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Corinne, I have a slightly broken toolbar/information-bar on each article page that I find to be very helpful. The brokenness does not cause any issues—it just means certain functionality has left the toolbar and will not be available since the toolbar's developer left the building earlier this year. For one thing it tells you who authored a page.
OK, here you go:
First copy this line of code to your clipboard:
mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/?title=User:Hedonil/XTools/XTools.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
( the code line starts with mw. and ends with '); )
Then go to this link, and if the edit page is open paste that code on to the edit page and save it. If the edit window is not open, click on the edit link and then paste the code and save it:
Then go back to Wikipedia from Wikimedia and Purge your Wikipedia page and you should see the new toolbar/information-bar. Easy peezy. Don't be scared! Cheers! {{u|
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CheckingfaxWow! It worked! I didn't even have to purge my talk page. It was already there. Thanks. I saw, in the instructions just before I pasted that code at Wikimedia, that it said something like "be sure to categorize this". Of course, I didn't, because I didn't know what it meant. Is that all right? Corinne ( talk) 01:03, 2 January 2016 (UTC) I was surprised that there were 55 page watchers of my talk page. Is there any way to "hide" that whole line so that it's visible only if I want to look at it? Corinne ( talk) 01:05, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne. You did good. Congrats on successfully installing your first custom Javascript! If you look at my common.js file on Wikipedia you can see how I keep track of my 15 installed scripts by using comment sections:
I used to have a few more but they broke everything so I removed them and kept my working favorites.
Comment lines or comment sections do not render anyplace.
I also have some custom scripts in my common.css file that change the appearance of my WP experience, like I have one that makes all redirect links appear green to me instead of the standard blue for all live links.
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Checkingfax Thanks for the congratulations. I'm glad I did it right. I looked at your list and (...sigh...) there is so much that I still have to learn. There was one, though, that interested me. It's "Puts a Highlight duplicate links link on left side of each page". Does this highlight when the same word or phrase is linked more than once in an article? I've read the MoS on links, and it says it's all right to link a term in the lead and "the first mention after the lead", which is the guideline I follow, but it would be helpful to have all of the duplicate links highlighted so I can remove some and be sure that it's the first mention in the article that's highlighted, not a later one. Is that what this does? If so, can I copy it from your page? By the way, does it matter that my user name is red at the top of the Wikimedia page? Corinne ( talk) 02:41, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Your username is red because you have not yet created an optional userpage over there.
One more consensus exception to repeating links is that it is OK to repeat previous maxed out links in tables or lists. So if a page is linked in lead and body it can also be linked in any table or list, and it makes things handy.
The duplicate link finder will box links in red that are potentially overlinked. It does not make it easy to find out the first use of a link in the body.
It is not my Javascript; it came from that user library of scripts. You will want to put it in your common.js file which you can create at:
User:Corinne/common.js
PS: A line feed is created when you hit the ↵ Enter key.
PPS: The global.js file makes the change work across all wikis whereas changes to the common.js or common.css file only apply to the particular wiki they are made on. Cheers! {{u|
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04:00, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax What am I supposed to see at the left for the links highlighting? Does that work when viewing the article regularly or only in edit mode? Will I see nothing at all if there are no duplicate links? I see "Edit links" at the bottom left, below the languages, but when I click on it, I see a list of links in tiny letters, nothing red and no highlighting. Corinne ( talk) 04:28, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
There will be a link "Highlight duplicate links" in the toolbox on the left on every mainspace article. Once in Edit mode, clicking it will highlight the duplicate links in the edit preview by drawing a red border around them.
User:Ucucha/duplinks.js is a script that highlights links that occur more than once in an article. Per WP:REPEATLINK, terms should generally be linked only once in an article, but there are a number of exceptions to this rule. To account for these exceptions, this script considers only links that are within paragraphs (<p>...</p> tags) and ignores any links inside an infobox or navbox. In addition, it highlights duplicate links within the lead and within the body of the article separately.
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07:33, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Hi, Corinne. I am on my Blackberry right now but will do my best to answer your dup finder questions now.
If you have opened a page for editing with the text-editor:
PS: If you are doing a long page all at once you may wish to set the {{
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If you click on the Dup highlighter before opening an editor your highlights will vanish when you open an editor. The highlighter does not highlight anything down in the text editing area; that is why you must use the Preview page button.
To use Wikipedia:VisualEditor:
I hope this helps. If you see other problems on the page just click on the problem and start typing. VE edits magically. Plus you can switch to text editing mode if you choose to.
I shall answer the diff question later and up in the other discussion area. Just remember diff is an abbr for difference, so you need two things to compare, and yes you have to pick apart small chunks of a long URL to dissect the two germane pieces. Cheers! {{u|
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03:07, 4 January 2016 (UTC)King Mswati III, the monarch of Swaziland, one of the
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Dear Corinne, I loved what you did on the Trajan article. Could you please take a look on the article on Leonel Brizola (admittedly about an entirely different political animal) in which I also worked and which could benefit from your attentions? Cerme ( talk) 23:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Subscript text== Still need help ==
Happy Holidays, Corinne: EDITED: Cheers! {{u|
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Checkingfax Another editor tried to explain to me how to create a "diff" that is within Wikipedia. (I know how to make the external source type of diff, by just copying the entire URL.) Based upon what I understood from the other editor's explanation, I put a kind of explanation and reminder to myself on how to do it in my list of useful things at the top right of my talk page, above, but I tried to create a diff (to use in a talk page comment) but I couldn't get it right, so I didn't save it. When I look at the revision history and see the old and new edit, I don't see two I.D. numbers at the end of the URL. Usually, there is just one I.D. number there. I don't think I'm looking in the right place. When you have time, can you tell me how to do this step-by-step? Corinne ( talk) 01:21, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
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and it would generate this:{{
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will generate this:{{
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will generate this:{{
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would generate this:{{
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05:55, 17 December 2015 (UTC)Hi, Corinne. Diff, which stands for Difference can be found in many places: Contributions, User contributions, Page history, etc.
A Diff is when you are given the opportunity to compare two edits side-by-side. You can get a Diff by answering a message Notification by clicking on the Show Changes link, or you can get a Diff by clicking on the (Prev) link in Contributions, or you can get a Diff by going to Page history, or by clicking two radio buttons in those and pressing the Compare selected revisions button or by clicking the (Prev) link next to a page link.
When you click on the link labeled "Prev" you are given two consecutive page versions. One for the page link near the Diff link and then for the page version just prior to it. That will be your Diff.
Alternatively, if you do a Compare you will get page versions separated by a period of time. That will be your Diff.
Some other places to find Diffs: Recent changes; Related changes; your Watchlist; clicking on the Show changes button in the text editor.
I found two pages that might fill in some holes that I am not explaining properly:
Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide
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that makes most Diffs easier to present. It only requires one page-version-number, and no page title. A link label is optional. So, for the Korea Diff you could use:{{
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and it would automatically show the 697982120 page version plus the page version immediately prior to it.{{
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04:57, 4 January 2016 (UTC)Hi, Corinne. I am AFK so I cannot say off the top of my head. The number you use with Diff2 is the largest one. Go check and see which is largest and that will always be true going forward.
Diff2 does not work for generating Diff pages from page versions that are not adjacent.
Right-click right on the (Prev) link brings up that menu and if you want to copy/paste the underlying link pick Copy link location (or words to that effect) which will copy the long URL to your clipboard. Then you can paste the long URL in a Talk page reply to dissect it.
Alternatively, you can left-click right on the (Prev) link to open the Diff page, then go up to the web browser URL address bar and copy/paste the long URL from there.
You can also open in a new-tab or in a new-window by right-clicking right on the (Prev) link and selecting new-tab or new-browser.
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Dear Corinne: I checked on this awkard sentence about the temple of Zeus in Cyzicus and it comes verbatin from the Hadrian biography by Anthony Birley: "its [the temple's] marble blocks were odorned with gold thread". The "gold thread" might be (a) lines of gold paint made in order to highlight a relief (at the fronton, for instance). Lots of Rococo interiors use gold paint, and Roman art at Hadrian's time was somewhat over the top like Rococo. Or then it was (b) marble blocks with golden veins? But then I would agree that the sentence is metaphorical at best, and somewhat clumsy. Cerme ( talk) 02:01, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. At TAFI I nominated
the Linda Ronstadt article and I think you would be able to prune it down, but it has to get approved first. Cheers! {{u|
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23:10, 6 January 2016 (UTC)If you want to, please review my nom for Helena Bergström at TAFI. Regards.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:05, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. What is the correct way to make the sibilant Williams possessive such as in this Diff: [3]?
Is is s's or s' ? Cheers! {{u|
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02:08, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Mayabazar turns a FA! Thanks for your valuable contributions as a copy-editor. Pavanjandhyala ( talk) 02:49, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Depictions of various
deities on the entrance tower of
Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore, dedicated to the
Hindu goddess of rain;
Mariamman.
