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Hi Earle Bartibus Huxley: Are you interested in the Battle of Krasnoi? I wrote the original article, and presently I'm focused on upgrading the piece. I added a West Point map, and I've got several books (on the subject) coming through intra-library loan. In upcoming weeks, I'm going to footnote all my original sentences. Additionally I'm planning to rewrite sentences for reasons of readability, meaning eliminating "to be" verbs, pronouns, and passive sentences as much as possible. If you're interested in comparing notes about this subject, feel free to contact me on my user page or via private message. Kenmore (talk) 23:05, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Kenmore: thanks for commenting on my talk page. I would be interested in helping you with improving it, however, I'm not sure if I would be able to contribute a great deal in terms of adding information to the article. I do have two books that talk about Napoleon's invasion of Russia: 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski and The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815 by Robert Harvey (though the latter primarily focuses on Great Britain and France during the time period, it does dedicate a portion to the Russian campaign). I can also help with rewriting sentences if you want, just so it limits the amount of work you have to do. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 21:51, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Zamoyski's book is superb. I read many it years ago. It's one of three chief texts that form the backbone of my narrative (the other two written by Curtis Cates and Richard Riehn). I'll reach out you on the issue later, once those three texts are delivered to me by my library. I'll be doing a lot of footnoting.Kenmore (talk) 18:20, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I've seen you make this mistake a number of times now, and you don't seem to have read my edit summaries when I've reverted them. The hyphen is only used when the [name]+class forms a compound adjective that describes a noun (i.e., "Leipzig-class cruiser", where "cruiser" is the noun and "Leipzig-class" is the compound adjective). Where "class" is the noun and the ship name is a simple adjective, no hyphen should be used (so, just "Leipzig class"). Parsecboy (talk) 13:19, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Parsecboy: Thanks for letting me know, I didn't know how and when to use a hyphen, but this clears things up. The reason I kept adding them was because I saw that the two words were hyphenated in the article's title, which lead me to assume that that was how it was properly written. It never occurred to me at the time when I made those edits that there may have been a reason that they weren't hyphenated as I assumed they were simply typos that hadn't been corrected yet. Sorry for the whole thing, I hadn't checked the edit histories, so I didn't know I was making those mistakes. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 21:35, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding the info box to the "Handbook For Mortals" page! As a fairly new Wikipedia editor, I was unsure how to add one to the article.

UPDATE: Thank you for the info on how to submit an infobox, and for helping out with the page. I'm hoping to see if I can get permission to add an image of the book cover to the article at some point, as well. It's an interesting story behind the book, definitely.

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Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Contemporary classical music: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. TylerBurden (talk) 23:15, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Would it be possible to add a new category 'Tabletop Simulation' to The Troubles entry, as I am the designer of a forthcoming product from Compass Games LLC. The development blog is: http;//www.thetroubles.com 86.29.59.162 (talk) 19:38, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@86.29.59.162: Hi, Thanks for commenting on my talk page. I would advise against doing such a thing as it would be a conflict of interest due to your close association with the subject. Also, there has to be reliable sources on the subject in order for inclusion; blogs are considered to be unreliable by Wikipedia because anybody can create one. I did a quick internet search and found this news article, so it does have some merit, but it's not going to be too in-depth. Going back to what I said earlier, If you would like, I can add in this information for you. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 23:11, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll is an example of an article I created with day/month/year date format. For some reason, you seem to think it useful to post a script mandating what has already been accomplished. Couldn't you use that energy for some useful editing?Georgejdorner (talk) 18:53, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Georgejdorner: Hello, George, I'm afraid you are mistaken: I wasn't the one who added the DMY date format, that was GiantSnowman, a different user. But to answer your question, I'm guessing they added it so that future editors know that they have to use DMY instead of MDY when adding content. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 22:54, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EBH, I have noted you making a lot of helpful edits, but would like to flag up some information on commas.

• A comma inserted before "and" is known as a serial or Oxford comma. It is, under the MoS, a permissible practice, but not a required one. The MoS states "Editors may use either convention so long as each article is internally consistent".

• I am aware of the, to my mind strange, convention of inserting a comma after any initial mention of time. It is one which many Wikipedia editors do not use. Not because of their ignorance of the "rules of English grammar", but because they adhere to a different set, or possibly because they do not believe that this mythical beast exists. So proponents of this convention would write, and, I assume, say "Today, I ate breakfast"; I and many others would write and say "Today I ate breakfast". Either is acceptable. (Much as I itch to remove the former when copy editing.)

You are, I gather, a "commaist"; I am, you will have gathered, not. During a FAC discussion of one of my nominations last year an experienced reviewer who is also a commaist gently mocked themself by quoting the grammar writer Lynn Truss. Happy editing.

