administrators
  4. Editing an article and citing a youtube documentary as a source
  5. External links
  6. About bots and templates
  7. "Maintenance" displayed above all pages
  8. Almost in an edit war, other poster won't respond to me
  9. Is this possible
  10. Help neede asap
  11. Edit a deleted article
  12. Academic titles
  13. Corrections to the equation of time contributors.

June 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 22

  1. Article creation question
  2. Pagemove problem
  3. is it wikimedia
  4. Email address not working
  5. wmflabs Pageviews Analysis broken?
  6. Negative material added to article
  7. How to write an article

June 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 23

  1. kannada languages
  2. Sign issue
  3. text box
  4. sandbox svg images?
  5. Help required at MfD
  6. Page Deleted as Spam
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text

June 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 24

  1. Redirects Computer technology (small T) and Computer Technology (big T)
  2. Rear-Admiral William Brown (1764-1815)
  3. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  4. Edit with no changes
  5. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  6. /* References */ Please tell me how to add a reference correctly !
  7. I am always greatly bothered
  8. Use of screenshots
  9. CSMA CLUB
  10. insulative paint

June 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 25

  1. Referencing errors on Ornstein–Zernike equation
  2. Need Help Publishing Wikipedia Article
  3. Deleting WP pages
  4. How do I update and edit the information on your site
  5. Extended confirmed user
  6. Overlinking Question
  7. Question about "reliable sources" and press releases
  8. IP-address
  9. Sending content of a sandbox to an outside file.

June 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 26

  1. Is a histmerge required?
  2. Lost talkpage comments with page move
  3. Table Calculations
  4. Alignment of div cols
  5. oldformat=true
  6. Homoeopathy
  7. Orange is the new black season four
  8. Question about Sources
  9. Image Question
  10. Image Request Query

June 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 27

  1. template creation - technical assistance
  2. Referencing errors on United Kingdom local elections, 2003
  3. List of islam movements by country
  4. Article recreation (Roundme)
  5. Finding a particular edit ?
  6. Creating Wikipedia page for my company
  7. Work in Marketing for a bank -- how can I add information to our Wikipedia page?
  8. Mars symbol (♂) in editor attributes
  9. Sandbox problem

June 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 28

  1. Unlocking A Protected Page
  2. Jodie Dry
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref too many keys
  4. Jodie Dry
  5. How to run something like-
  6. ISIN - International Securities Identification Number
  7. Cat-a-lot
  8. I am editing
  9. Cat help requested
  10. Changing the photo in the infobox of my business's wiki page
  11. The Author of the portrait of Jacques Jarrige: by Claire LE DOUARON and not by Wolfgang Hershey Laboratories nor Garett Linn.
  12. Changing redirect
  13. How do I post or upload a PDF file to Wikipedia?
  14. Draft:Penny Thompson
  15. How do I make categories possible on my page?

June 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 29

  1. Non-English Disambiguation pages
  2. Fatal exception of type "Exception"
  3. Referencing errors on World Wide Web Consortium
  4. I tried to create a company page. It has been a draft for over 2 weeks. How do I publish it?
  5. Help: replace deleted material in 'The Poison Kiss ' opera by Vaughan Williams
  6. How to change name of listing
  7. Referencing errors on 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
  8. IMMEDIATE HELP
  9. Offensive template

June 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 June 30

  1. regarding the page name RAJNI TIWARI
  2. How Do You Create a User page within all the guidelines?
  3. what's the best way to publish an article on wikipedia
  4. When I look at my list of Wikipedia contributions, why are some grayed out with a strike through?
  5. A serious issue
  6. Cleanup Question
  7. how to log in without email if forgot password
  8. Articles referring to themselves
  9. Exact reason for putting dates (months, not days) on maintenance templates?