User talk:Opalzukor/Archive 1

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 Sincerely, Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)   [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Walter_G%C3%B6rlitz&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Welcome_to_Wikipedia/user-talk_preload (Leave me a message)]

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Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:31, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Sorry but...
...that warning you left for User:S.B. in Margate was idiotic. Conflict of interest? They were posting racist swinery. Drmies (talk) 13:42, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, since they had Margate in their username, and edited the Margate page, I placed the template there. I don't know what the edit even said (it had already been reverted by another editor), I just slapped the template on. Many apologies. Opalzukor (talk) 15:28, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

That was a suggestion
That was a suggestion from the talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_Foundation#Criticism that is why I made that edit.Isabella Emma (talk) 19:11, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Many apologies. Your edit seems to reflect consensus, feel free to restore it. Sorry for your time. Opalzukor (talk) 19:18, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Opalzukor, there were multiple editors objecting as well, on the talk page and by reverting the text. Now Isabella Emma is using your comment here as proof that they are right. Crossroads -talk- 19:29, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Hubert de Burgh edits
Hi Opalzukor Not sure that I'm doing this right, but here goes.

The Hubert de Burgh edits were not a test, though being new to this I struggled with the editing and made a few mistakes. The main edit was to correct the parentage and place of birth of Hubert based on what is actually written in reference 1, West's article on Hubert de Burgh in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In a nutshell West follows the accepted academic account that Hubert de Burgh's family was from Burgh in Norfolk (actually Burgh-next-Aylsham in Norfolk to be exact), and not Burgh Castle, and that it is doubtful that his father was called Walter. The only full length academic biography of Hubert de Burgh, and a number of academic articles all go with Burgh-next-Aylsham and the father being unknown. The second main edit was to remove one book, it doesn't feature in the article at all, and the section on the origins of Hubert de Burgh and his family is based on confused information that was shown to be incorrect at least one hundred years ago.

Happy to talk further about this.

Hawkwood1394 (talk) 01:36, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Many apologies. I thought you had just made 1 edit, and used redwarns quick undo tool. This rolled back all 5 of the edits you made. I will pay attention to not do this in the future.
 * On to the edit I reverted, I did so because the text you added didn't make the book title italic, it made "italic text" italic instead. I should have fixed it myself instead of reverting. Again, many apologies. Opalzukor (talk) 09:26, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Does this mean I have to redo the edits? Hawkwood1394 (talk) 10:34, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Allow me. Opalzukor (talk) 10:50, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, there's some more tidying up to do, and oen or two academic articles to add when I get round to it.

Hawkwood1394 (talk) 13:02, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * @Hawkwood1394 @Opalzukor: It's been a couple of years since I read the West article, so I'm not going to weigh in on the scholarship, but I object to the wording "an unknown father and his wife Alice." Logically, I suppose that's not unreasonable, but 'his' to me suggests we know who we're talking about. Not to diminish the importance of mothers in parenting, but do we need "and his wife Alice"? Do we in fact know that his mother was named Alice, even though we don't know who his father was? Jbening (talk) 00:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to the fancy signatures club!
... and thank you for your time, too  Kind regards from  PJvanMill ) talk ( 16:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC)