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Baffle gab1978 I thought I had asked you a few weeks ago why you used the en-dash and em-dash templates {{ndash}} and {{mdash}}, and you said it was just easier than typing the code for a no-break space and then the en-dash, but that they were essentially the same. I replied that I liked seeing the en-dash or em-dash in the edit window because it helped in editing. Was it you who I asked about that? I have looked on my talk page and in the last two or three archives, but I can't find it. I'm asking because another editor, Checkingfax, changed a no-break space plus en-dash to two separate templates, one for the no-break space and one for the en-dash, in Allegra Versace: [1]. I want to know if there is a good reason for using those templates instead of a no-break space and then en-dash. Also, what does the {{mdash}} accomplish that an em-dash (—) doesn't? Corinne ( talk) 01:20, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
commenting that they were "invisible Unicodes" which they are not, so now I just replace those codes with templates when I see them. The templates that are wrapped in curly braces just lead back to the same HTML sequence codes, but the Bot can't see that.{{
snds}}
. Note: (mnemonic: s= space, nd= ndash, s= space). I created several other mnemonic shorthands to pull it up. The full template name is: Spaced en dash space.{{
snd}}
template documentation.{{u|
Checkingfax}} {
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02:18, 5 November 2015 (UTC){{
snds}}
(or one of its many aliases) will be helpful for words like where you want both words to stay conjoined but you want a space on both sides of the en dash. I come across a lot of articles that have regular-space/hyphen/regular-space and my template would serve those. If you want the 2nd word to wrap on to the next line if needed you should use the {{
snd}}
template instead. That one puts a regular space after the en dash so the word will still line wrap. My new template puts a non-breaking space before and after the en dash. As for em dash, if you put a regular space before and after it, then it will break before or after the em dash as the line space dictates. The {{
snd}}
template is more suited than mine if you have long lists of en dash spaced items inside a table or such and you want them to break in to natural paragraphs but always ending each line with an en dash. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
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03:42, 5 November 2015 (UTC)( ←) Hi Corinne; yes it was me you asked about the dashes, but I can't find the conversation right now and I can't remember where we had it either. {{ mdash}} doesn't do anything special; it renders —; I normally subst it (type {{ subst:mdash}} to leave an actual mdash in the code. The same isn't true of {{ spaced ndash}}, which renders & n b s p ; & n d a s h ; & # 3 2 ; (minus spaces) when substed. I also prefer seeing the actual dashes in the code, but I'm lazy and don't want to have to type & n b s p ; – all the time, or fish out an ndash from the character map (as I just did!). Each to their own, I s'pose, and it's all valid code. :-) Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 04:29, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
CC:
Natalie.Desautels
Dear Corinne, I made a sticky on the left, loose on the right em dash template, using a zero width joiner on the left, and a zero width non-joiner on the right, and an em dash in the middle.
The template is a mouthful: {{
zero width joiner em dash zero width non joiner}}
(click on the blue link to see the documentation).
I created three shortcuts for it including: {{
nsmdns}}
The mnemonic for that is: no-space m-dash no-space
You put no space before the template and no space after the template. I hope you like it. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
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15:23, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
{{
tlx}}
to read the documentation on that. On a Talk page without the tlx the template show up as the end result (an em dash). tlx is a way to display the template. It's a bit confusing to me because if somebody looks at the code they might copy the tlx part too when all they really want is the nsmdns part of the template. There are other ways to display templates without them "firing" like: tl, tlq, etc. Each one displays a different way or has limitations, like tl is similar to tlx but tl does not allow any piping within the template or it will truncate the displayed template. You can use nowiki too to keep them from firing, but then they don't show up with a blue clickable link like tlx or tl allows. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
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23:20, 5 November 2015 (UTC){{
tlx}}
when showing a template example: in your copy/edit cheat sheet up above if you use this code:{{tlx|convert|13100000|km2}}
it will render like this:{{
convert|13100000|km2}}
which will make the word "convert" show up as a blue clickable link that will take you to the "convert" documentation page that will show you all the various parameters for the "convert" template. Take out the nowiki tags around the first example of the template, and replace it with the tlx and the pipe, then the word "convert" will light up in blue and the tlx will not render (you won't see it when you look at your cheat sheet). I find it's handy to be able to quickly get to the various "convert" parameters that way. Cheers! {{u|
Checkingfax}} {
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20:43, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Checkingfax I was surprised when I saw these two edits to Allegra Versace: [2] and the next edit, [3]. In the first one, you changed a hyphen to an en-dash between "long" and "standing". This word can be one word. See [4], or it can be a hyphenated word (see the alternate spelling in that Wiktionary entry), but I have never seen it with an en-dash. I really think you should change that back. In the second edit, you changed a hyphen to an en-dash between "ex" and "fashion model", in the noun (or noun-as-adjective) "ex-fashion model". That's a normal use of a hyphen. See all the example words at [5]. I don't understand why you changed it to an en-dash. I hope you'll consider changing it back to a hyphen. Best regards, Corinne ( talk) 17:34, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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23:23, 5 November 2015 (UTC){{
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. That is just one of the shortcuts to the actual template name. It's sticky on the left, and will allow word wrap on the right.{{u|
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01:44, 18 November 2015 (UTC)Hello there! I was looking for a copy-editor for Sonam Kapoor. A wiki-friend of mine suggested me to ask you. Would you mind copyediting (it's been already ce'd by a user so it's looking much better)? -- Frankie talk 14:38, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Okay I've posted the request at GOCE. There isn't a deadline for FAC but if an article does not get a response for a long time, it might fail. Also, I am looking forward to your work. :-) -- Frankie talk 07:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
You absolutely did not forget the copy-editing. It's just that your and the two others' copy-edit didn't satisfy some reviewers. Let's see if it attracts another copy-editor. Thanks very much for your copy-edit. -- Frankie talk 14:20, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Here is the sentence as it is now:
I also don't like to see "being..." used too often, but the way it was worded before, with "..., with the queen ants being larger", was correct. Perhaps you have a particular reason for wanting to avoid it, but in any case I can understand if you prefer not to use it. If you really don't want that construction, I think another wording needs to be found because I don't think "apart from the larger queen ants" is right. The fact is right, but the construction isn't.
Perhaps:
Once you specify "ants in these groups" (i.e., the major and minor workers), you no longer need "apart from..."
