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Somme edit

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The en dash in a range is always unspaced, except when at least one endpoint of the range includes at least one space.

23 July 1790 – 1 December 1791, not 23 July 1790–1 December 1791 14 May – 2 August 2011, not 14 May–2 August 2011 10:30 pm Tuesday – 1:25 am Wednesday; Christmas Day – New Year's Eve; Christmas 2001 – Easter 2002 1–17 September; February–October 2009; 1492? – 7 April 1556

Best absorbed were wavelengths in the range 28 mm – 17 m.

thanks.Keith-264 (talk) 08:21, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, Keith-264! I'll have to further educate myself on the differences between hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes since I've always just treated something unspaced as a hyphen and something spaced as a dash. The Wikipedia page on dashes states the following: "In most uses of en dashes, such as when used in indicating ranges, they are closed up to the joined words. It is only when en dashes take the role of em dashes – for example, in setting off parenthetical statements such as this one – that they take spaces around them." It's interesting that Wikipedia itself would say something different in its MoS.JustAMuggle (talk) 00:42, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I know that feelin'. ;O) I ended up going through loads of pages putting spaces back and closing ranges within months. So much for my English O level. Keith-264 (talk) 06:36, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

a note about units

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According to the Manual of Style, a non-breaking space or {{nowrap}} should be used to prevent a linebreak between a unit of measurement and its quantity. Refer to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Unit_names_and_symbols. Therefore you should not have removed the non-breaking spaces in Lake Berryessa. Would you kindly put them back? If you have questions, I'm here to help. —Stepheng3 (talk) 18:32, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, Stepheng3! I never knew what the   was for as opposed to a space and just found it annoying and distracting while trying to read Wikipedia articles in the backend. I've fixed it on the page and will keep that in mind for future edits. JustAMuggle (talk) 00:55, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome. It's a pleasure collaborating with you. —Stepheng3 (talk) 01:06, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mojave Desert

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Hi, Pocketthis! If you'll read this page on restrictive clauses, it might help clear up why there needs to be a comma after "Las Vegas" in this sentence: "The Mojave metropolitan areas include Las Vegas which is the largest city in the Mojave with a metropolitan population of around 1.9 million in 2006; Lancaster, the largest California city in the desert; and over 850,000 people live in areas of the Mojave attached to the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, including Palmdale and Lancaster, (referred to as the Antelope Valley), Victorville, Apple Valley and Hesperia (referred to as the Victor Valley) attached to the Inland Empire metropolitan area, the 14th largest in the nation; and St. George in the northeastern-most part of the Mojave." Feel free to let me know if you have any questions! JustAMuggle (talk) 06:44, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • I didn't remove the comma after Las Vegas. I removed it after the word: 'there', and it wasn't even in the paragraph you are referring to. Learn how to see what edits were made by the last editor before you offer to give another editor grammar lessons. Grammar is one of my strong points; I really don't need any help understanding it. However, it is very kind of you to offer. Also, I created your user page so your name will appear blue, but, I'm sure your face will be red after you read my reply. Oh well....you're just a muggle........:)-Pocketthis (talk) 14:51, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, no red face here, Pocketthis. Looking at the differences in edits (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mojave_Desert&diff=627289978&oldid=627289799) and the updated page, it appears that you did remove that comma (and reinsert the colon after "includes"). If not, please kindly let me know what I'm missing. I don't want to make this mistake again if it is indeed the case. Concerning the comma before "including," I was taught/had thought that a comma before "including" was always necessary because it introduces a nonrestrictive clause. What I'm looking up online seems to support this, but I'm not positive. Thanks for creating my user page! I always thought it was just red because it was my own. :] (P.S. I hope "your just a muggle" was tongue in cheek after "Grammar is one of my strong points." ;)) JustAMuggle (talk) 22:10, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • All I did was to "undue" your revision; I added nothing. Look at the edit again; it was just a reversal of your edit. It was the removal of the comma after the word "there". Unbeknownst to me, you had other edits lower in the page that my reversal also removed. That was the misunderstanding. The colon and the other changes reappeared after my reversal. You thought I added them, but they were there before your edit was made. That clears up this mess. You are correct about there being a comma needed in the other section after the word Las Vegas. I have put that comma there just now. Yes, there is a smiley face after my "you're just a muggle" comment...:) -Pocketthis (talk) 16:45, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nice edit there on your earlier post, Pocketthis. ;) Thanks for clearing everything up! JustAMuggle (talk) 17:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Attention: Potions in Harry Potter will be placed for AfD on June 4, 2016

