User talk:Billyshiverstick

My thoughts on editing
Welcome to my talk page.

I like to edit the style and sentence structure of articles to help them communicate better. Sometimes I get into adding content, where I feel an important perspective is missing.

I find the editing language and tools to be well conceived to produce a durable and consistent encyclopedia, but I find them difficult to use, and poorly instructed on the site.

My overall impression though, is that Wikipedia is a miracle, and the open-source nature is a step forward for human behaviour.

'''Please do not wholesale revert my work. Make the article even better by adjusting it.'''

Quotes
Hi Ben, thanks for your edits to Black Sunday (storm). I've fixed the quotes; Wikipedia uses straight quotes but you seemingly accidentally introduced curly quotes. To avoid this in the future, turn off smart quotes in whichever word processor you use to edit Wikipedia. Graham 87 03:20, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
 * No worries. I've moved your message from my user page to my talk page. Graham 87 02:41, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

File:MANGROVE BLACKHAWK cropped.jpg
Saw you comment. Should have stayed on commons - in the gadgets section of preferences is a "Crop Tool". You can make cropped images in a few seconds. Ron h jones (Talk) 18:39, 12 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Tx! I'm not very tech savvy about jumping from commons etc., although I just uploaded a picture of mine to commons. Next time I want to crop, I'll try that. Tx BB Billyshiverstick (talk) 13:48, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Circular links and "ill" template for iwl links
Hi Billy, regarding your edit which I reverted, I'd like to let you know that it is counter-productive to remove the ill template from the link. Circular links such as this one are perfectly fine if the link target is likely to become an article in the future (and in particular if the R with possibilities Rcat has been used in the redirect). Also, the ill template provides readers a link to an article in another language entity of Wikipedia. The template will still show a red link if not even a redirect exists in the English WP. This will turn into a blue link if a redirect exists, and the  iwl link will vanish once this redirect has been turned into an article. Soon later a bot will remove the ill template and replace it by a normal link. This happens automatically as part of the ill template's code. Therefore, there is no reason to remove these links manually, and in particular not if the target is still a redirect only. Hope it helps and greetings... --Matthiaspaul (talk) 20:17, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Matthiaspaul, I did the edit before I realized Luisa didn't have her own page, and I don't know how to revert to previous versions. Thanks for fixing my boo-boo, and I'll leave these sort of circular links in place in future as they seem to be a "step forward". I like adding stuff that is as yet "unpolished", as a place marker for future people to elaborate on. cheers, Ben

Edits

 * If you enable Preferences>Gadgets>Nav Popups, you can see how many edits anyone has made by hovering over their username. You've made 2330. Valereee (talk) 23:35, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks Valereee. I wonder if it stopped counting when I retired, or I suppose I did a lot without being logged in, but I would have thought it was more like 40,000. Interesting. Thanks for dropping the tip. cheers Billyshiverstick (talk) 04:18, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

A Dobos torte for you!

 * Thanks. Not sure what prompted this, but I much appreciate it. I make a lot of small, clarity edits, that go unsung, but make the whole experience better. Often outside of my username. Sometimes I get a lot of flak, so I'll take the love when it comes. Thank you. Small things can be big things. Have a lovely day. Billyshiverstick (talk) 02:05, 29 March 2024 (UTC)