User talk:Ira Leviton

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Hi Ira. I was so glad to meet you tonight at WikiWednesday. Had hoped we would have more time to talk and chit chat, especially about Wikipedia and Jewish genealogy. Please reach out if you need anything or have any questions! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 04:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I moved your creation to User:Ira Leviton/Userboxes/Einstein, as it is unsuited for main article space. Feel free to work on it or host it at your user subpage, sandbox, or elsewhere outside of mainspace. All the best, --Animalparty! (talk) 23:58, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for List of hospitals in New York City, it looks like you did a lot of work. I am going to add some of the red linked ones to Wikidata. That way they can appear as places of death within Wikidata. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 18:45, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You make the decision, should they stay as red links, or link to Wikidata entries such as [[d:Q21905293|Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital]] and appear as Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital? I could write an entry in Wikipedia but am blocked from creating new entries, my personal Javert just got me blocked from even creating articles in my userspace. I am currently working on Coroner of New York City.

Don't forget to add in the cemetery burials to Wikidata, I added in one for you: Elliot Willensky. Stuff gets deleted on Wikipedia all the time, but Wikidata is more stable. Categories come and go like fashion here, but there, we think of new ways to categorize people all the time. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:36, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the barnstar and spotting the errors with the two people confused as one. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there! I noticed your recent edit to Gram staining where you capitalized "Gram" throughout the article. Actually, this is not as straightforward as it seems. In general when Gram is used as part of a compound adjective (gram-positive, gram-negative, etc.) it is left lowercase. There is a brief explanation of this at the Eponym page as well as some discussion about our specific case at Talk:Gram-negative bacteria and a brief note on the Gram-staining talk page. In general this is the format you'll see from the CDC (sorry you have to scroll down a bit on that one) and other mainstream organizations. I went through the Gram staining page and re-lowercased throughout (except for "Gram stain" which remains uppercase). If you disagree or would like to talk about it, feel free to ping me here or leave a message on my talk page (or post on the Gram staining talk page for a wider audience). Other than that, glad to see someone taking an interest in the Gram staining article! Happy editing!! Ajpolino (talk) 18:37, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget to also add the Findagrave ID to Wikidata, I added your last one. People delete them in Wikipedia, but they are always there at Wikidata. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:28, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Some of the changes you made with this edit to the above article actually broke the sentence case in some of the references, by capitalising words that are not proper nouns.

eg: Coupe de France: Caudebec and Saint-Nicolas eliminated you changed to Coupe de France: Caudebec and Saint-Nicolas Eliminated, but note that all the capitalised words in the sentence before you changed it were proper nouns.

I don't want to revert the whole edit, as some of the changes (moving from all capitals to title case) are valid. I would invite you to revisit this edit and change those which you moved from sentence case to title case back to sentence case. Cheers, Gricehead (talk) 09:18, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, wp:ALLCAPS states: Reduce newspaper headlines and other titles from all caps to sentence case or title case. For example, replace the headline "WAR BEGINS TODAY" with "War begins today" or "War Begins Today". (my bold). In the example above, the original edit is equivalent to War begins today and your edit is equivalent to War Beings Today. So you've changed an acceptable per-MOS sentence case to an acceptable per-MOS title case. There is no difference between languages. (Sentence case states: Only the first character of the sentence is capitalised, except for proper nouns and other words which are required by a more specific rule to be capitalised.) Not a massive deal, but I don't think we should really be changing one per-MOS acceptable title to another per-MOS acceptable title. Cheers, Gricehead (talk) 12:47, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your changes, much appreciated. Cheers, Gricehead (talk) 08:41, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thanks so much for your proofreading, typo-catching, and other fine corrections throughout Wikipedia! Softlavender (talk) 10:26, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ira. Thanks for your edit to the MV Discovery article; however, I have reverted it. I see from your user page that you are American, and Coast Guard is indeed two words in American English, but it is a single word in British English. The reference in the article was to the United Kingdom Maritime and Coastguard Agency, which is the parent body of Her Majesty's Coastguard, so the original spelling was correct. Best wishes, Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 19:58, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your edit on Amália Revisited, but Bulllet (with 3 Ls) is not a typo :) The artist writes his name like that Anonymous from the 21st century (talk) 19:00, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I really appreciated your edited on Daniel Padilla article. Best Regards Puchicatos (talk) 05:14, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, would you mind to help fixed spelling errors on Daniel Padilla's article? Thank You in advance Puchicatos (talk) 14:04, 18 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

your recents. good to see. in western Scotland the intermission (my invention) word is aim or aeem in particular females will begin almost every sentence with 'aim'. in southern Java - Indonesian speakers with good english use actually in a similar manner. Keep up the good work, and say hello to the lower west side for me (Manhattan), I miss it. JarrahTree 22:59, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't matter we call..it does matter what the Italian government call! For example, between 1917-1922 the governors of Tripolitania were actually governors of two or three cities (Tripoli, Homs, Zuwara)!--Maher27777 (talk) 06:36, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm Seligne. Ira Leviton, thanks for creating Kings County District Attorney!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Great citations! Your "List" could use a more descriptive title. Also, more categories....

