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Merge CAF Confederation Cup and CAF Cup
Hi, i will proceed with the merge of the two articles as discussed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CAF_Confederation_Cup Regards, Experio2018 (talk) 11:15, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

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The CAF confederation cup and the CAF cup are two different competitions
Hi there. I don't think merging these two pages was the right move. CAF recognizes these two seperate tournaments and considers the Confederation cup to be a replacement of both the cup winners cup and the old CAF cup. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paypayvay (talk • contribs) 15:41, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes, Issue 31
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February 2019
Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Talk:CAF Confederation Cup. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Matthew hk (talk) 22:55, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * What the hell you talking about, ? Please explain yourself. GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 06:33, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Special:Diff/810931526. made a comment almost a decade ago before your thread on the possible merge, but did not express it was a vote, which you added the support wording for him, which is outside normal page formatting or unsign matter (even typo, usually are forbidden to correct for others). Special:Permalink/844111154. Right before your close, he use alternative account  to made another vote of support, thus, for such thread, you may ping the user, but not refactor the comment from just comment to clear vote, and it was a bad close i already talked about. Matthew hk (talk) 06:40, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * My bad. I was going through old merge requests and cleaning up. Pretty sure I read that one as 2018, not 2008. Those requests will sometimes sit for months, so April wasn't t0o far out of normal.  Now, ten years is a different matter. :-)  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 06:56, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * You added the comment in 2017, so not that possible to misread as 2018. Also, no sure about other project, but posting stuff in WikiProject Football/Nominations for deletion and page moves, would usually generated enough discussion to close (either clear consensus of yes/no, or no consensus / clear stalemate and then cooled down thread), but that thread no one even noticed. Matthew hk (talk) 08:42, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Not impossible, as that is exactly what I did. As a major contributor to the Proposed mergers, I am often dealing with messages a upto a year or more old, and have to put them into an order that makes sense to the discussion. I just misread this one as it was already under a Merge sub-header. Sorry again. GenQuest  "Talk to Me"

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Hope Diamond
I would have thought that as a member of Project Kindness and as a libertarian you would have allowed me a red link in the Hope Diamond as the way that I prepare for writing new articles. But that’s what I get for thinking, I get to be wrong. Carptrash (talk) 16:25, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

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Caleb Shomo
Why was I blocked from making Accurate changes to an article? I am sorry for wanting Wikipedia to be a more accurate environment, but I thought that was the point of the matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darthsevere (talk • contribs) 19:59, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You need to cite those kind of changes that you made to the band articles. Adding "...He is also Famously Related to the great Business man and ninja Joshua Severe of Ohio and his Son Tyler Severe (neurologist)..." is just plain vandalism, which will always red-flag your account for further scrutiny around here. Regards, GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 20:20, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Tee Hock Seng
I was about to delete, when I noticed has has been an MP, so notability is not an issue; promotionalism is, of course, but I rewrote it. Could you help keep track to see it is not restored?  DGG ( talk ) 01:50, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure. I missed that addition.   GenQuest  "Talk to Me"

What are you doing??
Yes, there is a request that Az-Zeeb should be merged into Achziv, but editors have not showed a great enthusiasm for it. And then you go and unilaterally move it? Bad move, Huldra (talk) 22:14, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Not liking the pointy question. I am working from the project merge que and following protocol. The discussion regarding this merge has been open since Aug of 2017. The two articles describe the same place—pretty much a no brainer where the merge requests are concerned. The only reason it has not been done so far is due to the complexity of the merge. If you didn't want the merger to happen, then YOU should should have voiced your concern on the article talk page AND gathered consensus there to remove the merge from the que so the Merge Project members are not wasting hours on a Saturday morning working on a difficult merge only to have it arbitrarily reverted. GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 23:17, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry that I came across "pointy", but to me this is a no-brainer: if you look at Az-Zeeb, you will see that for "current locations" we have Gesher HaZiv Sa'ar...in addition to Achziv. So how can we merge 1 article into 3? Answer: we cannot. Yeah, I should have done more  to end the merge talk, but that got lost among the 7000+ articles I have on my watch list, Huldra (talk) 23:26, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Reversion of merge proposal
I reverted your merge proposal on List of named storms (Z) as no discussion was created for it. Please understand that this is an SIA article that is solely for the purpose of navigation. I am splitting the list of U-Z up to make it easier for users to find storms. It works better having the storm names larger and separated by horizontal lines (level 2) than smaller and without any lines (level 3). If you still want to merge the article, please create a discussion. Noah Talk 20:22, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Century
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Edit warring at Lori Loughlin
I don't know if you're trying to make a WP:POINT, but you must stop edit warring on the article Lori Loughlin. Please take a look at Template:Infobox person to see how to handle presentation of children in the infobox. Your next revert will be reported. GoLatvia (talk) 14:03, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You will notice that I actually backed off after my second revert, you did not, and it is you who did not respect 3RR. You should probably read that guide.  It seems that you are the only one trying to make a Point, as I really don't care; I was just trying to make the article better following what has become standard practice, and moved on.  Apparently you can't, but it's all good on my end.   GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 19:21, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Glad it's all good. I just went by the instructions in the template along with how it's implemented in Wikipedia (as I showed examples in this edit summary). Sorry if I appeared to act as if I own the article. 22:45, 16 March 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoLatvia (talk • contribs)
 * Cool. Regards, GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 22:47, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Fascism
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Mergers
Thanks for carrying these out – I keep track of new requests and tag them, but I never know whether I should act on them or leave it to the proposer or interested parties.