Or:
Also, the heading for this section says, "TFAs for you, if you want them", but you only gave me a link to one article. Are there any others? Corinne ( talk) 00:40, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
With Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 29, 2015, and TFAs in general, time is of the essence, as the lawyers say. I'd prefer not to notify the nominator until they have a summary to look at, and Brian and Chris would like for me to notify nominators as soon as possible ... they'd like for nominators to have a couple of weeks to work on the article, if it needs work, before it hits the Main Page. If you'd like to do some research on how to handle these Middle Ages articles before you give it a try, then I'll take this one and you can do the next one. - Dank ( push to talk) 14:27, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
If you find time for it, please take a look at the article about Oba Chandler. It is a article that I have edited a lot over the years. So any improvements etc are welcomed. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 09:32, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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Tryptofish I am not very knowledgeable about the workings of ArbCom, but I hated to see what you've been going through recently, and I wanted to express some kind of support for you. I've been reading all the comments on your talk page, and I came across a sentence you wrote that I wanted to ask you about. It's in this edit [7], and it is this sentence:
I wonder if this is what you really meant to say. Shouldn't it read:
Weren't you missing the negative there? This is now early in the discussion, but, if I am right, you may want to correct it so that anyone reading this in the future is not confused by it. If I am wrong, then I guess I don't understand what you were saying. Best regards, Corinne ( talk) 23:51, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe If you'd like to hear an amusing song, listen to "How can they tell that I'm Irish?" The recording is at the lower right-hand corner in the article on Vaudeville. Be sure to put the volume up to at least 75% on your computer so you can catch as many of the words as possible. Corinne ( talk) 02:25, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, I would be really grateful if you could do a prose review of this article. Thanks, — Vensatry (Talk) 07:05, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
- Corinne ( talk) 00:29, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Providing link to the article: Freida Pinto. Corinne ( talk) 02:10, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
I'll leave the credit to you. I also happen to be fairly young and headstrong, so apologies for any consternation that it might have caused you. I'll hop on over to the requests page and see what I can do. dschslava 01:53, 24 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twomcvms ( talk • contribs)
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Vsmith I see in my watch list that a lot of editors I know (through editing) have gotten a notice about the current ArbCom (or is it Arbitration Committee, or is that the same thing?) elections. I didn't get one. Am I allowed to vote? If not, why are some other editors who are not administrators being invited to vote? Corinne ( talk) 01:48, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd say you are quite eligible. I don't know what criteria the mass mailing used - maybe those who voted last year (?) Vsmith ( talk) 03:05, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Tryptofish I read your recommendations regarding the best people to vote for in the ArbCom elections, but now I can't find them. I wanted to look at them again, and then vote. Can you direct me to them? Thanks. Corinne ( talk) 16:55, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
There should be a en dash in that article. So you are correct. From what I can see atleast. If you have more questions or thoughts please contact me again. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:23, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. You might be interested in investigating the moving date of birth in this article (which incidentally tells a remarkable story). I left a note on the talk page. Rothorpe ( talk) 03:59, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I am not sure if you already did this or not but was wondering if you proofread the footnotes for any problem as well as the main body. Thank you. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 06:01, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
I feel very happy to inform that
Srimanthudu, an article you copy-edited upon a request at
WP:GOCE/REQ, has become a GA today. It also happens to be my 20th consecutive one (a streak of 20-0) and i thank you for the c/e which helped me a lot.
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Hi Corrine, this is Srivin, thanks for copyediting Devadasu, regarding the "clarification needed" tags, I dont think it is needed anyway. Please nominate the article. Srivin ( talk) 13:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Baffle gab1978 What was that template you gave me a while back that I could put at the top of an article to ask editors not to edit the article until I am finished copy-editing? I couldn't find it on my talk page. Corinne ( talk) 02:08, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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I have just finished copy-editing the article Edith Södergran. Throughout the article, but especially in the section Edith Södergran#Bibliography, the titles of some of her poems or collections of poems, which are mostly in Swedish, are written first in italics and followed (usually in parentheses) by the translation of the title in English, in Roman (regular) font and enclosed in quotation marks.
I wondered whether the quotation marks were needed around the English translation of the titles. I had seen somewhere in the MoS that translated titles should not be in italics and should not be in quotation marks, but now I can't find it. If you can show me the relevant guideline in the MoS, I would really appreciate it.
I even wonder whether the titles in Swedish need to be in italics. I wonder whether it makes a difference whether it is a title of a poem or a title of a book, because in English, according to the MoS, a book is a major work and is supposed to be italicized while a poem is a minor work and is to be in quotation marks. Does that hold true even if the title is in a foreign language?
Rwood128 Do you know anything about this? Corinne ( talk) 02:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
give the translation in parentheses without special formattingand in the example there is no quotation marks. As for whether or not the main title should be in italics the same page makes the divide depending on if it is a "short" or "long" poem. Long poems are in italics, short ones are in quotes. -- Stabila711 ( talk) 08:27, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Drcrazy102 I saw an invitation to vote on wishlists at the top of my page, so I looked, saw a category titled "Editing", clicked on that, and read the various proposals. There is one I thought would be very helpful, so I voted support (had to correct an asterisk to a number symbol) here: [8]. After I saved, I saw that my user name was red. Why is that? It's also red in Commons (the pictures). Corinne ( talk) 03:10, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
P.S. Can you help me with the question I posed in the section above this? Corinne ( talk) 03:11, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 What's the difference between a pine and a cypress? (I was just reading Callitris.) They look different, but in some ways look similar. Do they share a common ancestor? Is there an article that discusses this difference? Corinne ( talk) 00:13, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I'm sorry to see what Phil has had to go through recently. I think she lashed out in anger because she was angry and hurt. I didn't know what to say, though. I just read your deleted comment [9], and I wanted to say that I thought it was quite well written, and I wondered why you deleted it.
How are you, by the way? Corinne ( talk) 17:43, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Oh, now I see you added it back. Good. Corinne ( talk) 17:47, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Iridescent I just wanted to commend you for this edit [10] Thank you for catching that, and your choice of words to replace "black and white" is excellent. I knew when I was creating the summary that it didn't sound right, but didn't think of how to fix it. You are really sharp, Iridescent. Corinne ( talk) 17:17, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe I have just finished copy-editing Nothomyrmecia. I have a few questions. I'm going to post most of them at User talk:Burklemore1#Nothomyrmecia, but I'm going to post this one here.
The last sentence of the second paragraph in the lead is:
Is it clear to you what, exactly, is stimulating studies on the ant's morphology, etc.? Is it the referring to the ant as a living fossil, or its primitive body structure, or both?
