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Barnstar
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For your fight against typos and bad grammar via minor edits. Cheers, Max - You were saying? 16:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks
For all the very helpful gnome work you have been doing of late on school articles. One thing most school articles seem to need is updates on enrollment and demographic numbers. And the good news is......they are really simple to update! There is a federal government website that publishes stats on all schools, public and private. Its called NCES. (sorry I don't have the link, as I'm on my phone, but it's the first hit if you Google the term). The public schools ate usually a year behind and private schools three years behind, but that's usually an improvement. Thanks for all you do! John from Idegon (talk) 17:15, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
Thanks for removing the Extra section on the Waterford District High School site. I just received my wiki acct and was going to do this today. Regards, Michael Msuski cdn (talk) 11:59, 3 May 2015 (UTC) |
Rose Tyler
Hi! Sorry if my revert seemed a little rude. I reverted your edit for both consistency with other television fictional character articles, and other good articles in the Doctor Who/Torchwood wikiproject. Paragraphs are usually grouped together because of subject rather than length; an example from the Rose Tyler article I reverted is that the Television Appearnces section generally follows a one paragraph per series format. I felt that the revised version showed too much whitespace; especially on anything above a medium sized computer monitor. Hope that makes sense Eshlare (talk) 16:26, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- Understood - thank you for letting me know! Jessicapierce (talk) 03:10, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Longeing
Hi Jessica, I actually kept the edits you made on several other articles, but as this diff shows, you actually entered a BUNCH of errors with your edits to this particular article. Some fixes were helpful, but there were so many others that changed tense, altered an intended nuance, or just simple errors, it was easier to revert. What I did just now was to take the position that you edited something because there was a possible problem, and then I restored some, but not all, of your fixes. I also caught a couple other things along the way that I tweaked. If you have further questions, feel free to ping at the article's talk page or here - I'll watchlist your talk. Montanabw(talk) 22:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
- This is very unlike me. I always preview before submitting edits, and errors - mine or otherwise - usually jump out at me. I'm sure I commit the odd typo now and again but this... wasn't great. I can only assume I was more tired than I realized, and got sloppy. I'll have a look at the other edits I did around that time, to make sure nothing else crazy got through.
- I enjoy working behind the scenes here and certainly never meant to make more work for anyone - quite the opposite. So thanks very much for your help! Jessicapierce (talk) 01:34, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
- No worries, you ARE helping! Feel free to, um, trot over to WikiProject Equine WP:EQUINE and join! Montanabw(talk) 04:38, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
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Royals
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Editor of the Week
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I nominate Editor Jessicapierce to be Editor of the Week for her long term diligent copyediting. This is the kind of editor we created this award for! She is not super active, none of her work is controversial; she just picks a topic and gnomes away quietly and unobtrusively, making the encyclopedia a better tool for its users. Her edit count on Mr. X's tools is for lack of a better word, pretty. I remember back when we were first discussing the creation of this award, and I cannot think of an editor that better fulfills what our intentions were for this! I became aware of her just recently, as her chosen topic at the moment is schools, my usual topic. Her edits are very helpful, and I noticed no one has really ever thanked her for them. Let's thank her in a big way and give her an Eddy! This nomination was seconded by User:L235 and User:Buster7.
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Thanks again for your efforts! . Buster Seven Talk 11:41, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- Wow, I had no idea anybody was even noticing... I just really like fixing commas. Thank you! Jessicapierce (talk) 14:15, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- Very happy to have nominated you; even happier you are here to do what you do. Thank you for consistently making Wikipedia a better encyclopedia. John from Idegon (talk) 23:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
- Well that's incredibly nice of you - thanks, John! I may call on you for moral support the next time somebody yells at me for using an Oxford comma. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 00:56, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
- Very happy to have nominated you; even happier you are here to do what you do. Thank you for consistently making Wikipedia a better encyclopedia. John from Idegon (talk) 23:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
A cup of tea for you!
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A barnstar for you!
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For your great copy editing efforts, which hugely increase the quality of wikipedia! Maestro Spinelloccio (talk) 01:48, 24 August 2015 (UTC) |
A Barnstar for You
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For your work on cleaning up notable people lists. Nice job! Onel5969 TT me 12:32, 6 September 2015 (UTC) |
Removal of references
Hi. I've reverted your changes to the List of people from Oakville, Ontario. Although the copy-editing is appreciated, you also removed a lot of references from the article. Although the links are now dead, they are still valid references and should not be removed. See Wikipedia:Link rot. If you've done this with other articles, you should go back and restore the references. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 00:09, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for this - I had completely forgotten that guideline. I'll take care of it. Jessicapierce (talk) 04:31, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
- I appreciate it. And thanks for cleaning up the list. -- Whpq (talk) 05:00, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Thank you
(Didn't we used to have a "thank you" button?) In any case, that was a great edit on the list of defunct newspapers in the US. Thanks. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 09:11, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
- Oh thanks, that's very nice of you to say! I'm always surprised when someone notices the boring stuff I do. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 19:43, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
List of fictional books
You removed a huge segment. Harry Potter novels are much larger than the movies who have a stipulated time to complete the full movie. Are you sure these books were made up ? I haven't read the novels. Why will someone make up these things? --The Avengers (talk) 06:59, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hello, I don't believe I have actually removed any content from the list. Please see my note on the Talk page there. I encountered a bizarre situation in which I accidentally tripled the content of that page. I then removed the repetitions. I've just checked several entries in the Harry Potter sub-list, and the original content is all there. Jessicapierce (talk) 07:15, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Keep up the goodwork
Hi Jessica,
Thanks for your goodwork helping alphabetize lists on Wikipedia. If you have some time, please kindly assist with alphabetizing List of Nigerian musicians. Stanleytux (talk) 07:32, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Jessicapierce (talk) 04:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
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List of banks in Cyprus
Hello Jessicapierce, I noticed you made changes to the List of banks in Cyprus article. First of all thank you for correcting the capitalization on the Central bank title. However, regarding the removal of the (Cyprus) part from National Bank of Greece, Piraeus Bank and Societe Generale Bank, I believe you will find that it is an essential part of the banks' names and not just part of their legal names, as it differentiates them from their parent banks. Thakaran (talk) 02:21, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks so much for the heads up on this! I didn't realize this about the names of those banks, and will change them back in that article, and check the other bank lists I've recently edited too. Jessicapierce (talk) 05:02, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
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Ireland and UK
Hi, thank you for your edits to List of fashion designers - I had to revert your move of Ireland to the UK section, as while I know you meant well, the majority of Ireland is actually NOT part of the UK (and quite a lot of Irish people HATE it when it's assumed they are "British".) Rather than trying to single out which Irish designers (if any) are from the tiny percentage that is under the United Kingdom umbrella, it really is much easier to treat the whole of Ireland as a county in its own right. Mabalu (talk) 00:31, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, I was just about to leave you a message thanking you for the correction! Afterwards, I had a feeling I was wrong about that, but I had way too many tabs open and hadn't worked my way back to that one yet, to double-check the Ireland thing. Thanks for fixing it, and for being so friendly about it! Jessicapierce (talk) 00:35, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Boricua Barnstar
- Oh, thanks so much! I've been crossing my fingers I wouldn't get yelled at by someone who was really committed to that formatting. It was a very nice surprise to get this instead. Jessicapierce (talk) 04:50, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
On Nut
Hi. Thanks for this edit. However, there was a small error: On Nut is the name of a street in Bangkok. I've corrected the mistake. --Paul_012 (talk) 06:12, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Media in Tulsa Oklahoma
Good Afternoon Jessica,
Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia regarding "Media in Tulsa Oklahoma."
I would like to request adding billboards to the genres of media that serve Tulsa. I work for Whistler Outdoor and we would be honored to be showcased on Wikipedia representing the Tulsa Metro Area.
Can you help me with this?- if so please let me know how I can contribute to your awesome efforts.
Thank you, Kimberly
WhistlerAdvantage (talk) 19:46, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Recent edits to various Hillsborough County school articles
A big thank you! Jacona (talk) 20:50, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Merger discussion for Wilshire Park, Los Angeles
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Your edits on Chris Heimerdinger
Hello, Jessica! Thank you for dropping me a line on my talk page stating your concerns about my reverting your edits. I would be happy to explain my revert. Here are my specific reasons for doing so:
- 1. Per Wikipedia's manual of style, film genres should be capitalized.
- 2. Not sure what my reasoning behind restoring the month abbreviations was. I did revert my own revert of that.
- 3. Chris Heimerdinger specifically collected tennis shoes for the project in question, and specifics are always better than sweeping generalizations.
- 4. Book series titles should not be italicized, only bolded. If it were the name of a periodical or newspaper or a single book within the series, that would be different, but where it's a book series, it should be only in bold typeface.
Thanks for taking time to read my reply. If you want to reply to this comment, I have made a copy of it on my talk page and would prefer to continue this discussion there, as I don't typically watch other user's talk pages, with obviously some exceptions. --Jgstokes (talk) 07:19, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hello, and thanks so much for your reply! These are exactly the kinds of fine points I welcome help with, because although I'm familiar with the MOS, there's a lot of know (and forget), and it wouldn't kill me to brush up on it, which is what I'm doing now.
- (1.) The MOS is so unwieldy and split up on some topics - or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place - that I'm having trouble finding anything on the capitalization of film genres. The closest I've come is MOS:GENRECAPS, which refers to music and literature. Since "science fiction" is given as the correct variant for describing books, I would think "fantasy live action" would be correct for film...?
- (4.) This section certainly contains some tidbits I was wrong about, whoops! However, it does say that an "actual title of a series declared by the author or publisher" should be italicized, such as The Chronicles of Narnia. The Tennis Shoes Adventure Series, to me, would seem to fit that example, especially as that's the title of the wiki article, and it's fully capitalized.
- However, that page itself seems to have mixed feelings about the italics, as the title of the page is in plain text, but within the text, "Tennis Shoes Adventure Series" is italicized. (I recently edited that page, and just double-checked - those italics weren't my doing!)
- Any light you can shed on this would be helpful, though I don't mean to take up more of your time on this small matter. Can you point me to other sections of the MOS that might apply? Most of what I do here is finesse various lists, and punctuating titles is a frequent part of that. I'd like to get it right. Thanks again! Jessicapierce (talk) 18:00, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hello, and thanks so much for your reply! These are exactly the kinds of fine points I welcome help with, because although I'm familiar with the MOS, there's a lot of know (and forget), and it wouldn't kill me to brush up on it, which is what I'm doing now.
Hey, Jessica! Thanks for your reply. I agree that the MOS is not clear on such points as this, which is why we must therefore consider other sources. Every source I've come across that refers to films has the film title in italics. Even looking at Wikipedia, whenever a film title is referenced, it is in italic font. See for example this link and this link for examples. As for the genre of the film, it may well qualify as historical fiction rather than any other genre, as the film in question is based on Book of Mormon events. As far as book series goes, that's a different case because it's not a film, so the italics rule doesn't apply. Typically a book series will be bolded and the only genre italicized would be the name of a periodical, such as Deseret News or Church News, or any one of the periodical magazines put out like magazines from the LDS Church or Readers Digest. So, in review, periodicals are italicized; book series are typically in bold typeface. Hope that makes sense. It could be that we'll need to revisit the subject of italics as it relates to the book series, which should be in bold, as the sources seem to indicate. Hope that makes sense. For actual sources, I appeal to Wikipedia as well as my proofreading skills inherited from my mother. Hope that sufficiently explains things. --Jgstokes (talk) 01:30, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
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Windenhütte Hunting Lodge
Dear Jessica, thank you for your edits to this article. Just to say, though, that "an hotel" is perfectly correct English as the "h" is often not pronounced. I'm not sure if this is peculiar to British English (you certainly hear it on the BBC News) nor is it universal here, but it's not wrong. The same is true for some other words beginning with "h". Cheers. ☺ --Bermicourt (talk) 08:30, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hello, and thank you for your message! I'd never seen "an hotel" before, so I actually did some reading on it before editing it here. Consensus among British grammarians (at least the ones I happened across) seemed to be that "a hotel" was the correct form, and "an hotel" was archaic. However, it can't be TOO archaic if it's said on the BBC! So I'll leave this alone if I see "an hotel" here in the future, as I certainly don't mean to seem like I'm trying to Americanize British articles. Thanks again for the heads-up! :) Jessicapierce (talk) 16:51, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
- I did some research too and discovered that there is a little know grammatical rule that if the stress falls on the second syllable of a word beginning with "h" then it takes "an", but also the "h" is then not pronounced. So it sounds like "an 'otel" (which is exactly how the BBC pronounce it) or "an 'istorical occasion". I knew the custom, just not the reason. Also it seems that it's not just used in British English, but also by some North American networks. However, the majority of people don't know the rule so don't follow it. And so our wonderful language evolves... :) --Bermicourt (talk) 19:09, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
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List of Churches in Port Harcourt
Hi Jessicapierce,
Hope you are enjoying your weekend..If you are not too busy, could you please help to merge content on List of Churches in Port Harcourt to List of churches in Nigeria. Thanks. Stanleytux (talk) 11:22, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
Tweaks
Greetings! An ip has been tweaking the lede here without explanation much less consensus. He/she has avoided discussion contra WP:BRD. I've therefore rolled to the last stable version, which was your formatting edit. Could you please keep an eye on it to make sure all everything is alright? Kind Regards-- Soupforone (talk) 15:25, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
- You have been making arbitrary POV edits to the article and removing cited material. I have explained my edits in my edits summaries repeatedly. Conversely, you have not done so in your edits. Please stop with your vandalism.ItaloCelt84 (talk) 17:40, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
- I believe this discussion is misplaced - my edit was limited to formatting and alphabetization. Cheers! Jessicapierce (talk) 17:43, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey, I don't know how to use the chatting stuff, but I need you to do ya minor edits that you had on the 808s & Heartbreaks page, if you have the time, thank you very much MrKiD2.0 (talk) 00:46, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
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Trust your first instincts...
Don't fix quotes without seeing the quoted text, or call attention to the obvious problem. Using the other parts of the text I finally found a source for the paper. The "they is" you noticed was supposed to be "they report is", as in:
- "the median size of the informal economy they report is 37% of GDP"
At most you might insert "[sic]". In this case the person typing in the quote was both mistyping and paraphrasing at the same time!! Let's see, a paraphrase of a paraphrase of a another paper. Yikes!
When Elsevier gets their comeuppance there will be much cheering. Shenme (talk) 04:14, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
Oh, thanks so much for the help! As soon as I was on a machine where I could download that source to check the quote, that was my intent (I ran out of room in the edit summary to say so), but you saved me the trouble. Very much appreciated! Jessicapierce (talk) 04:19, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your improvements to the article Rich Mullins
Hello Jessica!
