User talk:Srich32977/Archive 27

October thanks
Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta, Edita Gruberová. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

GNIS coordinates
Please be careful using GNIS, a mistake-riddled government database (and primary source), for coordinates. You edited the Getty Center coordinates to point to Santa Monica. Abductive (reasoning) 07:28, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

I've removed the misleading GNIS from the EL section. In the past the The National Map Corps has had editing mechanisms for corrections. E.g., you send them an email with proposed corrections. I have not used that feature for quite awhile. – S. Rich (talk) 18:05, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * No worries. It may be that the Getty HQ was there long ago. In any case, GNIS and NRHP coordinates are flawed primary sources and need to be checked against Google/Bing/OSM. What's really amazing is that the coords I put in the article were ones I worked out myself, but were exactly the same as the coords that were in the article before. Abductive  (reasoning) 18:13, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Your edit to "Daylight saving time"
Please do not change a full publication date to a year only, as you did in this edit, unless the type of source is one where it is customary to only cite the year. The only type of source, as far as I know, where only the year is usually cited is a book. Furthermore, I do not believe it is appropriate to assume that a source is a book just because the cite book template was used. You should read the source and determine if it is truly a book, or is something else. In this case it appears to be a report by an international agency. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:06, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:CSLS Logo.pdf
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November thanks
Thank you for improving articles in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Castle Bravo
Out of curiosity, why did you remove the rp/refpage templates? Personally, I think having the formalized format is better than just blasting the text in, and certainly better than removing the page numbers. Tarl N. ( discuss ) 02:11, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

-- I gotta look at my desktop (not-mobile) to get you a good answer. – S. Rich (talk) 02:54, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem, it just struck me as odd. I'm wondering if you have a script that is perhaps doing more than you intended. Regards, Tarl N. ( discuss ) 02:56, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

– No script is involved. If I see an in-line page ref that is supporting a single citation, I think it is easier for the reader to see there is a particular page for that one citation, at the citation in the references. If the citation uses different page numbers to support different verifications, then the "rp"s are needed. In any event your comment prompted me to do some more needed WikiGnome edits on Castle Bravo. Thank you. – S. Rich (talk) 05:38, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that makes sense. Tarl N. ( discuss ) 05:45, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Short descriptions at 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification articles
Is there any particular reason why you're persistently shortening the short descriptions on all the World Cup qualifying articles? Multiple times your edits have been opposed as unhelpful to a normal reader. Jalen Folf  (talk)  23:09, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Per WP:SDFORMAT, I'll note that the contents of short descriptions should be 40 characters or less. The ones I spot checked from his history were longer than that. Tarl N. ( discuss ) 01:12, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

December thanks
Thank you for improving article quality in December. If you like Advent music, check this out. If you like Christmas music and wishes, watch my user talk until 27 December ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:29, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Pages param in cite book template
Hi. I have reverted your recent edits to List of topics characterized as pseudoscience:. See the documentation at Template:Cite_book. Example: you changed the correct to the incorrect. I have filled a missing ISBN that you requested:. - DVdm (talk) 11:35, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Please do not shorten page numbers
Hello Srich32977! Please do not shorten page numbers, like you did here: this only introduces an ambiguity, while offering no advantage. Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 12:14, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to note that this is not just an editor (or two's...see previous section as well) preference. There was an extensive RFC a few years ago, and use of the full number for the end of the range is now part of both site-wide MOS and cite-template use instruction. DMacks (talk) 13:05, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * There are also numerous discussions in this editor's talk page archives in which multiple editors requested an end to this disruptive page number range editing and were met with various flavors of WP:NOTGETTINGIT. At what point does this rise to the level of an ANI concern? – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:26, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not have a Manual of Style of its own regarding page range citations. Rather it allows for the use of any accepted MOS so long as the use is consistent in each article. The Chicago Manual of Style is one such manual and the CMS allows for "pp. xxx–xx" page ranges (example pp. 123–25). The key is "two or more" in the second element. Thus "pp. 123–125" OR "pp. 123–25" works. (However, "pp. 123–5" does not work.) Again, consistency is key. Edits such as this one which re-introduce hyphenation and dash errors (see MOS:DASH and MOS:HYPHEN) are not helpful. – S. Rich (talk) 21:22, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Consensus is against this viewpoint, as has been explained to you on this talk page before. MOS:NUMRANGE could not be clearer. Please desist. (I have asked for confirmation of the clear wording of MOS at the relevant talk page.) – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:17, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you,, for your rational response to that talk page thread. It is not often that I see an editor simply let go of a firmly held viewpoint with both hands and let it drop freely to the ground. That was impressive. I will strive to emulate it when I am in your situation in the future (which I surely will be). – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:51, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * +1 from me also! DMacks (talk) 13:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * From MOS:PAGERANGE: Like date ranges, number ranges and page ranges should state the full value of both the beginning and end of the range, separated by an en dash: pp. 1902–1911 or entries 342–349. Except in quotations, avoid abbreviated forms such as 1902–11 and 342–9, which are not understood universally, are sometimes ambiguous, and can cause inconsistent metadata to be created in citations.
 * Whenever edits both fix errors and introduce errors on a sufficiently large scale, and both are at about the same level of importance (as I would argue MOS:PAGERANGE and MOS:DASH are), I think reverting should be okay. It was just a way to draw your attention: hey, you introduced some errors here, please fix them! And so you did in the ethanol case, for which I am very thankful!.
 * But whatever the merit of the reverts, please follow MOS:PAGERANGE in the future. Thanks! ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 22:26, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

