User talk:Bowbrick

February 2022
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February 2024
Hi Bowbrick! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Charles Laughton that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. I'm not quite sure about all your recent edits, but they certainly aren't minor. PatGallacher (talk) 19:28, 14 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Pat. If I remember it rightly, I labelled that edit 'minor' because I was reversing my own earlier edit. I'd tidied up a bit about Laughton's contribution to the Brecht play Life of Galileo and then noticed that it was covered in a more appropriate section already. See what I mean? bowbrick (talk) 11:00, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * To be a bit more specific, I removed the bit below from the 'Early Life and Career' section because it's already covered using the same reference in the 'Theatre' section, which seems more appropriate because it refers to a period that's not actually from his early life and career but from 1947. I marked it as a minor edit because, as I said above, I was actually reversing an earlier edit of my own. So I think it would be sensible to unrevert this change. Seem reasonable?
 * "He also continued to act occasionally on stage. With Bertolt Brecht he wrote an English-language version of the playwright's The Life of Galileo. He played the title role in a 1947 Los Angeles production, directed by Joseph Losey and with music by Brecht's regular collaborator Hans Eisler. " bowbrick (talk) 11:08, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've now unreverted your reversion. I think it's low-risk because the information removed is duplicated in the 'Theatre' section. Thanks! bowbrick (talk) 13:37, 22 February 2024 (UTC)