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Henley Royal Regatta - See also section

Hi David Biddulph.

Why do you believe the edits you undid with this are irrelevant? They are by definition of potentially related interest to readers. Can you please elaborate on your reasoning.

Regards.

Eno Lirpa (talk) 13:35, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

There are thousands of rowing events around the world, and thousands of rowing pages on Wikipedia, but that is no reason to include links on the HRR page. If you think that there is a good reason, you can give your explanation at Talk:Henley Royal Regatta. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:41, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

RFPP/UAA

No, that was a brain fart on my part. I need more coffee, I meant to say UAA. RickinBaltimore (talk) 14:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Clarification on Photo Addition Reverted on Biju Patnaik International Airport

File:Bhubaneswar Airport From a Flight.jpg Hey David,

Hope you are doing well.

I had added the photo on the right-hand side to Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. I had shot this on 26th January 2017 around 10:30 am in the morning while I was flying to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata, West Bengal, India by an IndiGo domestic flight. But you reverted it citing "unsourced". I would love to know the reason if you can elaborate.

Incase you have forgotten the same, for your reference please find the revision link.

Thanks,

Radhamadhab Sarangi (Talk2Me|Contribs) 17:15, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

You may wish to look again at the article history and remind yourself who it was who reverted your edit. Hint: it wasn't me. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:20, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Your revert

February 2017[edit] Information icon Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Antwerp, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. - see WP:Talk page guidelines#Others' comments --David Biddulph (talk) 10:43, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

I was cleaning up French language comments (in an English language Wiki) placed in the middle of the sentences of another person's comment. These comments were placed without indicating that these were not from the original poster. These comments were not signed. These comment merely indicated whether the commenter agreed or not on the first posters arguments, without giving any reason why or why not. I removed these because it was more representing spam than actual contribution.

Do you find it should remain, be cleaned up, grouped at the bottom of the first comemnt, translated, removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.82.236.253 (talk) 11:21, 3 February 2017‎ (UTC)

I hadn't realised that the text in question had been added (nearly 9 years ago) by someone other than the original author of that message and was thus a violation of WP:TPO. I have therefore reverted my edit; an edit summary on your edit might have made its justification clear. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

You're right, I failed to summarise my edit. My bad. It was an ad hoc edit (old text indeed), I will pay more attention next time. Just wanted to check whether there were any other issues involved. Thanks for replying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.82.236.253 (talk) 11:51, 3 February 2017‎ (UTC)

No problem. Don't forget to sign your talk page posts, see WP:signature. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:53, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

My Lorenzo de Zavala article stolen

Dear David, I am discouraged. I worked so hard totally re-writing an article Lorenzo de Zavala only to find it immediately stolen HERE, copied verbatim including citations and pictures. Please take a look at my entry on the article's talk page HERE. Do I have any copyright on the work I did? Regards--Eagledj (talk) 17:28, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/ is one of many mirrors and forks of Wikipedia. The terms under which you released every contribution you have made to Wikipedia are shown in the statement under the edit window for every edit, namely: "By saving changes, you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license." Unlike some mirrors and forks, that site does provide the url of the relevant Wikipedia page as attribution. You therefore can't describe your text as "stolen", as you released it under those terms. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:48, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017

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March Madness 2017

G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

  • tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
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As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

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For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your help

Thank you very much for the assistance with my username and also with the helpful links. I will read them all carefully and take on board what you say about CoI. In future, if I notice any other out of date material/factual inaccuracies I'll use the article talk page to suggest changes (and give references) instead of making them directly myself. Also noted re: what constitutes a minor change and what doesn't. In case it is necessary, source for the change I made is here: http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-hindy-najman Thanks again for your help, it is much appreciated! Katie Brown (talk) 12:40, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

New articles NOINDEXED so Google won't index them

You said this on the Help Desk. So even if I create an article this is true? Most of the articles I created were on Google within hours.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:04, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes, a new article is NOINDEXed until it has been patrolled by a user with the "new page patrol" user right. This is a system which was introduced last Autumn. They claim that it was intended to have been that way for years, but that there had been a bug in the software. There is a 4 month backlog in the WP:NPP process, but apparently there is a time-out, which they said originally was 90 days but now is stated to be 30 days, at which point the NOINDEXing is removed if it hasn't already been patrolled. If your recently-created articles are on Google quickly, it might be that new page patrollers are patrolling your pages promptly. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:32, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
I haven't created an article lately.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:46, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks and continued question

David: Thank you for carefully reviewing my edits. I think I have correct all my quotation and reference problems except footnote #27. If you could identify the error I make there, I will appreciate it.TBR-qed (talk) 21:36, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

That was an easy one. You had tried to use first2 and last2 when there wasn't a first1 and last1. Corrected in this edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:42, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
You hadn't corrected all the malformatted quotations, but I've corrected one for you. You could have checked easily by searching for the word "quotation" in the rendered text. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:48, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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The decibels article

I came on here ready to prove that my edit was correct ... but in fact I forgot that the square root of 2 would give a value of 3.01, not actually 3 even. So, you are correct. My apologies for making a half-cocked edit. MXVN (talk) 04:42, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

No problem. We all make mistakes from time to time. --David Biddulph (talk) 04:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Latin American Economy

Latin American Economy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Sorry if we ec'd... go for it.

