User talk:Harry Novak

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February 2024

Hi Harry Novak! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Fleur Adcock that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Chocmilk03 (talk) 23:56, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for thinking this was a minor edit, so thanks for putting me right on this. Another editor has changed the date of Fleur Adcock's death to c.11 October 2024 after I changed it to the correct date of 10 October. The initial information regarding the date being 11 October will have come from New Zealand where it was 11 October when Fleur died on 10 October in the North London Hospice. Fleur was a friend of 50 years' standing and I am currently helping her family, most of whom are in New Zealand, with the funeral arrangements, also liaising with obituary editors. The Telegraph has just published its obituary online with the date given as 10 October. We have also had confirmation so far from the Guardian that its obituary will follow shortly and they will be using 10 October as the date of Fleur's death. Now the correct date has been published in the Telegraph with other obituaries to follow in the UK press giving the same date, would this still be regarded as open to dispute? For now, I have corrected it back to 10 October in case the erroneous date of 11 October is picked up and used elsewhere. Is there a way of stopping other editors in New Zealand from changing it back to 11 October in line with erroneous information which has appeared there? Harry Novak (talk) 20:43, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]