Dom ILUSANEVy

All-time Olympic Games medal table

I hate to keep reverting your edits, but you aren't explaining why you're changing the standings. A simple edit summary would prevent this. Bkatcher (talk) 22:13, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

On the page, United States at the 2012 Olympics, the bronze medal count originally showed the count was 30. I edited it to show the actual # was 31 as shown in the sports totals, date totals & gender totals on the page. Therefore, I was correcting the medal count on all the pages to show the actual # of 31 & not 30. Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 04:22, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Excellent reason. People often randomly change the medal count randomly for no reason, so it's a good idea to inclue an edit summary so people will know why you changing them. Thanks for your contribution! Bkatcher (talk) 12:48, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm new to editing & don't know how to leave an edit summary. Could you explain how to do that? Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 15:33, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Instructions here. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 16:04, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Could you please add an edit summary when you're editing an article? I've notices a lot of editing at List of United States Numbered Highways, and it would be helpful if you summarized what you're doing there so that other editors don't have to constantly check the changes.

(Side note, but US 10 does not end in Bay City; the interchange is west of the city in Monitor Township.) Imzadi 1979 → 17:08, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Just repeating my request to include an edit summary. It's not complicated, but after being asked back in October and again today, you're still not doing it. One may rightfully conclude that you're willfully ignoring the requests, even though edit summaries are a basic part of our mutual social contract editing here as a community, as it were. It's actually part of the WP:Consensus policy. Yes, policy, not a guideline or a suggestion, but policy.

So, next time you edit, please take a few seconds to type out a summary in the box right next to the publish button. Imzadi 1979 → 17:41, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Ok. What I've been doing is clicking on each route, bringing me to each individual route page article, & checking on the page the 2 end points & comparing that to the list of all the routes. (making changes: adding/deleting, etc.) Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 22:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

You're not indicating that with your edit summaries though, which means editors who want to know what's going on have to click through the diff of your edits to see what's happening. You really should be complying with policy to explain your edits. Additionally, you really should batch together these edits and make a smaller number of bigger edits instead of clogging up the watchlists of other editors with dozens of unexplained edits. Imzadi 1979 → 22:49, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

You really need to make an edit summary on every edit you make. You're making dozens of edits in a row, and each one needs something. "updating US 1 termini" would be a sufficient edit summary, for instance. Imzadi 1979 → 02:02, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Look at this edit. That's how you do it. Imzadi 1979 → 05:31, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, please don't bypass redirects like you're doing with the link for S-532. There are many reasons, but using the link that I put there is the best course of action. Imzadi 1979 → 01:33, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

I know that you think that you're being useful, and many of the edits may be, but you're also being incorrect. I think that you really need to double check that the information you're copying over to the list is accurate. For example, US 31 does not end in the village of Mackinaw City. If you look at U.S. Route 31 in Michigan and scroll down to the junction list table, you'd see that it ends in Mackinaw Township, not the village which is why the infobox says "near Mackinaw City". You may need to to be double checking everything similarly. Imzadi 1979 → 02:55, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

August 2025

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List of United States Numbered Highways

Please stop all editing on the list table. We need to discuss something that I just noticed in a recent edit of yours. The edit summary for this edit explains the situation.

River Street and Ontonagon Street are two separate streets in Ontonagon. That is why that line was formatted that way before. When you changed that to "River Street/Ontonagon Street", you just implied that the two names are concurrent with each other. That is false. Now I have to ask, how many other situations have you changed to imply two names/designations are concurrent with each other at the terminus when they are not. This development means that someone needs to now audit every edit you've made in this fashion to see if the change is correct or not. Imzadi 1979 → 03:54, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry that I made those changes. I didn't realize making those changes implied the streets were running concurrently. The changes I made with "near" was going by what the route page listing showed in the right panel & didn't realize the article actually mentioned the exact location of the endpoint. Ill just update the endpoints & won't change or edit anything else. Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 00:27, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Directions in highway infoboxes

Please do not change "near", "in", or "at" in the major junction parameters in {{Infobox road}}. The project consensus has been to not list cardinal directions here to keep these parts of the infobox brief and less prone to verifiability issues. SounderBruce 20:48, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

To follow on, I agree that the infobox should use "in", "at" or "near" with the appropriate city/village/community name. In a list table, it can be a little more verbose, but an infobox should have a concise summary. In my work, "in" is preferred if the junction is located within the community named, "at" if it's on the border of that community along a state/national border, and "near" should be self-explanatory. Imzadi 1979 → 21:47, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

List of Interstate Highways and overlinking

Please take a look at my last three edits that you silently revert against standard editing practices. I've yet again fixed the article.

Let me spell it out for you. WP:OVERLINK is our MOS guidance on not using too many links in articles. When it comes to sortable tables like that one, we look at each row individually. If a link is in the |terminus_a= parameter, so that it shows up in the "Southern or western terminus" column of the table, that link should not be repeated in |terminus_b=. Additionally, you've now at least twice added links to Interstate 35W (Texas) for the I-35 intermediate terminus in Minnesota. Even if this link were allowable per WP:OVERLINK, that is clearly an error.

One last note, but we don't need to include the names of the bridges at the border. We don't need the names of the border crossing facilities either. Let's try to keep the notations to a much simpler and more concise "<highway(s)> in/at <location>". (Additionally can we please be more careful about misusing the slash (/) notation to imply concurrencies that do not exist?) Adding, and linking, all of those additional items just fills the table cells with even more links to force our readers to choose between.

A response here would be appreciated to acknowledge this message. It's only polite given that someone has taken the time to offer you advise to improve you editing. Imzadi 1979 → 15:54, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Ok. I was only using the endpoints information listed on the interstate page articles & didn't know that all the information was needed. I won't add the info back. Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 23:09, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

In the article for I-72, "its eastern terminus is at Country Fair Drive in Champaign, Illinois" & the column on the left also shows eastern terminus Country Fair Drive in Champaign, Illinois. So either the article is wrong or the list is wrong. So which is it? Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 04:57, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

I-72's article lists in the route description:

At its eastern terminus in Champaign, I-72 continues as Church Street (westbound) and University Avenue (eastbound), which stay as one-way streets for an additional three miles (4.8 km) into downtown Champaign.

There is no mention of Country Fair Drive there. The exit list table also omits any mention of Country Fair Drive. Looking at the IDOT map inset for Champaign and Urbana, I-72 is shown ending before Country Fair Drive, so I just updated the lead of the article to match the body. Imzadi 1979 → 08:05, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

"we don't need to include the names of the bridges at the border." Why is the Intl bridge showing for I-75? I had updated the endpoint with the info from the article; & it had the Intl bridge that I changed it to. Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 05:24, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

I-75's northern terminus is a bit different. By signage, I-75 ends before the toll and customs plaza on the Michigan side of the bridge. By FHWA definitions, I-75 ends at the international border in the middle of the bridge. Unlike the Blue Water Bridge though, there isn't a provincial highway number that's applied to the Ontario side of the bridge, so the International Bridge is the name of the roadway for lack of something else to use. In fact, even that section of I-75 bears the bridge's name as its street name for addressing mail to CBP or the International Bridge Authority on the Michigan side. Basically, unlike the others, it was either list the bridge, list the border, or list nothing, so I went with the least inconsistent option. Imzadi 1979 → 07:30, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

I messed up editing the Ida B Wells Drive Junction List section. Could you fix the section to show the table again? Thanks. Dom ILUSANEVy (talk) 09:37, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

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