Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2022 October 22

= October 22 =

Edit rank
Is there a place where I can find my Wikipedia user edit ranking by month and also by year? A webpage or maybe here inside Wikipedia itself? Thanks. - Joaquin89uy (talk) 01:52, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * If you mean your own edit count then click "Edit count" at the bottom of Special:Contributions/Joaquin89uy to get https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Joaquin89uy. If you mean your rank among other users then I don't know a way. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:05, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I meant the latter. Thanks anyways for the information about how to see my edit count. - Joaquin89uy (talk) 13:14, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

@User:Joaquin89uy: There's this: List of Wikipedians by number of edits, but it only lists the top 10000.

Sandbox Information Disappeared
I put some information that I was writing and it has disappeared. How do I retrieve it? Cjmodica (talk) 02:19, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Cjmodica, you have blanked your sandbox, but here is its edit history.--Quisqualis (talk) 04:23, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * How do you blank it? Cjmodica (talk) 19:01, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You deleted the one line content with this edit . Theroadislong (talk) 19:05, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, I was thinking about writing about Anne Lovelace but changed my mind and decided to write about Carrol Resweber instead.  So how do I get that information back? Cjmodica (talk) 19:10, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You can pick any of the versions from the edit history that Quisqualis gave you, by picking the date-and-time. However, the first one has a single line about Farrar, the second has Lovelace's name (and nothing else). So if you wrote more about Lovelace, then you didn't save ("Publish") it. Sorry. ColinFine (talk) 19:27, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Cjmodica (talk) 00:24, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Bruce Falkinburg Wikipedia page removed
I created a page for Bruce Falkinburg, a member of the bands The Obsessed and The Hidden Hand as was as a well-known producer and studio owner in the mid-atlantic. It was taken down and I have no reference of the work I put into the page. No one contacted me or wrote a note somewhere, it simply vanished. We went through quite a bit of an issue with his photo too. If I need more references, etc, please tell me and I will link them. Please help if you can. Thanks, Cheapcop Cheapcop (talk) 03:48, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It wasn't "taken down" - you merely forgot where it was. This was never submitted for review and would have been declined if it was, as neither of the sources discusses Falkinburg specifically in any depth. —Jéské Couriano  v^&lowbar;^v  a little blue Bori 03:55, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I think they may be referring to a mainspace version which was recently blanked and redirected. Here's the version at Cheapcop's last edit. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:57, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

To publish a page
I would like to know how to publish a bio. I'm part of a publishing company and we're creating the wikipedia's website for our author. However, I've been having a few issues resolving it.

I hope someone can help me. Narreola12 (talk) 05:34, 22 October 2022 (UTC)


 * This user has been indefinitely blocked. Maproom (talk) 07:28, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Templates in external links
Hi Folks!! Is it possible to link to the french wikisource here:, perhaps using a derivative like template for example. Is that possible? When I use that it goes to search page. I would have thought there would have been translations in English but the french originals are there. Its for the Élisa Mercœur article. Also how do you do the commons category template (never used it) so that it links to. Thanks.  scope_creep Talk  14:34, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * For the Commons category, you use the aptly named Commons category: .  ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 16:53, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:12, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Here you go:  ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 19:20, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thanks for that. I will save these use for other articles.    scope_creep Talk  21:34, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Here you go:  ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 19:20, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thanks for that. I will save these use for other articles.    scope_creep Talk  21:34, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Adding pictures or editing picture
Hi, I would like to know how I can edit photos in wikipedia. Can I delete a photo and then upload a new one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ellagurl289woo (talk • contribs) 15:27, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Step 1: find a better photo, which either is free of copyright restrictions or whose copyright you own and and are willing to donate (actually it's more complicated than that, I've just given an outline)
 * Step 2: upload it to Wikimedia Commons
 * Step 3: edit the article, replacing the link to the image that's currently shown by the one you want there instead. Maproom (talk) 17:25, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Ellagurl289woo Most photos you find on the Internet are copyrighted and can't be used on Wikipedia. Please make sure you understand what Maproom is saying.   If it's not clear, please let us know.  Thanks. David10244 (talk) 08:23, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Better photograph
Of course, there are many opinions on what is a good picture. Now Wikimedia can also show old full-sized versions of pictures. Some are better than the newest ones. The example is here : the newest exaggerates contrast and color. I would like to show the 2nd picture from the year 2008 in a Wikipedia article. It's a little better. Is it possible? The name "20200108100238%21Novgorod_torg.JPG" wasn't succesful. Jari Rauma (talk) 19:12, 22 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I'd have to agree that the earlier version looks better. And express my doubts that the original ever had the vivid colours of the latest version. I don't think it is possible to link earlier versions of the same file though. This image is hosted on Commons, and you'd probably do best to raise the matter there, at least initially. AndyTheGrump (talk) 19:26, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I just find the same answer in StackExchange, year 2013: . There a superuser didn't have the knowledge of how to do it. Jari Rauma (talk) 19:34, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You cannot display an old version of a file. You would have to make it the current version or upload it as a separate file with another name. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:48, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Flag for my user page
Hi! I’m a newcomer in this Wikipedia. I have a question:I would like to draw a flag that I would like to place on my user page. It’s possible? Unofficial flag (talk) 19:31, 22 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Welcome to the Teahouse, . You may upload your drawing to Wikimedia Commons, then add the image page to your user page.
 * Please see Uploading images and Help:Adding image for detailed instructions. --Quisqualis (talk) 21:20, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Quisqualis Thanks for answer, I have an other question: Why a CAPTCHA is displayed when I do a modification? 🇺🇳🇺🇳 (UN)official FlagTo UN🇺🇳🇺🇳 08:34, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You will tend to see a CAPTCHA when the system isn't sufficiently familiar with you to know you're unlikely to be a bot.--Quisqualis (talk) 19:57, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Quisqualis So I just have to wait a while? 🇺🇳🇺🇳 (UN)official FlagTo UN🇺🇳🇺🇳 19:59, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, the CAPTCHA algorithm should eventually be satisfied. Sometimes editing patterns will trigger the CAPTCHA. If you happen to reach 100 edits and still need CAPTCHA, you should make a new help desk post about it. --Quisqualis (talk) 20:25, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Inline book ref - archives
Hi Folks!! Second question of the night. Is possible to do a ref in some way where you have volume 1, volume 2 and volume 3 of a book series. This is book 1 in the series for the Élisa Mercœur article. I specifically looking at ref 6 on the fr article. It seems to be able to do the whole series on one line. Can that be done here? Volume 1,2 and 3 are all on archive.org. Thanks.  scope_creep Talk  23:10, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * the French article just constructed the reference from a template followed by three plain URLs, all within the tags. YOu can do the same thing here. -Arch dude (talk) 00:16, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * What template?   scope_creep Talk  07:31, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * if you want do it French-style, the volume links wouldn't be contained in any template. As you already have volume 1 linked in the cite book template, you could add a vol=1 parameter to make that more visible. Then you'd append Vol. 2. Vol. 3. after the closing }} of the cite book template. Or, you could remove the url parameter from the template and list all three volumes right after it. The French article is similarly using regular external link formatting; theirs is encased in ref tags and ours is not. For bonus points, you can also include the linked OCLC numbers using Template:OCLC right after the closing bracket of each volume link. Volume 2: . Volume 3: . Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:10, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not necessarily wanting to do it, in the style of the fr wikipedia. It seems a good way of doing a compressed references without spreading it across multiple entries. Is there nothing on here that can do that.   scope_creep Talk  13:13, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think we have a citation template that itself can contain multiple volumes—perhaps because we'd rather see each volume cited specifically to support the content—but I think the French option would work well for a bibliography entry. All put together, it should look like this:
 * Vol. 2 . Vol. 3.
 * I'm not sure it can get much more compressed. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:19, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That looks pretty decent with seperate authors and provides and compresses it somewhat, which I wasn't sure about. There is more text here. Its not as compressed as the french ref but its really decent. Firefangledfeathers, thanks for that work and formatting. Its ideal and better than I could do. Thanks.    scope_creep Talk  00:09, 24 October 2022 (UTC)