Help desk
< March 5	<< Feb \| March \| Apr >>	March 7 >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current Help Desk pages.

March 6

Is there a way to see how much articles have grown in a specific time span?

I want to filter articles in a category (optimal with deepscan) by the growing page length in a specific time range. For example showing me all articles in Category:2022 that have grown over +1000 Bytes in the last week. Optimal would be a pagehistory connnection (or a similar ui) that show me what is new. I tried it with the quarry but it doesn't work like I thought about it and maybe more experienced users here know some better tools to do it. Thanks for helping --Noobius2 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Error on Ken Griffey Jr. Infobox - unsure how to fix it

Hello, I just wanted to point out that there is an error on the page for Ken Griffey Jr., as the infobox is not formatted correctly and only displays as text. Both {{ }} brackets are present, and I was unsure how to approach fixing it without reverting an edit. Thanks. – GriegMachine8

@GriegMachine8: There was some vandalism that broke it. I undid the bad edit and it is looking better now. Thanks for the report. RudolfRed (talk) 00:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question about editing the page about Ian Alexander (actor)

Hi. A little while back I added a category on the page Ian Alexander (actor) saying they are of Vietnamese descent due to their mother being Vietnamese and also the category of LGBT American people of Asian descent. For some reason those 2 categories were removed. Is it appropriate for those 2 categories to be on their page? I'm simply asking. Thank you! 2001:569:5262:A00:203F:7C80:2874:FAA2 (talk) 06:06, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:COPHERITAGE is the relevant guideline. In addition to the requirement of verifiability, living people must have self-identified as a particular heritage. You would need to find reliable sources saying that Ian Alexander identifies themself as being of Vietnamese descent and as being Asian descent; how they identify ethnically/racially can’t be inferred on the basis of their mother, per se. but if you find such sources then you can add those categories. Umimmak (talk) 06:22, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge draft incubation back to main

Hi there! I've been trying to improve C. J. Cregg's article, but since I wanted to be able to plan it out, I incubated my improvements in a user sandbox. Do I need to request that all the history be merged back to the main article, and if so, where? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 11:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since you are (effectively) the only editor to User:Theleekycauldron/C. J. Cregg you may copy and paste the current contents back to C. J. Cregg and restore the categories and whatever else you didn't copy at the time. Normally you would need to restore any changes other editors had made to the main article after you had taken your copy but it this case no changes seem to have been made. In this slightly unusual case all attribution will be maintained. Thincat (talk) 15:37, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Thincat! copied back :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 08:29, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Visibility of Formulae

Dear Wikipedia Team,

I have some eye issues so I prefer using desktop in high contrast theme. But in high contrast theme, the formulae on our site become invisible against background, I am inserting

some screenshot from Green's theorem page. Please can you fix this, as I have to turn on and off theme again and again causing inconvenience.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Freakstarrr (talk • contribs) 11:34, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that the image has a transparent background, and the high contrast mode did not invert colors in the images. Anpang01 (talk) 11:35, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Freakstarrr: Hi there! WP:VPT might be a better place to report this issue. Be sure to state which browser and which "high contrast theme" you're using. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 15:34, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Actor Dane Clark

To whom this may concern My question is Wasn't Actor above in the movie AIRPORT 75? Didn't he act as private plane pilot that crashed into Commercial Airliner?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.186.219.238 (talk) 13:18, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! The Wikipedia Help desk is for questions about using Wikipedia, not for general knowledge questions. For factual questions like this, please post them on the Wikipedia:Reference desk. GoingBatty (talk) 15:36, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I suspect that this is about our article Dane Clark. If so, you can post a suggestion at the talk page Dane Clark. But to be honest, I think that the filmography is already too long (and unreferenced) and should be trimmed to his major appearances, preferably those for whom there is a source such as a review that mentions him. ColinFine (talk) 16:10, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That role was played by Dana Andrews, not Dane Clark, as described here. Cullen328 (talk) 19:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ACUPUNCTURE

It is an absolute disgrace that when the first thing that pops up when typing in Acupuncture is a wikipedia page stating that it is a psedoscience and quackery. There is an incredible amount of studies proving HOW it works and showcasing the therapeutic effects. I am surprised you guys have not been sued for posting something that quite literally bashes a HEALTH PROFESSION!

This needs to be taken down ASAP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.70.43 (talk) 19:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello IP! First, I don't think something like this is enough to be sued over (but I"m not a lawyer so who knows). Second, if you have enough studies then please bring them up at the articles talk page. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:15, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We haven't been sued because there's no trustworthy evidence that it's any better than a placebo. Maproom (talk) 19:41, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Need "inches" in a template

At Lambert friction gearing disk drive transmission#Toothless gearing on the article I am improving I wrote 18 inches in diameter with a working face of 1.5-inch (38 mm). I believe what I want is 1.5 inches (plural) but don't know how to make the template do that. Can someone help me. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:54, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Doug Coldwell. If you set "|adj=off" you should see inches rather than inch. Currently you're using {{convert|1.5|in|mm|adj=on}}, you should change that to be {{convert|1.5|in|mm|adj=off}}. LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmission∆ °co-ords° 20:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@ActivelyDisinterested: Yup! Thanks..... --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Highlighting a street on a map for use in Wikipedia

I'm trying to add a map for a street in Wikipedia. I can't find how to do it other than screenshotting a map and drawing the road manually, but that would probably be imprecise.

How are maps in articles, like the one in Broadway made?

Courtesy link: Alemany Boulevard

I.hate.spam.mail.here (talk | contributions) 22:50, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@I.hate.spam.mail.here There seem to already be 3 links to online maps on that page, but not enough citations. So you would be better focusing on that, in my view. If you really felt a map is necessary, you could, as you say, upload a .svg image, or you could try to define a zoomable Open Street Map using {{Template:Maplink}}. Nick Moyes (talk) 23:33, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]