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Automata vs. automaton

I disagree with your alteration of the page Von Neumann universal constructor. Automaton is the particular pattern of cell states, which defines a particular machine of some function; this may be a self-replicator, a general constructor, a Turing machine, or some other, lesser capable machine. Automata is the general term, which for the cellular case refers to the total set of finite state automatons which are organised in a lattice network; the *chessboard* if you will. So, it is with cellular automata that I work, in the design and characterisation of cellular automatons, such as my partial constructor. William R. Buckley (talk) 21:14, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

An automaton is a machine, and automata is the general class. When one speaks of many automatons, then we have automata. For instance, a finite state automaton (see the article) is a singular device, and a collection of many of these are known as (a set of) finite state automata. Further, when referring to the collection of such automatons, and when they are organised into a rectilinear grid (lattice), we call them cellular automata. However, the specific pattern of a machine, as expressed within a system of cellular automata, is called an automaton. That many automata are used in the construction of a single automaton is quite irrelevant regarding the proper naming of such.

One clear source of reference to the naming given in my edits to Wikipedia articles are my papers. You might also consider the works of Daniel Mange, or the many others who have written on the subject of von Neumann cellular automata.

William R. Buckley (talk) 16:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Consider, also, the definition provided here: http://www.yourdictionary.com/automaton William R. Buckley (talk) 18:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Fairly simple, automaton is the Greek singular and automata the plural. In computing, finite state automata are common, but so is a finite state automaton. Automatons is just plain wrong (though perhaps in US English not, I do UK English and I am a bit picky with this kind of stuff?) SimonTrew (talk) 12:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Charles Savage (DAB)

Hey there

I see you edited this on 12 April 2009 (which happens to be my birthday. 12 April 2008 was too. Odd, that).

You might want to take a look at it. I've added another entry which comes ultimately from Medellín but I am not too happy about it really, cos it gives undue prominence to a guy who hasn't even an entry in WP. But I am not sure how to fix it, you may have a clue. SimonTrew (talk) 12:29, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

RE: The Fellowship (Christian organization) and the AIDS Connection

Actually, I think your restored phrasing is pretty good. It merely implies a causal connection without outright attributing the rise in AIDS to the organization, which is consistent with the citation in Sharlet's book. Uncle Dick (talk) 18:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. It's actually Sharlet's phrasing. It's the relevant sentence verbatim from pg. 328 of The Family. Davemck (talk) 19:35, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful clean up on the Fellowship page.Likesausages (talk) 03:13, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

My pleasure. Davemck (talk) 22:34, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

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"gm"?

I see you using "gm" as an edit summary. For what does that stand? LadyofShalott 17:37, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

• Hi LoS. It's for grammar, as listed here: Wikipedia:Edit_summary_legend/Quick_reference. However, as it can obviously confuse even an administrator, I'll make it a point to summarize with "grammar" instead of just "gm" from now on. Thanks. Davemck (talk) 12:45, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Knuth repeated

I see nothing humorous about the repeated name in the caption on Knuth's page. Also jokes aren't what Wikipedia is about. Perhaps you could explain the joke and say why it should be kept thanks. It would be good to put that in a a FAQ on the talk page so it could be referred to if there is some good reason. Dmcq (talk) 23:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

• The humor is completely subjective; I find it mildly amusing, especially since it's in the section on Knuth's own legendary sense of humor. The 2nd Knuth is on Appelbaum's shirt. Of course, you could say that's not a real Knuth, only a picture of Knuth -- but that's true of the other Knuth as well. I personally don't care whether he's listed twice in the caption; my purpose was to point out that the caption has alternated between 1 & 2 mentions for a long time, as you can see from the history (most easily by looking for changes of 16 or 17 bytes). I won't attempt to change anything back, so be my guest. Davemck (talk) 13:29, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

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Paraprosdokian examples

Hey there,

First off, wanted to say thanks for your continued work on Paraprosdokian.

I'm the user who edited the examples section to include The Loophole by Garfunkel and Oates. My edit was reverted because the source didn't specify the lyrics quoted paraprosdokian, per the hidden comment.

My question, then, is why the need for this requirement? The article does a very nice job of defining what paraprosdokian is; why have the blanket rule of requiring examples specified as such, rather than assessing each entry on its own merit? If my entry had been deleted because its status as paraprosdokian were contested, then I suppose I'd be a bit more understanding; from the edit notes, this seems not to be the case.

[Otherwise stated.]

Thanks again for the work on the page!

198.161.143.149 (talk) 03:15, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi .149. The hidden comment is based on a consensus discussed here. It's derived from the WP principles "No original research" and "Verifiability, not truth". Essentially, we want reliable sources to decide what's a paraprosdokian, not us editors. Davemck (talk) 18:53, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! 164.68.25.123 (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi. I see you started to do the huge reparation of Dr.saze's (and other editors') damages. I want to thank you for all of us and I have also some good news. You can have a rest from your hard work because Dr.saze offer himself he will delete all AFI nominations. But if you can delete it yourself we have not any problem because your work is well-done. Happy further editing. - TobRob (talk) 10:45, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, TobRob. After starting, I see that other editors besides Dr.saze have added nominations. I'll work on those, over time. Davemck (talk) 18:32, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Really? That should be mentioned at the Wikiproject talk page. Luckily it is not that durable Dr.saze. He is doing now better work. Thank you again. - TobRob (talk) 16:45, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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Multics reference

If you had actually looked at the reference, you will see it had two dates on it. So you don't like the way I tried to indicate that - now please fix it in some way that you find acceptable. Noel (talk) 22:27, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

@Jnc: (heh, heh) Actually, I did read the ref & saw the 2 dates. But if you had actually looked :-) at the result of your edit, you'll see that only 1996 was used, because the {{cite web}} template allows only one date= parm; if there are multiples, it uses only the last one. I'll leave the resolution up to you -- maybe "|year=1996 |orig-year=1989" which gives "(1996)[1989]".

