User talk:1980fast

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Welcome!

Hello, 1980fast, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Sauvie Island Bridge. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Cutten, Ca 95534 AND 95503

Dear1980fast, The unincorporated community of Cutten, Ca is in unincorporated mini-suburb of the City of Eureka. Though that distinction is not easy to see from a distance, what is easy to see from any distance is that the post office in Cutten is what one might call a "legacy" post office, in that it realiy is a shoe box, tiny facility that has survived for the convenience of residents who are unhappy about the idea of traveling to downtown Eureka. However, many years ago, all development in the CDP of Cutten has long been assigned Eureka, CA addresses and Eureka-specific phone numbers. There is not a single address in the entire CDP, outside the post office itself that has the 95534 zip...not one! Perhaps when Cutten residents wanted to be officially incorporated into the City as recently as the 1960s/1970s, the powerful City Fathers should have listened. The then tiny population of the "neighborhood" needed services badly, but the powers that be downtown did not listen. Now, with thousands of residents living there, the Feds and planners have long determined it really is a Eureka "community," but now the current very fine neighborhood that it is wants little to do with the City they depend on for everything, but water and power are interested in incorporation. Nevertheless, I understand your misunderstanding...you could not possibly understand the special case of Eureka's complex relationship with its "environs" and it made sense to you that the PO zip would apply to the CDP. Alas, it does not...not at all. There is always a push/ pull between regional experts such as myself and those who are, perhaps, more generalized wiki masters. Between the two "types" we end up with a vey decent encyclopedia, that is more correct than it might otherwise be. Please do look at 95603 and 95501 zip code maps in comparison to 95534 and you will see that 95503 covers Cutten and that 95534 does NOT have any territory at all. There are many of these "legacy" POs (what I call them, that remain for convenience, which are staffed by one person, who can barely turn around in the little buildings they gave. Hiowever, in this particular case, all management and distribution/pick-up of mail for Cutten is handled at the Main Greater Eureka PO downtown...and that one is 95502 ( which also has no " territory." Please let me know if you have any difficulty discerning this before reverting the article. I see a colleague had the incorrect 95501 zip in the Cutten article before. Also, I was typing on my ipad, and hope I made this clear. Thank you Norcalal (talk) 22:31, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Present tense in computer articles

Hello, I reverted your edits to IBM PCjr, as most violated WP:COMPNOW. I reinserted various non-problematic edits lost in the reversion. Ylee (talk) 21:15, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ylee: Thanks! I was completely unaware of these computer-specific considerations. This will help me going forward. 1980fast (talk) 21:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad to help. It is always good to see other editors who understand basic English-grammar principles. Ylee (talk) 21:34, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ylee: I think I've found the source of my tense confusion. Check out the article on AppleWorks, which has a notice across the top about inconsistent use of tenses. The problem is that article the notice links to about correct usage of tenses has none of the helpful, computer-specific info that you pointed me to. Any novice Wikipedian reading that notice might make the same mistakes I did, in an attempt to be helpful. There really should be a computer-specific version of that notice. 1980fast (talk) 03:50, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I see what you mean about the hatnote. Sadly, COMPNOW is not followed nearly as often as it should, for reasons much like yours; applying it across Wikipedia is a laborious, very long-term task. Ylee (talk) 04:57, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation in captions

Hi. Just want to explain that I reverted the periods you added to the captions in Norwich because I think they are unnecessary per WP:CAPFRAG. Thanks. Bennv3771 (talk) 04:07, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Bennv3771: While I appreciate (and completely agree) with your additional changes to the section heading capitalisation, I respectfully fail to see how adding periods to complete sentences is against MoS. WP:CAPFRAG says:
"If any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then all sentences, and any sentence fragments, in that caption should end with a period."
which is precisely what I did. All three reverted captions were, in fact, complete sentences. I am therefore confused. Please explain. Thanks! 1980fast (talk) 04:35, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Yes, I see now how your edits are complete sentences. My bad, feel free to add those back in. Bennv3771 (talk) 04:42, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Bennv3771: No worries! I thought I was missing something. Cheers! 1980fast (talk) 05:01, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for cleaning up around here

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Keep up the good work. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 23:33, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bare refs

This is not a bare reference: "Apache OpenOffice, the Schrodinger's app: No one knows if it's dead or alive, no one really wants to look inside"., this is https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/10/apache_open_office_not_dead/ . Just commenting on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apache_OpenOffice&diff=870047923&oldid=870047463 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apache_OpenOffice&diff=870048716&oldid=870047923 Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:47, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Walter Görlitz: Thank you for pointing out my unintentional misuse of the term. I will update the phrasing used for future such edits, perhaps instead using "add source details". 1980fast (talk) 01:59, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dead URLs should be archived

Thanks for helping out with Stickybear!

