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May 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 1

  1. Peer review box broken
  2. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  3. Article name and move to new title
  4. Wrong information
  5. About Book making procedure
  6. Inspection Medical Hermeneutics
  7. María Elena Velasco
  8. Tagging of pages with Maintenance category.
  9. Josh
  10. Upload photo to page
  11. Paragraphs order
  12. Where would I report a reverse COPYVIO?
  13. Request for review

May 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 2

  1. Trouble adding an infobox image
  2. Converting Google Books citations
  3. Homo Technologicus
  4. Hamblen Township, Brown County, Indiana
  5. Template for wikilinking non-English WP pages
  6. Guidelines for urban legends
  7. Template: 2000 Guineas winners
  8. Wondering !!
  9. chief muruatetu
  10. Add a book to a source page
  11. Refs on a talk page
  12. How to erase "The Named reference was invoked but never Defined"?
  13. Valid signatures
  14. Referencing errors on Umpire Decision Review System

May 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 3

  1. How to get deleted images to be returned, or not deleted in the first place.
  2. How can a new user's edits to an article be "Automatically accepted"?
  3. How to fix a red link
  4. Referencing errors on Roger Ebert
  5. -webkit-linear-gradient
  6. Use of information
  7. WMF elections
  8. Can't Login
  9. Vandalism?
  10. Offensive userpage box content
  11. The Mozilla Firefox Timeline template is about to run out of space soon
  12. The UK Government's Knowledge Network Programme
  13. Giovanni Battista Piranesi etchings - italics?

May 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 4

  1. Distances as time
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no key
  3. phrase search tool
  4. Fixing clusters of problems
  5. Snake River (Massachusetts)
  6. Misuse of Wikipedia as a web host
  7. Why isn't Media Viewer working?
  8. How do I remove the word Sandbox after my site address?
  9. Repeated links to a given page
  10. Captcha
  11. Mechanical work
  12. Archiving Talk:Data comparison
  13. Michael Deacon (Journalist)
  14. captcha
  15. Estas Tonne on Wiki

May 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 5

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Asegúrese de que los datos de pasaporte español
  3. Changing our username
  4. how to put a note in an existing page
  5. Maintenance category
  6. Why do my posts keep disappearing?
  7. Donna Summer
  8. Princess Cruises New Tagline
  9. Things vanishing from my watchlist
  10. Need help uploading new graphic

May 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 6

  1. Referencing errors on John Hughlings Jackson
  2. Recently submitted changes, would like to see tags removed, if possible
  3. Error bug due to 'mobile frontend'?
  4. major bug on all Wikipedia.org site
  5. Ghostly, incorrect category assignation
  6. Wikipedia not available 6th may
  7. Change title of an article
  8. Flag in Panama Canal Zone article?
  9. Redirect to section
  10. Peter May Mystery Writer
  11. listing template
  12. car accident
  13. creating a company page
  14. Problem with citation template selection
  15. A Request from Jacques Henri Bien Aime

May 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 7

  1. Missing References in an Article
  2. Page Jeff Primm
  3. Andrey Davydov
  4. Regarding Radio Redditch
  5. Replacing a photo
  6. Ed Milliband vandalism
  7. Wrong Info about me "Don Ismail"
  8. Change title of an existing article
  9. Charles Hawes
  10. Search wildcards
  11. FA versions
  12. Collapsed table

May 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 8

  1. Missing parts of page
  2. Gale Group documents
  3. Referencing errors on Private Parts (book)
  4. Problem with grammar
  5. VERY BIASED, VERY INNACCURATE, FIX OR REMOVE UNTIL CORRECTED.
  6. How to Move a Protected Page
  7. unable to search my company name
  8. problem in language translation
  9. Fixing multiple username and title of article problems
  10. I Can't find an article (draft) I worked on 3 years ago
  11. Outdoor sculpture in New York City
  12. Boquete District
  13. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  14. problems with the wikicode

May 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 9

  1. Matsuo Basho information
  2. Documents filed with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
  3. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  4. Need Help regarding my University Page
  5. Nusrat Ghani
  6. CS1 error
  7. Changing photo on a page?
  8. Creating a redirect
  9. Notifications that someone has linked an article you have (at least technically) started
  10. Help desk display issue?
  11. Adding pictures?

