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July 2017

Hello, I'm IronGargoyle. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to If Love Were All seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. IronGargoyle (talk) 19:28, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Position of quotation marks

Hello, thanks for your edits to Harold Arlen. However, Wikipedia uses logical quotation, in which the position of punctuation before/after quotation marks depends on whether the punctuation is part of the quoted text. For song titles, it isn't, so I've undone your changes involving quote positioning. Graham87 08:35, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

your edit to From the Land of the Moon (film)

Just FYI, you made an edit a few months ago for style and clarity [1] but you inadvertently changed the meaning to something incorrect. I partially reverted your edit [2]. The César awards are not affiliated with the Cannes film festival. Mathew5000 (talk) 22:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your kindly copyedits. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 23:03, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

British English

When an article is about a British topic, whether or not it has the template {{Use British English}}, please don't turn British spellings such as "honours" into American spellings like "honors" as you did at Sean Shibe (which already had the UBE template, to avoid any confusion). Thanks. PamD 23:50, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

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Could you possibly

...look in on the Elif Shafak article, with your copyediting prowess? It is a mess, mostly for academic honesty issues (much content placed without sources, many superscripted inline citations placed end of pargraph not covering most of paragraph, etc. But in addition to these hard edits that need plenty of time, there are many other issues in the article, including the same accolades/activities appearing over and over again. I have fixed some of this, but there is more to be done. (I added tags to the repeating cases I noticed.) On top of this, there is the broader issue of what goes where—choosing once and for all which one section to put the mention of the accolade, rather than repeating it in the several sections, in prose and list, as is happening now. Cheers, and best wishes (from this long-time academic editor, that chooses not to log). 67.167.8.141 (talk) 08:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi both, I have been adding citations to every sentence with the [citation needed] note kindly added in December 2019; and will continue with the few left. I have been thinking on one of those sentences: "Her novel Three Daughters of Eve (2017) set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and unexpected betrayal.[according to whom?][citation needed]" Would it be ok to cite the book itself? This is what the book is about. Another template is this:

The quotes are from articles published at rooted international media by well-known critics. It is not wise to call the work of critics as promotional, I believe. We do not conduct surveys to analyse books, media and critics are the sources of information....

Does these make sense?--Askolsun (talk) 06:00, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Kindly Copyeditor, I noticed the Elif Shafak article has been reverted to an old version including the author photograph . I wanted to check with you if this happened accidentally. I may agree some parts of this article sounds biased. Editing the content is beyond my capacity so I limited myself with supplying references to dependable sources -most of them being official websites-. I am extremely disappointed with the result. Can you think of a solution to this problem? Askolsun (talk) 01:49, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

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