Would using langx be better? You may want to chime in on the appropriate discussion at WT:FRAT. Naraht (talk) 16:03, 26 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

i have no idea how to use langx from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 16:10, 26 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

I think your edit summary got cut off - could you explain your rationale for this? Nikkimaria (talk) 01:35, 29 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

I was about 5 seconds away from reverting it because someone else has removed your contribution earlier today and it's technically considered an edit war. Will revert to your revision.

My summary would've been something attacking RSP because it is apparently protecting some publications over others, but that's probably not the case. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 01:36, 29 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, you recently changed the title of the page "Parsley massacre" in order to italicize "parsley". I don't see why parsley should be italicized, I understand that it's referring to the fact that parsley was a spoken shibboleth, but it is not so referred in most sources. Listing the first non-Wikipedia sites that show up on my Google search, Zinn History Project, NPR, UC Berkeley, BBC, Britannica, all render it without italics, along with Haitian Times, IPAHP, and so on. The term doesn't get a lot of use in academic sources, being apocryphal (that's a whole other can of worms), but I certainly don't see the italicized version used anywhere in popular sources.

Considering that Wikipedia is meant to represent your personal feelings on the rendering of a widely used name, I hope that you change the name back to the non-italicized version. I would've done it myself, but don't know how, and hope you see where I'm coming from. I'll add that this page move obviously wasn't uncontroversial, and thus should've been discussed in requested moves. Theodore Christopher (talk) 20:23, 4 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Main addenda

1. Changing the rendering of a title is not changing the title; the former is done via templates.
2. You are correct—it was a spoken shibboleth, which can qualify it for MOS:WAW, which is why I changed it.
3. Zinn, NPR, UC, BBC, and Britannica do not follow Wikipedia's style guides—nor do we follow theirs.
4. I don't know when I moved the page? It doesn't show in the move logs...
5. Feel free to change it back—I don't care about this article; merely, I changed it to what I thought was correct at the time (and still do) and, when I do that, usually don't care if someone reverts it (they more than likely know better than I do—you likely do, too).

Summary

MOS:WAW is the primary reason; it reduces ambiguity between murdering a herb (Parsley massacre) and murdering arising from the name of a herb (Parsley massacre).

Final notes

God bless. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 11:53, 5 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

OK! I changed it back. Just didn't know how the italic string worked, which is why I budged in here in the first place. Pretty confident that no one is walking away from the article thinking that personified herbs were being murdered. Theodore Christopher (talk) 17:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Main comments

Thanks!

Summary

Piperium expresses gratitude.

Final notes
from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 14:55, 8 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 15:09, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Just a friendly hint: this was not a fix, as there was nothing broken, as your edit summary implied. Just a different way of achieving the exact same result. Paradoctor (talk) 17:41, 3 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 11:10, 4 June 2026 (UTC)Reply