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Hi and thanks for your many helpful edits. I've noticed that you usually write four ~ in edit summaries. This isn't necessary and doesn't fill any function, perhaps you're thinking of the four ~ we use when signing comments? Not needed in edit summaries. :) Keep up the good work and have a nice day! JdeJ (talk) 21:27, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

You're right! I got used to adding that so that I wouldn't forget them in the talk pages. I'll stop. ;-) Quebec99 (talk) 21:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

US Navy edit : good catch, thanks. Keep up the good work. -Fnlayson (talk) 21:12, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Proper style for punctuation with inline citations

Hi, friend. I see you've been going around "cleaning up" punctuation around references. Please stop. You're actually changing proper style to improper style. Please see the relevant guideline in our Manual of Style (Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punctuation_and_inline_citations): "Inline citations are generally placed after any punctuation such as a comma or period, with no intervening space." This also happens to be the style prescribed by the Chicago Manual of Style. I've reverted these edits of yours where I've been able to identify them. Of course, your efforts to correct misspellings and other (actual) typographical errors are much appreciated. Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 01:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Q99. I have undone your changes at F4U Corsair as they broke a reference and removed periods from sentences in the footnotes. I agree that textual footnotes should appear after the punctuation in the text, but the examples shown at Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations seem to indicate there is nothing wrong with having a period at the end of a footnote. (I have seen it done both ways; it seems to be a matter of personal preference.) It seems particulary appropriate where the footnote is not just a citation to a source, but contains explanatory matter also, as did a few of the footnotes of this article. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 15:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Like you said, personal preference. Sorry I missed the broken reference. I preview before I save, but I missed that one. You reverted all the changes? Is it OK to fix stuff like double punctuation around references '"Saint Valentine's Day Massacre".[37][38]. '? Just trying to help, 204.152.235.217 (talk) 18:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure. (Did I miss that one?) I reverted mainly because it was easier, and there were a few textual footnotes which needed punctuation. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 18:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your cleanup-- sorry about the duplication. But between the two of us I think we got the cites right. (Now for the text . . . ) Regards, Kablammo (talk) 14:46, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Quebec99! Near the Save Page button, please notice the checkbox "This is a minor edit". I think you can check it when you fix typos and puctuations. See the related help page for more information. Thanks for your contributions! --YaK (talk) 14:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109

I've had to revert back to a revision before you made your corrects. If it would be easy for you to merge them back in that would be great. BJ^Talk 00:45, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Help desk mistake (FYI)

Wikipedia:Help desk#Freemasonry page vandalized Cptnono (talk) 05:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Roy article

Thanks for your cleanup! Drmies (talk) 17:11, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

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Formatting inline refs

Hi Quebec99,

I don't understand this change. You have turned all of the vertically arranged inline refs into single-line blobs. Your explanation was WP:REFB, which doesn't mention this. (The arrangement of a template onto multiple lines does not harm its function, but can make it much easier for editors to read and edit the template.) Can you tell me what's going on? WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:41, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

The reference was for punctuation after a reference. The inline references are personal preference. I changed them while I was looking for the other changes. Just personal preference... read it like a book vs. reading a list. I reverted them back to lists. Quebec99 (talk) 16:06, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Are you aware of WP:REFPUNC? There is no rule that requires the punctuation to be either before or after the reference. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:28, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Just following the 'advice' of DCGeist from last year... see above. Quebec99 (talk) 19:38, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

William J. Brady

In your recent edits to William J. Brady you indicated See WP:REFB#Inserting a reference. Yet, the edit mostly consisted in putting a period at the end of each reference. That section cited doesn't mention punctuation. Wikipedia:Footnotes while is shows examples with the period at the end of each citation, does not discuss it. Most, but not all, of the citation templates place a period at the end of the citation. It appears to be a matter of style. So under Manual of Style#Internal consistency if an article is all one way, don't change it. --Bejnar (talk) 01:28, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

New AfD of article you have worked on

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States journalism scandals (3rd nomination). BigJim707 (talk) 14:43, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Astroturfing refs

