User talk:Anglophile27

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Extraction of petroleum
I accidentally reverted a minor change you made to Extraction of petroleum. I restored your changes, but wanted to apologize for my mistake.

Thanks for you work here!

KNHaw (talk) 23:03, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Copyediting feedback
Hi. I briefly looked at your work and remember that we either use simple past tense (He was rather than had been) or present tense depending on the situation per MOS:TENSE and both words and figures are acceptable when writing centuries (MOS:CENTURY). In the tense case, that would make it even more wordier thereby negating the whole point of doing a copyedit and in the date case, switching between formats is not only a waste of time, but also frowned upon MOS:RETAIN. Take a look at WP:COPYEDIT for a simple guide on it and aso the WP:GOCE. When in doubt, refer to the main WP:MOS. I recommend you practise on obscure articles which are in dire need of it and go to major articles when you feel experienced enough; they are usually fine. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 16:47, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

India
Why did you change this:

"India, officially the Republic of India,[c] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;[d] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. India's capital is New Delhi; other metropolises include Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad."

to this:

"India, officially the Republic of India,[c] is a country in South Asia. It ranks as the seventh largest country by area, the second most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. And land borders are shared with Pakistan to the west;[d] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, it is located in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. And the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. The capital is New Delhi, but other metropolises include Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad."?

It is a very unprofessional edit, and there are grammatical errors to boot. You don't start sentences with 'And' this, 'And' that after a full stop on an encyclopaedia. I shall be reverting some of your edits. Tiger7253 (talk) 07:46, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

I just reverted part of your grammar corrections
At the 2005 Webby Awards article, you recently changed a sentence to read:
 * Al Gore was awarded a lifetime achievement award and for the five-word acceptance speech he delivered, the frequently-cited line, "Please don't recount this vote ,  " a reference to the 2000 Florida election recount. (red underlined punctuation was added by you)

Your edit summary indicated that this was done to improve the grammar, but I can't understand the purpose of the comma you inserted between "he delivered" and "the frequently-cited line". Those two sub-phrases make up parts of the independent clause "he delivered the frequently-cited line". Why did you add a comma in the middle? I am also concerned that the second comma you inserted may have violated MOS:LQ. I've partially reverted this edit for now, but let's discuss it on the article's talk page if you think I've made an error. -Thibbs (talk) 22:35, 20 November 2016 (UTC)