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Boleyn (talk) 10:59, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Corricella

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Holdoffhunger, thanks for creating Corricella!

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Boleyn (talk) 20:27, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Boleyn; I have added some sources to the Corricella page! Holdoffhunger (talk) 00:38, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you!

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		Dear Holdoffhunger, Thank you very much for your contributions to the Typo Team, and for your admirable dedication to improve our encyclopedia! It's really great to have you on board!!! With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^(guestbook) 20:48, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you!

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		To my 'teammate' on the Typo Team - thank you for your dedication and attention to detail. It's a never-ending task, but still must be done and it's great that you're trying to finish it! Ira Leviton (talk) 01:26, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A goat for you!

Thank You for helping on Hot tooth syndrome.

Trish pt7 (talk) (talk) 03:18, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Hi Holdoffhunger, You recently fixed a typo in a file name on the article List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The file is File:Floor Plan and Ground Plan of the The Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893.jpeg. The file on Wikimedia Commons is poorly labeled. However, by removing the extra "the" you broke the link to the file. I have changed it back and ask that you leave it as is. Thanks! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:32, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A cookie for you Holdoffhunger!

For removing the double "the" in multiple articles on women artists I had updated regarding exhibiting at The Woman's Building. I have corrected my template. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 04:50, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Floatation and flotation

Hi Holdoff, I appreciate your good work in tracking down misspellings on Wikipedia. Please be careful, though, to check that the word you're changing isn't a valid alternative. For example, 'floatation' is an alternative spelling to 'flotation' according to major dictionaries (Oxford, as well as Cambridge online). I've undone the change at Mining in the Harz; please would you undo the others. Many thanks. Bermicourt (talk) 07:21, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Bermicourt, thanks for taking the time to notice. You are right that 'floatation' is a completely valid (though much less used) form of 'flotation'. But in this case, the text in question was linking to a redirect page, "froth floatation", (made and unchanged in 2007), which ultimately lands on "froth flotation" (my correction). "Floatation" does not appear to be a British-variant of "flotation", otherwise it would have made sense to leave it, but since the "floatation device" link just ends up on "flotation device" article, the link text struck me as unclear.

I can see the merit of the arguments either way (valid word versus article link clarity; both have sections in the style manual). Can you gently remind me of an overall determining rule in these cases? I have always been mindful of British-variants, etc.. Perhaps the linking texts should remain (link clarity) as they are and I should undo only non-link text cases (valid word)? Let me know, thanks. Holdoffhunger (talk) 14:36, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah-ha, I'm sorry, I meant the "froth flotation", article; not the "flotation device" article, sorry. Holdoffhunger (talk) 14:37, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, one of the guiding rules in this area is WP:ENGVAR which states that Wikipedia doesn't prefer one variant of English over another. So if an article is written in, say, Canadian English, we leave it as such. The main exception is that, if an article is clearly regionally related, it should be written in that region's English. I think there's less clarity around word variants which aren't regionally oriented. Here there is a tendency for some editors to replace the unfamiliar or uncommon with the familiar. Connection and connexion spring to mind. Sometimes the variants involve a hyphen e.g. narrow-gauge railway and narrow gauge railway, although the latter is, again, mainly British English. My own view is that if the sources use several variants, Wikipedia should not prefer one over the others, but should try and use them in the same contexts and similar proportions. So we shouldn't delete all instances of 'connexion', but 'connection' should be the prevailing spelling. I don't think there's a guideline about that, but there probably should be. If you come across anything, do let me know.

In terms of linking to articles, we don't have to copy the spelling of the target article, but can either use a redirect with the alternative spelling, in this case froth floatation, or we can pipe the link e.g. [[froth flotation|froth floatation]]. Cheers. Bermicourt (talk) 07:14, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Rise of Macedon --> HELLENIC KINGDOM

New WP:CONSENSUS Building. "Greek" or "Hellenic" precedes "kingdom" in the first sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragao2004 (talk • contribs) 04:41, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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