User talk:LorenzoB

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You don't need to "sign" your edits in the edit summary; that information is saved automatically. Signing is only needed for comments (like the one I'm writing now), and here's my tildes: —Ben FrantzDale 05:12, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tire

		The Minor Barnstar
		For cleaning up wordy and awkward prose at Tire. Coneslayer 21:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the California WikiProject

Since you say that you're from SoCal, you should also check out the Southern California WikiProject. ^Blank ^Verse 11:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your rewording on the Sepulveda Boulevard page. Late night writings of mine are generally not too clear or concise. BMan1113VR 01:16, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!!!

thank you for your extra info on the last time it snowed on boney- i appreciate it!

Thanks!!!

Dear LorenzoB, Thanks for your corrections on the page 'Chemnotaxis'. You helped to make the English of the page better. Kohlasz 11:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Rail terminology

The basic problem was that you forgot the </ref> tag at the end of the citation. I'm an expert in leaving it off, believe me!--Old Moonraker 14:25, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Submarine

thanks for the copyedits there. That's a thankless job (uhhh....except this time...where you get thanked) and I'm glad someone (not me) is willing to do it. Protonk (talk) 00:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Queen Mary

Thanks for cleaning up the awkward wording of the RMS Queen Mary article. Looks a lot better now! Binksternet (talk) 01:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Theodore Kaczynski

Thanks for your edit to the article! Just a quick note: your edit was a copyedit and not a wikification, as wikification usually implies that terms were linked to other wiki articles. Anyways, I really appreciate your edit! Gary King (talk) 18:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject California roll call

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Again, hi! Optigan13 (talk) 00:19, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Submarine

Because of your work at Submarine, I would like to invite you to join Operation Nautilus, a collaboration of editors dedicated to improving the quality of submarine articles, perhaps like you and me. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 04:14, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sambos

You wrote-The photo of a former Sambo's location serves no purpose on Wiki whatsoever. I nominate it for removal That in no way will happen. You have no valid reason for its removal. The point of the photo is to show what the closed down Sambo's restaurant looks like now,what they have been turned into etc. If you try to remove the photo I will add it back to the article every time it is removed. In fact,I think I will place Sambo's on my watch list.Leave well enough alone please.--99.177.248.92 (talk) 20:58, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sambos

You wrote-The photo of a former Sambo's location serves no purpose on Wiki whatsoever. I nominate it for removal. That in no way will happen. You have no valid reason for its removal. The point of the photo is to show what the closed down Sambo's restaurant looks like now,what they have been turned into etc. If you try to remove the photo I will add it back to the article every time it is removed. In fact,I think I will place Sambo's on my watch list.Leave well enough alone please.--99.177.248.92 (talk) 20:59, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

{{Jctint}} and {{CAint}}

At the above pages is the documentation for the junction list templates. Unfortunately, you caught me while I was converting from the old code to the templates above; that's why the table's a little off. --Rs chen 7754 05:26, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Metros on IH page

Hi, I commented about the lack of any mention of the Metros (van, trucks, or otherwise) in the IH article, Talk:International_Harvester#Vehicles --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 17:55, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Readability cleanups on Vacuum flask

Thanks for working to make articles more readable and with cleaner wordings. However, please be careful...your changes to vacuum flask altered the meaning rather than "simply" simplfying the writing style. I undid/reworked a bit to revive what seems to be meant there. DMacks (talk) 03:03, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Edits?

Lorenzo, the edits you just made to Distant Early Warning Line were marked "Minor", but they don't meet the requirements for Minor edits (see WP:Minor). For example, I'm not sure your change of every occurrence of "U.S." and "United States" to "US" was an improvement. I think it would be a good idea not to mark edits "minor" unless you are certain they could never be the subject of dispute. Thanks! — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 05:15, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Abbreviating "Second World War" to WWII

Why do you think it is worthwhile to abbreviate "Second World War" to the less formal and less descriptive "WWII"? Why, especially, do you think it is worthwhile when doing so creates a 91 kB addition to the archive that would not be there otherwise?

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Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 10:51, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to say the same thing. Thanks for your copyedits to Arthur Godfrey, but Wikipedia doesn't generally abbreviate words like that. Graham87 06:21, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Season's tidings!

To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:50, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

San Diego Comic-Con International meetup discussion

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Capitalizing seasons

Hi LorenzoB, I see you have been going around a large number of articles capitalizing seasons ("summer" to "Summer"). Please be aware that this is almost invariably wrong, as per proper English usage. See for example this page. Seasons should only be capitalized when they are used as part of a title, not when they are used in the generic sense. Please stop it - this will all have to be undone, presumably by someone else :/ Elmidae (talk) 08:32, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Changing U.S.to US

Regarding your edits here where you changed "U.S." to "US", per MOS:US, "...retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it." As far as I can tell, there is no good reason to change it in Flag of Washington, D.C., an article about the flag of an American city, so I've reverted the changes. Please be careful of this in the future. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 09:20, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Concur with User:BilCat. I noticed you have this terrible habit of making such changes. I'm going to have to revert all of them. Anyone trained to write formal written prose in American English at the graduate level knows that the correct term is U.S. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Even high school students know that. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 02:18, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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