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CS1 error on Peter Hutton (media executive)

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CS1 error on Peter Hutton (media executive)

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Nomination of Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament final for deletion

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Joseph2302 (talk) 10:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for March 29

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March 2024

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Article spelling/format

I would ask you to stop forcing 'Oxford spelling' onto articles that you're editing, often with associated changes to the spelling within the articles themselves. Changing the format or style within an article goes contrary to WP:RETAIN and is specifically deprecated editing, without an argument based on WP:TIES achieved through discussion and consensus. Looking at some of your recent edits, in amongst the many auto-generated ones is a stream of changes that meet the deprecated activity described in the Manual of Style as "enforcing optional style in a bot-like fashion without prior consensus", and this needs to stop, please. Thank you in anticipation MapReader (talk) 09:49, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I apologize for that. May ask you a question? If let's say I encounter an article written in American English and has the date format "DMY", could I change either one of two for consistency? Or is it against the manual? Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 10:43, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

No, you can’t. Date format and spelling/style format aren’t necessarily linked, even though the US is pretty much the only country using MDY. Leave the style and date format of articles alone, unless there is reason to change them per TIES or RETAIN. MapReader (talk) 16:09, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok. To clarify more, can I add date format and spelling/style format to articles that don't have it to uniformize the article? Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 16:48, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Only if that reflects the existing state of the article. Adding tags for American or British English or DMY or MDY to articles that are already in that format is fine, per RETAIN. What isn’t OK is for you to arbitrarily change the format to Oxford spelling - as you have done multiple times without any explanation, at the same time forcing Oxford spelling edits into the article. Who do you think you are deciding that all these articles need to be in Oxford spelling? It’s a minority spelling package, rarely used in both the US and UK, and doesn’t merit widespread use in WP. MapReader (talk) 18:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Ok it's all clear now. By the way I don't think it's necessary to say "Who do you think you are". I didn't mean to make those changes in a provocative way. Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 19:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Blake Hamilton

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Trivial edits

Hi! Please don't make edits like this one, which made no difference to the displayed text of the article – they clutter up watchlists and do nothing to improve the encyclopaedia. In particular, please don't do so using AWB – these edits are specifically disallowed under Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser#Rules of use #4, Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. You should be aware that a number of editors have found themselves unable to edit after persistently making edits of this kind. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Correction: your edit did include one small useful change, my apologies; it's all the other pointless changes that you'd do well to drop. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:29, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

November 1st is an unacceptable date format per MOS:BADDATE, so my edit that included November 1st → November 1 is perfectly fine, there was absolutely no reason to revert it. Also, I am using AWB with the "skip if only minor genfixes" option activated, so I only make changes that DO make a difference to the displayed text of the article. Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 10:32, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Travis Hansen

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CS1 error on Shahrud District

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Acts of Parliament lists

AWB is mangling the tables when you use it on the lists of acts of Parliament, moving random line items around. Please do not use it on these pages if it is incapable of working with the format. Please also review your changes when you make them. Mauls (talk) 21:51, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Eastbourne (UK Parliament constituency)

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Genfixes and page numbers

Edits like this are incorrect, as a single page is quoted, not a range, as can be seen if you follow the link and look at the page cited . There is certainly no excuse for you to repeat this error once it has been reverted with an edit summary explaining it. Please look what you are doing rather than blindly carrying out bot like edits using AWB - you are still responsible for edits when you use AWB.Nigel Ish (talk) 20:41, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi. I sincerely apologize for that. I'm going to try and avoid em dashes fixes with AWB.

Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 21:34, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks & a request

@Mazewaxie: Thank you for your recent edit on The Market Opportunity Navigator. I am aware that there is a huge backlog of new pages waiting to be reviewed. Would you please review the page? Many thanks. Particleshow22 (talk) 22:52, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Redirects

Hello,

I am concerned that you have nominated so many redirects for deletion in such a short time, and I'm not sure you're wholly familiar with the criteria for keeping and deleting redirects _pbp 16:15, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi. Why do you think that I'm not familiar with the criteria? I genuinely think that my nominations are appropriate. Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 20:33, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

"No page links here" isn't sufficient rationale for deletion of a redirect so IDK why you keep bringing it up. You also used the same deletion rationale over and over again _pbp 21:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

I used the same rationale because I thought it would be enough, since they all were similar cases. By the way I don't get your "keep" opinion on "LeOld LeBald Le4and6". That's got to be one of the most random redirects ever created lmao Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 21:08, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Celtic

You are experienced enough an editor to know that when an edit is questioned and reverted, you don't just revert it a second time and attempt to communicate your thoughts in edit summaries. Please take the discussion to the talk page. Your edit is misplaced because it talks about Celtic's stay in the top league before mentioning them starting in it. There is also a list of Celtic's achievements later in the lead, some of them more notable than this. If they can wait until the second paragraph, I'm sure this can too. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 06:34, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

You are right. It's fine for you if I move it after "They played their first match in May 1888, a friendly match against Rangers which Celtic won 5–2."? Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 09:55, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

It might actually work best as the text on the diagram of Celtic's league postions. That illustrates what it says. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 15:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

That would be appropriate, but I think it may be too long for a caption. Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 17:27, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Request

Thank you for creating an article for Jacques Ferran. Would you please initiate an article for Emmanuel Gambardella then I will expand it. Thanks in advance. 2A02:908:454:1660:0:0:0:D517 (talk) 12:36, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

There you go: Emmanuel Gambardella. And thank you for expanding the Jacques Ferran article. Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 12:53, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Cheers, mate! Another request pls, an article for Augusto César Lendoiro, as agreed before. Can I also ask for more articles as well? if yes, here is my list: