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Hello! Thanks for your with the National Trust 2022 pilot. Based on that work, the National Trust is supporting a second pilot, and some information is here WP:GLAM/National Trust. All the best Lajmmoore ( talk) 11:22, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
I need your input, if I may. I think we need a disambiguation page for Yoko Matsuoka, but I am also aware that part of the issue is that Yoko (name) has many variants in Japanese, but only one in English. For example, my subject's name in Japanese is 松岡洋子, but English speakers confuse her with 松岡陽子 Yoko Matsuoka McClain and then there is the actress Yōko Matsuoka who has the same spelling as my subject. Not sure how to address those issues and also am never sure about making disamb pages because I do it so rarely. I guess my question is since this is en.WP, should we have the disamb page and note the Japanese spellings or just use the English spellings? I appreciate your expertise and thank you for any help you can give. SusunW ( talk) 15:28, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings - I noted you likely are much more of a stakeholder in the Blackpool article - I did make many bold and strident changes - and I documented them as such in the audit trail of the edits - many apologies if I pushed this too far.
Sadly, the reversion by @ DragonofBatley deleted other more conservative edits - the sizing of the images is the most notably visual loss of quality by these wholesale resets.
As with most matters there is a middle ground and sure - I have no interest in edit wars and I was crystal clear that I did think my edits - pushed the 'consensus boundaries' - but no one reacted negatively - until this day.
I focus on medical and science articles and there is less room for bombast and group think in such articles -
I did actually think the changes others made - size of images - should be reverted - but I am not getting directly involved.
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Hi! Just earlier, I made a small correction to my comment at the Julie Zeilinger AfD regarding the type of source I mentioned. I said it was an entire book, but it's just a chapter of the book. Wanted to let you know since you mentioned it in your comment before I fixed my error. Best, Bridget (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Re your first-column bolding comment at AFD Women in Guam History. The bolding is for screen readers for the visually impaired. Same thing with the bolding of the column headers. I learned about it at Wikipedia:FLC, where the scope (bolding) is almost mandatory to pass table format for the Featured status. If you open it to the edit screen you see the terms scope="col" and scope="row". That's whet it's for - screen readers. — Maile ( talk) 12:10, 24 April 2023 (UTCfor
Best wishes for Christmas / Yule / New Year to all my fellow-editors. For a little Christmas music I commend a couple of pieces done by Choir of the Earth (and yes, I'm among the singers): Midwinter and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia of Christmas Carols (both YouTube videos with amazing visuals from the technical team). Pam D 23:34, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Pam, and Merry Christmas!
I've just given the lead of the article about Sally Wainwright a bit of a spruce up, and I was wondering if you'd mind checking my efforts. I don't generally edit biographies of living people, but I believe you do as part of the 'Women in Red' project and so I thought it would be sensible to call on your expertise. Don't worry if you can't help for whatever reason. Best wishes, A.D.Hope ( talk) 12:02, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
The reason I attempted to improve WP:stub is this. I feel that the instructions, which appear to date back to the earliest days of Wikipedia, have not kept up with the times. Abductive ( reasoning) 19:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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At my previous appeal I was advised to draft my appeal which is at User:Crouch, Swale/Appeal and show it to at least 1 experienced user, as you commented on several of the previous discussions I'm wandering what you think of the draft and if you have any advice, thanks. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 18:31, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
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For the sake of any of my talk page watchers: the link to the page under discussion is Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch Pam D 19:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Well, my motivation for adding the comma is purely grammatical. The ‘and’ there separates two independent clauses (‘many do not last’ is an ind clause), which requires punctuation in addition to the conjunction.
im totally open to finding a mutually agreeable solution. I don’t see how the comma changes the meaning of either clause, but I’m plenty open to being persuaded that it does. In any case, Wikipedia’s style guidelines on punctuation require a comma (plausibly a semicolon) to separate the two independent clauses joined by the ‘and’ conjunction.
cCan you help me understand how the meaning of the sentence changes with the addition of a comma? In any case, I absolutely want to preserve the intended meaning, but must respectfully urge that some kind of change is appropriate, as, without any punctuation, it is simply improper grammatically.
