User talk:CohenTheBohemian

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Reverts
I'd suggest going through with your report on the user who reverted your edit on the Arado page. I'd also like to suggest you look into BilCat for reverting your edit without proper justification and misuse of his rollback privileges. Same things been happening to me. Being told to discuss your efit and then being told on the discussion your edit isnt justified and wont be allowed only because they dont like it and are lazy. Just my 2 cents. GansMans (talk) 06:13, 22 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I didn't use rollbacks to revert him. Sorry to disappoint you, Gans. If you do report me or any other editor, Cohen, I wouldn't recommend calling anyone "lazy", as that may be considered a personal attack. BilCat (talk) 06:23, 22 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I've commented on the Ar 234's talk page, and I'll try to work with you on what I can. BilCat (talk) 07:07, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your advice too; I'll reply on the Ar 234 talk page. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 16:10, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your advice! I'll bear it in mind. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 16:09, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

How fucking soft are you that lazy is considered a personal attack? Go ahead and report and see what happens. I'm seriously considering taking action over your abuse of privileges because this is getting ridiculous. GansMans (talk) 08:25, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on The Scholars!
Thanks for raising the question about moving the page to The Scholars (novel), for following through, and for changing the titles on all those other articles!ch (talk) 04:32, 26 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help and support! Not to mention doing the real work of adding sources. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 14:11, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

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Irish Language
Sorry if my revert status was cryptic. I forgot to clarify that both MOS:ITAL and MOS:BADITALICS also override the normal rules about italicising foreign-language terms when it comes to proper nouns — presumably since proper nouns cannot technically be loanwords as they are language-independent and it would cause unaesthetic overitalicisation in articles mentioing various organisations and covering concepts culturally disconnected from the English language such as the Irish language article. Llew Mawr (talk) 14:49, 5 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Not at all, and thank you for the correction. There certainly is a lot to learn here. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 15:43, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Venessa Ferns promotional / non-neutral disruptive editing on Chetan Bhagat. Thank you. AP 499D25 (talk) 10:02, 6 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @AP 499D25 Thanks for letting me know, even if I couldn't join in the discussion. Glad they're been blocked. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 03:06, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

July 2023
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Tolkien and the history of fantasy a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into History of fantasy. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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 * CohenTheBohemian, I'm very sorry to have put you to any sort of trouble here. I've reverted the article to the state it was in before I touched it, and have put its title back to the original History of fantasy also; since this is simply a reversion, the history remains intact. I won't edit the article again. Once more, my apologies, and thank you for all the work you do on fantasy. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:11, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your gracious reply, and thank you for reverting the page - it looks like a complicated task. Please don't feel embarrassed to edit it again, or that I'd oppose you doing so; we are all working together here. And thank you, too, for all the work you do on fantasy - an order of magnitude more than I. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 17:02, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
Hi! While doing some new page patrol I noticed the work you have done expanding The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth from a redirect into an actual article. You have done a very good job on that article. I'm wondering if you would be interested in nominating it to appear on the main page in the Did you know section? I think it would be a good candidate. Let me know if you have questions or need help. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 17:32, 31 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your kind words. What a nice surprise! I've submitted a nomination; fingers crossed. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 13:34, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

DYK for The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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 * Thanks for the notification! CohenTheBohemian (talk) 13:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Reviewed John Company
Hi, CohenTheBohemian, I just added the review to the article. I enjoyed it and think it's good for a DYK, but a bit of work still needed. I'm sorry for the red X marks; that's not me, but the template software;  just means that some work is needed, mainly on cites. Have also given a suggestion about slight re-phrase to the hook; I think moving the reference to John Company up in the hook is more effective, but please take a look. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 06:02, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look at your comments right away. Sorry for the delay;  some stuff IRL is slowing me down a bit recently. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:21, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * ps - I smile everytime I see your user name. Well-done! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:22, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Done! Now has a check mark and good to go!  Thanks for pointing out the portal for game boards;  I wasn't aware of it.  (I picked this article for a DYK review because of the history/literature, which I do know a bit about, but wasn't familiar with the game board info.  Now I'm going to go over to the portal and check it out for old SPI games!) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 18:03, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for all your help! I'm glad I could repay you in some measure. And please, no need to apologise for real life coming first.
 * PS: You're no slouch in the username department yourself. It's so appropriate for this game! CohenTheBohemian (talk) 03:49, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * See why I suggested more citations? 😃 Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Your advice was prescient! CohenTheBohemian (talk) 14:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Just added a comment to the article, relying on NOTCITE for the game cards.Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:55, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you; I'm reluctant to wade in and look like I'm defending "my article", but I'll keep an eye on the discussion and see if I can help out. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 03:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

DYK for John Company (board game)
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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
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