User talk:Darman36/Archive 1 - Revision history

Soranin at 16:37, 19 May 2026

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	::Now you have to understand that it was taboo for people to refer to an incumbent Chinese emperor by their name. The current emperor would be referred to as "the Emperor", "His Majesty", "Your Highness", etc. From what I understand, this is still the case in Japan, where Japanese people are not supposed to refer to the current emperor by his personal name Naruhito even though we non-Japanese people do. Despite this, it would not technically be incorrect to refer to the Jiajing Emperor as "Zhu Houcong" all throughout his article about his life because that ''was'' his actual name even if most people weren't allowed to use it. In fact, referring to Li Longji as "Emperor Xuanzong of Tang" may or may not be a bit anachronistic because he wouldn't have acquired that regnal name until after he died. But it is not an unknown practice in historiography to use different names for an individual's stage in life for clarity. Historians like to refer to {{wiki\|Augustus}}, who kept changing his name in confusing ways throughout his life, as Octavian from his adoption by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE to his receival of the title ''Augustus'' in 27 BCE, from which point he is known in the literature as Augustus. Generally, the practice is to refer to a ruler by their regnal name when describing them in that period of their life.		::Now you have to understand that it was taboo for people to refer to an incumbent Chinese emperor by their name. The current emperor would be referred to as "the Emperor", "His Majesty", "Your Highness", etc. From what I understand, this is still the case in Japan, where Japanese people are not supposed to refer to the current emperor by his personal name Naruhito even though we non-Japanese people do. Despite this, it would not technically be incorrect to refer to the Jiajing Emperor as "Zhu Houcong" all throughout his article about his life because that ''was'' his actual name even if most people weren't allowed to use it. In fact, referring to Li Longji as "Emperor Xuanzong of Tang" may or may not be a bit anachronistic because he wouldn't have acquired that regnal name until after he died. But it is not an unknown practice in historiography to use different names for an individual's stage in life for clarity. Historians like to refer to {{wiki\|Augustus}}, who kept changing his name in confusing ways throughout his life, as Octavian from his adoption by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE to his receival of the title ''Augustus'' in 27 BCE, from which point he is known in the literature as Augustus. Generally, the practice is to refer to a ruler by their regnal name when describing them in that period of their life.

	::Zhu Houcong was born Zhu Houcong in 1507, and he became the Jiajing Emperor of Ming in 1521. Li Longji was born Li Longji in 685, and he became Emperor Xuanzong of Tang in 712—even though "Xuanzong", as a temple name created after his death, is technically retrospective in this case. Apart from Qin Shi Huang, who might be argued "dead-named" his birth name like [[w:c:starwars:Sith/Legends\|Sith]] customarily do with theirs, these rulers did retain their birth names as their identities, so it's not wrong to still refer to them by their real names after they began their reigns. It's just that for clarity's sake, the common practice is to use their regnal names after their reign began.		::Zhu Houcong was born Zhu Houcong in 1507, and he became the Jiajing Emperor of Ming in 1521. Li Longji was born Li Longji in 685, and he became Emperor Xuanzong of Tang in 712—even though "Xuanzong", as a temple name created after his death, is technically retrospective in this case. Apart from Qin Shi Huang, who might be argued "dead-named" his birth name like [w:c:starwars:Sith/Legends\|Sith] customarily do with theirs, these rulers did retain their birth names as their identities, so it's not wrong to still refer to them by their real names after they began their reigns. It's just that for clarity's sake, the common practice is to use their regnal names after their reign began.

