User talk:Pointer1

Washington Metro
FYI...the Washington Metro is a rapid transit system, not a newspaper, so it's ridership, not readership, in Barack Obama 2009 presidential inauguration.OCNative (talk) 12:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Endashes
Just to let you know, when it comes to football seasons, endashes (–) are preferred to slashes (/). Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 12:02, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Inauguration of Barack Obama
Thank you for the editorial assistance that you gave to help improve this article. Keep up the good work as we try to take this article to WP:FA.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:16, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Celtic F.C.
Hello Pointer1. I've reverted you twice on the Celtic F.C. article because you keep inserting a protection template when the article isn't protected. Only administrators on the site have the ability to protect articles and the template only informs editors - it doesn't actually protect the article. If you wish to request a page to be protected, you can do at WP:RFPP. I'm an admin, and I would decline to protect it.  Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 11:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Capital letters in headings
Hi, just to let you know that in section headings, the first word has a capital letter, but after that, words only have capitals if they're proper nouns. See WP:HEAD. E.g. it should be ==Playing career== and not ==Playing Career==. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:14, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Periods at end of sentences
Why are you removing periods from the end of sentences, such as in Sherry? Tomas e (talk) 12:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Category sort keys
Hello. Re your edit to Category:Kidderminster Harriers F.C. in that club's article. The pipe character and space after the club category was actually correct; it makes the club page sort at the top of the list of pages in that category, rather than in alphabetical order. I've restored it. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 14:30, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Darts
You are invited to join the discussion at. —  SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 04:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC) (Using )

Non-breaking spaces
The nbsp's you removed in this edit are required by the Manual of Style. The nbsp symbol is explained at WP:NBSP, which says: "Use a non-breaking space (also known as a hard space) to prevent the end-of-line displacement of elements that would be awkward at the beginning of a new line: ... in other places where breaking across lines might be disruptive to the reader, such as £11 billion ..." Therefore, an nbsp is correct in phrases like "$1.4&amp;nbsp;million", which prints as "$1.4 million". WP:ELLIPSIS also requires an nbsp before an ellipsis (three dots) in most cases: it says "Use non-breaking spaces ... To keep the ellipsis from wrapping to the next line ("France, Germany, ... and Belgium but not the USSR")." So I'm putting the nbsp's back in again. Art LaPella (talk) 00:04, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Also, the commas that same edit removed after dates like "August 29, 2009" are also required by the Manual of Style. See the seventh bullet point of WP:COPYEDIT. Same for the dashes you changed back to hyphens; see WP:HYPHEN, WP:DASH and MOS:QUOTE. I fixed those too. Art LaPella (talk) 00:34, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Stacey Slater
Thanks for your edits to Stacey Slater. They were mostly good and very much appreciated, but please don't remove full-stops (periods if you're American) from image captions. They are supposed to be there. Thanks. AnemoneProjectors (talk) 22:02, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Date formats
Hello. Thanks for tidying Olivier Tébily, but I've reverted your date format changes. Please have a look at the Manual of Style section on dates, WP:DATE, particularly the bolded part of the second paragraph, which will explain why. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:32, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Consistently amended as per WP:DATE Pointer1 (talk) 12:57, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I see the wording has recently been amended, so the bolded part I pointed out isn't there any more :-) and you're quite right about consistency extending to within the references.
 * However, consistency doesn't justify changing to a format not used in the article, as WP:DATE still makes clear, citing the ArbCom decision that "Wikipedia does not mandate styles in many different areas; these include (but are not limited to) American vs. British spelling, date formats, and citation style. Where Wikipedia does not mandate a specific style, editors should not attempt to convert Wikipedia to their own preferred style..." I won't revert again, because edit warring is just as unacceptable. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Rather than create a new section I'll add my comments here as they are about date formats as well.

I noticed you fixed the date format in the BBC News articles. The changes are as a result of a vandal who constantly reverts the date format. I have tried engaging them in conversation but they never reply. I've created a list of the articles that he has vandalised on a regular basis in the past here so if you fancy reverting some more News articles back to their proper format, please feast upon that list. - X201 (talk) 14:50, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Brown
Please stop reverting on Brown, you have been asked in edit summaries to move to discussion on the Talk:Gordon Brown talkpage, thanks Off2riorob (talk) 23:44, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:ALT
Hi!

The "alt=" fields you keep removing from the Gordon Brown article are there for a reason - specifically so that the images are accessible visually impaired users. These fields were originally added to bring the article up to featured article status.

If you're unsure why you keep being reverted, it's always a good idea to check the history of an article. When editors revert (or make any edit) they tend to leave edit summaries explaining their edit - as I have several times when I've reverted you.