May 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 10

  1. Somebody Deleted some parts of King Wu of Han
  2. Request to lock edit
  3. Too speedy a deletion?
  4. Add maps location
  5. Wiki Nancy Schaefer
  6. adding photo/creating new page
  7. Photograph of photograph
  8. Creating Article From Existing Article in Another language
  9. allure magizines and the tote bag

May 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 11

  1. Highlighting
  2. How to submit article
  3. Submission of Articles for Review
  4. Validating references.
  5. Images in the Infobox
  6. Redirects for templates
  7. Secondary disambiguation page with parentheses in the title
  8. Artists biography
  9. Search for all articles with names consisting only of more than one spelled out greek letters.

May 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 12

  1. Edit overlap
  2. Question about the Bruce Springsteen template
  3. Notifications on company page
  4. How to nominate an article for deletion
  5. Report of Plausible Misinformation - Harassment
  6. Replacing a photo
  7. Changing a company name
  8. request edit
  9. How do I get one of those RfA trackers for my talk page
  10. searching the intersection of two categories
  11. Announcement templates
  12. Top writers of FAs
  13. Template display size and position

May 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 13

  1. Harassment
  2. Using sfn citation for templated citation
  3. how to display details about a professional association in wikipeadia
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  5. changing the name of an article
  6. New article blocked by old redirect
  7. Is transcluding a signature sub-page an acceptable way to sign a talk page post?
  8. Can I have a link to Jesus in my signature?
  9. Where is my deleted / missing page "Victor Kalin"
  10. Educational project articles in mainspace
  11. Wortendyke, New Jersey

May 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 14

  1. User page mobile table display issues
  2. Articles
  3. language translation
  4. Check references
  5. How many bytes have I added per edit?
  6. Only minimal info-box data showing in article
  7. Update for Wikipedia Page Covering Genpact
  8. Eli Benshoof Klein

May 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 15

  1. Question about copying and moving discussion
  2. Hello I have some questions regarding getting unblocked
  3. ILLEGAL TERMINATION BY AFRICAN UNION (WITH AN INJURY BUT ABLE TO WORK )
  4. Class assignment
  5. Orin W. Angwall Newspapers.com
  6. Infobox settlement vs. geobox
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  8. Wayne Devlin
  9. "Your edit has triggered a filter..."
  10. Kenny Glasgow

May 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 16

  1. Footnote formatting help
  2. Amaris
  3. Template acting oddly
  4. Slow Edit and Save page
  5. Traffic statistics bug?
  6. Telugu actor
  7. Hidden comments
  8. How to restore previous image file version?
  9. Misattributed quotation
  10. Bot removal of my article: Transaction Coordinators
  11. Asking specific questions about Wikipedia
  12. Help
  13. Copy

May 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 17

  1. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  2. Question on reliable sources
  3. Translation
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  5. Search engine indexing of pages
  6. My Account
  7. DO NOT UNDERSTAND CITATIONS AFTER CONVERSING WITH User talk:DemocraticLuntz
  8. Changing title of article
  9. Image of a title card
  10. Msg. for R. McClenon

May 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 18

  1. TWA wrestling article
  2. Annoying floating box
  3. Please check the Disney Theatrical Productions template
  4. Providing a .kml or .kmz file from within an article.
  5. Determining which signed-up members of a WikiProject are active
  6. Pass word reset not working
  7. How to upload our school history
  8. Incorrect
  9. Ross Anderson (skier)
  10. Two areas live for one company
  11. finding an author
  12. The Wikipedia page for the UK politician Boris Johnson MP
  13. Sub Saharan Africa
  14. Reference Link
  15. Editing/adding info to Further Reading
  16. Quick copyright question
  17. Can you put two images in an infobox?

May 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 19

  1. contributing photographs to wikipedia.
  2. Public domain images
  3. user name
  4. Edmund Minahan and Cotton Minahan
  5. Wallingford, Connecticut
  6. Updating page on Genpact
  7. CSD and PROD logs
  8. Article translation
  9. Please create an article on New Year Lake, Nevada.

May 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 20

  1. Can't link to commons files
  2. Persistent Wikipedia link
  3. Committee of the Regions
  4. Articles for deletion
  5. ????
  6. ALL IN (magazine) not approved to publish... WHY?
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  8. submit new information
  9. Employee numbers
  10. When is an article too long?