Should I not worry about this sentence? Corinne ( talk) 01:08, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
2) The first sentence in the second paragraph of Nothomyrmecia#Taxonomy is the following:
There is something awkward and not quite clear about the second half of this sentence. I presume that it was the Eocene Baltic amber fossil Prionomyrmex that was unknown to Clark. Perhaps, "..., which was unknown to him,..." would be better than just the phrase "unknown to him". What do you think? Also, the subsequent clause, "and of which remained..." is not clear to me. Perhaps grammatically is correct but the word order makes it stilted. Calling Iridescent or Rothorpe and/or Burklemore1... Corinne ( talk) 01:24, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
3) In the middle of the third paragraph in Nothomyrmecia#Behaviour and ecology is the following sentence:
The clause after the semi-colon reads:
Burklemore1, are you sure it should be "the average number of mates"? Not "the average number of males"? Corinne ( talk) 01:51, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
4) Toward the end of the fourth paragraph in Nothomyrmecia#Behaviour and ecology are the following sentences:
Regarding the second (short) sentence, really? "Immortal"? Is that normal word usage in entomology? Corinne ( talk) 01:54, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Dank I finished December 16. It's at 1101 characters. What do you think? Corinne ( talk) 03:53, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Iridescent, those were your edits ... thoughts? - Dank ( push to talk) 00:39, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Dank and Iridescent Oh my gosh, I just realized those were Iridescent's edits. I was so used to seeing a few edits by Dank after I finished working on a summary that I didn't notice Iridescent's user name there. So, Iridescent, the accolade goes to you. Corinne ( talk) 01:20, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
While nowadays best-known for his paintings of nude or near-nude women in historical and mythological settings, Etty work also included men engaged in various forms of combat, but that's a bit of a mouthful. ‑ Iridescent 20:10, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Mandy, I was going to click on "Send thanks", but I didn't see the option. I'm puzzled. Is the "send thanks" option usually available on one's own talk page, or not? I thought it was. Well, thank you. I had never heard that expression (with "Timmy", etc.). I had only heard, "You can call me --, but don't call me late for dinner." All right, I'll be bold regarding the meat stall painting article. I only asked because Hafs has sometimes asked me to wait until s/he is finished with an article. Corinne ( talk) 22:42, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Redrose64 Redrose64, I need your advice. I saw you have answered questions at the Village Pump Technical page, so you may be able to help. Please see the exchanges in the second half of this section, starting with the "Outdent" and "Mandy, I was going to click on "Send thanks," but... I have already gotten an answer to that question, so that's not why I pinged you. Keep reading. You'll see that Iridescent elucidated some issues about sending "thank-you's" to IP editors. From what Iridescent explained, I feel that the problems associated with doing that are serious enough that I would consider changing my vote from "Support" to "Oppose" (see the link that Mandy, or 75.108, provided, above), but, with all those Support votes already there, what would that accomplish, unless I copy and paste Iridescent's comments there? I think that someone who knows the issues should vote "Oppose" and explain why, or add an advisory comment to the list. I would not like to be helping to approve a proposal that creates more problems for people both on-wiki and off. What do you advise, and is there anything you can do? Corinne ( talk) 01:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
(Fair warning: I haven't fully read everything above, I'm just kind of blabbing.)
There are Phabricator Maniphest tasks tracking the ability to thank IP users and tracking the ability to ping IP users. I'm not sure either were intentional design decisions, per se. As I recall, there's interest in fixing both, if possible.
Ideally we'd find a way to eliminate the use of IP addresses altogether. It's a tricky problem given IP ranges and how they're used to combat abuse via IP range blocks. If we used a different scheme other than IP addresses, we'd likely lose some anti-vandalism flexibility. Plus there's a fundamental question, if we switched to another "anonymous" scheme, whether the goal is to prevent users from being able to easily decipher the IP address or whether it's more of a matter of not so readily exposing it in the user interface. There's a somewhat important distinction between the two. In some ways, if we used a scheme that converted an IP address to a decipherable string, we might be really misleading users who choose not to register a user name into thinking we're protecting their IP address. But if we use an entirely randomized scheme (e.g., every logged-out edit uses a random string), we'd immediately lose the ability to track a particular user (good or bad) and we'd lose the ability to do blocks of "similar" users in a range like we currently can with IP addresses.
IP addresses can also be used to track conflict-of-interest editing, editing from a school, editing from Congressional offices, and more. For better or worse, of course. We've found ways to use the ability to research an IP address (geolocation, WHOIS info, etc.) beneficial, but it also cuts against Wikimedia's privacy values to store and expose IP addresses indefinitely. (There's a sub-point on the use of "anonymous users" instead of "IP users" given that anonymity when using an IP address to edit can be quite questionable.)
One idea floated has to been to adopt the model that MeatBallWiki and others used, allowing a user to enter an unused user name in the edit window and assign that user name to their edits when saving the page (and also register the user account and log the user in). This would allow good-faith users, but would still be problematic for bad-faith users. Not as problematic as many people initially think, however, given that we're really just short-circuiting the "create an account" process. The abuse/misuse from (for example) user names such as "Jimbo Wales sucks dick" wouldn't be enhanced in this scheme, but it would create password-less accounts, which would be weird. If we put these password-less users into the user table alongside everyone else, it would make thanking and pinging them trivial, at least to send the messages. Receiving them might be a lot trickier. :-)
We could also do away with the concept of logged-out users and simply require everyone to log in, but I think this is fairly anti-wiki. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:51, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, User:Corinne. Can you provide another comment on this again? I believe your concern was that chiefess can't be found in some dictionaries, correct? The term can be founded Merriam-Webster. I don't agree with the recent insertion of "Ke Alii (The Noble)" for many reasons and believe the user will edit war with me unless another user steps in to mitigate. The term High Chief (the noble) is used by scholars in this field, the translation high chief(ess) is used in the academic sources this article is citing, and chiefess is found in all those other dictionaries I've provided link to. The direct Hawaiian term "Ke Ali'i" is also only used in Hawaiian language articles or sources (a search on Google Books reveal that it is only found largely in Hawaiian language book) and rarely used in English books or articles except when directly citing the title. The translation or use of the term Miller is proposing is marginal at best and most important not found in any of the scholarly sources I am using here or by any of the historians that I am getting the information directly on Pitman from.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 03:13, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the suggestions. I appreciate your input very much. I am not returning to the article but again, thank you.-- Mark Miller ( talk) 00:50, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
![]() The word
scandal is used a few times in several bibles like
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I've moved your comments to the bottom of Talk:Telopea_truncata rather than here as that was on the transcluded GA review page....it's a mistake I've made before myself with old GA review pages........ Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 19:17, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
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User:Drcrazy102 Thank you for your explanations and your patience, and for not being upset with me. I understand most of what you wrote, but I don't understand how your user name helps you find editors who are here to do some good. Also, why would anyone want to block you? You've been so gracious in answering all my questions. What do you mean by Easter eggs? I looked at the link and still don't know what you mean. (By now, you're probably thinking I'm a bit slow-witted.) Corinne ( talk) 03:54, 15 December 2015 (UTC) Oh, I forgot to thank you for the brownie. I love brownies. Corinne ( talk) 03:54, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
FWIW I have a plant at FAC too.... Telopea truncata...but don't feel pressured. To balance Karma I will go review some FAC stuff too...cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:19, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Casliber I just looked at Fuscospora gunnii and saw a cite error in "Taxonomy". Did you know it was there? Just thought I'd point it out in case you hadn't seen it. Corinne ( talk) 02:17, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, I was replying to your comment that "I think articles on animals (and birds, and insects) are much more interesting than articles on plants and fungi, but I'll do those, too. I also really like articles on geology, mining, and environmental topics." I'm saying: that sounds fine, go ahead and do them at TFA. To see what "support on prose" means, click on WP:FAC and then search for that phrase. You'll see that I've offered something called "support on prose" for many of the articles currently up at FAC. Looking at what I've done should explain it better than I can. - Dank ( push to talk) 02:16, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Ooo. It's beautiful! Thanks for telling me about Susanna and the Elders (Tintoretto)! (You do know you have the title of the Meat Stall painting above the image, don't you?) Do you want me to copy-edit the article when you're finished working on it? If so, just let me know.
