User talk:Piperium

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Hello, Piperium,

Please do not tag draft articles and sandboxes too early for CSD G13. You tagged this draft too early but I deleted it any way. Another admin would probably have removed the tag and we would have waited another 6 months for an opportunity to delete the page. We have a bot that lists drafts as soon as they are eligible so the likelihood of you coming across a draft ready to be tagged that the bot hasn't listed is very small. Thank you for your contributions. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:26, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

For example, here is a report from one of the bots that track CSD G13s, User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon so you can see what we work with. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:29, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

Oh wow, thank you for that page :)

And yes, I definitely was a bit early with the G13—I had misread the timestamp :(

Thanks again! from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 08:19, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

I have started a section at Talk:PwC#Controversies section again. Please feel free to comment. Thanks. Dormskirk (talk) 16:39, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

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Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Memorial service of Charlie Kirk. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. You technically did it twice. Tankishguy :)(: (talk) 01:31, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Ref your edit to ASCII, perhaps you are not aware of {{snd}}? This ensures that there is never a line break between the endash and the phrase that precedes it. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:48, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I noticed you went and changed every single instance of Spring/Summer or Fall/Winter in the leads of McQueen articles to use dashes instead of slashes. This is incorrect styling (the vast majority of fashion publications style the seasons with a slash) and inconsistent with the usage in the rest of each article. When making wide-scale changes like this, it might be better to check first to ensure you're not inserting an error in multiple FAs. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:31, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Well, I guess we oughta make our own publications. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 02:43, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for replying to the substance of what I was saying, I really appreciate it. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:48, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

At least I didn't abuse it.

Seriously, though, I would like to apologise for my mass silliness, and would like to present the idea of corrective measures for each article.

Thank you. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 09:55, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Post-midnight Calculus, I have rectified remnants of erroneous styling, namely on Highland Rape, Dante, and It's a Jungle Out There.

Thank you, good night, God bless. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 10:01, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for getting those, I forgot to grab the ones I didn't write :P Cheers. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 10:10, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I undid your edit here as it was not an improvement to the article. British English does not use commas the same way as some other dialects, nor does it use false titles. Please continue to care about formatting but please remember that different dialects use it differently. John (talk) 20:50, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Had no idea what a false title was until looking it up. I furthermore have since noticed that the article uses British English instead of General American. Thank you for your clarification from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 00:11, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. However using a library picture of Death visiting an old man conveys very little. And what it does convey may not be what you wanted to say. Words are also hard, but they are much clearer than selecting a library picture. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 11:57, 31 October 2025 (UTC).

I've moved this to main space. Congratulations! All the best: Rich Farmbrough 18:34, 1 November 2025 (UTC).

THANK YOU RICH YOU ARE A LEGEND it has frequently come to pass that i peruse your page and see your contributions and yeah you're a legend mate thank YOU!!!! from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 02:20, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

hello there

You added a comma after the date in the following sentence in the lead: "On 14 February 1779 British explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui)." I reverted this because in British English a comma is not usual after a short introductory phrase of time or place. See New Hart's Rules p 69 and other major style guides written in the past 30 years. US English uses commas after dates and most introductory phrases, but this article is written in British English. See also the article on James Cook. Happy to discuss on the article talk page but you will need a very broad consensus to change the English variation. Thanks Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 12:04, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Excerpt from the article

In January 1778, during his third Pacific voyage, Cook had become the first known European to visit the Hawaiian Islands.

This is below the sentence you're talking about—why is it used here but not above? from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 00:43, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Because in this instance a pair of commas enclose the parenthetical phrase "during his third Pacific voyage". The sentence makes perfect sense without the parenthetical phrase but the enclosed phrase gives us a little more information. The phrase could also be marked off by a pair of en-dashes, but commas imply a closer relationship between the parenthetical phrase and the rest of the sentence. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 03:09, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

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Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia, and articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Baccarat. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, please use your sandbox instead, where you are given a certain degree of freedom in what you write. Not helpful to link to the 6-7 meme when the 6 and 7 cards happen to be mentioned. Belbury (talk) 23:22, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Belbury for the incredible gloss at the end :) (i.e. "Not helpful to link to the 6-7 meme when the 6 and 7 cards happen to be mentioned.") from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 23:24, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Okay. Don't use a WP:BADSUMMARY of "ce" when adding a joke link, either. Thanks. Belbury (talk) 23:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, as you did at Polybius (urban legend), you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Aoidh (talk) 16:38, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

wait what? from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 14:57, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

new response:
from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 14:59, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm referring to this edit summary. - Aoidh (talk) 16:36, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I actually came here after seeing the same edit summary. The revert doesn't even change {{Use American English}}, so it doesn't affect the article. Even if it was a visible change to the article though, it still wouldn't help anybody to insult other editors involved (WP:BRIE). Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 17:42, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Would using langx be better? You may want to chime in on the appropriate discussion at WT:FRAT. Naraht (talk) 16:03, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

i have no idea how to use langx from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 16:10, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

I think your edit summary got cut off - could you explain your rationale for this? Nikkimaria (talk) 01:35, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I was about 5 seconds away from reverting it because someone else has removed your contribution earlier today and it's technically considered an edit war. Will revert to your revision.

My summary would've been something attacking RSP because it is apparently protecting some publications over others, but that's probably not the case. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 01:36, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello, you recently changed the title of the page "Parsley massacre" in order to italicize "parsley". I don't see why parsley should be italicized, I understand that it's referring to the fact that parsley was a spoken shibboleth, but it is not so referred in most sources. Listing the first non-Wikipedia sites that show up on my Google search, Zinn History Project, NPR, UC Berkeley, BBC, Britannica, all render it without italics, along with Haitian Times, IPAHP, and so on. The term doesn't get a lot of use in academic sources, being apocryphal (that's a whole other can of worms), but I certainly don't see the italicized version used anywhere in popular sources.

Considering that Wikipedia is meant to represent your personal feelings on the rendering of a widely used name, I hope that you change the name back to the non-italicized version. I would've done it myself, but don't know how, and hope you see where I'm coming from. I'll add that this page move obviously wasn't uncontroversial, and thus should've been discussed in requested moves. Theodore Christopher (talk) 20:23, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Main addenda

1. Changing the rendering of a title is not changing the title; the former is done via templates.
2. You are correct—it was a spoken shibboleth, which can qualify it for MOS:WAW, which is why I changed it.
3. Zinn, NPR, UC, BBC, and Britannica do not follow Wikipedia's style guides—nor do we follow theirs.
4. I don't know when I moved the page? It doesn't show in the move logs...
5. Feel free to change it back—I don't care about this article; merely, I changed it to what I thought was correct at the time (and still do) and, when I do that, usually don't care if someone reverts it (they more than likely know better than I do—you likely do, too).

Summary

MOS:WAW is the primary reason; it reduces ambiguity between murdering a herb (Parsley massacre) and murdering arising from the name of a herb (Parsley massacre).

Final notes

God bless. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 11:53, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

OK! I changed it back. Just didn't know how the italic string worked, which is why I budged in here in the first place. Pretty confident that no one is walking away from the article thinking that personified herbs were being murdered. Theodore Christopher (talk) 17:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Main comments

Thanks!

Summary

Piperium expresses gratitude.

Final notes
from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 14:55, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

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