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Hi Sportsfan 1234! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of Buzz cut several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

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Still waiting for a response at Talk:Buzz cut for why you think the David Perron photo is better for the article than one of a Navy haircut. Let me know if you have a view on it. Belbury (talk) 14:03, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please don't add unnecessary bold in the first sentence

Hi Sportsfan 1234, thanks for creating so many articles about sporting events! However, I notice that you often add unnecessary bold in the first sentence that goes against the Manual of Style. For example, the first sentence of Kuwait at the 2025 Asian Winter Games was created like this:

Kuwait is scheduled to compete in the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China from February 7 to 14.

The bold here is unnecessary and should be avoided. Please see the following sections of the Manual of Style:

MOS:TITLEABSENTBOLD: "In general, if the article's title (or a significant alternative title) is absent from the first sentence, do not apply the bold style to related text that does appear."
MOS:BOLDLINKAVOID: "Links should not be placed in the boldface reiteration of the title in the first sentence of a lead."
Also WP:SBE: for a merely descriptive article title, it's usually inappropriate to bold anything at all.

A couple of other Manual of Style points apply here too:

MOS:GEOLINK: "For a geographical location expressed as a sequence of two or more territorial units, link only the first unit." So "China" should not be linked here. (See also MOS:OVERLINK.)
MOS:GEOCOMMA: "In geographical references that include multiple levels of subordinate divisions (e.g., city, state/province, country), a comma separates each element and follows the last element unless followed by terminal punctuation or a closing parenthesis." So there should be a comma after "China" here.

Therefore, the first sentence I quoted above should look like this:

Kuwait is scheduled to compete in the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, from February 7 to 14.

I fix these things as I come across them, but I think you create articles faster than I can fix them, so I'd really appreciate your help in maintaining consistent style across Wikipedia! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! —Bkell (talk) 05:02, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]