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em-dashes
Just to let you know: turning Unicode em-dash into HTML &amp;mdash; is directly opposite to the direction we've been going for over a year. It's not a big deal (the display is the same) but it looks like you are making a deliberate effort here, and it will simply be undone by a bot at some point. - Jmabel | Talk 18:11, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[copied] Please point to a Wikipedia guideline page that includes recommendations to use Unicodes vs. HTML codes such as &amp;mdash; for &mdash;.

Regardless of Wikipedia guidelines, I would point out:


 * Editing in Wikipedia is done in a fixed-width font, so, while editing, the visual distinction between hyphen, en dash, and em dash is certain when using HTML codes, and uncertain when using Unicodes.


 * Wikipedia's own Unicode and HTML page refers to and uses &amp;mdash; to discuss and display the em dash.


 * I seem to recall reading somewhere off Wikipedia that browsers are more likely to render &amp; codes correctly than they are to render Unicode characters correctly. I don't know if this is true with the browsers of 2006.

In general I replace &amp;ndash; codes and single and double hyphens with &amp;mdash; codes. I do not replace Unicode-coded em dashes with &amp;mdash-coded em dashes except perhaps in the course of fixing the other stand-ins for em dash. Anomalocaris 21:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC) [end copied]

I have no idea if there is a formal guideline, but there is an authorized bot sweeping through and Unicodifying HTML entities.

There may still be someone using a browser that has trouble with Unicode, but if so they will be in trouble in a lot of other places, since we no longer use HTML entities for letters with diacritics, either.

Again, no big deal, just didn't want you to waste effort swimming against the current, but if you want to, it is your prerogative. - Jmabel | Talk 21:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Willie McGee of Laurel, Mississippi
If you wish to improve and resource it I can undelete it for you. Let me know.-- Dakota 03:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Your edits on Nancy Pelosi
Hi. I thought you might want to know that while your decision to delete "the only woman to hold the position" from the article was correct, it had read "No woman has been closer to the Presidency" just a few edits before. Just a note. Cheers. Xiner (talk, email) 15:11, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Cautious Cal.
"Cautious Cal" is an existent and valid nickname for Calvin Coolidge, regardless of its popularity.

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Apologies, it was my mistake. I saw an edit of yours in which you corrected a link, and took that as if you added the link. The link itself was not appropriate, and hence my mistake. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 20:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Dashes
Please note the North American tradition of months, dates, and time to see the appropriate use of dashes and emdashes. Please discontinue your unstandardized changes to articles pertaining to dates. Thank you. Mkdw talk 01:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The Chicago Manual of Style notes that an En dash are used for dates and number ranges. An Em dash is twice the length of an En dash. Em dashes are used to indicates a sudden break in thought and are texted based. You are inserting Em dashes to articles pertaining to dates and time. I kindly ask you to please change them back. Thank you.  Mkdw talk 01:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Was your message on my talk page intended for me or User:Bzuk? I think it's for him, but I'm not sure. His talk page may be a better place for it. Grant | Talk 02:00, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * You seem to still be making changes inconsistent with the WP:MOSDATE, although I haven't rechecked The Chicago Manual of Style. &mdash; Arthur Rubin  (talk) 18:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Dianne Feinstein
Please try to be more careful when reverting to a previous version. Your revert undid two days worth of valid citation upgrades that I did, plus reinserted a WP:BLP violation that I had removed. The best way to handle that edit would have been to go back into the history, copy out the text you wanted, and then paste it into the latest version. That way, subsequent work will not be undone. I reverted to my last version, and another editor is piecing the text changes back in. Feel free to check it out and make further adjustments, just don't undo all of my work, I am still in the process of formatting all of the citations so that we have nice complete footnotes to refer to. - Crockspot 15:11, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply on my talk. No problemo. Happy editing. - Crockspot 20:30, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Your work on years e.g. 30s BC articles
Thanks for taking on the style improvement task. Cheers! Flyguy649talkcontribs 17:20, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Wife and kids
I saw your well-intended edit regarding Rep. José Serrano's wife and 5 kids. He has five kids and a wife. She is the mother of at least one, Benjamin, but not of all 5. I know that at least Sen. José Marco Serrano is his son by a previous marriage. You may wish to re-edit your edit.Pr4ever 22:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Ruben Hinojosa
That IP vandal is at it again ... I reverted his latest garbage; if he does it again he's going to AIV.Blueboy96 17:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I requested semi-protection ... that should end this nonsense. Blueboy96 12:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Symphony No.9 (Dvorak)
While Trivia is rejected, is it possible there are "Influnce" and "Influences" at the same time? (Addaick 12:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC))

