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Issue 56, March – April 2023
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Hi, you reverted my edit adding a Spoken Wikipedia version of the article on Germany, with only the comment "trim". Can you please justify that action? morrisjm ( talk) 03:30, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikki - could I ask your view on whether this image can be included in a GA? The copyright holder (the British Library) sell it, but for £0 for web use: the page reads "Images can be used for free, Please credit: Courtesy British Library (followed by the shelfmark)." Is that good enough for an upload to Commons, in the absence of a formal CC licence? UndercoverClassicist ( talk) 20:59, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered, and so PD-US-UNPUBLISHED won't be applicable? Or does it only count if the author never published it? UndercoverClassicist ( talk) 22:34, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Nikkimaria.
I noticed you've undone a lot of links to Find A Grave on many articles. I'd just like to say first and foremost is that it IS a very useful and reliable source, and it has been used on many other articles besides ones i've edited. I kindly ask that you please undo any reverts on the matter and refrain from removing links from Find A Grave in the future. Thank you. OmniFrieza994 ( talk) 21:16, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, you approved my application for the British Newspaper Archive on the Wikipedia Library earlier today. I received an email with a coupon code to gain access to the database, however when I tried entering it at the provided URL, I received a message that it was invalid. Not sure why this might be. I had previously registered for a free account on the British Newspaper Archive, maybe I need to make a new one? Thanks. Hockeyben (talk - contribs) 18:46, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I opened a new application as instructed in an email I received. Would you be able to approve it? Thanks. -- Hockeyben (talk - contribs) 03:08, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Dear Nikkimaria, thank you for all your hard work over the years and the work you continue to do. I'm a long-term collaborator / editor often on issues where our systemic bias counts against us, and I saw today that Kges1901 had suggested at WT:TWL that we consider asking Eastview Information Services' whether they might allow access to their extensive range of online databases?
"..They have a wide range of newspaper collections that cover areas such as East Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe that are not currently included.. Adding access to these newspapers would help with addressing Wikipedia's systemic bias.." [minor paraphrase].
I think this is a great idea!! If I wanted to encourage TWL and its backers to get these resources added, how would you advise me to start? Many thanks Buckshot06 (talk) 03:18, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
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It is a sharp irony, is it not, that Wikipedia's lack of welcome for Find a Grave as a reliable source is on the basis that the content is "user generated".
Wikipedia is also user generated – with its credibility asserted by citations – but in some instances, as in this one, photographic evidence is equivalent to a reliable source: such credibility is high. The likelihood that someone would use artificial intelligence to create a fake image – or take a photograph of the headstone in a different cemetery – is remote.
It is pretty galling that in such a tiny graveyard I could find the headstone within one minute – especially since its location is precisely identified at the Find a Grave website – and I could take further pictures of it myself for uploading to Wikimedia Commons which would be acceptable for inclusion in the article, but I could not include my physical visit as a reliable source citation, despite seeing the gravestone with my own eyes!
I have formerly provided my own headstone picture at the John Stanislaus Joyce article – and this complies with Wikipedia policy.
Anyway, I have adjusted my entry to comply with the WP:FINDAGRAVE-EL policy by including it, instead – and as permitted – as an external link!
Collisions between bureaucratic rules and stark physical reality – usually between a citizen and the bank or between the citizen and the government – are notorious. Cheers. O'Dea ( talk) 03:29, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Crawford, Joan (Lucille LeSueur, March 23, 1904 – May 10, 1977) San Antonio born film star.... Her ashes were placed in the vault beside the coffin of her husband, with the crypt listing her birth year as 1908.Moxy-
Nikkimaria, I hope you are well; it's been a while since I've posted here.
The nomination in the section header has had at least one reviewer mentioning concerns of plagiarism (and where in the article); I was hoping you could check to see whether anything concerning remains, and whether the sourcing issues also remain, though that's usually not your remit. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset ( talk) 15:32, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
So since we shouldn't to be bias to one side can we put the claims of the 24th mechanized brigade being wiped out but then say that it's been disputed by Ukrainian and Western officials Salfanto ( talk) 12:59, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
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It appears you removed two family trees from Bird, Savage & Bird. Your justification was "cull". By doing this you have deprived the readers of a vital visual tool to help understand complicated family relationships. Can you explain why you decided to take this action?
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Permanent residents chart .....add a bit more data...thus drop prose of In 2021, India, China, and the Philippines were the top three countries of origin for immigrants moving to Canada.....see
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Hey, I see you've been trimming and removing a lot of content in your recent edits. What is "fmt" as mentioned in Richard Montañez: Revision history, and what's the reason for pruning those citations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Richard_Monta%C3%B1ez&action=history
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03:43, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
I think all of the images posted to this article are problematic. They seems to be lifted from a published source elsewhere - a book that seems to be maybe out of print but that I cannot access online - but Google Image search is also polluted by the WP/Common results. The Commons uploader only uploaded the images in 2013, they have made no other edits other than the Peralta Stones article images. I have been unable to find where the images originated from but they do have a copyright asserted by the website desertusa(dot)com in 2014 and the website's overall copyright dates to 1996. DesertUsa asserts on some of its images "Courtesy of the Superstition Mountain Historical Society" but I was unable to find any of the images on the Superstition Mountain Historical Society's website, which now seems to be
https://superstitionmountainlostdutchmanmuseum.org/.
Could you maybe take a look at some of the images and reply back here with your thoughts? Here is a link of LatinHeartReader's contributions to Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Latin_Heart_Reader I don't want to put them all up for deletion because of possible/probable copyright infringement if that is not the case. Thanks in advance for your thoughts, any help, etc.
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Thank you for your thorough image review for Stravinsky, I'm much more familiar with copyright standards now, and greatly appreciate your guidance throughout the process. MyCatIsAChonk ( talk) ( not me) ( also not me) ( still no) 22:11, 26 June 2023 (UTC) |
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Dear Nikkimaria, you are one of our top Wikipedians, an administrator, FA coordinator, expert on image copyright issues, you name it. Why do you remove my comments on thepeerage.com? It is deprecated and one should cite the references given in thepeerage, not thepeerage itself. I find it still useful for quick cross-checking. It is about as reliable as what I write in Wikipedia. I feel it is below your dignity as a venerable Wikipedian to waste your precious time on deleting my comments, but I probably must be glad you did not at the same time delete my family tree, my timeline, my footquotes, and most of my other contributions. Are you sure you are improving Wikipedia? Yours sincerely, Johannes Schade ( talk) 07:56, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikki. That issue hadn’t occurred to me (I’m using a tablet so maybe the images seemed more spaced out and sandwiching wasn’t presenting itself). The images were also there before I’d seen the article so probably assumed it was reading ok. I’ve kept the places commonly associated with London (Buckingham Palace, Harrods, Abbey Rd) while trimming off the others. Para Clark ( talk) 10:01, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed the fandom wiki links for AoE4. I want to know the reason for it.
I linked it specifically because anyone wanting to know more about the game can directly visit the dedicated wiki for it. Obviously Wikipedia cannot have everything regarding the game. Sauravt2812 ( talk) 09:48, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
I was trying to figure out why I can't get a Table of contents onto my user talk. (I mainly tried the magic words of __TOC__.) If you or one of your talk page stalkers have the chance could someone please take a look at User talk:Shearonink, post here in reply and tell me whhhhyyyyy. Please don't go ahead and correct my mistake (which I am sure is perfectly clear to everyone but me). Just post the solution here and let *me* correct the coding etc. on my page - otherwise I'll never learn. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 17:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I need a favor. I saw that you fixed the articles Italians and History of Italy, and I would like to ask you if you could fix (so as to remove the tags), also the articles Cinema of Italy and Italian literature. I would like to do it, but I'm not so familiar with the English Wikipedia policies (I'm mainly active on the Italian Wikipedia). Greetings. -- LukeWiller ( talk) 14:34, 1 July 2023 (UTC).
Hi,
You once helped me out with an article I was preparing and I recall you were very competent with citation formatting. Not guilty (I hope) but I noticed on an article I was editing some of the citations were broken. Could you have a peek for me.
The article is Irredentism and it a problem with an sfn template Kornprobst. Hope that makes sense. W C M email 15:27, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
Just asking. StrongALPHA ( talk) 19:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
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I recognize that I got unusually unhinged at WP:LENGTH, for the reasons I gave, and I can transparently admit that my reaction stemmed from the habit of placing reader-visible templates on articles that do not give our readers actionable information to evaluate the article. However, you clearly took effort to address the problem that you raised, and that doesn't happen enough around here. I often talk about how respect is earned, and however inconsequential it may be, you've earned mine. Thank you. Orange Suede Sofa ( talk) 06:52, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Date ranges on the Eric Kebbon page for the lives of Eric and his wife Jane were confirmed by the findagrave.com website as it included photographs of the gravestones showing the dates. Information from such a source is not "non-RS". 2603:7000:9500:F800:54B:2C18:8332:BD49 ( talk) 03:48, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. I thought I'd contact you following your comments here. The deleted Vancouver and Calgary flags were are used on wikiproject banners on the French Wikipedia, fr:Modèle:Portail Vancouver and fr:Modèle:Portail Calgary, which are now showing those jigsaw puzzle icons. I raised the matter here but would you have any recommendations? Thanks. (Please don't respond on my enwiki user talkpage, I am not active here any longer.) Shawn à Montréal ( talk) 11:41, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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I wanted to make clear that I heartily appreciate the work you've been doing related to the article on the Roman republic: converting the citations over to {{ sfn}} is something that is worthwhile and also much less glamorous than normal creation. Ifly6 ( talk) 04:29, 13 July 2023 (UTC) |
Can Wikipedia:Featured article review/Keith Miller in the 1946–47 Australian cricket season/archive1 be closed? It was a "procedural" nomination for an article that went to AFD, and the AFD successfully closed as delete. IMO the discussion can be safely speedy-deleted as housekeeping/uncontroversial, unless there's possibly some record-keeping need to keep it around. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 16:35, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
The article has well over 600 watchers, and attracts several thousand daily viewers. Your tag this time around indicates the article may "interest" a particular audience. I also note there has been nothing upon the talk page to accompany your tag to invoke discussion. Thought Wikipedia was an impartial encyclopedia. Topic-wise, everything is referenced and if we are to adhere to the original tag you placed upon the article in the early hours of yesterday, I would hope some forms of suggestion as to "splitting content into sub-articles" can be suggested and attained.
