User talk:GrammarHead

Welcome!

Hello, GrammarHead! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 15:33, 15 September 2016 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Tip of the day Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, GrammarHead. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Reversion of edit on Cunard page

Hi

Don't know what you think you've done but the edit refered to was altering a link to point at the correct article (SS Russia 1867) which is still there. What did you actually mean? Murgatroyd49 (talk) 21:33, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi mate. That link isn't in question. The link is still as you left it. Your reversion of my edit is here. There were a few problems with it. First, the commas: "their young Assembly Speaker, Joseph Howe," and "Seal Island, Nova Scotia," require commas after the appositive. It's best explained at MOS:COMMA. Also, this: "... later increased to £300,000.(£34,214,789 in 2023), Cunard supplied ..." is obviously wrong: it has a full stop and a comma where they shouldn't be. The other two things you reverted weren't errors as such but judgments of style: "Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard" and "with fellow Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard" can I think be written better, so I've changed these to "the Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard" and "with his fellow Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard". Just "Nova Scotian Samuel Cunard" sounds a bit tabloid-like to me. I think what I've changed it to could be improved further, to something like, "In 1939 Samuel Cunard, a Nova Scotian businessman, was awarded ..." I hope all this makes sense. Cheers. GrammarHead (talk) 23:28, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, GrammarHead. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)