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Danny Kirwan

Hi, are you ever going to stop tweaking this article? It's rather hard to go in and make changes because it is never stable. You've been at it for months and there are problems to be resolved. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:00, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bretonbanquet -- It's about finished. A couple of paragraphs still to add, but otherwise done. I'm aiming for perfection here; apologies if I'm overdoing it. Have just seen your latest comment. This hasn't been mentioned before. If you're still online, please elaborate. 194.81.226.132 (talk) 14:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Perfection is never possible in a Wikipedia article so don't worry if you don't feel you've achieved it. It's stuff like this:

"In essence, he had a breakdown.[26] The rest of us were so hurt and insulted by what Danny had done we didn't know what to do. I was loath to fire him because he played so well ... [Firing him] would mean pulling out of two weeks of gigs and cancelling the tour[8][72]... [but] there was no other option. Danny had to go."[15][73]

You've got five sources for that quote which suggests to me that it's not one quote (as it is presented) but a combination of several. You can't really do that, as although they're all his words, you're synthesising it to make it look like he said all this at the same time. Another issue is that there are chunks of text there, especially in the Welch section, that don't have anything to do with Danny. They'd be better suited in Welch's article or the main Fleetwood Mac one. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:50, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The first sentence ("He had a breakdown") came from a Jim Farber interview dated 2017. It was an important statement, an acknowledgement of what was obvious but someone needed to say, and I felt it needed to be there in that position. The rest of the paragraph quoted Fleetwood from his two autobiographies. The second cite of each pair is a page number. The sentence is not intended to be taken as one continuous quote: the dots ( ... ) indicate gaps or discontinuity.

Welch section: I included this material as scene-setting and background to fill out the picture. This was the environment Kirwan was working, touring and performing in, and in effect Welch is describing it for us on Kirwan's behalf. But I bow to your judgement if you feel it should be somewhere else. 194.81.226.131 (talk) 15:32, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dots or ellipses in a sentence indicate that a word or a few words have been removed from a longer piece of text. They are not meant to join parts of sentences taken from different sources. So that does read like it was effectively one quote, although you didn't mean it that way. I have no issue with any of the content of that piece, by the way.

I get your intention with the Welch stuff but I feel there's a bit too much there that doesn't directly concern Kirwan. At least that is how a reviewer of the article would see it. We can have a closer look at it when you feel you've done everything you want to do. Bretonbanquet (talk) 02:10, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not trim direct quotations without indicating in the text that this has been done. DuncanHill (talk) 10:58, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WikiVisually: Danny Kirwan, changes to punctuation

The copy of the current Wikipedia Danny Kirwan which has appeared on the WikiVisually site has had numerous changes made to the punctuation. Will someone please ask whoever is responsible not to make changes to the published text, and in particular not to tinker with precise and correctly applied punctuation.194.81.226.132 (talk) 15:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2020

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October 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Danny Kirwan has been reverted.
Your edit here to Danny Kirwan was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links in references which are discouraged per our reliable sources guideline. The reference(s) you added or changed (https://concerts.fandom.com/wiki/Fleetwood_Mac_Concerts_1960s) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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August 2021

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Doctors of Madness, you may be blocked from editing. Pachu Kannan (talk) 12:38, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your kind message. I am not 'editing disruptively' and I am not 'vandalising' anything. Kindly explain in plain English what you mean. I put a lot of time and effort into this, with the best of intentions, and the editing I do is as thoughtful, rational, intelligent, careful, scrupulous and thorough as I can make it. If I sometimes make mistakes of protocol with, in this instance, an invalid citation, it does not indicate any malicious or mischievous intent: it just means I occasionally get technical details wrong. Kindly refrain from jumping to arbitrary conclusions and issuing threats. I am extremely angry and insulted. Please reply.194.81.226.132 (talk) 13:10, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Boudican revolt

Per wp:ENGVAR, please maintain the existing English variant which appears to be American English per starting edit initial edits e.g. "honor" rather than "honour". Thank you Adakiko (talk) 10:49, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But see MOS:TIES.--AntientNestor (talk) 16:57, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Boudica

Among other things, WP:V says sources must be reliably published, your source is not published at all.[1]. Doug Weller talk 12:16, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

December 2022

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Christine McVie—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 11:27, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The edit you refer to consisted of the addition of the word 'English' to the locality 'Lake District', on the assumption that not everyone who reads this article will know which country the Lake District is in. This was a good faith edit which was intended to be helpful and constructive. In the process of adding it, the '3' appears to have dropped off the end of the date. This was a minor typo which I would have fixed if you had not intervened. 194.81.226.132 (talk) 11:44, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see you also found it necessary to revert the edit which someone else had also objected to, in which the grammatically correct construction "In 1967 McVie, then performing under the name Christine Perfect, heard that..." was reverted to the original and rather clumsy "In 1967, then performing under the name Christine Perfect, McVie heard that ..." The first is better because the construction is "In 1967 McVie [ ] heard that..." with a subordinate clause inserted which refers to the subject 'McVie'. Saying it the other way round is not the better option. The main point of the sentence is to state "McVie heard that..." Mentioning that she was performing as Christine Perfect is secondary.194.81.226.131 (talk) 12:12, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop the slow edit war about Sweatman and use the talk page

Doug Weller talk 15:11, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

March 2023

Hi 194.81.226.132! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Idontknowwhattouseasmyusername300 (talk) 15:02, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Acknowledged -- many thanks. 194.81.226.132 (talk) 15:22, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've just looked at the edit history, and I see what you mean. No deception was intended: I wrote the summary last and I had forgotten by then exactly what changes I had made. Be assured all this is done in good faith. I will be more specific in future.194.81.226.132 (talk) 15:27, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I could add that my edits were concerned only with rephrasing, condensing, clarifying and general tidying. They were not intended to change the meaning of anything that had previously been written. 194.81.226.132 (talk) 15:44, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Jethro Tull

Just wanted to say, good work on the JT article. We need good editors, Why not create an account? Again, thank you for your contributions. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 15:17, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Acknowledged FlightTime. Many thanks for your comments. 194.81.226.132 (talk) 12:06, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking of IP addresses

A 12-month block beginning 28 November 2023 has been placed on IP 194.81. addresses operated by Oxfordshire County Council because of alleged misuse of Wikipedia in schools and colleges. (See message from Materialscientist dated 28 November.) This blanket ban has unfortunately had the effect of also blocking access to Wikipedia in the county's public libraries, where much conscientious editing has been carried out on IP 194.81.226.132 since 2018 (see user history). I assume this was not intended, and I would be grateful if this IP number could be unblocked.194.81.226.132 (talk) 16:24, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

A 12-month block beginning 28 November 2023 has been placed on IP 194.81. addresses operated by Oxfordshire County Council because of misuse of Wikipedia in schools and colleges. (See message from Materialscientist dated 28 November.) This blanket ban has unfortunately had the effect of also blocking access to Wikipedia in the county's public libraries, where much conscientious editing has been carried out on IP 194.81.226.132 since 2018 (see user history). I assume this was not intended, and I would be grateful if this IP number could be unblocked.194.81.226.132 (talk) 12:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

This is a block, not a ban(there is a difference, the terms are not synonyms here). Unfortunately this is an IP range that is blocked, and I assume that the schools and colleges of this jurisdiction that are the source of the vandalism are on the same network. Users wishing to edit may use their accounts created elsewhere, or may request accounts at WP:ACC. 331dot (talk) 14:01, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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   OK, thanks. 194.81.226.132 (talk) 14:41, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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