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:For posterity’s sake, I uploaded this, [[phab:T407589|accidentally broke Wikipedia]], before a skilled editor figured out it was PD and uploaded “Esther Swirk Brown 1943.jpg”. [[User:1brianm7|1brianm7]] ([[User talk:1brianm7#top|talk]]) 13:36, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

:For posterity’s sake, I uploaded this, [[phab:T407589|accidentally broke Wikipedia]], before a skilled editor figured out it was PD and uploaded “Esther Swirk Brown 1943.jpg”. [[User:1brianm7|1brianm7]] ([[User talk:1brianm7#top|talk]]) 13:36, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

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Happy editing! Mattythewhite (talk) 00:17, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours has an edit summary that appears to be inadequate, inaccurate, or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article’s history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 16:17, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, about that, I made a constructive edit but some internet problems led to the edit being posted twice. 1brianm7 (talk) 11:53, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 1brianm7! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. “Minor edit” has a very 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. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. WikiVirusC^(talk) 00:44, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I am writing about your changing “blacks” to “African Americans” at Frederick Douglass. I am fine with your edit, but I want to express my views on the subject. First, I believe that, if one is going to use “black,” the convention now is to capitalize it (but not to capitalize “white”; there is a logic to that, which I am not sure that I can explain). But I also believe, and this may be an eccentricity on my part, that we should not use “Black” or “African American” as nouns but should use them as adjectives preceding “person” or “people.” This is because, to refer to a Black person as a “Black” or “African American” is to define him or her by his race, whereas race is only one feature of a person. If we were referring to a group of NBA players, we say that they were tall people, not “talls.” This is because their height is only one feature of them. But I am not going to change your edit of Frederick Douglass to “African American people,” because it is not incorrect, even if it is not my preference. By the way, you write “changed word to fit previous words used,” but I see no problem with using both “Black” and “African American” in the same article. Maurice Magnus (talk) 13:29, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message. The point about previous words used was pretty unclear of me, I knew that the standard is to capitalize Black but it was not capitalized and noticed that in the same paragraph it used African Americans.

Knowing that what was currently there was wrong and that there was a perfectly viable alternative at hand, I made the edit. I probably should have made that clearer.

I’m under the impression that Black is capitalized because it represents a culture, not just a color.

I’m not sure why I didn’t just capitalize it, I’d suppose it’s probably because going “Blacks” felt really weird.

I can see your point with not including people or person, it does feel a tad weird, but I’m not at all confident enough in that decision to begin enforcing it.

I’ve misread style guides and done bad edits enough times to make me cautious of changing things in ways I may be ignorant of, especially since it’s really annoying to go back and revert those edits. 1brianm7 (talk) 15:25, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

“Black is capitalized because it represents a culture, not just a color.” That’s a good, simple, way to put it. I’ll have to remember it. Thanks. Maurice Magnus (talk) 15:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you reverting my change on the Atrioc wiki! Have a great rest of your week.

(I will wait for Big J to publicly admit to his last name being Jason before adding it back.) Tomsawyerismeofficial (talk) 07:54, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RoySmith (talk) 00:04, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note for posterity. Half way through the day an editor changed it to be “… Webb’s running mate”. For the record, I’m iffy on such a change. 1brianm7 (talk) 18:50, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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For posterity’s sake, I uploaded this, accidentally broke Wikipedia, before a skilled editor figured out it was PD and uploaded “Esther Swirk Brown 1943.jpg”. 1brianm7 (talk) 13:36, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 1brianm7. Thank you for your work on Undersecretary for Go Fuck Yourself. Another editor, MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

not mentioned in target page

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–MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:09, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]