User talk:Alexeyevitch

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Thanks, Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 19:47, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Request for arbitration declined
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Capitalization of templates
Can I ask what you are doing with edits like, and ? Template titles—like article titles—will act the same whether the first letter is capitalised or not. These edits are unnecessary and give the appearance of edit-farming. Your edit count is meaningless, and it is a waste of your valuable time to pursue edits by quantity, rather than quality (see WP:EDITCOUNT, or WP:COUNTITIS).

In case you do pursue edits like this—although I have no clue why you would—can you at least make sure to mark them as minor edits? — HTGS (talk) 05:17, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * A few other people also give the appearance of edit-farming IMO. Quality edits, not quantity edits is totally correct. Fixing minor formatting errors are still good contributions to the encyclopedia.
 * See WP:SDFORMAT - short desc should start with a capital letter (capitalization). Alexeyevitch (talk) 05:36, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * What HTGS is saying is that those edits are superfluous. If you do them while doing other edits to an article, that makes it an incidental edit and that's fine. If that's the only edit to an article, then it's pointless as it does not change anything anywhere.  Schwede 66  05:50, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * OK. Let's just keep in mind that it is how it should be stylized. But editing an article just to capitalize the first letter is pointless. Alexeyevitch (talk) 06:37, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I think you are misinterpreting WP:SDFORMAT. It is saying that the description itself should start with a capital letter, not the template name. E.g. at Kurangaituku, 'Supernatural' should start with a capital (which it does). It doesn't matter whether the template name starts with a capital or not. For example, in the mentions of templates and examples of use at Citation templates, they are written with a capital in some instances, and without in many other instances. Nurg (talk) 08:02, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh... okay. I acknowledge that. Alexeyevitch (talk) 08:31, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks Alexeyevitch. You have been making useful changes and additions elsewhere, so I genuinely mean it when I say I would rather see you spend your time doing stuff that’s more valuable. If the templates ever get to the point where they need to be capitalised we can build a bot to do that ;) — HTGS (talk) 09:37, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Thank you everyone! Alexeyevitch (talk) 09:47, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Colored pencil
Hello, just dropping by to tell you that that article has Use British English, so colour is indeed the right spelling. — Alien333 (what I did &amp; why I did it wrong) 09:19, 11 July 2024 (UTC) My bad, I stand corrected. — Alien333 (what I did &amp; why I did it wrong) 09:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

And the article title is American English so it's awkward having the content in British English. Also this article was written using American English and it should be kept without consensus. (See WP:ENGVAR) Alexeyevitch (talk) 09:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Request
Hiya,

I see you've dealt with Roger 8 Roger and his agenda before. Would you mind taking a look at the talk page for Colony of New Zealand? I've started a discussion there and he is making things difficult, to say the least. Dhantegge (talk) 06:33, 13 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, that page is on my watchlist. I will comment there later this evening. Alexeyevitch (talk) 07:11, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had a look at the essay No personal attacks. It says "editors are allowed to have personal political POV, as long as it does not negatively affect their editing and discussions". I'm not in any way trying to pick on this editor or be rude - I don't know him at all - but I do think the arguments he has made are eurocentric at best, and his comments about "Māori elites" are troubling. But hey - I'm a relatively new editor, and I don't want to lose whatever moral high ground I might have. So I think I'll leave it for now. Dhantegge (talk) 11:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Foveaux Strait
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