User talk:Julesd

Well done on spotting the ciphertext mistake at Vigenère! &mdash; Matt 18:19, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Capitalization
I reversed part of your edit to Visible spectrum. I agree that there was no good reason for the names of the colors to be capitalized. That is not true of the other words you decapitalized. When we refer to the title of another article directly, it is appropriate to capitalize it the same way you would if referring to an article in a magazine or journal. Where the text says "See Color to understand why.", it is not referring to the concept of color, nor to the word color, but is referring, by name, to the Wikipedia article Color (to which it helpfully gives a link). The reference needs that capital letter for it to be clear to the reader that he is being advised to consult another article, rather than being told that he would understand if he were not colorblind.--Srleffler 06:58, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, the capitalisation section of Manual of Style (links) says that both styles are allowed; the only proviso is to be consistent.  Julesd 13:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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Excellent copy edit, you rock!◙◙◙  I M Kmarinas86 U O 2¢  ◙◙◙ 01:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Argument to revert to capitalized "Morpholino"
You have edited the Morpholino page to remove capitalization of the word "Morpholino".

Morpholino is used as a trade name to describe morpholino phosphorodiamidate oligomers. Therefore it is appropriate to capitalize Morpholino, as you would capitalize Kleenex or Aspirin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_name). The word "morpholino" is also used to describe chemical structures having morpholine rings as substituants; therefore the use of the uncapitalized "morpholino" to describe the morpholino phosphorodiamidate oligomers can be confusing. As the capitalization is appropriate for a trade name and the uncapitalized usage can be confusing, I strongly urge reversion to the capitalized usage.

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Per your suggestion, I have reverted the Morpholino page to restore the capitalization of "Morpholino" and have added a comment about the trade name usage in the introductory section. I think this helps the article, thanks for your assistance.

JonMoulton (talk) 17:59, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Your edits to image captions
Please keep in mind that per WP:MOS, sentence fragments should not have periods at the end. Thanks for all your work. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:07, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Your edit to Watt
The lack of an edit summary, plus the slight nature of the change, makes it impossible for me to figure out what you changed. --Jc3s5h (talk) 00:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

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... instead of "undo" in reverting this edit of yours, so let me give the explanation for that here: There was an open paren at the beginning of the sentence, so it wasn't a mistake. Daniel Case (talk) 22:17, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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Ruby Ridge copy edits
The passage about the Threat Source Profile (a particular type of file or document) by the US Marshals Service (a gov't agency)was cut'n'paste from the Senate Report and represents the capitalisation used by the Subcommittee; since that capitalisation of TSP and Marshals is in the quoted document, it should not be copyedited. --Naaman Brown (talk) 15:02, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

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Hi - "south-west" is not a spelling error needing correction to "southwest". Both are acceptable. Thanks. Acabashi (talk) 22:05, 22 June 2014 (UTC)


 * {citation needed} It's not in my dictionary. Julesd 23:08, 22 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Chambers Dictionary ( http://www.chambers.co.uk/ ), and OUP ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/south-west?q=southwest ), prefer it as "south-west", but others, such as Cambridge and Collins choose the non-dash format. I'm not overly exercised either way even though I prefer the more traditional dash. But it's not a spelling error, and I only make tidy changes where there are both formats existing in an article. Thanks. Acabashi (talk) 12:09, 23 June 2014 (UTC)


 * OK, this seems to be a UK-vs.-US English thing. Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/southwest) gives only the spelling without a hyphen. I must admit, I've never seen the hyphenated spelling on this side of the pond. Julesd 13:31, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * All I did was fix the spelling of "tenets" - I didn't add that content. Julesd 19:59, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

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