I imagine we can fairly easily find an alternative construction that conveys the meaning intended without violating a basic rule of grammar. Cheers, and Happy New Year! (and, apologies for not explaining my rationale for the change! 🤦♂️) Huskerdru ( talk) 14:46, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
I am very thankful and appreciative of your edits to my first article! I can't help hoping you are proud of me as you are my auntie on here. I have learned to tidy up!! If you have a moment I am also proud of my edits to Momtaza Mehri. So many tidy-ups! When I was doing my linkings to The Complete Works (poetry) I came on this page Victoria Adukwei Bulley It is a terrible mess, so bad I ran away! Maybe you will look one day. NoorStores ( talk) 10:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
The Tomiwa Olowade article was published, all thanks to you! I'm at work but sneaking into Wiki! I'm addicted! NoorStores ( talk) 14:06, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Pam, apologies I got cut off mid-sentence on my last edit to the Olive Clarke page (the problems with editing Wikipedia on mobile!). I removed (died) "peacefully in her sleep" as per WP:EUPHEMISM as I believe it to be non-encyclopaedic language like "slipped on" or "passed away". As per is standard, nationality should usually go at the start of the lead. Mentioning age in section about death is important too, especially when no infobox is present. As for beginning new paragraphs with "She"... I don't personally like this, but this one I won't fight you on if you wish to restore these. If you want to keep these changes off the page please let me know why below and we'll work together to make a better version. Hope you have a great day. Thanks! Jkaharper ( talk) 09:32, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Pam, I've mentioned it before, but you ROCK. You remind of my Auntie Z in Pakistan. She is the strict one, but all the cousins' favourite because she is the fair and kind one. NoorStores ( talk) 15:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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Welcome, welcome, welcome! Thank you so much for joining the drive. When I perform a scan of articles belong to Category:Women writers and Category:All articles lacking sources using PetScan, I found that there are 52 articles:
Since you are a member of the WP:Women in Red project, I think you might be interested in these articles and you might want to practice your citation skills on them. Anyways, I wish you good luck on the drive on February 1! You'll need it. CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 13:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
[search term] incategory:"All articles lacking sources"
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Did you mean to title this without the "h"? The Ordnance Survey and all 3 sources in the article call it "Clach-bheinn". Should it be moved without redirect at WP:RMT to Clach-bheinn, Highland or just Clach-bheinn? Crouch, Swale ( talk) 17:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, @PamD, just alerting you to an AfD discussion I've started at an article you created. All the best, Emmentalist ( talk) 20:31, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
It's currently just a blank page – would you like it deleted or as a redirect? DanCherek ( talk) 22:59, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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Re: this edit in future it would perhaps be better for you to make such an edit as a fresh one, rather than by undoing me. My edit was, as was clearly labelled, reverting block evasion. I'm sure you don't want people to mistakenly assume you are editing on behalf of the evader. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi there! I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. Recently, you reverted my fix to Anum Qaisar.
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Howdy. I'm asking for the 'majority' parameter to be deleted at Template:Infobox officeholder, concerning Members of Parliament. Not sure when or why its been added. Also noticed them in the current members of the Scottish & Welsh Parliaments, along with current members of the British Parliament. These infoboxes are about officer holder, not election results. GoodDay ( talk) 06:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
I notice you didn't restore the 'vote total & percentage'. May I take it, you agree with me, such info doesn't belong in an officeholder infobox? GoodDay ( talk) 07:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, @pamD, I'd like to make a friendly and helpful comment here to see what you think. I was surprised to see your comments at the deletion discussion about the PR company which I think has been involved in placing Museumand related material on various, often unverifiable, websites. There is no doubt whatever that M&H Ltd is a private company which self-describes as business PR and event organising business. Most such companies operate within a single sector, in this case museums and, at the margins, libraries. My concern about your comment is that it seems to me that your desire to present M@H Ltd in the way you have might extend from membership of what you consider a community rather than a business. I also wonder if you have been in contact with the Museumand owners since we started the deletion discussion; there is an indication to me that you might have been. I've also noticed a pattern at the deletion discussion which might suggest that supportive comments might have been solicited. I could be entirely wrong, of course, and please excuse me if I am. I would say, though, that I think if I were right then you might be in breach of COI policy and it would be better to declare a personal interest. I am not suggesting in any way that you are doing anything untoward on purpose and I have no doubt that you are editing in good faith; I do find that your efforts at the deletion discuss appear, to me, more like lobbying than a regular editing discussion. Happy to discuss further. All the best, Emmentalist ( talk) 11:11, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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provide a meaningful summary for every edit, especially when reverting (undoing) the actions of other editors
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couldn't just use "Undo"WP:UNDO:
It is also possible to undo several consecutive edits, even if they conflict among themselves: view the "diff" to be removed (by selecting the earliest and most recent revisions in the history and clicking "compare selected revisions"), and click the "undo" link.
