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Happy editing! Mattythewhite (talk) 00:17, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Don't use misleading edit summaries

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Sorry, about that, I made a constructive edit but some internet problems led to the edit being posted twice. 1brianm7 (talk) 11:53, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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blacks, African Americans

I am writing about your changing "blacks" to "African Americans" at Frederick Douglass. I am fine with your edit, but I want to express my views on the subject. First, I believe that, if one is going to use "black," the convention now is to capitalize it (but not to capitalize "white"; there is a logic to that, which I am not sure that I can explain). But I also believe, and this may be an eccentricity on my part, that we should not use "Black" or "African American" as nouns but should use them as adjectives preceding "person" or "people." This is because, to refer to a Black person as a "Black" or "African American" is to define him or her by his race, whereas race is only one feature of a person. If we were referring to a group of NBA players, we say that they were tall people, not "talls." This is because their height is only one feature of them. But I am not going to change your edit of Frederick Douglass to "African American people," because it is not incorrect, even if it is not my preference. By the way, you write "changed word to fit previous words used," but I see no problem with using both "Black" and "African American" in the same article. Maurice Magnus (talk) 13:29, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message. The point about previous words used was pretty unclear of me, I knew that the standard is to capitalize Black but it was not capitalized and noticed that in the same paragraph it used African Americans.

Knowing that what was currently there was wrong and that there was a perfectly viable alternative at hand, I made the edit. I probably should have made that clearer.

I'm under the impression that Black is capitalized because it represents a culture, not just a color.

I'm not sure why I didn't just capitalize it, I'd suppose it's probably because going "Blacks" felt really weird.

I can see your point with not including people or person, it does feel a tad weird, but I'm not at all confident enough in that decision to begin enforcing it.

I've misread style guides and done bad edits enough times to make me cautious of changing things in ways I may be ignorant of, especially since it's really annoying to go back and revert those edits. 1brianm7 (talk) 15:25, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Black is capitalized because it represents a culture, not just a color." That's a good, simple, way to put it. I'll have to remember it. Thanks. Maurice Magnus (talk) 15:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi 1Brianm7! Thanks for reverting my change.

I appreciate you reverting my change on the Atrioc wiki! Have a great rest of your week.

(I will wait for Big J to publicly admit to his last name being Jason before adding it back.) Tomsawyerismeofficial (talk) 07:54, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Frank Elbridge Webb

On 17 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frank Elbridge Webb, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Senator James A. Reed asked "Who the hell is Webb?" when he was nominated to be Webb's vice-presidential nominee? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Elbridge Webb. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frank Elbridge Webb), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Note for posterity. Half way through the day an editor changed it to be "… Webb's running mate". For the record, I'm iffy on such a change. 1brianm7 (talk) 18:50, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Henry Quincy Alexander

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For posterity's sake, I uploaded this, accidentally broke Wikipedia, before a skilled editor figured out it was PD and uploaded "Esther Swirk Brown 1943.jpg". 1brianm7 (talk) 13:36, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi 1brianm7. Thank you for your work on Undersecretary for Go Fuck Yourself. Another editor, MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

not mentioned in target page

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@MPguy2824: Is that required? I’m a bit inexperienced in this realm. It’s an anecdote that has been brought up in media about Emanuel fairly frequently, and I found it pretty likely that some people would remember it and not his name. 1brianm7 (talk) 15:11, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MPGuy2824: huh, pings are case sensitive. good to know 1brianm7 (talk) 10:44, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And it's now been resolved as I was sure that a GA about a serious politician wouldn't have an appropriate place to put this sentence, but it did, so now it's mentioned. 1brianm7 (talk) 10:52, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Good that you found a way to mention it there. It would be surprising to readers if it was not so.
• Was the ping required? In short, yes. If I had created a normal talk page message myself and you replied to it, then I would get a notification. But, the message is set via PageTriage, the software that we use for reviewing articles and redirects, and the message sender isn't automatically subscribed to replies.

Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:27, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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