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July 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 1

  1. Need someone to close an RfD discussion.
  2. Hanau Airfield, 1954 & 1955
  3. Template test if another template is transcluded on a page
  4. Unable to receive password reset email
  5. Combined sentences and removed word
  6. Robert M. Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice
  7. Spud U Like
  8. Missing pipe, missing URL red warning

July 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 2

  1. Wikiproject Article Lists
  2. Edit war
  3. Guayaquil and Quito are both listed 2nd most populated city in Ecuador
  4. Do caladriuses count as medieval European legendary creatures?
  5. async
  6. Slight adjustment to article title
  7. Page with overly large picture
  8. Request to delete a Redirect
  9. Translate my Wikipedia website from English to Spanish! (I would like to have both languages)

July 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 3

  1. Should the "clearboth" template be in this article?
  2. Looking for a bot
  3. /* Controvérsias */ Contents were in portuguese, when it is supposed to be in english. Still, that session was made on political ideology, using fake news about Marielle Franco as references.
  4. Add info about me?
  5. The Howard Stern Show
  6. Inserting a Table of Contents

July 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 4

  1. Question about using warning templates on my personal sandbox page
  2. Why was my article declined
  3. Can anybody help?
  4. Lupton family
  5. Do GA and FA articles need to be accessible?
  6. Citing and referencing religious texts
  7. Password
  8. Article deletion and redirects

July 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 5

  1. Display
  2. Lupton family
  3. I want some screenshots
  4. Translate page
  5. My Article has been moved to Draft
  6. Edit conflicts with myself
  7. Wikipedia game
  8. Does Wikipedia have short videos on how submitted articles are evaluated?
  9. Should these section titles be in italics?

July 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 6

  1. Please update image for me
  2. Green Street Holigans
  3. Wikipedia:Don't build the Frankenstein
  4. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
  5. Image licensing
  6. Your article on "No One Cares About Garage Bands"

July 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 7

  1. How to add pictures
  2. Proper way to align a tree chart template?
  3. Gender neutrality
  4. Split a paragraph
  5. I cannot make a short description for a (certain) Waray Wikipedia article using the Wikipedia App (even though I can make shortdescs in other WarWiki articles)
  6. Very big Mistake
  7. Logo Update for WWOR-TV right away
  8. I want to enter a new word that currently does not exist in Wikipedia

July 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 8

  1. Publishing an article from draft
  2. Stephanie Twaddell
  3. CHow to Complain about Malteze lawyer
  4. Aprizion page
  5. Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
  6. Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
  7. Cite an Instagram Story
  8. Unuseful changes made to Ormiston Six Villages Academy Wiki page.
  9. Nominate commons file for deletion
  10. Unbalanced parentheses in Template:Harvard citation text
  11. How do I get a diff for an editor's contributions to an article when there are over 500?
  12. Something broke during an article move
  13. How do I change the ACH payments
  14. Help:Cite errors/Cite error refs without references
  15. Page on Tripedaliidae (cubomedusae).
  16. Updating birth year of live person // replacing photo ALEKS BERKOLDS

July 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 9

  1. Why is the location map showing as the page image here instead of the photograph?
  2. Help:Cite errors/Cite error on Adonis Tabanda article
  3. How do i created Page for colorwashed in entertainment industries (Movies/TVShow/Videogames/Comics)
  4. University names
  5. Template:Sequence
  6. Removal of False Or Fake Entry
  7. Hello
  8. Modification / Mise au point - Coat of Armes of Khilkov
  9. Uncertain how to label link
  10. Speedy Deletion
  11. catalog of articles I've published

July 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 10

  1. Page on Fernando de la Rúa's presidency needs serious reformatting
  2. List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
  3. About Reliability of Wikipedia
  4. Lupton family
  5. Remove 's' from page title
  6. Reliable source
  7. Finding which articles link to which other articles
  8. Lupton family
  9. Line 2 removal
  10. Trouble changing title of page for our organization
  11. How to fix a messy dead URL situation?
  12. Wikipedia and Commons file with the same name

July 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 11

  1. Does Wikipedia have a profile feature?
  2. Lupton family
  3. Regarding Draft Article Publishing on Wikipedia
  4. Almost entire content of article disputed.
  5. Wrong word translated
  6. How do I know which link is blacklisted?
  7. Wolverine edit
  8. How to Reset A Company's Wikipedia
  9. Can I disable redirection to mobile version?

July 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 12

  1. Changed terminology of paragraph
  2. Was this preposition change correct?
  3. Z Suby
  4. /* "The Australian Sensation" Craven */
  5. Page
  6. How to upload an actress image for her bio
  7. To restore information
  8. Editing help
  9. Wikidata and Google search engine
  10. RevisionDelete
  11. Turning a draft into an article
  12. shick razors
  13. Articles Not Indexed After 90 Days?
  14. I need help creating an account.
  15. resolved problems with "Encounter Point" Wikipedia page - please update
  16. Should "indigenous" be capitalized?
  17. Is it all right to edit a help desk post?

