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: Can you please expand — why it is inappropriate for an encyclopedia? I have read "Links normally to be avoided" and have not found anything suitable for the case. And by the way, why did you undo the change so swiftly, within seconds? —2dk (talk) 15:25, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
::{{u|2dk}}, links to Youtube videos generally shouldn't be linked right in the middle of articles. Look at an article from :Category:YouTube videos ↗ for example, and you'll see that they're linked in the external links section at the bottom. Also, I reverted your edit with WP:HUGGLE ↗; that's why it was so quick. Home Lander (talk) 15:30, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
::: Could you please help me move the link to the appropriate section of the article. Should it be something like <nowiki>*– Video title ↗</nowiki>, that's all? —2dk (talk) 15:35, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
::: And how do I link to it correctly "right in the middle of the article", where it is mentioned? — 2dk (talk) 15:39, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
::::You can give a link to a youtube video at the end of the article, in the "External links" section, as already mentioned. Alternatively, in the body of the article, you might cite it as a reference/citation like this:<nowiki><ref>– Video title ↗</ref></nowiki>. But you can't 'feature' it. Hope that helps. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:21, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for recent edits on Bettelheim article.

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Thank you for your recent pair of excellent edits of our Bruno Bettelheim ↗ article, especially this one:<br>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruno_Bettelheim&diff=next&oldid=883315680

I've worked on this article off and on, have easily read ten refernces, probably more. And I don't recall a single, solitary mention of any dissertation on Immanuel Kant. So, I went ahead and removed this part.

If the topic interests you and you have the time, please, by all means, feel free to jump in and make future edits. And again, thank you for a good catch. :~) FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 01:45, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

hi, you're invited to an RfC discussion regarding Bruno Bettelheim article

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As a recent contributor to the article, you're invited to a Request for Comment (RfC) discussion. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 17:20, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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

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: @NinjaRobotPirate Please see references at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711054 — and feel free to contest them, if you think IMDB and Filmportal are bad sources. What you do is, AFAICS, abusing BLPRS rules ↗, which concern ''controversial'' or ''contentious material'' and not basic biographical data about a living person. Therefore those are not subject to immediate deletion. Won't you find a regular way to contest or challenge information you believe is unreferenced? I'd propose to transfer further discussion to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard ↗. — 2dk (talk) 20:23, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

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Please stop adding sloppy infoboxes to articles. Your demographic sources don't work, none of the other data is sourced, and the infoboxes have sytax errors. Please fix them or revert them, but stop adding new ones until you figure out how to do it. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:26, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

:Wow, that's rude... They are not sloppier than ''every other'' in the same category (:Category:Towns_in_Oswego_County,_New_York ↗). I only noticed that four out of 22 towns were missing infoboxes. Don't admonish me, I copied the very same template from Albion, Oswego County, New York ↗ (and cannot comprehend why it is sloppy). I transferred all available data from the body of the articles and googled for ZIP and FIPS ↗ codes and town websites. The sources concerning area and population are not "mine", they are ''the same'' (https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2016_Gazetteer/2016_gaz_place_36.txt ↗ and https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2016.html ↗) for every other town in NY. (What is wrong?!) I'm sorry if there are some syntax errors, I can't see any. If you do, please feel free to correct them. 2dk (talk) 19:41, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

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thumb|Incidence of the word-forms "laſt" ("laft") and "last" in English documents from 1700 to 1900, according to Google's web n-gram ↗s database. Based on OCR ↗ scans of books, which can misidentify the long ''s'' as ''f''. ↗
This one is a judgement call so I won't insist if you want to reinstate. The note that accompanies the file says
{{quote|I created the two graphical curves with Google's ngram viewer archive copy at the Wayback Machine which generates a bitmap output. With Inkscape, I extracted the two curves from the bitmap and converted them to vector-objects, then I manually re-drew the grid and legends.
I set the ngram viewer to show the incidence of the words "laſt" and "last" in all English documents (including British and American) from 1700 to 1900. I actually entered the words "laft" (with a small-F) and "last" because Google's OCR technology misread the long-s as an "f". This has been corrected by Google since the creation of this picture, so to be able to make a distinction between the two kinds of "s", one has to select one of the 2009 corpora.
The ngram viewer allows the user to examine a sample of documents that were referenced by the search with the target words highlighted. I saw that the apparent minor peaks of short-s usage during 1700-1800 were largely not due to actual short-s usage, but due to the occasional use of a different OCR technology that was able to recognize the long-s as an "s" rather than an "f". This was particularly noticeable when the ngram viewer was set to look at American documents only, which gave unusably uneven curves from 1700-1800, partly because there are not enough American documents from that period to form smooth curves, and because of the usage of the better OCR on about one-third of the American documents from that period.}}
and I don't know how to express that succinctly.

I think that the article has been trying to use it to answer two questions: (1) when did short s replace long s and (2) can OCR tell the difference between {{code|ſ}} and {{code|f}}. Maybe you are right that question 1 is the more important. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 22:13, 4 May 2026 (UTC)