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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 15:06, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
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[edit]Hello Birdlab. Regarding the recent revert you made: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. I wanted to manually warn you, but I realized it would be too long. So... :) HwyNerd Mike (tokk) 01:04, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Birdlab. Thank you for your work on Wilda Hamerman. Another editor, Uncle Bash007, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
Congrats and thank you for creating this page
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Uncle Bash007 (talk) 13:46, 24 April 2026 (UTC)
I have sent you a note about a page you started
[edit]Hi Birdlab. Thank you for your work on Carol A. Herskowitz. Another editor, Mariamnei, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
Nice start!
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Mariamnei (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
Anywhere, State links
[edit]I noticed a recent edit of yours to the Alice K. Leopold page which converted several place links from the form "Anywhere, State|Anywhere" to just "Anywhere". In both cases the "Anywhere" link goes to a redirect to the page "Anywhere, State". Is it in fact better to convert the links into simpler ones that go to a redirect? Is that the standard now? I think I was told a long time ago that if the page you are going to is "Anywhere, State", the link should ideally go directly there and not via a redirect. You can reply here if you wish. Brianyoumans (talk) 20:33, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out! I'm going to self revert it as I think that last edit was a mistake on my part while I was moving too fast checking the link to the college, and I am not 100% sure of the standard practice based on skimming guidelines just now. The script automatically unpipes according to WP:NOPIPE and WP:NOTBROKEN, which doesn't necessarily translate correctly for place pages, unless they're ones like San Francisco. Anywhere, State|Anywhere makes more practical sense to me as you said. Birdlab (talk) 21:53, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
- Yeah, it seems like one of those trade-offs of maybe processor power, server traffic, ease of writing the pages... all well above my pay grade. But it seems to me that going directly to the proper page makes the most sense. I've also seen people correcting things to just the single link "Anywhere, State", but that seems a little off to me since users might expect that to be two links, one to the place and the other to the state. Eh, mostly I just write articles and let other folks sort out exactly how the technical formatting is supposed to be. Cheers! Brianyoumans (talk) 14:21, 12 May 2026 (UTC)