July 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 13

  1. Category confusion - Australian Indigenous v Aboriginal Artists
  2. Can't get flickr2commons to load. Is it down?
  3. Question about WP:EXTENDEDCONFIRMED
  4. Resolution on proposed article for deletion
  5. Lupton family
  6. Found page title in italics for no reason
  7. Published page

July 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 14

  1. Spotting a small edit in a diff
  2. Demographics section of articles about US towns and cities
  3. User attacked me, accused me of propaganda for asking a question. Wanted me blocked. I took it to AN/Incidents.
  4. Removed plot from comic adaptation
  5. Translation request
  6. Removing VPN restrictions
  7. New article still in draft status
  8. Monica Helms Page
  9. How to find exact color codes used in a template
  10. Templates being expanded or collapsed
  11. creating a new page
  12. Unsettling PHP7 tag

July 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 15

  1. Creating a dab page
  2. wimbledon championships
  3. Images / drafts
  4. Overwhelmed, & Confused:
  5. "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it"
  6. Flickr Upload Creative Commons Licence help
  7. Removing / Updating Content Error

July 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 16

  1. Factual error needs correction
  2. Templates are being disrupted
  3. Change from colon to semicolon
  4. My password seems to have stopped working and I’m unable to reset it
  5. Long-term harassment of our users on bs.Wikipedia
  6. Chek in
  7. To whom this concern
  8. Question about topics/Own Thoughts in an article
  9. Getting Started – Contributing to Wiki articles
  10. The Painted Turtle
  11. Template syntax highlighting
  12. chronicles of vladimir tod
  13. Page Verification
  14. How long can a paragraph be?

July 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 17

  1. How do I change an Article Title
  2. Was this comma splice necessary?
  3. My wiki is still in draft version, why?
  4. Book creation
  5. Where do I find answers from this desk??
  6. POSTING A SOURCE
  7. Fundraising timing
  8. New page needed
  9. How do I make the templates either hidden or shown, by default?
  10. Is it appropriate to delete this article?
  11. Draft idea
  12. Javier Sanchez Perez
  13. Updating Photo
  14. How to change a name
  15. Tense of this sentence

July 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 18

  1. Editing Template:Chem molar mass/format/sandbox
  2. Book title alphabetized under 'The'
  3. I'll try to make a long story short...
  4. Edit extended protect
  5. i want to do a corrects on my player profil
  6. Questions to editor: Hominology submission
  7. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  8. Making a Wikitable collapsible or expandable
  9. How to make factual edits to biography section of a page?
  10. Account
  11. Need to Edit a Reference But it does not show up
  12. submitting draft for review

July 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 19

  1. Change of tense in sentence
  2. Is this OR?
  3. Elon Musk / Errol Musk (father)
  4. Tense of dead person's action
  5. Notable person or Autobiography
  6. Help updates to our school page keep being deleted

July 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 20

  1. Defunct links for defunct websites
  2. how to upload pictures and informatiom
  3. Renamed section
  4. References
  5. Unit formatting and relation to sentence structure
  6. Article title is incorrect but can't Move it
  7. What is this citation style called? And where is the WP-instructional page for it?
  8. contributions deleted
  9. WP Policy regarding the translation of names of organisations and political parties
  10. Adding occupation to an entry
  11. Hi..Help I just wrote my first wikipedia ......blurb on myself Lynda Diamond...I don't know if I did it properly!? Thanks! Lynda
  12. What type of links, websites, sources can be used to add information to a Wikipedia page?
  13. Is it acceptable to refer to make one mention of a person by only their last name?
  14. Help with a 404 error
  15. Am I allowed to add the following counter argument to this entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law ?
  16. Who makes the decisions for the Wikipedia Main Home Page - "On This Day" Feature?
  17. Capitalizing the first letters of common nouns under "See also"/"Further Reading" lists
  18. Searching for text on the "recent changes" page

July 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 21

  1. Removed "on" from phrasal verb
  2. Discovered overly long paragraph
  3. Refs are missing from article
  4. Administrator error
  5. Citing an archive
  6. Confused about formatting in this sentence
  7. update article

July 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 22

  1. adding info
  2. Added info to new section
  3. Undelete a version of a file - Verifone Logo.svg
  4. I have created a new page.
  5. UK Inter Services Cricket
  6. Headings - Sheffield Futsal Club
  7. Published draft
  8. How to deal with quotations when in the source editing view
  9. Reference / footnote problem
  10. hide and/or unpublish published drafts
  11. FINDING DRAFTS
  12. Where did this article go?