If you look at [...] my edit summary analysisSurprise. I did. That's why I used {{ uw-wrongsummary}}, not {{ uw-editsummary2}}.
seem to have forgotten to add a summaryYou didn't forget, the edit has an edit summary. What you neglected to do was to provide a meaningful edit summary, as per above. The way it is now, your revert could easily be read as a vandalism revert.
or followed it up with a dummy edit with an edit summaryThat's the thing that gets me. Why haven't you after I notified you? It's not as if there was something stopping you.
I'd explained myself to you hereEdit histories are permanent public record, you know that, right? If it was only for myself, then I wouldn't have asked.
doesn't seem to match the situation of leaving an automatic edit summaryWe're responsible for our edits, automated or not. Also note H:ES:
Except for the automatic summary when creating a redirect, [...] these are not a substitute for a proper edit summary
"Revert" is a neutral term and implies nothing.It is so neutral that it explains nothing beyond the bare fact that it is a revert. As I pointed out at the very beginning of this conversation: WP:FIES
provide a meaningful summary[added emphasis]. Which means giving a reason, which the canned edit summary doesn't.
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I have seen your email . I am afraid I am not. Both my parents had sisters but they died without having had children so I have no first cousins. Thanks for your help on lakhs. Spinney Hill ( talk) 14:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
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Well, that was fun. Having enjoyed a splendid Wikipedia meetup in Leeds with @ Jonathan Deamer, Storye book, and ColinFine: and a low-profile vandal-fighter who I won't name, I wandered into the adjacent Leeds Art Gallery wondering whether a favourite painting was on show. A staff member I talked to, who'd been talking very knowledgeably about a Victorian painting to some other visitors, didn't seem to have heard of it although it used to be on display in the entrance hall, and directed me to the ArtUK database for any information.
So there is now information about The Outward Bound (painting) in the articles on artist Frederick Cayley Robinson, violinist Wallace Hartley in whose memory it was commissioned and donated, and Cultural legacy of the Titanic (not sure if that's the optimal Titanic-related placement but it needs to be around there somewhere), because Hartley was the violinist and bandleader who went down with the ship. The painting is quite moving: first you see a young lad looking out to sea, perhaps hoping to be "Outward Bound" himself some day... then you count the funnels, or read the inscription, and realise it's not just any old liner, it's the Titanic, which puts a quite different spin on it. And unfortunately it doesn't seem to be on display at present.
It was good to meet you all, hope your later plans for the day/weekend all went well. @ Lajmmoore: we were sorry you couldn't make it. The Wray Scarecrow Festival I was talking about is here, and is worth a visit: always May Day bank holiday weekend and the previous week and weekend. Happy editing! Pam D 09:37, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi before you revert the collage again. A discussion has been opened on the talk page for Lancaster to discuss any photo changes so feel free to discuss there. Please leave the collage as is until a agreed collage is met thanks 👍 DragonofBatley ( talk) 10:20, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hello! Thanks for your with the National Trust 2022 pilot. Based on that work, the National Trust is supporting a second pilot, and some information is here WP:GLAM/National Trust. All the best Lajmmoore ( talk) 11:22, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
I need your input, if I may. I think we need a disambiguation page for Yoko Matsuoka, but I am also aware that part of the issue is that Yoko (name) has many variants in Japanese, but only one in English. For example, my subject's name in Japanese is 松岡洋子, but English speakers confuse her with 松岡陽子 Yoko Matsuoka McClain and then there is the actress Yōko Matsuoka who has the same spelling as my subject. Not sure how to address those issues and also am never sure about making disamb pages because I do it so rarely. I guess my question is since this is en.WP, should we have the disamb page and note the Japanese spellings or just use the English spellings? I appreciate your expertise and thank you for any help you can give. SusunW ( talk) 15:28, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings - I noted you likely are much more of a stakeholder in the Blackpool article - I did make many bold and strident changes - and I documented them as such in the audit trail of the edits - many apologies if I pushed this too far.
