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Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 17:12, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Unnecessary comma additions

If an article doesn't use serial commas, don't change it solely based on your personal preference. This is doubly important on FAs, which have been through rigorous review processes. - SchroCat (talk) 08:58, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I endorse the above comment. The current edition of Fowler (p. 166) comments that the Oxford comma should be used when it is needed to avoid ambiguity: in "'I should like to thank my parents, Sinead O'Connor, and the Pope, leaving out the Oxford comma would give the writer a hilariously improbable parentage". But otherwise, as the current edition of Plain Words comments (p. 249), "the principle that stops should not be used unless they are needed" is to be commended. Tim riley talk 13:03, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your punctuation reshuffle on Thomas More wasn't an improvement. The commas were wrong before, it's true, but they're still wrong. Examples: "and, after his respectful answers the matter seemed to have been dropped." misses a closing parenthetical comma. "[…]Thomas Boleyn, and her brother George Boleyn" introduces a serial comma. Serial commas aren't wrong in themselves, but their use needs be consistent throughout the article.--AntientNestor (talk) 20:50, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your removal of commas from the Gene Wilder article created three run-on sentences. Please don't do that. Rklawton (talk) 18:05, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]