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Seligne (talk) 14:28, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

😃😃Poems! Do you have any on Wikipedia? BulbAtop (talk) 18:52, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ira Leviton! I saw you recently edited a page related to the Green party and green politics. There is a WikiProject that has been formed - WikiProject Green Politics and I thought this might be something you'd be interested in joining! So please head on over to the project page and take a look! Thanks for your time. Me-123567-Me (talk) 02:15, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. Per this, please point out where in the MOS it says to artificially fix typos in refs. I've never seen such a rule/guideline, and we certainly don't do it in other contexts (such as misspelt song titles in music albums). Mac Dreamstate (talk) 01:38, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

From what I can see, that MOS section pertains only to quotations of prose text, rather than specifically titles of refs. Also, I strongly believe Wikipedia should be striving for accuracy, even if it means preserving mistakes—the publisher of the ref made an error in the title, but it is not our responsibility to fix it, since it does not make a difference within the article body. I would let the Di Rocco edit slide otherwise, but the issue could carry over into countless other articles unless we get clarification. Should I ask at WT:MOS? 01:56, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Discussion started here. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:29, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I think that's a reasonable solution across the board—I'll be sure to use the tag myself in future. Nice talking with you, and all the best. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:32, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

	The Minor barnstar
	I find it unbelievable that I approved New York Herald Tribune as a good article and yet missed repeated "the" not once, but twice. thanks for cleaning my mess up. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:36, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing—Air & Sea Show —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. WikiVirusC^(talk) 04:58, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for cleaning up the List of People from the Bronx. I never could get the hang of hyphenation, even when I copied another entry -- or maybe because of that! Bellagio99 (talk) 20:32, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your name seems to be affiliated with a recent change to my Wikipedia entry (Frank P. Tomasulo). The box seems to suggest that there's something wrong with my entry. I added some citations but the box is still there. What SPECIFICALLY do I (or you) have to do to remove that warning box? I tried editing but to no avail. franktomasulo@yahoo.com. BTW, I was born and grew up in NYC and currently live in Manhattan. How about that CHEESEBURGER?! Ftomasulo (talk) 03:01, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For spotting the occasions for spotting the occasions where I where I have a tendency have a tendency to say everything twice to say everything twice, [1] [2] here are here are a pair of a pair of stroopwafels for you stroopwafels for you Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 19:10, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

While I appreciate your efforts at working on style, I must point out that you don't change material inside a direct quotation. This applies to the wire service style which was / is to capitalize the dateline city of origin - it is not a typo. Editorial changes to handle things like misspellings, or in the case of some words that have changed in usage over time (employe / employee comes to mind) are marked [sic] to show that the typo or variation was in the original source. Mark Sublette

The edits I was referring to were items from Military Aircraft Accidents, 1940 - 1944. Personally, as a historian, I try to accurately reflect the source material, and prefer to post the text as it was printed, and note missed keystrokes with [sic]. Also, usage of the language, especially in the press, has evolved over time, and reporting has changed. I don't like to second-guess period style. Mark Sublette

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For being able to spot two "the"s next to each other without flinching. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:12, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!
Thanks for rescuing Castleton.
I am intrigued to understand how on earth you were watching this insignificant article.  Cheers! Gareth Griffith‑Jones (The Welsh Buzzard) 13:19, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Welsh Buzzard,

I must admit your question made me laugh. I had to go back to my contribution history to remember, but since you asked, here's the long answer:

THe Castleton page isn't on my watch list. For the last few months on Wikipedia, I've been doing mostly copy editing. I'm a member of the Typo Team and have been on a search and and destroy mission for duplications of the words 'and' and 'the.' It's boring to do that all the time, so I sometimes click on a link. My edit immediately prior to those on the Castleton article was a deletion of a duplicated 'and' on the Morris Marina article. I can't find a link directly from that page to Castleton, so I may have gone to another page in between, but I wound up on Castleton, and when I saw words that shouldn't have been capitalized, I just couldn't leave them alone.

Regards,

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 14:13, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, ha! The fun of editing WP, hey! Anyway, much appreciated and your good work led me to make a number of revisions following that IP before you. If you care to look at my User page you will see why I have an interest there. All the best. Cheers! Gareth Griffith‑Jones (The Welsh Buzzard) 14:22, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ira Leviton,

I won't revert your edits again and i did know the guidelines. But i think it's important to realise that the party name and list name are 2 different things. The Dutch election committee follows instructions from party's choice for partylist name. Styling it this way is the way they participated. Since this is a list of the party lists (and not party names) it's strange not to follow the official party list name.

Anyway. Not going not going to edit war you on this or anything. But i take pride in my accuracy.

