User talk:OxbridgeGate
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Lower-case headings
[edit]Hi OxbridgeGate, Thanks for all of your excellent recent contributions to watch articles; fantastic! Just one very minor thing; could you please use sentence case for sections headings, per [1]? See the PP and VC articles as they are now. Thanks, Ericoides (talk) 17:18, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Sure, no problem. Thanks for modifying the headings! OxbridgeGate (talk) 23:18, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
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[edit]I took some time to review it, it does seem kind of odd. I don't know why I reverted that. It was an accident I suppose, humans make mistakes, lets move on. AryanTheArticleArtist (talk) 22:07, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hi, thank you for explaning! No worries OxbridgeGate (talk) 22:10, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
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[edit]Question re: one of your edits
[edit]I know this is from a while ago so you may not remember but with this edit at Audemars Piguet, you inserted LeBron James with a link and a pipe that put the "B" in his first name in lowercase, which was wrong. This stood for well over a year (I just fixed it) but I'm wondering: what was the point of altering the link for the sake of getting the name wrong? 2600:1700:B7A1:9A30:0:0:0:724 (talk) 16:11, 3 March 2020 (UTC)