Do you have a thingy to do "standard fixes"? The ref punctuation needs fixing. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 05:37, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

I've tweaked the ref punctuation. I think there are scripts & gadgets that might do that sort of thing, but nothing that I use. The only extent to which I've simplified the task is to enable the WikiEd editor (under "Editing" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets). --David Biddulph (talk) 06:04, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
No problem, someone will get to it, thanks.
It was created by Danicroi (talk · contribs), who is going through the wikipedia-in-education thing. Seems like a nice guy. He asked for a review of it as a draft, it looked "acceptable", so I suggested he make it live so others could help improve it. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 06:52, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Punctuation

Any commas I add are to improve the readability/flow of a sentence. They help to keep ideas separate, as well as provide "breathers", when appropriate. 

   If "punctuation", is not the correct explanation, please let me know what it. Otherwise, it's good to know someone is out there checking these things - and, much faster than I had anticipated! Wikidalien (talk) 18:16, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

The Boat Races 2017

Thank you for tidying up my garbage edits, it's not the first time you've helped out and I'm certain it won't be the last!! The Rambling Man (talk) 15:17, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Random Act of Kindness

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For helping an old hand with a technical problem to get an article to afd I hereby present you with this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Thank you for the assistance. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:25, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Sorry why i may blocked from editing ,sorry but i need to know why ? thank you Harris Bolton (talk) 01:21, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
As you have been told repeatedly, for posting inappropriate material on pages such as Wikipedia talk:Why create an account? and Wikipedia talk:User pages. Each of those pages has a box at the top of the page explaining the purpose of the page. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social media forum. --David Biddulph (talk) 04:24, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017

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Slavs

Rightly or wrongly, you have twice used the rollback facility where such action was undue[1], [2]. This does not help the project (since this feature is only supposed to be used in cases where it requirement is obvious or if reverting banned users, etc). The second example involved a multitude of edits from the other editor and here if it were felt that this editor made some incorrect changes, then these should have been edited manually. By blanking every contribution it would appear that every copy-edit and clean up is also annulled and as such, the editor in question cannot do right no matter what he does. As I could not see the reason for your revert, I restored the last good faith version. If you believe it is wrong, you are welcome to revert as I have no strong opinion on the topic but I would appreciate a content-based summary. --OJ (talk) 23:53, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

The editor concerned had been warned repeatedly, and continued his vandalism. He is now blocked for a year. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:59, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
I am well aware of this though I stress that he had not been banned during the time in question and his edits were unequivocally good faith. I have no issue with the reverting itself but the method that was used which is reserved for special cases outside of this example. The second rollback involved the blanking of at least half a dozen edits and this is not what the feature serves. --OJ (talk) 08:35, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Replying to your comment

Hey, you mentioned that my username does not meet the username policy, but our sister organization Hostage UK has a Wikipedia page. Also if I wanted to have someone take over creating my page, how would I do that? Is there a page on Wikipedia that you could direct me to/ Thank you --Hostageus (talk) 17:45, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

I gave you some links on your user talk page. You may also find it useful to read WP:Best practices for editors with close associations. The simple answer is that when someone decides that your organisation deserves a Wikipedia article, and can find published reliable sources independent of the organisation with detailed coverage of the subject to support such an article, they will write it. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:02, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Lupton family

Hello David. Congratulations and thankyou - we believe that your decision to get rid of any UK Daily Mail articles is great. I feel - unlike the 2 other editors on the latest contributions to the "talk" page - that this page is very well researched, giving due weight to all of the significant Luptons throughout the centuries. Many editors have added to it over the years since it was established by the grandson of Lady Bullock, nee Barbara Lupton (d. 1974) i.e. Fivebills. The Leeds "Leodis" refs are clearly valid and well researched as are those from The UK Telegraph which have clearly spoken to members of the Lupton family themselves. The 2 editors in question on the "Talk" page appear to believe that the UK Daily Telegraph articles and all of the other citations have no "genealogical evidence" (??) - particularly in the case of the Telegraph. They do not respect any of the mayor UK newspapers stories at all. Any changes to this page would not be beneficial. We would appreciate your input as a valued editor. Thanks 123.2.36.6 (talk) 07:36, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

The place for such discussions is Talk:Lupton family. I share the views of many of the contributors there. --David Biddulph (talk) 07:47, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Qutub Begum‎

Concerning Qutub Begum, please note the editor that created the article has been blocked for being a sockpuppet of Shahrazil shahanshah. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:33, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Yes, very loud quacking. Could be deleted as G5, as well as A7. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:37, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017

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Tagging of Uzma Begum

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Uzma Begum. I do not think that Uzma Begum fits any of the speedy deletion criteria  because "sultana of Multan" is a claim of significance. I request that you consider not re-tagging Uzma Begum for speedy deletion without discussing the matter on the appropriate talk page. DES (talk) 14:15, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017