Cheers, TFOWRThis flag once was red 23:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)


 * For example "rv good faith edit - use captions for images, use alt text for screen-readers etc." from several hours ago. You'll see the edit summary when you click on "history" (obviously for this one you may need to scroll down through several hundred edits...) TFOWRThis flag once was red 23:52, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * That was one example from earlier today; I've reverted you more recently than that - hence my message here. Every time I left an WP:Edit summary. TFOWRThis flag once was red 00:01, 12 May 2010 (UTC)


 * ...but if you want more examples of you removing WP:ALT-text and subsequently being reverted, here goes:
 * replacing the alt text, please discuss on the talkpage if you want to remove it
 * rv. It's not irrelevant if you use a screenreader. See WP:ALT.
 * rv good faith edit - use captions for images, use alt text for screen-readers etc.
 * Admittedly, one of those was from a fellow editor. All, however, provided an WP:Edit summary. "Reversion does not equal explanation!" is correct; you were reverted with an explanation.
 * TFOWRThis flag once was red 00:08, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Burki
Please add the following to Burki. It keeps on getting deleted when I add it by the automated system. thx


 * Video of Kaniguram Attan


 * Best Attan Of Kanigurram YouTube
 * Waziristan Attan YouTube
 * Best Waziristan Attan YouTube


 * Waziristan Music


 * Road Side Musician YouTube
 * Habib Wazir YouTube

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010khan (talk • contribs) 20:03, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Juarez
We have a clear reliable citation tohat says this person has signed for Celtic, do you not accept the citation? Off2riorob (talk) 08:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Mexican player agrees to join Celtic
Is there some objection to the detail in this reliable citaton? Off2riorob (talk) 08:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/8820467.stm

"Celtic have completed the signing of Mexico right-back Efrain Juarez from UNAM Pumas for an undisclosed fee subject to a medical and work permit".

RE: Juarez
um no you get over it get a life —Preceding unsigned comment added by FGaribay (talk • contribs) 22:37, 23 July 2010 (UTC) haha me grow up!? kid get a life and stop reverting ppls edits before you get banned —Preceding unsigned comment added by FGaribay (talk • contribs) 22:19, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I would like to invite both editors to observe Avoid personal remarks. Indeed, Efraín Juárez is an excellent player now playing for Celtic coming from UNAM Pumas, but most importantly he's a rising star in the Mexican national team. Just like Chicharito, Barrera, and other Mexican youngsters are. Remember to keep a cool head and do not engage in edit warring. If there is a question, take it to the article's talk page and leave a comment on my talk page an I'll try to weight on the issue. Thank you. -- Marco Guzman, Jr Chat  23:08, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Tasmin Lucia Khan
Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. The references from both The Sun and the Daily Mail comply with WP:RS, and although reference to the photographs is not encyclopaedic, when both confirm her full name this is valid encyclopaedic information. Please stop trying to remove it. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 15:13, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Tasmin Lucia Khan. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Reverting WP:RS - which both The Sun and the Daily Mail constitutes destructive vandalism. There is a discussion open on the articles talk page Talk:Tasmin Lucia Khan which addresses the inclusion of the references. Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 18:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

August 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Eamonn Holmes, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Qwerta369 (talk) 09:30, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

WP:DARTS
Mr.Kennedy1 talk 10:43, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

BBC Breakfast
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. 81.190.241.90 (talk) 15:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

This is the final warning that you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you vandalize a page, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. 81.190.241.90 (talk) 17:06, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Place of birth
Hi, locating the place of birth in the "Career" (or some such) section isn't ideal, but going by what WP:MOSNUM says it's an improvement on it being in the lead as the parenthesis following the subject's name should only contain the date of birth/death. Do you think locating this detail in the "Personal life" section would be a better solution? Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 13:34, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Accessdates
Hello. Please don't remove accessdates from citations. They may not be strictly necessary in all cases, but removing them is pointless, and having them there makes it easier to retrieve an archived version if the page goes dead. Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 14:59, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Cite template parameters
Hello. Thanks for cleaning up references where necessary, but if you're going to correct other people's formatting, it's a good idea to make sure you're up-to-date with what's actually correct. Please note the Essential parameters section of, which says:
 * newspaper: Name of the publication that ran the item, e.g., Newsweek, The Scotsman, etc. Can also be used for the name of a column or subpart of an issue. Do not italicize; the software will do so automatically. (You may also use journal, magazine, periodical or work, but do not use publisher for this.)

Also, I noticed in your edit to Nikola Žigić, you changed the publisher in ref#2 to Sport Agency ABPM. There's a banner ad for that company at the top of the cited page, but I can't find any indication on the reprezentacija.rs website of that company being their publisher? cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:44, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Another bit of MoS you may have missed
is regarding citation style. WP:CITEHOW says that when adding citations to an article, "You should follow the style already established in an article if it has one; where there is disagreement, the style used by the first editor to use one should be respected." That means whether or not it's a style we personally prefer. Before you started editing Nigel Lawson, it consistently used the family of templates. You've changed it to use hand-coded citations. Now you're aware of this, please would you try to follow it. Also, you're wasting your time removing  from citations; they're mostly added by bot, so the bot will no doubt come back and put it back in.