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Checkingfax,
Rothorpe, and any tps's: I copy-edited
Sleepy Hollow Country Club, and I posted questions and concerns on the article's
requester's talk page, and the requester responded, and we worked out some changes. For one sentence, after coming to understand what was meant after being provided with a link to the source, I suggested a revision to a sentence. The requester, Ɱ, made a change that approaches what I had suggested
[4] (see the requester's talk page if you want to see what I suggested). However, upon looking at it, I'm now wondering whether it should be "in size" instead of "of a size". Which do you prefer?
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Dear Corinne, So are we opting between:
At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and of a size larger than most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
and...
At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and larger in size than most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
The first way I understand it to mean the service wing is larger than a house.
The second way I understand it to mean the service wing is larger than it traditionally is within a house.
Hmmmm. Let me percolate on this. Maybe the sentence should start out with: The service wing is... Cheers! {{u|
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At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and of a size larger than IN most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and larger in size than IN most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
Checkingfax I've just got to understand your edit summary here. It looks like you properly moved the punctuation to before the reference, but I don't see any wiki-link there. Corinne ( talk) 15:13, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. I do not understand your question but maybe this answers it. I took this, which was incorrect:
And changed it to this, which is correct:
I moved the ); from the end of the reference to the beginning of the reference to be proper. Cheers! {{u|
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Hi, Corinne. The Pali article has a couple of greater than signs in the Early western views section in this sentence:
Following this period, the language underwent a small degree of Sanskritisation (i.e., MIA bamhana > brahmana, tta > tva in some cases).
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15:14, 12 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax I was just looking at edits in articles on my watchlist, and I saw your edits to Systema Naturae. I saw they were changed and then put back by another editor. I was looking at your edit summary here. I know you were using a kind of bot or editing software, I've got to ask you why you would change "a" to "an" before "Iohannes" in a Latin sentence? (I wouldn't change "a" to "an" before "Iohannes" even if it were English.) I'm not even sure "an" is a word in Latin. Corinne ( talk) 15:21, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
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17:01, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Hello, Corinne. Does the lead of this article strike you as good English? Rothorpe ( talk) 18:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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Rothorpe. Are you folks following
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Checkingfax I wanted to remember the format for the quote that you put on Baffle gab1978's talk page, so I put it at the upper right of this page. Can you look at it and see if I formatted it correctly for this page? I'd rather not see the gray shading under the lines of text, if possible (same for the lines of green text above it). Also, do I need that "dummy ref"? I put the "small" template just because I didn't want the quote to take up a lot of space. Finally, could the ref style at the end of the quote vary? I think sometimes it says ref = name of ref and other times it shows something different, doesn't it? Corinne ( talk) 15:04, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. This is a partial reply.
1- The quote used a named reference that had been previously or subsequently been used in the article. If you give a reference a name then you can repeat that named reference within the article just by adding a self-closing named reference. Normally, a reference looks like this:
<ref>http://some.random.website.name.here.com</ref> (notice the reference is complete and has an opening ref tag and a closing ref tag. The /ref is what closes the HTML tag.
OK, if we wanted to reuse that reference we would instead at some use of the reference in the page (it does not have to be the first use) give the reference a name like this:
<ref name="random website">http://some.random.website.name.here.com</ref> and then any time we want to reuse the reference within the page all we have to do is add the named reference only like this: <ref name="random website" /> (note the forward slash to "close" the tag). Some people do it like this: <ref name="random website"></ref>, but that is
crufty and usually somebody edits those out.
Note: Putting the reference name in quote marks is only required if the reference name you pick has spaces in it, but it is a good habit to get in to for any named reference in case somebody else comes along, changes the name to one with spaces, and does not know the rule about adding quote marks to names with spaces.
Do an edit source on this article: Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy and you will notice that all references are named, and then put in a List Defined References section at the bottom of the article. For some reason the primary author there used underscores instead of quote marks, but that is an aside.
2- By using a named ref in the example on Baffle gab1978's (hah, I put the genitive inside the wikilink) without including the full reference that the named ref hangs on, BG's talk page would have been put in to a special maintenance category for pages with reference errors. So, to preempt that error I added a full dummy ref but I wanted to make it obvious to you that it was a dummy ref so it did not get copied anyplace it did not belong.
3- The reference box below the example is created by the template {{ reflist-talk}}. This ensures that the reference only shows up in that thread. Otherwise the reference will move down BG's Talk page as new threads are added—the example reference will show up at the bottom of the newest section.
It is good to put a reflist-talk template in any reply you make on talk pages that includes references. Otherwise your reference will just keep moving down the page and that can get tricky with long talk pages and fast moving talk pages. If you notice references out of place on a talk page you can usually do a view-source of the entire page, find the reference, and then refactor that reply by adding the template to put the reference back in the right bucket.
4- Whatever way the reference is created in the original quote, you can just leave it the same. You don't really have to touch anything in the quote you are changing. You just need to delete some code cruft outside of the references; cruft germane to the previously used quote template.
5- To get rid of the gray shading and boxes, simply remove the <code>...</code> HTML tags. Those are just used as highlights. I am going to modify the text a bit for your description and you can change it back or modify it if you do not agree or to make it more understandable, since it is a note to self.
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01:22, 18 January 2016 (UTC)References
Hafspajen This what? Do you mean is this what I was asking about? Not exactly, but pretty close, and thank you for the images. I was referring to the quality in the two paintings – the one by Krouthén and the one by Weysenhoff – in which the color is pretty close to natural colors but slightly unreal, slightly garish, so that the image lies somewhere on the border between realistic and not realistic. I searched for an article that would describe this kind of painting.
The closest I could come was Post-Impressionism, where I found these two that have a similar quality to the other two:
But you're the art expert. Do you see what I mean? The Krouthén and Weysenhoff paintings are both fairly realistic portrayals of a scene in nature, but the colors make them modern, and I just wondered if there were a particular word to describe that combination. Corinne ( talk) 23:25, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I had just started to read the article about Ludvig Karsten when I came across this sentence, the last sentence in the first paragraph:
I don't think "pending" is the right word. This was probably translated from an article in another language. Do you think you could find the original word in the source and think of a better word? Corinne ( talk) 23:19, 1 January 2016 (UTC) P.S. Oslo was established as a municipality called Christiania on 1 January 1838, 178 years ago today. Corinne ( talk) 23:25, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
( edit conflict) O.K. Hafspajen Well, thanks for looking. Later in the article it describes his temper. I think we could say he had a "quick temper". I was just looking at Danish artist articles (I'm looking for a bright red painting to balance the blue Karsten painting for the top of my talk page), and I saw in Julius Exner that all the captions are in Danish. Corinne ( talk) 23:46, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Oceanh I've been told that you created the article on Ludvig Karsten. Please see the last few exchanges just above. The last sentence of the first paragraph in the article is:
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He was drinking, was temperamental and had a nervous temperament. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:47, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
I left a note on Oceanh's talk page. Corinne ( talk) 23:55, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. Confirming who launched the article: //en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ludvig_Karsten&action=info
You can always find this information by going to a page, then clicking on the 'Page information' link in the 'Tools' link section on the lefthand margin of each article page. Cheers! {{u|
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Checkingfax Thank you! Hafspajen In the Karsten article, in the gallery, I translated a caption. It looked like "Blue stool", so I translated it "Blue stool", but the picture shows a chair. Does "stol" mean "chair"? Corinne ( talk) 00:30, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Hafspajen What happened? The nomination wasn't approved due to not enough votes. Do you think it had anything to do with my comment that at the time I made the nomination there was only one article linked to the image? Or do you think it had to do with the image itself, or to the time of year it is now? Corinne ( talk) 03:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Hafspajen Where are you? Are you all right? I miss seeing you around here. See Drcrazy's comment below re computers. Corinne ( talk) 03:45, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Please take a look at the articles Jonas Åkerlund (politician) and Emil Källström that I have created. Any help is appreciated. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:12, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
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06:22, 18 January 2016 (UTC)For anyone watching and interested: I was just reading the beginning of the article on Orpheus, and I got to the end of the Orpheus#Background section. The last two sentences in the fourth paragraph of that section are:
(a) I wonder whether the first sentence is misplaced. The paragraph seems to be about things Orpheus did for, or gave to, mankind, and this sentence doesn't seem to fit with the other sentences. In fact, I'm not even sure why the sentence is there at all. Would you recommend taking it out, moving it to the end of the paragraph, or moving it to another location in the article?
(b) I assume, though I'm not sure, that the initial "He" at the beginning of the next sentence refers to Orpheus, not his brother. Whether or not the sentence about Linus is removed, I think "He" ought to be changed to "Orpheus".
(c) In edit mode, one can read a quote from Strabo. In the middle of the quote there seems to be some repetition; is that the way Strabo wrote it?
