User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2008/Apr

Apostrophes

I noticed in your recent edit to the Malo Korrigan article, you changed some (but not all) of the apostrophes. Just curious, but what was wrong with the original apostrophe characters? Astronaut (talk) 18:22, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Well spotted (I had to look again and pretty closely to tell the difference). Funnily enough, when I created the text, I used the only apostrophe on my keyboard. I would have thought it produced ASCII character 39 (0x27). Do you think my OS (Vista), browser (IE 7) or the wiki editing window would have turned it into some strange curved apostrophe? Astronaut (talk) 01:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

You have changed a lot of apostrophes In the Richard Kane thumbnail bio too. I don't get the point, but OK. However, the edit notes mention spelling and date fixes, which I could not find in your edits. You should be cautious of editing either, as this piece was written by the sole living expert on the life of Richard Kane. Occasionally USA readers make edits of spelling and even style on British source material which are inappropriate, especially for subject matter that pre-dates the United States itself.TheNameWithNoMan (talk) 10:36, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Breaking images

Your edit to Battle of Blenheim: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Blenheim&diff=203869566&oldid=198287156 broke several images because the image names contained dates. Are you doing these edits via a robot? In that case, you must register it Wikipedia:Robots. Or are you doing them manually? In either case, you need to be much more careful. These are very well worked through articles that get destroyed. And I can honestly say I do not know what the point is. -- Egil (talk) 08:41, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Stratford

Your most recent edit of Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history, though useful, dropped a significant amount of data at the end (mid-2005 onward). Can you please fix it? --Dizzy hiss (talk) 19:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Callas

What was exactly the reason for changing the 's to 's. They appear to have been the same thing. 70.130.128.48 (talk) 14:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The main purpose of this edit was to disambiguate Medea. At the same time I changed curly apostrophes to straight apostrophes as this is the preferred Wikipedia style - see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation for an explanation. Colonies Chris (talk) 19:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Looking at the before and after versions, it doesn't look different on my computer. It just looks like an apostrophe. Thanks for the corrections! 70.130.128.48 (talk) 02:14, 28 April 2008 (UTC)