One thing though: I think you've slipped up when merging G. M. C. Balayogi Athletic Stadium... you've left the article without a talk page, because the talk page now also redirects to the main article. Richard3120 (talk) 15:15, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You're welcome  Acting quickly on the low-hanging fruit is a direct way to reduce the backlog, so I go for it always in that situation.  Only occasionally am reverted, but at least that, too, is an answer regarding if the merge should proceed. I knock out the rest when I can, but try to encourage the proposers and debate attendees to do the tougher ones, but you know how that goes.  I stay away from most of the ones in which I have participated in the discussions, however.


 * I realize the problem with that article. Somehow, when doing the move without redirect, the drop-down menu changed to "Talk" from "Article".  (Fat fingers on my part I suspect.)  I didn't catch it til after I had created the new article.  So now I'll have to transclude it or fix some other way.  I'll figure something out.  Thanks for the input, and the help on merging, by the way.  Regards,  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 12:53, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

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Merge template code issue
Hi, GenQuest. Please see User talk:GenQuest/Merge regarding a coding issue with the cut-paste merge templates there. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:25, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks, GenQuest  "Talk to Me"

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
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Wikipedia:Proposed article splits
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Missing content
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COMPLETE THE MERGE

But it ends mid sentence. WesT (talk) 03:14, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Not sure; which one? GenQuest  "Talk to Me"

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Tal's Hill Merger Proposal
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Request at BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe)
Hi, GenQuest. In May, you merged the Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe articles and moved the combined article to Burson Cohn & Wolfe. If time allows, can you consider my request to add a new infobox for the combined company to the article? As an employee of BCW, I have a Conflict of interest, which is why I'm requesting assistance from others. Thank you. BCW Editor (talk) 18:43, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I will gladly help with this. Give me a couple of days, currently traveling for business. Regards,  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 19:23, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Let me know if you have questions. BCW Editor (talk) 17:09, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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Lindy hop today
Would you be willing to merge Lindy hop today with Lindy hop? Vmavanti (talk) 02:56, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Certainly, if consensus has been reached on the merge request. I haven't been on much lately, as I am traveling daily for business.  I'll check it out as soon as I can free up some time.  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 09:11, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you very much for merging Appakudal and Aapakudal! I saw only now your request of the translation of my talk on the dutch Wikipedia. I am sorry that I didn't saw it until now. It was the end of the schoolyear, you know, with much tests and exams. So I wasn't much on the dutch Wikipedia, and I was totally not on the english Wikipedia. Thankfully you did it without the translation. Thank you very much! Wikidrinker (talk) 16:03, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You're quite welcome. GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 11:53, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

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Backlog Banzai
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Reverted edit: book title and Roman legion nickname in "Vespasian" article (plus, non-working "Talk" link in your signature)
Your signature's link that is meant to lead to the Talk section of your User page does not function, when I click on it. This may be a failure in the operation of my browser, or otherwise be some other malfunction of my computer hardware or software. Nonetheless, it is not working for me, and so I share this information with you.

You have reverted my recent edit on the "Vespasian" article. My edit was the italicization of the nickname of a Roman legion, and the italicization of a book title.

Both of my edits conform to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, and are consistent with other usages in Wikipedia, of the same words.

The formula of Roman legion nickname italicization is clearly defined, and my edit changed the original text to match this formula (a formula which is followed properly in at least two other places in this same article, and is followed dozens of times in the specific article on the Legio X Fretensis).

