User talk:Ferretivo

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Happy editing! ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 03:14, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Edit-warring at Golden Twenties
Ferretivo, first of all, welcome to Wikipedia! Secondly, with respect to your re-revert at Golden Twenties, when an edit of yours is undone for cause, your next step should be to go to the article Talk page and discuss any disagreement with other editors there, not to revert back and insist on your version appearing in the article. That is called edit-warring at Wikipedia, and it is disruptive. Your edit summary about cluttering the first sentence with a long parenthesis containing alternative spellings in German is nonsense; the article is about a period in German history, and it's perfectly appropriate to have a two-word foreign expression (not a "long parenthesis") in the first sentence.

It is completely commonplace for articles on foreign topics with English titles to immediately give the foreign name in the first sentence, for example:


 * Austria
 * Brandenburg Gate
 * Dreyfus affair
 * Euclid's Elements
 * Geneva
 * Leaning Tower of Pisa
 * Mona Lisa
 * Munich
 * Prague
 * Red Fort
 * Supreme Federal Court
 * The Hague
 * The Starry Night
 * The Three Musketeers
 * War guilt question
 * Warring States period

I could go on, pretty much forever. Plenty of other articles don't have it, and if there isn't an overwhelming policy or guideline-based reason to have it or exclude it, then it's just up to consensus at the page in question. You can always try a bold edit, but if you get reverted, then either move on, or if you feel strongly that your view is the more compliant with policy, then raise a discussion on the article Talk page and talk it out, and try to find consensus. Don't just go your own way, and insist on your preferred version of the content; that is disruptive and can lead to protection for the article so you can't edit it, or suspension of your editing privileges. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:10, 16 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Some articles with lead cluttering (e.g. Nazi Germany, Russian Revolution of 1905, etc.), also in Japanese video game titles as well. ferretivo (talk) 07:32, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Other accounts
Ferretivo, although your first edit under this account was 29 February quoting MOS:OL, within a few hours you were quoting WP:NAVIMAGES, WP:NAVICON, WP:HATEXTRA, WP:JFN, and MOS:LEADCLUTTER. In a 15 minute period today, you. It's clear that you are a senior editor with a great deal of experience. Can you please share the other accounts you have used in the past? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:51, 16 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Before, I used my IP address as for copyediting for fixing some articles, citing sources, and improvements of Manual of Style. Now, I used my account for intended it to... ferretivo (talk) 07:52, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Mathglot It's a sockpuppet. Sorry, I didn't move fast enough when I first noticed it. The name is an attack on me as well. -- ferret (talk) 12:53, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * , thanks for this; they were really ramping up to high speed; glad to see someone launched whatever tool does the banrevert. Btw, did you notice a further attack on you that they pulled back 10 minutes later, (diff) perhaps in an attempt to get their licks in with impunity? If it's a legit question to request the sockmaster id here, I'll read past reports and keep my eye out for the pattern; just based on this one, they're a MOS-gnome with a foreign accent that brooks no opposition. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 18:57, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Mathglot The userpage is tagged. It's not their first time including my name in their sockpuppet names. -- ferret (talk) 19:03, 16 March 2024 (UTC)