(d) The last sentence of the first paragraph of the lead is:
Are any of the five things listed at the end of the sentence considered "popular culture"? Corinne ( talk) 00:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Rothorpe No one has responded; did you see this? Can you take a look at these things? Corinne ( talk) 02:21, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax and Rothorpe I was just reading the article on Hecuba, and I came across a phrase that puzzled me. It's the phrase "fae prison" in the last item in the article before the "Notes" section. I searched for anything on "fae" on WP, got to a disambiguation page, and the only thing that seemed remotely connected was the article Fairy, but I didn't see anything about a prison. Do you think it is really supposed to say "fae person"? Or is a "fae prison" a little tiny prison for fae people, i.e., fairies? Corinne ( talk) 03:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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23:41, 19 January 2016 (UTC)See WP:TAFI:NOM. Corinne ( talk) 15:45, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
See "Chthonic": WP:TAFI:NOM. Corinne ( talk) 02:35, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax and Rothorpe User:Florian Blaschke told me about the article on the Dunning–Kruger effect. Have you seen that article? It's interesting. I wanted to ask you about a sentence in the section Dunning–Kruger effect#Supporting studies:
The last part of the sentence didn't sound right. Do you think it should be "and subjects' perception of how sensitive they were"? Or maybe move subjects' to earlier in the sentence?
But who is "they", in "they were"?
Checkingfax, why can't I get an en-dash to appear in the line for the new subject heading? When I click on the en-dash that's below the edit window, the en-dash appears in the large editing window. Corinne ( talk) 19:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
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1) What does it mean to restore an image? I thought "restore" meant to put something back as close as possible to the condition in which it once was. In this case, how can Adam Cuerden put this image back to the way it once was? Is he just going by what Carl Van Vechten's other photos look like generally, with the slightly yellow tint, or is there more to it than that?
2) Is the yellow tint of Van Vechten's other photos a result of the way the photos were developed or a result of "yellowing with age"? If it is the result of the way the photos were developed, was it a conscious choice on Van Vechten's part or was it due to the materials used at the time? Corinne ( talk) 00:29, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
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Dank I finished February 10, 2016. I got it down to 1159 characters. After I finished, I purged the summary, but when I looked at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 2016, it didn't reflect the changes I had made. Why is that? Corinne ( talk) 17:27, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Dank I finished February 12, 2016. It's at 1156 characters. Corinne ( talk) 18:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax I don't know if you've been following what's been going on with this user: User:Γνῶθι σεαυτόν, but if you haven't, I thought you might be interested in the latest comments. See User talk:Γνῶθι σεαυτόν. The first section is just the latest in a long series of edits and blocks; the editor keeps blanking his/her talk page, but it's all there in the revision history. This block pretty much seems to be the end of it, though. After you read that section, then look at the next section, "Conclusion". It turns out that the editor was purposely doing all that as part of a (very) non-scientific "experiment" (you'll see s/he even admits two glaring flaws), while claiming to be a professor of mathematics. Some editors flatly don't believe any of it. In the process, over the past few weeks, s/he has irritated quite a few editors and taken up a lot of people's time. It's really rather outrageous, I think. Corinne ( talk) 20:45, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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03:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC)Dear Corinne: this concerning your (and another editor's) recent copy edit on the Hadrian article. The most pressing issue, for me, concerns the paragraph on Hadrian & Turbo.Follows a partial copy of your talkpage:
" In the third paragraph in Hadrian#Purpose, the second sentence did not make sense. I made an intelligent guess and re-worded it to "Hadrian made recourse to...Turbo" (i.e., turned to Turbo for his help, used Turbo to accomplish something). If this is not correct, please let me know and the sentence can be changed. However, if I worded the sentence correctly, there is a bit of a problem with the cohesion of the rest of the paragraph. The subsequent sentences tell who Turbo was. Then we read that Turbo was "not competent to keep check on the Senate" (I think it should be "keep a check on the Senate", i.e., keep tabs on the Senate, keep the senators in line, but I'm going to ask someone about this. Rothorpe should it be "keep check on the Senate" or "keep a check on the Senate"?), then you explain why, and then you mention the secret police. Besides the fact that you made no connection between the statements about the secret police and what precedes it, you don't say anything about why Hadrian "made recourse to...Turbo" or whether Turbo succeeded in accomplishing anything, so the reader may wonder why you mentioned him".
Well, what I meant was the following: actually, during his travels, Hadrian had need of someone to keep the Senate _in_ check (i.e., to keep it under control), as any senator could at any time arrange to have himself hailed as emperor. But then , without the possibility of a formal trial if and when necessary, it was impossible to keep the Senate in check. Problem is that Turbo, as Pretorian Prefect and an equestrian (in this case, a clerk, a bureaucrat and not a magistrate, a politician) had no formal authority to start a formal proceeding against a senator. Of course, as always during the Roman Empire, Hadrian could deal with a pressing issue informally - i.e., order an execution after a "secret" trial - but that would be seem as disrespectful- and that was the reason why Hadrian's dealings with the Senate were so bad, because of the killing of four former consuls at the beginning of the reign. What the sources imply is that Hadrian left Turbo to administer Rome during his absence - mostly routine, as well as keeping general law and order - and at the same time employed the secret police to snoop on the Senate in order to react personally in case of need - i.e. to hasten towards Rome and deal with the matter on the spot. That's it. Cerme ( talk) 13:40, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your copy editing on Bristol. I happened to look at your userpage and noticed the the image of Great Bow Bridge over the Parrett, as it is fairly local to me. The caption says it is in Langford but it is in Langport.— Rod talk 15:51, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax I was just looking at the article on Cetacea, and I saw the tags at the top of the article. The article appears to be pretty substantial, but I can't really judge if the the tags are justified or not, If they are, do you think this article is worth being nominated at WP:TAFI? If you do think so, what can I say other than mention the tags? Corinne ( talk) 17:20, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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20:44, 24 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax In response to a request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests, I am copy-editing Murder of Teresa De Simone for BabbaQ. I have completed about two-thirds of the article and am taking a break from it until tomorrow. However, I wanted to ask you about two things:
1) I noticed that the twenty-four hour clock, or military time, is used. Since it makes no sense to most American readers, I decided to put regular time, with "a.m." and "p.m." (can't remember if the periods are all right) after them, in parentheses. In some cases, just to make it clear, I added just "a.m." after a morning time. However, I'm thinking that maybe the addition of the a.m./p.m. times in parentheses looks a little cluttered, and I wonder whether it would be all right to change the military time to regular time (with the a.m./p.m., or am/pm).
2) I changed the old "blockquote" template to the quote template once, and a pull quote to a regular quote once. At the end of the quote in the section Murder of Teresa De Simone#Arrest of Sean Hodgson I notice that there is a long dash before "Appeal 10". I don't know how to get rid of that, and I'm not sure I got the reference (attribution) right. Can you check this for me? Thank you! Corinne ( talk) 00:28, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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Checkingfax I got to this article from a link in the Bristol article. As usual, I made a few copy-edits as I read it. I have a question for you:
The last sentence in the Africa section is:
I wondered whether "284 and 509 thousand" is the correct way to express a number. (You'll see that I changed a hyphen or en-dash that was between 284 and 509 to the word "and", but I don't recall seeing large numbers expressed like that on WP.
I think the moving graphic image is quite interesting. I'm wondering if it would be clearer if a sentence were added to the caption saying which part became the actual cutting or scraping tool. Corinne ( talk) 16:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax Don't know if you saw this. I've pinged or mentioned you in several sections here. Corinne ( talk) 17:31, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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23:44, 27 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax I've just been reading the article on Steep Holm. In the section Steep Holm#World wars is the following sentence:
I could see in edit mode that something was wrong with the text formatting. I think there are some italics that don't really need to be there. I figured maybe it should be 6" not 6' ', but I wasn't sure. Can you take a look at it? Corinne ( talk) 20:30, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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07:12, 24 January 2016 (UTC)In the 1860s the island was fortified with ten [[RML 7 inch gun|7-inch rifled muzzle loaders]] as one of the Palmerston Forts for the coastal defence of the Bristol Channel until it was abandoned in 1898. The infrastructure was reused in World War I and II when [[BL 6 inch gun Mk II – VI|Mark VII 6'' breech-loading guns]] and search lights were installed. To enable the movement of materials, soldiers from the Indian Army Service Corps initially used mules and then installed a cable-operated winched switchback railway.
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Checkingfax I often see pending changes review edits to Hermes. Now there is one removing the second "l" in "travelling" or "traveller", thus changing it from British English spelling to American English spelling. Before rejecting the edit, I was trying to figure out which style was used in the article. I found "favored" in the section Hermes#Hellenistic Greek sources, but that's all I could find. I didn't look at dates. Can you figure out which style is used and whether the edit should be accepted or rejected? Corinne ( talk) 00:44, 26 January 2016 (UTC) Corinne ( talk) 00:45, 26 January 2016 (UTC) I looked at the revision history and see that there has been some back-and-forth editing on this recently. If the article really is in British English, then "favored" needs to be changed to "favoured", right? Corinne ( talk) 00:52, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne. The editor's edits were auto-accepted because that editor is auto-confirmed (has X-edits, and Y-days seniority).