My italicization of the book title is not only consistent with the Wikipedia italicization of that same book's title in other articles (as one may see, by looking its own specific article, The Twelve Caesars), it was also consistent with the usage we see in at least one other place, in the same "Vespasian" article. If your concern is that the original source of the material in that particular block quote does not italicize the title of this book, then I would reply that my change resulted in the text conforming to Wikipedia guidelines (that is, when the source of the material in a Wikipedia article block quote is written following that excerpt, the title of the work is given a style which conforms to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, regardless of how it was formatted in the original source; and to say the same thing again, perhaps more clearly, if the original source of this quote from The Twelve Caesars does not italicize the title The Twelve Caesars then we disregard that original source's style, its lack of italicization, for the sake of applying the Wikipedia standard).

So, after reviewing what I had done, I still do not understand your reasoning, for reverting my edits. Please explain why my contributions were errors. catsmoke (talk) 04:06, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it took so long to get back to you. I reverted the italicization of the Roman nickname due to Manual of Style (MoS) guidelines regarding undue emphasis using italics. The reversal of your book title italicization, unfortunately, got caught in the process and just went along for the ride.  Apologies for that – I will revert.


 * § Just as an explanation, the "style" of putting undue emphasis and italicizing Roman Legion nicknames was begun several years back by an editor who was banned from Wikipedia for that and similar behaviors. It was pretty much his idea to create that style, and armed with a gang of wp:sock puppets, this editor wrecked havoc on many articles, thus the banning.  Unfortunately, some of these unilateral changes have taken on a life of their own—much like the proliferation of flag icons in infoboxes—and repeatedly and periodically get re-inserted into articles.  Respectfully, I am not sure where this "formula" would be "clearly defined" anywhere else than the MoS, but if you can point me to different, updated information in regards to this, I would be glad to react accordingly.  They are changing things around here all the time, and it's quite possible I have missed such a change.  Please let me know.  Regards,  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 14:18, 7 September 2019 (UTC)


 * ps:If you think that it is a style worth preserving, you can bring it up at the talk page of the MoS links I provided above, and it may be discussed there and possibly changed by consensus. GenQuest  "Talk to Me"


 * Thank you very much, for your complete reply. It would delight me to know the name of that renegade past-editor, to have a link to some forensic examination of his aberrant editing, or to have a link to a record of the process by which he paid the price.


 * My alleged formula for italicizing Roman legion nicknames is not found in the Wikipedia Manual of Style. I was in error when I said that my edit had been a change from non-conformity into conformity. I was mistaken about there being such a formula, and I apologize for presenting this misleading idea. My notion was born of having encountered that italicization pattern in dozens of Wikipedia articles. To deceive you was not my intent. (This style of italicizing the nickname of a Roman legion does aid my comprehension of a text. Its effectiveness was one of the things that led me to be so quickly convinced of the style's authenticity.)


 * On Wikipedia, our need to avoid undue emphasis rarely clashes with our need to apply italicization. (In practice, mandated italicization is neglected far more often here, than prohibited italicization is applied.) Italics do, indeed, sometimes emphasize words in print, but italics are also used for many other purposes. In the case of Roman legion nicknames, the italics do not denote emphasis, but instead they denote context (just as when they are used for book titles). Thus, although such a usage does violate the Wikipedia prohibition of novel typographical styles, it would not violate the Wikipedia prohibition of undue emphasis.


 * You have edified me, by reporting on the faulty Wikipedian practice of italicizing Roman legion nicknames; by leading me to correct an improper habit that had tainted my editing; and by re-examining your reversion of my edit and agreeing that the edit's stronger part was a worthy contribution to this encyclopedia.


 * I wish you the best, now and always, and I am at your service. catsmoke (talk) 02:34, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Valrico, Florida
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Ricky Nelson’s death in a plane-crash
Must disagree about removing the middle para. It makes it sound like a straightforward accident. People need to know that there were unusual aspects to the tragedy. Valetude (talk) 22:22, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm OK with that,  I'm fine either way.  Just thought it a bit redundant to have that information in the main death article where details of that particular event are more primary-tier and the Ricky Nelson article too, where that info is more of an auxiliary, or secondary-tier, level.  Trying to avoid the inevitable future suggestion by someone that the articles be merged, which is likely if there is too much overlap.  Feel free to add back, though.   GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 23:06, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
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September 2019 GOCE Newsletter
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Please comment on Talk:Kate Dover
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Trouted
Hi GenQuest. I think this revert is worthy of a trout. Did you happen to review this wikilink within my edit summary in detail? By reverting, Stanstead, Quebec is now the only municipality of ~3,500 across Canada that does not have its article in its proper municipal status category tree, nested within the overall national/provincial/territorial "Municipalities in..." category tree. I don't think et al led me astray five years ago. I implemented this across Canada shortly thereafter receiving confirmation from three other editors, but postponed implementing for municipalities in Quebec due to volume (as it had ~31% of the country's municipalities) and then did not remember to swing back until now. Reconsider? Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 01:12, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure That would be fine.  Like I said, I don't do much with the categories anymore, the policy inconsistencies with them have driven me away from that kind of work on Wikipedia.  Carry on, my friend; carry on.  Regards,  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 02:55, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Hwy43 (talk) 03:14, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:History of Christianity
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Request for feedback on cell ag company draft?
Hello I found you on the talk page for Cultured Meat. I'm working on a draft article about a company considered tangential to the cultured meat "space." I noticed that you're experienced at creating articles, and wondered if you'd be willing and able to provide feedback on my draft, here: Draft:Perfect Day (company).

