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sporange

The term sporange is dated. It used to be used in the literature, but isn't used any longer. You can refer to the sporange entry on Wiktionary for supporting quotations. However, as the term is indeed dated, I certainly agree that it is not needed as an alternative word form in the sporangium article. --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:40, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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2011 Norway attacks

Great edits and great edit summaries, keep them coming. These were not minor edits though, please don't mark such edits as minor. Let me know if you need any help. --John (talk) 21:40, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words, and for the helpful link. I have read the minor-edits page, and I'll keep it in mind. TypoBoy (talk) 21:53, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dangling modifier

TB, nice catch on this fix! Thanks. --76.189.98.15 (talk) 02:05, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sechele I

Thanks for the fix. Quite right, but as for the dad that you mention in your edit summary...... you have left me wondering. Amandajm (talk) 07:08, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking of this Lonely Island song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ . I suppose I should not assume that nobody ever reads the edit summaries! TypoBoy (talk) 11:47, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, Bill! I knew about signing posts, but often forget, so the reminder is helpful.

I understand. Though I have to say that you forgot again just here. ;-) — Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib) — 16:27, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

D'oh! TypoBoy (talk) 16:29, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

KAL 007: I believe it was a (rare) correct use of comprise, and it is less wordy. Michaelmalak (talk) 19:14, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh look: Merriam-Webster agrees that yours is a valid meaning, and says objections to it (like mine) are wrong.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comprise OK. TypoBoy (talk) 19:20, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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State name removals

Why are you removing state names from articles, as you did here? I see nothing in the cited guideline to support that. Gatoclass (talk) 07:28, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The linked guideline says, "This page describes conventions for determining the titles of Wikipedia articles on places and for the use of place names in Wikipedia articles. [ . . . ] Cities listed in the AP Stylebook as not requiring the state modifier in newspaper articles have their articles named City unless they are not the primary or only topic for that name. [ . . . ] The cities listed by the AP are Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.." TypoBoy (talk) 12:07, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If this were an Associated Press article about USS Advance, it would be required to say "she was decommissioned at Philadelphia", rather than "she was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". Wikipedia:naming conventions (geographic names) tells Wikipedia contributors to do the same (though it is a guideline, so Wikipedia contributors, unlike AP writers, are not required to use that style). TypoBoy (talk) 12:27, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This blog post discusses the AP Stylebook's directions for naming cities. TypoBoy (talk) 12:36, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are labouring under a misapprehension here. The section in the guideline dealing with naming American cities is referring to the correct disambiguation method in article titles, not to preferred usage in main body text. Gatoclass (talk) 12:58, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To me, it seems clear that that guideline covers both the names of articles and the use of place names in articles. (After all, the first sentence of the lead is, "This page describes conventions for determining the titles of Wikipedia articles on places and for the use of place names in Wikipedia articles.") But the language in the section about U.S. cities is indeed about article names.

I have created a new discussion about this at Wikipedia talk:naming conventions (geographic names)#U.S. city names in the text of articles. Let's talk about it there. Naturally, I'll wait for the outcome of that conversation before making any more edits like this. TypoBoy (talk) 21:55, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Gatoclass (talk) 03:58, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Don't let it shatter your sense of typo-self-worth...

...and I'm sure it will not: There's an errer, sort of a typographical one, in your excellent rewrite of the Displacement article. I don't remember the exact location, but the words "in fresh" are in there twice in a row at the end of a sentence a sentence. Other than that, it's perfect. ;-) Lou Sander (talk) 02:11, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Displacement

Thanks for your work on the "Displacement (ship)" page a year ago. The issues never got resolved back then, so I replaced the page with the version you created. Hopefully that's OK with you and everyone else. Akwdb (talk) 23:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Akwdb! It's certainly fine by me. TypoBoy (talk) 00:29, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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System versus hydrological feature

Greetings, TypoBoy (talk · contribs). Thank you for goading me into refining the distinction between an organized entity - part of a system, including its mechanical infrastructure - and a hydrological feature.

Though their physical areas largely overlap, the Croton Watershed, the New York City water supply system's name for its southernmost watershed system and its infrastructure, including dams, spillways, tunnels, pumps, and other mechanical components, and the Croton River watershed, the physical drainage basin of some seven rivers that consolidate into the Croton River, they are quite distinct. That is why there are two separate articles - similarly named but distinct in capitalization and wording - for the two different entities.

The reality is that the inidenticalness of the NYC system's "Croton Watershed" and the natural feature "Croton River watershed" is even greater than that, due to an anomoly where two reservoirs within the latter actually collect and store water from it that is then distributed out of both it and the Croton Watershed (and into the delivery system of NYC's Delware Aqueduct, comprised almost entirely of water from four reservoirs collected on the opposite bank of the Hudson, the west, within the Delaware River and Catskill Mountain physical watersheds). Boyds Corner and West Branch Reservoirs are physically within the Croton River watershed but only ancillarily part of the Croton Watershed. Only water in excess of NYC's needs released by the West Branch's spillway ends back up in the Croton River watershed and Croton Watershed supply.

