User talk:Carultch
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[edit]Hello Carultch, and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope that you have enjoyed contributing and want to stick around. Here are some tips to help you get started:
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; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 09:14, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for your contributions to Buoyancy. I've made a couple of comments on the article talk page. If you have enjoyed contributing, you might want to look at WikiProject Physics, as I'm sure there's a lot you could do to improve our encyclopedia. Happy editing! --RexxS (talk) 15:54, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Spelling
[edit]In a recent edit to the page Metre, you changed one or more words from one international 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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In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. 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 Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you.
In particular, there is no valid reason to change the spelling from "metre" to "meter" in an article that is not closely associated with a particular English-speaking country. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:47, 25 May 2010 (UTC)