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It is rare to encounter a Wikipedia veteran who tidies up an articleLelia Doolan without some grandstanding about something or other-thanks.There is a quote from someone eminent about how God would have destroyed the world ages ago except for 2 Hermits somewhere and 3 toilet cleaners somewhere else or something along those lines--Tumadoireacht (talk) 22:59, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Try fixing the List of county routes in Suffolk County, New York (26–50C) this time. Maybe the references won't break. If it does, I'm going to have to revert the edit again. ----DanTD (talk) 17:50, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- Ugh! Your edit broke it again. I'll revert it, but I'm okay with you fixing the spelling mistakes and similar errors. ----DanTD (talk) 18:36, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- Strange. OK, I'll leave out the ref changes. LilHelpa (talk) 18:38, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. I wish the refs could be sorted, but unfortunatley one was broken when I had it in my sandbox. ----DanTD (talk) 18:40, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- I was able to reduce all the citations down to one reference. The problem was that the first reference to the PDF was used for CR26, however that road doesn't have a length specified so the reference wasn't used. I deleted the reference for that road and used the full reference for the CR28 infobox, then used the short ref for all the other infoboxes. Robman94 (talk) 20:34, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. I wish the refs could be sorted, but unfortunatley one was broken when I had it in my sandbox. ----DanTD (talk) 18:40, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- Strange. OK, I'll leave out the ref changes. LilHelpa (talk) 18:38, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
For a change, I wrote about my primary source himself, Alfred Dürr (in prep), and expanded the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, if you want to explore the base. I really liked BWV 65 with the oriental touch and a picture two days ago, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:21, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:15, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
- Before you leave for other passions, here is Joanne Lunn (pictured on Bach cantatas). Christiane Kohl (with the looks of intelligence) will sing Mendelssohn on 6 February. BWV 73 not ready yet. Older: Werner Neumann, Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Did you notice that Dürr appeared on the 10 year WP day? Thanks to you, of course, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:10, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the typo fixes. Jivesh • Talk2Me 12:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Nice to cross paths with you again. KimChee (talk) 07:28, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello LilHelpa. You've made a report at WP:AN3#James Childs. Can you clarify? The report may be removed if nobody can figure out what you are requesting. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 21:12, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up The Stones I Throw. It's much appreciated.
Ulmanor (talk) 04:17, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you please correct mistakes on this Article ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.135.144.139 (talk) 04:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Brazilian people love U.S. citizens. Many flights from TX, CA, FL, NY, and GE to Brazil exists. You are very welcome. In FEBRUARY, in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil will be aproved the *SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN BRAZIL* (), and the pages LGBT rights in Brazil and Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil need of you. Because will generate a heavy traffic on these pages, and we need you to help in the English spelling of these pages, you understand me? Please help me. Hentzer (talk) 23:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Tomorrow - soon - is the day of four Bach cantatas on DYK, did you know? Last will be the one you did already, before that BWV 81 with Anna Reynolds (singer), and right next BWV 210 and BWV 210a with Grychtolik whom a friend and I saved from deletion, have fun (I learned a lot in that discussion, my first such thing), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- Very clean articles. Yes, the policing apparatus here is a world of wonder. Cheers. --LilHelpa (talk) 22:25, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for speedy cleaning! Different from before, the translations of the German cantata titles to English are now no longer italic, here is why, to make it short: they are no "title" in English, just a translation, one of many, only to give a hint, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, good to know. Thanks! -LilHelpa (talk) 22:55, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- The day started, looks nice, with a tiger, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, good to know. Thanks! -LilHelpa (talk) 22:55, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for speedy cleaning! Different from before, the translations of the German cantata titles to English are now no longer italic, here is why, to make it short: they are no "title" in English, just a translation, one of many, only to give a hint, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi mate, please do your usual magic on my latest work: Battle of Kham Duc. Thanks.Canpark (talk) 13:13, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to add my thanks for all the hard wok you put in, corricting eras. Glad someone has a speilchucker and, more importantly, is prepared to use it. I only created the article yesterday. Don't know how you found it so soon, but I'm glad you did. See you around. Best, Daicaregos (talk) 13:39, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up after me and fixing typos. What a great service you are providing to the world. Mannrw (talk) 19:30, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
For a change in mood, requested for Handel's birthday: Handel Festival Halle, in the context Howard Arman, another one saved from deletion, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
- Very clean as usual. When you have done enough saves to register as a Wikipedia lawyer, let me know ;) -LilHelpa (talk) 01:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, you cleaned one to much though, smile, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Ooops. LilHelpa (talk) 14:19, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Next: Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:06, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- Ooops. LilHelpa (talk) 14:19, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, you cleaned one to much though, smile, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop by and say thank you for all the things you do! This encyclopaedia wouldn't be very legible without copy-editors such as yourself, and I really appreciate your work. Have a good day! *Vendetta* (whois talk edits) 21:00, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Just a word of thanks for the text clean up on the Futurisk page! Meticulous and very nice of someone to notice and fix it like you did. Thanks again.Damnsell (talk) 23:52, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your edit check for the article!! By the way, I also got some help in formatting the citations, which are now corrected, too! CaroleHenson (talk) 06:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thanks for spell check--Misconceptions2 (talk) 10:12, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on another list of "the the" articles from a database dump. I'm finding that some of the listed articles actually contain {{sic|the the}}, typically because you have been in and checked it. I've changed my editing to flag these with the {{sic|the}} instead; it looks the same, but means the next database scan won't include the article in the list. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:55, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Very interesting. Sounds like a better fix to me. Will do that, too, on any encounter. -LilHelpa (talk) 11:49, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Kender
Hi there, I provided a rationale on the article's talk page, as you requested. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 20:08, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, I appreciate the response and left some advice there. -LilHelpa (talk) 21:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
- Ask and you shall receive! Thanks again for the suggestion. :) 129.33.19.254 (talk) 00:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Bradenstoke Priory
Please take care with AWB not to change mis-spelled words in quotations; they are supposed to be rendered verbatim, even if apparently incorrect. Cheers. Rodhullandemu 21:01, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Broken Links
Your edit of PRR locomotive classification 12:30, 9 November 2010 broke the links to Alco, GE, EMD, and Fairbanks-Morse. I reverted back - let me know if there is a problem. Thanks. Grahamboat (talk) 04:26, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
- MOS:HEAD calls for links to not normally be used in headings. Accordingly, AWB removes them as a matter of course. Typically the alternative is to use the linked term in the body under the heading and link it there. --LilHelpa (talk) 00:17, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. I corrected with (See also). Grahamboat (talk) 04:38, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Back to Bach and Melos
Hi lilHelpa, back to my roots: BWV 159 and two members of the Melos Ensemble, Ivor McMahon and Peter Graeme, all on their way to the Main page, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- Look clean to me! LilHelpa (talk) 02:14, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
- A bit more operatic: Jens-Daniel Herzog (q6, soon, Christiane Kohl revisited), back to Melos context suggested Lyndon Watts and the Münchener Kammerorchester, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:58, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Sessenbrenner syndrome
Thank you for your note. That particular sentence was not an easy one to rewrite for wikipedia :)
I am very pleased to see you really do live up to the statement at on your user page about mistakes. Much appreciated DrMicro (talk) 12:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
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Seldom here for a while
Sorry for the non-response. Had a WP burnout and didn't even want to log in. I'll be here on and off for a while. Taking no requests at this time. Thanks for understanding. -LilHelpa (talk) 17:13, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for a sign of life! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Messiah
Thanks for cleaning up the Bach cantatas by liturgical function! - Did you notice that Messiah (Handel) got the FA-star, even on my user page because I helped a little? What I actually did was write four supporting articles, starting with Messiah structure. I received help for some, - that means they all look a bit different now, and I would like to change that. But I am undecided. Questions: helper thought (s. Messiah Part I) it should be "Accompagnato", not "acc.", "Soprano", not "S", also had the two different movement numbers (Novello / Bärenreiter) in two columns, also form and voice in two columns, but that results in "Chorus (all)" - an "all" that is nonsense. Needless to say, the tables in that "stretched mode" look strange on my small screen. What do you think? (only if you have time, of course) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:14, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Struggling to find an appropriate section title ...
