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Happy editing!  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 17:17, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, are you ever going to stop tweaking this article? It's rather hard to go in and make changes because it is never stable. You've been at it for months and there are problems to be resolved. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:00, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bretonbanquet -- It's about finished. A couple of paragraphs still to add, but otherwise done. I'm aiming for perfection here; apologies if I'm overdoing it. Have just seen your latest comment. This hasn't been mentioned before. If you're still online, please elaborate. 194.81.226.132 (talk) 14:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Perfection is never possible in a Wikipedia article so don't worry if you don't feel you've achieved it. It's stuff like this:

"In essence, he had a breakdown.[26] The rest of us were so hurt and insulted by what Danny had done we didn't know what to do. I was loath to fire him because he played so well ... [Firing him] would mean pulling out of two weeks of gigs and cancelling the tour[8][72]... [but] there was no other option. Danny had to go."[15][73]

You've got five sources for that quote which suggests to me that it's not one quote (as it is presented) but a combination of several. You can't really do that, as although they're all his words, you're synthesising it to make it look like he said all this at the same time. Another issue is that there are chunks of text there, especially in the Welch section, that don't have anything to do with Danny. They'd be better suited in Welch's article or the main Fleetwood Mac one. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:50, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The first sentence ("He had a breakdown") came from a Jim Farber interview dated 2017. It was an important statement, an acknowledgement of what was obvious but someone needed to say, and I felt it needed to be there in that position. The rest of the paragraph quoted Fleetwood from his two autobiographies. The second cite of each pair is a page number. The sentence is not intended to be taken as one continuous quote: the dots ( ... ) indicate gaps or discontinuity.

Welch section: I included this material as scene-setting and background to fill out the picture. This was the environment Kirwan was working, touring and performing in, and in effect Welch is describing it for us on Kirwan's behalf. But I bow to your judgement if you feel it should be somewhere else. 194.81.226.131 (talk) 15:32, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dots or ellipses in a sentence indicate that a word or a few words have been removed from a longer piece of text. They are not meant to join parts of sentences taken from different sources. So that does read like it was effectively one quote, although you didn't mean it that way. I have no issue with any of the content of that piece, by the way.

I get your intention with the Welch stuff but I feel there's a bit too much there that doesn't directly concern Kirwan. At least that is how a reviewer of the article would see it. We can have a closer look at it when you feel you've done everything you want to do. Bretonbanquet (talk) 02:10, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not trim direct quotations without indicating in the text that this has been done. DuncanHill (talk) 10:58, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The copy of the current Wikipedia Danny Kirwan which has appeared on the WikiVisually site has had numerous changes made to the punctuation. Will someone please ask whoever is responsible not to make changes to the published text, and in particular not to tinker with precise and correctly applied punctuation.194.81.226.132 (talk) 15:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Doctors of Madness, you may be blocked from editing. Pachu Kannan (talk) 12:38, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kind message. I am not 'editing disruptively' and I am not 'vandalising' anything. Kindly explain in plain English what you mean. I put a lot of time and effort into this, with the best of intentions, and the editing I do is as thoughtful, rational, intelligent, careful, scrupulous and thorough as I can make it. If I sometimes make mistakes of protocol with, in this instance, an invalid citation, it does not indicate any malicious or mischievous intent: it just means I occasionally get technical details wrong. Kindly refrain from jumping to arbitrary conclusions and issuing threats. I am extremely angry and insulted. Please reply.194.81.226.132 (talk) 13:10, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Per wp:ENGVAR, please maintain the existing English variant which appears to be American English per starting edit initial edits e.g. "honor" rather than "honour". Thank you Adakiko (talk) 10:49, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

But see MOS:TIES.--AntientNestor (talk) 16:57, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Among other things, WP:V says sources must be reliably published, your source is not published at all.[1]. Doug Weller talk 12:16, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]