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Sometimes hard to see...
what has really happened. But it wasn't what you thought. Xikteny was actually trying to fix vandalism (look down a page), but accidentally typed their edit summary into the text. Notice how "ve trill" looks a lot like "remove troll"? Anyway, done-undone-redone-undone again... :-) Shenme (talk) 03:00, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I see it. Thanks for the notice.Scwlong (talk) 12:24, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for all your edits on dashes, hyphens, and similar markings. These small edits might go unnoticed by many, but they are certainly worthwhile. --Midnightdreary (talk) 17:54, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Just be careful when changing punctuation either inside or outside quotes. Unless you have access to the original source being quoted, it's best to leave as is. See WP:LQ. --Midnightdreary (talk) 18:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC)


 * OK Scwlong (talk) 19:02, 30 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I was pleased to see you putting punctuation outside quotes. I think they only belong inside in passages of dialogue. Rothorpe (talk) 00:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC)


 * According to MOS:TITLE punctuation does go outside quote marks that surround titles. Scwlong

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Correctie
Ik laat even weten dat deze wijziging onjuist is. In Belgie schrijf je tussenvoegsels met een hoofdletter, dit in tegenstelling tot Nederland, waar tussenvoegsels met een kleine letter geschreven worden. 83.84.17.246 (talk) 10:53, 22 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Interesting difference between Netherlands Dutch and Belgian Dutch I was not aware of. Scwlong

dashes
Hi,

This was done over a year ago, but I've been finding a lot of changes you made from "Sino-" to "Sino–". Although there are a few publishers which dash prefixes, it seems to be minority usage even when dashes are used, and we've agreed not to do this on WP. So it's Chinese–American relations but Sino-American relations.

Thanks, — kwami (talk) 03:02, 1 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing that out. I had discovered that some time ago. Scwlong (talk)

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 * memorable due to the competition between "Lord Spencer and the marquis of Blandford [which] drove the price of a probable first edition of Boccaccio's Decameron up to the astonishing and

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 * tour with the band in Texas and Colorado to promote this effort, and performed this track with A Shoreline Dream during his performances.

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10^10 would be: 100,000,000,000, or 100 billion, not 10 billion. Since I'm not an astrophysicist and don't know what the number is supposed to be, I thought I'd bring this inconsistency up to one of the page editors. I figured even if you don't know, you might know who does... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.55.89.227 (talk) 22:04, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Accidental abbreviation?
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 * Nat, thanks for the message and pointing out the glitch. Here's what likely happened. I use WikEd for editing, and after changing hyphens to en dashes I press the "Fix Unicode character representations" button. This changes "ndash" to "–" in the edit window. It occassionally has unintended effects like changing "squad" to " sq&shy; ". I will check to see if there is a place I can report this glitch. - Scwlong (talk) 20:37, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * song)|"Landslide" (Olivia Newton-John song)]], a song by Olivia Newton-John on her 1982 album  Physical

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