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Ferries in Wellington

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@Albeetle: Hi Albeetle, you have attached a template about "grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling". Would you mind indicating your concerns in more detail? I look forward to seeing that.

I note you consider the incomplete list of steamers should be considered complete. Why is that?

Why are you adding images to Wikipedia? It looks to me as if they would be accepted by Wikimedia but I agree I may have missed something important. Thanks in advance, Eddaido (talk) 23:37, 25 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Eddaido: Hi, the "List was Incomplete" was already on the page, I was unsure it needed to be there but changed it to be a proper template instead of what was previously there (an italicised comment, see my change comment/the change I made).
I have not added any images to that page, if you have any particular ones in mind that I've added in the past feel free to add them to WM yourself or ping me on the relevant talk page.
With regards to the copyedit template, there are various parts of the article where I believe that a rewrite to improve flow and grammar would be nice; in particular, see the "Owners and Operators of Steamers" section which is missing commas and has a couple of run-on sentences. I *think* one of my prev edits on this page was a copyedit improvement, so you can see that too if you want an example.
I'm also not particularly happy with the Steamers section (it should really be edited to either be a table or not to be a list of disconnected facts). See WP:PLOT!
Have copy-pasted this onto the talk page for the article as well, please continue discussion about that on its own talk page so other editors can see it. Thanks! Albeetle (talk) 23:48, 25 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
You misread me. (full stop) You have added images to Wikipedia, not to the article. If you have unhappinesses about the article have a go at fixing them and then I can fix those changes if I don't like them. Eddaido (talk) 23:50, 25 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
As I said, ping me on the talk page for the relevant image. Albeetle (talk) 23:51, 25 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
Also, if you think the template(s) I added to the article are unneeded, feel free to remove them - but otherwise, please keep discussion about Ferries in Wellington on the talk page for that article, not on my user talk page. The image thing is on topic here, discussing an article is not. Thanks! Albeetle (talk) 23:54, 25 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
 
 
Here is an image on Wikimedia. Below it is an image on Wikipedia. They seem to have the same uploader. Eddaido (talk) 00:10, 26 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, as you can see I normally do upload my own photos to WM but in the Karo Dr case it seems I forgot. Will go fix that! Albeetle (talk) 00:14, 26 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

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