Talk:Hilmar Reksten

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I have cleaned up this article a second time in accordance with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style after my first edits were reverted. Here are some of the edits I have made:

  1. per WP:MOSNUM, "Numbers with five or more digits to the left of the decimal point (i.e. 10,000 or greater) should be delimited into groups so they can be easily parsed, such as by using a comma (,) every three digits (e.g. 12,200, 255,200, 8,274,527). A full stop (.) should not be used to separate thousands (e.g. 12.200, 255.200) to avoid confusion with the decimal point."
  2. per WP:YEARLINK, "Year articles (1795, 1955, 2007) should not be linked unless they contain information that is germane and topical to the subject matter—that is, the events in the year article should share an important connection other than merely that they occurred in the same year. For instance, Timeline of World War II (1942) may be linked to from another article about WWII, and so too may 1787 in science when writing about a particular development on the metric system in that year. However, the years of birth and death of architect Philip C. Johnson should not be linked, because little, if any, of the contents of 1906 and 2005 are germane to either Johnson or to architecture."
  3. per WP:DATESNO, "Dates: Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes, articles, or leading zeros.... Incorrect: 9th June, the 9th of June, June 9th.... Correct: 9 June, June 9...."
  4. per WP:OVERLINK, I have removed repeated links and links to ordinary English words (flag, president, giant, contract)

If these edits are reverted, I will take appropriate steps to restore them. Ground Zero | t 13:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response, particularly on how to write dates. This was new to me. I agree that links to ordinary words like "flag" only tend to make the page look motley (or at least colourful!), but it would be difficult to agree on what words are so ordinary they don't deserve a link - and what words do! I think opinions will differ there. - Anyway I have worked on Norwegian and Danish Wikipedia, where the rules differ, particularly on punctuation connected with numbers :-) --Kvent (talk) 08:40, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I must add here that I was unaware that you had edited the article, and thought it was me having overlooked some of the links, so duly put them in (not realizing that you had removed them, or that I was reverting anything)...Sorry! - But what happened to the part called "Charity"? Donations and contributions were an important part of Reksten's activities, and even if the man was no overly nice character, this was his better side which I think deserves some attention too. --Kvent (talk) 09:27, 29 December 2011 (UTC)--Kvent (talk) 09:27, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I cleaned up the article, and then came back and found that you had undone all of my work while adding new material. I made my edits again to the new version, and explained them on the article's talk page. When I came back and found that you had undone all of my work again despite my explanations on the talk page, I reverted the article to my clean version, and posted a notice on your talk page. Your last edits were therefore reverted. I am sure that you would not expect me to do the clean up a third time.
You can check to see whether other editors have made changes to an article by clicking on the "View history" tab at the top of the page.
As far as links go, the English Wikipedia community has set out its approach to linking in WP:OVERLINK. I don't have anything to add.
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! Ground Zero | t 18:35, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your various tips/advice - will prove useful! Doubtlessly, my checking "View history" would have saved us both of work; but it never occurred to me in the first place that links had been removed, since that would not have happened in Norwegian or Danish Wikipedia...I was just surprised at having overlooked them. (Small wonder, since I hadn't!) Well, we learn from our experiences; and since Wikipedias operate somewhat differently in different countries, it is obvious that misunderstandings will happen when one writes for a different Wikipedia from what one is used to.
I was planning to reinsert the chapter on "Charity". With my upgraded knowledge of English Wikipedia, I believe I can now do so succesfully without any need of further edits. (And it would be embarrassing if I prove myself wrong...) Happy New Year from --Kvent (talk) 19:36, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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