I saw your copy editing and I wanted to tell you that I appreciate your hard work on the article Rich Mullins. The grammatical and wording corrections you made improved the article greatly. I put a lot of work into that article and love to see others working to make it better! Medic454 (talk) 05:37, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
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Check for redirects when renaming sections
Hi, just a head's up that when you were copy editing List of mainline My Little Pony ponies you renamed a couple of sections headings. You forgot to check for redirects per MOS:HEAD which states "Before changing a section heading, consider whether you might be breaking existing links to that section. If there are many links to the old section title, create an anchor with that title to ensure that the links still work." This caused some links to section headings to break because they are case sentative, but it was easily fixable. I'm guessing you probably knew this and this was just a slip up, which happens to us all, but explaining just in case not. Keep up the generally great copy editing. Banak (talk) 05:29, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
- Completely slipped my mind. Thank you for fixing it, and for the reminder! Jessicapierce (talk) 06:26, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Please Help Edited Spelling Errors on Daniel Padilla Article
Hello, would you mind to help fixed spelling errors on Daniel Padilla's article? Thank You in advance Puchicatos (talk) 14:06, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Sure, I'll be glad to. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 17:38, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Wow, the article wa much better now. Really apppreciate your edit :D
- Happy to do it. Thanks! :) Jessicapierce (talk) 17:18, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- Wow, the article wa much better now. Really apppreciate your edit :D
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For your copy editing effort on Daniel Padilla's article It really way much better now. Puchicatos (talk) 05:08, 21 February 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you
I once awarded you the Puerto Rican Barnstar for your magnificent work and I must tell you that I am very glad that I did. Keep up your excellent work here because let me tell you, we need more people like you here. Tony the Marine (talk) 19:43, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
- What an incredibly kind thing to say! Thank you so much. May someone out there say an equally nice thing to you today. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 20:28, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Changing sports team mascots from plural to singular
Hi there, thanks for editing articles about Oregon high schools. I'm curious what your rationale is for making the sports team names singular, as in Bonanza Jr./Sr. High School, here. I went ahead and changed it back to plural, because in the case of the Antlers, it really doesn't make any sense it would be singular. Rather than do a mass change of these back to plural, can you point me to some guideline about these names of which I am unaware? I suppose it could be a quibble between "sports team name" and "mascot". In the case of the Antlers, it is more of a nickname (see the logo is actually an elk) for the team than a mascot that is just an antler, singular. See also the Everett Aquasox, where their mascot is actually a frog, the team name is "Aquasox" and there is no "aquasock" to be found! Or my hometown, whose baseball team has long been know as The Emeralds, but the mascot isn't an Emerald, singular. Recently it acquired a sasquatch as a mascot, but I digress. Looking more closely, it looks like {{Infobox school}} has a space for nickname or "team name"--would it make more sense to you to change the team names from "mascot" to "nickname" or "team name"? I like changing it to "team name" and leaving the names plural, personally. Another fun Oregon team name is the "Honkers", whose logo is of a Canada goose. I think that one should be plural too. Valfontis (talk) 01:16, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
- Ditto this question. Especially when the listed source (which in Oregon is usually the OSAA website) lists the mascots in the plural. You can argue semantics/grammar, but you can't document differently than the source.Bcostley (talk) 04:16, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
- Hello to both of you, and thanks for your comments. I have indeed been changing this based on grammar, since "mascot" is a singular noun and refers to one thing - the single (with rare exceptions) image or personality used to represent a team or school. Most school infoboxes use the "mascot" field rather than "team name", so I use the singular there. When "team name" is used, either in the infobox or in the text, such as "the school's sports teams are known as the whatevers," I definitely go with the plural form.
- I appreciate the mention of the OSAA source - I'm going to check back through some of my recent edits and see what I can find there. I'll also look through Wikipedia's guidelines on school pages, which I'm fairly sure I remember backing the use of singular mascot names. (Bear with me please; this stuff can be tough to dig up.)
- I found a relevant passage near the top of the Wikipedia article for mascot:
- "Team mascots are often confused with team nicknames. While the two can be interchangeable, they are not always the same. For example, the athletic teams of the University of Alabama are nicknamed the Crimson Tide, while their mascot is an elephant named Big Al. "
- This is interesting to me because it points to a mascot being singular, and the team name being plural (or innumerable/"weird", such as Crimson Tide). It also makes me realize that I should be taking more care to make sure I've got the details right, in cases where the mascot and team name may not align. The Aquasox example is perfect, thank you! Jessicapierce (talk) 06:10, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
- Ok, I've done some reading, and I'll be doing more, since I'd like to make sure I'm doing things right. Again, please bear with me... I wish the Manual of Style were better indexed.
- This is slow going, because a lot of the links to school websites are out of date, as are the OSAA links. I'm updating those as I go.
- What I'm finding is that OSAA is probably a great source of information... but not Wikipedia-standard punctuation or grammar. There are numerous entries on every OSAA page I've just seen, which just would not pass muster with Wiki's guidelines. Wiki uses sentence case ("Public school" in the infobox, "public school" in the middle of a sentence); OSAA says "Public School." If I were using OSAA as a source for whether a school was public, I would change those caps to fit Wiki's standards.
- The same goes for the names of sports. OSAA lists "Boys Soccer." You could argue whether that should be in caps in some circumstances, based on it perhaps referring to a specific, proper noun ("Jefferson High Boys' Soccer" or "Oregon Boys' Soccer Championship") - but it absolutely needs the apostrophe, based on "boys" being plural. OSAA does not use the apostrophe. Again, this is a case where if I were using OSAA as a source for the piece of info, I would change the punctuation to be in line with Wikipedia standards. It's not as if I'm including a direct, specifically worded quote from the source, which would go in quotation marks (and include a "[sic]" to indicate incorrectness in the source). Since I'm just sourcing a fact, I can change it to the correct wording/punctuation.
- I believe these examples bolster my argument that the name of a mascot should (generally, with exceptions) be treated as a singular word within Wikipedia. I'll keep reading though. Jessicapierce (talk) 06:45, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
- Whether 'Boys Soccers' is grammatically incorrect or not is moot. OSAA sponsors Boys Soccer. It does not sponsor Boys' Soccer. If OSAA deemed fit to call it Boyz Sokker, it should be listed as such and not corrected. Similarly, whether a school chooses to use a grammatically incorrect term for their mascot is the schools choice (perhaps they have a reason of which you are unaware) and not for you to correct. Bcostley (talk) 02:26, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- Right, I take your point. I certainly wouldn't change established facts to fit my idea of "correctness." What I was getting at was that perhaps OSAA ought not be taken as gospel on the phrasing of a mascot's name, since presumably the schools themselves are in control of that.
