Martin Van Ballin'

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Again, welcome! John of Reading (talk) 17:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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Islam and humanity

Underscores "_" are substituted for spaces on Wikipedia link URLs. They can be safely (and should be) removed. I took them out of your "See also" link in Islam and humanity Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 03:44, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

It appears you saved your edit to that just before I did! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 03:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

May 2016

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Thank you. Fyddlestix (talk) 06:10, 14 May 2016 (UTC) @Fyddlestix: thanks for the tip :) Martin Van Ballin' (talk) 06:14, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Noble Drew

When I last looked at the sources, this seemed to be actually part of his name rather than an honorific. You might want to check. Thanks for your work. Doug Weller talk 08:04, 14 May 2016 (UTC) @Doug Weller: Thanks for catching that, I didn't realize that. Apologies for any inconvenience I caused, thanks for fixing it back! Martin Van Ballin' (talk) 18:16, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Jim1138. An edit you recently made to Gender neutrality seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 00:13, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Maiden and married names

The first sentence of the source states "for many". If "for many" isn't supported, is "for some"? There are numerous sources given in the source. Is that not support enough? Jim1138 (talk) 06:00, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Question: does someone need to go through each of your edits? Jim1138 (talk) 06:06, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

@Jim1138: The source didn't seem authoritative, and didn't actually state what "many" means. I thought it didn't fit, but I'll read up more on Wiki source guidelines. What would be the ideal way to handle this, when the site is blog like, or editorial? One of the linked sources states 90% of women take the name, and the only source for saying "many" face a "difficult decision" was that the author saw several forum posts of women asking if they should take the name. Martin Van Ballin' (talk) 06:51, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Unicode 9.0 Templates

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Sorry, can you link to that rule? I wasn't aware of it. Thanks Martin Van Ballin' (talk) 19:31, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

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