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Thank you, I don't typically edit medical articles too much but these policies are nonetheless helpful. I'll be sure to reach out if I have any additional questions about them. Thanks. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅14:38, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi DonSpencer1. I've reverted your Fortification edits as the changes are so large it's hard to understand the where it's going. Is it possible to please apply changes in smaller batches so it's manageable to understand? WestportWiki (talk) 21:39, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for your review, especially pointing out the placement of references. One question: you changed the section title "Later research on very low calorie diet and coronary heart disease" into just "Later research on low calorie diets". The contents of the section refer to "very low calorie diet" and "coronary heart disease" and so I wondered what your reasoning is? Not a big deal. I am content with the article now as it is and grateful for your review.
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Thank you so much for offering your help with improving the LGBT Youth Scotland page. I can't tell you how appreciated that is. From next week, I will begin using the relevant talk page for suggesting some edits and additions to make the page more accurate and informative, and would appreciate your input and advice. A lot of the information is out of date by over ten years, so it will be really good to understand how best to update it while preserving the history of the organisation. Sending warm wishes!
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Dear DonSpencer1, I have reverted your recent edit adding Northern Cyprus because of multiple issues with it (see the edit summary). Please be more careful when adding new entries to complex tables. Take some time to understand the meaning of various parameters and how they are used. Don't just copy an existing entry and tweak some of its parameters while leaving other parameters untouched—that's almost always wrong. I will re-add a proper entry for Northern Cyprus shortly. Thank you! — UnladenSwallow (talk) 12:23, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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I agree with you but I have a problem with it. I have made that suggestion in the talk page. I got push-back from user Rjensen (which opinion I respect and value). He wrote that "in this case a short lede will short change readers and they will miss key aspects". So I would not make it shorter. But the text, both lede and article, surely could benefit from some editing. --J Pratas (talk) 14:57, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@JPratas: The lead is objectively too long and it can easily be trimmed without removing any material content (as other editors have attempted to do). Please don't confuse content disputes with copy-editing. Its sentences like "in all of Europe" that could easily just be "in Europe", you know what I mean? We can take this 8 paragraph lead to 4 (maybe 5) in no time at all. This issue, again, is not the content, but the overly drawn-out wording. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅15:39, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I understand. I agree with you. I saw what you did the Asturias 1934 article and that is why I suggested you to step in. I am not native in English so I am not capable of doing what you are doing. Thanks. --J Pratas (talk) 15:56, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Donna, first of all, thank you for your edits at the Hilda Tenorio article. Now, although I've been editing here on Wikipedia for quite some time, I've always taken it very casually, almost like a thing to do on my free time, and as such, I don't know the intricacies of how it works. I would like your help and expertise in this issue. See, I added various categories at the end of the Hilda Tenorio article and as you know, category articles of people are ordered alphabetically by last name, but the problem is that in the case of Hilda Tenorio the system thinks or supposes that "Hilda" is her last name (rather than Tenorio) and because of that it adds her name to the "H" section rather than the "T" section. I was wondering if you could help me to solve this annoying hindrance. Any ideas how to solve this. Seguro64 (talk) 20:16, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Seguro64: I would love to help you out with Hilda Tenorio! She seems like a very interesting person in the world of Mexican bullfighting. OK I am going to look into this category issue right away and if there is anything else I can do to help you with the article, let me know! Looks like you beat me to the punch! I think that default sort template should do the trick. Also note that Help:Category is a great resource for implementing technical categorization for a whole host of cats, e.g. WP:SORTCAT, WP:PAGECAT, & H:CAT. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅20:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that was indeed the issue, I saw you mentioned the HelpDesk in your user page only after I posted this so I didn't want to bother you and went there instead. And yes, Hilda is such an interesting person, she's already recovered from her brutal goring from last year and getting in shape for the future. Will add more WomenInRed! Best regards, Seguro64 (talk) 20:52, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, thanks for your edits. I'm adding in more information to the introductory section, and also to the Career section of this page. The way it's been edited is minimizing her contributions to supercomputing and high performance computing research. (You also went out on a limb and wrote down when her photo was taken - it was taken in 2020, not 2019.) 1919lantern (talk) 00:05, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@1919lantern: I did not go out on a limb – the image on Ilkay Altintas is dated 21 August 2019. Where are you getting that it was taken in 2020? As an aside, however, thank you for removing the unnecessary citations, it was causing technical glitch on the article and you inadvertently fixed it. Now, some of your edits are helpful – others are not. When you added 7 citations to source one sentence you violated our citation policies. That is considered excessive citing and impacts the readability of an article. Secondly, we have specific policies regarding letter case. We denote phrases like "Founder and Directer Director" as "founder and directer director". To start, please fix the excessive citing and letter case issues before we discuss other edits. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅02:49, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@DonSpencer1: I'm extremely sorry, Donna, for my incorrect statement. I mixed this image up with another image and was under the impression that it was taken in 2020. Thank you for sending me the Wikimedia commons link so I could see the date - I really appreciate it. Aside from that, thank you for letting me know about the excessive citing and the founder and directer note. I'm a little confused on the founder and directer edit - I'm not sure I've seen director spelled as directer anywhere else. Any info you'd be able to provide me with would be greatly appreciated.1919lantern (talk) 05:27, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@1919lantern: Ah a spelling mistake on my end – "director" is the right spelling (in lowercase). Also note how "Computer Engineering" is now "computer engineering" per the same policy. Let's keeping going with cutting down the number of citations. For example, the sentence In addition, she is a big data MOOC instructor through Coursera and edX, having taught over a million learners till date still has 4 citations. It only needs one, preferably this one. There are still a handful of sentences with 4+ to 5+ citations. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅16:50, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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@The Most Comfortable Chair: thank you so much for reviewing the article and giving me such comprehensive, constructive feedback. It will take me some time to do further reading on the topic and complete more research so I will resubmit when I'm ready. Thank you again! Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅19:25, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello DonSpencer1. How are you? I have been looking up on the festival since the review and I found some sources that may help in expanding the article. Particularly, A, B, C and D look interesting to me. I also found a bunch of other papers on Google Scholar that could help with the article. This month is going to get terribly hectic for me, but I will have lots of free time in May and June. If you are still interested in working on the article, let me know and we can collaborate. Stay safe. — The Most ComfortableChair12:36, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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