With kind regards,
--BasBr1 (talk) 20:28, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There's currently a movie going on at Blade (comics) that you might be interested in since you have edited the article in question recently.★Trekker (talk) 18:45, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ira Leviton. You have new messages at MartinezMD's talk page.
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MartinezMD (talk) 02:41, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ira Leviton, I really like your articles. How can I have youe email address Avazalishah (talk) 04:12, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Just a quick token of recognition of your exhaustive efforts to improve Wikipedia, Ira. Best regards. :) Kieronoldham (talk) 00:03, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. Could you create the article ru:Build-a-lot in Simple English section of Wikipedia? Thank you. -- The222anonim (talk) 14:58, 28 September 2017 (UTC) UPD: Oh. Excuse me. Actual version on English : Build-a-lot, but, can you translate that on Simple English?[reply]

Re this edit: In many countries outside the US, "Republican" is not usually capitalised. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles#Descriptive nouns and adjectives specifically says to use lowercase. jnestorius^(talk) 07:53, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem, Jnestorius. The reason I stopped by that page was to correct the duplicate 'the.' While there, I noticed republican as a political party, which gets capitalized in the U.S. although it gets a small 'r' as a simple adjective. If gets a small 'r' as a political party outside of the U.S., then it should be a small 'r' in this article – after all, that's where the reference was made. Thanks, and regards. Ira Leviton (talk) 00:07, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I saw you adding nicknames and other changes to list of baseball team nicknames a couple times a week ago. It makes me to ask if you would like to look at the page List of MLB team nicknames I wrote on PlanetStar Wikia four weeks ago that lists lot more nicknames, many of them I came up with, than there are on Wikipedia page. Let me know if you have any thoughts surrounding that. PlanetStar 00:01, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@PlanetStar:

Hi - and I apologize for taking so long to answer. I happened on the list of team nicknames because of a typo on it, but being interested in baseball history, I had to add something in addition to fixing the typo. I see nothing wrong with being 'encyclopedic' about team names, although somebody might complain that Wikipedia isn't supposed to be a bunch of lists. As long as there are citations, why not add the other names on your Wikia page to the Wikipedia article? It's currently heavily weighted toward more recently used names, so adding old names, like "Mackmen" for the A's will make that more evenhanded. Team names are one of those lists that can never be complete but there are plenty of those types of lists on Wikipedia too. I say go for it!

Ira Leviton (talk) 02:41, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ira

Hi Ira, Thanks for taking an interest in Nantucket's neutrality during the American Revolutionary War, an article that I have found to be problematic owing to its marginal notability and the appearance that it was a school history paper. Perhaps you could take a crack at the lead section. A good summary there could help indicate whether the article focuses on a notable topic. It appears to have some interesting material in the body that probably should find a home in any case. Cheers, User:HopsonRoad 13:48, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@HopsonRoad:

Hi, and thanks for your comment. I also thought that this article might have started out as some type of class project, although I thought that it was interesting and about a notable issue. I agree that the lede is weak because it doesn't summarize the topic well and included history that's unimportant to the rest of the article and should have appeared only below the table of contents. There's other stuff in the text, like a bunch of "so-and-so wrote in an article in this journal..." that's unnecessary because it's in the citations. I may have time to work on it next weekend, but I have to think about the lede because I'm not an expert at all in this topic.

Ira Leviton (talk) 02:41, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ira

Thanks for your reply, Ira. I suggest that, since the lede need only summarize the article, it shouldn't require expertise, just an ability to understand, process and write, which you clearly have! Whatever you achieve, will probably be a great improvement, even if the article receives further attention and development from others. Cheers, User:HopsonRoad 14:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ira, thanks for your edit on Clash of Champions (2017). I noticed you removed the PPV abbreviation in the first sentence. Although it might not be used again in the article right now, it is often later added in the articles, and its actually in the first line of every Impact, WCW and WWE PPV. I understand your rationale for removing but I think it does serve a purpose. Any thoughts on that?

I also notice you recently edited the Israeli Wrestling League article I recently created. I created a bunch of other Israeli wrestling related articles, and a template for them: Template:Professional wrestling in Israel, Professional wrestling in Israel, Ultimate Wrestling Israel, IPWA Heavyweight Championship (Israel), and Tomer Shalom. Any help with a second set of eyes, and with expanding them, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - Galatz^Talk 18:41, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Galatz:

Hi,

Thanks for your comments and noticing my edits. I'm on the Wikipedia Typo Team and stopped by both of the pages you mentioned in my almost never-ending search for duplications of the word 'the', which is my current project. (It's a very common typo.) I also remove allcaps and jargon abbreviation when I notice them. Wrestling pages tend to have allcaps, I believe because their magazines have headlines in allcaps and those are pasted as references. It's not a big deal, but it gives me something else to do. As for as abbreviations, I think that almost everybody uses them – including me – but Wikipedia is supposed to be for a general audience and unless it's something like "the U.N.", people may not know what it is. I don't even like to see jargon abbreviation in Wikipedia articles when they're used to save space for a frequently repeated term, since newspapers, for example, tend to successfully avoid them. I don't remove them when they're used 20 times on a page, but when I saw the PPV and that it was used only in the lede, I thought it should be removed. I'm not a fan of wrestling, boxing, or anything that uses PPV, but I knew the abbreviation, but I always think, if a ten-year old kid or my wife is reading an article with jargon, they're not going to know what it means, and they may lose interest and go to another page.

The Israeli Wrestling League page you created is very detailed - you must either be a big fan or spent a huge amount of time researching it - or both. It's tough for me to judge how popular wrestling is in Israel, but if you link it to the right kind of other wrestling articles, you should get a decent number of page views from die-hards in the U.S. and elsewhere that way.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 19:32, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, the Hebrew WP was big help for the IWL article. The Professional wrestling in Israel and Tomer Shalom needed to be created from scratch though. Professional wrestling and Israel related articles on WP are where I focus most of my efforts so WP, so it only made sense to combine the two and start working on those articles.

