Hello Art: I"m a new user and see that you made a comment on my page and wondering if you can guide me. You made a comment about my page called "Media Introduction Events" and that I put the slash behind the world "ref" when in fact is should be before. I"m happy to change this, but I have no idea where the page went or how to find it to edit. Call me blonde, but this is very complicated and I"m completely lost. AlysonDutch AlysonDutch ( talk) 23:47, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Are you serious? [1] Malleus Fatuorum 21:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
That was about as mild a reminder of the expectation of civility as can be made. WP:CIVIL states "Incivility consists of ... aggressive behaviours that disrupt the project and lead to unproductive stress and conflict." It is not unreasonable to find the tone of MF's response to fall under that description. No formal sanction was being proposed, so John's contribution is disproportionate. Kevin McE ( talk) 23:06, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
No, I'm not game to run over to WQA; I'm puzzled that anyone would stick up for Malleus under those circumstances, so what I really need to recalibrate is my understanding of Wikipedia politics. Art LaPella ( talk) 23:30, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Although you are incidental here, I'm required to notify: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility enforcement/Evidence#Evidence submitted by SandyGeorgia. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
I know you withdrew it, but couldn't resist.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 01:13, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Happy (but at least not last:) New Year. Here is my first article in it. Thank you in advance for checking my worsening English. Aloysius ( talk) 22:17, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Because of your previous input on various iterations of the debate about the lower-casing vs. capitalization of the common names of animals (domestic cat, blue whale vs. Domestic Cat, Blue Whale), you may be interested in this thread proposing key points that should be addressed by the guidelines: WT:Manual of Style#Species capitalization points. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 05:50, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, can you please check my hook and language of the article? Template:Did you know nominations/Josef Jiří Kolár Thank you! Aloysius ( talk) 19:38, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your correction at Blucher (horse). I wrote firstly " umlaut" and was surprised to get a bot message to tell me that was a disambiguation page. I dealt with it badly, and diaeresis was wrong. You corrected that to " umlaut", but on searching I find there is a page called " Germanic umlaut"! If "Germanic umlaut" covers the primary meaning of "umlaut", which I think it does, do you feel that umlaut should redirect there, or else Germanic umlaut be moved to umlaut, with the dab page at umlaut (disambiguation)? Moonraker ( talk) 01:53, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Art LaPella,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 15:39, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Ravidassia. I would like to get help from people who are interested. You may sign up for the project on the [ [3]]. McKinseies ( talk) 15:11, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, I think this time there will be a lot to correct (not because of the article lenght but due to my state of ingnorance last days). Thanks in advance. Aloysius ( talk) 22:16, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my error at Wikipedia:Did you know/Not exactly. Before I made the change, I spent several minutes looking for this rule referenced as "P1" and never found it, and in a random check, it appeared that other pages listing just sections of the full list of supplementary DYK guidelines, such as Wikipedia:DYKFN, identified them by the same prefix letters as in the full list (and you yourself had it as D8 on the "Not exactly" page when you first created the page 3 years ago), so I concluded this was supposed to be identified as D9. Actually, even now, I still cannot find a rule "P1" anywhere else in the DYK pages, even on the "One page" page, which doesn't list any rules with a "P" prefix – but I'm sure you must be correct (I'm being sincere), because you probably have more DYK experience than I do. For my edification, can you tell me where the "P" shortcuts you referred to in the edit summary are located? SJ Morg ( talk) 10:06, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Just caught you on the recent changes, and lucky for you, your name came to the top of the list. Anyway, I need help. I just created this account, been editing from IP's, and all I ask for is to edit protected pages. But I can't. I need someone to solve this problem for me. Can you help me out? AvampostoVeneziano ( talk) 21:43, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Just caught you on the recent changes, and lucky for you, your name came to the top of the list. Anyway, I need help. I just created this account, been editing from IP's, and all I ask for is to edit protected pages. But I can't. I need someone to solve this problem for me. Can you help me out? AvampostoVeneziano ( talk) 21:44, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Ah, never mind me. I just figured it out. I'll go find an administrator... AvampostoVeneziano ( talk) 21:46, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
You just added a comma in the "Doe v. Shurtleff" entry that does not belong. The "a Utah law" phrase is not parenthetical, and the comma you added, before "was ruled constitutional", turns a perfectly good sentence into one that no longer makes sense. Can you please remove that final comma you added? Thanks. (As noted, the comma added to the DYK before it makes sense. The WP:ERRORS report was in error, a fact that has been noted on that page. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:03, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to remark the 420th anniversary of Comenius so I added the article about his masterpiece - Janua linguarum reserata. Can you please check its English? Thanks. Aloysius ( talk) 11:25, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I have had an urgent review request at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Anthony_Davis_.28basketball.29 that is being ignored. Can you review this?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 04:40, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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Please participate in the RFC discussion of whether Thondaiman has built the Tirumala Temple. Pavan 23:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
As someone who regularly contributes to election articles: Due to recurrent discussions that lead nowhere, an open-ended discussion and proposals are invited Wikipedia talk:In the news/Recurring items/Elections for ITN on the main page as to what should be recurrent without ITNC discussions Lihaas ( talk) 07:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, In (
this edit), did you intend to change a hyphen in the final paragraph to a space?
