Brhiba

Please

February 2012

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Thanks Bagumba. I'm past all that (I've been editing periodically for a while now, sans username until recently...) But last time I was at Metta World Peace it was locked for editing. I take it that's not the case at the moment; so, I'll go make the changes myself (which I prefer anyway).

-- Brhiba (talk) 05:24, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I see. Maybe you can request confirmed user rights per WP:SEMI in the future. Cheers.—Bagumba (talk) 06:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah, got it! Never seen that before. Helpful, thanks. I must have been at a new IP I haven't used before (probably not logged in at first, to boot). -- Brhiba (talk) 06:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Kai Forbath article and the use of initialisms

Greetings, Brhiba.

I have reverted several of your recent changes to the Kai Forbath article—specifically those changes where you improperly use an initialism without previously defining and or introducing the initialism in a parenthetical. Rather than edit-warring with you, I would like to refer you to a particular section of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, WP:MOS#Abbreviations, which states that the first use of an initialism (e.g. "NFL" or "UCLA") should always be defined in a parenthetical following the full expression to be abbreviated (e.g. "University of California, Los Angeles" or "National Football League").

I have not encountered your work before, and I don't know if you work on American football articles with any regularity. Suffice it to say that it has been difficult to get many of the NFL article editors to conform to standard English, but the use of "National Football League (NFL)" in the opening paragraph of NFL player biographies is now more or less settled for most WP:NFL contributors.

Thanks for listening. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:40, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Dirtlawyer1. At the time, I didn't realize that our edits were conflicting. There were several trolls involved and I thought my edits just weren't sticking, which is why I refreshed them. Thanks for the clarification; I'm not very familiar with the style guide but I'll try to conform.

-- Brhiba (talk) 15:38, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Brhiba. Please keep up your good fight against Vandals, Visigoths and Trolls! Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:48, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

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