I always let WP fill in the reference for me, and therefore yes, it just takes the all caps from the article itself which uses all caps. Unfortunately you will therefore find the same cap issues in the articles I mentioned above. - Galatz^Talk 19:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ira, I noticed your edits and requests for clarification on Peter Corke. This page is about me so not quite sure the process given WP COI guidelines. You've expanded CSIRO to its full and formal name, but since the 1980s the organisation only refers to itself as CSIRO. It's not an acronym, there are no dots. Maybe expand it out the first time and give the short name in parentheses. You've added matrix laboratory as an expansion for MATLAB, and although that is where the name came from in the 1970s when it was a university project, the company MathWorks founded in 1984 never refer to this meaning for MATLAB. ICT stands for Information and Communications Technology, a fairly well known term in Australia and Europe, it recognises that for IT systems today the communications/networking is super important. But if you expand out CSIRO ICT Centre you no longer have the name of the organisation, it was known internally and externally as CSIRO ICT Centre or even CSIRO ICTC. It's tricky when the contraction becomes the normal way of referring to a thing. Finally, "take up a chair" is a British idiom for becoming a professor. Unlike the US, in the Australia and the UK not all academics are professors: academics rise through the ranks of lecturer, senior lecturer, reader (increasingly associate professor), professor.

Peter.corke (talk) 21:17, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Peter.corke:

Hi

I will try to fix the article – either later today or tomorrow, using the information in your message. (As you can probably tell, I hate jargon abbreviations. But if they're explained properly and used properly, then they're OK.)

You taught me a Britishism! (I've wanted to take up a chair many times, but only to use it on somebody from behind.)

And you're right about conflicts of interest, but I'm sure that it can be fixed without you having to do anything.

Ira Leviton (talk) 21:31, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ira

@Peter.corke:

Hi Peter,

I made some edits that I think solve the problems. Please see if they make sense to you too.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 18:56, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you also make some changes in the article of Rahul Kumar Kamboj. The article is being considered for deletion. Maybe you can also share your opinion with discussion. Thanks. GoPro (talk) 06:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jewish history

Thank you for quality articles such as Dennis Edwards Jr., Tina Levitan and Congregation Shaare Zedek Cemetery, for "additions, corrections, references, etc.", for "I think it's a good thing when knowledge can be created or distributed at no cost.", for the cute infobox of yourself, - Ira, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1827 of Precious, a prize of QAI, and Happy 2019! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:53, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please review the references for the all capital letters that you removed from the Hawaii missile alert article. The references clearly show all capital letters.67.53.214.86 (talk) 00:14, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your typo fixes! Marquardtika (talk) 05:27, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ira Leviton. I've seen you editing recently and you seem like an experienced Wikipedia editor. Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. —usernamekiran(talk) 16:50, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

		The Typo Team Barnstar
		Dear Ira, Thank you very much for your contributions to the Typo Team, and for your unswerving commitment to improving our encyclopedia! It's really great to have you on board!!! With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 20:29, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have an opinion on linking the defunct NYC hospital entries to that do not have a Wikipedia article to their entries in Wikidata? --RAN (talk) 01:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ):

Hi Richard,

First, I have to apologize for taking so long to reply. It was good to hear from you again. I've been thinking about your question for a while (too long, I admit). I think that in general, redlinks should be left as an encouragement to write Wikipedia articles. Even though some of the defunct hospitals in New York City are pretty insignificant to most people, there are many things that have Wikipedia articles even though in my opinion they're much less significant. Maybe it's my interest in New York City history and my consequent bias that everything in New York City is significant, but I'm hoping that even if it's not soon, the defunct hospitals will have articles in a few years.

I have to also admit that my motivation for writing today was coming across my mother's birth certificate. The location of her birth was recorded as "J.M.H." It took some investigating, but I discovered that those were the initials of [[Jewish Maternity Hospital] - which motivated me to write an article for it (it's in the mainspace as of a few minutes ago). So even if nobody else writes any articles on defunct hospitals in N.Y.C., I should get the list done in about 200 years or so.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 15:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Are you working on your genealogy? Have you been to Familysearch, the Mormon website? Did you take one the DNA tests? Ancestry or 23andme? Many of my entries are for the same reason, mostly cemeteries and obscure reference books. You can also add your grandparents to Wikidata, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20726678, as a way to store all the places you keep information on them. --RAN (talk) 20:44, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ira Leviton,

I noticed you are a reviewer of different topics and you already approved several edits on many pages on Wikipedia.

Please I need your help as I have edits with references, I want these edits to be reflected on my company's page on Wikipedia, how can I guarantee the edits will be approved by you or other reviewers?

Please feel free to contact me on sfseed3@gmail.com or to write on my Talk Page on Wikipedia.

Thanks in advance

--SFlowerSeed (talk) 13:42, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your improvement of the product. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

Active beginning in 2015, Ira has a New York focus but does work in all the spheres of the Wiki. Over 43000 edits with 97% to mainspace. Uses the edit summary 99% of the time. Believes in disseminating knowledge and information. Add facts, links, and references, correct errors, and tries to improve the encyclopedia where he can. List of hospitals in New York City is an article that displays his work. A WP:Typo Team member, he has created 25 articles.