—Telpardec
TALK 23:07, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Transit of Venus#Almost four where I am asking for a change to the "3 1/2 times" text that you put in the protected blurb for the June 5 TFA. Johnuniq ( talk) 08:30, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey. While you're at it, could you de-bold the French Open article? It has no prose update at all. Instead, the two winners' articles have the required updates and should be bolded. Thanks! — Strange Passerby ( talk • cont) 15:34, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Art, instead of fixing this on the main page, where the problem was, you resurrected the entire main page set in Prep 4 and fixed it there, which makes no sense that I can see. I'd like very much to start a new set in Prep 4; in any case, a set that's on the front page shouldn't also be sitting in a prep area, unless for a very few minutes. It's been twenty. I'm going to revert in another ten. BlueMoonset ( talk) 20:41, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art. Can you please check my next Czech hook and its subject - Miroslav Tyrš article? Did you know that Miroslav Tyrš, the founder of Czech national sport movement Sokol, was born into a German family? Thank you! Aloysius ( talk) 09:02, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
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I just mentioned you on my talk page, and I thought I would come here and award an MBE to you to thank you for all of the corrections which you make. I know that little gnomish edits often don't get much acknowledgement, so I wanted to let you know that your work is noticed and is greatly appreciated! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:56, 8 July 2012 (UTC) |
Just wanted to say thanks for your helpful edits on the List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States 2012 page! It was like a fairy came and cleaned my room. Michellecornelison ( talk) 03:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your excellent work on a Simplified MOS. You may be interested in the discussion here related to MOS issues. LittleBen ( talk) 02:26, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, the problem with the extra linefeed with the More template was due to a misplaced <noinclude> tag on the line after the last part of the template code, which allowed the carriage return at the end of the template code to be included. Shifting the noinclude tag to the end of the previous line cured that problem. The box itself was too big and overlapped with other boxes and with text in sentences above the box. (And it was a bit overbearing and distracting to the reader.) I did a re-design to make it smaller, and wrapped the box formatting only around the word "More" in the template, so it would be the same color as the link text. —Telpardec TALK 17:35, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
(sorry, a pet peeve of logic, not grammar)
Your home page: "I do as much, or more, than anyone to keep simple errors off the Main Page."
You are a member of the group of "anyone", so the missing word is "else". (Art LaPella cannot possibly do more than Art LaPella does.)
"I do as much, or more, than anyone else to keep simple errors off the Main Page."
More flagrant illustration:
""Wyoming has fewer residents than any state in the US" clearly implies that Wyoming is not a state in the US.
Correct: ""Wyoming has fewer residents than any other state in the US" -- which now includes WY among US states.
Note that the questioned way is correct if the superlative, rather than the comparative, is used:
"Wyoming has the lowest population among US states" (-est vs. -er)
"Of all Wikipedians, I do the most to keep simple errors off the Main Page." (most vs. more)
Don't feel bad; this is ubiquitous (and probably hopeless). But to this writer, who created the following userbox,
Majority ≠ right | This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake. |
. Best regards, Unimaginative Username ( talk) 07:23, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for correcting my horrible English in Enedina Arellano Félix's article! Enjoy the virtual cookie. ComputerJA ( talk) 03:34, 21 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Help me out. I followed your link, hoping it would lead me to the Arbcom decision, but instead it just goes to a discussion page on the endash draft. While it includes snippets of the Arbcom decision, and I am aware that there are sanctions on some well one editor topic banning them from the MOS, it is not the actual decision. "If after two months, a determination isn't realised, a case will be opened and conduct violations will be dealt with severely." is pretty easy for me to understand. But it seems odd that a deadline would be imposed, as we had a MOS long before 2011, and I see no reason that something critical needed to be decided by any particular date. And since when has WP ever waited to deal with conduct violations severely? Please reply here. Apteva ( talk) 08:40, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
I think I found it, but as expected it is hardly a decision to use endashes but a slap on the wrist for using endashes: "Unless a 'hyphen only' policy is ultimately adopted there are going to remain good grounds for replacement in body text and references." What apparently had been going on is edit warring on moving pages and so Arbcom imposed a temporary moratorium on page moves involving endashes and hyphens, no? Apteva ( talk) 10:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
"The Manual of Style
2) Style guides are used as a means of creating a consistent end result. They do not affect content, but rather how that content is presented. The English Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MoS) is a guideline, or a set of "best practices" supported by consensus. The MoS is not a collection of hard rules.
September 2012 for the == comment change. No wonder I was not familiar with seeing it - until then it had been at the end, just as I had seen. I am sure that someone noticed that putting it on the next line introduces white space and someone tried putting it into the heading. Whether the heading appears in an edit summary, though, is not the least important to me. There are very few target comments used anyway. But thanks for taking the trouble to find the diff.
Recognizing and accepting mistakes readily is always helpful. How many kids have been caught and tried to lie their way out of it and kept making it worse. How many socks have done that!
As to subpage consistency: "Which says, as of a few weeks ago ... 19:20, 12 August 2012". No wonder that one sounds strange too. And completely the opposite of what we want. And need. Are all these bizarre changes to the MOS being introduced only because Pmanderson was topic banned? (from memory, user name might not be exact) Apteva ( talk) 14:11, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Linking#What_generally_should_not_be_linked_can_we_bring_this_to_closure
The "one link" rule/enforcement has gotten out of hand, I'm trying to get something closer to rationality. You seem to be one of the people that is somewhere in the middle on this issue -- your comments would be helpful. Thanks Boundlessly ( talk) 21:31, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about the trolling question in the link monster. Guess I was just getting goaded into being trigger-happy. I would have put it into the operative page, but I see it has been locked for now. Just for perspective, I see that Boundlessly has terminated his WP account. I think he was quite a loss to the community. Cheers. JonRichfield ( talk) 07:05, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Art, as an MOS regular whose measured opinion I respect, I would be grateful if you would review this recent change I made to Manual of Style/Dates and numbers: diff. I have no pride of authorship in this; please feel free to correct or improve anything you believe that I have overlooked or that is otherwise inconsistent. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:40, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for editing this. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 08:44, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, seeing your edits to improve the text on this page, I wondered if you are aware that it is one of quite a few pages added from (at least) two signons that are now blocked ( Monotoideae is one that was added from the other signon). There is a troublesome pattern with much of the unsourced material that was added to these pages, and to others that were not newly created pages, that has to do with automatic translations and with copying material from one page indiscriminately to others, e.g., from one plant family to another, or from one geographic location to another. Untangling the resulting mess is a lot of work, and I wanted to be sure you are aware of this before you possibly waste time cleaning up text that turns out to be a falsehood. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 20:17, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 08:05, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art LaPella. You may be interested to know that you have been mentioned in an analysis of Wikipedia articles on mass shootings. Thank you for your editing work. Cheers, Gobōnobō + c 03:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
I am notifying all participants in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Apteva that Dicklyon has moved to close the RFC/U, with a summary on the talkpage. Editors may now support or oppose the motion, or add comments:
(You commented at the talkpage, at least.) Please consider adding your signature, so that the matter can be resolved.
