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CS1 error on Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet ↗


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:Fixed JDWylie (talk) 13:15, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
::Your revision happened while I was spending three hours work editing the article. Upon saving this work, the mixup resulted from the bot's activities caused me to losethe work of thosethree hours. Is it possible for whoever runs the bot to reverse the bot's edits to the point where my three hours of work returns, thus enabling me to publish it? JDWylie (talk) 23:53, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet ↗


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:Fixed JDWylie (talk) 13:14, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

A belated welcome!



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March 2026



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CS1 error on Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet ↗


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April 2026


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Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet



25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, JDWylie. We welcome ↗ your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about ↗ on the page :Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet ↗, you may have a conflict of interest ↗ (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the '''conflict of interest guideline ↗''' and '''FAQ for article subjects ↗''' for more information. We ask that you:


In addition, you are '''required''' by the Wikimedia Foundation ↗'s terms of use ↗ to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure ↗.

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: Hi JDWylie. I'm just letting you know about the above as a courtesy given your choice of username and the name of the article you've been primarily focusing on when editing Wikipedia; it isn't an accusation of any wrong doing. Please take the time to read through the pages that have been linked in blue because they contain information you might find helpful. The more transparent you're about any connection you may have to Sir James Wylie, the less likely you're going to find yourself running into trouble over any edits you make to the article. COI editing isn't expressly prohibitted by Wikipedia policy, but it's highly discouraged because it can sometimes lead to serious problems; therefore, many Wikipedians view it as inappropriate regardless of its intent. Please keep all of these things in mind moving forward. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:55, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
::I'm not sure what you mean by "the pages inked in blue". Are they advisory pages or are they pages within the article. If the latter, I can offer some reassurance.
::Wylie is my great grandfather's uncle. I had observed the article and its Russian version over many years, and been annoyed by basic errors in both versions (wrong date and place of birth, wrong occupation of father, etc.) In February, I fixed the errors, intending that to be my only contribution.
::But on fully reading through the article, it was apparent that the material there was much too thin to give the reader any feel for who Wylie was. So, I decided to add a bit of material.
::As I proceeded with this, I started to feel that, despite my 35 years of collecting material about Wylie, I also had little real feel for who he really was. So, my contributions became directed towards building a framework for informing <u>myself</u> about him as much as informing others. given that, it would be entirely counterproductive for me to gild the lily about him.
::For example, when he appeared to have been ruthlessly opportunistic in pushing aside the rector of the Medical Chirurgical academy, I included the fact that others also felt so, and I included 2 citations to enable readers to read such views.
::The article is already much too big, and I am now directing attention to trimming off unnecessary fat. In doing so, I have to completely ignore making any comment about the very strong likelihood that the deeply-religious Tsar Alexander did not die at a remote location but, with the help of Wylie's phoney death record and the rest his small entourage, 'escaped' from the burdens being an autocrat, his incompatible marriage arranged by his grandmother, and difficulties making headway with the other European monarchs, he secretly boarded a yacht and finished his days as a monk in Palestine. presenting all the evidence would need its own Wikipdia article, probably more. JDWylie (talk) 23:52, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
:::{{tq|The page linked in blue}} refers to those words in the notification template I added above that are in blue. These are blue links ↗ to relevant Wikipedia policy and guideline pages that you might find helpful.{{pb}}The fact that you're a relative of Wylie (even though he died long before you were born) is almost certainly going to be seen as a conflict of interest by many when it comes to editing or creating content about him on Wikipedia. I strongly suggest you carefully read through :Wikipedia:Conflict of interest ↗ and try to follow what's written there as closely as possible because doing so will help you avoid problems down the road. Wikipedia is a collaborative editing project, which means some kind of interaction with others is pretty much unavoidable. So, the more transparent you're about your connection to Wylie the better. I suggest, in particular, you follow the advice in :WP:DECLARECOI ↗. Ideally, you should try to avoid directly editing the article as much as possible (except for :WP:MINOR ↗ changes/corrections) and instead propose changes by making :Wikipedia:Edit requests ↗ on the article's talk page. Trying to make a major rewriting of the article like you've been doing is likely to be responded to unfavorably by many other Wikipedians, even if you didn't have a COI, and could lead to others :WP:UNDO ↗ing the changes you make if they assess them as not being in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines ↗. So, it might be better for you to use the article's talk page to propose changes instead by using the template :Template:Edit COI ↗. Others will review the changes you propose and implement those which are in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines.{{pb}}Even though Russian Wikipedia and English Wikipedia are sister projects, they each have their own respective policies, guidelines, and community of editors ↗. If you've got concerns about the Russian Wikipedia article about Wylie, you will need to ask for help addressing them over at Russian Wikipedia. Russian Wikipedia and English Wikipedia may overlap in many ways, but there are also probably many differences; so, it's better to ask about Russian Wikipedia at Russian Wikipedia. The same applies to Wikimedia Commons and English Wikipedia; they're sister projects with their own policies and guidelines. So, if you're having issues with files you've uploaded to Commons, you will need to ask about them over at Commons.{{pb}}Your editing introduced quite a number of Wikipedia Manual of Style ↗ and other types of syntax errors in to the article. I've tried to cleanup the ones I could, but there are still quite a few more. You might want to take a look at Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) because it might be different from some of the things you're used to normally doing when you write. It's important to try and follow Wikipedia's MOS as much as possible because it helps keep all Wikipedia articles stylistically consistent.