	::The problem is ''which'' regnal name to use since all three, the era name, the temple name, and the posthumous name are retrospectively applied after the emperor died. For emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the era name is most typically used because it's convenient. There was one era name per ruler's reign, so they lined up. But as you pointed out, emperors of the Han dynasty had many era names in their reigns. Emperors of the Tang dynasty had only a few (Kaiyuan and Tianbao were two "eras" of Li Longji's reign), but that is still too many. So it's not convenient to refer to emperors of these older dynasties by era names in their reign.		::The problem is ''which'' regnal name to use since all three, the era name, the temple name, and the posthumous name are retrospectively applied after the emperor died. For emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the era name is most typically used because it's convenient. There was one era name per ruler's reign, so they lined up. But as you pointed out, emperors of the Han dynasty had many era names in their reigns. Emperors of the Tang dynasty had only a few (Kaiyuan and Tianbao were two "eras" of Li Longji's reign), but that is still too many. So it's not convenient to refer to emperors of these older dynasties by era names in their reign.

Soranin at 16:00, 19 May 2026

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	==Merge Proposals==		==Merge Proposals==
	Hey, Darman! I just opened up a [[Thread:241337\|discussion]] on our open merge proposals. It's quite long, but if we discuss it we can close them (especially because there are some from 2014 still unsolved :o)<br /><br />If you have the time, could you offer some input? Thank you a lot. - [[User:Soranin\|Soranin]] ([[User talk:Soranin\|talk]]) 22:27, May 21, 2020 (UTC)		Hey, Darman! I just opened up a [Thread:241337\|discussion]] on our open merge proposals. It's quite long, but if we discuss it we can close them (especially because there are some from 2014 still unsolved :o)<br /><br />If you have the time, could you offer some input? Thank you a lot. - [[User:Soranin\|Soranin]] ([[User talk:Soranin\|talk]]) 22:27, May 21, 2020 (UTC)
	:Sure! I don't know how much sway I'll have, and I doubt the changes will affect me much as I'll just follow the community decision, but I'll give input where I can. Thanks! – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 23:40, May 21, 2020 (UTC)		:Sure! I don't know how much sway I'll have, and I doubt the changes will affect me much as I'll just follow the community decision, but I'll give input where I can. Thanks! – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 23:40, May 21, 2020 (UTC)

Soranin: /* Proposed deletion for ACO images */

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Proposed deletion for ACO images

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	==Proposed deletion for ACO images==		==Proposed deletion for ACO images==
	Hey, Darman, you did see that the "ACO Documentation" images you proposed for deletions are miles away better in quality than Kain's files, right? And that Kain upscaled the images themselves, while the ACO ones are directly from the files? :p - [[User:Soranin\|Soranin]] ([[User talk:Soranin\|talk]]) 01:03, 27 June 2023 (UTC)		Hey, Darman, you did see that the "ACO Documentation" images you proposed for deletions are miles away better in quality than Kain's files, right? And that Kain upscaled the images themselves, while the ACO ones are directly from the files? :p - [[User:Soranin\|Soranin]] ([[User talk:Soranin\|talk]]) 01:03, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
	:Uhh...no. I admittedly had not noticed that, but looking closer now, yes I can see a quality difference between the blurry [[:File:AC4 Early Animus Prototypes 2.png]] and clearer [[:File:ACO Documentation - Animus Guide - MS-3000.PNG]]. Since you have ripped other files from AC4, are these pics naturally that poor quality? If not, could I/we save the cleaner files to computer, reupload them using the "Replace" function for the respective AC4 files, and ''then'' delete the then-duplicated ACO images, since it's Ubisoft recycling AC4 media in ACO as they occasionally do elsewhere? – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 23:20, 27 June 2023 (UTC)		:Uhh...no. I admittedly had not noticed that, but looking closer now, yes I can see a quality difference between the blurry [[:File:AC4 Early Animus Prototypes 2.png]] and clearer [:File:ACO Documentation - Animus Guide - MS-3000.PNG]]. Since you have ripped other files from AC4, are these pics naturally that poor quality? If not, could I/we save the cleaner files to computer, reupload them using the "Replace" function for the respective AC4 files, and ''then'' delete the then-duplicated ACO images, since it's Ubisoft recycling AC4 media in ACO as they occasionally do elsewhere? – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 23:20, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

