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As an experienced editor, you should know better than this. Entirely deleting any mention of this part of his public life from the lede (despite it being covered in a substantial part of the article body) is not a mere "copy edit". Regards, HaeB ( talk) 05:47, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Some of the changes in this edit puzzle me:
I wanted to change the edits back to their more complete form, but if there's a MOS reason etc for your adjustments please let me know - I learn new stuff around WP all the time. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 06:46, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen several of your edits on my watchlist recently which don't seem to be doing anything useful. In particular, moving white space around, removing underscores from piped links, removing empty parameters from templates, and changing ISBN to isbn don't produce any change to the rendered page and should be avoided unless you're making a substantive edit at the same time, per WP:COSMETICBOT and WP:MEATBOT. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:22, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
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Anniversaries ... today is the birthday of Claudio Monteverdi and Hans Herbert Jöris, did you know? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:25, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:34, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Srich32977, I left a note about B. Franklin's date of birth on the relevant talk page ( /info/en/?search=Talk:Benjamin_Franklin). Your input is most welcome. Shams lnm ( talk) 23:03, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events
Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports
March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Thank you for improving articles in July! Now a FTN is open. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:33, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Please do not change the term to describe an incorporated community, because they legally vary from state to state, and defined by laws in each state. For example, in Kansas an incorporated city is always a city, even if the community shrinks below the current minimum population to newly incorporate a city, until such time that a tiny community decides to disincorporate. In Kansas, a "community" is either a city, or an unincorporated community, or a ghost town; in many other states it is more complicated. Page 9-3 to 9-8 in the following PDF describe the legal terms for communities in each state, as of 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141020110606/https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/pdfs/GARM/Ch9GARM.pdf • Sbmeirow • Talk • 03:53, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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Legend has it, his first name is Gary, the unknown and long-lost survivor of the clan. Some say that goat still roams the hills in search of Mary Ann to this day. You formatted one citation with metadata on Olive Oatman and it got me on a kick, thinking "okay if Srich329999999999 wants it then I guess I better". And I forgot to stop. So thanks for infecting me with oatmania. I had no idea it was such a mess all this time. Olive and Eva thank us too.
— Smuckola (talk) 02:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello - when the specific trial stage is named, as in 'Phase I' research, Phase is capitalized, but not when it is the subject or object (without level) in a sentence. Examples here. Note: in COVID-19 drug development, the capitalization is (and had long been) correct in the last paragraph of the lede, but is not a correct capitalization in the caption of the graph under New chemical entities. This had been extensively and carefully edited over the life of this article. Thanks for trying, but more editing is now needed. Zefr ( talk) 21:22, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello I don't know if this is one right way to write you. But I saw your username in the page history. Page in question is about peace treaties. I removed some content from that page, as it seems just as some personal activism. I checked that user who added that content and seems to the same user Johncdraper added own writen content. And also seems as just an advocacy or own ideas without broad or significant coverage or support.And I explained my edit by reading "what wikipedia is not" and also what is relevance etc. Please if you can check to I did not made some mistake about removing content. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.101.185.225 ( talk) 06:59, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Regarding
this edit, what MOS specifies that page-ranges should use the shortened form of the second value (example: |pages=365–67
rather than |pages=365–367
)? Last I knew, WP went with full values nearly everywhere by default, and I can't find anything in {{
cite journal}} specifying to shorten it (instead, its own examples use full value).
DMacks (
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[1]. Fix your script so you stop doing wrong things with page-numbers in cite templates. DMacks ( talk) 16:25, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Look at WP:AED. It adds spaces so that "automated screen readers discern list markup". Look at [2], it had various MOSDASH errors and citation (e.g., page-number) inconsistencies. I make gnomish fixes, there is no need to go overboard with rollbacks that re-introduce the errors. – S. Rich ( talk) 20:52, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Another Wikipedian came by and tagged the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for primary sources, etc. and Pritzker Military Presents as an AfD.
