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Again, welcome! Peaceray (talk) 22:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 2024

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Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in End of the World (1931 film), disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Please do not use "Bibliography" as a section heading. Please see MOS:FURTHER to understand that "Further reading" is the correct section heading. "Bibliography" is discouraged as per MOS:BIB. Peaceray (talk) 22:45, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Information icon Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. DrKay (talk) 21:24, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop your disruptive editing.

If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Early Modern English, you may be blocked from editing. CodeTalker (talk) 02:23, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Stop icon You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style, as you did at North Korean standard language. See MOS:LQ. CodeTalker (talk) 03:20, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In your edit to Trưng sisters you have again violated MOS:LQ. Would you please read that guideline and abide by it? CodeTalker (talk) 02:18, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Would you also try to take more care in proofreading your edits? I have reverted or corrected over a dozen of your edits in the last 2 days that contained simple and obvious typographical errors, such as "during the battle at Agincourt and s his refusal to stop" in Special:Diff/1247116846, "arerespectively" in Special:Diff/1246965533, "In 1513m" in Special:Diff/1246932646, "in the morning abd it should" in Special:Diff/1246929659, "antiquityRussian flag" and "it was alsdo decided" in Special:Diff/1246928746, "Thet were rectangular structures" in Special:Diff/1246900466, "who had ebnn alerted" in Special:Diff/1246863086, "Islamic beliefm" and "19thcentury" in Special:Diff/1246568833, "anbd then took on the role" in Special:Diff/1246562478, "nevermarried and recentlydeceased cousin" in Special:Diff/1246558146, to mention just some of them. These careless typos degrade the quality of the encyclopedia and cause needless work for other editors who correct them. Thank you. CodeTalker (talk) 02:42, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Information icon Hello. In a recent edit to the page Hueste, 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. Thank you. CodeTalker (talk) 02:46, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia; I hope you are enjoying it. In your edits to improve articles through copyediting, please do not change working links that are not broken to other working links to the same target, as you did in this edit at Noctilien, where you changed ''[[banlieue]]s'' to ''[[banlieues]]'', and [[bank holiday]]s to [[bank holidays]], per WP:NOTBROKEN. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 13:55, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please take care in copyedits; even a comma more or less can change the meaning

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You appear to enjoy making copyedits to improve grammar, style, and punctuation; thank you very much for your contributions. However, please slow down when making changes that appear to be very simple copyedits but which in some cases, actually change the meaning to the point where the modified version is no longer supported by the sources, or loses its meaning.

Case in point, is this edit at Noctilien, which included the following change, which at first glance appears to be a very minor change involving a simple removal of a comma:

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All in all, Noctilien operates 52 bus lines, from the end of the rail network and day bus service (around 00:30) until their resumption early in the morning (around 05:30), over the whole of [[Paris]] and the [[Île-de-France]] region.
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All in all, Noctilien operates 52 bus lines from the end of the rail network and the day bus service (around 00:30) until their resumption early in the morning (around 05:30), over the whole of [[Paris]] and the [[Île-de-France]] region.

The resulting text is no longer accurate, because you changed a "from X until Y" construction which defines a time interval, to a construction which appears to be an adverbial phrases of place (location), where Noctilien appears to operate "52 bus lines from the end of the rail network". But the phrase "from the end of the rail network" is not a locational modifier of "52 bus lines", it is part of the definition of 'X' in the "from X until Y" construction defining the beginning of the time interval, and answering the question WHEN, i.e., at what time does Noctilien begin? It begins at 00:30, when the rail network and the day bus service ends . Removal of the comma completely distorts the meaning of this sentence and makes it inaccurate, and I have undone that part of your change at Noctilien.

When a comma more or less has that much effect, sometimes that is a flag that the sentence could be recast or otherwise improved, and this case is a good example. This might be better:

All in all, Noctilien operates 52 bus lines over the whole of Paris and the Île-de-France region, from around 12:30 a.m. when the rail network and the regular daytime bus service ends, until around 05:30 the next morning when they resume service.

