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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)[reply]

Hi, which article didthis material come from? It needsproper attribution, and also the sources called by the references need to be copied over to resolve theCategory:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. Thanks,DuncanHill (talk)12:37, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied fromhttps://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'scopyright 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)[reply]

thanks, i added similar content from other articles with proper attributionTom B (talk)16:47, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Tpbradbury - I see you recently moved the image of Robert E. Lee to the right side on theAmerican Civil War. Iagree 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)[reply]

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, thanksTom B (talk)19:55, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Hi Moxy, thank you, there is often a separate biblio already set-up yes e.g. for theSoviet 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. Soevery mature article already has a biblio, even if the word biblio isn't used. One issue is there's sometimes a biblioand 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)[reply]

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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)[reply]

thank you. we actually need to remove details, as the article is overly long. Also, switching to 4 significant figures from 2 is likelyspurious 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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

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

On Aug 5, you flagged theErasmus 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 intoWorks of Erasmus. I have now split out over a third of the Erasmus article into newLegacy 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For your "expert text removal" onGeorge SantosDaniel Case (talk)20:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 stuffand at the same time avoiding any of those issues mentioned above. Bravo!Daniel Case (talk)20:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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@Tpbradbury Thank you so much for your time, and have a great week! =)Phoebezz22 (talk)18:10, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, may I suggest replacing a poor image under history there and moving it to the left? Under Ancient history, it feels a bit cluttered on desktop, and the image could be replaced with something nicer likethis one, representing the Roman Baths, a far more impressive landmark one may say!

Appreciate your efforts. Cheers!2A02:C7C:75BE:B300:74FA:BD4E:6715:B093 (talk)18:23, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey mate, thank you. you didn't say which image you wanted to replace, i'm assuming homesteads. i actually think it would be good to remove an image(s) from the early part of the history section, as there's a lot there. [there's guidance pages on images, it says to remove px, use upright instead and have images face inwards.] if you want to carry on this conversation i'd do it on the talkpage so others can see. thanks again,Tom B (talk)09:34, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, could you update the word count ofGianluigi Buffon andCareer of Lionel Messi, given that both of them have lost +20,000 bytes since their last update. Kind regards.Luis7M (talk)00:15, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya, I'm on holiday. I'd find the prose size word count tool? Maybe go ask at the helpdesk. I'll be back in a couple of weeksTom B (talk)12:15, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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hey I want to add new image on Imran Khan page but iam not extended confirm user so I request to you, to add image check Imran Khan's talk I give image link every thinks thats already uploaded you just put them bro or sis.IWritting Right (talk)23:47, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hallo, ask on the article talkpage, thank you,Tom B (talk)11:47, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Imran Khan's talk?IWritting Right (talk)20:28, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yes on the article talkpageTom B (talk)22:30, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

bro I msg but no one replying, you can check the talkIWritting Right (talk)07:48, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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