Betterkeks

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Fix a random page lacking sources

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:39, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

Use British English tag

Hello, I have noticed [edit] in which you added the Use British English tag to an article about a university in Vietnam that was already using American English (organization, center, program). Per MOS:RETAIN "When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, maintain it in the absence of consensus to the contrary. With few exceptions (e.g., when a topic has strong national ties or the change reduces ambiguity), there is no valid reason for changing from one acceptable option to another." Can I ask why you added this tag? AusLondonder (talk) 16:28, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Fixed. Thank you. Betterkeks (talk) 16:43, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Editing in FEB24review

Thank you for contributing to the backlog drive by reviewing edits, but there were some problems with your edit to Penrith Rural District. Going through the 4 changes you made:

1. You added the SD: fine, thanks, I must have forgotten to do so.
2. You rearranged the order of the leading templates: please see WP:ORDER, where maintenance templates such as {{unreferenced}} are placed before date and language variant templates such as {{Use dmy dates}}. It makes sense: templates showing problems, which ought to be removed eventually, come before those which are a permanent part of the article. If you are using software which is putting these templates into the wrong place, please note that your edits are your responsibility and you should make sure that the final result is correct. I've rearranged them back into the correct order.
3. You reformatted the reference. The title which is displayed on screen is "Penrith RD", and I have always believed that we show the reader the title as displayed. Yes, in case like this, and in some newspaper articles, a different title is displayed in the header bar on screen, but to avoid confusing the reader ("Hey, this isn't the article I was looking for, it's got a different title"), we should stick to what is shown to the reader. I've found, or remembered, that we have a template for Vision of Britain, {{Cite vob}}, so have now used that.
4. You changed the format of the "Access-date" from my preferred "16 February 2024" to the all-numeric "2024-16-02". Either form is allowed in access-dates, but you should not change the format of dates chosen by a previous editor unless there is a good reason to do so. Again, this may be a fault of whatever software you are using, but it is your responsibility to do things right.

Thanks, PamD 08:34, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

OK.

1. I understand this isn’t a goal of this drive.

2. Thanks for pointing this out, and thanks for putting them into order as per WP:ORDER.

3. The cited page has “How to reference this page” instructions, so I followed ‘em. I’ll leave it up to you PamD.

4. OK. Note however that the {{Use dmy dates}} at the top means these are rendered as you intended PamD. Betterkeks (talk) 09:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

The order is something a bot ought to take care of. Do you know one that does it? Betterkeks (talk) 11:51, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

No, and they are in the wrong order so often that I suspect that VE or Twinkle may be getting it wrong, sadly! PamD 18:53, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

COP16

hello, could you add the headquarters of the next 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP16 conference that will be held in Cali, Colombia?.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Nations_Biodiversity_Conference

https://euro.eseuro.com/local/2201567.html#google_vignette

57ntaledane90 (talk) 01:45, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I think you have the wrong user. Betterkeks (talk) 01:50, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

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quotation

The source you reverted says

Muharem Bazdulj, the winner of several literary and journalism awards, including ‘Stanislav Staša Marinković’ of the daily newspaper ‘Danas’ and ‘Bogdan Tirnanić’ of the Association of Journalists of Serbia, is a writer, journalist and literary translator.

Egeymi (talk) 05:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Egeymi: Which means ‘Bogdan Tirnanić’ is an award by the Association of Journalists of Serbia, which was one of several that Muharem Bazdulj has won. Betterkeks (talk) 05:53, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Instead of reverting you would correct the statement and the page would not be tagged as an unsourced page. Egeymi (talk) 05:52, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

@Egeymi: The inline citation you added does not support the sentence that you added. Please slow down, re-read the literature you’re citing, and add a sentence that IS supported by the source. Betterkeks (talk) 06:07, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

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