Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 18

= February 18 =

What are engineers' helmets called?
There's no article on Wikipedia titled engineering helmet or yellow helmet, so what are the ones they wear on top of their heads called? --stranger195 (talk • contribs • guestbook) 10:12, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hard hats. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 10:25, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * --stranger195 (talk • contribs • guestbook) 10:34, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirects made. Matt Deres (talk) 15:44, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, you beat me to it. Actually finding a specific type of helmet isn't easy, as you have to wade through the text of our Helmet article and even then you might have to negotiate yet another article to find what you want. We could do with a List of helmets. Alansplodge (talk) 16:07, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * That's what Category:Helmets is for; and indeed, the hard hat is there. --194.213.3.4 (talk) 16:30, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes that's very true, the old categories versus lists argument. I have added a link directly to the category page at Helmet (disambiguation). Thanks, Alansplodge (talk) 20:30, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not really "versus", and it certainly doesn't hurt to have both a cat and a list. My point was that when you don't have one, you can successfully use the other instead. --194.213.3.4 (talk) 08:26, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Point taken. Alansplodge (talk) 11:38, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

the thumb, the nose
howdy. A couple of years ago I wrote the article de:Lange Nase (Cocking a snook) and explained the name(s) of selfsame gesture in German, English, French & Italian. Now there's a Spanish article on the es:Pito catalán, but apparently this name is current only in Argentina and Uruguay. Question: what is the gesture called in Spain? es:Palmo de narices? (es:Wikipedia:Consultas is blocked/protected for some reason, so I cannot ask there). Or anywhere? --Judith Wahr (talk) 23:36, 18 February 2018 (UTC)