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Happy editing! TylerBurden (talk) 14:47, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

January 2022
Hi! I noticed and appreciate your recent edits to the Völsunga saga article. However I have some concerns about your changes. First, some of your language and style seems suboptimal. For example, I notice a number of awkward phrases like "When they compared their skills, Bredi's was much larger and more impressive" (it seems strange to describe a person's skills as "larger"); "Soon,, every other large drift was called that name" ("called that name" is awkward; also notice the extra comma); "seized a grand kingdom called Hunland too rule over" ("to" is misspelled); "he and his unnamed wife have no heir, so prayed to Odin to see if he had a child he and Frigg could give to him" (tense of "prayed" should be historical present, and "if he had a child" is awkward: it sounds like he's asking Odin to look for a child he might have lying around to give Rerir). I could list quite a few examples like this.

More importantly, I think you are expanding the plot description far beyond what is needed. The description does not need to include every minor detail of the saga, but rather to summarize the key points to understand the overall scope of the plot. Obviously there is some subjectivity as to how much detail is appropriate, but in my opinion your text is going far over the line.

Finally and most critically of all, I am very concerned by your edit summary that says "All information taken from the saga itself, many parts of it copied word-for-word." This suggests your text may be creating a copyright violation, which is a major concern for Wikipedia. See WP:COPYVIO for more information. Of course the original sagas are no longer in copyright, but if you are copying text from an English translation, you may be violating the copyright of the translator. This needs to be addressed immediately.

I would suggest that at this point you stop adding text to the article, and discuss your proposed changes on the article talk page. That way other editors can weigh in on whether your changes are appropriate. I don't want to discourage you or demean the hard work you've obviously done, but it's important to maintain a consistent style in Wikipedia articles, and it is absolutely critical to avoid copyright violations. Thanks! CodeTalker (talk) 21:19, 3 January 2022 (UTC)