Sadly, the reversion by @ DragonofBatley deleted other more conservative edits - the sizing of the images is the most notably visual loss of quality by these wholesale resets.
As with most matters there is a middle ground and sure - I have no interest in edit wars and I was crystal clear that I did think my edits - pushed the 'consensus boundaries' - but no one reacted negatively - until this day.
I focus on medical and science articles and there is less room for bombast and group think in such articles -
I did actually think the changes others made - size of images - should be reverted - but I am not getting directly involved.
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Hi! Just earlier, I made a small correction to my comment at the Julie Zeilinger AfD regarding the type of source I mentioned. I said it was an entire book, but it's just a chapter of the book. Wanted to let you know since you mentioned it in your comment before I fixed my error. Best, Bridget (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Re your first-column bolding comment at AFD Women in Guam History. The bolding is for screen readers for the visually impaired. Same thing with the bolding of the column headers. I learned about it at Wikipedia:FLC, where the scope (bolding) is almost mandatory to pass table format for the Featured status. If you open it to the edit screen you see the terms scope="col" and scope="row". That's whet it's for - screen readers. — Maile ( talk) 12:10, 24 April 2023 (UTCfor
Best wishes for Christmas / Yule / New Year to all my fellow-editors. For a little Christmas music I commend a couple of pieces done by Choir of the Earth (and yes, I'm among the singers): Midwinter and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia of Christmas Carols (both YouTube videos with amazing visuals from the technical team). Pam D 23:34, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Pam, and Merry Christmas!
I've just given the lead of the article about Sally Wainwright a bit of a spruce up, and I was wondering if you'd mind checking my efforts. I don't generally edit biographies of living people, but I believe you do as part of the 'Women in Red' project and so I thought it would be sensible to call on your expertise. Don't worry if you can't help for whatever reason. Best wishes, A.D.Hope ( talk) 12:02, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
The reason I attempted to improve WP:stub is this. I feel that the instructions, which appear to date back to the earliest days of Wikipedia, have not kept up with the times. Abductive ( reasoning) 19:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
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At my previous appeal I was advised to draft my appeal which is at User:Crouch, Swale/Appeal and show it to at least 1 experienced user, as you commented on several of the previous discussions I'm wandering what you think of the draft and if you have any advice, thanks. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 18:31, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
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For the sake of any of my talk page watchers: the link to the page under discussion is Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch Pam D 19:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Well, my motivation for adding the comma is purely grammatical. The ‘and’ there separates two independent clauses (‘many do not last’ is an ind clause), which requires punctuation in addition to the conjunction.
im totally open to finding a mutually agreeable solution. I don’t see how the comma changes the meaning of either clause, but I’m plenty open to being persuaded that it does. In any case, Wikipedia’s style guidelines on punctuation require a comma (plausibly a semicolon) to separate the two independent clauses joined by the ‘and’ conjunction.
cCan you help me understand how the meaning of the sentence changes with the addition of a comma? In any case, I absolutely want to preserve the intended meaning, but must respectfully urge that some kind of change is appropriate, as, without any punctuation, it is simply improper grammatically.