There is no similar tag on the 9/11 article on Wiki. or the Joseph Stalin one. A Teahouse entry would be welcomed. Kieronoldham ( talk) 02:07, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, why a gravesite not a reliable source? What would be the appropriate source to prove someone’s death? Thanks 2600:6C64:427F:39F0:878:4897:7A6B:F119 ( talk) 02:27, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023
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Hello, I have started a discussion on Talk:David Angell on whether a consensus exists to add a cause of death to the infobox. I have also laid out some of my arguments of why I think it is appropriate.-- Sunshineisles2 ( talk) 23:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Stop removing all external links to Find a Grave. WP:RSP#Find a Grave: "Links to Find a Grave may sometimes be included in the external links section of articles, when the site offers valuable additional content, such as images not permitted for use on Wikipedia." Sundayclose ( talk) 17:03, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Again, stop edit warring. I see you have a few blocks, so I hope you will avoid another one. Sundayclose ( talk) 17:18, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, the nominator of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Uranium mining in the Bancroft area/archive1 and I are disagreeing on the reliability of two sources - the Reynolds book and the Proulx thesis. Would you be willing to offer some brief thoughts there? Hog Farm Talk 02:10, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey. I wanted some advice on how precisely to shorten up an article. I was initially in disagreement about shortening articles. However, I realize you are right, that most long articles have unnecessary info and a number of errors and need improvement. I wondered if you could guide me a little bit, whether there is a link which guides on how to shorten articles. I could not find one on my own. Thanks. -- Omnis Scientia ( talk) 08:33, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, could you explain me where the article Italy shhould be cut more?Thanks. Simplyred90 ( talk) 06:33, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I don't understand why you remove find a grave website of Adolphe Le Prince Vwqvj qwhiu ( talk) 07:23, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Genuinely confused, is there a reason why Historiography of Louis Riel shouldn't be linked to the Historiography section of Louis Riel's page? XTheBedrockX ( talk) 02:15, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
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In 2013, Brianboulton announced on my talk his idea of a compromise "identibox" as in Percy Grainger: DOB, POB, DOD, POD, and why a person is known. The facts about birth and death are standard for a biography. In the English Wikipedia, the places can be omitted in the lead, because they can be found in an infobox, - if there is one. People will link between Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti. Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:48, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Fine, I looked again, and your last statement was "We've discussed above how the proposal does a poor job of providing a summary of what is truly key about who she was", while my view is that it is not the objective of any infobox to be a summary of what is truly key about who she (or he) was, - which I believe even the lead can't achieve, nor the article. It's purpose is simply to place certain information in a predictable position, like when and where she was born and died, and why we have an article about her. From the closure of Mendelssohn (where you also reverted): "it is not up to us to control how our readers read". An infobox doesn't replace the lead but eases conveniently the access to some information, such as where a biography is placed in time and location (like an opera plot says where and when a scene plays). We even have a script now available that transforms an infobox into an image with caption, serving those who don't like its looks. So why not? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:18, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
I'm busy here with Renata Scotto, and in RL with company, Mahler's Second yesterday and Fourth today. Brings me back to the beginning: can you consider restoring a short infobox for Cosima Wagner, an article by Brian, whom I know as open to compromise, inventor of the identibox, and having given us a model by accepting the 2015 community consensus for Chopin, restored by the community just recently? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:24, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
I noticed you removed all citations on that page which were from the translations of drama CDs posted on Tsukiuta Wiki. Can you please tell me what I should do if I want to cite sources from Drama CDs?? I haven't been able to find any official translations or audio. I really think having citations directly from the Drama CDs would improve the article. If possible could you help me with this? Do you know of any official channels of Tsukino Production where they might have content related to the Drama CDs?
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I note that you have added a template to all of the articles on Torah readings criticizing the amount of external links. Is it the "External Links" section in particular that you find excessive? Would you view some smaller number of external links there as appropriate? I note that you also have added a "too long" template to several of the articles. What length would you consider appropriate? Thanks in advance.-- Dauster ( talk) 19:49, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, from what I've gathered you seem quite experienced and professional on Wikipedia. Thank you for pointing out the deficient sides of my recent contribution to the Norway's page. I should improve myself on giving better and much credible sources on Wikipedia, I'll work on it from now on. However, you also pointed out 'undue weight' as the second reason for the removal of my contribution. I have read through the meaning and examples of undue weight but I couldn't understand how Aurora's implementation into the music section of Norway is considered as undue weight. She has objectively reached to over a billion people and is one of the only people to represent Norway in Academy Awards with a song, in addition to all the music and concerts she has performed worlwide, introducing to Norway to new generations.
How can her accretion into the page be considerd undue weight considering her major international achivements? I fully understand that it can be sourced so much better and professionaly, but wanted to ask this part specifically. I would be glad if you can help me understand. Thank you very much. Juleswinter ( talk) 02:33, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed the discussion you started at Talk:Kimi Räikkönen. I agree, however I don't believe the best approach right now is to go article-by-article. This is an issue which first needs addressing at at least WikiProject-level as I also point out truly atrocious articles like Tony Kanaan and Kevin Harvick. As a long-standing editor active in various projects, I believe your words would carry much more weight than mine in such a discussion and you have my support if you feel taking this to another venue is appropriate. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 05:53, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
I noticed twice you removed my edits to the Goodwood Festival Of Speed page, specifically about the Goodwood tracks in Gran Turismo. Most of that content was already there, and had been for some time (The initial addition of that section was March 23, 2016, and numerous edits had been made since), but when I corrected it since they had gotten which tracks were in which games wrong, you quickly removed it. I tried to re add it back, minus the citation of the Gran Turismo wiki, but that was removed as well. Why is the whole section being removed?
It is true that Gran Turismo featured those tracks, so why remove the whole section instead of adding something along the lines of "citation needed"? Honmeg ( talk) 16:37, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, first of all, I'd like to appreciate your edits on the Winnipeg article and other contributions throughout Wikipedia especially on Canadian topics. Before you revert my edits, I am wondering what's the exact reason you have reverted my past contributions in converting the cluttered section by organizing it into a concise bullet list? This has been done in various major Canadian city articles and has been well received by other editors. I am somewhat surprised by the revert from you. You will notice that with my edits, I have effectively cleaned up and organized all the older sporting events in a chronological order. Unless your intention is to further elaborate on each event (which no one has done yet), it just seems more logical to just list them. Let me know your thoughts. Thank you. Kazuha1029 ( talk) 04:29, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Thanks for your work on Bibliography of France. I'm curious whether you were thinking of using the BoF article as a ready reference to find citations for articles on France-related topics you plan on working on, or whether it was a straight-up split to create a new article for the usual reasons. On a tangentially related topic, you may be interested in looking at Template:Reflib: there may be some possible cross-pollination there with BoF. At its core, {{ Reflib}} needn't be tied to anything about France, but because the projects I was working on happened to be all about France when I came up with Reflib, France topics (two of them, so far) became the core topic area for the Reflib template. I plan to add more domains, not necessarily about France; just wherever there's a need. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 07:59, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, made my topic for 9 August. May music triumph over military. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:00, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Today's story is about the Inkpot Madonna who returned to "her place" 9 years ago, and also has aspects of early learning, remember? - You supplied an interesting link to further past then. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Today I heard a delightful concert, "Himmlische Freuden", remembered having heard Vilde Frang ( Bruch concerto, in Zürich, with my brother's orchestra) , and succeeded in preparing Renata Scotto's article enough for the Main page (which took two days). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:53, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Today is Debussy's birthday, as you will know ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I apologize for not explaining my edit before in Cottingley Fairies - the reason I changed the text of the line about the rediscovery of the photo published in The Sphere is that I think that as of now it's misleading as to why it is thought it might indicate a broader conspiracy potentially involving adults other than the girls. The fact that the two other rediscovered photos appear to be "poorly executed copies" of the CF photos is misleading because the established timeline shows that it is highly unlikely they were "copies" at all when the CF photos were not seen by anyone outside the family until later. So the point is that this implies that maybe in fact it's the other way around - that the CF photos were actually better executed copies of those, and that the claimed 1917 date of the first two photos was a lie meant to obscure this. Does that make sense? This is all laid out in the paywalled Skeptical Inquirer article but the author of the book first explaining this writes about it in this blog post too: https://folklorethursday.com/fakelore/curiouser-curiouser-100-year-old-cottingley-fairies-hoax-just-got-better/ -- DanyaRomulus ( talk) DanyaRomulus ( talk) 14:21, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, I've started using the {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL|noicon=on}}
format rather than manually inserting infobox information (which seems like a pretty robust and handy way to use the data we have in Wikidata), and am now wondering if there is a reason not to do this. (I ask as you recently reverted my addition of this format
here.) Cheers,
Cl3phact0 (
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17:12, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Please show me in the template documentation where it says New York City must be used instead of Brooklyn. The only documentation I see refers to the elimination of redundancy as in the case of "New York City, New York, United States" when "New York City, U.S." conveys essentially the same information more concisely." That example indicates the elimination of the twice used, thus redundant "New York", to make it more concise, which is not the same as being more specific by specifying Brooklyn. Perhaps there is additional documentation I am missing? Semper Fi! FieldMarine ( talk) 19:53, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! Does that make sense to you, not spefificying the borough in NYC when it is known? Semper Fi! FieldMarine ( talk) 20:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Nikkimaria. I'm working on getting Liz Truss featured article status, but am still in the preliminary stages. I want to crack down on the tricky things first; as I don't plan on adding or changing any images, if you have any spare time, could you check if the copyright on them is sound? Everything looks above board to my amateur eye, but you're the expert here, and I want to get it out the way before the FAC. Again, if you're not interested or don't have any time, I understand. Cheers, Tim O'Doherty ( talk) 20:29, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Please revert back to my original wording of "leap of faith" as it best describes the huge risk than James Risher in fact taking to purchase subject property in the midst of the "Great Depression", or at least provide your rationale to change it to "Risheroffered". Again, I do believe the term "leap of faith" best describes that aspect of the history of my alma mater perfectly - as I have done some extensive research on the subject in the creation this page. If no rationale is given for your edit then I have to insist on an arbitration, particularly if your edit without has no any reason other than you personally may not like the term "leap of faith" - which is sort of universal, especially for anyone who flies (or even goes down in a submersible to see the wreck of the Titanic). Additionally, for the many who attended Carlisle, Colonel Risher was in fact it's guiding force for nearly half a century, and as this is a fact, why would this need to be deleted in your edit. And one other deletion was the word "reunion" used to describe the April, 2018 event. It was in fact a reunion of all classes as well as a commemoration. So please provide some rationale for these deletions in your edit. Thank you for your interest in Carlisle Military School and your consideration for those particular phrases I used that - aside from their particular meaning to Carlisle alumni - is an accurate use of the proper words to describe factual aspects of Carlisles history. SandHills ( talk) 02:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello
We seem to be in a slow edit war over this: I’ve made a compromise/middle ground edit (per
WP:BRD) and opened a discussion
here, if you wish to comment. Regards,
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Special:Diff/1171748845. What do you mean "misplaced" ? Graywalls ( talk) 00:49, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
hey you recently removed 2 of the citations on the Page ' Ali la Pointe' and your edit summary was "rm inline EL" so, what do you mean by that? Faraz Sualeh ( talk) 07:45, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Could you point me to the RFC referred here? The Doom Patrol ( talk) 11:33, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, Can you please let us know why this content has been removed? This shows the career path of the child actor. Rishikuppa ( talk) 12:50, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria ok here is the thing i wont raise the issue now i wont revert your reverts but like here is the think we have many heads of state and of goverments with extensive infoboxes i dont see why they should be collapsible also you told me to go to the talks page like set up three diffrent talk pages . Listen i have nothing agaisnt you but like everytime we try and do something will get reverted it is pointless for us new editors there is no win for us here . What i am supposed to do ? why should anyone edit here if its gonna be guarded 24/7. Could you give me some advice ? Friendlyhistorian ( talk) 04:40, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Did you even read my Edit summary? Simply reverting my addition doesn't help HiLo48 ( talk) 03:36, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ Nikkimaria, I notice you rolled back my London infobox additions on demography and GDP. May I ask what was wrong with them please? They were all cited. Dgp4004 ( talk) 17:43, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I hope that things are going well with you. I would be grateful, if you have the time, if you could have a look at the image licensing for polar bear, which is currently at FAC. Or, for that matter, anything else to do with the images you would care to comment on. Thanks. Gog the Mild ( talk) 12:58, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I recently saw that you reverted by edit to Netherlands because I changed British English to American English. I understand the revert, however in that edit I also changed "in the south-west of the Netherlands" to "in the southwest Netherlands", so I re-did that part. I am just telling you so that you are not surprised. TypoEater ( talk) 18:59, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
I'm an idiot. I reverted too far so you had to do your ce again. Sorry! Knitsey ( talk) 00:39, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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I'm fairly new to editing, so I appreciate your guidance. Is a Findagrave entry/ picture of a headstone not considered a reliable source? In this case, the exact date of death for Gladys comes from the headstone, and I haven't been able to find any other source that provides that. With that source removed, there's no source for her exact date of death (only a month and year in the Social Security Index).
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I know we've had this conversation before. I saw you removed the find grave link from the External Link section of William Duane (physicist) per WP:ELPEREN. According to WP:FINDAGRAVE-EL usage is permitted:
"As an external link: Nota bene Rarely. Sometimes, a link is acceptable because of a specific, unique feature or information that is not available elsewhere, such as valuable images of a grave."
The William Duane find a grave posting has a valuable image of his grave and that is why it was included. Will you revert? Thanks! Dwkaminski ( talk) 14:03, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, hope you well. I wondered if you could take a brief glance at this. I've not come across the reasoning before, but you see, the photographer ( Milton H. Greene) didn't die until 1985. So wouldn't it not be PD for another ~30 years? Thanks! Serial 15:30, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Giants2008 and myself have been watching over the Michael Jordan page for several years now. Why don't you open a talk section to discuss how the opener should be phrased? Exxcalibur808 ( talk) 16:11, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you would be able to take a look at Jessica Berman. It looks like the article may have the type of close paraphrasing that's harder to find, and it may be in more than the article section already being questioned. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:28, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Do you think a brief variety of the literature Gacy collected as opposed to just one title would explain to the reader the books which fueled his criminal behavior? The books were not only encouraging murder but also pederasty in addition to somewhat ordinary gay books and magazines (with erotic titles I won't repeat here). If you think the title is somewhat unpalatable then three of the others discovered were 21 Abnormal Sex Cases, Bike Boy and The Rights of Gay People. Thanks. Kieronoldham ( talk) 23:30, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
. Absolutely not. Tens of thousands of daily watchers and editors are the judges. Let's see if the devaluing tag remains for 24 hours. If not (and if not addressed before) I'll - with your blessing above 681 watchers (with consensus) - remove the tag. No it ain't me and never has been. I do think a more than average knowledge of "cases" of this "kinda" topic may be beneficial for overseeing content, however. Best regards.-- Kieronoldham ( talk) 01:49, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi. Please make sure to not change square brackets into sheer ellipses in texts that use both, as it can then appear that the original source used them. This was the case in Mitzura Arghezi, where the quoted Romanian and Hungarian sources regularly use ellipses in titles etc. to mark other aspects of tone and phrasing. I believe that this advice is actually dispensed by the MoS itself -- see the "With square brackets" part of MOS:ELLIPSIS. (As much as I dislike some of the nonsense that has crept up in the MoS on various other topics I reverted you on, I note that there are exceptions still provided for each and all of the topics where editors stick to the generic, blind, rule. I felt I should detail my comments on the ellipses and the exception as a particular salient case: not applying the "with brackets" exception here will simply confuse the reader.) Dahn ( talk) 07:45, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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Ok i will source all the section, just wait — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arequipa belleza ( talk • contribs)
@ Nikkimaria: Ok i will do it but I don't need references to create this article since it doesn't need it, each article of each person has its own references, and besides I haven't got any article List of people from ... any city that has a single reference, however nobody discusses it or deletes it.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
why don't you delete those of london, paris, milan, madrid that don't have a single reference?-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:48, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Liège, Aleppo, Bruges, Brussels, Prague, Jerusalem, ... you have a lot of work to do-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:50, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
ok but I am going to create this article this way backing me in the articles that I make the links, since they did not put it either it is already a lot of work to put references for each person, and there are more than 50 people.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:52, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
no it's not fair, and if you want to raise it in a discussion with other administrators, I'm not going to put it in draft, you're just doing whatever it takes not to publish the article, sorry. You are making just one exception with all the cities and towns added in wikipedia.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
we can discuss it with other administrators if you continue.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:58, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
ok I'll publish it, and I'll move on to discussion.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 02:01, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
but don't pass it to me yet to draft, the fact that you assert that you have more rights than others in wikipedia, does not mean that you do everything wrong, and as you wish, without reasoning.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 02:03, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hi,
I am wondering why you removed the link I added: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Price_equation_examples&oldid=1178853267 The problem with examples page is that it refers to numbered equations which are not in the original proof to which the numbered links lead. This renders the examples page useless. I only grasped the Price equation from the source I gave where examples are part of the main text. How this is fixed I am not sure, but simply reverting my link to the correct source is not much of a solution!
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I appreciate the fact you are such a major editor here at Wikipedia. I will make the argument for the info box on Anthony Myers. I’m glad you at least agreed that his part of the article should stay there, but an info box helps clearly display the information of his birth date and death date as well as age of death and type of cancer, both of which would be of would be incredibly relaxant information as to why he got national attention. Also, the inclusion of “take me to practice” was there because it was featured on a lot of the branding for 17 strong.
I understand as a classmate and friend of Anthony I might display some bias (I know bias is a problem, I just edited a ton of pro Tarheel bias out of a college football rivalry article) but I think I am being reasonable here. BigCheddah ( talk) 02:09, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Can you take another look at galley? I think I've managed addressed all points.
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Hello, could you possibly provide an image review for my Easy on Me FAC? The article only uses two images but one of my prose reviewers has predicated the outcome of their review upon the passing of the image review by someone experienced.-- N Ø 14:24, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi I can't seem to figure out why the behind the scenes team is being deleted from The Front Bar. I'm still learning how to do this, but I thought I did it correctly, and there doesn't seem to be a "why we did this" option to figure it out. Supanakbebek ( talk) 05:58, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi - I notice that you edited /info/en/?search=Theophila_Gwatkin to remove a citation fom WikiTree. Can you point me to a discussion here on WP which declares it to be Non-RS. I cannot find one. (I do see one for FindMyPast but the specific complaint there is about user-generated family trees. Not the case with WT.) Verne Equinox ( talk) 16:52, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Stop scrubbing Nir Barkat 's page.
He made comments recently on the israel war about wiping out iran. These comments must obviously be included on his wikipedia page. If you keep deleting them, we will keep adding htem back on and then contact CNN.
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Nikkimaria You removed an edit on the page for James Haskell's personal life, updating his relationship status with his wife (his marriage was already mentioned in the section). This was widely reported in the press, confirmed by the couple and I included a link to the newspaper report (the highest physical circulation daily newspaper in the UK) quoting the statement by the couple. Why was this removed? 86.15.5.71 ( talk) 20:15, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, why did you remove death cause from article? No one knows how she died. Is that not to be included in the infobox? Davidgoodheart ( talk) 03:29, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I'd like to know why you removed the information I've used from Fandom on the Wikipedia article for RMS Aquitania? I think its necessary to be included since it gives information about the ship's height and there was no information about it before I added it. Ale.ch.geor ( talk) 11:06, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Morning @ Nikkimaria: Thanks for updating that wee Rudolf Bailovic article I wrote a lifetime ago. I saw the editor tacking on the "Find a Grave" junk, then changing the whole article. I just wonder if that is the ultimate desination for all these academic and non-academic articles, to have these kinds of junk tacked over time. I spend a lot of time removing this kind of stuff and I know how much hard it is. Thanks. scope_creep Talk 07:08, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Dear @ Nikkimaria: You removed information I added about Rhyl Hinwood's parents because its citation was from an unreliable source, Wikitree. In this case, I urge you to reconsider for five reasons:
1. The author of the Wikitree entry I used, Heather Stevens (her real name), has signed Wikitree's honour code, including citing sources. Indeed she does cite her sources. She is passionate about it ( https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stevens-18395).
