User talk:Mikeblas/Archives/2019/August

Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley refdefs
Thanks for handling the duplication. I've been normalizing the annotations recently added by Johannes Schade where they impinge on EB1911 (which has a well-established set of conventions) but didn't want to change his detailed effort too much. I don't agree with the in-text harv he sometimes puts in the lede, but not enough to change them into conventional footnotes (ETA: but I see you changed the offending one but not the other; also I forgot to remove his archive.org reference). That's why the duplications showed up: I didn't take the extra step of checking the pages with HarvErrors.js. I'll go over my recent changes now. David Brooks (talk) 19:13, 2 August 2019 (UTC) (editing as )
 * Thanks for cleaning it up! This is the trouble with fixing duplicate references: that the intent of the author isn't always apparent. I try to keep the references intact and clean (and correct), but if there are issues with formatting or style, it's not always easy to tell what was desired. -- Mikeblas (talk) 19:39, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks
Hi, and thanks for your edit of Darkover series although I'm really not sure what you did. Nevertheless, any discussion or contributions are welcome. Wastrel Way (talk) 20:26, 13 August 2019 (UTC) Eric


 * Hi! What I did was fix a duplicate reference definition. If we look at the version of the article from 2019-08-03T23:48:13, it's fine. In this edit, you made a change that added another definition for a reference named "Leith". Thing is, there's already a definition with that name ... which results in a red error message in the "References" section of the article. That message says "Cite error: Invalid tag; name "Leith" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page)."
 * The error happens because two refereces can't have the same name and different definitions. My fix was to remove one of the definitions. That gets rid of the error message, an makes it so that the article is correctly referenced. You can read about the error message and some of the causes at Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key.
 * Referencing is pretty tricky, so it's just too easy to make mistakes. Let me know if you need help with it, or a better explanation than I've tried to write here. -- Mikeblas (talk) 21:20, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

badge of military merit
Thanks for fixing the duplicate reference, but why was it necessary to ping me in the edit summary? I didn’t intentionally add it (I.e. it was a mistake) and while I’m not mad, I was just curious about the reasoning behind the ping. Thanks for all the work you do- happy editing! Eddie891 Talk Work 00:33, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Duplicate references are necessarily vauge. Which of the two different definitions was intentional, and which is superfluous? Some are a little more apparent than others, but they all have this problem. I mention editors in summaries when I correct thse problems so they're aware their edit has been changed and they can have a look at the fix to make sure it matches what they've intended. Hope that helps! -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:39, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Evalyn Walsh McLean
I was rolling some research over from yesterday and forgot I'd used two of those links... thanks for catching my mistake and fixing it, and so quickly! Lindenfall (talk) 00:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No sweat. Happy to help! :) -- Mikeblas (talk) 00:41, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Is there such a thing as MOS:EdCrush?
Hi, Mike! I read your page last week and I must say that those are my sentiments, as well, succinctly stated. (Hence, gratitude when my own error is quickly corrected.) This 'Gaslighting' of the common knowledge base is what delivered me behind its scenes, as it happened. Rather than plagiarize you outright ;)... would you mind if I just refer to your page on mine? Lindenfall (talk) 20:07, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Like so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lindenfall (Feel free to reverse me if you think not — I had actually meant to hit preview the first time, while working out spacing... one of my more frequent errors is hitting Publish instead, accidentally, while laughably trying not to make mistakes.) Lindenfall (talk) 20:25, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Feel free! :) -- Mikeblas (talk) 00:18, 30 August 2019 (UTC)