User talk:Eatingbugs

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November 2023[edit]

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Vorarephilia, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. PiGuy3 (talk) 02:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok my bad, thx Eatingbugs (talk) 12:50, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

December 2023[edit]

Please find something more useful to do than removing spaces from citation templates. It does not affect the rendered appearance of the article and only clogs up watchlists of other editors with useless edits. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:03, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That’s only something I do in tandem with other edits to make the code easier to navigate. I know most of what I do is pretty minor, but I’m not vandalizing or spamming so I don’t particularly see what the issue is. Sorry Eatingbugs (talk) 16:14, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Among other things, it makes it impossible to see what your other edits might be, because they are lost in a sea of nothingness. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:19, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There are a lot of editors reviewing your work and these changes unnecessarily give us more work, not just because of the changes you're making but because of the changes others may eventually make changing them back if we don't speak up. We'd rather spend out time reviewing significant changes. As a matter of full disclosure, I sometimes can't help myself and do make whitespace tweaks too. I try to resist. ~Kvng (talk) 15:43, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve been trying to make my edit summaries better, is that helpful or should I just avoid removing those spaces when i can? Eatingbugs (talk) 12:57, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is there is no one standard for whitespace in citation templates. Since there's no agreed right way to do it, you won't be able to make a strong argument that these edits are an improvement. Edits that are not a clear improvement are considered unwanted noise and overhead. ~Kvng (talk) 14:51, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was talking about since @David Eppstein said it was hard to discern where my more substantial edits were. Thank you though, I’ll keep this in mind Eatingbugs (talk) 15:26, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: NFPA 2500 (February 14)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
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secondary
independent of the subject

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Theroadislong (talk) 14:30, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Anchor Buggy[edit]

Hello! I've been collecting sources on the Anchor Buggy Company to start putting together a coherent article, but I guess now I wonder is the existing article supposed to be about the car or the company? Would it make more sense to rename the article once the information has been updated? Thanks! Evansknight (talk) 20:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I’m not really sure either, a lot of the articles for older/more obscure cars are pretty ambiguous. I think it’d make sense to rename the article and just have a section on the car itself :) Eatingbugs (talk) 14:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Was" vs "Is" on automotive articles[edit]

Hi, just wanted to leave a message here letting you know that for cars, present tense is used in the lede even if the car is discontinued (EG: the Ford Mustang is a car produced by Ford). This is specified in Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions under the tense section. The only exception is if its known that all copies of the car have been destroyed or have not survived. TKOIII (talk) 19:49, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

oh, thank you for letting me know! Eatingbugs (talk) 02:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]