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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Western Digital proposed History changes to address citations/source issue

Hello @A D Monroe III, Thank you for reviewing my proposed changes to the Western Digital History section in an effort to add citations from reliable sources. I have broken down the requested edits by paragraph, with explanations, per your request. Please take a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Western_Digital

Thank you, AnneElizH

AnneElizH (talk) 18:23, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Revert on Data Storage article

Please don't loose your cool over my revert - I meant to say the change you made should not have been made util Sklar responds to my question. I ran out of comment space so the comment got mangled. FWIW I believe @Sklar:'s summary inaccurately states the relevance of MOS:STYLERET and if properly interpreted most of the "votes" would not be counted which would clearly establish no consensus. Tom94022 (talk) 00:37, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the note; cool is being maintained. But, point of order, the RfC is currently closed. While it's possible it may be overturned, that doesn't affect the current status. If there is some formal official public protest state you wish to invoke (I don't know of any such that applies here), that would be different, but a user's private talk page discussion with a single user has no standing on public RfCs. I'll wait to restore the article state per the RfC closure, but not for long. (BTW, you've stated Data Storage instead of Disk Storage a couple times. I know what we mean, but others will get confused.) --A D Monroe III^(talk) 16:50, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Tom94022; I note that Slakr has responded with his reasoning (in short, a majority preference by itself is significant in this type of case). He suggests, if you still don't agree, taking this to Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment or WP:VPP. If you did either of those, that would qualify in my mind as a "formal official public protest" as I stated above, so I would hold off on enforcing the RfC closure per an outcome there. It's up to you of course, but I wouldn't recommend going down that line, as from what I've seen, such official forums aren't patient about minor matters. This is a very minor matter, and I'd very much like to see us both move on to more useful efforts. I'll give it a few days; if there's no substantial action on this, I'll restore per the RfC's closure. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 16:07, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Actually I think this is a small example of a big issue so I'm going to follow up - just haven't decided how. Tom94022 (talk) 01:51, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Big how? As for grammar use for "data", while I mentioned on the RfC that it might be used to apply to similar articles in Data Storage and the like, they conform to "data is" anyway. Any such issue for other articles would need a big forum, not just an RfC on a single article. The only appropriate big forum I can think of is MOS, and that was already tried and rejected.

Do you mean a big issue on RfC closures in general? I don't see what that issue could be. This RfC closure isn't going to stand as a precedent to close any others.

Seriously, before the RfC started, you actually agreed that "data are" doesn't make the article better -- just no worse. I actually think the article is improved by "data is". Even if I'm somehow wrong, that would just means it makes no difference; why would you spend any effort at all on this, much less so many hours of effort? I feel we're both valuable editors; couldn't we more effectively spend our efforts elsewhere? --A D Monroe III^(talk) 18:46, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	How eloquent of you. Trillfendi (talk) 05:44, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

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Mahlzeit Stellung

"Mahlzeit Stellung" may refer to the angling advice in the Tigerfibel, see this page. Each angle is given a mealtime as a reference. (Hohum ^@) 17:08, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Sigh. That's now the third explanation I've seen. And this one's more straightforward, as it doesn't really rely on "slang" use. I guess we should probably favor this one. With this tip, maybe I can find some at least semi-reliable sources now. The one's I used aren't worth mentioning. Thanks. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 17:28, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

I didn't find a source that explains this, but I used it anyway; it's got to be better than what I had. Thanks again. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 20:30, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Confederate monument

I saw your edits on Nathan Bedford Forrest's article and I was wondering if you would like to review the article for the Confederate memorial Robert E. Lee on Traveller.MagicatthemovieS (talk) 00:26, 13 July 2019 (UTC)MagicatthemovieS

MagicatthemovieS; excellent work overall. I have only a couple minor suggestions. (I'd attempt them myself, but I'm going to be offline for a week or two, and didn't want to leave something half-done for that time.)

The reason for the removal (the Unite the Right rally, etc.) should go in the lede; it's probably the most notable thing about the statue/memorial at this point. Similarly, the removal should probably have its own section, since some readers might want to skip down just to that. If possible, any info on how it was appreciated or noted during the long time between dedication and removal would be good to add, if possible (sourced, of course).

Again, this is quality work. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 17:26, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! Would you like to review the article for GA at some point?MagicatthemovieS (talk) 18:10, 13 July 2019 (UTC)MagicatthemovieS

That's not my forte; I'm sure others experienced in GA reviews would do a better job. But I'll look in sometime after I get back (next month or so) and re-review. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 20:26, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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climate change and AGW

Hi thanks for your edits at Global warming. Some years back the words "current" and "ongoing" were floating around the first sentence and discussions. Besides saying hello, the main reason for my note is to mention the new WP:WikiProject Climate change. It's just getting off the ground, and editors are welcome to sign up by adding their name to the participants list. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:08, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. As a wikignome, I may not be the be able to participate that much, but I'll keep this in mind. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 17:34, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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Battle of the Spurs

Would you care to tell me on what grounds you have so cavalierly reverted my edits to the above? Plucas58 (talk) 20:02, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

See article history. Edit self-reverted ten minutes before this post. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 20:06, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Fair enough- we all make typing mistakes - my own typo rate is pretty bad. Plucas58 (talk) 20:16, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

NP. BTW, as a result of this, I just enabled a "confirm" button on my rollbacks to prevent this in the future. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 20:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Precious

gnome in military history

Thank you for quality contributions in over 10 years to articles of military history, beginning with additions to Irregular military and creating Daniel Harvey Hill, now refactoring a section of Armoured fighting vehicle, for welcoming new users, for a thoughtful search for problems, for quoting "If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were recipient no. 1479 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Demanding source for statement:"Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is NOT greatest Roman defeat" is similar to asking source for statement that "Napoleon has NOT visited Australia".

Neutral Point of view noticeboard the_Teutoburg_Forest. I am new in this so maybe is better to see position of wikipedia on "greatest defeat" statement. Maybe I can learn something new about how wikipedia works. ps. I have not even used connection with German national myth Analitikos (talk) 08:57, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Analitikos; Of course I wasn't expecting any "X is not the greatest" sources, but just any "Y is greatest" source to contradict the statement.

BTW, talking on editors' talk pages about their edits is great, if it's a question or issue only about them, rather than the article being edited. Discussions about the article issues really belong on the article talk page, so other editors can participate in the discussion.

Also BTW, calling something "POV" in WP has specific connotations; please see WP:POV. We know each source has its own point-of-view, and that's good; we present their views in articles if they're reliable authorities, and balance conflicting views per WP:DUE. In WP, accusations of "POV", especially on one of the "drama boards" like the POV Noticeboard, imply editors are pushing their personal viewpoint that contradicts sources because of some personal agenda; this should not be done lightly, per WP:AGF. I think your disagreement is about balancing sources -- a very routine one in WP -- not accusations of bad faith editing -- a very serious in WP, as they can result in editors losing editing privileges if true. False accusations of this nature often "boomerang", with the accuser's editing privileges being affected instead.

In general, I suggest moving a bit more slowly here. WP works because it is cooperative rather than combative. WP also works by understanding new editors are given more leeway to make some missteps, especially given the huge alphabet-soup of WP policies and guidelines; we were all new once, and we even have a guideline about this as well: WP:BITE. If you're worried about not having done something right, just play the "I'm new" card.

You are welcome to reply here about anything specifically relating to any of the above. Anything more about the article should probably go on the article talk page. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 16:20, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for spam revert

Thank you for reverting a spam edit on Pavement light. I reverted your revert only because the spammer made four more edits, and I went back to the last spam-free version, but I didn't notice for five days, and you were on the spot. HLHJ (talk) 22:20, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

on reverting edit.

Thank you for noticing the problem. But the credit suisse report is 4.5 year old and outdated. there is notification about updating the list. And there is none other site gave detailed military power index like Global firepower, and many other sites also took this same data from global firepower. So I think reverting this article kind of unreasonable. Also the report in credit suisse in most common sense not quite perfect. Kingarthur581 (talk) 02:06, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Kingarthur581; User talk pages are to discuss with a single user, only. To discuss changes to an article, use the article's talk page; that's what they're for. On article talk pages, any and all the article's editors can respond, and work to come to a consensus. Debating such changes on user talk pages cannot do this, so is pointless.

It's important to understand that repeating the same edit without discussion is edit warring, and if persistent, will lead to being blocked from further editing. But it's very easy to avoid this; just take what you posted above to the talk page of the article. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 18:11, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Recent edit in "Battle of the Bulge."

Hey. I've seen that you've reverted my edit, and although a reference must be applied, what if the references are documentary series about WW2, that are in Netflix? Their names are "World War II in HD Color" and "Greatest Events of World War II in HD color" — Preceding unsigned comment added by VivaBlondie2000 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

VivaBlondie2000; The quality of a source matters in Wikipedia -- see WP:Reliable sources. In general, documentaries won't qualify for this, especially ones found on Netflix.

Also, as we are discussing changes to the article, you should have this discussion where other editors of the article can respond: Talk:Battle of the Bulge. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 00:52, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Western Digital proposed History changes to address citations/source issue

Hello, A D Monroe III,

Thank you for considering my proposed changes to the History section of the Western Digital Wikipedia article. I updated the sources per your request and have listed them in a Replace XYZ, With XYZ format for you.

The currently published Western Digital History section has several flags indicating that additional citations from reliable sources need to be added. These proposed changes adds reliable sources where possible and removes statements where sources cannot be found.

Please take a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Western_Digital

and let me know if you agree to update them.

Thank you very much, AnneElizH (````) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnneElizH (talk • contribs) 21:38, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

AnneElizH; Response is at Talk:Western Digital/Archives/2019#Western Digital proposed History changes to address citations/source issue. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 20:57, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Bayonet

On what grounds was my edit deleted Bayonet? Do you consider yourself more competent in this matter? Then bring the battle where the troops were able to overturn the enemy without the use of firearms. I think this was only possible as an exception. In most battles, a bayonet attack was always accompanied by infantry fire. This means that a successful bayonet attack is impossible without a preliminary shootout. Otherwise, a logical error occurs. Why were soldiers armed with muskets? It is enough to arm them with spears, so that it would be easy to overturn the enemy. TooLRF (talk) 10:06, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

As this is about the contents of an article, I have moved this discussion to Talk:Bayonet#Uselessness of bayonet attacks, where all the editors of the article can participate.

Please reply here only if you have something that is specific to me, and not of interest to other editors. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 02:32, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Broadwood park

Thank you for the painstaking work to carefully fix the difficult to detect damage caused by this editor. For example they changed "The earliest recorded use" -> "The most first recorded use". I've only ever seen stuff like that one time before, it was someone using an automated grammar fix program without the required skills to fine-tune the suggestions. It may be the same person who did this edit in which they claim to be using Grammarly, because that edit contains the same change: "neutrally" -> "in a neutral way". -- GreenC 21:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate the appreciation. :) It is a bit tedious to undo the damage after other edits have been layered on top, but given the muck they produced, still rewarding enough to keep me going; there are only about a dozen more edits to fix now.

My greatest appreciation goes to Drmies, who swiftly indeffed Broadwood-park, eliminating any further muck-splattering.

I agree that the style of edits match that of the IP you presented, but given the long time between these two editors' "contributions", I think the similarity is more to do with just both using the same tool. If these demonstrate the capabilities of Grammarly, I would recommend it only for its byproduct of unintended humor in clueless mangling of English prose. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 00:49, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

New guy needs help

Hello A D Monroe III. I am trying to make a article but, I need help trying to get the quotes to Format properly can you help me and with anything else you see? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rape_By_German_forces_During_The_Second_World_War#Historians_assessment_on_Mass_Rape_by_German_forcesDriverofknowledge (talk) 01:23, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Driverofknowledge, and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm not a quote-box expert, and the long-standing various fancy quote boxes we had were recently all declared obsolete. But AFAIK, your use of the now-preferred one-size-fits-all {{Quote}} template seems fine. The only problem I see is that the quotes have no ordinary text to introduce them and set them off as quotes. This seems to be at odds with the template's intent.

Having a section that is nothing but a series of quotes is basically just reproducing primary sources without any context or interpretation, leaving all that up to the reader; the whole job of an encyclopedia is to summarize common information for the reader. In general, we avoid reliance on primary sources in Wikipedia -- see WP:PRIMARY -- and that's when cited as sources for our summarizing text. To quote them at length directly in an article, one after another, is going well beyond that. This may even get into WP:COPYVIO territory, which is legally absolutely forbidden.

I can review the article and offer further suggestions if you like, but there's a class of editors called WP:New page reviewers that are experienced at guidance for new page creators. I'd be surprised if they weren't already aware of your efforts here, but I can contact them for you if you want. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 02:56, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

A D Monroe III ok thank you. can you please I need all the help I can get!Driverofknowledge (talk) 03:01, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

I already tried to message. Everyone I have come in contact with, to get help but thanks for replying I appreciate it.Driverofknowledge (talk) 03:04, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Bear in mind

If EEng's tournament were legit (not that it isn't), the shark would be the only one crying about meeting on the shoreline. Bears love the shore! It's where they literally eat big fish for breakfast. Seen it firsthand, at least this big, biggest fish east of the Pacific, ask anyone! But I've never seen Cher, a wolverine or an iceberg live. If you don't mind me asking, have you? InedibleHulk (talk) 09:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Shark-infested shores aren't frequented by bears. So there. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 18:17, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Ah yes, the dreaded minnow shark, quite a scourge, bear beware! InedibleHulk (talk) 22:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh, and for what it's worth, I have seen both a wolverine and iceberg in the wild, though while keeping my distance. I've not seen the elusive Cher in the flesh -- perhaps just an urban legend? --A D Monroe III^(talk) 18:29, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

