User talk:CaptureTerra

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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:20, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Exclamation mark

The Use–mention distinction can cause difficulties anyway but particularly so in the case of single characters or symbols, such as the one you identified. Wikipedia tends not to use quotation marks for that purpose, usually preferring the IPA "angle brackets" convention thus: ⟨!⟩. But that convention is not widely known and could lead to even more confusion. Surrounding the symbol with a box, using the char (thus: !) works after a fashion but is not always obvious, especially to people with impaired sight. I have changed your version to use commas instead, which is only arguably better. There is no perfect solution . --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:20, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Minor edits

Just a tip for the future, not anything significant. Your Swapped the previous layout as it had the 19th century before the 17th century was a good edit but arguably not a "minor edit", which is defined as a trivial correction of grammar or spelling - see WP:Minor edit for the long version. Size doesn't matter: to change now to not or vice versa is just a one letter change but is certainly not minor, So it is best not to tag an edit as minor unless it really is trivial.

Welcome again to Wikipedia. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:01, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Do you reckon they purposefully made it the 19th century before the 17th century, or was that a mistake of their part? CaptureTerra (talk) 19:31, 5 July 2026 (UTC)