2. I checked one of her sources--that for Hinwood's father, at the New South Wales Government's site for births, deaths, and marriages ( https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search?2), and got a hit for the father's name. Unfortunately, it would cost me AUD35 to receive a PDF of the father's birth certificate, but I hope you agree that that is hardly necessary.
3. Wikitree does have some measure of peer review. Stevens has received at least four compliments from Wikitree's G2G community, most recently in October 2023 ( https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stevens-18395).
4. Wikitree does have some measure of editorial control. Stevens has been chosen as a highlighted user from Wikitree's G2G community ( https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1286080/meet-our-members-heather-stevens).
5. Although Wikitree is a user generated tree, it is not among the examples listed in WP:UGC. Indeed it has been used for academic, peer-reviewed papers on research.
The only claim one could make is that Stevens's entry does not mention Rhyl Hinwood. But this is consistent with Wikitree's honour code not to publish information about living people.
I have no doubts about the entry's veracity. I urge you to reinstate it. Robert P. O'Shea ( talk) 09:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, could you take another look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Phoolan Devi/archive1. I think the image review is done and the source review prob needs more discussion on ToI. Thanks, Mujinga ( talk) 17:04, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
You've cited MOS:BIRTHDATE as the reason for undoing my edits, but I don't see where MOS: BIRTHDATE supports the decision you've made. Please explain. Jjazz76 ( talk) 02:08, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
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I posted a comment on the ANC article talk page. I think WP guidelines need clarification. E.g., does WP:ELPEREN apply to FAG cemeteries listed as a whole, or does WLP:ELPEREN apply simply to the individual gravesite listings on FAG. – S. Rich ( talk) 03:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, Just wanted to give you a heads up, I did a pretty significant rewrite and expansion of Begotten for sourcing and writing issues that were noted in its previous FA nominations. Removed a lot of problematic sources and completely redid the citation style to make it more legible. I am hoping it clears up the bulk of the issues that caused the nominations to fail previously and its current FA nomination to pass. Paleface Jack ( talk) 18:24, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
The Portgual page is too long and too cluttered. Considering you're an expert on this, something needs to be done there. 2A00:23C7:6989:2701:D45D:AEF4:E222:51BC ( talk) 00:28, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
In your edition of 00:24, 11 October 2023, you deleted from the page Castilla–La Mancha a graph about the region's economy (Castilla-La Mancha Product Exports (2020).svg), with just the comment detree. Could you explain why? Jotamar ( talk) 01:18, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
You were mentioned in this discussion back in August, but not pinged; if you were notified here on your talk, that is lost in the volume :) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 10:05, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I'm reaching out because of your expertise with city articles, as I'm working on preparing my first FA nomination: Fez, Morocco. The article is currently undergoing a final peer review before I nominate it, and I would love any feedback or assistance that you could provide. –– FormalDude (talk) 12:52, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
hi Nikkimaria ,
it appears you have deleted the factual and reliable information that me and 3 other students have added to the page of Josephine Webb. everything added to the page was been extensively researched and is factually correct. i would be very apreative if you didn't do this again as this is a college assignment that heavily impacts our grade and by deleting the work we have spent weeks researching and putting together will result in us failing our assignment and putting our college placement in jeopardy.
kind regards Christopherbuckley2 ( talk) 15:36, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, I've noticed you've deleted the entire marching bands section in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade article. All of the info in the section is factually correct and has been worked on by many people. If I could get a better explanation on why you are deleting it that would be much appreciated. Nontedious ( talk) 00:47, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm thinking of sending William Y. Slack to FAC but am worried that there may be MOS:ACCESS issues with File:Missouri State Guard divisions map (cropped).jpg. I think it's useful to include this map to show the various departments, but I don't know how best to include this information without creating accessibility issues. (the existing map was produced in Microsoft paint). Hog Farm Talk 04:36, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Help me understand your removal of find a grave on Alfred L. Elwyn. My understanding of the latest guidance on WP:ELPEREN is that find a grave can be used if an image is available that is not available on wikipedia. I added the EL to Alfed L. Elwyn since there is an image of his grave. Thanks! Dwkaminski ( talk) 00:17, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I would like you to elaborate your reason to "trim" information from the G Fuel page regarding its partnership with the 2014 roguelite game The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The edit reason did not come off as constructive to me. Both the energy drink and the game are notable items, and the removed information has sourced proof of the partnership. The sources attached to the removed information were the only ones I could find. The edit in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=G_Fuel&diff=prev&oldid=1188229862
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It is kind crazy that my exploits on Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic forced you to put the "too long" templates into every page about individuals that is over 400 thousand bytes (sept Trump for obvious reasons).
Anyways, I am here to warn you that you overlooked Mary Hanford Ford (445B), and also that you misread Roger Federer since he is actually quite far from the 400B (currently at 362B).
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Hi,
You removed the comma in this sentence:
The trip is unlikely, given William's absorption in warfare with Anjou at the time. [ revision]
The sentence contains two verbs. Without the comma, those verbs parse as a single verb construct, which is not the intended meaning.
Here is an example of a similar sentence, where the comma's absence aligns with the intended meaning:
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I don't think this edit deserved reverting. It shows that Robinson was a more well-rounded individual at UCLA than a discussion of only his athletic career there would indicate. Isn't that worth noting, that Robinson had more on his mind at UCLA than participation in sports? Larry Koenigsberg ( talk) 03:24, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of
Eenoolooapik several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the
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I was wondering why you deleted the John Wollaston caption in this edit. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 14:09, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello there! I do understand your wanting of a smaller caption. MOS:CREDITS says it is acceptable to link the artist in the caption. So I’m just curious as to why you have an issue with this? A lot of portrait artists aren’t very well known, linking them to their portraits that are used in articles helps make them more known, it allows people to be able to read more about the artist and see more of their work. I especially appreciate when the artist is linked in the caption as I am an avid lover of portrait art. I don’t really see a very good reason to remove them. Most lead images have the artist linked in the caption, seems odd to me to cherry pick a few articles and remove them when most articles have them. Robertus Pius ( Talk • Contribs) 02:17, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
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I noticed your revert of an infobox for BB, citing "(see note)". I wonder what a possibly new user - never saw the name before - may get from that. I tried to find out, and saw a hidden notice in the code: "Before adding an infobox, please read Talk:Benjamin Britten/Archive 1#Infobox." How would we know if the user read, and no more than reading seems required? The comment there (from 2007) questions the use of an infobox for a popular musician, not of any infobox. That was helped by the new infobox, which followed a request for an infobox on the talk. I see no reason for you to revert. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:15, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:37, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:39, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Can you please go back and re-insert the artist's who painted the lead images that you have removed? I don't mean the photography studio's, just the painters. Crediting artist's works seem an important part of Wikipedia credibility and important to the topic. Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 01:07, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you have removed my addition to the Pacific War page, could you give me some further clarification for this action and perhaps display where this has already been mentioned within the page? Additionally, any further guidance around the topic would be useful. Thank you for your time! T224murray ( talk) 17:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you've removed the birth and death place details for Mozart from his infobox? I note that you've been adding in the exact same details for Americans, yet don't seem to apply this to Europeans. City, State, polity of birth are pretty consistent across wikipedia and in your other edits. Why remove? Ecrm87 ( talk) 02:39, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, thanks for pointing out the source was unreliable. I have now attributed it to a better one from S.T Joshi but am not sure how to link the ISBN number. I have a JSTOR link too so just looking through sources that are already on the page to finesse the link. I just wanted to send this update so you didn't think I was edit warring or being disrespectful. Thanks. Glaaaastonbury88 ( talk) 07:07, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Not sure whats going on.... was there a talk to change government_type field all over ??? got 2 editors doing this
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Type | Communist state | Parliamentary liberal democracy | Presidential liberal democracy |
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Party structure | One-party system (normally) | Multi-party system | Multi-party system |
Leading role of ruling party | Yes | None | None |
Power structure | Unified power | Fusion of power | Checks and balances |
State branches | One | Minimum two | Minimum three |
Democratic structure | Democratic centralism | Liberal democracy | Liberal democracy |
Legislature type | Highest organ of state power | Parliament | Parliament |
Does the legislature have unlimited power? | Yes | No | No |
State system is based on | Class values | Universal values | Universal values |
Transmission belt mass organisations? | Yes | None | None |
You removed the "mother" and "father" tags from the infobox for Hardaway Hunt Dinwiddie. Would it be acceptable to use the "parents" tag which is part of the complete template? Holtrk85 ( talk) 15:00, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, can you explain why you have removed the content I added on Fonseca's article? Thedarkknightli ( talk) 02:50, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
It looks like your revert on The Dark Tower was because the edit used a blog or a fan site. Here is another citation from a reliable source here: [2]. Are you ok with my restoring the edit with this reliable source? HenryRoan ( talk) 16:59, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Good day! I undid your revision removing the sentence about Lt Col Breckenridge's later death. I removed Find-a-Grave as a source and added two more reliable sources that verify the date, cause of death, and burial location (a published book available on Archive.org and the National Park Service). Since neither of those state the location of death, I removed that portion completely. Let me know if you have any other concerns with keeping this in and we can go from there, thank you! nf utvol ( talk) 13:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, you reverted my edit adding a Spoken Wikipedia version of the article on Germany, with only the comment "trim". Can you please justify that action? morrisjm ( talk) 03:30, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikki - could I ask your view on whether this image can be included in a GA? The copyright holder (the British Library) sell it, but for £0 for web use: the page reads "Images can be used for free, Please credit: Courtesy British Library (followed by the shelfmark)." Is that good enough for an upload to Commons, in the absence of a formal CC licence? UndercoverClassicist ( talk) 20:59, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered, and so PD-US-UNPUBLISHED won't be applicable? Or does it only count if the author never published it? UndercoverClassicist ( talk) 22:34, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
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I noticed you've undone a lot of links to Find A Grave on many articles. I'd just like to say first and foremost is that it IS a very useful and reliable source, and it has been used on many other articles besides ones i've edited. I kindly ask that you please undo any reverts on the matter and refrain from removing links from Find A Grave in the future. Thank you. OmniFrieza994 ( talk) 21:16, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, you approved my application for the British Newspaper Archive on the Wikipedia Library earlier today. I received an email with a coupon code to gain access to the database, however when I tried entering it at the provided URL, I received a message that it was invalid. Not sure why this might be. I had previously registered for a free account on the British Newspaper Archive, maybe I need to make a new one? Thanks. Hockeyben (talk - contribs) 18:46, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I opened a new application as instructed in an email I received. Would you be able to approve it? Thanks. -- Hockeyben (talk - contribs) 03:08, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Dear Nikkimaria, thank you for all your hard work over the years and the work you continue to do. I'm a long-term collaborator / editor often on issues where our systemic bias counts against us, and I saw today that Kges1901 had suggested at WT:TWL that we consider asking Eastview Information Services' whether they might allow access to their extensive range of online databases?
