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Warning: ownership of articles

Please do not assume ownership of articles as you did at Battle of Hastings. If you aren't willing to allow your contributions to be edited extensively or be redistributed by others, please do not submit them. Thank you. The Parson's Cat (talk) 20:28, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

It's a featured article and the edit wasn't backed up by the given sources. I've explained in great detail why the totality of the edit wasn't good. It's also good to note that I wasn't the only one reverting the edit. Ealdgyth - Talk 20:43, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Warning: canvassing

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Since all the messages dealt exclusively with my own behavior and looking for help in expressing my viewpoint ... I don't think I need to worry. Asking for help with my own behavior is an acceptable reason to post about something. Ealdgyth - Talk 00:08, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Um Parsonscat< you need to go read WP:DTTR. Montanabw^(talk) 02:38, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Dispute resolution noticeboard: Battle of Hastings

Please see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Talk:Battle of Hastings#Dispute30Sep2016. The Parson's Cat (talk) 07:46, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 14, 2016

Hi V, here's another one of your FAC nominations at TFA, I'm working on the TFA text now. - Dank (push to talk) 19:56, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

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"came to"

Hi, I was making some changes and I see you've reverted some so I thought I'd pop here to explain. The verb "to come" is defined as follows: move or travel towards or into a place thought of as near or familiar to the speaker. Using "came to" implies that the author (or reader) is familliar with the place in question. This is an international encyclopedia so it makes more sense to use a different verb. For example, if I said that "Peter came to London in 1921" and "Peter went to London in 1921", the first implies that either I (and sometimes the reader) is familiar with Londong. The second is more neutral and removes any such implication. -- HighKing⁺⁺ 13:26, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

I do not see or know of any such distinction in American English - see dictionary.com nor does that definition appear in the Random House dictionary. Nor does this distinction appear in the Oxford English Dictionary edition which I own. And since both of the articles on which I reverted were copy-edited by British residents ... I'm pretty sure if they had concerns about this usage, they would have changed it. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:40, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

If is often not explicitly pointed out in dictionaries but the examples usually make it clear. Nevertheless I have managed to find this OED definition (which includes examples) and it states as the primary definition (and not a more esoteric usage) "Move or travel towards or into a place thought of as near or familiar to the speaker" which is the context being used in the article. I can see that you've done a lot of editing (fantastic stuff too) on many similar articles so I'll leave it with you. It is a teeny point in any case. Just something that niggles me :-) but I'll get over it. -- HighKing⁺⁺ 15:35, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

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