User talk:Peter K Burian/Archive 2
Car & Driver Isetta article CommentHi Peter I removed the bit you had added to the Iso Isetta as I think you were misled by the caption you linked to in the C&D article. The only Iso Rivolta involvement was to sell BMW the licence to produce the car and the tooling - this is already mentioned in that section - the "other model" was the BMW car. The BMW car was called the Motocoupe originally, perhaps the headers in the BMW section need looking at. Mighty Antar (talk) 22:13, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Please see here for commentingWikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2016_June_13#Pulse_.28nightclub.29 Thank you, Mootros (talk) 17:14, 14 June 2016 (UTC) United Virgin IslandsHey i wanted to say job well done on the united virgin islands page. Iazyges (talk) 06:51, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
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@Diannaa. OK, I just did an attribute. See the Puerto Rico article. 02:26, 23 February 2017 Peter K Burian (talk | contribs) . . (270,087 bytes) (+314) . . (→Plebiscites on statehood or independence: copied content from History of Puerto Rico; see that page's history for attribution) Did I do it correctly? Peter K Burian (talk) 02:30, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Latest revision as of 01:12, 23 February 2017 (→Commonwealth status: Attribution: content in this section was copied from Federal voting rights in Puerto Rico on February 22, 2017. Please see the history of that page for attribution.)
OK, Diannaa 🍁 ... if it is that simple, sure, can do. I will do one right now, adding content to the Political status of Puerto Rico Peter K Burian (talk) 13:40, 23 February 2017 (UTC) Reference errors on 1 FebruaryHello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that some edits performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. They are as follows:
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Yes, as we discussed yesterday in the Chantry Island Lightstation talk page. But only in edits I have made in the past week or so. Previous to that I was using the full format. And even on March 17, I was using the full format in some articles I was editing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waterloo_County,_Ontario&action=edit§ion=3 This begs the question as to whether WP accepts such citations. I agree, they are not ideal but was under the impression that they are acceptable. I will find out ASAP. Peter K Burian (talk) 22:20, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
@Theroadislong OK, I have the official word from an Admin On the English Wikipedia now. :(talk page stalker) The citation template is to help combat link rot and assist with a consistent reference format. Its usage is a good practice, and you should use it if you have the time (Or use a tool like reFill to assist), but using a raw URL to source something is fine. Sourcing is more important than perfect CS1 templates.
Even so, I promise I will start using the full citation templates again starting right now. Serge was not available so a different Admin answered me. I don't think her name is necessary but here is what her page says: Howdy. I mostly patrol various VG related articles for vandalism, but also help with sources, rewrites, and adding recent developments. I'm also involved in helping maintain templates and modules for the WP:VG project. I do a fair amount of gnome-like minor cleanup. I also spend time reviewing or patrolling edit requests, pending changes and recent changes. Peter K Burian (talk) 23:46, 19 March 2017 (UTC) Edit summaries, multiple consecutive editsHello, Peter: A couple suggestions, if you don't mind:
Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions.Eric talk 02:02, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
OK, I see one problem. I use the [ and] brackets around the URL and that creates the numeral. Just realized that. Peter K Burian (talk) 17:04, 31 March 2017 (UTC) Please don't cut section from one article and then drop them into another article, as you did at County of Brant. Your edit corrupted the formatting of the reference section, and one of the links you added didn't go to the intended target. You have been cautioned multiple times about your sloppy referencing, and User: Diannaa cautioned you above about cutting and pasting. Please take a moment to read some of the advice and warning on your talk page. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:29, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
i.e. Dianaa wrote: While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from page name; see that page's history for attribution. Just FYI about dailymailPlease see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 220. --Moxy (talk) 15:35, 9 April 2017 (UTC) Identifying reliable sourcesThe sources your using for the changes at Arras are horrible pls read over WP:USERGENERATED ...no wikis pls.--Moxy (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Edits to Wellesley, OntarioSomehow in your edits this part got a little messed up: "The area now the village of on the Nith River was first settled in 1847 …". You can probably figure out how to fix it quicker than me. – Modal Jig (talk) 00:38, 11 April 2017 (UTC) Peter K Burian (talk) 01:43, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
With this edit you wrote "by 1870, Winterbourne had one store, two hotels, a flour mill and saw mill, two schools and three churches, Church of Scotland, Free Church, and Wesleyan Methodist." You cited this source. Where did you get 1870? Magnolia677 (talk) 01:12, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for April 12Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Goderich, Ontario, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Wilmot Township. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:59, 12 April 2017 (UTC) Some tipsThank you for your yeoman's effort adding histories to so many Ontario articles. I do a lot of article cleanup and just finished fine-tuning many of your edits to St. Jacobs. The article is looking nice, but still needs work. I'd like to give you some suggestions to improve your editing. I'm not trying to be a smarty pants. I just want to give you a few editing tips, because you are clearly a very dedicated editor. First, an edit summary for each edit is a big help. Also, it's always best to do draft edits, and then move your final "good copy" into the article. Many editors use their sandbox. I prefer to write my drafts in a text editor like Notepad, and then cut-and-paste my text into the article. Either method prevents multiple small edits to the article you are working on. Finally, good quality inline citations using templates look very nice, provide more information to readers, and are the best way to prevent link-rot (as may happen using this style). I've added a small tutorial below. Go to the Loch Leven, Mississippi and notice the references. I use three types of reference templates, depending on what source I am citing. For online articles use... <ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = | publisher = | date = | url = | accessdate = }}</ref> Note: you only have to use ONE DATE. If you have a publication date, delete the access date. If there's no publication date, add your access date. But don't add both. Newspaper: <ref>{{cite news | last = | first = | date = | title = | url = | work = (name of newspaper) }}</ref> If there are multiple authors, use: | last1 = | first1 = | last2 = | first2 = For a book... <ref>{{cite book | last = | first = | title = | publisher = | year = | url = | pages = }}</ref> In the "pages" section, add all the pages in the book that you used. If you need to quote a particular page, add your reference after the quote. If you have used multiple pages, a good way to keep readers from getting your pages confused is to add "{{rp|23}}" (which will add the page number 23). You can see it used in this article... Bruinsburg, Mississippi. Finally, the nice part about using these citations is you can use them over and over in the article (without having to use "et al" or re-write the citation). In the Loch Leven article, I added this source... <ref name="Anderson">{{cite book | last = Anderson | first = Aaron D. | title = Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914 | publisher = University Press of Mississippi | year = 2013 | url = https://books.google.ca/books?id=HVebRBm2LlsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false | pages = 82, 82, 119, 122}}</ref> See how I added "<ref name="Anderson">"? After the first complete citation, every time I need to add a citation for the Anderson book, all I have to add is "<ref name="Anderson"/>". I hope this helps. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:06, 14 April 2017 (UTC) ................................................
Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book News: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news Journal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web Peter K Burian (talk) 19:51, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
With this edit you wrote that West Montrose "is the site of homes built in the past 15 years". What was your source? Also, with this edit you wrote "The horse and buggy was the primary transportation among the Mennonites and some are still seen in the area." You provided these three sources to support your edit: [1][2][3]. The only source which supports any part of this edit was this one which states: "In the late 1800s the primary means of transportation was horse-drawn vehicles". Where in the sources you cited was the rest of your edit supported? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:06, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
I disagree. All of the current edits are supported by citations. You might want to check the current version of the text. Peter K Burian (talk) 21:44, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
April 2017Please do not add or change content, as you did at Conestogo, Ontario, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:39, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Virtually all of the article, except for the History and the citations that I added to that section, was uncited. It seemed to be copied from some Web site promoting Conestogo, Ontario. You were right; the sentence I added was uncited too, although it would have been easy for you or me to add a citation since there are many articles about the Golf club on the Web. Example: http://www.golfadvisor.com/courses/27304-conestoga-golf-and-country-club-village-moors/ 93.2% recommend this course I tried to find a reliable source for the other uncited content in the article, and was unable to do so. I could not even confirm that some of those businesses still exist in the village. Hence, that content needed to be deleted. Peter K Burian (talk) 13:32, 19 April 2017 (UTC) Stop harassing meThis edit was blatant campaigning, and denouncing me to another editor was inappropriate and unwelcome. It must stop now or I will report you at ANI. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:16, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
PeacockWith this edit I removed an obvious peacock statement. Why did you revert it? Magnolia677 (talk) 17:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
This is my Talk page. The heading is as I believe appropriate on my Talk page. I have not revised the comments you posted, but I have a right to revise the title. The issues relating to the West Montrose, Ontario article are under discussion at Talk:West Montrose, Ontario. I will not continue a debate about this on my Talk page. If you persist in doing so here, I will delete this thread. I have no obligation to retain items here that scold me about edits, especially when the discussion should be on the relevant article's Talk page. I do not scold you for your edits on your Talk page. Please stop doing so on mine. Peter K Burian (talk) 17:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
OK, I have gotten useful info: 'You can delete anything you want from your own talk page, except a few specific cases, see WP:OWNTALK. Also see WP:BLANKING. You may want to consider including a summary as to why you're removing it (e.g. "remove discussion more appropriate for article talk page") or something similar. Personal talk page cleanup: WP:OWNTALK Although archiving is preferred, users may freely remove comments from their own talk pages. Users may also remove some content in archiving. The removal of a warning is taken as evidence that the warning has been read by the user. This specifically includes both registered and unregistered users. Peter K Burian (talk) 18:07, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
I have added another question to Serge afterward about the protocol of changing the heading (title) of a thread on MY own talk page. The title is quite clear IMHO: (Burian Comment: In my view this is not a peacock but a red herring) Here is what User:Sergecross73 said. His comments, in full (I added the bolding to one phrase): Some thoughts on this: You are in control of your talk page. You are free to remove comments and ask editors not to discuss on your talk page, and generally that should be okay. (There are some exceptions - you still shouldn't be altering other comments on your talk page to make it look like they said something they didn't - such a move would likely be criticized. Also, if an Admin was giving you valid warnings, I'm not sure you'd be successful in asking them to stop - if an editor kept violating policy, I'd keep notifying them of it, personally. But generally, you'd be good.)
As we touched on previously, most experienced editors prefer WP:ARCHIVING talk page messages rather that deleting them outright - so they can more easily be referenced in the future, if need be. I'm an advocate of that - you can see my rather large archive in the upper-right part of my talk page. But that being said, you don't have to do that if you don't want to. Even I don't do it all the time - I do delete purely disruptive comments with no worth - they can still be looked up in the page history if need be. WP:USERTALK outlines all the details of user talk pages, if you want to look into it more. Or you can ask me further questions if you have any. Peter K Burian (talk) 18:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
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