"..They have a wide range of newspaper collections that cover areas such as East Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe that are not currently included.. Adding access to these newspapers would help with addressing Wikipedia's systemic bias.." [minor paraphrase].
I think this is a great idea!! If I wanted to encourage TWL and its backers to get these resources added, how would you advise me to start? Many thanks Buckshot06 (talk) 03:18, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
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It is a sharp irony, is it not, that Wikipedia's lack of welcome for Find a Grave as a reliable source is on the basis that the content is "user generated".
Wikipedia is also user generated – with its credibility asserted by citations – but in some instances, as in this one, photographic evidence is equivalent to a reliable source: such credibility is high. The likelihood that someone would use artificial intelligence to create a fake image – or take a photograph of the headstone in a different cemetery – is remote.
It is pretty galling that in such a tiny graveyard I could find the headstone within one minute – especially since its location is precisely identified at the Find a Grave website – and I could take further pictures of it myself for uploading to Wikimedia Commons which would be acceptable for inclusion in the article, but I could not include my physical visit as a reliable source citation, despite seeing the gravestone with my own eyes!
I have formerly provided my own headstone picture at the John Stanislaus Joyce article – and this complies with Wikipedia policy.
Anyway, I have adjusted my entry to comply with the WP:FINDAGRAVE-EL policy by including it, instead – and as permitted – as an external link!
Collisions between bureaucratic rules and stark physical reality – usually between a citizen and the bank or between the citizen and the government – are notorious. Cheers. O'Dea ( talk) 03:29, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Crawford, Joan (Lucille LeSueur, March 23, 1904 – May 10, 1977) San Antonio born film star.... Her ashes were placed in the vault beside the coffin of her husband, with the crypt listing her birth year as 1908.Moxy-
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The nomination in the section header has had at least one reviewer mentioning concerns of plagiarism (and where in the article); I was hoping you could check to see whether anything concerning remains, and whether the sourcing issues also remain, though that's usually not your remit. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset ( talk) 15:32, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
So since we shouldn't to be bias to one side can we put the claims of the 24th mechanized brigade being wiped out but then say that it's been disputed by Ukrainian and Western officials Salfanto ( talk) 12:59, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
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It appears you removed two family trees from Bird, Savage & Bird. Your justification was "cull". By doing this you have deprived the readers of a vital visual tool to help understand complicated family relationships. Can you explain why you decided to take this action?
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Permanent residents chart .....add a bit more data...thus drop prose of In 2021, India, China, and the Philippines were the top three countries of origin for immigrants moving to Canada.....see
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Hey, I see you've been trimming and removing a lot of content in your recent edits. What is "fmt" as mentioned in Richard Montañez: Revision history, and what's the reason for pruning those citations?
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I think all of the images posted to this article are problematic. They seems to be lifted from a published source elsewhere - a book that seems to be maybe out of print but that I cannot access online - but Google Image search is also polluted by the WP/Common results. The Commons uploader only uploaded the images in 2013, they have made no other edits other than the Peralta Stones article images. I have been unable to find where the images originated from but they do have a copyright asserted by the website desertusa(dot)com in 2014 and the website's overall copyright dates to 1996. DesertUsa asserts on some of its images "Courtesy of the Superstition Mountain Historical Society" but I was unable to find any of the images on the Superstition Mountain Historical Society's website, which now seems to be
https://superstitionmountainlostdutchmanmuseum.org/.
Could you maybe take a look at some of the images and reply back here with your thoughts? Here is a link of LatinHeartReader's contributions to Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Latin_Heart_Reader I don't want to put them all up for deletion because of possible/probable copyright infringement if that is not the case. Thanks in advance for your thoughts, any help, etc.
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Dear Nikkimaria, you are one of our top Wikipedians, an administrator, FA coordinator, expert on image copyright issues, you name it. Why do you remove my comments on thepeerage.com? It is deprecated and one should cite the references given in thepeerage, not thepeerage itself. I find it still useful for quick cross-checking. It is about as reliable as what I write in Wikipedia. I feel it is below your dignity as a venerable Wikipedian to waste your precious time on deleting my comments, but I probably must be glad you did not at the same time delete my family tree, my timeline, my footquotes, and most of my other contributions. Are you sure you are improving Wikipedia? Yours sincerely, Johannes Schade ( talk) 07:56, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikki. That issue hadn’t occurred to me (I’m using a tablet so maybe the images seemed more spaced out and sandwiching wasn’t presenting itself). The images were also there before I’d seen the article so probably assumed it was reading ok. I’ve kept the places commonly associated with London (Buckingham Palace, Harrods, Abbey Rd) while trimming off the others. Para Clark ( talk) 10:01, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you removed the fandom wiki links for AoE4. I want to know the reason for it.
I linked it specifically because anyone wanting to know more about the game can directly visit the dedicated wiki for it. Obviously Wikipedia cannot have everything regarding the game. Sauravt2812 ( talk) 09:48, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
I was trying to figure out why I can't get a Table of contents onto my user talk. (I mainly tried the magic words of __TOC__.) If you or one of your talk page stalkers have the chance could someone please take a look at User talk:Shearonink, post here in reply and tell me whhhhyyyyy. Please don't go ahead and correct my mistake (which I am sure is perfectly clear to everyone but me). Just post the solution here and let *me* correct the coding etc. on my page - otherwise I'll never learn. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 17:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I need a favor. I saw that you fixed the articles Italians and History of Italy, and I would like to ask you if you could fix (so as to remove the tags), also the articles Cinema of Italy and Italian literature. I would like to do it, but I'm not so familiar with the English Wikipedia policies (I'm mainly active on the Italian Wikipedia). Greetings. -- LukeWiller ( talk) 14:34, 1 July 2023 (UTC).
Hi,
You once helped me out with an article I was preparing and I recall you were very competent with citation formatting. Not guilty (I hope) but I noticed on an article I was editing some of the citations were broken. Could you have a peek for me.
The article is Irredentism and it a problem with an sfn template Kornprobst. Hope that makes sense. W C M email 15:27, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
Just asking. StrongALPHA ( talk) 19:09, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
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I recognize that I got unusually unhinged at WP:LENGTH, for the reasons I gave, and I can transparently admit that my reaction stemmed from the habit of placing reader-visible templates on articles that do not give our readers actionable information to evaluate the article. However, you clearly took effort to address the problem that you raised, and that doesn't happen enough around here. I often talk about how respect is earned, and however inconsequential it may be, you've earned mine. Thank you. Orange Suede Sofa ( talk) 06:52, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Date ranges on the Eric Kebbon page for the lives of Eric and his wife Jane were confirmed by the findagrave.com website as it included photographs of the gravestones showing the dates. Information from such a source is not "non-RS". 2603:7000:9500:F800:54B:2C18:8332:BD49 ( talk) 03:48, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. I thought I'd contact you following your comments here. The deleted Vancouver and Calgary flags were are used on wikiproject banners on the French Wikipedia, fr:Modèle:Portail Vancouver and fr:Modèle:Portail Calgary, which are now showing those jigsaw puzzle icons. I raised the matter here but would you have any recommendations? Thanks. (Please don't respond on my enwiki user talkpage, I am not active here any longer.) Shawn à Montréal ( talk) 11:41, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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Can Wikipedia:Featured article review/Keith Miller in the 1946–47 Australian cricket season/archive1 be closed? It was a "procedural" nomination for an article that went to AFD, and the AFD successfully closed as delete. IMO the discussion can be safely speedy-deleted as housekeeping/uncontroversial, unless there's possibly some record-keeping need to keep it around. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 16:35, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
The article has well over 600 watchers, and attracts several thousand daily viewers. Your tag this time around indicates the article may "interest" a particular audience. I also note there has been nothing upon the talk page to accompany your tag to invoke discussion. Thought Wikipedia was an impartial encyclopedia. Topic-wise, everything is referenced and if we are to adhere to the original tag you placed upon the article in the early hours of yesterday, I would hope some forms of suggestion as to "splitting content into sub-articles" can be suggested and attained.