To upload to the Commons I have a goofy way: Click on the globe at the top left of any Wikipedia page; scroll to bottom of page and click on the link/image for the Commons; click on the blue UPLOAD button at the top of the page. (or on the upload-file link on the left-hand side of the page.); follow the yellow brick road; when it asks about licensing say it is your own work: that's what all the other screenshotters do; take note of the full URL after uploading and post that to your Phab ticket as a REPLY: Go to the requester's post and then click on REPLY; paste the full URL into your reply post. The WMF posts all their screenshots to the Commons and all the official Wikikpedia pages and Help pages use the Commons for screenshots so do not be put off by the wizard chiding you about screenshots. Cheers! {{u|
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00:24, 31 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax There are two things that I used to see that I don't see anymore:
1) In the Twinkle drop-down menu, I used to see an option to welcome a new editor, and that's not there anymore (but there are actually more things in the drop-down menu than before);
2) when I'm looking at edits in the Revision History, with current version on the right and the previous version on the left (I guess you'd call that the diffs), I used to see the option to rollback edits and I think there was also an option to welcome a new editor based on that edit. I have the rollback and pending changes reviewer right, but I don't see the options there that I used to see. I just re-added Twinkle a few days ago. Can you help? Corinne ( talk) 19:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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23:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax I was having trouble making any edits to Bristol, so I left a comment for Baffle gab1978; s/he replied, suggested I report it, so I left a comment at the Village Pump (technical); Baffle gab1978 made some fixes to the article. I haven't tried editing yet, but I thought you might be interested in this, particularly the unsigned comment with a link at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Having trouble making edits. Corinne ( talk) 15:31, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
You'll see that I left an additional comment at Baffle gab1978's talk page. I was able to make the edit manually, but not with cut and paste. Corinne ( talk) 15:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC) P.S. Can you figure out why the text throughout the article is shaded in gray in edit mode? Compare to the Exeter article that I believe was written (or expanded) by the same editor and which I copy-edited almost a year ago. The text in edit mode is black letters on a white background. Not only is it a little harder to see where regular text is compared to references, perhaps that is connected to the reason why I can't edit with cut and paste. Corinne ( talk) 15:40, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Note: The material below was moved up from another section with the same heading (Bristol) further down the page.
Rodw I wanted to ask you about this passage in Bristol#Government:
The way the second sentence is constructed, it sounds as if the two councillors per ward are elected and serve at the same time. Is that the case? Or is it more that one of the two in a ward runs for election and serves for a term that does not coincide with that of the other councillor? If so, I'm thinking it might be better to move "with two councillors per ward serving four-year terms" to the end of the previous sentence:
Then continue:
and then:
so it would read:
What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 19:42, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Done:I think your proposed revision is fine and supported by this source.— Rod talk 19:48, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
In the section Bristol#Architecture, there is an image with this caption:
I realize that there are two pronunciations of "historic", and that when it is pronounced with a silent "h", the article "an" is used (not where I'm from, though). (a) I didn't see "an historic" elsewhere in the article; (b) in the article Great Gatehouse, Bristol, linked in this section, it says "a historic" in the lead. Rod, which do you prefer for the Bristol article? Corinne ( talk) 01:09, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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07:50, 29 January 2016 (UTC)Rod Out of curiosity I've been reading articles linked from Bristol. One of them is Bristol Byzantine. I first looked at the images and read the captions. I changed "The Colton Hall" to "Colton Hall". Then I read the lead in the article and saw "the Colton Hall" there. Is that what it is called there? "The Colton Hall"? We (in the U.S.) would never say that. Corinne ( talk) 00:33, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne. Phab can move very slow. You were lucky to get some quick answers right off the bat. They seem to get backburnered after that. I would copy the Bristol Wikipedia URL to your clipboard or bookmark it, then I would log out of Wikipedia. For Incognito Browsing in Chrome: Click on the 3 horizontal bars of the small square in the top right corner of Chrome → Click on "New Incognito Window" → then enter the Bristol URL in the blank address bar and hit the Enter key. Open Bristol in Edit source view. wikEd has a couple of buttons you can play with. Hover your mouse pointer on the buttons to find out what they do. They are toggle buttons. You can toggle text-highlighting on/off and you can toggle wikEd on/off and see if that makes any difference with your issue. I do not find the word "null" anyplace on Chrome. Can you be more specific on where you see that? Cheers! {{u|
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Rothorpe Do you remember our discussion regarding the use of "the" before a name? I think you said you preferred to see it, and I said Americans usually did not use it. Well, I just finished copy-editing Mary, Queen of Hungary, and I see both styles used. Three different historians are mentioned. Shall I put the article "the" before "historian" in all three instances or leave it out? Or does it depend upon the construction of the sentence? Can you find them with the "Find" function? Any opinions on this or any other aspect of the article are welcome. I've left a few comments on the talk page, mainly intended for the requester, Borsoka. Corinne ( talk) 01:59, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
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Casliber I am reading the article Banksia aemula in preparation for shortening the summary of the article for TFA. I'm a little puzzled by something, actually two related things.
1) In the summary, which I haven't touched yet, I read this sentence:
The phrase "a shrub or a taller tree" sounds like a shrub is considered a tree. Is that true? I always thought a shrub was called a shrub because it is somewhat different from a tree. If a shrub is not a tree, I would remove "taller"; you're going to give the height anyway, and anything that reaches 26 feet in height is usually not a shrub. I also think "a...tree to 8 m" sounds like botanists' jargon. I'm wondering if it would be clearer to non-experts if it read:
2) Then, in the article Banksia aemula, in the last paragraph in the section Banksia aemula#Distribution and habitat, I read:
(a) Do the height ranges 12–15 m (39–49 ft) high refer to Banksia aemula only (on that island), or to the general height of the three canopy tree species?
(b) If it refers by some chance to Banksia aemula, isn't that height quite a bit above the 26 mentioned in the summary (and copied above)?
Also, the last sentence of that paragraph reads:
I know it says "individual wallum banksias", so are perhaps unusual in their height, but still, isn't that range also quite a bit taller than the 26 ft mentioned in the summary?
Am I missing something? Corinne ( talk) 22:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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Checkingfax and Rothorpe I was just looking at a new comment added to the talk page of Pentecost – Talk:Pentecost/Archive 1#Small Potatoes (grammar), and I was astonished at the appearance (and somewhat at the writing itself) of the comment. The writing of the comment is generally correct, but a bit old-fashioned, as if it were written in the 19th century, but the spacing of the punctuation is unique. Also, I guess the writer is not familiar with the quality of conciseness. But regarding the message of the comment, I think s/he is right. For those not already familiar with the Christian calendar, it is not clear whether the phrase in parentheses applies to Ascension Thursday or to Pentecost itself. I'm not familiar enough with the calendar to feel confident in clarifying the sentence. If either of you are, perhaps you could add something and/or change the punctuation. Corinne ( talk) 14:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Gorthian See also this at Paleontology. Corinne ( talk) 21:12, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax I saw you had placed the non-GOCE "in use" template at the top of the article on Humanism. I'm glad you're working on that article. It looked like it needed work. I saw your edit summary, kind of giving the template, but I couldn't figure out how to add it to my list of templates. I added the purpose of the template ("to....") right after the red "X" in my list of non-GOCE templates. Could you add the template right before the phrase "to....to indicate that an active copy-edit is underway"? Corinne ( talk) 03:32, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
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06:56, 11 February 2016 (UTC)Hi Corinne, can I ask you something about categories? Greetings -- Tschips ( talk) 14:32, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
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21:39, 10 February 2016 (UTC)Hi Tschips. Can you enable HotCat in your Preferences? Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets, check off the box for HotCat, easily add / remove / change a category on a page, with name suggestion [example], and save your change. Then Refresh the page. Going forward, at the bottom of each article page you should have '+' and '-' signs next to each category, like this:
The new links are:
To change a category, click the "(±)" link next to the category name. This will open the input box where you can enter a new category name.
To add a category, click the "(+)" link at the end of the category line. This will open the input box where you can enter a new category name.
The input box of HotCat is very simple: a text field to enter the new category name, an indicator icon, and an "OK" and a "Cancel" button.
Let me know if this helps. Or, maybe I am not understanding your issue. PS: If you save a category and it shows up red, it means the category does not yet exist. Ping me back. Cheers! {{u|
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Kailash29792 I saw your comment, perhaps it was in an edit summary, expressing your dismay that Ssven2 was retiring from WP. I saw everything had been archived on his/her talk page, but I didn't see any notice about leaving or any block. I did see a comment directed to Dr. Blofeld that s/he wasn't leaving, but was just going to edit less to protect his/her eyesight. Can you tell me if Ssven2 is really retiring, and if so, why? S/He seemed to be a very nice and good editor. Corinne ( talk) 23:45, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Could you please help with this. Submitted a request at the GOCE. I see you are an active member of GOCE. -- Inside the Valley ( talk) 14:07, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
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Corinne, I have a slightly broken toolbar/information-bar on each article page that I find to be very helpful. The brokenness does not cause any issues—it just means certain functionality has left the toolbar and will not be available since the toolbar's developer left the building earlier this year. For one thing it tells you who authored a page.
