User talk:Robin75aw

Edit summaries
Hi there and welcome to Wikipedia. Could you try to remember to add an edit summary when you edit? It makes life easier for other people who have the relevant articles on their watchlists to know that your edits are legitimate. Thanks. Dave.Dunford (talk) 07:16, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I'll repeat my request. You're editing a large number of articles on my watchlist and because you aren't providing edit summaries, I have to check each one. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:45, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * please please include something in the edit summary field. It lets other users know the rationale behind your edits, and can reduce the chance of your edits from being reverted. Please, include some form of edit summary. Thank you. --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 16:24, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

MOS:BOLDLEAD
Sorry if it looks like I'm picking on you, but please could you stop removing boldface from the first mention of the subject of articles in the lead? This is standard Wikipedia formatting – see MOS:BOLDLEAD. Dave.Dunford (talk) 11:22, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

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Hi, Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have removed the link for John Tilson. Regards, Robin75aw.

Manors
Please note that manor and manor house are not synonyms. Please stop replacing the former with the latter, it is inaccurate, inappropriate and misleading for the general reader. Cordially Murgatroyd49 (talk) 20:05, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Will do, thanks.

Manual of style
Hi, Robin75aw. I must start by saying I admire your enthusiasm and have seen many of your edits to the Aldermaston article. However, a number of them are contrary to the guidelines set out in our manual of style – this includes overlinking and easter egg links. Would you please familiarise yourself with the manual of style, particularly the section on linking? Best wishes, MIDI (talk) 17:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Good morning! I would appreciate it if you wouldn't mind looking at WP:MOS (particularly MOS:LINK). I've just made a big change to the Aldermaston article, applying a lot of appropriate changes. If we stray away from the manual of style, we run the risk of the Aldermaston article losing its good article status. Thanks, MIDI (talk) 08:54, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Midi, I have just looked at the links concerning the above and thanks for making the necessary alterations. I have finished reading the Aldermaston article. Regards, Robin75aw
 * Lovely stuff, see you around! Happy to answer any questions you might have! MIDI (talk) 20:50, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits to Radway. If your editing includes a focus on adding and changing links, I'd recommend keeping in mind MOS:OVERLINK (primarily that there's no need to link very common terms, or names of countries - the reader will almost certainly never need to click those) and WP:REDLINK (that if an article doesn't exist but maybe should do, it's useful to create a link which might work in the future, and which could prompt someone to create that article). All the best. --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

There's really no need to keep linking the word "England", it goes against the style guide and will just be unlinked again by someone else who's sticking to the guide. --Lord Belbury (talk) 10:43, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Preview button
I realise now that you're mostly removing wikilinks that you added yourself a few minutes previously, I misread your edits as removing other people's links. You might want to use a WP:PREVIEW for that, so as not to add too much to the edit history. If it's any use, I myself use the search bar in the top right when I want to quickly check whether or not a place or person has a full article: if I start typing and nothing comes up in the drop-down selection, I know there's no article.

Do consider WP:REDYES, though, if you come across a significant historical feature or figure that doesn't seem to have an article, but who you think might deserve one. It might prompt a future reader to create that article, or to fix the link by redirecting it somewhere else if the article turns out to have been already created under a different title.

All the best, and thanks for your contributions. --Lord Belbury (talk) 21:25, 27 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion re the search bar and preview, I never thought about using this.  I have noticed that when entering a link where there are multiple articles a drop down list appears which is invaluable. I shall try to be more economical with adding links and avoid overlinking moving forward. Best wishes --Robin75aw (talk) 00:45, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Links are the lifeblood of Wikipedia, so thanks for adding them!
 * Manual of Style/Linking is worth reading through to get an idea of what should and shouldn't get a link. The main things I try to remember are not linking common terms, not repeating links which have already been made earlier in the article, and avoiding "easter egg" links where the target might surprise the reader (including the "sea of blue" effect where two adjacent links look like a single link to an article with a longer name, but that article doesn't exist). --Lord Belbury (talk) 12:15, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Referencing at Norton Lindsey
Hi Robin7aw,

Could you clarify why you removed the More citations needed tag from this ariticle? There is only one citation/reference. It's a website that isn't functional at the moment (access times out) but it seems unlikely that a neighborhood-statistics site would discuss the village's history, buildings, and civic groups. Do you know if that website actually supports all those details? DMacks (talk) 05:53, 11 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi DMacks, apogolises for my error. Haved restored more citations link. Robin75aw (talk) 06:24, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick fix! I don't know anything about this particular topic to be able to help:( DMacks (talk) 06:30, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Article talk pages for article content discussion
Hi, please limit discussion on article talk pages to the content of the article, not user behavior. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:45, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is G-13114 reported by Robin75aw. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:58, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello Robin75aw. As an administrator, I took a look at the ANI discussion in which two other editors believed you were also editing while logged out. I've been looking into this and ought to tell you that if you continue to edit while logged out, an admin may be expected to block your account. Please respond and agree to stop editing anonymously. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 02:59, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry
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