Joe the Plumber tax views
Hello Anomalocaris,

There is an arbitration discussion in regard to Joe the Plumber's tax liens and his tax views. Please do not add any contributions to the article relating to this material under the arbitration is complete.

Requests for arbitration

--Amwestover (talk) 00:41, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

It is standard Wikipedia procedure to not contribute material that is in the process of consensus in order to prevent edit warring. I encourage you to contribute to the consensus on the matter until it is resolved. Please do not re-add the contribution or else I will have to report you for edit warring. --Amwestover (talk) 01:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Not sure about your counting in your latest addition to the talk page. For example you didn't count my exclusion !vote  - not sure why not. --Matilda talk 06:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

October 2008
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WP:NPA
The Joe the Plumber article presents some difficult problems for editors to solve. Please don't attack or insult people whose beliefs are different from yours, on the talk page or in your edit summaries. WP has policies about personal attacks, civility, and assuming good faith not because we are all sweet little angels in tutus and pink ballet shoes but because we are not. Getting angry at other people and getting them angry at you makes the discussion less productive and more unpleasant for everyone. Thanks. betsythedevine (talk) 11:13, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

BLP privacy policy for limited public figures
I think that the current deadlock on Joe the plumber is due to unclear BLP policy on limited public figures. I've made a proposal to clarify the policy here. Since you are one of the parties involved in the dispute, this is a notification for your input on the proposed policy clarification. VG &#x260E; 10:56, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Spelling in quotes
I notice you changed the spelling of "centre" here.. Sincie it is a quote it goes with the original spelling. Easy to get tripped up by this. Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 11:44 28 November 2008 (UTC).

Willie Horton
The link you provided is a pay research site. I'll try to figure a way to work as proper citation into the article in the event it is made free at some future point. Thanks. Ellsworth (talk) 05:12, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Sepal Copyedit Template
The reason for me placing the copyedit template on the sepal page was mainly because of poor sentence structure/tone. Unless that has been fixed, it would be a good idea to leave the template there. die2u2 (talk) 01:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Picasso about van Gogh
You reinserted the following caption: When Pablo Picasso was shown this photograph on January 6, 1958 he remarked: What a striking resemblance to the young Rimbaud, especially the keen and penetrating eyes.

Is it relevant that a painter looks like a poet? Actually, I don't think he looks like Rimbaud, but that is my personal opinion. Just as it is Picasso's personal opinion that he does. It would be relevant though, if Picasso would have said, that Rimbaud's poems are reflected in Van Gogh's paintings. But he didn't. He is just talking about characteristics that both person's are not know for.Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 07:12, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Washington Jewish Film Festival
I tend to be a bit quick on the draw. :-) (Besides, I live in the suburbs, so it's in my backyard.)

