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Hello. In a recent edit to the page Graham Phillips (writer), 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.

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This was an artifact of Grammarly doing its thing, and my not paying close attention. My apologies; will ignore its protestations on matters like this in the future. Backoffbugaloo (talk) 19:25, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks for the explanation. Doug Weller talk 21:08, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't copy text from publishers, etc

As you did at Graham Phillips (writer). Not only is it a copyright violation, nothing Phillips has written is scientific. Doug Weller talk 06:47, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Any suggestions on restoring the material without outright copying it? Also, it's worth noting that you unnecessarily reverted several smaller changes in the process that didn't need to be, like noting the reissue of his first book. Please have a little more care the next time you revert the offending parts of someone's edit. Backoffbugaloo (talk) 16:56, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The reissue should not have been there. I restored a comma I shouldn’t have and have now deleted it. An/a historical, I’ve no opinion on them. The other changes I’ll stand by. It’d a bad article, and not only are there too many books that section’s in the wrong place. Doug Weller talk 19:02, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There are four reissues on the page as it stands; are they only sticking around because of the different titles? I'm no particular fan of this guy's brand of "scholarship" either, but comparable authors have a bibliography (even a small one) on their pages -- see, for example, Hugh J. Schonfield -- and they don't catch the level of flak I seem to be getting for keeping the dude's page current. Backoffbugaloo (talk) 19:24, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that really is rubbish. No publishers etc. I’m not trying to give you flak, both articles have problems. Doug Weller talk 21:11, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so, what I'm picking up from this is, come up with better non-plagiarized (preferably one-line) summaries of the two new books and avoid the reissue on the first title. Fair? (The bigger issues with the entry itself can be someone else's problem.) Backoffbugaloo (talk) 21:14, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]