User:RSLitman

Yes, I know, if you check my contribs, I have too much Neil Diamond stuff. I figured I'd start off with something I know.

Editing here is going to be tough, though, because I was never good at doing footnotes and otherwise documenting my sources when I was in school. I just retain a lot of facts I've picked up in places. So, it's not going to be easy to get my ideas accepted.

This is a start on my user page. I'll post some more information regarding my language preferences and how I may have to keep my hands tied behind my back as I start reading stuff that others have posted. RSLitman 04:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The Sweet Caroline is the interwiki link to the Norwegian Wikipedia-page about the song Sweet Caroline (that I wrote). It shows on the article page on the left hand, saying in Norwegian Norsk (bokmål). If you click it, you go to the Norwegian articcle about this song. I put it in the English page, instead of waiting that a robot might chatch it up. On both the Norwegian page and the English page, one can now read that it is in these languages that have an article om this subject. Nice that you are writing about Neil Diamond-related topics! --PaulVIF 12:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I am the self-appointed person in charge of making the following edits: 1. Changing "man" for human race and male pronoun-only usages to more inclusive language. 2. Changing "utilize" to "use", "utilized" to "used", "utilizes" to "uses", and in some instances, "utilization" to "use" or "usage". 3. Changing "differential" to "difference" in various non-technical uses. 4. Fixing incorrect uses of pronouns (such as its/it's/the totally invalid its', your/you're, who's/whose, and their/they're/there). 5. Changing "amongst" to "among", "whilst" to "while", and various non-U.S. English spellings to U.S. English spellings (such as "favourite" to "favorite" and "honour" to "honor", but "utilise" to "use", of course) when the subject of the article is predominantly U.S.-based. (See my May 27, 2008, edit in the Revision History for Strand Bookstore.) 6. Correcting the spelling of "alright" to "all right" unless it is a title or written quote in which it was spelled wrong to begin with. (In certain situations, I may insert "sic" after the incorrect spelling.)

I will sit on my hands and not switch the abbreviation of "microphone" from the totally incongruous, in my opinion, "mic" to the way I have always spelled it, "mike", because some grammatical sources I respect have come out in favor of "mic". I will also need to restrain myself from changing "trailer" to "preview" or "coming attraction".