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Just FYI

Re this, I found the edit and the user was logged out. I started to mention that, then after I edit-conflicted with you, thought better of it. RivertorchFIREWATER 04:25, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks

   Many thanks for your answer to my question about articles proposed for deletion at the Wikipedia: Helpdesk   - I have now read the section on relisting of deletion candidates, which helped to clarify things. Once again, thank you for your help. Vorbee (talk) 09:46, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for your response to my question at Wikipedia: Teahouse.Vorbee (talk) 20:20, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017

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Question about new page patrol at the Teahouse

There's a still-unanswered question at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#Will_my_published_userspace_draft_be_patrolled.3F which I was hoping you could address before it gets too far up the page. I don't know if you noticed, but I'm just coming back from a long hiatus and am rather rusty; I don't remember the correct answer to the question and I didn't want to steer the user wrong. Thanks in advance, GrammarFascist contribstalk 07:27, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for Teahouse Reply

Thank you for your prompt response to my question re templates for needed/defective cites. I was pretty sure I could find the answer by example -- and I did on the very next article I browsed! But I thought the question was of sufficient general interest to post in the Teahouse.D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 02:57, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

It won't work!

WAYBACK MACHINE DOES NOT WORK ON MY COMPUTER. YOU GET THE SOURCE OR ELSE... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josh0108 (talk • contribs) 15:46, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Discussion on the topic of Nagarukhra, West Bengal

Hey buddy, thanks for your kind information.

But, is there are no possibility to deletion of those articles (Ukrah & Nagarukhra, West Bengal) after merge at all?

(Thank you) Iamakashnathsarkar (talk) 15:16, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

The history is kept, to preserve the attribution of the contributions to the articles.
And please note that the signature on a talk page contribution goes at the end of a message (just like the signature at the end of a letter), not at the beginning. That's why I've moved your signature here & on your Teahouse message. --David Biddulph (talk) 15:22, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Aaron Frenkel

Hello David, I am writing here as well since I waited for your reply on the talk page. Can you please help me with understanding how to remove the template or what to do next? the user who first wrote it is not responding. Thank you. Am 360 (talk) 16:04, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

I realise that you have difficulty in understanding English, but I'll say it one more time: "Ignore the pay template. It refers to edits by Yinonk before you started editing the article. Nothing to do with you." --David Biddulph (talk) 20:08, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
David Biddulph Why being mean?.. I understand but as I wrote and I will write again: "I want to get it off because it is on the articel and it is not pleasent and hurtful when Aaron does not even know who this is". There is no need to be mean, I only want to get it off and that is it. You sure understand how hurtful this is for him.. all I ask is your help in removing and if you dont want to, please direct me to the right person. Thank you David. Am 360 (talk) 19:13, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi David--thank you for your response to my comments on the Teahouse forum yesterday. I should have been more careful with my phrasing of the issue that I posted about, and my apologies if I have offended you or your fellow editors, who do very good work for this site! I have vested a lot of faith in Wikipedia over the years--it is the primary place I go to for information before I delve deeper into any topic. It was the source I used to find information about the organization being discussed, in fact, before I started to learn more about it. All I know is that when I searched for International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) the other day, nothing came up! I was dismayed because it has been my intention to fix this page up so that it accurately reflects the accomplishments of the organization. For some time, it has been sparse. This is not to promote a cause, ultimately, but to communicate verifiable information that has now been altered or the page reverted back to an earlier state because some of the info is incorrect.

The last time I checked there was an extensive amount of information on the page that now appears to be gone. I was informed by a contributor IFIstaff that an editor named Huon had deleted a large amount of verifiable content rather than flagging the specific information or language in question and sent transcripts of this discussion. While this conversation shows neither party at its best, the larger issue that verifiable content was removed from Wikipedia at the discretion of an editor who refused to allow the user in question power to edit after the username was changed (as requested) and assurance was given that any language misconstrued would be removed (as requested) was troubling. I am not going to level any charges at Huon, I just think Wikipedia is an important source of free information and I don't want anyone to feel like they can't contribute content that is true and verifiable. Obviously users should be checked when this is not the case, but no editor should assume that content is untrue without doing the research.

In addition, the edits I made to the page were in fact changed/reversed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Federation_of_Interior_Architects/Designers) and information on the page is now incorrect. IFI has not been a member of the International Design Alliance for some time now (no one is a member since the Alliance broke up). I don't know if you can check this, but none of the sub-pages that I edited appear at all-- IFI World Interiors Day (IFI WID) and IFI World Interiors for the Next Generation (IFI WING). The former is a public and globally recognized day of celebration for the interior architecture/design community and was established by IFI; the latter is a global awards competition, the last iteration being in 2013--why have these been removed from the IFI Wikipedia page?

I fully appreciate the NPOV and the information you supplied about Wikipedia and its editors. I am guilty of not doing my research before I made some of those accusations.

Apologies for taking up too much of your time already. Disagreements fleshed out online like this are unusual for me and I would not like them to become commonplace. As I said before, it was not my intention to offend and I'm not pursuing charges against this editor now that the page is restored.

