User talk:DuncanHill

My misidentification of Jokanaan at "Oscar Wilde"
Thank you for correcting my misidentification of the figures in the Beardsley drawing for Wilde's Salomé at the article on Oscar Wilde.

When I first saw the effect of your act of reversion, I was taken aback. I'd thought I'd known with certainty. Then I looked more closely at all the evidence, both internal (the details of the clothing of the figure on the lefthand side of the illustration: were they signifiers of the garb of a pampered princess, or that of a harrowed harbinger?) and external (how had others identified those figures depicted by Beardsley so long ago? what of the appearance of these characters in the series's other stations?).

You were certainly correct to have reversed my edit. I appreciate the role you have played in the development of my skills of comprehension and research. And thank you for having improved Wikipedia with your great range and great depth of contributions to the online encyclopedia.


 * Knowledge and the truth
 * Ebb the evil tide
 * Knowledge of the truth
 * Shall wend the wrong aright

The blank state of your Talk page shows me that the words I now write will not inform posterity. But placid lies my mind. The anxiety that I'd felt—felt when I'd considered the possibility of my having unintentionally polluted this pristine place—is mitigated by my faith in the impending erasure of this written record of my thoughts. May your fortune be the best and may our world someday swim in that rich love which flows forth in floods from the fount found in your heart. —catsmoke talk 20:10, 2 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you - what a thoughtful and kind message. Even though I do blank this page from time to time your words will always be in its history. I can see you are putting a lot of effort and care into your work on Oscar Wilde, and that is greatly appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 20:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)


 * You are most welcome. And I have neglected to share news of a great event. Your correction of my error led to my discovery of a work of art that within the space of a few hours has already ensconced itself as a cornerstone in the structure of my personal cultural milieu. Its text shall delight me and enrich my life for all my days remaining. An online edition may be found at the Internet Archive website: An English translation of the Salomé of Oscar Wilde. —catsmoke talk 21:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Catsmoke I came to DuncanHill's talk page for an entirely unrelated reason but I couldn't help myself in expressing that Your correction of my error led to my discovery of a work of art that within the space of a few hours has already ensconced itself as a cornerstone in the structure of my personal cultural milieu. is one of the most beautifully crafted and eloquent sentences I have ever encountered on a Wikipedia talk page. It is far superior to anything I could write myself. Kudos and thank you for brightening my day with this. Adam Black  talk &bull;  contribs 21:38, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

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The Year of Hough
Hi DuncanHill, thanks for the date change for the Hough book at HMS Endeavour. Just in passing though, my edition of Hough is this one which is 1994. It's not the most important issue in the world, but do you mind if I change it back?

As random trivia I notice we've both been here forever but the only page we seem to intersect on is Endeavour :)-- Euryalus (talk) 01:48, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, I changed it to 1995 because on going back through the article history that is the date you used when you added the source on 18 July 2009. I see now there seems to have been some confusion including this change, and some others which I do not have time to find for you. This kind of confusion is common when people use shortened references, they leave even the editor who added them in the first place confused, let alone anyone who tries to look them up later. As you have a copy of Gough then what you need to do is check every reference to Gough in the article to make sure the page numbers are correct, and correct those where necessary and also correct the source in the citation template to make sure it matches. Sorry I have to rush now, probably won't be back on for a day or so. DuncanHill (talk) 07:27, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Trina Robbins
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trina_Robbins&oldid=prev&diff=1222866130 you undid the whole of my edit including the addition of Internet Archive links and the publisher correction - based on the source and appearing in the LC ad OCLC entries - and wrote "Cause several Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors" in the edit summary. What does the summary mean? Why did you revert? Why didn't you at least leave the links and correction? Mcljlm (talk) 14:29, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I undid your edit because it caused several Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you click on that link you will see "This category holds articles that use any of the short-cite templates ( and  template families, and ) where one or more of those short-cite templates do not properly link to a full citation, the target. See guidance at Category:Harv and Sfn template errors to resolve". I undid the whole edit because I do not have the time to pick through your edit to find the wheat amongst the chaff. If you want to add an external link to a citation template, you do it by adding the parameter |url= within the template. If you are changing the edition of a cited work, then you need to check if the page numbers are the same across editions. You can get help at WP:HELPDESK. DuncanHill (talk) 15:04, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Why are the Sources treated as if they are text-supporting citations rather than in External links format? Mcljlm (talk) 15:36, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Because they are! If you click on the highlighted part of reference 10) Krensky 2007 or 11) Kaplan 2006 in the article then it automatically takes you to the entry in the Sources section. Your changes broke that link. DuncanHill (talk) 15:40, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Hydrogen economy
I'll try to fix the refs. I hate excerpts. Thank you for working on this! Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 22:30, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I think we got them all. Let me know if I can help you with some other dreary task. I owe you one. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 22:45, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, looks good to me. DuncanHill (talk) 22:49, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry
Hey, sorry for forgetting to restore your edit after I have reverted the socks. I did not notice it as it was sandwiched by those of the sock account and a few IPs used by them. Thank you for your contributions. Cheers, Aintabli (talk) 13:55, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation
Hi DuncanHill, I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss 🍀 (talk) 20:05, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

