Hello! I am a student taking a Wikipedia editing class at American University this semester. I am currently engaging in the Wiki Project: Blogging and was wondering if you had any tips on what articles I should work on improving. Eb0178a ( talk) 14:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC) reply

@ Eb0178a: — With several thousand articles (or their Talk pages) listed in Category:WikiProject Blogging articles, there are plenty from which to choose. Many articles can use improvement of spelling, grammar, punctuation, typography and style. Many need verification of references or additional references, or links to external references need to be fixed because Web pages have been moved or have disappeared. Since a great many contributors to Wikipedia seem to be amateurs with marginal writing skills, the potential work here is literally without end! If you are interested in photography or graphics and have skills in those areas, that is another way to contribute to improvement of articles. —  Quicksilver ^{T @} 19:06, 8 February 2016 (UTC) reply

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes! May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography. Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the July Drive! <<<

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the September 2016 GOCE newsletter. >>> Sign up for the September Drive, already in progress! <<< July Drive: The July drive was a roaring success. We set out to remove April, May, and June 2015 from our backlog (our 149 oldest articles), and by 23 July, we were done with those months. We added July 2015 (66 articles) and copy-edited 37 of those. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from June 2016. Well done! Overall, we recorded copy edits to 240 articles by 20 editors, reducing our total backlog to 13 months and 1,656 articles, the second-lowest month-end total ever. August Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 21 through 27 August; the theme was sports-related articles in honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Of the eight editors who signed up, five editors removed 11 articles from the backlog. A quiet blitz – everyone must be on vacation. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the September Drive! <<<

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful! >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<< Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating! September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words). October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page. Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your Watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

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From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 02:11, 27 December 2016 (UTC) reply

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Oh, dear. Thank you for the heads-up on my signature. I'm hoping it isn't affecting too many pages, having changed that old and unsightly signature when I changed username. I appreciate the time you took to let me know and give a solution. I hope you might accept this barnstar as a small token of thanks. Rustic / Talk 09:19, 28 January 2017 (UTC) reply

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Thank you so much for your improvements on Train of Tomorrow! I want to apologize for letting so many mistakes slip through my review process after I finished drafting the article but before I moved it to the mainspace. I put a lot of time and effort into the article, including a multi-hour copyediting session, but I missed a lot of mistakes and errors. Please accept my apologies for that. Thank you again for helping to correct them and generally improve the article. All the best! Michael Barera ( talk) 17:58, 5 February 2017 (UTC) reply

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Dear H.,

I'm working at Embraco and I'm updating the logo of our Company in all the pages here in Wikipedia. At this moment if I look for embraco in google, the search engine is heading anyhow the old logo, that you created the page for (find here the page: /info/en/?search=File:Embraco_logo.svg)

Could you please update the File:Embraco_logo.svg page with the new logo? Otherwise, could you please remove the page from Wikipedia in order to give us the chance to update our company page?

Looking forward to hear from you soon. Thanks a lot,

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Hello, I would like to get in touch with you to help update our company's logo because the version that is available File:Square,_Inc._logo.svg is outdated and we have a new logotype. Can you please leave a comment on my page and we can coordinate delivery of the new version in PNG / SVG format? Alternatively, Brandsoftheworld has the updated version available here: https://www.brandsoftheworld.com/logo/square-1 ... Thank you.!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dseward589 ( talk • contribs) 20:40, June 15, 2017 UTC (UTC)

@ Dseward589: — I am happy to help, but be aware that there's something wrong about the file available from Brands of the World (BotW). The thumbnail shows the same lettering style as what can be found at https://squareup.com/news, but when I download the current Adobe Illustrator file from BotW and import it into Inkscape, it shows the same lettering style as in the old file I had obtained on 2015-07-25. Moreover, when I run "fdupes" on the files in the folder on my machine, it says the "new" file is identical to the mid-2015 file, byte for byte. Either BotW messed up and didn't update the Adobe Illustrator vector file, or the person who uploaded the "new" version of the logo provided an updated thumbnail to BotW, but then uploaded the old Adobe Illustrator file again. Having dealt with BotW over the years, I have found them to be extraordinarily unresponsive, so appealing to them is pretty much a waste of time. I found that Square Inc. uses a proprietary font in its literature, called SQMarket, and that the set of font files is available from a repository at GitHub, so I used the JPEG sample of the new logo from Square, Inc. as a guide and spliced in the word "Square" with the SQMarket font in Inkscape to produce a revised SVG file for Wikipedia. It's close enough that only a digital forensics expert could find any differences from the original, and certainly close enough for the small display sizes of non-free logos allowed in Wikipedia. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 00:14, 16 June 2017 (UTC) reply

