Your GA nomination of Chinese characters

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The article Chinese characters you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Chinese characters for comments about the article, and Talk:Chinese characters/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kusma -- Kusma (talk) 17:23, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply



Anyway, you deserve an award:

  The Half Million Award
For your contributions to bring Chinese characters (estimated annual readership: 500,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! —Kusma (talk) 10:52, 25 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
I've said it more than enough, but one more time: I literally could not have asked for a better GAN reviewer, and I learned way more in the process than I even expected with your help. The article is really something I can be proud of in part thanks to you. Since I've looked at it far too much since October, I figure a FAC can start happening after I can look at it with fresh eyes. Remsense 10:55, 25 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Congratulations!!! Thank you for your hard work. Go take a break. Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 14:16, 25 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
This is a great achievement btw, congratulations and thank you! 104.232.119.107 (talk) 03:40, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oh, thank you! That really means a lot. There's a bit more I want to buff out, but it means a lot to hear others have been enriched by it. Remsense 03:42, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

June music

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story · music · places

Thank you for the Chinese characters! - Franz Kafka died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

All wonderful! Thank you Gerda. :) Remsense 17:38, 4 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. Today's story is about an extraordinary biography, Peter Demetz. - I uploaded a few more pics but leave the link, because there's a new one of Graham and his mother who liked it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:30, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Today's story is about a tune used by Bach and Mozart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Today I wanted to write a happy song story, on a friend's birthday, but instead we have the word of thunder on top of it, which would have been better on 2 June, this year's first Sunday after Trinity. The new lilypond - thanks to DanCherek - is quite impressive. As my 2 Jun story said: Bach was fired up. - Today's Main page is rich in music, also Franz Liszt and a conductor. Compare Liszt and Schumann: which difference do you see in the infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Your DYK about Chinese characters is brilliant! I hope I'll get to the PR. Would you have time for Schumann? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Today is "the day" for James Joyce, also for Bach's fourth chorale cantata (and why does it come before the third?) - the new pics have a mammal I had to look up. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:44, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
New pics of food and flowers come with the story of Noye's Fludde (premiered on 18 June), written by Brian Boulton. I nominated Éric Tappy because he died, and it needs support today! I nominated another women for GA in the Women in Green June run, - review welcome, and more noms planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:50, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for improving article quality in June! - Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:49, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that everyone can participate in. I only corrected the errors in the header and updated the new content, but never deleted your content. I also carefully read the hidden content. Please cherish the fruits of others' labor. You must also read the errors in the entry summary. Thank you for your understanding. Moreover, in the introduction, how could you think of the item involving GDP as "municipality"? How can the "GDP" data indicator be related to "municipality"? If you still don't understand, you can read other excellent entries. I am more concerned about the two English entries about Beijing and Guangdong. One is the capital of the country and the provincial administrative region with the highest per capita GDP, and the other is the province with the largest economic size in China. The content and quality need to be improved, and I have been trying to supplement them. Thank you again for your understanding. You can make comments on the entries but you cannot delete the content added by others without authorization. This is disrespectful to others. User:Cncs wikipedia 20:46 UTC June 13, 2024

  • Just now I saw that you have revoked all my updates and additions. It should be stated that all data are preliminary data, and they have been reviewed and officially released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, and the data are credible. Even if it is revised again later, it will not deviate too much from the existing data. Moreover, including the revised data officially announced by the provinces and the whole country, it will be revised again after the national economic census every five years. As long as the data is official, it is reliable. For the provincial and important city entries, first, I updated the latest data in 2023; second, I corrected the display errors caused by the previous editor, such as the Guangdong entry; third, I corrected the data errors caused by the previous editor, such as the Jiangsu entry. You cannot revoke other people's edits at will, just as I cannot revoke your edits at will. Moreover, I only pay attention to it in order to correct errors. I hope you can understand. User:Cncs wikipedia 21:19 UTC June 13, 2024