Also, what do you want to do about that phrase in the Baigneuses article, "in the large"? It doesn't sound right in English. We either have to choose another expression or remove it. Corinne ( talk) 15:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just read your article A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms and enjoyed it very much. I wonder if you would mind if I copy-edited it. I saw a few minor errors here and there. There are one or two things I would ask you about before I change anything. If you don't want me to touch the article, that's fine. Corinne ( talk) 18:44, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you very much, Sca! What languages are those? How are you doing, by the way? I haven't chatted with you lately. What have you been working on? Best wishes to you. Corinne ( talk) 01:09, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Checkingfax I was just beginning to read the article on Pentecost. I made a few minor edits. Then I noticed that there was an external link in the lead. Is that supposed to be there? Corinne ( talk) 01:01, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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05:59, 17 December 2015 (UTC)(watching:) lead or elsewhere, instead of external bibles, we have internal ones, example Flight into Egypt ( Matthew 2:12–23) ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Matthew|chapter=2|verse=12|range=–23}}) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Dear Corinne, What do you think
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Can you take a look here? I get the impression people are talking about different things. And somebody removed a bit of the lead, that was not quite necessary, too. Hafspajen ( talk) 18:49, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was just looking at Johan Krouthén out of curiosity, having seen you were editing it, and I was looking at the images in the gallery. I'm just wondering if you need to mention the artist's name at all. The name is included in each caption in the gallery. The article is about him, so the paintings in the gallery ought to be by him, so, is it necessary to include his name? Corinne ( talk) 19:22, 30 December 2015 (UTC) Corinne ( talk) 19:23, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
HafspajenI did a search on Google for that phrase (the caption) and I saw a heading "Harvestad - Wikipedia" and clicked on it. It was an article in, I guess, Swedish. I saw an option "Translate?" and clicked on that. I got the gist of the article even though it wasn't a very good translation. In English, "Harvestad" is translated as "Harrow Town". It was originally four farms, and the ownership is traced all the way back to the 1300s! The article gives the successive owners up to the 20th century. At some point, the town of Linkoping became the owner, and they sold the main building. I wonder if the painting is of the main house, or building. I don't know if the phrase "Harvestad gård" refers to the entire estate, including the four farms, or just to the main house and the land right around it. Would you say, "Harvestad manor", "Harvestad estate", "Manor house at Harvestad", or "Main house at Harvestad"? Corinne ( talk) 00:25, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen I made a lot of small edits to this article. I can't find where I broke the reference name. Can you find it? Corinne ( talk) 00:32, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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02:07, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Checkingfax So you're saying that a page number in a reference with a name can have a period after the "p" and before the page number, or not, but they've got to be consistent? I thought I had gone through and added the period to all of them, but I must have missed a few, and you changed them back to no period. As long as they're consistent, I don't mind leaving them the way they are now. It's too much work, anyway, to go back and change them. I saw the one that the bot had fixed; I didn't think that was my edit, but I'm not sure. But your suggestion to click Preview and look at the references before saving is a good idea. I'll try to remember to do that. By the way, do you feel like looking at the issues with Francis of Assisi? See Hafspajen's request a few sections above this and the last discussion on the article's talk page. I had copy-edited this entire article about a year ago, but I guess it has changed a lot since then. Corinne ( talk) 02:28, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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02:41, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Dear Corinne, There is no need to name references unless you want to reuse the reference. Without naming reused references it would create a lot of reference cruft. Once a reference is named, you only have to use the name to repeatedly use that particular reference.
A simple reference looks like this:
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If you wanted to reuse that reference throughout the article you can give the reference a "name", like this:
<ref name="eric clapton">http://www.i-shot-the-sheriff-but-i-did-not-shoot-the-deputy-too/folder1/folder2.html</ref>
When you are ready to repeat the reference you just need to use the "self closing" name like this:
<ref name="eric clapton" /> (the / self-closes the tag)
In a simple reference, the </ref> tag closes the end of the reference, but in a named reference you open and close the reference within a single tag.
Once you name a reference you have to very cautious to repeat it verbatim.
When ReferenceBot sent out that diff I should have scrolled down to the reference section first and looked for red error messages and I would have been able to troubleshoot things more effortlessly. It was tedious on my eyes to look at all the micro-edits in the diff itself to spot the boo boo.
PS: Naming references works with templated references too, the ones that look more like this:
<ref name="eric clapton">{{cite web|url=http://www.i-shot-the-sheriff-but-i-did-not-shoot-the-deputy-too/folder1/folder2.html | title= Eric Clapton's Latest Song | date=5 January 1974 | publisher=''[[Variety]]'' | accessdate=30 December 2015}}</ref>
When you want to repeat the use of the reference all you need is:
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Likewise – Happy New Year, Corinne! Sca ( talk) 17:00, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Wishing you good health and happiness in 2016. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 16:41, 1 January 2016 (UTC) |
What a beautiful UserPage! -- Absolutely gorgeous by any standard. And, thank you so much for your recent edits to the Hemingway articles; I fear many of the typo's and errors you detected, and corrected, may have been mine. Herewith - a 'Barnstar'. --- Professor JR ( talk) 12:30, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Corinne, and a Happy New Year's Eve! Now, my *nquiry is: how do you spell *nquire? Rothorpe ( talk) 03:44, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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18:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Hafspajen I hope you don't mind that I changed the text formatting in the captions in Charles Marion Russell. I think italics looks better than quotation marks for the painting titles, and italics is used in the MoS guide for image captions. I noticed the the captions for the first gallery are flush left (that is, left justified), but the captions for all subsequent galleries are centered. I much prefer flush left, but I don't know how to change those captions from centered to flush left, that is, of course, if you agree. Corinne ( talk) 01:08, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
P.S. How do I change the font size back to 100%? I see that the font size was changed to 110% for the previous section, the New Year's message. Corinne ( talk) 01:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
P.S.#2 Happy New Year!
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Many thanks for your good wishes Corinne and the stunning landscape with which you accompanied them. In return I wish you not only a good year, but fulfillment in the face of obstacles both online and offline. People with your commitment and talent are always in short supply, and never more than now.