Oh well... Your name appeared at the top of Hoenzadriel page history. Now take a look at the revision after your edit, again, if you would... Does it look normal... oh really? Curiously, the article is being vangalized cross-wiki, someone's really determined. NVO (talk) 02:45, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Honestly, I looked at this and I'm not sure what you're telling me. My edit looks fine. I do see that later somebody altered the numbers incorrectly. --LilHelpa (talk) 03:16, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Turn on your hoax detector! First, the article contained a most conspicuous hoax or lulz . Second, the very sentence that you edited, is/was suspicious too: "On September 6, 1942 the German people built the weapons factory"... It came from an apparently good-faith IP, but, anyway, factories aren't built overnight. I haven't had a chance to study the case properly, but googlemaps shows that Hohenzandriel is just a narrow strip of farmland with a few houses and some barns. Doesn't look like a site of "weapons factory" at all. NVO (talk) 06:48, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Ah. When I'm trying to get through 500 corrections of it's -> its, the hoax detector takes a back seat. In the sentence you quote I could not be sure whether it might mean they began building it or finished building it--such errors commonly occur in second language contributions. --LilHelpa (talk) 15:19, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Turn on your hoax detector! First, the article contained a most conspicuous hoax or lulz . Second, the very sentence that you edited, is/was suspicious too: "On September 6, 1942 the German people built the weapons factory"... It came from an apparently good-faith IP, but, anyway, factories aren't built overnight. I haven't had a chance to study the case properly, but googlemaps shows that Hohenzandriel is just a narrow strip of farmland with a few houses and some barns. Doesn't look like a site of "weapons factory" at all. NVO (talk) 06:48, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
I removed tag you added @ check 21 Act
if you think article is not sufficeintly improved, please take appropriate action. holler! skakEL 11:43, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
2011–12 SV Werder Bremen season
I noticed that you helped work on the 2010–11 SV Werder Bremen season article. Would you be able to help with 2011–12 SV Werder Bremen season article? Kingjeff (talk) 01:25, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Back
Great to see you back! (One off the sad list of missed users.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:27, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, Gerda. I tossed off one of my recent obsessions. May be around more. Not sure. Certainly not as much as before. Boy, am I rusty!! --LilHelpa (talk) 15:49, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your lovely note. So far I only changed the pic name, but here you get the upgrade, and some treats for more inspiration! As you can see, I rely heavily on a banned user ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:11, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
- Did you know: a year ago, you were the 29th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (23 June 2010)! I miss the photographer who awarded you first, again, and put "Letting go of the past" on top of my talk, for reformation. Update: the last Bach cantata before Lent this year was BWV 22, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- 'Tis important to be able to let go... as are all adjustments... good for you. I've been thinking about how gentle you've been with requests and appreciate that. Thanks for the reminder of my awesomeness :) It's great that you are still doing God's work. --LilHelpa (talk) 12:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Re: there -> their
Hello LilHelpa, I am just here to say that I have read your message on my talk page and that from now on I shall keep track of my "there"s and "their"s and in some rare cases "they're"s. Also I am just saying that, despite me now going to be more aware, that most of my work on here (mainly with the club pages which I saw you making the corrections at) is done at times when I am rushing, so I will have times when I will use the wrong one again through out a whole article (mainly the word "there") but yes I shall definitely keep more attention next time. Thank you again. Cheers. --Arsenalkid700 (talk) 21:24, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Spelling corrections in image names
broke the image link. It would be better if you checked what you were changing as misspellings in image names are not uncommon. When the name does not show in the article spelling is immaterial. Thanks Dankarl (talk) 13:22, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
- Damn! I try to be perfect, but sometimes not hard enough. --LilHelpa (talk) 14:06, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
- I recommend that you seek help to have a misspelled image name changed. PumpkinSky helped me once, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Welcome back!
I'm delighted to see your name pop up on my watchlist. Have you noticed that the latest AWB lets you change the edit summary before you save the edit? This has made a big difference to the way I use the program - I can copyedit in the edit box, adjust the edit summary on the edit summary tab, and save. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:35, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! I still don't understand why I like this work so much :) Hmm.. seems to me I've always been able to change the edit summary, though i seldom use the summary tab, doing it on the unlocked box in the edit tab instead (when I remember).