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(You are receiving this notice due to your having made some edits to the article discussed or its talk page sometime during its history)

In November of 2007 Potions in Harry Potter was deleted as a the result of a deletion discussion due to its failure of WP:FICT, WP:PLOT, WP:WAF, and other issues. On June 4, 2015 the article was recreated from content then currently existing on the Magical objects in Harry Potter article. A discussion followed regarding the appropriateness of the recreation. An attempt was made to return this article to a redirect, which was undone a day later. Some months later, a notice was placed on the article's talk page indicating the article would be placed for deletion. A few days ago, the article was placed for proposed deletion. This too was undone.

Throughout the history of the article, which spans more than a decade, it has never had any references. It has always been written in in-universe style. No outside universe perspective has ever been provided. As of June 2016, it will have been tagged for both of these problems for a year. I have asked, begged, and pleaded with people to rewrite this article to no avail. As the article stands (and has always stood), it continues to fail WP:FICT, WP:PLOT, and WP:WAF. There have been suggestions to merge the content back to Magical objects in Harry Potter, but this completely fails to address the failures noted. Where the content exists, either in its own article or as part of another, matters not. The issue is the content itself.

Barring a massive rewrite of the entire article into something that is encyclopedic in its treatment of the subject, I will be placing it for deletion on June 4, 2016. This notice is being sent as a last ditch attempt to find one or more people willing to do something to fix the serious problems extant in this content. Thank you for your attention, --Hammersoft (talk) 17:19, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CaixaBank Moved!

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Hello,

I moved Caixabank to CaixaBank per your request. It looks like the redirect had edit history which is why you were unable to perform the move. You can move over redirects only when there is not edit history involved from multiple editors typically. Glad I was able to take care of it for you though! -- Dane talk 22:42, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

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If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Ad Orientem (talk) 20:57, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Huh?

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JustAMuggle (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

What's "block evasion"? How did I "intentionally evade a block"? What did I do? Was this put here by mistake? Was I blocked by mistake? All I do is improve Wikipedia by fixing typos and grammar and adding conversions and links on the pages I'm reading... I read the blocking/evasion section and the Guide to Appealing Blocks, and I haven't violated any of the policies listed. I haven't done any vandalizing or anything. I only have one account, and I'm not reverting other people's edits. If I'm somehow doing anything wrong, just let me know and I'll stop doing it, but I was given no previous warning or indication. The last interaction I had with Pocketthis was in September 2014, when we discussed comma usage on the Mojave Desert page, but it says when I try to edit a page that I evaded blocks by that user? Can you help me out, Ad Orientem? I legit have no idea what is going on or what could have caused this, and I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to how Wikipedia works beyond editing pages, so I'm not even sure I'm drafting this response correctly or in the right place. JustAMuggle (talk) 21:46, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Blocked in error. See below. Ad Orientem (talk) 22:22, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As I am reading this your account was created by Pocketthis. At least that is what it looks like to me. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:58, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, goodness, no! Thank you for the explanation. Pocketthis simply created my user page, not my account. This is explained here on my user talk page: "Also, I created your user page so your name will appear blue." My response was "Thanks for creating my user page! I always thought it was just red because it was my own." Because truly, I barely know what I'm doing! I'm sure Pocketthis would be happy to confirm, but I'm not sure they will see this based on the message at the top of their talk page. JustAMuggle (talk) 22:06, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ok that looks like like a pretty solid alibi. I will unblock you directly and I wuill put blocked in error in the unblock summary so no one will hold it against you. Just as an FYI and out of an abundance of caution I am going to ask for a check user to double check, but this does look good to me. You will be unblocked shortly. -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:12, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Great, thanks so much for your help! I'm happy to answer any other questions that would help with the investigation, and please do feel free to double check. Just let me know if there's anything else I can do! Is there a way I can make sure this doesn't happen again in the future? Or will I always be suspect because another user created my page for me? JustAMuggle (talk) 22:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have unblocked you. I apologize for the error. -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:20, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Bbb23. I have a high degree of confidence that this was not in fact a case of block evasion (mea culpa mea culpa...) but out of an abundance of caution would you just look into your Magic Eightball and confirm the lack of any connection between the accounts? Thanks... -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:20, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think there is any chance that this will happen again. But you should remove the one edit on your user page as that was what triggered this. But You will be fine and I don't think anyone will hold your block against you as I noted the block was in error. -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:33, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Ad Orientem: I'm not sure that a check is justified in these circumstances, but the question is moot if you're talking about Pocketthis because that account is  Stale. (You forgot to sign above.)--Bbb23 (talk) 22:30, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. That works for me. -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:33, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for You

