Broadwood-park
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editThe English Wikipedia gets a great many readers and editors from many English-speaking countries, not just the US. In accordance with that, Wikipedia supports all the varieties of English in articles. Please read the section detailing this at WP:ENGVAR. It prohibits changing the spelling of words in an article between American and British English without establishing prior consensus on the talk page. Any edits that don't follow this policy must be reverted.
In a related issue, please also check out WP:LQ. --A D Monroe III(talk) 01:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
noted.
Grammar-checker editing?
editReviewing more edits, I'm seeing a pattern of a repeated misunderstanding of certain kinds of nuanced grammar, such as changing "built in {year}" to "built-in {year}" -- a very clumsy mistake. Are these edits the result of some grammar-checking application? While I'd say most of the changes are fine, a good percentage are breaking the intent of the sentence. This is creating more work for other editors, which is an overall net loss to WP. While they can be used to give hints on editing, results from grammar checkers cannot be used automatically on WP; if they could, we would have already created a WP:BOT to do this. Even if you are not using such an application, you need to be much more careful in double-checking your edits. --A D Monroe III(talk) 01:37, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
"clumsily," noted.
--Broadwood-park (talk) 22:32, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- Please do not copy edit the entire article in one single edit. You are making errors, among them changing image filenames (you cannot edit those for grammar!), but also quite a few others. When you make only one edit, you leave no option for others but to revert the edit. Please edit a section, even sub-section, at a time. Please click on "show preview" and examine it once before publishing the changes. Thanks. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 23:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Noted, however, "show preview" would be much more useful if it used a "show history" like preview, allowing reverts within the side by side comparison, or to enable reverts directly within the "show history" side by side ... isn't that the result described above you want. In other words, expand my ability to correct, rather than shrinking my ability to edit.
--Broadwood-park (talk) 16:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
- This in no way addresses the issues you are creating. No tool as you describe exists, and I don't see how it would help anyway. The only solution available is for you to improve the quality of your edits. --A D Monroe III(talk) 21:02, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
...ouch, I'm hurt.
--Broadwood-park (talk) 23:40, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
It's clear to me that either you are not examining individually all the changes you are making via script, in which case you need to slow down and start doing so ASAP, or your command of English is insufficient for you to be making copyedits. Either way please desist. Consider this a caution as if you continue your current course you are likely headed for a block. Spectrum {{UV}} 2604:2000:8FC0:4:68BA:3B32:8613:8B6D (talk) 23:24, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Don't get blocked
editI've had to revert another of your edits, which was done after you replied to the above, for multiple WP:MOS violations.
I've just been informed that we have a policy, WP:MEATBOT that covers the kind of edits you have continued to do -- editing patterns that emphasize quantity over quality. Regardless of whether the cause is repeated carelessness or over-reliance on some sort of automation, it is considered disruptive, and users will be blocked if they persist.
Please immediately change your editing habits to continue to contribute to Wikipedia. --A D Monroe III(talk) 23:25, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
See my comments above @16:21, 14/Apr. - Thank-You.
--Broadwood-park (talk) 02:04, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Only warning
editToo many of your edits contain too many obvious errors, besides unnecessary elements. Judging from the kinds of mistakes you make, I have to say I am not convinced you have the competency required to edit Wikipedia, especially not edits that mention "grammar" in the summary. Obviously I am not the first one to notice this. If this continues, I will have no choice but to block you. Drmies (talk) 04:03, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
- Seconded, @Drmies: re: Evolving the Alien. —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 22:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
April 2020
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Drmies (talk) 00:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC)- For a sample, see my edit summary. Drmies (talk) 00:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC)