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Capitalization thanks

I see my corrections may have been premature given the ongoing RfC on the job title issue. I appreciate your gentle reversions.

If I may, and perhaps this comment would be better for the RfC, this was my thought process: despite the guidance on an article preceding a title, when taken together as "United States Secretary of Defense"/insert department here, the full, official title is being written out. With it being the full official title, that would make the entire thing a proper noun, wouldn't it? It is not any secretary of defense. It is a specific office held by a specific person for a specific country, making it a proper noun, right? Subsequent references, were they not preceded by "United States", would be lowercase as they would not be the proper noun version of the title.

The presence of the acronym "SecDef" in the introduction, with that stylization, would seem to agree with my interpretation. Otherwise the acronym should be "secdef" (though, really, "SECDEF" would be more appropriate, if obnoxious to look at). "Department of Defense", in the US DOD article, is always capitalized, as it is recognized in that instance as being a proper noun. I feel like that would support the position of making "US Secretary of Defense" also have that capitalization, but that's an entirely different line of thought.

I don't know if any of that made sense, and puzzling over JOBTITLES I keep going back and forth on whether my interpretation of the proper noun idea is right. In any case, it makes for a maddening inconsistency in articles, and I shall refrain from such further edits until the RfC closes. Cheers M4V3R1CK32 (talk) 16:57, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck at uni!

Hey,Saw your wikibreak template. Just wanted to let you know that I wish you the best of luck. (Acer's userpage |what did I do now) 18:53, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Acer-the-Protogen: Thanks! One more class next semester and I get to graduate again. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 19:02, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

President of Montenegro

Filip Vujanović was the First President of Montenegro his own article states the same thing 79.143.107.77 (talk) 19:56, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@79.143.107.77: .Start a discussion on the article's talk page. When you start the discussion, cite a reliable source. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 19:58, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello do you even read what i wrote? Filip Vujanović’s own article says he was first president of MNE do i have to send a screenshot or something so you can see or? 79.143.107.77 (talk) 19:59, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Find a reliable secondary source for your assertion. Other Wikipedia pages don't count. Further, I can't help you here... discuss this on the article's talk page, not mine. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 20:00, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fact-got 79.143.107.77 (talk) 20:02, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Multi-revert

You just beat me to reverting on Cabinet of Barack Obama. I had a question, how did you undo three edits together? I saw the Twinkle tag, but don't know to function. Cheers, CF-501 Falcon (talk · contribs) 01:02, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@CF-501 Falcon: Good question! When I view a diff, I have a red link that says "vandalism". I just clicked that link, and it automatically undid all of the consecutive changes by the same editor. I think it's part of Twinkle, but I'm really not sure. It might require rollback permissions, too.

Does this help some? I haven't changed my Wikipedia configuration in years, so I don't remember if I had to do anything special to get that red "vandalism" link. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 01:06, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, the Rollback might be the answer. It helps a lot, I will look into it. Thank you! See you around and nice to meet you. CF-501 Falcon (talk · contribs) 01:09, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good to meet you, too! Happy editing. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 01:09, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Two Special Elections in the Gay Valimont Article

It is not a big deal, but there are actually two special elections in a few days:

*The 1st Congressional District

*The 6th Congressional District.

One was due to a congressman being appointed as national security advisor, and the other was due to a resignation. Starlighsky (talk) 16:43, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Only one is relevant to Gay Valimont, but I see that sentence actually talks about the candidate that's running in FL-6. I question whether that information needs to be in the article about Valimont, but I've changed "election" back to "elections" at your feedback. —Eyer (he/him) If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message. 16:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 2601:582:C302:B130:9F6:F4A1:5879:42A7 (talk) 19:53, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]