There is no similar tag on the 9/11 article on Wiki. or the Joseph Stalin one. A Teahouse entry would be welcomed. Kieronoldham ( talk) 02:07, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, why a gravesite not a reliable source? What would be the appropriate source to prove someone’s death? Thanks 2600:6C64:427F:39F0:878:4897:7A6B:F119 ( talk) 02:27, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I have started a discussion on Talk:David Angell on whether a consensus exists to add a cause of death to the infobox. I have also laid out some of my arguments of why I think it is appropriate.-- Sunshineisles2 ( talk) 23:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Stop removing all external links to Find a Grave. WP:RSP#Find a Grave: "Links to Find a Grave may sometimes be included in the external links section of articles, when the site offers valuable additional content, such as images not permitted for use on Wikipedia." Sundayclose ( talk) 17:03, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, the nominator of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Uranium mining in the Bancroft area/archive1 and I are disagreeing on the reliability of two sources - the Reynolds book and the Proulx thesis. Would you be willing to offer some brief thoughts there? Hog Farm Talk 02:10, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey. I wanted some advice on how precisely to shorten up an article. I was initially in disagreement about shortening articles. However, I realize you are right, that most long articles have unnecessary info and a number of errors and need improvement. I wondered if you could guide me a little bit, whether there is a link which guides on how to shorten articles. I could not find one on my own. Thanks. -- Omnis Scientia ( talk) 08:33, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Sorry, could you explain me where the article Italy shhould be cut more?Thanks. Simplyred90 ( talk) 06:33, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
I don't understand why you remove find a grave website of Adolphe Le Prince Vwqvj qwhiu ( talk) 07:23, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Genuinely confused, is there a reason why Historiography of Louis Riel shouldn't be linked to the Historiography section of Louis Riel's page? XTheBedrockX ( talk) 02:15, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
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In 2013, Brianboulton announced on my talk his idea of a compromise "identibox" as in Percy Grainger: DOB, POB, DOD, POD, and why a person is known. The facts about birth and death are standard for a biography. In the English Wikipedia, the places can be omitted in the lead, because they can be found in an infobox, - if there is one. People will link between Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti. Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:48, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Fine, I looked again, and your last statement was "We've discussed above how the proposal does a poor job of providing a summary of what is truly key about who she was", while my view is that it is not the objective of any infobox to be a summary of what is truly key about who she (or he) was, - which I believe even the lead can't achieve, nor the article. It's purpose is simply to place certain information in a predictable position, like when and where she was born and died, and why we have an article about her. From the closure of Mendelssohn (where you also reverted): "it is not up to us to control how our readers read". An infobox doesn't replace the lead but eases conveniently the access to some information, such as where a biography is placed in time and location (like an opera plot says where and when a scene plays). We even have a script now available that transforms an infobox into an image with caption, serving those who don't like its looks. So why not? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:18, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
I'm busy here with Renata Scotto, and in RL with company, Mahler's Second yesterday and Fourth today. Brings me back to the beginning: can you consider restoring a short infobox for Cosima Wagner, an article by Brian, whom I know as open to compromise, inventor of the identibox, and having given us a model by accepting the 2015 community consensus for Chopin, restored by the community just recently? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:24, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
I noticed you removed all citations on that page which were from the translations of drama CDs posted on Tsukiuta Wiki. Can you please tell me what I should do if I want to cite sources from Drama CDs?? I haven't been able to find any official translations or audio. I really think having citations directly from the Drama CDs would improve the article. If possible could you help me with this? Do you know of any official channels of Tsukino Production where they might have content related to the Drama CDs?
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I note that you have added a template to all of the articles on Torah readings criticizing the amount of external links. Is it the "External Links" section in particular that you find excessive? Would you view some smaller number of external links there as appropriate? I note that you also have added a "too long" template to several of the articles. What length would you consider appropriate? Thanks in advance.-- Dauster ( talk) 19:49, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, from what I've gathered you seem quite experienced and professional on Wikipedia. Thank you for pointing out the deficient sides of my recent contribution to the Norway's page. I should improve myself on giving better and much credible sources on Wikipedia, I'll work on it from now on. However, you also pointed out 'undue weight' as the second reason for the removal of my contribution. I have read through the meaning and examples of undue weight but I couldn't understand how Aurora's implementation into the music section of Norway is considered as undue weight. She has objectively reached to over a billion people and is one of the only people to represent Norway in Academy Awards with a song, in addition to all the music and concerts she has performed worlwide, introducing to Norway to new generations.
How can her accretion into the page be considerd undue weight considering her major international achivements? I fully understand that it can be sourced so much better and professionaly, but wanted to ask this part specifically. I would be glad if you can help me understand. Thank you very much. Juleswinter ( talk) 02:33, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed the discussion you started at Talk:Kimi Räikkönen. I agree, however I don't believe the best approach right now is to go article-by-article. This is an issue which first needs addressing at at least WikiProject-level as I also point out truly atrocious articles like Tony Kanaan and Kevin Harvick. As a long-standing editor active in various projects, I believe your words would carry much more weight than mine in such a discussion and you have my support if you feel taking this to another venue is appropriate. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 05:53, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
I noticed twice you removed my edits to the Goodwood Festival Of Speed page, specifically about the Goodwood tracks in Gran Turismo. Most of that content was already there, and had been for some time (The initial addition of that section was March 23, 2016, and numerous edits had been made since), but when I corrected it since they had gotten which tracks were in which games wrong, you quickly removed it. I tried to re add it back, minus the citation of the Gran Turismo wiki, but that was removed as well. Why is the whole section being removed?
It is true that Gran Turismo featured those tracks, so why remove the whole section instead of adding something along the lines of "citation needed"? Honmeg ( talk) 16:37, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, first of all, I'd like to appreciate your edits on the Winnipeg article and other contributions throughout Wikipedia especially on Canadian topics. Before you revert my edits, I am wondering what's the exact reason you have reverted my past contributions in converting the cluttered section by organizing it into a concise bullet list? This has been done in various major Canadian city articles and has been well received by other editors. I am somewhat surprised by the revert from you. You will notice that with my edits, I have effectively cleaned up and organized all the older sporting events in a chronological order. Unless your intention is to further elaborate on each event (which no one has done yet), it just seems more logical to just list them. Let me know your thoughts. Thank you. Kazuha1029 ( talk) 04:29, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Thanks for your work on Bibliography of France. I'm curious whether you were thinking of using the BoF article as a ready reference to find citations for articles on France-related topics you plan on working on, or whether it was a straight-up split to create a new article for the usual reasons. On a tangentially related topic, you may be interested in looking at Template:Reflib: there may be some possible cross-pollination there with BoF. At its core, {{ Reflib}} needn't be tied to anything about France, but because the projects I was working on happened to be all about France when I came up with Reflib, France topics (two of them, so far) became the core topic area for the Reflib template. I plan to add more domains, not necessarily about France; just wherever there's a need. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 07:59, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, made my topic for 9 August. May music triumph over military. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:00, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Today's story is about the Inkpot Madonna who returned to "her place" 9 years ago, and also has aspects of early learning, remember? - You supplied an interesting link to further past then. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Today I heard a delightful concert, "Himmlische Freuden", remembered having heard Vilde Frang ( Bruch concerto, in Zürich, with my brother's orchestra) , and succeeded in preparing Renata Scotto's article enough for the Main page (which took two days). -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:53, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Today is Debussy's birthday, as you will know ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I apologize for not explaining my edit before in Cottingley Fairies - the reason I changed the text of the line about the rediscovery of the photo published in The Sphere is that I think that as of now it's misleading as to why it is thought it might indicate a broader conspiracy potentially involving adults other than the girls. The fact that the two other rediscovered photos appear to be "poorly executed copies" of the CF photos is misleading because the established timeline shows that it is highly unlikely they were "copies" at all when the CF photos were not seen by anyone outside the family until later. So the point is that this implies that maybe in fact it's the other way around - that the CF photos were actually better executed copies of those, and that the claimed 1917 date of the first two photos was a lie meant to obscure this. Does that make sense? This is all laid out in the paywalled Skeptical Inquirer article but the author of the book first explaining this writes about it in this blog post too: https://folklorethursday.com/fakelore/curiouser-curiouser-100-year-old-cottingley-fairies-hoax-just-got-better/ -- DanyaRomulus ( talk) DanyaRomulus ( talk) 14:21, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, I've started using the {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL|noicon=on}}
format rather than manually inserting infobox information (which seems like a pretty robust and handy way to use the data we have in Wikidata), and am now wondering if there is a reason not to do this. (I ask as you recently reverted my addition of this format
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Hi. Please show me in the template documentation where it says New York City must be used instead of Brooklyn. The only documentation I see refers to the elimination of redundancy as in the case of "New York City, New York, United States" when "New York City, U.S." conveys essentially the same information more concisely." That example indicates the elimination of the twice used, thus redundant "New York", to make it more concise, which is not the same as being more specific by specifying Brooklyn. Perhaps there is additional documentation I am missing? Semper Fi! FieldMarine ( talk) 19:53, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! Does that make sense to you, not spefificying the borough in NYC when it is known? Semper Fi! FieldMarine ( talk) 20:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Nikkimaria. I'm working on getting Liz Truss featured article status, but am still in the preliminary stages. I want to crack down on the tricky things first; as I don't plan on adding or changing any images, if you have any spare time, could you check if the copyright on them is sound? Everything looks above board to my amateur eye, but you're the expert here, and I want to get it out the way before the FAC. Again, if you're not interested or don't have any time, I understand. Cheers, Tim O'Doherty ( talk) 20:29, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Please revert back to my original wording of "leap of faith" as it best describes the huge risk than James Risher in fact taking to purchase subject property in the midst of the "Great Depression", or at least provide your rationale to change it to "Risheroffered". Again, I do believe the term "leap of faith" best describes that aspect of the history of my alma mater perfectly - as I have done some extensive research on the subject in the creation this page. If no rationale is given for your edit then I have to insist on an arbitration, particularly if your edit without has no any reason other than you personally may not like the term "leap of faith" - which is sort of universal, especially for anyone who flies (or even goes down in a submersible to see the wreck of the Titanic). Additionally, for the many who attended Carlisle, Colonel Risher was in fact it's guiding force for nearly half a century, and as this is a fact, why would this need to be deleted in your edit. And one other deletion was the word "reunion" used to describe the April, 2018 event. It was in fact a reunion of all classes as well as a commemoration. So please provide some rationale for these deletions in your edit. Thank you for your interest in Carlisle Military School and your consideration for those particular phrases I used that - aside from their particular meaning to Carlisle alumni - is an accurate use of the proper words to describe factual aspects of Carlisles history. SandHills ( talk) 02:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
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Special:Diff/1171748845. What do you mean "misplaced" ? Graywalls ( talk) 00:49, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
hey you recently removed 2 of the citations on the Page ' Ali la Pointe' and your edit summary was "rm inline EL" so, what do you mean by that? Faraz Sualeh ( talk) 07:45, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Could you point me to the RFC referred here? The Doom Patrol ( talk) 11:33, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria ok here is the thing i wont raise the issue now i wont revert your reverts but like here is the think we have many heads of state and of goverments with extensive infoboxes i dont see why they should be collapsible also you told me to go to the talks page like set up three diffrent talk pages . Listen i have nothing agaisnt you but like everytime we try and do something will get reverted it is pointless for us new editors there is no win for us here . What i am supposed to do ? why should anyone edit here if its gonna be guarded 24/7. Could you give me some advice ? Friendlyhistorian ( talk) 04:40, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Did you even read my Edit summary? Simply reverting my addition doesn't help HiLo48 ( talk) 03:36, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ Nikkimaria, I notice you rolled back my London infobox additions on demography and GDP. May I ask what was wrong with them please? They were all cited. Dgp4004 ( talk) 17:43, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I hope that things are going well with you. I would be grateful, if you have the time, if you could have a look at the image licensing for polar bear, which is currently at FAC. Or, for that matter, anything else to do with the images you would care to comment on. Thanks. Gog the Mild ( talk) 12:58, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I recently saw that you reverted by edit to Netherlands because I changed British English to American English. I understand the revert, however in that edit I also changed "in the south-west of the Netherlands" to "in the southwest Netherlands", so I re-did that part. I am just telling you so that you are not surprised. TypoEater ( talk) 18:59, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
I'm an idiot. I reverted too far so you had to do your ce again. Sorry! Knitsey ( talk) 00:39, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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I'm fairly new to editing, so I appreciate your guidance. Is a Findagrave entry/ picture of a headstone not considered a reliable source? In this case, the exact date of death for Gladys comes from the headstone, and I haven't been able to find any other source that provides that. With that source removed, there's no source for her exact date of death (only a month and year in the Social Security Index).
