User talk:17A Africa

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17A Africa, good luck, and have fun. – Luke no 94  (tell Luke off here) 07:07, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

In a recent edit, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. — Preceding undated comment added 09:18, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

September 2015
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Gary Oldman. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you.  4TheWynne (talk) (contribs)  03:37, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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Date formats
I see you have some past warnings on this and English varieties. Please read MOS:DATERET. In particular though, for video games, the developer's nationality is not seen as representing a strong national tie for the video game. As such, MOS:RETAIN applies and the existing format should be left alone. Also, the edit note "UK style" is not a explanation of why you made your change, it simply is the change you made. -- ferret (talk) 23:40, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

"UK style"
Although it is appreciated to correct articles employing British English (or English, honestly, though I never made that choice), I would highly suggest you provide more descriptive reasons for your edits, as it is nearly impossible to discern whether or not you've done anything but change words/dates/et al with this as your description. Not going to link to any policy pages as the dude taking things way too seriously did before ostensibly voicing the same sort of concern. Just a suggestion. 72.208.101.200 (talk) 22:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

thank you!
Hi 17A, I've noticed your improvements to literally dozens of UK squash articles by adding the UK style date settings. Thanks very much, much appreciated. Dr. Vogel (talk) 22:53, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

October 2018
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Battle of Amara. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. ...GELongstreet (talk) 17:47, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation
Balkywrest (talk) 17:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2018
Please don't change the format of dates, as you did to Bright Phoebus. As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.

For more information about how dates should be written on Wikipedia, please see this page.

If you have any questions about this, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Enjoy your time on Wikipedia. Thank you. Balkywrest (talk) 18:12, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

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