Red Echidna

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Again, welcome! bodnotbod (talk) 09:30, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Article style

Hello, Red Echidna

Just wanted to drop a quick note about Wikipedia:Manual of Style: In Wikipedia, optional styles must be uniformly used throughout an article, meaning that, for instance, either all list sentences in a given article must have oxford comma or none should. Another more important point is stability: An editor should never convert between optional styles; e.g., one should not insert 50 oxford commas into an article that has no oxford commas or remove all oxford commas from an article. In fact, ArbCom does not tolerate such edits and regards them obsessive and disruptive.

Please stick to these two rules. Thanks in advance.

Fleet Command (talk) 00:58, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Let me tell a piece of interesting fact: All of those who convert between optional styles (I repeat, all) think that their change is out of necessity! And all those who oppose them also think about necessity! While there are people in this world that think the same as you explained, there are also people in this world that do not see the sentence the way you saw it. Instead when they read the sentence, they think "Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee and who else?" because when they see comma, they expect at least two more items, not one. When they don't find it, they are briefly confused. Both groups are bound by their habits.

Wikipedia Manual of Style however, acknowledges this issue and thinks both styles of writing deserve equal respect. Hence, the law that I explained to you has come into effect: Uniformity and stability.

Fleet Command (talk) 11:50, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hello. Is this an automation? What does this mean exactly? I have already tried to discuss any questions or issues that may be, but I have received no response or very roundabout responses. The lack of appropriate action and lack of neutral third-parties reviewing this as a panel is very concerning. Only one person made a decision. Additionally, I have tried to reason with the article vandal, but he has repeatedly demeaned me, made personal insults, and mocked my statements. So, that made any sort of compromise or solution impossible. Red Echidna (talk) 20:28, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

It's an alert that discretionary sanctions apply to any edits about living persons. In other words, we have rules on Wikipedia, but even more rules when it comes to living persons, and administrators have additional options to enforce those rules. Like admins can block editors from a page—or from editing at all—if they keep being disruptive.

For example, by edit warring to describe a relationship as "polygamous" when the source doesn't actually say that. I strongly suggest you stop before someone asks that you be blocked. Woodroar (talk) 03:13, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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