User talk:2.49.155.99

Spelling

Hello, I've noticed you have been changing the spellings in articles to US spelling. Please note that on Wikipedia, articles use the spelling variety of the topic it is on. Please see WP:ENGVAR for more information. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:54, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Irish cuisine, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. As has been raised elsewhere recently, your changes to:

• spellings (for example changing the word "pollan" to "pollen") was inappropriate. As the sentence is CLEARLY referring to the type of fish (and NOT the substance produced by flowers).
• regional variations (for example changing the word "colonisation" to "colonization") was inappropriate. As, per the tag at the top of the article, American spelling should NOT be used.
• quoted text (for example adding a random comma to "Searching for Chefs, Waiters, and Restaurateurs in Edwardian Dublin", where no such comma exists in the title of the original work) was also inappropriate. Per MOS:TYPOFIX.

Stop making these random and inappropriate spelling/spacing/variation/punctuation changes. It is completely pointless. And actively harmful to the project. And just a waste of everyone's time. Yours included. And will just result in (yet another) block. Guliolopez (talk) 13:45, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I have also reverted similar changes to other articles. Including your change to "Overpopulation", where you decided to "improve" the title of an article in the National Geographic - by adding a random word that does not appear in the source. And your change to "Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code", where you decided to "improve" (among other quoted passages) the words used in the original quoted source. And also your change to "Human overpopulation", where (yet again), you randomly decided that you could "change" the original wording given on page 39 of Ehrlich and Ehrlich (1990). Put plainly: STOP DOING THIS. Stop applying your own (or even Wikipedia's) style, grammar, spelling or other preferences to the titles of (and quotations from) original works. Just stop. MOS:TYPOFIX. Guliolopez (talk) 14:35, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Five Eyes, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Also do not make alterations without explanation. Thank you. David J Johnson (talk) 12:53, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

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