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I am assuming this concerns the Mississippi election articles I just edited.

Well thanks a lot for doing that, but I think its self-evident that the state flag of Mississippi is the state flag of Mississippi, exactly why should I provide a citation when none exists elsewhere? And whereas this onerous requirement is not made elsewhere?

The State flag was adopted in 1892, I have noticed it is standard to have the state, or national flag (as applicable) as a little image at the top of statewide (or nationwide) election articles, whether for Florida, Wisconsin, California, North Carolina, Australia, United Kingdom, etc. Where have I offended?

By the way, I understand you have a copy/pasted message and you gave no thought to your reversion, but its really hard to reply to you when you have expressly had that prohibited.

-Eli

I apologize I think I must have misinterprited one of your edits also my talk page was protected because someone left a death threat there a year or so ago and I have always meant to get it removed but I have been so busy in real life I forgot Saturn star (talk) 04:34, 11 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Well, no problem, sorry to hear that happened, some people really go to seed with these internet arguments, God bless you - Eli

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Check any modern style or grammar guide if you're relying on old style with comma as being definitive of what's correct. E.g. Strunk & White's 1979 third edition, or current fourth edition, which reversed what they recommended in earlier editions (e.g. what the NYT review argued against in the 2nd, 1959, at [1]), and gave the explanation for why, which you can read here. Dicklyon (talk) 22:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Well any is not any, just last year that's what I was taught in my College, and that's what the 2012 ed. Book said, I do not accept this Strunk feller who you advance, nor his reasoning - "Consensus says parenthetic, but logic says(read: but I say) restrictive."
If you don't mind I will proceed the way I am taught, Wikipedia's asinine, arbitrary, ever-changing 'manual' notwithstanding, if there seems to be an established rule or it bothers somebody I will not overturn the applecart - But on articles which I am responsible for I'll follow Wikipedia's arbitrary, asinine rules as far as they go and not an inch further, and I'm sorry if Wikipedia doesn't like inches - not a furlong more.
You can find a survey of what modern guides say about this at Talk:Comma#In_English:_Commas_used_with_.22Jr.5B..5D.22_and_.22Sr.5B..5D.22. If your 2012 source isn't listed already, maybe you could add it. Dicklyon (talk) 00:49, 10 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
By the way, it's not that Strunk and White were making this up. It took the NYT and other publications 20 years to convince them that this was the new way it's done. Dicklyon (talk) 01:54, 10 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Well, I'll not die fighting for it, but I do not accept their authority to change the English language, for that matter, personally I view our language to be in a state of precipitous self-destruction and I do not intend to partake in it, nor carry water for the devil, it seems to me there are a great lot of "new ways its done" that I'm not a part of, they came unannounced, unheralded out of the gloom and they're leaving us all the worse for wear.

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The book was completed and first published in 1606, the second edition came out in 1630

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《兵录》是明朝吴郡(今江苏苏州)何汝宾(字寅之,号仲升)于万历34年(1606年)作成的一套军事丛书,之后历经改版,崇祯3年(1630年)的刊本共有14卷。

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