Please be more careful in your copy editing, and examine the result of your change using Preview mode to see if it alters the meaning in an undesirable way before hitting the Publish button. Even "just a comma" can change the meaning of something in ways you might not expect, and that is no longer backed up by the sources. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 14:47, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking and typos

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Hi, would you please read MOS:OVERLINK and note that the names of major countries should NOT be linked. I would appreciate it if you could remove the links to countries that you have added in your recent edits such as here and here and here and here and here and here and here.

I would also ask you once again to please review the changes you make and avoid making simple typographical errors such as the ones you have made here ("Alocholic" and "ewarns $650 for her efforts"), here ("and he trave;led") and here ("speakers of elaborated code ise a broader lexicon" and "Her warns, however") and here ("lump sumsm") and here ("amd is administered") and here ("goss domestic product"). Copyediting is a very useful activity on Wikipedia, but if you introduce new errors in the process, it is not helpful. Please read your own text with the same care that you use to read the text that you are editing. I would appreciate it if you would correct these errors so that other editors do not need to spend their own time correcting the errors that you have introduced.

Thank you! CodeTalker (talk) 16:47, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or like making this unnecessary change, adding a typo in the process:
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and annexed the territory after defeating the Ottoman troops there.
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and annexed the territory after it ahd defeated the Ottoman troops there.
As mentioned below, you need to slow down and use the Preview button to check your work.
Also, there is absolutely nothing wrong with using gerunds in English. The gerundial expression "after defeating" is perfectly grammatical and correct in English. I notice that many of your changes replace a gerundive with clauses like "after it had defeated", and the latter is in no way better, and arguably worse as it is longer, and requires parsing an independent clause as the object of the preposition, instead of just a single noun. Please stop making changes to remove or replace gerunds; they are not an improvement. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:12, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use Wikipedia's Manual of style

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I have undone your recent change to the appendix headings at Battle and massacre at Shar al-Shatt because it was not compliant with Wikipedia's Manual of style. When making stylistic changes, please use the Manual of style, not your own sense of what is stylistically correct (and also not what other well-known style manuals like Chicago, or others may say). Mathglot (talk) 13:39, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please sloww dowwwnnnnn

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Hello again, 23.233.149.88. I know I have already left you a bunch of messages about your editing (and avoiding adding a bunch of others that ought to be here, like the one about edit summaries) but pretty please just slow down with your editing, and use the Preview button to check the result before you save it. You are making a lot of little changes to wording, style, or punctuation, many of which improve grammar and flow, others of which are a toss-up or editor's choice and not really a noticeable improvement, and a few of which make minor or unneeded changes while ignoring glaring problems in the same passage.

Case in point, this edit of yours at Second Italo-Senussi War, where you made some changes sprinkled across the article, including some desirable changes to verb usage, some toss-ups like changing demonstrative pronouns from this to that without effect, and some undesirable changes to alter working links already mentioned above; and in particular, addition of two commas to this passage:

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It is noteworthy to remember that most of Italian troops is composed of Italian colonial troops from [[Italian Eritrea]], as well as from [[Italian Somaliland]] in total of 31600 colonial troops and some 6000 Libyans who fought during the war and only 1900 Italian troops participated in the war.
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It is noteworthy to remember that most of Italian troops is composed of Italian colonial troops from [[Italian Eritrea]], as well as from [[Italian Somaliland]] in total of 31600 colonial troops, some 6000 Libyans who fought during the war, with only 1900 Italian troops.

The first comma you added was helpful as part of a comma-series of three items; the second one we could argue about (but I won't), and the initial comma already there before your edit should have been removed. But that is not the point; the point here is that while fiddling with commas, you skipped or perhaps failed to see the other, more major problems in that passage: the awkwardness of both clauses and the entire sentence. (One additional problem you might not be aware of as a new editor is the unencyclopedic tone of the opening clause, "It is noteworthy to remember"; this is something that Wikipedians call a "weasel expression", and should be eliminated. Also, the word only modifying 6000 Libyans is prohibited editorializing.)

Better would have been a simple, factual statement based on the source, minus the awkward phrasing:

"The majority of the Italian force consisted of 31,600 colonial troops from Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, along with 1900 Italian troops and about 6,000 Libyans."

It's fine to catch a misplaced comma here and there, and as long as the change is a clear improvement (no matter how small), you are welcome to make it. But please don't miss the forest for the trees—that passage had big problems, and fixing commas wasn't part of it. Slowing down just a bit and using the WP:PREVIEW button will help you help improve Wikipedia to better effect.

Finally, there are a number of advice messages here on your Talk page, and it would be appropriate for you to respond to them indicating your thoughts about them, including any questions or even disagreements you may have. Editing Wikipedia is a collaborative project, and collaboration is required. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 15:40, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

23.233.149.88 Greetings, you can see that I went over your Senussi revisions, reverted some, kept some and did a cheeky little copy edit that was overdue. If you want edits to stay, you might consider trying to avoid typos, missed out words and splitting paragraphs without duplicating the cite at the end of the lower part of it. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 15:50, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Keith is talking about your edits at Senussi campaign. Mathglot (talk) 16:16, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your disruptive gerundophobia, and other pointless copyedits

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Please stop your one-person campaign of removing standard usage of gerunds in favor of alternate wording:

This extends even to -ing prepositions such as following:

  • here: Following the collapse of the Napoleonic system in 1814 ⟶ After the collapse of the Napoleon in 1814
  • here: following a landslide referendum ⟶ after a landslide referendum

Please do not change awkward wording which could be improved into completely ungrammatical and nonsensical wording:

  • here: (bad:) A Presidency of Agra was first formed in 1834, up to which date the area then separated had been included in the Presidency of Bengal ⟶ (worse:) A Presidency of Agra was first formed in 1834, and the area had until then separated had been included in the Presidency of Bengal

Please do not pointlessly alter the capitalization of links that have no effect, per WP:NOTBROKEN, such as:

  • here: a manifestation of the [[Temporal power of the Holy See|temporal power of the pope]] ⟶ a manifestation of the [[temporal power of the Holy See|temporal power of the pope]]
  • here: [[List of historic states of Italy|Italian states]] ⟶ [[list of historic states of Italy|Italian states]]

The expressions due to and because of are very close in meaning and are generally interchangeable. You seem to have a penchant for changing due to to because of. but this is rarely a beneficial change. If you want to squeeze a difference out of the two, then use due to when the reason is a noun, and because of when the reason is a verb or adjective, but here you pointlessly made the change in the opposite sense:

  • here: due to the prestige of the works by Dante Alighieri ⟶ because of the prestige of the works by Dante Alighieri (prestige is a noun)
  • here: due to the peoples that settled there ⟶ because of the peoples that settled there (peoples that settled there is a noun phrase)

Please use Preview mode to avoid introducing typos, which you appear to do frequently:

Note that almost all of these examples are from a single edit, and there are many, many more such examples. Each of your edits appears to be a good-faith mix of improved wording, style, or syntax, mixed in with a usually larger number of pointless changes, modifications that change the meaning, irrelevant 'fixes' to links that do not need it, or changes that introduce typos and other mistakes. In the aggregate, I view your edits as a net negative to the encyclopedia.

I think you have a great eye for detail, and you could become a good editor, but you need to take on board some of this advice, read the guidelines that govern Wikipedia, and above all, respond to well meant comments here on your Talk page. A continuation of your current pattern of unbeneficial edits could be seen as WP:DISRUPTIVE, and may result in restrictions or suspension of your editing privileges. Please respond – communication is required. Mathglot (talk) 01:18, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

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Despite multiple warnings and attempts to communicate, you have persistently refused to alter your editing pattern or discuss edits. You are making more errors than useful edits, for example here all your copy edits are trivial and therefore not especially helpful but at the same time you completely reversed the meaning of one phrase by changing 'preventing' to 'causing', rendering the sentence nonsensical and the opposite of what was meant. DrKay (talk) 06:52, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

23.233.149.88, just fyi: while blocked, you still have access to this page, your user Talk page; so if wish to respond here, or to the discussions in any other section on the page, you are free to do so. Thanks Mathglot (talk) 23:00, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Request reason:

I just needed more tries to figure out what was wrong.23.233.149.88 (talk) 19:52, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

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    3. will make useful contributions instead.

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November 2024

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Warning icon Please stop. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at Baked apple, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. As CodeTalker told you a few weeks ago on this talk page, commonly recognised country names (like England) should not be hyperlinked per MOS:OVERLINK. Belbury (talk) 18:16, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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