- I'll be sure to use more care around this in the future. I feel like the whole thing can probably be solved by defaulting to "team name" or "nickname" wording. Jessicapierce (talk) 05:16, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
- So would you be willing, rather than change "mascot" to singular, to change the field name in the infobox to "team name" or "nickname"? Whether or not we take OSAA as an authority (and I don't care about how they spell "Boys' Soccer"), common sense dictates, to my ear, that in the American pacific northwest, team names are generally referred to in the plural. "Mascot" usually refers to a character anyway, not the name of the team. I think this is a matter of the wrong field being used in the infobox, not a matter of incorrect grammar. Valfontis (talk) 14:32, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
- It does sound like that's the best solution, with regards to both grammar and avoiding confusion. Using "team name" or "nickname" (whatever the infobox field is), and the plural, is what I'll do going forward (with a secondary project of going back over the articles I've already edited). Jessicapierce (talk) 02:40, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
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Ithaca College "minor" edits
Hi Jessicapierce,
Thanks for your work on Ithaca College, but JSYK, the sheer volume of your edits here, disqualifies calling that a minor edit. Cheers. X4n6 (talk) 01:45, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks! Jessicapierce (talk) 03:42, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
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Wilson High School (Los Angeles)
I see you've made improvements to the Wilson HS page before so I'm contacting you for support. I made many significant improvements in August, and I invite you to look. Since then another editor first deleted a citation with no justification, an anon user undid that change, then that editor deleted the citation again. I didn't notice this until I made another addition to the alumni section in September. At that time I reinserted the citation. That's kind of trivial, but now I find that editor has deleted not just the citation but the whole section of text on "popular culture" that citation was part of. I indicated to that editor (s)he should justify major deletions on the talk page but (s)he just reverted anyway. Please take a look and and if you agree, support me on the talk page. If this turns into an edit war I'm going to have to ask for moderation, but maybe just support from another editor like you will make that person be reasonable and stop.Lapabc (talk) 00:16, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- Sure, I'll be glad to take a look. Jessicapierce (talk) 17:38, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- Looks like a solution was found - I'm glad to see that "Paul Williams" info included on the page, for the sake of clarification. Jessicapierce (talk) 19:22, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi, due to wealth problem I made a two day stop on Wiki. I created some hundreds lighthouses infobox and checked almost the others. I discovered that some were written in caps and some in minute so I decided, in order to give uniformness, to write all in minute. All the best.Chesipiero (talk) 09:43, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- Ok, I understand. Thank you! Jessicapierce (talk) 17:37, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
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A Fordable
Thx for the heads up. I'll check my watchlist & fix; if it was citing a modern price, tho, I meant to delete entire. TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 21:17, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
Lina Länsberg - MMA Notability met
Hi Jessicapierce, I have rollbacked your revert on Lina Lansberg on removing the tag. Please read WP:MMANOT to note a MMA fighter needs 3 fights under top tier promoter ( in this case is UFC). The fight has just finished in Poland. Citations added. Thank you for the contribution and checking on the article.CASSIOPEIA (talk) 18:41, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the message. I was going to get in touch with you about this edit as well, but was having browser issues. I apologize for not realizing the fight took place on the 22nd in a different time zone than mine - that was short-sighted of me. All day I've had the date wrong in my mind, and so I thought the fight was still several days in the future, which clearly would have been an error! That, combined with the citation error, was why I reverted your changes. Anyway, the article looks just fine now. Thank you for explaining! Jessicapierce (talk) 19:12, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
List of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
That was a sizeable task. Good work! (Clearly you have more patience than I do. ;-) Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:51, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks! If I didn't find it weirdly satisfying, there's no way I'd bother. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 17:04, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
Transgender people and religion
Hi Jessica, You were absolutely right to call out this section of Transgender people and religion. I've added some comments below yours, and reverted the IP's addition. Unfortunately, no one noticed your comments till now, so the highly questionable information remained in the article for six weeks. In the future, it might be better to post your comments on one or more relevant WP:WikiProjects, where a lot more people will see them. In this particular case, for example, you can scroll to the top of Talk:Transgender people and religion, click [Show] on the WikiProject bar to visualize the WikiProjects LGBT and RELIGION, and then to their Talk pages, and add your comments there, instead. If you know of any other cases like this, please let me, or the relevant WikiProjects know. And thanks for bringing this to light! Mathglot (talk) 10:22, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks so much for taking the time to see to this issue (and to let me know), and for the WikiProject suggestion! I'm still unfamiliar with a lot of the behind-the-scenes aspects of Wikipedia, so this is brand new information to me. I'm sure it will come in handy, and I'm grateful for the help. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 16:26, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
- Happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 07:55, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Windows 1.0x Edit
Thanks for sorting out my edit, go to page 'Windows 1.0' (should be renamed 'Windows 1.0x in my opinion) and click on the talk page and scroll down to the bottom to see what I was trying to do. 87.102.35.96 (talk) 09:08, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
New Brunswick edit conflict
Hi Jessica, I got an edit conflict with you just now. WP's merge system is pretty poor, but I'm confident I did not overwrite anything you'd done. Anyway just a heads-up in case I accidentally lost one of your edits (don't think I did). John. --Cornellier (talk) 00:47, 17 November 2017 (UTC) PS: Due to all this many Regional interests, were crested in New Brunswick is still gone, heh.
- Oh no worries, I don't think I was doing anything much anyway - just fixing a few minor things and getting rid of that bizarro sentence. Thanks for letting me know though! Jessicapierce (talk) 00:52, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
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- Oh no problem, glad to do it. Thank you for translating it! Jessicapierce (talk) 03:38, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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- Hi, I gather you are referring to Hüseyin Baybaşin. The copyright message I left on your talk page includes instructions on how to move forward if you are the copyright holder. Jessicapierce (talk) 04:30, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
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You have a good ear for the right phrases: spades turn to spades, while weasels are dispatched with extreme prejudie. Gratulacje! Zezen (talk) 07:10, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, that's so kind of you to say (and you taught me a new word). Cheers! :) Jessicapierce (talk) 20:16, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
On removal of my edit for Nyaya Sutras
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Removing my edits regarding human trafficking and prostitution in Cambodia.
Hello I'm the editor and you really need to remove COMPLETELY FALSE information stated as a fact based on sources that are out of date and may or may not have been questionable to begin with. Do you personally know anything about Cambodia Jessicapierce or are you just being a busybody, because I'm here on the ground and have 8 years of experience working in this culture and with children. The fact you maintain false information is not good for anyone, it makes Wikipedia not a credible source, it damages the reputation for Cambodia unjustly, and even worse, people with bad intentions reading this think it's true and will come to Cambodia. So please reconsider my edits. I do not have time to write sourced accurate information, but that does not mean Wikipedia has the right to maintain false information written by others and present it as fact, and that is why I made these corrections. Thank you
- See my reply on your talk page, please. Jessicapierce (talk) 18:22, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Removing my edits regarding cerium
In the explanation you wrote, that my edit has introduced some errors. Could you please be more specific? I am a mineralogist and I assure you that I know what are the correct names of minerals... I would like to kindly suggest getting known with the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) List of Minerals (http://nrmima.nrm.se/) and also Mindat (www.mindat.org) to see that "monazite", "microlite" and so on are NOT the correct mineral names. Some of you write that articles like that on Cerium are not mineralogical and chemical... FeTa2O6 and MnTa2O6 are CHEMICAL formulas. "Microlite" is the most important ERROR that WAS in the Cerium page until I've corrected/explained it. "Microlite" is now a group name under the pyrochlore supergroup. And mineralogy is a science. Also, there is a reason for what we've got GEOchemistry. So, FeTa2O6 is tantalite-(Fe) (and not tantalite), MnTa2O6 is tantalite-(Mn) (and not tantalite). But, if Wikipedia wants its own "rights" to describe science, well... I though specialists are needed here exactly to make the Wikipedia articles better. Seems like I was wrong. Btw: have you noticed this: "
" ? Btw-2, thanks for making my time here wasted.Eudialytos (talk) 12:40, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Eudialytos: I'm sorry for not being more clear in my edit summary, where I should have mentioned I am no expert on minerals. I hoped that using the phrase "good faith" would express that I understood your edits were meant to improve the article. That's also why I mentioned that your edit could be re-added, with more care.
- I have no idea whether your additions are factually correct, but I assume they are, and I always appreciate it when a specialist helps to improve Wikipedia articles. Your edit was problematic in several ways that had nothing to do with facts.
- Primarily, I removed your edit because it broke formatting in a rather important way. You inserted text into the middle of an existing citation, which resulted in broken formatting and an unreadable area of the page. See my edit here to see what I mean. It's the second difference in the page, where you added "(correctly named cerianite-(Ce))<ref>www.mindat.org</ref>". You added a citation within a citation, which not only caused formatting issues, but is also a problem because essentially you were changing the title of the cited source. You may have felt you were adding a correction, but that's not appropriate within citations. This would be similar to someone correcting the name of a magazine which has an intentionally misspelled name. If its actual title is "coooool MAGAZEEN," no one should be correcting it to "Cool Magazine."
- Your edit also included several errors such as the phrasing "like, e.g." which is redundant. Instead of "referred to," I think you meant "which refers to," or "applied to." You added a citation before punctuation (<ref>Citation text</ref>, rather than ,<ref>Citation text</ref>) - hardly a big deal, but something else that would require fixing.
