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A belated welcome!

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Again, welcome! Fiddle Faddle 10:41, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Article title

I agree, 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires would be a much more accurate name for the article. I believe Adelaide bushfires was what everyone (including the media) ran with because they did effect some substantial part of Adelaide (or the hills at least) and at the time, posed a strong threat of spreading into the inner metropolitan area. Residents of Greenwith and neighbouring northern suburbs were told to evacuate as a precaution. These areas may be "fringe suburbs", or geographically distant from the CBD, but they still constitute as being a part of Greater Adelaide or Adelaide itself. I think I named the article as such because at the time, it was very early on, and I probably thought it would effect the city itself rather than just the outskirts. If you want to move the article to a more appropriate name then I don't mind. I just gave it a rough start in hopes other people would contribute in light of further information, which they did. Ashton 29 (talk) 06:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia

Hello Nick Mitchell 98,

I saw you were expanding an article. Great! However, articles in the mainspace (where you created it) must be ready for primetime (viewed by Wikipedia's general audience), otherwise they may be deleted. To prevent this, I've moved your draft to Draft:List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia. You can work on it there. There is a "Submit your draft when you are ready for it to be reviewed!" button at the top of the page; click it to submit it to be reviewed when you're finish. Happy editing, --ceradon (talk • contribs) 03:04, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, please wait for the article to be accepted instead. Otherwise, you could risk deletion. Seconding User:Ceradon's statement. Best, — kikichugirl ^oh hello! 22:22, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia (March 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Kikichugirl was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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— kikichugirl ^oh hello! 22:23, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Nick Mitchell 98, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! — kikichugirl ^oh hello! 22:23, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia. Thanks! CookieMonster755 (talk) 17:31, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia has been accepted

List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Fiddle Faddle 10:40, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

States of Germany

Your last but one edit to States of Germany did not have an edit summary, but I see that you changed the entries in the infobox from a version that was consistent with the template documentation to a version that is not. Can you explain why you did that (or self-revert)? --Boson (talk) 18:40, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

I am confused as to what you mean by "Your last but one edit to States of Germany did not have an edit summary" and "you changed the entries in the infobox from a version that was consistent with the template documentation to a version that is not", can you please clarify what you mean. Thanks. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk)

If you look at the template documentation, you will see that

the field "category" has content such as "country", in this case the correct value is "federated state"; you added a number in parentheses
the field "current_number" has a numeral, the example given is 32; in this case the correct number is 16; you removed the number
the field "subdivision has singular nouns, such as "rural district"; you changed the singular nouns to plural

I presume the idea of giving examples in the documentation is to aid consistency, indicating which articles should be changed when usage is inconsistent.

On the other hand, I assumed that you had some reason for your changes, so I asked.

I have now changed the infobox fields to match the documentation. --Boson (talk) 19:51, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

I understand. Thank you for talking and explaining this to me, I appreciate it. The only thing is that you forgot capitalisation is some of your edits, I have corrected this. Thanks again. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk)

Qing dynasty

I have no intention of getting involved in an edit war with you but following your reversion of my edit you should note the following. A) the Chinese style guide that says "[w]here there is more than one parameter in use in a given article, an {{Infobox Chinese}} box can be used instead of {{zh}}. This removes the characters, romanization and pronunciations from the opening sentence, thus making it more readable, while retaining the information off to the side so that the reader can still see it". B) Chinese does not use definite articles (it uses a classifier system but that's a different matter) such that 大清 is literally "Great Qing". Philg88 ^♦talk 11:48, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

I understand your point and do not want to enter into an edit war either. However, could the status quo please be maintained until another matter is resolved over the naming formats of the articles (primarily in their infoboxes, please see this talk page for context). That way, one problem can be resolved at a time. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk) 11:53, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up Nick, although these are separate issues. The infobox/lede matter is one of style and the other a matter of naming conventions. We already have consensus for the former, per the Chinese style guide. I've suggested at Cartakes' talk that the conversation is opened to a wider audience. Cheers, Philg88 ^♦talk 12:09, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

List of proposed state mergers

Hi Nick Mitchell 98. Please have a look at this and let me know. Thanks, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 14:46, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

List of works based on Arthurian legends

You weren't the one who added information about Once Upon a Time but you did improve the information about that series. I had added similar information when I didn't see the other section. Hoever, I was reverted by Edward321. I told him the information I added was every bit as worthwhile as other information in that section, though I worded it to say if you revert me, then you revert that information too. And he did throw out the rest of the section. I'm looking for support to add back the information, but in the section where the Once Upon a Time information is. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:41, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions to my article (Flag of East Germany), your edits have improved the quality of said article. Keep up the good work! JLanzer (talk) 12:05, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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Doctor Who

I'm not entirely sure where the discussion was about moving a page that had existed under its current name without issue for the past however-many years... The specials are known as the 2008–2010 Specials, not the 2008–10 Specials. Alex|The|Whovian 02:19, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

I moved the page as the manual of style for article titles formats the years in the title as "(2008-10)", not "(2008-2010)". I may be incorrect, but I believe that a technical move such as this to correct an article to follow the manual of style does not need a consensus. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk) 02:21, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of such a policy. Fair enough - can you point me towards it? Though, that would typically be for a year span, and not what a season(-ish) of episodes is worldwide known as. Alex|The|Whovian 02:23, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

I believe that the first section in WP:DATERANGE adequately details the manual of style for year ranges. This manual of style can also be seen in many articles that include years in their titles (granted, my examples are mainly for history-based articles, but their move logs also state that the moves were made "according to policy"): Republic of China (1912–49), Syrian Republic (1930–58)) to name a couple. Nick Mitchell 98 (talk) 02:48, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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This is an archive of past discussions with User:Nick Mitchell 98. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

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