Thanks for your efforts on cleaning up citations, however your edits to Astroturfing really didn't accomplish anything, and you accidentally deleted a "4" from a parameter name. And your edit summary didn't really seem to correspond to the edit... The change of the simple "citation" into a "cite web" was also not the ideal change — see:Wikipedia:Citation_templates for more info. But your edit did prompt me to update the citations to use the proper "cite conference" and "cite arXiv" templates. Anyway, keep up the good work, but don't waste your time on things like the spacing between parameters and between the "|" and "=" delimiters — such as "| date = 24 August 2011" vs. "|date=24 August 2011". It has absolutely no affect on the actual display of the reference — the templates take care of all that. There are plenty of real problems to fix without wasting time on stuff that doesn't matter. Thanks. Mojoworker (talk) 19:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

No problem cutting you some slack — I was afraid I was sounding too critical. It's always good when someone is trying to help the project but, with all the things that need fixing, there's no sense in wasting time on stuff that doesn't matter — and finding where things are documented here isn't always easy. The Wikipedia:Citation_templates documents most of the common templates and is a good page to keep bookmarked. Occasionally you may find one that's not documented there, such as the "Cite arXiv" mentioned above. For a (as far as I know) complete list, see Category:Citation templates. Mojoworker (talk) 20:51, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

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I should probably point out that none of the references are related to the subject. The article content and references were copied from another page. -Cntras (talk) 15:23, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

I didn't check the content... I just fixed the citation error. Quebec99 (talk) 15:28, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

"Fix" to reference notation

Regarding the edit you made at Gainesville State College: references that have no spaces in the ref name do not need to be enclosed by quotation marks. Your changes didn't break anything, but they didn't really "fix" anything, either. -Jhortman (talk) 16:36, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

List of US service members missing in action in the Vietnam War

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Hi, Add some information about his captaincy, Please. I'm busy with another project. Zia Khan 05:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

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2012–13 Borussia Dortmund II season

What are you exactly trying to do with the references? Kingjeff (talk) 04:16, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I added a title to get rid of the citation error on this page. Quebec99 (talk) 04:20, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help as well. Quebec99 (talk) 15:20, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

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dead url

Hi Quebec99, saw your recent edits at Hallucinatory realism. According to template:cite web, the "deadurl" option is used if: "If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live" - So I was wondering why you use it by default, it seems like a specialized purpose. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 16:31, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

I find it easier to add when I update a link, in case the link evers does break, someone else would see it and change it to yes. Quebec99 (talk) 16:42, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Why do you think it says "If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted" - I don't know just wondering. Adjusted how? -- Green Cardamom (talk) 17:21, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure. There is probably a page somewhere that describes how that works, but I have no idea where. Quebec99 (talk) 18:06, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed that part of the question the first time. The |title displays no matter what |deadurl= is set to, but the URL that it takes you to is different. If |deadurl=no it uses |url. If |deadurl=yes it uses |archiveurl=, if it is set. Most of this I have found by trial and error. Quebec99 (talk) 17:40, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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Suggest using |displayauthors=8 on citation errors

I noticed in this edit that you added "|displayauthors=9" to a citation. This removed the "et al." from the displayed citation and eliminates the CS1 error, but it decreased the accuracy of the citation. The cited article has more than nine authors. I suggest "|displayauthors=8" for these citations unless you are willing to add the remaining authors or check the referenced journal article to verify that there are exactly 9 authors. "|displayauthors=8" will show eight authors and then "et al." while eliminating the CS1 error. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:45, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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Using |quote= instead of |date= or |others=?

In this edit and some others, it appears that you replaced |date= with |quote= as a way of eliminating a CS1 date error and that you also used |quote= to eliminate a CS1 coauthors error.

In the first case, the date definitely does not belong in |quote=. It should be left in |date= until the module is fixed to allow valid date ranges. If the article is removed from the error category, the citation is less likely to ever be formatted correctly, since it will not be brought to anyone's attention with an error message.

