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Think I've seen them on more than one article (e.g. ES), and TLS seems stable/they're not contested so that's edit consensus. Could be put in MOS. They may not be many of them, though. Why wouldn't one italicise it if the full is italic, it's inconsistent. Widefox; talk 22:44, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Thx for your reply. That's what I thought (i.e. consistent if the full name italicized). But w/ need a stronger rationale like ref to a notable style guide. (I'm sure there are stable article counter-examples too, I'll look at more articles, perhaps there's a FA to draw on, tho of course

WP:WINARS sort of applies [not really for styleguide issues tho].) I'll research also outside style guides & report back what I find. Ok, --IHTS (talk

) 05:17, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

TES (magazine) (and the dab TES). So yes they're all italic. I checked them to make sure it wasn't my edits that italicised the acronyms, so it's consistent. A similar issue is with acronyms from non-English titles (the full name being italicised). Widefox; talk 10:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

I think I found it within the current MOS -- the example OED along w/ sentence Such abbreviations follow the italics or quotation-marked style of the full title. at

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles#Abbreviation of long titles. (Do you think that's it?) --IHTS (talk

) 20:39, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes. Widefox; talk 22:56, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Case closed then. Thx for discussing this w/ me. --IHTS (talk) 01:41, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Widefox, I see you reverted my edit here. Please help me understand how folk are meant to know from the wikt link that "Signalberg" is German for "beacon hill". I see dozens of other dab pages that include a brief description of the main meaning of the word; why not here? --Bermicourt (talk) 20:08, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Bermicourt, unfortunately, as I explained in the edit summary, wikt doesn't have an entry for the compound noun so I'd added it commented out. I've now split it into the two nouns which covers it.

WP:MOSDAB says to use wikt rather than description and as we're EN WP, this is already more than enough. Users can switch to DE if they want it. Widefox; talk

00:18, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

I've just re-read

WP:MOSDAB and it doesn't really say we should prefer wikt. In fact it says "a short description of the common general meaning of a word can be appropriate for helping the reader determine context." And there's clearly no point using wikt if the word isn't actually covered there, which it isn't. Finally, German Wikipedia is no use to an English speaker. So please can we agree to aid the reader by explaining what this non-English word means? --Bermicourt (talk

) 15:56, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

See

MOS:WTLINK "...When a dictionary definition should be included (see Wikipedia:Disambiguation § What not to include), rather than writing a text entry, create a cross-link to Wiktionary..." Widefox; talk

16:22, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Yup, read that and it's qualified, i.e. "when a dictionary definition should be included...". As a dictionary definition is not required here, nor is one supplied by wikt, all we need is a simple explanation of the term. --Bermicourt (talk) 16:37, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Nope. A simple explanation is via a dict def. If needed, use wikt, else don't bother. Anything original on a dab fails

WP:V as we don't put refs on dabs. German compound nouns can be split and done as is, done. Anyone wanting the German can via de wiki - this is en wiki. Widefox; talk

17:04, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

As for other dabs with defs - show me and I'll see (and of course

WP:OTHERSTUFF applies. Widefox; talk

17:07, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm afraid that's just your interpretation and not supported by the guidelines. MOSDAB does not say that simple explanation = dictionary definition. And BTW, in German, compound nouns can't always be split meaningfully. Otherwise Hauptmann (captain) would come out as "main man". But here's the thing; we should be writing this encyclopaedia so that the average English reader can understand it and not applying the guidelines in such a way that they're none the wiser. ☺ --Bermicourt (talk) 18:04, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

It is, and on my page that's what sort of answer one gets! The policy of

WP:MOSDAB. How are you planning to give a citation for the content that I'm challenging? Discussing the fine points of literal German translation is great, but there's many languages here and dab and en are for readers looking for en articles not dict defs or translation. The assertion that a dab page assists readers if it has a translation is just that, I assert that unverified content on a dab is a maintenance chore, fails WP:V and, on the contrary, assists less that providing wikt link. Better to take it up at wikt and link from here. Widefox; talk

18:17, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

"not supported by guidelines" should read we interpret it differently. I do not agree with your interpretation.