January thanks
Thank you for improving articles in January! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:37, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

2022 began happily with vacation. I uploaded images but stopped at 22 January - click on songs. 30 January means 10 years of Precious. It's also the birthday of a friend, - I'm so happy I mentioned his DYK on his 90th birthday when he was still alive. I have a great singer on DYK whom I heard, Elena Guseva, and wait for a Recent death appearance of Georg Christoph Biller whom I saw in action. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:20, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Could you help
Hi User:Srich32977 I saw you on recent edits and wondered if you could help. I am a new user and I wanted to create a redirect Snoochie Shy to BBC Radio 1Xtra as she is a presenter on the show. Could you please thanks Linda Binson (talk) 23:19, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

USfilm=importance=
Hi, Srich. Edits you've made to film talk pages (such as ) contain a typo: "=" instead of "-" in "USfilm=importance=", which produces a duplicate "USfilm" parm error. I've fixed several of them. I'm guessing you're cut-and-pasting from some original; it would be useful to fix the original :-) Davemck (talk) 21:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Quite right, Dave. I was just pasting my most recent version of the line. Of course the error was so small that it looked OK on my first preview. Thank you so very much for the heads-up and for the fixes you undertook. Happy editing! – S. Rich (talk) 23:13, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

"Do a little research"
OK, it was my bad to revert the dash, but you do realize that you could have done the research in the beginning to get the OCLC ID in the first place instead of just leaving ISBN?, right? In addition, I am not a mind reader so I couldn't tell what your goal was in the first place. It just looked like you were unfamiliar with the timeline of ISBNs, so I specifically used the Undo feature so that you would get a notification about what I was doing. — howcheng  {chat} 07:20, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, my bad too. I fixed the revert – and then researched to discover you are an experienced Wikipedian. When serving (US Army) in Korea I learned the proper reply was "no-sweat-e-da". Which applies here. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 07:47, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

February thanks
Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:49, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

stand and sing Prayer for Ukraine --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Rejuvenate WikiProject Skepticism
Hello - my name is Susan Gerbic (Sgerbic) and I'm writing to you because at some point you joined WikiProject Skepticism. This might have been months ago - or even years ago. With the best of intentions the project was created years ago, and sadly like many WikiProjects has started to go dormant. A group of us are attempting to revitalize the Skepticism project, already we have begun to clean up the main page and I've just redone the participant page. No one is in charge of this project, it is member directed, which might have been the reason it almost went dormant. We are attempting to bring back conversations on the talk page and have two subprojects as well, in the hopes that it might spark involvement and a way of getting to know each other better. One was created several years ago but is very well organized and a lot of progress was made, WikiProject Skepticism/Skeptical organisations in Europe. The other I created a couple weeks ago, it is very simple and has a silly name WikiProject Skepticism/Skepticism Stub Sub-Project Project (SSSPP). This sub-project runs from March 1 to June 1, 2022. We are attempting to rewrite skepticism stubs and add them to this list. As you can see we have already made progress.

The reason I'm writing to you now is because we would love to have you come back to the project and become involved, either by working on one of the sub-projects, proposing your own (and managing it), or just hanging out on the talk page getting to know the other editors and maybe donate some of your wisdom to some of the conversations. As I said, no one is in charge, so if you have something in mind you would like to see done, please suggest it on the talk page and hopefully others will agree. Please add the project to your watchlist, update your personal user page showing you are a proud member of WikiProject Skepticism. And DIVE in, this is what the work list looks like frightening at first glance, but we have already started chipping away at it.