In the second case, |others= should be used for translators and similar contributors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:53, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Please add Module talk:Citation/CS1 to your watch list. There is a lot of discussion there about proposed fixes to the CS1 citation module code. And if you applied |quote= to other articles in this way, please undo those changes so that the citations can be formatted properly. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:57, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I knew that was not an ideal fix, just a way to "try to" fix the error. How do you add a page to your watchlist? Quebec99 (talk) 15:08, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Visit the page, then click the hollow blue star at the upper right, next to the "View History" link. The blue star will fill in. Then when you go to your Watchlist, you will see if there have been new additions to that page. The other page where these errors are often discussed is Help talk:Citation Style 1. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:16, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I must have found it at least once before because I have other pages in the watchlist. Quebec99 (talk) 16:01, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Jackie Chan

This article needs major fixing. --George Ho (talk) 06:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

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Not entirely helpful

While I do appreciate people fixing my many typos & stupid errors in cite templates, it would have been better if you had left your good work until I had removed the inuse tag, which was put there with good reason. I have just lost a complex copyedit.TheLongTone (talk) 16:53, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know what "inuse" does. Quebec99 (talk) 17:22, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

I can only assume because you don't bother to look at what you are editing. It places a notice on the page saying it is being actively edited and not to barge in and interfere with their work. You just did it a cecond time. I would have thought that the name of the template is pretty self-explanatory, but maybe not.TheLongTone (talk) 17:27, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Can you show me what you are talking about? I don't see anything in the pages that I have recently edited. Quebec99 (talk) 17:46, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Eiffel tower. At the top of the section on lifts. Plain to see. It is possible to perform a section edit without messing up the work being done on the section I am attempting to work on. This article requires major work, not fiddling about.TheLongTone (talk) 17:56, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Now I see it. Never noticed that before... and never used it for sure. To get around the problem of edit conflicts, I have been doing just one or two things at a time... and I still get trashed sometimes. Thanks for the info. I will look for this in the future, and maybe even try using it. Quebec99 (talk) 18:24, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Probably should have used the whole page one, appreciate that the one halfway down a long article could easily be missed. You're not the only one to miss it, another editor just did the same!TheLongTone (talk) 18:31, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

I assume that at the beginning of an article, it would be {{inuse}}? Quebec99 (talk) 18:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Got it in one. Sorry to snippy earlier, but disentangling other peoples syntax is hard work even if I do get a certain pleasure out of it.TheLongTone (talk) 21:57, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

No problem. I've learned to let things slide, as most people are here to make things better. Thanks for the advice. I will look more closely in the future. Quebec99 (talk) 22:02, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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The simple answer is this page. Quebec99 (talk) 21:35, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Deadurl parameter in citations

Hi Maurice, thanks for your edits to fix citations, particularly on the articles about Australian Paralympians that I've worked on, such as Brendan Burkett. However, there's no need to use "deadurl=yes", as that is the default setting of that parameter. Graham87 14:05, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Nor is there a need to change he accessdate parameter, as you did at Bruce Wallrodt. Graham87 03:01, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

See my edit summary at Christopher Scott (cyclist). Graham87 14:33, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hi

Could you please help me fix the refs for the articles Martina Montelius, Athena Farrokhzad, Victor Hartman, Helena Quiding and Lilla Skuggan. It would be appreciated. Thanks!--BabbaQ (talk) 22:16, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:14, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

No problem. Quebec99 (talk) 00:08, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Victor Hartman

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:19, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Martina Montelius

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DYK for Athena Farrokhzad

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Allegra Versace

..Take a look at that article. This weeks TAFI project article.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:47, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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Generally, accessdate fields should not be mass-updated.

I think this edit is not constructive. I'm not sure what policy it violates. But see Help:Citation_Style_1#Access_date. Note that accessdate is the date that the URL was checked to not just be working, but to support the assertion being cited. This edit mass updates accessdate fields. Reverting. I'm guessing you didn't check ALL those assertions in all those sources and if you did, feel free to say so and revert. I don't think that's a minor edit.

