User talk:Brently75

Hello, Brently75, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to leave me a message or place " " on this page and someone will drop by to help. You can also contact me if you wish by clicking "talk" to the right of my name. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:08, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
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December 2011
In a recent edit to the page The Tudors, you changed one or more words from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

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In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours.

Also, please don't change the format of dates. As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.

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Esperanza Spalding‎
Hi, just FYI, I've undone some of your changes at Esperanza Spalding‎ where you moved punctuation markers into the quotes. See the WP:MOSLQ section in the Manual of Style for background. Cheers, Amalthea  17:05, 21 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The problem with changing these back is that there are inconsistencies. I understand and respect this difference between American and British English, but a lack of consistency reflects poorly on everyone involved with the site and its content. If you look at the page in question, you'll see that punctuation is inconsistently placed both in and outside of quotation marks. This simply looks like careless writing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brently75 (talk • contribs) 17:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Logical quotation is in itself consistent though I think? From what I can tell this has been discussed extensively, but if you think the style guideline itself is incorrect we should probably bring it up at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. Amalthea  17:24, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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