User talk:John of Reading

Changing apostrophes

Could I ask why you changed all the apostrophes to foot marks in the Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse article? I'm sure there's a specific reason that relates to Wikipedian guidelines. In the world of typography, however, it is a noted faux pas. I'd just really like to know. Thanks. Unionpearl (talk) 13:37, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@Unionpearl: Yes, the Wikipedia guideline is at MOS:PUNCT. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:32, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@John of Reading: Thank you so much. I wish the reason were given, but the guidelines are helpful! Unionpearl (talk) 18:25, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Changes to Check Point page

Hi John, thanks for your prompt and detailed response to my edits. my main intention is to ensure the factual accuracy of the Check Point Portfolio of products. The product section was not updated for a long time and I want to make sure it accurately represents our offering to date (2020) I used an objective and neutral language that has no marketing appeal to it, nor it discusses any superlatives or sales bias. these are mere updates to the actual offerings Check Point delivers today to market Please let me know what is the best way to accurately reflect that Many thanks Rafi Product marketing at Check Point (talk) 09:50, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

@Rafi.kretchmer: Please read through Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations and use the article talk page, Talk:Check Point, to suggest changes to the article. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:27, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi John, I submitted all changes through the Check Point Talk Page Talk:Check Point and provided all relevant references requested per the guidance. Can you please let me know what should be the next step ? Product marketing at Check Point (talk) 09:19, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@Rafi.kretchmer: I've added another {{request edit}} template so that your post gets looked at by one of the editors who specialise in your kind of request. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:33, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

new comment

Hi John, thanks so much for your help and support here. I have edited the request based on great feedback and assistance by Spintendo. as I am new to wikipedia it took me a while to get used to the formatting and I am sure there's still a lot to learn. regarding the change request, after editing it to be purely descriptive of product capabilities, I was surprised to receive a decline message. my question is the following, can't a vendor ensure at least an accurate description of their offering ? I am asking to know what is the policy since other vendors seem to have much more descriptive representation on their pages. I am adding below again my request and hope you will be able to revisit the decline decision

Next Generation Firewall – Running R80.x software, Check Point next generation firewalls and software platforms support small and medium businesses (SMB) to large enterprise data center and carrier-grade environments. Each security gateway includes next generation firewall, IPS, VPN, WAF, SSL, and Data Security (DLP) as well as threat prevention technologies blocking known and unknown cyber-attacks. The security gateways are available as a cloud service, software-only products that can run on standard hardware, or dedicated security gateway hardware appliances.

Rafi.Kretchmer at Check Point 08:52, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your help :-)

Puduḫepa 17:21, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	You're awesome! The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 12:42, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@The Eloquent Peasant: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 15:26, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Italian?

Hello John of Reading! I see that the head ribbon and the side navigation menu of this article are in Italian. In fact everything is in Italian except the page content. In other articles on Italian personalities everything is in English. Can you help? Thanks! Bernardbonvin (talk) 14:04, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Moreover, User:Boja02 changed the link "Italy" to "Kingdom of Italy" in the infobox of the article. Bernardbonvin (talk) 14:38, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bernardbonvin: There are two separate issues here. The sidebar was a software issue affecting many users and many languages, not just Italian. It's discussed at Wikipedia:Help desk#Sidebar changes and the section following that one. Apparently the issue is now fixed, so if you're still seeing the problem, try asking your browser to re-load the page.

The change at Fausto Cercignani is at least arguably correct. Cercignani was born in 1941, and a good way to learn about Italy at that date is to jump to the article about the "Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)". However, the full description of the birth_place parameter, at Template:Infobox person#Parameters says that countries should not normally be linked. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:55, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@John of Reading: Many thanks for your comments! Very instructive, as usual. Bernardbonvin (talk) 18:05, 25 February 2020 (UTC)