User talk:Eric.LEWIN

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Hope you enjoy your time here! Q.Zanden questions? 14:35, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Aim and organization of this page {130731}

« For what this might be worth », as it is usually said ! --Eric.LEWIN (talk) 14:52, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Descriptions

Welcome! I'd like to encourage you to read Help:Description carefully. Descriptions should be brief, not include commentary or controversial claims, and should not end with a period. Happy editing! Bovlb (talk) 19:26, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks @Bovlb: for your notification and return. However, it's a bit too general, and not quite specific a commentary as yours. I guess you are reacting relatively to the 6 women we have been working this afternoon (thematic editathon), and for which I have added a description (the same one). I'll correct for the ending point (done). Is the qualificative 'Heroin' a controversial claim ? Maybe, I'll skip it, though in french "WWII hero·ine" is considered as a title (skipped also in french however). And for the remaining part which is I think purely descriptive, how long is brief ? I don't see how to shorten them more. I have taken your proposition for Simone Benielli as an example and propagated it to the other five women. However, I have changed the first letter of "French" for a lower case : this is what, I understand, must be done, from Help:Description/fr, but I know rules for nationality adjective capitals vary with languages, and sometimes within variations of a language, such as UK vs US ; but here, I don't know which rule pre-empts. So tell me, if needed I'll revert to an upper case. Best regards. -- Eric.LEWIN (talk) 20:16, 12 December 2020 (UTC).

Thanks. I don't mean to dispute that these women might be considered heroines by many, but I don't know how to define objectively which of the thousands of women represented here in Wikidata are heroines and which are not. That makes it rather a subjective label, and hence commentary. How would you tell whether someone was correct to add "heroine" to Melania Trump or Jill Biden?

Descriptions should be in "mid-sentence case", which means they start with a lower-case letter unless they start with a proper name. When describing someone as, say, a "German author", the adjective "German" would always be capitalized because it is a proper name (in many languages). In English it appears first, but in post-positive languages like French it appears after the noun, which is why Help:Description/fr is phrased in the way it is. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 21:27, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

That is, the guidance Help:Description/fr gives about case is correct for French and other post-positive languages, but the way it is phrased has the potential to mislead editors who attempt to apply it to pre-positive languages like English. Bovlb (talk) 21:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)