I have disclosed a COI regarding the draft in keeping with Wikipedia's policy. While I've tried to use language that is as neutral as possible, the first submission was rejected for a WP:NOTADVERT issue. I've discussed it with the reviewer at their talk page and gotten feedback from one other person. The draft has since been edited slightly, but I'd still like to get others' perspectives on it before resubmitting. It's possible I'm too close to the subject, and feel I would do better to rely on unbiased opinions rather than guessing at what should be changed. Are you able to help? As a prolific article creator, I figured you'd be able to offer useful insight. Thanks in advance. BlackMaus (talk) 00:07, 15 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Just wanted to pop back here to say thanks for taking a look and making changes at Draft:Perfect Day (company). It's now been resubmitted and is awaiting review (I didn't resubmit, though I'd planned to - in any case, I'm grateful to whomever did). Your contributions are much appreciated! BlackMaus (talk) 20:34, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Request at Burson Cohn & Wolfe
Hi, GenQuest. I'm following up on my request at Burson Cohn & Wolfe, which you kindly helped merge back in May. To help complete the merge, I updated my request with a draft to show exactly what I had in mind. If this looks appropriate, would you mind making the changes? If it's a lot to manage, I would be open to making the changes so long as neither you nor editor Darx9url have any objections and you both have had a chance to review. Ideally, I want to keep my contributions to Talk pages because of my conflict of interest, but I also know this is a big request. Would you mind looking here? BCW Editor (talk) 22:00, 15 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi, User:GenQuest! I have a final request to complete the merge at Burson Cohn & Wolfe. Following this request, the article should be much more clear. Thanks again for merging the articles and helping clean up the article so far! As an employee of BCW, I have a Conflict of interest, which is why I'm requesting assistance from others. BCW Editor (talk) 17:51, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Manzanar
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Gobekli Tepe
Hello. Thanks for all of your hard work on Wikipedia.

I tried to add a definition (alternate translation) for Gobekli Tepe. I wasn't sure what the word portbelly implied, and I saw that "hill of the navel" was a common translation.

I got my etymology from the wictionary entry on the Turkish word, Göbek. Is it customary to link to etymologies of words back to the wictionary? Anyways, I do not think it is an original translation or interpretation, but a legitimate etymology of a term in current usage.

I would appreciate any advice on how to proceed. I am not attached to the phrase "Hill of the Navel" but I had to look up the meaning of the word "potbelly", and some further clarification on the origin of the Turkish word would definitely be helpful to me, and possibly to others.

Thanks in advance, Nate







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Please comment on Talk:Map projection
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CN on The Colony (restaurant)
Hi, I added a cn template to The Colony (restaurant) for the mention of a Pamela Berkin. Berkin is not mentioned in the source given for this paragraph. She was added by a one-edit anon. Web search finds a Pamela Berkin who is the wife of a Mark Antil, a New York writer, and not much else. In particular, no mention of the Colony. Neither husband nor wife has a WP article.

So all in all, we have an addition
 * by a one-edit anon
 * with no source
 * with a misleading footnote
 * about a person with unestablished notability
 * with no evidence supporting it in Web search

So I don't understand why you reverted my addition of "cn". --Macrakis (talk) 22:25, 8 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Oops, I now see you removed Birkin entirely. So we agree. Sorry. --Macrakis (talk) 10:58, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

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GOCE December 2019 Newsletter
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Okamoto syndrome
Just in case you didn't know, those "commented out writer-guides" are put on most medicine articles by Doc James, such as Down syndrome, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, etc. Any reason why they were removed? SUM1 (talk) 15:32, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * per MoS.  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 00:49, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * In my opinion they are useful... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:55, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Guys, if that is standard practice on the medical articles, I do apologize for any misunderstanding. I was going by MoS, which discourages the practice.  I pretty much always kill them on sight.  I can see where comment guides would be helpful while actually writing the article, much as the new article/draft templates are, but really don't see a need past that.  If you want to re-instate, however, per IAR, I won't push back on it.  Regards,  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 00:49, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It's no big deal, I'll probably only re-add them if they become necessary. It's not a major article anyway. SUM1 (talk) 20:50, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

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