June 2024

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You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Russian Civil War) for a period of 3 months for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.
During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:07, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
 
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Remsense (block logactive blocksglobal blockscontribsdeleted contribsfilter logcreation logchange block settingsunblockcheckuser (log))


Request reason:

As I said before, I think my previous 24-hour block was correct. Following it, an RFC on the page has made consensus clear. That's an important distinction: with that in mind, I do not think I've done anything wrong. What was I meant to have done differently? I've messaged them on their talk page, there's a very visible ongoing discussion on the article talk page showing clear consensus, and I haven't violated 3RR (knowing that's not coterminous with edit warring, of course). Their edits have to be undone by someone, it shouldn't matter that I'm the one who happens to catch it first. Remsense 09:13, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Accept reason:

The original appeal text shown above is probably not convincing, but I won't judge what an uninvolved administrator would have said. I can unblock based on Special:Diff/1228816741, however. Welcome back and feel free to remove these messages; they're not meant to be a wall of shame. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:26, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Remsense, please see the bottom of [1] for a detailed explanation. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Chinese characters

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On 15 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chinese characters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to legend, the invention of Chinese characters (examples pictured) caused grain to rain from the sky and ghosts and demons to wail in frustration? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chinese characters. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chinese characters), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Confusing edit

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Why did you do this? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:List_of_writing_systems&diff=next&oldid=1223794231Justin (koavf)TCM 06:34, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I wouldn't really be able to guess why simply Hieroglyph (which seems to imply its own general category, but redirects to Egyptian hieroglyphs) would be one of three articles listed for an "Overview of writing systems" section. Remsense 06:37, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Gotcha. Thanks. ―Justin (koavf)TCM 07:05, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi I am MD. Mahian Khandakar. I wrote something about The Double (Tv series) but you delete it without any thoughts. I hope you will learn your mistakes.

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You delete my edit without any thoughts. MD . Mahian Khandakar (talk) 15:58, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia is not for your original research, including your interpretations of media. Use sources, and say what the sources say. Remsense 16:00, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think you should do it. huh MD . Mahian Khandakar (talk) 16:01, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

A goat for you!

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I've been seeing you all over Wikipedia lately so I thought that I'd visit and leave a goat here for you to enjoy! Thanks for all your work here (and congrats on the GA/DYK). PS: I love your signature :D!

GoldRomean (talk) 20:06, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much! My breadth sometimes leads to work that isn't my best, but I'm glad other people are seeing it as largely constructive.   Remsense 03:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Philosophy page

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Let me preface my message by saying I admire your commitment to helping other Wikipedia editors and maintaining pages. I noticed you reverted a recent edit of mine, citing no improvement as the reason. In my edit I reworded a sentence and changed "like" to "such as" and I was surprised you couldn't see my reason for doing so because I thought it would be relatively apparent to skilled writers. I disagree with your claim that my edit made no improvement. "Like" is colloquial and is thus ill-suited for a page talking about such a serious topic as philosophy, while "such as", especially when used with the category noun in the middle, is several notches higher in register. I teach college writing, and this kind of stuff is taught to undergraduate students as they learn to write formally and academically. There are numerous academic and nonacademic sources online that talk about things like this. For example see Cambridge. Pomodecon (talk) 01:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

This use of "like" is not colloquial; it is perfectly ordinary English. If you need external confirmation of that, the OED doesn't list it as such. Remsense 10:22, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
1. Cite the OED page please. Make sure to include the relevant text, because I (and other people) may not have access to it. 2. That flies in the face of not only established writing and editing convention but also countless sources. 3. Any reason at all you think the OED, which is behind a paywall, is more reliable than other freely accessible online sources, including Cambridge? Pomodecon (talk) 06:07, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Because I'm a Boat Race partisan, clearly. I'm not going to argue with you at length about it. There's a reason this very common usage isn't explicitly proscribed as colloquial in the Manual of Style. Remsense 06:13, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
"Arguing"? That's some highly charged language. Well you are the one making a far-fetched claim that contradicts almost all usage sites, and when prompted, failed to produce a reliable source to back up your claim. I on the other hand gave you a reliable source right off the bat. Pomodecon (talk) 06:28, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
(I'll argue a little bit, but this is all you'll get.)

which is behind a paywall

You know this doesn't matter per WP:PAYWALL.
OED:
like1
A. having some or all of the qualities of another, each other, or an original. B. resembling in some way, such as
And here's Collins as a bonus also not marked as colloquial:
like1
[...] such as: a modern material, like carbon fibre
Remsense 06:31, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

You know this doesn't matter per WP:PAYWALL.

The Wikipedia page you cited is immaterial in this case, as it is about verifiability. I am not sure if you are unable to discern different statements, or you are, subconsciously or otherwise, lumping them together. If anything I'm the one who suggested you do what that Wikipedia policy page says by telling you to cite a paywalled source clearly so that other people can see and verify it.
Just because there's no "colloquial" tag in the two sources you saw doesn't mean it is in the same register as "such as" or has the same level of formality. The OED editors never purported to have included everything in their dictionary.
Cambridge, in case you didn't bother to check: "Such as is similar to like for introducing examples, but it is more formal, and is used more in writing than like"

Italics

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Hi there. If anything, MOS:WAW seems to support my edit. It says Use italics when writing about words as words, and even specifically A technical or other jargon term being introduced is often being mentioned as a word rather than (or in addition to) playing its normal grammatical role; if so, it should be italicized. Wolfdog (talk) 13:31, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would say this could be the case for genealogical relationship, but not genetic relationship in the paragraph in question. It looks very odd to italicize the former but not the latter, though. Remsense 13:34, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, that's why I did both. Would you only budge on my italicizing geneaological then? Wolfdog (talk) 15:16, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thoughts? Wolfdog (talk) 09:55, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not a word for years of the supposed "Uyghur genocide."

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What's even the point? You care so much about the Chinese culture, but don't care about the shit that actually matter. I get that you care about the integrity of Wikipedia, but you do realize it still has a heavily western slant, right? Great on you for being a cog in the machine. You'll totally go far in life with that NPC mindset. Let's check back in twenty years. Oh wait. You're still a random editor in Wikipedia. If you are Asian, it will be even more hilarious. NPCs never make it far. HahaNormal (talk) 11:11, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Etruscan civ

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Hello
The old section mostly dealt with Historiography (and revisionism) rather than Archaeology (i.e. Pelasgians vs Autochthonous etc.) an issue well taken care of in both sections 'Origins' and especially (new) 'Genetics'. I decided to re-organize said section with an Archaeological focus i.e. new burial structures and new influences (Orientalization) vs prev. Villanova etc. if you wish to maintain the older section then a fusion would be best, but i think there is very little in the old with an Arhcaeological focus. Agilulf2007 (talk) 14:08, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Edit reversal

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Why did you reverse my edit on mind, what was the issue?

Edart6 (talk) 16:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Generally, it was not an improvement to the prose. Specifically, encyclopedic writing should normally avoid the first person. Remsense 16:25, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
It's also unacceptable to tag edits as minor which may be controversial—as yours obviously was, since I had just reverted it. Remsense 16:57, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject China Dragon Star Award

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  WikiProject China Dragon Star Award
For your exemplary contributions to the project, particularly articles related to Chinese culture. Yue🌙 06:55, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! I've very much been spinning my wheels lately and this helped give me a shot of energy to resume working on big projects in this space. You are very much a valued collaborator. :) Remsense 12:49, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Gwoyeu Romatzyh under Featured Article Review

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I have nominated Gwoyeu Romatzyh for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. George Ho (talk) 21:48, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Appropriate tone in the Mnong people

