User talk:Anomalocaris

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Anomalocaris, welcome to Wikipedia!

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax τεχ 13:46, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] em-dashes

Just to let you know: turning Unicode em-dash into HTML — is directly opposite to the direction we've been going for over a year. It's not a big deal (the display is the same) but it looks like you are making a deliberate effort here, and it will simply be undone by a bot at some point. - Jmabel | Talk 18:11, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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Please point to a Wikipedia guideline page that includes recommendations to use Unicodes vs. HTML codes such as — for —.

Regardless of Wikipedia guidelines, I would point out:

  • Editing in Wikipedia is done in a fixed-width font, so, while editing, the visual distinction between hyphen, en dash, and em dash is certain when using HTML codes, and uncertain when using Unicodes.
  • Wikipedia's own Unicode and HTML page refers to and uses — to discuss and display the em dash.
  • I seem to recall reading somewhere off Wikipedia that browsers are more likely to render & codes correctly than they are to render Unicode characters correctly. I don't know if this is true with the browsers of 2006.

In general I replace – codes and single and double hyphens with — codes. I do not replace Unicode-coded em dashes with &mdash-coded em dashes except perhaps in the course of fixing the other stand-ins for em dash. Anomalocaris 21:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC) [end copied]

I have no idea if there is a formal guideline, but there is an authorized bot sweeping through and Unicodifying HTML entities.

There may still be someone using a browser that has trouble with Unicode, but if so they will be in trouble in a lot of other places, since we no longer use HTML entities for letters with diacritics, either.

Again, no big deal, just didn't want you to waste effort swimming against the current, but if you want to, it is your prerogative. - Jmabel | Talk 21:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Willie McGee of Laurel, Mississippi

If you wish to improve and resource it I can undelete it for you. Let me know.--Dakota 03:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits on Nancy Pelosi

Hi. I thought you might want to know that while your decision to delete "the only woman to hold the position" from the article was correct, it had read "No woman has been closer to the Presidency" just a few edits before. Just a note. Cheers. Xiner (talk, email) 15:11, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cautious Cal.

"Cautious Cal" is an existent and valid nickname for Calvin Coolidge, regardless of its popularity.

[edit] Warning

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 23:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Apologies, it was my mistake. I saw an edit of yours in which you corrected a link, and took that as if you added the link. The link itself was not appropriate, and hence my mistake. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 20:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dashes

Please note the North American tradition of months, dates, and time to see the appropriate use of dashes and emdashes. Please discontinue your unstandardized changes to articles pertaining to dates. Thank you. Mkdwtalk 01:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

The Chicago Manual of Style notes that an En dash are used for dates and number ranges. An Em dash is twice the length of an En dash. Em dashes are used to indicates a sudden break in thought and are texted based. You are inserting Em dashes to articles pertaining to dates and time. I kindly ask you to please change them back. Thank you. Mkdwtalk 01:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Was your message on my talk page intended for me or User:Bzuk? I think it's for him, but I'm not sure. His talk page may be a better place for it. Grant | Talk 02:00, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dianne Feinstein

Please try to be more careful when reverting to a previous version. Your revert undid two days worth of valid citation upgrades that I did, plus reinserted a WP:BLP violation that I had removed. The best way to handle that edit would have been to go back into the history, copy out the text you wanted, and then paste it into the latest version. That way, subsequent work will not be undone. I reverted to my last version, and another editor is piecing the text changes back in. Feel free to check it out and make further adjustments, just don't undo all of my work, I am still in the process of formatting all of the citations so that we have nice complete footnotes to refer to. - Crockspot 15:11, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the reply on my talk. No problemo. Happy editing. - Crockspot 20:30, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your work on years e.g. 30s BC articles

Thanks for taking on the style improvement task. Cheers! Flyguy649talkcontribs 17:20, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Well Done (feel free to put this on your userpage, too)

The Barnstar of Diligence
Kudos for a well done and industrious copyedit on the Yvette D. Clarke page. Keep up the good work! Davemcarlson 08:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wife and kids

I saw your well-intended edit regarding Rep. José Serrano's wife and 5 kids. He has five kids and a wife. She is the mother of at least one, Benjamin, but not of all 5. I know that at least Sen. José Marco Serrano is his son by a previous marriage. You may wish to re-edit your edit.Pr4ever 22:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ruben Hinojosa

That IP vandal is at it again ... I reverted his latest garbage; if he does it again he's going to AIV.Blueboy96 17:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I requested semi-protection ... that should end this nonsense. Blueboy96 12:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Symphony No.9 (Dvorak)

While Trivia is rejected, is it possible there are "Influnce" and "Influences" at the same time? (Addaick 12:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC))