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July 2011

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My response

Hello Zipcedric. Thank you for the note on my page.

Yes, I was a bit snarky at the end of that comment. For that I apologize. As far as the blogs go, I stand by that statement.

I'm usually a bit more respectful than that. No excuse. I'll try to keep the external things from interfering with Wiki correspondence.

Thank you for the gentle smack. Sending regards.

--Manway 00:09, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Ouch. Sorry y’all. My bad. TTFN. Y’all probably have a name for a chastened editor who slinks away humbly/petulantly for a long vacation….Zipcedric (talk) 15:34, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

No, don't do that. Wikipedia is, to put it bluntly, really hard. For example, I totally understand why you thought it made sense to use sources that have clout with who you thought the audience was. In a sense, that's a good writing strategy. The "problem" is all of the rules and regulations we have on Wikipedia. It takes a while to get used to the way we write, what we consider good sources, etc. After more than 25,000 edits, I'm still learning things about Wikipedia's nooks and crannies every day. Please, keep contributing to Wikipedia. If you ever have any questions about anything, feel free to contact me on my talk page, and I'll be happy to help. Qwyrxian (talk) 22:31, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

As will I. And I promise to keep the snark to an absolute minimum. Don't wanna lose a good writer. Regards, --Manway 03:44, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Cathedrals

You left the same comment three times :-) The problem is that you've selected a format that in US-centric articles indicates a neighborhood, not independent municipalities as these places are. What's an SMSA or CMSA? The metro area idea is workable, but this is not the right format to indicate metro area — you'd need to say something like "Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor metro area", per Ohio census statistical areas, for an example; as well, you'd need to be consistent, as there were plenty of locations within metro areas that didn't have the name of any other community, such as the New York metro borough of Metuchen, New Jersey. Nyttend (talk) 23:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

The problem with "area" is that it's undefined. Who's to say that place A is in the B area? Metropolitan areas have defined boundaries, while simply "areas" don't. Also — the reason that multiple cities are included in metro area names is that all the cities in the metros are substantial. Core cities are defined as being the biggest ones in the metro, not simply a few random small towns along with the big city. Nyttend (talk) 20:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

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I reverted your edit on Santa Clara Vanguard, since that fact is included i the History section... GWFrog (talk) 05:01, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

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