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I'm not entirely sure why you commented on someone else's talk page in response to my comment about images being removed or why you thought my comment timestamped 18:24 had anything to do with an edit I made over an hour later [1] but since I've belatedly noticed your comment i will attempt to clarify.
My comment was about about the edit I had made about 10 minutes before I commented on the Bot page, an edit which restored the poster image to an older film article. [2]
I stated "If this continues a lot of older articles will soon lose their images" because I was worried about the effects of the bot on older less active articles. Perhaps did not state the problem clearly enough. One bot aggressively removing images from articles might not seem like a problem by itself because in theory that can "easily" be undone, but that is only true if you have forgotten about the fact that there is another bot which deletes orphaned images from Wikipedia. (In theory a determined editor can still probably undo that too or upload another image, but it's creating unnecessary extra work either way.)
For older lower activity articles the orphaned images will be gone long before anyone even thinks of trying to resolve what were simple cut and paste errors in the Fair use rationale. This undoes the good faith efforts of editors past, and makes the encyclopedia worse. The perfect is the enemy of the good. It is easy to forget but we are all in our own different ways trying to make this a better encyclopedia. -- 109.78.193.127 ( talk) 15:12, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
Dear MarchJuly and Hammersoft,
Once again, thank you for your advice on 11th Sept. re the article [3].
I agree that I have an interest in the subject of the article. I made a declaration of interest when I submitted it: I'm not sure if this is still visible.
I accept Hammersoft's comment about the citation: I have now removed it and "toned down" the highlighted text. I am looking for a more appropriate (independent) citation - preferably one that is accessible on the internet.
I shall also look into the possibility of a "non-free" image to upload. I appreciate your patience - this is still work in progress!
Best regards, Honza Giles ( talk) 08:18, 4 October 2021 (UTC)Honza Giles
I will adhere to all of your feedback moving forward. I am new to this so this help is really appreciated. Apologies and thanks again. -- MariaPass ( talk) 00:40, 27 October 2021 (UTC)MariaPass
You referred me to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. Show me where this odd combination of numbers and "thousand" is stated to be preferable to either all numbers of all words in that article, because I did a search throughout the article for "thousand" and found no such advice. And when I said I've never seen this odd combination, I mean anywhere. I didn't do a search through Wikipedia; I simply have never seen this with thousands, as opposed to millions and higher numbers. Maybe it's standard somewhere outside the U.S., but I also spent two years in school in Malaysia and don't remember seeing this combination there, either. Ikan Kekek ( talk) 20:05, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
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I'm not entirely sure why you commented on someone else's talk page in response to my comment about images being removed or why you thought my comment timestamped 18:24 had anything to do with an edit I made over an hour later [1] but since I've belatedly noticed your comment i will attempt to clarify.
My comment was about about the edit I had made about 10 minutes before I commented on the Bot page, an edit which restored the poster image to an older film article. [2]
I stated "If this continues a lot of older articles will soon lose their images" because I was worried about the effects of the bot on older less active articles. Perhaps did not state the problem clearly enough. One bot aggressively removing images from articles might not seem like a problem by itself because in theory that can "easily" be undone, but that is only true if you have forgotten about the fact that there is another bot which deletes orphaned images from Wikipedia. (In theory a determined editor can still probably undo that too or upload another image, but it's creating unnecessary extra work either way.)
For older lower activity articles the orphaned images will be gone long before anyone even thinks of trying to resolve what were simple cut and paste errors in the Fair use rationale. This undoes the good faith efforts of editors past, and makes the encyclopedia worse. The perfect is the enemy of the good. It is easy to forget but we are all in our own different ways trying to make this a better encyclopedia. -- 109.78.193.127 ( talk) 15:12, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
Dear MarchJuly and Hammersoft,
Once again, thank you for your advice on 11th Sept. re the article [3].
I agree that I have an interest in the subject of the article. I made a declaration of interest when I submitted it: I'm not sure if this is still visible.
I accept Hammersoft's comment about the citation: I have now removed it and "toned down" the highlighted text. I am looking for a more appropriate (independent) citation - preferably one that is accessible on the internet.
I shall also look into the possibility of a "non-free" image to upload. I appreciate your patience - this is still work in progress!
Best regards, Honza Giles ( talk) 08:18, 4 October 2021 (UTC)Honza Giles
I will adhere to all of your feedback moving forward. I am new to this so this help is really appreciated. Apologies and thanks again. -- MariaPass ( talk) 00:40, 27 October 2021 (UTC)MariaPass
You referred me to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. Show me where this odd combination of numbers and "thousand" is stated to be preferable to either all numbers of all words in that article, because I did a search throughout the article for "thousand" and found no such advice. And when I said I've never seen this odd combination, I mean anywhere. I didn't do a search through Wikipedia; I simply have never seen this with thousands, as opposed to millions and higher numbers. Maybe it's standard somewhere outside the U.S., but I also spent two years in school in Malaysia and don't remember seeing this combination there, either. Ikan Kekek ( talk) 20:05, 24 October 2021 (UTC)