User talk:DavidBrooks/Archive 5

Changes to political topics by 2804:D4B:A387:E400:0:0::/64
IP's in the above range have recently made a batch of curious changes to articles about congressional districts and other political topics that, without explanation, remove some wikilinks, change the lede to not match the title, and introduce other errors. I intend to revert many or most unless there is an explanation in the comment or relevant talk page. Since the full address keeps changing it's probably not useful to edit the IP's talk page, but feel free to discuss here. David Brooks (talk) 00:56, 12 November 2022 (UTC) - ETA: I do assume good faith and won't revert trivial changes. David Brooks (talk) 01:01, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * To the anonymous user who has made these edits to pages about US local elections, if you find this talk page: please don't be discouraged. It can be hard for a new user to understand the conventions about linking and page introductions. I also understand you seem to be in Brazil. You have also made a few grammar mistakes, understandably, and you should note that percentages in English writing use a period (12.3% not 12,3%). But don't stop correcting obvious errors in either the English or Portuguese Wikipedias! David Brooks (talk) 17:09, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 9
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited George Richardson (architect), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Adam Brothers.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:10, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll keep it in. This dab page lists two distinct sets of brothers, and there's currently no way of calling out the three architects as a single reference. Unless someone wants to split the dab page. David Brooks (talk) 15:34, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Woody (Toy Story)
Could you revert properly the IP's edits. You only reverted one, thanks. GlatorNator (ᴛ) 04:01, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
 * done. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. The two different IPv6/64 addresses escaped my attention. David Brooks (talk) 14:37, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Penny Mordaunt: apologies
I know: I accidentally re-reverted a vandalism revert due to misreading the rapidly changing history. Please don't hurt me. David Brooks (talk) 12:51, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

EB1911
Dear David.

I've been continuing to amend the occasional ref to use (Cite EB1911) as and when I see they arise. But a recent one was reverted. Have you any bright, persuasive ideas, given what the author says?

See Rhine [Revision history] dated 15 May 2023

Best wishes ArbieP (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually 18 May. I think using Cite EB1911 is absolutely right. Have you asked the author why citation consistency outranks the added value provided by the template? (e.g. auto-addition to a category, resilience to possible changes in WS URL). Also, the Cite encyclopedia doc seems to suggest that wrappers should be used where available, although I think that could be put more strongly, I might even be inclined to go through the other raw Cite encyclopedia uses in that article and replace with specific wrappers where possible, although that could be construed as starting an edit war. Can you try to revert that particular entry while citing that section of doc? Or maybe just let it go and get on with more substantive stuff... David Brooks (talk) 19:09, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

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My edited article
Just wanted to say, I edited it because it had a dictionary definition. Frittle (talk) 20:03, 13 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I understand, but I assume you also recognized the point about not modifying a direct quotation of someone else's words. It's a good rule that also applies to journalists. David Brooks (talk) 22:07, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh. O.k. sorry. Thanks. :) Frittle (talk) 13:58, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn
Dear David Brooks, thank you for your attention to the article James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn. This concerns the change you made to improve the citation invoking EB1911, article Hamilton (family), by adding display=Hamilton s.v. James, the eldest son of Lord Paisley. However, the quote in the corresponding Sfn (there is only one) reads''... the first authentic ancestor is one Walter FitzGilbert. He first appears in 1294–1295 ...''. Unluckily you point to the wrong place as the quote is in the 1st paragraph. Sorry to bother you, we all make mistakes. With thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 11:19, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. I've reverted my change. David Brooks (talk) 12:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)