I imagine we can fairly easily find an alternative construction that conveys the meaning intended without violating a basic rule of grammar. Cheers, and Happy New Year! (and, apologies for not explaining my rationale for the change! 🤦♂️) Huskerdru ( talk) 14:46, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
I am very thankful and appreciative of your edits to my first article! I can't help hoping you are proud of me as you are my auntie on here. I have learned to tidy up!! If you have a moment I am also proud of my edits to Momtaza Mehri. So many tidy-ups! When I was doing my linkings to The Complete Works (poetry) I came on this page Victoria Adukwei Bulley It is a terrible mess, so bad I ran away! Maybe you will look one day. NoorStores ( talk) 10:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
The Tomiwa Olowade article was published, all thanks to you! I'm at work but sneaking into Wiki! I'm addicted! NoorStores ( talk) 14:06, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Pam, apologies I got cut off mid-sentence on my last edit to the Olive Clarke page (the problems with editing Wikipedia on mobile!). I removed (died) "peacefully in her sleep" as per WP:EUPHEMISM as I believe it to be non-encyclopaedic language like "slipped on" or "passed away". As per is standard, nationality should usually go at the start of the lead. Mentioning age in section about death is important too, especially when no infobox is present. As for beginning new paragraphs with "She"... I don't personally like this, but this one I won't fight you on if you wish to restore these. If you want to keep these changes off the page please let me know why below and we'll work together to make a better version. Hope you have a great day. Thanks! Jkaharper ( talk) 09:32, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Pam, I've mentioned it before, but you ROCK. You remind of my Auntie Z in Pakistan. She is the strict one, but all the cousins' favourite because she is the fair and kind one. NoorStores ( talk) 15:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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Welcome, welcome, welcome! Thank you so much for joining the drive. When I perform a scan of articles belong to Category:Women writers and Category:All articles lacking sources using PetScan, I found that there are 52 articles:
Since you are a member of the WP:Women in Red project, I think you might be interested in these articles and you might want to practice your citation skills on them. Anyways, I wish you good luck on the drive on February 1! You'll need it. CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 13:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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Did you mean to title this without the "h"? The Ordnance Survey and all 3 sources in the article call it "Clach-bheinn". Should it be moved without redirect at WP:RMT to Clach-bheinn, Highland or just Clach-bheinn? Crouch, Swale ( talk) 17:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, @PamD, just alerting you to an AfD discussion I've started at an article you created. All the best, Emmentalist ( talk) 20:31, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
It's currently just a blank page – would you like it deleted or as a redirect? DanCherek ( talk) 22:59, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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Re: this edit in future it would perhaps be better for you to make such an edit as a fresh one, rather than by undoing me. My edit was, as was clearly labelled, reverting block evasion. I'm sure you don't want people to mistakenly assume you are editing on behalf of the evader. DuncanHill ( talk) 11:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
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Howdy. I'm asking for the 'majority' parameter to be deleted at Template:Infobox officeholder, concerning Members of Parliament. Not sure when or why its been added. Also noticed them in the current members of the Scottish & Welsh Parliaments, along with current members of the British Parliament. These infoboxes are about officer holder, not election results. GoodDay ( talk) 06:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
I notice you didn't restore the 'vote total & percentage'. May I take it, you agree with me, such info doesn't belong in an officeholder infobox? GoodDay ( talk) 07:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, @pamD, I'd like to make a friendly and helpful comment here to see what you think. I was surprised to see your comments at the deletion discussion about the PR company which I think has been involved in placing Museumand related material on various, often unverifiable, websites. There is no doubt whatever that M&H Ltd is a private company which self-describes as business PR and event organising business. Most such companies operate within a single sector, in this case museums and, at the margins, libraries. My concern about your comment is that it seems to me that your desire to present M@H Ltd in the way you have might extend from membership of what you consider a community rather than a business. I also wonder if you have been in contact with the Museumand owners since we started the deletion discussion; there is an indication to me that you might have been. I've also noticed a pattern at the deletion discussion which might suggest that supportive comments might have been solicited. I could be entirely wrong, of course, and please excuse me if I am. I would say, though, that I think if I were right then you might be in breach of COI policy and it would be better to declare a personal interest. I am not suggesting in any way that you are doing anything untoward on purpose and I have no doubt that you are editing in good faith; I do find that your efforts at the deletion discuss appear, to me, more like lobbying than a regular editing discussion. Happy to discuss further. All the best, Emmentalist ( talk) 11:11, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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-- Lajmmoore ( talk 19:43, 30 March 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello and
welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to
Wikipedia are appreciated, but
a recent edit of yours has an
edit summary that appears to be inadequate, inaccurate, or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an
article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use
the sandbox to make test edits.
