User talk:Catsmoke

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Agnes Newton Keith[edit]

Hi Jesse/OlYeller, and thanks for your note. Stop apologising - anyone would think you're British! Your edit to ANK was very timely as it started me thinking, and I realised that according to the MOS I should have written in American English - so thanks for alerting me. It felt very odd writing '-ized' rather than '-ised', and 'adviser' rather than 'advisor', amongst others: try writing in British English and you'll see what I mean. I kept expecting the teacher's ruler to thwack down on my fingers. Later last evening I was really taken to task for my non-American punctuation, so it's been a steep learning curve! And thank-you for your kind words about my efforts - it's always nice to be appreciated, isn't it? Cheers Jasper33 23:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Old Yeller[edit]

Thanks for your complements as to my Old Yeller plot summary. I read the book two years ago, and it's still one of my favorites! Geohevy 21:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

to do[edit]

Military of Iceland Nikola_Pasic Filibuster (military)

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 19:18, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Catsmoke! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Starbucks that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Ptrnext (talk) 07:30, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ptrnext: Thank you for your guidance. I'd no idea that "minor edit" had any substantive meaning. Now I know better, and I shall change my behavior accordingly. I apologize for having erred. —catsmoke ^talk 11:26, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2012 Benghazi attack[edit]

I have done my best to address your concerns there, however in light of the recent U.S. State Department report, some sources need to be produced in order to balance the view that this was an 'attack by terrorists'. I did remove a bunch of superfluous media hype about investigations to concentrate on the actual findings. Please drop by and let us know if you think we're headed in the right direction. ClaudeReigns (talk) 09:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will do, thank you very much. Analogdrift (talk) 14:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Italicized ship class names[edit]

Hi. I think you should read the WP:SHIPS manual of style again. Ship class names are only italicized if there is a ship name in it. Such as the Vanguard class. Ship classes where a ship name is not involved such as the Hunt class are not italicized. Thanks for your time. Llammakey (talk) 15:18, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thank you, for pointing this out. I've re-read WP:SHIPS and now I understand it better.

it seemed to me that all ship classes were "named after a ship with that specific name"
I did not know that any ship classes were named after "an attribute common to all of the ships of the class"
so, my habit was to italicize them all, and thus I erred

My apologies, for having taken so long, to reply to you. I just saw your message today. You have inspired me to improve, as an editor. I appreciate your input. Catsmoke (talk) 20:55, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

rename/usurped[edit]

Hi, FYI, I put in a move request which I think will sort out your username situation. the actual name you use is already correct it's just (I think) that your user talk page was not moved when your account was renamed. (and during the earlier rename to make way for your usurpation the previous user's user talk was moved leaving behind a redirect which I can't move over on my own. cc @Catsmoke: --Jeremyb (talk) 05:01, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ok, done, are you still seeing "usurped" anywhere? --Jeremyb (talk) 05:14, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Whack!

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Kusarigama[edit]

Thanks for the rewrite. I was planning on submitting the article to the copy-editors group, but the backlog takes a while for them to get through. SL93 (talk) 01:18, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You are most welcome. And may I note that the original was well-written in itself, and its diction had many outstanding qualities. I hope that my edits did not leave the impression that the original was composed of writing of an inferior quality, for it was not. This was a case of refining gold ore into pure gold. catsmoke (talk) 03:46, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Help me![edit]

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Please help me with...

A few months ago—I think it was September or October 2021—there was a call for photographs of US National Historic Sites. I characterize it as a "call" because there was a banner asking for users to participate in the submission of photos of Historic Sites.

I went to one of the sites and took some photos, and I am just now ready to upload those photos.

My question is: How can I access the page where these photos were requested? That is, I want these photos to go to the correct place, and for them to fulfil their intended purpose—to provide photos of a Historic Site that was on the list of requested Sites. The Site itself does not have an article of its own. How can I be sure that I to upload these photos in such a way that they meet their main purpose of illustrating their corresponding Historic Site? catsmoke (talk) 21:43, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you're referring to Wiki Loves Monuments 2021. During that time, people were asked to upload photos to Wikimedia Commons. The event is closed and there's no need to upload any more, though you're certainly welcome to upload any you have here. Naleksuh (talk) 22:27, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. catsmoke (talk) 22:53, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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