User talk:Bdstack

Copy edit notes
Great work on the copy edit of Murtaja Qureiris! You made lots of improvements to an article which was in fairly rough shape, and went above-and-beyond with the citation work and restoring the corrupted quotations. I see that your account is pretty new, so I'm going to leave you a few notes.

Wikipedia has developed a style guide for its particular requirements as an international online encyclopedia. This is outlined in our Manual of Style (shortcut: MOS:). It's a long series of guidelines which goes into quite a bit of detail and is mainly intended as a reference work. You might instead want to start with Beginners' guide to the Manual of Style and there are other useful pages listed at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to.

Some specific notes:
 * Wikipedia uses the logical quotation system (MOS:LQ) which places punctuation outside of the quotes unless it is part of the quotation. So with joining a "terror group" and "sowing sedition," and was arrested it should be "sowing sedition", and was arrested.  I know it can look a little weird and it took me a while to get used to it, but it's a style which has been gaining popularity and can avoid a bit of confusion in some cases.
 * Commas are often misplaced, so keep an eye on them when copy editing.
 * In one place you had "human right group" instead of "human rights groups". Be careful that these are consistent to avoid confusion.
 * There were a few curly apostrophes and quotation marks (MOS:CURLY), but that's really nit picking.
 * Singular possessives always get a 's (MOS:POSS), so Queiris' case &rarr; Queiris's case.

I fixed those little things, you can see a "diff" with my changes here. Overall, great work! – Reidgreg (talk) 17:37, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

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