(Incidentallly, I got to the Multics page from Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls.) Davemck (talk) 23:34, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I did see the error. But I didn't know how to fix it, so I figured I'd leave the data in the source, so at least it was visible if someone went to edit the page.

Your suggested fix sounds good; I'll add it - thanks. I do wish you'd done that to start with, since then we both wouldn't be wasting our time with this. Noel (talk) 23:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

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Marina Raskova

Hello, are you sure that Marina Raskova last rank was lieutenante colonel? Because I have other sources. Do skorogo --Gian piero milanetti (talk) 22:18, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Gian piero milanetti: I have no knowledge of Marina Raskova. I edited the page only to fix the error 'more than one value for the "rank" parameter'. I just chose the higher rank. I'll leave it to you to decide what it should be. Davemck (talk) 22:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello as you can see here her rank when she died in a crash-landing was that of mayor... I shall put this, spassibo. http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=653 --Gian piero milanetti (talk) 23:11, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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dup param in Shishijimicin A

In this edit] you removed a duplicate parameter. I had looked at this and couldn't tell which one was correct so I left it alone. What was your basis? MB 13:37, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

First, I'm not a chemist & know nothing of the subject. I found CC1C.. in PubChem and O=C7C.. in ChemSpider. It was originally O=C7C but Graeme Bartlett added CC1C (forgetting to remove O=C7C). I chose CC1C on the theory that the most recent edit is an improvement (not always true, I know). Also, since CC1C occurred later in the Chembox & the last of duplicates is the one used, my edit made no change to the displayed article. But I defer to anyone who knows more about it than I do. Davemck (talk) 15:52, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't know anything either. I wasn't comfortable picking the second one just because it is the one displayed or the most recent change. Your logic seems good and now that I look, Graeme Bartlett seems to be knowledgable in the field. Thanks. MB 18:36, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

haha

in all the shenanigans one gets the one wrong - sometimes it is very heartening to think there is something over the shoulder, I'll take it that way - thanks - its the down the wallside format of the earlier tag that got me - thanks JarrahTree 23:57, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

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Revert

Hey, sorry for that. Looks like I again prested the rollback link while trying to view the diff of an other edit. Kpgjhpjm 01:52, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks for cleaning up after me

Three times you've cleaned up after me in places like this. Thank you. Where do you see those problems? I'm hoping I can look there myself and clean up after myself.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  03:17, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Glad to help -- it's what we do :-). I was working off Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. The errors also show up at the top of the edit screen when you press "Show preview". Davemck (talk) 03:37, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Indeed! It is what we do. I'm using AWB for the cleanup I'm working on, so Show preview isn't available. I'll experiment with some regex code to see if I can keep that problem from happening. I'll look in on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls now and again too. I was able to clean it out except for the portals, which I couldn't figure out. Anyway, thanks again and keep up the good work.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  05:34, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

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on the 2020 pages. What effect does this have? Hayholt (talk) 03:25, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Duplicate parms cause 2 problems:

1) An error appears at the top of the basic edit screen with "Show preview". That doesn't prevent publishing changes, but later editors may be confused & think they've made an error, when the error was already there.

2) When a parm occurs multiple times in a template, the software uses only the last one; if the last one is empty (nothing after the "=") the parm isn't displayed. For example, "seats_for_election" doesn't show up in the Infobox.

Davemck (talk) 03:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Do you use a script for this or by hand only? Gryllida (talk) 01:50, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

By hand, but using Frietjes' findargdups to find dups. Davemck (talk) 02:25, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Re Isaac Wilson of Kaiapoi

Thanks for fixing error. I have now documented that he died in 1912 (not 1901 per the Parliamentary record). See his talk page. Hugo999 (talk) 03:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Saint Paul College of Makati

Head2 and Head2 label don't exist. See Template:Infobox University for options.Naraht (talk) 18:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

That's right, they don't; so they shouldn't be there at all. I took them out. Davemck (talk) 18:22, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

List of publications

In my opinion, a sourced list of some of the notable works of an author is appropriate in a biographical article.

However, this list of some of his more important publications keeps being removed from our BLP about the Indian author Anand Teltumbde.

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Duplicate parms

Hello, Davmck; could you explain to me how to locate these duplicates, so you wan't have to keep cleaning up after me? The Venezuelan articles have a bunch of editors who never complete citations, and it appears that when I do, I go overboard, and then you have to clean up. I don't know how to determine when there are dupes-- is there a script? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:14, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Sandy. I normally work off Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. Then in the subject article in edit mode, using the "Show preview" button, the errors show at the top. Sometimes, especially for errors in Infoboxes, the duplicates are easy to find; but for citations (such as this case) I use User:Frietjes' script findargdups. It shows the citation and then I scan in the edit screen for some unique string in the citation, such as part of the title. Davemck (talk) 20:47, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

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Hi, thank you for your edit on Reza Tajbakhsh article. I have a question and I think you can help me reaching the answer. Why the WP link related to the article does not appear on "Google" while searching "Reza Tajbakhsh"? I created the article Golnar Servatian yesterday and have the same problem with it. Thank you in advance. Best, Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:17, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi Hamid; I don't know much about Google, but, according to PageRank, it evidently has to do with the number of other webpages that link to it. It might also be affected by the number of times someone accesses the page. Davemck (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

I didn't realize a blank |other= was already present in the infoboxes. Thanks for clearing it out. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:46, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

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Template:Particles

Hi Davemck, I think you might have removed the wrong parameter from Template:Particles, since the duplicate parameter was removed in the previous edit.—Aranya (talk) 19:35, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks -- looks like we removed an extra state parm at about the same time. I have reverted my edit. Davemck (talk) 19:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

question on ND-USC

This edit[2] ("rmv duplicate parm") removed the 4th "Forfeits / Vacated wins" white key above the table, where there are 3 vacated games which are noted via the same white background -with the dagger/double dagger char noting which specific team. Can you clarify how this parameter is a duplicate? Cheeers, UW Dawgs (talk) 01:40, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

There were two "legend_forfeit_text" parms: the one you added with "Forfeits / Vacated wins" and the one below the blank line, with "Vacated wins" followed by 2 long notes. When there are more than one of the same parm name in a template, the WIKI software uses the last one, ignoring the previous one(s). So after your edit, "Vacated wins" still displayed in the article. My edit didn't change what was displayed; it only eliminated the "more than one value" warning that appeared at the top in edit mode when you press "Show preview". Davemck (talk) 03:07, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. It was right in front of me, I just missed it. UW Dawgs (talk) 18:10, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

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Ostrich - Biblical reference

Biblical description of the ostrich is in Job 39:13-18 and describes YEHOVAH as depriving the ostrich of wisdom and understanding which is why she takes no care to build a better nest for her young in a protected location vs in the open earth where feet can crush them and they are exposed to predators. KristaHill1 (talk) 23:15, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hi Dave, Many thanks for noticing and fixing the center code, I assumed <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">[[Category:Pages using center with no arguments]]</div> worked with everything but apparently not,
Thanks again, Happy editing, –Davey2010^Talk 02:01, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Template:Infobox netball biography

Hi, is possible to expand this Template:Infobox netball biography to cater for Ama Agbeze who has played for at 12/13 clubs. Still working on improving article maybe more clubs. Djln Djln (talk) 21:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I would suggest asking that question on Template talk:Infobox netball biography. Davemck (talk) 23:08, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you

...for your earlier editorial attention to the Robert R. Redfield article. Care to return and do a "once-over", on the overly long vaccine controversy subsection? It is disjointed, repetitve, and possibly (at least in its length), approaching non-neutral. As I said in an edit summary, citing whole books without page numbers is bad form, and too much is made out of Redfield's choosing to pursue a vaccine. (Many were pursuing vaccines in that period, and many still are; to have done so is not the controversy; rather, it is because he was accused of overstating the initial data, see text citations.) So, it needs a logging editor's attention. For comparison (length, balance), see the pay controversy subsection. Thank you. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:19D:90CB:77CE:20F1:3AF4 (talk) 02:54, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

duplicate parm

Hi, you took out a parameter area_total_km2 from the settlement IB St. Andrews, New Brunswick. It's true there was a dupe there. However following your edit the IB is showing an error so I put it back in temporarily. I'd be grateful if you could take a look. I guess if it won't work without a dupe parm, I'll just go back to hardcoding the value. --Cornellier (talk) 23:29, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Your edition on Methoxyketamine

Hi, you just removed CAS number of Methoxyketamine hydrochloride from Methoxyketamine article. You said it was a duplicated value but hydrochloride salt's data is not a duplicate of free amine data. Is there any rule about chembox, drugbox and acid salt display with drugs ? Angely (talk) 23:33, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Angely. First off, I don't know anything about chemistry or drugs. Before my edit, there were 2 lines with the "CASNo_Ref" parameter:

CASNo_Ref = {{cascite|correct|}}

and 3 lines below that:

CASNo_Ref = {{cascite|correct|CAS}}

which had been added in the preceding edit by user:Fswitzer4. In any template, there can be only one instance of a given parm name ("CASNo_Ref" in this case), and if there are 2, only the last one is used. So I removed the first one, deferring to Fswitzer4's judgment.

Notice that my edit didn't remove the CAS number−only the unused "CASNo_Ref" line. Davemck (talk) 00:24, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah ! You're right ! Its a mistake. I think I was very tired. Sorry about that. Angely (talk) 06:52, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne

Dear Davemck. Thank you very much for your intervention on the article Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne. I had added a duplicate p parameter in an sfn by mistake. Luckily you came along and found it. The duplicate p should have been an ps parameter. However, this error was masking another. Inadvertently, I had used the same author-year-page combination already for another citation. Your correction using harvnb is interesting. I prefer fixing such duplicates by giving a line number in addition to the page in the p parameter, because sfn is more elegant than a harvnb surrounded by <ref> </ref>. I therefore dared to retouch your correction in that manner. I hope you do not mind, but perhaps I am wrong. Do you prefer <ref>{{harvnb}}</ref>? Thanks again for your correction. I am a novice, especially compared to your 36000 edits! Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 06:32, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Johannes. That's fine with me. I used harvnb because I saw the suggestion in the sfn documentation, but your fix is more consistent. Davemck (talk) 15:39, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Dear Davemck. Thanks a lot. Makes sense. Bye, Johannes Schade (talk) 19:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Muthuraja