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I think the information in the Mnong people article "People used to consider the Mnong in the south and the Sedang in the north were the two most combative races in the Central Highlands." - that you reverted - is a praise not a blame, somehow similar to "they were the two most elite warrior races of the Central Highlands". It is about their old periods - their history, when they fought regularly, killed invaders, even captured people from other races to sold as slaves. Leemyongpak (talk) 01:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I suppose this does not necessarily come across to a general audience that lacks adequate context—thank you for the elaboration. Remsense 12:48, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

What's going on here?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Agilulf2007 and see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Doug_Weller#c-Tursclan-20240626123600-Personal_attack_and_edit_war

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Tursclan&diff=prev&oldid=1231091170

I haven't looked at it yet and it would save me time to actually write User:Doug Weller/Pinxton Castle which I need to finish by chemo July 4th if you have any insights. My first thought was attribution and sources. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 12:46, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'll take a look! Remsense 12:47, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Seek consensus with me

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You said yet another undiscussed map which is strange considering that map I used is in the 3rd Tang dynasty emperor wiki's page, for many years.

Here. I provided evidence and everything. I want to see if I now have approval to change that incorrect 661 that doesn't show even the territories of Eastern Turks(Gokturks) that submitted to Emperor Gaozong of Tang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tang_dynasty#I_request_a_change_for_the_incorrect_661_A.D_map_when_highest_extend_was_669_A.D HabichuelasBeans (talk) 20:41, 27 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

This map has been deliberated intensely for months and years by editors of the article and it is firmly sourced; I wouldn't get your hopes up for changing it because we have very good reasons for it being the way it is. Remsense 20:59, 27 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reversion Normandy

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Hello Remsense, I got a question: Can you explain me the reason why you are reversing my edit in the page about Normandy? I checked that policy, but I didn't see about battle result, can you tell me about that? I realized that in a disagreement it's better to negotiate to understand more than being stubborn, so please, explain me. Mr. Information1409 (talk) 00:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Right! Yes, there's a bit more on that page than I remembered. I created the WP:RESULT shortcut earlier to point more precisely to the passage in question—sorry about that—and now I get to use it. Basically, the |result= parameter shouldn't contain anything but "X victory", "Inconclusive", possibly in tandem with a "See § Aftermath" section link.
Also, equally minor, linking consecutive terms in a geographical locations is generally considered overlinking: Normandy, France, but not Normandy, France.
Cheers, thanks for reaching out to ask. Remsense 00:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I have an idea; can I describe the result based on the reference that it's stated in French victory? As it was in previous reversions, like this one: Invasion of Normandy by Philip II of France Where it can be stated as the Angevins lose Normandy, Anjou, and Maine to France and are annexed into the crown lands of France but retain Aquitaine. So basically, my intention in putting about the loss of Normandy was based on a reference, so can you consider this= Mr. Information1409 (talk) 00:44, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

As a side note, FYI ...

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Since you seem like the kind of editor who would care to know: MOS actually doesn't apply to MOS itself (or indeed anything else outside article space). That may seem like a minor point, but it turns out to lend a lot of useful flexibility. In articles we want to present a businesslike look and formal tone, but behind the scenes at MOS, in policies and guidelines, and in essays and so on, we let our hair down. One particular place this shows up is in the ecumenical mix of AmEng and BrEng seen in MOS, even on a single page; see A rolling stone gathers no MOS. EEng 20:11, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sure! I was already aware of that in principle, but was tongue-in-cheekily using "MoS" as synedoche for "best common practices noted in the MoS", if that makes sense. Thanks for checking in any case!   Remsense 20:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
You shouldn't feel bad for a moment for that btw—after a certain point I knew perfectly well that I was Icarus waxing his wings.   Remsense 06:26, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to the DCWC!

