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March 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 1

1. A question, if I may, about user pages...
2. Use of "etc" - is there a guideline?
3. Horn of africa
4. Alok Ulfat ( Reason of Deletion *
5. artist page has been wrongly deleted and is now redirected
6. City of Lemberg history
7. How to disable section edit links?
8. kancho japanease martail arts term for president
9. Biography of Sampson Moore, engineer
10. I need to contact Elizium23
11. Review of My Article
12. Formatting weirdness
13. New post
14. credit
15. Referencing errors on Nelson Peltz

March 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 2

1. Barun De
2. Changing link target in template
3. Shyne Po
4. Main Page Redesign 2014
5. how to change title of an article
6. The "thank" button
7. edit - end reference -
8. How do I upload an Image
9. Query about inappropriately protecting talk pages

March 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 3

1. Referencing errors on International College, Beirut
2. List of Nokia Products
3. Mulatu Teshome Wirtu
4. Kyle Chapman page
5. Replacing an entry created in my name (without my approval)
6. Turn off 'mentioned you' notices?
7. I uploaded an Image of a Statue
8. Why do vehicles emit carbon dioxide?
9. Formatting Photos
10. Now that I have my photo uploaded
11. Sorting by date in a table when you don't want to write it as YYYY-MM-DD
12. Text of auto signature on edits says comment is unsigned.

March 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 4

1. Move of page but name in use for redirect
2. My page for Katie Nolan
3. Referencing errors on American Graffiti
4. Request to add the biography
5. Biographies of living persons - poorly sourced paragraphs about events that may be reputation damaging
6. problems changing the title on an Arabic Page
7. False or outdated statements about Pebble Hills University at the List of unaccredited institutions of higher education
8. Referencing errors on Bogdan Bogdanović
9. Translation
10. Changing logo due to branding
11. Question about he use of symbols from an Role-Playing Game
12. include this name top the list
13. Signature
14. 2006 Lebanon War
15. Ultimate what?
16. Contributions to Wikipedia
17. deleting page St. Nicolaus Distilery
18. US Century Bank
19. Referencing errors on Super Motherload
20. Request edit
21. Thompson Donald

March 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 5

1. Referencing errors on GM Futurliner
2. adding a business location /new account
3. Title of Wikipedia Article
4. Creation of more than one Wikipedia company page
5. Our Company Profile Page is out of date
6. how to post
7. My book
8. How can I TOTALLY delete a page so it is unsearchable on Google?
9. Links in source code
10. Altoona Tribune Office Location - Altoona, PA
11. "Markup" bar
12. Duplicate articles
13. Original Article scrapped and replaced by someone.
14. Upload video
15. I'd need some help

March 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 6

1. Hyperion_Sewage_Treatment_Plant
2. Where do I find the Wikipedia file of non-acceptable sources ?
3. How to not go directly to edit box
4. First State
5. Gentex Gold - Ortiva mktg. -- pls let us know the name of dealer at Lucknow (UP) from where we can purchase bulk medicine.
6. Image uploading rights
7. I have requested for an article on my company. No response yet
8. how to remove error message
9. Elizabeth barret browning page as seen on my mobile device
10. DEFAULTSORT
11. How do I stop watching the protection log?
12. Downloading books as ePub
13. Referencing errors on Judith Estrin
14. Russell Blaylock Post
15. changing our company name
16. Unwarranted threat
17. Glen Ivy Hot Springs Article
18. Same name, two different persons
19. I would like permission to upload information
20. Pinging users
21. Template:reflist not working at Rome & Jewel
22. "Keith Haring" Wikipedia page

March 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 7

1. Referencing errors on Abdominal aortic aneurysm
2. How to amend project assessment table
3. cain's quest
4. Can I alter an already placed inline citation so that it can be repeated?
5. VibraSens
6. Müller Wiseman Dairies Title
7. Film Museum Society, Lahore, Pakistan.
8. Images is too large
9. How to handle a slash character in a page name
10. Incorrect photo added
11. The stupid thing that keeps saying you have messages
12. Article references and sources
13. Where did my questions go
14. How do I tag a page for merge to a DUPLICATE article?
15. Kazys Morkunas
16. Re: Thomas Parker/ The Wanted
17. Enough support for proposal?
18. Infobox Station
19. No original content (external links)

March 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 8

1. Main page redesign 2014
2. Help needed with issues regarding cultural diversity & disruptive editing ...
3. How to create a new article (unregistered user)
4. Deleting my user page
5. Edits To SpiritCool
6. Mercedes-Benz C-Class
7. Permission to continue their work
8. Daniel Canfield
9. Tularthrum
10. How to select a new password?
11. WIKAPEDIA'S DESCRIPTION OF LAKE PLACID, FLORIDA
12. Seems to be hung up I can't undo done
13. K2

March 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 9

1. So upset
2. ancestery
3. How to align?
4. removing taxi cab driver
5. community team
6. Astray
7. Referencing errors on ROLM
8. Wikipedia tabs eating up a lot of resources the longer they're open
9. Work keeps getting deleted
10. Basketball team color infobox?
11. Controlling the appearance of a 'Needle Mover' graphic using markup
12. Patrolling English Wikipedia
13. Can't read some of the text on the pages.