	==Reverted Lyle White edit==		==Reverted Lyle White edit==

Soranin: /* Re: Skill trees */

2026-05-11T20:22:40Z

Re: Skill trees

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	Hey Darman, thank you for reaching out to me! I especially appreciate your recognition of our sentence case naming policy as we've had quite a number of users who have been oblivious to it or fail to respect it. However in this case, I'm not entirely sure that ''tree'' shouldn't be capitalized. The reason is because conventionally, gameplay terms are capitalized and treated as proper nouns (i.e. in game manuals, game guides, reviews, etc.) so as to distinguish them as gameplay terms. This is normally necessary so as to avoid confusion. Per our in-universe writing policy, we normally make sure that all gameplay terms are translated into "real-life" terms anyways, but with certain articles, like the Skill Tree articles, these are expressly out-of-universe pages.		Hey Darman, thank you for reaching out to me! I especially appreciate your recognition of our sentence case naming policy as we've had quite a number of users who have been oblivious to it or fail to respect it. However in this case, I'm not entirely sure that ''tree'' shouldn't be capitalized. The reason is because conventionally, gameplay terms are capitalized and treated as proper nouns (i.e. in game manuals, game guides, reviews, etc.) so as to distinguish them as gameplay terms. This is normally necessary so as to avoid confusion. Per our in-universe writing policy, we normally make sure that all gameplay terms are translated into "real-life" terms anyways, but with certain articles, like the Skill Tree articles, these are expressly out-of-universe pages.

	The question with the Skill Tree pages is that, if the game explicitly names the skill trees by this generic name of "Skill Tree" (i.e. named after what it is), then ''skill tree'' can be validly seen as either a gameplay term that should be capitalized or as a general noun not capitalized. If, on the other hand, the skill trees in the games aren't given this name (but given another name, e.g. [[w:c:leagueoflegends:Runes Reforged\|Runes]], formerly [[w:c:leagueoflegends:Summoner Mastery\|Masteries]], in ''[[w:c:leagueoflegends\|League of Legends]]''), then you're absolutely right that the skill trees should not be capitalized. My apologies if I have made this a bit confusing. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 10:45, October 3, 2018 (UTC)		The question with the Skill Tree pages is that, if the game explicitly names the skill trees by this generic name of "Skill Tree" (i.e. named after what it is), then ''skill tree'' can be validly seen as either a gameplay term that should be capitalized or as a general noun not capitalized. If, on the other hand, the skill trees in the games aren't given this name (but given another name, e.g. [w:c:leagueoflegends:Runes Reforged\|Runes]], formerly [w:c:leagueoflegends:Summoner Mastery\|Masteries]], in ''[w:c:leagueoflegends\|League of Legends]]''), then you're absolutely right that the skill trees should not be capitalized. My apologies if I have made this a bit confusing. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 10:45, October 3, 2018 (UTC)

	==Helix Rift Events==		==Helix Rift Events==

Soranin: /* MTG x Assassin's Creed */

2026-05-11T16:11:25Z

MTG x Assassin's Creed

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	==MTG x Assassin's Creed==		==MTG x Assassin's Creed==
	Hi, I've just popped over from the [[w:c:mtg\|MTG Wiki]]. I'm not sure if the ''Magic: The Gathering'' cross-over is something this Wiki would cover but I thought I'd just provide some resources for the ''[[w:c:mtg:Assassin's Creed\|Assassin's Creed]]'' crossover set, just in case.		Hi, I've just popped over from the [w:c:mtg\|MTG Wiki]]. I'm not sure if the ''Magic: The Gathering'' cross-over is something this Wiki would cover but I thought I'd just provide some resources for the ''[w:c:mtg:Assassin's Creed\|Assassin's Creed]]'' crossover set, just in case.
	*The full list of cards and tokens will be available on [https://scryfall.com/ Scryfall] once the set releases in July 2024.		*The full list of cards and tokens will be available on [https://scryfall.com/ Scryfall] once the set releases in July 2024.
	*Where Wizards of the Coast or an individual artist has released higher res images, without the ''Magic: The Gathering'' card components, they will usually be found on [https://www.mtgpics.com/ MTGpics].		*Where Wizards of the Coast or an individual artist has released higher res images, without the ''Magic: The Gathering'' card components, they will usually be found on [https://www.mtgpics.com/ MTGpics].