{{pb}}You need to be careful when it comes to {{tq|trimming fat}} from an article because, as mentioned above, Wikipedia is a collaborative editing project and there most likely have been many who have contributed to the Wylie article over the years. Wikipedia encourages use to :WP:PRESERVE ↗ as much of the contributions made by others as we can by fixing things whenever possible. Wikipedia articles aren't :WP:OWN ↗ed by any one particular person, and you being a relative of Wylie doesn't grant you any type of special editorial control over the article. As long as your edits are in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, you should be OK, but you shouldn't just rewrite or remove content added by others over the years, particularly anything supported by a citation to reliable source (as defined by Wikipedia ↗) just for the sake of doing so because this could lead to problems with other Wikipedians. You should also make sure any new content you add or propose adding can be verified ↗ by others because it's likely going to be treated as :WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH ↗ if it can't. What we might personally know about a subject is irrelevant when it comes to Wikipedia; what matters is what can be verified through citations ↗ to reliable sources, and any content that can't be verified (except for obvious stuff ↗) can be removed or challenged by others at anytime.{{pb}}If you've got any questions about what I posted above, you can ask them here, or you can ask about them at the Wikipedia Help Desk ↗ or Teahouse ↗. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:00, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
::::Thanks for your message,
::::It was certainly a mistake for me to have used my name as the Wikipedia log-in ID. I would be more than happy to delete that account and create a new one with a different log-in ID, but only if you think that would be helpful to Wikipedia).
::::Thank you very much for all your text editing. Somehow, I had gotten the impression that statements within quotation marks had to be italicised. I will revisit the Wikipedia guidelines and also be on the look-out for your other text changes.
::::In regard to the small amount of pre-existing text within the article, in all but one instance I didn't remove any of it or meaningfully alter its meaning. I just repositioned it to become part of a generally much expanded section ("Memory", "Awards and honours", "Bibliography" etc.), re-wording it where necessary to suit it’s new context and correcting important facts like birthplace.
::::The introduction to the pre-existing article appeared to not take into account the fact that Wylie’s career in military medicine had just 12 years of overlap with that of the renowned doctor Nikolai Pirogov. That looks to me to be the reason why it stated: “He is considered one of the organizers of military medicine in Russia”. Because Wylie had made all of his major contributions prior to those overlapping years, I changed and expanded that wording to: “He is widely considered the foremost contributor to both the creation of battlefield medicine and to major developments in military medical training within Imperial Russia during the first half of 19th century,” specifically excluding the later years when Pirogov really shone. I used the words “foremost contributors” and "creation of" because there really wasn’t much in the way of military medical training until he got involved in it.
::::In regard to “cutting of fat”, my intention is not to cut off any of the pre-existing material, just some relatively-trivial blocks of material added by me such as “The academy today” and perhaps "Attending the tsar at post-war negotiations". The article does devote space to describing the character of his masters plus other material circumstances within Europe during those times, but I would be reluctant to aggressively cut that because doing so would diminish the readers appreciation of how he and his masters responded to those circumstances.
::::JDWylie (talk) 01:17, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
:::::A conflict of interest applies to you as a person regardless of what your username is or which account you use; so, a different user name wouldn't change that. You may, however, request a change of username if you want as explained in :WP:Username change ↗. There's no prohibition against users using their real names as their username as explained in :WP:REALNAME ↗; however, some people who do so decide to request a name change at some point due to :WP:REALWORLD ↗ concerns. Unfortunately, though, there's no way to erase the record of any editing contribution you've made with this account so far because of Wikipedia licensing requirements; everything will just be listed under your new username. If you're really concern that your editing of Wikipedia will adversely affect you in some way, you could try a :WP:CLEANSTART ↗ or a :WP:VANISH ↗. Those things, however, are pretty much for people desiring to move on from what they've been doing into some other different area of Wikipedia editing or leave Wikipedia altogether; neither of them is really intended to be for someone who just wants to keep on doing what they've been doing but with a different account/username.{{pb}} As I posted in an earlier post, there's no prohibition against conflict-of-interest editing; it's just something that's strongly discouraged. As long as your edits are in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines, you'll probably be OK. At the same time, though, there's no special editorial control given to conflict-of-interest editors, and those who try to claim as much often find the blowback quite harsh. There's also no guarantee that any edits or changes you make to the article will remain that way; someone could come along the next day and undo them or build upon them. This is part of what it means to edit Wikipedia and what it means when you agree to Wikipedia's :wmf:Terms of use ↗ each time you click on the "Publish changes" button. Most Wikipedians are :WP:HERE ↗ looking to work together to try and improve things, but there can be disagreements on how to best do that. When this happens, editors are expected to resolve things via :WP:DISPUTERESOLUTION ↗, which might mean finding a compromise that works best for Wikipedia and not one particular side.{{pb}}Right now, your primary focus seems to be the Wylie article. There's nothing wrong with this per se, but as a :WP:SPA ↗ you will always see things in the context of that one article. One of the best ways to learn about Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines is by branching out and editing other articles or doing other things ↗ because it allows you see how others apply Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines in other articles. The Wylie article won't disappear if you shift your focus to something else for a little bit, and you might find others editing it and making improvements that you didn't think of. You also might find your Wikipedia experience a bit more enjoyable if you broadened your horizons just a bit. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:37, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
::::::Thanks for your thoughtful advice. I will soon be taking a break, as work on this article has been fairly full-on, but I can see myself later on making contributions to the Wikipedia article about Napoleon's 1812 invasion and the one about the Battle of Borodino, having read widely about both, in particular reading the first book in English to make use of the Russian archives after them being opened to outsiders only from around the turn of this century, those archives painting a much different picture to the French hagiographies about Napoleon and his campaign. JDWylie (talk) 07:12, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

