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I have removed the speedy tag from Template:Waterbodies of Connecticut because it was making Connecticut appear in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion‎. If you think that a template should be deleted, please visit Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 21:34, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Eastmain: My apologies. I did not intend for the Connecticut article to appear in that category. I just thought that the template itself is duplicative considering that all of the links to other Wikipedia articles included in the navbox are now included in more precisely defined navboxes than that template. I'm not very familiar with the bureaucracy of this website. – CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 06:17, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		For your thorough expansion of the legality section of National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. I was not aware of the depth of the treatment the legal questions have received from reliable sources, particularly the CRS report; in retrospect, the article was certainly lacking in that area before your expansion. Thanks! —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 14:55, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks also from me for your great work, which has much improved the article. KarlFrei (talk) 11:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you created Template:House of Stuart Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of Tudor Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of York Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of Lancaster Lord High Treasurers, Template:House of Plantagenet Lord High Treasurers, and Template:Pre-Plantagenet England Lord High Treasurers. However, they are practically useless because they use titles instead of names to identify the holders of the office. Thus, under Template:House of Plantagenet Lord High Treasurers - the section for Edward III lists several Bishops of Lincoln - but the reader is required to click through to the various linked articles to discover that they are the same person. Same thing applies with the Edward II section where there are two Bishop of Winchester listed, but only by clicking through to the linked/piped articles is it clear that they are two different people. Worse, on that example - one of the bishops (John Sandale) is also listed earlier under his own name - thus obscuring that he did hold the treasurership prior to becoming bishop. These links fail WP:EASTEREGG and MOS:PIPE, which helps keep confusion down for the readers. They need to be fixed and brought into line with those guidelines. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:47, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ealdgyth: I've removed the ecclesiastical titles and added lineage position numbers for peers. I believe that should be sufficient to make the links consistent with MOS:PIPE and WP:EASTEREGG. CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 16:21, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why would you not just link the article title? There is no real need for the pipes anywhere in those templates. We don't generally do such pipes in other navigation templates. See Template:Dukes of Norfolk or similar... Ealdgyth - Talk 16:30, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ealdgyth: The MOS:PIPE states "it is possible to choose more specific... display text for the intended context", which I think implies that using more specific display text where possible is preferable. The MOS cites piping "Henry II of England" as "Henry II" as an example. Likewise, most of the article title links in those templates are longer than necessary to get across who the person is, and because the peerage titles are probably more familiar than any individual holder of the title, it is more intuitive to list them that way, also in keeping with the MOS:PIPE section about intuitiveness. CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 17:26, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please read our policy on how to handle disagreements. You were bold, you were reverted, you discuss. The explanation you added broke another policy namely that on synthesis -----Snowded ^TALK 09:20, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: Considering that the content that I added included multiple references with direct quotations, it is quite easy to tell that you did not review the content that I added carefully enough to recognize that it did not in fact violate WP:SYN but instead that the text that was added was both correct and explanatory. I will discuss that more in full on the Ulster Protestants talk page. Additionally, it seems to me that your revert was an abuse of the WP:BRD cycle and you should review WP:Revert only when necessary. - CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:58, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: And it also appears that I have been blocked so I can't explain why my edits should be retained. - CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 22:07, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: A response to my comments on Talk:Ulster Protestants would be appreciated and appropriate. - CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 00:16, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's a little difficult to respond when you are on a flight and trying to sleep. I can't see anything in the block log for you -----Snowded ^TALK 07:03, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Snowded: I apologize. I assumed you were still logged in and not on a long flight. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 16:48, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I'm BusterD. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Ulysses S. Grant, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. As a user-driven database of graves, Find-A-Grave doesn't meet the criteria for reliability established at WP:IRS, despite its usefulness in such matters. I've taken the liberty of removing your recent insertion. BusterD (talk) 10:15, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@BusterD: Apologies. I was unaware. I don't need guidance. Just polite and honest folks such as yourself to articulate when something I've done isn't up to snuff, why, and to do so for the right reasons. (And possibly somewhere where I can find a reliable source for those specific ancestors of Ulysses S. Grant, if you have any suggestions. I purchased Ron Chernow's recent book and was surprised to find that it didn't mention his mother's ancestry at all.) -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 02:13, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you taking feedback in the spirit in which it was given. I'm not saying that I'm the authority on this subject at all, and I don't deny the usefulness of the Find-a-grave site, especially when pictures of gravestones are attached to entries. There is some material on Grant genealogy available on google books. Grant worship was societal back in the day as much as Lee worship was and is these days. This site seems useful, and this book would be helpful. I encourage you to discuss this material on the talk page before reinsertion. There are editors who spent long hours scrubbing and pruning this (then bloated) page to a more reasonable size, then citing the crap out of it prior to promotion to FA status. I'm sure some of those page stewards will want some input on additions of large blocks of text which may be considered to be of dubious value to the main article. I could see a sub-article on this well-documented subject based on the genealogical material clearly available for consumption. Again, thanks for taking my reversion kindly. I'm still happy to help if I can do so. BusterD (talk) 22:57, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I should have reminded you, there exists an Early life article on the subject which would benefit greatly from additional research and citation. BusterD (talk) 23:03, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

close, but hey you got the cigar - some of the articles titles and lead sentences leave you off the hook - there were some rushes that developed into sustained and long term high value production fields... :) JarrahTree 23:51, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]