WP:DABDIC "It is also not an interlanguage dictionary". That seems clear. MOSDAB follows best practice, which I believe is nowadays to refrain from dict defs of old. Third opinions are available. Those others dabs?... (ps I speak German. This dab with this meaning is correct literally translated, so that objection doesn't hold here anyhow, although I could have spelt with capitals for wikt linking to highlight the German nouns, I didn't as I can see both ways and more can always be added etc, no big deal) Widefox; talk

18:48, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

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It's fine to delete my post, but you didn't actually move it where you said! PamD 08:14, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

You're just quicker than me (early coffee not kicked in). Widefox; talk 08:18, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

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Recently you have deleted a Wiki article called Payrexx. Would you please let me know what is the reason? The article was reviewed by multiple Wiki editors and they have not found any issues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loveurope2016 (talk • contribs) 08:21, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Actually, it has been deleted by multi admins and deleted per G11.Dlohcierekim (talk) 11:53, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

WP:COIN. Widefox; talk

01:06, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

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You previously edited

I commented there. Widefox; talk 03:11, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

(discussion moved to

I'm sorry if you saw one of my edits to you on my talkpage, it was really snyder and I did it because I completely misinterpreted what you wrote at first. My English comprehension was clearly failing me at the moment and I regret that. Again, sorry.

All this from unlinking a redlink (validly). Next time talk about edits not editors and stop pinging me. Widefox; talk 11:59, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

There's no way for me to know that you're actually seeing my comments otherwise so I don't see any reason why I shouldn't if I wanted you to reply.

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You've had your little protest about my valid edit. That's

WP:DEADHORSE. Stop posting on my page. I've asked twice to stop alerting me now, continue and I'll escalate. Widefox; talk

13:32, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi, you deleted the external link I added. I read the links guidelines and there is nothing wrong with my link. It makes perfect sense for an article talking about the translation of something to have a link to such translation. The link I added is NOT my own website; rather, it's a well-known website that has translations of the Quran in many languages (which what the Wikipedia article talking about). Please let me know what is wrong with the Quran translation link I added. - unsigned by User:Daltarawy

WP:EXT where it says how to add an external link, and that they are to be used sparingly. That edit triggered a vandalism system which led to me undoing it. Hope that helps. Regards Widefox; talk

16:29, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed you have been working on your BOGO essay quite a bit recently (it is on my watchlist). Is it in preparation for something? I was thinking that a good Signpost op-ed might be doable from it. - Bri (talk) 08:29, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi, glad you noticed. It needed a copyedit, and the timing was in reaction to the comments on the talk. It appears to not have that much readership yet, with comments suggesting others should read it, so yes could be good timing for a Signpost. Widefox; talk 08:55, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm helping out this month so I happen to know our writing deadline for the July 14 issue is in a little more than five days...? - Bri (talk) 09:03, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Go for it, I can't make that deadline. Widefox; talk 10:18, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello, you apparently gave me a warning saying that " Please don't remove reference sections" which I do not seem to understand. You did not even tell me where I changed so I seem to not understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThisIsAgain32 (talk • contribs) 00:41, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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moved and replied Talk:Spreadsort#COI. Please note the message at the top, that all COI editors will not be responded to here. Widefox; talk 18:46, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

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With all the changes, what is a better target for Animal enclosure? --RAN (talk) 13:11, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

As I just said at the RfD, it's now a slightly better target as a broadconcept, but "cage" is still too narrow, so a bad target. Pen (enclosure) is also bad. There's many ways to enclose the millions of different animals. CSD. Widefox; talk 13:20, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

[2] [3] [4] [5] (and the related [6]).

Ed I feel like I shouldn't speculate, but maybe he just needs to take a wikibreak? I'm involved, so if others consider I haven't covered the extent of this behaviour (I haven't looked into it), then someone not involved should follow up rather than me. Widefox; talk 01:42, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

If I'm being honest, I'm involved too. Have been since I saw [7] and [8]. This is not a short-term problem.

