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Thank you for the reply. I apologise for getting the date of the doc wrong in my edits. The date I watched it was the 5th April, but it aired the previous day. I shall only use secondary and reliable sources.HighlyLogicalVulcan 14:28, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi HighlyLogicalVulcan. I saw that you put a meme category on Michael Stevens (educator). I don't think that is correct. The meme categories are mostly for articles about specific memes. I guess it might be OK to put them on articles about people who are primarily known for being in very prominent and sustained memes but it is important to remember that people are not themselves memes and we should certainly not put those categories on articles about people who just happen to be in a meme but are mostly known for other things. In Michael Stevens' case, the article does not even mention memes, so I think that one is definitely wrong. --DanielRigal (talk) 17:52, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I agree with your points since he is best known for his informative educational videos. I won't add meme categories to pages like that, which don't mention memes in the articles themselves.--HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 01:06, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I will from this point onwards, but had to use this one briefly as I forgot the password for NoTribbleAtAll. i have remembered it since, so this will be the final edit I make on this account. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 14:02, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Late reply but I lost access to that account completely, so will be using this one instead. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 21:59, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I understand why we have to give attribution, and I apologise for not doing so in these two instances. I will be sure, when copying content from one page to another, to give attribution in the edit summary. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 22:43, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I understand why we have to give attribution, and I apologise for not doing so in these two instances. I will be sure, when copying content from one page to another, to give attribution in the edit summary. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 22:43, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi
sources. As said above if you continue to copy and paste copyrighted text you are likely to be blocked. Good look with future editing Cakelot1 (talk) 07:37, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply
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No worries, I understand that too. So I won't copy content from copyrighted websites in any further edits. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 12:33, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Watchlist question

Greetings HighlyLogicalVulcan. Do you have Vulcan, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek, and Logic in your watchlist? Thinker78 (talk) 00:31, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not at the moment. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 02:29, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Humans are not logical. How do you feel? Thinker78 (talk) 01:03, 27 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Quite illogical. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 01:05, 27 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: excess spaces in source text

In case you weren't aware, the 'engine' that converts our source text into the finished wikipedia article removes excess spaces. So, if the source has redundant spaces (as I have done here), they get discarded in the public version. So you don't need to spend time correcting them.

talk) 10:17, 27 November 2022 (UTC)[reply
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Thank you for letting me know. --HighlyLogicalVulcan (talk) 10:20, 27 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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