User talk:Rms125a@hotmail.com
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About Me
I realize that I have strong deletionist and immediatist instincts, which I will work to control. I have OCD which is why I often edit for MOS consistency, which can mean anything from dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy formatting to fixing or tagging barereflinks to removing or delinking (depending on the age and relative importance) of redlinks. Nobody said I was perfect. [email protected] 01:29, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for all your thank-you notices
Your notices help to keep me going and doing my small part in making Wikipedia an ever-improving public resource. Thanks! —Strudjum
Words of wisdom from a cherished source
- Robert - feel free to blank this again, as is your right, but can I just ask you to slow down for a minute and step back from this? You're fast approaching old territory again. I know you mean well here, and I've supported you in the past. Just ... chill, take it easy, and careful with the comments about others - Alison ❤ 22:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
DELETION OF INFOBOXES
I occasionally delete infoboxes from articles I have edited if the infobox in question is almost empty or otherwise of little or no utility, based on the following from WP:MOS (Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)): “The most important group to consider are the casual readers of Wikipedia, who will never do any significant editing. Infobox templates that contain many blank fields, question marks and unknowns present an unprofessional appearance, diminishing Wikipedia’s reputation as a high-quality encyclopedia.” [email protected] 01:28, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
- You could say the same thing about citation needed templates, or any other cleanup templates for that matter, but if I remember correctly, they're part of what got me to start editing in the first place. Is appearing good more important than actually being good? Benjamin (talk) 13:31, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Edna O'Brien Article
I removed the Philip Larkin quote from the Edna O'Brien because I felt it was very obtuse to content of the actual article. Yes, O'Brien "talked about sex" before the "sexual revolution" but despite how well-known the Philip Larkin poem is as pertaining to this period, it sounds absolutely obtuse to somebody who has not read the poem. While the reference is kind of funny, I strongly feel that Philip Larkin cannot be trust to be some sort of Dionysius Exiguus as to precisely dating the "sexual revolution", unless of course you know of a case where O'Brien mentions the situation herself, as pertaining to the line of the poem. As it stands, Larkin seems to have said nothing about Edna O'Brien's career directly, (and she seems to have said nothing about his. Robinson, Roth, O'Hagan and the others are specifically talking about her career. The fact that Larkin is mentioned at all is because some genius at the Telegraph wanted a good opening.
Besides saying "three years before the Chatterley Ban and the Beatles First LP" sounds to somebody who doesn't know the poem (and evens some who do)...
1. Like it the publication of Country Girls three years before the expurged publication of Lady Chatterlay's Lover, at which point Ms. O'Brien would have been "introducing sexual intercourse to Ireland" at the tender age of negative five years old.
2. Like the expurged publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover was the same date as the Beatle's First LP.
3. Like nobody talked about or had sex before Philip Larkin first had sex, a time which he admits was rather late.
This would be clever writing if it were in a newspaper, or even an academic article, but on Wikipedia, it feels like we're shoe-horning in a reference where it does not belong. I would strongly suggest removing it, if for no other reason than translation. Philip Larkin is largely an Anglo-American phenomena, and Ms. O'Brien's books are still widely translated.
If you do want to keep it, I would strongly suggest writing at least a rudimentary article about Annus Mirabilis so that everybody who is confused about the reference is simply redirected to the Philip Larkin page and assumes something sexual about his and Ms. O'Brien's relationship (which I'm certain never existed).