Soranin at 03:58, 9 May 2026

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	Hey just to keep you aware the situation, the person you tried to respond to is a sock puppet and the reason why that page got locked in the first place. We realize it’s inconvenient to have a page locked like this for a indefinite time but the edit warring was starting to get out of hand. Hopefully the guy loses interest and we can unlock it in the near future. For the time being if you have any suggested edit either use the article‘s talk page or one of our own. [[User:Lacrossedeamon\|Lacrossedeamon]] ([[User talk:Lacrossedeamon\|talk]]) 04:03, May 9, 2020 (UTC)		Hey just to keep you aware the situation, the person you tried to respond to is a sock puppet and the reason why that page got locked in the first place. We realize it’s inconvenient to have a page locked like this for a indefinite time but the edit warring was starting to get out of hand. Hopefully the guy loses interest and we can unlock it in the near future. For the time being if you have any suggested edit either use the article‘s talk page or one of our own. [[User:Lacrossedeamon\|Lacrossedeamon]] ([[User talk:Lacrossedeamon\|talk]]) 04:03, May 9, 2020 (UTC)
	:Ahh. I ''thought'' they were a sock, given how cocky they were in their Cult/Templar belief for such a new account, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for the tip, but I don't have any suggested edits now. Even if I did, they'd likely be minor, so I'm willing to wait until Staff reach a decision. – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 04:20, May 9, 2020 (UTC)		:Ahh. I ''thought'' they were a sock, given how cocky they were in their Cult/Templar belief for such a new account, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for the tip, but I don't have any suggested edits now. Even if I did, they'd likely be minor, so I'm willing to wait until Staff reach a decision. – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 04:20, May 9, 2020 (UTC)
	:: Hey Darman! I don't know if you are on the discord or not, but I just made a blog post about this guy and his sockpuppets: [[~~User_blog~~:Soranin/~~An_Encyclopaedic_Tale~~\|here]]. - [[User:Soranin\|Soranin]] ([[User talk:Soranin\|talk]]) 18:24, May 9, 2020 (UTC)		:: Hey Darman! I don't know if you are on the discord or not, but I just made a blog post about this guy and his sockpuppets: [[User:Soranin/An Encyclopaedic Tale\|here]]. - [[User:Soranin\|Soranin]] ([[User talk:Soranin\|talk]]) 18:24, May 9, 2020 (UTC)

	==Merge Proposals==		==Merge Proposals==

imported>Darman36: Darman36 moved page User talk:Darman36 to User talk:Darman36/Archive 1 without leaving a redirect: Archiving

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imported>Sol Pacificus: Sol Pacificus moved page User talk:Darman36/Archive 1 to User talk:Darman36 without leaving a redirect: This isn't how you archive a talk page. First, your talk page shouldn't be deleted. Second, there has to be a link to the archived talk page.

2024-03-02T14:39:46Z

Sol Pacificus moved page User talk:Darman36/Archive 1 to User talk:Darman36 without leaving a redirect: This isn't how you archive a talk page. First, your talk page shouldn't be deleted. Second, there has to be a link to the archived talk page.

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imported>Darman36: Darman36 moved page User talk:Darman36 to User talk:Darman36/Archive 1 without leaving a redirect: Archiving

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imported>Darman36: Finally will move this to an archive

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Finally will move this to an archive

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	{{Welcome}}		{{Welcome}}
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	Feel free to contact me on my talkpage if you need anything. [[User:DarkFeather\|DarkFeather]] ([[User talk:DarkFeather\|talk]]) 17:14, December 21, 2015 (UTC)		Feel free to contact me on my talkpage if you need anything. [[User:DarkFeather\|DarkFeather]] ([[User talk:DarkFeather\|talk]]) 17:14, December 21, 2015 (UTC)