This one.
WP:EDITSUMMARY:
provide a meaningful summary for every edit, especially when reverting (undoing) the actions of other editors
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couldn't just use "Undo"WP:UNDO:
It is also possible to undo several consecutive edits, even if they conflict among themselves: view the "diff" to be removed (by selecting the earliest and most recent revisions in the history and clicking "compare selected revisions"), and click the "undo" link.
If you look at [...] my edit summary analysisSurprise. I did. That's why I used {{ uw-wrongsummary}}, not {{ uw-editsummary2}}.
seem to have forgotten to add a summaryYou didn't forget, the edit has an edit summary. What you neglected to do was to provide a meaningful edit summary, as per above. The way it is now, your revert could easily be read as a vandalism revert.
or followed it up with a dummy edit with an edit summaryThat's the thing that gets me. Why haven't you after I notified you? It's not as if there was something stopping you.
I'd explained myself to you hereEdit histories are permanent public record, you know that, right? If it was only for myself, then I wouldn't have asked.
doesn't seem to match the situation of leaving an automatic edit summaryWe're responsible for our edits, automated or not. Also note H:ES:
Except for the automatic summary when creating a redirect, [...] these are not a substitute for a proper edit summary
"Revert" is a neutral term and implies nothing.It is so neutral that it explains nothing beyond the bare fact that it is a revert. As I pointed out at the very beginning of this conversation: WP:FIES
provide a meaningful summary[added emphasis]. Which means giving a reason, which the canned edit summary doesn't.
Hello PamD,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
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Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
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Hi PamD, thank you for your kind words in the NPP discussion. I worry that accessibility to Wikipedia is harmed by “bloat”, both in the increasing level of technical skills expected, and in the discussions of how WP operates.
That chart really pinged my meter, as you appreciated. I got the bot/message a month ago and was bothered by it. I thought I would just ignore it, as hey-man-I’m-Josh suggested, but I kept coming back to it. I finally concluded that if it was bothering me that much, I should give some feedback on why it had turned me off from volunteering.
I don’t have much by way of technical skills, and I find it intimidating to do much on WP besides working on content. That flowchart just confirmed for me that I should stick to content. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 12:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
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I have seen your email . I am afraid I am not. Both my parents had sisters but they died without having had children so I have no first cousins. Thanks for your help on lakhs. Spinney Hill ( talk) 14:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
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Well, that was fun. Having enjoyed a splendid Wikipedia meetup in Leeds with @ Jonathan Deamer, Storye book, and ColinFine: and a low-profile vandal-fighter who I won't name, I wandered into the adjacent Leeds Art Gallery wondering whether a favourite painting was on show. A staff member I talked to, who'd been talking very knowledgeably about a Victorian painting to some other visitors, didn't seem to have heard of it although it used to be on display in the entrance hall, and directed me to the ArtUK database for any information.
So there is now information about The Outward Bound (painting) in the articles on artist Frederick Cayley Robinson, violinist Wallace Hartley in whose memory it was commissioned and donated, and Cultural legacy of the Titanic (not sure if that's the optimal Titanic-related placement but it needs to be around there somewhere), because Hartley was the violinist and bandleader who went down with the ship. The painting is quite moving: first you see a young lad looking out to sea, perhaps hoping to be "Outward Bound" himself some day... then you count the funnels, or read the inscription, and realise it's not just any old liner, it's the Titanic, which puts a quite different spin on it. And unfortunately it doesn't seem to be on display at present.
It was good to meet you all, hope your later plans for the day/weekend all went well. @ Lajmmoore: we were sorry you couldn't make it. The Wray Scarecrow Festival I was talking about is here, and is worth a visit: always May Day bank holiday weekend and the previous week and weekend. Happy editing! Pam D 09:37, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi before you revert the collage again. A discussion has been opened on the talk page for Lancaster to discuss any photo changes so feel free to discuss there. Please leave the collage as is until a agreed collage is met thanks 👍 DragonofBatley ( talk) 10:20, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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