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Patricia Fripp[edit]

FYI: Robert Fripp's sister has apparently been a president of an organization for public speakers, if I remember her website.

"Highly reputable" may have been an encyclopedic version of "internationally prominent", which may be more accurate, I would guess.

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 07:00, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Respectfully, sentence as re-edited is needlessly wordy. "who is herself" is unnecessary; a comma, followed by the dependent clause in question, suffices. Also, "highly reputable" is nonstandard English; something is either reputable or it isn't, since the state of being reputable is not something that can be quantified. Moreover, the inclusion of the adjective "highly" makes the sentence sound subjective to the point of being promotional. Markdery (talk) 15:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC) Markdery[reply]

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Misleading editing[edit]

Why are you marking so many of your edits as minor when they are plainly no such thing? 109.155.227.220 (talk) 10:43, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Respectfully, I can't agree. I'm very scrupulous about marking my edits. Perhaps we disagree about what constitutes a "minor" edit; the definition is obviously a subjective one. To my mind, mechanical changes--fixing awkward syntax, correcting grammar, or even rewriting sentences for clarity and concision--are minor since they don't substantially alter the idea being expressed. If you can provide a specific example, we can discuss it. Markdery (talk) 17:15, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Ed Piskor correction[edit]

Thanks for the fix on the Ed Piskor article. That was my fault. I went to update a sentence that said “had announced” because the project had since been released and in doing so, neglected to remove “has” from the sentence. Good looking out! NJZombie (talk) 22:29, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Thanks for the explanation. Markdery (talk) 01:38, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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