@Davemck:  

The information, which is given in the Muthuraja article is incorrect

The Muthuraja is not a fully Tamil caste and it has Telugu Muthuraja also included

Book Name: Barriers broken: production relations and agrarian change in Tamil Nadu Page:No :25

The Muthurajas are descendants of the soldiers which the poligars recruited in their homeland, the Telugu-speaking areas of contemporary Andhra Pradesh, north of Tamil Nadu Like other castes originating from Andhra, they are bilingual, often speaking Telugu in family circles and Tamil outside the house "

Book Name : Kattavarayan Katai Page:No :19

" Among the Telugu castes that came to Tamilnadu were the Muthurajas or Mutrāchas"

(Backward Classes Welfare Department G.O.Ms.No :15.) Mutharaiyar caste have 29 subcaste in tamilnadu such as Muthuraja Naidu(Telugu) & Muthuraju(Telugu)

Concerning the Mutrāchas,(present-day Muthuraja) Mr. H. A. Stuart writes as follows. This is a Telugu caste most numerous in the North Arcot districts ( North Arcot district was divided into Vellore District and Tiruvannamalai District)

South Arcot district MUTHRACHA(present-day Muthuraja) reported as Telugu caste name in 1881 census ( South Arcot district: present-day districts of Cuddalore, Kallakurichi and Viluppuram)

The Telugu Speaking Muthuraja community is mostly distributed in the chennai , Thiruvallur , Vellore, Tiruvannamalai and Cuddalore districts of Tamil Nadu

you can see tamil wikipedia Muthuraja Article -The Muthuraja is not a fully Tamil caste and it has Telugu Muthuraja also included

@Davemck: Please add correct information brother

@Almighty34: -- You are free to make those changes yourself. Davemck (talk) 04:29, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

References

Thanks

Dear Davemck, i just didn't know, how to formate it. Thank you! I'll keep this in my vademecum, so i hope, i don't make this mistake again. Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 21:34, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

My pleasure :-) Davemck (talk) 21:54, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Alistair Carmichael

Hi there. I’m just wondering why did you remove my edit from Alistair Carmichael? He is currently the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, I don’t understand why it was necessary to remove the office? Ciaran.london (talk) 00:24, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Ciaran. Because it resulted in duplicate parameter errors (which are visible at the top of the edit screen when you press "Show preview"). You added office3 (Deputy leader) and renumbered the old offices 3 & 4 to 4 & 5, which was good. But that made the new leader5 (Tim Farron, et al.) a duplicate of the old leader5 (Nick Clegg). To avoid the errors would require the old parameters numbered 5 thru 14 to be incremented to 6 thru 15. Davemck (talk) 01:32, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Ohh I didn’t realise I made a mistake - I’m really sorry about that. Is there a way that we could add the Deputy Leader office back in? Ciaran.london (talk) 18:33, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

OK, I added it with this edit. Davemck (talk) 01:17, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Ciaran.london (talk) 16:55, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Tehri

Hi there, can you explain that why did you remove the pronounciation from the New Tehri article. Binsarhills (talk) 16:33, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Because it didn't give the pronunciation. See Uttarakhand. Since this is the English wikipedia, giving pronunciation in Hindi isn't helpful. Davemck (talk) 17:00, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

trumpism

sorry- I had a major edit and had to check it in because I have to drive my daughter somewhere. I could not see what too merge from your edits very quickly so I stepped on your fixes to the article. I will try and merge them later, or if you remember what they were, you can redo them. Sorry. J JMesserly (talk) 01:02, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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Dear Davemck. Thank you for your recent correction at 4:31 on 16 January 2021 on the article Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty. You very cleverly fixed a duplicate "p" parameter to a "ps" parameter in a citation in an Sfn. My wrong! I should have been more careful. I see you are an extremely experienced editor with > 46,000 edits (chapeau!). However, at the same occasion you corrected the URL in the "p" parameter from "[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n360/ 344]" to "[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n344/ 344]" (how? why?). When the user clicks the link, the source now opens at page 326 instead of 344 as the "n" prefix on the page in the URL indicates that the number in the URL differs from the page number in the book as you certainly know. If you agree, please correct this URL back to what it was. With many thanks, Johannes Schade (talk) 11:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Ah, I see--sorry. The printed page #s are different from the URL #s. The reason I changed it was that when it's "/n360/ 344" you get a ...named reference "FOOTNOTEBurke1866..." defined multiple times error in the Notes section at ref [22]. I'll leave it to you to sort out, since you know what you want. I only ask that you use "Show preview" and fix any errors that show at the top. (It was a duplicate "p" parm error that I was trying to fix initially.) Davemck (talk) 17:09, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Tom Stonier

I noticed that in this edit you removed the page range referring to the passage cited, and kept the page range referring to the whole chapter. I don't know whether the script you were using makes the decision for you when it identifies a duplicate parameter or whether it gives you a choice, but it seems to me in a case like this we almost always want to keep the narrower page range. Removing the narrower range and keeping the broader one means the reader/editor is left with no indication of where in the source to find the relevant informaton. ({{Cite book}} should really allow multiple page ranges for citing chapters in edited volunes, but that's another matter.) Not a huge deal but just seemed worth pointing out. All the best, – Arms & Hearts (talk) 14:47, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

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Dup args

A few recent examples

• [3] was this the right page number to remove?
• [4] was this best?

It's difficult and ambiguous, maybe in cases like this it would be best to create an inline comment for example the first one: <ref name = "fj"> {{Cite book | publisher = Pinguin books Ltd | isbn = 9780720715941 | last = Kashiwazaki| first = Katsuhiko | title = Fighting Judo | year = 1985 | pages = 143 }}<!-- Possibly pages=138-144 --></ref> otherwise the info is basically lost. -- GreenC 20:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

J. sella Martin

Wife Sarah Ann Lattimore was not from Saratoga Springs. She was born in Albany NY and subsequently lived with her Family in town of Moreau in Saratoga County. 2603:7080:103:6986:70D7:901B:6AA:40C (talk) 17:33, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Help!

Hello, I hope you are well. Please review Mehran Ghafourian's draft. I made some changes. If the article is rejected again, write the reason. Thanks for your following up Amir ghpro (talk) 19:43, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Duplicate template arguments using findargdups

Thank you for the recent edit and tips on Draft:Amhara genocide. I deleted all the categories to avoid issues. Is there any other issues that you notice in the category or other sections? I would appreciate it.Petra0922 (talk) 13:38, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Cite web dates

Hello, you recently deleted the publication date for a web citation for article:

• Atmospheric water generator

… under the premise that this was a duplicate attribute. Actually, there was no attribute duplication. There are two date attributes:

• date … this is the date that the cited webpage was published, this date can usually be found on the cited page (but not always).
• access-date … this is the most recent date that the webpage was verified by a Wikipedia editor. This can be helpful to know if, at a later date, the cited webpage is deleted or moved … at which time a dead-link tag can be added.

For further information, see:

• Template:Cite_web#Usage

This citation has now been restored and appears in references as:

• Irving, Michael (2022-05-24). "Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air". New Atlas. Retrieved 2022-06-04.

In this case, date appears as 2022-05-24 - which is the date that that page was published by Michael Irving. "Retrieved 2022-06-04" is the date that I opened the cited URL and verified that the article was still live at the cited URL. Other editors may verify this URL at a later date and then change "access-date" to that later date. Of course, if it emerges that the page is moved or deleted, then a dead-link tag is added. I trust this is helpful.
Enquire (talk) 00:54, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Enquire; here's the code after your revert:

 humidity.<ref>{{Cite web
  | last          = Irving
  | first         = Michael
  | date          = May 24, 2022
  | title         = Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
  | url           = https://newatlas.com/materials/drinking-water-harvester-air-gel-film/
  | date          = 2022-05-24
  | access-date   = 2022-06-04
  | website       = New Atlas
  | language      = en-US
 }}</ref>

See the problem? Davemck (talk) 01:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Willinakaqe

I was trying to add Aquilarhinus 70.160.98.149 (talk) 00:00, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Is this what you wanted?

Saurolophinae	Acristavus Maiasaura Brachylophosaurus Shantungosaurus Edmontosaurus annectens E. regalis Unnamed Sabinas species (PASAC-1) Kerberosaurus Prosaurolophus Saurolophus osborni S. angustirostris Wulagasaurus Kritosaurus Gryposaurus latidens G. notabilis G. monumentensis A.palimentus Secernosaurus Willinakaqe

Davemck (talk) 00:30, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Willinakaqe

Yes 70.160.98.149 (talk) 18:46, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

OK, I added it. Davemck (talk) 19:32, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Quintus Pedius

Hello, I was in the middle of a large expansion of the article when I overwrote your duplicate arguments edit. If you have a moment, feel free to effect that edit again. Ifly6 (talk) 21:23, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. Davemck (talk) 22:16, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

User talk:Spiderthatsavedraceandnation

Well done! Thanks! I'll know for the next time. Drmies (talk) 16:27, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Took a while to sniff it out, what with the massive amount of verbiage there :-) Davemck (talk) 16:34, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Haha yes, no doubt. I'm reminded of the time that it took three or four of us to figure out what messed up a citation template--it was a single hard return in a long title. Thanks again, because I tried and failed! Drmies (talk) 16:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

My pleasure! Davemck (talk) 17:34, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

BTW, User:Frietjes/findargdups was quite helpful. Davemck (talk) 17:38, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

for cleanup. How that findargdups works. I mean how did you found that article to be cleaned up? 85.238.101.64 (talk) 12:42, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

You're welcome. Articles with duplicate parm errors are listed on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. I work off of that. Davemck (talk) 15:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Christians article

Hi! I noticed that some of the figures were incorrect and tried to correct them. I didn't understand your edit summary about duplication. Could you explain this to me? Alternatively, I could provide you with the correct figures here, with the citations, and you can add them yourself. Thanks.--عبد المسيح (talk) 22:01, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Before your edit, these were already there (as well as other regions):

region1

region2

region3

region4

region5

region6

region7

region8

Then below them, you added:

region1

region2

region3

region4

region5

region6

region7

region8

which resulted in two of each region 1 to 8.

There can only be one of any parameter name (region1, pop1, ref1, etc.). If there are duplicates, an error shows at the top of the article when you press "Show preview" and only the last one displays in the article.

So you can change the figures, but be sure to press "Show preview" and fix any errors before you press "Publish changes". Thanks. Davemck (talk) 22:36, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you.--عبد المسيح (talk) 04:00, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, i have been working on the draft Davide Lo Surdo and i saw your edit some minutes ago. Can you give me your opinion on it and tell me if some changes are needed? Thank you 91.80.1.177 (talk) 22:17, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

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Madalina Cojocari

I noticed you fixed something I messed up on my draft. Thanks. And I forgot to change the title from her name to the "Disappearance of".