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For your quiet but tireless work tidying up articles. Ad Orientem (talk) 16:45, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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You made a lot of mistakes

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I don't have the time to go through each and every one of your mistakes, but most of your edits were wrong. (I do concur that "nonprofit" is the correct spelling, though.) Here are a few illustrative ones:

"Later, Garfield also credited Ordway with coming up with the general idea of prepayment for industrial healthcare, and explained that he did not know much at the time about other similar health plans except for the Ross-Loos Medical Group." You deleted the "and" before "explained", which created a run-on sentence.

In formal written English, especially American English, U.S. is still far more common in American newspapers of record and major newsmagazines, not US. British English began to drop the periods about four or five decades ago.

There has been a trend towards eliding "health care" to "healthcare" for about 30 years. For example, Modern Healthcare magazine.

"Has faced", the current wording, is more precise than "received." "Received" is what happens when one submits criticism through a Web form directly to a business's customer service department. WP generally doesn't cover such private criticism because that's what Yelp is for. "Has faced" more accurately describes the situation here: KP has faced public criticism. The connotation of "has faced" is more confrontational than "received," which is what makes it the better word choice under the circumstances. All experienced writers always check for appropriate connotation and denotation when choosing words.

"Then" when used as an adjective to refer to the holder of a position at a previous point in time is usually linked to the title of the position by a hyphen. --Coolcaesar (talk) 21:06, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well. I learned something today. Turns out there has been a discussion elsewhere about the "then-president" issue which links to Google Ngram Viewer which is based on actual texts ingested by Google for the Google Books project. So "then president" is historically and currently the much more common usage. I stand corrected and I apologize for my presumptuousness.
Turns out "health care" is more common too, but my intuition was correct in the sense that "health care" peaked in 1994 and is slowly losing ground to "healthcare." This is a closer call and obviously I prefer the more concise usage, but at this point I won't object if you want to switch the KP article over to "health care."
I see what you mean about removing the extra "has" in "has faced" and do not object to that deletion.
The last major issue I had with your edits was the deletion of two usages of "of", which I felt made the article unduly concise. The more I think about it, the second deletion is tolerable, but I am still irritated by the deletion of "of" so "all of their" becomes "all their," because the result is the stacking of multiple modifiers on the noun "funding." That's probably why Ngram Viewer shows that the phrase with an of is more common. --Coolcaesar (talk) 22:43, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The one remaining concern I have is that the MOS actually does not express a preference on the U.S./US issue and instead stresses only internal consistency. There have been a great many debates over the years over this and it has always been a stalemate between the British English writers who like US and the American English writers who were taught to use "U.S." at the college and graduate/professional level. (At the high school level, I will readily concede that many teachers are lenient and allow both, which is why I wasn't clear myself on the issue until my college years.) I'm going to revert my revert of your edit now. As long as you keep U.S., I think we're fine for now. --Coolcaesar (talk) 23:09, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Patellar tendon

