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Hello to all fellow Wikipedians. GoodDay 22:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC).

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I was right all along,. HA!!!!

Long live canada!

Jeremy Corbyn

I recommend you avoid involvement in UK-related articles. Going on past experience, it will only end in tears. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:49, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

It won't end up in tears. GoodDay (talk) 22:06, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

BTW Ghmyrtle, no matter what the outcome of that Rfc, I'll be content. If it's to be United Kingdom? no prob as that's Corbyn's birth-country. However, if it's to be England? again no prob, as many Canadian & American bio infoboxes, use only locations like Edmonton, Alberta or Dallas, Texas, for example. The Canadian bio infoboxes tend to use city-province/territory & the American bio infoboxes tend to use city-state. It's not an overly big deal when British bio infoboxes use city-constituent country. GoodDay (talk) 17:10, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

MDY: comma after year

I've reverted your recent edit to Tanya Cook, in which you removed a comma after the date "November 9, 1964". According to MOS:COMMA, dates written in MDY format require a comma after the year, unless it's followed by other punctuation instead. If you've removed other such commas recently, could you please go back and revert your removals? Thanks. — Ammodramus (talk) 03:13, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I've been removing overusage of commas on a lot of articles, for years. I doubt I can go back & undo. GoodDay (talk) 03:53, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

This isn't removing overusage of commas; this is removing commas that're called for by MOS.

Note that I raised this issue on your talk page in July 2015 (User_talk:GoodDay/Archive_37#Comma_after_year), at which time you said that there was no way you could go back and reverse so many changes. In view of that, could I urge you to go back and restore the commas after MDY dates that you've removed since last July? Thanks. — Ammodramus (talk) 04:09, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I gnome edit randomly. You're free to revert any such edits that I may have made since July 2015. GoodDay (talk) 04:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Is there a name in Wikitaxonomy for editors who follow gnomes around and fix their problem edits? Metagnomes? Gnomognomes? What would the userbox look like? — Ammodramus (talk) 04:17, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I don't know, but I'm alright with you fixing up any of my gnome edits. GoodDay (talk) 04:18, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Cool. But seriously, isn't making minor improvements the essence of gnomery? Edits that violate MOS can hardly be called "improvements", even if the minor-edit box is checked. Removing necessary commas after MDY dates isn't gnomery, but its opposite, however well-intentioned. — Ammodramus (talk) 04:28, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I've had conflicting advise in the past, concerning the MOS-in-question. You're free to 'fix up' any of my edits that you see as being erroneous. GoodDay (talk) 04:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Checked your talk-page archive for "comma", and found some of that "conflicting advice": in User_talk:GoodDay/Archive_34#Desist_meaningless_mucking_about, Isaacl says that "I think I recall that Misplaced Pages's manual of style specifies" no comma after a date in MDY format.

Unless the guideline has been changed since 2013, Isaacl recalled wrong. The MOS seems fairly unambiguous about it, both in the table at MOS:YEAR and in the correct-incorrect example pair at MOS:COMMA. I'd suggest that unless and until another editor can point to a specific passage in the MOS that supports no-comma-after-MDY, we take comma-after-MDY as required. — Ammodramus (talk) 14:27, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I believe I was thinking of a different scenario in trying to explain why some different advice may have been received previously. I did not clarify further in that discussion since the topic under discussion was regarding listing birth and death dates.

GoodDay, I suggest that it would be helpful for you to take into account the appropriate style guidance in your edits from here on? isaacl (talk) 17:33, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm just going to try to avoid it all together & concentrate on fixing the dashs between the dates. PS: My cutting down the commas, looks better though. GoodDay (talk) 17:52, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Is there a version of Poe's law for punctuation? — Ammodramus (talk) 21:37, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Not sure. GoodDay (talk) 21:41, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

David Souter

I apologize! So it is typical for this type of article to read as "appointed by the president" - which would be the process of nominating and confirming? Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 16:56, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

As I understand it, the president nominates the person for judgeship or the Supreme Court & the nominee has to be confirmed by the US Senate, before he/she can assume that post. It's due to seperation of powers. I had to fix up the few SC bios that had appointed in them, as the rest used nominated. BTW, if you want, we could ask Misplaced Pages:WikiProject United States courts and judges what would be best for all the Chief Justices & associate justices to have in their infoboxes. GoodDay (talk) 17:00, 19 January 2016 (UTC)