In this edit I noticed you deleted a dead URL. However the Wayback Machine has past copies of this URL, and readers would find these old copies to be useful in researching the topic. I am going to add this link to the collection of archived pages:

{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/*/http://www.stickybear.com/|title=Optimum Resource, Inc. (Stickybear.com)}}

The star is a wildcard for all dates, so the collection of archived pages will fully show. I think doing this will be more useful than simply deleting the dead URL.

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 07:46, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cody Parkey

I only saw the first edit, and not the second one. My apologies. I've fixed it for you. Beasting123 (talk) 00:04, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Beasting123: No worries. I assumed it was unintentional. Thanks! 1980fast (talk) 01:00, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Commas in 1000s

Hey. I noticed your edits to the Game Gear article simply adding a comma inside '1000' and '4096'. I wondered: What's your ground for this? Or is it just personal preference? 607 (talk) 08:05, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@607 wikipedia: Hi, 607. With all due respect, I did it that way simply because that's the way I was always taught in school — apart from obvious exceptions (like years, for instance) they were required in a four-digit number, and their lack would have resulted in a small deduction for punctuation in any English assignment. However, I was not aware (until now) that the Wikipedia MoS considers them a stylistic choice. Because of this, and because I now see the article had an established style (I didn't notice the other occurrences that were already in the article yesterday, either) I have undone those two edits. Best regards, 1980fast (talk) 21:58, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the explanation, and thanks especially for making the decision to revert it. :) 607 (talk) 11:37, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good work!

Nice job on the edits. Red Director (talk) 20:44, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Hello 1980fast, I think this is the proper forum/method to get a comment to you, my apologies if it's not. Since you seemed to be doing editing on the Diane Arbus page, I thought I might comment on one of the first sentences, about how she worked to demarginalize certain segements of society by photographing them. Actually, if you look at her photos, they were quite unflattering and caustic; if anything her photos marginalized them. She is rightly famous for her unflattering and vaguely unsettling photographs. I did not think it's in my purview to edit the entry, but someone with more gravitas than I could/should rethink that idea/sentence. I know it is the modern politically correct thing to demarginalize, and I agree with that, but I don't think Arbus's work does that. You can contact me at dr.gregory.retzlaff@protonmail.com if you wish, I can't figure out this wikipedia way of communication.

A kitten for you!

Thanks for the edits a while back in Gorman, California.

BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 05:38, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@BeenAroundAWhile: You're welcome! I've just added a couple more small edits. 1980fast (talk) 06:02, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please learn to use "Show preview"

You have about 20 consecutive edits on Three's Company. Please learn Show Preview to avoid cluttering the history page. -- Lyverbe (talk) 11:02, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Large amount of consecutive edits

Hello, first of all, thank you for the punctuation/phrasing edits you made to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film). I know this is not required by policy, but in the best interest of everyone trying to retrace the article's edit history, I advise you to use the "Show preview" feature to review your edits instead of publishing each singular edit separately.

Looking at your edits, it seems as though you edited the article while simultaneously reading through it. Especially when copy editing, in order not to clutter up the edit history, I recommend you to read through the entire article first, mark any edits you intend to make, and then edit the entire page. Thank you for considering. Throast (talk | contribs) 13:41, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

It's time for some sweetness! Thanks for all the fine edits. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 23:36, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Early comma in clauses

Hi, thanks for you work. I don't think e.g. needs a comma unless one is required when it's "for example". And in that place it doesn't need a comma. In my view English-speakers use those initial commas as a learned habit they can't seem to shake for the sake of flow. Tony (talk) 07:35, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, @Tony1, for your comment. It inspired me to do a little research.
It seems that placing a comma after i.e. and e.g. is something that is correctly done in American English, whereas other varieties typically omit it. Therefore, I will continue to add them when an article follows American conventions – and will omit them when it is clear that an article does not. 1980fast (talk) 00:27, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Are you sure there's any trans-Atlantic difference? I see both US and other varieties use it unnecessarily; but sometimes it is necessary. I don't have a subscription to Chicago MOS any more; do you? Tony (talk) 04:24, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia research project at University of Technology, Sydney

Hi! I'm a researcher at UTS and we're doing a project on Wikipedia and Australian people, places and events - Wikipedia and the nation's story. We're interviewing Wikipedia's who edit articles about Australian places. I'd love to talk with you about your work contributing to the "Katoomba, NSW" article. The interview would take 1/2 hour to an hour. You can contact me on my user page - either Talk or email - if you're interested. Cheers! Francesca FSidotiUTS (talk) 04:37, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]