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FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:30, 25 December 2011 (UTC).[reply]
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May you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
It's the festive time of the year, and I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! If you do not celebrate Christmas, may it be a peaceful time for you, and may the New Year bring you new hopes and good luck. Season's Greetings --&レア (talk) 18:07, 22 December 2011 (UTC)|}
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We may not have spoken for a long time, however, I felt this may have been the opportunity to pass by and wish you a season's greetings.
Can you please include a quote you are referencing in Yates book? This makes the offline ref more transparent.842U (talk) 13:48, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm really not sure what you are referring to. Coordinates of place locations should not be so prominent in the main body of a biographical article, BTW. The mayor of Yurp (talk) 13:58, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
My question was a misunderstanding on my part; I thought you had added what turns out to be a ref that was already in the article. Sorry. BTW, do you have a reference for this: "Coordinates of place locations should not be so prominent in the main body of a biographical article." Is this your opinion or a Wikipedia guideline?842U (talk) 23:55, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Seems like common sense. Doing things the way they are normally done = sticking to consensus. If the article was about the chateau then it would be OK to include coordinates, but then they should go in the infobox anyway. The mayor of Yurp (talk) 01:06, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Bit of a circular argument: Coordinates should not go in the main body of a biographical article. Why. Because it seems like common sense. 842U (talk) 04:17, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Italy Biodiversity
Hello Brutaldeluxe I am thinking of reinstating (modified) the paragraph on biodiversity in Italy on that articles main page (see past discussion here [1].This would be in line with the Italian language page "Italia" and perhaps a translation of that part.And with no see alsos or that uninformative photo. I'll put it on my sandbox first and welcome any comment or suggestions. What do you think? All the best for the New Year Notafly (talk) 11:53, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Adding a biodiversity section would be fine. If you could give me a link to your sandbox I'll help you write it, but bear in mind that I'll be back at work next week so I won't have access to a computer until the weekends. BTW, the section on the Italian article includes a glaring mistake: coppicing (ceduazione) is not a harmful practice, it is rather a beneficial practice that artificially provides an ecotone which simulates the benefits of natural succession. Thank you for valuing my opinion and felice anno nuovo. The mayor of Yurp (talk) 23:43, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In the part about Montenegro in YU role of 90's there is information about crimes against refugees, but it is not clear where these refugees come from? It would be fair to say that Montenegro accepted hundreds of thousnands of refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo of all ethnic and religious groups. Only after that one could explain about certain crimes against refugees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.161.109.193 (talk) 04:18, 18 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Your edit summary: "they carry guns and they have massive machine guns on their boats= armed forces" is incorrect. The Guardia di Finanza is not part of the Italian armed forces. Chrisieboy (talk) 12:59, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know if you remember me, but I'm Theologiae - Italy/culture-based editor (jokes about the main article thing, I remember how you always criticised me about it :-)), worked circa 2 years ago. As a more regular contributor in recent times, I wanted to pass by and say a few things.
This message is halfway between a 'thank you' and a mere 'explanation'. Though we had our disputes, I wanted to clarify a few things and tie the loose ends of past discussions. I have no idea how you remember me (if you remember me at all), but that's irrelevant at the moment. What I most want to say is how I found and still do see Wikipedia as an extremely formative experience, a source of help to my knowledge and learning, yet also a place where I can understand myself and develop my character. One thing I know about myself is that I was, still am, and always will be a person who assumes good faith and acts in it; I realise the world is simply too full of negativity, and I try not to be burdened by it. IMO, the greatest form of good comes not from focusing on what's wrong, yet from acting benevolently and fairly - and that was always my main aim here. As an editor who was very young, a quick trip down memory lane will reveal to me a lot of issues with my past contributions (rushed, unchecked writing, over-doing things, pushing ideas, too many see alsos, seeing things as 'wrong' or 'right' without an ounce of compromise). The main point I would like to mention is that at Wikipedia, my goal was always to create a positive environment, spur energy within the areas that I was editing, and form a neutral outlook on knowledge. In the desperate search for fairness, objectivity and NPOV, perhaps these things were taken to extreme, to the extent where they lost their original value. Yet time goes on, people grow, ideas develop, environments change, and ultimately I can say that the best way to improve knowledge is to take the good from every other editor and blend it with controlled enthusiasm and a desire to build upon the bricks already lying somewhere.