Did you have any opinion as to whether the girl's disappearance is notable? I'm about a month behind on national coverage but I did what I had time for.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:40, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@Vchimpanzee: No, I don't pay much attention to those issues; just do heads-down parm fixing. The people who evaluate drafts might say to wait til there's some resolution in the case, but it wouldn't hurt to submit a draft to find out.

btw, your "Serious business" lolcat is one of my favorite pics on WP. He also appears on User:Plastikspork's page. Davemck (talk) 18:07, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

I'll wait and see what happens.

I don't know where I got the "Serious business" photo but maybe I saw it on the page you mentioned.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:50, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

How do u determine which "dup" to delete?

Identifying duplication of arguments seems helpful, but randomly picking one of two different arguments does not. What are u thinking about this example? --Doncram (talk,contribs) 19:25, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

@Doncram: Not random; I was regarding this as a publication date analogous to a book's publication date, in contrast to the date the author wrote the manuscript (date of prep). In fact, I thought of changing August 24 to August 17, when the official signed the certification, but left it as 24 on the theory of changing as little as possible. Of course, I'm happy with your changing it, being careful not to include 2 date= parms. Davemck (talk) 20:24, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Okay, I appreciate your reply. The practice chosen by WikiProject NRHP, addressing 95,000 plus NRHP-listed places for which 70,000 or so articles have been written, is that we should credit authors and give corresponding dates of preparation, given in Section 9 of the official forms. Stamping at various higher levels is not consistently available. The articles do report (mainly in their infoboxes) the date of NRHP listing, i.e. approval probably always involving a dated signature, by US Secretary of the Interior or by the Registrar or whatever is their title of the NRHP program. Which is what u were kinda driving at as a date of publication. Anyhow i will change this to the date of preparation/authorship consistent with our practice. Thank you for noticing the duplication of fields. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 20:48, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good. Davemck (talk) 20:51, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Smash Into Pieces

I saw that you edited the draft I created, Draft:Smash Into Pieces, for the Swedish band. I originally intended to just begin to work on the page and continue tomorrow, but eventually I added what to the page what I think might be enough for a main article. Do you think it is ready to be a main article? DSOFOreverTYU ~ talk ~ Eurovision 19:20, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Davemck, why aren't you answering me? I saw that you almost always answer users on your talk page after less than 1 hour. Please respond. DSOFOreverTYU ~ talk ~ Eurovision 12:09, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@DSOFOreverTYU: I'm not really the person to ask -- I don't pay much attention to popular music and bands; I just fix errors. I would suggest submitting the draft and see what happens. If it's accepted, great; if not, the people who evaluate it will probably make suggestions about what needs to be improved before submitting again. Davemck (talk) 15:48, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you!

Hi, Davemck, i worked on the article today and recognized that some of the formatting might be wrong - it isn't easy with all the books and articles.. i wrote a note to myself to control this... but you were faster. Thanks for your help! Naomi Hennig (talk) 17:00, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

@Naomi Hennig: My pleasure. And thanks also to User:Frietjes who wrote the script findargdups that makes it easy to find duplicate template arguments. Davemck (talk) 17:35, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

kulindadromeus and Psittacosaurus had Feathers ?

What to write to The 2016 publication in the Journal of Geology in contrast finds that the integumentary structures found on Kulindadromeus and Psittacosaurus are highly deformed scales and not feather-like structures ? Dinomarek (talk) 14:58, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Fix

Check why infobox isnt good please https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Pakistan 78.0.187.227 (talk) 20:35, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with it; it doesn't give an error in edit mode. Davemck (talk) 21:28, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

“Asking for a Ride” album cover

Hey Dave, thank you so much for uploading the album cover for Asking for a Ride for me! 😊

I’ll now submit the draft for review. KevinML (talk) 11:21, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

@KevinML: My pleasure. Actually, the image was already uploaded & its name was already in the draft in the cover= parm. But there was a 2nd (empty) cover= below it. I just deleted the empty one. When there are 2 parms with the same name, the WP software uses only the last one, which in this case was empty, so it ignored the file name above it :-) Davemck (talk) 15:23, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Ok. But I still just want to thank you for correcting that error. This is basically the first time I’ve submitted a draft on Wikipedia, so I’m obviously not as experienced as you. KevinML (talk) 15:56, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Other people's sandboxes

Please do not edit my sandbox unless I ask you to do so. It's considered bad manners on WP, and I find it a violation of my personal space. Thank you. Jenhawk777 (talk) 04:11, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks...

For your looking in at Carol Dweck. Always helpful to have someone look in after major editing. In re: converting the block quote to prose—if you or another editor wants to do a careful deletion there, of the objectionable material, that is fine by me. I simple want the issues to be clear to readers (and leave to a logging editor the role of deleting it, should it be desirable). Cheers. 2601:246:C200:4619:926:F7C2:6D6B:7EC3 (talk) 00:35, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

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My Mistake

On the article for Camdenton, Missouri, I copied the coding for the infobox from the other article. I forgot to remove a part. Cwater1 (talk) 19:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

No problem; happens all the time :-) Davemck (talk) 19:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

In case you're wondering what GNIS ID 2394638 belongs to, it's for Eldon, Missouri while Camdenton has 2393511 as the number. I learned something new today. I'm going to learn more about Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Have a great day and happy editing. Cwater1 (talk) 19:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, & me too! Davemck (talk) 19:15, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Roaring Forties - basic error

Hi

I'm not sure if this is the correct way to point out a basic error with this page......but I'll state the case here, for comment.

The basic premise of this page is that the Roaring Forties are a wind, when, in fact, the name refers to an area, between 40 to 50 degrees South, where strong winds prevail, and are fairly constant throughout the year. It's a name for the Area and not the Winds. I wonder if you are able to "fix" this obvious error?

Reference....https://www.britannica.com/science/roaring-forties#:~:text=roaring%20forties%2C%2C%20areas%20between%20latitudes,who%20first%20entered%20these%20latitudes.

regards Neil 84.70.79.84 (talk) 10:07, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

I would suggest that you would get a better response if you post this to the talk page of the Roaring Forties article. My only involvement with the article was to correct an error in the refs once. Davemck (talk) 14:55, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Duplicate template on Pee-wee Herman

Hi, I saw that you made an edit on the Pee-wee Herman page which removed the live link "The Pee-Wee Herman scandal" and restored the archived link "Pee-wee and Sympathy." The two articles are actually one and the same, with the only difference being the title and a co-writer on the byline on the updated version (also the August 14, 1994 date is erroneous, the correct date is August 16, 1991 as stated in the live link). Spectrallights (talk) 21:21, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Ah, I see. The live link also has the article on a single page, whereas the old archive is multiple pages. I changed it to use the live link and corresponding archive. Davemck (talk) 22:14, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Spectrallights (talk) 22:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

duplicate "1" param error

What's the point of these corrections on unblock reviewed? They don't actually change anything in what's visible to the user, and they make it one tick harder to monitor (for example) replies to unblock reviews. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 21:02, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

My reason for removing indicated errors is so that subsequent editors don't see an error and spend time trying to figure out what they did wrong. Davemck (talk) 21:31, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Since the extra parameter is harmless, can you please not follow my invocations of "unblock reviewed"? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:09, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

OK. Davemck (talk) 15:34, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Splitting discussion for The Usos

An article that been involved with (The Usos) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (Jey Uso). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Summerslam2022 (talk) 22:50, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Article

Are you a Wikipedia administrator, can you publish an article for me? 102.90.47.205 (talk) 01:36, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

No, I'm not an administrator, and I don't create articles for other people — but you can publish an article yourself. There's a tutorial at Help:Your first article. Good luck! Davemck (talk) 01:58, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

On the Malcolm Rifkind infobox

Thank you for correcting my mistake the result it was not what i wanted to do i got distracted thanks for fixing it i just wanted to make the info box like the one in Grant Shapps page . If you can could you do it otherwise i will try to do it some other time Friendlyhistorian (talk) 05:56, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome. That's a fairly significant change. I would suggest you get consensus on Talk:Malcolm Rifkind beforehand. Good luck Davemck (talk) 14:11, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Ok thanks Friendlyhistorian (talk) 22:23, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Btw would you mind if i ask a question about something ? Friendlyhistorian (talk) 07:09, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

What's that? Davemck (talk) 15:50, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

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CS1 error on Afghanistan national football team

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Thanks

	The Hard Worker's Barnstar
	For all your work on Wikipedia these years fixing duplicate template parameters on hundreds, if not thousands, of random articles. This is the sort of thankless task that's too often overlooked. I just wanted to let you know I noticed, and I very much appreciate it. Thank you. ;) Homeostasis07 (talk/contributions) 21:30, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

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Duplicates - Paul Werner Glaser profile

Hi Davemck - I lack the findargdups skills to respond to your "duplicate template arguments" corrections request. Alternatively, what are the duplicates? I will remove those manually:

curprev 04:12, 18 December 2023‎ Davemck talk contribs‎ m 9,737 bytes −17‎ Clean up duplicate template arguments using findargdups undothank Andipost (talk) 15:48, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Andipost; It wasn't a request; I made the correction myself. The problem was that there were two date= parms: 2019-05-11 and 2023-12-17. Since the 2nd one was yesterday's date, I removed the access-date=2013-10-17 that was there and changed the 2nd date= to access-date=. Davemck (talk) 16:09, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Davemck: thank you for making the corrections. What is needed to get the profile go live? I am new at this, thank you for your renewed help. Andipost (talk) 11:15, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

I haven't made a draft myself, but here are some pages that can help:

Help:Your_first_article#Create_your_draft

Wikipedia:Drafts#Moving_drafts_to_mainspace

Evidently, if you're an WP:AUTOCONFIRMED editor, you can do it yourself with a WP:PAGEMOVE operation. (The WP:AUTOCONFIRMED page tells you whether your account is autoconfirmed.) If not autoconfirmed, you can submit it for review. Hope this helps. Davemck (talk) 16:24, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

How are these deletions by another editor ok?

This is an article you edited so maybe you know. But it’s all RS supported. Alexander Tikhonov 2603:7000:2101:AA00:C44B:64EE:C0AC:D56F (talk) 08:29, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

No, I don't know. You should ask User:Ymblanter, who made the deletions. Davemck (talk) 15:18, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Clean up duplicate template arguments using findargdups; fix ref errors

trying to find a good tutorial on this issue - any suggestions? I assume this is related to <ref> right? And in case of more then one they need to be numbered? Thanks. Lemonidess (talk) 11:42, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't know of a tutorial specifically about duplicate arguments. The rule is that in any template call—code within "{{" & "}}"—each parameter (argument) name can appear only once. More than one & you get the duplicate error. When there are more than one, the software ignores all but the last—it mentions that in the error message.

