User talk:Xsharpeconrad

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Happy editing! Mattythewhite (talk) 18:59, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

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I absolutely agree with your assessment, sources on basic phonology have no place in articles on individuals or places etc., but if the pronunciation of a certain term is contested, of course it may be necessary to provide a reference for the pronunciation given. This is especially the case for proper names, i.e. placenames or personal names, as in many languages the correct pronunciation of a proper name can not necessarily be derived from the spelling of the name and general knowledge of the language's phonology. --dab (𒁳) 11:57, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

I apologise, but I am not willing to conduct a discussion on vanilla Wikipedia best practices via e-mail. It may be different if the topic is more sensitive, or if you were an established user I have had extensive interaction with. Fwiiw, I generally agree with your position, but that is of little value if you fail to get consensus to keep your preferred version. Sometimes the dynamics of Wikipedia results in dodgy articles, with lots of accommodation to just to appease the angry and clueless. This isn't too bad in itself as long as the important information is still there. Sometimes you just need to pick your battles, and I have learned it isn't worth your time to campaign over some detail that will be gone again as soon as you don't watch the page for a week.

The approach has served Wikipedia well for over a decade. It is now broken, but that is a consequence of the historical processes that appear to have taken hold of America as a whole, and there is no way to avoid them other than by forking the project and in doing so abandoning pretty much every advantage of Wikipedia along with its disadvantages. I do think that Wikipedia will historically be seen as an important facet of the culture of the 2000s and early 2010s. Fortunately, the full edit history is preserved, and we will always be able to go back to a version when the project was in its prime. --dab (𒁳) 05:44, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Restoration of a clearly unreliable source
Please be more careful when reverting IP edits, as you did here, restoring a source that doesn't come close to meeting WP:RS standards. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:34, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

I don't respond to emails
Use my talk page, please. OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:13, 7 May 2021 (UTC)