March 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 10

1. The Bangs Sisters, spiritual mediums
2. copyright
3. How do I start (or recommend) a discussion about correcting an apparent error?
4. Removing material
5. Language link defaulting to included template
6. Citation Bundling with URLS
7. Ancient Assyrian Homosexuality
8. OUTDATED ARTICLE ABOUT ME: Jan Egeland
9. THUG CRY
10. Outdated Edit Tutorial page?
11. Status of user of another Wikipedia
12. Help. What did I do?
13. My question
14. Help with Template:Ranking Movements
15. application
16. Translating an existing page
17. Who is incharge of purchasing.
18. Messed up header on talk page
19. Looking for similar article
20. ways to contact author

March 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 11

1. How do I stop watching the protection log?
2. Is a Page Semi-Protected?
3. What do you/we do with a talk page that has become disconnected from the Article which it supported?
4. attempt to edit rejected
5. Big question
6. Links in the lead
7. Wikisource
8. please inform me how we can edit the title in wikipedia?
9. How can I export script into another wiki
10. Linking to scholarly articles
11. Requested edit
12. Dividing an article while maintaining attribution
13. Is there a tool to show recent edits to any article you have edited?
14. Maximum Allowable Characters For A Username (42 Or 40?)
15. Are malls notable?
16. Editing InfoBox Image for a Person
17. Moved article to user space, redirect exists
18. Add a team to "Template:Euroleague color"
19. Would "Mosquito99" Or "Radio99" Be Reasonable Wiki Username Ideas?
20. How many members on Wikipedia/Wikimedia
21. Creating "Template:NCAA color"?
22. Weird formatting

March 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 12

1. New Wikipedia User Wishing To Learn How To Execute Properly-Tagging Uploaded Logos
2. Yesterdays main page
3. Administrators
4. Numeristic theory
5. Why does Category:Wikipedia_spam_cleanup show pages with no cleanup tags???
6. bad user experience
7. Rollback
8. Moving an image on a Wikipedia page
9. Editing and Footnotes
10. Cropping an image
11. Dead links
12. Link to Wikipedia in other languages
13. Help with team colors for NCAA!
14. I want to create an article
15. More help with NCAA team colors!
16. Help with placing a picture
17. Format link to Wikipedia page with quoted title (article/essay/etc.)

March 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 13

1. diamond products/uses
2. Ngoni Changunda
3. JAMES AMOS PROFILE
4. biased subject
5. Adapting images
6. Full moon-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
7. Update of usernames
8. Help with first time page creater
9. Name change of an Indian state
10. C97 crash in Pacific 1956
11. How to search the text of edit summaries?
12. Laura Jones Gymnast
13. Curious about status of a submission
14. VP-1 page deletion, restore
15. Referencing errors on Pierre Poilievre
16. Needle ice
17. Frost flower
18. largest aircraft
19. Wikipedia article on Google Search?
20. Picture showing the geographic center of a country
21. College colors in Basketball infoboxes?
22. Breaking Numbering in RFC

March 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 14

1. Referencing errors on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twelve Visions Party
2. Change of Images
3. Chairman/Chair
4. adding a sub-title to a Wikipedia page concerning Frost Flowers
5. Magnolia Hotel (Seguin, Texas)
6. Can't play audio video
7. Page in another language
8. Replacing a deadlink in reference section of an article.
9. The ratio of images
10. Picture rotation
11. Changing Main Heading of the Page
12. carl sagan page
13. how do you save a draft then come back to edit it?
14. Several questions
15. photo on page
16. How do I talk back and thank someone that has given me information?
17. Logging in from an ipad

March 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 15

1. Referencing errors on Khmer Rouge
2. Shakespeare Template not displaying as a template in certain pages
3. help with links please
4. MediaWiki:Blockedtext
5. Ogden theatre Denver Colorado
6. Can we use a non-free image in this case?
7. Joseph Chamberlain
8. How to make :Template:Image requested show links to Wikipedian categories when more than one category is requested
9. New Article Layout Issues
10. Kenneth McGriff
11. Problem with article after user changed name
12. how to request creation of a new article ?
13. 'Wireless car'
14. British born actors actresses in the usa
15. Interview question
16. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Infant Mattress Tests to Assess Adequate Safe Firmness

March 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 16

1. block list
2. writing article
3. Disruptive Edits to Article: Mansoor Ijaz
4. ebt cards
5. maxwelton station
6. Google book ext. link
7. Senior citizen" grivences such as violation of RTI rules by the DJB Executive engineers- regarding
8. who can access my sandbox
9. Kosmon Sanctuary, Walton-on-the-Hill
10. paperless classroom
11. Wikipedia Page for Luke Cooper
12. Copy of Wikipedia Articles and information
13. Template creation in sandbox
14. Two columns, with a table in each
15. Master Lu
16. Crash left editor in EDIT MODE for all computer actions (Browsers, Desktop, eMail app)

March 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 17

1. Posting questions about an article
2. Navy Cross Recipients
3. Referencing errors on Nasty Boys (TV series)
4. Search history
5. reference
6. Changing images
7. Spam-warning
8. How to stop repeated vandalism of Jonathan Self page
9. Schwan Food Company
10. Creating a second account
11. Saint Patrick's Day
12. Infobox insert question
13. How should I ask for the copyright status of an image to be investigated?

March 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 18

1. User page accidentally in mainspace
2. Long loading time
3. Can I make my wikipage private?
4. unable to open mega file
5. Ovo Energy
6. gap in word search
7. Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon
8. Log in
9. Removing tags from the article re: Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon
10. Footnotes
11. Maggie Thrett
12. Referencing video games as sources to themselves
13. Referencing errors on M113 armored personnel carrier
14. Unwanted user page subpages
15. Adding a Photo
16. Remove redirect
17. Tim Medvetz
18. status of a submission

March 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 19

1. Somaliland University of Technology Wikipedia webepage
2. Blurred Screens on Laptop and Tablet Computers in Wikipedia Articles
3. Rohingya description
4. Wikipedia: How does this happen?
5. picture
6. Universities in Malawi
7. lost
8. Referencing errors on Draft:Dareysteel
9. Edit Sunbeam (car company)
10. I translated an article about Юрій Гаврилюк from Ukrainian to English how can I submit it
11. date correction in an article
12. Biased article
13. One edit left behind
14. Editing the "Strains and Origins" section in "Kava"
15. Re article
16. Is there a Wikiproject that discusses weightlifting?

March 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 20

1. History merge or content merge?
2. Adding photo to Wikipedia Article
3. Reporting a Fake (History) Article
4. Video games! Boy I worked in the Video Game Business for 25 years. You are missing quite a few games 1990 and down.
5. Table sorting
6. ronnie montrose
7. Charlie Watts - IMDb reference
8. How to include a signature in a template
9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
10. Sandbox page history
11. Variation in birth/death dates
12. Cannot compare seleted revisions?
13. new article questions
14. Wikipedia:BLP
15. Citations
16. Physics problem
17. Pictures + Publishing
18. uploading images

March 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 21

1. Scarface The World Is Yours
2. only edit to user page?
3. AUTHOR
4. Overlinking - geographical features
5. Message on talk page left
6. Have problems citing sources
7. Is it acceptable to upload a diagram based on a copyrighted scientific article?
8. How can I disable the notifications?
9. Rename my recent new entries
10. Lost all my edits and my curent article
11. {reflist}
12. deletion review
13. Wrong Talk Page attached to article
14. deletion help
15. Town of Atherton, CA page
16. Picture Posted without Permission!
17. wrong information about Fort Cooper State Park

March 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 22

1. Hello
2. Haunted 2012
3. American Rhodes scholars
4. Morgan Williams - Rugby Player
5. Referencing errors on François Jouffroy
6. How can I request to delete any item Image or text which is hurting feelings of large group of people
7. Edit page MALFUNCTIONED!
8. Problem with Operations management article
9. Copying
10. Birch Beer
11. Reference for personal knowledge

March 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 23

1. Asian woman's
2. Referencing errors on The Singers Unlimited
3. American thermoplastic company
4. Derek DelGaudio
5. Recovering history of old article
6. Help against rooming.
7. Update on Montserrat medical school: University of Science, Arts and Technology
8. Invention
9. Wikipedia Fiona Kimm
10. Citing a web forum
11. how do i get my profile on wikipedia
12. Question about "help:page name" example
13. please make this page
14. Hiding Red Links
15. Rebhorn
16. Article count
17. Problems with moving an article into Wikipedia

March 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 24

1. Editing TV show episodes in advance
2. No sources in this page
3. superseded articles
4. Data stickies
5. Spurious "}" bracket in Maid to Order
6. Mistake
7. Can't create subpages such as User:Dougweller/common.js.
8. How do I recommend that an administrator be stripped of Admin status
9. Brian Flemming is a Hit Piece
10. LOST EDITS AND ARTICLE
11. Hockering, Norfolk.
12. Sandbox linked to article after creation
13. No password reset email
14. Copyright
15. How about numerous wikipedia citations making up most of a published work?