That's how I feel about wolverines sometimes, just a very elaborate rumour. I live where they're supposed to, seen all their supposed woodland associates, but neither hide nor hair of any legendary badass. Maybe tomorrow, though, there's always tomorrow up here! My dad says he went to a Cher concert around 1980, but he's been wrong about stuff like this before. I envy your eyes, glad you escaped your experiences with both intact, stay alert, stay safe! InedibleHulk (talk) 22:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Stormtrooper

Your edit notes have been giving me the giggles but I feel your pain too. ;O) Keith-264 (talk) 10:10, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

I insert these bits of humanity in my bot-like efforts so I can keep slogging forward. That someone actually noticed these is an extra bonus. Thanks. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 21:34, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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Daft revert

Did you read the source? The Campbell book literally has 399 BC in the title. Don't be the problem. Be the solution.--Tataryn (talk) 03:21, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Solutions for content disputes go on article talk. Unhelpful editor accusations go on drama pages, if anywhere. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 03:26, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Page for your law

The shortcut to the pump was deleted, so I created a page for it and directed the shortcut there. See Wikipedia:Monroe's law. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:42, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

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Timur

You are the only one who has a problem with it apparently. Why? There shouldnt be any issue. I explained it clearly and yet you still acted disruptively. LordAgincourt (talk) 21:52, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

LordAgincourt, welcome to Wikipedia, and please see WP:BRD. The issue we have here is a typical article content dispute, something entirely routine on Wikipedia. The article talk page exists for this purpose. Please discuss this there, so that other editors have a chance to contribute, making it possible to reach a consensus. User talk pages aren't good for that.

In starting such a content discussion, it's typically more constructive to discuss just the changes to the article, not the editors. If you're unsure how to start such a discussion, I can start it for you; just ask (that's the sort of thing user talk pages are good for).

And, BTW, please be careful not to toss around the word "disruptive" casually on Wikipedia; it's a very serious matter here. Disruptive editors get blocked (no longer allowed to edit). False accusations of disruptive behavior can also get an editor blocked. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 22:19, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Yes Like i said i dont see anyone else contacting me because they have a problem with my edit. You gave me no explanation or reason. Not allowing certain editors to contribute is not constructive. The words you used are telling. If you are not interested in Reaching agreements then the talk ends here. LordAgincourt (talk) 22:33, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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RfC on the article regarding Santa Claus

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RE:

I will gladly participate, but you were the first one to stop discussions considering the last post in said talk page had been done a week prior to me making the edit- it was YOU who had chosen to stop discussing the topic at hand.Valkyrie Red (talk) 02:08, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

It's good we agree that participating in the discussion is constructive. As to the "but..", all I can say is I have no ability to stop a discussion. Let's leave it at that, and focus on improving the article instead of editors. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 02:34, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

a message

"we don't put links in headings" we didn't asked you if you "put", by the way there are lots of pages that have links in their headings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.235.251.172 (talk) 23:47, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Again, please read MOS:NOSECTIONLINKS. This is simply Wikipedia policy. If a small percentage of articles don't yet follow this, we are required to fix them. If you know of any such pages, please bring them to my attention so this can be remedied. If you disagree with the policy, start a discussion to change it on the policy talk page. Edit summaries and user talk pages have zero effect on this. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 00:33, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Cretaceous-Paleogene Event avialans/birds

I understand what you are trying to say, but not all avialans are birds and the article even states that enantiornithes were non-avian dinosaurs that went extinct in the course of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event. Therefore, it is inaccurate to refer to them as birds, regardless of if it seems to make more sense to some people. I did link to the Avialae page when I made the edit, so clicking on the link should clear any confusion up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.10.3.178 (talk) 21:50, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

This issue is of interest to those editing the article, not just me. If you want to open a discussion about this on the article talk page, I'll respond there, allowing other interested editors to reach some consensus. Also, see WP:BRD, where it's noted that reverting without a talk page discussion is frowned upon. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 22:13, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

History of aviation

I removed the CN tag, because I added reference to the main article on fifth generation aircraft. That seemed like a more elegant solution than adding 5-7 separate references for each country that has, or claims to have these aircraft. StanTwoCents (talk) 13:55, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

StanTwoCents; I'll gladly give you my response here, but I should point out that if you don't find my response satisfactory, you might want to move this discussion to the article's talk page. Editor talk pages, like this one, are generally for discussing something with only that one editor. Article talk pages allow for any and all editors interested in improving that article discussing and reaching consensus.

