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You messed up greed

by changing "inordinance" to "ordinance". Doug Weller talk 09:15, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Bloody Sunday (1905), you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Misplaced Pages has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Misplaced Pages articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Misplaced Pages articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. RolandR (talk) 10:18, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Trevor Noah, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. You should NEVER alter a direct quote or citation. Even if you think that the original was incorrect, or phrased in a way which you would not use, you should maintain the words as they are in the source cited. RolandR (talk) 10:31, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at User talk:Zackomode, you may be blocked from editing. RolandR (talk) 23:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Be careful when applying "find-and-replace" rules

Your recent edits to National Popular Vote Interstate Compact included some detrimental changes that look like you were using "find-and-replace" rules. It often makes sense to replace "a number of" with "several" or "on the grounds that" with "because", but you always need to make sure the change is an improvement in context. Even if you edit with automated tools, you are responsible for checking over the end product before you hit "publish changes". —swpb 15:45, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Misplaced Pages, as you did at Culture of Australia. Template:Z189 Larry Hockett (Talk) 05:57, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Advice

You have only been here for a week, and you are making scores of small edits, most of which are unconstructive and have had to be reverted by other editors. Among other behaviour, you frequently change wording for no apparent benefit (and often incorrectly); you change spelling from British English to American English for no obvious reason except your own preference; and you repeatedly, and despite earlier warnings, change the wording of quotes and cited material to fit your own preferences, thus misrepresenting the source cited. All of this is disruptive to the encyclopaedia, and obliges other editors to waste their time correcting the damage you are causing. You apparently mean well, but your editing so far has not been helpful. If you continue to behave like this, you are likely to be blocked from editing altogether. Please take the time to read and learn our five pillars and manual of style before continuing along this path. RolandR (talk) 10:37, 29 August 2020 (UTC)