Thanks for your work.

–ynejdawi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ynejdawi (talk • contribs) 15:11, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Sandbox

I don't know where else to post/comment this so I'm just to say it here. What did you mean by misplaced external links? Am I supposed to have a section for those or something?--Ramesty (talk) 04:49, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

In the comment the words "external links" are in blue, indicating that they are a wikilink, in this case to WP:external links (which you need to read). --David Biddulph (talk) 04:52, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Sorry.--Ramesty (talk) 04:59, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Besides the "other" section, did I fix it correctly?--Ramesty (talk) 05:09, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
You've removed the external links, but for the references you've given bare URLs. Another editor expanded your previous bare urls in this edit, but you need to make sure that further citations include more than just the bare url. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:28, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
So your saying that people looking the references (the bare ones) won't know what their clicking on until they've already done it, and that I need to add a title to each reference so that people will know what they're going to, right? Ramesty (talk) 05:47, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
You'll find the available parameters listed at Template:Cite web#Parameters; fill in what is appropriate. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:49, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Any other advice?--Ramesty (talk) 06:07, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Did I fix all of the external links so far, David? (by the way, you don't have to check, I can just ask the help desk) Ramesty (talk) 04:34, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

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2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election

Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

TOC article edits

Hi there. Just so you know I've reported the user editing the TOC fleet tables to an admin (RedRose64) as they keep reverting my edits to return the Northern and Arriva Trains Wales fleet tables to their original state - Coradia175 (talk) 18:38, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017

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Google Chrome version history

Hi. Regarding you saying "you removed not only the description but the reference for each release", I checked some example refs before removing them, they list only "Security Fixes and Rewards". Regarding the significant changes, those pages say for example: "Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 62" -Lopifalko (talk) 09:53, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

If you are convinced that there is no loss of significant information, I'll be happy if you reinstate your changes, providing that nobody else objects. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:28, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Have a look now

Straight-Out Democratic Party deisenbe (talk) 15:36, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

ANI

Looks like I beat you to it. GMGtalk 17:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017

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syed hasan askari - Requesting to undelete the page

Dear David, Kindly assist in undeleting and restoring the original page Syed Hasan Askari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hasan_Askari) or the latest draft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Syed_Hasan_Askari) which I created earlier with the help of several wikipedia editors. I first created the Facebook page of Syed Hasan Askari (https://www.facebook.com/professorsyedhasanaskari) as I am grandson of late Prof Askari. Then I created the wikipedia page of Syed Hasan Askari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hasan_Askari) based upon my Facebook page of Syed Hasan Askari (https://www.facebook.com/professorsyedhasanaskari) therefore the reference etc should not be in violation of copyright as both pages were authored by me with references. If you still have concerns then you can assist in removing the contested FB reference or restore the page so I can edit it out but kindly restore the page so academia can benefit from it. Due to this reason, requesting you to restore the page Syed Hasan Askari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hasan_Askari) at your earliest possible convenience. Kindly let me know if you need additional clarification and information. Thanks in advance! Syed Ahmer Raza — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syedahmerraza (talk • contribs) 00:14, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

You presumably haven't read the answers which you received at WP:Requests for undeletion#syed hasan askari - Requesting to undelete the page or User talk:Nick Moyes/Archive 3#Requesting to restore the page Syed Hasan Askari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hasan_Askari) or User talk:Primefac#Requesting to restore page Syed Hasan Askari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hasan_Askari) or WP:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 687#Request to Restore Page of Syed Hasan Askari or...? --David Biddulph (talk) 00:31, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Teahouse

Hi, I'm pretty new to helping out at the Teahouse, so I was just wondering why you removed some threads in THIS edit? Thanks. Kosack (talk) 09:10, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. I must have picked up an earlier version as the starting point for my edit. I hope I've resolved it now. --David Biddulph (talk) 09:24, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
No worries, thanks. Kosack (talk) 09:31, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Twitter

Hi, you told me that I removed a lot of content on the Twitter page, but I only closed a ref tag that was missing? Now the error is back on the page after you reverted my edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mitsjol (talk • contribs) 13:07, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

The edit which I reverted was this one, where in closing the ref tag you deleted the subsequent section. Hopefully OK now after my reversion and your subsequent edit. --David Biddulph (talk) 14:04, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

not showing in google search.

I've created a page (ram lal jat), but its not showing in google search. and how can i upload a photo on this page,(persons' photo on his template). help me to slove these issues. thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isuraj (talk • contribs) 19:56, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

New articles are NOINDEXed until they have been patrolled through the new page patrol process. There is currently a queue of over 13 thousand articles awaiting patrol, with a backlog of about 8 months. If, however, it hasn't been patrolled in 90 days the NOINDEX attribute will be removed, and Google can then index the page. As for your second question, about a photo, I see that you another editor made a first attempt, then a further editor has tidied it up to comply with the WP:Manual of Style. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:53, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Note also that case is significant in article titles. Your link to ram lal jat is a red link, as the article title is Ramlal Jat. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:54, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Submissions for Best Animated Short Film Academy Award

Would you like to explain why my page doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines? Espngeek (talk) 19:30, 11 November 2017 (UTC)Espngeek

Why are you asking me? You could ask the editor who added the tag, or ask on the article talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:37, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

There is an unfair issues about christina's article

Christina's ethnicity in the categories not listed and its not fair. Why should that happen for other latino actors and her? 2001:569:7671:F100:6806:57DC:A814:F459 (talk) 01:46, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

If you wish to discuss an article, the place for the discussion is the article's talk page. --David Biddulph (talk) 01:51, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

On punctuation, in general.

