User talk:glman

Detroit edit reversal

I don't understand why the edit was reversed, the links are to topics directly relating to the main article, also you removed valid hyperlinks that were not included previously. User:ChuckDabs (talk) 17:01, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi ChuckDabs! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. glman (talk) 21:02, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello Glman, pure accident regarding it being a "minor edit" tagged edit, I have made a decent amount of edits today. Thank you for your response, in the reversal I removed that! User:ChuckDabs (talk) 17:05, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

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UM "update record"

You incremented Sherrone Moore's record but left all-time wins the same. Is it 1005, or 1006? Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 13:27, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

It's 1005 - Moore's record hadn't been updated. glman (talk) 13:44, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! JohnInDC (talk) 14:30, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Of course! Thanks for keeping an eye on edits and reaching out! glman (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

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Why did you reverse my edit on the Miami page?

Why does Wikipedia need to say "Asian and Pacific Islander"? Why not just "Asian"? The U.S. census doesn't use that category anymore. JohnIllinois1827 (talk) 20:48, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

College Gameday

Thank you for agreeing with my suggestion to separate the list of locations into a separate article, which I have now done. Do you think there is a shout for further sub-articles, such as a separate article about the celebrity guest pickers? Rillington (talk) 09:41, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

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Series versus season

I noticed that you have reverted my changes of "series" to "season" in the Hotel Portofino article, with the short statement that "UK shows use "series"". However, that isn't true anymore. In the UK, "season" is increasingly being used as a term for a series within a series, the same way it is being used in the US, as it leads to less confusion. Two of the six main broadcasters, Sky and 5 consistently use "season" instead of "series" and several newspapers and magazines have begun to do the same.

The Hotel Portofino article contained a mix, i.e. both "season", and "series" were being used, which was why I decided, for consistency, to change all instances of "first series", "second series" and "third series" to "first season", "second season" and "third season". After your revert, you may notice that there are still six instances of "season" in the article, whereof three in the intro - and they have been there since the beginning.

Just for fun, I googled "series vs season" and found several heated discussions on the subject between Brits, but they were all from the early 2000s. However, I could find no such debates after 2018, which to me indicates that most people aren't very bothered about it anymore. In the debates I found, the only arguments for using "series" instead of "season" was that "this is how we do it in the UK" and "season is an Americanism", while those arguing for "season" felt that there is a need to distinguish between a series as a whole and separate runs within that series where the episode count goes back to one - and "season" is the best expression for that. I agree.

British English is evolving and American words and expressions are creeping in. Some of this I'm sad to see, like "lorry" increasingly being replaced by "truck" (which to most Brits still mean a forklift truck), or that parts of the UK real estate industry is trying to replace "flat and "terraced house" with "apartment" and "townhouse" because they think it sounds "cooler", but "season" is a word I think is needed in the British TV series world, just as Britain needs the word "vacation", to separate personal "holidays" from public "holidays".

Best regards, Thomas Blomberg (talk) 11:53, 20 November 2024 (UTC)