Talk:Help

Last Edit

There was a recent probably malicious edit by Solidwings1256. Should be investigated by administrator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzomtceo (talk • contribs) 18:20, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Verification for Invention of "Concept of Help" Missing

Hello I noticed a very specific date for the invention of the concept of help. The author of that section indicates it is April 3, 1564. Is it possible he meant April 1? :-) Reportica (talk) 18:23, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Why is this so short?

Why is this so short? Btw everyone should know what HELP means. Hellokitty1000 (talk) 04:37, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Article writing on medical treatment matter or article on any event

Can any body send article for publication? If so what are the formalities to be observed? Shafiqur Mazumdar (talk) 13:52, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

possible semi- protection or pending edits

I think this page should be semi-protected because as you may be able to see, this page seems to have been a target for vandals, as even recently, someone named "bwannan" made vandalism. Firestar9990 (talk) 20:00, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

why is there nothing under music

there seems to be nothing under music. I do not know if I should remove it, but I would like to tell you. Firestar9990 (talk) 08:52, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Listed under songs.--Quisqualis (talk) 23:54, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

There are 12 entries in 3 subsections within Music. -- Fyrael (talk) 05:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

@Quisqualis: I mean in the section music in the page. if you look, there is nothing under the music tab Firestar9990 (talk) 06:35, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Again, there's 12 entries in Music. You're not making sense. -- Fyrael (talk) 04:01, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Help (Papa Roach song) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 13:38, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

do you tell subject of article that you are writing about it

i know there are always exceptions, but what is the default position? i am not a journalist, but i know that if i tell some that i am writing about zir, zie would act very differently, potentially in ways that are detrimental to the objectivity of the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by NerdestBruce (talk • contribs) 04:46, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

This talk page is about the word help. If you require help, refer to WP:Help desk (CC) Tbhotch^™ 05:03, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

ok

do i just delete this thread from this page, or does someone or something do that later? i feel not great just removing it; it did happen NerdestBruce (talk) 05:08, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Talk page content is generally left for the archive. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 05:09, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Trying to locate edit history

I can’t find a link or button that reveals the edit history of an article. 2603:3014:C06:3C00:3C88:6560:F3A0:FFD4 (talk) 19:26, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Top right, it says "view history" – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 19:27, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Splitting proposal

The section acrynoms should really be split into HELP. Jacksonvil (talk|contribs) 00:33, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Makes sense, cf. same argument at Talk:Pe - two shorter lists should be better than one long one, provided they're cross-linked well to handle all-lowercase lookups intended for all-uppercase. --Joy (talk) 05:50, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

I think this might result in readers being confused, I don't see how the extra disambig page would improve navigation. We could re-target the HELP redirect to the acronym section instead? ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 11:30, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Actually, I've done the retarget BOLDLY. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 11:33, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

This works, but because of how our statistics work, we can't track clickstreams intended for HELP. --Joy (talk) 12:29, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Ehh, I personally care less about the stats, as long as people can find what they're looking for (and since the other disambig entries are on the same page I think they'll find them) ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 12:36, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Well, it's a matter of how do we assess if we improve navigation. Sadly, there's little in the way of evidence either way. --Joy (talk) 12:37, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

There is a way, see pageview data Jacksonvil (talk|contribs) 01:47, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

That shows the incoming views, but not the outgoing clicks based on each of those, cf. meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream: Requests for pages that get redirected were mapped to the page they redirect to. (they're squashed together) --Joy (talk) 07:27, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

I see. Then not much evidence. I guess the improvement to navigation is small. Jacksonvil (talk|contribs) 06:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Object. It's not helpful because abbreviations are often rendered in lower case. There are dozens of similar pages with mixed words and abbreviations. What this page needs is a good clean up. There shouldn't be an acronyms section: subheadings should be per WP:LONGDAB. I'll give that a go. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 19:38, 22 June 2026 (UTC)