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Hurricane Katrina

Mardus, I think we've working toward the same end on the Foreign Aid section. I am ready to publish my version. Do you mind if I do so and then you can work out the diffs if you've got something different/better? Thanks. Chris 14:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

• Dear Chris. I was blocked for a short time and tried very hard not to feel like a dick. Now, this statement made me laugh out. I failed in trying to not feel like that, so I actually went on to make myself ready to go out and buy some chocolate for consolation....
  

I contacted one of the admins who sent a message to me through an IP-based talk page (While I was blocked, I was forced to use an open proxy to access it) and explained him/her that I was working in good faith and not attempting to vandalize the page. I was busy fixing some of the minor mistakes a few days earlier and also proposed dividing the Criticisms section into subsections. Now that I can access wikipedia again, I feel like a happy man again.

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Talk:Russia#Russia.27s_opinion_on_Kosovo.3F

I replied to you there. --PaxEquilibrium 19:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Moscow Does not Believe in Tears

I have answered you at Talk:Moscow Does not Believe in Tears. Geevee (talk) 08:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Plame affair/CIA leak scandal

could you please vote again on a preference for the article name on the talk page? your input could very much help to reach a consensus. thanks!!Anthonymendoza 20:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:Categorized images at Commons

Thanks for letting me know! enochlau (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Ellington

Hi. I just saw the quick addition and deletion from Ellington. Then you made a comment on Talk:Ellington, Northumberland. I checked it out and found that the redirect from the dab page's talk page to the town had never been erased. I assume you had meant your post for the dab page rather than the town's page? —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

That's correct. -Mardus 03:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I've erased the redirect. It was there because once upon a time the article about the town in Northumberland resided at that name. When it was moved, whomever made the page into a dab neglected to erase the redirect from the talk page. Anyway, as I said, I've fixed it now. Do you want to move your comments to the correct page? I think it'll just confuse the folks in Northumberland. :-) —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Do I move the comments by cutting them from the Northumberland talk and then pasting them into Ellington dab talk or is there some other way, too? -Mardus 03:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Cutting and pasting is the way to go. Just be sure to explain what you're doing in the edit summary. Cheers! —Elipongo (Talk contribs) 03:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Redlinking

I am still unsure about redlinks and whether to create them for titles of old films. I have also removed and fixed my share of redlinks, while still not sure if I have created more redlinks into articles than I have fixed or removed any. I do feel that there must be some kind of a balance between the two at least...

One way to gauge whether redlinks are useful is to check if any have existed before my additions with What Links Here. At least if one is there, then this should be a sure-fire way to add more into relevant articles.

I was thinking then that if there was no redlink at all for a movie, then it should not be added.

I've been reading Wikipedia talk:Red link#Redlinks useful? and am unable to make up my mind about all these arguments.
-Mardus 09:37, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

For example, I was editing an actor page which has quite an extended filmography (actor pages are usually filled up with filmographies copied from the IMDb and then reformatted).

My personal opinions about these filmographies is that actor's pages should rather have selected filmography lists based on existing articles in Wikipedia... Just as well, if there is a redlink already in existence, it does not appear to be any harm in adding another one into another article... I think the point would then be not to create new redlinks that have a very low likeliness of getting their own article.
-Mardus 09:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Another thought I had is that if there there might as well be no need to summarily create redlinks in articles that I am not thoroughly editing anyway, even if these redlinks have more than one to several articles that already link to them.

I also think that redlinks are useful for disambiguation purposes. For example, if a relatively short article about an actress contains numerous redlinks to films and some of them are blue and link to pages that are not about films, then it's duly useful to fix those Wikilinks and make them redlinks of the type "Film title (film)" or "Film title (year xxxx film)". This may create more redlinks in the end and perhaps even a disambiguation page (provided it contains numerous blue links already), but these new redlinks would still link to the right place.
-Mardus 09:48, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

While What Links Here is a useful tool to gauge requests for an article that is at that time redlinked, then the most useful way for the user to do it would be by adding just one redlink to his/her article of interest.

For example, a redlinked article has two articles that refer to it and these two articles were written and given redlinks to by two differnet users. There are other two articles (among several others) that use exactly the same text as the redlinked article (a movie title is one such example) and a user is doing major edits on one of them. To guarantee impartiality, a user can add necessary redlinks to that article only and not make similar redlinks to other articles that contain exactly the same text that can be used for the redlink, unless they are editing other articles as thoroughly as their primary article of the moment.

