User talk:MichaelMaggs

Micheal: Thanks for your correction on the plot summary;

I have tried to incorporate the key points int the Character list - does that have a similar limit on length. otherwise I will see if I can rework the plot summary to remove the clear errors on the legal context. Which is important as one of the major themes of the boo - and which Emily Bronte took very considerable pains in getting right. TomHennell (talk) 23:35, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Have now done so; wordcount is the same as before. TomHennell (talk) 14:17, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Looking good. (Many of Jane Austen's books could do with something similar!) MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:43, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Much appreciated; and yes, Jane Austen also has (from the force of her personal experience) a considerable expertise in Early Modern land law; as does George Eliot. Whereas the plot of Trollope's 'Orley Farm' is reported to be catastrophically undermined by his legal sloppishness. TomHennell (talk) 12:38, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Do you have the means to rescan this at a higher resolution? I'd like to restore it, and it would be easier to work with a higher-res version. Cheers! JayCubby 18:14, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

I don't have a better copy myself, but I can certainly email the owner of the original photo to ask if he'll do us a higher resolution scan. MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:14, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

I've sent you a high resolution scan by email. MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:11, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

@MichaelMaggs, thank you! Could you please upload it to a file host like https://catbox.moe/ or similar? My associated email is my name. Thanks! JayCubby 18:19, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

I'm actually going to re-check with the owner, as the size of the image I've received is still much smaller than I'd expect from a 600dpi scan. I suspect it's somehow been compressed. MichaelMaggs (talk) MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:28, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Probably needs a setting tweaked on the scanner. The owner promises me he'll have another go at this after Christmas. MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:54, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Wonderful! JayCubby 19:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

MichaelMaggs,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Volten001 ^☎ 03:28, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Happy New Year to you too! MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:17, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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Volten001 ^☎ 03:28, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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Agree that the newly-uploaded image is better. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:17, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

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No objection to deletion, as other PD images covering that date period have since become available. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:20, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello Mr Maggs. I am not sure what source I can add to The Ton article when I was removing sections that several experts in the Talk section had agreed were misleading.

Thanks for your efforts. If you are able to find reliable sources that say something different the article can be changed. I'm afraid that no matter how knowledgeable our experts may be, we do always need cite reliable written sources as required by WP:RS. One of those mentioned on the talk page may perhaps be of help, if you have access to it. MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:42, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi there. I notice you are amending short descriptions for British television films. Could you be consistent with including dates? For example, The Turn of the Screw (2009 film), The Dead Room (2018 film), Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968 film) and Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010 film) (these two now have the same description), etc. Thanks. Masato.harada (talk) 09:47, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

They all look correct, I think. Generally a date is included in the SD for films, except where the title already includes the date - in which case it's not repeated per WP:SDDUPLICATE, 5th bullet point. It's fine, and common, for several films to have the same SD. Where film titles already include a date, the SD only needs to disambiguate the original story, not between the films. MichaelMaggs (talk) 10:42, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello. I have seen you changed some short descriptions, changing WWE to World Wrestling Entertainment. Are you sure? Maybe, you don't know, but since 2011, the promotion the name to World Wrestling Entertainment to WWE, an orphan initialism. HHH Pedrigree (talk) 09:20, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for letting me know; I wasn't aware of that. If in the circumstances you and other active editors in this field feel strongly that "World Wrestling Entertainment event" isn't quite right and should be replaced with something lower-case and entirely descriptive such as "World wrestling entertainment event", or similar, I'd be willing to re-do all the short descriptions with an alternative consensus wording. MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Why would you take the name and just lowercase it? That doesn't make sense. It should retain "WWE". JDC808 ♫ 01:44, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi, the intent is to replace the term "WWE", which won't mean anything to many of our readers worldwide, with a description that clearly indicates the article is about wrestling. "WWE" fails WP:SDAVOID, as meaningful only to readers who already know of the wrestling promotion company. A good short description should "use simple, readily comprehensible terms that do not require pre-existing detailed knowledge of the subject". MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:05, 6 February 2026

Quick facts Three years! ...

Precious

Three years!

Close

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:39, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:08, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi. Not sure if this was a script failure, but your edit to The Gentleman's Magazine this morning updated the datestamp of the British English template to March 2026 without changing any spellings, when there were (at least according to the dictionary that User:Ohconfucius/EngvarB uses) a couple of words that should have been changed. Belbury (talk) 10:28, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I wasn't using that script or checking spellings, I was just replacing the deprecated EngvarB template. MichaelMaggs (talk) 10:34, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, right. Should you be changing the date when doing that? I thought the date field was meant to track when the article was last checked for spelling - that if it's a decade ago, it probably needs another sweep by now. Belbury (talk) 11:27, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. Over the last couple of days I've just been updating the date to reflect the date of change to the Use British English template, but having just re-read the template instructions it seems you're right and that a date change really calls for a full spelling review at the same time. I'll have a look at the User:Ohconfucius/EngvarB tool and see what I can do. Unfortunately, the talk page suggests there's a long-standing bug which (sometimes?) ignores WP:ORDER and puts the English variant template right at the top of the page, above Short description . That's definitely to be avoided. MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:41, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction to my edit to Murder Must Advertise and for not reversing (at present anyway) my deletion of the character list. I've been wondering whether it might be worth discussing inclusion or deletion of such lists as a matter of policy on a talk page somewhere. Personally, I think there might be more useful approaches that might be applicable to MOS:Novels. Would you be up for that? Sweetpool50 (talk) 12:23, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for commenting here. I'm on holiday and don't have too much time just at the moment, but I do agree that it would be very worthwhile to have a community discussion on the current text of MOS:CHARACTERS. It hasn't been reviewed in quite some time and no longer seems very well aligned with accepted practice. If you're available, perhaps we could tackle that on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Novels when I'm back, in early April? In the meantime, I'm afaid I am going to have to reverse your second deletion of the Characters section in Murder Must Advertise; per WP:BRD, that should have gone to a talk page discussion when I reverted your initial bold edit, rather than being deleted again. MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:55, 14 March 2026 (UTC)