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Surface air temperature for global warming

After backing out your climate change edit I changed the chart description to make it clear that surface air temperature is what is being measured by NASA. Whether the article needs to be edited as well I'll leave up to you, just keep in mind the lead is already very long. For the facts see here: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-do-scientists-measure-global-temperature/ Efbrazil (talk) 16:16, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Presidential state car (United States)

Hi, which article did this material come from? It needs proper attribution, and also the sources called by the references need to be copied over to resolve the Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 12:37, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

thanks, i've put a tag on the talkpage and resolved the ref errors Tom B (talk) 15:45, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 16:03, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination

Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/criticalmoments/titles/9780415895576/timeline.php, which is not released under a compatible license. Copying text directly from a source is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Content you add to Wikipedia should be written in your own words. Please let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 16:38, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

thanks, i added similar content from other articles with proper attribution Tom B (talk) 16:47, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

American Civil War

Hello Tpbradbury - I see you recently moved the image of Robert E. Lee to the right side on the American Civil War. I agree with your change but for a different reason. You cite the MOS "It is often preferable to place a portrait (image or representation of a person) so that they "look" toward the text." I prefer, no matter what way the image is "looking" the beginning of the MOS that says "Most images should be on the right side of the page, which is the default placement." What are your thoughts on the MOS "How­ever, a­void sand­wich­ing text be­tween two im­ages...." and the portraits in the Eastern theater Battles section? TwoScars (talk) 16:27, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

hiya, i agree with the inwards rule, it looks a lot better. I think severe sandwiching looks bad, but the images in the battles section aren't massive so it doesn't look too bad. the McClellan one is the most boring so it may look better if that was removed to avoid image overload and increase the impact of the Stonewall one, thanks Tom B (talk) 19:55, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Eleanor of Castile

Just a note to say I'm working on the citations but it's an awful mess right now, so I'd rather keep the notice until I've completed this work! Jim Killock (talk) 13:06, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Further reading sections

Would it be possible to move these books to there own bibliography if it's viable. Compiling bibliographies for our readers is a major activity of academics here on Wikipedia. I have seen a few disappear and this would not be helpful for researchers. Wikipedia:List of bibliographies ..Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies. Moxy🍁 23:38, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Moxy, thank you, there is often a separate biblio already set-up yes e.g. for the Soviet Union, or those listed in your links. So yes i've transferred publications, not used in the sources, to those. I'm sure I've never removed anything from a standalone biblio. The list of sources used in an article is already a biblio, even if it's not titled such. So every mature article already has a biblio, even if the word biblio isn't used. One issue is there's sometimes a biblio and further reading list i.e. two bibliographies. The further reading list often contains older publications e.g. Intro to the Soviet Union (1950), as they've been superceded by newer publications i.e. Intro to the Soviet Union (2010), or specialised publications e.g. Farming issues in Soviet Ukraine (2014). If an article has 300 inline citations containing sources, and a separate list of 40 sources, and a publication hasn't been used in either, I'd question how useful it is to an encyclopedia reader. I can see how standalone biblios could be helpful to researchers, but you'd want them well-curated, thanks again, Tom B (talk) 11:35, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

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Tom B (talk) 09:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Vietnam War

I think in the Vietnam war infobox, we can change communist’s casualties from “1,100,000” to “1,081,000 (of which, 30-40% were non-combat dead” (more accurate and more details). Can you help me?2001:EE0:4A62:1A70:922:8255:16B2:8061 (talk) 01:23, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

thank you. we actually need to remove details, as the article is overly long. Also, switching to 4 significant figures from 2 is likely spurious precision, i.e. it's not credible that we'd know how many died to the nearest thousand, over a long, large, complex war with limited record-keeping. More likely we'd know to the nearest ten thousand, or perhaps even only hundred thousand. Writing it to the nearest 100,000 is being clear that we don't know exactly, Tom B (talk) 10:26, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

ok, so, you can change from “1,100,000” to “680,000 - 1,100,000 (of which, 30-40% were non-combat dead” (because we don’t know how many died, thus we need the range of estimate, and 30-40% is signification rate)2001:EE0:4A62:1A70:59DB:E991:C3CC:B4DB (talk) 10:45, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Trimming

Nice copyediting on the Disney page — it's rare to see editors with such a strong sense of what doesn't need to be in prose. Thanks. Popcornfud (talk) 11:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

thank you, happy editing! Tom B (talk) 12:43, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

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RFC Close

For what it is worth, just wanted to say I really like your closure of The Dorchester Review. Covered the topic extremely well. Kudos! Lulfas (talk) 11:20, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

thank you, this is the opposite of what i was expecting on my talkpage! Tom B (talk) 13:02, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Erasmus split

On Aug 5, you flagged the Erasmus article as too long and needing splitting, and moved the content rating from B to C. (It had already had a large chunk split out into Works of Erasmus. I have now split out over a third of the Erasmus article into new Legacy and Evaluations of Erasmus and removed the too-long tag. However, I did not move the content rating back to B yet, as I thought you (Tom) might like verify. (Is it strange for an article that was B one week to became two smaller articles that are C the following week?) Rick Jelliffe (talk) 00:26, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Rick, i didn't add the long tag, i added the word count to it on 4 Aug. Nikkimaria added the tag in June [1]. it's not strange for articles to get reassessed in that way; it should have already been C as it was too long, then ideally becomes at least two, higher quality B articles. I've standardised some of the layout and formatting. Some sources are assessed as unreliable by wikipedia, if you look at the perennial sources page. i put it up to B. well on all your hard work! Tom B (talk) 15:48, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Another barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For your "expert text removal" on George Santos Daniel Case (talk) 20:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Additional note: This barnstar is no small feat for you, coming from me, as I had researched and written a fair amount of what you took out over last year and a half as the story developed. In situations like this I often grit my teeth when I see that an editor previously uninvolved with the article has taken it upon themselves to trim an admittedly overstuffed section, since often enough those editors cut too blindly, removing material whose relevance they didn't appreciate, and/or leave a mess to clean up in terms of orphaned refs and dangling inline second references now lacking a first, or butchered formatting.

But looking over your edits, I saw that you largely took out details which don't really have much lasting relevance, while preserving the important stuff and at the same time avoiding any of those issues mentioned above. Bravo! Daniel Case (talk) 20:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

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