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I have removed the following edit:
According to the magazine's website, http://www.northandsouthmagazine.com/images/1stissues/indissue4-498.pdf, the quote went the other way--McLaws about Longstreet--which would not be very interesting in a McLaws biography. By the way, for future similar citations, please include the date of issue, not simply the number. And the format for citing a magazine article would put the article name in quotation marks and the name of the magazine in italics, such as:
This article originally had McLaws' rather than McLaws's and there is no good reason to change it to an awkward form.
Graeme Cook ( talk) 07:56, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hal,
I think that "hoist with his own petard" applies here. You have changed your own style without without a substantial reason unrelated to mere choice of style.
Graeme Cook ( talk) 07:59, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Hal, Who has contributed most does not give any special benefits or priority. This smacks of claiming ownership of an article. Nor does the number of articles written. This is not how Wikipedia works.
Being the first listed choice offered by the Wikipedia manual of style does not give any priority over a choice listed at any other position, this is not serious argument.
Graeme Cook ( talk) 07:50, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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I have removed the following edit:
According to the magazine's website, http://www.northandsouthmagazine.com/images/1stissues/indissue4-498.pdf, the quote went the other way--McLaws about Longstreet--which would not be very interesting in a McLaws biography. By the way, for future similar citations, please include the date of issue, not simply the number. And the format for citing a magazine article would put the article name in quotation marks and the name of the magazine in italics, such as:
This article originally had McLaws' rather than McLaws's and there is no good reason to change it to an awkward form.
Graeme Cook ( talk) 07:56, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hal,
I think that "hoist with his own petard" applies here. You have changed your own style without without a substantial reason unrelated to mere choice of style.
Graeme Cook ( talk) 07:59, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Hal, Who has contributed most does not give any special benefits or priority. This smacks of claiming ownership of an article. Nor does the number of articles written. This is not how Wikipedia works.
Being the first listed choice offered by the Wikipedia manual of style does not give any priority over a choice listed at any other position, this is not serious argument.
Graeme Cook ( talk) 07:50, 18 September 2010 (UTC)