User talk:47.201.238.243

December 2020
Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Stephen Maturin. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason.   Eric talk 02:07, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
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 * Can you read English? There was nothing difficult or unusual about what I wrote.
 * Yes, I can. But I'm not available to tutor you, if that's what you're asking. The difficulty I found in your edit was in the sentence structure you used, which states that Maturin's personal habits amassed prize money. Also, your use of the word "vast" is unnecessary and departs from encyclopedic style. Eric talk 01:39, 16 December 2020 (UTC)


 * There was nothing wrong with my wording. Rude people like you keep others from making Wikipedia articles better. Many of them are written terribly, and the sentence structure you put back is confusing. Articles about great literature should be better than that and so should you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.201.238.243 (talk • contribs) 11:16, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Curious that you characterize me as rude, given what you have written here. I'm sure that if you re-read the sentence as you altered it, you will see that it is grammatically incorrect. If you then apply yourself to comprehending the sentence as I restored it, its meaning will become clear. Eric talk 14:25, 17 December 2020 (UTC)