I have to admit, I found it hard to accept your edits back then. As a 'yes and no' sort of person which I wasn't, yet appeared in word due to my relative lack of linguistic expressiveness (which came as a result of hectic lifestyles and rapid editing attitude), I felt your contributions were destructive rather than constructive. But with time, you realise that destructiveness isn't negative when what you're taking away is unnecessary, as was with many of my edits. Nevertheless, ultimately, I ought to express gratitude for the way in which you tried to cool down my immense passion for things without disposing of the good that I gave; as you may remember, I did tend to overdo things, either by stuffing the page with unnecessary images, information or those dreaded links! Your help, whether voluntary or not, was extremely formative and helpful in viewing perspectives as they should be. And will continue to be, seeing as growth is evolutionary and I still have much to learn.
Thank you,
Best wishes and happy editing!
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sorry I undid your edit to Jet engine! I read the changelog backwards, and I meant to remove the superfluous text, not add it back. =) User:Andy Dingley fixed this now. Ariadacapo (talk) 06:38, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Agree, the original comment was not following talkpage guidelines and indeed made no mention of how to improve the article. I've just not come across anyone who would delete "talk page abuse" outright, and sure enough your actions aren't really supported by any policy when I searched. There are other options, hiding comments in a collapsible section, strikethrough etc. With IP's I feel it is cautionary to always assume good faith, some of these people might become future contributors, and they don't know the policies as well as more experienced editors. Having your edit reverted immediately is the number one reason we put potential editors off. Anyway food for thought. I will leave a comment in reply to the IP explaining the purposes of a talkpage, I was about to do this immediately after that undo, but I got distracted, sorry. Regards, Lesion (talk) 18:07, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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I m new to Wikip editing, but when I see an error I feel the need to correct it.
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Scipio Africanus, UI see when some revisions were made to my changes, although the general tenor of my changes is still in effect. Can you please help me to understand how to:
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The edit you are referring to does not seem to have any relation to the particular problem you have. It's a five year old copy edit, I suggest you may have to contact someone else about it. The mayor of Yurp (talk) 20:22, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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I'm surpised of your edits. I suppose you question the fact I changed Citroën from subsidiary to marque (I added a source to that now), but you restored a lot of information that was actually vandalism or unsourced. 59.9 billion revenue for Citroën, really? And worst, 3148.00 billion profit! Do you say a caritative soul or all the large number of Citroën fanboys gave money so they could have a profit so much higher that the revenue? All PSA combined had a revenue of 54.090 billion in 2013 (see here: https://www.groupe-psa.com/en/document/registration-document-2013/), so if it were possible to count Citroën as a separate company, its revenue would stand on about 20 to 25 billion. The number of "production" was unsourced and it is actually number of sales. As I said (and you can see in PSA documents), there's no Citroën company actually assembling vehicles, they are assembled jointly with the Peugeot-branded vehicles by a division of Groupe PSA. The only thing that exists is sales subsidiaries of PSA called "Citroën", and that mostly in Western Europe and China, in the rest of the world are mostly plainly called PSA. --Urbanoc (talk) 09:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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I just only saw that you reintroduced the various errors that I had corrected. There is no evidence that Falloppio was born in 1523. We only know it was either 1522 or 1523. There is no evidence that he studied in Ferrara. He taught materia medica in Ferrara, not anatomy. He received his doctorate in the 1550s only. He was not superintendent of the Botanical garden. Is there any reason why you insist on the old very faulty version? Cardanus (talk) 15:54, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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