The exception to the rule is only when other users have created wrong redlinks that are ambiguous and/or link to irrelevant articles and in which case these redlinks mut be fixed. Alas, this form of action can be manipulated by malicious users that make use of sockpuppets.
-Mardus 10:52, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, I was just wondering if you'd take a look at my talk and user page. You seem like a respected user, so your expertese would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Madrus 12:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for the correction of the grammar errors on the page :-) - Justin545 (talk) 07:48, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Deceased hosters

Hey, are you still interested in adding notable deceased hosters to the Comparison of free web hosting services? As you can see on the talkpage, I've made a suggestion for another worthy candidate. --79.193.49.126 (talk) 06:27, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Pretty awesome talents you have!

I enjoy the work that you do! It's far more than I am able to do at the moment. You're so precise with your attention to detail. Hopefully, I'll keep learning at a nice pace and gain as much knowledge as you have. :) Teammm (talk) 08:51, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Firefox release sandbox template

I'm not entirely sure how you plan to improve that template... but I do wish to point out that the reference link to the system requirements for Firefox is broken. I fixed it in the normal template. Wrldwzrd89^talk 13:31, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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I believe my changing from {{recentism}} to {{current}} was not done in bad faith, and issues around recentism are new to me, while I just found some aspects of it rather useful. See also Talk:Carmen_Ortiz#Possible_edit_dispute. -Mardus (talk) 11:12, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

MARDUS, KINDLY PAY ATTENTION

Hi,

Thanks for uploading File:Firefox18.png

Do you know an unknown foolish person have replaced your image with other image i.e File:Firefox 19 on Windows.png in the article Mozilla Firefox.

As i like you and your work very much, i had restored the image uploaded by you in "Platform availability" column in the same article.

If you had any queries, i am waiting to listen from you.

Thanks Himanis Das (talk) 12:26, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

That's ok, my screenshot was outdated. I haven't managed to create a new free screenshot of Firefox 19.x yet. And thank you for your kind words. -Mardus (talk) 18:28, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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Disagree. I believe that I was not using the page as a forum or chatroom, and used my discussion for improving the article; neither have you pointed out the specific thread or subsection where you claim 'general discussion of the topic'. -Mardus (talk) 23:16, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Re Condon (surname)

Please check out MOS:DABNAME and Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Standards. Sortable tables seem to be out of order for surname articles, the entries should be in a bulleted list. Kraxler (talk) 14:34, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

I've found the sortable table to be a compromise solution, given that some editors want names to be sorted in alphabetical order, and some chronologically (mostly by date of birth). -Mardus (talk) 19:14, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Sorting by birth is not always possible, since the birthdate is often unknown. Alphabetical sorting is always possible, since all articles have names. There's the logical answer to sorting by alphabetical order. In short lists sorting is not at all necessary, since all entries are still together on the screen. But that is not the issue. The problem here is that you can't overturn consensus/standards established by a whole WikiProject on your own single-handed initiative. That will lead to future disagreements about the appropriate format, as soon as a member of the project get's aware of your changes. Kraxler (talk) 13:57, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

If the birthdate is often unknown, then there's the floruit date, or first active date, as it is with historical figures. Agree about short lists (up to five names).

It would be a fair amount of work to change the formatting back manually, and someone has already added another name using the formatting I introduced. I do believe I understand your concern. I have had issues with at least one user who seems to own all Microsoft- and technology-related articles, so I tend to stay away from there. I won't revert this yet, so I could use the page to propose some ideas at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Standards. -Mardus (talk) 21:58, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

But you see that sorting birth years and floruit years together makes a muddle of things? Most people floruit about 20 or 30 or even more years after they were born. I added another name without changing the format, because it is not good form to revert first and discuss afterwards (in case of format). I'm not a member of the Anthroponomy project, so I'd rather see it discussed there with them. Kraxler (talk) 17:19, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I've put up a proposal at MOS:APO standards talk. -Mardus (talk) 23:09, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