Sure, no worries - I'll tag the redirect for deletion. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:40, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Space em dashes
You seem to be inserting a lot of spaced em dashes. This is a generally bad style; per MOS:DASH, em dashes should not be spaced. Please clean those up. Dicklyon (talk) 07:01, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Punctuation inside quotes
Thanks for your clean-up work. However my understanding is that Wikipedia's "house style" calls for placing the punctuation outside of quotes, unless they are part of the original quotation. See WP:MOS. It says, "On Wikipedia, place all punctuation marks inside the quotation marks if they are part of the quoted material and outside if they are not." That is different from ordinary American usage.  Will Beback   talk    07:36, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Euphorbia reversions
Hi, I am not a seasoned contributor so could you please explain in detail why you are reverting the changes I made. In particular the number of species in Euphorbia which I changed from an unreferenced number to a number generated by a documented peer reviewed website. If I am citing this incorrectly please advise as well as why you deleted the external link I added, again to a peer reviewed website containing all species data on Euphorbia.--Weepingraf (talk) 10:55, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

species numbers
Hi, I do of course agree that it is impossible to say how many species of Euphorbia "God Created". But many of the figures cited for larger genera are wildly out to the number of known species. From the WCSP you get the exact number of species by using the "Build a checklist" option select family "Euphorbiaceae" and Genus "Euphorbia and click "create a checklist". Under the genus entry for Euphorbia it will say "2003 Species". The WCSP species count is exactly that, not including hybrids or infraspecific taxa, that is why it is so usefull for large genera. By citing the date this search was done, at least you have a referenced peer reviewed source of the number based on actual species counts rather than a guess. I agree the wording should perhaps reflect that this is one count of known species at one particular point in time. However this could be said about any species number. There may be only one species of Ginkgo know today but that does not mean there may be another species as yet undiscovered. And Yes for Psychotria the count is exactly 1900 (in the same way as Phyllanthaceae has exacly 2,100 species known today[] although I agree that there are at least another 200 or so undescribed species of Psychotria. But I would assume the figure to reflect current knowledge rather than looking in a crystal ball. --Weepingraf (talk) 11:19, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

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Your edit in Ahava
Hi there, the text in the article has now been replaced by the standard boilerplate language, which is okay, but I'd like to let you know nonetheless that I don't agree with this revert of yours. Moreover, the source you removed deals with the issue more specifically than the boilerplate language (dealing as it does with Mitzpe Shalem and exports to the EU), so there's an argument it would have been better.

Specifically, you say that that the source wouldn't support the text. However, the source says: "The British Government believes that Israeli settlements on occupied territory are illegal. So does every other government in the world, except for Israel. (...) a settlement called Mitzpe Shalem". This means exactly that every government except Israel considers Mitzpe Shalem to be an illegal settlement. Kind regards, --Dailycare (talk) 11:15, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Your username is awesome
That's about it. Great, great name. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/complex 01:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I have nightmares about your username! (But think it's awesome anyway.) --Danger (talk) 00:23, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of List of U.S. cities with Wikipedia article names without state for deletion
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Adding spacing to initials in Black hole
In this edit you added spacing to all initials in the references of the black hole article. Why? I, for one, think this is very ugly, which is why I have consistently added references without spacing between the initials. This is perfectly valid choice for formatting references. Moreover, it is generally considered very bad form to make wholesale unilateral changes to references formatting in a drive-by edit without discussing.TR 08:56, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Timothy, I can't help with your sense of beauty or ugliness, but initials of human names are spaced in Wikipedia, as can be seen by these examples: J.R.R. Tolkien redirects to J. R. R. Tolkien; George H.W. Bush redirects to George H. W. Bush; D.W. Griffith redirects to D. W. Griffith; I.M. Pei redirects to I. M. Pei. Spaced initials of human names is standard. For example, The Chicago Manual of Style 14th edition says in section 7.6 on page 237:
 * Names and initials of persons are capitalized:
 * R. W. B. Lewis
 * The space between initials should be the same as the space between initial and name (not R. W.B. Lewis), except when initial are used alone, without periods (see 14.4).
 * As for your claim "it is generally considered very bad form to make wholesale unilateral changes to references formatting in a drive-by edit without discussing", even such a consensus exists, I didn't violate it. It is not as though I changed wholesale from APA style to MLA style. All I did was insert spaces in initials, which is standard throughout Wikipedia and Standard English. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The space thing applies to page titles, not citations. Citations may be in any acceptable style, and switching from one style to another is extremely looked down upon per WP:CITEVAR. I've reverted to the established style. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I have replied at Talk:Black hole. —Anomalocaris (talk) 00:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The space thing applies to page titles, not citations. Citations may be in any acceptable style, and switching from one style to another is extremely looked down upon per WP:CITEVAR. I've reverted to the established style. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I have replied at Talk:Black hole. —Anomalocaris (talk) 00:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