My article "Sir James Wylie 1st baronet" is stuck in Source Edit Mode



About 14 hours ago, when resuming earlier edits to this article, I found that it is stuck in source editing and I'm looking for guidance. It doesn't appear to be a browser issue. JDWylie (talk) 22:03, 26 May 2026 (UTC)
: Are you still having the same issue? Did you try clearing your cache? If you're still having the same problem, you might try asking about it at :WP:VPT ↗; it could be something on your end but sometimes the Wikipedia software has issues too. Finally, you probably should try to avoid refering to this or any article as {{tq|my article ↗}}, even with the best of intentions. Such a claim often ends up being misunderstood and blown out of proportion, even when it's not really an attempt to claim ownership over an article. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:29, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks for your reply.It was a silly mistake writing 'My article ...'. I don't actually consider it mine.
::The problem persists, both in Firefox and in Microsoft Edge. Is there a specific cache for an article, or were you referring to browser clutter. For the latter I run every morning Norton Utilities Ultimate to get rid of browser clutter and general junk.
::I'll have a look at WP:VPT, but to date I haven't found it easy to put effect any of the other Wikipedia apps.
::Thanks again. JDWylie (talk) 07:49, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
:::I was referring to your browser's cache. Since you're still having the same problem even when you switch to another browser, your best bet is to ask at VPT because that's where all the technical peole hang out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:50, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
::::Thanks, I had a look at it, and should be easy enough. Cheers. JDWylie (talk) 13:02, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
:::::As it turned out, the article fixed itself, but thanks for your advice on it.
:::::Cheers JDWylie (talk) 08:06, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet ↗


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