Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2021 January 14

= January 14 =

Tea and coffee
When it says at bottom putting it all together a sample beverage plan when it says About one-third (or about three to four cups) can come from unsweetened coffee or tea a day are they recommending tea or coffee or both a day? https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks-full-story/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.116.250.249 (talk) 09:48, 14 January 2021 (UTC)


 * No, that is not what it means. It is not a recommendation to drink coffee or tea. If the only thing you drink is plain water, that is perfectly fine. This is part of a recommendation to drink enough fluid (containing water). To remain properly hydrated, you do not have to get all your hydration from plain water. If you like coffee or tea, then you can replace some of the plain water by coffee or tea. But not too much -- preferably not more than about three to four cups -- and also drink only unsweetened drinks. --Lambiam 10:37, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Yes you have explained that perfectly but my question was when they say drink no more than 3 to four cups a day of coffee or tea are they saying one or the other coffee or tea or both coffee and tea? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.116.250.249 (talk) 11:51, 14 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Neither. A beverage is not limited to tea or coffee and that's it. My beverage plan is a cup of tea in the morning, chicory at lunch time and hot chocolate before bed. It means drink whatever beverage you like. (edit) see beverage. 41.165.67.114 (talk) 13:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)


 * They are saying any mixture of up to 3 or 4 cups, so "no tea and no coffee" is fine if water comes from another source, or "tea, tea, coffee" or "coffee, tea, coffee tea" or ... it is 3 or 4 cups of tea or coffee mixed as you like, it is not 3 or 4 cups of tea AND 3 or 4 cups of coffee. Whether this advice is good is a different question all together. -- SGBailey (talk) 14:02, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Userbox templates
Do I need to create userpage subdirectory pages for each and every one of my multitude of recently contrived userboxes?

I refrain from asking how we can speed up the gif in this userbox. I've made animated gifs, and they have a mind of their own, much like the Senate.

Charles Juvon (talk) 19:29, 14 January 2021 (UTC)


 * If you want, you can look at the HTML coding behind the template, and construct a bunch of them on a single page, e.g. your user page. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:30, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I did look at the HTML in Google Chrome for my userpage and found it to be highly complex.  Then I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antigrandiose/userbox/sockpuppet .  Is it generally a bad idea to be creating a user subpage for each of my userboxes?  After looking through many user pages and our articles about userboxes, this is really the only thing I found that I understand.  I have authored many websites in HTML, but there is something about converting my simple wiki markup userboxes into an addressable template that I do not understand. Charles Juvon (talk) 21:15, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The one thing that putting them on individual pages is that other editors can use them if they so choose. Here's one that I created for myself and figured no one else would lower their dignity enough to want to use. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:23, 14 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Great Malapropism! Charles Juvon (talk) 22:13, 14 January 2021 (UTC)