User talk:John M Baker

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[edit] Exact title in opening paragraph

Hello John, I saw you reverted my change to Jazz (word origin) in order to retain the article's title in its first line. I know in most cases there can and will be an exact copy, but I don't think it is required. There are many examples of opening sentences differing from the multi-word title in order to make them sound fluent, e.g. Execution of Saddam Hussein, Responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks, Altamira (cave), and so forth. Nethency 20:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I looked at some examples of articles that include parentheticals in the article name, and the practice seems to be to exclude the parenthetical in the opening sentence. I have revised accordingly, using your language. John M Baker 22:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, jazz (word origin), was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On January 27, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article jazz (word origin), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.


Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 16 February 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Yale Book of Quotations, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 00:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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