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Reviewed them a bit more. Yes. Widefox; talk 09:04, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

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Since you worked on the dabconcept page for

Ooh, that looks like it needs a real editor! Although outside my normal stuff, I will tinker a bit... I've encouraged others at the dab now. Widefox; talk 17:16, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

I only fell across this after writing up Topshop (workshop). Narky Blert (talk) 00:16, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Narky Blert I'm glad you created that article on such an interesting topic, and also so my MOSDAB-bending kludge wasn't in action long. Widefox; talk 18:38, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

I've used that WP:MOSDAB kludge myself before now, putting more than one bluelink on a line - slightly messy, but

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if it helps readers (and perhaps also other editors). Not everyone knows the trick of opening a redlink and finding what links to it.

It helped in writing that article that I knew exactly what to look for - I used to drive by the Cash's factory on my way to and from work. TY for adding more WikiProjects (I like them on Talk Pages, they alert interested editors), and for uprating from stub to start. Narky Blert (talk) 12:39, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

No problem, I go past Cash's site every week at the moment, but I don't know too much as I'm not a Coventry local, but from the shires. Widefox; talk 17:17, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hello. Please do not

As

Thanks for fixing the attribution. Now it doesn't mention editors I consider it OK.

I don't know of any bad feelings. It's a newbie account, so I'm impressed they managed to follow the COI disclosure advice I gave (as most COIs I've dealt with don't disclose to the letter of it). My underlying concern is this is BLP, COI, and pre-trial, so I don't think it prudent that we get involved, especially with undisclosed COIs, and attempts at deleting the article. I just created a redlink a year ago, then fixed sourcing recently (which I feel is my duty as creator). That's it. Widefox; talk 17:17, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Just looking at the page history Alison does appear to have bad feelings towards you, not sure why. ~ GB fan 17:20, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello. First of all my apologies for not being capable to chat you in the correct page, but i'm not used to edit wikipedia. The reason why I write you (you: Widefox) is because I have seen that you have modified on 1 May of 2013 the page: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_loss_concealment". You might be an "expert" of PLC. So I was wondering if you could answer a question i have. I am working with a recommendation which says that de decoder can work with two different modes of operations: FREEZING (the PLC scheme tries to repair erroneous frames (either due to packet loss or error propagation) with the previous error free frame until a decoded picture without errors has been received) and the other mode is SLICING (the PLC scheme tries to repair erroneous frames). So the question is: Do you know whether it exists a player or decoder in which you can configure the PLC scheme you wanna use?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.146.211.32 (talk) 16:32, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

I can't help, suggest a search engine (e.g. Google), or asking on a QA site like Stack Exchange. Widefox; talk 23:43, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

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I would appreciate it, if you would not participate there. I really am trying to talk with Bluerasberry. Thx. Jytdog (talk) 16:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

User:Jytdog No worries, you may not have seen that I've already agreed as it's now collapsed (and the section's renamed) [9]. Widefox; talk 17:42, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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In fact, I'll go further and say I'll leave all this including COIN for you as I think I've said the obvious and all parties seem to understand now. We've waited years for Ɱ to action best practice, so they either do or the issue won't go away. WiR should be teaching best practice IMHO. As WiR is such a positive, but delicate grey area, I don't envy that task Jytdog. Keep up the good work. Regards Widefox; talk 17:55, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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 Done Widefox; talk 19:02, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Looks like a good catch on Blackwater Islands and Attenborough Island. Not only do these places fail to exist anywhere online other than in recent Wikipedia mirrors, but neither do any of the places mentioned in the articles. Deleted accordingly. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. The articles failed

WP:OR as they went to all the effort of making up names on their own map, but the substance of the topics and their chosen names had obvious comedic value. Widefox; talk

01:06, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

I've responded to you here. I am not sure what turning an article into a stub entails other than slapping on the stub template. Richard☺Decal (talk) 14:59, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

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On my talk page you posted a template about edit summaries but didn't explain which edits were missing summaries or why I had to give a summary to every edit, could you please explain? --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) 21:50, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Hey Widefox, just want to mention that I undid a couple of your changes on

(snip) Content discussion best on its talk page - moved Talk:Reproof. Widefox; talk 23:56, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

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I spotted a couple of edits you made[10][11] that appear to be a misreading of

