Talk:Minnie A. Caine

AWB edits[edit]

@Colonies Chris: Hey, сorry that I'm removing your edit again in its entirety -- don't mean to overreach or anything. It's just when an edit is so massive and contains a few detrimental changes and a few inconsequential changes, it's easier to remove the edit completely. Now this is totally from my perspective, or rather from my initial perspective. I'm happy to discuss this, and I'm happy to be convinced :). So, let's work on this step by step.

Specifically what I didn't find useful:

Removal of information (e.g. publishers)
Removal of wikification
Removal of italics (that is there per MOS:ITAL)
Removal of &ndаsh;
Finally, I'm not 100% sure, but if you change an emdash to an endash, you need to add spaces.

凰兰时罗 (talk) 22:34, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To take it point by point:

See Template:Cite_news#Publisher: Name of publisher; .... Not normally used for periodicals.
see WP:OVERLINK: Unless a term is particularly relevant to the context in the article, the following are not usually linked:

Everyday words understood by most readers in context.
The names of subjects with which most readers will be at least somewhat familiar

and Template:Cite_news#Publisher: place: Geographical place of publication; generally not wikilinked; omit when the name of the work includes the location

I only removed italics in one place - the name of a company. Why would it be italicised?
Removal of ndash? Again, I don't understand. The only changes I made to dashes were to replace emdashes by endashes in date ranges (see WP:DATERANGE: A simple year–year range is written using an en dash, not a hyphen or slash; this dash is usually unspaced (that is, with no space on either side);

and to replace hyphens by endashes in one case (see WP:ENDASH. In compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with to, versus, and, or between. Here, the relationship is thought of as parallel, symmetric, equal, oppositional, or at least involving separate or independent elements.:

boyfriend–girlfriend problems; the Paris–Montpellier route; a New York–Los Angeles flight

No, there aren't supposed to be spaces around an endash in these cases (see above).

Colonies Chris (talk) 00:25, 9 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]