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Possessive form of words ending in -s

Unfortunately, the situation is not as simplistic as you claim... AnonMoos (talk) 02:45, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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features of 1553B

I undid you addition to the list of features of 1553 because it didn't improve the list as it was. Graham.Fountain | Talk 12:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Don't see it as an improvment to this highly technical article, but can't be arsed to edit war over it.Graham.Fountain | Talk 19:08, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your responses.

Who is engaging in an "edit war"? Not I.

Regarding "this highly technical article": one does not need highly technical skills or particularly detailed knowledge of the 1553 bus architecture to recognize when a Wiki about it demonstrates lazy (or faulty) cognition and flawed sentence structure, as this otherwise excellent write-up did. One simply needs good proof-reading skills.

It would be like saying that people who are not experts in laser theory and operation would have no business correcting the following sentence: "Diode-Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPAL) owe there high efficiency ratings to the very small quantum defects between the upper level spin-orbit states of Rubidium and Cesium, at 2% and 5% efficiency, respectably." ("their" and "respectively" are obviously the correct and intended words).

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Only

Is there a grammatical rule you're following here? It is not obvious to me that these changes are an improvement. ~Kvng (talk) 14:54, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kvng - thanks for the response.

No, there's no grammatical rule that I'm following, with regard to the "misplaced only" issue. I usually overlook the misplacement of the word "only" in casual speech, but it seems to me that Wikipedia articles deserve a bit more formality and precision.

Example:

"I only have two hours to complete the project.", which is imprecise and improper, but acceptable in casual speech.

- versus -

"I have only two hours to complete the project." - which is more precise, and therefore more proper.

Your work on Virtual LAN involves something a bit more complicated:

Original: can only partition per physical port (if at all)
Yours: can partition per physical port only (if at all)
Another alternative: can partition only per physical port (if at all)

I'm having a hard time determining which of these is best and don't understand why you consider the original imprecise. I'm just trying to determine whether these changes are improvements or just changes or changes that have the potential of unintentionally changing the meaning of sentences. ~Kvng (talk) 14:10, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kvng -

To clarify, the phrase "can only partition..." in the original context is awkward, imprecise, and bordering on the nonsensical. In this instance, the word "only" (which is an "auxiliary modifier"), when placed immediately before the word "partition", pointlessly restricts action to "partitioning", when it's clear that the subject, "physical port" is what is intended to be restricted. In other words, the intent seems to be along these lines: "make sure to partition per physical port, and only per physical port" (as opposed to, say, groups of physical ports, or even "per virtual port"(?), or "per software port").

If "can only partition" was indeed intended, the intent here would be to caution against doing something other than partitioning the physical port (such as pouring steak sauce on it, for example). I am highly dubious that this was the intent. Trevayne08 (talk) 18:39, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

- By the way, "per physical port, only" is equivalent to "only per physical port", and just as proper, but its usage in that manner is a bit stilted, and is becoming obsolete, it seems. ** Trevayne08 (talk) 18:39, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. To summarize, your improvement is to place the modifier closer to the subject it intends to modify. ~Kvng (talk) 13:43, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

- Yes, I agree completely, Kvng. I wish I had put it the way you just did, at the outset. Placing the modifier as close as possible to the subject it intends to modify makes for clean, clear and tight sentences.

Mira Variable

Regarding the "Mira Variable" article: the reason for my inclusion of the etymology of the Latin word "Mira" in this article was simply for the sake of providing detail. It is not at all unusual to see the etymologies of words or terminology in Wikipedia articles; indeed, the practice of citing them ought to be encouraged and more widespread. Summarily deleting my inclusion of this etymology with no explanation or justification is both arbitrary and precipitous. I find it objectionable. Such behavior often results in pointless edit wars, which benefit no one. So let us agree to avoid one. Trevayne08 (talk) 14:28, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Read this too:

Per APA Style, the answer is that the possessive of a singular name is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s, even when the name ends in s (see p. 96 in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual). Therefore, in the example above, the correct usage would be “Adams's (2013) work.”Jun 20, 2013

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Thanks, Dr. K. I was wrong. Thanks for setting the record straight.

Ovatoscutum

I have reverted your edit to Ovatoscutum because it was unsourced (WP:Verifiability) speculation (WP:SPECULATION). - Donald Albury 12:21, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ovatoscutum organic matter analysis will not be carried out. It is rare fossil and its known imprints are not coated with an organic matter. There is no doubt that Ovatoscutum is a Proarticulata and close relative of Andiva and Dickinsonia. We can only wait when Ivantsov or Gehling publish Ovatoscutum redescription... Aleksey (Alnagov (talk) 10:40, 6 November 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Dickinsonia

I have reverted your edit to Dickinsonia because it was unsourced speculation. In addition, you removed a citation without explanation, which may be considered vandalism. Please be careful with your edits. - Donald Albury 12:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dickinsonia

My sincerest apologies. My edit did seem like a "driveby", with my wholesale removal of your citations with sources. In my excitement and excess zeal with the recent news from The Australia National University last month re: choesterol in Dickinsonia (it's an animal!), I got carried away. I will be more careful in future. Again, my apologies. You have to admit, though, that this is thrilling news! Trevayne08 (talk) 15:43, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Nobel Prize controversies

No, i'm sorry, but your rereversion is still wrong. I've come here rather than argue it out on the talk page or through edit summaries because i prefer to try and work through to an understanding with someone in a situation like this a bit out of the public eye, and the explanation is a bit complex for a summary. What the sentence in question wants to say is that the sole circumstances in which an award could be awarded posthumously is that in which the awardee had died after the decision to give the award had been made; what it currently says it that the sole way of awarding it after someone has died is posthumously ~ which is an irrelevance, if not a tautology. In other words, the restriction by "only" needs to be about how a posthumous award could be made, not what kind of award is made after someone dies. Despite your edit summary, then, "only" should (and did, correctly) modify "awarded", not "posthumously".
I took the liberty yesterday (and again just now) of looking at some of your other contributions, and i have to say that some of the grammatical edits you make are entirely unnecessary and, possibly even in error, so i urge you to be careful with what you do ~ as a simple example, here there was no dangling participle (no participle at all), and the sentence was completely correct as was.
I'm going to undo your edit to the Nobel Prizes, so the sentence in question reads as i describe it above; if you still feel it ought to read differently, containing a different meaning, please feel free to bring it up on the talk page. Happy days ~ Lindsay^Hello 16:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback, LindsayH. Just for the record, regarding "'...not what kind of award is made after someone dies", at no point did I take issue with the kind of award that Gandhi received (posthumously or otherwise).

Further, regarding my edit to the "Proconsul africanus" Wiki article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proconsul_africanus) : The original passage read: "...it was a fruit eater and had a brain larger than a monkey, although probably not as large as a modern ape". Really? Its brain was larger than a monkey? An entire monkey? It would be laughable if it wasn't so nonsensical. Do you really think that was what the author of this Wiki article intended? I simply reformulated the sentence to: "It was a fruit eater and its brain was larger than that of a monkey, although probably not as large as that of a modern ape." That is clearly what the author originally intended. Anyone ought to see that edit as a vast improvement. If not, then they likely have serious reading comprehension problems, if they're not functionally illiterate in the first place. Trevayne08 (talk) 18:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not convinced they are "efficiency" cores, here's a large Intel document where all the instances of Gracemont cores are called "efficient" and not a single one "efficiency". Artem S. Tashkinov (talk) 17:24, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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