Thanks, not misreading, just ignorant of the exception in BRINT. The second template is better without the tour as per your edit [12]. Regards Widefox; talk 12:43, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Ah, okay!  :) Yes, I removed the tour as for the most part repeated links to the same article from a navbox are frowned upon. --woodensuperman 12:53, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Yup. Widefox; talk 14:35, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Given some of the recent oversighted stuff on your talkpage, would you like me to apply page protection for a while? Wouldn't like to do it without your say-so, but I'm happy to lock it down for a bit so that unregistered users can't post here. Yunshui ^雲_水 09:13, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 month; let me know if you'd like a different protection level/duration. Yunshui ^雲_水 10:15, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Here you included one clear improvement - bolding of acronym closely associated with the subject. With regards to the other changes, I used to also fuss with caps in piped linked. I went the other way, towards caps. My experience doing this taught me that an argument can be made for either form. So I decided this was not an improvement and have stopped making these changes to lessen the burden on others reviewing things that don't change behavior or appearance of the article. ~Kvng (talk) 12:14, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

As I do a fair amount of work fixing acronyms including incorrectly capitalised expanded acronyms on dabs, I'm highly biased towards fixing invisible incorrectly capitalised links too. Although invisible to readers, it's only a feature bug of Mediawiki that it isn't case sensitive for the first character. Irrespective of if that changes in future, and the irrelevancy for readers now, if it educates writers and prevents a bad habit of utilising the bug that's useful. In my experience incorrect caps is a sign an article needs some work. What's the argument for using the wrong caps? Widefox; talk 17:26, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Didn't have to wait long - [13] example of fix of an overuse of capital for an unpiped link to an article title. For piped links, all it takes is an editor stripping the piping (for example after an article move or removing an obsolete link parenthesis) or changing to link via a redirect and the incorrect uppercase may then be made visible and wrong by all counts. Best avoided. We have more incorrect caps than incorrect lowercase, so any reduction is the right direction for training editors IMHO. Widefox; talk 10:29, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

The argument for an initial cap is that this is exactly how the title of the target page reads. Maybe not as strong of an argument as you present here. ~Kvng (talk) 14:55, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Using an initial cap for the article is the MOS when referring to the article not the topic (for example even when not a (bulleted) list item in hatnotes, see alsos, etc). In normal use in a sentence if piping is stripped it is incorrect per consensus. It also reads bad for writers with incorrect caps mid sentence. I normally put it down to inexperience or copy/paste of titles similar to seeing underscores instead of spaces. Sure it's a little effort to strip unneeded caps and underscores. There's a reason

titlecase exists which is always different to mid sentence use. It is moot as hidden from readers but IMHO, just bad practice. Widefox; talk

15:04, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you Chris. Yes, sometimes it's easy to make a quick edit that's actually useful, and I saw folk on the Internet frustrated at not being able to find info, so I'm glad it already has views. Widefox; talk 09:21, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for reverting the original comment you left on my talk page; I truly thought it was a bot edit. I have properly replied to your original comment. In order to do that I had to remove your subsequent comment. Sorry about that as well. --Omnipaedista (talk) 10:10, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Another admin has already responded at UAA, but for the record, please don’t report accounts that were active for seven minutes nine-and-a-half years ago.[14].

Common sense is that old accounts with promotional names which would never be allowed if active could be closed off quicker than writing this reply. For the record. Widefox; talk 19:20, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

No, common sense is that if an account hasn’t editied in nearly a decade it isn’t a problem that needs reported to admins.

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Well I've seen sleeper accounts wake, especially shared/role/corpname accounts /

WP:BURO, but stale accounts get closed when the will is big enough, despite the age, so there is no hard cutoff, more a tail of reasonableness. In any case, there's no point in blaming the messenger when it's for the benefit of the project, and common sense would say it takes less time to close it than this. Widefox; talk

08:46, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

What really beggars belief is the content issue, as you say, in nearly 10 years nobody noticed / flagged up that

ThinkQuest), and only now sees some tagging, including by the queen of accountnames User:Bishonen. Widefox; talk

08:58, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the opportunity to restate my views. I don't consider them IAR, or need to argue on that basis: I consider them based upon the various provisions of WP:NOT and the pillars. DGG ( talk ) 17:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

I apologise if I gave any misrepresentation as IAR. Widefox; talk 18:03, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

