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A message from 80.192.187.151

I saw you on the Dreamcast best selling games one. Should there be a Sega Saturn page? I know of 5 games I can prove sold over 1 million (VF2, VF1, Sega Rally, Daytona, Virtua Cop) 80.192.187.151 (talk) 01:25, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't think five games would warrant a separate article, maybe they could be added to one of the other Sega Saturn pages. Thanks for reaching out. Isaidnoway (talk) 17:16, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Well the Dreamcast page does a minimum of games that have sold at least 250k. There's plenty of Saturn games that did that and with enough sources to verify them. Just wanted to see if there were others with the interest in making the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.59.185 (talk) 17:39, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Billie Eilish discography

The reason why I added Portugal certification on the song "Wildflower" because I don’t see the Misplaced Pages page and link to the aforementioned song by Billie Eilish. Also, I completely understand on the format regarding the Portugal certification cite ref on the Singles section on the Billie Eilish discography. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. FireDragonValo (talk) 16:58, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

FireDragonValo - Try using this: <ref>{{cite certification |region= |type= |artist=Billie Eilish |title= |id= |access-date=}}</ref> or you could use <ref>{{cite web}}</ref> using a direct link to the website. Hope this helps. Thanks for reaching out. Isaidnoway (talk) 17:12, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Awesome!!! Thank you so much!!! FireDragonValo (talk) 21:10, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

August music

story · music · places

Thank you for opposing a ban for a new editor! - I have three "musicians" on the Main page, one the topic of my story today, like 22 July but with interview and today's music at the Proms. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:05, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:01, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

What did i do? 73.33.117.12 (talk) 17:14, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

A message from Mtjannetta

Glossary of slang used in reviewing silent movie melodrama

Cheers!

First, Thank you for alerting me to use Harv instead of sfn refs in footnotes.

Secondly, when you tagged my glossary with more "citations needed" - are you suggesting each term of the over 1100 entries will need a reference? This will, of course, will create a huge ref section at the bottom of the page.

Since I can't place the ref# between the "Term"and "Defn" per glossary MOS rules and if I place it after the first "defn" in a multiple entry term, it implies its only applicable to that particular term. If I have a term with four definitions, would each "Defn" need to be referenced?

Thus my question - where would you suggest I place the Ref# so as to not violate rules stated in the glossary MOS?

I do have a Ref# for every term, so please let me know what you think.

Thanks Michael Jannetta (talk) 06:36, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

The article has a section titled Works cited (Books, Web Dictionaries and PDFs, Websites), but it isn't clear to our readers exactly how or where in the article those works are being cited. And from my reading of WP:GLOSSARIES - Glossaries are subject to all of the same rules (e.g. Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, and Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view) as other content on Misplaced Pages. So our readers need to be able to verify the content/slang comes from a published reliable source(s). I don't know what the exact solution is, but maybe, for example in each section (A B C D, etc.) immediately before {{glossary start}} or after {{glossary end}}, there could be a Sources:<ref1><ref2><ref3> - so readers will know what the source(s) are for the terms. I looked at a few other glossary articles, and there doesn't seem to really be any consistency, Glossary of professional wrestling terms, Glossary of cricket terms, Glossary of video game terms. Some use inline citations infrequently, and I see the same issue being raised in the video game glossary - needs additional citations for verification. Anyway, thanks for reaching out, I appreciate it, and good luck. Isaidnoway (talk) 07:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

A message from JACamarillo

JACamarillo (talk) 15:45, 23 August 2024 (UTC) Totally new here, and honestly don't have any background with publishing on Misplaced Pages. So, I guess what I read was, as long as I write the information in my "own words", and copy past my source, then my post would be accepted?????