P.S. I only slightly edited this on realizing it was a quote from a review. But I stand by what I said. The reference is quite obtuse and there are far better ways about talking about the sociological effect of Ms. O'Brien's writings about sex. --Artimaean (talk) 01:19, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Tehrani
Indeed. Notability does not depend on having English-language sources about you; the featured article Chrisye is built almost entirely on Indonesian-language references. That being said, if I'm not mistaken Google Translate handles Farsi, in which case the references should be fairly easy to verify. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:01, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Spaces between parameters in citation templates
Hello, I would like to ask you not to close up any spaces you may find between the parameters in citations that use templates, as you have at Jimmy Savile. These spaces have been deliberately put there by me and others. It makes no difference to the output that the reader sees, but it improves the layout of the editing window and the diffs, so clarifying what is where and making editing easier. Thanks -- Alarics (talk) 09:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Dick Coetzee
While I can appreciate the need for fairness on the Wiki, stripping the Vlakplaas reference from Coetzee is akin to writing an article about Heinrich Himmler without mentioning the SS or Josef Mengele without mentioning Auschwitz. It is part of the legacy. He was commander of a police group that went out and acted as a death squad without regard or remorse. he did not deny it and was pardoned only from prosecution after he turned evidence over to the UN and those investigating war crimes. I have left off the apartheid reference, but replaced the Vlakplaas reference on his tag line. He once gave an account of what it was like to barbeque someone on a spit, including the smell of the meat. Here is some further reading on the subject. http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-03-08-jacques-pauw-on-vlakplaas-apartheid-assassin-dirk-coetzee/ Sunnydoo (talk) 08:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Categories
Hello. Thank you for setting me straight on the Category: Disease-Related Deaths. Now that I understand what it categorizes, it does make sense as a catch-all category. The only problem I see with it is how huge the list would be, and what use would someone make of it. For instance, I gather statistics on specific causes of death, and the category lists are very useful to me. I just don't know if it's necessary to have such a general category. Those are my thoughts. - Michael David (talk) 19:15, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
- :-) I love your Edit Summary on the revision of the Fay Kanin article. To truly see the light, you have to first admit to having been in the darkness. I was. - Michael David (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
POV
If RS sources report that person x though y about z, that is not "POV". If reported as such. POV is wp editor POV. Similarly, the article already has a "puppy dog" description of one brother -- it is in the article for the same reason. Thus, please do not delete RS supported views of person x by person y, under the theory that they are "pov." Furthermore, no blp issues apply. And, even if they did, we report what the RSs say, with a public figure.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:02, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Bobby (Bangladeshi actress)
FYI
Yip Doesn't hate you. Yip got all of his data from Sallieparker's talk page (including your name and mother's name). I was posing as her in an effort to get her block (which looks like it's going to be lifted) extended. "Greasing the wheels of justice" when WP gets stuck.
Seriously, check out her talk page before an admin takes it down. I have no issue with you (and you actually seem like a stand up editor - one of the reasons why I took issue with Ms. Parker's boychick comment). That being said, I don't know you and have no intention of finding anything about you in the "world".
CongerEelSolo (talk) 00:19, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Islamberg, New York
Thanks for that, glad I could help out! I'm not much of an editor these days, but I use the site and understand the policies for the most part, so I think it's good to clear up things like that when we see them. Lordrosemount (talk) 18:47, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Cher
First of all, thanks for you helpful edits! I will do some minor changes according to what I've talked to other users on previous PR's. If you don't agree with some change I'll made, we can discuss on the talk page. Cheers, Lordelliott (talk) 23:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi! I've made the changes. I've restored this passage: "Throughout the 1980s, Cher appeared in film roles where she served as a social intermediary to disenfranchised male characters.[210] She showcased her status as an independent woman by interacting with Eric Stoltz's elephantiasis victim in Mask (1985), Liam Neeson's mute homeless veteran in Suspect (1987), and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand in Moonstruck (1987).[210] Mermaids (1990) made use of her "strong, sexually assertive" image.[211] According to Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate, Cher was "one of the first superstars to 'play gay' with compassion and without a hint of stereotyping", as she portrayed a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood.[212]"
- Why do you think it isn't valuable to the article? We can discuss on the article's talk page. Overall, great work. Lordelliott (talk) 00:10, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
| The Civility Barnstar | |
| For reporting Joan Crawford to WP:RFPP, and alerting me to my typo. Bearian (talk) 20:26, 10 October 2013 (UTC) |
Doris Roberts
I almost never preview. There's always the risk that I'll lose my work. In this case I had no idea what to do after I saw it, and figured either I could figure out later how to fix it or someone else could.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:29, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
- Clicking on "help", amazingly, led to something that actually helped. I didn't have the time to solve the problem yesterday and the computer where I was then was harder to use.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:35, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Hedy Lamarr
Long time no chat. Sorry if you already know all this: we can't cite unpublished/unverifiable sources for a fact in an article footnote, such as an email to you, as in this edit. I won't revert, because the book agrees. But it is best practice with private sources to bring OTRS into it. So, forward the email discussion you had with Loder (the less edited the better) to OTRS (volunteers-otrs(at)wikimedia.org) requesting that OTRS confirm on article Talk or in the article edit summary, "1914 verified - OTRS ticket #####". OTRS does that when contacted by the public, to throw an anchor onto disputes over birth year. Alternatively, have Hedy's son email them directly. But either way, please, in the introductory text of the email, include some way to verify that the email really did come from Loder (phone number, or website which shows the email address, or business contact, book, journal article etc. Not facebook, myspace, etc). I've done it before - if questions, ask. --Lexein (talk) 14:40, 11 November 2013 (UTC) Please respond here - I watchlist.