	~~{\| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" width="100%" style="border:2px solid white; text-align:left~~
	~~!style="background:#333333; align="left" \|Archive 1 (Dec 2015 – Jan 2021)~~
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	==Re: Database==		==Re: Database==
	Hey there. All of our Database articles got renamed and re-structed not too long ago, due to which the pages we had previously used to display them became obsolete. Every DB entry now has it's own page (i.e. Database: Evie Frye), instead of piling all of the entries onto a single page. I'm afraid this re-structuring has left the Database article in somewhat of a state of disarray. The revamping of this article will consist of considerably more than a small update. At the moment of writing this, I'm not even quite sure what the page is supposed to become like... So while I'd love to offer advice, I think it might be most prudent to wait a few days. I'm currently in the process of deleting all of the 'old format' pages, which consist of pointless re-directs, and will be tackling the Database article afterwards. Mass-deletion, however, takes a little while if there are over 400 redirects. [[User:Amnestyyy\|Amnestyyy]] <small>[[User talk:Amnestyyy\|(Contact me!)]]</small>		Hey there. All of our Database articles got renamed and re-structed not too long ago, due to which the pages we had previously used to display them became obsolete. Every DB entry now has it's own page (i.e. Database: Evie Frye), instead of piling all of the entries onto a single page. I'm afraid this re-structuring has left the Database article in somewhat of a state of disarray. The revamping of this article will consist of considerably more than a small update. At the moment of writing this, I'm not even quite sure what the page is supposed to become like... So while I'd love to offer advice, I think it might be most prudent to wait a few days. I'm currently in the process of deleting all of the 'old format' pages, which consist of pointless re-directs, and will be tackling the Database article afterwards. Mass-deletion, however, takes a little while if there are over 400 redirects. [[User:Amnestyyy\|Amnestyyy]] <small>[[User talk:Amnestyyy\|(Contact me!)]]</small>
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	:I could've sworn we've already removed the infobox parameter. I don't understand your latter question. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 22:33, 22 January 2021 (UTC)		:I could've sworn we've already removed the infobox parameter. I don't understand your latter question. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 22:33, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
	::I thought so too, but seems we still have a bunch of "voice" parameters to clear. There's a small handful of "actor" parameters which I'll get to imminently, but its other uses are in infoboxes that now-inactive users had put on their profile page. I'm wondering if I'd have permission to remove them so then the parameters are all gone across the site, as I believe editing another's profile page rather than the talk page is against our policies. – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 23:15, 22 January 2021 (UTC)		::I thought so too, but seems we still have a bunch of "voice" parameters to clear. There's a small handful of "actor" parameters which I'll get to imminently, but its other uses are in infoboxes that now-inactive users had put on their profile page. I'm wondering if I'd have permission to remove them so then the parameters are all gone across the site, as I believe editing another's profile page rather than the talk page is against our policies. – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 23:15, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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	==Single-use citations==		==Single-use citations==
	Oh by the way, while I'm at it, I noticed that you were removing the "ref name=" part of the citation code (I don't know the technical word for this) in the "Tomás de Torquemada" article whenever a citation only appears once. This is actually strongly discouraged although we never went as far as to make it a strict rule. The reason is because whenever editors don't bother including "ref name=" because they happen to expect that that citation will only be used once, it can come across as "lazy" (though in this case, you were actually doing more work by removing them). Not literally speaking, but one can never know for sure if the citation won't be used again on future edits, and it leaves extra work for other editors if they have to scroll back and then add a ref name. It's simply more efficient to always input a ref name as you're writing a citation rather than forcing later editors to have to jump back and forth along the edit screen to fill that in when it should already have been there. Apart from that, it also comes across as pretty presumptuous because an article usually have room for improvements and updates, meaning just because one editor didn't have more than one use for that citation, it doesn't mean that others also wouldn't. In your case, you were actually removing cases of ref names for citations that only appeared once, so it seems that you actually thought it was part of our standard to do so when it isn't, so I understand it wasn't like you were lazy or presumptuous. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 06:24, 22 January 2021 (UTC)		Oh by the way, while I'm at it, I noticed that you were removing the "ref name=" part of the citation code (I don't know the technical word for this) in the "Tomás de Torquemada" article whenever a citation only appears once. This is actually strongly discouraged although we never went as far as to make it a strict rule. The reason is because whenever editors don't bother including "ref name=" because they happen to expect that that citation will only be used once, it can come across as "lazy" (though in this case, you were actually doing more work by removing them). Not literally speaking, but one can never know for sure if the citation won't be used again on future edits, and it leaves extra work for other editors if they have to scroll back and then add a ref name. It's simply more efficient to always input a ref name as you're writing a citation rather than forcing later editors to have to jump back and forth along the edit screen to fill that in when it should already have been there. Apart from that, it also comes across as pretty presumptuous because an article usually have room for improvements and updates, meaning just because one editor didn't have more than one use for that citation, it doesn't mean that others also wouldn't. In your case, you were actually removing cases of ref names for citations that only appeared once, so it seems that you actually thought it was part of our standard to do so when it isn't, so I understand it wasn't like you were lazy or presumptuous. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 06:24, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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	Given that every single time I have ever had to ask you not to do something—and this has probably been on at least a dozen different matters now—you always require me to tell you against at least three times, my assumption of good faith is seriously being tested, and it really is starting to appear to me that you try to surreptitiously slip back in practices you desire against our formatting styles and conventions if I'm not alert to catch you in the act again and again. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 01:46, 24 January 2022 (UTC)		Given that every single time I have ever had to ask you not to do something—and this has probably been on at least a dozen different matters now—you always require me to tell you against at least three times, my assumption of good faith is seriously being tested, and it really is starting to appear to me that you try to surreptitiously slip back in practices you desire against our formatting styles and conventions if I'm not alert to catch you in the act again and again. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 01:46, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
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	:Oh cool, I'd forgotten about this. Yes, this wiki has occasionally covered AC crossovers, though it's not a regular practice. Thanks for the links! This isn't usually my ballpark, but luckily, it looks like Soranin saw your message here and has got this covered. Love the art and looking forward to its release! – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 13:35, 24 February 2024 (UTC)		:Oh cool, I'd forgotten about this. Yes, this wiki has occasionally covered AC crossovers, though it's not a regular practice. Thanks for the links! This isn't usually my ballpark, but luckily, it looks like Soranin saw your message here and has got this covered. Love the art and looking forward to its release! – [[User:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;font-size:15px;color:#">Darman</span>]] ([[User talk:Darman36\|<span style="font-family:Viner Hand ITC;color:#">talk</span>]]) 13:35, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