Regards Gog the Mild (talk) 21:49, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Gog the Mild:, sorry for the late reply. I wasn't aware that some articles have certain comma style; though that you've mentioned it, I ran into a similar thing when I added commas to the article on HMS Nelson, which led me to write a long edit summary when my edit got reverted. When I inserted the comma before "and", I wasn't intending it to be a serial comma. You see, there's this acronym called FANBOYS which is meant to help you with adding commas to conjunctions and of the words is "and". This has caused me some great confusion from time to time; and no matter how many times I look it up to try and help me with it, I always end up being just as clueless as I was before. So when I added that comma, I wasn't sure if that was the correct place to put it or not. If I'm being honest, I'm often unsure at times when it comes to comma placement. also, may I ask what the other helpful edits were? Because I only added a link in the other edit I made. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 23:44, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I remember when I started doing work on Wikipedia editing for GoCE and was baffled that a fifth or a quarter of articles I looked at seemed, to my eye, to have commas scattered at random across the page . In terms of "helpful edits", I had had a quick skim of your recent edit history and seen a lot of useful contributions, which I wanted to acknowledge before moving on to the area which you may have taken more negatively. This showed a nice understanding of the MoS for example, or this, IMO, was a helpful expansion and addition of a link. Have you considered helping out at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. Happy editing. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:31, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gog the Mild: Thanks, I'm glad to hear that my contributions have been good so far. I had intended on editing that paragraph since when I first joined wikipedia (it had been like that since I found it in 2020 and needed updating), but everytime I tried to reword it I just hit a brick wall and then just quit. Glad that've finally fixed that problem now. I would very much be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors as well as a few others, but I am unsure on how one joins a wikiproject. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 22:35, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Read the instructions for the Drive and the Blitz. Sign up for the next Blitz. Optionally notify the Project on the Blitz talk page that you are new. For your first couple of article's, go for ones that are both obscure and really bad - it is not as if you could make them worse. Optionally read

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Hi @Tymon.r: I was aware that the IP user had already made a number of edits beforehand. I was on my phone at the time when I spotted the vandalism, but because the mobile version doesn't have a feature (at least to my knowledge) that allows you to restore an article to a certain revision I had to revert each of that person's edits one at a time. I had managed to revert two of their edits by the time you arrived. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 22:05, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Earle
I am puzzled by your recent edit to Steen Andersen Bille (1751–1833) placing his Action of 16 May 1797 in the French Revolutionary Wars. This action had nothing to do with the French, or the Revolution. It was a conflict between Denmark and Tripoli concerning trade protection. The only point of similarity is the year 1797. Or am I wrong? If so, please tell me. If you agree, I leave it to you to revert the edit. Viking1808 (talk) 07:50, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Viking1808 Thanks for pointing this out to me. This was an accidental mistake on my part. When I was looking at the page before I made my edit, the Action of 16 May 1797 was bullet pointed under French Revolutionary Wars, which made me presume that the engagement had taken place in that war. So because of that bullet point, I listed the action has taking place in the FRW. I have rectified the mistake so that the FRW and the Action of 16 May are now separate from each other in infobox. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 12:13, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the speedy action. Viking1808 (talk) 12:17, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Viking1808 Your welcome. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 14:21, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Earle Bartibus Huxley. You article is missing many required cites You've used short form refs for "Nordisk Familjebok 1917", "Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor 1862", "Hofberg 1906", "Sundholm 1873", and "Wolke 2018". However none of these are defined in the article. Each will need a fully formatted cite to link with. Could you add these to the article, or let me know what works these refer to? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 12:00, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. Just a reminder these are still missing, if the cites aren't supplied I'll have to change the refs for CN tags. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 10:36, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there, I must see if I can get my hands on that new biography. That article needs much work and deserves to be far better than it is, given Lynch's importance. Maybe I'll find the time to get it moving properly, like the Ernie O'Malley one – now a GA. Charge on with it in the meantime, of course! All the best Billsmith60 (talk) 10:48, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Billsmith60 I'm glad I piqued your interest. I thought it would be a great resource for you use for the Liam Lynch article. Based on the reviews I read, it paints a more balanced and nauced picture of Lynch, and uses archival material and personal documents which weren't availiable when Lynch's other two biographies were published. If your interested The Irish Story did a review of the book and the author Gerard Shannon talked about Lynch on their podcast which was interesting to listen too.

I agree, Lynch's article does need some more work done on it, especially regarding his early life and service in the war of independence. Though my collection of books is limited, I do have a few about the Irish revolutionary period which I've been meaning to read for some time. I'll see if I can add anything to it.

I might also purchase a copy at some point. I'm planning on making an article about the battle of Limerick during the Irish Civil War (which Lynch was present at) somepoint in the future so a book like this would help me out considerably. Earle Bartibus Huxley (talk) 14:55, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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