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Richard Koch

Excuse me but I was already working on the Richard Koch article when you started editing it. I had the banner up an everything and have it under working in the drive page. HRouillier (talk) 05:38, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling of Indian topics

The article is identified as https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Category:Use_British_English_from_July_2012

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December 2017

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Please explain your contributions using a descriptive edit summary. Changing information on Wikipedia (such as numbers and dates) without explanation, as you did at Euphemism, may be confused with vandalism. Please stop making these changes. Don't change spellings or hyphenations just because you prefer a different version or think that you know better. From what I have seen you don't know better. And don't ever change direct quotes, the titles of published sources, or material that is sourced unless you verify the original source (I'm assuming that you are not an expert in Proto-Indo-European language and didn't read the source before you changed *skined- to *skinned- )^[1] Meters (talk) 00:51, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Ringe, Don (2006). From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955229-0.

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Dates

Can you please stop adding commas in-between the month and year of dates, as this goes against policy at MOS:DATE. -- AxG / ✉ 17:15, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and would make the same general observation about commas in text. Many are unnecessary, and disrupt the flow of the sentence. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 13:08, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of definite and indefinite articles

Please take greater care when you think to add definite and indefinite articles to the prose. In some cases the original text was entirely proper, and read better without, the article. (For example, "through a process known as retrocession" is worse with an indefinite article before "retrocession".) In other instances the change is just wrong, e.g., the definite article before the name of a court case - "the Supreme Court held in the District of Columbia v. Heller". Rather than make these changes mechanically, you should take care to read the text after your edit to ensure that it is, in fact, better - and correct. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 13:06, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am noticing that this is still a problem. Might you consider avoiding this type of edit? Thanks! Larry Hockett (Talk) 17:01, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Nora Platiel

Hi, I'm DBigXray. Randfal2, thanks for creating Nora Platiel!

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A page you started (Maria Raschke) has been reviewed!

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Nice article, please expand a little more, provided that you have the sources to do it. I am not concerned about notability, given what the article says, but its expansion will be good to the reader as to what exactly her work on womens' rights was, as well as some more detail within her practice as a lawyer. Thanks!

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Speedy deletion nomination of Maria Bredow

Hello Randfal2,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Maria Bredow for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

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A page you started (Clara Klabunde) has been reviewed!

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Nice work! Quick tip: When you create articles, put the following coding in them, so that the references will display properly:
== References == {{reflist}}
It should be put after the normal prose and sections, but before an external link section, categories, and nav templates. I've already added this for you in this case, and I think others have for all of the previous articles you created.

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SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 17:52, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Deletion discussion about Sergei Lemberg

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Vexations (talk) 16:17, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Vexations (talk) 16:23, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Renate Lenz-Fuchs

"Renate Lenz-Fuchs (born April 19, 1910 in Diez, died June 23, 2001 ibid)..."

Since ibid means "same as the previous reference", and there is no previous reference, it raises the strong suspicion that the text has been copied from somewhere and is probably a copyright violation. Could you clarify please? Cabayi (talk) 10:15, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see from the German article's history that de:User:Färber used it to mean that she was born and died in the same town. Ibid is for references, nothing else, and certainly not birthplaces. Please be more careful with your translations. Cabayi (talk) 10:32, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Frida Katz

Hi and thanks for creating Frida Katz. Please note that when you create an article based on a translation of an article on another language Wikipedia (nl:Frida Katz in this case), you must give attribution to the original source. Do have a look through WP:CWW and follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. Bennv3771 (talk) 05:48, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see that this issue has already been brought up on your talk page before, and a quick look through your previous articles shows that you've been repeatedly translating articles without attribution. Providing attribution is a copyright requirement and repeated copyright violations can get you blocked from editing. So please take note of this. Bennv3771 (talk) 05:50, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bennv3771 -- Can you please clarify what you mean about "without attribution"? I cite some of the original references. I see from "Copying within Wikipedia", and in the future, I'll mention the original source in the edit notes. To be clear, I've been trying to add stubs in English for various notable people with non-English pages. Randfal2 (talk) 17:08, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

I accidentally misclicked on the rollback button at Elizabeth II. I intended to only undo your edits per MOS:LQ and MOS:ENGVAR. DrKay (talk) 14:04, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve Ilse Schmidt

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Ways to improve Regina Quintanilha

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Ways to improve Accursia

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[ringe-1] Ringe, Don (2006). From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955229-0.

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