- Altogether, although I felt your addition was well-intentioned, it required too much fixing by other editors to keep, and that the onus is on you to make your additions fairly correct with regards to grammar and formatting. That's why I removed it. I certainly didn't mean anything personal, nor to waste your time. Jessicapierce (talk) 20:20, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
- Btw, same corrections were done in the yttrium page. And, again: I assume using the correct (=IMA-approved) mineral names) is way more important than using a 100000-letter-long citations informing about the date of website entry, etc., which is just simply not important.Eudialytos (talk) 22:18, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
- If you care about adding this information to Wikipedia, you should try to do so in a way that doesn't add errors or interfere with existing good content. If information needs to be updated, then yes, a proper citation needs to be given. This is not a ridiculous requirement. I am trying to help you, because I believe we are agreed in wanting to improve Wikipedia. Jessicapierce (talk) 23:08, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, and sorry I found it necessary to revert your constructive edit. I actually wanted to undo the two previous edits by an IP editor who was sharing an opinion; not the way to improve an article.--Quisqualis (talk) 07:49, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Quisqualis: No worries whatsoever! I was actually unsure about the validity of those other edits myself. Thank you for the message - it was kind of you to take the time. Jessicapierce (talk) 08:02, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
upgrading source external links to references in the 'Infobox rugby league biography' for…
Hi Jessicapierce, I'm upgrading external links to references in the source field of the 'Infobox rugby league biography' for <nowiki>[[Category:New Zealand national rugby league team players ', and changing existing references to have a common format. That they weren't in a common format has made it difficult to catch all variants with AutoWikiBrowser. I've been crunching through this all day, but I believe I'm nearly there now. Best regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 18:34, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you! Jessicapierce (talk) 18:39, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Kukuruza
Hello, Just wanted to say thank you for your edits to the Kukuruza article. I tend to get carried away with linking when I write an article and those need to be culled. I did add three different links to the article, to single photos of three specific generations of the group. I won't add any more external links. Please let me know if there is a problem; my intention is to give the group's appearance at three of its incarnations. I can't, however, find any image that can be uploaded to Wikipedia. Jacqke (talk) 18:00, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for understanding! I may have gone overboard with the link removal... I just run across so many articles where it seems like someone has tried to include ALL THE LINKS, to the point that the list of external links is longer than the article itself. (Kukuruza was nowhere near that bad, if I recall!) Including a few external links seems fine to me, especially if it's for a specific reason (to show the group's appearance), rather than the huge aimless lists I sometimes find. So, although another editor may always disagree, I think the external links are fine are they are now - it's a good compromise.
- And thank you for your dedication to the article. I just glanced at the recent edits, and it's pretty much all your name. That's a lot of work! :) Jessicapierce (talk) 18:23, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
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A Word of Thanks
Just wanted to say thank you for helping format the Andrea King filmography page. It means a lot and I look forward to you're help me in nearing it towards completion soon (I've been having trouble formatting, linking, from where you left off, if you could add the finishing touches it would both the icing on the cake and a sigh of relief).Black BIC Ballpoint (talk) 10:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
- Oh no problem, I actually sometimes really enjoy repetitive tasks like that, although I do have to take breaks so I don't start getting the formatting wrong (or go insane). I imagine you're sick of it! I'm always glad to see info like that added here, though, so thank you! I'll be glad to take a look at it soon. Cheers - Jessicapierce (talk) 16:46, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Assistance?
Hi, Jessica,
An article has recently made entitled Marguerite Chapman filmography and I was wondering if by chance you might be able to lend a hand and help format her credits if possible. It would mean a lot and you're help is always much appreciated. Hope this finds you well and may you enjoy a nice day. Thanks!Black BIC Ballpoint (talk) 12:44, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- Sure thing, I'll take a look at it (just as soon as I finish a few things in progress... you wouldn't believe how many tabs I have open! Feel free to let me know about anything else you'd like me to format. It's weird but I really do enjoy doing it. Best, Jessicapierce (talk) 22:17, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you
Your ref tag fix on List of Christian rock bands is appreciated. There are many more problems with that article but your contribution with that error makes a positive difference! 2600:1702:1690:E10:5DB1:E494:B72E:DDE8 (talk) 21:10, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Help Finishing?
Jessica,
Would you be able to help me finish formatting the Marguerite Chapman filmography page? I seem to be having trouble and I'd need assistance getting her complete in the next day or so. It would be much appreciated, thank you!My Monogram is M (talk) 22:24, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
- Sure thing, I'll work on that tonight (as soon as I get a few other tabs closed). Jessicapierce (talk) 00:29, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Adminship
Have you considered an WP:RFA? You probably wouldn't pass today due to a lack of activity in the Wikipedia: namespace today (i.e. WP:AIV or WP:RFPP), but if you were interested it wouldn't take you much effort on your part to have a credible case in a few months time. power~enwiki (π, ν) 05:39, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, but I think I'd better decline due to my deep ignorance of most things admin-related here (thanks for including links, as I had no idea what any of those abbreviations meant). I'm happiest being a comma fixer. Plus if I got a taste of power, I'd probably spend even more time here. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 18:54, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Graham Bennett
Hi I was trying to get across that he was excluded because of his sexuality - hence the long quite d[@-@]b (talk) 04:05, 26 March 2018 (UTC) d[@-@]b (talk) 04:05, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
- Hi there, sorry but I just don't understand what you are saying. Jessicapierce (talk) 04:14, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on List of Deshastha Brahmins
Hi Jessica, Thank you so much for your great work on List of Deshastha Brahmins. If you get chance please could you take a look at some other marathi communities. Someone has complained about grammatical errors in Pathare_Prabhu but I am not able to spot them. Also, I suspect there are some errors(formatting or convention) in the listings of notables in Chandraseniya_Kayastha_Prabhu and Chitpavan. Please can you give them a quick glance as per your convenience and suggest any improvements in the listings? Is there any specified format that is used by wikipedia for listing notables? Thanks--Acharya63 (talk) 07:01, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I just wanted to thank you for your understanding of my revert of yours at that article. I entirelly understood your logic, however, with Brazilians have a particular naming customs. By living 3 decades in Portugal, I am well familiarised with Portuguese naming customs (which include all nations that have Portuguese as their primary language). I am well aware about your good intention of following that biographies should use the surname when mentioning someone, however, when the matter is about Brazilian footballers, they most often have either a commonname or a nickname. Just think about Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Denilson, Ailton, Neymar, etc. If you notece no one of them is refered allmost never by their paternal surname but rather by their commonname. Since people from Portuguese.language societies have pedominantly two names and two surnames, their fullname is long and complex, so individuals in order to make them noticeable choose a name or nickname that becomes their commonname by which they are refered to. While David Beckham should certainly be allways refered as "Beckham" in an encyclopedia, Eduardo Ferreira Abdo Pacheco becomes clearly more commonly recognisable as "Eduardo" or "Edu" rather than by "Pacheco". In his case "Eduardo" is the first name, "Ferreira Abdo" maternal surname, and "Pacheco" paternal surname. In a short version "Eduardo Pacheco" would be his name (first name plus paternal surname) which was chousen for article title, but when refering to him, his commonname of "Eduardo"/"Edu" definitelly has precedent over "Pacheco" same as "Neymar" has over "Santos Junior". This is a peculiarity that happends with Potuguese and Spanish-speaking societies sportspeople, obviously rare in other exemples where Johann Sebastian Bach is certainly refered as Bach when in context rather that "Johann" or "Johann Sebastian". I thank you for your understanding and be sure I was aware of your god-will in your edit. Kindest regards! FkpCascais (talk) 23:29, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- Just aware of your edit-summary here. If no one did, I am here. Beware with Spanish and Portuguese-speaking societies, their paternal surname (first surname in Spanish, second /last/ surname in Portuguese) may not be the commonname of individuals and sometimes using them as commonname may even seem akward. FkpCascais (talk) 23:40, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks so much for the explanation. I should have used the same edit summary (saying "correct me if I'm wrong") on both those edits. I did know this naming convention existed, I'm just not fully educated about it. In most cases like this, there is an editor's note at the top of the wikipedia article, something like "This person is commonly known by the mononym ___". Would you consider adding one, to either (or both) Eduardo articles, if you think it's necessary? It might save you from having to undo similar edits by others in the future. I'll leave it up to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to explain! Jessicapierce (talk) 23:48, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Please use preview (broken formatting)
Hi Jessicapierce, thanks for fixing the reference errors, I'm using AutoWikiBroweser to implement some semi-auto, and manual changes, and AutoWikiBroweser doesn't appear to have a preview capability, I do have some check searches that I use after batch changes, but you appear to be beating me to the fixes. Best regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 20:03, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Oh, it didn't even occur to me that some editing tools might not have a preview function. (I bet that's annoying.) Thank you for letting me know! Best, Jessicapierce (talk) 20:06, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- DynamoDegsy, well AWB does have a "preview" button (under the "start" tab), but it's not as good as the normal wikitext editor's preview. Anyway, it might help. Regards, NSH001 (talk) 21:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks NSH001, I hadn't spotted that, and despite preview's letterbox viewing style, I shall make use of it in the future. Best regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 09:03, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- DynamoDegsy, well AWB does have a "preview" button (under the "start" tab), but it's not as good as the normal wikitext editor's preview. Anyway, it might help. Regards, NSH001 (talk) 21:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Japekrom Page protection