Sorry if this is coming across as a bit of a lecture, but as I'm sure you're aware, changing things away from the recommended style just makes extra work for others. If there's anything else you're not sure of re the style guidelines, please feel free to ask. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:11, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Be careful when changing dates
ffdc requires a specific date format for its log parameter, and changing this format (as you did in this edit) breaks the link to the deletion discussion. Please check the template documentation for unfamiliar templates before changing their date parameters. Thanks. Anomie⚔ 14:30, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

The Saturdays
I reverted your edits to The Saturdays' article. Those charting positions are from the European Hot 100 and not the Billboard Hot 100. The former has nothing to do with the latter. They are two different charts that calculate Europe and America separately and respectively. Just to inform you. And I know you are a beginner of sorts, so I suggest you read the editing documentation before you make any big changes to any article. IHelpWhenICan (talk) 17:42, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * He mailed me. Sorry, wrong person. IHelpWhenICan (talk) 19:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Jenny Hill
She certainly used to be a news anchor according to this, though that was last updated in 2008 and things may have changed since then. If you've no objections to my doing so I think I'll call her a reporter and anchor just to cover all areas. Cheers. TheRetroGuy (talk) 12:47, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

That was impressive
You put that one firmly in the net. Excellent job! Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Loans and infoboxes
Hi, it's standard WP:FOOTY procedure to note loans as "→ Club (loan)" in the infobox. I don't know why you keep removing the brackets and stating "it's already been marked" makes little sense. Thanks, --Jimbo[online] 02:13, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Reply
I would appreciate if you would revert the Article back to the one with consensus (along with the new evidence i have given on the discussion page) seeing as you have removed referenced material now twice going on four times. Monkeymanman (talk) 19:06, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

You are now edit warring. Please return the article to its original state and discuss the matter on the talk page. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 21:30, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

That Sunday Night Show
Hello, Pointer,

How are you? I just wanted to let you know that I reverted your edit to this show page as while I appreciate your edit and acknowledge that it was ok. I have seen other pages with episode guides and I have seen certain episode guides with a "list-type" guest listing and others with a "prose-type" guest listing. (with "and" and without). There have been no conflicts about whether or not to use the "and". All the other edits were constructive, but I would appreciate you not reverting this particular edit, as there was never really anything wrong with it in the first place. It wasn't rally doing any harm to the page. You can add the "and" when writing an episode guide. List and prose are acceptable in this instance. So, please do not revert it again. Thanks. 65.92.23.10 (talk)samusek2 —Preceding undated comment added 14:22, 24 February 2011 (UTC).

Thank you
For the edit summaries, they really help. Alistair Stevenson (talk) 19:43, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

User Fark Hello plese stop vandalism page libian ciwil war 2011 please stop 94.236.142.40 (talk) 21:51, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Clayton Donaldson
I don't want to start an edit war so I'll raise my issues here. Firstly, the title of the Crewe reference on the webpage itself reads "First Team"; nowhere on that link does it state "First Team - Clayton Donaldson". Secondly, why is "FC" preferable to "F.C."? Using the latter is consistent with how club articles are titled. Also, the name of The Press is The Press, not York Press. Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 03:23, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
 * FYI I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football about it. Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 15:16, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Celtic F.C. task force
Hello Pointer1, as you edit a lot of Celtic-related articles it may interest you to join the Celtic F.C. task force so we can try and improve the coverage of Celtic on Wikipedia. If not that is fine, but keep up your great work anyway. Thanks. Adam4267 (talk) 20:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Fixing redirects
Hello. You might save yourself some work by not "fixing" working redirects. As WP:NOTBROKEN explains, it's both unnecessary and discouraged. Though if you're going to do it, please check you're getting the target right. At Jake Jervis, you replaced the redirect Bradford City with the redirect Bradford City ; it's actually Bradford City A.F.C. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:21, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

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Piping on dabs
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Be Warned - Rangers FC - an attempt to push through a controversial 'same club' approach
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Deletion proposal: Controversy and criticism of The X Factor
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This Week (BBC News TV series) listed at Redirects for discussion
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Edit summaries, please
Hello, and thanks for you contributions. Please remember that edit summaries save time for your colleagues. Eric talk 01:22, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Changing citation style, re Curtis Davies
Hello, and thank you for your improvements to Curtis Davies. I'm afraid I've undone your changes to the formatting, and have come to explain why. Over time, a consensus has developed at that article as to how to format citations, including: using the more explicit aliases newspaper and website rather than the generic work; using newspaper for newspaper websites as well as for paper sources; including location for newspapers where it's not obvious from the title (bots add that anyway, so there's little point removing it); and using first and last (displaying as Surname, Given name) rather than Given name Surname. The relevant bit of the Manual of Style, at Citing sources, says quite strongly that where consensus has developed at a particular article to use a certain citation style, we should go along with that, and seek agreement at the article's talk page before attempting to change to a different style. So next time you make improvements to this page, or any other where there is an established and internally consistent citation style, please try to follow it. Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 11:26, 2 January 2019 (UTC)