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Thanks for doing some much-needed copy-editing! Mak (talk) 21:01, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

As Mak says, copyediting is welcome, but please ensure you follow Wikipedia's style guide, particularly when it comes to quote marks and punctuation - see WP:MOS#Quotation marks. Punctuation marks should only be placed inside the quote marks when it is part of the quote itself. I've just spent some time undoing a number of your changes to Henry Purcell becuase of this. Thanks, David Underdown 09:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Punctuation and Quotations

Hola! I have the same problem that you do. I want to move the closed quote outside the punctuation mark, but since this is an international English encyclopedia, they apparently like the British style better, versus the American. See:

• Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotations_marks
• Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punctuation
• Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotations

I am having trouble with this one myself....carry on. WikiDon 19:13, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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Wegener's

Thanks for copyediting Wegener's granulomatosis. I note that you saved your work after every edit. You might want to consider making multiple changes in the same edit, and using show preview if necessary if you want to admire the results. JFW | T@lk 21:16, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Packard

At Packard, you should incorporate {{multiple image}} so you can get some of the images from the gallery into the article like we do at Trump International Hotel & Tower (Chicago).--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Pages

This is starting to get depressing. I've been doing a lot of editing on random articles (writing seems to be a lost art), and I'm discovering that many of them have been lifted directly from other Web pages. Is this really what Wikipedia is supposed to be about? Ronaldomundo (talk) 13:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Mind you that sometimes other pages copy Wikipedia; it can be difficult to spot the difference. Best alert others on the talk page if you suspect such abuse. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

References

{{helpme}} I would like to find out how to correct typos in references. Thanks!

• The same way you correct typos anywhere else on a page. Click the "edit" tab and fix the typo. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 13:05, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

References 2

{{helpme}} That's if there is actual type there. But what if it says merely, "reflist" (enclosed in double braces)? Where is that list?

Look for where the little ^[2] or whatever is that refers to the bottom. Edit that bit, as that's where the actual reference is. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 13:16, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

References 3

{{helpme}} Okay, apparently I need to be more specific. Say I'm editing the article entitled "Great Pyramid Monument," and I want to put a space between the "Niermann," and the "I." in the first reference. I click on "edit," and in the edit window is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, but not the actual copy. Where would I find said copy? Thanks for your patience.

• Fixed it. You should have been looking for something that has <ref>Nierman,I.</ref> somewhere in it. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 13:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

• Edit conflict: Inline references are just that - inline. The <references/> or {{reflist}} tags just indicate where they should all appear on the page. The actual reference can be found at the point of text where the number appears: in the case of the Great Pyramid Monument, that's in the "Background" section. In a nutshell: edit the part of the article where the number of the reference in question appears. WilliamH (talk) 13:46, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Style

Hi,

you've made some good changes to lung cancer; however, I'd like you to think very carefully before using the ";" sign to join 2 sentences. It might seem better to you, but it might lengthen sentences and thus increase reading level, which Wikipedia tries to keep as simple as possible.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:18, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Buckethead

Thank you for your contributions to Buckethead, I highly appreciate them. Since they are only style related I guess you don't know the artist or at least not much. If I'm wrong I'd like to invite you to join our project. Again, thank you.--Avant-garde a clue-hexaChord² 18:51, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Tables

{{helpme}} Hi! I'm in the midst of editing the article on the state of Vermont, and I want to increase the column widths for the "temperatures" table so that the type fits better. How do I do that? Thanks!

Could you provide a link to the page and specify which table, please? I can either make the edit and show you the diff or explain how to do it so you can do it yourself. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 18:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Here's the coding for the first column of the table:

{| class="wikitable" "text-align:center"
|+ Monthly normal and record high and low temperatures
|-
! Month
! Jan
! Feb
! Mar
! Apr
! May
! Jun
! Jul
! Aug
! Sep
! Oct
! Nov
! Dec
|}

Simply add the code in pixels or percentage width="40"| or width="12%"|

{| class="wikitable" "text-align:center"
|+ Monthly normal and record high and low temperatures
|-
! Month
! width="40"| Jan
! width="40"| Feb
! width="40"| Mar
! width="40"| Apr
! width="40"| May
! width="40"| Jun
! width="12%"| Jul
! width="12%"| Aug
! width="12%"| Sep
! width="12%"| Oct
! width="12%"| Nov
! width="12%"| Dec
|}

A percentage will change the width on all sized monitors so it fits to that particular pecentage of the screen, where as pixels will be the same width on all sized monitors. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 19:11, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Good evening,

Thanks for the copy editing you did at Virgil Fox. Just a friendly reminder: don't forget to write an edit summary before saving your edits.

