Hello, and thank you for your recent contribution. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! ―SusmuffinTalk23:32, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Edmonton: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. jolielover♥talk17:51, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I'm somewhat new to editing on here and am just trying to make Wikipedia a better place for all. I will read the article sent and apply it. Gcarrell (talk) 17:55, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I just saw some warnings you gave - please be sure to sign your messages when you are editing the source code of the page (it's not automatic then).
Instructions on how to do that are available at WP:SIGN, but in short: just add ~~~~ at the end of your message. – 2804:F1...BA:8B28 (::/32) (talk) 21:39, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't add the template {{time}}... I'm not sure what is happening, but some of your warnings have that before the signature - it isn't needed, the default signature already has a timestamp, and further that's the current time, it updates when the cache does, so it's not correct to have it. – 2804:F1...BA:8B28 (::/32) (talk) 03:02, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi HollyCatherine, I marked it as potential vandalism, but noted that it might have been in good faith. Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether an edit is vandalism or just not in the style guide. The edit in question, and why I marked it, was:
It did not have the proper punctuation and removed a lot of the article, which led me to think it was also section blanking. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Also, for your reference, here is a link to the Wikipedia Manual of Style.
Please stop posting inappropriate warnings to users. Please stop making invalid edits to articles, such as you have repeatedly done to Donald Neilson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.214.220.199 (talk • contribs)
I'm guessing your definition of 'invalid edits' is reverting your mass changing of articles from American to British English. There's no specific style as to which variant is used, and mass changing them does more harm than good, since most American-related articles use American English and vice versa. Aydoh8[contribs]18:07, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No one needs to guess. This user is repeatedly changing the spelling in an article about a British subject; that is invalid, including by EngVar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcarrell (talk • contribs) 18:22, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Aydoh8 and Gcarrell, although in general Wikipedia does not give preference to any national variety of English over others, in some cases there is a good reason for using one national variety; for example in the article Winston Churchill it makes sense to use British English, while in the article San Fransisco it makes sense to use US English. In such cases it is not acceptable to change content of an article to comply with one's own preferences. Since Donald Neilson was British, the article Donald Neilson should use British English. JBW (talk) 18:22, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough, it is a good point since it is a British Article. On the page you might want to clean up some of the broken links in the References section. Happy editing! Gcarrell (talk) 18:36, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And fetal is NOT prefered to the UK. Foetal is standard for example [3]
Twinkle
Hi! Have you considered activating WP:TWINKLE? The benefit is that it enables you to revert multiple consecutive edits with a single click. For example, on Recording Industry Association of America, a new editor made two bad edits, but your undo only reverted the latest one. Another benefit is that you can configure it to automatically open the talk page for the editor that you're reverting and provides a dropdown to choose from the warning templates. Just thought I'd suggest Twinkle since you seem to be doing a lot of anti-vandalism work. (I took care of the other bad edit to RIAA, btw.) Schazjmd(talk)20:54, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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