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I see that you have recently added Template:Date to some military history articles. The template documentation says "This template should only be used internally in other templates." It should not be used in articles. If you know of other instances of this template that you have inserted in articles, can you remove them? Thanks in advance. Binksternet (talk) 09:08, 20 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry, my bad! I'll go and fix them some time this week --Daviddwd (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Please create a section heading when you add template data, like this. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:55, 27 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Boleyn (talk) 07:37, 28 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Really appreciate the work you're doing on solar stuff. Thanks! It would help the rest of us if you described your changes in your save dialogs. Thanks again for listening. Lfstevens (talk) 09:34, 28 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Got it! Lately I’ve been adding descriptions to a ton of things, and I enabled the extension that won't let me submit without a description. —Daviddwd (talk) 13:06, 28 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I concur. However, please resist the temptation to slip in other stuff while you are there, like you did at Non-tariff barriers to trade. I'm sure it was good faith but it undermines your credibility when you are doing this very useful task. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:29, 1 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An article you recently created, Information Technology in the United States, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 09:52, 28 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Individual One. Since you had some involvement with the Individual One redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. PamD 12:51, 10 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, you are lighting up my 4000+ watchlist with insertion of short descriptions. I've no idea where you are getting them from but, for example, this one seems to be rather misleading. - Sitush (talk) 05:25, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

And this one is completely wrong. Caste is a tricky area (hence the sanctions regimes that cover it) and it is very easy to unnecessarily offend people and/or start an edit war. If you're not sure what you are doing in that area, it might be best to skip those articles. - Sitush (talk) 05:33, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In fact, on a second look at your recent edits to the latter article, you've also incorrectly tagged it for mdy dates (should be dmy for all India articles). And you linked a term inside a quotation, which we should not do (it is linked immediately after the quote anyway). I also notice that not including a linebreak after the short description template makes for a messy start in the editing windows, which tend to confuse new contributors at the best of times. - Sitush (talk) 05:39, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Sitush: OK, noted. I'll be more judicious and careful. --Daviddwd (talk) 06:18, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks. I'm not even sure why this is being done - is it something to do with the mobile platform? I do hope it is for WikiData harvesting! - Sitush (talk) 06:45, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It's the first preview people get on a mobile search, and also visual edits in the Visual Editor. I know it's also related to WikiData, but I don't know if it's related to harvesting.

I see. Thanks again. - Sitush (talk) 12:35, 21 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Well, we're now in the ridiculous situation where short descriptions are being added here and others are being imported from WikiData! That entire project is flawed and it is infesting this project. - Sitush (talk) 11:45, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh boy :) --Daviddwd (talk) 16:39, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Short desc and Template:Short-description. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Short desc redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 20:00, 24 January 2019 (UTC) Redirects cause problems with the short description editing gadget. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 18:05, 24 January 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

May I ask why you are tagging articles about phonetic sounds with ((Use American English))? They are generally organized in accord with the British-based International Phonetic Association, which usually uses Oxford spelling. Nardog (talk) 17:47, 13 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That's a fair question, @Nardog:. I tagged articles that had apparently American English spelling with that template, agnostic to (and frankly unaware of) the fact that IPA is UK-based. My rationale was essentially that I saw ⟨-ization⟩ instead of ⟨-isation⟩ and similar; however, that is also the convention of the Oxford spelling. I don't recall seeing any words that would be distinguished in the Oxford spelling from American spelling conventions, such as travelling vs. traveling, or even analyse vs. analyze. If you like, I can refrain from tagging those articles with the American English spelling in the future.

Basically, I saw what looks to me like American spelling (and I am indeed American) and tagged those articles with it. I can apply further scrutiny, use the ((Use Oxford English)) template categorically on them in the future, or refrain from any such tagging if you like. Let me know what you prefer. Hope this explains my rationale. --Daviddwd (talk) 20:30, 13 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, I would rather you didn't tag them or tagged them with the Oxford spelling template. I don't think there is an explicitly established convention or consensus on this so there are probably inconsistencies, but we do use "close" and "open" in the article titles to refer to the vowel height when American literature usually prefers "high" and "low", for example. And language-related articles overwhelmingly prefer the IPA over the Americanist notation after all. I note that the title of R-colored vowel omits u, but that's presumably because the sound is most notably found in American English. Nardog (talk) 07:46, 14 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Indeed i find this tagging problematic. While it makes sense to go for consistency within an article, it is imho often not that clear or obvious which style is used in a specific article (or should be used), even more problematic is it if that that assessment does not originate from the actual author/editors/maintainer of the concerned articles.--Kmhkmh (talk) 08:07, 20 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Noted; I'll take that into account. However, the templates say to tag according to consistency within the article. I got the impression that it MOS:RETAIN gives this approach its blessing. --Daviddwd (talk) 08:26, 20 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Well yes afaik we have a guideline or recommendation to normally stick to already clearly established styles (including English variants) and one for topics geographically or culturally (strongly) associated with a certain English variant. For articles that belong to those cases, tagging with such a template might be appropriate, but we have large number of articles for which neither of those cases (established variant, cultural or geopgraphic ties) doesn't really apply (yet) and those imho should not be tagged (yet).