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Quick question

Hello there, I noticed the evidence put forward at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes/Review/Evidence, which I thank you for. I'm not sure what the procedure is for these cases or if any editor is allowed to put forward evidence or is it restricted to clerks/admins only? The reason I ask this, is because the behaviour you picked up on at TfD dated 6 December 2014, continued at the project's talk page and then at subsequent TfD's dated 17, 28, 29, 30, and 31 December. The one of 17 December was a nomination of a universal template that was suggested to be created at the TfD of 6 December. Any advice on whether I would be able to put across further evidence or where it should be sent to would be much help. Thank you. Wes Mouse | ^T@lk 19:25, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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• I write articles on many hymns, and found the template not useful. While I simply didn't use it, Andy made a formal request for a merge, - probably the better approach for the community than my silent resistence.
• You say: "Normally, major changes to a useful template should at first be discussed with affected editors on the template talk page (this requires raising of awareness through appropriate notification). Because a person who wishes a useful template deleted, anticipates substantial opposition to this, he avoids discussing this or any changes to templates on templates' talk pages and goes instead directly to TfD." - Now you could of course argue that hymn doesn't fall under this statement because it is not useful, but let's assume it is. What should (if I follow you) have been discussed before the merge request with what editor(s) and project, and why? Look at editors/projects of some articles? The notice of an ongoing merge discussion, which comes with the template wherever it appears, seems to be a notification which should reach ALL interested editors, much fairer if you ask me, on top of much easier. It "avoids" nothing, - just the opposite, it's open to all, rather than only a selection, which would indeed avoid other editors and projects. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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Noted. If other people have made this false correction before, then it seems that most people familiar with Finnish consistently find it confusing as to why the letters are not in order. -Mardus (talk) 12:14, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Mullah Omar photos

I do not think the picture used in the current article is the only known image of the man. This screen-shot of Mullah Omar in 1996 holding the cloak of Muhammad filmed by the BBC shows him [1], This image is also believed to be of him before he lost his right eye [2], This image of a man described as being Mullah Omar [3] looks very similar to this image [4] and this image [5],[6] shown in this Vanity Fair article [7] also bears similarities with [8], in terms of the beard line along the mans cheekbones. --Ritsaiph (talk) 03:28, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

The New York Times article I'm referencing shows the same photo that's in the article, and says it's the only known photograph of him. -Mardus (talk) 03:30, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Furthermore, "the only known photograph" rules out films, and other photos are not confirmed with certainty that it is him. I can qualify the caption with the word 'confirmed'. -Mardus (talk) 03:33, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

And I forget to add these images:[9],[10],[11]--Ritsaiph (talk) 04:22, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

There is no more certainty that the image used in the article is him then any other image which purports to be him. The New York Times can make any statement they like regarding this, it doesn't mean that they are correct. Far more reliable sources use many images depicting him than just the one used in the article stating it is the only one known. This article states that a different image is one of the few images known to be him [12] while this states that the two images used by the U.S State Department, of which the one from the article is from, are not of Omar [13]. So there is no real consensus over which images are of him or not, nor of when each picture was taken. This article describes the current image used in the article as being taken from the late 1990's [14], in contrast to the Vanity Fair article which stated it was taken in 1993. I'm not saying the image is not of him, but I am saying that stating it is the only confirmed photo or the only known photo of him is probably not a correct statement. It might give readers the impression that it could be true, when it might not be. --Ritsaiph (talk) 04:22, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Moved discussion to Talk:Mohammed Omar#Mullah Omar photos (discussion moved here). -Mardus (talk) 12:17, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

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RE Reverting of good faith edits

Hi Mardus! I have read your comment in the Salebot user talk page im portuguese Wikipedia. The problem is solved for me. if you have new problems of the type, just undo in the same time the edition of the bot account, because the bot cannot undo more than one edition for day in a same article. I hope I have enlightened! good editions, and greetings!--Leon saudanha (talk) 01:20, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

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Ths for the great improvement. Can you do the same with another my article, Ivan Orav? Unfortunately my knowledge of Estonian is quite limited :-) - üser:Altenmann >t 04:45, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm a purist, too, and agree it's better to say Steck died rather than he was killed, but to insist on it seems pedantic. Nearly all sources say he was killed. What killed him? His fall. Best wishes, YoPienso (talk) 23:20, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

It's not pedantic, but unambiguous to have correct wording: If someone was killed, then it means, that someone else did it to the person who 'was killed'. If someone died, then it could just as well have been an accident. -Mardus /talk 22:55, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

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Would you please correct reference 1? Xx236 (talk) 11:58, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

@Xx236 | I think you meant Reference 2. Should be ok now. -Mardus /talk 01:55, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for adding to these new pages. Is there another way to collaborate while creating a new page than what amounts to competitive editing? I may not type as fast as the rest of you... survival of the swiftest looks to be the code. AHampton (talk) 03:27, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Sometimes that's collaboration. If there is anything you might have issues with, place bring them up in article talk, or let me know. Be specific. -Mardus /talk 03:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

I think the Murderers category any any other indications of guilt are premature until such a time as a court deems it so. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by AHampton (talk • contribs) on 03:34, 26 September 2017

The Blake Leibel article contains a relevant comment in the code. That should give you enough direction. -Mardus /talk 03:50, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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I while ago I was asked to make several minor edits to the article as paid editor. At that time the article had minimal content and was no more than a stub. I’ve added some information following the structure of such articles as Salon (website), HuffPost, Politico adding infobox, improving categories and adding some well-referenced info. The article started to look like a normal website/media article. After that it got heavily edited in two waves by editors deleting large chunks of well-written (ok, my personal view :)) and well-referenced information. I believe that some of these edits/deletions are extraneous and actually make the article worse/less useful to Wikipedia users. I also believe that The National Memo article has an undisputable notability. There is an interesting discussion about this at the article’s Talk page.

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@Bbarmadillo | Well, The National Memo is just a politics-oriented newspaper and web outlet with a left-of-center slant. I looked at the first version of the Wikipedia article you linked to, and the achievements of the paper don't amount to much, because it's almoost the same kind of work that other outlets do. Stories simply being picked up by others is not necessarily a marker of quality, as this practice is very widespread.

More content in the Wikipedia article is merited, if its the gazzette's reportage reaches or exceeds the level of the outlets you mentioned, and that of others. A major journalism prize would be good, too. All that typically requires a lot of dedication, time, and work.

The article on James Carville lives its own life, because AFAIK, Mr. Carville is currently a known personality wrt talking about politics, and so anything about him should be referenced not only extensively, but also from quality sources that he is not directly involved with (per BLP, I assume).

In appearance and substance, no Wikipedia/sister project article should appear like paid content. -Mardus /talk 06:44, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Point taken. Thank you for sharing your point of view. Deletion of Bill Clinton's interview mention was a particular surprise to me. I am not following closely the US politics but it doesn't seem that he often give interviews to media. -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:47, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

@Bbarmadillo | If the interview with Bill Clinton has anything interesting, then information from it could be included in the Wikipeda article about the former president, and the link to the URL included as a reference. -Mardus /talk 08:09, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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The correct link is here. -Mardus /talk 07:28, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you edit disruptively. Please stop your disruptive editing. Multiple native English speakers at multiple talk pages have told you that your understanding is incorrect. —valereee (talk) 23:06, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Does your warning apply to me expressing opinions in talk pages and proposals? Does this warning apply to any opinion I wish to express on Wikipedia? -Mardus /talk 05:23, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

It applies to continuing to make the same argument over and over after multiple other editors have disagreed with you and no one is agreeing with you. If you have a general habit of continuing to make the same argument after multiple other people have told you you're wrong about something, you are probably going to find other editors find that disruptive and may report you to some noticeboard somewhere for Wikipedia:BLUDGEONing, which is what happened in this case.

When you do this, you waste a lot of other people's time. In this case you wasted the time of the everyone after maybe the third person, definitely everyone after the fourth person. And you did it because you, a non-native speaker of English, were relying on your own understanding of something you'd read about English that seemed to indicate that every native speaker of English who had read any of the Wikipedia articles you thought you were going to fix was simply wrong about idiomatic English. For the GAZ-24 article alone that's thousands of people. Thousands of people who apparently simply didn't notice what would be a glaring error to any native English speaker. And yet you wrote Across the board, the make and model names of various products (cars, electornics) have been written with the definite article applied wrongly, due mostly to the paucity of rules. There's no rule here on Wikipedia about the application of the definite article in such cases because native English speakers don't need such a rule. The average native English speaker doesn't even know what a definite article is because they don't need to know what it is in order to apply it correctly. And yet you wasted dozens of people's time arguing that all around you were wrong about this. Wasting other editors' time is considered a very big deal because that's all we have: our volunteers' time.

So, yes, this warning would apply to any opinion you wish to express on Wikipedia in a manner that appears to be bludgeoning. If someone needs to warn you for this again, they'd likely take into account that you'd already been warned for this. —valereee (talk) 11:20, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Your responses have been noted. I've stepped back from pushing the definite article issue, but that won't prevent other individuals from trying to do so in the future.

