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Happy editing! ChromeGames923 ( talk · contribs) 00:03, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Croftmire,
Welcome to Wikipedia. Nice work on things like catching grammar errors (e.g. "the the") or adjusting capitalization or the like. However, some of the changes in your recent edits don't seem to be actually adding value. Notably, I see you're also removing double spaces (a style that is harmless and allowed) and "fixing" redirects. Please read WP:NOTBROKEN: there's no need to change links to from a redirect to the target directly, barring certain rare cases (e.g. a misleading or misspelled redirect, or article moves that have left the redirect ambiguous). Not sure if you're using a script to do this or just doing it manually, but it's usually just churn that doesn't add value and can obscure the relevant changes to an article. SnowFire ( talk) 17:57, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Croftmire,
I notice that in several of your edits, for example on
today's featured article, you removed nonbreaking space code ({{
nbsp}}
, {{
nowrap}}
, {{
nobreak}}
, or
, to name a few examples of what you might find on Wikipedia) in the name of "removing nonessential characters".
Nonbreaking spaces are quite essential; they serve an important purpose in that they prevent a phrase from being separated into two pieces from a line break. Common items that need a nonbreaking space are the units following a number (e.g. 40 USD
), AM and PM after times, the days of dates (e.g. 7 August 2021
) and names that include small suffixes (e.g. Henry IV
, Martin Luther King Jr.
).
I manually reverted your changes to the Henry IV article with respect to nonbreaking space code. Please refer to MOS:NBSP, and in the future, I suggest to leave the nonbreaking space code you encounter alone. Thanks. Thrakkx ( talk) 03:25, 7 August 2021 (UTC)