Hi Jessicapierce,
Please can you assist me in protecting the Japekrom from unnecessary editing or vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwadwosei gh (talk • contribs) 16:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Appalachian English edit
Thank you so much for fixing the references in Appalachian English. I missed that detail when I edited :) — they call me AWESOMEmeeos ... [ˈɔɪ̯]! 20:25, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
- No worries, I find those errors really satisfying to fix. Thanks for the thanks! :) Jessicapierce (talk) 00:03, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
You do realise that you are rewriting the text of citations, don't you? Pdfpdf (talk) 22:07, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the message. I certainly did not realize that, as there is nothing in the article to indicate that that's the case. I gather you mean that the text appearing in the article is direct quotations from the commendations themselves? I would never intentionally edit a direct quote.Jessicapierce (talk) 22:39, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Good heavens. You're right. Except for the rather strange style of language, there is indeed nothing to indicate that that's the case. Hmmm. I'll put it on my "To Do" list and hope that someone else fixes it before I get to it! Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 05:42, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you! In the short term, I think I'll put a hidden editorial note at the top of the page, just to (hopefully) keep other editors from making my error. Jessicapierce (talk) 17:00, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you
Hello Jessica ! I saw your message on my timeline about the punctuation and edits addition you dropped. I think what I'll do is I'll stop editing generally , to prevent trouble for other editors ! Thank you so much for offering to help. ~~biggiepopa~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biggiepopa (talk • contribs) 11:03, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
List of YouTubers
There is another deletion discussion on List of YouTubers. If you would like to weigh in, you can do so by checking out the discussion here. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 06:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Anupama Parameswaran
Hi Jessica, re: this edit, I think you might have missed the hatnote indicating that Parameswaran is a patronym (her father's name) rather than a family name. I restored the previous version of her name. Take care, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:12, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
- Hi there, thanks so much for the comment. I did completely miss that note. I try to stay on the lookout for such things, especially with names I'm unfamiliar with, but sometimes I miss one. Thank you for fixing my mistake! Jessicapierce (talk) 16:32, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi
Thanks for fixing a bad ref. I (obviously) worked for quite some time on South American land mammal age and did not notice the error. I think I fixed the "jacked" table now, can you check please? If not, let me know where it doesn't work. Cheers and thanks, Tisquesusa (talk) 02:55, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, and thanks for your message! I meant to send a message to the person who had most recently worked on that article, as I know that's more helpful than a comment in an edit summary, but I got distracted and forgot. The table looks perfect to me now. And wow, I don't think I've ever seen an edit that big before! Jessicapierce (talk) 04:30, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to let you know I partially reverted your edit on Pahela Baishakh, because one of your copyedits broke a file. If you would like to change the file name to include the correct punctuation, you will need to re-upload the file through WP:UPIMAGE before renaming it. All the best, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 18:21, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
- Ugh, I can't believe I did that... that's the kind of error I'm always on the lookout for, so I can't believe I didn't check my work! Thanks for finding and fixing it! Jessicapierce (talk) 18:44, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Belvedere College un-edits
Dear Jessica, You un-edited a load of edits on the Belvedere College Wikipedia page. The page is quite poor, both on images of the school, its facilities but also its history, which I will leave to the school and its historians to fix. However it is particularly poor in the sections pertaining to sports and alumni, the latter being almost completely blank where it should rightly be highly populous. The latter might also be sorted out by the schools academic staff or school historians or academics. I was not a logged in user to save time. I would suggest that you read the Wikipedia entries on Rugby School, Muscular Christianity. Tom Browne's Schooldays and how Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton along with how the Latin phrase DULCE ET DECOMUM EST, PRO PATRIA MORI, which all so influenced the fee paying (public / private) schools of the British Isles to understand the centrality of sports in the past and indeed up to the present in such schools despite leaving the Union in the case of 3/4 of the country in a gradual but unresolved manner from 1922-1948, but also in your nearer to home great US prep schools and in the Ivy League and inter-collegiate sport in general. Central to this 18th and especially 19th century philosophy were the athletic pursuits of cricket, rugby, athletics and rowing. Essentially there are the more socially superior sports it was supposed who partoke of these leisurely gentlemanly pastimes and those inferior schools that played other sports or none at all. Schools are still ranked to this day by sporting activity, The Ivy League being a sporting league and not a league of academic excellence, the same with the top US prep schools, or in England the Lords schools or those that had or still retain the right to play an annual match at the home of cricket at Lords or whose annual match v another school or university is part of the London Social Season such as Eton v Harrow,(cricket / polo), Oxford v Cambridge (rowing / rugby / cricket / polo) or had the right to row at Henley Royal Regatta (Eton, Winchester, Beamont SJ, The Oratory) etc. I realize that you made your un-edits with great zeal and enthusiasm but I would argue in error and that pieces outlining the schools sports, its great sporting tradition and a tiny synopsis of the history of those sports at the college are essential for any reader, who isn't conversant with the schools history or place to properly attain a quick assessment of the academic institution or its place in society, sports, culture and society, both within its country and indeed internationally within a pre-ordained if semi-opaque pecking order. You do mention as reasons an overabundance of references, but these fill out the abridged picture given in my mere few sentences and are all relevant. You say that the statements aren't backed up by the references, but I would ask you to read them again in total and you will see that everything is based on them and indeed verified by them. To further check I would suggest you peruse the following books titled roughly Ireland's 100 greatest cricketers by Ger Siggens (though not entirely error free) and a book by a former Belvedere College maths teacher, now headmaster of Castleknock College on Belvederian Ireland rugby caps which, while old, contradicts your assertion of 28 Irish internationals in rugby! If people more knowledgeable in these affairs are not allowed to add to the page, then this calamitous situation will continue which may effect non-nationals or un-knowledgeable locals choice of schooling for their children. If you do have a genuine interest in Irish schools history, might I turn your attention to the almost non existent entries in Irish schools whose alumni won a Victoria Cross! As can be seen from this, Wikipedia is never accurate, but merely a work in progress as people add data to fill out lists and histories. If their edits are instantly deleted, despite being accurate, Wikipedia will never attain any semblance of accuracy in the future, which is no doubt its stated aim, to be encyclopedic, whilst at present it is but scraps of lists and texts, no more complete than our lists and texts of the classical playwrights for instance. Please take time and do research a topic before deleting edits, or perhaps leave it to experts and contain yourself to grammatical, textual and reference improvements. While my edits were rushed, minimal and concise, they were accurate and an improvement and can act as subject matter for someone who wishes to expand on them. Those with no references such as tennis, golf, sailing and yachting etc were items that I would have returned to with an accurate number of national or Leinster (provincial, one of four island of Ireland quarters, akin to state champions in the US) titles as and when those facts are published online or when the administrators of the various sports have time to check their archives (my cricket school titles numbers were only furnished to me over a number of years as amateurs still administer these organisations). Of course the college should know and should highlight these facts and they all would be contained in their annual periodical, The Belvederian, and in their papers should they deign to research it. But until then they will remain well known facts of dominance by those following the sports over a lifetime and those who took part in those sports or who were students of this college or of its small circle of opponents. I plan to replace the edits that you unedited, you are free to amend or improve them as you wish, but please be factual through historical research before you say that accurate facts are inaccurate. I might be new to editing Wikipedia and do not intend to do it too often, so am happy to be corrected on style, format etc. Many thanks for all your great effort, organisations quickly fail without the dedicated involvement of the very few, like yourself and I am forever indebted to you for your tireless dedication, Yours respectfully, Carl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:185.51.72.5#Belvedere_College_un-editing — Preceding unsigned comment added by CarlAinvire (talk • contribs) 16:29, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
9 and 9A Southgate Street, Gloucester
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2 new points added in preview and history
I have added 2 new points in preview and history. If there are any error then please notify me instead of direct delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shubhappom (talk • contribs) 04:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
- If you don't sign your name and let me know what article this is regarding, I have no way of knowing what this is about. Jessicapierce (talk) 04:37, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Reference punctuation
I was not aware about putting the full stop before adding the references. Sorry about all the hassle I have caused.
