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Peaceray ( talk) 01:21, 3 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Hi. I noticed that you are changing many short descriptions from "Manhattan, New York" to "Manhattan, New York City", like you did here and here. I would not mind if you were making these changes anywhere else in the article.

However, for short descriptions, this is problematic because the word "City" does not add any information. According to our information page about short descriptions, short descriptions should be short – no longer than is needed to fulfill its functions effectively. The name "New York" in "Manhattan, New York" is typically sufficient to refer to both the city and the state. Additionally, the extra word might actually not appear at all for some readers. This page also states that over 80% of short descriptions are no longer than 40 characters and that Short descriptions exceeding 40 characters may be truncated in some contexts. The short description Commercial building in Manhattan, New York is already 42 characters long, and adding "City" and a space brings that total to 47 characters.

In summary, changing "Manhattan, New York" to "Manhattan, New York City" in short descriptions may not actually help the reader. In some cases, you can trim the short description to less than 40 characters by replacing "Manhattan, New York" with "New York City". However, changing it to "Manhattan, New York City" is generally unnecessary, as the word "City" is redundant in context. Thank you. Epicgenius ( talk) 13:38, 4 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Hi Millerelijah! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at WMCA (AM) that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. BlueboyLINY ( talk) 08:05, 26 August 2023 (UTC) reply