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July music

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story · music · places

The story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen, and perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and yes that was too much for the Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. - A meeting of two women - the occasion of the cantata - is pictured in our local church. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:42, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021. It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Libuše Domanínská, the subject of yesterday's story, would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA and Lando Bartolini went to the Main page. I made my story about his almost unbelievable career, from Luigi in Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968 (with a nod to Liberty) up to Calaf in Turandot in Beijing in 1999 ;) - 4 July is also the birthday of Brian Boulton who was a pioneer of a concise infobox in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:19, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:36, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Proper nouns are "the"

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It would be inappropriate for me to address you as "The Remsense"; proper nouns in general do not take "the." Rare exceptions do exist, but CDL is not one of those rare exceptions. It's already a problem that Wenlin named their product "Character Description Language" when that's a generic description of a category that also includes others; it looks like an attempt by them to stake a claim on the entire category, like a software company naming a product "Word Processor" to create deliberate confusion with other word processors. We don't need to contribute to that confusion by adding a "the" to make Wenlin's CDL sound like it has special status over other CDLs. However, if you really think it's necessary to refer to it with a "the," I think it would be reasonable to do that if the name were qualified (as in "the Wenlin Character Description Language") to make clear that it's specifically the Wenlin product being referred to and not one universal CDL above other CDLs. 2607:FEA8:1280:5D00:0:0:0:B2A (talk) 23:34, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Proper names are often derived from phrasal descriptors. These are usually preceded with the definite article, but the definite article is not part of the name itself. I suppose it's common for technical standards with fairly generic descriptors as proper names often aren't. The MoS does not (and probably should not) mention this, so I'll demure. Remsense 23:58, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Why revert my edits?

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I seen you reverting two of my edits for being "not an improvement" on 2024-07-05 09:18:45 and 2024-07-05 09:22:32. The reasons you give for reverting my edits are of personal opinion, not community consensus. Why are you doing this? 6516' 09:55, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Were the reasons you had for making them something more profound than "you thought they would make the page better"? I disagreed and thought they made the pages worse, and gave concrete reasons why. These relatively minor back-and-forths over subtle details happen all the time, they're part of the consensus and editing processes. You're perfectly entitled to disagree, but I'm not quite sure if I'm being accused of misconduct or not. Remsense 10:06, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your reversion

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You reverted a grammatically correct edit and reverted back to an incorrect verion. Empires do not refer to empires, only the term empire refers to empires. Terms go between quotation marks. Cheers. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 18:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's not quite that simple. We are constantly struggling with the use–mention distinction, but really we have very few articles that are about terms as such. For almost any article, just about the last thing you want to do is put quote marks around the term in the lead sentence. Almost any other solution is better, even a grammatically incorrect one if it gets closer to a proper fix. Remsense 18:19, 7 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Browser compatibility

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Hi @Remsense, I tried both Chrome and Samsung, but both browsers show the exact same misalignment. Infogiraffic (talk) 21:13, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Would you consider posting a screenshot so I can see what it looks like? Remsense 21:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I will come back on this later. Infogiraffic (talk) 21:30, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Remsense, here you have it: https://snipboard.io/mos6C4.jpg. Infogiraffic (talk) 09:12, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oh, I see! I think I know how to fix it, I'll let you know when I finish. Remsense 20:58, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Seleucid empire map

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Regarding the map you deleted, I understand there are roughly five maps of the Seleucid Empire. However, this particular map was significant because it depicted the empire's borders at the beginning of its decline, also their new territory and important cities at that time. For comparison, the Dacian Kingdom page has approximately ten maps. Could I please re-add this map to facilitate discussion? BalcanVali (talk) 20:01, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

A discussion would be great, but it's really important that every claim made in an article is verifiable in a reliable source: that includes claims made in maps about territorial boundaries. I recommend starting a talk page discussion there in any case. Remsense 20:55, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please stop your threats and bullying tactics

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Funny how you just bully me. I added a new source but you will probably complain more… Why dont you care about sources for “drop chess, mad chess, reinforcement chess and turnabout chess) is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced, or dropped, into the game as one's own. It was derived as a two-player, single-board variant of bughouse chess.” Or any of the other thousand plus words on that page. Bullying will not be tolerated. Jeffseid13 (talk) 00:58, 13 July 2024 (UTC)Reply