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:Thank you, lesson learned. Cobalt blur (talk) 17:22, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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:Hello. I see your message and the reversion. I'm happy to discuss my edits. What was the issue with including/quoting the RGS walking back the original assertion? It seemed very clear to me, in addition to their being no international acceptance of the 2008 claim.

:Looking forward to talking with you. Best regards. Cobalt blur (talk) 19:33, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

:There are also sourcing/citation issues. "Norman Finkelsteyn" the stringer for the (uncited) Hadassah Magazine item is not "Norman Finkelstein" the prominent Israeli historian and does not have an article because he is not notable. His item merely states the 2008 claim and the REK quote not in the original version. The political context and non-university financial backing are facts.

:I'm still new to editing and the last thing I want to do is be "not constructive"! Could I have added too many "citation needed?" templates? I wouid really appreciate any feedback you have. Thanks. Cobalt blur (talk) 19:42, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

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:Noted, thanks. Cobalt blur (talk) 16:11, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

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While I appreciate the links you added to the page, be careful not to overlink. Also, you overwrote a sentence I just recently edited, which I changed for clarity's sake. Any future changes to that particular sentence need to be discussed on the Talk Page. I wrote the original sentence some years ago and upon review, noticed there was a problem with it. My recent edit corrected it and then you changed it within moments afterwards. We could have been coincidentally editing at the same moment. However, the current change reflects the meaning from the source more accurately. Obenritter (talk) 18:01, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

I applaud your efforts to improve the "Ancient Egypt..." article but I have found some issues with them. Starting with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ancient_Egypt_in_the_Western_imagination&diff=next&oldid=1292378262 this edit], you introduced 9 Sfn/Har errors into the references in this article. The article is now listed within :Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors since the Sfn template-refs have no target within the article itself.

Taking a look at "Displaying error messages" on that Category page, a Wikilink to the script "User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js" page is displayed. This is a script that editors can install on their common.js page to help them see Harv cite/sfn cite problems. Instructions for installation can be found at User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors. I have this script installed on my "common.js" page. One of your edit summaries states you used some materials/information/refs from a "Western world" article? I suggest you cpi;d look there to find the complete target refs. I was going to try to correct the errors at Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination but there are too many and they are too complicated for my short time today.

Take a look at Ref#9, Strong 2001, p. 221-222. It is correctly formatted and has a target ref within the article and has page numbers. Here is the code as it appears within the article: {{Sfn|Strong|2001|p=221-222}},

and the target ref appears as:

{{cite book |last=Strong |first=James |title=Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible |publisher=Thomas Nelson Publishers |year=2001 |isbn=0-7852-4540-5}}.

The Winstone, Curl, & Findlen Sfns also all have target refs & page numbers, use them as additional code examples to work from.

Since you know where you got the information & refs from, it would be helpful if you could add the missing information yourself. In the meantime, I have left maintenance templates for the missing page numbers on the article.

I moved unused books/references from the Bibliography section into the Further reading section.

All the refs sitting within the Bibliography section should be converted into "Cite templates"(cite book, cite web, etc) otherwise the Sfn's cannot read the information to produce the proper linkage. I did convert the Sfn/Brittanica ref back into its previous cite encyclopedia format - I couldn't figure out how to get the Sfn to work. - Shearonink (talk) 18:41, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for pointing these out to me, and making all the corrections you did. I've corrected (I hope) remaining errors, and I appreciate your going into detail so that I can be more careful in the future. I look forward to discussing further on the article talk page.

:Cobalt blur (talk) 18:14, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Information.svg Hi Cobalt blur! I noticed that you recently made an edit and marked it as "minor", but it may not have been. "Minor edit" has a 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. Thank you. Shearonink (talk) 15:39, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

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