Best wishes,
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Thank you for your excellent and consistent work on the DYK queues and prep areas to make sure the hooks and image rollovers are grammatically sound and formatted properly. BlueMoonset ( talk) 20:04, 25 December 2012 (UTC) |
Don't be bashful:
This editor is a
Master Editor and is entitled to display this Platinum Editor Star. |
Can you tell me the correct implication of placing a [word] into a sourced quote, and what would be correct in changing the source quote, "He was killed by ... " into "He [Bob] was killed by", or should that be, "[Bob] was killed by"? I suspect you can answer that much faster that I can find the answer. Thanks for considering its answer. -- My76Strat ( talk) 06:30, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi! How did you resolve this problem? Because of this problem (false ISBN). See [5]. Please be so kind to reply to me. Thanks -- Frze > talk 19:38, 1 November 2013 (UTC) {{ping|Frze}}
Hello Art: I"m a new user and see that you made a comment on my page and wondering if you can guide me. You made a comment about my page called "Media Introduction Events" and that I put the slash behind the world "ref" when in fact is should be before. I"m happy to change this, but I have no idea where the page went or how to find it to edit. Call me blonde, but this is very complicated and I"m completely lost. AlysonDutch AlysonDutch ( talk) 23:47, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Are you serious? [1] Malleus Fatuorum 21:11, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
That was about as mild a reminder of the expectation of civility as can be made. WP:CIVIL states "Incivility consists of ... aggressive behaviours that disrupt the project and lead to unproductive stress and conflict." It is not unreasonable to find the tone of MF's response to fall under that description. No formal sanction was being proposed, so John's contribution is disproportionate. Kevin McE ( talk) 23:06, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
No, I'm not game to run over to WQA; I'm puzzled that anyone would stick up for Malleus under those circumstances, so what I really need to recalibrate is my understanding of Wikipedia politics. Art LaPella ( talk) 23:30, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Although you are incidental here, I'm required to notify: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility enforcement/Evidence#Evidence submitted by SandyGeorgia. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
I know you withdrew it, but couldn't resist.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 01:13, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Happy (but at least not last:) New Year. Here is my first article in it. Thank you in advance for checking my worsening English. Aloysius ( talk) 22:17, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Because of your previous input on various iterations of the debate about the lower-casing vs. capitalization of the common names of animals (domestic cat, blue whale vs. Domestic Cat, Blue Whale), you may be interested in this thread proposing key points that should be addressed by the guidelines: WT:Manual of Style#Species capitalization points. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 05:50, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, can you please check my hook and language of the article? Template:Did you know nominations/Josef Jiří Kolár Thank you! Aloysius ( talk) 19:38, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your correction at Blucher (horse). I wrote firstly " umlaut" and was surprised to get a bot message to tell me that was a disambiguation page. I dealt with it badly, and diaeresis was wrong. You corrected that to " umlaut", but on searching I find there is a page called " Germanic umlaut"! If "Germanic umlaut" covers the primary meaning of "umlaut", which I think it does, do you feel that umlaut should redirect there, or else Germanic umlaut be moved to umlaut, with the dab page at umlaut (disambiguation)? Moonraker ( talk) 01:53, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Art LaPella,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 15:39, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am starting Wikipedia:WikiProject Ravidassia. I would like to get help from people who are interested. You may sign up for the project on the [ [3]]. McKinseies ( talk) 15:11, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, I think this time there will be a lot to correct (not because of the article lenght but due to my state of ingnorance last days). Thanks in advance. Aloysius ( talk) 22:16, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my error at Wikipedia:Did you know/Not exactly. Before I made the change, I spent several minutes looking for this rule referenced as "P1" and never found it, and in a random check, it appeared that other pages listing just sections of the full list of supplementary DYK guidelines, such as Wikipedia:DYKFN, identified them by the same prefix letters as in the full list (and you yourself had it as D8 on the "Not exactly" page when you first created the page 3 years ago), so I concluded this was supposed to be identified as D9. Actually, even now, I still cannot find a rule "P1" anywhere else in the DYK pages, even on the "One page" page, which doesn't list any rules with a "P" prefix – but I'm sure you must be correct (I'm being sincere), because you probably have more DYK experience than I do. For my edification, can you tell me where the "P" shortcuts you referred to in the edit summary are located? SJ Morg ( talk) 10:06, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Just caught you on the recent changes, and lucky for you, your name came to the top of the list. Anyway, I need help. I just created this account, been editing from IP's, and all I ask for is to edit protected pages. But I can't. I need someone to solve this problem for me. Can you help me out? AvampostoVeneziano ( talk) 21:43, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Just caught you on the recent changes, and lucky for you, your name came to the top of the list. Anyway, I need help. I just created this account, been editing from IP's, and all I ask for is to edit protected pages. But I can't. I need someone to solve this problem for me. Can you help me out? AvampostoVeneziano ( talk) 21:44, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Ah, never mind me. I just figured it out. I'll go find an administrator... AvampostoVeneziano ( talk) 21:46, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
You just added a comma in the "Doe v. Shurtleff" entry that does not belong. The "a Utah law" phrase is not parenthetical, and the comma you added, before "was ruled constitutional", turns a perfectly good sentence into one that no longer makes sense. Can you please remove that final comma you added? Thanks. (As noted, the comma added to the DYK before it makes sense. The WP:ERRORS report was in error, a fact that has been noted on that page. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:03, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to remark the 420th anniversary of Comenius so I added the article about his masterpiece - Janua linguarum reserata. Can you please check its English? Thanks. Aloysius ( talk) 11:25, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I have had an urgent review request at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Anthony_Davis_.28basketball.29 that is being ignored. Can you review this?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 04:40, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Art LaPella. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click
HERE to participate. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 23:28, 5 April 2012 (UTC) |
You are invited to join the discussion at [[
Talk:Tirumala Venkateswara Temple]]. Pavan 23:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Please participate in the RFC discussion of whether Thondaiman has built the Tirumala Temple. Pavan 23:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
As someone who regularly contributes to election articles: Due to recurrent discussions that lead nowhere, an open-ended discussion and proposals are invited Wikipedia talk:In the news/Recurring items/Elections for ITN on the main page as to what should be recurrent without ITNC discussions Lihaas ( talk) 07:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, In (
this edit), did you intend to change a hyphen in the final paragraph to a space?