The WikiProject Skepticism/Participants page has gone though a giant change - you may want to update your information. And of course if this project no longer interests you, please remove your name from the participant list, we would hate to see you go, but completely understand.

Thank you for your time, I hope to edit with you in the future.Sgerbic (talk) 07:32, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

March thanks
Thank you for improving articles in March. Music if you like. Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:22, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

The Prayer is on the Main page, finally + new flowers --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:42, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

The Future of Freedom Conference
Hi Srich32977. Could I ask you to be a bit more careful, you edit nuked the reference section (fixed now). It appears to be an issue with AuthEd, where it can't handle reflists built with tags. LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmission∆ °co-ords° 16:43, 27 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I saw the long list of red "references", but I did not realize they popped up because of my AutoEd edit. IOW, I did not do a BEFORE look-see. My efforts to fix the error were frustrating. "AutoEd" had never done this before – so I assumed the error was pre-existing. Well I've learned that  and   10:39, 6 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. For me, a Wikignome, the use should be consistent within articles. Looks like that's been accomplished. – S. Rich (talk) 15:05, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Haplogroup L2 page getting vandalized again today
Please help keep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_L2_(mtDNA) free of vandalism by 72.183.247.116 and Ceci212 who add false statements from unscientific sources including a blog. You've worked on that page in the past. 2600:1000:B111:BB9D:1CE4:8FD6:8B77:D300 (talk) 20:31, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for everything @ Chickbama2316 (talk) 22:16, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Richard Durham has been accepted
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Thanks again, and happy editing! - GA Melbourne (talk) 11:41, 25 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you GA. I've been around for some time, and I thought an AFC would be interesting. And to show my thanks I'll do some work on spiffing up other articles on the list. – S. Rich (talk) 14:24, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

January music
-- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:26, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * And thank you Luna for your kind appreciation. I think you are right -- I do want to tweak and improve every single cemetery on WP. A Barnstar is just the right bit of goading to keep me digging away at the endeavor. – S. Rich (talk) 12:10, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Edits at "Cementerio Catolico" seeking to Clean up/copyedit Adding/improving reference(s)
Hi. Saw your edit at here, and am wandering if a similar process couldn't be applied to the 651 cites here? Mercy11 (talk) 04:02, 21 February 2023 (UTC)


 * WOW! With an article that long (TLDR) a lot of work is pending. In my edits I usually start with clearing clutter. (E.g., fix small details.) Next, in your case, I recommend re-doing the page (p.x --> p. x) citations. That clears the way for the drop down "citation tool" that gives a listing of the duplicate cites. In my article edits the corrections were fewer and much more simple. I saw the duplicate cites, and did "ref name" replacements for the duplicates. Then I put in { {rp|12xx} } for the pages. (Or you can put in the "rp|xxx" first, and then swap out the full cite with the "ref name".) So, I'll look to see if my suggestions are useful. Thanks for asking!  – S. Rich (talk) 06:03, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

February stories
Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:59, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Noggle Cemetery deletion
I'm not sure what I need to do to get this page kept.

Noggle is a real cemetery and is notable for being one of the oldest cemeteries in the area, and it has very early burials from several prominent families who contributed to the community during the Settlement Period. It is small, and landlocked, and has a findagrave page as well.

What about it disqualifies it from being on Wikipedia? Capouch (talk) 00:01, 18 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Find a Grave is not a good source in order to establish WP:N. (It's got more than 500,000 cemeteries listed.) The "burden of proof" shifts over to you: Are there notable burials? (E.g., families that have names listed in WikiPedia?) Is it recognized as an National or State or Local "historical site"? Old graves alone is not enough. – S. Rich (talk) 00:10, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * So if local "notability" isn't sufficient, I guess off it goes. It is a pioneer local cemetery and I can easily make the case for its local significance. Pretty much none of those references are online.  The cemetery was platted in the 1840s and the burials don't go much past the turn of the 20th century.
 * This is a stiff, stiff disincentive for people to contribute. But I get where you're coming from.  We want everything on WP to be nationally significant.  I spent a lot of time here, and I know how true that statement is.
 * Not a happy camper, but also not naive about the WP police work. Capouch (talk) 05:03, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Don't be discouraged! Look at List of cemeteries in Riverside County, California, which I worked on. Cemeteries are an interesting topic overall, and incorporating them into WP articles is worthwhile. The Indian School cemetery itself is not notable, but the school is. (So the cemetery which is distant from the school gets written up.) The Temecula Massacre "cemetery" is a big vacant lot with a wall around it and nothing more. The Banning Indian School Cemetery is a small rundown spot, but an Eagle Scout cleaned it up as a community service project. – S. Rich (talk) 14:21, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