I'll get back to you... Wikidalien (talk) 20:13, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Random punctuation

On my, according to some, here, random punctuation in my article edits:

collapsed incoherent drivel from editor who can't write in English

There has been a general decline, particularly in American culture, since, shortly after the advent of the Internet (that word, by the way, is ALWAYS capitalized), and particularly, the 'World-Wide Web', in what used to be considered, 'good' English grammar. But a trend towards degeneration has been firmly set in place - mainly due to ignorance of the rules of the language, and, sheer laziness of attitude and that, mainly in punctuation, spelling, syntax, grammar, etc. This, I well remember, was predicted early on by veteran computer users, and, in particular, those who were writers. This trend, of course, is due to the influx and influence of the general populace, which, seemingly all at once, introduced a 'lowest-common-denominator' policy on textual communication, by people who, typically, were not at all familiar with keyboards, namely typewriters, as used in textual communication of any kind. This has affect the comprehension and interpretation of said communications, to such a degree, that, more than 80% of all Internet-originated, textual communications sent by, even close family members, are misunderstood by the receiver, and another 80%, of any given message's content, is not correctly interpreted.

Punctuation, is the 'flavor' of a statement, or clause, as it relates to the previous, and the following statement or clause. As the eye perceives any good artwork, you are being guided - sensibly, and rationally through it, by way of proper punctuation. See how easy, and conversational that was to read? Now, try this:

"There has been a general decline particularly in america since shortly after the advent of the internet which by the way is always capitalized and particularly the world wide web in what used to be considered good english grammar a trend towards degeneration has been firmly set in place mainly due to ignorance of the rules of the english language mainly in punctuation spelling syntax grammar and etc." No, I wouldn't want to have to read it again, either.

There is, also, probably something else to consider. That is, your personal familiarity or unfamiliarity, with the language and how you learned to speak it, and, how you read it. If you're under about the age of 30, then you, and those before you, are speaking it differently. Your 'discontinued use' of - what used to be required adeptness in - the intricacies of English grammar, doesn't make my memory, and my retention of it, wrong. Good writing should resemble, even mimic, oral conversation. Punctuation gives a string of ideas, or a clause - or a string, or a progression of clauses - clarity, and sensibility. See that? If you didn't quite catch it, read it again.

According to Strunk and White, a certain amount of 'literary freedom', is granted to the writer, who may wish to use it as a literary 'device', or, in such a way as to emphasize something, which, may not present itself, readily, to the reader. Punctuation should present, properly, the idea proposed, in a way that fits, and suits, the desired, chosen way of expression of the writer. The way it is written and punctuated, depends on the content, dialect, phraseology (British, or American) emphasis of content or idea, and, even local colloquialism.

DO NOT criticize, or otherwise reprimand me, for my application of something, that is going to assist you, in the understanding, and readability, of each idea, as it occurs, and is presented, in a way that, in the end, makes your reading experience, one, of better, overall comprehension. Now, read that rather lengthy sentence again - this time, with no punctuation. Have fun. DO NOT try to minimalize my level of continued, and, continuing education, unless, you are quite well-prepared to assert comparisons. If, at this point, you didn't quite catch what I just said, read it again. If all else fails - I'll do the writing; you, do the reading.

Wikidalien (talk) 00:40, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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I gave you a link to WP:Bot policy, but I wouldn't recommend trying to do anything with bots until you are much more familiar with editing Wikipedia. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:32, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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Yes, I saw that he'd been globally blocked as a sock. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:36, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Article incorrectly renamed

Hi, thanks for helping with moving back the article on ARA San Juan to its correct name. Can you pleaese now help with same for ARA Salta? Left justification in its talk page. Thanks, DPdH (talk) 20:37, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Hopefully done now. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:02, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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Weird Editing Quirk

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milton_Keynes_Council_election,_2015&action=history So I edited this article to provide Wiki-links to the respective towns involved in the election, and that's all I did. I see no difference whatsoever besides the new Wiki-link titles, but for some reason the 'View history' section tells me that I've whacked off 3.5+ kilobytes of data. I'm extremely confused.

Sorry to keep bugging you today.