—Telpardec
TALK 23:07, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Transit of Venus#Almost four where I am asking for a change to the "3 1/2 times" text that you put in the protected blurb for the June 5 TFA. Johnuniq ( talk) 08:30, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey. While you're at it, could you de-bold the French Open article? It has no prose update at all. Instead, the two winners' articles have the required updates and should be bolded. Thanks! — Strange Passerby ( talk • cont) 15:34, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Art, instead of fixing this on the main page, where the problem was, you resurrected the entire main page set in Prep 4 and fixed it there, which makes no sense that I can see. I'd like very much to start a new set in Prep 4; in any case, a set that's on the front page shouldn't also be sitting in a prep area, unless for a very few minutes. It's been twenty. I'm going to revert in another ten. BlueMoonset ( talk) 20:41, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art. Can you please check my next Czech hook and its subject - Miroslav Tyrš article? Did you know that Miroslav Tyrš, the founder of Czech national sport movement Sokol, was born into a German family? Thank you! Aloysius ( talk) 09:02, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
The Mandarax Barnstar of Excellence | ||
I just mentioned you on my talk page, and I thought I would come here and award an MBE to you to thank you for all of the corrections which you make. I know that little gnomish edits often don't get much acknowledgement, so I wanted to let you know that your work is noticed and is greatly appreciated! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:56, 8 July 2012 (UTC) |
Just wanted to say thanks for your helpful edits on the List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States 2012 page! It was like a fairy came and cleaned my room. Michellecornelison ( talk) 03:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your excellent work on a Simplified MOS. You may be interested in the discussion here related to MOS issues. LittleBen ( talk) 02:26, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art, the problem with the extra linefeed with the More template was due to a misplaced <noinclude> tag on the line after the last part of the template code, which allowed the carriage return at the end of the template code to be included. Shifting the noinclude tag to the end of the previous line cured that problem. The box itself was too big and overlapped with other boxes and with text in sentences above the box. (And it was a bit overbearing and distracting to the reader.) I did a re-design to make it smaller, and wrapped the box formatting only around the word "More" in the template, so it would be the same color as the link text. —Telpardec TALK 17:35, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
(sorry, a pet peeve of logic, not grammar)
Your home page: "I do as much, or more, than anyone to keep simple errors off the Main Page."
You are a member of the group of "anyone", so the missing word is "else". (Art LaPella cannot possibly do more than Art LaPella does.)
"I do as much, or more, than anyone else to keep simple errors off the Main Page."
More flagrant illustration:
""Wyoming has fewer residents than any state in the US" clearly implies that Wyoming is not a state in the US.
Correct: ""Wyoming has fewer residents than any other state in the US" -- which now includes WY among US states.