March flowers
Thank you for improving articles in March! - Today we remember the 150th birthday of Max Reger, who saw the horrors of a world war right when it began in 1914, while others were still in high patriotic moods -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Cite for change to Mount Hope Cemetery (Lansing, Michigan)
Hello,

I'm curious on this edit to Mount Hope Cemetery (Lansing, Michigan). Do you have a citation for the change from ~23,800 graves to 25,000+ graves? Otherwise, that fact would hang without any evidence. I will state that I agree the cite could live in the body versus the infobox. Cheers, --Engineerchange (talk) 18:48, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
 * FindaGrave has 25,000+ names listed. (But its a WP no-no.) I don't see 23,800 in the text. Let's just put ~24,000 in the infobox. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 19:01, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I added back in the cite and detail. The detail was at the top of the citation you removed. Please don't add details from FindAGrave without a WP:RS. Appreciate the cleanup! Cheers, --Engineerchange (talk) 19:19, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Guideline WP:CONTEXTMATTERS says weigh "each source" to determine reliability. With Mt. Hope FAG has 455 listings with GPS coordinates. That means someone has stood next to the grave with a smartphone and plugged in the GPS. Of the Mt. Hope "famous" names, 3 graves have GPS. For example, Merv Pregulman has GPS, 2 grave photos, and plot data. The photos are dated and the contributors are named. (Only FAG administrators (staff editors) can change any data on the famous names.) In terms of weighing the source FAG is very good for this particular "famous" grave. Now for, the info is more sketchy, but Joe does not have a WP article (... yet).  – S. Rich (talk) 20:00, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
 * No argument there, I myself edit FindAGrave and have stood in the cold resetting the GPS on my phone. However, I know it to not be a reliable source, per WP:FINDAGRAVE-EL, so I do my best to remove citations when I see those that use it as a reference. From what I know, we can't willynilly add in details from doing our own independent research, including referencing that statistic on FindAGrave's website. In the same vein, the source I referenced could have either interviewed the cemetery and got that count or referenced findagrave in 2017 to get that count, and I can't prove/disprove either point, but lean on Wikipedia's guidance that we expect Lansing State Journal to be a reliable source. My only comment/suggestion is please don't add those statistics without a reliable source, as FindAGrave, specific page or aggregate page, is not a reliable source, but also ask that you please not remove statistics that were reliably sourced. Cheers, --Engineerchange (talk) 20:24, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Talk:John Mason Loomis
Hi Srich32977. This edit you made to Talk:John Mason Loomis actually seemed to cause the entire Wikipedia article Find a Grave to be transcluded into that talk page thread per WP:COLON. I'm not sure what the "indexing problem" you were trying to fix was, but adding the colon to that template syntax told the software to transclude the article onto that talk page. I only noticed this because the non-free image being used in "Find s Grave" were flagged as being used outside of the article namespace. I tried to fix both problems by converting Find a Grave to a url link, and hopefully that resolves the indexing issue. If, by chance, you were also using the colon trick in templates on other pages, you might want to retrace your steps to make sure the same type of article transclusion hasn't happened.-- Marchjuly (talk) 06:03, 10 March 2023 (UTC)


 * 1. Thanks for catching my error! 2. Double thanks for fixing it!! And 3. Triple thanks for letting me know!!! I did do the colon trick on some other templates so I'll go back as you recommend. Happy editing! – S. Rich (talk) 15:41, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Still ISBNs after all these years?
Hello again, SRich. I thought you agreed four years ago to stop removing hyphens from ISBNs, but now I see that you're still imposing your preferred style by removing hyphens, even on pages where most of the ISBNs have them.

You know better than I that a large number of editors have objected to this practice over the last six years. It is also contrary to WP:ISBN and cite book, which say that the hyphens are optional but preferred. Please stop.

