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Edit summaries

You've made many edits with the edit summary "(—)". This is hardly useful. Something more descriptive such as "replace dash with emdash per WP:MOS" would be more helpful. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)

Please don't do page moves like this without consensus, we have a procedure for such moves. It's not an inactive page, and I just added a source yesterday pointing out that the duration of the siege might be either 18 or 30 months - your chosen title has Wikipedia saying which is correct. If you want to discuss the year it began, fine. Doug Weller (talk) 20:53, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Spelled Moon for deletion

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Next king of Thailand listed at Redirects for discussion

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Request for help re: n-dashes

I am aware that your list of articles on your User page present typographical issues. But I point out that they were all created by the cut-and-paste method, violating the copyright of David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org (or sometimes, without acknowledgment, another page on another language Wikipedia), an activity which was NOT carried out by me, and for which I feel no responsibility. My additions and changes are done in proper form, and I prefer to spend my time on Wikipedia creating or adding to articles. I thank you, though, for your work. --Vicedomino (talk) 16:47, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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We use English (even bad English like Mine)

Please do not wrote edit summaries in a foreign tongue, we are supposed to be able to tell why you made it.Slatersteven (talk) 14:18, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Answered in their Talk. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 14:25, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

We're both right

Qyburn's dome was dashed against the wall, then smashed upon the rocks. Maybe if you watch in 4K slow-motion, you can see a glimmer of life left while he falls, but I sure couldn't on my copy. Your edit's good, though, covers all possibilities (and more quickly). "Just saying" is all. InedibleHulk (talk) 11:59, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Answered in their Talk. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 14:04, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Not sure where you'd like me to return the toast, but cheers to differing perceptions! Maybe the final episode will reveal we were both wrong, and he was just knocked out. On TV, people can stay unconscious indefinitely. Maybe Arya finds him in the rubble, learns the "evil center" of his brain was damaged and agrees to take him aboard after he patches up her horse (it looks a little too pale). Besides, who else is going to finally tell Bronn which of his three hookers from the premiere had the pox? He has to know!
And you might want to know that I'm just one man, who prefers singular masculine pronouns. No big deal if you forget, though. Technically, far more of "them" use "my" Talk than I do, so it's still good. InedibleHulk (talk) 15:14, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
EAF, unrelated, but good job on "human shield" in plot. It was very late here, and I was going to have to go back and rephrase that later. SportsEdits1 (talk) 00:26, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguators

Please stop moving biographical articles to disambiguators with date ranges. This is not standard as you claim it is. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:26, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Sorry! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 14:35, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

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Deletion discussion about Kingdom Nation

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Translation

Any interest in helping translate this ¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato? to es:¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato?? --evrik (talk) 20:47, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

None. It's not a very important article... But thanks for the offering! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 08:55, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
Thanks. It was just made a DYK. Let me know if you chnage your mind. --evrik (talk) 14:41, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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The Merchant of Venus moved to draftspace

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spam cross wiki

Hi, like in it.wikipedia here you are spamming a (your) peer review study . Wikipedia is not a place to do promotion. --Ignisdelavega (talk) 11:30, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I don't understand. Wikipedia promotes knowledge, so it is a place for promotion. It does so by posting information referenced to reliable sources. What part of that am I violating? --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:34, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
if you insert in several page the same information , it is spam. If the peer review work is very relevant, just insert it in ONE page. Could be enough even if your behavior show that you don't want promote wikipedia but that job trought wikipedia. Regards --Ignisdelavega (talk) 11:39, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
and however I asked to a sysop to check your behavior. --Ignisdelavega (talk) 11:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
Then I'll restore the content in One Italian-language article. But, why not having information in all relevant places? Many articles that I edited didn't have anything on science in Ancient Rome. Also, I thought that removing relevant and well sourced content could be considered vandalism. Cheers --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:46, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
I just blocked you on it.wikipedia. No way that your behavior can be accepted , at least not in it.wikipedia --Ignisdelavega (talk) 11:55, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
I must say, as a fellow sysop on it.wiki, I would have done the same. The sentence you added made little sense whatsoever, and its only purpose was to attach your work to it. ×°˜`°×ηαη¢у×°˜`°× 11:59, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
I have to disagree on the "little sense" comment. Conceptions of scientificity vary between cultures, so De divinatione is a source for that of Ancient Rome. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 12:03, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
But the comments just say Cicero is interesting, more or less.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 14:25, 19 May 2020 (UTC)


I have reverted your Cicero bit from about 8 seperate articles. The explanation is in my edit summary. I won't rule out that it actually made sense one of those places, but I guess you need to work harder on two things to make it stick: Integrate it better into the article(s) where it is actually belongs, and find an independent source. With news and such, primary sources may be acceptable if they are all we have. With ancient history, we do not need cutting-edge research; we mostly cite broader expositions.-- (talk) 18:53, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Sounds like everyone is giving the same feedback.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 20:07, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

African Americans

See the source.[1] Doug Weller talk 15:05, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

I saw the source and I was right, there was a contradiction. The article reflects that now. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:41, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

DS

Let me make this clear, yes it was an accusation. I had already pointed out many users are breaching wp:brd.Slatersteven (talk) 11:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh, but you said all of us. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:40, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Yes because all have us (including me) have (for example) breached wp:editwar or wp:soapbox. There have been many many breaches of multiple polices. It was just a warning for us all to stop, and a reminder to those who have not that those of us who have are in the wrong).Slatersteven (talk) 11:45, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
I see, but most people don't know what those abbreviations mean or where to find out what those "sanctions" are. That's probably why they are breaching them. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:48, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
True, but it was really aimed at those of us who have enough experience to know what DS means. Anyone else would get one of these.

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Dummy edits

I don’t know if you realize since you made this edit, but in case you don’t, spaces between cite templates and ref tags are dummy edits, which don’t affect the article appearance. The point of the edit was to clarify with a follow-up edit summary.

You don’t have to waste your time reverting dummy edits! — MarkH21talk 11:54, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

They affect how long the article is in bytes. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:56, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
And one bite of article length is important because...? — MarkH21talk 12:04, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
By reverting a dummy edit, you are creating a new row in the database (a new reversion ID number, etc.), and this creates many, many more bytes than the single space you are removing. Creating a new reversion in order to remove one byte is extremely inefficient: it increases, not decreases, the size of the DB and the load on servers. Just FYI. Levivich[dubiousdiscuss] 17:28, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, similar request: I'd ask you not to remove line breaks between copy and references, e.g. as you did here and here. Your edit summaries read "Consolidated paragraph" and "Ease of editing should not trump paragraphs", but those edits you made did not actually consolidate paragraphs, and the issue isn't a choice between "ease of editing" and "paragraphs". Wiki markup does not render a line break, so the edits you've made do not change how the text appears to the reader at all. However, a line break between refs and copy helps editors read the refs (and the copy) when they're editing, without in any way affecting how the paragraph appears to the reader. It's useful to do it this way, especially in a high-traffic article with many long citations. We can have both ease of editing, and paragraphs. This is similar to the technique of including two spaces after a period in wiki markup (which only renders as one space to the reader), in order to make editing and reading of sentences in wikitext easier (one can search for a line break, or for a double space, for example). Thanks, Levivich[dubiousdiscuss] 17:24, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

That is interesting. I guess at some point we should delete all the ancient versions from the DB, and with them the editions ID numbers. I am consolidating a paragraph and it is visible to the reader, when the reader is editing, but anyway, can't go against the majority on this one... --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 17:34, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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Answered in their Talk page. I don't use multiple accounts. Apparently just two similar editions or something like that. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 10:25, 12 June 2020 (UTC)