User talk:SMcCandlish/Archive 129

= August 2017 =

Please comment on Talk:White House Press Secretary
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Please comment on Talk:Lindy West
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Please comment on Talk:Battle of Ia Drang
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Collapse compact
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Merger discussion for Monotypic taxon and Monospecificity
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Please comment on Talk:Ted Kaczynski
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Books and Bytes - Issue 23
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Issue 23, June-July 2017

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Consequent anthropomorphization?
With this edit to Journalese, you introduced the text "and consequent anthropomorphization", which was flagged as a misspelling. I don't think you mean "Anthropomorphism", the attribution of human traits, emotions, and intentions to non-human entities. Can you fix this? I'm not sure what you're trying to say there. Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 12:23, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Let me Google that for you: . :-)   Anthropomorphization is the use or application of anthropmorphism, the act or process of anthropomorphizing. You need a better spell-checker.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:34, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ping just in case you didn't notice I'd replied.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  08:35, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping; I hadn't seen your reply as I'm not watching this page. I might have gotten back here on my next pass of the linked misspellings list. Anthropomorphization is no. 8 on the latest version of that weekly report. My spell-checker is fallible as it's updated by Wikipedia editors. Odd that it had been tagged as a misspelling 11 years. I just reverted to the version of 9 July 2006. But, as I was still confused by the destination of the redirect, I found Anthropomorphism vs Anthropomorphization - What's the difference? Anthropomorphism attributes human characteristics and behavior, or as the lead says, "attribution of human traits, emotions, and intentions to non-human entities". I wasn't following the logic that gave the 1990s human emotions and intentions when the decade "saw" an increase in crime. But I do follow what you mean by endowing the 1990s with human qualities (attributing human characteristics to something that is nonhuman). The sentence endows the 1990s with human eyes, but nothing more than that. So I changed it to link to the Wiktionary definition. – wbm1058 (talk) 13:07, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I made a bug report at Wikipedia talk:Database reports/Linked misspellings. The link change seems like hair-splitting to me.  The WP article is clearly wrong (an error of omission) in only covering a single meaning. The solution is to fix the article, not sweep it under the rug by linking to a different one.  I guess the link change is okay short-term, since it could help a reader understand the meaning.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:12, 4 September 2017 (UTC) PS: This single-word change is probably sufficient, though I've not read the article in detail.  Having eyes to see things with constitutes a "trait" in the meaning of this article, the Wiktionary article, other dictionaries, and the context in which I linked it.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:15, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Since I made this edit, the bot will remove it from the linked mispellings list on the next run, since the word is no longer tagged with R from misspelling. The bot runs every Thursday. wbm1058 (talk) 01:46, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Right-o.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  02:06, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Change to RfC at NOT
You participated at this RfC; the proposal has changed a bit. Just providing you notice of that. Jytdog (talk) 17:33, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Jared Taylor
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You've got mail
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Page mover granted
Hello, SMcCandlish. Your account has been [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3A granted] the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, and move subpages when moving the parent page(s).

Please take a moment to review Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when  is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

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If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Alex ShihTalk 01:56, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  00:54, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Birth date and age
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