Brian B. Smith

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Per your recent punctuation changes

Please see MOS:STRAIGHT. Thank you, /Tpdwkouaa (talk) 23:19, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I see. Thank you! Brian B. Smith (talk) 00:52, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

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Acts of John in Rome

Hi Brian B. Smith. Nice work on your new article Acts of John in Rome. Would you be able to provide page numbers for the books you cite? There are a few methods of doing this that are described at WP:CITESHORT. The simplest method is to provide full citations of the books in their own section and then to cite the specific page numbers using ref tags (e.g. <ref>Ehrman, p. 1</ref>). The {{sfn}} template is also commonly used to format short citations. Let me know if you have any questions and I'd be glad to assist. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 10:17, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Lord Bolingbroke. Thank you for the kind words, and for correcting my typos. I'll see about doing just that as soon as possible. Brian B. Smith (talk) 11:16, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Leads and Ron Wyatt

Hi, I think you'd benefit by reading WP:LEAD. I've replaced the sentence you removed from the lead. Doug Weller talk 15:38, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I see now. Thanks! Brian B. Smith (talk) 18:56, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Puzzling additions

Could you please stop adding blatantly incorrect unsourced information about genealogy of Mesopotamian deities to their infoboxes, like you did in the Ningishzida and Nergal articles? Neither of your hot takes lines up with Reallexikon der Assyriologie. Also, Enlil has at least three possible fathers, which is discussed in the Anu article. One of them literally has a separate wikipedia page: Lugaldukuga. Please read at least one recent, credible, academic source before you'll start making bold claims. I made sure to use as many open access ones as possible in the Mesopotamian deity articles I've worked on so it should not be difficult. The Anu article quite literally has one which tells you Enlil was NOT universally viewed as his son in linked in the infobox.HaniwaEnthusiast (talk) 09:40, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

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July 2022

Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in American Pie (song). There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. None of the changes I saw were useful or helpful. There is no need to change from spaced en dash to unspaced em dash, for instance; both methods are fine. Changing from one accepted style to another accepted style is against the guideline at WP:STYLEVAR. Binksternet (talk) 00:53, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

More dubious Mesopotamian deity-related endeavors

As I said in the justification for undoing your edit in the Dumuzi article (save for Wikipedia's obsession with the amissable d it is not actually used commonly in modern publications as far as I can tell and basically never ex. in the spelling of other theonyms formed with this element but I disgress), please actually fully read articles about Mesopotamian deities and, especially, sources linked in them before you copy info at random. Pairing Ninsun with Enki is basically fanfiction. HaniwaEnthusiast (talk) 09:54, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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i.e. does not take a comma

Hi, you've added commas to "i.e." in a few places. Please read this article for why this is not done. Elizium23 (talk) 00:17, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi, you're incorrect (and so is the article you've referenced). "i.e." stands for the Latin phrase id est, which means "that is", “ in other words”, or “that is to say". All of the aforementioned phrases require that a comma follow them, thus "i.e." does, too. This is commonly unknown, even by many who should know (i.e., professional writers), but credible sources (unlike the article you've cited) confirm this as true. https://writingexplained.org/chicago-style/ie-and-eg Brian B. Smith (talk) 02:34, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

See also sections

See also sections should not have links which are already present in the article body. Please don't add such links to see also. Skyerise (talk) 02:00, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello. You're right, of course. Can you please tell me which article I mistakenly did that on so that I can correct it? Thank you. Brian B. Smith (talk) 13:19, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Nevermind, I found it. Brian B. Smith (talk) 23:29, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

Perhaps you could discuss your proposed edits on the talk page per bold, revert, discuss. Skyerise (talk) 23:35, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps you could be a little more direct. However, left as I am to infer what this relates to, you're mistaken. I didn't revert your revert. At all. Brian B. Smith (talk) 23:38, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Do read WP:ENDASH. en dashes get spaces; em dashes don't. You keep removing spaces from around en dashes. Skyerise (talk) 23:43, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining. I didn't realize that you had reverted that edit, I thought I'd just somehow failed to correct the punctuation there. I'm a bit confused, though, because, as far as I'm aware, I've not been removing the spaces from around the en dashes, but rather, replacing the en dashes with (non-spaced) em dashes. I've been doing this for some time, as I had (mistakenly?) perceived that the en dash was quickly becoming archaic, slowly being replaced by what I had assumed was the more modern em dash. But apparently, according to WP you directed me to, they're both acceptable? It's too bad that one or the other can't become a Wikipedia punctuational standard for the sake of aesthetic consistency.

I see how/why you were right about the See also links. Thank you for being patient with me. Especially when I had been careless and lacking in thoughtfulness (and oblivious to it), hardly an easy thing to lend patience to! Brian B. Smith (talk) 00:10, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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