User talk:PWhitfordJ

Red brocket and others
Hello You are inappropriately reverting one user's edits. There is nothing wrong with PWhitfordJ's edits other than their continued failure to learn how to reuse refs. PWhitfordJ, I have seen several IP editors adding UWI refs and doing it in this way and so I assume that has been you. You should learn how to merge duplicate refs. Hello please don't edit war over trivial things like this. Invasive Spices (talk) 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Plus overlinking every common term, plus in many cases adding superfluous material already covered. Sorry, when I see this kind of high-effort-to-clean-up item added by the dozen, I tend to pull the emergency brake. No objection to re-addition with bit more discretion and clue. (Yes, should have left a note to that effect - I was on the run.) -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:14, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * And if I may add, your re-addition is practically as bad - still overlinked, and using three ref anchors where a single one would do. If you take responsibility for wanting to retain the material, then clean it up proper, not half-assed like this. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:18, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Whether overlinking exists is a matter of stylistic preference and does not justify mass reversion of almost all of an editor's edits. refs I did not retain the multiple ref anchors accidentally. Repeated refs make it harder for later editors to sneak unsourced nonsense in appearing to source it from the same source – and most vandals will not trouble to conceal themselves any more than that. Additionally it eases the job of maintaining such lists. Invasive Spices (talk) 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That must be the most painfully conjured excuse for not arranging material efficiently that I have ever heard. But if you are so keen to ignore WP:OVERLINK and WP:DUPCITES in favour of private theories, then I will definitely not spend my time arguing about it... -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:48, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello again PWhitfordJ. You can avoid duplication such as if you learn how to reuse s (by using  once and then  every time after that). Invasive Spices (talk) 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Please stop adding bare url links!
Hi PWhitfordJ. Can you please take the time to learn how to correctly add refs and stop adding bare url links – particularly to Featured Articles? Ping me if you need a link to the info about refs (or just check out WP:CITE). Thanks. MeegsC (talk) 21:51, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello again PWhitfordJ. I too want you to learn how to do this correctly. As you can see above I argued in your favour because what you are doing is not vandalism. However what you are doing is creating unnecessary work for others such as . Learning how to reuse repeated s is not difficult – I gave you the syntax above. Invasive Spices (talk) 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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