User talk:Midsummersday
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You removed sourced text at Priestley Riots
[edit]With the edit summary."How can we know this? Please try your hand at historical fiction. It pays better. Friendship for all intended" Please try to avoid comments like this. You could have simply said "unsourced", except that it was well sourced in the body of the article:"The "disciplined nucleus of rioters", which numbered only thirty or so, directed the mob and stayed sober throughout the three to four days of rioting. Unlike the hundreds of others who joined in, they could not be bribed to stop their destructions.[1] Essayist William Hazlitt's first published work was a letter to the Shrewsbury Chronicle, printed later in July 1791, condemning the Priestley riots; Priestley had been one of (then 13-year-old) Hazlitt's teachers.[2]
The WP:LEAD, the introduction, doesn't need sourcing so long as the sources are in the article.
No problem as you are a new editor and there's a steep learning curve. On other thing, article talk pages are there only to discuss the article, a lot of new editors think they can discuss the subject of the article there, but that's not the case.
Have a good day! Doug Weller talk 07:03, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
You are probably right. What I objected to was getting into people's heads about their motives, not the reference for the statement. I will try to be nicer in my comments too. Midsummersday (talk) 20:57, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. Doug Weller talk 08:56, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks again for helping me. I will also follow the example of those men and stay sober when I am editing Wikipedia.
Potential conflict of interest re Unification Church
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William D. Leahy
[edit]Hi! I have the article on William D. Leahy up for review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/William D. Leahy/archive1. If you could find the time to drop by with a few comments, it would be much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:10, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Hawkeye7 OK I will do that. Midsummersday (talk) 04:27, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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