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Then go to this link, and if the edit page is open paste that code on to the edit page and save it. If the edit window is not open, click on the edit link and then paste the code and save it:
Then go back to Wikipedia from Wikimedia and Purge your Wikipedia page and you should see the new toolbar/information-bar. Easy peezy. Don't be scared! Cheers! {{u|
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CheckingfaxWow! It worked! I didn't even have to purge my talk page. It was already there. Thanks. I saw, in the instructions just before I pasted that code at Wikimedia, that it said something like "be sure to categorize this". Of course, I didn't, because I didn't know what it meant. Is that all right? Corinne ( talk) 01:03, 2 January 2016 (UTC) I was surprised that there were 55 page watchers of my talk page. Is there any way to "hide" that whole line so that it's visible only if I want to look at it? Corinne ( talk) 01:05, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne. You did good. Congrats on successfully installing your first custom Javascript! If you look at my common.js file on Wikipedia you can see how I keep track of my 15 installed scripts by using comment sections:
I used to have a few more but they broke everything so I removed them and kept my working favorites.
Comment lines or comment sections do not render anyplace.
I also have some custom scripts in my common.css file that change the appearance of my WP experience, like I have one that makes all redirect links appear green to me instead of the standard blue for all live links.
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Checkingfax Thanks for the congratulations. I'm glad I did it right. I looked at your list and (...sigh...) there is so much that I still have to learn. There was one, though, that interested me. It's "Puts a Highlight duplicate links link on left side of each page". Does this highlight when the same word or phrase is linked more than once in an article? I've read the MoS on links, and it says it's all right to link a term in the lead and "the first mention after the lead", which is the guideline I follow, but it would be helpful to have all of the duplicate links highlighted so I can remove some and be sure that it's the first mention in the article that's highlighted, not a later one. Is that what this does? If so, can I copy it from your page? By the way, does it matter that my user name is red at the top of the Wikimedia page? Corinne ( talk) 02:41, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Your username is red because you have not yet created an optional userpage over there.
One more consensus exception to repeating links is that it is OK to repeat previous maxed out links in tables or lists. So if a page is linked in lead and body it can also be linked in any table or list, and it makes things handy.
The duplicate link finder will box links in red that are potentially overlinked. It does not make it easy to find out the first use of a link in the body.
It is not my Javascript; it came from that user library of scripts. You will want to put it in your common.js file which you can create at:
User:Corinne/common.js
PS: A line feed is created when you hit the ↵ Enter key.
PPS: The global.js file makes the change work across all wikis whereas changes to the common.js or common.css file only apply to the particular wiki they are made on. Cheers! {{u|
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04:00, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax What am I supposed to see at the left for the links highlighting? Does that work when viewing the article regularly or only in edit mode? Will I see nothing at all if there are no duplicate links? I see "Edit links" at the bottom left, below the languages, but when I click on it, I see a list of links in tiny letters, nothing red and no highlighting. Corinne ( talk) 04:28, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
There will be a link "Highlight duplicate links" in the toolbox on the left on every mainspace article. Once in Edit mode, clicking it will highlight the duplicate links in the edit preview by drawing a red border around them.
User:Ucucha/duplinks.js is a script that highlights links that occur more than once in an article. Per WP:REPEATLINK, terms should generally be linked only once in an article, but there are a number of exceptions to this rule. To account for these exceptions, this script considers only links that are within paragraphs (<p>...</p> tags) and ignores any links inside an infobox or navbox. In addition, it highlights duplicate links within the lead and within the body of the article separately.
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07:33, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Hi, Corinne. I am on my Blackberry right now but will do my best to answer your dup finder questions now.
If you have opened a page for editing with the text-editor:
PS: If you are doing a long page all at once you may wish to set the {{
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If you click on the Dup highlighter before opening an editor your highlights will vanish when you open an editor. The highlighter does not highlight anything down in the text editing area; that is why you must use the Preview page button.
To use Wikipedia:VisualEditor:
I hope this helps. If you see other problems on the page just click on the problem and start typing. VE edits magically. Plus you can switch to text editing mode if you choose to.
I shall answer the diff question later and up in the other discussion area. Just remember diff is an abbr for difference, so you need two things to compare, and yes you have to pick apart small chunks of a long URL to dissect the two germane pieces. Cheers! {{u|
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Dear Corinne, I loved what you did on the Trajan article. Could you please take a look on the article on Leonel Brizola (admittedly about an entirely different political animal) in which I also worked and which could benefit from your attentions? Cerme ( talk) 23:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Subscript text== Still need help ==
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Checkingfax Another editor tried to explain to me how to create a "diff" that is within Wikipedia. (I know how to make the external source type of diff, by just copying the entire URL.) Based upon what I understood from the other editor's explanation, I put a kind of explanation and reminder to myself on how to do it in my list of useful things at the top right of my talk page, above, but I tried to create a diff (to use in a talk page comment) but I couldn't get it right, so I didn't save it. When I look at the revision history and see the old and new edit, I don't see two I.D. numbers at the end of the URL. Usually, there is just one I.D. number there. I don't think I'm looking in the right place. When you have time, can you tell me how to do this step-by-step? Corinne ( talk) 01:21, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
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05:55, 17 December 2015 (UTC)Hi, Corinne. Diff, which stands for Difference can be found in many places: Contributions, User contributions, Page history, etc.
A Diff is when you are given the opportunity to compare two edits side-by-side. You can get a Diff by answering a message Notification by clicking on the Show Changes link, or you can get a Diff by clicking on the (Prev) link in Contributions, or you can get a Diff by going to Page history, or by clicking two radio buttons in those and pressing the Compare selected revisions button or by clicking the (Prev) link next to a page link.
When you click on the link labeled "Prev" you are given two consecutive page versions. One for the page link near the Diff link and then for the page version just prior to it. That will be your Diff.
Alternatively, if you do a Compare you will get page versions separated by a period of time. That will be your Diff.
Some other places to find Diffs: Recent changes; Related changes; your Watchlist; clicking on the Show changes button in the text editor.
I found two pages that might fill in some holes that I am not explaining properly:
Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide
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04:57, 4 January 2016 (UTC)Hi, Corinne. I am AFK so I cannot say off the top of my head. The number you use with Diff2 is the largest one. Go check and see which is largest and that will always be true going forward.
Diff2 does not work for generating Diff pages from page versions that are not adjacent.
Right-click right on the (Prev) link brings up that menu and if you want to copy/paste the underlying link pick Copy link location (or words to that effect) which will copy the long URL to your clipboard. Then you can paste the long URL in a Talk page reply to dissect it.
Alternatively, you can left-click right on the (Prev) link to open the Diff page, then go up to the web browser URL address bar and copy/paste the long URL from there.
You can also open in a new-tab or in a new-window by right-clicking right on the (Prev) link and selecting new-tab or new-browser.
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Dear Corinne: I checked on this awkard sentence about the temple of Zeus in Cyzicus and it comes verbatin from the Hadrian biography by Anthony Birley: "its [the temple's] marble blocks were odorned with gold thread". The "gold thread" might be (a) lines of gold paint made in order to highlight a relief (at the fronton, for instance). Lots of Rococo interiors use gold paint, and Roman art at Hadrian's time was somewhat over the top like Rococo. Or then it was (b) marble blocks with golden veins? But then I would agree that the sentence is metaphorical at best, and somewhat clumsy. Cerme ( talk) 02:01, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. At TAFI I nominated
the Linda Ronstadt article and I think you would be able to prune it down, but it has to get approved first. Cheers! {{u|
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23:10, 6 January 2016 (UTC)If you want to, please review my nom for Helena Bergström at TAFI. Regards.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 22:05, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. What is the correct way to make the sibilant Williams possessive such as in this Diff: [3]?
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02:08, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Mayabazar turns a FA! Thanks for your valuable contributions as a copy-editor. Pavanjandhyala ( talk) 02:49, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Depictions of various
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Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore, dedicated to the
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Checkingfax,
Rothorpe, and any tps's: I copy-edited
Sleepy Hollow Country Club, and I posted questions and concerns on the article's
requester's talk page, and the requester responded, and we worked out some changes. For one sentence, after coming to understand what was meant after being provided with a link to the source, I suggested a revision to a sentence. The requester, Ɱ, made a change that approaches what I had suggested
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Dear Corinne, So are we opting between:
At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and of a size larger than most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
and...
At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and larger in size than most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
The first way I understand it to mean the service wing is larger than a house.
The second way I understand it to mean the service wing is larger than it traditionally is within a house.
