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Recent edit to Brian Clarke (artist)

Hiya - you’ve used your rollback privilege to undo an edit I have been making to this page. I was adding additional verifiable material, to the page of a notable living person in accordance with the rules for biographies of living persons, as well as clearing up inaccuracies and editing for style. There is nothing to my edit that could be reasonably construed as vandalism, and at the minimum would, I think, be called a good faith edit - any contestable information I added was due to be referenced, as I am in the middle of an overhaul of the article.

Please clarify your reasons for making this rollback - I’m not here to TROUT you, but I can see you’re on a big rollback/welcome new user or anonymous contributor roll, so please take care that genuine encyclopaedic work isn’t caught up in your enthusiasm.

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"Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Hardcore punk, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted." really, a valid reason such as "notable" groups at wikipedia have band pages and non of the bands removed do? Or how its Bias to have anything putting that much weight .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Undue_weight on new york and new york hardcore? ok going to edit it again.50.207.158.81 (talk) 01:04, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@50.207.158.81: I have no bias against any types of metal. This is about you blanking sections without any prior warning, which is generally vandalism. If you blank the section again, it will be once again, reverted to its normal state. –eggofreasontalk 01:06, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Northern Soul (song)

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The Store Bar shooting

Please explain this edit in which you reverted an obvious improvement, with the summary "Original lead better", while the original lead was garbage, and you also removed several other paragraphs, the references section, navboxes, and the categories? Natureium (talk) 04:45, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Nakon as I see above that rollback was just given today. (Although I'm a little confused because it's tagged with rollback, but I didn't know rollback used edit summaries) Natureium (talk) 04:47, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Natureium: Firstly, apologies if my rollback was incorrect. Of course, I should have checked the editor and the comment, which was something I told myself to focus on when I continued with Huggle. I initally thought that the lead should've stayed as is, and I was going to fast to see the other changes.
Again, sorry about that. Thank you for telling me, though: I'll be much slower when using Huggle, and I'll see to it that I will be more careful. Thanks, –eggofreasontalk 06:24, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Côn Sơn Island Suggestion

Your edit of Côn Sơn Island is inappropriate. The reference (Larzelere, p 278) for that paragraph uses the term "oversped". This term is commonly used in the present tense in military manuals to instruct users to "overspeed" or operate engines and generators at a higher speed (rpm) than the equipment design limit in order to destroy the generator set in an emergency to prevent its capture by a enemy. The term "overworked" would be wrong in this case as the generator could run for hours and not be overworked. Your edit changes the meaning of the sentence. If you do not want to revert your own edit, then I will be happy to do it for you. Thank you for your interest in the article "Côn Sơn Island". Cuprum17 (talk) 19:47, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Cuprum17: Interesting to know. Do you have any examples of the use of "oversped" in any works? None of my dictionaries have "oversped" as a word, but "overworked" could be replaced with something more appropriate. Thanks –eggofreasontalk 19:53, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The reference "Larzelere, page 278" uses the term. I imagine that it would be the past tense of the word "overspeed", much like "sped" is he past tense of "speed". While rechecking to make sure I was correct about the reference, I discovered that the wrong page was cited so I did change the cite to the correct page number. Cuprum17 (talk) 20:08, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Larzelere, Alex (1997). The Coast Guard at War, Vietnam, 1965–1975. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. ISBN 978-1-55750-529-3.
@Cuprum17: I've added the term "oversped" as a note in the Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss entries. There, I believe people will review. Thanks for the reminder. –eggofreasontalk 15:59, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

3RR?

Hi, please mind WP:3RR regarding Martha McSally. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:36, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

December 2018 blitz bling

The Cleanup Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to EggOfReason for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:07, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all of your contributions and happy editing in the new year! – Reidgreg (talk) 18:07, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Recent events template

How do I add a template to a page indicating that the article is based around recent events? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brewstang (talk • contribs) 19:18, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Brewstang:! You might want to use {{current}} for recent events. For more specialized templates, you can check WP:TM/G#Timing-related messages. –eggofreasontalk 19:23, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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