User talk:Mikeprichard

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CookieEdit

You have been given a cookie! Your dedication and diligence to the wiki has not gone unnoticed. A user has seen the progress you've made, and has given you a cookie because of it. Good work! The user had the following to say: Thanks for all of the maintenance edits you've been doing! It really helps out! --AKB Talk Cont Mail 05:52, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the cookie (nom nom)! This site is extremely useful and I've enjoyed it for many years, so I'm happy to contribute in any small way I can. Cheers! Mikeprichard (talk)

There is/There areEdit

Hi Mikeprichard! Thanks for the ongoing grammar cleanups. I've reverted a few instances where you've changed "there is" to "there are" when referring to a series of nouns. The general rule is to use "is" when the first noun in the series is singular; for example, "there is a bandit and a bandit chief" is correct in standard English. I understand there exists some controversy among grammarists regarding this usage in formal English but we tend to go with most common usage on the wiki. —⁠Legoless (talk) 21:37, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! The Collins interpretation linked above is an example of (in my opinion) a very unfortunate contemporary erosion of standard formal English rules. That said, I'm certainly not going to cause a controversy over something as silly as "is" vs. "are" here on this fine site! I'll just let these go from now on. As always, I really appreciate the site admins' hard work to keep the UESP the definitive resource for all things Elder Scrolls. Mikeprichard (talk)

Skyrim:Places IconsEdit

I believe the issues on Skyrim:Places should all be fixed now. Hard to say for sure what might've caused it, but it was most likely some kind of temporary template issue or something along those lines. In most cases, it's just a matter of opening up the place page itself (i.e., Morthal, Corpselight Farm, etc.), then purging Skyrim:Places. There are gadgets to add the purge feature, if you're not familiar with it. It's good for fixing things that have invalid data or where the cache needs updating.

If you spot any issues I missed that aren't fixed with the above procedure, let me know and I'll look into them. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 11:19, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the help and information! All of the map icon/link issues do now appear to be fixed on the Places page. I appreciate the response, and will keep the above in mind for future reference. Mikeprichard (talk)

Great WorkEdit

You're doing readers a big favor with all of your recent Skyrim place page edits. Those things are monsters of wordiness and even 1000 bytes shaved off is a much smoother read. In other cases, they totally deprioritize what's actually important. Thanks for trudging through them! —Dillonn241 (talk) 00:20, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to comment - I appreciate it, and fully agree! I'd taken a break from Skyrim and similar UESP location page edits for the past year or so until coming back this month, and intend to continue with more (mostly Dragonborn-related) location page edits over the next few weeks as I finish my ongoing save file. Anyway, have a great day/night! —Mikeprichard (talk) 00:25, 15 August 2022 (UTC)