User talk:Cimbalom

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Pink Floyd origins

I have responded to your change to the Pink Floyd article; see here. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 13:32, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Thanks for the More or Less reference about Mercury being the nearest planet on average to Earth. I was very surprised by the program and even more so when I asked my Google assistant this morning "what is the nearest planet to earth?" and it responded "According to Wikipedia Mercury ..." and quoted your entry. Well done and thank you! PeterGrecian (talk) 14:07, 18 January 2019 (UTC) Very satisfying! Thanks for sharing that story. Cimbalom (talk) 23:08, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

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EB1911 citations

Thank you for your recent contributions to the EB1911 project! I picked this up from PBS some time ago and learned the guidelines from him. Just a couple of comments: in Sacramentarians the reference needs |inline=y to get the appropriate wording on the footnote. I've made that change. It's confusing because the reference itself is in the footer; I think the <references> feature is now deprecated anyway. Also Sacramentals should be tagged as "no1911" because there is a general reference but no specific EB1911 text used in the article itself. Lots of details, which it took me a long time to internalize with PBS's gentle corrections; I hope this is equally gentle. David Brooks (talk) 23:23, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your gentle help and your patience. Cimbalom (talk) 00:26, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser

Thanks again for your contributions to the 1911 verification project. I don't know if you are familiar with AutoWikiBrowser (AWB); I use it exclusively for edits in this project because of the patterns that keep repeating.

For example, for your most recent edits you can load up AWB's article list from the links in the "S" page, step through the articles, use a hotkey to insert * {{cite EB1911|wstitle=%%key%%|volume=23|page=}}\n and fix that up (the title will fairly often need an edit), select one of your own custom comments, and save with a single click. AWB has a list of common, safe fixes that can be applied automatically and you can add your own. You use a config file to keep your settings and your place. AWB does have a learning curve, but can repay the time fairly quickly if you intend to do a lot of these edits. I also use an alternative account (it's a valid use) to segregate AWB updates from hand updates.

If you want I can share a starter config file for the "S" page; let me know. If you want to go it alone, here's one hint that always trips me up when starting a new config: on the "Skip" tab, uncheck "Only genfixes", or it will silently skip articles you want to edit. Hope this is useful. David Brooks (talk) 15:30, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

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