MichaelMaggs
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Mistaken Description
editHi there, you may have made changes to the bot since this edit - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eucalyptus_salubris&oldid=1009834723 - but I thought you'd want to be notified. It said that this tree is a grass. I've corrected the page. 220.235.78.155 (talk) 11:10, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- I don't recall in any detail I'm afraid, as that was over four years ago. Thanks for fixing it. MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:04, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thank you for updating and adding short descriptions to articles on Wikipedia. With your help, the WikiProject's top 3000 list has been cleared for April 2025, the second month in a row! Your work has made Wikipedia better :-). LR.127 (talk) 12:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC) |
Oh, thanks! MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:53, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- And much thanks again, where we've completed the list for June 2025. Cheers :-). LR.127 (talk) 01:55, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
Nomination of Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020 for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.Smallbone Deceased
editHello. Thanks for your note. I am a great fan of Michael Gilbert, and I think Smallbone Deceased is one of his best. But a legal error in chapter 13 has bothered me for the last 50 years. In section I Bohun says that Abel Horniman handed over the (incomplete) deeds of Crookham Court Farm to National Provincial Bank when he mortgaged the farm to the bank in 1937. In section II the Husbandmen's League's solicitor says that, when "Stancomb Farm" was mortgaged to them in 1943, he made a search at the Land Registry and found the 1937 mortgage of Crookham Court Farm duly recorded. But the 1937 mortgage was a legal mortgage secured by deposit of title deeds, and would not have been recorded in the Land Registry under the Land Charges Act 1925; therefore a search would not have revealed it. Pomponiatus (talk) 16:25, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid that is not going to work. It's a basic requirement of Wikipedia that added information can't be based on an editor's own personal knowledge or original research (WP:OR), including literary criticism such as this. It's not enough that you know the law was as you say, nor is it even enough that you are perfectly correct about it: the analysis you are hoping to add has to be based on some reliable published secondary source (WP:RS). So, even if you can show without a shadow of doubt that you are correct, you'd still need to be able to point to some reliable published source which has independently noted the same error, and which also expresses 'surprise' that the author should have made it. Unfortunate, I know, but Wikipedia relies more on prior publication in reliable sources than it does on abstract 'truth'. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:56, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
Jack and the Beanstalk, etc.
editI don't know whether you have any interest in fairy tales, but the plot summary of Jack and the Beanstalk needs attention. The version in the cited source is the Joseph Jacobs one, which can also be found here. The current summary contains several errors:
- The story never refers to the giant's house as a "castle".
- Jack does not "find the giant's wife in the kitchen". The story specifies that Jack first sees her on the doorstep, outside.
- Could you please give me something to eat? I am so hungry! is not an accurate quote. What Jack says here is Good morning, mum. Could you be so kind as to give me some breakfast.
- There is no boy in here! is also not an accurate quote. What the giantess says is Nonsense, dear, you’re dreaming. Or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you liked so much for yesterday’s dinner.
- "In the night" is not accurate. In the story, the giant goes to sleep after breakfast, and Jack escapes then.
- Jack never hides "under the bed". He hides in the oven the first two times, and in the copper the third time.
- Jack does not meet the giant's wife at all the third time. Rather, he sneaks into the house, probably because she knows by then that he is a thief.
- Help master! A boy is stealing me! is not an accurate quote. The harp simply calls Master! Master!
All of this can be solved simply by restoring this version.
I also thought this would be a good example for WP:PLOTSUM, better than the Red Riding Hood example which is currently there. But this was reverted and revdeled. I wish people would focus on actual content.
Improvements to WP:WAF and MOS:NOVEL were also revdeled. Maybe someone could request that an admin un-revdel these edits? Perhaps they could just strike the edit summaries, but leave the actual revision history in place so that established users can take a look when they have time? 47.83.234.100 (talk) 05:51, 13 August 2025 (UTC)