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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for links on your user page

I used to correct evident errors (spelling etc.) before 2020 as anonymous user without knowing much of WP policies, and proposed changes to articles on talk pages. About then 2020 I created the username mostly to be able to get feedback info on my proposals, and since learned a lot - but far from enough. Because I am more of a causal than prolific editor, that also takes time...

About citations, when I see/saw that info in the article claimed unsupported by template is verifiable, I add citations (including sometimes reverting, or reintroducing; contents deleted for missing citations; it seems I did that carefully and well enough that none of those had been re-reverted yet).

But I didn't yet use templates asking for citations myself often before, and now I came on articles where I think it is needed, and tried for awhile to find again help on using those templates, unsuccessfully til I found link on maintenance on your user page, so thanks for having it (with other useful stuff) there. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 07:40, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Moscow Institute and Oxford comma

I sometimes keep myself busy adding interlanguage links, which recently involved the "Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History". (There were slight variations among the approximately 20 articles that referenced this, e.g. "Institute of" vs. "Institute for"), plus spelling of "Philosophy". The presence or absence of a comma between "Literature" and "History" was the particularly annoying thing, since I wanted to be sure it was used consistently.

I generally prefer the Oxford comma, but I realize this usually the minority position, and a web search showed that only 40% of the hits used the Oxford comma

Nevertheless, it seemed to be quite "irregular" to omit the second comma, so I set up the label in Wikidata to use the Oxford comma and edited the 15 or so articles affected.

Article links are generally unforgiving about variations, so you can either create multiple versions of the link or just get it right when you create the link. To be sure, I really didn't like this without the Oxford comma, and I'm kind of looking for some confirmation of my decision to use the Oxford comma, and least in this instance. Fabrickator (talk) 06:52, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Personally, I am a strong proponent of the Oxford comma. 40% is close enough to half that neither option seems "wrong" in this case. VQuakr (talk) 08:08, 10 June 2024 (UTC)