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New Page Reviewing

Hello, John of Reading. As one of Misplaced Pages's most experienced Misplaced Pages editors, Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines; currently Misplaced Pages needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere 21:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

@Insertcleverphrasehere: No, sorry. Yes, I have a very high edit count and have been around for a while, but I don't trust my judgement when it comes to areas such as NPP, AFC or XFD. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Mail

@Dthomsen8: I've sent you an email as requested, but I'm about to go to bed! If your screenshot looks like this, with a tick at "Hide probably good edits", then the solution is to turn off the preference that PrimeHunter mentioned in your thread at WP:VPT. I'm unlikely to be able to solve your problem myself. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:33, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi!

I see that you are very active in small fixes. Could you please help me with this? Thank you! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 14:39, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

@ExperiencedArticleFixer: I will have a look at these once I've finished my current spelling list. However, I'm unlikely to save any edits where the only changes are AWB general fixes. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:54, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Edits that make no changes

Edits like this are really not very useful since they change nothing about the display of the page. Unless you are changing something else as well, it's probably better to avoid edits that don't have any appreciable change to the page. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:20, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

@Koavf: I would have thought that correcting a category sort key was a useful change. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:58, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you and excuse me! ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:06, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Another prehistoric life by state bulk article request

Hey, John. A few months back you helped me out quite a bit with a series of lists of the prehistoric life of US states and I was hoping I could rely on your technical expertise again for a similar operation. On September 21st you replaced the first instance of each capital letter in the format "* †[[A" with a block of code:

--A-- <!-- Please hide unwanted images in comments like this one so that they may be easily restored later if we change our minds and the image is wanted again --> {{Compact ToC}} * †''[[A

Could you do that again for the following commented out list of articles? Abyssal (talk) 15:19, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

 Done -- John of Reading (talk) 15:54, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

I've edited the nowiki'd heading markup since it would confuse the archiving bot.

Thanks, John! Do you mind performing the same operation for a few more articles? Thanks. Abyssal (talk) 01:31, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Also  Done -- John of Reading (talk) 07:21, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

RfC at Robert E. Lee

As a recent contributor to Robert E. Lee, you are receiving this notice for an RfC at of a proposed restatement of a wp:primary source which contains more points than the existing block quote from the letter. The primary source is a 1856 letter of Lee’s to his wife from Texas as found at Alexander Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: his military and personal history (1886), p. 82-83. Opponents have seen wp:original research in the proposal as drawing conclusions not found in the primary source. A rewrite of the first proposal follows an edit break. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 09:08, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@TheVirginiaHistorian: Thank you, but I just fixed a typo. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:08, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

"tis the season...."

Hello John of Reading: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, ―Buster7 ☎ 19:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

@Buster7: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 19:48, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:48, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

@Bzuk: Thank you, from a grey and damp south. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:15, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Articles for Creation Reviewing

Hello, John of Reading. AfC submissions Random submission 2+ months 1,772 pending submissionsPurge to update v t e I recently sent you an invitation to join NPP, but you also might be the right candidate for another related project, AfC, which is also extremely backlogged. Would you please consider becoming an Articles for Creation reviewer? Articles for Creation reviewers help new users learn the ropes of creating their first articles, and identify whether topics are suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages. Reviewing drafts doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Misplaced Pages inclusion policies and guidelines; currently Misplaced Pages needs experienced users at this task. (After requesting to be added to the project, reviewing is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the reviewing instructions before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere 03:07, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

@Insertcleverphrasehere: My earlier reply is still at the top of this page. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Apologies John. — Insertcleverphrasehere 08:12, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

@Insertcleverphrasehere: No problem! -- John of Reading (talk) 08:14, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Chateu Skvorec and Skvorec

Dear John, I would like to ask you for help. There is an article about Skvorec Castle, that I,ve published about 8 years ago. I think that "Castle" is apropriate defenition for these types of structure, but for some reasons someone, called iaroslavvs renamed Castle to french Chateu and eagerly defend his point of view. I'm not against french words in English, but in all other texts (e.g. Skvorec, that edited by you) we use "Castle". Can you halp, please

Kind regards, Dmitryeremeev Dmitryeremeev (talk) 04:03, 31 December 2017 (UTC)