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Daimler DS420

Are you aware that you are busily changing British English to, I presume California English? Eddaido (talk) 23:28, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

@Eddaido: I'm busily trying to make the article clearer and more concise. What changes constitute California English? Some of those terms can be changed back, if necessary. However, there is a lot there that can stand improvement from a grammatical and compositional standpoint. I'm not new to editing British English articles nor am I unacquainted with fine old English car restorations. Dhtwiki (talk) 23:36, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

I think you are busily changing things to things you think other Californians will understand. Am I wrong? Please understand that the article which is about a car has been covered over with what I gather North Americans call Cruft. Sometime it is clear you do not understand what you are doing. I will go back over it when you are finished. Eddaido (talk) 23:38, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020 GOCE blitz bling

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 15:00, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Archiving active links

Please stop removing these. The option was put in the tool for a reason. I've had to deal with too many links that became dead - one I had put in, and I didn't archive it because I didn't know how to do it then, and now it's gone forever. Even tbe owner of the small site where it was doesn't have it, I asked. Sure, most of the archiving is never going to be used and it makes the file very slightly bigger. But the payoff sometimes is enormous. So please leave them alone. Thank you, deisenbe (talk) 21:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

@Deisenbe: I've given a detailed response at Talk:John Brown (abolitionist). That post mentioned but didn't emphasize that creating archive links doesn't create the archive, as you may be thinking here. It's not like making backups. As for what you "lost", were those irreplaceable documents relating to Wikipedia? And how can you be sure, with all the backing up by various systems and users making their own private copies, that such material is "gone forever"? Dhtwiki (talk) 19:47, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

John Brown (abolitionist) hatnotes

Hi,

The reasoning behind the edits you corrected here is that these aren't "hatnotes" in that they're invisible. Stacking visible and invisible templates side-by-side has a nasty habit of introducing excessive whitespace if one is not careful. Furthermore, neither of these templates really impacts article editors; one just adds a non-mandatory lock notice, and the other is primarily for the sake of bots which wouldn't be able to readily divine the correct English variant from a skim of the subject. There's no real strong consensus either way as to where these go, but I do habitually get them out of the way of the lead as the more curly-bracket junk at the top of articles the more difficult it is for inexperienced editors to dive in. I'm not reverting but wanted to give you a heads-up. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 15:22, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Thumperward and Dhtwiki, please see MOS:ORDER, where there is a confusing note saying that "English variety and date style" templates can go at the top or the bottom. I suppose this means that they should not be moved from one place to the other unless there is consensus at an article or project level. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:40, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Rather than wasting our time on an entirely civil discussion about actual policy, why not cluebat Attic Salt (talk · contribs) for obvious MOS violations? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 21:41, 22 September 2020 (UTC)