My immediate response is, you did not add any actual reference; you just added a link to another Wikipedia article. Per WP:CIRCULAR, we cannot use Wikipedia itself as a reference for anything in Wikipedia. For the format of proper citations, see WP:CITE; this is what the {{Citation needed}} tag is requesting. It may well be that the article you linked has proper citations that could be used (copied or something similar) to fulfill this request, but the edit in question didn't provide any such, yet deleted the tag. Deleting tags without addressing their concerns is a no-no; this is why I reverted this edit.

(Also, as a minor point, your edit also left a stray pair of brackets ("[["). Had this been the only problem, I'd have just corrected this, but it did undermine my confidence that the major problem -- deleting the tag -- might be easy to fix on my own.)

--A D Monroe III^(talk) 21:41, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for responding, and my apologies for the inconvenience I caused. Have a nice day. StanTwoCents (talk) 13:56, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Apologies are certainly not necessary. I'm happy to talk to rising editors about how to best thrive in the WP society and its intimidating WP:ALPHABETSOUP of policies and guidelines. Learning the basics took me years; if I can shorten that time for other editors, that helps all of us. All inquiries on any subject are welcome. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 14:32, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Bashkirs

The Agreement of the Central Soviet Power with the Bashkir Government on the Soviet Autonomous Bashkiria of March 20, 1919, regularized the foundation of Bashkir Soviet Republic. According to the Decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of June 14, 1922, Bashkortostan became the Autonomous Bashkir Socialist Soviet Republic. 37.122.108.117 (talk) 18:25, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

First, welcome to Wikipedia. Second, please read the text box at the top of this page, where it notes that using my talk page to tell me alone about a change to an article isn't likely to do you much good. Third, if all you say is true and these are two separate and distinct states, this needs to be resolved at the main article -- Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic --before this can be reflected in other Wikipedia articles. Thus, if you want this to change, you should first take this claim to that article's talk page where the interested editors there can learn from you and reach consensus for it. None of your comments here can affect this claim in any way.

Feel free to comment here on anything of interest only to me. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 19:25, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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Wiki break

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There is nothing wrong with the source however, I'll rewrite my sentence again. It will now be; Mossi infantry had skirmishers which they used in combat. Please do not just delete someone's whole post, you can simply correct the grammatical errors. Kwesi Yema (talk) 14:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, thank you very much for your kind words, I am happy you like my solution. It looks like a bit of a hack, but if it works, that's the main point. Maybe someone comes up with a more elegant solution.

With hindsight, I should have retained the quotes, just move them out of sfn templates into comments next to the templates. At the time I thought that, since the quotes were hidden and nobody did anything to make them appear, they weren't missed, and their removal wouldn't affect the content of the page. Maybe I will go through the other pages with quotes contained in sfn templates and apply my solution to them too, should not be too difficult or time-consuming, provided a page hasn't been edited since.

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Hi I noticed that you got rid of part of an addition I made to the section on the machine gun described very briefly by Edward Somerset on Wikipedia's machine gun page due to your belief that it was SYNTH. Well, I assure you that that particular addition was based entirely on the facts presented in the book which is used as a reference for that section. On page 62 of that book, which I have linked to below, there is a 'note by the author' where he states, literally, that he had reduced the previous few inventions just mentioned, which includes his rapid-firing gun, to practice. I hope this clears up any issues you had with my last edit on that page but I will wait to hear back from you before making any reverts or drastic changes.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fa5jAAAAcAAJ&q=A+way+for+a+harquebuss&pg=PA30&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=A%20way%20for%20a%20harquebuss&f=falseSQMeaner (talk) 00:56, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

First, please see the text box on the top of this page. As I've noted there, as a question about an article's content, this discussion belongs on the article's talk page so that WP:CONSENSUS can be reached. I'll respond here just once; if you have more to say, open up a discussion on the article talk page instead.

My response is the same as my edit summary. We cannot interpret for ourselves to what extent something was built and demonstration by the author; zero details are given. It may have been a small model, a mock-up, a simplified version, or even something that didn't actually work. This edit uses this author's very vague phrase to contradict the previous sentence, implying that a fully-working weapon was in fact created and demonstrated. That's WP:SYNTH to such an extent it's bordering on WP:OR. --A D Monroe III^(talk) 20:55, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

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Sorry but no, nationality needs to be in there (as it is every other biography) and 'Confederate' is insufficient. GiantSnowman 17:25, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

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