Can you help address the respective issues? Useful information for PMML is on its talk page. TeriEmbrey ( talk) 21:28, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for welcoming me back in 2018. It definitely helped me learn the ropes and I'm not sure if I would still be here without it. ~ HAL 333 04:04, 21 August 2020 (UTC) |
I noticed that a couple of days ago you changed the era style in the article Sumer. I checked the Talk page, and the archives to see if anyone had agreed to change them on the article, which had been consistently BC for years, and I couldn't even find people talking about it. I have restored the BC/AD era style on the article for now, but if I missed something please let me know. NDV135 ( talk) 08:32, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
@ NDV135: I noticed a mix of BC and BCE usage, so I switched in order to achieve consistency. Since there is no consensus to go with BC/AD, I recommend that we switch back to BCE. The article has nothing to do with Christian or Western Europe history, so Before Christ is irrelevant. Moreover, high-quality research bodies like the Smithsonian Institution regularly use BCE/CE. – S. Rich ( talk) 16:28, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
@ NDV135: Actually there is a "rule". MOS:ERA says "Use either the BC–AD or the BCE–CE notation consistently within the same article." When an article has a mix of notation there is no "established" style. (I'm not going to review article histories to find "mistakes". Such mistakes only dis-establish the style.) Now that you've taken out the BCE's you can assert "established style". (And I'm not edit-warring over the issue.) But my assertion, supporting BCE–CE consistency as the established style is valid. Your favorite notation style will stand as long as you watch the article. – S. Rich ( talk) 19:53, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
But there was an established style only a few weeks before you made your changes, and it is YOUR job if you are making these edits to find which you should be harmonizing to. Also you clearly don't get what is meant by mix, that article had a single new section someone had recently written with a different era style there are articles where every paragraph is different from the last and you will see things like AD 1 - 250 CE, but that is not what this was like. It is your job to determine era style, and if you aren't willing to do so, please just don't touch the era styles. I spent 20 minutes looking through the history and Talk page before I made that edit, and you should have done the same. NDV135 ( talk) 23:24, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
150,000 edits compared to 140 edits. Please stop trying to lecture me. Good-bye. – S. Rich ( talk) 23:30, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Please, just one last thing, I have an example of an admin ( Doug Weller) reverted changes where I did the exact same thing you did, a couple days before someone had changed a few of the dates on the article Fort Ancient. The era style had become mixed, however the admin rightly restored it to the previous BCE/CE. Since, like when you changed Sumer the page had only been mixed for a few days or weeks before I harmonized the wrong way, and I trust his opinion on this. NDV135 ( talk) 00:27, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in August! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:36, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
On 5 September 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article David Graeber, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 23:59, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
What is the rationale for this edit. Spaced dashes are not actually used in the title of the works you altered. Spinning Spark 09:26, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Srich32977. I have reverted your edits (example: 1) to Pee Tern's sandbox pages. None of these are even remotely eligible for WP:CSD#G13, so please don't tag them again. Thanks, FASTILY 04:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Okay. I shall do the needed colon-izations to PT's [ drafts]. Thanks. – S. Rich ( talk) 05:51, 20 September 2020 (UTC) Hopefully my stumbling about with Pee Tern's abandoned templates is over. The categories which I came across are now colonized out. Thanks for your guidance. 06:33, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in September! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:28, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Would you be okay with this title: Trump administration politicization of science? Johncdraper ( talk) 06:57, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
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The 2019 Cure Award | |
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Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
As an experienced editor, you should know better than this. Entirely deleting any mention of this part of his public life from the lede (despite it being covered in a substantial part of the article body) is not a mere "copy edit". Regards, HaeB ( talk) 05:47, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
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Some of the changes in this edit puzzle me:
I wanted to change the edits back to their more complete form, but if there's a MOS reason etc for your adjustments please let me know - I learn new stuff around WP all the time. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 06:46, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen several of your edits on my watchlist recently which don't seem to be doing anything useful. In particular, moving white space around, removing underscores from piped links, removing empty parameters from templates, and changing ISBN to isbn don't produce any change to the rendered page and should be avoided unless you're making a substantive edit at the same time, per WP:COSMETICBOT and WP:MEATBOT. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:22, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:34, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Srich32977, I left a note about B. Franklin's date of birth on the relevant talk page ( /info/en/?search=Talk:Benjamin_Franklin). Your input is most welcome. Shams lnm ( talk) 23:03, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events
Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports
March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Hello Srich32977,
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
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Thank you for improving articles in July! Now a FTN is open. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:33, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Please do not change the term to describe an incorporated community, because they legally vary from state to state, and defined by laws in each state. For example, in Kansas an incorporated city is always a city, even if the community shrinks below the current minimum population to newly incorporate a city, until such time that a tiny community decides to disincorporate. In Kansas, a "community" is either a city, or an unincorporated community, or a ghost town; in many other states it is more complicated. Page 9-3 to 9-8 in the following PDF describe the legal terms for communities in each state, as of 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141020110606/https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/pdfs/GARM/Ch9GARM.pdf • Sbmeirow • Talk • 03:53, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Legend has it, his first name is Gary, the unknown and long-lost survivor of the clan. Some say that goat still roams the hills in search of Mary Ann to this day. You formatted one citation with metadata on Olive Oatman and it got me on a kick, thinking "okay if Srich329999999999 wants it then I guess I better". And I forgot to stop. So thanks for infecting me with oatmania. I had no idea it was such a mess all this time. Olive and Eva thank us too.
