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Hi DonSpencer1. I've reverted your Fortification edits as the changes are so large it's hard to understand the where it's going. Is it possible to please apply changes in smaller batches so it's manageable to understand? WestportWiki (talk) 21:39, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Please escalate the issue described below regarding the following Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/United_States_medical_cases
The page above contains two tables:
- Cases by State by Date.
- Deaths by State by Date.
For the past few weeks multiple requests have been made to indicate that Retroactive Cases and Deaths occurred in California on Feb 6 and 17. These deaths have been widely reported by many news sources as well as by the CDC (reference Talk page associated with URL above). Despite multiple attempts to get these pages updated two errors keep reoccurring:
1) CASES Table - When rows are added to the Cases Table for Feb 6 and 17 for cases in California, as was done a few days ago, the Cases table later regresses back so those rows no longer appear (this situation occurred again on 5/8 at 10:15 pm ET). Why are these rows being deleted after people keep adding the rows? Further why do people say this issue is fixed when it is not?
2) DEATHS Table - The Deaths table has never been updated with rows showing that deaths occurred on Feb 6 and 17 in California? This issue is most important because those deaths were the first certified deaths to occur in the US, and these occurred over three weeks earlier than what is currently incorrectly shown in the Deaths Table.
To be sure, presently both tables fail to report that cases and deaths occurred in California on Feb 6 and 17 per the following references:
- https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-23/morgues-hold-key-to-early-spread-of-coronavirus
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-first-united-states-death.html?searchResultPosition=1
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/california-deaths-earliest-in-us/index.html
- https://fortune.com/2020/04/22/new-coronavirus-deaths-california-us-covid-19-victims-earlier/
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
Thank you for your help adding this all important information to these two Wikipedia tables.
Morebits (talk) 02:47, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Donna, Thank you for your review, especially pointing out the placement of references. One question: you changed the section title "Later research on very low calorie diet and coronary heart disease" into just "Later research on low calorie diets". The contents of the section refer to "very low calorie diet" and "coronary heart disease" and so I wondered what your reasoning is? Not a big deal. I am content with the article now as it is and grateful for your review. Tomp-uk (talk) 10:50, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you so much for offering your help with improving the LGBT Youth Scotland page. I can't tell you how appreciated that is. From next week, I will begin using the relevant talk page for suggesting some edits and additions to make the page more accurate and informative, and would appreciate your input and advice. A lot of the information is out of date by over ten years, so it will be really good to understand how best to update it while preserving the history of the organisation. Sending warm wishes! LGBTYS2020 (talk) 09:54, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Donna,
thanks for your edits and your answers at HWWA respectively the corresponding talk page. ♥
Best regards,
Atomiccocktail (talk) 11:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Dear DonSpencer1, I have reverted your recent edit adding Northern Cyprus because of multiple issues with it (see the edit summary). Please be more careful when adding new entries to complex tables. Take some time to understand the meaning of various parameters and how they are used. Don't just copy an existing entry and tweak some of its parameters while leaving other parameters untouched—that's almost always wrong. I will re-add a proper entry for Northern Cyprus shortly. Thank you! — UnladenSwallow (talk) 12:23, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks a lot for editing Asturian miners' strike of 1934. When you have finished could you please remove the tag that indicates that the article needs editing?--J Pratas (talk) 18:13, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Climate of Spain. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Chrispainter0624 (talk) 04:55, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello Donna, first of all, thank you for your edits at the Hilda Tenorio article. Now, although I've been editing here on Wikipedia for quite some time, I've always taken it very casually, almost like a thing to do on my free time, and as such, I don't know the intricacies of how it works. I would like your help and expertise in this issue. See, I added various categories at the end of the Hilda Tenorio article and as you know, category articles of people are ordered alphabetically by last name, but the problem is that in the case of Hilda Tenorio the system thinks or supposes that "Hilda" is her last name (rather than Tenorio) and because of that it adds her name to the "H" section rather than the "T" section. I was wondering if you could help me to solve this annoying hindrance. Any ideas how to solve this. Seguro64 (talk) 20:16, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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I just want to say thanks for your great work on removing resume-like content and copy editing from Melanie Johnston-Hollitt! Darth Flappy «Talk» 17:56, 1 July 2020 (UTC) |
Thank you for the barnstar. I love these goofy things and try hard to raise the voice of women and other Wikipedia-underrepresented groups. Much appreciation. Jessamyn (talk) 19:15, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edits. I'm adding in more information to the introductory section, and also to the Career section of this page. The way it's been edited is minimizing her contributions to supercomputing and high performance computing research. (You also went out on a limb and wrote down when her photo was taken - it was taken in 2020, not 2019.) 1919lantern (talk) 00:05, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
In addition, she is a big data MOOC instructor through Coursera and edX, having taught over a million learners till datestill has 4 citations. It only needs one, preferably this one. There are still a handful of sentences with 4+ to 5+ citations. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅ 16:50, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Toro de la Vega you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Most Comfortable Chair -- The Most Comfortable Chair (talk) 06:41, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
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The article Toro de la Vega you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Toro de la Vega for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Most Comfortable Chair -- The Most Comfortable Chair (talk) 11:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, Donna. I see at the bottom of Talk:Julie Brill you wrote that the "citations needed" tag should stay on the article as more are needed to properly source the article. What parts of the article do you think are insufficiently sourced? The article has 24 references, and is not all that long; every sentence in the body has at least one reference and many have two or more. Could you reconsider removing the tag, or be specific what needs citing? Thank you for your help. (I'm afraid I formally share the WP:COI in regards to the article, though I am a fairly experienced editor in general.)--GRuban (talk)
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Hello DonSpencer1. How are you? I have been looking up on the festival since the review and I found some sources that may help in expanding the article. Particularly, A, B, C and D look interesting to me. I also found a bunch of other papers on Google Scholar that could help with the article. This month is going to get terribly hectic for me, but I will have lots of free time in May and June. If you are still interested in working on the article, let me know and we can collaborate. Stay safe. — The Most Comfortable Chair 12:36, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hola Donna @DonSpencer1:, He visto que tienes interés en temas históricos y te contacto para interesarte en List of top international rankings by country y la discusión actual sobre eliminar ciertos records de España...check it out...Talk:List of top international rankings by country#Spain section and list criteria.--PLUS ULTRA CARLOS (talk) 13:32, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
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