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Hi JustAMuggle! I noticed that you made an edit to Patellar tendon, removing a comma. Would you mind explaining why? Thanks! Bibeyjj (talk) 22:01, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I've seen some of your Middle-earth article edits, and it seems to me that you have an approach to punctuation that simply doesn't work for the style of British English which he project uses. I've accordingly made some reverts and hope not to have to keep on doing so. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:36, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You've just done that again at Númenor‎. Please understand and accept that British punctuation is just not the same as that of other varieties; or perhaps, that my school in my era taught something other than your variety. I see from the item below that at least one other editor is becoming ruffled by your eagerness to change Wikipedia's language settings; repunctuating correct (and extremely carefully-written, and formally-reviewed) British punctuation for Middle-earth articles amounts to much the same thing. Please stop. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:12, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Could you please stop, I've explained to you repeatedly that you are breaking the articles' British diction and flow, and introducing inappropriate diction that simply doesn't work in the context. I have today reverted almost all your Middle-earth edits as inapposite or in a few instances demonstrably wrong. Your editing is verging on disruptive. I would be really grateful if you could stop now before this escalates. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:18, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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David J Johnson: The same is happening on Middle-earth articles, which are obviously in British English. If this continues then action will have to be taken. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:21, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Chiswick Chap: I've been disappointed to see all the work I've been putting into Middle-earth articles reverted because as far as I'm aware, none of my edits have changed British English to American English. I'm a professional copy editor for an American publication, but I've been working with writers from a variety of English-speaking countries for about a decade, so I'd like to think I recognize the difference between American and British English.
Know that all my edits are in good faith, and I am actually careful to maintain British English in my copy editing on Wikipedia. I was made aware of the standards in David J Johnson's second paragraph long ago (any American English edits I made to 2001: A Space Odyssey were a result of my not realizing that the film was a joint production between the US and the UK, oops).
I'm always open to learning, though, and I would appreciate any specific examples of my mistaken American English you can point out.
Thank you very much for replying. I know all the edits were in good faith. My edit comments this year have pointed out various errors. However, the immediate issue is actually punctuation. All the Middle-earth articles have commas where an English editor would pause minutely for a quick breath, as with the two commas in "where the Fellowship disembarked and was then broken, with the capture of Merry and Pippin, and the death of Boromir"; it is apparent that American editors would read, and breathe, differently. This is quite a subtle matter, and not terribly easy to explain in terms of rules, though I'm sure someone out there has given it a go. Perhaps these two commas mark out a description in apposition, giving a little more detail on the preceding phrase; or perhaps not. Anyway, that's just one instance. Since over 100 of the Middle-earth articles have reached Good Article status, shepherded through the process by British hands, rearranging the commas must be seen as a risky manoeuvre (maneuver?). All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:57, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello JustAMuggle

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Did you choose the featured snippet on Google showing my writing that you edited on the Johnston tornado in Rhode Island this morning? Because i edited it to correct some info, but it still shows the same snippet. C0smoNauticalMile (talk) 15:34, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, it updated after 10 minutes or so. C0smoNauticalMile (talk) 15:35, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Phase Six