- Wow... I do feel the rust though and need to study MOS in many cases. --LilHelpa (talk) 11:34, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, previously you could edit the first part of the edit summary in that tiny box on the "start" tab - but AWB would "helpfully" save it for you in the drop-down list. The other related change is that if your edits trigger software-generated additions to the edit summary (Typos fixed: foo > bar, added Orphan tag, and so on), then these are not thrown away if you type in the edit box. So it's easy to accept most but not all of the automatic fixes, or to make extra fixes. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:16, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Kalepolepo Fishpond
Hi, I just want to alert you that I've had to revert some false positives added by your AWB run in 2010 to Kalepolepo Fishpond that weren't noticed until today. You may want to review your older edits and revert any previous changes you've made to similar articles. Two years is a long time for these things to remain in the article. Viriditas (talk) 04:56, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I did a database scan for
{{okina}}i.e., and have found and fixed five other examples. Checking the history in each case, none were errors by LilHelpa; five different AWB users made the same mistake. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:41, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Spelling in file names
On this edit you corrected a spelling mistake in a file name. It subsequently broke the link. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:58, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Nomination of The Linguist (University of Birmingham) for deletion
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes
You popped up on my watchlist. I went, "Hey, I remember that idiot wonderful person." I remember you playing around in "Fix common mistakes". I've added database dumps that you can load into AWB or go by hand. Hopefully this is much easier. I'll do the other errors after January's dump and hopefully do updates every 2-3 months. Glad to see you back. Bgwhite (talk) 18:12, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Virginia class submarine image
Howdy. I noticed that you had corrected a grammatical error in the following title; File:US Navy 040822-N-2653P-344 One of PCU Virginia's (SSN 774) new components is its diesel generator, a Caterpillar 3512B V-12 Twin-turbo charged engine.jpg. Ordinarily, this would be a cause for thanks, however with regards to images the title of the image must be left alone - meaning that any and all misspellings and grammatical errors MUST remain intact in the title - otherwise the image does not display, all that shows is a red link that implies that the image in question is either misnamed, or in a worse case scenario, deleted. I thought I should explain this just as a precaution so that you would understand why I reverted your correction to the image name on the Virginia-class submarine page even though as a rule this would not be something we'd do here on site. If you have any questions about this, or if you are uncertain about anything that was said above, you are more than welcome to drop a note on my talk page and I will be happy to further explain this to you so that there will be no hard feelings or misunderstandings between us over this. Have a Happy New Year! Sincerely, TomStar81 (Talk) 03:30, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I did it again, huh? Sorry. I blame the huge and careless file name! :) -LilHelpa (talk) 03:52, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, big names are long and difficult to work with. For what it's worth, I've done that myself, and as a rule I am in fact reluctant to backtrack anything you copy editing people do since I rely on nearly all of you to help fix the spelling and grammar mistakes that I usually make. At any rate, I'm glad to see that there were no hard feelings between us over this. Happy New Year! TomStar81 (Talk) 02:20, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Jim Jones edit
Hi there. I'm just curious; what was the reasoning behind this edit? Your summary says you were fixing typos, but it just looks as if you just replaced the the name of a named ref with another name (ironically misspelled). Just seems odd to me. Matt Deres (talk) 01:13, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
- Both <ref name=violent /> and <ref name"millenium" /> were already in the article and gave the exact same reference ({{Harvnb|Wessinger|2000|p=}}). So, LilHelpa renamed violent so there is now one ref name giving the reference. Bgwhite (talk) 01:22, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
- Ah! Makes sense; thanks! Matt Deres (talk) 01:36, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
A cup of tea for you!
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Thank you for correcting my error. I will be more diligent in the the (just kidding!) future! Meterdude (talk) 21:49, 6 January 2013 (UTC) |
Hey, thanks for the acknowledgement! Don't start any bad habits! (heh heh) --LilHelpa (talk) 21:53, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Help please
I suspect someone doing 'sock-pupetery' as I continue to maintain the Lebanon national football team without allowing any false information or vandelisim to be submited on the page. Please let me know what you think, I found found that on the Lebanon national football team: Revision history, the user 178.135.43.184, 178.135.244.99, 178.135.40.55 and 77.42.188.239 all appear to be the same people and continue to re-create accounts and submit the same info on the page just because they think it looks good, when I have maintained that page with references and have eliminated all the false information. I have had to re-vert edits from this guy three times within the last 24 hours. Can you please help me put a stop to this? He is doing this on purpose and needs to be stopped. I have already informed the wikipedia user User:Jaellee and now I wish to inform you because I believe that the two of you as wiki-users have access to be able to stop this kind of this. Hope you can help. User:181hamburgerwcheese (User talk:181hamburgerwcheese) 11:48 9 January 2013 (AEST)
Typo error