My apologies on FF12
I'm sorry about the mistake I made with Sfn and SfnRef templates. I think I fixed the issue, but I don't fully know if I resolved it completely.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Transclusion hell
I saw you post at WP:VPT. I went through and cleared all the references errors in March 2022 (I had started before making an account) before I started on trying to clear the no target errors. I developed a well found distaste (to put it mildly) of transclusion and how badly it sometimes breaks referencing. -- LCU A ctively D isinterested  «@» °∆t° 18:14, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Harry the house / 2A02:C7C:CB08:FA00 ...
Hello, well back in April last year you reported them to AIV and they were blocked for a month, but it seems they just came right back after the block so, once I checked the relevant block log for the IP on my watchlist, I went and blocked them again for three years this time. Graham87 (talk) 16:33, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. DuncanHill (talk) 18:13, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Add to that 2A02:C7E:6691:AA00::/64. Graham87 (talk) 07:22, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Tiny Town
Thanks for catching what I forgot to save when editing. However, the "ps=" that I added to the one ref wasn't necessarily a mistake for the "eighteen public schools" text...I guess it would have been better if I would have made it a single ref. Yeah, that was one of the many articles caught up in a mass GA delisting last year... - Shearonink (talk) 19:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The problem with the "ps" was that it cause an error message"Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTEThomas1919397" was defined multiple times with different content ". I think you would have to use something other than sfn to insert a quote like that. DuncanHill (talk) 19:21, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * That really is very kind of you. Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 21:05, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Fleetwood Mac
Hello, I see you reverted my edit to this page. Please see this sentence from the lede of the article: "After Christine McVie's death in 2022, Nicks said in 2024 that the band would not continue without her." This is a member of the band confirming that the group is officially not continuing, and is supported by reliable sourcing in the body. I will not revert per the edit warring policy and WP:BRD, and I don't doubt that you made this change in good faith, but I ask that you please take recent sourcing into consideration. Thank you. JeffSpaceman (talk) 22:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The correct place for discussion about article content is the article talk page, where you will see this has been discussed extensively, and indeed which I mentioned in my edit summary. I do have a notice on this page visible when you edit that says "Discussions about article content belong on article talk pages not here". DuncanHill (talk) 23:00, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Your warning to Scotlandshire44
Thank you for reminding this user to leave an edit summary. I noticed you used Twinkle to make your edit so you may not have seen my previous warning, but I brought this to the user's attention three days ago. They responded indicating that they would remember to leave an edit summary in future but clearly have not heeded my advice. Another warning from an uninvolved editor may make a difference, but I'm wondering if perhaps this should be brought up elsewhere. Perhaps one of the noticeboards? I know edit summaries aren't exactly compulsory but the relevant policy does say that in general all edits should be explained. Adam Black talk &bull;  contribs 21:30, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks again for catching that. I wrote a draft in a sandbox but forgot to add the full reference to the article. Ltwin (talk) 19:03, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Far left
That wasn’t my reason. Would you please see the discussion on my talk page? For all I know the editor is the one who put it there, and there are no reliable sources. Doug Weller talk 18:24, 16 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Sorry, not my main reason. But I presume you disagree with my comments at the article talk page. Doug Weller  talk 18:26, 16 July 2024 (UTC)


 * It would be helpful if your edit summaries were clearer in future. For example, if you want people to read your talk page say something like "please see my talk page". Anyway I really don't care. Do whatever you want to the article. Just don't complain when people are misled by your misleading edit summaries. DuncanHill (talk) 18:33, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I forgot what my edit summary was. It certainly wasn’t meant to be misleading, just the first thing I found.: I hate misleading edit summaries. I put different reasons on the talk page and referred to some good posts on my talk page. Doug Weller  talk 18:57, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reverting yourself. Much appreciated. Doug Weller  talk 18:58, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

132nd Tank Regiment
Thank you for your edits at 132nd Tank Regiment (Italy). FYI: I am taking out Parri as source from all Italian the tank articles as I find wild discrepancies between Parri's publication and the official regimental histories as published by the History Office of the Italian Army's General Staff "L'Esercito Italiano verso il 2000". Best regards, noclador (talk) 14:16, 17 July 2024 (UTC)