User talk:Parsecboy
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Request for advice regarding impending edit war at Musket
I've been rewriting the introductory paragraph at Musket for clarity and to reduce wordiness, as well as adding links to other Wikipedia articles to place developments in the historical timeline. However, another user (Qiushufang) has been reverting them as he seems to have a proprietary attitude towards the article. How should I proceed? GMan552 (talk) 00:54, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- It looks like things might have cooled off - their most recent edit to the page just condensed two of the citations, and they left your edits in place. But if you run into more problems in the future, you might want to break down all of your changes on the talk page and explain one by one why you think they're needed. Ideally, you'd be able to discuss them individually, perhaps agree on some and not on others, but it would at least break a deadlock of simply reverting changes. If that doesn't work, there are places you can post to get other opinions (like at a relevant wikiproject, WP:Firearms or WP:MILHIST in this case, though I don't know how active FIREARMS is these days, so I'd go with MILHIST myself). There are also places to go in the dispute resolution process like WP:3O to get a third opinion. Parsecboy (talk) 12:00, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Many thanks, I will follow your advice re: MILHIST and using talk pages for any future issues GMan552 (talk) 02:32, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
"Uri (Disambiguation)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Uri (Disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 24#Uri (Disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 09:07, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXCVII, August 2022
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HMS etc
Hi PB, I know we don't always agree, and on some things never will. However, we're apparently in complete agreement on the King Charles stuff. I can't believe how far up their own rear ends some people have their own heads! Comments such as "Wikipedia has certainly not covered itself with glory on this matter" have literally laughing out loud, literally. (No that isn't redundant, since literally can also be used figuratively now, it seems!) I'm all for using reliable sources, but where's the common sense? I have yet to be shown any change made to any article that was actually premature, let alone wrong. I'm done arguing over there. But I'm not done laughing at these rules-wonks. BilCat (talk) 21:31, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hey BilCat, yeah, that discussion didn't make a ton of sense. Sure, there are edge cases like statutory entities (though I'd wager a not insignificant amount that they buried some footnote to cover this issue in the bill when they passed it; surely they knew that Elizabeth wasn't going to be around forever, and I can't imagine they'd have left an issue like that to be corrected by an amendment), but those are the minority. We don't need to consult a source to correct Her Majesty's Ship to His Majesty's Ship - you might as well add a {{cn}} tag for "water is wet". And right, I haven't seen any examples where we got it wrong. The whole discussion was a storm in a teacup (and I didn't see the point in continuing to participate after twc decided he needed to make it about me - dunno what his fixation is, but he needs to figure it out and move on). Parsecboy (talk) 12:46, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
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Battleship North Dakota
Thanks for the correction. I misunderstood the section title "Construction – 1917" to mean "construction starting in 1917" rather than "construction through 1917". Since it was laid down in 1907, my "correction" would have been correct, but reading it again I see my mistake. Sorry.