I did check the links. Nobody has ever complained before. Quebec99 (talk) 16:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Rock

Hi, how are you? :) Take a look at the article about Rock-Olga, she was quite a character. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 06:00, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Very good, and very interesting as well. Quebec99 (talk) 10:10, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hi can you add fallen officer Steve Owen end of watch 10/05/16 killed gunfire during shift — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:50C7:C600:2D13:44CD:C9A9:8D77 (talk) 11:38, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Done! Quebec99 (talk) 13:28, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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Geography of Iceland

Thanks for finding the proper URL for the dead PDF on the Wayback Machine, but why did you comment it out? Daß Wölf 19:11, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Because I am getting an error "This site can’t be reached". If it works for you, feel free to add it back in. Quebec99 (talk) 19:58, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, this is strange. I'm using Firefox and just tried the link in IE and it didn't work. In Firefox it asks to open Acrobat Reader as it should. I've brought it back for now since it's useful to at least some readers. Daß Wölf 22:29, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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Date clean-up macro?

Do you have a macro or something that did this: [[1]]?  Eric Cable  !  Talk  13:57, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

No. Why? Quebec99 (talk) 15:09, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Just wondering. Such a thing would be useful. I certainly don't mind that you reformatted the dates, it is just time consuming so a macro would be helpful. Eric Cable  !  Talk  03:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I agree... but 1) I don't know how to write one and 2) I don't know how to run it... but I am willing to learn. I know HTML, Java, and lots of others in the past. Quebec99 (talk) 09:49, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

One could in theory write a macro in Word where you would copy and paste the code of the Wiki article into it, then the macro searches for dates and changes them accordingly... but that would be a lot of work, especially getting the computer to recognize pre-20th century dates. Eric Cable  !  Talk  14:29, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

I never thought of using Word... Quebec99 (talk) 17:37, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Nu metal

The nu metal article is pretty good right now but we need to fix some things. Some citations do NOT have accessdates and some citations will have the date/accessdate put in the wrong way. For example, instead of looking like this in the editing page, (<ref>{{cite web |url=website.com |title=Website |publisher=Website.com |date=March 15, 2009 |accessdate=January 14, 2015}}</ref>) it would look like this in the editing page. (<ref>{{cite web |url=website.com |title=Website |publisher=Website.com}} (March 15, 2009). Retrieved on January 14, 2015</ref>) There are over 400 citations on the nu metal article and I finished fixing the characteristics and fashion part of the nu metal article. Wanna work together to get this done? Statik N (talk) 18:59, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't understand why you want to remove items from the cite web template? If you want to change references to non-standard, I will not stand in your way, but I will not help either. Quebec99 (talk) 19:03, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Demographics of Filipino Americans

Thanks for the minor changes to the article. That said please see WP:CITEBUNDLE. It made the article go from having 358 cited references & reference groups, to having 496 individual cited references without improving the article's content significantly.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:40, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

I never saw that information WP:CITEBUNDLE before. Is there an index of pages like that? Quebec99 (talk) 18:08, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

List of American police officers killed in the line of duty

Hi, your work finding Archive.is links and cleaning up over 900 cites is epic, nice work. My bot WaybackMedic made a change expanding the URLs to long form. I wanted to let you know because there was an RfC that found URL shortening is against policy and URLs should use the long form when possible (Archive.is has). Unfortunately Archive.is doesn't show the long format URL so it's hard to know what the long format is supposed to be (it's visible in the HTML source). One solution is add the short form and wait for one of the bots to do the conversion. Or run IABot (History tab -> "Fix dead links" along top bar). IABot should do the conversion. You can also modify the IABot database to change which archive service to use for certain URLs. -- GreenC 15:44, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

