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What is the meaning of this I made an opinionated general comment in the “general comment” section(literally) and you mention me in the same sentence where you use the word “Attack” why would you cast such aspersion? Do you care to elaborate on that? I don’t appreciate this. You can make your point without attacking me, Yes, I consider casting aspersions a WP:PA. I wouldn’t be happy with you if that occurs again. Celestina007 (talk) 18:38, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh dear. I am very sorry that i have offended and upset you; i certainly did not intend that. There were no personal attacks ~ i did not PA you, nor did i accuse you of making a PA, so if my writing led you to believe that, again, i am very sorry for poorly expressing myself. My simple point was that you made a statement of opinion in a way which seemed to be stating it as fact, so i pointed that out and that i felt plenty of people were misreading opposes due to age and maturity and responding as though they were just about age. Happy days ~ LindsayHello08:13, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen you "repair a CS1" error before on some edits of mine. What does that mean? I'd just like to learn so that I do not make any more errors of that type when citing sources of websites etc. Thanks! ♥Th78blue (talk)♥20:35, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, Th78blue! Forgive me if i over-explain, i just want to be clear, so i may tell you things you already know. CS1 is a series of templates used for making references easier to do and giving them a standardised appearance; you can read about them at HELP:CS1. In many or most of them there is a place for an URL, that is, an external link; some editors, however, put URLs where they don't belong, for example in the |title= or |publisher= or |website= parameters. Each of those has a different format which doesn't want an active external link; the third, for example should be like |website=www.example.com, which shows the website, but without the "http://" isn't active, rather just being the address of the site. What i do is take a list of articles with such errors and strip out the "http://" or otherwise correct the parameter(s) to remove the error. For example, in The Rainbow Fish, which both you and i edited relatively recently i edited three examples of |website= to remove "https://". If you look at my contributions you can say many similar edits of each of these parameters. I hope this is clear; please feel free to ask again if i can be of any help.
Nice to meet you, by the way; i don't think i've noticed your name previously ~ i'll keep an eye out for it going forward! Happy days ~ LindsayHello14:16, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Just looking back at something on my talk page, and i find i didn't answer you, Th78blue. How embarrassing ~ on mine own talk page, too To answer, i use Category:CS1 errors: external links, which has a list of all the pages with such errors. There are about 18,000 at the moment (over 35,000 when i first noticed them, so errors are being corrected!). Maybe you already worked this out; either way, i do apologise for apparently ignoring your question. Happy days ~ LindsayHello09:23, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, remind me how I do the "cleanup" here again. It has been some time since we discussed this, no worries on missing to reply originally by the way. I know we are all busy people and there is always much work to be done on the encyclopedia! ♥Th78blue (talk)♥15:39, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's easy, Th78blue. I do it two ways; with AWB i (as User:Kahtar) load the category, then i have a script loaded which checks and within CS1 templates changes such things as |website=https://www.example.com into |website=www.example.com. Or i open the category page and just start clicking at random, find a page that looks interesting, and find the CS1 error(s) and change them to remove the external links (stripping out the "http(s)://" in any parameter except |url= or |work= or one or two others. Hope this helps! Happy days ~ LindsayHello15:53, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Not a script, added by hand. I don't understand, though, because i'm sure what i added is within the correct syntax of the URL template; i've just gone and experimented, though, and i cannot make it work as i used to, so clearly i've gone wrong somewhere. Thank you for pointing it out to me; i won't use that template again. Happy days ~ LindsayHello18:00, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello. You are wrong on my case and I believe that you did not analyze the DalidaEditor user profile. I have worked with @Binksternet and each of us has contributed solid and secondary sources. Now, DalidaEditor even comes to formulate a complaint against Binksternet. For what reason: war of edition (what you reproach me for). This is the trap he sets for those who want to modify the article of which he wrote a good part and which today is disputed and must be reviewed because it adopts a fan's point of view. Look at his talk page. Cordially --Elenora.C (talk) 23:51, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Haha ~ if that's the worst thing you do all day...means nothing; and if worse happens, well, we all make mistakes and pick ourselves up. Amusing! Happy days ~ LindsayHello11:37, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Lindsay! It's always frustrating when people who haven't experienced something (or had a different experience with it) don't believe those who have about how it felt to them. Thank you for being willing to believe. Valereee (talk) 14:27, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Valereee. My absolute pleasure; obviously, not having experienced it, i have to accept the experience of others and their descriptions and, though in the abstract i don't care especially for the proposal, in the context of the respect that i believe we all owe each other, i have to comment as i did.
As it goes, i'm fairly active at RfA, though not so much the talk page, and try to evaluate each candidate. Since eight or nine years ago there have, of course, been a number of people i admire who have passed, a number who haven't, as well as a number i don't especially admire on both sides of success. You are definitely an admin and editor whom i admire; keep it up Happy days ~ LindsayHello22:22, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
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Koavf: Because it doesn't belong there. In a CS1 template https:// belongs in about a dozen different parameters, but |website= is not one of them. I hate to teach my grandmother egg-sucking, but here's an explanation you might find helpful. There is, in fact, an entire category of articles with https:// in the wrong parameter(s), and one of my accounts often spends time working through it. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello10:21, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I'm just letting you know as a courtesy that I have reverted your edits to make way to restore a page. However, I have restored the changes you made. Just thought I'd let you know as a courtesy, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the edit you made. It was only temporarily reverted to make way for a revision restore. Thanks! FatalFit | ✉ | ✓19:29, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Team BRIT is an English team. In England we speak using idiomatic English , so we say 'seventh of May' , or 'May the seventh' and consequently write 'May 7th' , not 'May 7' . Contrary to popular opinion, not everyone in the UK has reverted/subverted to mid Atlantic English, or say 'like' every second word, so to arbitrarily change all the dates on the Team BRIT calendar to an American format is 'just not cricket'. And yes, that is a peculiarly English expression, like the way we write our dates, and will never become 'it's just not baseball'. I trust you get my meaning. J R Spigot (talk) 22:01, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well, thank you for the education. Here on WP, however, we have a manual of style which defines how we format dates and "May 7th" is not how we do it. Take a look at MOS:BADDATE and you will see what i mean. I trust you get mine. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello04:58, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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article in English: "Vlašić cheese" (Vlach cheese) Mestter (talk) 13:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As long as you stop calling things vandalism which aren't, i don't care. As it happens, though you may not have noticed, i left your sentence in, changed its position slightly, in fact, and made it the second sentence of another paragraph giving it, perhaps, slightly more prominence. Also, though you don't seem to have read anything else i suggested, i recommend you take a look at this and start assuming that other editors are behaving with good faith; it is foundational to this community and if you don't you won't last long. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello17:17, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Random message ~ don't think i've ever touched the page; IP, you should probably have put this template on the talk page of the editor who created it, but i've done that for you. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello11:29, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, i see, the IP put the template all over the place. Oh well. Lindsay
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