March 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 24

1. Editing TV show episodes in advance
2. No sources in this page
3. superseded articles
4. Data stickies
5. Spurious "}" bracket in Maid to Order
6. Mistake
7. Can't create subpages such as User:Dougweller/common.js.
8. How do I recommend that an administrator be stripped of Admin status
9. Brian Flemming is a Hit Piece
10. LOST EDITS AND ARTICLE
11. Hockering, Norfolk.
12. Sandbox linked to article after creation
13. No password reset email
14. Copyright
15. How about numerous wikipedia citations making up most of a published work?

March 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 25

1. Donation
2. new user
3. sport
4. Referencing errors on Rising Damp (film)
5. An "editor" with an agenda who challenges the neutrality and balance of Wikipedia?
6. How to roll back an edit that is not the most recent edit
7. Susan Brind Morrow
8. request an article or edit be made
9. Issue regarding Images and text
10. BB code tags
11. referencing my text
12. Unable to move a page
13. Help please
14. Wikipedia Correction - Please... https://www.google.com/#q=Cleveland+Golf

March 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 26

1. Tweleve Visions Party
2. urgent help please
3. YouTube citation help
4. Flags of the world
5. Editing the page on Panax Quinquifolia
6. Alex Masucci
7. What is Wikipedia's policy in regard to news embargos?
8. Reporting Fake (History) Page(s)
9. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lewis David Eigen
10. Marc Christian-Riebe
11. Removing an article
12. Giorgio Tavecchio
13. External links not in English
14. Problem with Image layout on page
15. logo on upper left of page is too big
16. Is accidentally copying an article over into another enough for REVDEL?
17. wikilinking from talk to main page of an article
18. Active tennis chair umpires umpires
19. JUST HELP ME UPDATE MY PAGE

March 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 27

1. Too many items on my Watchlist
2. qual e-mail compartir musica do youtube p myspace
3. How to quickly link a term in a number of articles?
4. translations
5. Post & Telegraph
6. Knights of Saint Columba
7. Sambhali Trust, indian NGO working for women empowerment
8. Request edit
9. writing wrong
10. Reference list template
11. Favorite Wikipedia articles
12. Thinkers pictures on main subjects page
13. Help needed reverting edit
14. Incorrect information
15. help with citogenesis
16. MSDS for chemicals
17. Saving edits in draft form

March 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 28

1. COLON CANCER: I need to clarify which treatment should be applied first and foremost before going straight into to establish if there is a problem.
2. Tagging for shared IP addresses: did I do this right?
3. wrong,wrong,wrong
4. Redactedunder RD1?
5. Invoke a bot?
6. Jian Ghomeshi

March 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 29

1. Norwegian
2. Editing Titles
3. how would I format a new entry for a film when there is an existing film with the same name?
4. Need help in Editing contents and articles related to Thangboi Singto
5. Please check references
6. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ashfaq Ishaq
7. Daily feed / email?
8. Would like to request a page protection
9. location of the search box on a wiki page
10. copy and paste a foreign language note to an on line translator
11. Referencing errors on Medina, Ohio
12. Beverly Hills Caviar Automated Boutique
13. Identity of authors of entries

March 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 30

1. Assistance needed with problems moving stub to main page
2. 2 accounts
3. Page Titles
4. ip address sender name and location search
5. facts about vampire myth
6. Surname Disambiguation
7. CFB Kingston
8. Angelina Jolie - children
9. How do you all the url thing?
10. Video Creation: Guideline Questions
11. removing sensitive userspace information on minors
12. Template for "this page was copied by another source, don't mark it as a copyright violation"
13. Use of name 'Olympics'.
14. Posting a photo that has been removed

March 31

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014 March 31

1. Article not appearing in a category
2. Missing email address
3. copyright issue - please help
4. Lost ability to see pictures
5. Swift current rampage lacrosse
6. Content validity conflict
7. Girls Preparatory School