	== Talk page protocol ==		==Talk page protocol==

	The issue with rewriting a previous talk page message is linked with the longstanding, customary rule in wiki practice that users are prohibited from erasing messages on the principle of transparency. I learned this rule when I first started on Wookieepedia, and it is debatable whether standard protocol even allows editing past messages at all, but I allow that for convenience because sometimes quick and minor corrections to messages just posted is warranted. If you're rewriting a whole paragraph of your previous talk page message from 5 days ago (and even editing the post date while doing so, which is unprecedented), I think that strains against the flexibility we usually afford. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 06:18, 28 February 2024 (UTC)		The issue with rewriting a previous talk page message is linked with the longstanding, customary rule in wiki practice that users are prohibited from erasing messages on the principle of transparency. I learned this rule when I first started on Wookieepedia, and it is debatable whether standard protocol even allows editing past messages at all, but I allow that for convenience because sometimes quick and minor corrections to messages just posted is warranted. If you're rewriting a whole paragraph of your previous talk page message from 5 days ago (and even editing the post date while doing so, which is unprecedented), I think that strains against the flexibility we usually afford. [[User:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#990000;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:17px">'''Sol Pacificus'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Sol Pacificus\|<span style="color:#D4AF37;font-family:Californian FB;font-size:11px">(Cyfiero)</span>]]</sup> 06:18, 28 February 2024 (UTC)