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I know we've had this conversation before. I saw you removed the find grave link from the External Link section of William Duane (physicist) per WP:ELPEREN. According to WP:FINDAGRAVE-EL usage is permitted:
"As an external link: Nota bene Rarely. Sometimes, a link is acceptable because of a specific, unique feature or information that is not available elsewhere, such as valuable images of a grave."
The William Duane find a grave posting has a valuable image of his grave and that is why it was included. Will you revert? Thanks! Dwkaminski ( talk) 14:03, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, hope you well. I wondered if you could take a brief glance at this. I've not come across the reasoning before, but you see, the photographer ( Milton H. Greene) didn't die until 1985. So wouldn't it not be PD for another ~30 years? Thanks! Serial 15:30, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Giants2008 and myself have been watching over the Michael Jordan page for several years now. Why don't you open a talk section to discuss how the opener should be phrased? Exxcalibur808 ( talk) 16:11, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you would be able to take a look at Jessica Berman. It looks like the article may have the type of close paraphrasing that's harder to find, and it may be in more than the article section already being questioned. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:28, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Do you think a brief variety of the literature Gacy collected as opposed to just one title would explain to the reader the books which fueled his criminal behavior? The books were not only encouraging murder but also pederasty in addition to somewhat ordinary gay books and magazines (with erotic titles I won't repeat here). If you think the title is somewhat unpalatable then three of the others discovered were 21 Abnormal Sex Cases, Bike Boy and The Rights of Gay People. Thanks. Kieronoldham ( talk) 23:30, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
. Absolutely not. Tens of thousands of daily watchers and editors are the judges. Let's see if the devaluing tag remains for 24 hours. If not (and if not addressed before) I'll - with your blessing above 681 watchers (with consensus) - remove the tag. No it ain't me and never has been. I do think a more than average knowledge of "cases" of this "kinda" topic may be beneficial for overseeing content, however. Best regards.-- Kieronoldham ( talk) 01:49, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi. Please make sure to not change square brackets into sheer ellipses in texts that use both, as it can then appear that the original source used them. This was the case in Mitzura Arghezi, where the quoted Romanian and Hungarian sources regularly use ellipses in titles etc. to mark other aspects of tone and phrasing. I believe that this advice is actually dispensed by the MoS itself -- see the "With square brackets" part of MOS:ELLIPSIS. (As much as I dislike some of the nonsense that has crept up in the MoS on various other topics I reverted you on, I note that there are exceptions still provided for each and all of the topics where editors stick to the generic, blind, rule. I felt I should detail my comments on the ellipses and the exception as a particular salient case: not applying the "with brackets" exception here will simply confuse the reader.) Dahn ( talk) 07:45, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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Ok i will source all the section, just wait — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arequipa belleza ( talk • contribs)
@ Nikkimaria: Ok i will do it but I don't need references to create this article since it doesn't need it, each article of each person has its own references, and besides I haven't got any article List of people from ... any city that has a single reference, however nobody discusses it or deletes it.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
why don't you delete those of london, paris, milan, madrid that don't have a single reference?-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:48, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
Liège, Aleppo, Bruges, Brussels, Prague, Jerusalem, ... you have a lot of work to do-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:50, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
ok but I am going to create this article this way backing me in the articles that I make the links, since they did not put it either it is already a lot of work to put references for each person, and there are more than 50 people.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:52, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
no it's not fair, and if you want to raise it in a discussion with other administrators, I'm not going to put it in draft, you're just doing whatever it takes not to publish the article, sorry. You are making just one exception with all the cities and towns added in wikipedia.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
we can discuss it with other administrators if you continue.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 01:58, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
ok I'll publish it, and I'll move on to discussion.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 02:01, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
but don't pass it to me yet to draft, the fact that you assert that you have more rights than others in wikipedia, does not mean that you do everything wrong, and as you wish, without reasoning.-- Arequipa belleza ( talk) 02:03, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hi,
I am wondering why you removed the link I added: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Price_equation_examples&oldid=1178853267 The problem with examples page is that it refers to numbered equations which are not in the original proof to which the numbered links lead. This renders the examples page useless. I only grasped the Price equation from the source I gave where examples are part of the main text. How this is fixed I am not sure, but simply reverting my link to the correct source is not much of a solution!
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I appreciate the fact you are such a major editor here at Wikipedia. I will make the argument for the info box on Anthony Myers. I’m glad you at least agreed that his part of the article should stay there, but an info box helps clearly display the information of his birth date and death date as well as age of death and type of cancer, both of which would be of would be incredibly relaxant information as to why he got national attention. Also, the inclusion of “take me to practice” was there because it was featured on a lot of the branding for 17 strong.
I understand as a classmate and friend of Anthony I might display some bias (I know bias is a problem, I just edited a ton of pro Tarheel bias out of a college football rivalry article) but I think I am being reasonable here. BigCheddah ( talk) 02:09, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Can you take another look at galley? I think I've managed addressed all points.
Bit unsure about the sandwiching because I honestly don't know what properly counts as sandwiching what with the variations between mobile vs desktop and all the variations that come with resolution and choice of UI. If you see anything that's obvious to you, just point it out and I'll get on it. Peter Isotalo 04:47, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello, could you possibly provide an image review for my Easy on Me FAC? The article only uses two images but one of my prose reviewers has predicated the outcome of their review upon the passing of the image review by someone experienced.-- N Ø 14:24, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi I can't seem to figure out why the behind the scenes team is being deleted from The Front Bar. I'm still learning how to do this, but I thought I did it correctly, and there doesn't seem to be a "why we did this" option to figure it out. Supanakbebek ( talk) 05:58, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi - I notice that you edited /info/en/?search=Theophila_Gwatkin to remove a citation fom WikiTree. Can you point me to a discussion here on WP which declares it to be Non-RS. I cannot find one. (I do see one for FindMyPast but the specific complaint there is about user-generated family trees. Not the case with WT.) Verne Equinox ( talk) 16:52, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Stop scrubbing Nir Barkat 's page.
He made comments recently on the israel war about wiping out iran. These comments must obviously be included on his wikipedia page. If you keep deleting them, we will keep adding htem back on and then contact CNN.
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Nikkimaria You removed an edit on the page for James Haskell's personal life, updating his relationship status with his wife (his marriage was already mentioned in the section). This was widely reported in the press, confirmed by the couple and I included a link to the newspaper report (the highest physical circulation daily newspaper in the UK) quoting the statement by the couple. Why was this removed? 86.15.5.71 ( talk) 20:15, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, why did you remove death cause from article? No one knows how she died. Is that not to be included in the infobox? Davidgoodheart ( talk) 03:29, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I'd like to know why you removed the information I've used from Fandom on the Wikipedia article for RMS Aquitania? I think its necessary to be included since it gives information about the ship's height and there was no information about it before I added it. Ale.ch.geor ( talk) 11:06, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Morning @ Nikkimaria: Thanks for updating that wee Rudolf Bailovic article I wrote a lifetime ago. I saw the editor tacking on the "Find a Grave" junk, then changing the whole article. I just wonder if that is the ultimate desination for all these academic and non-academic articles, to have these kinds of junk tacked over time. I spend a lot of time removing this kind of stuff and I know how much hard it is. Thanks. scope_creep Talk 07:08, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Dear @ Nikkimaria: You removed information I added about Rhyl Hinwood's parents because its citation was from an unreliable source, Wikitree. In this case, I urge you to reconsider for five reasons:
1. The author of the Wikitree entry I used, Heather Stevens (her real name), has signed Wikitree's honour code, including citing sources. Indeed she does cite her sources. She is passionate about it ( https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stevens-18395).
2. I checked one of her sources--that for Hinwood's father, at the New South Wales Government's site for births, deaths, and marriages ( https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search?2), and got a hit for the father's name. Unfortunately, it would cost me AUD35 to receive a PDF of the father's birth certificate, but I hope you agree that that is hardly necessary.
3. Wikitree does have some measure of peer review. Stevens has received at least four compliments from Wikitree's G2G community, most recently in October 2023 ( https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stevens-18395).
4. Wikitree does have some measure of editorial control. Stevens has been chosen as a highlighted user from Wikitree's G2G community ( https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1286080/meet-our-members-heather-stevens).