So, one is a complex entity, including physical structures such as dams, tunnels, and their supporting mechanicals, the other a natural feature. Their footprints largely overlap, but their drainages do not. Most unusual, that. Thus the two separate Wikipedia pages exist to help eliminate the confusion caused when both a Croton Watershed and Croton River watershed are conflated as one. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 11:27, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Issues with Beaver Stadium

Although Beaver Stadium at max capcity plus the population of State College is larger then that of Allentown. Beaver Stadium is actually in College Township not State College, although it is in University Park. It's also not perminatt population so if it should be mentioned all angles should be shown. The population of State College already fluctuates so much throughout the year. It's even more complictaed when you realise that Beaver Stadium plus College Township < Allentown but State College plus Beaver Stadium is > Allentown and Happy Valley which is often interchangeable with State College would already be the fourth largest city in Pennsylvania. Anyways I'd like to know what you think with all that info in mind. Goon^talk 19:21, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Goonsnick! Thanks for noticing my edit summary, and thanks for commenting on it here. As I think you know, I was kidding about adding Beaver Stadium to the List of cities and boroughs in Pennsylvania by population article, though I do think the factoid that only three Pennsylvania cities have a population larger than the capacity of Beaver Stadium says something about the state's paucity of large cities and the enormousness of the stadium, though I'm not sure exactly what it says. My experience is that people I've told it to (who are often Philadelphians, like ma) are mildly surprised to hear it, and also that they can easily name the two largest Pennsylvania cities but rarely the third, unless they just start naming all the ones they can think of.

I think it's interesting, though, that although the 106,572 members of a Beaver Stadium sellout crowd can be seen all at once, they nonetheless represent a significant proportion of the population of the state. The Beaver Stadium is therefore a convenient unit of population for discussing Pennsylvania demographics. The population of Pennsylvania is 120 1/8 Beaver Stadiums, of which 14.3 live in Philadelphia and 2.8 live in Pittsburgh. It's a handy visualization; perhaps we should use it in the infobox of Pennsylvania city pages.

OK, I'm kidding about that too. TypoBoy (talk) 14:16, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my bad. I thought you were referring to editing the info for State College not adding Beaver Stadium. I only brought it up because the fact isn't technically true simply due to dumb borders. It's only cause I'm from the area that I know about it. I remember somebody from Pittsburgh once tried to say that State College was the third-largest city on game days.

Thank you for responding though! Goon^talk 10:34, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. sorry for writing weirdly

I found your messages not at all weird, but rather clear, informative, and friendly. I'm glad to learn more about the overlapping place names of the Happy Valley area, both for its own sake and also as background to the bit of trivia I cited in my edit summary, that the capacity of Beaver Stadium is larger than the population of all but three Pennsylvania cities.

I'm glad to learn that people sometimes seriously claim that number should be included in the population of State College (which is wrong not only because, as you point out, the stadium does not lie within State College, but also because that would mean counting people both as stadium attendees and also as residents of wherever their domicile is [for many that being State College itself]). I'll be alert to that mistaken belief.

Thanks again for writing to me! TypoBoy (talk) 13:06, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Incorrect DAB edit

Thanks for the helpful (and respectful) comment on the edit on disambiguation page I edited incorrectly. I may have done that on some others (I'll go check) and correct them as well. Good to know! Cheers, Wclark (talk) 18:50, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad to hear this. I'm always annoyed (like, unreasonably pissed off) when my own edits are reverted, even if whoever did the reversion was right to do so, so I didn't want to be a jerk about it. Thanks for the kind note, and for your work on Wikipedia! TypoBoy (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates

Thanks for adding coordinates to Apennine Colossus. I altered them just now as they were overprecise. In terms of precision, I find that D°M′S″ (Degrees, Minutes, Seconds) works for most everything. In the case of a statue, either D°M′S.s″ or D.dddd° is pretty much guaranteed to hit the object. Any attempt at a finer gradation, and what hits in Google will miss in Bing Maps. So I always try to fit D°M′S″ first, then D.dddd°, then D°M′S.s″, then D.ddddd°. Abductive (reasoning) 15:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Typo

^Its^It's. ✌🏻 D2theque (talk) 03:42, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi D2theque! Thanks for the comment.

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Thanks

I consider myself a very precise copy editor but have learnt some new details just by reviewing your edit history! (For example, I did not know that yakuza is a common noun.) Teacher1850 (talk) 22:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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