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Again, welcome! Jauerback dude?/ dude. 02:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hi. Please see my edit to your edit in the article about The Prize. As I've tried to explain in the edit summary, it's OK to note that a character is "beautiful" in the eyes of another character, but that's not the same as Wikipedia asserting that she's beautiful, which is how it previously read. This is an important issue, especially when it comes to pseudo-objective statements that certain women are or are not "beautiful" (with men, implicitly, as the arbiters). Scare quotes can also come in handy here, e.g., putting quotation marks around a term like "gorgeous knockout" to show that it's the characters who view a female protagonist that way, it's not Wikipedia itself using such loaded language. Jcejhay ( talk) 11:10, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Many of your punctuation changes do not comply with Wikipedia's manual of style, specifically MOS:PUNCT. The error you most frequently make is when you have quotation fragments where the fragment comes at the end of the sentence in the article. For example, in an article about a movie, the following sentence should be punctuated as
not
If the quotation is a complete sentence from the source, then the period comes before the ending quotation mark like
You've edited many articles in which you changed correct punctuation to incorrect punctuation. I've cleaned up a few, but it's tedious work. You might consider reviewing your work and the manual of style and undo some of your changes.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 12:55, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ Milladrive,
I do appreciate and thankful for you correcting the summary of Once Upon a Wheel. I have to disagree with two additional edit you did which I undid.
1.The removal of the lede.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Once_Upon_a_Wheel&diff=next&oldid=1161119604
The lede or the intro of an article usually consist of summary of each section seen the article. Many underdeveloped article do not have it. I
If you disagree with my lede/intro please check out Wikipedia:Featured articles#Media (best article) and find a suitable format, you will see that I picked the most common one. I did notice that worked on many underdeveloped articles (thank you for that), so that aspect may have slipped under your radar.
2. And re-instating a dead link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Once_Upon_a_Wheel&diff=next&oldid=1161119839
The link is either dead or I can't open it from my computer. Is there an archive of the article or could you make one if you are able to open the article? I know the information to be true, so I left it.
Anyways thank you for your participation.
Filmman3000 (
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19:55, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
I have reverted your addition of burial information about George Tobias and the accompanying citation to Find a Grave. That source is not reliable. Please see WP:USERGENERATED.
Your edit summary said, "I think it's better to at least attempt to find a source than to simply remove the info." That is a good point, but let me make two observations about that comment:
Burial information for George Tobias will be welcome in the article -- but only if it is supported by a credible source. Eddie Blick ( talk) 23:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Your diligence is appreciated.
I was genuinely unaware Find a Grave was user-generated. I probably should've known better. Thanks much.
However, I disagree with the removal of valid information just because a "citation needed" hasn't been resolved in x amount of time. In fact, as you may observe, the information was indeed restored with a citation. Had the info been deleted for any length of time, it's quite possible it would never be restored.
Anyone can put a "citation needed" flag on a passage. There are "citation needed"s that have been in place for several years. It doesn't render the info invalid. Not to mention, there is a vast amount of information at Wikipedia with no source at all. Is it all to be deleted? Or should we pay attention only to that which has been flagged?
I realize Wikipedia encourages editors to resolve longstanding citation requests, but in my opinion, removing valid information is counterproductive. milladrive ( talk) 18:31, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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Again, welcome! Jauerback dude?/ dude. 02:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hi. Please see my edit to your edit in the article about The Prize. As I've tried to explain in the edit summary, it's OK to note that a character is "beautiful" in the eyes of another character, but that's not the same as Wikipedia asserting that she's beautiful, which is how it previously read. This is an important issue, especially when it comes to pseudo-objective statements that certain women are or are not "beautiful" (with men, implicitly, as the arbiters). Scare quotes can also come in handy here, e.g., putting quotation marks around a term like "gorgeous knockout" to show that it's the characters who view a female protagonist that way, it's not Wikipedia itself using such loaded language. Jcejhay ( talk) 11:10, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Many of your punctuation changes do not comply with Wikipedia's manual of style, specifically MOS:PUNCT. The error you most frequently make is when you have quotation fragments where the fragment comes at the end of the sentence in the article. For example, in an article about a movie, the following sentence should be punctuated as
not
If the quotation is a complete sentence from the source, then the period comes before the ending quotation mark like
You've edited many articles in which you changed correct punctuation to incorrect punctuation. I've cleaned up a few, but it's tedious work. You might consider reviewing your work and the manual of style and undo some of your changes.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 12:55, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ Milladrive,
I do appreciate and thankful for you correcting the summary of Once Upon a Wheel. I have to disagree with two additional edit you did which I undid.
1.The removal of the lede.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Once_Upon_a_Wheel&diff=next&oldid=1161119604
The lede or the intro of an article usually consist of summary of each section seen the article. Many underdeveloped article do not have it. I
If you disagree with my lede/intro please check out Wikipedia:Featured articles#Media (best article) and find a suitable format, you will see that I picked the most common one. I did notice that worked on many underdeveloped articles (thank you for that), so that aspect may have slipped under your radar.
2. And re-instating a dead link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Once_Upon_a_Wheel&diff=next&oldid=1161119839
The link is either dead or I can't open it from my computer. Is there an archive of the article or could you make one if you are able to open the article? I know the information to be true, so I left it.
Anyways thank you for your participation.
Filmman3000 (
talk)
19:55, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
I have reverted your addition of burial information about George Tobias and the accompanying citation to Find a Grave. That source is not reliable. Please see WP:USERGENERATED.
Your edit summary said, "I think it's better to at least attempt to find a source than to simply remove the info." That is a good point, but let me make two observations about that comment:
Burial information for George Tobias will be welcome in the article -- but only if it is supported by a credible source. Eddie Blick ( talk) 23:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Your diligence is appreciated.
I was genuinely unaware Find a Grave was user-generated. I probably should've known better. Thanks much.
However, I disagree with the removal of valid information just because a "citation needed" hasn't been resolved in x amount of time. In fact, as you may observe, the information was indeed restored with a citation. Had the info been deleted for any length of time, it's quite possible it would never be restored.
Anyone can put a "citation needed" flag on a passage. There are "citation needed"s that have been in place for several years. It doesn't render the info invalid. Not to mention, there is a vast amount of information at Wikipedia with no source at all. Is it all to be deleted? Or should we pay attention only to that which has been flagged?
I realize Wikipedia encourages editors to resolve longstanding citation requests, but in my opinion, removing valid information is counterproductive. milladrive ( talk) 18:31, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Milladrive. I appreciate your efforts to improve Wikipedia, but some of your edits have been reverted or corrected, in part because your use of English was grammatically incorrect. If you speak a different language more fluently or require assistance, please feel free to ask for help with your proposed edits on the article's
talk page. Please don't use an automated tool to alter spelling or grammar if you aren't fluent enough in English to know whether those changes are correct. There are multiple users who would be glad to help you fix grammar-related issues. To find out about other useful contributions you can make to Wikipedia which don't require absolute fluency in English, see
Wikipedia:Task Center. Thanks!
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01:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited The Crazy Ones, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Cosmopolitan. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)
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