- Bump - I don't mean to be a pest, but I'd like to help lock down the birthdate, by getting your email into OTRS if possible. Can I help? --Lexein (talk) 07:34, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Just wonder why you deleted the hedy-lamarr.org link i posted on her page and stated that it was redundant? It's not on the list and it's a very thorough website that I have developed from many books and magazines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annpham (talk • contribs) 22:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
The website already listed is hedylamarr.org. The page I added is hedy-lamarr.org. There's a dash sign between hedy and lamarr. That's a completely different website--Annpham (talk) 22:24, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
Blocked vandal
If you are interested, following this, there is this. Once the editor has unambiguously been warned, I am happy to block if more vandalism follows, even just a little more vandalism. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:44, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Reverse racism
Sorry about accepting that edit, I think it may not have been constructive but I thought it was removing original research at the time. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 02:49, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Forgive me, I am not well versed in wikipedia edits, but as the guest contributor who performed the 26/10/15 edit, could you guide me through your logic for undoing/resetting the adjustment? I assure you it was intended to be constructive (and fail to see how it might be misconstrued otherwise) and furthermore have expounded on my reasoning in the appropriate talk page. If you could explain to me how the addition of 'initially' is a better contribution to clarity in the first sentence than removing the superfluous section altogether, I would be most appreciative. Thanks again [guest] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.95.66.44 (talk) 03:05, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new to wikipedia and did not know how else to message you but am working on the reverse racism page for a project. Why did you delete my addition of Dear White People? It's relevant to the topic, and certainly adds more balance to the page which seems to insist that reverse racism is 100 per cent real, and that the controversy is from those claiming it doesn't exist(perf logical explanations vs the other way round as it should be) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MahnoorLodhi (talk • contribs) 23:35, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Strabane Page
Hi Robert,
I am from Strabane. I would assume you are too? I would like to edit the page as I have valued and up to date information to contribute. The information is not correct, especially regarding Education given that the largest Secondary School in the town is not even mentioned. Also the page while obviously mentioning the past deserves to focus on the positive information and economic advances that are occurring. You are refusing to let others contribute and I would ask you kindly to please stop deleting my additions to the page. It is rude and uncalled for. Everyone has a right to contribute to pages. You do not own it.
BMT85 (talk) 19:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)BMT
Murray and the others that I spoke to through chat help have been helpful. You could have been more helpful with all due respect especially give the fact that I am new (which I'm sure you are aware of). I have been finding out about sandbox and will also cite my information. The current information on the page is out of date and will be amended in the coming days when I have sufficient time. The education section is completely wrong and the Cenus information is also out of date. I am posting this to make you aware of my intentions. I want to make the page better, more relevant and beneficial.