You reverted my addition of boxes to the AFD discussion and unintentionally removed a comment. I request that you restore it. – FenixFeather ^{(talk)(Contribs)} 23:25, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

No. See

WP:REFACTOR If another editor objects to refactoring then the changes should be reverted. You've done it twice and been reverted twice by two different editors. Stop now before you lose the ability to do it a third time. Widefox; talk

23:28, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Widefox, I'm not going to add back my collapse things, but you removed a comment of mine. All I'm asking is that you restore the comment you deleted when you reverted my collapses for the second time. – FenixFeather ^{(talk)(Contribs)} 23:37, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't know what comment you're talking about. I've already restored one or two, and I double checked and saw none that I haven't done, so unless you provide a diff (common theme) I don't know what you're talking about. Widefox; talk 03:14, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

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I resolved the notability and the unreferenced issue for the game. It's not uncommon for obscure games to not get any refs on Wikipedia. If you know of any other video games, especially console games, feel free to ask me if I can find anything on them. Harizotoh9 (talk) 15:30, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

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Hello. I saw your adding a categorization level to Paragliding‎; I wonder if you would take a look at Hang gliding and History of hang gliding. Thanks, Rowan Forest (talk) 22:10, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done Widefox; talk 00:11, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Cool. Lets top it up with Powered hang glider. Thanks, Rowan Forest (talk) 01:20, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done ++ Widefox; talk 01:32, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Courtesy FYI. I saw this relates to an edit you made. Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#Change to "Female Athlete Triad" wiki page Cheers. TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 01:03, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Seems like it may be useful for me to comment there, flag up the username vio, whilst allowing other editors to answer their (COI) edit request. Widefox; talk 15:48, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

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Ottowa

Assuming this is accurate, take a look at this. You were the one who said the capital was most likely, but has the capital ever been misspelled by someone whose writings are part of history? I'm not saying this person misspelled anything, but perhaps that was an accurate spelling at the time.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:12, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

If this is important to you, this discussion should be moved to

WP:V or at least documented somewhere. Theory aside, Wiktionary has the misspelling for Ottawan (a person, not the band) at wikt:Ottowan, which is enough for me not to consider this again. Widefox; talk

21:53, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Ping User:Vchimpanzee. Widefox; talk 21:54, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the writer of the column is deceased and the newspaper is doing a "Best of" series. So I can't ask him where the misspelling came from or if it was an accepted spelling. And I'm not entirely sure all the facts are correct, though I did find one source that said the man who was quoted was the brother of the actual superintendent of Indian affairs. One source which Wikipedia likely wouldn't consider reliable did say Henry was the deputy, which is consistent with my source.

The closest I have gotten to a source Wikipedia would be able to use is the footnote "Report of Henry Stuart, Pensacola, August 25, 1776. (N. C. C. R., Vol. X, pp. 763-785; B. P. R. O., Am. & W. Ind., Vol. 280.)" I have no idea what that is or where to find it, but it doesn't mention "Ottowa" in the source where I found that footnote. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm not really following your point. To me it seems like a variant or miss spelling that if proven correct still would not affect the

WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of a capital city. Widefox; talk

16:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

I guess I'm saying if I could somehow prove it was a common spelling, it might. And if it's just an error, then you are still right.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:26, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Uncommon occurrences of a common spelling? (pause)

I do agree that the whole issue of providing alt/miss-spellings is an issue, as we favour

WP:RECENTISM for navigation with redirects to trump older meanings (and quite frankly, this topic is more for Wiktionary than here). The PT has a hatnote, there's nothing to see navigation wise. Widefox; talk

18:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Buy one, get one free

Hey, Widefox. Thank you for creating Wikipedia:Buy one, get one free, which I only just discovered. Very cool. Bishonen | tålk 21:57, 10 May 2020 (UTC).

Thank you for stopping by, I feel honored. I hope all of your collective gets to read it, much regards Widefox; talk 23:33, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Virus names

Dear Wildefox,

Re:

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

Sorry, please enlighten me re your reversion of my italicization of virus species name on the page on 8 April. What do you mean by "sub"? If subspecies, I had not understoof that SAR-CoV-2 was a subspecies.

Thanks—GRM (talk) 19:56, 3 May 2020 (UTC)