I know you're concerned about consistency, but if you can't handle the ISBNs properly, you should leave consistency of ISBN formatting to someone who can. I'd be happy to do them for you when I have the time. Kanguole 21:54, 11 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Limited internet access right now. Laptop is getting a checkout from Geek Squad. Will reply when full access is available – S. Rich (talk) 03:47, 12 April 2023 (UTC)  – S. Rich (talk) 03:47, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, but please pause the contentious edits, e.g., until then. Kanguole 08:32, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

If you go to World Cat and click you will get ISBN 9781909388062 a book by Darren Marsh (artist). But suppose you click ISBN 9781909388062 or ISBN 978-1909-3880-6-2 or ISBN 9 7 8 1 9 0 9 3 8 8 0 6 2 – what do you get? You get Special:BookSources pages all listing the same number. There, please note the bullet point on the actual results page – "Spaces and hyphens in the ISBN do not matter." (In the Darren Marsh example above the Book Sources page results do NOT lead to a book by Darren Marsh, because he hasn't given it an ISBN. However, try ISBN 9780993017223. You will get a listing of sources about another Marsh book, but without any author, title, or other info.) "Book Sources" is a linking tool to other resources, nothing more. And so what if hyphens are "preferred" in ISBNs? (By whom? Not by Amazon or WorldCat.) The key word in WP:CITEVAR is "established". E.g., once we have an article with all ISBNs either hyphenated or not-hyphenated, we establish the citation method. The "contentious" diffs you complained about did not have consistent – established – methods. And I fixed those pages. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 20:39, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You made the same argument about BookSources, WorldCat and Amazon four years ago. Many editors have given you counter-arguments. In any case, that is beside the point.
 * By whom are hyphens preferred? By WP:ISBN, which says "Use hyphens if they are included, as they divide the number into meaningful parts", and cite book, which says "Hyphens in the ISBN are optional, but preferred." Also by all the editors whose objections you have brushed off over the years.
 * Making mass edits to promulgate your preferred style comes under WP:FAITACCOMPLI. A long series of editors have objected to these edits and asked you to stop. That page says that in such a situation you are expected to stop and work to resolve the dispute. You might, for example, open a discussion at Wikipedia talk:ISBN and see if a consensus can be reached to change that wording. (There are a few discussions of the issue there already, but that was some time ago and maybe consensus could change.) Instead, you have batted away each objection and ploughed on.
 * Please stop making these changes until you obtain consensus for them. On the issue of consistency, see my offer above. Kanguole 21:39, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm reviewing the archives at WT:CS right now. (But you seem to be saying the only was to handle and ISBN "properly" is with hyphens. Is that correct?) – S. Rich (talk) 21:47, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I am echoing cite book (which is based on WP:ISBN): they are "optional, but preferred", and should not be removed if correctly placed. Kanguole 21:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