TheTechnician27 (talk) 00:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

There were lots of extra spaces in the previous version, and you've got rid of them. Nothing to worry about. I could see that using the "show improved diff view" option, which can be enabled in the editing section at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets, either stand-alone or as part of WikiEd. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:23, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Mendoza, Texas

Hello David... I received the warning you gave me telling me that I would be blocked from editing the next time I added unsourced content to Wikipedia, as I did in Mendoza, Texas. What I don't understand, though, is why you gave me that warning even though I did give it a source at the end. Was it the coordinates and the degrees of latitude and longitude that I didn't source? I did source where it stands with the Handbook of Texas as my source. Will you please tell me what I did wrong, and why I received this warning from you? That would be really appreciative of you for doing so! I want to do as many edits as I can! Colman2000 (talk) 05:02, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

The edit which provoked my warning was this one, in which only part of the section which you added was sourced. You had been warned on numerous previous occasions for adding unsourced material (including material similar to this edit), so you ought to have been more careful and ensured that everything you added was sourced. In general it is better if discussion takes place on your own talk page where the warning was given, so that other editors can see an unfragmented discussion. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:24, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

help

hi, havent European Rowing Championships from 1973 to 2007?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhaomelani (talk • contribs) 20:26, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

True. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:31, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Edith Rigby

Thanks for the nice bunch of BBB - I am, as I have already made clear to you - the author of the document you refer to as stolen from "https://web.archive.org/web/20170227064121/http://englishessaypartners.co.uk/data/documents/William-Lever-and-Edith-Rigby.pdf" Moreover, the website [englishessaypartners] belonged to me before I deleted it. My research on this subject - Edith Rigby and Roynton Cottage - was published in the Bolton Evening News in June 2013. My paper/article is well written (sorry for that) and referenced and cited to academic standards (sorry for that as well) What exactly do you want? Should I rewrite it, but like an antiquarian (ie badly)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fairchristabelle (talk • contribs) 20:33, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

It's very simple. You need to go through the process which was pointed out to you some time ago for donating copyrighted material. Wikipedia's processes are in place to protect copyright owners, and as yet Wikipedia has not been given evidence that you are the copyright owner and that you wish to release that material irrevocably for everyone else to use under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. --David Biddulph (talk) 20:39, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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Mistaken identity?

Hello there im just catching up on a warning you just gave me perhaps you have mistaken my identity for another user? i didnt vandalise that page perhaps you meant to warn BudJillett or 82.9.98.74 ?

thanks a concerned wikipedia user — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.68.23 (talk) 21:01, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

The warning was for you, and the block will be for you if the vandalism continues. --David Biddulph (talk) 21:23, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Goodbye Wikipedia

Hey David Biddulph I'm Done with Wikipedia you son of a Bitch Goodbye 68.102.39.189 (talk) 01:35, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

I Want To leave Wikipedia now 68.102.39.189 (talk) 15:27, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

I would like your input in a discussion/question.

Hi,

I would appreciate it if you could give your input regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_naval_ship_classes_in_service#Split_this_article_into_multiple_articles Thanks in advance Dragnadh (talk) 20:33, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Hi David, and happy new year! I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas! Colman2000 (talk) 23:09, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Re RNXS page edits

(cur | prev) 21:20, 1 January 2018‎ David Biddulph (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,048 bytes) (+8)‎ . . (→‎Role: Another misplaced external link turned to a ref (bare url again)) (undo | thank)

Misplaced How ? you don't elabborate

(cur | prev) 21:19, 1 January 2018‎ David Biddulph (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,040 bytes) (-145)‎ . . (In Wikipedia we don't generally put full stops between letters of initialisms, & sorted out a few more spurious capitals) (undo | thank)

if your are referring to R.N.X.S, its a Navy Acronyms and how it is written in the service ,general speaking you do put a full stop between the letters especially when referring to the service.


(cur | prev) 21:01, 1 January 2018‎ David Biddulph (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,185 bytes) (+6)‎ . . (→‎Disbandment: Turned misplaced external links to refs (though still bare urls)) (undo | thank)

Not sure what Urls you are referring to


(cur | prev) 20:58, 1 January 2018‎ David Biddulph (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,179 bytes) (-62)‎ . . (→‎Disbandment: What a mess! Refs don't go in section heading, & punctuation, spelling, capitalisation, & grammar were atrocious) (undo | thank)

Thanks for your critic ,of my contribution ,is it Shakespeare hardly am i being assessed on its content for some award ?i think not. i am sure my dyslexia wont end the world or crash wiki but feel to edit it to your exacting standards of punctuation, spelling, capitalisation, & grammarDixon hill (talk) 02:06, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting my edit

Thank you David for correcting my edits on Miriam's page and also the note about marking an edit as being minor (or not). SpikeUK (talk) 11:29, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

I'm still not able to digest the fact that I have made such a big blunder on HMS St Albans (F83). Thanks for correcting. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 16:45, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Editing the Geography section of Mendoza, Texas