Despite that, I have no trust, that you would not call my future expressions of opinion 'bludgeoning', even if I were to do that in a non-bludgeoning way, and in a way that other editors and admins would not see as disruptive, even if you would. What can you do to regain my trust? -Mardus /talk 14:29, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Don't worry, there's zero chance of any other individual raising this issue, because nobody -- nobody -- finds any merit whatsoever to what you've been saying. You can regain our trust by recognizing that you simply misinterpreted something someone said. EEng 18:09, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

I retain my right to hold my own beliefs with regard to how I interpret the rules of English grammar, and I have not seen any good arguments that would convince me otherwise. Do not forget, that I have stepped back from this particular issue, insofar as editing goes outside my userspace and my talkspace at the very least. -Mardus /talk 02:04, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

That at the very least, my userspace and my talkspace should be safe to discuss these things. -Mardus /talk 02:37, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

So you apparently still think your non-native-speaker assessment of usage of the direct article in English is correct, despite multiple native speakers telling you you are wrong? And that eventually someone TRULY expert in English is going to come along and agree with you? Okay. That is kind of an astonishing belief.

I completely would call it bludgeoning if you repeatedly make the same arguments when multiple other people are telling you you're wrong. It is highly likely that if I think it's bludgeoning, other editors and admins will, too, but you're absolutely welcome to take your concerns to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. You can totally do that now if you like.

You don't need to trust me, and I'm not actually concerned whether you do or don't. What you do need to do is pay heed to my warnings and those of other experienced editors. —valereee (talk) 21:38, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

I have witnessed many non-native speakers be much better at English grammar, syntax, and spelling, than a lot of native speakers. That includes non-native teachers of the English language, for example.

I have every right to hold opinions, and I have every right to my thoughts. Above the scope of Wikipedia, these are some of the things that you cannot take away from me. Neither are my personal thoughts and opinions your business.

I believe I have expressed my thoughts and ideas here in good faith, with a hope, that said thoughts and opinions might be able to convince someone on whatever issue that may need resolution, and also to find out if a proposal has enough support.

Your original warning is unduly aggressive, and it implicitly forbids me to express any of my future thoughts and opinions on the English-language Wikipedia, even if they're civil and non-bludgeoning, and even when they're expressed in talkspace. The nature and scope of your original warning are such, that they do erode trust in your actions.

Talkspace ought to be a safe space for everyone to freely discuss ideas without fear of retaliation in the event of a difference of opinion. That's why I'd submitted the proposal in the first place.

As far as the definite article is concerned, that issue has been closed here, with thanks expressed to User:Girth_Summit. -Mardus /talk 02:04, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

No one is telling you not to freely discuss. We're telling you that when a dozen people more expert than you about something tell you you're wrong, listen to them. It's a good life lesson in general. —valereee (talk) 22:25, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Your original warning does indeed mean, that I was no longer free to discuss anything. That is how I interpreted this, and this is how it looks like to me. I do not believe I'm wrong, but that my attempts at explaining or questioning the status quo were quickly suppressed, by you and others.

This left me with an impression, that you and others made it no no longer safe for me to make useful contributions to the English-language Wikipedia. Hence issues with having trust in your judgement.

There was a time, when tobacco companies had firm knowledge, that cigarettes are harmful to people's health, but Big Tobacco downplayed such evidence, and used wrongful claims of 'a lack' of evidence thereto as an appeal to what at the time appeared as an abundance of information supposedly claiming safety ('no-one dropped dead right away'), in the face of paucity of claims of harm, and disinformation. Such action was carried out by making discussion fora unsafe, by using suppression tactics and other underhanded methods in order to avoid at any cost informed and public discussions of harm to health at length. -Mardus /talk 07:13, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

How does warning you of consequences that will ensue "the next time you edit disruptively", mean that you cannot discuss anything? --Khajidha (talk) 13:07, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

valereee did use to work on Philip Morris' legal team. I am just glad that they're on my side, promoting the improper use of definite articles.  Mr.choppers | ✎  13:10, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

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Minor edits and commas

Hi Mardus! I noticed you marked an edit as minor at Thomas E. Kurtz that may not have been. Overall, you seem to be using the minor edit flag frequently for edits that don't seem to be minor edits such as edits that change words and other significant changes. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. As a general rule, it's best not to mark an edit as minor unless it's so trivial and straightforward that nobody could ever object.

I also noticed that many of the commas you added to the article were not necessary. Specifically, commas are generally not used before "that" unless it's part of a non-restrictive clause or there's a specific reason for separation. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:12, 20 November 2024 (UTC)