You are not answering important questions. 1. "Why" are hyphens preferred in WP, and not in World Cat, Amazon, etc. (I can't find any rationale that explains.) 2. If an article has ISBNs that mix the hyphenated and non-hyphenated styles, is it using a consistent style of citation? Or is a consistent "style" of hyphenizing established? 3. When the guidelines show us examples of hyphenated and non-hyphenated ISBN listings, aren't the guidelines showing us that non-hyphenated ISBNs are acceptable? — So far I've gone back to Archive 35 (December 2012) and searched the terms "ISBN" and "hyphen". No results on point yet. – S. Rich (talk) 22:23, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * 1. The objections you've received over the years contain several arguments for them. There are more in the discussions at Wikipedia talk:ISBN (including the archive). 2. If an article has 91 ISBNs, of which 80 are hyphenated (as Kuomintang did before your visit), then the other 11 were probably more recent additions. But in view of the preference for hyphens, the situation is not symmetrical. I've made you an offer for how we can achieve consistency. 3. When the guidelines show a mix of examples, they are showing that hyphens are optional, which is consistent with their statement elsewhere of "optional, but preferred". Kanguole 22:43, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Again, please stop removing hyphens from ISBNs. In view of the preference described at WP:ISBN and cite book and the objections of several editors, consistency does not justify these edits. You are aware that these edits are controversial, so the appropriate course is to stop until you can achieve consensus for them. Kanguole 15:52, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh stop this. If an article has a mix of hyphenated and non-hyphenated ISBNs, then the citation style of the ISBNs is not "established" vis-a-vis the style used for hyphenation. Modifying the ISBNs in order to achieve a single style is acceptable because: 1. The hyphens do not matter when using Book Sources. 2. There is no rationale in the guidance or the guidance talk pages about why hyphens are preferred. In looking at the archives of the guidance pages I see it existed many years ago, perhaps back when hyphens were important to libraries and publishers. 3. If you prefer hyphens in your ISBN edits, then add them -- but adding hyphens to only some citations in an article does not help with achieving or establishing a consistent style. The same would be true if you added spaces to the cited ISBNs. (Spaces don't matter to the Book Sources tool, so why not?) 4. Yes, I will start a discussion regarding "preferred", and you can help if you can find WikiPedia rationale that explains the preference. And the WP rational should be strong enough to overcome the fact that Amazon, Google books, WorldCat, and the other resources I mention do NOT use hyphens. – S. Rich (talk) 17:39, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Are you following my edits? If so you will see the discussion I stated at WT:ISBN.  – S. Rich (talk) 02:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for opening a discussion to resolve the issue. Kanguole 08:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * So now you've heard from a few more editors who disagree with you on this issue, and on your consistency idea. It seems the discussion hasn't convinced you on the formatting issue, but that's not the point. The point is that you have not achieved consensus for these edits and they are disputed by multiple editors, so it really is time to stop making them. Kanguole 15:31, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Again, stop this. We can see quite clearly if an ISBN is valid or not -- the template will show us. And please note -- both hyphenated and unhyphenated ISBNs are "proper". Look at the current Featured Article of the day -- Logan (novel). Several un-hyphenated ISBNs. Zero hyphenated ISBNs. The "Established Style" for this FA is unhyphenated ISBNs. Now if you care to, please add hyphens -- but only if they ALL get the same treatment. Yesterday I did lots of copy edits to Artificial intelligence. After working on the IOS app, I went to the laptop for my final edit. I took the mix of hyphenated and non-hypenated metadata and switched it to a single style. Now you should go back to my "next-to-last" version, revert it to get partial hyphenation, and then be sure to add "proper", valid hyphens to all those remaining unhyphenated ISBNs. That will re-establish a different, but consistent style. I thank you for your upcoming effort. – S. Rich (talk) 17:43, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Take a look at the Bibliography section in History of Palestine. Quite a mix of hyphenizations for the books. What is a permissible, consistent style for that article? Please let me know. – S. Rich (talk) 20:49, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * It is quite simple: you should not remove properly placed hyphens from ISBNs. Kanguole 20:59, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You are evading my question. That article has 200+ ISBN listings. They look like ISBN 1-234-56789-0 — eight-plus variations in the hyphenation sequences. Are these variations valid? "No"  — ONLY because the checksums do not confirm validity. But are the variations in hyphen sequencing "proper" or "improper"? Again, it does not matter   because the hyphens do not impact the Book Sources meta-data wiki-linking. In perusing this issue I looked at the hard-copy 17th edition (2017) of the Chicago Manual of Style. On its copyright page it lists its' own ISBNs — hyphenated and non-hyphenated. At Figure 1.1 it shows a "A typical copyright page ... including International Standard Book Number (ISBN) ...." That figure shows both styles. So, Kanguole, this is simply a difference of opinions. You like hyphenations and I think establishing Wikipedia article citation consistency is more important. I hereby encourage you to get on a crusade to get all ISBNs into a consistent layout — with "proper" hyphenation, on each Wikipedia article.  – S. Rich (talk) 05:50, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You should not remove correctly placed hyphens, both because the guidance says they are preferred and because many editors have asked you not to. Therefore the only way to make the ISBNs in that article consistent would be to format the couple of dozen of them lacking hyphens. If you are unable to do that, you should leave it to someone else. In the meantime, the article is not actually wrong. Kanguole 09:05, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I have taken this issue to WP:ANI. Kanguole 12:49, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

ISBNs
Please stop removing the ISBN that is listed in the book - this is disruptive editing as it makes it harder to confirm whether the correct source has been used. You are making articles worse.Nigel Ish (talk) 19:06, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Here's the problem. The invalid ISBN gets linked to Special:BookSources . And then BookSources will link the reader to Amazon, Google, WorldCat (OCLC), etc. Afridi to Nizam is listed at, but no where else. So it is better to omit the invalid ISBN, which does not help the reader, and provide the actually useful OCLC identifier(s). Rather than being a simple-minded WikiGnome I'll try to take the extra step and swap-out OCLCs for the ISBNs. Thanks for your comments. – S. Rich (talk) 19:42, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Srich32977, you opened a discussion about this on WT:ISBN, which is commendable. It's also clear at this point that the consensus is overwhelmingly against your viewpoint. Fourteen editors have commented in that discussion and not a single one agrees with you that hyphens should be removed from ISBNs. Any admin is going to view your continued edits to remove ISBNs after that discussion as disruptive and ignoring consensus. Are you really not going to stop until you get blocked? CodeTalker (talk) 17:46, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

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