User talk:Writtenright
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[edit] Edit summaries
Hi; I just wanted to turn your attention to Wikipedia:Edit summary. You don't have to waste time listing change details in the edit summary; if you only fix spelling and grammar (as you seem to do mostly), it's OK to put just an abbreviation like sp or fmt. Every page has a history, so the ones who want to go into details can see the exact changes there. Regards & keep up on good work. Duja 15:40, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
- You're indeed doing good, valuable work - an example is your recent spelling and grammar corrections to the Finland article, which is on my watchlist. To save energy, and channel your efforts to the real work, you really don't have to make such extensive edit summaries, also, you can do all the changes you want in one edit, and mark it "spellling & grammar" or "copyedit". In this way, you can fix ten articles in the time you now do one! This is not criticism, just a friendly suggestion. Warm greetings from cold Finland, --Janke | Talk 08:18, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- In addition, using "Preview" button far more than "Save" button will save your time as well as other editors' time while reviewing your changes. Duja 19:53, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edits on usertalk pages
On the one hand, I would like to thank you for your copyedits [1] on my usertalk page. "Soem" and "suspecious" were simple misspellings that the authors obviously didn't intend.
On the other hand, I think some of your other edits [2] [3] were less beneficial. I always respect others' word choice on my talk page, even though I could easily alter their text to suit my tastes. In fact, this extends to the point that I won't even change spelling erros, as you saw. I'd like you to extend the same courtesy, and I've reverted the "english-ifying" and "who/whom" edits (I'd be glad to explain my reasoning behind keeping "who" as an object pronoun). I'm sure you had the best of intentions; thanks for the copyedit work. - Draeco 19:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC) __________________________________________________
Monsieur ou Madame,
Je ne sais écrire en Anglais, je suis italienne, si vous voulez mon adresse, je puis vous la donner et puis témigner de ce que j'ai vu.. le 18 septembre 1982 à Loano Italie et avec d'autres personnes je jure d'avoir assisée au sacre épiscopal de Mgr Roux et de Mgr Boni, à la chapelle qu'ils avait à Loano. D'ailleur Mgr Thuc était à la Pensione Millone de la Via Aurelia à Loano, vous pouvez demander à la questura de Savona puisque il y avait un régistre des personnes vivant à l'hotel. (j'étais femme de ménage dans cette pension). Louise Littieri.
[edit] Longfellow
As far as can see you have restored all the text from the Longfellow article. The fastest way to restore text is to click on the 'History' tab, then select the version you want to restore (the one just before the vandal came in) by clicking 'last'. This will bring in the original non vandalized text. Select the 'edit this page' tab, write a comment in the 'Edit summary' like "revert vandalism" and click 'save page' and you are done. If you noticed furhter vandalism from this user, let me know and I will report him to an administrator (he has already been warned twice). Happy editing! ArthurWeasley 18:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Personal attacks
[4]: Yes, this person was annoying. But a personal attack is still not in order. And an unsigned personal comment? My mom always told me that if you are going to pick a fight, don't go hiding. By the way, also, do keep in mind that an IP address might not be used only by one person, so your remark may be read by someone who is, say, an inmate in the same penal institution, and appear to be directed at the wrong person. (Despite the tone of that last, I am serious about suggesting that you refrain from personal attacks, especially unsigned ones on IP pages. Even when sorely tempted.) - Jmabel | Talk 03:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, you never know what temperament that fellow-inmate newbie might have. While I agree that the person to whom you are addressing the remark will know that it is addressed to him (I'm sure it's a "him"), the problem is more that the total newbie who might use the same IP address may not work out that the remark is not addressed to him (or her). Also, I wouldn't presume that people, especially those without accounts, really understand how to use the "history" tab. - Jmabel | Talk 04:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 1907
[copied]
As a token of appreciation for your criticism, I have "cleaned up" the article "1907 Romanian peasants' revolt". I cannot speak for the facts contained therein; I'm really a style and grammar man. I hope it's okay with you.Writtenright 06:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)Writtenright
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- More than OK. I don't doubt it needed it. That's one that I haven't touched since April, and you are probably the first native English speaker to give it a going over in 8 months. Judging by the contributors, I'd pretty much vouch for the facts just on who wrote it. - Jmabel | Talk 06:27, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No Good Deed...
I recently installed a WikiMedia wiki on my own server and kind of got the idea of how this works. I was viewing the Taxonomy page and found that it had an error. Someone had made a linke like this:
SOMEPAGETITLE|PrettyTitle]]
So I thought to myself, "Hey, self, that's not right. Cool, I know how to fix it." So I did. I put in two left braces. Now I'm a vandal and kinda pissed that I'm supposedly a vandal. You can see for yourself what changes I've made at Special:Contributions/68.254.154.126 (If that link will work (or just find contributions from 68.254.154.126 yourself))
If would be nice to know of exactly what kind of vandalism I'm accused of btw.
Long story short, I saw a simple bug, fixed it, and now I'm a vandal.
What crap!
Dan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.254.154.126 (talk) 05:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Raghavan N. Iyer
I responded on my talk page. Basically: think of it as a long stub. It's not as if anyone will mistake it for a completed article. - Jmabel | Talk 06:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nowak
Heya, only want to let you know... the verb was meant to convey two meanings at once and since you weren't familiar with the article, I glark you naturally shifted it to the conditional. Thanks for your contributions! Gwen Gale 00:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] wikistalking
You appear to be wikistalking me. That's a violation of Wikipedia policy. Please stop now. Thank you. Gwen Gale 05:43, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Please do not act irresponsibly
I did not add any lineagewarzone link to the Lineage (Buddhism) article. The link was added earlier by an unknown user from the IP address 72.197.197.204. The only edit I made to the article was this minor edit. Please investigate properly before throwing around any accusations next time. Jagged 85 03:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