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High five
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Thanks for your thanks, and for keeping an eye on that IP! NekoKatsun (talk) 17:50, 8 June 2018 (UTC) |
content removal
I see that you removed my content. I’d like to let you know that it wouldn’t let me put the reference template do to a glitch in the system were it wouldn’t take the code. 71.219.141.37 (talk) 19:28, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, I'd like to help, but you'll need to let me know what article this is regarding. I may be able to figure out the reference formatting issue. Thanks. Jessicapierce (talk) 20:03, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Boon wurrung:
Whatever was argued, without notification to the main editor (myself) regarding the name of this people, regarding restoring this spelling, it should be noted that the official name for what we call the Boon wurrung as incorporated and recognized by the Victorian state government recently, is Bunurong. A glance at the talk page now will clarify the reason. Best regards.Nishidani (talk) 19:13, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, I was just restoring the page's spelling to match its title, after edits I interpreted as vandalism. Of course I would support the article using the official spelling (which should include the title). Thank you, Jessicapierce (talk) 02:50, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
Refs
Thanks for restoring the refs as they relate to the entire article not just that statement Atlantic306 (talk) 18:16, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
- Just on a side issue, am having trouble with your talk page displaying at only about 25% width on my ipad, probably a glitch at my end, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 18:18, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
- No problem, thanks for explaining! If the citations are useful, I'm glad to see them kept in the article. You might want to consider moving some of those references to different spots though, if possible, if only because future editors may make the same changes I did, per WP:OVERCITE.
- And this is the first I've heard about my talk page displaying strangely, but I suppose it couldn't hurt if I archived it... I've been meaning to figure out how to do that. Cheers! Jessicapierce (talk) 18:38, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
1000%
Hey- Just wanted to let you know that the banner on top of your talk page is a bit out of whack. Instead of 100%, the width parameter is listed as 1000%, and it stretches out the page. If that was on purpose, that's fine, but I'm assuming it was an accident, and just wanted to let you know! Cheers ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ᐐT₳LKᐬ 20:22, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- I was actually quite curious, and looked for the diff, it happened here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jessicapierce&diff=804402091&oldid=804250980 . IP Vandal. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ᐐT₳LKᐬ 20:24, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- Oh my gosh, I completely missed that edit (and never followed up on the conversation right above this one, about an error probably due to the same issue). Thank you so much for taking the time to dig that up! Jessicapierce (talk) 21:56, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
July 2019
Hello Jessicapierce, I hope this is how I´m supposed to get in contact with you. I´ve seen that you have removed a lot of very useful links. I can´t help but to be mesmerized that you find useless what the Spanish Royal Academy of History has to say about the lives of the Spanish Royals. Maybe I´m misinterpreting everything and what you (Wikipedia?) would have liked me to do instead is to write a translation of "Diccionario Biografico. Real Academia de la Historia". If that is so, PLEASE put up the links again with "Biographical Dictionary. Royal Academy of History". 139.47.139.218 (talk) 11:56, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
- Hi there. While I believe your additions were done in good faith, they were not super useful, for several reasons. In general it's better to include information in a Wikipedia article itself, rather than provide links to external sources where that information might be found. Also, while I have no doubt that the Academy has relevant info on these topics, it's not in English, which is not likely to be useful to most readers of the English-language Wikipedia. You'll notice that I am not the only editor who removed these links. Your edits would be far more likely to stand if you would find an English source to back up information in those articles (or new information that you add), and include that source as a citation, rather than an external link.
- You can read more about the policies on external links here. If I can help with anything, just let me know. Jessicapierce (talk) 15:58, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Manual of style : Thank you
Thank you so much for your work on M.C. Meyer bio . I will go on this weekend on the same way to make it more Wiki . 92.90.20.157 (talk) 07:02, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
your deletion of my improvement of Elaine May does not fix the broken wikidata-ibdb interface
- the youtube sources are WP:RS and copyright cleared, they are not "random" video.
69.181.23.220 (talk) 02:45, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
- My edit cannot possibly be the problem, because you reverted it. The formatting issue is caused by your duplicate ref tags. Please fix that. Jessicapierce (talk) 02:47, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Dove Cameron article
Hi Jessicapierce, this is an important message. Some user by the name of User:Stargrl has re-added trivial content or gossip content. On Dove's personal life it says "she is currently dating Thomas Doherty" and that violates BLP privacy per WP:BLPPRIVACY and WP:NOTATABLOID. I have remove trivial content and gossip on both Dove Cameron and Thomas Doherty articles. Jessica, could you watch both Dove Cameron and Thomas Doherty articles if User:Stargrl continues to re-added trivial content and warn User:Stargrl to never re-add trivial or gosssip content on both Dove Cameron and Thomas Doherty articles. If User:Stargrl continues to re-added trivial content keep on reverting the edits and User:Stargrl might violate the BLP and will lead for a possible block. Thanks for the important message. I will look forward for your reply. Remember to watch both articles to remove trivial content. Thanks and see you later. 2001:569:7C07:2600:E876:83BA:7357:8A1 (talk) 03:19, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- Why can you not do this yourself? Jessicapierce (talk) 03:21, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- I remove trivial content on both articles by myself already. I have to tell you if User:Stargrl continues to re-add. Could you revert both articles and tell User:Stargrl to never re-add trivial and gossip content that violates both WP:NOTATABLOID and WP:BLPPRIVACY and User:Stargrl might possibly be blocked. This reply is important. Thank you. 2001:569:7C07:2600:E876:83BA:7357:8A1 (talk) 03:27, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- From Stargrl's talk page, it appears this is an ongoing issue that other editors are aware of. It's not a priority for me, and I have no idea why you're messaging me about it. If you feel the issue needs handling, I encourage you to make a proper account and take action, such as posting on the administrators' noticeboard. Jessicapierce (talk) 03:32, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- I remove trivial content on both articles by myself already. I have to tell you if User:Stargrl continues to re-add. Could you revert both articles and tell User:Stargrl to never re-add trivial and gossip content that violates both WP:NOTATABLOID and WP:BLPPRIVACY and User:Stargrl might possibly be blocked. This reply is important. Thank you. 2001:569:7C07:2600:E876:83BA:7357:8A1 (talk) 03:27, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Help Formatting
Would you be able to do a table format for the Myrna Dell filmography page? I'm having trouble and it probably wouldn't take more than a day or so. Thank you!I'm Listening to 80s Music (talk) 15:47, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Precious
"minor copy edits"
Thank you for what you call "minor copy edits" which amounts, in thousands of articles, to a major imrovement of article space, going for the precise meaning of words and good references, offering generous edit summaries and precise warnings to users, - Jessica, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:41, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oh, that's very kind of you, thanks! Jessicapierce (talk) 04:32, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
Bio M.C. Meyer : style
Dear Jessica , I have been modifying the M.C. Meyer bio following the edits you had already done . If you have some time ,could you check and tell me if the result is better ? The article had a tag "advertising", do you think it is still an advert ?Thank you so much for your help . Jacquesbonder (talk) 07:11, 5 August 2018 (UTC) == editing articles == hello, thank you of your message, yes i see you have done some fixing of article's i have edited, thank-you, i was going to message the other day, but could not get around to it, thank-you for your contributions.
