Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/October 2023

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October 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 1

1. Error when using both cross and red in a sports bracket
2. Page blanking
3. MOS:CAPTIONS

October 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 2

1. Fix the schedules of Sports Climbing of Hangzhou Asian Games 2022
2. Can I use two infoboxes on one page?
3. Pistol Pete Oklahoma State University Mascot
4. Query on wiki user
5. Locations
6. Should categories be included in the "see also section"?

October 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 3

1. Mimmo Poli; Mario Castellani; Carlo Ninchi
2. Moving from sandbox to article
3. Patricia Carli
4. Clickable button on user page
5. Removal of content
6. Edit my tag
7. Project 2025
8. Fix the corrections
9. Paolo Stoppa

October 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 4

1. Help with the articles of He Chao
2. IP user revert-warring
3. Greek Theatre of Syracuse
4. Ottobre in Poesia
5. Category adding tool
6. Union Railroad magazine
7. Reporting someone
8. Donating to Wikipedia

October 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 5

1. Photo
2. Martineau family
3. my edits
4. Viareggio Prize
5. Colored text in source editor
6. How can I edit someone's name on the title?
7. AutoWikiBrowser
8. Request to Delete Draft:Sul Ponticello or find external help
9. Martineau family

October 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 6

1. Help needed with disaster of an article: Battle of Tilpat (1669)
2. ribbon bar
3. How to update company page ?
4. How to move a page without leaving a redirect?
5. Martineau family
6. Algebra 1
7. Chiaroscuro
8. why do I keep getting this message over and over?!?!?!?!?
9. Charlie Carrick
10. Referencing errors on List of 2024 albums
11. Category, Multiple Pages >>> View As Single Page
12. Martineau family

October 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 7

1. Martineau family
2. Adding TMDB links to articles
3. Move Article from my sandbox to Wiki public
4. Repair needed to Jim Reeves article
5. Special characters at Undecimal
6. ...in today's money

October 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 8

1. Help with infobox on Karun
2. Dame
3. Copyvio revdel declined
4. Copyright noticeboard
5. Suspension points
6. Biased Articles
7. I use the automated XfD !Voting tool, but get an error
8. Potentially harmful links

October 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 9

1. Martineau family
2. Martineau family
3. Fix the fix the Volleyball 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles schedules and the schedule for Breakdancing at the Hangzhou Asian Games 2022
4. Get rid of wikimedia reading tool
5. Why is the lead image in an article different than on Commons?
6. Garín v Garin (spelling error)
7. Is there a way to remove mischaracterizations/libelous statements from the HISTORY of a page?
8. Numerous South Park episode articles have incorrect episode numbers tampered by IP editors
9. Merge
10. Qs on writing references

October 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 10

1. Editing quotes with errors
2. Seeking a volunteer to edit my Wiki page
3. Cross category assembly?
4. Is there a way to change an edit summary?
5. Problem
6. "Pages with Broken Anchors"
7. Leroy Waterman
8. Fixing error on front page when you don't have an account
9. youtuber wikipage
10. Disambiguation oddity
11. Notable Cockneys

October 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 11

1. Martineau family
2. Israel
3. Colours
4. Tree Chart in mobile view
5. Is there a way to make an image size a % of the width of the page rather than ?00px
6. Women's Volleyball 1984 schedules
7. Request for a map?
8. I need assistance with another user who is upset about history being properly inserted

October 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 12

1. Draftifying
2. Tree chart making
3. Phone number
4. donation to wikipedia
5. Viable article? What should it be called?
6. Hi!
7. Getting a Backlink for an external site
8. Some help fixing a page with strange information?
9. Headings formatting help needed
10. Add Company/Create Page
11. How do I publish my own article
12. Request: please can someone copy :Template:Flex columns to Meta?
13. How to make a page

October 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 13

1. Infobox image not displaying
2. Cite what?
3. Animation related user-boxes
4. Nicole Havrda
5. Golden Gate Bridge
6. draft wikipedia articele

October 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 14

1. Login persistence
2. Vandalism help request from Bhbuehler
3. Archive Date
4. Increasing importance level of a page
5. Article title/disambiguation/potential move?
6. Archive deletion
7. Speeding up simple tedious merges

October 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 15

1. Tournament template
2. Confusion over template parameter issue
3. Famous to-be contributor
4. How to create a new category?
5. Restoring of my Wikipedia Page
6. Request for Article Review as I am new
7. How to preload edits?
8. Talk page template
9. canceling game changer account
10. draft article
11. MWOD
12. What’s the point of letting the general public update Wikipedia?

October 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 16

1. WP:COI: Fang
2. Same arguments at similar AFDs.
3. Determining the "Primary topic"
4. Broken link to a PDF
5. Doubt Regarding Afd
6. Providing information
7. Edit for 2023 Israel-Hamas page, 5th Canadian died. There is also a CBC News article on this.
8. copyright
9. Help please

October 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 17

1. the ginger man plot
2. Humble Request for An Article About me on Wikipedia : Dr Punit Sethi
3. Creating an Article
4. I moved the draft to the main article, is this right?
5. Link to table row in VE
6. My edit to "Winds aloft" keeps getting reverted...
7. How to ask for help from a wikiproject
8. Tidying up this page
9. Referencing errors on University of Houston System
10. Live time
11. Does this article meet notability?
12. Literature
13. Airline destinations removed
14. Do we have a template for ‘topic not in linked article’?

October 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 18

1. Noah's Flood
2. British Film Institute:
3. wikipedia ?
4. Questions about a music score: layout, and source/original content issues
5. Link preview vandalism
6. Young editors

October 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 19

1. Great Reality TV Swindle
2. Emperor's portrait painting
3. I wrote a request+suggestion but it disappeared
4. update logo
5. Picture change request
6. What if i'm editing at the same time as another person
7. How to connect Uwe Holmer to the Spanish and German counterparts?
8. listing a dune buggy
9. How to delete articles?
10. Span not working

October 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 20

1. Help correct the reference of 2004 Opening ceremony Athens Olympics
2. Martineau family
3. Setting up an alternate acccount
4. What are the rules....
5. Lost account access
6. Link
7. To close a discussion
8. People from Mallemort cat
9. University president
10. Party apportionment diagrams

October 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 21

1. Miracle at Manchester
2. Creating a page
3. Problem
4. Provinces of Italy
5. (serious) Error
6. Martineau family (crest)
7. Wikipedia Search
8. Archiving glitch
9. How to write article in Wikipedia
10. A photo on Commons has been deleted
11. Can you refer me to information on since when Criticism/Controversy sections are discouraged
12. Question about splitting an article
13. Missing topic page
14. I can't find an article I posted
15. How to request comments without an RfC
16. Inhibiting edit limitations

October 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 22

1. Too much quoted text?
2. Horizontal scrolling table?
3. updating profile picture...
4. Sandbox
5. Fellow claiming to be a Wikipedia Moderator
6. Deleting all of my edits on a specific article
7. Spoilers in biographical articles
8. Rev'ed by draft author

October 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 23

1. Move conflict (re: Sea of Faces)
2. Informative Videos on Wikipedia
3. Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
4. Help in article submission Review
5. The search box
6. What to do with stuck move request?
7. How do I create a page for myself?
8. On creating my first article
9. Userbox
10. Multi-member district infobox
11. Userbox q 2

October 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 24

1. Blocked
2. Page move and resulting template questions
3. I need to take down this wiki with my details - it threatens my safety
4. Issue with file
5. Question about how to correctly include an article source
6. Leeds Pals

October 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 25

1. merchant marine officers from india in 1970
2. Fix the pronunciation in Greek
3. Citing art exhibition posters
4. Page Deletion
5. Kim Zmeskal and the children
6. How to change Wikipedia Display to darkmode?

October 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 26

1. How to cite an already-gone IG story?
2. What's the bot called that identifies sources?
3. Shakespeare Authorship Question -- broken link
4. Moving a draft page to live wikipedia page
5. How many times can an account be renamed?
6. IP restricted sources
7. Module:Age - Date format
8. Infinite Captchas
9. List of My Three Sons episodes
10. Author request deletions on my Gallery at Richard Whitney (artist)
11. David Ho
12. Worcester Palladium
13. Displaying captions inside image frames
14. change my name
15. About Jumbo Türkiye
16. Permission to reprint
17. Formatting of table in Union_Pearson_Express#Fares_and_ridership

October 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 27

1. Help to fix the rosters of Team USA Women's Ice Hockey Nagano 1998
2. Mobile visual editing broken?
3. Submitting translations for website UI
4. Does anyone know about the copyright licenses of YouTube descriptions?
5. For some information about company name.
6. Translations
7. How to edit wiki?

October 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 28

1. Guidance on an Article for Deletion
2. The search box
3. Street art
4. Could you make all elements that is written by the following: Name of the element is a chemical element and has the symbol...?
5. Errors on the Wiki page on Non-Mendelian Inheritance
6. Main page - help needed

October 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 29

1. Navbox collapse not working
2. Birthday question
3. Just as the article Potassium, it is written by the following: Potassium is the chemical element with the symbol K and atomic number 19 (from Neo-Latin kalium).
4. about draft article
5. Удаленная статья
6. About article
7. Immediate publication
8. Referencing errors on Chloropentammineplatinum chloride
9. Safe disposal of Bang Snaps / "TNT Pop-Its"
10. title capitolization

October 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 30

1. Dame
2. How to create a page
3. AfD for Timeline of Russian innovation requiring wider community attention
4. I would like a new person to review my article
5. Page on Overton, Hampshire
6. To know X (formerly Twitter) logo letter on it's Wikipedia page.
7. Uploading Pictures to My Sandbox
8. Userpage biographical boxes

October 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 October 31

1. Fix the reference of Team Finland 1998 Women's Ice Hockey
2. Circular categories
3. A talk page with no corresponding article -- how to delete
4. Green Day discography section
5. Chinese Politburo Articles
6. Changing the Title of an Article
7. Krist Novoselic website links to virus
8. I need information on the second Mayor of Lagos Nigeria from 1950-1953, Sir Emmanuel Augustus Oluyele Bright.
9. List of countries with universal health care
10. Changed URL
11. How do I create an inline citation link?