World War II/Second World War and ENGVAR
I have reverted your removal of First World War/Second World War in articles with strong ties to British English. British English usage is for Second World War/First World War to be used. It is a choice for the editors of the article and there is no mandate for either version to have to be used in an article. Changes in usage, particularly in Featured Articles such as the British Empire, should be discussed on the article talkpage with the editors of the article per WP:ENGVAR. Woody (talk) 09:41, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Breaking links with en/em dash warring
Hi. Please note that this edit of yours removed links to articles and media repositories on Commons, making information inaccessible from this article and creating links that went to nothing in their place. Please pay attention to what you're doing and avoid doing that. Thanks. Infrogmation (talk) 02:50, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

cite DNB and hyphens
Please note that entries in cite DNB require hyphens rather than endashes, because they encode the Wikisource title convention, and are nothing to do with the MoS conventions here. Recent edits of yours have broken links to references. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:17, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Wow!
Me thinks u have a great eye for detail (e.g. V. R. Parton). Thx! Ihardlythinkso (talk) 07:49, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Angle brackets
Actually, they were not angle brackets, they were quotation marks. I changed them to angle brackets, which is the accepted convention. — kwami (talk) 01:36, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks! (MSE)
Thanks for your edit, which fixed my mistake in ! I made that edit as one of my first edits (before learning the "exactly one wikilink per entry" rule, which I just learned from MoS/Disambiguation pages). I went to go fix my mistake, and – lo and behold – it was already fixed! So, thanks! ~David Rolek (talk) 05:13, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Dashing through the snow
Well, Christmas is over, but your campaign to replace (-) with (–) is still going strong. --Uncle Ed (talk) 01:16, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Robin Ficker
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Thanks for your contribution. -- Pemilligan (talk) 19:20, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Things aren't improving. Any ideas what to do next? Seek protection from anonymous edits maybe? -- Pemilligan (talk) 02:29, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