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Ira Leviton

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Since 2015, Ira's New York focus works at disseminating knowledge and information in all the spheres of the Wiki. Over 43000 edits with 97% to mainspace: uses edit summary 99% of the time. Constantly adding facts, links, references and correcting errors.

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@Buster7:

Hi and thank you for the award and the call-out. You got me by surprise. (And yes, I am a long-suffering New York Mets fan.) I will certainly proudly display this on my user page.

Ira Leviton (talk) 02:32, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Ira Leviton, you changed to "small letter capital" from "big letter capital" of group name in 「Shigeaki Kato」 page. but the group name big letter capital is correct. you can see the reason why in「NEWS (band)」page.thanks.--Katanori04 (talk) 05:34, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The phrase and mayor of Jerusalem in 1920–1934. should be and mayor of Jerusalem from 1920-1934. This conforms to British and American use of prepositions. I've been doing this for a decade, Ira, but I don't know how to alter that background section, which is a newer feature. I noticed that you also like proof-reading, so I'm asking you for a how-to. It's possible that the original sentence was in 1920, then someone added -1934, but neglected to update the preposition. MichelleInSanMarcos (talk) 20:43, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MichelleInSanMarcos:

Hi

You are 10)% correct about that prepositional phrase. I made the correction – just look at the coding on the edit tab of the page to see how I did it. I also changed the dash to 'to'.

Ira Leviton (talk) 20:53, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know that I've started WikiProject Western Governors University, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of WGU. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Paul Smith111977 (talk) 08:54, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm confused. You removed the word "ironically" from the article Cutty-sark (witch)‎, citing the manual of style, where we are warned against using that word as a peacock word. However, I reverted that, explaining that in this article the word is being used in it's correct sense: when we say that this line in the poem is ironic, we are making a scholarly statement about the literary device of irony which the poet used; we are NOT saying that we find it casually ironic that he did that. You thanked me for the edit - and then re-reverted as though you had not read my comment. Was this an error? --Doric Loon (talk) 17:33, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Doric Loon:

Hi,

The error is mine. I understood your original comment and agreed with it, and my second deletion was an error. I've reinserted the word. My apologies.

Ira Leviton (talk) 18:15, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful. No problem at all. --Doric Loon (talk) 18:17, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

YES! - thank you, drives me nuts. Well done. DBaK (talk) 21:25, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered: I've deleted that word from hundreds of pages. One of my many pet peeves. Thousands to go, though.

Ira Leviton (talk) 20:24, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep at it! Wikipedia needs your peeve-rage! Cheers DBaK (talk) 00:43, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ira, thank you for being such a kind human being. I was truly touched when I signed on to Wikipedia today, and found that you had awarded me "The Women's History Barnstar" ... for "ongoing contributions in this area, particularly for their quality and the research behind them." I'm sitting here with a big smile on my face. Thank you (and thank YOU for all of your wonderful work). Have a great week! 47thPennVols (talk) 03:14, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coastal_radio_station_VIN_Geraldton - interestingly some interestingly scintilating terminology in this one JarrahTree 14:02, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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	[3] Thank you for your wikignoming!! Tom (LT) (talk) 00:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Last month you made a nice little edit at Silence (2016 film). Today I noticed that another editor appears to have made a long sequence of edits expanding the plot there well over WP:Filmplot length limit. Since that editor does not ever answer Talk page could you consider doing a rollback to restore the article. JohnWickTwo (talk) 17:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Another editor was able to assist. JohnWickTwo (talk) 22:13, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad someone is working on that gnomish task. I just ask that you be more careful. There's no reason to remove words like "interestingly" from a quote as you did at Navy Working Uniform. Removing editorializing in wikipedia's voice is fine, but when we quote, we cannot alter someone else's editorilization, as reflected in that quote. Please keep that in mind. oknazevad (talk) 23:09, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Oknazevad:: You are absolutely correct. I was going too fast and didn't realize that it was part of a quotation, and will pay more attention and be more careful in the future.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 05:23, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ira, I suspect that the crew who were saved would agree with the "fortunately". I suspect that even the French would have endorsed the lack of drownings. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 23:16, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Acad Ronin::

Hi Acad Ronin,

I'm certain you're correct. But even if both sides of the battle thought it was fortunate, the impartial, non-judgmental, non-editorializing, impassive Wikipedia doesn't. So, to paraphrase Sergeant Joe Friday alleged quotation, my edit was for "Just the facts."

Ira

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Thank you for noticing the duplicate 'the' in my Thessaloniki Metro station articles, and replacing it! --Michail (blah) 22:52, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've been correcting typos for a long time but just recently found your Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss. I deleted the words that I corrected, and moved words that were correct to the notes section, with an explanation, because that's what I thought was the correct thing to do. But after seeing strikethroughs and re-reading the instructions, now I"m not sure if I did things correctly. Which do you prefer?

By the way, your program is a great service – it makes fixing typos quite a bit more efficient. Thank you.

