User talk:John5962

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Justmeonhere (talk) 18:11, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries and sources[edit]

Hello, John5962. Your change to content at Aleria was correct, but please make use of the WP:edit summary facility and provide a reliable source for any changes you make. I've found and added a source to confirm the accuracy of your change; best if you do this yourself; unexplained changes, coupled with the lack of sources to verify them can lead to automatic, justified reversion by page-watchers and bots; and wasted effort on your part. Best, Haploidavey (talk) 22:48, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removing cited sources[edit]

You removed the legitimate government source I added to Aleria to support your changes. Please don't ever do that. Haploidavey (talk) 22:53, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sans étiquette[edit]

Hi John, I just saw your stub for Sans étiquette. I was wondering if it may make sense to roll this into Independent Politician instead of having an independent article for the French term. The article on fr wiki seems to do it similar to the en wiki article. Thoughts? Jake Brockman (talk) 14:54, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Sans étiquette[edit]

Hi, I'm Mabalu. John5962, thanks for creating Sans étiquette!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Thanks for this - can you please add sources and citations to show that this has potential to be more than a Wiktionary definition?

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Mabalu (talk) 17:04, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Sans étiquette[edit]

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Sans étiquette. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Independent politician. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Independent politician – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Edit summary[edit]

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please use edit summaries. LibStar (talk) 09:20, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Year ranges[edit]

I notice you've been updating demographic data for a large number of towns, and I commend you for that. However, you have also been editing year ranges, replacing n-dash with a hyphen (the ASCII character that's actually on the keyboard). I want to draw your attention to the Manual of Style: MOS:DATERANGE (also MOS:DASH), which specifies the n-dash as standard in these circumstances. The MOS is "a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow", so these changes are nonstandard and an unnecessary effort. Certainly the n-dash, whether entered literally, via an HTML entity, with {{ndash}}, or through the editor dropdown, is harder to enter, but the visual effect is noticeably more professional. David Brooks (talk) 22:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looking more closely, I can see that the hyphen, being shorter than the n-dash, can prevent a line break in its table cell on a typical-sized browser page. This isn't always the case: the two columns in the infobox can have different widths in different pages for reasons I can't figure out. But I think the hyphen is justified in this case of a narrow field width. I've reverted the "corrections" I made. David Brooks (talk) 21:18, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Apparently, Steve Jobs is NOT dead after all. He is living in Brazil. Check the link:

https://observer.com/2014/08/selfie-sparks-theories-that-steve-jobs-is-alive-hiding-in-brazil/ 81.131.36.98 (talk) 16:12, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please preview, consolidate, and summarize[edit]

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Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric ^talk 23:58, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. A year and a half on, I see that you continue to edit without leaving summaries, which makes more work for your colleagues here. Is there anything about my above message that you have difficultly understanding? Please ask for help if you are having trouble grasping the concepts. Eric ^talk 12:05, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019[edit]

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. This is a collaborative encyclopedia. You have ignored multiple requests to use edit summaries. Do you not think the rest of us deserve that courtesy? Eric ^talk 23:49, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Infoboxes of French communes[edit]

Hi, could you please stop adding minuses to empty fields in the infoboxes of French communes, like you did here and here? It doesn't add any information. Markussep ^Talk 20:07, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

November 2019[edit]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Yvoire. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Please stop your disruptive editing.

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France metadata Wikidata[edit]

Hi, I noticed you're reverting my edits, in which I added the France metadata Wikidata template to infoboxes for communes in France. Why did you do that? Markussep ^Talk 11:28, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you removed the France metadata Wikidata template from several articles again, for instance at Abidos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. While I appreciate that you're updating articles about French communes, I strongly disagree with these edits, because they remove the references for the population figures and create more work for other editors when the populations need to be updated. With {{France metadata Wikidata}}, we can benefit from the automated updates at Wikidata, based on publications from the French statistics office INSEE. I will revert your edits now, and I hope you will refrain from removing the templates again. Markussep ^Talk 06:08, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you have been doing this again, at for instance Abainville and Abancourt, Nord. I will revert your edits, please stop this. Markussep ^Talk 09:58, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Population tables[edit]

Hi, could you check the references you add? The Cassini-Ehess links you added for Abaucourt and Zuani pointed to the data sheet for Aast, Pyrénées-Atlantiques instead, I corrected that. And when you add population figures for years that aren't covered in the existing references, like you did at Abaucourt-Hautecourt, you should add a reference for those data. Markussep ^Talk 08:17, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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