Hmmmm. Let me percolate on this. Maybe the sentence should start out with: The service wing is... Cheers! {{u|
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At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and of a size larger than IN most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
At the north end of the house, situated farthest from the main entrance, and larger in size than IN most houses, is the service wing, which contains the servant quarters.
Checkingfax I've just got to understand your edit summary here. It looks like you properly moved the punctuation to before the reference, but I don't see any wiki-link there. Corinne ( talk) 15:13, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. I do not understand your question but maybe this answers it. I took this, which was incorrect:
And changed it to this, which is correct:
I moved the ); from the end of the reference to the beginning of the reference to be proper. Cheers! {{u|
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Hi, Corinne. The Pali article has a couple of greater than signs in the Early western views section in this sentence:
Following this period, the language underwent a small degree of Sanskritisation (i.e., MIA bamhana > brahmana, tta > tva in some cases).
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15:14, 12 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax I was just looking at edits in articles on my watchlist, and I saw your edits to Systema Naturae. I saw they were changed and then put back by another editor. I was looking at your edit summary here. I know you were using a kind of bot or editing software, I've got to ask you why you would change "a" to "an" before "Iohannes" in a Latin sentence? (I wouldn't change "a" to "an" before "Iohannes" even if it were English.) I'm not even sure "an" is a word in Latin. Corinne ( talk) 15:21, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
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17:01, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Hello, Corinne. Does the lead of this article strike you as good English? Rothorpe ( talk) 18:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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Rothorpe. Are you folks following
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Checkingfax I wanted to remember the format for the quote that you put on Baffle gab1978's talk page, so I put it at the upper right of this page. Can you look at it and see if I formatted it correctly for this page? I'd rather not see the gray shading under the lines of text, if possible (same for the lines of green text above it). Also, do I need that "dummy ref"? I put the "small" template just because I didn't want the quote to take up a lot of space. Finally, could the ref style at the end of the quote vary? I think sometimes it says ref = name of ref and other times it shows something different, doesn't it? Corinne ( talk) 15:04, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. This is a partial reply.
1- The quote used a named reference that had been previously or subsequently been used in the article. If you give a reference a name then you can repeat that named reference within the article just by adding a self-closing named reference. Normally, a reference looks like this:
<ref>http://some.random.website.name.here.com</ref> (notice the reference is complete and has an opening ref tag and a closing ref tag. The /ref is what closes the HTML tag.
OK, if we wanted to reuse that reference we would instead at some use of the reference in the page (it does not have to be the first use) give the reference a name like this:
<ref name="random website">http://some.random.website.name.here.com</ref> and then any time we want to reuse the reference within the page all we have to do is add the named reference only like this: <ref name="random website" /> (note the forward slash to "close" the tag). Some people do it like this: <ref name="random website"></ref>, but that is
crufty and usually somebody edits those out.
Note: Putting the reference name in quote marks is only required if the reference name you pick has spaces in it, but it is a good habit to get in to for any named reference in case somebody else comes along, changes the name to one with spaces, and does not know the rule about adding quote marks to names with spaces.
Do an edit source on this article: Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy and you will notice that all references are named, and then put in a List Defined References section at the bottom of the article. For some reason the primary author there used underscores instead of quote marks, but that is an aside.
2- By using a named ref in the example on Baffle gab1978's (hah, I put the genitive inside the wikilink) without including the full reference that the named ref hangs on, BG's talk page would have been put in to a special maintenance category for pages with reference errors. So, to preempt that error I added a full dummy ref but I wanted to make it obvious to you that it was a dummy ref so it did not get copied anyplace it did not belong.
3- The reference box below the example is created by the template {{ reflist-talk}}. This ensures that the reference only shows up in that thread. Otherwise the reference will move down BG's Talk page as new threads are added—the example reference will show up at the bottom of the newest section.
It is good to put a reflist-talk template in any reply you make on talk pages that includes references. Otherwise your reference will just keep moving down the page and that can get tricky with long talk pages and fast moving talk pages. If you notice references out of place on a talk page you can usually do a view-source of the entire page, find the reference, and then refactor that reply by adding the template to put the reference back in the right bucket.
4- Whatever way the reference is created in the original quote, you can just leave it the same. You don't really have to touch anything in the quote you are changing. You just need to delete some code cruft outside of the references; cruft germane to the previously used quote template.
5- To get rid of the gray shading and boxes, simply remove the <code>...</code> HTML tags. Those are just used as highlights. I am going to modify the text a bit for your description and you can change it back or modify it if you do not agree or to make it more understandable, since it is a note to self.
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01:22, 18 January 2016 (UTC)References
Hafspajen This what? Do you mean is this what I was asking about? Not exactly, but pretty close, and thank you for the images. I was referring to the quality in the two paintings – the one by Krouthén and the one by Weysenhoff – in which the color is pretty close to natural colors but slightly unreal, slightly garish, so that the image lies somewhere on the border between realistic and not realistic. I searched for an article that would describe this kind of painting.
The closest I could come was Post-Impressionism, where I found these two that have a similar quality to the other two:
But you're the art expert. Do you see what I mean? The Krouthén and Weysenhoff paintings are both fairly realistic portrayals of a scene in nature, but the colors make them modern, and I just wondered if there were a particular word to describe that combination. Corinne ( talk) 23:25, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I had just started to read the article about Ludvig Karsten when I came across this sentence, the last sentence in the first paragraph:
I don't think "pending" is the right word. This was probably translated from an article in another language. Do you think you could find the original word in the source and think of a better word? Corinne ( talk) 23:19, 1 January 2016 (UTC) P.S. Oslo was established as a municipality called Christiania on 1 January 1838, 178 years ago today. Corinne ( talk) 23:25, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
( edit conflict) O.K. Hafspajen Well, thanks for looking. Later in the article it describes his temper. I think we could say he had a "quick temper". I was just looking at Danish artist articles (I'm looking for a bright red painting to balance the blue Karsten painting for the top of my talk page), and I saw in Julius Exner that all the captions are in Danish. Corinne ( talk) 23:46, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Oceanh I've been told that you created the article on Ludvig Karsten. Please see the last few exchanges just above. The last sentence of the first paragraph in the article is:
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He was drinking, was temperamental and had a nervous temperament. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:47, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
I left a note on Oceanh's talk page. Corinne ( talk) 23:55, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. Confirming who launched the article: //en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ludvig_Karsten&action=info
You can always find this information by going to a page, then clicking on the 'Page information' link in the 'Tools' link section on the lefthand margin of each article page. Cheers! {{u|
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Checkingfax Thank you! Hafspajen In the Karsten article, in the gallery, I translated a caption. It looked like "Blue stool", so I translated it "Blue stool", but the picture shows a chair. Does "stol" mean "chair"? Corinne ( talk) 00:30, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Hafspajen What happened? The nomination wasn't approved due to not enough votes. Do you think it had anything to do with my comment that at the time I made the nomination there was only one article linked to the image? Or do you think it had to do with the image itself, or to the time of year it is now? Corinne ( talk) 03:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Hafspajen Where are you? Are you all right? I miss seeing you around here. See Drcrazy's comment below re computers. Corinne ( talk) 03:45, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Please take a look at the articles Jonas Åkerlund (politician) and Emil Källström that I have created. Any help is appreciated. Regards,-- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:12, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
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06:22, 18 January 2016 (UTC)For anyone watching and interested: I was just reading the beginning of the article on Orpheus, and I got to the end of the Orpheus#Background section. The last two sentences in the fourth paragraph of that section are:
(a) I wonder whether the first sentence is misplaced. The paragraph seems to be about things Orpheus did for, or gave to, mankind, and this sentence doesn't seem to fit with the other sentences. In fact, I'm not even sure why the sentence is there at all. Would you recommend taking it out, moving it to the end of the paragraph, or moving it to another location in the article?
(b) I assume, though I'm not sure, that the initial "He" at the beginning of the next sentence refers to Orpheus, not his brother. Whether or not the sentence about Linus is removed, I think "He" ought to be changed to "Orpheus".
(c) In edit mode, one can read a quote from Strabo. In the middle of the quote there seems to be some repetition; is that the way Strabo wrote it?
(d) The last sentence of the first paragraph of the lead is:
Are any of the five things listed at the end of the sentence considered "popular culture"? Corinne ( talk) 00:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Rothorpe No one has responded; did you see this? Can you take a look at these things? Corinne ( talk) 02:21, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax and Rothorpe I was just reading the article on Hecuba, and I came across a phrase that puzzled me. It's the phrase "fae prison" in the last item in the article before the "Notes" section. I searched for anything on "fae" on WP, got to a disambiguation page, and the only thing that seemed remotely connected was the article Fairy, but I didn't see anything about a prison. Do you think it is really supposed to say "fae person"? Or is a "fae prison" a little tiny prison for fae people, i.e., fairies? Corinne ( talk) 03:27, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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23:41, 19 January 2016 (UTC)See WP:TAFI:NOM. Corinne ( talk) 15:45, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
See "Chthonic": WP:TAFI:NOM. Corinne ( talk) 02:35, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax and Rothorpe User:Florian Blaschke told me about the article on the Dunning–Kruger effect. Have you seen that article? It's interesting. I wanted to ask you about a sentence in the section Dunning–Kruger effect#Supporting studies:
The last part of the sentence didn't sound right. Do you think it should be "and subjects' perception of how sensitive they were"? Or maybe move subjects' to earlier in the sentence?