Ira Ira Leviton (talk) 12:24, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the way you did it was great and is pretty close to the way I do it myself. Some people like to see strikethroughs because it gives them a sense of what's been accomplished so far. Most of the sections these days, (including the main by-article sections which are currently working on articles beginning with "A", and the by-frequency sections that are posted for a-m and n-z on different cycles), only have part of the alphabet posted. For those I tend to do removals when I'm fixing typos, since it makes it easier to find items that still need to be done, and everything will get removed at the end of the cycle anyway - the only thing I keep are items where someone has left a note about a problem or specific work to be done on that item, and if there are no strikethroughs those stick out more clearly. Usually other editors come by and remove entire sections when they are full of nothing but strikethroughs, and that's definitely a nice feeling. 8) There are a few sections (which I think most people don't bother working on) where the whole alphabet gets reposted every time, and for those it'll always say at the top of the section to please use strikethroughs or leave a note for finished items in that section. That's because I need to manually remove any items that got worked on during the few days between the "snapshot" of the database dump (which is always on the 1st or 20th of the month) and when that database dump is finished being processed (which is a few days later). You don't necessarily have to move things to the notes section, BTW; there may be some other editors who will come by and add correct words to Wiktionary so they don't show up on future runs. I usually leave the notes sections behind when I remove an old dump because I'm about to post a new one, but I don't want to lose the comments people made because they obviously put work into them. But hey, maybe it makes it easier for those folks who want to add words to the dictionary to find them if they're all in one section. If it gets them out of your way to make it easier to find words that are spelled incorrectly, or you just like being helpful, feel free to keep doing that. Hopefully that long rambling explanation makes sense? Fortunately, we don't have to worry too much because anything that falls through the cracks will be back in a cycle or two if the system thinks it's not fixed. And thanks very much to you as well for helping out with the project! These reports would be fairly useless without the community of volunteers who are using them to fix typos for readers. -- Beland (talk) 00:18, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is the word you think doesn't exist "unobtainably" or "large"? SpinningSpark 18:09, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Spinningspark:

Hi Spinning Spark,

The word was 'unobtainable'. I was using Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss to find typos, and it was picked up as a misspelling of unobtainable. The adverb form, 'unobtainably', doesn't exist. If you think I changed the meaning with unattainable and want to replace it with another word, that's fine with me.

Regards,

Ira Ira Leviton (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a problem with your edit as such. I'm just interested in why unobtainably isn't a word. I'm seeing a few (not many) gbook results for it, and usage is the usual test of whether a word actually exists. SpinningSpark 18:31, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Spinningspark:

I believe that Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss uses Wiktionary as its database. (But I didn't think it was a word, either.) The person with the user name "Beland" made this tool, so you can ask him/her if that's correct. I suppose it's possible that it doesn't have an entry on Wiktionary.

FYI, I'll be off line for a couple of hours so I won't be able to respond right away.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 18:42, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've added hundreds of words to Wiktionary and its still no more finished than Wikipedia, so non-existence there is not firm evidence, although it's usually a good sign. Unless it's considered a common error, I'm inclined to add it too. SpinningSpark 19:03, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Spinningspark:

Feel free to do so – I think that's an excellent idea. Once it's there, Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss won't detect it as a spelling error or typo, so it won't be picked up by others who use that. It seems to be a word that's accepted by some but not by everybody – so you'll be contributing to the English language!

Ira Leviton (talk) 20:58, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have a scrap book of football programs, newspaper articles, pictures, lots of stuff and in great condition of Loyola high school in the 40s and it all has to do with Al Pollard.do you know anyone who would be interested in it m — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.203.2.227 (talk) 11:36, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please help edit the following draft to meet wikipedia guidlines. Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Chandreshekar_Sonwane Rocketscience144 (talk) 04:35, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Re this edit, diaconal is not a typo, it is an adjective which you will find in standard dictionaries. DuncanHill (talk) 11:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore the above, my mistake! But note that diaconian is probably not a typo - it has to do with a diaconia. DuncanHill (talk) 11:28, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding this edit [4] in which you "fixed" the bolding, I'd be interested to know how you came to the conclusion that it needed fixing? These park names each redirect to this article and the bolding helps readers be sure they've found the content they were looking for. This is supported by the manual of style. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:06, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Beeblebrox:

Hi,

I'm usually not in favor of using bolds too often, because it can make the typography difficult to read. But I see your point.

I've also fixed two more typos that I noticed when I looked back at the page, and added another link. I will also be adding Crooked Creek and Johnson Lake to the disambiguation pages for these names, although they'll be redlinked. All of these should have their own pages... eventually.

Thanks for your comment.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 21:25, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, and for the record I make a lot of typos so I really do appreciate the efforts of those that fix them. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Beeblebrox:

For kicks, I made a new page at Johnson Lake (Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska). Feel free to add, modify, or link to it.

I also have a question - on the Kasilof River page, is there supposed to be a word ("with" or "at"?} before "the Slackwater boat launch"?

Ira Ira Leviton (talk) 23:23, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch, I added "at." Beeblebrox (talk) 19:40, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, You added a "sic" template to a reference in the Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare article as the typo is in the source but this means the reference (Ref 20) is now showing a CS1 error "URL–wikilink conflict". Any idea how to fix this?— Rod ^talk 16:07, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Rodw:

Hi Rod,

It looks like somebody already fixed this. If it still doesn't look right to you, let me know, I know another way of fixing it.