Non English sources
Hi, as per WP:GNG non English reliable sources are acceptable as references, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 15:54, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Hi there, thanks for the note. I do understand this. I remember recently mentioning in an edit summary having removed a citation for not being English, but that was mentioned as part of a combination of issues - I certainly wouldn't remove a citation JUST for being non-English. If it was Amit Bhadana, the larger problem was that the citations were being used to prove current figures, but were many years out of date, and I felt they'd been superseded by a more current, English source. Thanks, Jessicapierce (talk) 18:01, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
You added Tamara Johnson-George to this list. Do you have a cite showing she lives/lived in Knoxville? There is nothing about Knoxville in her article, and I didn't find anything in a cursory web search. BrineStans (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Hi there, I didn't add her, just alphabetized her entry. No idea if she's actually from there. Jessicapierce (talk) 20:19, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) As there's nothing about Knoxville in her article, I've removed her. - BilCat (talk) 21:38, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
Need some assistance on user blanking content.
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I'd love a second opinion about the recent content blanking at Quillette - should it be restored? It looks perfectly legit to me. The user removing content makes (probably) good points about the sources cited, but the points being made are just descriptions of the topic, and I'm not really seeing the problem. Any input would be much appreciated, thanks. (Also, if this needs to go on a noticeboard, please let me know... I looked around but didn't find one which quite fit this situation, especially as I have not been able to contact the content-blanking user, but let me know if I'm wrong.) Jessicapierce (talk) 00:08, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
- Because this is a content dispute I will give my opinion on the article's talk page. Note, that you can contact an IP like this on their talk page and you can obviously always start a discussion on the article's talk page. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:16, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
- Right, I should have specified that I did post on the IP's talk page, but haven't heard back (and am probably not likely to, based on my past experience with IPs). Thanks very much for your time. Jessicapierce (talk) 01:28, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Amy Wadge
Hi Jessica I keep trying to up date my Wikipedia and for some reason you sent me this message - Hello, I'm Jessicapierce. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Amy Wadge have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Jessicapierce (talk) 00:19, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
I am Amy Wadge so I'm not really understanding how what i am writing isn't constructive ? The information on the page is massively out of date and in accurate and as I am the actual individual that the page is about I feel it\s strange that you would be able to control the content in this way ? Please can you advise what I am supposed to do as all the information I put up yesterday is accurate.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience
Amy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jenki1975 (talk • contribs) 15:56, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
- Hi there, I can certainly appreciate that you'd like your page to be accurate. I'm sure we can find a way to do that. As I explained in my edit summary (you can see the page's edit history here), I removed your addition for several reasons:
- It replaced sourced information (content with citations to back it up) with unsourced. This is really rarely seen as an improvement. In cases when sourced content needs to be removed, you should start a discussion on the article's Talk page, or, at the very least, explain your changes in the edit summary (you should always do this anyway). In this case, the information you added about "Thinking Out Loud" was not that different from the text that was originally there, so that citation absolutely could have stayed put, and shouldn't have been removed. Adding/keeping relevant citations strengthens an article.
- The more important reason I removed your additions is that we generally don't keep huge lists of song titles, like what you added. It's not considered standard discography content here, and is not useful content for most users. Wikipedia isn't meant to be exhaustive. I think the relevant section of WP:NOTEVERYTHING is probably WP:INDISCRIMINATE. You may also find Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines helpful.
- In addition, nearly every line you added to the article would have needed fixing. There's a ton of erratic capitalization and missing punctuation in that song list. Other editors can always step in to fix things since Wikipedia is collaborative, but the onus is on the contributing editor to make an effort to comply with the Manual of Style.
- I'm going to remove that song list again, and I hope you understand why, now. My goal is not to control the content on that page, but to keep it in line with our style guide while also containing accurate, sourced information. I hope we can agree on that. Thank you. Jessicapierce (talk) 17:31, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Original barnstar
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For your excellent edits improving the encyclopedic style of articles Sakaimover (talk) 04:38, 19 September 2018 (UTC) |
Need second opinion, please.
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Hello, I'm not sure sure what to do about this situation. User Manavatha has a history of nonconstructive edits. If you'll check the user's recent history, you'll see more uploads of several pencil sketches which I assume are about to be posted in a lot of actresses' articles, as before. No new vandalism has occurred yet, but the issue has been explained to the user, and these uploaded images are not appropriate.
However, the second issue is that Manavatha keeps blanking their talk page. This has happened numerous times and is now becoming more frequent. I see no evidence that the page has been archived, and feel it's more likely that it's being done to remove warnings.
Any help on this would be appreciated. If it's better to post this at a noticeboard, just let me know which. Thank you! Jessicapierce (talk) 14:38, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
- AN/I is a good venue for this. Remember, though, that blanking a page doesn't remove warnings from its history. If there is a pattern of improper editing and the warnings need to be shown, they're rather easily retrieved. StrikerforceTalk 14:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
- I have nominated the most recent sketch images for deletion. StrikerforceTalk 16:15, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for your help on this. My instinct was to wait until something egregiously wrong was done, but the uploads of those images just wasn't going anywhere productive. Best, Jessicapierce (talk) 18:14, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
- I have nominated the most recent sketch images for deletion. StrikerforceTalk 16:15, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Edits are quite needed.Ofcourse in one article the whole page was fictionits true...The pages you had handled so far consists of more rumours.Thats the only reason i blanked it.The pages maintained are full of errors and different fascinating imaginations daydreams.I was just cutting wrong part .you reverting the same. I did my best removing the error part...I stopped at that day when you wrote mail over my inbox before 15 days ago to stop editing.I paused and never made any edit .. Even if you come to my own account user page,and discussing my userpage as an very big issue seems having no sense@all. I think its non.constructive.and you dont do something useful .so please stay away from my user page SO please stay away from my user account,Thank you--Manavatha (talk) 17:45, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- You've been editing my talk page for half an hour now. You should stop. I get your point. I will leave you alone as long as you stop breaking Wikipedia's rules. Jessicapierce (talk) 18:14, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
User talk:Jessicapierce
My talkpage is just like message box .its for the person concerned not for anyone to read which lacks privacy. talk page &its messages must not be a window display.its not wrong to edit our talk page.so need not worry about this aspect.to concerned people.More over will you keep your emails or social posts or postal letters and every content in all public post or paste in a notice board????whats wrong in editing in my user talkpage,its my message box. the messages/warnings sent to me is at my inbox.so need not be more concerned about this. --Manavatha (talk) 18:08, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) If I may interject, @Manavatha:, I would urge you to read UP#OWN, specifically the passage,
pages in user space belong to the wider community. They are not a personal homepage, and do not belong to the user. They are part of Wikipedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier
, and the subsequent sections. You seem to be asking Jessicapierce to not post appropriate messages on your page. Unless you obtain an interaction ban against her, that's not a proper request to make. As long as she is communicating about issues related to the development of the encyclopedia, she - and anyone else - is free to post on your talk page, as needed. Jessica, in fairness, this also applies to your request below in this thread. Manavatha, you have removed several items that are specifically listed as not be appropriate for deletion, such asMiscellany for deletion tags (while the discussion is in progress).
I would ask you to please restore the notifications about the photos that you uploaded until such time as their deletion discussions have concluded. StrikerforceTalk 18:44, 21 September 2018 (UTC)- Thanks very much for chiming in, Strikerforce. You make a good point. Because of my frustration and the language barrier, I said "stop posting here", when what I meant was "could you please compose your message to me in a text editor and post it once, rather than in 14 separate edits." The notifications every two minutes for half an hour were a little much, especially given that the updated message was not becoming any more readable. This is a situation where I should have stepped away until the situation settled, and I'll remember that for next time. Jessicapierce (talk) 19:49, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) If I may interject, @Manavatha:, I would urge you to read UP#OWN, specifically the passage,
- Please stop posting here. Jessicapierce (talk) 18:15, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you i need not break any rules.never ido you are free to edit not free to hurt.
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