— Smuckola (talk) 02:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello - when the specific trial stage is named, as in 'Phase I' research, Phase is capitalized, but not when it is the subject or object (without level) in a sentence. Examples here. Note: in COVID-19 drug development, the capitalization is (and had long been) correct in the last paragraph of the lede, but is not a correct capitalization in the caption of the graph under New chemical entities. This had been extensively and carefully edited over the life of this article. Thanks for trying, but more editing is now needed. Zefr ( talk) 21:22, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello I don't know if this is one right way to write you. But I saw your username in the page history. Page in question is about peace treaties. I removed some content from that page, as it seems just as some personal activism. I checked that user who added that content and seems to the same user Johncdraper added own writen content. And also seems as just an advocacy or own ideas without broad or significant coverage or support.And I explained my edit by reading "what wikipedia is not" and also what is relevance etc. Please if you can check to I did not made some mistake about removing content. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.101.185.225 ( talk) 06:59, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Regarding
this edit, what MOS specifies that page-ranges should use the shortened form of the second value (example: |pages=365–67
rather than |pages=365–367
)? Last I knew, WP went with full values nearly everywhere by default, and I can't find anything in {{
cite journal}} specifying to shorten it (instead, its own examples use full value).
DMacks (
talk)
13:15, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
[1]. Fix your script so you stop doing wrong things with page-numbers in cite templates. DMacks ( talk) 16:25, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Look at WP:AED. It adds spaces so that "automated screen readers discern list markup". Look at [2], it had various MOSDASH errors and citation (e.g., page-number) inconsistencies. I make gnomish fixes, there is no need to go overboard with rollbacks that re-introduce the errors. – S. Rich ( talk) 20:52, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Another Wikipedian came by and tagged the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for primary sources, etc. and Pritzker Military Presents as an AfD.
Can you help address the respective issues? Useful information for PMML is on its talk page. TeriEmbrey ( talk) 21:28, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for welcoming me back in 2018. It definitely helped me learn the ropes and I'm not sure if I would still be here without it. ~ HAL 333 04:04, 21 August 2020 (UTC) |
I noticed that a couple of days ago you changed the era style in the article Sumer. I checked the Talk page, and the archives to see if anyone had agreed to change them on the article, which had been consistently BC for years, and I couldn't even find people talking about it. I have restored the BC/AD era style on the article for now, but if I missed something please let me know. NDV135 ( talk) 08:32, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
@ NDV135: I noticed a mix of BC and BCE usage, so I switched in order to achieve consistency. Since there is no consensus to go with BC/AD, I recommend that we switch back to BCE. The article has nothing to do with Christian or Western Europe history, so Before Christ is irrelevant. Moreover, high-quality research bodies like the Smithsonian Institution regularly use BCE/CE. – S. Rich ( talk) 16:28, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
@ NDV135: Actually there is a "rule". MOS:ERA says "Use either the BC–AD or the BCE–CE notation consistently within the same article." When an article has a mix of notation there is no "established" style. (I'm not going to review article histories to find "mistakes". Such mistakes only dis-establish the style.) Now that you've taken out the BCE's you can assert "established style". (And I'm not edit-warring over the issue.) But my assertion, supporting BCE–CE consistency as the established style is valid. Your favorite notation style will stand as long as you watch the article. – S. Rich ( talk) 19:53, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
But there was an established style only a few weeks before you made your changes, and it is YOUR job if you are making these edits to find which you should be harmonizing to. Also you clearly don't get what is meant by mix, that article had a single new section someone had recently written with a different era style there are articles where every paragraph is different from the last and you will see things like AD 1 - 250 CE, but that is not what this was like. It is your job to determine era style, and if you aren't willing to do so, please just don't touch the era styles. I spent 20 minutes looking through the history and Talk page before I made that edit, and you should have done the same. NDV135 ( talk) 23:24, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
150,000 edits compared to 140 edits. Please stop trying to lecture me. Good-bye. – S. Rich ( talk) 23:30, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Please, just one last thing, I have an example of an admin ( Doug Weller) reverted changes where I did the exact same thing you did, a couple days before someone had changed a few of the dates on the article Fort Ancient. The era style had become mixed, however the admin rightly restored it to the previous BCE/CE. Since, like when you changed Sumer the page had only been mixed for a few days or weeks before I harmonized the wrong way, and I trust his opinion on this. NDV135 ( talk) 00:27, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Sunflowers in Walsdorf |
Thank you for improving articles in August! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:36, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
On 5 September 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article David Graeber, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 23:59, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
What is the rationale for this edit. Spaced dashes are not actually used in the title of the works you altered. Spinning Spark 09:26, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Srich32977. I have reverted your edits (example: 1) to Pee Tern's sandbox pages. None of these are even remotely eligible for WP:CSD#G13, so please don't tag them again. Thanks, FASTILY 04:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Okay. I shall do the needed colon-izations to PT's [ drafts]. Thanks. – S. Rich ( talk) 05:51, 20 September 2020 (UTC) Hopefully my stumbling about with Pee Tern's abandoned templates is over. The categories which I came across are now colonized out. Thanks for your guidance. 06:33, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Dahlias in Walsdorf |
Thank you for improving articles in September! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:28, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Would you be okay with this title: Trump administration politicization of science? Johncdraper ( talk) 06:57, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Dona nobis pacem |
Thank you for article work! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:56, 18 October 2020 (UTC)