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Done Dab to Mother Jones (magazine) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Done Dab to Daily Mirror — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:25, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish East Indies

Your recent edits:

You have changed <br /> to <br>. That is a change from well-formed html to incorrectly formed.
I don't know why you consider {{plainlist}} to be superior to {{ubl}}, particularly as the leading * you introduced on each line seemingly has no effect. Moreover you have changed the content of some lines.
I don't see any point in removing white space, as it has no effect on rendered page.
Re-ordering of parameters has no effect whatsoever on output.

While I am all in favour of changes which remove a problem, I think ones which just fiddle about on some private whim are just a personal vanity and a complete waste of several people's time. There are many things wrong within Wikipedia, more worthwhile things to attend to, actual problems which require actual fixing.

John of Cromer in Philippines (talk) mytime= Sat 07:22, wikitime= 23:22, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To explain each of these:

<br /> is slightly less easy to read than <br> and the MediaWiki software converts both to well-formed HTML, so it makes no difference which is used in the wikisource (ergo it makes sense to use the easier-to-read version). It has no effect on the rendered page, as you put it ;o)
Similarly {{plainlist}} uses wikisource that is a little easier for editors to read than {{ubl}} does. Also, preview software, such as Popups, ignores the content of templates so, while that's irrelevant here (because we're inside the infobox), {{plainlist}} is generally more useful, imho.
Removing whitespace is a standard part of the functionality of Advisor; there is no need for the whitespace to be there.
Reordering the parameters makes a difference to preview software, such as Popups. With the previous order, the first image on the page is the flag of New Spain; with the reordering, it is the map of the Spanish East Indies. The first image on the page is included with the preview.

Whilst my edits may look like a private whim, they are minor WikiGnome cleanup changes that make small, but (slightly) useful changes. Life's too short to spend time on things that are wholly useless, after all. As you can see from my contributions, I spend a fair amount of my time working on the bigger things, as well as the little ones. "Worthwhile" is a subjective judgement, let's avoid judging how we each contribute and live-and-let-live, eh? :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:46, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Valyrian Languages

Since you asked for a {{tl:talkback}}... ;) {{talkback|talk:Valyrian languages}} --Iustinus (talk) 05:25, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Coca-Cola packaging

Your May 8th comment was the last comment on WP:Non-free content review#Coca-Cola packaging. Since it has been over a month, please re-review, then close the discussion as you see fit. 67.101.5.28 (talk) 02:51, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]