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Why are you adding this template to the articles where there is no such citation. If you continue, your edits would be problematic for you Egeymi ( talk) 09:54, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks and sorry if I've done this wrong I don't know how Wikipedia really works. FinstaWiki ( talk) 10:39, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, Jlwoodwa,
Please do not be moving other editor's User pages around. You made some pretty obvious mistakes. And you are still an inexperienced editors, learning about Wikipedia policies and practices. Above all, I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate another editor coming into your User space, messing around with your pages. This is true even if an editor isn't currently active. There are just so many other, more productive uses of your time, becoming a better editor, than going through other editors' User pages. Please stick with improving articles or learning about counter-vandalism. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:42, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hey, I saw you added {{ R cat shell}} on its own at Milton Sirotta, with the edit summary of "+rcat shell". Unless your goal was to leave it for another editor to categorize, this shouldn't be done; redirect pages don't need to be categorized or have {{ R cat shell}}. In general, if you're going to add it to more articles, I would recommend actually trying to categorize the articles yourself first before placing it and leaving it in Category:Miscellaneous redirects, as most aren't that hard to categorize ( WP:TMR is extremely helpful for this). If you don't think there's a suitable category, don't add the template. Cheers. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 07:23, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
The redirect William Herbert Hobbs Distinguished Professor of Geography has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 23 § William Herbert Hobbs Distinguished Professor of Geography until a consensus is reached. Hey man im josh ( talk) 15:57, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi there, thanks for the changes you made to the Olssen article. I am confused as to why or how you linked all authors, so now many of them show as red in the references because they don't have wikipedia pages. Are you able to look at this please. Realitylink ( talk) 01:11, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Just a question as I do not understand it. Why is the hatnote about American county seats inappropriate at County town? The Banner talk 09:40, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
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Create red links whenever a non-existent article with more information would help a reader understand the content of the article in which the red link will appear. An easy example is a technical term that merits a treatment beyond its dictionary definition, to help support its role for its existing context.jlwoodwa ( talk) 22:36, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
A happy frog for you! | |
Thank you for creating various useful redirects. Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk 13:54, 16 July 2023 (UTC) |
Template:Initials has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:54, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
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Jlwoodwa, you're proding quite a lot of articles for obviously notable subjects that haven't/hadn't been sourced, e.g. Frederick Dunlap (American football). A more productive approach be to post of list of such BLP articles missing references at a relevant WikiProject, e.g. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football. I'd appreciate if you could slow down with the prods so we can catch up and get these articles sourced before any get deleted. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 23:18, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
[i]f there is any doubt to the applicability of this procedure to the article, then it is preferable to use another deletion process, so mea culpa.
Amidst some helpful changes to H. G. Wells, your edits changed DMY dates to YMD dates, which is contrary to the {{ Use dmy dates}} template that was in place, and contrary to WP:CITEVAR. The change also didn't modify the dates displayed in the article, so it was pointless. Equally pointless were your changes of page ranges in citation templates to use improper hyphens instead of the dashes that were present, per MOS:RANGE, and your lower-casing of template names. Please make changes that conform with WP:MOS and avoid making changes that are out of line with Wikipedia guidelines. There is a lot to learn here; please take some time to browse through MOS if you are going to make style-related changes. Happy editing! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 05:14, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Consistency ( MOS:DATEUNIFY): Each article should use either DMY or MDY consistently, except that in references, the format used by the citation style chosen for the article is used consistently. However, the only all-numeric style allowed in citations is YMD.
— WP:DATEOVER
Mr. Jlwoodwa would you elaborate why you find that the timeframe in which the observation of the muslces are irrelevant to the article? and why it is irrelevent for people to meet the concept: that what muscles we have have changed over time and will change over time, in a list of human muscles?
As well as why a
List of distinct cell types in the adult human body(as muscles are made from Cells)
Will likely not be of relevance to people looking at a list of muscles in the human body? Claes Lindhardt ( talk) 21:51, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
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...as you did with mine here is a breach of WP:TPO. Don't do it. I see you messed with a number of posts on that noticeboard not just mine and an editor has reverted you on all of them. If you do it again it will be a fast way to get blocked. DeCausa ( talk) 23:50, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi – because you recently added {{ Please check ISBN}} to a number of pages, I thought you might have something to contribute in this discussion I just started. Joriki ( talk) 20:35, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
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When you add a rating to WPBS (e.g. [1]), please could you remove the ratings from each individual banner? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:19, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
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The R from avoided redirect reads, "This is a redirect from an alternative title for I Am Become Christmas, another redirect to the same title . Because double redirects are disallowed, both pages currently point to Lemon Demon." My underlining. As Prelude to Presents is not an alternative title to I Am Become Christmas then the template is not to used in this instance. Perhaps you'd like to see Category:Avoided double redirects to see which of us is supported in our opinions.