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Hafspajen Do you like the look of the gallery in L. A. Ring? Corinne ( talk) 00:12, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
-,Stol is chair, yes :) Hafspajen ( talk) 00:34, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Added your Sunrise over the rooftops by Jansson to my winter paintings gallery. Sca ( talk) 16:04, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Sca Yesterday, I went one by one through all the artists who lived in the late 1800s to early 1900s in List of Danish painters and List of Swedish painters. I was looking for an early 1900s post- or neo-Impressionist painting that was mostly red that would balance The Blue Kitchen at the top of my talk page, but I didn't find one. I liked the Jansson painting, though. I thought of you and your winter paintings gallery when I came across a page with a nice gallery that had quite a few winter paintings in it. I'll try to find it again and give you a link. Corinne ( talk) 20:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 7, 2016, on geology. - Dank ( push to talk) 17:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
May I add a wish? Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, is planned to be TFA for Easter next year. It's an "old" article of many authors, just in GA review. I think it would profit from copy-editing, to unify the prose. - Canvassing: I am also looking for someone who can do a review of the Christmas cantata mentioning laughter, - it's high time. Happy holiday, - my greeting will be on my talk from 24 December, - no individual cards, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:20, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Dank I just looked at January 14, 2016. It's at 1040 characters. Do you think it needs a bit added to it from the article, or is the length all right as it is? Corinne ( talk) 00:09, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Sorry? Click on Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 14, 2016. - Dank ( push to talk) 21:39, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Baffle gab1978 I thought I had asked you a few weeks ago why you used the en-dash and em-dash templates {{ndash}} and {{mdash}}, and you said it was just easier than typing the code for a no-break space and then the en-dash, but that they were essentially the same. I replied that I liked seeing the en-dash or em-dash in the edit window because it helped in editing. Was it you who I asked about that? I have looked on my talk page and in the last two or three archives, but I can't find it. I'm asking because another editor, Checkingfax, changed a no-break space plus en-dash to two separate templates, one for the no-break space and one for the en-dash, in Allegra Versace: [1]. I want to know if there is a good reason for using those templates instead of a no-break space and then en-dash. Also, what does the {{mdash}} accomplish that an em-dash (—) doesn't? Corinne ( talk) 01:20, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
commenting that they were "invisible Unicodes" which they are not, so now I just replace those codes with templates when I see them. The templates that are wrapped in curly braces just lead back to the same HTML sequence codes, but the Bot can't see that.{{
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(or one of its many aliases) will be helpful for words like where you want both words to stay conjoined but you want a space on both sides of the en dash. I come across a lot of articles that have regular-space/hyphen/regular-space and my template would serve those. If you want the 2nd word to wrap on to the next line if needed you should use the {{
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03:42, 5 November 2015 (UTC)( ←) Hi Corinne; yes it was me you asked about the dashes, but I can't find the conversation right now and I can't remember where we had it either. {{ mdash}} doesn't do anything special; it renders —; I normally subst it (type {{ subst:mdash}} to leave an actual mdash in the code. The same isn't true of {{ spaced ndash}}, which renders & n b s p ; & n d a s h ; & # 3 2 ; (minus spaces) when substed. I also prefer seeing the actual dashes in the code, but I'm lazy and don't want to have to type & n b s p ; – all the time, or fish out an ndash from the character map (as I just did!). Each to their own, I s'pose, and it's all valid code. :-) Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 04:29, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Corinne, I made a sticky on the left, loose on the right em dash template, using a zero width joiner on the left, and a zero width non-joiner on the right, and an em dash in the middle.
The template is a mouthful: {{
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(click on the blue link to see the documentation).
I created three shortcuts for it including: {{
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The mnemonic for that is: no-space m-dash no-space
You put no space before the template and no space after the template. I hope you like it. Cheers! {{u|
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{{
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to read the documentation on that. On a Talk page without the tlx the template show up as the end result (an em dash). tlx is a way to display the template. It's a bit confusing to me because if somebody looks at the code they might copy the tlx part too when all they really want is the nsmdns part of the template. There are other ways to display templates without them "firing" like: tl, tlq, etc. Each one displays a different way or has limitations, like tl is similar to tlx but tl does not allow any piping within the template or it will truncate the displayed template. You can use nowiki too to keep them from firing, but then they don't show up with a blue clickable link like tlx or tl allows. Cheers! {{u|
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it will render like this:{{
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which will make the word "convert" show up as a blue clickable link that will take you to the "convert" documentation page that will show you all the various parameters for the "convert" template. Take out the nowiki tags around the first example of the template, and replace it with the tlx and the pipe, then the word "convert" will light up in blue and the tlx will not render (you won't see it when you look at your cheat sheet). I find it's handy to be able to quickly get to the various "convert" parameters that way. Cheers! {{u|
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Checkingfax I was surprised when I saw these two edits to Allegra Versace: [2] and the next edit, [3]. In the first one, you changed a hyphen to an en-dash between "long" and "standing". This word can be one word. See [4], or it can be a hyphenated word (see the alternate spelling in that Wiktionary entry), but I have never seen it with an en-dash. I really think you should change that back. In the second edit, you changed a hyphen to an en-dash between "ex" and "fashion model", in the noun (or noun-as-adjective) "ex-fashion model". That's a normal use of a hyphen. See all the example words at [5]. I don't understand why you changed it to an en-dash. I hope you'll consider changing it back to a hyphen. Best regards, Corinne ( talk) 17:34, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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01:44, 18 November 2015 (UTC)Hello there! I was looking for a copy-editor for Sonam Kapoor. A wiki-friend of mine suggested me to ask you. Would you mind copyediting (it's been already ce'd by a user so it's looking much better)? -- Frankie talk 14:38, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Okay I've posted the request at GOCE. There isn't a deadline for FAC but if an article does not get a response for a long time, it might fail. Also, I am looking forward to your work. :-) -- Frankie talk 07:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
You absolutely did not forget the copy-editing. It's just that your and the two others' copy-edit didn't satisfy some reviewers. Let's see if it attracts another copy-editor. Thanks very much for your copy-edit. -- Frankie talk 14:20, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Here is the sentence as it is now:
I also don't like to see "being..." used too often, but the way it was worded before, with "..., with the queen ants being larger", was correct. Perhaps you have a particular reason for wanting to avoid it, but in any case I can understand if you prefer not to use it. If you really don't want that construction, I think another wording needs to be found because I don't think "apart from the larger queen ants" is right. The fact is right, but the construction isn't.
Perhaps:
Once you specify "ants in these groups" (i.e., the major and minor workers), you no longer need "apart from..."
