User talk:GSLikesCats307

Hello! This page is for anyone that for some reason or other wants to discuss anything on my page! So if you do, just fire away!

Ok, someone has done that then.

I apologise for making this the first Talk for you...

Hi there, just thought that since you've now established your Talk page, I could finally chat directly to you about an edit I just edited.

Firstly, you're keen on using ampersands, I note. But can I persuade you to spell out 'and' in prose like that? It's not like you're trying to keep the character count down, and stylistically it's a bit jarring (to me, at least). At least outside of some scenario where space (or the time needed to jot something down) actually is at a premium, and two less characters.

They have their place, like "/” in leiu of "or" also does, but I've been redoing them 'in full' a few times (and have seen others update it, too, clearly with the same idea in mind) a few prior times that you've applied. Ampersands rather draw the eye, disproportionately, at least for me. YMMV.

Secondly, the convention for the {{Citation needed}} tag (and aliases for that, and also the {{Actual citation needed}} ones, etc) is to follow the punctuation. Follow the link I just gave to see the examples.

As for using "cn" versus "Citation needed" template name (and other abbreviated or case-adjusted versions), the former redirects to the latter and gives the same resulting appearance wherever either is embedded. I wouldn't normally go in and expand it out, as a lone edit, but as I was in there shuffling the "." position (and spelling out "and"), I took the liberty. Again, no real need to spare the (markup) space, and I only made that change to spare the need to evaluate a redirect and be more obvious to hypothetical future editors. I'm much less personally worried about "cn" vs "Citation needed" vs "Citation Needed" or any of the other various aliases ({{fact}} used to be one!), so am not suggesting you stop using the 'wrong' version in anything like as strong a term. But thought I'd at least explain why I also made that alteration, along the way.

But, otherwise, let me congratulate you on your contributions, over the last month or so. You've been a decent contributor (the above points notwithstanding), and this little note (which isn't anything but my own individual opinion on the matter) is by no means intended to detract from your generally good style and authorship! 82.132.238.56 21:31, 22 April 2026 (UTC)