Please review the talk page guidelines -- this is not appropriate. What matters if what RS say about X and how we handle that per the policies and guidelines here. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 19:00, 18 July 2017 (UTC) reply

@ Jytdog: — Please review WP:BLP. Use of slurs and pejorative labels in biographical articles of living persons is against Wikipedia policy, and using sly demurrers to justify such slurs and labels doesn't cut it. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 19:16, 18 July 2017 (UTC) reply

Most of these are format/standardisation tweaks - however the explanation you add to the effect that it was the rotational inertia of the engine that made it hard to change speed (it was actually the difficulty of changing the throttle setting without messing up the air/fuel mix) adds a factual error. Have a read of the Rotary engine article if this is not clear. If you don't fix this I will - just a warning so my edit doesn't come as a shock, and to give you a chance to fix your own work. -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 02:37, 10 November 2017 (UTC) reply

@ Soundofmusicals: — Go ahead and fix it as you see fit. I was surprised that the key fact of the crankcase and cylinders spinning with the propeller wasn't mentioned at all. It should at least get a mention without readers having to dig it out of other articles. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 03:30, 10 November 2017 (UTC) reply

Done - hope this works for you -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 08:41, 10 November 2017 (UTC) reply

My reversion of "itself" was unintentional, incidentally, but I hope I will be forgiven the following minor rant. "Itself" is not really a "reflexive" at all in this sentence - and if it was it would have little to do with "grammar" and most certainly not be a "misuse". The reason I didn't (deliberately) restore this first go was simply that "itself" here is (sort of) "redundant" - in that the sentence makes sense (sort of) without it, if not precisely the same sense as with it. I have a personal policy not to make a issue of this sort of thing, where little or no meaning is lost and the result is not too grossly stilted, if only because it's the facts that really matter. All the same, in an ideal world you would have thought about it again, and restored it off your own bat. Oh well... -- Soundofmusicals ( talk) 23:31, 21 November 2017 (UTC) reply

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...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 16:42, 23 December 2017 (UTC) reply

