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Re: "June 19, 1954 was a Saturday, not a Sunday" - amazing catch! —EqualRights (talk) 14:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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OK, you found a source for the first name. What is it? Use the ref tags and one of the citation templates to tell the rest of us. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:51, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

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Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles as you apparently did to Lawrence O'Donnell. Please cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. Scjessey (talk) 11:34, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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re Lake Dolores Waterpark
Great typo catch here. That's the kind of thing no spellchecker will ever catch, so thanks, it's appreciated. Herostratus (talk) 06:34, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

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Hello Rontrigger&mdash;

I can't complain too loudly about your recent edits to my draft article on the 1990 Nebraska gubernatorial election. In fact, I'm very glad that you caught my confusing Bob Martinez with Mel Martinez, the more so since that's an error, and an embarrassing one, that I might very well not have found before launching the article in mainspace.

However, I'd have preferred that you leave a note at my talk page telling me that you'd found errors in the draft and asking if you could correct them. WP:NOBAN gives me the impression that this is the preferred approach called for by Wikiquette. Your edits were all useful and constructive, but those of other editors might conflict with my own plans for the development of the draft; and I'd rather develop it according to my own plans, at least until I release it from userspace and it becomes the world's to edit.

That said, thanks again for catching my mistakes, especially the Martinez mixup. Out of curiosity, how'd you find it? Were you working on Mel and did a what-links-here that turned up my userpage, or did something else lead you there? Ammodramus (talk) 12:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. I sympathize with your ancient-computer problems; I enjoyed a power failure just this morning while I was entering a bunch of data on another website, and had to try it again when I could get to a place with a more reliable wireless connection.
 * As I said, your edits were very useful ones, and I'm glad you caught my mistakes before the article went to mainspace. Which will probably take a while: the current stage of research involves going through microfilmed back-issues of the Omaha World-Herald, and I can only do about half a month at a time before the bleeding from the eyes becomes a problem.  One day, however, I hope to get the article launched.  Ammodramus (talk) 00:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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 * ], but he died in a plane crash just two days before the draft. A private pilot, Berringer was in control of a 1946 Piper Cub over Raymond, Nebraska, when the aircraft

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Hi Rontrigger, I went ahead and reverted your edits to Steve's bio again, as per WP:CONTRACTION. I should have included an edit summary to explain, so my apologies. Hope that you continue here, and let me know if I can help you in any way. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:04, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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Please take a look at this and see if you can improve upon it. Thanks. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 21:05, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Oliver Hazard Perry
Rolntrigger, Actually, I was thanking you for all of your edits, but I did not want to be repetitive. Have at it. These two articles are among my 'offspring,' and I am grateful for another set of eyes and a helping hand. If you need to confer, please let me know. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 21:46, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

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Hello, Rontrigger. I very much appreciate the work you do, and noticed you once again following your series of edits to United States presidential nominating convention. You are a very good copy editor. One of the reasons I noticed that series of edits, though, was that there were so many of them (26!). Only one had an edit summary, but most of the edits were changing verb tense or inserting a missing article "a" or similar. Given that these are all (correctly) marked as minor edits, why did you not combine them? You can use the Show preview button to see what you've got so far, then move on and edit further. It would obviate a long row of redlinks to User:Rontrigger in the page's history and on our watchlists. I know I'm not the only editor who would appreciate that.

Thanks for your consideration, and again for your work. Happy editing. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 15:31, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Ditto. Eric talk 21:40, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Most of my edits are minor. In this case, the page had been linked to another website I had open, and I'd noticed a couple of errors there. So I opened the page in Wikipedia and fixed them. Then I saw more errors, and continued to read through the page. I simply was distracted and didn't think to make all the edits in one swoop. Normally, I would do that. Rontrigger (talk) 23:15, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Not trying to be a wiseguy here, but did you make those five edits here--over the course of four minutes and without using the preview option--merely to bust our collective ass? If so, well played! Eric talk 23:35, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * No, I did not. Rontrigger (talk) 23:48, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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Your assertion about the references is false. See here. DuncanHill (talk) 10:58, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * The article was entitled "John Read" and consistently referred to him as "John Reed" throughout the text. The spelling "Read" appeared nowhere in the article. Rontrigger (talk) 03:52, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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You have contributed to FLDS rather than reverting, bloating, or creating new errors that are corrected six months later. Unheard of! Jioseph-So (talk) 03:07, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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