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What's the purpose of changing the edition of ''Double Play''? --Moni3 (talk) 22:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

The 2010 edition is greatly expanded and corrected, especially in sections dealing with Harvey Milk, and is regarded by the author Mike Weiss as superceding the 1984 edition. Also, the revised edition will remain in print (and eventually in e-print) for many years, where the old edition is out of print and is less available. Vince Emery (talk) 19:19, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

:Yes, but I have the old edition. I bought it in 2008 as I wrote Milk's article (used for $3 on Amazon--it's going now for $125). Does Weiss state in the intro or somewhere else that he made changes to his own book? And can he send me his new one? I'm poor. --Moni3 (talk) 20:50, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Can we talk/email/text about this? My cell number is (415) 337-6000, so you can phone or text me there. Or you can send email to vince at emery dot com. Thanks. Vince Emery 21:11, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

:Is there a reason this discussion cannot take place here? --Moni3 (talk) 13:24, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Mr. Emery, you seem to be involved in the running of a publishing house of some kind and are using Harvey Milk's article to promote your materials.

This span of edits ↗ seems to include only materials published or written by Vince Emery. As yet, none of them are actually cited in the article, which means they need to be removed from the Bibliography. If they're listed in the External links/Further reading sections, that is fine. However, please don't use this as an excuse to fill the article with unnecessary citations only to include materials you have a vested interest in selling. If the article needs to be improved because the sources currently being used do not cover some aspect of Milk's life, let's discuss it on the article talk page. But you need to be aware of Wikipedia's guidelines about spam ↗ and conflict of interest ↗.

I'm going to remove materials from the Bibliography to External links/Further reading. If you have questions, please ask here or on the talk page. Thank you. --Moni3 (talk) 21:21, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

I have no interest in selling the books ''Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk'' edited by Christopher Meason, or in ''Stitching a Revolution'' by Cleve Jones. I think your idea of moving books that are relevant to the topic but are not referenced in the main article from the Bibliography section to a Further Reading section is an excellent idea and helpful to the article's readers. Thank you.

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Re the length of the lead. What I was concerned with was more the phrasing and redundancy than the actual word count. I came to the article not knowing this writer at all, so I was looking for a brief introduction from the lead. Specific things that I don't think help the clarity of the lead:

The second sentence says his influences are Spenser and Ashton Smith. The third sentence repeats Ashton Smith, but does not reiterate Spenser, and adds Bierce and Sterling. I was left wondering whether I was supposed to think that his influences are in fact Spenser and Ashton Smith, but that he himself thinks they are Bierce, Sterling and Ashton Smith.

"In addition to his accomplishments as a poet" isn't needed.

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I'm not going to alter it as I see you are an expert on him, and as I say I hadn't heard of him at all. But for what it's worth, that's why I tagged it with "lead too long". Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 22:30, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

:Thank you. I will incorporate your feedback in a future revision. Vince Emery (talk) 01:52, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
:I applied your improvements. Thank you! Vince Emery (talk) 22:40, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

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I've cut down your account of Atlantean poetry to an appropriate length. The fiction you mention does not belong in that section but in the article Atlantis in popular culture ↗ and will need editing down too. Good luck, Sweetpool50 (talk) 16:59, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

:I appreciate your improvements. Sorry about putting the fiction in the wrong place. I made a few polish edits to your condensation to reduce vagueness and improve clarity. Thank you. Vince Emery (talk) 19:56, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

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February 2026

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Please do not change the name of files in articles as you did to :George Ryerson ↗. It breaks the link to the file. I have corrected the mistake. In the future, please use the preview ↗ button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes ↗ and the page history ↗. Below the edit box is a {{Button|text='''Show preview'''}} button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.
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Thank you.  <span style="color:#7F00FF">Katniss</span> <span style="color:#FF007F"> ''May the odds be ever in your favor ♥''</span> 14:59, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation ↗: Lost Harbor ↗ (March 31)

<div style="border: solid 1px #FCC; background-color: var(--background-color-warning-subtle, #fdf2d5); color: inherit; padding: 0.5em 1em; margin: 1.5em; width: 90%;">'''Draft declined'''{{pb}}50px|left ↗Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your draft submission to Articles for creation ↗ has been reviewed but not accepted at this time.{{pb}}
<nowiki> </nowiki>'''Feedback'''{{pb}}The reviewer, Bobby Cohn, left the following feedback:
{{divbox|gray|3=This draft is not adequately supported by reliable sources ↗. Wikipedia's verifiability policy ↗ requires that all content be supported by reliable sources ↗.

Reliable sources include: reputable newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and books from respected publishers.

Unacceptable sources include: personal blogs, social media, predatory publishers ↗, most tabloids ↗, and websites where anyone can contribute.

Replace any unreliable sources with high-quality sources. If you cannot find a reliable source for the material, it should be removed.|}}{{divbox|blue|3=Very close, some minor issues that have been addressed or have yet to still be addressed:{{ordered list|Large copies of the poem itself have been removed as these are a failure of WP:NOT ↗, consider instead (if they are actually in the public domain) publishing to wikisource ↗. These can be linked to from the encyclopedia article using {{tl|hatnote}}, {{tl|wikisource-inline}}.|You have citations that are not actually verifiable, per WP:V ↗, you write "{{!xt|Searching Google and Newspapers.com for "sailor rest your oar" in quotation marks returns hundreds of examples.}} We can't take Google, Newspapers.com is not considered a reliable source. Find a source that backs up what you're saying and write about it and then cite to it.|Asides have been moved to a noteslist, don't use references to expand on what you are trying to say in the article.|You have a long list of items that don't have a citation. These should be cited otherwise they can be challenged by WP:PROVEIT ↗ and removed. The onus to cite something is on the editor who originally wrote it.|You have a missing reference, see the red text in the article {{color|red|Cite error: A < ref > tag is missing the closing </ ref > (see the help page).}}|The article title has been moved from the version containing both titles to just one. If you'd like, it can also be at the alternative. A redirect ↗ can be set up at the one where there is no article. You can read more about our article title policies at WP:AT ↗ and MOS:AT ↗.}}
Otherwise, very good start.}}

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:Thank you for your thoughtful analysis and clear, helpful comments. I will make a major edit of the entire page to address your observations. Please let me know if you have more suggestions. I am grateful. Vince Emery (talk) 14:48, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

March 2026

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hi, and thank you for your contributions ↗ to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to change the title of a page by cutting its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move ↗", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history ↗, which is legally required for attribution ↗. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be ''moved'' to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits ↗, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab ↗ at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu ↗ for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect ↗ from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves ↗ to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge ↗. Thank you.  Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 17:53, 31 March 2026 (UTC)