User:Cullen328/sandbox/Macy

I am blocking you for one month for your continuation of disruptive editing since your last block. I had truly hoped that when your last block expired, which was less than two weeks ago, you would restrict yourself to uncontroversial and useful edits. Unfortunately, input from trusted and experienced editors here on your talk page shows that you chose the path of disruption instead.

The edit you made to Laryngeal theory concerns me very much, as does your response to criticism of it. The original sentence, though complex, states clearly that Möller was the scholar who proposed the "third, non-colouring laryngeal". When you were done with it, the sentence states that Oštir was the scholar who proposed that. That is a very serious problem. Let me state quite clearly that I have no expertise in linguistics; rather, my expertise is in editing this encyclopedia. But I trust the judgment and linguistic competence of the other editors who have critiqued your editing. Your explanation that you relied on commercial grammar checking software and some human teacher on the site is very weak. One need not be an expert in linguistics to know that a sentence can be grammatically correct and terribly wrong factually. Grammatical errors are relatively easy to fix. Factual errors in an article about a complex scientific topic are much more serious if they go unnoticed. Fortunately, this error of yours was noticed.

I have deep concerns about your credibility. Your user page says that you are 17 years old, were born in New Jersey and live there now. You claim level 4 fluency in Latin, level 2 proficiency in Spanish and Nahuatl, and Level 1 in Hebrew. You also claim to speak Tlingit and Tutchone. You claim full understanding of Old Italic, Cyrillic, Greek, Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac and Hebrew scripts. On your talk page, you say that you speak Tlingit and English. You say that your "only phonetic proficiency" is in Nahuatl. You claim to speak "a few" Athabaskan and Na-Dene languages. You state that "English is my L2", which I take to mean that English is your second language. That raises the question of what is your first language? Tlingit learned in New Jersey? Perhaps you are a genuine linguistic prodigy at age 17, but all the evidence revealed by your editing so far leads me to the conclusion that you lack the ability to distinguish between areas where you are fully competent and areas where you are not competent.

Again, I plead with you to confine yourself to uncontroversial, indisputably productive, and properly referenced edits when your block expires or is appealed successfully. I must warn you that the next block is very likely to be indefinite.