BMT85 (talk) 00:03, 3 November 2015 (UTC)BMT85
Thank you for your apology. You unfortunately didn't welcome me which is why I felt under threat. I have a better grasp of things now and I'm glad we've been able to talk and sort it out. When I make another edit in the coming days, all guidance and helpful suggestions are appreciated. Best wishes BMT85 (talk) 17:38, 3 November 2015 (UTC)BMT85
Tsk, tsk
Really!? Quis separabit? 21:26, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, User:[email protected]! That's not my edit that you linked, but I did see it — and I agreed with that edit and did not revert it. The cited Forbes piece does not support the content saying O'Keefe has no interest in actual investigative journalism (although it does refer to "O’Keefe’s brand of ‘journalism’" in scare quotes). If you want our Wikipedia article to state in Wikipedia's voice that O'Keefe has a "complete lack of interest in actual investigative journalism", you'll need a reliable source which clearly conveys that. So why the "tsk, tsk"? Or was that meant for another editor? Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 15:28, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
- On further consideration, I'm fairly certain your message was mistakenly placed on my Talk page. I've moved it here in case you wished to see to its proper handling. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 17:53, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Courtesy alert
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Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 23:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Dead links
Thank you for thanking me for my yesterday's edit. I invested three hours in that edit by fixing invalid or dead links and activating archive urls. However, you reverted it by mistake, without explanation, and so the invalid links are back. How can we fix it now? Today, I will invest a few hours of work to do again what I did yesterday. I will check all 150 links.
By the way, the external link you deleted yesterday is not dead, it works today (maybe there was a problem connecting to the server). The use of the alphabetic order in the media-interviews-section is not an ideal solution as Bosnia comes first, but the book deals with Croatia and it has been published in Croatia (and a large number of interviews too). Goran Miljan [who?] and Matthew Feeney [who?] shouldn't get a tag since the reference at the end of the quote includes the full bibliographic info.--Darigon Jr. (talk) 14:55, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
@Darigon Jr. -- even when they are tagged "permanent dead links"? OK, if you say so. Yours, Quis separabit? 14:17, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Re:List of Massacres in Yugoslavia
This is a fair question, so I'll take the points as you've given them. After I closed the original ANI thread you opened, the two of you did show some movement towards talk page consensus and then editing article space, however between my closing the aforementioned thread at 07:32 19 November and the time I locked down the page the two of you had a dozen edits back and forth, one third of which consisted of reverting the other editor. The two of you are each one step away from getting blocked for 24 hours for edit warring, and then whatever position the two of you advocate for dies with the loss of reputation adhered from the block log - simply stated, anything you two do after the block here would be considered disruptive. In addition, locking down the article page forces the two of you work together to find consensus on the talk page or other venue, since you can not edit the article this also acts a barometer to gauge who is likely to be the more problematic editor. Often, but not always, its the person who can't edit who complains the loudest, though that does remain to be seen here.
Insofar as I can see you've been the one whose worked to bridge the gap, and for that you should be commended, however you need to calm down a little. It helps no one if you panic and act before you think. Take a day or two and consider all you options - like for RFC - and how you want to word things, keeping in mind that posts should be civil, and we will see what develops. I am not opposed to lifting page protection early, I did the same exact thing to the article Battle of the Alamo earlier this year and lifted the protection when the parties reached an agreement on what would go in the article, but the community needs to see progress on the unresolved issues, and I need to know that the two of you aren't going to have at each other the minute that page protection vanishes. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:48, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Redirection of Joe Carter (country musician)
Hi there. I notice that you redirected Joe Carter (country musician) to Sara Carter. This does not seem like the best target, since they are different people; Sara is Joe's mother. Can I ask why you did not redirect it to the more relevant article on the Carter Family?--Gronk Oz (talk) 09:22, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Gronk Oz: OK -- done. As per your suggestion. Quis separabit? 02:56, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Pola Negri
Thanks for adding the reflink, I was trying to decide btwn multiple sources and couldn't find anything "just right". You found the perfect one tres vite! Merci! MKMMAT (talk) 14:59, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Template Deletion
I apologize. I was actually trying to delete vandalism, and in doing so, I accidentally deleted templates. Sorry about that. CLCStudent (talk) 17:13, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Could you start discussion at Talk:Yisrael Kristal about the researchers?
