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Draft:Abraham Lincoln (Bittinger)

Hello. Saw you edited the page. This seems an obviously mainspace worthy article by an editor who hasn't edited for a few months. Artworks are usually deemed notable with only one museum source and this one, owned and exhibited by the U.S. House of Representatives, has such notability as well as the prominence carried by exhibition in the U.S. Congress. The draft reviews rejected it twice so I'm ready to just do a copy/paste bold move to mainspace with an explanatory note. Any ideas? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:47, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I would do a move to preserve the history. It is clearly notable, but not really much written about it. Keith D (talk) 23:59, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, clearly notable as the U.S. Capitol's main painting of Lincoln. Have moved it and added it to the Capitol complex navbox as well. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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Mortars Erosion

932621678902 41.113.182.115 (talk) 08:22, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Reproductive toxicity

Hi Keith, thank you for your edit. I'm new to wikipedia, could you explain to me what I'm messing up with my citations and how to fix it? Thank you! --Mcwillaa (talk) 21:44, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

@Mcwillaa: Hello, the problem was the format of a date in one of the references that had 2014-11, yyyy-nn, is not a valid format and needs converting to November 2014. See MOS:DATE for details on valid date formats.

The other changes are general fixes that simplify the code. If you need to use a reference more than once you can name one instance by using <ref name="fred">, then for the other instances just use <ref name="fred" /> rather than fill in all the details again. Hope this helps. Keith D (talk) 22:10, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

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Work/publisher

Hi Keith. I see your edits popping up on my watchlist regularly and normally agree with them. But I'm not sure about this one. Is "BBC Sport" a work? I'd have used Template:cite web for this one, with the "publisher=" parameter rather than "work=". But this is my own interpretation and it's entirely possible I've missed a guideline somewhere. Genuine question. Dave.Dunford (talk) 11:52, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I think there was some discussion at the football project on this, and they concluded it should be italics. I tend to use |work= as it is easier to type, but probably should be |website=. Also as a news source it should use {{cite news}} though often has {{cite web}} by various cite completion tools. Citation bot changes things this way. Keith D (talk) 12:07, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks – useful info. Dave.Dunford (talk) 12:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024

Hello. I would like to let you know that I reverted your recent edit on First Turkic Khaganate as it did not appear constructive. If you think I made a mistake, please let me know on my talk page. Thank you for your patience. GOLDIEM J (talk) 17:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)