My apologies for not doing it right the first time, I should have known to include the additional coding.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 01:38, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - fixed by User:Gilo1969.— Rod ^talk 08:13, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, are you sure this edit is a good idea? If it's the "Lent" issue of some magazine, shouldn't we be keeping their -- the magazine's -- dating? Would we change a "Michaelmas" issue of an Oxford University society publication to read "Autumn" in the reference, even if Michaelmas is how it described itself?

There's also the complication that Lent occurs in the Spring in the northern hemisphere, but in the Fall in the southern hemisphere. If the magazine was an Australian one, or the article subject an Australian, would you change "Lent" to "Autumn" instead of to "Spring"? This can all get confusing quite quickly! MPS1992 (talk) 21:07, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Rodw:

Hi,

I don't have a strong feeling about it, and I couldn't find anything specific for this in the Manual of Style. I just wanted to avoid the red letters that said "check format in date section". If you think it should stay, I won't mind you changing that part back to 'Lent'.

Ira Leviton (talk) 21:15, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ira

There are no red letters in the article. What is producing them, and how do we fix it? MPS1992 (talk) 21:27, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I suppose it's a CS1 thing.

Separately, MOS:SEASON refers to the wider point. MPS1992 (talk) 21:32, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

hello from carrollton,ga!

I'm a new member in the typo team and have recently been correcting some typos

just saying this as a heads-up!

LYON 02:55, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

your work has and always will be appreciated LYON 04:16, 17 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradleyagin (talk • contribs)

@Bradleyagin:

Hi,

Thank you for your kind words. And welcome to the Typo Team and keep going! The more people we have, the better Wikipedia will be! Thanks.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 05:12, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

did not think you would respond — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradleyagin (talk • contribs) 05:18, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

been working on the typos for a while — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradleyagin (talk • contribs) 05:21, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

hey ira there are 5 typos but they seem like they are correct any advice on what I should do?

Clonmoyle West - wikt:bhoth 

Cloone - wikt:amenty Clothes iron - wikt:gusing

Clover Leaf Seafoods - wikt:salteries Clovis Hugues - wikt:majoral 

bradleyagin 06:09, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Bradleyagin:

Hi,

I move the typos that I think are correct and not typos to the bottom of the page, and add a brief explanation. Just take a look at the bottom of the C page. On the A and B pages, last time I looked, the list of not-typos and explanations were all that was left. They may be gone now if Beland has started to process them.

Ira Ira Leviton (talk) 02:42, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

thanks

bradleyagin 16:17, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

That was fun, tag-teaming the remainder of "D", and we got it done for the new year! Schazjmd (talk) 14:51, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Schazjmd: Thank you, and yes it was. Beland was pretty quick to make the D page available after C was finished, so I expect E will follow shortly. I tagged him in this message so he sees it next time he's online.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 15:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Beland:

@Schazjmd and Ira Leviton: Wow, the two of you have made amazing progress! I was hoping to get a new dump processed before you finished D, but while we're waiting for that, I've posted E. Thanks again for all your dedicated typo squashing! -- Beland (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, if you ever wonder whether clicking "thanks" on a revision makes a difference, let me tell you that it does. I joined the typo team because it seemed like an area where I could help - low barrier to entry. (Editing Wikipedia is complicated!) Getting a notice is exciting! And someone saying thanks made me feel good! I'm gradually getting my sea legs and becoming more confident in my edits, but your initial thanks for my spelling corrections meant a lot. :) Jenniferz (talk) 07:36, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jenniferz and Jenniferz:

Thank you for your message. I apologize for not replying sooner.

Welcome to the Typo Team. I hope I see many corrections from you, and for a long time. I strongly believe that this is a way not just to make Wikipedia better, but to improve the world. I concede that it's crazy, but I think that the most valued acknowledgements are from other members of the Typo Team, who I don't even know. It's tough to explain but something that is done for somebody but not noticed by its recipients or cannot be repaid is the highest form of a good deed. Please excuse my momentary nutiness.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 03:19, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

Please check other issues and made more beautiful  Srikrishna1960 (talk) 18:35, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply] 

The 2018 Cure Award

In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For catching and fixing all the typos I have left in my ship articles. In each article there comes a point when I just no longer see them. Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 02:51, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Acad Ronin:

Hi and thank you for the message. I confess to having the same problem, and not just on Wikipedia.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 03:19, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, how do I do a clean up of ALL CAPS in one go, for example your recent edit to John Hick (politician)? There are a few more articles that need sorting out. Regards80.229.34.113 (talk) 18:55, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@80.229.34.113:

Hi - I'm not sure how else to respond to an IP address, so I hope you check back here. The only way I know how to do replace ALLCAPS is by tedious retyping. It's a pain when there are a lot of references with titles in ALLCAPS, and I have spent long times on some articles, like those about wrestlers, because their fan magazines frequently use ALLCAPS and are used as citations. If there are foreign letters or characters, it's even more tedious. I wish I knew a better way. (And don't forget to cite the Wikipedia Manual of Style in your edit summary so your edits aren't reverted by those who think ALLCAPS are supposed to be copied from sources.)

Ira Leviton (talk) 19:27, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, alas no short cuts.80.229.34.113 (talk) 12:08, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I saw you fixed tense in the article on Little Lake (Peterborough). I am not comfortable with the changes:

1. Adam Scott built a sawmill and grist-mill on the south edge of Little Lake. Scott Plains would eventually grow to become the city of Peterborough. The first British settlers arrived early in the 19th century.
2. Adam Scott built a sawmill and grist-mill on the south edge of Little Lake. Scott Plains grew to become the city of Peterborough. The first British settlers arrived early in the 19th century.

