User talk:24.6.66.193

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[edit] Altering signed comments

Please do not alter other people's signed comments, such as you did to Talk:Adrienne Barbeau. If you are actually the original author of those comments, please accept my apologies. Also, you are more than welcome to correct mistakes in articles, it's only signed comments (therefore, outside of articles) that I am referring to here. Thanks. --Yamla 19:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, that's something I almost never do, for obvious reasons. Normally, it would be inappropriate to alter other people's signed comments, making it look like they said something that they in fact did not. However, that's really not what I did. I merely corrected a couple of obvious spelling or typographical errors; nothing more. For example, the word "bosom" is spelled "bosom", not "busom". Likewise, "breasts", not "breats". And the phrase "I have know idea" is clearly wrong; it was obviously intended to be "I have no idea".

Being a newbie, I'm not exactly certain how you "discovered" these corrections, but apparently the page in question must've been on your watchlist. In that case, you MUST have seen that all I did was correct the [mis]spelling of "busom" and the obviously improper use of the word "know" instead of "no". (And in the only other instance -- "Her quote about not knowing that her winnebagos was the center of attention were the center of attention was so disingenuous..." -- I simply deleted the repeated text, which, again, was an obvious typographical error.) Not sure why you would want to revert my corrections to these obvious errors. I would never alter someone else's comments to change the meaning -- or even the tone or style -- of those comments. But correcting simple, obvious misspellings and typos seems not only harmless, but beneficial -- both to the original commentator (by making him look less dimwitted and careless) and anyone trying to read what he wrote.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Cordially, "24.6.66.193".  :-) 24.6.66.193 13:31, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that other people signed those comments and then you changed them. I understand that you were acting in good faith to make your corrections but please leave signed comments as they were originally posted. We need to leave them as an accurate depiction of what was originally stated, even with the errors in tact. This is similar to placing a quote into an article. We would quote exactly what was said, even if it does not make grammatical sense. Unless they are your signed comments, that is. Your corrections would be most appreciated for any articles that have blatant errors like this, however. --Yamla 13:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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