User talk:Seanmercy

Sly Salai

Left you a message on the Leonardo page Amandajm (talk) 10:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Choose Your Own Adventure

Hi -

I notice that you've been active on the Choose Your Own Adventure article. Great. :) But I want to be sure you know that the article has now been protected and is placed under the protection of the Wikimedia Foundation office, pending successful dispute resolution. Further changes can not be made. The relevant policy is WP:OFFICE. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:13, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my

Good work trimming that other page, that seemed fair. Chooseco doesn't have any sources, btw. Re the 2007 lawsuit they filed[1] (pr release); [2] (AP Story), I found stuff like this [3]. Kinda funny.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 17:08, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Band names as plural or singular proper nouns

Hi! I've just reverted your recent edits on The Left Banke article, but then undone my changes again because it turns out that I was in error. You were right to change "were" to "was" but only because the band are American. Since The Left Banke functions as a plural proper noun (because they're a group of people), I thought it should be changed to "were", since "were" is 3rd person plural, while "was" is singular. However, I've just realised that there is a difference in this matter depending on whether we're using American or British English. As you rightly point out in your edit summary, the band name in this case is actually a singular noun, so "was" is correct in American English but "were" would be correct in British English (because it's a singular noun functioning as a plural).

If, however, the band name itself is a plural proper noun, as it is in the case of The Byrds or The Killers, then "were" (or "are" depending on whether or not the band is still together) is correct in both American and British English. Since the accepted practice on band-related articles on Wikipedia is to use the style of written English originating from the band's home country, you were absolutely right to change this -- but if you had been editing The Clash article, you would have been in error.

Sorry, if you were already aware of all this, but I've only just found out that the rules for band names that are singular nouns change depending on which version of English you're using. I thought it was fascinating and thought you may like to know, in case you were unaware. Thanks. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 00:01, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]