User talk:Madness Divine

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-- New user message (talk) 22:03, 23 November 2021 (EST)

A/An Grammar Edits

Hello. I have a question regarding your grammar edits to some articles. In the Narukami and Commando articles, for instance, you replace "a" with "an" where the displayed text it precedes would normally require an "a". I'm curious if I am mistaken or you did mass edits searching for "a XL" and it caught wiki-text (not displayed) by mistake. Those are the only two articles I reviewed, there may be more.--Cache (talk) 13:28, 22 December 2021 (EST)

Sorry for the Blackjack revert

Hiya, just wanted to say sorry for accidentally rolling back your edit on the Blackjack. This keeps happening when I check the Recent Changes on my cellphone, I just hit the "rollback" button while scrolling and half of the time don't even realize I did it. Had nothing to do with your work on the article. I was going to revert it again to your version, but saw you'd already done it. Keep going! :) Frabby (talk) 14:07, 28 December 2021 (EST)

No problem. My clumsy fingers would do the same thing. Madness Divine (talk) 11:46, 29 December 2021 (EST)

Impertinent comentary on an Admins edits

MD, I don't appreciate you reverting my edit on A Place as not an improvement, your comment comes across as Impertinent and borderline disrespectful. You have been doing very good work thus far, don't spoil it by annoying the people in charge.--Dmon (talk) 20:07, 28 January 2022 (EST)

Four minor points

Hiya, I saw a few things in your edits that I wanted to raise with you:

• The preferred spelling for "aerospace fighter", as far as I recall the old BattleCorps style guide, was all lowercase and in any case no CamelCase/capital "S".
• And in the Phoenix (novel) article, the Mad Jumpin Jacks are actually spelled/named thus, without the apostrophe. Seems to be a strange mix of english words with German punctuation, but still. (It's an original, German-only novel.)
• In the same article, you removed the hyphen from co-founder. But according to my admittedly shallow research, co-founder is actually the correct spelling, or at least permissible.
• Finally, I don’t think it is appropriate to correct citations from the back covers of books or other products. They’re citations, after all, and arguably shouldn’t be edited. May just be me though.

:) Frabby (talk) 02:18, 6 February 2022 (EST)

Hey mad one, thanks for your reply. Point of order, post discussion points to the user talk page, not the user page. People get pinged by the system when new their talk pages are edited (like you presumably were for this text), not so for user pages which are used for and by users to write stuff about themselves. Editing another userpage (as opposed to their talk page) is generally considered a no-go on wikis. No harm done though, I've moved your reply to my talk page. Another advice is that most of the time, when a discussion emerges on a given user’s (or article's) talk page even with several participants, the discussion stays where it is so that it remains readable. As such, you could have replied right here on your talk page. I wouldn’t get a ping then, but would have checked your talk page for a reply occasionally. If you add to a talk page discussion, make sure to indent your text one step further than the previous poster, by prefixing one more colon (:).

On the subject matter of how to spell AeroSpace Fighter, I was very surprised to read that on our style guide - we originally decided to follow the BC style guide so I don't know where thst came from. I'll have to look into matters here abd see what the current "correct" firm is supposed to be. Busy right now with rl stuff right now so it will be a day or two. Frabby (talk) 04:49, 6 February 2022 (EST)

Oops. I thought I was writing on your User Talk page. The hazards of several days of insomnia. Madness Divine (talk) 12:52, 6 February 2022 (EST)

Regarding "aerospace fighter": In the latest Total Warfare, it is not capitalized. When capitalized in a title, the "s" is not capitalized.