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Ways to improve Battle of Lukaya

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Ways to improve Battle of Bembesi

Hi, I'm Nick Moyes. Adapad, thanks for creating Battle of Bembesi!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Nice start. You could link to this from First Matabele War. I reckon some more sources would be useful too, though there's no doubt on notability in my mind.

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Sources

When you wrote the article about the Oberholzer murder, you cited a bunch of sources. This is good.

You cited them only by author's name, publication year, and page. This is less good.

Could you provide the titles? Thanks. DS (talk) 12:52, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding edits to 1948 war-related articles

Hi Adapad,

I noticed that you have edited many of the articles related to the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. It looks like the edits were made in good faith, but some things may need changing/fixing. This means that unfortunately I needed to revert many of these edits. Here are some of the issues:

It's bad form to change from American English to British English just for the sake of changing, unless there is a good reason. Even more so when it's inconsistent inside the article. Please be careful on this point, and if you believe there is a good reason to move to British English, please open a discussion / RfC.
The campaign box template you used in the articles was related just to the southern front. If you want to add the entire list of operations, the template needs to be moved to a new title. However, I'm really not sure that's a good idea, since we have a lot of written and unwritten articles about the war, which would make a full template very large. Moreover, currently it would give unnecessary weight to the southern front. It might be a good idea to create a general template with just the major operations (e.g. just Operation Yoav instead of the five+ articles written about it).
While using HTML4-style <br> tags is generally OK, it breaks the syntax highlighting feature for those who use it, so it's better to use XHTML-style <br /> tags.

These are the main issues so far, I will be sure to let you know if there are any others. Please feel free to reach out if you need any help.

—Ynhockey ^(Talk) 16:39, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I found three more:

Please keep dashes in mind in dates, like here
Check WP:MOSTITLE, only the first word and proper names should be capitalized (talking about this edit
If there are more than two new lines together, they will be parsed accordingly, creating large spaces.

—Ynhockey ^(Talk) 16:48, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Oyster

The article that you created called "Operation Oyster" was deleted see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Operation Oyster, but as was mentioned some of the content may be relevant for the article Rhodesian Bush War#First phase (1964–1972) so I have restored the content and the history of the article to User:Adapad/Operation Oyster. Once you have extracted anything you think of use please blank the page. -- PBS (talk) 22:07, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Altenburg

I reverted you changes to the article Battle of Altenburg for two reasons:

it is not uncommon for images of commanders to be included in the battle box, particularly if the article is copied from the German Wikipedia, and I think it looks better to include them if there are only two commanders (one for each side), and preferably head images. (I have now created a head and shoulders image of von Thielmann and replaced the full portrait).
"Unknown" is a statement of fact. It is most likely that we simply do not have a reliable source that lists the casualties; so it is best to leave it blank, unless you have a reliable source that states the numbers are indeed unknown.

-- PBS (talk) 18:23, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CE to AD

Looking at another edit that you made recently. Although I prefer "AD" to "CE" making such changes is not allowed unless you can show that there is a local consensus for the change (see MOS:BCE) I suggest that you change it back. -- PBS (talk) 19:17, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2018

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Raid on Pebble Island, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. (Hohum ^@) 15:31, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Dates

"10 June 1940" is the correct written form. It is read as "the tenth of June, Nineteen Forty". There is no need to write "the 10th June 1940". See MOS:DATE. Srnec (talk) 00:51, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've noted that you've been reducing the text in a range of tables to small size, including brief sections of text. This doesn't seem necessary, and the use of such blunt instruments is discouraged by MOS:FONTSIZE and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Font size. Please bear in mind that some of our readers have poor eyesight, so such changes are unhelpful for them. As an electronic encyclopedia we also obviously do not face size limits. It would also be very helpful if you used edit summaries to explain your edits. Nick-D (talk) 10:26, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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