Talk:Battle of Livny

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@Altenmann

Why do you keep adding your own (personally bad) changes to this article?

1st problem: Petro Sahaidachny keeps being linked at every mention of his name. If he has been linked once, what is the point of adding unnecessary links to the other mentions?

2nd problem: "Before battle" I have never seen a single other article use this kind of heading. "Prelude" clearly fits way better, it's simple and much more formal.

3rd problem: "So, the first Russian city that the Zaporozhians attacked was Livny" "So"?? This isn't formal in the slightest, rather informal. This seems like we're in some sort of discussion or writing a book, which no, we are not. "Cossacks of Petro Sahaidachny suddenly attacked this city" this once again just isn't good writing, I'd prefer something such as "To Russia's surprise, Cossacks led by Petro Sahaidachny suddenly attacked this city".

From your profile, I can see that you're an experienced editor, but according to you also old, half-blind, dyslexic, and not a native English speaker, which is why I just want to show that the changes you are making don't fit in the slightest. Or perhaps you have a good counter-argument, but I don't particularly see one that could be made here.

I would just like to revert my changes to the article back which fixed grammar. Setergh (talk) 19:01, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Setergh: It looks like we had edit conflict. Because my changes were here: I replaced the confusing "Moscow" with Tsardom of Russia and other cosmetic things (including making my own typos <sigh>). You can restore your edits and I will re-add my fixes later. --Altenmann >talk 20:58, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see now. Your edit came a minute after mine, so yeah, we likely had conflicting edits. My mistake, I'll add back my changes when I'm able to and you can add back yours. Thank you! Setergh (talk) 05:29, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]