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News Hello copy editors! Welcome to the December 2017 GOCE newsletter, which contains nine months(!) of updates. The Guild has been busy and successful; your diligent efforts in 2017 has brought the backlog of articles requiring copy edit to below 1,000 articles for the first time. Thanks to all editors who have contributed their time and energy to help make this happen. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< Our copy-editing drives (month-long backlog-reduction drives held in odd-numbered months) and blitzes (week-long themed editing in even-numbered months) have been very successful this year. March drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2016 from our backlog and all February 2017 Requests (a total of 304 articles). By the end of the month, all but 22 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 28 who signed up, 22 editors recorded 257 copy edits (439,952 words). (These numbers do not always make sense when you compare them to the overall reduction in the backlog, because not all editors record every copy edit on the drive page.) April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 April; the theme was Requests. Of the 15 who signed up, 9 editors completed 43 articles (81,822 words). May drive: The goals were to remove July, August, and September 2016 from the backlog and to complete all March 2017 Requests (a total of 300 articles). By the end of the month, we had reduced our overall backlog to an all-time low of 1,388 articles. Of the 28 who signed up, 17 editors completed 187 articles (321,810 words). June blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 18 through 24 June; the theme was Requests. Of the 16 who signed up, 9 editors completed 28 copy edits (117,089 words). 2017 Coordinator elections: In June, coordinators for the second half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 moved back into the lead coordinator position, with Miniapolis stepping down to remain as coordinator; Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators, and Keira1996 rejoined after an extended absence. Thanks to all who participated! July drive: We set out to remove August, September, October, and November 2016 from the backlog and to complete all May and June 2017 Requests (a total of 242 articles). The drive was an enormous success, and the target was nearly achieved within three weeks, so that December 2016 was added to the "old articles" list used as a goal for the drive. By the end of the month, only three articles from 2016 remained, and for the second drive in a row, the backlog was reduced to a new all-time low, this time to 1,363 articles. Of the 33 who signed up, 21 editors completed 337 articles (556,482 words). August blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 20 through 26 August; the theme was biographical articles tagged for copy editing for more than six months (47 articles). Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors completed 38 copy edits (42,589 words). September drive: The goals were to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all August 2017 Requests (a total of 338 articles). Of the 19 who signed up, 14 editors completed 121 copy edits (267,227 words). October blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 22 through 28 October; the theme was Requests. Of the 14 who signed up, 8 editors completed 20 articles (55,642 words). November drive: We set out again to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all October 2017 Requests (a total of 207 articles). By the end of the month, these goals were reached and the backlog shrank to its lowest total ever, 997 articles, the first time it had fallen under one thousand (click on the graph above to see this amazing feat in graphical form). It was also the first time that the oldest copy-edit tag was less than eight months old. Of the 25 who signed up, 16 editors completed 159 articles (285,929 words). 2018 Coordinator elections: Voting is open for the election of coordinators for the first half of 2018. Please visit the election page to vote between now and December 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Thanks for participating! Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before (or after) every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Keira1996. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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I changed CrowdStrike to remove the hyphen after 'wholly'. Please see WP:HYPHEN: "Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home, a wholly owned subsidiary)". Happy editing! Chris the speller  ^yack 17:49, 1 January 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Chris the speller: — Ah, more Wikipedia make-it-up-as-you-go rules of grammar and punctuation. This wiki's Style Guide is gradually devolving into illiteracy, as such rules are promulgated by minuscule groups of editors who somehow avoided taking English writing classes in high school or college. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 17:58, 1 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Hi. I uploaded the logo for the University of Redlands under that title since it is specified in their style guide that the horizontal logo is the primary version. Where does it say the vertical logo is the primary version? Thank you. Malayy ( talk) 06:39, 15 March 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Malayy: — You may be correct. It's been some time since I fetched the vector images from the university site, and I was under the impression that the vertical format is the preferred one. Moreover, a casual inspection of the Redlands site show it to be used in numerous places. My main point in requesting a name change for the horizontal logo file was to avoid a clash with the names I gave the horizontal and vertical versions on Wikipedia. If the vertical version gets moved to Commons, it will need to be renamed, that's all. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 09:08, 15 March 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Hydrargyrum: No worries, I understand. I uploaded the alternate versions of the logo to Commons. Should I remove the logo from the page and wait for it to be deleted or do you want to propose its deletion? Malayy ( talk) 11:37, 15 March 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Malayy: — I've changed the logo wikilink near the bottom of the infobox in the University of Redlands article to the Commons file name. Don't worry about deleting the Wikipedia file, as the Wikipedia 'bot will discover it soon enough and mark it for deletion from the wiki. If no action is taken, it will just go away. In future, instead of creating a duplicate file under another name on Commons, consider having the Wikipedia file moved to Commons, as it preserves the file history and can avoid confusion about which is the "real" file. See Template:Copy to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:Moving files to Commons for details. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 17:32, 15 March 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Hydrargyrum: Sure thing! Thank you for informing me about that. Malayy ( talk) 19:52, 15 March 2018 (UTC) reply

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This edit is a mixed bag an I am hoping you will be willing to clean it up. Thanks for the other improvements you have made here.

You have replaced unpiped redirect links e.g. [[7-inch single]]s with more complicated piped links e.g. [[Single (music)#7-inch format|7-inch singles]]. Both render the same for readers so this change is not an improvement to the (visible) article and I think we're better off if we can avoid the opportunity for error and reviewing overhead associated with changing things that don't need to be changed. Also in this case, the new link format is inferior in that if the target section (7-inch format) is renamed, the link from Loudness war will be quietly compromised.

