User talk:Catsmoke

Hi Jesse/OlYeller, and thanks for your note. Stop apologising - anyone would think you're British! Your edit to ANK was very timely as it started me thinking, and I realised that according to the MOS I should have written in American English - so thanks for alerting me. It felt very odd writing '-ized' rather than '-ised', and 'adviser' rather than 'advisor', amongst others: try writing in British English and you'll see what I mean. I kept expecting the teacher's ruler to thwack down on my fingers. Later last evening I was really taken to task for my non-American punctuation, so it's been a steep learning curve! And thank-you for your kind words about my efforts - it's always nice to be appreciated, isn't it? Cheers Jasper33 23:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

:Thanks for your complements as to my Old Yeller plot summary. I read the book two years ago, and it's still one of my favorites! Geohevy 21:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

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:File:Information.svg Hi Catsmoke! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at :Starbucks that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Ptrnext (talk) 07:30, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

::{{Reply to | Ptrnext}} Thank you for your guidance. I'd no idea that "minor edit" had any substantive meaning. Now I know better, and I shall change my behavior accordingly. I apologize for having erred. —catsmoke ^talk 11:26, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

I have done my best to address your concerns there, however in light of the recent U.S. State Department report, some sources need to be produced in order to balance the view that this was an 'attack by terrorists'. I did remove a bunch of superfluous media hype about investigations to concentrate on the actual findings. Please drop by and let us know if you think we're headed in the right direction. ClaudeReigns (talk) 09:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Will do, thank you very much. Analogdrift (talk) 14:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I think you should read the WP:SHIPS manual of style again. Ship class names are only italicized if there is a ship name in it. Such as the Vanguard class. Ship classes where a ship name is not involved such as the Hunt class are not italicized. Thanks for your time. Llammakey (talk) 15:18, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

::Hello. Thank you, for pointing this out. I've re-read WP:SHIPS and now I understand it better.

:::* it seemed to me that all ship classes were "named after a ship with that specific name"

:::* I did not know that any ship classes were named after "an attribute common to all of the ships of the class"

:::* so, my habit was to italicize them all, and thus I erred

::My apologies, for having taken so long, to reply to you. I just saw your message today. You have inspired me to improve, as an editor. I appreciate your input. Catsmoke (talk) 20:55, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi, FYI, I put in a move request which I think will sort out your username situation. the actual name you use is already correct it's just (I think) that your user talk page was not moved when your account was renamed. (and during the earlier rename to make way for your usurpation the previous user's user talk was moved leaving behind a redirect which I can't move over on my own. cc {{ping|1=Catsmoke}} --Jeremyb (talk) 05:01, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

:ok, done, are you still seeing "usurped" anywhere? --Jeremyb (talk) 05:14, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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