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Camila Batmanghelidjh edit

Hi, I saw you added 1 January 1963 as Camila's date of birth, because a lot of sources are saying she died on her birthday. She celebrated her birthday on 1 January but her birth was never registered so she didn't even know her own actual date of birth. See this article from the BBC which confirms her date of birth is unknown.  dummelaksen  (talkcontribs) 02:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Fair enough - that wasn't made clear in a lot of the articles about her death. Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 08:42, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Harry the house edit

Hi,

The IP user you reverted here is a very prolific blocked editor, "Harry the house". Could you keep an eye out for his work? He tends to edit pages on British politics and television, and has a fondness for changing "after" to "following", as well as adding "piped" forms to random links and overlinking the names of Labour politicians. This was Harry, and so was this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and most of these, and many, many more.

Best wishes, Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 10:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

PS

The other thing is that Wikipedia actually prefers redirects to piped links. Please have a look at MOS:LINK, WP:NOTBROKEN and WP:NOPIPE.

 N [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]

 Y [[Mozart]]

Best wishes, Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 10:40, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

OK, thanks - I mistakenly thought that piped links were preferred. Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 12:23, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
It's a really common misperception, but I'm doing my best to spread the word. If you'd like a good practical example of the advantages of redirection, see the example of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] here. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 12:37, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply