User talk:Irontitan76

A belated welcome!

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Fettlemap (talk) 18:16, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 2020

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 03:12, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at JavaScript. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. More information below. bonadea contributions talk 13:38, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar edits

Irontitan76, it looks like you may be using a grammar checking tool to rapidly make language changes in Wikipedia articles. Unfortunately, grammar tools (such as Grammarly) can never be trusted, and when they suggest changes, each change has to be checked very carefully. Basically, these tools do three things:

1 identify correct language as incorrect, and suggest changes that add language errors
2 identify correct language as incorrect, and suggest changes that are also correct (but often worse than the existing text, even if they are formally correct)
3 identify incorrect language use, and suggest changes which may or may not be correct

Many (most?) edits using Grammarly will include all three types, although most will be either type 1 or type 2 above. For instance this edit: the comma after "eventually" is not incorrect, but nor is it incorrect to omit it; the hyphens in "open-source" can be included or omitted; the added "of" was incorrect because it changed the meaning of the sentence; Grammarly hates some expressions such as "on the basis of" which are completely fine to use (and sometimes much more correct than "based on"; the final "and" can formally be omitted, but including it is more clear. In the next edit here, the phrase "after which they are joined by commas" could absolutely not be changed to "after which commas joined them". There was no reason to change "which" to "that" here. The addded comma here should not be there. Here, you went through a Featured Article (one of the most thouroughly-checked articles in Wikipedia) and added a couple of errors, changed a spelling for no reason, and made some punctuation changes with had to be reverted. Here you added words inside a quotation. And so on. Please stop using Grammarly or whatever tool it is you are using – it is causing a lot of extra work for other editors. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 13:57, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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