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There is no grammatical requirement that a noun as a subject needs an article in order for the sentence to be "complete", nor is there a requirement that "incomplete" sentences in a caption should go period-less. The latter may be a convention upheld by some editors, but that doesn't make it a law. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 13:51, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
There is no grammatical requirement that a noun as a subject needs an article in order for the sentence to be "complete"...There is, in fact, such a requirement if the noun is both a common noun and a count noun, provided that it refers to a specific object. This is well accepted grammatically. See, e.g., this explanation from Lincoln University.
... nor is there a requirement that "incomplete" sentences in a caption should go period-less.How do you reconcile that with MOS:CAPTION, which specifically provides, "Most captions are not complete sentences but merely sentence fragments that should not end with a period"?
The latter may be a convention upheld by some editors, but that doesn't make it a law.The MOS reflects a consensus of editors. 142.161.81.20 (talk) 22:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm INeedSupport. An edit that you recently made to G. Simon Harak seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! INeedSupport (talk) 02:15, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Regarding this, this and this, how difficult is it for you to simply use the predominant style that was being used in the article? Why would you change the article to a reference style that the vast majority of our editors don't use and don't know how to use? And, yes, they don't. I should know, given how long I've been here and how often I've seen editors screw of up sfn references and change to a different style instead. Sfn style is no more likely to be used consistently. It's likelier to be ignored. So you have not helped. I already pointed you to WP:CITEVAR. Per that, you should have gone back to the earliest style used in the article. As for others not objecting, it's not like they had any reason to since I'd reverted you and my revert stood for hours. I'm not going to revert again since that article is not heavily edited by me and I have more important things to do and don't want to waste much time on Wikipedia. But if I did heavily edit that article, I would continue to challenge you on this, just like I did with the Asexuality article. You can't just come in and force editors to follow the style you want. You aren't editing these articles regularly, and yet you expect editors to go along with the style you choose? Sighs. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 18:30, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Then again, that earliest style is not much better. But this one is the one used after that, and it's the one that took off in terms of use. I'm discounting the URL link reference style since that's not the way we are supposed to reference. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 18:44, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
it would be best, in my opinion, if you abstained from reapplying any of these changes, including the non-style related ones, but rather made a request on the Talk page about it, and let another editor make the changes for you.This is perhaps the most blatant example of WP:OWNBEHAVIOR I have ever seen; usually people at least try to be subtle about it.
You are very clearly altering a referencing style merely to suit your own preference, and contrary to the style already used in the article, your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding. Rather than supporting your point of view, your inclusion of the Wikipedia:Baby and bathwater essay instead tends to suggest that you have entangled a few possibly beneficial edits with a mass of non-consensus changes to reference style in order to set yourself up for the revert you just performed, ostensibly "to save the baby" but in reality to make it so burdensome to undo just your reference-style changes, that no editor would attempt it. If you want to save the baby, then the burden of adding beneficial edits to the article is on you, and scrambling them up with other edits that are contrary to policy such as WP:CITEVAR, is not a way of guaranteeing that your beneficial edits will survive. Other volunteer editors do not have the burden of coming in after you to clean up your edits, spending their time disentangling the wheat from the chaff.
Your mistaken comments about what WP:OWN says are laughably off-base, and a transparent attempt to take the eyes and the heat off of you; sorry, didn't work. This is about your misbehavior at the David Reimer article; if you want to raise an issue about WP:OWN behavior on my part, be my guest; ANI is ➞ that-a-way, but please do read WP:BOOMERANG first.
Your repeated reverts at David Reimer to install your preferred referencing style are starting to be disruptive. Instead, please use the talk page to try to achieve a consensus favoring your position. Stop your edit-warring, and stop ignoring content guidelines like WP:CITEVAR merely because you don't like it. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 09:42, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
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