Talk:David Simpson (mayor)

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A fact from David Simpson (mayor) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Grove Road Cemetery once had two chapels (pictured) by architect Thomas Charles Sorby, and contains self-made men George Dawson, Richard Ellis and David Simpson, banker John Smith, bandleader Daniel Schwarz, newspaperman Robert Ackrill, kayaker Fridel Meyer, and miser John Turner?

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Please do not change content without discussion on the talk page. The political wards were different in that era, and we need to make it clear. Please do not remove dates which are there to identify historical people, and to make it clear how their lifespans affected the biography subject. Storye book (talk) 10:36, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's not actually within policy to demand discussion preceding every change. See MOS:LINK, MOS:BIO, and template documentation for some of the rationales underlying the reverted changes. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:07, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is not about every change. The tag says that the article has bad grammar and spelling, which is inappropriate. There is nothing wrong with the grammar and spelling of the article. If you have a problem with the article, please give specific details here. This is not about me owning the article. This is about appropriate editing of a historical article about a specific time and place, which is properly written and contains no crimes.Storye book (talk) 15:48, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have specified that the issues related to compliance with house style, and have above provided some specific pointers. If you need further clarification, let me know, or you could explain why you reverted fixes of these issues. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:57, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have already explained why I have reverted your tags. Please stop edit warring with inappropriate tags, which egg on other editors to remove content from an article which contains no crimes against WP rules. If you have "provided specific pointers" then they are as inappropriate as the tags. There is nothing wrong with the grammar and spelling in this article, and nothing wrong with the writing style. No crimes have been committed in this article. Your time would be better spent chasing up copyvio, racism etc. in those articles which genuinely need a cleanup. Storye book (talk) 17:47, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You've explained you disagree with the tags, but that in itself is not sufficient rationale to edit-war them out. This article genuinely needs a cleanup, for example:

Specific addresses should be omitted from the template, per its documentation
Horizontal lists should be appropriately marked up (MOS:HLIST)
Linking style (MOS:LINK)
Extraneous markup (eg double spacing)

All of these were fixed but were reverted with little to no explanation. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:13, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have done the above tasks. The explanation was that in one day you had faced me with extensive inappropriate removal of content, mixed with formatting issues, on ten long articles, and it has taken me all day to fix them. I simply became exhausted with that kind of pressure, and I could not manage so much repair work, manually. But I have dealt with it now. Now please stop overloading me with so many tasks all of the time. It is time that this continual goading stopped. There are no real crimes in any of these ten articles, and there is no reason to pressure one editor with so much in so little time, when all those articles are at DYK and have to be constantly watched and maintained by me. I have done my best at all times to deal with your every question and your every anxiety. But you are becoming a nuisance. This does not seem to be about improving WP. It seems to be about finding more content to remove after each issue is explained or resolved - as you have done in the past on other articles, in my experience. Have some consideration. Please stop this, now. I have not eaten all day. For god's sake, woman, give me a break. Storye book (talk) 18:48, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dude. If you need a break, take a break. I mean this in the kindest way possible. You don't need my or anyone's permission, and it seriously sounds like you're putting way too much pressure on yourself. Wikipedia is not an emergency. Nikkimaria (talk) 19:00, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]