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| for your many improvements to the grammar of image captions and similar areas. I am sorry that some editors have reacted to your valuable contributions in a way that may appear ungrateful MPS1992 (talk) 19:49, 18 September 2019 (UTC) |
US - U.S.
Hi, I wanted to let you know that I reverted this edit: [1] that changed an established spelling of "US" to "U.S.", because the Manual of Style says that the spelling should be retained in this case. There were several similar edits in Gulf War. Please see MOS:US for more details, thanks... --IamNotU (talk) 22:36, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
- Just want to add on to this, with the edits at United States Armed Forces - the MOS says that either US or U.S. is acceptable, so long as it’s consistent within the article. Garuda28 (talk) 22:52, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
- Garuda28, you are correct - in both of these specific articles, the established spelling should be retained. There are only limited cases where it can be changed, again the details are found in MOS:US. --IamNotU (talk) 00:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
MCU film GA status
Hi, I notice last month you nominated the Captain Marvel article for GA status and requested that the Black Panther article be relisted. Thing is, both of those articles have issues that have been addressed in multiple GA reviews and at least one GA reassessment going back some years, and those issues really need to be addressed before either article can be promoted. Would you be interested in helping to address them? If so, I'd be glad to provide details, but if not I'd like to request that you withdraw your nomination of the former. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:56, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Yes, I would be interested in helping address some of these issues. Keep in mind though, that I'm still somewhat new to Wikipedia and I've never done a Good Article reassessment nor a nomination. I would be glad if you could show me what the issues are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHistoryBuff101 (talk • contribs) 08:18, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- Well, the key discussion pages are Talk:Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2/GA1 (where the "cast" problems were raised and caused that GAN to fail by default as they were never addressed -- the subsequent Talk:Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2/GA2 was a tendentious attempt to sneak past the clear lack of consensus to promote during the previous discussion), Talk:Black Panther (film)/GA1 (where the issue of POV-editing leading to tone problems with the articles was raised, but never addressed, as the reviewer was either a sock of a banned editor or someone with less experience than you who should never have been reviewing the article in the first place) and Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Black Panther (film)/1 (where plagiarism problems led to the article being delisted).
- The single biggest content problem is potential and/or actual textual plagiarism -- one of the main editors of those articles until earlier this year has an active contributor copyright investigation and the two others have repeatedly failed to acknowledge or recognize the problem, and the Black Panther article (where it first came to light) was found to have serious issues in a number of places. The problem with copyvio is that while blatantly copy-pasting an entire paragraph of text and presenting it as one's own words, as happened here, is fairly easy to catch as long as the source is available online, a lot of these articles are also WP:QUOTEFARMs, so that they are not taking a source's words and presenting them as our own, but they are also violating standard Wikipedia writing style by presenting hardly any substantial information in original prose. (WP:GAFAIL#2 and WP:GACR#1)
- Other (lesser) problems include
- potential POV issues (one of the articles' main editors got very, very angry when I made a talk page comment that mentioned in an off-handed manner that children are the main audience for these films and the source of most of their revenue; the Black Panther article actually doesn't point this pretty basic fact out directly, even though much of what it does say relies on the assumptions that readers are already aware of the fact, and I suspect it might be the denialism of one editor, or a small cadre of editors, working on them) (WP:GACR#4 and kinda #3) and
- the fact that the character descriptions in the cast list are complete WP:OR based on synthesis of various films in the franchise, often being change after the films are released and they turn out to have been completely wrong (Iron Man 3, for example, used to say
Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin: The leader of the international terrorist organization The Ten Rings.
, citing the official website and two pre-release "secondary sources" written by people who had no idea what the film was about; it now readsBen Kingsley as Trevor Slattery: A British actor whom Killian hired to portray the Mandarin, a terrorist persona in jammed television broadcasts in which he is depicted as the leader of the international terrorist organization the Ten Rings.
, and cites exactly the same sources!). (WP:GACR#2) - Additionally, as has been pointed out recently on the Captain Marvel talk page but was arguably a more serious issue with Avengers: Endgame, a lot of the poster billing is nothing but misleading, non-spoiler, marketing fluff, or the result of negotiations with major actors to work for less or get less screen time than they might otherwise claim if their name appears on the poster of a major blockbuster, and is not an objective measure of each cast member's prominence in the film itself by any measure; the articles' "owners" frequently claim that it's a neutral and incontrovertible means of avoiding people giving bullet points to their favourite actor or character, but there's actually nothing neutral about it, and once the films have been released and we have reviews by professional film critics, we really shouldn't be using that criterion. It has also never, apparently, been supported by consensus among uninvolved editors, but rather is shoehorned in as to all the articles by a small group of editors who then call it the WP:STATUSQUO (which I should point out doesn't actually apply to articles on major films that see huge floods of attention and massive changes at certain periods, and started out spending months or years in the draft space where the majority of our editors didn't even know they existed).
- There is also stability; articles that are subject to frequent tag-teaming and ownership, and either are subject to, or would be subject to if it weren't for the tag-teaming and ownership driving editors away in frustration, edit wars technically do not meet WP:GACR#5
- Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 05:51, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
As for both articles, it seems like I can only be able to resolve the plagiarism issues, but the rest I can't seem to do myself. Relisting Black Panther and listing Captain Marvel as good articles are going to have to be a community effort. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHistoryBuff101 (talk • contribs) 09:21, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
- Well, good luck getting the community involved. It's a toxic atmosphere that I've been struggling to work in for four years. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Alright, I'll see what I can do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheHistoryBuff101 (talk • contribs) 18:40, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
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| Keep up the great work. But pls try to add some sort of edit summary.....something like " grammar fix " will help us and also prevent some of the reverts that people do. Moxy 🍁 04:23, 10 December 2019 (UTC) |
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The siege of Kolberg took place from March to July 1807 during the War of the Fourth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. An army of the First French Empire and several foreign auxiliaries (including Polish insurgents) of France besieged the fortified town of Kolberg, the only remaining Prussian-held fortress in the Province of Pomerania. The siege was ultimately unsuccessful and was lifted upon the announcement of the peace of Tilsit. These three banknotes, in denominations of two, four and eight groschen, were issued by the Prussian authorities in Kolberg as emergency money during the siege. Each was handwritten on cardboard with multiple authorising signatures and was stamped with the seal of the local government. The banknotes are now part of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. Banknote design credit: Kingdom of Prussia; scanned by Andrew Shiva
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