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Oltrepier: Your 2000-byte edit was not "few further adjustments". Please make edits incrementally, rather than making large numbers of mutually unrelated edits, so that changes are easier for other editors to review. Usually, add content from one reference at a time, and separate formal/wording changes in their own edits, maybe separately for each section of an article. (I realize I myself made some major edits on 21 June, but they all related to a single issue raised at DYK.) Thanks. —RCraig09 (
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RCraig09 You're right, sorry about that... I promise I'll pay more attention from now on; the same goes for archived links to the sources.
About Nikki Held, I actually added information about her just to add some more context about the cited plaintiff herself (as previously done for court cases such as
Gonzalez v. Google LLC and
Brown v. Board of Education), but I get your objection.
By the way, can you give me advice on formatting references in blocks, as you did on this article, please? Indeed, it seems very helpful when you need to save time and space, but I suppose I can only do it via the source editor, can't I?
Oltrepier (
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12:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
I don't know what you mean by formatting references "in blocks". But yes, the source editor lets you move the full-length citation into the /*References*/ section and leave <ref name=xxx/> in the wikitext (must include the slash "/"). More generally, in the source editor: above the big edit box, there are a few choices ">Advanced >Specialcharacters >Help >Cite". Be sure ">Cite" is chosen, and then click on "Templates" at the left and choose from the drop-down list. When the window appears, click "Show/hide extra fields", which will allow you to add archive links. Archive links are formed in the
Wayback Machine at
archive.org (paste the URL of the news or magazine article there to find an existing archive link, or form a new archive link if needed). Including archive links avoids
WP:Link rot. —RCraig09 (
talk)12:56, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply
MEPA: Montana Environmental Policy Act vs Montana Energy Policy Act
At the start of the article, we note the MEPA acronym for Montana Environmental Policy Act.
Then later we use the MEPA acronym for Montana Energy Policy Act.
Sorry I am relatively new to Wikipedia. What do we do here?
I don't see any existence of a Montana Energy Policy Act so I am assuming the cited source made a typo.
YordleSquire (
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19:07, 17 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Taking a look at a document the cited references links to.
See second page: it seems like there is a Montana State Energy Policy Act which is something different from Montana Environmental Policy Act (MEPA).
YordleSquire (
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19:13, 17 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Thanks for checking things out on Talk Page (often a good idea). Since the Montana Environmental Policy Act doesn't have its own Wikipedia article (yet), I've removed the square brackets to avoid a "red link". Also, "enshrined" is a non-neutral term that I replaced with the more objective legal term, recited. I hope you enjoy editing. There's a lot to learn, and it's best to proceed incrementally, as you have done here. —RCraig09 (
talk)20:29, 17 August 2023 (UTC)reply