5. Although Wikitree is a user generated tree, it is not among the examples listed in WP:UGC. Indeed it has been used for academic, peer-reviewed papers on research.
The only claim one could make is that Stevens's entry does not mention Rhyl Hinwood. But this is consistent with Wikitree's honour code not to publish information about living people.
I have no doubts about the entry's veracity. I urge you to reinstate it. Robert P. O'Shea ( talk) 09:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, could you take another look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Phoolan Devi/archive1. I think the image review is done and the source review prob needs more discussion on ToI. Thanks, Mujinga ( talk) 17:04, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
You've cited MOS:BIRTHDATE as the reason for undoing my edits, but I don't see where MOS: BIRTHDATE supports the decision you've made. Please explain. Jjazz76 ( talk) 02:08, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
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I posted a comment on the ANC article talk page. I think WP guidelines need clarification. E.g., does WP:ELPEREN apply to FAG cemeteries listed as a whole, or does WLP:ELPEREN apply simply to the individual gravesite listings on FAG. – S. Rich ( talk) 03:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, Just wanted to give you a heads up, I did a pretty significant rewrite and expansion of Begotten for sourcing and writing issues that were noted in its previous FA nominations. Removed a lot of problematic sources and completely redid the citation style to make it more legible. I am hoping it clears up the bulk of the issues that caused the nominations to fail previously and its current FA nomination to pass. Paleface Jack ( talk) 18:24, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
The Portgual page is too long and too cluttered. Considering you're an expert on this, something needs to be done there. 2A00:23C7:6989:2701:D45D:AEF4:E222:51BC ( talk) 00:28, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
In your edition of 00:24, 11 October 2023, you deleted from the page Castilla–La Mancha a graph about the region's economy (Castilla-La Mancha Product Exports (2020).svg), with just the comment detree. Could you explain why? Jotamar ( talk) 01:18, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
You were mentioned in this discussion back in August, but not pinged; if you were notified here on your talk, that is lost in the volume :) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 10:05, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I'm reaching out because of your expertise with city articles, as I'm working on preparing my first FA nomination: Fez, Morocco. The article is currently undergoing a final peer review before I nominate it, and I would love any feedback or assistance that you could provide. –– FormalDude (talk) 12:52, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
hi Nikkimaria ,
it appears you have deleted the factual and reliable information that me and 3 other students have added to the page of Josephine Webb. everything added to the page was been extensively researched and is factually correct. i would be very apreative if you didn't do this again as this is a college assignment that heavily impacts our grade and by deleting the work we have spent weeks researching and putting together will result in us failing our assignment and putting our college placement in jeopardy.
kind regards Christopherbuckley2 ( talk) 15:36, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, I've noticed you've deleted the entire marching bands section in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade article. All of the info in the section is factually correct and has been worked on by many people. If I could get a better explanation on why you are deleting it that would be much appreciated. Nontedious ( talk) 00:47, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
I'm thinking of sending William Y. Slack to FAC but am worried that there may be MOS:ACCESS issues with File:Missouri State Guard divisions map (cropped).jpg. I think it's useful to include this map to show the various departments, but I don't know how best to include this information without creating accessibility issues. (the existing map was produced in Microsoft paint). Hog Farm Talk 04:36, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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If a source is impermissible, but the information associated with it is noncontroversial, such as the burial location of an article subject, please do not remove the information. Just remove the source and add a {{ citation needed}} tag for the information, so that a proper source can be found. If the information is controversial, such as an assertion of criminal activity, please move that content to the talk page for discussion. Cheers! BD2412 T 02:24, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi @ Nikkimaria, thanks for all your work on article lengths. I have thought reducing the guideline down from 15,000 to 10,000, would improve the pedia, but I'm open to evidence. Too simplistic? Do you think it's just better to encourage everyone to stick to the current guideline. If it's worth reducing the guideline, have you advice on how to do that. I've been compiling an evidence base on the talk page for article size, naive? What do you think I should be prioritising my energies to maximise WP? How's your editing going? Happy editing! Tom B ( talk) 09:04, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Help me understand your removal of find a grave on Alfred L. Elwyn. My understanding of the latest guidance on WP:ELPEREN is that find a grave can be used if an image is available that is not available on wikipedia. I added the EL to Alfed L. Elwyn since there is an image of his grave. Thanks! Dwkaminski ( talk) 00:17, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I would like you to elaborate your reason to "trim" information from the G Fuel page regarding its partnership with the 2014 roguelite game The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The edit reason did not come off as constructive to me. Both the energy drink and the game are notable items, and the removed information has sourced proof of the partnership. The sources attached to the removed information were the only ones I could find. The edit in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=G_Fuel&diff=prev&oldid=1188229862
Thank you for reading. CarlFilip19 ( talk) 10:06, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Unpolitical - nonpolitical - silly me I missed that it was a direct quote; kudos for your attentive eye
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I have evidences on Twitter which I lost in 2021. See which one is worth it in your point of view? ChristopherAraujo1989, talk 21:01, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
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It is kind crazy that my exploits on Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic forced you to put the "too long" templates into every page about individuals that is over 400 thousand bytes (sept Trump for obvious reasons).
Anyways, I am here to warn you that you overlooked Mary Hanford Ford (445B), and also that you misread Roger Federer since he is actually quite far from the 400B (currently at 362B).
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I noticed you deleted my section on Attitudes to the enemy on the Pacific War page. I was wondering if you could give me more clarification as to why you removed this as on the talk page the idea of this section was accepted. Please could you let me know how I can improve the article.
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Hi,
You removed the comma in this sentence:
The trip is unlikely, given William's absorption in warfare with Anjou at the time. [ revision]
The sentence contains two verbs. Without the comma, those verbs parse as a single verb construct, which is not the intended meaning.
Here is an example of a similar sentence, where the comma's absence aligns with the intended meaning:
The trip is likely given too much importance by historians.
Please reconsider your change.
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I don't think this edit deserved reverting. It shows that Robinson was a more well-rounded individual at UCLA than a discussion of only his athletic career there would indicate. Isn't that worth noting, that Robinson had more on his mind at UCLA than participation in sports? Larry Koenigsberg ( talk) 03:24, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could elaborate on what you meant when you said that my page edit needed a reliable secondary sourcing. I gave sources to the original creators of the pop culture references listed in my edit, so I don't see the need for a secondary source? RealRetronaut ( talk) 02:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of
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I was wondering why you deleted the John Wollaston caption in this edit. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 14:09, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello there! I do understand your wanting of a smaller caption. MOS:CREDITS says it is acceptable to link the artist in the caption. So I’m just curious as to why you have an issue with this? A lot of portrait artists aren’t very well known, linking them to their portraits that are used in articles helps make them more known, it allows people to be able to read more about the artist and see more of their work. I especially appreciate when the artist is linked in the caption as I am an avid lover of portrait art. I don’t really see a very good reason to remove them. Most lead images have the artist linked in the caption, seems odd to me to cherry pick a few articles and remove them when most articles have them. Robertus Pius ( Talk • Contribs) 02:17, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
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I noticed your revert of an infobox for BB, citing "(see note)". I wonder what a possibly new user - never saw the name before - may get from that. I tried to find out, and saw a hidden notice in the code: "Before adding an infobox, please read Talk:Benjamin Britten/Archive 1#Infobox." How would we know if the user read, and no more than reading seems required? The comment there (from 2007) questions the use of an infobox for a popular musician, not of any infobox. That was helped by the new infobox, which followed a request for an infobox on the talk. I see no reason for you to revert. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:15, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hello. Can you please go back and re-insert the artist's who painted the lead images that you have removed? I don't mean the photography studio's, just the painters. Crediting artist's works seem an important part of Wikipedia credibility and important to the topic. Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 01:07, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you have removed my addition to the Pacific War page, could you give me some further clarification for this action and perhaps display where this has already been mentioned within the page? Additionally, any further guidance around the topic would be useful. Thank you for your time! T224murray ( talk) 17:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you've removed the birth and death place details for Mozart from his infobox? I note that you've been adding in the exact same details for Americans, yet don't seem to apply this to Europeans. City, State, polity of birth are pretty consistent across wikipedia and in your other edits. Why remove? Ecrm87 ( talk) 02:39, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, thanks for pointing out the source was unreliable. I have now attributed it to a better one from S.T Joshi but am not sure how to link the ISBN number. I have a JSTOR link too so just looking through sources that are already on the page to finesse the link. I just wanted to send this update so you didn't think I was edit warring or being disrespectful. Thanks. Glaaaastonbury88 ( talk) 07:07, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Not sure whats going on.... was there a talk to change government_type field all over ??? got 2 editors doing this
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Type | Communist state | Parliamentary liberal democracy | Presidential liberal democracy |
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Party structure | One-party system (normally) | Multi-party system | Multi-party system |
Leading role of ruling party | Yes | None | None |
Power structure | Unified power | Fusion of power | Checks and balances |
State branches | One | Minimum two | Minimum three |
Democratic structure | Democratic centralism | Liberal democracy | Liberal democracy |
Legislature type | Highest organ of state power | Parliament | Parliament |
Does the legislature have unlimited power? | Yes | No | No |
State system is based on | Class values | Universal values | Universal values |
Transmission belt mass organisations? | Yes | None | None |
You removed the "mother" and "father" tags from the infobox for Hardaway Hunt Dinwiddie. Would it be acceptable to use the "parents" tag which is part of the complete template? Holtrk85 ( talk) 15:00, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, can you explain why you have removed the content I added on Fonseca's article? Thedarkknightli ( talk) 02:50, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
It looks like your revert on The Dark Tower was because the edit used a blog or a fan site. Here is another citation from a reliable source here: [2]. Are you ok with my restoring the edit with this reliable source? HenryRoan ( talk) 16:59, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Good day! I undid your revision removing the sentence about Lt Col Breckenridge's later death. I removed Find-a-Grave as a source and added two more reliable sources that verify the date, cause of death, and burial location (a published book available on Archive.org and the National Park Service). Since neither of those state the location of death, I removed that portion completely. Let me know if you have any other concerns with keeping this in and we can go from there, thank you! nf utvol ( talk) 13:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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