May 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 21

  1. Kitty Terry aka Kitty Woodson Terry
  2. Barry Long
  3. Sandbox article
  4. Uploading photos
  5. Confused by apparently blacklisted link
  6. Trying to get reason for page deletions from user Coffee, but have not received a reply
  7. Printed and not online sources

May 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 22

  1. Line-break handling
  2. My Sandbox
  3. Referencing errors on Sacraments of the Catholic Church
  4. link on article set to blacklist
  5. ref error
  6. Polyimide spam
  7. Language link to Commons
  8. Display issue in Firefox
  9. Requesting deletion on user pages of old accounts
  10. references - probably entered them wrong
  11. Signature

May 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 23

  1. Theodoros Deligiannis
  2. error in edit notice
  3. Patriot Act
  4. about my new article
  5. More about the #tag:ref to refn conversions
  6. Anna Kay Akana
  7. What do these code numbers mean?
  8. Madehow.com a reliable source?

May 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 24

  1. Problem involving my personal sandbox
  2. Who created a deleted page?
  3. Pinging
  4. ref error problem
  5. how come my {insert question here}
  6. Trying to remove bias in article on G. Edward Griffin
  7. talk page

May 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 25

  1. page
  2. Notability of late medieval MPs
  3. INQUIRY TO ADD INFORMATION ABOUT KISUMU CITY
  4. My Wiki Page
  5. Anthony Randolph (economist)
  6. Old drafts
  7. What can we do for overlooked articles?
  8. The page heading does not correspond to the page title?
  9. confirmation code invalid
  10. Login problems
  11. Memorial Day flags
  12. CHANGE EMAIL ADDRESS

May 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 26

  1. Sandbox vs talk
  2. WHY REQUEST WAS REJECTED
  3. Eliminating frame around Annotated image
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref : I wanted to cite the US Census 2009-2013 , Ancestry citation for zipcodes 19145;19146;19147;19148
  6. Referencing errors on Norma Howard
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  8. Problem with citation
  9. Referencing at Jay Frank Schamberg
  10. Infobox difficulties
  11. COI
  12. Citing Excel file
  13. question re deletion
  14. Disclosing a possible COI
  15. Spam?
  16. 1956 Births.

May 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 27

  1. Hi I am a new user and I wanted to know how to help out.
  2. how to download the wikipedia app.
  3. Leader of the free world
  4. Jeff Teague's Weight
  5. Is there a list of Wikipedia articles that were rejected/deleted, which with a bit of editing could become wiki-worthy?
  6. Referencing problem
  7. List
  8. Upload
  9. Not encyclopedic titles
  10. Order of Riddell disamb page
  11. email notifications, and "Gather"
  12. Pippa Norris
  13. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref too many keys
  14. Tamid Group move needed
  15. Whether to sort by forename or surname?
  16. Linking an authority to WikiSpecies

May 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 28

  1. Uploading a photo to Commons
  2. WILBYVILLE OR Willyville MI in 1891
  3. Attached KML produces a download of a file called index.php instead of index.kml
  4. scrambled columns
  5. Draft articles for improvement
  6. List of longest streams of Idaho
  7. Problem with "What links here"
  8. Jerry Taylor
  9. Download a pdf problems
  10. The Mark of the Beast.
  11. Help:Cite errors/Cite error: the named reference was invoked but never defined
  12. Linking to Talk pages
  13. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  14. Shifting a tracklisting to another col.

May 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 29

  1. Replying to an article from May 23rd or 24th that is no longer showing
  2. Eurovision Song Contest: Source contradicts facts
  3. James taylor is not john taylor of caroline
  4. Reference pop ups
  5. Continuation of talkspace/sandbox issue
  6. Request for Adminship of page: Daler Mehndi
  7. Reference
  8. external links edits
  9. Names & Stories on Random Killers and Serial Killiers on Wikipedia
  10. Return the Jedi
  11. Linking to a foreign language Wikipedia article

May 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 30

  1. Which came first
  2. Referencing errors on Sacraments of the Catholic Church
  3. Diversifying editor contributions
  4. Name of King
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  6. Could I purchase a copy of the Methodist Recorder published last Thursday?. Thank you.
  7. A page with no talk page!
  8. Michigan State football coaches
  9. Blacklist for websites
  10. Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin

May 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2015 May 31

  1. Dictionary
  2. Anti-Catholic Bigoted Article
  3. Catholic Charismatic Church of Canada
  4. Non-blue redirects
  5. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  6. National Automotive Parts Association edit
  7. Audie Murphy
  8. Problems on Chrome
  9. Creating content for sites of interest
  10. Crash bar
  11. adding images in a talk side
  12. A-class rating
  13. Hours of operation are incorrect
  14. Martin Sixsmith movie Philomena was so close to my world/My mother was given up to the NY Foundling Hospital 1910/then they place her on one of the Orphan Train to East Texas/ This lady was the first wife of actor William Powell.
  15. Redirect issue
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