Did Scott Plains grow to become the city of Peterborough before the first British settlers arrived?

1. L.H. Baird made a survey of the route of what would become the Trent–Severn Waterway connecting Lake Huron to Lake Ontario, and following his recommendation locks were built
2. L.H. Baird made a survey of the route of what became the Trent–Severn Waterway connecting Lake Huron to Lake Ontario, and following his recommendation locks were built

Were the locks built before or after the route became the waterway?

1. Canalizing the Otonabee River... would open a continuous line of navigable water from Healey Falls to Balsam Lake, and was the subject of much discussion in the 1890s.
2. Canalizing the Otonabee River... opened a continuous line of navigable water from Healey Falls to Balsam Lake, and was the subject of much discussion in the 1890s.

Did the discussion occur before or after the river was canalized? Was it in fact canalized?

The forms "would grow", "would become", "would open" imply consequences that were going to happen some time in the future. They are followed by statements about more immediate events.

• Trump showed entrepreneurial interests while in high school. He became a wealthy man. He graduated in 1964.

Minor quibbles. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Aymatth2:

Thanks for your message. I'm a member of WP:Typo Team and landed on the page using Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss. I'm not a fan of using "would" because it can also imply something conditional, but I see your point. I should have also rearranged the sentences to be chronological, which may have required other adjustments to the wording. If you want to do that, or just change the sentences back to the way they were, either way is fine. (Just remember to keep the typo correction, which was a missing space after a period.)

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 20:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I would say that "would" is a respectable modal verb, and hope that you would agree. It typically refers to a time in the future from the viewpoint of a time in the past, but could also be used refer to a possibility, wish, intention etc. I would like to give examples, but that could make this reply too long. In the first two Little Lake cases "would" refers to events that had not happened at the time being described, but were to happen much later: the growth of the city and the creation of the waterway. The third example could and should be taken to mean that people in the 1890s were discussing what the costs and benefits would be if they were to canalize the river. At the time this was just a possibility, but the lift lock would in fact be opened in 1904. Aymatth2 (talk) 23:49, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I caught your use of "would" in your reply and saw your reversion of my edits and adding back the missing space. But I didn't understand it in your edit summary. You should've just said "it was better". 😍

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 01:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The controversy reminds me of "Dr. Laura," a psychotherapist with her original title from a degree in physiology.

Here are two obscure mentions of the scholar. (1978) Feb 11 "The Uses of Enchantment-The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales" by Bruno Bettelheim, child psych[o]logist. 10 AM-4 PM, Room 1105, Basic Sciences Bldg, School of Medicine, UCSD, fee, bring lunch, coffee provided, 452-3400. http://web.archive.org/web/20190603192559/https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb1230249d/_1.pdf

Workshop on teaching kids to read (MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1985) In an age of video games and television reruns, many parents and teachers are finding it increaSingly more difficult to teach and encourage children to read. On November 16, internationally renowned child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, Ph.D., will conduct a one-day workshop through UCSD Extension on problems in teaching children to read. Bettelheim, known for his work with autistic children, will discuss why and how children teach themselves to read, the books that stimulate or dull a child's mind, factors in the home environment that encourage or discourage love of reading, the emotional factors that cause a child to block a word, and how a child's misreading can be seen as intuition rather than as a mistake. Bettelheim, a professor of education and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Chicago, is the author of a number of books, including his most recent (with Karen Zelan), On Learning to Read: The Child's Fascination With Meaning. The one-day workshop will be held from 8:30 am-5:00 pm. Saturday, November 16 at UCSD Extension. The fee is $95. For further information, call 452-3400. https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb0888466p/_1.pdf MichelleInSanMarcos (talk) 19:44, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As a relatively recent contributor to the article, you're invited to a Request for Comment (RfC) discussion on the article's lead sentence. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 18:14, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bruno_Bettelheim#rfc_7DDF8CC

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Your talk page note and detailed edit summary at Nilphamari District are helpful guidance for new recruits and old salts alike, with regard to best practices around foreign words. The Islamic education levels ebtedayee (elementary), dakhil (secondary), alim (higher secondary), fazil (B.A.), and kamil (M.A.) are probably originally Arabic, borrowed into Bengali the way "madrasah" has been into English. I see them in many articles about Bangladesh and Bengal, and now have concrete pointers about how to handle them. Worldbruce (talk) 16:46, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Worldbruce:

Thanks for your comments, and for the barnstar. The only word that was detected by the Wikipedia:Typo_Team/moss typo detector was fajil, so that was the one I tagged. But I will put the transliteration template on all the other Bengali words because the typo detectors will likely get more sophisticated with time, and the templates don't change the way anything appears.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 18:16, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Ira. We communicated previously about an article. I just noticed your professional speciality. Could you please have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelming_post-splenectomy_infection#Mechanism I've previously included the malarial parasite, and I am sure it was edited out. Perhaps you have a decent enough reference that will please future editor-readers. I have yet to see published research on the difference between surgical and traumatic asplenia. Many thanks! MichelleInSanMarcos (talk) 19:13, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]