User talk:GentleHillRacer

Seabees in WWII

You tagged the article for "Tone" without fixing the issue. Some on Wikipedia call your edit "drive-by tagging" . Does the entire article have a tone issue for you or specific sections? Mcb133aco (talk) 00:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)mcb133acoMcb133aco (talk) 00:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for your comment.

I added the tone tag because parts of the article do not appear to follow the encyclopedic style. There are a few sections that, to me, read as overly dramatized, emphatic, or narrative, specifically the introduction and parts of History.

There are also issues with formatting, such as the excessive use of quotes (entire paragraphs within quotation marks, even when they do not appear to be copied verbatim from the source text), statements with only one quotation mark ("ingenuity and elbow grease became synonymous with Seabees. / “Pearl Harbour of the Caribbean), and acronyms not explicitly defined at their first use (CB, NCTC, CEC). These make the article unnecessarily difficult to understand, especially for someone without pre-existing knowledge on the topic.

The reason I did not fix this myself is that the article is outside my purview; I believe it would be better handled by someone with experience writing about historical/military topics using Wikipedia's voice. It's also a rather long article, and I simply did not have time to give it sufficient attention. In hindsight, perhaps I should have written a note on the talk page explaining my decision to tag the article, so for full disclosure, I may copy part of this message there.

Lastly, I am aware you’ve written most of the article, and I assure you I meant no offence by adding the tag. If another editor disagrees with my analysis, they are free to remove it.

I hope this clears things up. GentleHillRacer (talk) 02:29, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Marking Dead Links

Howdy! Just wanted to give a heads up, in this edit to Perovskite (structure), you marked a dead link dead by adding a "url-status=dead" to the cite web, which won't display anywhere. For it to be seen you can instead mark it with the template Template:Dead Link or have url-status=dead as well as an archive-url link. More info about url-status can be found in Template:Cite Web#URL.

Since I was able to find an archive link I added it to the cite web. GrapesRock (talk) 16:08, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive! You scored 353 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this citation barnstar. Thanks for helping out!

Pichpich (talk) 16:19, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

When adding {{coord}} tags in infoboxes, you've been adding incorrect coordinates by "translating" degrees/minutes/seconds coordinates to decimal coordinates without changing the actual figures; see Bertrand Island Amusement Park and Le Bioscope, for example. Please have a look at WP:GEO to see how d/m/s coordinates should be formatted. Also, when you add a {{coord}} template to an infobox, please remember to delete the corresponding template already at the bottom of the article; an article can't have multiple {{coord}} templates with a "title" display parameter. Deor (talk) 14:41, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Well, that's embarrassing. Not sure how I made such a rudimentary mistake in the formatting but I'll certainly be more diligent in the future. Thanks for cleaning up my mess. GentleHillRacer (talk) 20:46, 23 August 2024 (UTC)