Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2021 December 24

= December 24 =

Everybody Dance! (TV Series)
Hi there, I have a question about some reverts I made. Several mass blanks and destructive edits were made by a user, and you will see in the edit history I tried to revert them. However I think some damage remains as I was undoing, but do not have the roll back feature. Can someone more experienced than I please review my revert and if it's incorrect, use your tools to undo my reverts and restore the page to a clean edit? Also, is there a way to view a revision ID? I can usually only see them if I undo a revision. Thanks. Such-change47 (talk) 01:00, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I undid all of Allir's edits to Everybody Dance! (TV series). You can view a revision ID by going to the article, clicking the "View history" tab, and clicking any date link.  Hope this helps, and happy editing!  GoingBatty (talk) 04:54, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * thanks, I had undone two but then the others i couldnt. Thanks! Such-change47 (talk) 05:16, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Anecdotes
I am curious about how tolerant Wikipedia is of anecdotes

Please take a look at:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620

This seems unusual. The section has been validated by quite a few people as true, but is totally uncited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AVandewerdt (talk • contribs) 01:13, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * What do you mean uncited? There is a citation at the end of the sentence.  RudolfRed (talk) 01:27, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * [Edit Conflict], which section do you have in mind? Your link only goes to the article (in Mobile view – personally I find the Desktop view much easier to read) as a whole, and there are several passages which are sparse or bare of references, but this may reflect under-citations to the existing (currently 46) references rather than a reliance on "anecdote".
 * The Anecdotes section itself is short and has one direct citation and a relevant link to another part of the article: only one statement in the section is entirely unreferenced. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.131.122 (talk) 01:45, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi there! I added citation needed to the last sentence in IBM 1620.  Happy editing!   GoingBatty (talk) 04:57, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I failed to note that there was one cite. My main question was around titling a section 'anecdotes' and whether that is common.  It doesn't seem to quite fit with other articles.AVandewerdt (talk) 05:10, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * There are only 189 articles with a section header starting with "Anecdotes", so it is not common. GoingBatty (talk) 05:26, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Weird visual editor bug causing people to insert messed-up citation needed templates
Check out this diff. I have been seeing (and cleaning up) a lot of these -- is there some bug with Visual Editor that's causing it to do this? The nowiki tags are being placed in seemingly random locations as well. jp×g 06:41, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Found another, also using Visual Editor. jp×g 06:49, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * And another. jp×g 06:50, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Weird stuff! You might want to go to VisualEditor and click on "Report a problem with VisualEditor".  Happy editing!  GoingBatty (talk) 18:12, 24 December 2021 (UTC)