Or:
Also, the heading for this section says, "TFAs for you, if you want them", but you only gave me a link to one article. Are there any others? Corinne ( talk) 00:40, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
With Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 29, 2015, and TFAs in general, time is of the essence, as the lawyers say. I'd prefer not to notify the nominator until they have a summary to look at, and Brian and Chris would like for me to notify nominators as soon as possible ... they'd like for nominators to have a couple of weeks to work on the article, if it needs work, before it hits the Main Page. If you'd like to do some research on how to handle these Middle Ages articles before you give it a try, then I'll take this one and you can do the next one. - Dank ( push to talk) 14:27, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
If you find time for it, please take a look at the article about Oba Chandler. It is a article that I have edited a lot over the years. So any improvements etc are welcomed. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 09:32, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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Tryptofish I am not very knowledgeable about the workings of ArbCom, but I hated to see what you've been going through recently, and I wanted to express some kind of support for you. I've been reading all the comments on your talk page, and I came across a sentence you wrote that I wanted to ask you about. It's in this edit [7], and it is this sentence:
I wonder if this is what you really meant to say. Shouldn't it read:
Weren't you missing the negative there? This is now early in the discussion, but, if I am right, you may want to correct it so that anyone reading this in the future is not confused by it. If I am wrong, then I guess I don't understand what you were saying. Best regards, Corinne ( talk) 23:51, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe If you'd like to hear an amusing song, listen to "How can they tell that I'm Irish?" The recording is at the lower right-hand corner in the article on Vaudeville. Be sure to put the volume up to at least 75% on your computer so you can catch as many of the words as possible. Corinne ( talk) 02:25, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, I would be really grateful if you could do a prose review of this article. Thanks, — Vensatry (Talk) 07:05, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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Providing link to the article: Freida Pinto. Corinne ( talk) 02:10, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
I'll leave the credit to you. I also happen to be fairly young and headstrong, so apologies for any consternation that it might have caused you. I'll hop on over to the requests page and see what I can do. dschslava 01:53, 24 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twomcvms ( talk • contribs)
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Vsmith I see in my watch list that a lot of editors I know (through editing) have gotten a notice about the current ArbCom (or is it Arbitration Committee, or is that the same thing?) elections. I didn't get one. Am I allowed to vote? If not, why are some other editors who are not administrators being invited to vote? Corinne ( talk) 01:48, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd say you are quite eligible. I don't know what criteria the mass mailing used - maybe those who voted last year (?) Vsmith ( talk) 03:05, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Tryptofish I read your recommendations regarding the best people to vote for in the ArbCom elections, but now I can't find them. I wanted to look at them again, and then vote. Can you direct me to them? Thanks. Corinne ( talk) 16:55, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
There should be a en dash in that article. So you are correct. From what I can see atleast. If you have more questions or thoughts please contact me again. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:23, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. You might be interested in investigating the moving date of birth in this article (which incidentally tells a remarkable story). I left a note on the talk page. Rothorpe ( talk) 03:59, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I am not sure if you already did this or not but was wondering if you proofread the footnotes for any problem as well as the main body. Thank you. -- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 06:01, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Corrine, this is Srivin, thanks for copyediting Devadasu, regarding the "clarification needed" tags, I dont think it is needed anyway. Please nominate the article. Srivin ( talk) 13:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Baffle gab1978 What was that template you gave me a while back that I could put at the top of an article to ask editors not to edit the article until I am finished copy-editing? I couldn't find it on my talk page. Corinne ( talk) 02:08, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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I have just finished copy-editing the article Edith Södergran. Throughout the article, but especially in the section Edith Södergran#Bibliography, the titles of some of her poems or collections of poems, which are mostly in Swedish, are written first in italics and followed (usually in parentheses) by the translation of the title in English, in Roman (regular) font and enclosed in quotation marks.
I wondered whether the quotation marks were needed around the English translation of the titles. I had seen somewhere in the MoS that translated titles should not be in italics and should not be in quotation marks, but now I can't find it. If you can show me the relevant guideline in the MoS, I would really appreciate it.
I even wonder whether the titles in Swedish need to be in italics. I wonder whether it makes a difference whether it is a title of a poem or a title of a book, because in English, according to the MoS, a book is a major work and is supposed to be italicized while a poem is a minor work and is to be in quotation marks. Does that hold true even if the title is in a foreign language?
Rwood128 Do you know anything about this? Corinne ( talk) 02:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
give the translation in parentheses without special formattingand in the example there is no quotation marks. As for whether or not the main title should be in italics the same page makes the divide depending on if it is a "short" or "long" poem. Long poems are in italics, short ones are in quotes. -- Stabila711 ( talk) 08:27, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Drcrazy102 I saw an invitation to vote on wishlists at the top of my page, so I looked, saw a category titled "Editing", clicked on that, and read the various proposals. There is one I thought would be very helpful, so I voted support (had to correct an asterisk to a number symbol) here: [8]. After I saved, I saw that my user name was red. Why is that? It's also red in Commons (the pictures). Corinne ( talk) 03:10, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
P.S. Can you help me with the question I posed in the section above this? Corinne ( talk) 03:11, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 What's the difference between a pine and a cypress? (I was just reading Callitris.) They look different, but in some ways look similar. Do they share a common ancestor? Is there an article that discusses this difference? Corinne ( talk) 00:13, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I'm sorry to see what Phil has had to go through recently. I think she lashed out in anger because she was angry and hurt. I didn't know what to say, though. I just read your deleted comment [9], and I wanted to say that I thought it was quite well written, and I wondered why you deleted it.
How are you, by the way? Corinne ( talk) 17:43, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Oh, now I see you added it back. Good. Corinne ( talk) 17:47, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Iridescent I just wanted to commend you for this edit [10] Thank you for catching that, and your choice of words to replace "black and white" is excellent. I knew when I was creating the summary that it didn't sound right, but didn't think of how to fix it. You are really sharp, Iridescent. Corinne ( talk) 17:17, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe I have just finished copy-editing Nothomyrmecia. I have a few questions. I'm going to post most of them at User talk:Burklemore1#Nothomyrmecia, but I'm going to post this one here.
The last sentence of the second paragraph in the lead is:
Is it clear to you what, exactly, is stimulating studies on the ant's morphology, etc.? Is it the referring to the ant as a living fossil, or its primitive body structure, or both?
Should I not worry about this sentence? Corinne ( talk) 01:08, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
2) The first sentence in the second paragraph of Nothomyrmecia#Taxonomy is the following:
There is something awkward and not quite clear about the second half of this sentence. I presume that it was the Eocene Baltic amber fossil Prionomyrmex that was unknown to Clark. Perhaps, "..., which was unknown to him,..." would be better than just the phrase "unknown to him". What do you think? Also, the subsequent clause, "and of which remained..." is not clear to me. Perhaps grammatically is correct but the word order makes it stilted. Calling Iridescent or Rothorpe and/or Burklemore1... Corinne ( talk) 01:24, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
3) In the middle of the third paragraph in Nothomyrmecia#Behaviour and ecology is the following sentence:
The clause after the semi-colon reads:
Burklemore1, are you sure it should be "the average number of mates"? Not "the average number of males"? Corinne ( talk) 01:51, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
4) Toward the end of the fourth paragraph in Nothomyrmecia#Behaviour and ecology are the following sentences:
Regarding the second (short) sentence, really? "Immortal"? Is that normal word usage in entomology? Corinne ( talk) 01:54, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Dank I finished December 16. It's at 1101 characters. What do you think? Corinne ( talk) 03:53, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Iridescent, those were your edits ... thoughts? - Dank ( push to talk) 00:39, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Dank and Iridescent Oh my gosh, I just realized those were Iridescent's edits. I was so used to seeing a few edits by Dank after I finished working on a summary that I didn't notice Iridescent's user name there. So, Iridescent, the accolade goes to you. Corinne ( talk) 01:20, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
While nowadays best-known for his paintings of nude or near-nude women in historical and mythological settings, Etty work also included men engaged in various forms of combat, but that's a bit of a mouthful. ‑ Iridescent 20:10, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Mandy, I was going to click on "Send thanks", but I didn't see the option. I'm puzzled. Is the "send thanks" option usually available on one's own talk page, or not? I thought it was. Well, thank you. I had never heard that expression (with "Timmy", etc.). I had only heard, "You can call me --, but don't call me late for dinner." All right, I'll be bold regarding the meat stall painting article. I only asked because Hafs has sometimes asked me to wait until s/he is finished with an article. Corinne ( talk) 22:42, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Redrose64 Redrose64, I need your advice. I saw you have answered questions at the Village Pump Technical page, so you may be able to help. Please see the exchanges in the second half of this section, starting with the "Outdent" and "Mandy, I was going to click on "Send thanks," but... I have already gotten an answer to that question, so that's not why I pinged you. Keep reading. You'll see that Iridescent elucidated some issues about sending "thank-you's" to IP editors. From what Iridescent explained, I feel that the problems associated with doing that are serious enough that I would consider changing my vote from "Support" to "Oppose" (see the link that Mandy, or 75.108, provided, above), but, with all those Support votes already there, what would that accomplish, unless I copy and paste Iridescent's comments there? I think that someone who knows the issues should vote "Oppose" and explain why, or add an advisory comment to the list. I would not like to be helping to approve a proposal that creates more problems for people both on-wiki and off. What do you advise, and is there anything you can do? Corinne ( talk) 01:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
(Fair warning: I haven't fully read everything above, I'm just kind of blabbing.)