So, for example, in

{{cite web |author=Joe Smith |author=Bob Jones}}

there are two "|author=" parms; You'll get an error and only Bob Jones will appear in the citation. The fix is to put sequence numbers on them:

{{cite web |author1=Joe Smith |author2=Bob Jones}}

Parms that can take sequence numbers are indicated in the docs for the template; only some can. For example, a web page or book can have multiple authors, so there's "author1=", "author2=", etc. But there can be only one "title=", so if there are two coded, you have to figure out what the other one really is: "chapter=", "series=" or something.

In edit mode for an article, there's a list of all the templates used in the article at the bottom. I usually open the template doc in another browser tab (by right-clicking) if I'm unsure of what parms are defined for a template.

Any template can have duplicate parm errors, but by far the most common are Infoboxes at the top of the article, like {{Infobox officeholder}}, and references (within <ref> & </ref>).

Hope this helps. If you have questions, just ask. Davemck (talk) 17:36, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Ingo Rademacher

Thanks for catching this. I don't know why my spider sense didn't go off completely. It was like that since 2018! This is the diff you may be interested in. Yours, Zenon.Lach (talk) 17:00, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. Yeah, amazing. I used the WikiBlame tool to find that edit. Davemck (talk) 17:10, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Tabii, işte kullanıcıya sayfanın ismini "Bingöl"den "Suveydiler"e taşıma talebini içeren bir mesaj:

Hello,

I would like to request the renaming of the "Bingöl" page to "Suveydis." This change is proposed to better reflect the historical and cultural significance of the Suveydi tribe, who played a crucial role in the Bingöl region. Consolidating this information under the "Suveydis" title will provide a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of the area's history.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best regards, Kayas0706 (talk) 23:33, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for removing the dupe |network params I had accidentally introduced into those mobile phone infoboxes. I've recently come across several others built in the same slightly erroneous manner where there wasn't already a proper |network included, so I neglected to check for it already being there in these two cases. When fixing lint errors, I tend to focus on the lintHint indicator and mentally filter out most of the preview warnings, since most of the time they tend to be about cites and I don't always feel like investigating those. "Show changes" plus a visual comparison usually catch any mistakes I may have made, but I guess I should look at the warnings a bit more carefully as well. Gamapamani (talk) 06:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. Since I specialize in fixing duplicate parm errors, I sometimes wonder whether anybody looks at the warning messages :-) In their defense, I don't think the mobile interface shows the messages (I don't use it). Oh, well, it keeps me off the streets. Davemck (talk) 15:04, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

In my case it's definitely the ubiquitous cite warnings that have desensitized me to warnings in general. When you come in to work on something specific, you don't necessarily want to start fixing everything unrelated to that, and cites can be quite time-consuming to fix properly. And of course they (and some other warnings) have these colorful messages, so when you mentally filter those, it's really easy to miss less conspicuous warnings like the the dupe parameter one that just bolds the page title and sort of blends in with the same title also being bolded in the lead para right under it.

I also think that grouping content warnings in the same box with the always-there preview warning that people are guaranteed to tune out atfer a while lessens their impact in general. Frankly, I think the preview warning as such should be eliminated altogether - at least for logged in users, who aren't likely to be unaware that they're previewing, especially with the title already being "Editing X" and there being a "Preview" heading as well. Then other warnings would become more unusual and attention-grabbing (although the cite warnings would probably still desensitize people sooner or later). I just looked at the preferences and strangely there doesn't even seem to be a pref for turning the standard preview warning off.

But excuses aside, I'll try to pay more attention in the future, because it's really not cool to introduce errors when supposedly being there to fix them. Gamapamani (talk) 04:19, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to leave a proper message saying thanks for all your error help over the years. I edit only on my phone (like a crazy person) so I don't see a lot of error messages (of which I create many!) unless I'm in desktop mode and even then they're hazy. You're very kind to volunteer your time helping out and I just wanted to say "in person" thanks for your help and your years of patience. jengod (talk) 23:35, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

You're very welcome! I don't have the courage to edit by phone--tried it once and ran away screaming. Thank _you_ for your voluminous work. Davemck (talk) 23:39, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Abbasids

some parameters like A03/boxstyle_A03 & A04/boxstyle_A04 -- Is A03 "Idris I of Morocco" or "Ja'far ibn Abdallah al-Mansur" might be repeating but this is not affecting the template. Anyway I will recheck and try to delete them161.253.74.225 (talk) 22:35, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for catching my infobox goof on my first article!!! -αβοοδ (talk) 00:47, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome! and congratulations on your first article; nicely done! Davemck (talk) 01:02, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Ongoing Translation of Article on Goya's Caprichos

Please do not edit this article while I am still translating and adding references. Your edits while I am still working has caused me to lose edits, links, and other references while I am still working on the article--which will be in progress for the next few days. Ariadne000 (talk) 22:04, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Then add the {{In use}} template. Davemck (talk) 22:45, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	I just saw yet another one of your edits fixing duplicate template parameters that I'd accidentally left in while adding a citation. Thank you for your work! Sgubaldo (talk) 16:53, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, and my pleasure. Davemck (talk) 16:54, 2 November 2024 (UTC)