Greetings! I see that you and Mikkitobi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) are in a content dispute about the researchers' names being included in Yisrael Kristal. Since the other editor is new, could you go ahead and open discussion about the matter at the talk page? That way, there's a record on the article's talk page about the outcome and it's easier for other editors to participate. Plus, I'd like to get this matter settled without having to issue blocks for edit warring. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 18:37, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Also, please see these two messages at my talk page. Mikkitobi wanted "an admin to review this case and make a ruling". I know you know about 3RR already, but...for the sake of proper notification, I've now told you the same thing I've told him: sort it out on the article's talk page so I don't have to block either of you for 3RR. —C.Fred (talk) 18:50, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Content removal
Some of the content you are removing from the day articles under the rationale "rv non-notable entries" are actually quite notable subjects with a great deal of historical significance. For example, see some of the content that I have restored after your removals, along with the edit summaries I provided: diff, diff, diff. Please consider adding more detailed edit summaries explaining your stances. Also please consider researching the subjects more before removing their entries, if you haven't already been doing so. North America1000 06:57, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Removing dead links?
Hi Rms125a. It is sometimes confusing to follow your edits, when you make a lot of changes at once while also splitting paragraphs, so viewing a diff is hard to follow (as with some of your recent changes to Rob Ford). One thing I'm wondering is if you are aware of our WP:KDL guideline. Thanks, Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 17:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks for the explanation. Also, thanks for the improvements to the article, which has been on my watchlist a very long time. Can I ask that you separate out your edits so that splitting paragraphs do not appear in the same diff as other changes you make? Otherwise it makes it very difficult for your fellow editors to follow what you are doing. (One more very minor point: You seem to use the abbreviation "rv" to indicate you are removing something. Most people understand "rv" to mean "revert". The abbreviation "rm" is generally use to indicate "removing" something.) Thanks again. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 18:15, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Paul Erik -- of course. Some paragraphs I split because I thought it might make easier navigation and/by separating more important details from lesser ones, but I will follow your advice. Yours, Quis separabit? 18:17, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- Very good. Just to be clear, I did not have any problem with you splitting the paragraphs in the way that you did; it's just that I would advise you to do so in a single edit, and use another edit to make other changes you are wanting to make. This will make it easier for your fellow editors. Thanks! Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 18:22, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
Please take a look at this diff from an edit you made. Again, while I have no doubt that most (or all) of your edits there are constructive, it is very difficult to follow what changes you are making, as you split paragraphs, remove spacing, and similar things that make it hard for your fellow editors to follow what is going on in the diff. Please consider making a series of edits instead, to reduce the possibility of misunderstanding, and to help the rest of us to review the changes you have made. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:41, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Paul Erik: Well, other editors have since reverted. I know I didn't delete any dead or unused links, I left them for those who know how to do WAYBACK, so I am not sure exactly to what you are referring. I am going to sleep soon, it's after midnight in NYC, but I'll study the diffs in the morning. Yours, Quis separabit? 04:50, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Paul Erik: "as you split paragraphs, remove spacing, and similar things". OK, I got it, as opposed to "I did not have any problem with you splitting the paragraphs in the way that you did; it's just that I would advise you to do so in a single edit, and use another edit to make other changes you are wanting to make." You're right. I have to slow down and keep like-minded edits in separate edit summaries. I think I get it. A lot of it is trivial but which in the aggregate might look confusing. Yours, Quis separabit? 12:30, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, fewer changes at a time, and keeping like-minded edits together, should reduce the possibility of confusion. Thanks a lot, Rms125a. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 12:37, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Paul Erik: "as you split paragraphs, remove spacing, and similar things". OK, I got it, as opposed to "I did not have any problem with you splitting the paragraphs in the way that you did; it's just that I would advise you to do so in a single edit, and use another edit to make other changes you are wanting to make." You're right. I have to slow down and keep like-minded edits in separate edit summaries. I think I get it. A lot of it is trivial but which in the aggregate might look confusing. Yours, Quis separabit? 12:30, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Paul Erik: Well, other editors have since reverted. I know I didn't delete any dead or unused links, I left them for those who know how to do WAYBACK, so I am not sure exactly to what you are referring. I am going to sleep soon, it's after midnight in NYC, but I'll study the diffs in the morning. Yours, Quis separabit? 04:50, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Rms125a, in this diff, I cannot tell what you have "trimmed" (as a portion of your edit summary states). When you also change spacing or line-breaks at the same time, the diff becomes unreadable for your fellow editors. Please look at it and try to understand how it appears to others who would like to review your edits. (It is surprising that I need to explain this to such a long-time editor.) I'm guessing that there is nothing in your edit that I would disagree with, but again, I can't tell by looking at the diff. Please do more than reassure me. Please change the way you are editing. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 15:07, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
- Please read the first paragraph of Help:Diff#Simplifying diffs. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 15:16, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
calling for discussion
Could you please return to Talk:Delmer Berg and explain this edit? Geo Swan (talk) 20:56, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Geo Swan -- Errr, OK. I trimmed some of the paragraphs and sectioned them out more evenly. Don't think I removed anything vital but revert as you see fit. Quis separabit? 21:00, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Geo Swan:
- A) I really don't understand what "making them unreadable -- and thus unmaintainable" means. Sorry.