You have also changed digital full scale to digital full scale. Again, I can't identify an improvement associated with this change. While both link to the same article, digital full scale is the MOS:SPECIFICLINK preferred here. Your change introduces an unnecessary maintenance issue should there come a time when the digital full scale redirect is improved to point at a specific section in full scale or even expanded to be a standalone article. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:15, 19 March 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Kvng:Thanks for asking. For logged-in readers who use the "Navigation popups" feature of Wikipedia (preferences > Gadgets > Browsing > Navigation popups), having links that display the redirect content instead of the article can be a huge annoyance. If I'm in an article to correct punctuation, grammar, English syntax or to fix something else, such as XHTML syntax, I try to take the time to change at least some indirect links to direct links, but especially in paragraphs with many wikilinks where 50% or more of them point to a redirect instead of the article. Pop-up previews of links are a great way to enjoy a hypertext document, because a well-written lead paragraph can give a reader a quick thumbnail overview of the linked word or term without having to open that document in another browser tab or window and wait for it to render. With that aim in mind, the example you give above could be expressed as [[full scale|digital full scale]], but I did not see it improving the usability or content, as there isn't an article discussing " digital full scale" specifically. If you're not using the navigation popups feature, I highly recommend at least trying it out. Yes, sometimes changing the wikilink from the redirect to the specific target can increase the article size, but there are also cases where the edit reduces the article size or points to a better article that a reader may find only after laboriously reading through the linked article and eventually discovering that the relevant information isn't on the linked page, but on another page whose link might be discovered 80% of the way down the next article in the trail of bread crumbs. For example, I worked on an article recently that referred to Army Reserves. I suspected from the context that it was referring to the United States Army, but that was not plainly evident in the article. It was a redirect to Military reserve force, but I didn't find anything in that article that helped me understand the term in the original article. I carefully scroll down the page until I discover a sub-section titled "Military reserve forces". Under that I find a bolded linked subheading " United States" that doesn't yield anything useful, nor does the next one, Main article: Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces. Finally, I hit pay dirt with United States Army Reserve. So, why did the editor write Army Reserves when he could have simply written United States Army Reserve, which would have been the proper term and would have avoided sending a reader on a wild goose chase?

Another thing to consider is that Wikipedia articles may be read 50 or 100 years from now by someone who has no idea what a "7-inch single" is and, worse yet, may be reading the text of that article in isolation, not part of a wiki, where the hyperlinks are missing or don't work. Strange as it may seem to you and me, most young people who are under 20 years of age in 2018 have never seen phonograph records, much less having seen and heard a phonograph in operation.

I've been creating and editing Web content since the 1990s, and a key concept I learned early is that Web pages do not exist for the convenience of their creators, but rather, for the convenience of the users. That's why I do what I do, even though it may require more editing effort and I may violate some Wikipedia policies that have misguidedly enshrined bad practices. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 16:14, 19 March 2018 (UTC) reply

My general suggestion here (and I admit I don't always achieve this myself) is that we strive to avoid making edits that are not significant improvements. In this collaborative environment, we are implicitly asking others review our edits and should respect their time. For changes that are, at best, very small improvements, such as we're discussing here, the risk of introducing an error is possibly greater than the potential improvement.

In other news, my popups on redirects show the content of the article and section redirected to. I can dig into my account setup and see but, as far as I know, I'm using the standard popup feature. ~ Kvng ( talk) 16:29, 19 March 2018 (UTC) reply

Please don't "fix" redirects like this. As explained at MOS:REDIRECT and WP:NOTBROKEN, trying to "fix" redirects actually damages the encyclopedia and impedes users finding the right article. If someone now changes the sub-heading at Single (music)#7-inch format the link you've changed will no longer work. It is better to keep the redirect in case an article on that subject is written or so that in the event of a change in the redirect target, only the redirect page needs to be changed and not all the incoming links. DrKay ( talk) 20:37, 11 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Per MOS:MDASH, mdashes are unspaced in the Wikipedia style. DrKay ( talk) 17:39, 11 May 2018 (UTC) reply

@ DrKay: If you want to make sentences break before em dashes, disrupt flow and make the text hard to read, be my guest and leave your mark on the article. Professional typesetters don't do it that way, and the MOS:DASH decision by a tiny committee of four or five didn't take into account how Web browsers work. —  Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) ^{T @} 17:55, 11 May 2018 (UTC) reply

You need to raise that at WT:MOS. DrKay ( talk) 20:24, 11 May 2018 (UTC) reply