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Thank you for quality articles on images and presenting yourself by images, for starting Lost on the Grand Banks and drafting Hermann Conring, for starting with Swedish bands, adding scientists such William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, and uploading featured images, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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A year ago, you were the 1014th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:09, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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Happy Halloween!

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George Orwell bibliography

Thanks Your edits have been great! I didn't know about Penguin's expanded edition of those four works, so I'll have to find them at the library. (If you respond, please use {{ping}} to let me know.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:21, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Copy edit done

Hi. Just to let you know I've done the copy edit you requested at the GOCE page. Hope it's all right. Nice article. Regards, --Stfg (talk) 21:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Great job. Thank you very much for doing it so quickly. P. S. Burton (talk) 22:49, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

List of Adolf Hitler's adjutants

If you could be so kind to crop the watermarks and frame of all the images in the article I would be most grateful. Best, Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 18:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 edits

Thank you very much for your copyedits to this article. AHeneen (talk) 19:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

James Hanley

I have made a comment on the Talk page for JH. Rwood128 (talk) 18:37, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Texas Revolution

The Reviewer Barnstar
Thank you for your incredibly detailed review of Texas Revolution. That's the most thorough review one of my articles has ever had, and I very much appreciate your efforts to improve the article. Karanacs (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Berkhamsted

Many thanks for copy editing and other improvements to this page. -- BOD -- 23:34, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Audie Murphy is a Featured Topic, which I'm sure you know. Would have appreciated something on my talk page about the notes revision. It didn't add anything to the article. It didn't do any harm, either. Your style versus anyone else's, which means it wasn't that necessary. However, since it's done no harm, I'm not going to revert any of it. But next time you do that on something that is GA, FA, FLC and FT, it would be courteous to discuss it with the person did the majority of the work in the first place. Thanks. — Maile (talk) 21:33, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

@Maile66: I did not think I had to ask permission to make such a minor and uncontroversial change. The usual form is either "notes" or "nb". I have never before seen anyone name the notes after the subject's initials, either here or in works outside Wikipedia. P. S. Burton (talk) 01:31, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Sleeping Illness

i have been working on the sleeping illness page. I have had a lot of other information on it but someone keeps deleting my information and putting back less information. There is a lot of information on this illness. Srhesler29 (talk) 16:42, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Contractions

MOS:CONTRACTION applies only to articles, not talk pages or project space, so please cut it out. EEng (talk) 17:52, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

  • How can we expect user to follow the manual of style when writing articles if it is not also used on the rest of Wikipedia? The best way to make sure the style guide is followed is to apply it consequently. I see no point in arguing over these minor corrections. P. S. Burton (talk) 17:56, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
It's well established that MOS applies only to articles, not discussions, guidelines, policies, or anything else. And as CONTRACTION enjoins, even where a contraction is undesirable, robotically expanding them, instead of considering the sentence as a whole, is a bad idea. This kind of mass-application of non-rule "rules" benefits Wikipedia not at all, well-intentioned though it may be. Your changes have been reverted, so take it to the respective talk pages if you think they're important enough. Or, open a discussion at Talk:MOS to see if others share your idea that MOS applies outside of articles. EEng (talk) 18:03, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
I agree with EEng. That is a content policy, covering the encylopaedic tone of our articles. It not only does not apply to policy pages but by changing the tone you are changing the policy pages so they read more formally. If an editor has chosen to use a contraction to e.g. soften the tone then that should not be modified without good reason. And a policy that applies only to articles is not a good reason.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 18:22, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Ok, I disagree. I find the current mixture of "do not "and "don't" etc. quite erratic and think the pages should settle on one consequent style instead of mixing both. But I concur with the apparent consensus and will not attempt to revert again. P. S. Burton (talk) 22:40, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of Charles Gravier

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Shitburger AfD

Hello! I am continuing to find and make improvements to this encyclopedia article. Since it is considered poor form to canvass for votes (or, I presume, revotes), I would ask only that you revisit the article. Cheers! —ATinySliver/ATalkPage 20:53, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi ATinySliver. I have seen the recent work on the article and I do not want to sound harsh, but I am sorry to say that it still only contains the dictionary definition of the term and some some non-notable trivia on its usage, such as "someone said it on a talk show" or "someone used the term in a book". Sorry. P. S. Burton (talk) 21:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Okay. Thanks for your attention. —ATinySliver/ATalkPage 21:02, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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Askey

After glancing at this website, I get the feeling Askey's books are good enough for use on Wikipedia. What's your take on it? Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 13:43, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Jonas Vinther. I don't know. It would of course be better if the same information could be found in a work by a proper historian, but perhaps this review in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies means that his books can be used:

These books are an extremely useful resource to military historians seeking detailed assessments of the armed forces on the Russian Front in 1941. They are based on extensive archival research, and provide a level of detail far beyond that found in conventional military histories. Even for Russian Front specialists, they provide a valuable synthesis of data that is otherwise scattered through specialist studies and archival resources. While they are of special interest to readers interested in military simulation and analysis, they offer an unprecedented data-base for military historians studying the 1941 Barbarossa campaign.

However, I am no expert on the matter, so I would suggest that you ask for other editors opinions at the talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history. Cheers. P. S. Burton (talk) 13:58, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Ike Altgens

Interesting ... apparently the standard has changed; broadcast quotes used to be italicized. In any event, thank you, and I'll check others on my watchlist as well. —ATinySliver/ATalkPage 02:23, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Graphics Lab request update

I attempted to complete the request you made at the Graphics Lab, but have ended up making rather large alterations to the file under-the-hood. If you're able to look over it and see if I've removed/altered anything that I shouldn't have, or indeed if I've missed any of the necessary text changes, that would be great, although you should now be able to make text changes yourself using a simple text editor; just download it and scroll to the end of the file where they're all stored between <text> or <tspan> tags. NikNaks talk - gallery 16:01, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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Kind Sir, could you be so kind to crop the watermark and frame of this File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1985-1205-502, Nürnberg, Luitpoldhalle, Reichsparteitag.jpg. Would really appreciate that. Regards, Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 14:48, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

 Done :) P. S. Burton (talk) 15:09, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Vielen dank. :) Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 16:37, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Please crop this image as well :)

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 151-53-30A, Volksgerichtshof, Carl Wentzel.jpg. Best, Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 14:29, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi. @Jonas Vinther:. Sorry for the delay, the image is now cropped. P. S. Burton (talk) 16:37, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

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A bowl of strawberries for you!

I must say, what a joy it is to stumble upon a Swedish editor who, not only have a good grasp of the English language, but also references the articles they create in an impeccable way. w.carter-Talk 09:15, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I really like your article on John Bauer. P. S. Burton (talk) 17:39, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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