User talk:Wikievil666

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Maya Angelou
Hi Wikievil, welcome to Wikipedia.

I "reverted" some of your edits to Dr. Angelou's bio. I think that I explained them in the edit summaries. Please don't give up on this article! I totally agree that it's a mess. I've taken all all of Angelou's articles (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a FA), and I could use all the help I can get! I've been slowly improving this one, but it's taken a long while because I feel like I need to read all six of her autobiographies and create their articles before I can really do this justice. I've just completed her fourth, Heart of a Woman, but my RL responsibilities and other WP commitments have gotten in the way. I'm so lucky that there is no deadline in WP. I also know that this article is in dire need of a good copyedit. I welcome you doing just that. Thanks for the editing you've done so far, and may you have loads of fun here. --Christine (talk) 17:59, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Steam engine
Hi. The term 'rotative' is correct when describing these types of engine and is in widespread use. 'Rotary' is incorrect. (Another editor has already reverted this change before I could!) However, you may have a point that the term 'rotative' could be considered jargon and needs describing on its first use in an article, and/or linking to a section of beam engine maybe. I'll make a note in my ToDo list... -- EdJogg (talk) 09:47, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Nice.
Good work on the Orson Welles article. We could use your help with the one on Stanley Kubrick.--WickerGuy (talk) 13:47, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * When I saw all of your edits in the history just now, I thought, "Who is butchering the Kubrick article?" But looking at them closely, I have to say I'm impressed.  We need more editors with actual "editing" skills; nicely done. — Satori Son 23:41, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Minor edits
Hi! It looks like you've done some great work on WP over the years but I'm curious as to why you almost always mark the edits as minor. You may not be aware but the edits you're making aren't always "minor" as defined at Help:Minor edit. The "nutshell" portion at the top of the article summarizes what Wikipedia (or more exactly, its editors) considers a minor edit. Some people consider it "poor etiquette" as it's described in Help:Minor edit. It doesn't particularly bother me but apparently can throw off some bots, filters, and watchlists which is considerably more important than etiquette, in my opinion.  Ol Yeller21 Talktome  01:04, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

WP:User page
You might consider adding something (anything) to your user page. It will get the red out of your edit summaries. Happy editing. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

1960 World Series
"Plated" is baseball talk for "scored", not "hit". It's a slangy way of saying "touched home plate". However, because it's slang, you were right to change it, just not for the right reason. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:04, 9 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hmm... Kinda thought a batter COULD actually hit homers. Oh, I see... gotta add this --> Wikievil666 (talk) 12:15, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * "Plated" means "scored", or "drove in runs", not necessarily "hit home runs". It may be worth pointing out that "plate" itself is a widely used slang term. The rules book calls it "home base". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:19, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I know of home plate, but never heard the verb "to plate". I've only been a baseball fan for 50 years. If I understand correctly, the runner can plate, the batter can plate himself if he hits a homer, and the batter can plate a runner (RBI). In that sense, both runner and batter plate the same run in the case of an RBI. Is that correct? Wikievil666 (talk) 13:14, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * That's one way to look at it. I think of it primarily as just a different way to say "scored". I don't know that I've ever actually heard it said out loud. It's something writers might do (or might have done, some decades ago) as a way to vary things. Like saying "tallied" or whatever. In any case, I agree that it doesn't belong in the article, as a casual reader might say "Huh?". "Scored" does quite nicely. As per your original change, it would be fair to say that the World Series trophy might well be "plated". :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:47, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

The dog biscuit under the sofa?
I'm sure we all knew about the spinning plates on sticks. But the dogs - that's quite a revelation! lol. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

ISIS
There was a very good reason for an editor including the words about the name being similar to calling the United States "the States". It was because readers might be confused about why, if one of the group's former names was "the Islamic State", it apparently chose the same name again some years later, when it announced itself as "the Islamic State" in June this year, but giving the impression that it was a new name. See here, paras 1 and 3. Cheers. --P123ct1 (talk) 14:44, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

December 2014
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Canterbury, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  11:45, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Not sure if you realize but you'd blanked an entire article - I've struck the warning seeing as you've been here since 2009 so assuming it was a complete mistake?, Cheers, – Davey 2010  •  (talk)  11:48, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Why
are you "sure" that the guitar is not by Ron Adamson? Carptrash (talk) 17:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

April 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Wikievil666", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is a disruptive or offensive username that references the number of the beast. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. –Chase (talk / contribs) 18:33, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * @Chasewc91 too bad, it's been fine for the last seven years :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.139.189 (talk) 08:30, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

"However"
Per Oxford Dictionary: "Used to introduce a statement that contrasts with or seems to contradict something that has been said previously: People tend to put on weight in middle age. However, gaining weight is not inevitable" Mutt Lunker (talk) 16:57, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Machines
Hi, You've made some recent edits asserting that anything that lacks a motor should not be described as a machine.

This is incorrect. An electrical or electronic device can quite accurately be described as a machine, because it does work. A lightbulb is a machine. A computer is a machine. Taken at the strictest definition even a wheelbarrow, crowbar or screw is a machine.

Please have a read of Machine. 2p0rk (talk) 10:35, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

However, we do use commas when...
However is a common introductory word...you can use it however you want. However, when it is an introductory word, use the comma. Atsme 📞📧 03:36, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

What part of speech is "introductory word"? Read this (https://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#3), written before the like, modern degradation of our like, language. "Just saying". Any word or even fake-word can be used for anything one wants, if we have no language rules. I have found that almost 100% of Wikipedia authors can never accept any edit. Rather than examine their odd use of language, they simply bristle up and kick away the logical edit.

Liberty Bell
Inn yore laudable haste 2 save us from the whiches, U seem two have copyedited too quotations, the phrasing of witch, regrettably, we R stuck withe.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:41, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Stachys affinis
Hi there

we are a group of agronomy students and want to improve the article about Stachys affinis you lately edited. We will update the improvements in the following days and hope you can enjoy the reading.

Best, Üblesache — Preceding unsigned comment added by Üblesache (talk • contribs) 15:37, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

March 2019
Hello, I'm Kautilya3. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Caste system in India, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Kautilya3 (talk) 19:54, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... How do I indicate an error for a reference given in an article? The reference has nothing at all related to the statement in the article.

Wikievil666 (talk) 21:26, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * If that is clearly true then remove the false "reference", with an edit summary explaining why. If you think that the situation is not straightforward enough for you to just do that, you can post a message on the article talk page explaining your reason for not accepting the reference. If you want more specific advice about this particular case, then post another help request, but this time say what reference on what article you have in mind. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:58, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Do not mark major edits as minor
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. —J. M. (talk) 04:11, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

But however you look at it
| however's page in wiktionary

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Cuisine of Chinese Muslims


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Edit summary on Ken Oringer
They can definitely be singular. Example, as in when the gender of a person is not mentioned, instead of using he or she you use they. I am going to visit my cousin for the holidays  Because they live 500 miles away, I will fly to their house.

one cousin, not said I’d it is a he or she  So they and their is correct BostonMensa (talk) 15:16, 22 September 2022 (UTC)