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Again, welcome! Mathglot (talk) 09:27, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020 copy-editing issues
It looks like a lot of your edits are about changing certain elements that are considered optional style or usage-related. Different style manuals exist, Chicago, Fowler's, Garner, and others. Here at Wikipedia, we have one called Manual of Style, and it governs the usage at articles on Wikipedia. It takes someone pretty familiar with the "MOS" to do this correctly, and you may find it easier while still learning the ropes here, to work on something else. If you want to keep working on style-related changes, please become familiar with the MOS:. Thanks. Mathglot (talk) 10:04, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Please stop removing appropriate use of em dashes
Please stop removing appropriate use of em dashes in articles and replacing them with commas, as you did here at Carlos Antonio López, here at Civil War gold hoax, and other articles. The guideline governing use of em dashes is here: MOS:EMDASH. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 09:44, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Please stop inserting unnecessary "that" in relative clauses
Please stop adding "that" to zero relative clauses that were already correct and unambiguous without them, as you did here at Bartolomé Mitre, or here at José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia. There is no need to add "that" in object relative clauses, unless it is required to avoid ambiguity. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 09:44, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Please do not move commas inside the quotation marks
Per MOS:LQUOTE in the Manual of Style, "use the "logical quotation" style in all articles, regardless of the variety of English in which they are written." Please do not move commas inside quotation marks, as you did here, at Carlos Antonio López, unless it is in accordance with the guideline. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 09:59, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Please do not change from one valid number style to another
In this edit at New York City draft riots, you changed a sentence which had the word twelve to 12. Per MOS:NUMERAL: "Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four." So, you might think that because the digit style is a permitted one, your change was okay. If you were writing the article from scratch and chose that option, it would, in fact, be acceptable; however changing from one valid style to another valid one, is not, per MOS:VAR: "Sometimes the MoS provides more than one acceptable style, or gives no specific guidance. The Arbitration Committee has expressed the principle that 'When either of two styles are [sic] acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change.'" So, it turns out that your change was not okay, because the previous sentence with the word twelve was fine as it was. Worse, by changing twelve, but not eleven, which appears elsewhere in the article, you changed from a prior consistent usage style, to an inconsistent one.

I know you mean well, and you obviously have a fine eye for detail, and that can be a great skill in an encyclopedia like this one. Unfortunately, in something like stylistic changes to articles, this is going to be a bit challenging, until you've really spent some time perusing the Manual of Style. You can still do that, if you wish, but I or others could suggest some other areas where we could use help from someone with an eye for detail. Feel free to contact me here, or on my Talk page with comments or questions. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 10:22, 18 July 2020 (UTC)