ps. In case your taking requests :) The article Slavery among Native Americans in the United States is in need of help with citation cleanup. The wikitext is a mess of non-standard methods. -- GreenC 15:49, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Also a request: please don't comment out archiveurl/archivedate arguments when they are not working. The outages are often temporary. And we have bots that maintain link rot (IABot, WaybackMedic). When they get commented it it breaks the bots ability to maintain. If you're sure the archive link is inoperable, delete from the cite. Optionally run IABot on the page which will add a new cite if available. -- GreenC 15:58, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I have no idea how to run a bot. I see comments all the time from other bots in the code. I just found this [[2]] page and figured that I could help. Mostly learning as I go. Occasional help from people like you, usually when I screw up. I didn't know about the short URL's before now, but there are 4 services that I try to find backup URL's: archive.is, www.webcitation.org, and web.archive.org. Perma.cc doesn't have a way to look for other people's backups that I can tell.

Question: what about commenting out the |access-date= requires |url= errors? Quebec99 (talk) 18:49, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

1. Re: running a bot .. in the history tab (example) in the upper-right side a link labeled "fix dead links" .. it will ask to confirm your approval, follow instructions, press the button and it will update the article. Check the article to make sure the bot didn't make any mistakes. It's easy and powerful.

2. Those are four good services. A full list: WP:List of web archives on Wikipedia .. eventually I would like to make a tool that searches all 20+ and provides available choices for a given URL. Perma.Cc can be searched but only with a command line tool like curl or wget like this: wget -q -O- 'http://perma-archives.org/warc/timemap/*/http://washingtonpost.com'

3. The access-date errors are caused when there is an access-date but no url. Sometimes people get confused by what access-date means. They often believe it means the date they looked at the offline source, rather it means the last date the online source was checked. If there is no online source, there should be no access-date so best to remove it. -- GreenC 23:06, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Hm

I saw this edit. Please review this documentation and going forward do not change "archive-date" to "archivedate" or "dead-url" to "deadurl". Debresser (talk) 19:52, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

I reviewed the documentation, but I don't see anything that says that using a hyphen and adding the additional character in any way changes the effect of the commands. Quebec99 (talk) 20:01, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Because it doesn't. But it does show that he correct names of these parameters are with a hyphen, so at least do not change that. Debresser (talk) 17:42, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

"fixed reference"

Hi, you have "fixed references" in the red-billed quelea article. My personal opinion is that these "fixes" make reading the html text more difficult. The fixes do not make any difference in the article itself, and do not make the refences more stable or have any other positive impact. As far as I know, there is no guidance whatsoever on where to put spaces in the reference templates. I will not revert you edit however, because I would not like to waste my time on such trivialies, but rather concentrate in creating content. Perhaps your efforts would be more useful if you would pick some other task. Sorry to have to give my opinion. Dwergenpaartje (talk) 13:20, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

The reference that I fixed https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red-billed_quelea&type=revision&diff=783210877&oldid=783152671 was:
2 ^ Quelea quelea. Text "Handbook of the Birds of the World" ignored (help)
How is that harder to read? Any spaces added/deleted do not change the visible page, and make it easier for me to read the code. Quebec99 (talk) 20:35, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Why would anyone want to change the spaces in the code of references, without adding any content, just for their own readibility of the code (and which makes it obviously less readible for me)? This way the lay-out of these references has become inconsistent with the many other references in the same article. There must be something more useful to do with your time? Dwergenpaartje (talk) 07:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

1. If it bothers you so much, change the spaces however you please, but don't put the reference errors back in. If the page/pages in question don't show up on one of the "Errors Category" pages, I'll probably never bother you again.

2. Thank you so much for your concern about my time.

Quebec99 (talk) 11:02, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Help me

Ason27 is discouraging me in editing. he/she mostly like Revathi, Shriya and Simran.Some times he/she crossing the limits. You are not a motivator. he/she knowingly attacking of my edits (Not only Jyothika) Please do help me. Don't let him/her to follow my edits. GOOD morning (talk) 21:36, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

I am not an administrator of any kind, but I will ask around and see what I can do. Quebec99 (talk) 01:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)