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Care to explain this edit you made to the Hurricane Irma article? You're a long-term user, so I was surprised to see you make a vandal-like edit. Master of Time (talk) 00:27, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you're referring to. I simply moved a preposition over a few words to make the sentence grammatical.Dylanvt (talk) 00:46, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Edit: It is possible that I mistakenly changed the name of Christopher Landseal (who appears in a citation) to Spaghettiopher Landseal, which may have been caused by this Chrome extension that I have, which turns the word "Jesus" into "Jeffy" and the word "Christ" into "Spaghetti" every time either one appears on my browser. The inspiration for this extension is this tweet. As both the word "Christ" and the word "Spaghetti" appear to me as "Spaghetti", I can't verify that this did in fact happen, but it certainly seems possible. If so, I'll be sure to beware such changes in the future.Dylanvt (talk) 00:55, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Just click on "Show changes" and you can see if any weird browser-caused text modifications are trying to slip through. That's probably what happened. It's nice to have an explanation. Master of Time (talk) 02:04, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

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Borscht Etymology

Before making baseless accusations in an edit summary, you need to examine the edit history more carefully. In the Etymology section I was reverting an editor who had replaced "Ukrainian" with "Russian". The listing of both languages had been changed months ago as far as I can tell with an editor who removed "Ukrainian" and left only "Russian". And there has never been a discussion of including both languages on the Talk Page. It's not an important issue whether "such as" includes just Ukrainian or Russian as well, but I suggest that you save your polemic for fact-based issues on the Talk Page. TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 20:51, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

You're right, it would have been better to explain the issue on the talk page rather than in an edit summary.

I saw that you have reverted several random Russian nationalists replacing "Ukraine" and "Ukrainian" with "Russia" and "Russian", and that's good, but the ultimate replacement of "Ukrainian or Russian" with just "Ukrainian" was not justified, especially based on the 2016 talk page discussion. I'm just here to keep Wikipedia with a neutral POV. Dylanvt (talk) 21:10, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

I agree that the replacement of "Ukrainian and Russian" with either "Ukrainian" or "Russian" was unjustified, but my contribution was not that, but was the replacement of "Russian" with "Ukrainian" only. Another editor in the past (often an anon IP) removed the alternative construction. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 22:43, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

And as far as the Talk Page discussion goes, that was seven years ago and it concluded with a consensus for "U.. or R.." in the Etymology section. I haven't objected to that for seven years so that's just another reason to avoid personal attacks without analyzing what I had actually done (change R to U) and not what you supposed I did (change U or R to just U). --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 22:51, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

I apologize for the harsh tone, but I was referring to this anonymous IP edit of 13 April 2022, which changed "U or R" to just "U" (and was reverted on 22 April 2022), and your subsequent reversion of the reversion on 22 April 2022, which returned it to just "U". Dylanvt (talk) 22:54, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

So I was responding to another edit (not having seen the previous edit 10 days prior), not making my own. You will also note that once the invasion began in Feb 2022, that russian vandalism on Ukrainian pages increased, especially in terms that followed the real-world politics of the time where russian patriots were forcibly eliminating "Ukraine" from the narrative in many places in Wikipedia. On the Borshct page this has manifested itself with regular replacement of "Ukraine" as the country of origin with various forms of "Russia", "Russian Empire", "western Russia", and even "Poland". While neutral POV is preferable, of course, anti-nationalism often looks like nationalism when the choices are binary. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 23:19, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Okay, that's fair. I admit I didn't give you the benefit of the doubt (that you simply hadn't noticed the edit from 10 days prior) due to your staunch defense on the talk page several years back. I concluded that you had probably removed "Russian" intentionally. In any case, I support you continuing to defend against the nationalists who replace mentions of Ukraine with Russia, and we will leave the status quo in the etymology section ("such as Ukrainian and Russian"). Dylanvt (talk) 23:26, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

And I commend you for your patience in reading back through years of posts on a fairly active Talk Page to find that ancient consensus. I will respect the consensus (which I agreed to so long ago). --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 00:06, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

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Tone tag

Could you perhaps clarify what specific issues you had with the prose that led you to place this tag? Daniel Case (talk) 03:25, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Seems that section, as well as much of the "Accident" section, are written much more like a long-form journalism piece or memoir than an encyclopedic article, what you normally see on Wikipedia. Dylanvt (talk) 04:08, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Well, you only tagged the one section. Do you have any specific things (more specific than "seems like") you could point to that led to that tag? Daniel Case (talk) 23:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

The heavy quotation, especially of opinions, and the way quotes are incorporated into the prose, in both this section and the Accident section. E.g.: Parkways such as the Taconic, and winding roads like Commerce, once represented the county's rural charm, the possibility of living in the country yet close to the city, but while they were still charming they were now, with the area so heavily developed, "treacherous" with traffic. "[L]ife 'in the country' increasingly replicates the ills of the city left behind." Dylanvt (talk) 00:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

OK, I see your point there and I will address it. Daniel Case (talk) 06:56, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I see what I had been trying to do there ... paraphrase more (as there are some editors for whom the less we quote directly, the better), but now it makes sense to use the direct quote if I couldn't paraphrase without inadvertently picking up Tanenbaum's tone. Daniel Case (talk) 07:05, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Another user, Epicgenius, made some edits to that section in response to the tag, and then removed it. I also took a look at the accident section, and realized what you were talking about there—some paragraphs that, indeed, were needlessly dependent on quotes that really didn't tell us anything prose couldn't (Something that made sense in the earlier days of the article, when the disaster was fresher in everyone's minds). So I took most of them out (I would insist, however, on keeping that Rick Hope quote as it describes something no one else did—Brody's death, which his account leads up to—and I think quoting him recalling its sudden finality reminds us that human beings were involved here) and that tightened up those sections of the article quite a bit (at least 1K, which tells me of course that there was at least some fat we could lose). I now feel more confident in the article as a future FA candidate for next year's 10th anniversary date. (oops, forgot to separately sign this last night). Daniel Case (talk) 19:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

I definitely think it reads better now. I'll support the candidacy then if I see it or get pinged about it. Dylanvt (talk) 00:57, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, will be a little while ... there's some things that came up in peer review I have to take some time to fix first, and I'm not ready timewise to do that yet. Give it a couple of months. Daniel Case (talk) 03:31, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

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🥲 Dylanvt (talk) 00:47, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

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WP:1RR at Nasser Hospital mass graves

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Please self-revert 02:48. BilledMammal (talk) 03:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I see you have continued editing since I made this request; do you intend to self-revert? BilledMammal (talk) 23:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

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