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I looked at the first link, and it was to the specific Ondine (ballet) page, so I don't know what this is referring to. Bryan Krippner (talk) 09:57, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cricket dates

Hello. Sorry, I missed totally that you'd changed both the infobox and the body text date formats at John Cameron (New Zealand cricketer) when I undid your edit. I apologise about that; I imagine I must only have noticed the change in the infobox for some reason.

The body text should certainly use the 1917–18 format - I tend to prefer to be explicit in the first instance and mention that it's a season as well. The infobox date, however, should probably use the slash. This is the standard way of formatting southern hemisphere seasons in the infobox and there appears to be a fairly long running consensus over this. This is mainly because of the need to do things such as 1917/18–1923/24, which would otherwise be rendered as 1917–18–1923–24, 1917–18 to 1923–24, 1917–18 – 1923–24 and so on - which generally causes more confusion. In cricket literature a mix of methods of writing this sort of date exists, but the slash is reasonably common, and is used by CricketArchive, one of the two major cricket database sources.

I've added a bit to the article just now. I'll head off and see if there's anything very much else we might find on Cameron. Apologies again for not spotting the body text change that you'd made. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:30, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please use Edit summaries

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September 2024

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I was being consistent with the ENTIRE rest of the page, and all recent months. That was the only reason for my edit. Bryan Krippner (talk) 02:23, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Restoring sourced (NYTimes) entries in the 1988/1989 deaths lists

Hello Bryan,
How are you? I've spent the bigger part of yesterday going through the edits you made since May 25th regarding the deaths lists. The speed and accuracy of your work is quite impressive as always. I have some questions regarding the status of your work which I will address in a separate topic on this page.
Last spring we had some interesting discussions regarding the criteria for inclusion of entries in the list. We more or less share the same opinion regarding notability of profiles/biographies. You give more weight to page views per period and I favour links to the bio of an entry.
Going through your edits I noticed that you removed many entries that I added in the past. I don't mind that you delete unsourced entries but I do have an issues with you removing the sourced ones I added. Being cited by a reliable source adds to the notability. As you may remember I compiled the initial lists regarding November and December 1989. I restored my sourced entries in those two pages. Moreover, regarding 1988 and 1989 (which you are processing now) I noticed that you removed many of the entries that contain NYTimes citations. I added the citations using my software tool remember? Please restore those entries since they are all notable and it cost me a lot of time and effort compiling them. You can identify the removed entries as follows (using Jan. 1998 as an example):

Go to the revision history of the page.
Identify edits that resulted in deleted content greater than 200 bytes. F.i.: 11:38, 30 June 2024 Bryan Krippner (talk | contribs) (41,006 bytes) (−409) (→1)
Select that version by clicking the preceding 'prev' link
Identify the removed NYTimes cited entries (in this case John S. Millis)
Add the entry/entries to the corresponding day section

Regards, Mill 1 (talk) 06:16, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Progress) status regarding processing the deaths lists

Hello Bryan, As mentioned in the previous topic I have some questions regarding the status of your work regarding the deaths lists. Analyzing your work I concluded the following (per year):

1987

Status: in progress
Processed months: Jan. - Oct.
Nov. and Dec.: TODO

1988

Status: DONE (apart from restoring NYTimes entries, see previous topic)
months Jan. - Oct.: last edit on July 17
Nov. and Dec. : last edit on July 21

1989

Status: in progress
months Jan. - Feb.: DONE (see this progress status)
March - Aug.: TODO
Processed months: Oct. - Dec. (apart from restoring NYTimes entries, see previous topic)
Processing: September

Is this accurate? I would like to resume applying my NYTimes ref tool to the processed months to add/replace citations but I need to know which pages are done.

By the way, if you plan to extend your work to the years 1986 and 1985 you'll find that user Drewsky1211 has been busy as well. It'll be a lot of work since Drewsky1211 does not cite his entries and does not seem to apply any criteria for inclusion at all. Regards, Mill 1 (talk) 08:07, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]