User talk:Dphillips1950

The Information Seeker

I edit wiki pages because I am obsessed with information and one of my biggest pet peeves in life is when people give incorrect or incomplete information!!!

UK

This user uses British English.

US

This user uses American English.

This user is associated with the United States of America.

ANAL 5

This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

“,;:’

This user is a punctuation stickler.

its
it's

It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

’s

This user realises that plural nouns should not have an apostrophe while possessive words should!

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

your
you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."

This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".

A, B and C

This user prefers not to use the serial comma.

... in.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

This user, based on evidence and current consensus, thinks that the Universe began with a bang.

Wikimedia Stories Project

Aloha!

My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco working on collecting unique and interesting stories from Wikipedians that can be used to compel donations for the 2011 fundraiser.

I found your user name on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Chicago

If you are interested in participating, and would like to schedule a telephone or Skype interview with me, please send me an email (vgrigas@wikimedia.org) along with any questions you may have.

Thanks for your time!

Victor, User:Victorgrigas Victor Grigas (talk) 21:56, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PS If you know of anyone with whom I should speak please let me know :)

Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mastermusicgenius for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. Gaijin42 (talk) 20:04, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Margo Rey for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Margo Rey is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margo Rey until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 21:41, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Margo Rey for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Margo Rey is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margo Rey (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. T. Canens (talk) 14:53, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]