But who is "they", in "they were"?
Checkingfax, why can't I get an en-dash to appear in the line for the new subject heading? When I click on the en-dash that's below the edit window, the en-dash appears in the large editing window. Corinne ( talk) 19:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
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02:45, 20 January 2016 (UTC)Crisco 1492 I was just reading the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/William Grant Still, and since I don't know enough about photography, I was unable to form an opinion. However, I was wondering if you could explain a few things to me so that I will understand this and future discussions better. (I'll refrain from offering an opinion about photos unless I feel I can say something worthwhile.)
1) What does it mean to restore an image? I thought "restore" meant to put something back as close as possible to the condition in which it once was. In this case, how can Adam Cuerden put this image back to the way it once was? Is he just going by what Carl Van Vechten's other photos look like generally, with the slightly yellow tint, or is there more to it than that?
2) Is the yellow tint of Van Vechten's other photos a result of the way the photos were developed or a result of "yellowing with age"? If it is the result of the way the photos were developed, was it a conscious choice on Van Vechten's part or was it due to the materials used at the time? Corinne ( talk) 00:29, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
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04:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)Hi Corinne. You mentioned the ability to use colors with text. Here is one way using the <mark> tag:
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Dank I finished February 10, 2016. I got it down to 1159 characters. After I finished, I purged the summary, but when I looked at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 2016, it didn't reflect the changes I had made. Why is that? Corinne ( talk) 17:27, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Dank I finished February 12, 2016. It's at 1156 characters. Corinne ( talk) 18:35, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax I don't know if you've been following what's been going on with this user: User:Γνῶθι σεαυτόν, but if you haven't, I thought you might be interested in the latest comments. See User talk:Γνῶθι σεαυτόν. The first section is just the latest in a long series of edits and blocks; the editor keeps blanking his/her talk page, but it's all there in the revision history. This block pretty much seems to be the end of it, though. After you read that section, then look at the next section, "Conclusion". It turns out that the editor was purposely doing all that as part of a (very) non-scientific "experiment" (you'll see s/he even admits two glaring flaws), while claiming to be a professor of mathematics. Some editors flatly don't believe any of it. In the process, over the past few weeks, s/he has irritated quite a few editors and taken up a lot of people's time. It's really rather outrageous, I think. Corinne ( talk) 20:45, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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03:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC)Dear Corinne: this concerning your (and another editor's) recent copy edit on the Hadrian article. The most pressing issue, for me, concerns the paragraph on Hadrian & Turbo.Follows a partial copy of your talkpage:
" In the third paragraph in Hadrian#Purpose, the second sentence did not make sense. I made an intelligent guess and re-worded it to "Hadrian made recourse to...Turbo" (i.e., turned to Turbo for his help, used Turbo to accomplish something). If this is not correct, please let me know and the sentence can be changed. However, if I worded the sentence correctly, there is a bit of a problem with the cohesion of the rest of the paragraph. The subsequent sentences tell who Turbo was. Then we read that Turbo was "not competent to keep check on the Senate" (I think it should be "keep a check on the Senate", i.e., keep tabs on the Senate, keep the senators in line, but I'm going to ask someone about this. Rothorpe should it be "keep check on the Senate" or "keep a check on the Senate"?), then you explain why, and then you mention the secret police. Besides the fact that you made no connection between the statements about the secret police and what precedes it, you don't say anything about why Hadrian "made recourse to...Turbo" or whether Turbo succeeded in accomplishing anything, so the reader may wonder why you mentioned him".
Well, what I meant was the following: actually, during his travels, Hadrian had need of someone to keep the Senate _in_ check (i.e., to keep it under control), as any senator could at any time arrange to have himself hailed as emperor. But then , without the possibility of a formal trial if and when necessary, it was impossible to keep the Senate in check. Problem is that Turbo, as Pretorian Prefect and an equestrian (in this case, a clerk, a bureaucrat and not a magistrate, a politician) had no formal authority to start a formal proceeding against a senator. Of course, as always during the Roman Empire, Hadrian could deal with a pressing issue informally - i.e., order an execution after a "secret" trial - but that would be seem as disrespectful- and that was the reason why Hadrian's dealings with the Senate were so bad, because of the killing of four former consuls at the beginning of the reign. What the sources imply is that Hadrian left Turbo to administer Rome during his absence - mostly routine, as well as keeping general law and order - and at the same time employed the secret police to snoop on the Senate in order to react personally in case of need - i.e. to hasten towards Rome and deal with the matter on the spot. That's it. Cerme ( talk) 13:40, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your copy editing on Bristol. I happened to look at your userpage and noticed the the image of Great Bow Bridge over the Parrett, as it is fairly local to me. The caption says it is in Langford but it is in Langport.— Rod talk 15:51, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax I was just looking at the article on Cetacea, and I saw the tags at the top of the article. The article appears to be pretty substantial, but I can't really judge if the the tags are justified or not, If they are, do you think this article is worth being nominated at WP:TAFI? If you do think so, what can I say other than mention the tags? Corinne ( talk) 17:20, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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20:44, 24 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax In response to a request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests, I am copy-editing Murder of Teresa De Simone for BabbaQ. I have completed about two-thirds of the article and am taking a break from it until tomorrow. However, I wanted to ask you about two things:
1) I noticed that the twenty-four hour clock, or military time, is used. Since it makes no sense to most American readers, I decided to put regular time, with "a.m." and "p.m." (can't remember if the periods are all right) after them, in parentheses. In some cases, just to make it clear, I added just "a.m." after a morning time. However, I'm thinking that maybe the addition of the a.m./p.m. times in parentheses looks a little cluttered, and I wonder whether it would be all right to change the military time to regular time (with the a.m./p.m., or am/pm).
2) I changed the old "blockquote" template to the quote template once, and a pull quote to a regular quote once. At the end of the quote in the section Murder of Teresa De Simone#Arrest of Sean Hodgson I notice that there is a long dash before "Appeal 10". I don't know how to get rid of that, and I'm not sure I got the reference (attribution) right. Can you check this for me? Thank you! Corinne ( talk) 00:28, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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Checkingfax I got to this article from a link in the Bristol article. As usual, I made a few copy-edits as I read it. I have a question for you:
The last sentence in the Africa section is:
I wondered whether "284 and 509 thousand" is the correct way to express a number. (You'll see that I changed a hyphen or en-dash that was between 284 and 509 to the word "and", but I don't recall seeing large numbers expressed like that on WP.
I think the moving graphic image is quite interesting. I'm wondering if it would be clearer if a sentence were added to the caption saying which part became the actual cutting or scraping tool. Corinne ( talk) 16:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax Don't know if you saw this. I've pinged or mentioned you in several sections here. Corinne ( talk) 17:31, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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23:44, 27 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax I've just been reading the article on Steep Holm. In the section Steep Holm#World wars is the following sentence:
I could see in edit mode that something was wrong with the text formatting. I think there are some italics that don't really need to be there. I figured maybe it should be 6" not 6' ', but I wasn't sure. Can you take a look at it? Corinne ( talk) 20:30, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
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07:12, 24 January 2016 (UTC)In the 1860s the island was fortified with ten [[RML 7 inch gun|7-inch rifled muzzle loaders]] as one of the Palmerston Forts for the coastal defence of the Bristol Channel until it was abandoned in 1898. The infrastructure was reused in World War I and II when [[BL 6 inch gun Mk II – VI|Mark VII 6'' breech-loading guns]] and search lights were installed. To enable the movement of materials, soldiers from the Indian Army Service Corps initially used mules and then installed a cable-operated winched switchback railway.
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21:38, 27 January 2016 (UTC)Hi Corinne. I looked up coastguard by using Google: define:coastguard and it said: noun: coast guard, noun: coastguard. Also, online I saw: U.S. Coast Guard. Cheers! {{u|
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Checkingfax I often see pending changes review edits to Hermes. Now there is one removing the second "l" in "travelling" or "traveller", thus changing it from British English spelling to American English spelling. Before rejecting the edit, I was trying to figure out which style was used in the article. I found "favored" in the section Hermes#Hellenistic Greek sources, but that's all I could find. I didn't look at dates. Can you figure out which style is used and whether the edit should be accepted or rejected? Corinne ( talk) 00:44, 26 January 2016 (UTC) Corinne ( talk) 00:45, 26 January 2016 (UTC) I looked at the revision history and see that there has been some back-and-forth editing on this recently. If the article really is in British English, then "favored" needs to be changed to "favoured", right? Corinne ( talk) 00:52, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne. The editor's edits were auto-accepted because that editor is auto-confirmed (has X-edits, and Y-days seniority).
