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Hello. In a recent edit to the page Heliport, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 05:06, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Please stop adding capitals to the URL |url=
parameter in citations I suspect for grammar such as News.BBC.co.uk. A URL is in lowercase. The |website=
parameter in Template:Cite web is not for a partial URL it is for the "Name of the website" and "having both |publisher=
and |website=
is redundant in many cases". This is not correct citing |website=
Forces-War-Records.co.uk|publisher=
Forces War Records and |website=
RAF.MoD.uk|publisher=
Royal Air Force. The Template:Cite news uses |work=
for the "Name of the work containing the source" such as a newspaper or website and doesn't use |website=
like in Template:Cite web. This is not correct citing |website=
News.BBC.co.uk|publisher=
BBC News and |website=
HerefordTimes.com|publisher=
Hereford Times. In Template:Cite news, |publisher=
is for the name of the company, organization or other legal entity that publishes the work being cited not for the |work=
. Please stop changing the named references syntax WP:REFNAME. The correct syntax is <ref name="name"> not <ref name=name>.--Melbguy05 (talk) 15:18, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
|website=
field - yet again, that has long been used for the actual URL of said website, and is useful to readers to determine exactly WHICH website is providing citation (without actually clicking on link). Not everyone uses a PC or laptop whereby they can hover over the URL to see its exact structure (which is critical to prevent fraud, scams, and fake websites). Your comment on the |publisher=
field is also your own personal opinion; critically because the name of the website might not be the actual publisher. There are thousands of instances whereby a totally incorrect publisher has been entered. As for Template:Cite news, its fields are identical to Template:Cite web, and indeed, many uses of Template:Cite news are NOT official 'news sources'!|URL=
Your edit to Stirling Lines and edit to Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing changed the URLs. The actual URL addresses were all lowercase and the citations before your edit were all lowercase. You added capitals to the URLs for example https://www.army.mod.uk/aviation/30331.aspx
changed to https://www.Army.MoD.uk/aviation/30331.aspx
. Why did you capitalize letters in the URLs when there were none in the actual addresses?|website=
in ((Cite web)) is for the "Title (name) of the website (or its short URL if no plain-language title is discernible)". Help:Citation Style 1 advises that the parameter "is the name of the website (as usually given in the logo/banner area of the site, and/or appearing in the <title> of the homepage" and "If no clear title can be identified, or the title explicitly is the domain name, then use the site's domain name".."Capitalize for reading clarity, and omit "www.", e.g. convert "www.veterinaryresourcesuk.com" to "VeterinaryResourcesUK.com". The citations before your edits contained the titles of the websites. There was no need to change the entries to a short url/domain name for example |website=
Royal Air Force without |publisher=
changed to |website=
RAF.MoD.uk|publisher=
Royal Air Force.|publisher=
in ((Cite news)) and ((Cite web)) is for the "Name of publisher" and editors are advised "Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a website, book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.)". In ((Cite web)), editors are advised that "Having both 'publisher' and 'website' (a.k.a. 'work') is redundant in many cases". HELP:CS1 advises for the work/website parameter that "If the work title as given by the site/publication would be exactly or substantially the same as the name of the publisher, do not use the "publisher" parameter" and that "The "publisher" parameter should not be included for widely-known mainstream news sources, for major academic journals, or where it would be the same or mostly the same as the work". You commented that the "name of the website might not be the actual publisher". You changed the citation for the Hereford Times from |work=
Hereford Times without |publisher=
to |website=
HerefordTimes.com|publisher=
Hereford Times. The Hereford Times is published by Newsquest.|website=
parameter, and as a consequence the |publisher=
parameter, is your way of negating mobile browser (phone/tablet) inability to display the URL of a link. The Safari browser provides a user with the ability to preview a link by a long hold on a link with a user then able to copy the URL if required without opening the link. A long hold on a link in the Chrome browser enables a user to copy the URL without opening it and also provides the user with a option to preview the link.<ref name>
You're right that a named reference doesn't need double quotes and works fine without them. WP:CITE "If spaces are used in the text of the name, the text must be placed within double quotes. Placing all named references within double quotes may be helpful to future editors who do not know that rule." The example WP:REFNAME in Help:Footnotes used double quotes but didn't say double quotes were only required if there were spaces. Why did you remove the double quotes from the citations?|work=
in ((Cite news)) is an alias for |website=
and is for the "Name of the newspaper, magazine or periodical". When I said ((Cite news)) doesn't use |website=
like ((Cite web)) I was referring to the Usage and Examples sections in ((Cite news)) that use |work=
not |website=
.--Melbguy05 (talk) 17:21, 5 May 2022 (UTC)Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing, you may be blocked from editing. @Mark83: this IP is repeating behaviour for which you've warned them of before. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 00:17, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
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