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before the question on this page. Again, welcome! Randykitty (talk) 20:16, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you have edited several dozen articles to change mention of and links to "Red Book" to "CD-DA". This is problematic for several reasons.
It is arguable that the term "Red Book", referring to "the standard sort of audio CD playable in an ordinary player that is used for commercial music sales," is not particularly familiar to the average non-technical reader. But I do not think that the unexplained "CD-DA" is any more self-descriptive. The "CD" part is clear enough in context, but "DA" could mean many things.
In fact, per the Wikipedia Manual of Style, the first appearance of "CD-DA" in an article should be written out in full (see MOS:ACRO). This isThis is especially important where understanding of the term is essential to understanding the surrounding text, which I believe is the case here. So, replacing mention of "Red Book" with "CD-DA" should end up with "Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA)".
Besides complying with WP style guidelines, I would say that this is considerably more self-explanatory (hence more understandable to the typical nontechnical reader, i.e., better) than either "Red Book" or "CD-DA" alone.
You should also be aware that either way, the actual article you're linking to is Red Book (CD standard). I am aware that both Philips and Sony used the term "Compact Disk Digital Audio", and so it appears in the logo... while "Red Book" is a colloquialism, not part of the official title. Nevertheless, here on Wikipedia, the CD-DA page is merely a redirect to the Red Book page. Now, links to redirects are not in and of themselves a problem. After all, they occur often as pages are moved (renamed) and there is no requirement that they be changed to links to the "real" page. However, in general, editors should not deliberately create new links to redirects unless there is some compelling reason to do so.
Whether that article should actually be called "Red Book" rather than "Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA)" is another question, one that has been discussed before to no conclusion (see talk:Red_Book_(CD_standard)#Rename article to Compact Disc Digital Audio), but should not affect current editing.
Please consider these points in your future editing. Thank you. Jeh (talk) 08:58, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
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Yeah, somehow managed to deleted them both. Done. --Shirt58 (talk) 11:18, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 20:46, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Large shrinkages in article size without comment, especially by anonymous users, look a bit suspicious in the history; tagging those edits with an indication that you're replacing explicitly-detailed citations with ((cite doi)) might make them look less suspicious.
(BTW, thanks for doing those edits in the first place.) Guy Harris (talk) 22:20, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
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before the question on this page. Again, welcome! DDreth [talk to me] 10:19, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I have now read up on Wikipedia: Authority Control, and learned why you put that template on Veronica Roth's page. What is still a problem is that the line you put in the Edit results in what seems an odd link.
Below is a copy of the final page, where the data term appears. It is interesting to note that putting your text on this talk page does not add the BNF and data term, and appears as this template does on other author pages. Do you know why this occurs, or if the dead link can be eliminated? The BNF link is live, it is just the word data that goes to a 404 error.
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WorldCat VIAF: 160629702 LCCN: n2010079812 ISNI: 0000 0001 0818 2046 GND: 1020743859 BNF: cb16557547m (data)
That is confusing to me! Learning something new, I had not noticed these templates on author pages before. I will look for your reply here on your talk page. --Prairieplant (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello 50.53.15.59. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Rational ClearCase, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Category:IBM software shows that many articles are named IBM. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 22:21, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
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