I have no intention of reverting you at this stage, and have earlier today given a pass to other examples while I think about it. Perhaps you'd also like to think about it, perhaps ask the opinions of other editors. Let's see if we can agree. Thanks Richhoncho ( talk) 23:17, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Some redirects should target other redirects, but that is not allowed by Wikipedia software. A redirect that targets another redirect is called a " double redirect". This redirect category ( rcat) template may be used to tag redirects from alternative forms (abbreviations, disambiguated titles, etc.) of titles that are themselves redirects to broader-topic articles (whether or not marked as redirects with possibilities). To avoid a double redirect, any alternative-title redirect must also target the same broader article, and must be updated if the redirect from the more specific title is converted to a separate article.
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and I can fully support such action.
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only errors, mistakes, miscaps etc should be included? jlwoodwa ( talk) 18:26, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
group articles by status rather than subject. jlwoodwa ( talk) 20:06, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
alternative titlefor that taxon should be marked with {{ a2r}}: both because the redirect should be changed if the taxon is given its own article, and as a beneficial side effect, to guide editors to the canonical redirect. jlwoodwa ( talk) 20:16, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
When 2 or more articles have to be merged together, the editor who proposes the merge has to start a discussion about the merge on the talk page of at least one of the articles. Not doing so may delay the merge or lead to rejection of the proposal.
I have started the discussion on both the articles' talk pages.
Please always use WP:TWINKLE to create merge proposals, since it automatically starts the discussion, gives a textbox to add your reasons for the merge, and also gives an option to add the discussion to talk pages of some or all of the articles. — CrafterNova [ TALK ] [ CONT ] 11:12, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hey - I just processed a few of your recent reports at UAA. They weren't invalid - they were all policy violations - but I wanted to drop you a note about productive ways to spend your time. The accounts I looked at hadn't edited for months, even years. All their promotional contributions had already been deleted, they appeared to have given up, and in all likelihood they would never have edited again. In essence, I don't really know how you came across these accounts, but if you were spending time looking for them, please be advised that there isn't really any benefit to the project in chasing them down - your time is probably better spent elsewhere. Please take this in the spirit it is intended - I appreciate the efforts you've gone to, I'm just not sure that it's necessary here. Best wishes, Girth Summit (blether) 21:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, My watchlist is flowing over with your edits to talk pages marked "+wpbs". I take it that you are not aware that Cewbot is busy adding these "WikiProject banner shell" templates, so you don't have to waste time on that. However, at the same time you've been changing assessments. In one case, you re-assessed an article with an image, an infobox, multiple sections, 13 references, and one external link from "C-class" to stub, also adding a stub template to the article itself. I started going through your edits and reverted some, but there are way too many and would take me hours, so please have a look at our assessment criteria and then clean up this mess. Thanks! -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:13, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
The redirect Luigi board has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 February 13 § Luigi board until a consensus is reached. 2601:883:C383:6120:0:0:0:A59B ( talk) 02:06, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Template:IPAs has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nardog ( talk) 09:39, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, jlwoodwa,
You are tagging pages for "vandalism" that aren't obviously vandalism so I have reverted your edits. Please review WP:CSD, carefully, so you understand the criteria, intimately, when they apply and to which namespaces they apply to. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 06:55, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, how does This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations not cover unreferenced ? The eternal links can be considered as references Atlantic306 ( talk) 21:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Watch out for lists of general references that someone has incorrectly listed under
==External links==
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What is the utility to the Wikipedia project of putting "Old prod" templates onto talk pages? Especially for a decade-old discussion, already identified as a "prod" on the talk page. This is usueless page clutter and makes talk pages harder to read; it is as bad as all the bot chatter that used to litter talk pages. Heven forfend someone has a useful comment ona talk page, it wil be buried under all the pretty templates. Useless Wikwanking, I think. -- Wtshymanski ( talk) 23:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)