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Hi, Anita. Your thanks prompted me to go back and think again about the edit in question, and I was prompted to wonder why on earth anyone who says they are a PhD student in mathematics would think that associativity of matrix multiplication depends on commutativity in the underlying ring. A few seconds' thought about it shows that it doesn't. JBW ( talk) 18:57, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
I was baffled about your recent edit warring in Talk:Story structure, would you mind terribly explaining an edit like Special:Diff/1166966831 in relation to BRD and AATP? Sam Sailor 02:32, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Why remove perfectly good code just because it hadn't been used yet?First of all, the code is bad, it is not good, Anita. A user named KimYunmi in their second-ever move moved Narrative structure to Story structure without paying attention to WP:POSTMOVE, leaving the "good code" to point, erroneously, to Talk:Narrative structure/Archive.
your reason for reverting it? AryanpateI ( talk) 08:52, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
Sorry for the edit mistake.
Bearian (
talk) 13:27, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
Re the edit summary in your revert [1]:
The source quotes Lucas at times, certainly, but not this quote ("decided that the Force could be intensified through the possession of a mystical Kiber Crystal [sic]—Lucas's first, but by no means last, great MacGuffin."). This is the book's author, as evidenced by his referring to Lucas in the third person.
The book as a whole is about the saga in general, but this passage is about an early draft of the first movie as it gradually evolved into "Star Wars". The crystals are not in the movies. That's what's misleading. Also misleading is "Lucas's first, but by no means last, great MacGuffin," which is the author being tongue in cheek. It was Lucas's first great MacGuffin, but audiences never saw it. Dan Bloch ( talk) 19:30, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you for your recent talk message about my edits to Climax (narrative). I agree with you that my changes would have been improved by summaries. In fact, on review of WP:ES, it seems that it was contrary to policy of me to omit a summary for my first edit. However, the policy clearly also states, "Editors should not revert an otherwise good edit because of a missing or confusing edit summary; good editors may simply have forgotten..." The policy goes on to state that reversion without review is understandable (if still improper) for unsummarized "substantial" edits, but my edits were not substantial under the provided definition.
Since I'm going to revert your reverts, I should explain the reasoning for my original edits:
Because my second edit removed a misplaced comma, it did not need a summary under policy, though I understand that I should have provided one there too.
Finally, while I understand that your message to my talk page was likely automated, it would be more polite for it to explicitly call out the reversion. On its surface, your message appears to be merely offering me constructive feedback on my edit, while in actuality it is an administrative notice justifying a reversal.
I've been editing Wikipedia lately without logging in, mostly due to laziness. Since my edits seem to be treated quite differently without my credential, I'll try to avoid being logged out in the future. Unfortunately, logging in to reverse this edit would have the effect of publicly associating my IP address with my account, which is undesirable. 74.101.159.213 ( talk) 00:12, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Anita. In this edit you linked to the article Zero. Why was that? It looks to me very much like overlinking, as I would think it easily falls into the category "Everyday words understood by most readers in context", and I don't see anything in the linked article which anyone is likely to need to look up in order to understand the text from which you linked. JBW ( talk) 10:47, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Anita, I need your help very much. I have a draft, Fabien Vienne, i have many problems at references. some peoples give me some references, but idk how to do it. Please help. The references links in here [2]. Bera678 ( talk) 18:53, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
I give reference I explain my modification and you erased it for no reason even you can see that the version of Spanish have it look https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial#Soluci%C3%B3n_n%C3%BAmero_negativo_factorial
Arrobaman ( talk) 23:00, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Anita, I just noticed this revert. Of course I agree that a period after an exclamation point is incorrect, but the '!' character in the factorial expression n! is not a punctuation mark here. All authors that I know of, write the period in sentences that end with such an expression. See for instance
I can show a gazillion of such examples if you like . So I have undone your revert. Cheers - DVdm ( talk) 21:54, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Anita, thanks for your continued maintenance of Moore–Penrose_inverse. In Special:Diff/1193373705 you removed unnecessary spaces. I agree that trailing spaces are bad, so thank you for removing those.
However, I see a lot of value in leading spaces used for indentation. While they are unnecessary for the MediaWiki parser, they are not redundant for us human editors. They clarify the structure and make it easier to parse multi-line expressions, making it easier to maintain articles. Imagine having to maintain computer program source code where all indentation was removed.
For similar reasons, I also see some value in spaces inside of XML tags and sometimes parentheses. They simply make it easier to see the math and ignore the markup.
What do you think? RainerBlome ( talk) 15:16, 12 January 2024 (UTC)