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Italicizing in hatnotes

re your edit ↗:

Which guideline are you talking about? Please take a look at the page in question. The hatnote template italicizes the whole text. As a result the juornal title is italicized in the text body, but not the book title in the hatnote. And this looks weird. - Altenmann ↗ >talk ↗ 17:03, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

:I was talking about the WP:ITHAT ↗ guidance in our Wikipedia:Hatnote ↗ guideline (which I cited in my first edit's summary). It is true that my edit made the book title not italicized. I disagree however that it looks weird.
:The way I think of it is that italicized text stands out fron normally un-italicized text (e.g. the text body), and un-italicized text (i.e. the book title in this situation) stands out from normally italicized text (e.g. our hatnotes). Note that in the hatnote we're talking about, only the journal name is un-italicized and so it stands out from the rest of the hatnote.
:The practice is mentioned in {{slink|Italic type#Italics within italics}} and some style guides recommend it (like the APA Publication Manual here ↗ and the Chicago Manual of Style here ↗), which might have inspired our guidelines to recommend the same. LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 18:00, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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Use of quotes instead of italics for used technical jargon

Hey LightNightLights,

{{diff|Anna's Archive|prev|1216559508|your edit to Anna's Archive}} seems incompatible with MOS:WAW ↗, you say that the word "scraped" is used, not mentioned, to distinguish between use and mention ↗, you used quotes. I find this usage to be incorrect. An example of distinguishing between use and mention is found on the Use-mention distinction ↗ page, as well as at MOS:WAW ↗. Both use quotes to indicate a mention, not a use. As far as I understand, either italics or no formatting should be used in case of a use, not a mention. Please explain your use of quotes.

--Holzklöppel (talk) 13:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

:Thanks for reaching out in my talk page. I used quotes not because of MOS:TERM ↗, which I don't think applies here. I used quotes because ''scraping'' is a technical term and, in my experience, technical terms that the general public doesn't know are quoted. If ''scraping'' was not technical, I would be against either italicising or quoting it, but I think that it ''is'' technical. (I linked MOS:WAW ↗ primarily because it talks about the use–mention distinction.)
:I reverted your italicisaton because you cited MOS:TERM. MOS:TERM says that "a technical or other jargon term being introduced is often being mentioned as a word rather than (or in addition to) playing its normal grammatical role; if so, it should be italicized or quoted, usually the former", and I think the word ''scraping'' is used (playing its nornal grammatical role), not mentioned. (An example of a sentence where ''scraping'' is mentioned and would therefore be italicised is "Merriam-Webster designated the term ''scraping'' as their Word of the Year for 2073".) LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 15:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
::Ah, thanks. You're right, "scraping" is just used here, and MOS:TERM ↗ doesn't apply. I was surprised by your revert, went to look up what the usual way to introduce technical terms was, and found MOS:TERM ↗. Regardless of whether MOS:TERM ↗ applies, in my opinion, italics are still the better fit, because quotation marks are also used for, well, quotes, and scare quotes ↗, while the only other use for italics I can think of is emphasis, which wouldn't be counter-productive here. Seems like the APA style guide agrees ↗, which I found by searching "technical term italics or quotes".
::--Holzklöppel (talk) 15:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
:::I don't think the Manual of Style has a recommendation on italicising or quoting technical terms, so I'm okay with conceding to the way that APA does it. LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 16:30, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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:My previous analysis was that Mosley was not confirmed dead yet according to the sources I could find on Google. Now, some of the sources there say that his death is confirmed. I'll take your source into account. Thanks! LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 10:06, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Redirects from species to genus

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:Thanks for the warning! Do you know if there is a place where I can request mass deletions? I created redirects for all 27 of ''Synallactes''{{'s}} species, not just ''mcdanieli''.
:Other than that, it might be useful to future editors for us to modify the text of or delete {{tl|R from species to genus}} if creating redirects from species to genus is against consensus. LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 10:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
::I think you just put the speedy template on all of them, there is probably some sort of easy record-keeping procedure the deleting admin follows. I made a note on the {{tl|R from species to genus}} template. <span style="font-family: Cambria;"> <span style="color: teal;">'''Abductive'''</span> (reasoning)</span> 21:43, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

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I can't see that this made any difference. Windows laptop. ―<b style="color:#775c57">''Mandruss''</b> <span style="color:#888">☎</span> IMO. 21:13, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

:@Mandruss I was able to reproduce this in another browser, but I have fixed it by setting that browser's Wikipedia-internal theme from "Light" to "Dark" or "Automatic".
:"Light" means that the browser, and not the site, is responsible for turning the page to dark mode if requested, which means that (1) the browser may fail to invert some dark-on-light images (as it does for the image of the diff you linked in both of my browsers), and (2) the site cannot manually invert the image (which Wikipedia does not). LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 09:20, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
::Hmmm. That's a bit over my unpay grade ↗, but thanks for trying. ―<b style="color:#775c57">''Mandruss''</b> <span style="color:#888">☎</span> IMO. 14:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
::Belated self-correct: I looked again and now see the difference. I think I was looking at the wrong "image". Good move. ―<b style="color:#775c57">''Mandruss''</b> <span style="color:#888">☎</span> IMO. 02:48, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

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undone revision in Road Salt ↗

hi!!!
I just wanted to pop in and apologise for undoing one of your edits in Road Salt ↗. :(
I actually think that it's a great idea to separate the images into their respective sections, but the sections are simply not long enough to accomodate one image each. This leads to the images trailing along the side of the article, which looks rather unsightly. Again, I'm sorry for undoing your edit:( but you're welcome to expand the sections so that we can fit the images there in the future<3 cheers! :D ~User:Roi.Frvr 22:10, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

:No problem! I understand your concern. LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 22:55, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello!

I think I reverted the wrong edit. Just going to tell you :D (Talk) <span style="color: orange">PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST</span> 19:21, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

:Also, calling something bull in an edit summarry, even though I agree with you, is generally bad practice. Sorry if this sounds like a lecture, it isn't! Just friendly advice. (Talk) <span style="color: orange">PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST</span> 19:23, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
::I was about to make a WP:DUMMYEDIT ↗ for that. I meant "bull" as in David Bull (politician) ↗{{snd}}who is being talked about in the section I just edited){{snd}}not as in "bullshit". I forgot to capitalise it; I apologise for that mistake. LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 19:26, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
:::No worries. I'm not familiar with the UK that much so I shouldn't have presumed. (Talk) <span style="color: orange">PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST</span> 19:29, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
:I see! I have no inherent objection about undoing a removal of the <nowiki>{{Reflist}}</nowiki>. LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 19:23, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
::No problem! It was a mistake on my part and honestly a good catch on yours. (Talk) <span style="color: orange">PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST</span> 19:24, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

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I "borrowed" something you wrote

... and I put this on my own user page because I thought it was very well written and concise. I forgot where I copied it from, but I saved your attribution, and I'm just using it for my own user page. I hope that's ok! It was this:

Wikipedia is partial towards reliable sources:

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Stepping back, IMPARTIAL is content, not conduct. How we write articles is not how we expect editors to act. We disallow personal attacks even though we write about the lot of them that happens in real life

Thanks! David10244 (talk) 01:19, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

:No problem! LightNightLights (talk • contribs ↗) 01:27, 11 April 2026 (UTC)