Hi LilHelpa, just to let you know the edit you made to Bilibinsky District earlier created a redlink as it changed Vstrechny to Vstretchny. No biggie, but your user page says you want to know about errors! Not likely to be a common mistake, but there is a set index page and a potential for two other articles on the place as well as a few links to the article in the Chukotka articles. Fenix down (talk) 17:40, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Battle of the Ancre
Greetings, I'm not sure but you may have put things into the format of the article with AWB that I removed with auto ed, could they be incompatible?Keith-264 (talk) 21:53, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- Not sure I understand. It looks to me like all my edit did was correct a typo in one word. -_LilHelpa (talk) 22:03, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, I saw lots of spaces had been inserted and assumed it was the AWB that put them there. Sorry.Keith-264 (talk) 23:06, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)LilHelpa's edit inserted some newlines. This is one of AWB's "general fixes". There's a thread about this at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 25#Excess space inserted by AWB users between headings. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, I saw lots of spaces had been inserted and assumed it was the AWB that put them there. Sorry.Keith-264 (talk) 23:06, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- Am I removing spaces which should be there each time I click auto ed? Keith-264 (talk) 08:28, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
- Personally I don't think those newlines matter very much. If you're doing something good to the article with auto ed, and those newlines disappear again as a side-effect, I wouldn't worry about it. Perhaps a post at Wikipedia talk:AutoEd? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:40, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks.Keith-264 (talk) 11:31, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
alter -> altar (95)
That's clever - how did you skip the 50,000 false positives? -- John of Reading (talk) 21:15, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing. I searched for phrases: "main alter", "stone alter", etc. Still some wading, but not too bad. No doubt some I didn't catch (yet). Good for you for being part of the community. I often feel bad I don't lift my head up and look around more.. but that's me, at least for now. Best regards, LilHelpa (talk) 21:19, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Type Team Medal for you
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The Typo Team Medal | |
| For your long-term dedication to the Typo Team and your commitment to improving the encyclopedia, I award you this Typo Team Medal. You've earned it! You're more than a "Lil" helper, you're a BIG one. Jason Quinn (talk) 15:02, 18 January 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks, Jason, much appreciated. --LilHelpa (talk) 15:27, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Fixing double redirects
Hi, please be careful when "fixing" double redirects. In many cases, it's not necessary (see WP:NOTBROKEN); in others, it's undesirable (see WP:INTDABLINK), as with Return (2010 film) and The Return. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:35, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Dashes and prepositions
Hello, re: this edit, dashes should not be mixed with prepositions. Graham87 02:50, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks!
Appropriate word
Being a non-native speaker of English, I sometimes need a help on syntax and correct wording. I'll be thankful if you help me about a certain verb: A group of people decide to form a new political party and they leave their former party. In this case what may be the correct verb; issue, exit, leave, renounce or any other verb. Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 08:53, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Hallo LilHelpa
My English is actually very bad. Thanks for your help to edit the article of Khidr. Greatings, Tarasbulbam--77.251.14.186 (talk) 21:29, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
You're welcome. -LilHelpa (talk) 22:17, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you
For deleting spam from my talk page. it was very much appreciated.--Mark Miller (talk) 20:53, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
It's vs Its
It's is a contraction for it is or it has. Its is a possessive pronoun meaning, more or less, of it or belonging to it.
My use of "its" in Wilson Staff .
Thanks!
The % sign versus word "percent" and "twentieth" versus "20th" before "century"
Hi, LilHelpa,
I see you go around looking for typos, and I appreciate that. I also appreciate that you link directly to the Wikipedia Manual of Style from your user page. It was following that link that led me in turn to the specialized manual of style about numbers and dates (which I have looked at many times before). I have developed my editorial habits from years of working in editorial offices that edit according to the Chicago Manual of Style. Your automated tool doesn't need to "correct" the word "percent" to the percent sign (%), because the relevant part of the manual of style here on Wikipedia says, "Percent (American English) or per cent (British English) is commonly used to indicate percentages in the body of an article." (Other examples of the written word "percent" are given in the Manual of Style.) Similarly, it is acceptable by Wikipedia's manual of style to do what essentially all professionally edited English encyclopedias do for ordinal numbers before the word "century," namely "Centuries and millennia not in quotes or titles should be either spelled out (eighth century) or in Arabic numeral(s) (8th century)." So your automated tool also does not need to change "twentieth century" to "20th century." It is not mandatory by Wikipedia's manual of style, and I think has never been mandatory by Wikipedia's manual of style to make changes like that. Your valuable time is better spend looking for typos that are flat wrong misspellings that don't correspond to any accepted usage by professional editors. Best wishes for a happy new year. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 03:04, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
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