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I implore you to please read MOS:OL. You have been going from article to article adding links, and about half of them are unnecessary. Everyday words that every readers knows the meaning of don't need to be linked. Nationalities and ethnicities also need not be linked. As well, you only have to link something once. Please take a moment to review some of your recent edits. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks and sorry about that. All articles were mine was most recent, I have just reverted them back to the prior version, and manually unliked on the others MarbleGarden (talk) 03:00, 21 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Your recent changes to the Edward H. Betts page has introduced a number of problems and errors. One example is the sentence:

"He was known for his abstract paintings which he often developed using an improvisational method, particularly those of realistic watercolors. "

Betts used different approaches for his acrylic abstracts and realistic watercolors. That idea was, I hope, captured by the original wording.

I appreciate your efforts, but in my opinion the article should be reverted. Oadys (talk) 14:50, 8 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

I am not particularly fluent in this topic, I simply found it under "needs help" through the Orphan project and intended to volunteer. If you are more knowledgeable then please make changes or revert as you see fit and I will not disrupt the page. MarbleGarden (talk) 16:23, 8 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, I added several sources to the person's profile, so when they are listed under notable people, should the sources be on the city's page as well? MarbleGarden (talk) 00:31, 10 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
Your edit to Anchorage, Kentucky should include a reference (or more than one if that's necessary) that supports the facts you are adding to the article. Your edit says that Alexander is/was author and historian; that she was Britain-based and raised in China; and that her family also maintained a permanent residence in Anchorage. You should include sufficient references that all those claims are supported. TJRC (talk) 01:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
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FYI you generally aren't supposed to link to Wikidata on the English Wikipedia per Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 204#New RFC on linking to Wikidata * Pppery * it has begun... 20:27, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Good to know, thank you. So interlanguage link is preferred where possible then? Is it warranted in Infoboxes or photo captions, or no? I couldn't tell whether they had reached a consensus on that or not. MarbleGarden (talk) 21:13, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
I personally treat photo captions as part of the body when I do my monthly enforcement of the linked RfC. For infoboxes, AFAIK the community has not come to any consensus, and interlanguage links (using {{ill}}, to actual articles on other language Wikipedias) are generally acceptable. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:41, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
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