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| == Help request == | |||
| Hello BilCat, | |||
| I'm a new editor here and the last edit by the anonymous IP address is currently disrupting multiple currency related articles. If there's a chance you could help me get in touch with an admin to get that person to stop adding "information" that would be great. Thanks in advance and have a nice day ] (]) 14:41, 8 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| :What edit are you referring to? ] (]) 20:07, 8 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| I'm talking about the edits from 173.79.160.4 on multiple pages such as the British pound sterling and the jamaican dollar. ] (]) 16:19, 9 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| :Ah, ok. The best way to get in contact with an admin is to leave a post at ], per the instructions there. ] (]) 19:13, 9 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| == Overlinking == | |||
| I seek no edit war in ], but my link to the country is a standard "specificity" link, not a link to common words. In checking every "Languages of...," "Demography of...", and "Culture of..." article in WP, I see that 100% of them blue-link to the country in question—on the first mention in article, which is nearly always the first sentence. The only exception I can find in WP to this practice is your reversion. As I understand it, the country name is not a common term that overlinks to words like "language" or "speakers" or "fluency," but emphasizes the very country being discussed, which readers might wish to access directly. In your 2nd revert, you state there are "no guidelines", but universal practice (except for a lone WP editor, you) is not the best yardstick. ] (]) 20:04, 9 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| :Again, read ]. If you have a quibble with my application of the guideline, take to the guideline page, and make your case there. ] (]) 20:20, 9 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| ::I read it and believe you are overreading it (confusing common-noun links with primary links). All country-related articles in WP are linked to their country in the first sentence. Will take to the guideline page. ] (]) 14:33, 10 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| == yup == | |||
| oz strylia is a very strange place at the best of times, and nope we cannot be held responsible for the weirder ideas/terminology, we are all bruces' here (viz monty python) so gday and thanks, bruce. ] 04:13, 10 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| :@] Is this in response to my post on Nick-D's talk page? That last IP was from Nepal! Or Ponyo's page? That IP user is from all over Australia! Assuming it's just one user. I don't hold the actions of one user against a country. That's prejudice and stupidity, which this user/users is/are guilty of themself/-ves. The thing about most Americans, even if we've spent a lot of time outside the US, we aren't insulted by words or phrases we don't understand. Even when we know what they mean, they just aren't offensive to us. Just quaint and silly! What does strike me as hilarious is this IP user like to make like Americans speak some weird brand of English, but that Australian English is normal! LOL! But there are people like that in the US, Canada, Britain, and every country in the world. ] (]) 04:40, 10 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| ::gday bruce, yup it was about bruce nick d, and yes all countries have them... ] 12:38, 10 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| ::: the seriously local qualifier is the terminology: | |||
| :''I've been everywhere man...'' | |||
| :'' Wollongong, Wollongong, Wollongong....'' | |||
| : The real local context cruncher... | |||
| :'' and Dapto'' | |||
| :But hell, its a bit like dealing with the Vina Del Mar, | |||
| Valparaiso distinction in Chile - old Valparaiso of the | |||
| pre 1906 earthquake era, and the ceros that are part of vina del mar, or valparaiso... | |||
| But it can get very particular... ] 12:54, 10 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
| == JSoc == | == JSoc == | ||
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JSoc
Re this, "JSoc" is the term used for Jewish societies in UK universities. Might be obscure in the US, but in the UK that's what you'd be looking for if you searched for JSoc. BobFromBrockley (talk) 14:19, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Bobfrombrockley I removed it because there was no mention whatsoever of the term on the linked article. BilCat (talk) 14:22, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- Oh I see that's correct. I might look at this properly and add it in to that article (I can't remember how I got to there!) and if so re-add the see also. Thanks for quick response. BobFromBrockley (talk) 15:51, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Single float advantage
OK, fair is fair on RS, but please see Talk:Floatplane#Single float advantage 🙂. I think that is a better outcome. Thanks! Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 18:23, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Ronald Acuna Jr
You removed my edit. Just because he was not on the WS Roster, does not make him a World Series Champion. He has a ring. You need to undo that edit, that's just flat out wrong. Bluechip18 (talk) 06:05, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Bluechip18: It's explained on the article's talk page. You can make your case there. BilCat (talk) 06:39, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
Sixteenth Anniversary on Misplaced Pages!
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi BilCat! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 16th anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Please accept the belated invitation below we forgot to give you at this time last year. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:49, 20 August 2022 (UTC) |  |
Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Misplaced Pages project for fifteen years or more.
Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 20:49, 20 August 2022 (UTC)