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:: {{ping|CodeTalker}} Thanks. I also noticed you [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_American_English&diff=982809548&oldid=977179910 reverted this] on the basis of it being "uncited". Here is a [http://web.archive.org/web/20081121041025/http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_73.html University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee survey] that shows that "Tennis Shoes" is not by any means unique to the Western US; it is used throughout the country (41.34% of the population). The statement can simply be that it is used in the West as well as most other parts of the United States outside of the Northeast. [[User:021120x|021120x]] ([[User talk:021120x|talk]]) 23:51, 19 October 2020 (UTC) |
:: {{ping|CodeTalker}} Thanks. I also noticed you [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_American_English&diff=982809548&oldid=977179910 reverted this] on the basis of it being "uncited". Here is a [http://web.archive.org/web/20081121041025/http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_73.html University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee survey] that shows that "Tennis Shoes" is not by any means unique to the Western US; it is used throughout the country (41.34% of the population). The statement can simply be that it is used in the West as well as most other parts of the United States outside of the Northeast. [[User:021120x|021120x]] ([[User talk:021120x|talk]]) 23:51, 19 October 2020 (UTC) |
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:::{{ping|021120x}} I agree that your citation shows that "tennis shoes" is not unique to the Western US. In fact it seems more widely used in the Eastern US than in the Western US, where its use is mostly confined to the coast. The existing statement is cited to a different survey, which unfortunately doesn't seem to have nice geographic maps of its data, but some spot checking seems to show its results are similar to the UWM survey. (Nevada is much higher in the Harvard survey but that's probably because the UWM survey has very few respondents from Nevada.) In any case, rather than adding the names of more areas where the term is used, I think the entry should just be removed from the list, since it isn't a very good example of Western American English. Thanks! [[User:CodeTalker|CodeTalker]] ([[User talk:CodeTalker#top|talk]]) 01:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC) |
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Thanks for reporting; would you mind cleaning up after this IP? Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 21:19, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks L235; yes, I'll take a stab at it. CodeTalker (talk) 21:40, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi there! I see that you have reverted 16 of my edits to the Seedball page without explanation. I was curious if you had some reasoning? Let me know, thanks. Uprisingengineer (talk) 18:55, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, CodeTalker, I see that you have been going through my edit history and undoing or reverting some of my edits, often without explanation. Would you like to say why? For example, I see that you undid this. Do you have a problem with opossums being listed as marsupials and with rabbits and hares being grouped with other rodents? Currently the page is somewhat taxonomically incorrect. 021120x (talk) 21:14, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- Hi @021120x:, I'm sorry that you felt my edits had inadequate explanation. In the case of the edit which you cited, my summary was "rabbits are not rodents" which while brief, was I thought sufficiently clear. In case you disagree with this, check our rodent article, which says "Rabbits, hares, and pikas, whose incisors also grow continually, were once included with them [rodents], but are now considered to be in a separate order, the Lagomorpha." and our rabbit article, which says "Although once considered rodents, lagomorphs like rabbits have been discovered to have diverged separately and earlier than their rodent cousins, and have a number of traits rodents lack, like two extra incisors." So I think the page is more taxonomically correct as it stands. I do not recall reverting any other edits by you; are there others that you have questions about? CodeTalker (talk) 21:48, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- @CodeTalker: Thanks. I also noticed you reverted this on the basis of it being "uncited". Here is a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee survey that shows that "Tennis Shoes" is not by any means unique to the Western US; it is used throughout the country (41.34% of the population). The statement can simply be that it is used in the West as well as most other parts of the United States outside of the Northeast. 021120x (talk) 23:51, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- @021120x: I agree that your citation shows that "tennis shoes" is not unique to the Western US. In fact it seems more widely used in the Eastern US than in the Western US, where its use is mostly confined to the coast. The existing statement is cited to a different survey, which unfortunately doesn't seem to have nice geographic maps of its data, but some spot checking seems to show its results are similar to the UWM survey. (Nevada is much higher in the Harvard survey but that's probably because the UWM survey has very few respondents from Nevada.) In any case, rather than adding the names of more areas where the term is used, I think the entry should just be removed from the list, since it isn't a very good example of Western American English. Thanks! CodeTalker (talk) 01:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
- @CodeTalker: Thanks. I also noticed you reverted this on the basis of it being "uncited". Here is a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee survey that shows that "Tennis Shoes" is not by any means unique to the Western US; it is used throughout the country (41.34% of the population). The statement can simply be that it is used in the West as well as most other parts of the United States outside of the Northeast. 021120x (talk) 23:51, 19 October 2020 (UTC)