User talk:PinkDucky91

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Regarding IMDB

IMDB is an unreliable WP:USERGENERATED source per WP:IMDB - please stop using it as a ref in articles. Waxworker (talk) 23:22, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Mantain objectivity

Hi, it seems you have been doing a lot of edits that don't add any new content to pages/ correct mistakes, instead just change the way it is written in a way that affects the objectivity and unbiasedness of the article. please refer WP:NPOV, WP:SOAP and WP:LLM Shibui neko (talk) 00:59, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please remove Cleanup marker

Hi, thanks for removing the bare URLs. If you clean the last one on an article, please don't forget to remove the

marker at the top of the page. Rofraja (talk) 10:14, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Look out for what reFill does!

I notice you're doing a lot of bare-URL fixes, many by using the reFill utility. One I stumbled over was this one which was a problem because it caused loss of essentially all information about the source (so I reverted it). This happened because reFill changed the URL to one without information as to the article, and thus lost all chance of using the "reference" to again find the source. Apparently reFill replaced the URL with the one that it is redirected to when the URL is used, which now goes to the base page of a related site instead of to the specific article. The actual article can still be found if one has the original URL by looking in an archive (e.g. archive.org) using that URL. It happens that reFill also destroyed the useful hand-coded information that was present in the original reference (that sort of identifies the source).

You need to be careful about "cleaning up" bare URLs. In particular, the original URL shouldn't be removed unless a replacement URL actually leads to an equivalent article, one containing the text which supports the points being made in the article referencing it. -- R. S. Shaw (talk) 23:28, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		Well done for sorting out the references on Mary-Ann Ochota (and other pages). I know what a complicated process it can be so I really appreciate the effort you've gone to. Keep up the good work! ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:47, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Converting citations

Hello. I can see from your edit history that the majority of your edits involve converting references to use citation templates. In some circumstances that's entirely appropriate, but there are things you need to consider that I'm not sure if you've read.

WP:CITEVAR is the place to start. The first point there is one to be aware of straight off the bat. Be particular aware of the note. Then in the "to be avoided" section it's clear that "adding citation templates to an article that already uses a consistent system without templates, or removing citation templates from an article that uses them consistently" is one thing to avoid.

So, I think the only place that I've come across these edits was at Benjamin Smyth, an obscure British cricketer. On 22 September you converted the references that were all consistent in their style to use citation templates. I've reverted that. I wonder if you ended up at the page due to the "bare urls" maintenance tag that had been added the previous day, despite the fact that there weren't any bare urls on the page at all? I imagine that's the most likely way that you ended up at the page.

So, I reverted you and I imagine that this could easily be considered an unimportant point about referencing styles and so on. Aside from the fact that I dislike using cite templates because I can never remember how to do them and tend to think that the errors produced by them are an issue, I tend to think of it as a matter of respecting the choices that the editor who added the original references made. If the article's a mess, sure, convert the citations - although I'd suggest checking the history first to see if you can figure out whether they used citation templates originally. But if it's consistent, there's nothing wrong with leaving them as they are. Most people probably won't even notice, let alone care. But someone might.

I'll watch here for a week in case you want to discuss this further, but after that you'll have to attract my attention somehow. Blue Square Thing (talk) 17:08, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Yes I ended up there because it was tagged with the "bare URLs". I'll refer to the page you provided and keep it in mind for future citation edits and make sure to check the history as well. Thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it. PinkDucky91 (talk) 01:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]