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May 1
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 1
Can't edit as normal
Social structure of the United Kingdom
Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
Social structure of the United Kingdom
Delete my account
Social structure of the United Kingdom
Looking for a maintenance template
About the change of an article's name
Deletion of a pic
sukran pancholiya
possible web-page error, causes hang while rendering
how to use 3rd party references
Sandbox
Languages of other Wikipedias
Correct usage of templates for website citations
Footnotes
May 2
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 2
Social structure of the United Kingdom
Can WP's "own" material/edits BECOME "copyrighted" and FORCIBLY removed from WP articles??
Series on African Americans
Two names for same thing; two different Wikipedia pages
Lockout
Entry Not Visible
Need some assistance
PUBLISHING MY USER DRAFT PAGE GLENDA DEL E
re-editing article
I need help in uploading images
Quick access to WP functions
May 3
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 3
publishing images
Changing Title of Donora Hillard Hare
Question about changing interior content on a topic banner
How to get article reassessed?
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Citation template design
How can I appeal against an SPI ruling ?
Accusation of edit warning and threatening tone of editor
Fix Wiki page name?
How to Upload Photos and Avoid The Deletion
Thomas Fairfax (Gilling)
May 4
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 4
Article protection
Zero width space character error
"corrections" that are really just alternative spellings/usages
Is there a way to copy a page?
Prasad Appa Tarkar
Sorting a table entry into multiple locations
Copy Editing
Robux
Waiting for edit
Austin Petersen
Wikipedia Help
getting a page re-instated after it has been deleted due to copyright violations.
May 5
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 5
Vandalism By A Highly Regarded User
Nine Network
Don Orsillo Wikipedia page
How to find/contact Dave/Transporterman
Where and how are a user's GAs and FAs logged/recorded?
Regarding giving Feedback
Variations in spelling of names
Reference from arc hive.is?
Recommending
re-writing a wikipedia page
external links that won't produce right results because of incompaticle characters
Anne Gascoigne
May 6
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 6
Anne Gascoigne
Could someone help me create 4 articles on people with down syndrome?
copyright material
World War II
Change displayed link color via CSS
Placement of Page needed
Wanted to Add more information for Liberty Videocon General Isurance
Deletion of an hoax
Landry's
Using geographic coordinates from Wikidata
Page history blanked by turning into a redirect
Change displayed link color for interwiki links
Complex template help
How to find articles with ending -ology
bangyal rajput (more defined)
Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input
Template help
Reliable sources vs one event?
May 7
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 7
Editing
Referencing errors on Medici Chapel
Company Details in Wikipedia
Come back tomorrow night, we're going to do fractions.
The Picture Here and a Contribution Offer
Unusual Articles
Mistake on List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016#External links
Re positioning of picture and English pages for Spanish entries.
Dreux winegrowers
Why can't this german picture be used on en-wp?
May 8
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 8
Vertical bar in URL causing error
Update on CLARE TURLAY NEWBERRY
Problem with GeoHack
Spurious reversion of my own edit after I saved another edit
Tool for comparing intersection of pages edited by users?
Untitled
Referencing errors on Beyonce discography
Substituting a Better Image
Moving AFC Draft to Mainspace by Non-Reviewer
Request edit status
"Subtitle" in search results
User's sandbox listed on MOS page
May 9
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 9
Edward IV
Guidelines
Saving without edit summary
New COI Paid editor
I want to write how write this comments in Wikipedia.
speedy deletion of rambir singh sangwan
Indian Map correction
Morocco Map
Looking for very simple step by step instructions for the system for copying text from CC-BY-SA licensed sources into Wikipedia articles.
Toto Cup
America's Missing,Abducted and Lost Persons aka A.M.A.L.P MINISTRY
Change TRO Jung Brannen Wikipedia Name to TRO
May 10
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 10
Referencing errors on Whig Party (United States)
Lupton family
Barotseland Music
A user breaks the civility code
David Cameron
Starting/Editing a Wikipedia Page
New bracket template
How do I edit the main entry on a name
Article Content Question
Change of Supervisor
Youtube personalities and notability
difficulty creating an account
Wasiu Adelani
Poster upload
An Autobiography Page
May 11
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 11
help on wiki
Edit Article
create a book
Can I add just a section to my watchlist
I am planning something different with whom I need to contact for record or to note or to update in Wikipedia
Page view layout
Lina Joseph P Karam
May 12
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 12
Trying to avoid reverts and snarky talk about a controversial topic
Cant login
HFA134a addition to that site
Editing Article
Descriptive terms
disruptive editing?
Urgent: Help needed with article, repeated removal of material, and repeated claims by remover that reinstatement is "edit warring"
An oddity
May 13
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 13
Louisville population
"suspended" president?
Lady Nicholas Windsor
Wikipedia:Redirect
Pronounciasion
Is there any way to remove the table of contents ...
Referencing errors on Identity theft
Criticizing present entries
Non-WMF wikilinks
International Charter Space and Major Disasters
May 14
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 14
approval of article
About To Create Autobiography Of Ajay Thakar
Forced linebreak
How get rid of all colour white?
Text left margin issue in between images to the left and right
reference
Who do i contact to remove a bias picture of me
May 15
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 15
Rejection by wiki editor "TimTrent" of the proposed WIKI entry on WAC [Women's Action Coalition] by Taylor Kuhn 2015
Sandbox Article
Incorrect BIO
false statements and damaging information within the following page : Victoria University, Switzerland
Delete image file
How can I make image 6 left justified ?