Hello David... I saw your reasoning behind why I was given a warning that I was going to be blocked from editing without further warning the next time I added unsourced content to Wikipedia, as I did at Mendoza, Texas. I understand that I was given several warnings about adding unsourced content to Wikipedia, and I know that I shouldn't, but sometimes my mind just plays tricks on me. If you are wondering where I received the distances from, I received them from [3], to where you can just type in the name of a city and the distance from that city to the community will be shown. If this is not a good source, then please let me know. If I convert them, I don't know if I will be blocked for not sourcing that material. Also, with the most recent warning you gave me, I disagree with WP:USCITIES saying that you should remove the coordinates from the Geography section if they are also located in the infobox. Why is because it is shown on many articles of incorporated cities and towns in the United States. Take the article of Johnstown, Colorado as an example. The coordinates are in both the infobox and the geography section. This is also used in articles such as Lockhart, Texas and Manchester, Ohio. To be honest, this is still kind of confusing, and I am still kind of new to this. I am still trying to get the hang of editing on here, and I will continue to get help if I need it. I also feel like I should've read the guidelines and WikiProjects before creating an account on here. I also found it foolish to remove all of the messages from my talk page. I didn't take notes showing how to use copyrighted material left on my talk page, and I regret every negative thing I have said. To make it up to you, will you please read what I wrote, and tell me how you think I should do this? Also, I want to be able to be alerted to your talk page, so please don't forget to add "ping" in front of my username, and I will look at what you wrote ASAP. Thanks! Colman2000 (talk) 03:26, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

My view is that if you needed to do calculations to work out the distances to put in the article, you should have left out the distances, but if you wanted to include them the Bing search included numerous links, one of which could have been used as a reference if it supported the figure you were using; note that a Bing search URL itself ought not to be used as a ref because the results can change from time to time. I believe that there was one distance in the handbook reference which you used, so of course it would be reasonable to include that one. My most recent warning to you made no mention of WP:USCITIES, but perhaps you are thinking of an earlier warning from another editor. If you disagree with the guidelines in WP:USCITIES, the place to discuss your disagreement and to suggest an improvement is not here on my talk page but on the talk page of the guidelines. It is unwise to use pages which don't comply with the guidelines as an example, as there are many pages which were written in ignorance of the guidelines and there is a limited number of volunteers who might have noticed. If you wish to choose examples to follow, it is better to choose featured articles or articles with a high rating on the relevant project's quality scale. You can always go back to read the advice which you received on your user talk page, as it is still available in the page history. On your final point, I do not make a habit of pinging anybody who asks questions on my user talk page, as I expect them to put my page on their watchlist if they choose to ask the question here. --David Biddulph (talk) 08:23, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

@David Biddulph: Thanks for writing. I will add you to my watchlist, and thank you for telling me that Bing search URLs change overtime. I will leave a message on the WP:USCITIES talk page discussing my disagreement. I also agree that I could have used only the distance where the community is from on the Handbook of Texas' official website. I will be more aware of what I am doing. Cheers. Colman2000 (talk) 16:22, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

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New to Wikipedia - The Boat Race Article

Hello David, Thank you for reverting my edit of The Boat Race. You are correct in pointing out that it was me (or rather a mate on my laptop) who made the first edit, I attempted to change it more carefully after your feedback. I was just wondering in what cases I had edited the wrong sections, I'm new to Wikipedia so trying to work it out! Any help would be much appreciated although I have now read several tutorials and will imminently attempt edit no. 3 Perry2764 (talk) 18:20, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Pinging other users

Hi David. I thank you for telling me not to use any styling instructions, and I appreciate that, but when I tried to ping the user that I wanted to reply to it showed up like this: "Error in Template:Reply to: Username not given." I know how to ping users, but thank you for the reminder. Colman2000 (talk) 20:43, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

more information about the invasion of my sandbox

Hi,

I am not sure if you are flagged to read my additional comments on TeaHouse this morning. Since you are monitoring the user, this is the info I added on Teahouse:

Thanks for restoring my draft and responding. I wanted to let you know that after I posted my question, I went back to my sandbox and started reading the content. I noticed many hyperlinks embedded in the content advertising girls doing something or being available. When I got out and back in again to read further and possibly copy that information for Wikipedia, my draft was restored.

Thx for letting me know what's going on with this issue. This was not just an invitation to Wiki Adventure, It was a Wiki Adventure Paragraph followed by a lot of of other information not on the Wiki Adventure page and links to who knows where. MauraWen (talk) 17:47, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

If you want to go back to look at any previous version of User:MauraWen/sandbox you can see the history and select any version. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:51, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

IRC

Do you do the IRC thing, or not?

No big deal, and nothing nefarious, I just wondered - because of the 'ping' thing, and me not knowing how it works.

I know you're around lots, so I wondered if you're on IRC too?

Best, 86.20.193.222 (talk) 18:15, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

No, I don't. --David Biddulph (talk) 18:16, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your recent comment, however when my work is being illegally plagiarised, I will take legal action to get the due credit, as is my legal rights.146.200.77.220 (talk) 21:03, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

The effect of repeating the legal threat after being warned was the inevitable. --David Biddulph (talk) 22:24, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Not Making a Draft

I Don't know how to make a draft. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 00:52, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

You'll find out how at WP:Your first article and WP:Article for creation. --David Biddulph (talk) 00:55, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Archive user talk page in archive box

Hi David, Greetings. Thank you very much for helping archive my talk page into the my archive box. Appreciate it. I wonder if teach me or direct me to a an instructional page on (1) how to do my next archiving on "archive #2" and (2) how to add a user page message (a section) into an existing archive box. Thanks in advance. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 08:59, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