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Hello, JustAMuggle. In case you haven't noticed, many of the cosmetic changes you have made to the Phase Six article have been repeatedly reverted. This is because you are altering the link displays and naming of brands and other subject names in a way that is not natural with this article and other MCU articles' wording and phrasing (such as changing "The Multiverse Saga", an official quoted brand, to the "[[The Multiverse Saga|Multiverse Saga]]", "Phase Four and Phase Five" to "Phases Four and Five", and "post-production to "postproduction". While your efforts are appreciated, it can be exhaustive always coming back to this article to see the same changes being made and reverted again and again. These changes do not fall in line with the standard formatting of these articles, and I would strongly urge you to cease before it becomes a potential issue. Thank you. Trailblazer101 (talk) 14:16, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Edits to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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I'm going to have to revert many of the recent changes to made to this article as you've introduced elements of grammar and punctuation that are simply not used in British English. This is exactly the issue raised by Chiswick Chap in the #National varieties of English section above, and I'm sorry to see that you are continuing to ignore MOS:ENGVAR. British English, for example, does not use a capital letter after a colon. You've also created confusion by inconsistently changing tenses. MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:29, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Michael. JustAMuggle, please take note, this really shouldn't be happening. Wikipedia is multinational, and must remain so; creeping Americanisation is completely unacceptable. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:11, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The same applies to Sylvie and Bruno and to Lewis Carroll. I suggest that you avoid attempting to make grammatical or punctuation edits to articles written in British English MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:27, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, @MichaelMaggs and @Chiswick Chap! I edit based on Wikipedia's Manual of Style, always taking care to retain either American or British English as appropriate for the article. Some of Wikipedia's guidance, such as quotation marks and yes, capitalization of a full sentence after a colon, trends toward American English (whereas punctuation around quotation marks trends toward British English), but I don't make the rules! I suggest you check Wikipedia's MoS before reverting edits that you believe are simply American English rather than the approved style. For grammar and punctuation that do not contradict that, I'm happy to learn more about how to properly edit articles written in British English! JustAMuggle (talk) 12:42, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds as if the creeping Americanisers have invaded the MoS as well, crafty beggars. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:19, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Let's take few examples for discussion. In this edit, you took the time to capitalise "They" in the sentence fragment (not full sentence) following the colon, like this – According to Gillian Beer, Carroll's play with language evokes the feeling of words for new readers: They "still have insecure edges and a nimbus of nonsense blurs the sharp focus of terms". In this edit and others you changed the perfectly correct and extremely common British English word "entitled" (past participle of the sense "to give a title to a book etc") to the far less idiomatic "titled". In this edit, you changed a sentence to add a comma after "on publication": Though Carroll did add his own illustrations to the original copy, on publication, he was advised to find a professional illustrator so that the pictures were more appealing to his audience.. That's certainly not usual in British English, bringing the reader up short in expecting the commas to be part of an appositional pair, when they are no such thing. MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:41, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, @MichaelMaggs, are you saying that "they 'still have insecure edges'" is not a full sentence? It has a subject ("they"), a verb ("have"), and an object ("edges") and most certainly is...
Thank you for letting me know about "titled" vs. "entitled," however; my research confirms that "entitled" is preferred in British English (whereas "titled" is preferred in American English), and I will commit to honoring that in the future.
The comma after "on publication" is there owing to that being a prepositional phrase. While often left out of informal writing, these commas are meant to improve readability and can generally only help rather than hinder. I personally wouldn't expect an apposition in this case, but I yield to your experience as a (presumably) native/fluent British English speaker. Can you offer any guidance on when to use or not use a comma after a prepositional phrase, or is it really just something you intuit? JustAMuggle (talk) JustAMuggle (talk) 14:18, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On the first point, I read the text after the colon as "they '[some quotation]'", not as a full sentence "They still have insecure edges...". But given that the MOS seems to prefer the US colon rule, I'll defer to you on that.
On the last point, the second comma is likely to be so unexpected to a BrE speaker that the sentence becomes hard to parse: "Is there an apposition? Oh, no, of course not. But then why the two commas?" In BrE commas are far more often than in AmE omitted after a prepositional phrase in all types of writing, including formal writing. A BrE speaker would never say that a comma after a prepositional phrase "can generally only help rather than hinder"; on the contrary, most writers would probably prefer "don't use a comma unless it improves the clarity or readability of the sentence". More generally, BrE has a strong tendency towards being punctuation-light, and also doesn't have the same sometimes quite rigorous AmE approach to prescriptive rules. Overly-sweeping I know, but Americans often seem to like the rigid rules of Strunk, whereas most Brits punctuate quite flexibly with hardly anything that could be called a 'rule' in sight. Most often the only guideline – even and perhaps especially for educated writers – is "does the punctuation make my meaning clear?" MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your explanation, MichaelMaggs! I do share that sometimes quite rigorous approach to prescriptive rules (and actually had to purchase a copy of The Elements of Style for high school English, so that tracks) but will think twice before adding a comma to an article written in British English in the future (and also use Cambridge(?) rather than Merriam-Webster as support for any spelling/hyphenation changes -- though I do also want to note, they agree on "firsthand" rather than "first-hand"). Thank you for the productive discussion! JustAMuggle (talk) 15:58, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Collins is probably the most respected single-volume BrE dictionary, though Chambers has its adherents. Collins suggests "first hand" for the noun and "first-hand" for the adjective. There's a huge amount of acceptable variation in hyphenation, though, and few people seem to worry at all about it. I appreciate the discussion! MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:13, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Where there is no reason either to include or to omit an Oxford comma, MOS:VAR states that the existing style should not be changed unnecessarily. This edit is an example of where you seem to have changed the style purely as a matter of personal preference. MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:56, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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