There are Phabricator Maniphest tasks tracking the ability to thank IP users and tracking the ability to ping IP users. I'm not sure either were intentional design decisions, per se. As I recall, there's interest in fixing both, if possible.
Ideally we'd find a way to eliminate the use of IP addresses altogether. It's a tricky problem given IP ranges and how they're used to combat abuse via IP range blocks. If we used a different scheme other than IP addresses, we'd likely lose some anti-vandalism flexibility. Plus there's a fundamental question, if we switched to another "anonymous" scheme, whether the goal is to prevent users from being able to easily decipher the IP address or whether it's more of a matter of not so readily exposing it in the user interface. There's a somewhat important distinction between the two. In some ways, if we used a scheme that converted an IP address to a decipherable string, we might be really misleading users who choose not to register a user name into thinking we're protecting their IP address. But if we use an entirely randomized scheme (e.g., every logged-out edit uses a random string), we'd immediately lose the ability to track a particular user (good or bad) and we'd lose the ability to do blocks of "similar" users in a range like we currently can with IP addresses.
IP addresses can also be used to track conflict-of-interest editing, editing from a school, editing from Congressional offices, and more. For better or worse, of course. We've found ways to use the ability to research an IP address (geolocation, WHOIS info, etc.) beneficial, but it also cuts against Wikimedia's privacy values to store and expose IP addresses indefinitely. (There's a sub-point on the use of "anonymous users" instead of "IP users" given that anonymity when using an IP address to edit can be quite questionable.)
One idea floated has to been to adopt the model that MeatBallWiki and others used, allowing a user to enter an unused user name in the edit window and assign that user name to their edits when saving the page (and also register the user account and log the user in). This would allow good-faith users, but would still be problematic for bad-faith users. Not as problematic as many people initially think, however, given that we're really just short-circuiting the "create an account" process. The abuse/misuse from (for example) user names such as "Jimbo Wales sucks dick" wouldn't be enhanced in this scheme, but it would create password-less accounts, which would be weird. If we put these password-less users into the user table alongside everyone else, it would make thanking and pinging them trivial, at least to send the messages. Receiving them might be a lot trickier. :-)
We could also do away with the concept of logged-out users and simply require everyone to log in, but I think this is fairly anti-wiki. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:51, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, User:Corinne. Can you provide another comment on this again? I believe your concern was that chiefess can't be found in some dictionaries, correct? The term can be founded Merriam-Webster. I don't agree with the recent insertion of "Ke Alii (The Noble)" for many reasons and believe the user will edit war with me unless another user steps in to mitigate. The term High Chief (the noble) is used by scholars in this field, the translation high chief(ess) is used in the academic sources this article is citing, and chiefess is found in all those other dictionaries I've provided link to. The direct Hawaiian term "Ke Ali'i" is also only used in Hawaiian language articles or sources (a search on Google Books reveal that it is only found largely in Hawaiian language book) and rarely used in English books or articles except when directly citing the title. The translation or use of the term Miller is proposing is marginal at best and most important not found in any of the scholarly sources I am using here or by any of the historians that I am getting the information directly on Pitman from.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 03:13, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the suggestions. I appreciate your input very much. I am not returning to the article but again, thank you.-- Mark Miller ( talk) 00:50, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
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I've moved your comments to the bottom of Talk:Telopea_truncata rather than here as that was on the transcluded GA review page....it's a mistake I've made before myself with old GA review pages........ Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 19:17, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
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User:Drcrazy102 Thank you for your explanations and your patience, and for not being upset with me. I understand most of what you wrote, but I don't understand how your user name helps you find editors who are here to do some good. Also, why would anyone want to block you? You've been so gracious in answering all my questions. What do you mean by Easter eggs? I looked at the link and still don't know what you mean. (By now, you're probably thinking I'm a bit slow-witted.) Corinne ( talk) 03:54, 15 December 2015 (UTC) Oh, I forgot to thank you for the brownie. I love brownies. Corinne ( talk) 03:54, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
FWIW I have a plant at FAC too.... Telopea truncata...but don't feel pressured. To balance Karma I will go review some FAC stuff too...cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:19, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Casliber I just looked at Fuscospora gunnii and saw a cite error in "Taxonomy". Did you know it was there? Just thought I'd point it out in case you hadn't seen it. Corinne ( talk) 02:17, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, I was replying to your comment that "I think articles on animals (and birds, and insects) are much more interesting than articles on plants and fungi, but I'll do those, too. I also really like articles on geology, mining, and environmental topics." I'm saying: that sounds fine, go ahead and do them at TFA. To see what "support on prose" means, click on WP:FAC and then search for that phrase. You'll see that I've offered something called "support on prose" for many of the articles currently up at FAC. Looking at what I've done should explain it better than I can. - Dank ( push to talk) 02:16, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Ooo. It's beautiful! Thanks for telling me about Susanna and the Elders (Tintoretto)! (You do know you have the title of the Meat Stall painting above the image, don't you?) Do you want me to copy-edit the article when you're finished working on it? If so, just let me know.
