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Your recent edit to the pages Hollandaise sauce and Béarnaise sauce appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Specifically, the title of the book is Joy of Cooking - no 'The' in front of it. Dmforcier (talk) 19:56, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary for your edits. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Especially when moving footnotes outside punctuation (thanks!), or other "small" edits that are nearly invisible when diff'd. It also highlights good practices (like proper ref placement) that other editors might not know about. Dmforcier (talk) 19:56, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for contributing your pic to the article, there have been so many that were copyright violations. I have tweaked it and I hope you think its better. Mark_Owen - Off2riorob (talk) 15:21, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Erianna. The MOS page you yourself quoted refers to itself as a "guideline" (i.e., not a policy) subject to exceptions. Given that it is a supposed American "holiday", and not a date in world history, it should follow local usage. μηδείς (talk) 05:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Erianna. I don't, as a policy, like having discussions about articles on my talk page. So I have removed your comments, and am placing them here in small print: In your edit summary you said "a guidline subject to exception - here the "holiday" is geographically situated and local usage is proper". Could you please show me where in the Wikipedia Manual of Style it says that there is such an exception? I'd like to know for future reference. Erianna (talk) 04:31, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
If you wish to continue the discussion here, that is fine, I will watch this page. You may also wish to continue it on the article page, that would be fine, you can cust and paste this discussion to that location if you wish.
(1) Closed discussions are just that - closed discussions. If they were policy then the particular policy page would have been edited to follow. There is no policy. (2) I am leery of edits to change dates, spellings, measurements, etc., to fit some "better" format. Formats are matters of convention, superiority is in the eye of the perceiver. Wikipedia is improved by substantive edits, not continual edits between competing forms. (3) Had the original been 2 February, and were someone to have edited it to February 2nd, I would have reverted that edit as well. Both sorts of edits are wastes of time and should be discouraged. (4) According to the MOS, consistency is one consideration. Local usage is another. Here the context has been explicitly defined as American and there is no list of holidays within which it would be better to maintain consistency. (5) This is not a "date". A date identifies a unique point in human history. John F Kennedy was murdered on the same date that Dr Who premiered. This gives the day of the year on which a supposed holiday falls, not an historical date. (6) The day of the holiday is, according to the Mrs T's website, October 8th, which commerates the day on which Mrs' T's Ted Twarzik first did something or other. (I prefer Hanka Brand if you have to buy store bought). See http://www.pierogies.com/Wholesale/event.asp?showimg=0&articleid=154.
That last point is determinative. The article should be edited to reflect pierogies.com as the source of the claim and the edit should follow the source. μηδείς (talk) 06:30, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Erianna.
Again, I have to note that the guidline you cite it is not a policy like wp:or. It is a guideline subject to exception.
If this "holiday" is added to a list of dated holidays, you will have my support in making it conform to the style of the other days in that list. Here it is normal American usage in a section withe the word America in it.
Minor edits exist for things like spelling errors and links. This is neither. Small formatting edits to combat between preferred stylistic/regional varieties are indeed to be discouraged. The edit does not follow the source. It does not read naturally to an American. It is not confusing to a speaker of any other variety - it Just sounds American, perhaps. If the "policy" were that the only exception to the general format convention were quotes (as you suggest in an early comment) then the policy would say that quoted dates are the only exception. Not only does this "policy" not say that. This "policy" is not a policy.
μηδείς (talk) 06:37, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
For your extraordinary productivity, I present to you this barnstar. Keep up the good work! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:49, 26 February 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you for the barnstar! =) Erianna (talk) 08:13, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Erianna,
So *that's* what you were doing. Yes, titles of magazines should be italicized, but here's a better way to do it: Business Review Weekly's. (Look at the source by going into "edit".) Your way had the possessive on the outside of the link; my correction is way picky but a personal WP pet peeve of mine. I also went through the article and made sure all BRWs were italicized, so thanks for the catch. Christine (talk) 11:48, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
I did read the source. A spokesman for the company makes the unreferenced claim. You need to find a federal government source if you want to claim that this is national perogie day. Until then, I warn you not to violate wp 3rr. μηδείς (talk) 03:39, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.
In particular, the three-revert rule states that:
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
Please do not switch BCE to BC or AD to CE in any further edits to mainland-related articles you make. Unless the articles is discussing European concessions or churches, there is little reason to use AD/BC. Thanks much --HXL's Roundtable and Record 02:49, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
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