Note that the questioned way is correct if the superlative, rather than the comparative, is used:
"Wyoming has the lowest population among US states" (-est vs. -er)
"Of all Wikipedians, I do the most to keep simple errors off the Main Page." (most vs. more)
Don't feel bad; this is ubiquitous (and probably hopeless). But to this writer, who created the following userbox,
Majority ≠ right | This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake. |
. Best regards, Unimaginative Username ( talk) 07:23, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for correcting my horrible English in Enedina Arellano Félix's article! Enjoy the virtual cookie. ComputerJA ( talk) 03:34, 21 September 2012 (UTC) |
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Help me out. I followed your link, hoping it would lead me to the Arbcom decision, but instead it just goes to a discussion page on the endash draft. While it includes snippets of the Arbcom decision, and I am aware that there are sanctions on some well one editor topic banning them from the MOS, it is not the actual decision. "If after two months, a determination isn't realised, a case will be opened and conduct violations will be dealt with severely." is pretty easy for me to understand. But it seems odd that a deadline would be imposed, as we had a MOS long before 2011, and I see no reason that something critical needed to be decided by any particular date. And since when has WP ever waited to deal with conduct violations severely? Please reply here. Apteva ( talk) 08:40, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
I think I found it, but as expected it is hardly a decision to use endashes but a slap on the wrist for using endashes: "Unless a 'hyphen only' policy is ultimately adopted there are going to remain good grounds for replacement in body text and references." What apparently had been going on is edit warring on moving pages and so Arbcom imposed a temporary moratorium on page moves involving endashes and hyphens, no? Apteva ( talk) 10:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
"The Manual of Style
2) Style guides are used as a means of creating a consistent end result. They do not affect content, but rather how that content is presented. The English Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MoS) is a guideline, or a set of "best practices" supported by consensus. The MoS is not a collection of hard rules.
September 2012 for the == comment change. No wonder I was not familiar with seeing it - until then it had been at the end, just as I had seen. I am sure that someone noticed that putting it on the next line introduces white space and someone tried putting it into the heading. Whether the heading appears in an edit summary, though, is not the least important to me. There are very few target comments used anyway. But thanks for taking the trouble to find the diff.
Recognizing and accepting mistakes readily is always helpful. How many kids have been caught and tried to lie their way out of it and kept making it worse. How many socks have done that!
As to subpage consistency: "Which says, as of a few weeks ago ... 19:20, 12 August 2012". No wonder that one sounds strange too. And completely the opposite of what we want. And need. Are all these bizarre changes to the MOS being introduced only because Pmanderson was topic banned? (from memory, user name might not be exact) Apteva ( talk) 14:11, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Linking#What_generally_should_not_be_linked_can_we_bring_this_to_closure
The "one link" rule/enforcement has gotten out of hand, I'm trying to get something closer to rationality. You seem to be one of the people that is somewhere in the middle on this issue -- your comments would be helpful. Thanks Boundlessly ( talk) 21:31, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about the trolling question in the link monster. Guess I was just getting goaded into being trigger-happy. I would have put it into the operative page, but I see it has been locked for now. Just for perspective, I see that Boundlessly has terminated his WP account. I think he was quite a loss to the community. Cheers. JonRichfield ( talk) 07:05, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Art, as an MOS regular whose measured opinion I respect, I would be grateful if you would review this recent change I made to Manual of Style/Dates and numbers: diff. I have no pride of authorship in this; please feel free to correct or improve anything you believe that I have overlooked or that is otherwise inconsistent. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 19:40, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for editing this. Socrates2008 ( Talk) 08:44, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, seeing your edits to improve the text on this page, I wondered if you are aware that it is one of quite a few pages added from (at least) two signons that are now blocked ( Monotoideae is one that was added from the other signon). There is a troublesome pattern with much of the unsourced material that was added to these pages, and to others that were not newly created pages, that has to do with automatic translations and with copying material from one page indiscriminately to others, e.g., from one plant family to another, or from one geographic location to another. Untangling the resulting mess is a lot of work, and I wanted to be sure you are aware of this before you possibly waste time cleaning up text that turns out to be a falsehood. Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 20:17, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 08:05, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Art LaPella. You may be interested to know that you have been mentioned in an analysis of Wikipedia articles on mass shootings. Thank you for your editing work. Cheers, Gobōnobō + c 03:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
I am notifying all participants in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Apteva that Dicklyon has moved to close the RFC/U, with a summary on the talkpage. Editors may now support or oppose the motion, or add comments:
(You commented at the talkpage, at least.) Please consider adding your signature, so that the matter can be resolved.
Best wishes,
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Thank you for your excellent and consistent work on the DYK queues and prep areas to make sure the hooks and image rollovers are grammatically sound and formatted properly. BlueMoonset ( talk) 20:04, 25 December 2012 (UTC) |
Don't be bashful:
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Can you tell me the correct implication of placing a [word] into a sourced quote, and what would be correct in changing the source quote, "He was killed by ... " into "He [Bob] was killed by", or should that be, "[Bob] was killed by"? I suspect you can answer that much faster that I can find the answer. Thanks for considering its answer. -- My76Strat ( talk) 06:30, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi! How did you resolve this problem? Because of this problem (false ISBN). See [5]. Please be so kind to reply to me. Thanks -- Frze > talk 19:38, 1 November 2013 (UTC) {{ping|Frze}}