User talk:Beatles1959

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Ottawa

My additions to the nicknames section on Ottawa are in no way vandalism. I provided viable sources and added a link to the List of city nicknames in Canada page that displays the nicknames along with the sources.Vaselineeeeeeee (talk) 00:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On a side note I replied to your question on my tlak page at User talk:Moxy#Removing sewer systems from Ottawa History - Moxy (talk) 16:51, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

You are welcome to comment at Talk:Ancaster, Hamilton, Ontario#Ancaster, Ontario moved to Ancaster, Hamilton, Ontario. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:35, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024

Hello, I'm Eejit43. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Johann Sebastian Bach—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 16:05, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Future editors seeing this can ignore it, the removal was unintentional! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 17:43, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for your kind email and thank you for your work to resolve grammatical issues on Wikipedia! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 17:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Omnibus edits

Thanks for the numerous grammatical improvements you made to Montreal in this edit, however there were also a number of mistakes, for example:

The original was correct because "Historically the commercial capital of Canada" is its own phrase, i.e. it's saying Montreal was historically the commercial capital of Canada. and not "Historically, Montreal, which is the commercial capital of Canada, ..."

I opted to revert the edit since it was a mixed bag, which is unfortunate since it contained so many good changes. In the future, please break up large edits into multiple smaller edits so that not all your changes need to be undone all together. For example, you might do a section at a time, which is what I do sometimes when I'm reading an article. Or you might fix a particular kind of mistake at a time, for example adding an Oxford comma.

— W.andrea (talk) 16:15, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I noticed you moved punctuation inside quote marks, for example:

However, Wikipedia follows the "logical quotation" style, which requires the punctuation to be outside the quotation marks in this case.

— W.andrea (talk) 16:32, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot to mention, some of the changes were neither better or worse in my opinion, such as: — W.andrea (talk) 17:26, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi W.Andrea. I apologize for doing a sloppy edit job of Montreal. The line should have been adjusted to something like:

Historically, Montreal served as Canada's commercial capital but was overtaken by Toronto in terms of population and economic strength during the 1970s.

You bring up an interesting point about using quotations. Specifically, you mentioned that Wikipedia follows the "logical quotation" style of punctuation—that is, the British style of punctuation OUTSIDE quotations.

However if a Wikipedia article contains one of the language usage elements below, I assume that would overrule Wikipedia's British "logical quotation" style? For example Canadian and American English quotation rules follows the convention of punctuation INSIDE quotations.

What is interesting is that Wikipedia is an American nonprofit organization and yet it follows the British convention of punctuation OUTSIDE the quotation. That is very interesting. I do think the quotation rules should follow whatever English language version is dictated in the Wikipedia header.

I do appreciate your feedback.

Kent Beatles1959 (talk) 17:36, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's addressed on the page I linked to:

Use the "logical quotation" style in all articles, regardless of the variety of English in which they are written.

I don't know the reasoning behind this myself, but I get the impression that a lot of discussion has gone into it since there's a note in the source code on the page: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Changes to this section may escalate into heated dispute. Please consider raising any proposed changes for discussion and consensus-building on the talk page before editing.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's because sources may become unavailable, so preserving the punctuation keeps a bit of context for future editors.

— W.andrea (talk) 18:25, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]