Andy Smith

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Here are some links I find useful

• Wikipedia:Policy Library
• Wikipedia:Utilities
• Wikipedia:Cite your sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Conflict resolution
• Wikipedia:Brilliant prose
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Wikipedia:Village pump
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 18:15, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Testing my signature

Andy Smith (talk) 14:05, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

DYK

The screenshot is up too. But well done, even though it made me curious what the sound actually sounds like. :) 68.81.231.127 23:51, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ouko

Hi! Great start on Robert Ouko ... I put him on my to-do list just last night, but I'm glad that you got there first! — Matt Crypto 10:38, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A.N. Wilson

I couldn't work out how to use the cite template and get the notes to appear, but I see you'e done it now. Ta. Tyrenius 21:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

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@BeenAroundAWhile: Thanks for your message about reverting the punctuation chnages I made to Danube River Conference of 1948. I made the changes after consulting the Manual of Style and I think they're consistent with MoS recommendations, so I'm inclined to restore them, and make similar changes in other sections of the article, unless I'm convinced otherwise.

On the changes from ‘U.K.’ to ‘UK’ and similar: generally the MOS prefers forms without full stops (periods) – see MOS:POINTS, and it's stated more clearly in Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Abbreviations §§ Punctuation and spacing. There's a specific exception for ‘US’/‘U.S.’ where either form is acceptable – see MOS:US and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations § Acronyms §§ Exceptions §§§ Countries and multinational unions. But MOS:US says the form should be consistent with other acronyms in the same article, and gives ‘the U.S., UK, and USSR’ as an example of inconsistency to avoid, with ‘the US, UK, and USSR’ preferred. This is exactly the inconsistency I was trying to fix: the article as it stands uses ‘U.K.’, ‘U.S.’ and ‘USSR’. Making it consistently use full stops would require using ‘U.K.’ and ‘U.S.S.R.’, which are more unusual than ‘U.S.’ and don't have specific exceptions in the MoS like ‘U.S.’ does. So I think the best consistent solution is to use ‘UK’, ‘US’ and ‘USSR’.

However the edit I made was only to one section, and there are uses of ‘U.S.’ in other parts of the article that I didn't notice before. So if I restore my edit I'll also change ‘U.S.’ to ‘US’ throughout the article. One use of ‘U.S.’ is in a direct quote and I'm inclined to leave it like that since that's how it was written in the source.

There were some other punctuation changes in the edit you reverted, and you didn't state any objection to them, so again I intend to restore them unless convinced otherwise.

Please reply and explain if you have any objections. Otherwise in a few day's I'll restore the changes I made and make the whole article consistent. Thanks!

Andy Smith (talk) 19:59, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

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