Thanks!

—BMRR (talk) 23:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, as you forgot on your recent edit to Iron Eyes Cody‎. Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 14:23, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Pretty please? – ukexpat (talk) 14:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. The recommendation at H:FIES is Always fill in the summary field . I assume that's for minor edits too. It is useful when looking at one's watchlist. . – ukexpat (talk) 15:00, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

• Forgive my recent revert, it didn't look constructive in the diff window. However, an edit summary would definitely be useful in the future. –xeno (talk) 20:06, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Your copy-editing is appreciated, however. :-) DoubleBlue (talk) 20:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Punctuation and quotation marks

Hello... first off, thank you for all the hard work you've put into cleaning up articles. This is all too often unappreciated, but nevertheless an essential part of the process. However, one point to keep in mind: punctuation does not go inside quotation marks when the marks are surrounding titles (such as for films or TV series) or nicknames. (This is per the style guide, specifically Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks and Wikipedia:Logical quotation.) Please feel free to ask if you have questions about this. Thanks. --Ckatz^chat_spy 21:52, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply; however, there are a few concerns with what you have said about your approach to punctuation:

• "I know my practice contravenes the Style Guide"

I can understand your concerns; there are aspects of the MoS that irk me as well, as they differ from my customary style. However, the rules governing punctuation (as with most aspects of the MoS) serve to provide a consistent format across the entire project. As such, we do not custom-tailor punctuation to specific articles. If you have an issue with aspects of the guide, the proper approach would be to bring it up at the Style Guide discussion pages, rather than on a page-by-page basis.

• "several billion people have the ability to change my stuff to suit themselves"

It is one thing if you choose to use punctuation that does not conform to the Manual of Style when you create text, such as in a new article. While it would be best to use the correct version from the start, other editors will eventually come along and adjust your new material to properly reflect the site standard. However, it is an entirely different matter to deliberately change existing punctuation away from the correct standard, as this just creates unnecessary work for others. (In the case of "MASH", I've had to spend a good twenty minutes sorting through all of your changes to individually revert the punctuation.)

In the long term, this will benefit your editing on Wikipedia... I happened to have the time to look through your changes and repair the punctuation issues, leaving the rest intact. However, it is likely that if you continue to make changes such as these, you will encounter situations where editors just revert the entire edit if they do not have the time to sift through each and every change. --Ckatz^chat_spy 19:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Tony Blair

Thank you for you good work(copy edit) at this article. Very appreciated. (Off2riorob (talk) 16:39, 27 June 2009 (UTC))

Requested move

User:Ronaldomundo → NewName — I was trying to change the title of the article from "Schrödinger's cat" to "Schrödinger's Cat", but something went awry. Help! Thanks. Ronaldomundo (talk) 19:05, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Schrödinger's cat

It's now back where it was. Please see WP:NC#Lowercase second and subsequent words in titles regarding capitalization of article names. --Old Moonraker (talk) 20:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring

If your edits are reverted, as in loudspeaker, the expected response is to discuss on the talk page, not to re-apply them again without comment. SpinningSpark 20:12, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

You seem to habitually use the edit summary "Minor punctuation, spelling, and grammar corrections", but this does not accurately describe what you have been doing to this article. Most of your edits are style changes, many of which are changes to the variety of English. See WP:ENGVAR to understand why it is wrong to do this and before you do any more. In some cases you have caused a wikilink to redirect, eg aluminum and midrange speaker, this is also bad practice. You might also want to take a look at WP:Words to avoid#Clearly, actually, obviously, of course and the comments on the article talk page. Thanks, SpinningSpark 15:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel you have to leave, that is certainly not the result I wanted or intended. If you change your mind I am sure there is still a lot of useful work you could do here. SpinningSpark 18:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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