User talk:Spanghew2fs

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June 2022

Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. At least one of your edits on the page Jeff, while it may have been in good faith, was difficult to distinguish from vandalism. To help other editors understand the reason for the changes, you can use an edit summary for your contributions. You can also take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Sahaib (talk) 16:34, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I had, when I wrote that I put the more common name "Jeffrey" first, and then the less common "Jefferson." It is entirely typical to list things by order of commonness. I'm not sure how that could possibly be construed as "vandalism," esp. since it does not seem to fit any of the criteria listed in the article on that topic (linked above).

So I am a bit confused as to what more explanation could make it more clear: it was a minor edit, changing the order of two names to reflect the common practice of going from most to least common. No content was changed.

I fail to see how that could POSSIBLY be misconstrued as vandalism. Spanghew2fs (talk) 19:26, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Spanghew2fs:, you provided no sources that say which name is more common. Also alphabetical order is a more common practice than most to least common. Sahaib (talk) 21:35, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Uh-huh. I will note that the article on Jeffrey (name) contains an unsupported assertion regarding the relative popularity of the name in and outside of North America. Better redact that.

And your statement re alpha order vs. most/least is also unsupported.

But what the hell, for the record, in English-speaking nations: in the US: <https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi> shows Jeffrey more popular than Jefferson by 300-400 positions. For the UK <https://www.ukbabynames.com/boys/> shows Jeffrey in the 1000s out of 4608, while Jefferson does not show up. And, not to neglect the Australians, <https://forebears.io/australia/forenames> puts Jeffrey at 343 of 1000. Jefferson again does not place.

Thank you for your deeply informative series of comments.

This has been most enjoyable.

Have a wonderful day, if indeed you can find sources to verify whether the day is actually "wonderful." Spanghew2fs (talk) 22:32, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]