Creating new article
Edward IV of England
May 16
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 16
Potential conflict of interest
Laird
Laird
Save Page botton
Help in a community falling apart
Change Settings - password and email
Citing primary source from Russian
Deacktivate account
Correction require on Democratic Primary schedules wins (Nebraska)
Any anti-POV cliques mechanisms
Edit summary comment, after the fact
top level registries ie. rightsidereg
How to get rid of red text.
Where is the best place to ask a question about disambiguation?
References
May 17
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 17
Order of the Double Dragon
Where is the credential upload link?
New International School
Javad Marandi
:The World's 50 Best Restaurants
Portal 2000s is facing a major problem
light and colour
Speedily Deleted
Wiki Ed - unable to connect
changing the article name
Mark Gruenwald Page
Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
Stitching edit histories
How do I add an article?
Bikrami calendar
May 18
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 18
I am trying to incorporate the "rowspan" feature into a chart.
Adding an article that has the same title as an existing article
May 19
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 19
Pending change review process question
Home Page
Magazine Logo
personal biography entry
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref
Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
Page flagged
a doubt regarding with further communication
sourcing question
Help With Article
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Sources
May 20
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 20
Odd message
Review Edit Aditi Singh
Communication on talk pages
Problem with Shashi kumar(Arjun)
Interlanguage wikilinks
Using two infobox templates on the same page
Too much depth template?
Bangladesh Green Building Council
Article revisions getting reverted
hey
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
May 21
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 21
Request for Review
3ncryp710n
Referencing errors on Paradesi Jews
Deleted Article about prominent Chicago Architect / Want to resubmit without involving :UserJohnCD /Need feedback
Injunction
Questions and sorry for repost re William M Cooley Re Ian.Thomson - still need assistance
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
Customized citation (possible WP:OWN violation)
downloand a book
Requesting an amendment to a page that has been courtesy-blanked?
My edits?
References
Where will I find the answer to my question about placing references?
Template anomalies
May 22
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 22
Re assistance William M Cooley
Changing an image
Trouble with Twinkle and a CfD
Duplicate found
Meaningless edit summaries
Why are these two charts acting differently? One results in bold text, while the other does not.
Notifications, and ping-template when manually archiving a talk page
Where to report non-free images?
Hide one user's edits from watchlist
Difficulty patrolling back-of-queue for NPP
May 23
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 23
John Thurso
I, Daniel Blake is being vandalized right at this moment
Edits to original article on Maharajbag Zoo, Nagpur, India
Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key
Re assistance William M Cooley
Re assistance William M Cooley
Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref Henry Phillips
Help with logging in to existing account - wont let me advised to use different URL - what does that mean
Quentin Carnaille
Wiki page for my friend
Referencing errors on Electronic Data Systems
converting links
Wikipedia
I Want to make my Wikipedia Account
I messed up an infobox
May 24
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 24
Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth
Pippa Middleton
Georg von Trapp
Phillip Lynch
Information box
Georg von Trapp
Seek help on Image replacement
Action figure and toy merger
May 25
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 25
encyclopedic prose
Alderman
No sense that autoclave is two articles, one hidden, and one not fully describing
Living person category
Update OWSLA logo
May 26
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 26
Title Blacklist
"Did you know" box formatting issue on History Portal?
TOMAS MACCURTAIN
Pulitzer?
Legal Medical Marijuana - All states
How to quickly make a copy (to word or excel) of the index / titles of all articles?
Revised article
External links in article "Ibrahim B. Syed" have problems - one is dead, other "Temporarily Unavailable"
Problem with source.
looking for work i am sanjeev puktar
Prince Michael of Kent
May 27
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 27
change nickname
Twitter photos
unblock requests
Question about WP:NLT
Move an article to (its own) already redirected article name
how many admins are there?
Tagging a copyvio image
Italics for spacecraft names?
Publish a page developed in the Wikipedia Sandbox
Guideline about not appending "United States" to addresses in the US
Citing a legal complaint
Posting a .png file
New Article
May 28
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 28
Password reset operation broken?
Katrina Mathers
about uploading information on wikipedia
Why speedy deletion?
Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no key
May 29
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 29
Harold C Helgeson
Signature Problem.
HowTo? smarter searches within Wiki a'la Google with markup or Boolean logic?
Extreme and persistent page vandalism
username
addition
Is this link behind a paywall?
How do I go about proposing an article rename?
Please delete my entry
Katrina Mathers
Help with Original Research
May 30
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 30
Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Portland Public Schools
Pilot (Sit Down, Shut Up)
Marg Downey
Independent school (United Kingdom)
9th infantry Division in Vietnam
How to request a photo
Adding to Discography
Adding to Discography
Capitalising a page name - Orix = ORIX
Rotating images on Wikipedia
May 31
Information (Geography)
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2016 May 31
Roger Lupton
Phillip Lynch
Emmanuel College, Warrnambool
changing languages
How to create a wiki page
Phillip Lynch
Bot archive loss
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
Phillip Lynch
View another user's sandbox?
Articles about what?
Saving your latest version
converting links
3rd battalion 4th marines
omission of Sunderland UK on your latitudes of cities site
WRONG TITLE
Lymans S. Ayres II article
Submitted draft