Talk:History of superconductivity

message: It's probably intended to keep material strictly chronological but the section names discourage this as the tendency is to add some new material to the section whose title it seems to relate to.
(as I now realise I did earlier)
Should we add dates to the section names to encourage new material to be added chronologically ? Rod57 (talk) 02:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Section names

message: The start of the article made some questionable claims about participation in the discovery of superconductivity by Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski and Karol Olszewski . The nature of the claims sounded dubious, reminiscent of Soviet-era propaganda claims of priority on any number of discoveries, so I tried to find anything authoritative on the subject. Came up empty. Tracked down the addition a series of changes by a Tesla fan in May 2015, and removed the sentence and phrase in question. If anyone can find a legitimate citation, we'll undo my removal. Tarl N. (discuss) 00:57, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wroblewski and Olszewski 

message: Please help me with...
I posted a figure "The number of patent families (in red) and non-patent publications (in blue) about superconductivity by year. Also shown as black vertical lines are the main breakthroughs in the field."
here: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_superconductivity .
It looks OK, but it is not in the right place. I would like to split the Intro section into 2 columns:
right with the current text: "Superconductivity is the phenomenon of certain materials exhibiting zero electrical resistance and the expulsion of magnetic fields below a characteristic temperature. The history of superconductivity began with Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's discovery of superconductivity in mercury in 1911. Since then, many other superconducting materials have been discovered and the theory of superconductivity has been developed. These subjects remain active areas of study in the field of condensed matter physics.
The study of superconductivity has a fascinating history, with several breakthroughs having dramatically accelerated publication and patenting activity in this field, as shown in the figure on the right and described in details below. Noteworthy, the number of non-patent publications about superconductors is much larger than the number of patent families, which is characteristic of a commercially unsuccessful technology."
AND left column with the added figure and caption. Walter Tau (talk) 18:34, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: , we do not write prose on Wikipedia in columns, so this request is kind of a non-starter, though I suspect I might have misinterpreted your question. If that is the case please feel free to re-open the . If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 19:12, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The closest to this that is achievable would be to float the figure to the left side, by adding the  parameter to it. I tried that in preview but the result didn't look very good to me so I didn't do that, but feel free to give it a shot. I moved the figure to the top of the page for now which I think looks okay.  ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 20:12, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with a figure