@CASSIOPEIA: Details of how to configure the archive are at User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis. The archive will automatically switch to "Archive 2" when "Archive 1" gets big enough; you specified "maxarchsize=75000". Looking again at your page I see that it has now done so. If by adding a user page message to the archive box you mean manually archiving, there is a User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow template, and the functioning is defined at User:ClueBot_III/ArchiveThis#archivenow with a further example on the page, but I've never tried to use that. Another option would be merely to cut from your talk page and paste into the archive page, including appropriate edit summaries at each stage to maintain attribution. --David Biddulph (talk) 02:22, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi David, Greetings to you. Thank you for the advice and I will have a look a the links you provided. Appreciate of your assistance. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 11:11, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Prod and AFD

Hi, I removed the WP:PROD notice you placed on Nic Fanciulli, because the article had previously been to WP:AFD, and PROD is only used for uncontrovesial deletions. The article may still be deleted if it fails WP:G4, which someone else has already tagged the article with, or you may choose to take it back to AFD. Thanks. Iffy★Chat -- 16:04, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

It wasn't this version of the article which was at AFD. Is it now controversial as to whether articles without reliable sources get deleted? --David Biddulph (talk) 16:09, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Because the article had been to AFD before, the best place to settle the debate as to whether good enough sources exist to support the article's notability claim is to take the article back to AFD. PROD is only meant for uncontroversial deletions, and it isn't going to be obviously uncontroversial given that the page has been nominated for deletion before, and then recreated today (unless G4 applies). Iffy★Chat -- 16:19, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
It has only been recreated because the creator doesn't care a monkeys as to whether the articles he created are suitable, but I'm happy to leave you to do the tidying up after him in this case. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:24, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Can you tell me,whats wrong my article, i will fix it.

Please tell me whats a fault my article? Erlan Azahra (talk) 10:51, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Blatantly promotional, with no independent sources. If you can't see that, you shouldn't be editing Wikipedia. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:56, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Erlan Azahra

User:Erlan Azahra ,Hello,Why you want deleted my posted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Nusantara_Turbin_Dan_Propulsi, can you tell me which parts are wrong from my article? please help me. Erlan Azahra (talk) 13:05, 25 January 2018 (UTC)


A Wikipedia article should not contain your company's product catalogue. If you delete the #Customer and #Certification sections then the draft might have a chance of survival, but that would be a decision for an administrator. Repeatedly recreating the draft after it has been deleted is liable to be treated as tendentious editing and lead to you being blocked and the page title salted to prevent re-creation. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:15, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your information sir!

Thank you.. i try to learn wikipedia. so please help me. Erlan Azahra (talk) 13:27, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

An admin has removed the catalogue part of your draft, and will give you comments, which you need to read. Please also read WP:NOTPROMO, & the relevant links from there. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:30, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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Praise for template edit

"Incorrect usage of English wording": I don't know how to give cookies here, or I would give you one. Thank you so much for correcting the Shared IP Gov template, your edit was above expectation and it was still very simple. 134.186.234.108 (talk) 22:10, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

I reverted your deletion of the discussions from the template's talk page. I used the talk page discussion as my explanation for the change I made, and there is scope for further improvement to make that one more consistent with the others so the discussion should remain. We don't generally delete talk page conversations, but can eventually archive & delete if the page gets too cluttered. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:19, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for the guidance, I appreciate it. I shall apply these principles to my brain for future use 134.186.234.108 (talk) 16:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
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Henley Prize

I'm going to have to look at a copy of the book. The text of the article seemingly contradicts the Henley website, which makes no mention of the "Henley Prize" as a particular trophy but gives it instead as the first name for the women's eight race which now as a different name and its own trophy. Mangoe (talk) 16:43, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I've rephrased the article. There isn't, as far as I am aware, an actual challenge trophy named the Henley Prize, and it is simply a title which they have used on at least those three occasions for new events before they had challenge trophies. The 1968 case can be sourced to both of the standard histories, Dodd & Burnell, as well as to the relevant volume of the Regatta Records. The later two cases I have referenced to the later volumes of the Regatta Records. --David Biddulph (talk) 17:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
That makes a great deal of sense. Thanks for checking that out fully. Mangoe (talk) 23:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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Don't revert my edits without explanation

Can I know why are you reverting my edits without explanations? Do you even understand those edits? This is vandalism on your part. If you want to know about my edits, you can read the edit summaries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.127.246.106 (talk) 19:21, 12 February 2018‎ (UTC)

Improving my rating

Hugo Gottesmann: thank you so much for answering my questions about how to improve my rating. I am new to Wikipedia and I want to tell you that it has been a very reassuring process once I got through all the formating issues enought to submit my article. I made the changes to my references that you told me about. Thank you.WS114 16:36, 18 February 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mary Jane Doerr (talk • contribs)

@Mary Jane Doerr: The advice I gave was about references used more than once, namely to read Help:Referencing for beginners#Same reference used more than once. --David Biddulph (talk) 16:42, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
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