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Some strawberries for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Wow, what a pleasant surprise! I never expect my edits to be noticed and appreciated as I make them purely for my own enjoyment. Thank you for making my day! WikiContributor0830 (talk) 13:23, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
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:Aw, thanks for the strawberries! Tbh, I was suspicious at first because subtle changes to numbers match a pattern of vandalism I'd seen in the past, but when I checked out the source... well, it looks like maybe that vandal had hit the article some time ago and you fixed it. Much appreciated! -- Avocado (talk) 13:53, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank you for helping update and add short descriptions to Wikipedia articles. With your help, we have cleared the WikiProject's top 3000 list for June 2025, for the fifth month in a row! Your work has made Wikipedia better. Keep it up! LR.127 (talk) 02:01, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | ... is that right? 10 months in a row? With your help, the WikiProject's top 5000 list of short descriptions has been cleared for November 2025, an especially huge milestone when the list used to "only" be 3000 articles per month! Well done. Your work has made Wikipedia better :-). LR.127 (talk) 19:07, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
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Secretariat edit reverted

Hi! You reverted my edit on Secretariat's page, saying the video was from a random YouTube channel, but it isnt! its the NYRA's official youtube channel ↗. I understand if links to videos aren't standard on eng wikipedia, but Secretariat's performance at Belmont is probably one of the most important career feats in the history of horse racing. Shouldn't it be included? I'd like to understand. Ty in advance Rosoviakosmos (talk) 22:36, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

:Hi @Rosoviakosmos -- thank you for pointing out to me that it's an official channel -- I hadn't realized that! Nonetheless, linking ''inline'' to YouTube isn't the solution. Instead:
:* If there's a public domain video that is legal to host on Wikimedia Commons, we upload the video there and can embed it in the article.
:* If there's an official video upload on YouTube or a website -- such as from the TV station that originally recorded it -- we can put a link to that recording in the External Links section of the article. That seems like it may be an appropriate solution in this case.
:* If neither of those options is viable, we make do without the video. People who are interested can use a search engine to find one wherever it might be out there on the web.
:If you still disagree, please begin a conversation on the talk page ↗ of the article and work toward building a consensus ↗. -- Avocado (talk) 23:21, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Relief caving

Thanks for your careful addition of “still needs work or maybe article moves because "relief carving" as a verb is a bit broader than wood” to your edit summary ↗. At first glance I don't think that's necessary since your wording isn't claiming that it is the only kind of relief caving. Just like the statement "Avocado is a human" doesn't rule out the possibility that other users might be human, too. ;-) But just out of curiosity: What other bits are included in relief carving ↗? I can't see it from the article. ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 ↗ 03:27, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

:Hi @SebastianHelm! That edit summary refers to a conversation on another article's talk page ↗ about terms around reliefs and carving.

:"Relief carving" is a term that applies just as much to works/working in materials other than wood and that I would expect to cover those materials, but the relief carving ↗ article is only about wood carving. So IMO the article topic is too narrow for the title -- "Relief carving (wood)" or "Wood relief" or "Wood relief sculpture" would be more precise topics for the current content.

:So either some title shuffling or some expansion of the article to cover other materials equally might be warranted. -- Avocado (talk) 13:04, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

:: Thanks, I understand that your remark was more about that other article and there's no need to reconsider the text you added. ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 ↗ 13:03, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
:::Ah, yes. I don't think there's a significant problem with the content of relief ↗.
:::My comment was about the discussion at engraved gem ↗ and confusion around "relief sculpture" (which redirects to "relief") and relief carving ↗. That edit was a quick fix to try to relieve the worst of the confusion from that discussion, but I do think someone could word it better than I did and also still believe something should be done about the confusion around "relief carving" vs. "relief sculpture".
:::TBH, for a proper followup, the discussion or a followup should probably be shifted from the talk page of "engraved gem" to the talk page of "relief" with a note on the talk page of "relief carving". But that's not something I have time to take care of at the moment. -- Avocado (talk) 13:30, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
:::: Actually, there is one problem with the relief ↗ article: The article provides no distinction between mid-relief and low relief ↗. It's a pity that there are only two people participating and that it still has become so long. But maybe - if you have a little bit of time - you could wait till there's a reply to the unindented part and then only read those last two statements and reply to that. ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 ↗ 10:39, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
:::::Would love to help, but I don't have enough expertise in the topic to contribute meaningfully regarding that distinction. Perhaps try WP:3O ↗? Or the Humanities reference desk? -- Avocado (talk) 10:45, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
:::::: I'm surprised that you write you don't have enough expertise; my impression was quite different. I'd expect the average 3RR volunteer to have considerably less experience with the topic; so I'd rather wait before troubling someone who's not familiar with the topic, I still have some hope that we can work it out ourselves. But thanks for the suggestion.◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 ↗ 22:00, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
:::::::To be clear, I'm suggesting 3O as in third opinion, not 3RR!
:::::::In any case, my background on the topics in question is limited to a single high school level course in art history and being a native English speaker. I know the difference between low relief and high relief. But whether there's such a thing as mid-relief is beyond me. And tbh not something I'm interested into digging into sources about.
:::::::Regardless, the conversation there looks to be pretty civil. I'm sure you'll come to a reasonable consensus! -- Avocado (talk) 23:38, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

:::::::: Yes, there's still reason for hope. <br/>Re 3RR: No worries, I know what that means, and I'm not a particular fan of it (See Don't re-revert). ◅ Sebastian Helm 🗨 ↗ 10:47, 2 July 2026 (UTC)