July 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 23

  1. Life span and military titles should be in separate parentheticals, right?
  2. Please Use Actual and Only Photo of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba instead of this drawing, which is far from being similar to the picture
  3. Content of a deleted article
  4. Found probable vandalism
  5. Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire
  6. Template:Verse translation
  7. caste certificate
  8. What to do when an editor refuses to abide by RfC closure?
  9. My page is deleted many times
  10. Which reference desk has competence for inquiries on psychology?
  11. Link in template may be lacking apostrophe
  12. Typo in a Reference name
  13. can't get to the page I created to edit Jacques Rey Charlier
  14. Betty Davis birth year
  15. 2020 Pro Bowl Site
  16. Article images in Google
  17. How to put an image in a page?
  18. an article I edited

July 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 24

  1. Bobby Sherman.
  2. Copied-text template
  3. Content Deleted? not promotional
  4. Huntingburg, Indiana
  5. Updating the National Constitution Center Page
  6. line colour
  7. contacting a contributor
  8. Wikipedia Page
  9. help adding content
  10. Content deleted. Reason given "rv self-sourcing"?
  11. Changing default picture
  12. Using material from Wikisource
  13. page removal

July 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 25

  1. Related to a minor mistake
  2. Possible addition to "List of people who disappeared at sea"
  3. Question about the template of the Kingdom of Middag
  4. Where to split paragraph
  5. Talk page redirects to other article
  6. Table broken
  7. Page Ownership
  8. conversion of ref style
  9. Location of publisher not mentioned in book copyright
  10. How do you block someone who is constantly adding bogus material to a page?
  11. Adding an Infobox to existing page: Not showing up as an infobox after I enter in the code
  12. Uploading an image to be used in an infobox: Won't let me add it
  13. JUSTICE? AYE RIGHT!
  14. Address
  15. Setting up a new page
  16. How to protect page

July 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 26

  1. Questionable content recently added to Tracy Nelson (singer) page
  2. Followup to question re: Tracy Nelson (singer) page
  3. Additions to TV Stations
  4. Problem with alerts and notices gagdets
  5. Account status
  6. Composer for Black and White 2
  7. do autoconfirmed users have their new articles reviewed as well?
  8. Federal Employees' Retirement System
  9. How to title pages and submit from Sandbox?
  10. Is it just me?
  11. Factual question
  12. What does, needs @ on password mean.
  13. Edit conflict with myself each time I make a change, wtf?

July 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 27

  1. Privacy edit request
  2. Help Changing Photo
  3. Adding vendor references without 'creating a directory' - seems inconsistently applied
  4. Adding item to current page
  5. Multiple versions of an image
  6. South Philadelphia
  7. I don’t know who to ask
  8. Given about our caste wrong
  9. Special:Undelete/CIMLS request
  10. Information use request
  11. Semi-government company page creation
  12. Defeated by syntax
  13. Blue link for deleted article?
  14. Is this how you're supposed to disambiguate this sort of link?
  15. Checking on the status of biography posting
  16. 2020 Major League Baseball season

July 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 28

  1. Lockheed P-38 Lightning
  2. Sharing code
  3. List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:20th-century_Mormon_missionaries&pagefrom=Woods%2C+Fred+E.%0AFred+Woods#mw-pages
  5. Multiple coordinates within article body
  6. Tony Clarkson cricketer
  7. anxiety tab contribution labeled as "vandalism"
  8. Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
  9. need help with making a page to be referred to from another page
  10. Adding charts to album article

July 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 29

  1. Ali Kadhim Hadi
  2. Lupton family
  3. Would like to open a page for company information named as "OKAY.com"
  4. Editing the list of IEB schools in South Africa
  5. Murtaja Adel Nasser
  6. A3 when deleting move redirects?
  7. Question regarding copyright of web pages
  8. Wrong message by Wiki
  9. Frequent-flyer program
  10. Finding out username and password
  11. Help Please! (Copyright)
  12. Removing Templates
  13. Changing to correct information
  14. HotCat with Timeless skin

July 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 30

  1. Hidden content
  2. Request for adminship
  3. Spelling Mistake
  4. Frances Lupton
  5. Contents page and title
  6. RE: Agnes Moorehead birth place
  7. Template:Inline audio
  8. Fitness First
  9. what can I do next for the claim that never been resolve Georgia claim 2014021750

July 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019 July 31

  1. I can not access my old email to login :(
  2. Notice for referral to foreign-language WP
  3. Need help editing Logical Investigations (Husserl)
  4. Murtaja Adel Nasser and Ali Kadhim Hadi
  5. Editors with a cause
  6. Help:Cite errors/Piedmont Region Headquarters opening date
  7. It's too drafty in here
  8. Content is written like an advertisement
  9. Add a person
  10. Is it possible to combine list defined and embedded references?
  11. User:Evad37/MoveToDraft
  12. When will Wiki page appear on Google?
  13. talk comments being deleted
  14. Transcribing owned media of historical reference
  15. Adding bio on a living person
  16. Bulk messaging all users in a category