Independent of this particular issue one could consider something I'd like to call "defensive tagging", that is only tag when needed and keep the number of templates in an article to the really needed minimum. This is because every (new) template potentially makes the source text harder to read/understand (in particular for beginners), may cause problem for other various editors and often does not translate into other language wikipedias (which is a hassle for people writing or maintaining articles or topics across several languages).--Kmhkmh (talk) 17:05, 20 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

OK, I'll keep that in mind. --Daviddwd (talk) 17:15, 20 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I can't see why a whole host of maths articles are being tagged this way. And it feels unpleasant to me. In what way is it good to tell people that a maths article is American? I don't see this as encouraging contributions. Can't tyou restrict your tagging to where it is more relevant thanks. Dmcq (talk) 21:21, 3 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I understand what you're asking. I assure you, I'm only tagging articles written in American English with the tag. It's solely a maintenance tag that says not to change the way articles are written (mainly spelling). I haven't tagged mathematical articles that aren't written with American English with it, and even tagged a few as British English that are written in that convention. --Daviddwd (talk) 21:26, 3 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• These [1], [2], [3] are tagged ((Oxford English)). Were there decisive words that support this, esp re US and UK English? If I understand this thread correctly, such a tag is only OK when other options are excluded, and still that is open for discussion at talk:article. -DePiep (talk) 07:56, 7 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It was my understanding that the consensus for chemistry articles is to use the IUPAC's preferred Oxford spelling; however, I'm willing to discuss and stop doing this if that's what the community agrees upon. --Daviddwd (talk) 19:27, 7 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I estimate that between approximately 22 January to 24 March 2019 you added short descriptions to at least 10,000 articles, which is all very good work indeed - however you simultaneously added the "Use American English" template, and often the "Use mdy dates" template to a large proportion of them. While many of those articles have an obvious national tie, a good proportion of them do not and neither seem to have established a language variant. While I have reversed a few of these changes, the volume of verifying suitable usage required is beyond my capacity. I'd simply invite you to give your current view upon your use of those templates way back in 2019! I do recognize that you are not adding these templates in the same industrious manner as then, and see no issue with your current editing. Batternut (talk) 12:45, 9 July 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Mr. Daviddwd and thank you for your tireless contribution on "short description". When you edit the states of Malaysia.. I see you put "State of Malaysia" in the infobox of 11 from 13 states in the country. It seems you missed Penang and Sarawak. Night Lantern^halo? 03:32, 18 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I got you, friend --Daviddwd (talk) 05:27, 18 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Many thanks Mr. Daviddwd! Night Lantern^halo? 05:42, 18 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In this edit, you added unnecessary span tags and added duplicate ISBNs. If you are using some sort of script to make these changes, please adjust it to avoid these errors. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 11:48, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Here's a similar edit, if it helps you track down what went wrong. – Jonesey95 (talk) 11:56, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hmm, interesting. That is a script, specifically the WP:Visual Editor. I was trying to homogenize the formatting of book citations that were in Wikilink format. I'll be vigilant about this going forward. It seems to only affect books. -- Daviddwd (talk) 15:05, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I fix a lot of ISBNs, so I see all sorts of strangeness. This duplication of ISBNs appears to happen only when there is already an ISBN template inside the URL link, which doesn't work and probably confuses VE. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:50, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Got it. Thanks for your work maintaining the encyclopedia! --Daviddwd (talk) 18:06, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm presuming that the added shortdesc for Alpha Sigma Nu is a mistake.Naraht (talk) 17:53, 1 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh weird! I think it might be a bug in the visual editor because I definitely remember changing it to "honor society at some Jesuit universities" from what I had copied from some other page. Sorry about that! ~~----

Oh, I changed the date to that instead of the short description, lmao -- Daviddwd (talk) 18:38, 1 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

On December 27, 2018, you added the ((expert needed)) tage to Quantum threshold theorem, but did not explain why that page needs expert attention either in the template or the talk page. If you do not provide an explanation shortly, the tag may be removed as vague per WP:DRIVEBY. You can specify a reason using the reason= parameter in ((expert needed)) or explain it on the talk page, in which case you should link to that section using ((expert needed|talk=Discussion title)). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:02, 20 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi - you edited the number of Jews in Singapore from 2,500 in 2015 to 10,456 in 2015. Do you have a source for this? Thanks. -ryand 09:58, 5 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In your fecent edit of Fourier transform, you introduced several links of the form [[Wavenumber|wavenumbers]]. Please, use rather the syntax [[wavenumber]]s, which produces exactly the same result. This would be cleaner and make easier to read the source. D.Lazard (talk) 09:32, 19 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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