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Happy editing! DBaK (talk) 18:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. The correct plural of aircraft is also aircraft. Hope this helps, best wishes, DBaK (talk) 18:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn’t realize I was saying it wrong this whole time - I’ve been saying ‘aircrafts’ instead of ‘many aircraft.’ It feels odd that ‘aircraft’ doesn’t change in the plural form, but I see why that’s the correct way to say it. Thanks for pointing that out. Smalledi (talk) 22:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're very very welcome, and thank you for the nice reply! Cheers DBaK (talk) 11:31, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - on my talk page, you said: "My last edit on Kiwifruit article, seemed to hit a filter for "depreciated or unreliable links" here. I am pretty sure I included sources to support every single info and most are from science journals. I added many sources but have no idea which one tripped the filter. Do you have a better idea and can you help me and tell which source that I added - that is the 'bad' link? Because I truly don't know. Or is it just some false negative?"

The source that triggered WP:DEPRECATED is ref #44 for ScienceDirect, which is an aggregation website, not a specific source. You would have to select the specific source for the statement, "the variety was officially registered as Hongyang by the Sichuan Provincial Crop Variety Registration Authority in 1997."

Then please fill out all basic reference details - this tool can help: add the pmid or other ID, check "add ref tag" and "use full journal title", then submit and copy the result into your edit after the punctuation.

I ask you to be more careful with your grammar to assure a sentence subject matches its verb, such as Special:Diff/1283477760 where you said "These variants were first identified for research in 1984, but was not selected".

Also, whether in text or source titles, please do not use caps (except for the first word), MOS:CAPS, as done in Special:Diff/1283505793. Please go back and edit out the cap letters.

Good luck! Zefr (talk) 03:44, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I think I understood.

I used that aggregation link as the page has all the info about the origin of Hongyang variety. But I can understand why one needs to be specific. And specific chapter for the info on Hongyang origin (as listed in overview page) is (Chapter 6 - Main Cultivars in Commercial Production.) *tho specific article link can sometimes be read in full without paywall and other times - it requires "signing in".

I used same (aggregation) link for info stating the main red flesh variants in China (inc Hongyang) had been classified as A. chinensis f. rufopulpa m. etc but specific link for that is "Chapter 5 - Biology, Genetic Improvement, and Cultivar Development".

I didn't even know about MOS: CAPS so thank you for telling me that.[1] I removed the Cluster aggregation links and replaced them with more specific ones.[2][3]

I will do my best to be more careful with plural grammar and familiarise myself further with MOS:CAPS. Thanks again for your help. Truly appreciated and helpful. Smalledi (talk) 10:16, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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