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Highway 4
Hey, Anomalocaris. First of all, let me say that you have a weird and fascinating user name. From it, I deduced that you are from British Columbia (The Ogygopsis Shale). LOL. You recently edited Highway 4. I applaud you for you diligence in fixing hyphens and dashes. However you also inexplicably removed all links of street names to the persons they're named after other than to say that it is fundamentally illogical. I strongly disagree. Wikipedia articles are all about providing information. The person a street is named after is certainly of interest to the reader. Would you also remove all links to towns, geographic features and historical events that lend their names to streets? And would you remove the hundreds of such links to well over 50 articles about Israel's highways? I sincerely hope not. Respectfully, --@Efrat (talk) 08:33, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Whilst/while
Can I ask why you are replacing "whilst" with "while"? They have exactly the same meaning. Number  5  7  08:34, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm no clearer. The only reason I can see is to comply with WP:ENGVAR, yet you have made the change on some articles using British English - e.g. The Generals' Revolt. Number   5  7  15:31, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I still don't see the problem. If an article is using British English, WP:ENGVAR applies and "whilst" is acceptable ("international English" does not apply). Number   5  7  15:58, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Links to city and state
Thanks for your cleanup in Hank Gathers. I did revert one aspect, namely changing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In general, specifics link should be used over back-to-back links that look like a single like per the manual of style on linking. If the concern is that Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is actually a redirect to Philadelphia, WP:NOTBROKEN says redirects are generally OK to use.—Bagumba (talk) 18:01, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Bagumba, I believe you are referring to this:
 * When possible, avoid placing links next to each other so that they look like a single link, as in  (Irish Chess Championship). Consider rephrasing the sentence, omitting one of the links, or using a more specific single link (e.g. to Irish Chess Championship) instead.
 * That is different from  examples, because the unlinked comma prevents the links from looking like a single link. In fact, links of this type are prevalent throughout Wikipedia, for example:
 * Drexel University: Drexel University (DU) is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
 * Wilson Goode: Willie Wilson Goode (born August 19, 1938) was the first black mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * Independence Hall: Independence Hall is the centerpiece of Independence National Historical Park located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets.
 * Those were the three of the first four articles I checked and each one includes Philadelphia, Pennsylvania right in the first sentence. (The fourth, Frank Rizzo, uses Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Therefore I believe I was right to edit Hank Gathers as I did.
 * By the way, I find List of U.S. cities with Wikipedia article names without state to be a useful resource. —Anomalocaris (talk) 01:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Definitely you are encouraged to be bold, and thanks for following up on my comments. There was this line in the MOS, "As explained in more detail at Help:Links, linking can be "direct" ( Riverside, California, which results in Riverside, California), or "piped" ( Riverside , which results in Riverside in the text, but still links to the article "Riverside, California")."  I suppose one could argue that doesn't specifically discourage a link to both the city and state in cases where the city article does not have the state in the city's article name. I think we can find examples of both approaches, but WP:OTHERSTUFF would caution about solely basing decisions on examples from other articles.  My thinking, which I believe is consistent with the basic principle of the MOS such as WP:SPECIFICLINK, is that a reader is mostly interested in the city Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as opposed to being equally interested in Philadelphia and separately Pennsylvania.  Those interested in the state would still find the link in the city article. I also think its small and subtle to tell if the comma is blue or not (i.e. is it one link or a separate link to the city and state).—Bagumba (talk) 01:37, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Italics in title
Just a reminder that  is a magic word, not a template, and uses a colon, not a pipe. For example, it should be, not. — Paul A (talk) 04:35, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

"Period and comma outside quotes"
I have no problem with any of your edits yesterday to Magnetic-core memory. But on your change summary: While conventional English usage is that period and comma are inside quotes because they look better that way, Wikipedia policy is that period and comma are inside or outside quotes depending on whether there was a period or comma in the thing being quoted. Cheers. Spike-from-NH (talk) 22:52, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

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great job!
I noticed your nice cleanup edit on saxitoxin (it's on my watchlist) and glanced at your contributions -- you've done great work! Nice to meet a fellow WikiGnome! =)

Just curious -- do you use AutoWikiBrowser or do you do all your edits manually? Cheers! Wingman4l7 (talk) 23:21, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

AWB
I've added you to the AWB checkpage. INeverCry  03:16, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

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3(or 17)b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase
3(or 17)b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase is now pointing to the correct page. --Dcirovic (talk) 07:41, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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Stevia
I noticed all your recent edits to the article on Stevia. Most of them seem to be very good edits. I was just puzzled by the change to italics for the word "stevia". I think the two instances of the word in italics in the first paragraph in "History and use" are correct, but I don't understand later instances of the word in italics. I can't remember if there are any more than the one in the list for the U.S. at the bottom of the page, but I don't understand why that one is in italics. The word appears frequently in regular font both before and after that. I'd appreciate learning the reasoning behind it. Thank you. – CorinneSD (talk) 23:17, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Help with The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp & SeriousFun Children's Network
Hi,

Can you help me fix the inaccurate merging of these two articles? The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is not the same organization as the SeriousFun Children's Network. Hole in the Wall is one of 14 different independent camps that belong to the SeriousFun network, itself an independent 501(c)(3). If you could unmerge them I would be willing to fix up the Hole in the Wall one and build an accurate one for SeriousFun.

Thanks. Weepingwillow51 (talk) 02:05, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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