User talk:Mant08

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May 2025

Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:15, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Capitalisation!

Hi, Mant08. Just wanted to drop you a friendly piece of advice. (I am, by the way, a retired former textbook editor.)

You credit yourself on your User page with a 'professional' and 'near-native' level of English. This is doubtless true for your spoken English, but your habit (that I have just noticed on your Teahouse post) of capitalising multiple words within a sentence, seemingly randomly and inconsistently, makes your written prose challenging (and irritating) for a native English reader to read.

In conventional English, what is called 'Title case' is often used for things like book and article titles (though Wikipedia does not use the latter), and sometimes for short captions and public notices. It is never correctly used for continuous text, which instead uses 'Sentence case', and trying to read text that uses Title case is like trying to walk on a pavement with badly uneven and tilted paving slabs. The rules for when internal capitals are used in English (mainly but not solely for 'Proper nouns') are, like much in English, occasionally obscure and often intuitive for native English speakers.

In German, of course, all nouns are capitalised, but though English is West Germanic, it's not German!

You might like to study Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters for more detailed guidance.

I hope this advice is helpful, and will make your future activities on en.Wikipedia easier all round. {The poster formerly known as 87.81,.230.195} 94.2.101.226 (talk) 10:54, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Replaceable non-free use File:Klavdia singer potrait 2025 non-free.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Klavdia singer potrait 2025 non-free.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of non-free use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of non-free use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

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Replaceable non-free use File:Klavdia singer potrait 2025 non-free (cropped).jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Klavdia singer potrait 2025 non-free (cropped).jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of non-free use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of non-free use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

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Photos

The point is: as long as it's possible to take a properly free photo of someone, then we can't have a fair-use photo of them (with some very specific exceptions like "is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole" or "is in a permanent vegetative state"). Klavdia is still alive, which means no fair use. DS (talk) 01:35, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]