Also, what do you want to do about that phrase in the Baigneuses article, "in the large"? It doesn't sound right in English. We either have to choose another expression or remove it. Corinne ( talk) 15:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just read your article A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms and enjoyed it very much. I wonder if you would mind if I copy-edited it. I saw a few minor errors here and there. There are one or two things I would ask you about before I change anything. If you don't want me to touch the article, that's fine. Corinne ( talk) 18:44, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you very much, Sca! What languages are those? How are you doing, by the way? I haven't chatted with you lately. What have you been working on? Best wishes to you. Corinne ( talk) 01:09, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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Checkingfax I was just beginning to read the article on Pentecost. I made a few minor edits. Then I noticed that there was an external link in the lead. Is that supposed to be there? Corinne ( talk) 01:01, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
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05:59, 17 December 2015 (UTC)(watching:) lead or elsewhere, instead of external bibles, we have internal ones, example Flight into Egypt ( Matthew 2:12–23) ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Matthew|chapter=2|verse=12|range=–23}}) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:35, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
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Can you take a look here? I get the impression people are talking about different things. And somebody removed a bit of the lead, that was not quite necessary, too. Hafspajen ( talk) 18:49, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was just looking at Johan Krouthén out of curiosity, having seen you were editing it, and I was looking at the images in the gallery. I'm just wondering if you need to mention the artist's name at all. The name is included in each caption in the gallery. The article is about him, so the paintings in the gallery ought to be by him, so, is it necessary to include his name? Corinne ( talk) 19:22, 30 December 2015 (UTC) Corinne ( talk) 19:23, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
HafspajenI did a search on Google for that phrase (the caption) and I saw a heading "Harvestad - Wikipedia" and clicked on it. It was an article in, I guess, Swedish. I saw an option "Translate?" and clicked on that. I got the gist of the article even though it wasn't a very good translation. In English, "Harvestad" is translated as "Harrow Town". It was originally four farms, and the ownership is traced all the way back to the 1300s! The article gives the successive owners up to the 20th century. At some point, the town of Linkoping became the owner, and they sold the main building. I wonder if the painting is of the main house, or building. I don't know if the phrase "Harvestad gård" refers to the entire estate, including the four farms, or just to the main house and the land right around it. Would you say, "Harvestad manor", "Harvestad estate", "Manor house at Harvestad", or "Main house at Harvestad"? Corinne ( talk) 00:25, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen I made a lot of small edits to this article. I can't find where I broke the reference name. Can you find it? Corinne ( talk) 00:32, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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02:07, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Checkingfax So you're saying that a page number in a reference with a name can have a period after the "p" and before the page number, or not, but they've got to be consistent? I thought I had gone through and added the period to all of them, but I must have missed a few, and you changed them back to no period. As long as they're consistent, I don't mind leaving them the way they are now. It's too much work, anyway, to go back and change them. I saw the one that the bot had fixed; I didn't think that was my edit, but I'm not sure. But your suggestion to click Preview and look at the references before saving is a good idea. I'll try to remember to do that. By the way, do you feel like looking at the issues with Francis of Assisi? See Hafspajen's request a few sections above this and the last discussion on the article's talk page. I had copy-edited this entire article about a year ago, but I guess it has changed a lot since then. Corinne ( talk) 02:28, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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02:41, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Dear Corinne, There is no need to name references unless you want to reuse the reference. Without naming reused references it would create a lot of reference cruft. Once a reference is named, you only have to use the name to repeatedly use that particular reference.
A simple reference looks like this:
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If you wanted to reuse that reference throughout the article you can give the reference a "name", like this:
<ref name="eric clapton">http://www.i-shot-the-sheriff-but-i-did-not-shoot-the-deputy-too/folder1/folder2.html</ref>
When you are ready to repeat the reference you just need to use the "self closing" name like this:
<ref name="eric clapton" /> (the / self-closes the tag)
In a simple reference, the </ref> tag closes the end of the reference, but in a named reference you open and close the reference within a single tag.
Once you name a reference you have to very cautious to repeat it verbatim.
When ReferenceBot sent out that diff I should have scrolled down to the reference section first and looked for red error messages and I would have been able to troubleshoot things more effortlessly. It was tedious on my eyes to look at all the micro-edits in the diff itself to spot the boo boo.
PS: Naming references works with templated references too, the ones that look more like this:
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When you want to repeat the use of the reference all you need is:
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Likewise – Happy New Year, Corinne! Sca ( talk) 17:00, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Wishing you good health and happiness in 2016. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 16:41, 1 January 2016 (UTC) |
What a beautiful UserPage! -- Absolutely gorgeous by any standard. And, thank you so much for your recent edits to the Hemingway articles; I fear many of the typo's and errors you detected, and corrected, may have been mine. Herewith - a 'Barnstar'. --- Professor JR ( talk) 12:30, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Corinne, and a Happy New Year's Eve! Now, my *nquiry is: how do you spell *nquire? Rothorpe ( talk) 03:44, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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18:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)Hafspajen I hope you don't mind that I changed the text formatting in the captions in Charles Marion Russell. I think italics looks better than quotation marks for the painting titles, and italics is used in the MoS guide for image captions. I noticed the the captions for the first gallery are flush left (that is, left justified), but the captions for all subsequent galleries are centered. I much prefer flush left, but I don't know how to change those captions from centered to flush left, that is, of course, if you agree. Corinne ( talk) 01:08, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
P.S. How do I change the font size back to 100%? I see that the font size was changed to 110% for the previous section, the New Year's message. Corinne ( talk) 01:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
P.S.#2 Happy New Year!
– Corinne ( talk) 01:13, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Many thanks for your good wishes Corinne and the stunning landscape with which you accompanied them. In return I wish you not only a good year, but fulfillment in the face of obstacles both online and offline. People with your commitment and talent are always in short supply, and never more than now.
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Hafspajen Do you like the look of the gallery in L. A. Ring? Corinne ( talk) 00:12, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
-,Stol is chair, yes :) Hafspajen ( talk) 00:34, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Added your Sunrise over the rooftops by Jansson to my winter paintings gallery. Sca ( talk) 16:04, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Sca Yesterday, I went one by one through all the artists who lived in the late 1800s to early 1900s in List of Danish painters and List of Swedish painters. I was looking for an early 1900s post- or neo-Impressionist painting that was mostly red that would balance The Blue Kitchen at the top of my talk page, but I didn't find one. I liked the Jansson painting, though. I thought of you and your winter paintings gallery when I came across a page with a nice gallery that had quite a few winter paintings in it. I'll try to find it again and give you a link. Corinne ( talk) 20:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 7, 2016, on geology. - Dank ( push to talk) 17:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
May I add a wish? Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, is planned to be TFA for Easter next year. It's an "old" article of many authors, just in GA review. I think it would profit from copy-editing, to unify the prose. - Canvassing: I am also looking for someone who can do a review of the Christmas cantata mentioning laughter, - it's high time. Happy holiday, - my greeting will be on my talk from 24 December, - no individual cards, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:20, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Dank I just looked at January 14, 2016. It's at 1040 characters. Do you think it needs a bit added to it from the article, or is the length all right as it is? Corinne ( talk) 00:09, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Sorry? Click on Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 14, 2016. - Dank ( push to talk) 21:39, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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04:49, 30 December 2015 (UTC)Hi, Corinne. I looked at
Francis of Assisi and made several edits regarding the chronology but in my opinion it is still a bit of a hot mess regarding the chronology, prose, and flow in the Early life section. Cheers! {{u|
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