Yes, write the content in your own words, and use a citation template if it is a book: <ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |location= |publisher= |page= |isbn=}}</ref>. Also make sure the content you are adding is relevant to the page you are adding it to. Isaidnoway (talk) 16:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane

Hi there. I'd just like to thank you for finalizing the citations on the above page I recently created. I do apologize for leaving you with the legwork of the coding. I couldn't figure out what I did wrong with the reference at the bottom of the page, and I was waiting for somebody else's edits to teach me. I still need to read the finer details of your finalizations, but thank you so much again. I was more focused on getting the page done, I don't have the time or attention span for it easily. Hope I didn't irritate you or give you a headache. I'd even thank the Citation Bot if it wasn't ridiculous. XD ContributingHelperOnTheSide (talk) 13:39, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

today's reversions

Today you reverted my revisions to the John Love (congressman) article. I disagree but didn't unrevert them, since I was trying to fix another article and my cyberbullies apparently struck again. The reason for yesterday's (now reverted) expansion is to explain the error and limitations in this man's initial bio, as well as link him with his distant nephew, also John Love, who continued the family's martial tradition but remained loyal to the Union (even becoming a general). The family has a somewhat typical for their era/class (but admittedly confusing) recycling of names. While their father Samuel Love is wikipedia-worthy for his Maryland service and patriotism, all three generations can easily be confused. Obviously, I was trying to disambiguate such, but did not have time to review my edits as the only library with the relevant items closed.Jweaver28 (talk) 00:31, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Duplicate parm errors in Space Launch System

Hi, Isaidnoway. Your edit to Space Launch System introduced several "duplicate parm" errors, which I hesitate to try to fix because I don't know your intentions.

There's a missing "-->" at the end of the line:

| {{Abbr|SL|at sea level}}: {{cvt|1,672,000|lbf|MN|order=flip|1}}<!-- <ref name="RS-25_PVgEY" />

Also, a block of code in the Infobox that includes the "Second stage (Block 1) – ICPS" was deleted, causing two templates to run together (the source of the "duplicate parm" errors).

Can you sort it out? Thanks Davemck (talk) 16:10, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Sure, easy fix, I just restored the previous infobox before my edits. Isaidnoway (talk) 16:41, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Isaidnoway! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 20:14, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Boeing aircraft

I manually reverted this edit of yours at List of accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737 because it was not correct. Boeing, like most aviation manufacturers, uses hyphens in their model number system, not dashes. You are not the first editor to make this mistake, so I'm considering making a template to prevent further confusion like I did with Template:USAF serial. In the meantime, are there any other articles where you changed the hyphens in aircraft model numbers to dashes? - ZLEA _T\ 02:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

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Why?

In this edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Dianetics&action=history

You re-introduced an error (two identical copies of a citation) while leaving the actual words that the reader sees unchanged.

Please compare the following revisions...

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Dianetics&oldid=1263557648

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Dianetics&oldid=1263766633

...Especially the John A. Lee quote in the Scientific rejection section and citation 42

Please undo your revert. The page was correct the way User:Grorp left it. --Guy Macon Alternate Account (talk) 20:56, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

I fixed it. Isaidnoway, it was a bot I was using to combine duplicate citations. I prefer to keep the one in the reflist|refs= list where they are much more visible, so I manually removed the other. And I found yet another down under Further reading (which I also removed.)   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 21:33, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

This is your edit where you changed a list-defined ref into <ref name="lee"/>, which created this cite error. All I did was fix that cite error. Isaidnoway (talk) 23:35, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Guy Macon Alternate Account - in the first revision link you provided it says This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Grorp (talk | contribs) at 03:16, December 17, 2024, which has this cite error. It is unclear to me how you think that "The page was correct the way User:Grorp left it". I don't consider a cite error left behind as being correct. And if you'll notice in the diff above, the edit summary left by Grorp is generic, so of course I had no idea what the intention was behind his edit in the first place. Thanks. ༺𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓻𝔂༻༺𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓼༻ Isaidnoway (talk) 23:47, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Isaidnoway, you are correct in that the WP:REFILL tool (which recognized there was a duplicate citation and created that edit summary) removed the wrong citation and created an error. I failed to notice its error when I viewed the resulting diff. Guy must have seen the same diff and wondered why you reverted. At any rate, I fixed it manually. Sorry you got this on your user talk page, but without this message I never would have looked even closer and found the mistake made by Refill.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 04:06, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I completely missed what was happening when I looked at the history. I apologize for the error. --Guy Macon Alternate Account (talk) 04:24, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Isaidnoway. Thank you for your work on Flamingo Boy. Another editor, DoctorWhoFan91, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

I removed a ref as it was sadly not reliable. Article's good, but could do with expansion, especially the plot.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|DoctorWhoFan91}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 13:29, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

It was just a book review, but nonetheless, I converted it to an external link. 🥳13:52, 26 December 2024 (UTC)