To upload to the Commons I have a goofy way: Click on the globe at the top left of any Wikipedia page; scroll to bottom of page and click on the link/image for the Commons; click on the blue UPLOAD button at the top of the page. (or on the upload-file link on the left-hand side of the page.); follow the yellow brick road; when it asks about licensing say it is your own work: that's what all the other screenshotters do; take note of the full URL after uploading and post that to your Phab ticket as a REPLY: Go to the requester's post and then click on REPLY; paste the full URL into your reply post. The WMF posts all their screenshots to the Commons and all the official Wikikpedia pages and Help pages use the Commons for screenshots so do not be put off by the wizard chiding you about screenshots. Cheers! {{u|
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00:24, 31 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax There are two things that I used to see that I don't see anymore:
1) In the Twinkle drop-down menu, I used to see an option to welcome a new editor, and that's not there anymore (but there are actually more things in the drop-down menu than before);
2) when I'm looking at edits in the Revision History, with current version on the right and the previous version on the left (I guess you'd call that the diffs), I used to see the option to rollback edits and I think there was also an option to welcome a new editor based on that edit. I have the rollback and pending changes reviewer right, but I don't see the options there that I used to see. I just re-added Twinkle a few days ago. Can you help? Corinne ( talk) 19:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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23:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)Checkingfax I was having trouble making any edits to Bristol, so I left a comment for Baffle gab1978; s/he replied, suggested I report it, so I left a comment at the Village Pump (technical); Baffle gab1978 made some fixes to the article. I haven't tried editing yet, but I thought you might be interested in this, particularly the unsigned comment with a link at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Having trouble making edits. Corinne ( talk) 15:31, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
You'll see that I left an additional comment at Baffle gab1978's talk page. I was able to make the edit manually, but not with cut and paste. Corinne ( talk) 15:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC) P.S. Can you figure out why the text throughout the article is shaded in gray in edit mode? Compare to the Exeter article that I believe was written (or expanded) by the same editor and which I copy-edited almost a year ago. The text in edit mode is black letters on a white background. Not only is it a little harder to see where regular text is compared to references, perhaps that is connected to the reason why I can't edit with cut and paste. Corinne ( talk) 15:40, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Note: The material below was moved up from another section with the same heading (Bristol) further down the page.
Rodw I wanted to ask you about this passage in Bristol#Government:
The way the second sentence is constructed, it sounds as if the two councillors per ward are elected and serve at the same time. Is that the case? Or is it more that one of the two in a ward runs for election and serves for a term that does not coincide with that of the other councillor? If so, I'm thinking it might be better to move "with two councillors per ward serving four-year terms" to the end of the previous sentence:
Then continue:
and then:
so it would read:
What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 19:42, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Done:I think your proposed revision is fine and supported by this source.— Rod talk 19:48, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
In the section Bristol#Architecture, there is an image with this caption:
I realize that there are two pronunciations of "historic", and that when it is pronounced with a silent "h", the article "an" is used (not where I'm from, though). (a) I didn't see "an historic" elsewhere in the article; (b) in the article Great Gatehouse, Bristol, linked in this section, it says "a historic" in the lead. Rod, which do you prefer for the Bristol article? Corinne ( talk) 01:09, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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07:50, 29 January 2016 (UTC)Rod Out of curiosity I've been reading articles linked from Bristol. One of them is Bristol Byzantine. I first looked at the images and read the captions. I changed "The Colton Hall" to "Colton Hall". Then I read the lead in the article and saw "the Colton Hall" there. Is that what it is called there? "The Colton Hall"? We (in the U.S.) would never say that. Corinne ( talk) 00:33, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Corinne. Phab can move very slow. You were lucky to get some quick answers right off the bat. They seem to get backburnered after that. I would copy the Bristol Wikipedia URL to your clipboard or bookmark it, then I would log out of Wikipedia. For Incognito Browsing in Chrome: Click on the 3 horizontal bars of the small square in the top right corner of Chrome → Click on "New Incognito Window" → then enter the Bristol URL in the blank address bar and hit the Enter key. Open Bristol in Edit source view. wikEd has a couple of buttons you can play with. Hover your mouse pointer on the buttons to find out what they do. They are toggle buttons. You can toggle text-highlighting on/off and you can toggle wikEd on/off and see if that makes any difference with your issue. I do not find the word "null" anyplace on Chrome. Can you be more specific on where you see that? Cheers! {{u|
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Rothorpe Do you remember our discussion regarding the use of "the" before a name? I think you said you preferred to see it, and I said Americans usually did not use it. Well, I just finished copy-editing Mary, Queen of Hungary, and I see both styles used. Three different historians are mentioned. Shall I put the article "the" before "historian" in all three instances or leave it out? Or does it depend upon the construction of the sentence? Can you find them with the "Find" function? Any opinions on this or any other aspect of the article are welcome. I've left a few comments on the talk page, mainly intended for the requester, Borsoka. Corinne ( talk) 01:59, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
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Casliber I am reading the article Banksia aemula in preparation for shortening the summary of the article for TFA. I'm a little puzzled by something, actually two related things.
1) In the summary, which I haven't touched yet, I read this sentence:
The phrase "a shrub or a taller tree" sounds like a shrub is considered a tree. Is that true? I always thought a shrub was called a shrub because it is somewhat different from a tree. If a shrub is not a tree, I would remove "taller"; you're going to give the height anyway, and anything that reaches 26 feet in height is usually not a shrub. I also think "a...tree to 8 m" sounds like botanists' jargon. I'm wondering if it would be clearer to non-experts if it read:
2) Then, in the article Banksia aemula, in the last paragraph in the section Banksia aemula#Distribution and habitat, I read:
(a) Do the height ranges 12–15 m (39–49 ft) high refer to Banksia aemula only (on that island), or to the general height of the three canopy tree species?
(b) If it refers by some chance to Banksia aemula, isn't that height quite a bit above the 26 mentioned in the summary (and copied above)?
Also, the last sentence of that paragraph reads:
I know it says "individual wallum banksias", so are perhaps unusual in their height, but still, isn't that range also quite a bit taller than the 26 ft mentioned in the summary?
Am I missing something? Corinne ( talk) 22:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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Checkingfax and Rothorpe I was just looking at a new comment added to the talk page of Pentecost – Talk:Pentecost/Archive 1#Small Potatoes (grammar), and I was astonished at the appearance (and somewhat at the writing itself) of the comment. The writing of the comment is generally correct, but a bit old-fashioned, as if it were written in the 19th century, but the spacing of the punctuation is unique. Also, I guess the writer is not familiar with the quality of conciseness. But regarding the message of the comment, I think s/he is right. For those not already familiar with the Christian calendar, it is not clear whether the phrase in parentheses applies to Ascension Thursday or to Pentecost itself. I'm not familiar enough with the calendar to feel confident in clarifying the sentence. If either of you are, perhaps you could add something and/or change the punctuation. Corinne ( talk) 14:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Gorthian See also this at Paleontology. Corinne ( talk) 21:12, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Checkingfax I saw you had placed the non-GOCE "in use" template at the top of the article on Humanism. I'm glad you're working on that article. It looked like it needed work. I saw your edit summary, kind of giving the template, but I couldn't figure out how to add it to my list of templates. I added the purpose of the template ("to....") right after the red "X" in my list of non-GOCE templates. Could you add the template right before the phrase "to....to indicate that an active copy-edit is underway"? Corinne ( talk) 03:32, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
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06:56, 11 February 2016 (UTC)Hi Corinne, can I ask you something about categories? Greetings -- Tschips ( talk) 14:32, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
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21:39, 10 February 2016 (UTC)Hi Tschips. Can you enable HotCat in your Preferences? Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets, check off the box for HotCat, easily add / remove / change a category on a page, with name suggestion [example], and save your change. Then Refresh the page. Going forward, at the bottom of each article page you should have '+' and '-' signs next to each category, like this:
The new links are:
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To add a category, click the "(+)" link at the end of the category line. This will open the input box where you can enter a new category name.
The input box of HotCat is very simple: a text field to enter the new category name, an indicator icon, and an "OK" and a "Cancel" button.
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Kailash29792 I saw your comment, perhaps it was in an edit summary, expressing your dismay that Ssven2 was retiring from WP. I saw everything had been archived on his/her talk page, but I didn't see any notice about leaving or any block. I did see a comment directed to Dr. Blofeld that s/he wasn't leaving, but was just going to edit less to protect his/her eyesight. Can you tell me if Ssven2 is really retiring, and if so, why? S/He seemed to be a very nice and good editor. Corinne ( talk) 23:45, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Could you please help with this. Submitted a request at the GOCE. I see you are an active member of GOCE. -- Inside the Valley ( talk) 14:07, 11 February 2016 (UTC)