- B) Moreover, the sum total of my recent edits to the article was 768 characters; you have added at least 4,726. Clearly you are doing far more than correcting any misediting on my part.
- Yours, Quis separabit? 22:05, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- Do you not make use of diffs? I do. I often return to articles I worked on, to update them, and find other contributors have made lots of edits to them. That would potentially be a good thing -- if those other contributors were making corrections to the article's intellectual content; or if they were adding new material. What I often find is a disappointment -- busy contributors had made trivial, or completely pointless, changes to the article's metadata, without altering the article's intellectual content, at all. Ideally, I should be able to call up the article's revision history, and ask to be shown all the changes since my last edit. I might find someone else has already made the update I thought was necessary. What I often find is a diff that misleading seems to show the article has been entirely rewritten. Yet, when I have spent a very considerable amount of time, stepping through those revisions, one at a time, I find there weren't any changes to the article's intellectual content, at all. Line endings are significant to diffs. Breaking a paragraph up into two paragraphs looks, to a diff, like two paragraphs of brand new material. Similarly, removing line endings, confuses diff. I find {{cite}} templates, where each field has its own line, far easier to read, and maintain, than those where someone has put the entire template on one line. But I don't rewrite the exisiting {{cite}} templates, in an article, to make them conform to my favourite rendering. If I have to fix someone else's {{cite}} template, and they put everything on a single line, I make the extra effort to keep my corrections on that line -- so diff will still give useful results.
- WRT my 4,726 bytes -- there is a little "history" button at the top of the article page. If you press it, it shows you when the article was changed, how many bytes were changed -- and the edit summary where the contributor said what they did in that edit. There is a button named "prev", that shows you how the article was changed, in that edit. In the edit marked "fix refs", I restored the references you rendered unreadable and unmaintainable. If you click on the left hand circle next to that edit, and click on the right hand circle next to my most recent edit, and click on the button labelled "compare selected versions" you can see all the changes I made, since I fixed the references. So, do you really know how to use diffs, yourself, and you asked about by 4,726 bytes because you couldn't be bothered to do another diff? If you have somehow managed to be a prolific contributor here, without ever learning how to collaborate effectively with other contributors, by learning how to read and use contribution histories, then I urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to stop, and learn how, before you make another edit. If you know how, and didn't do so for any other reason, then I will remind you that this is supposed to be a collaborative project, where we all do our best to work together. Geo Swan (talk) 14:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Geo Swan:
Category:Terrorism deaths in Ireland
Hi, you tagged Category:Terrorism deaths in Ireland and Category:Terrorism deaths in the Republic of Ireland, but I can't find a discussion for them. – Fayenatic London 00:56, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic -- Hi. I forgot about that. It was just a merger suggestion, not a deletion discussion. Forget about it. You can remove the tags. Thanks, Quis separabit? 00:59, 9 April 2016 (UTC)












