User talk:DanTrent

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WikiProject Canada 10,000 Challenge submissions
The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada will soon be reaching its first-anniversary. Please consider submitting any Canada-related articles you have created or improved since November 2016. Please try to ensure that all entries are sourced with formatted citations and no unsourced claims.

You may submit articles using this link for convenience. Thank-you, and please spread the word to those you know who might be interested in joining this effort to improve the quality of Canada-related articles. – Reidgreg (talk) 18:13, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Varieties of English
Please be aware of MOS:ENGVAR. It is wise before making changes in the national variety of English for an article to check the talk page to see if there is a template showing which variety has been chosen for the article. Jc3s5h (talk) 12:24, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Non-existent categories
Before adding a category to an article, as you did to International PEN centres, please make sure that the category page actually exists. In some cases, it may be appropriate to create a new category in accordance with Wikipedia's categorization guidelines, but it is usually better to use the most specific available existing category. It is never appropriate to leave a page categorised in a non-existent category, i.e. one whose link displays in red. You may find it helpful to use the gadget HotCat, which tests whether a category exists before saving a change. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:02, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Too many changes
Please consider other editors when you make so many changes in a single edit, as you did at Drowning. Many of them are reasonable changes, some improvements, but others are simply wrong, such as changing  to   or spacing the spaces template. Some are preferences, such as using "that" to replace "which" in defining relative clauses, which are merely a US-GB variant. Sorry, but I've reverted your edit because it is simply too difficult to pick out the good from the bad. If you disagree, please feel free to explain your justifications at the talk page so that others can also offer opinions. --RexxS (talk) 00:41, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

DOI
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September 2019
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Pneumatic tube, you changed one or more words or styles 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.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

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. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. SpinningSpark 16:49, 4 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Same applies here: if an article is using US spelling, we don't need to explain the UK equivalent in brackets. (In this case there's no need to specify any particular unit at all, though, so I've changed the sentence.) --Lord Belbury (talk) 14:28, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

December 2019
Hello, I'm Megaman en m. I noticed that you recently removed content from Suffix without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. I have readded the short description and the old lead from Suffix. Megaman en m (talk) 09:46, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

May 2020
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to English grammar, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Megaman en m (talk) 10:19, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

December 2020
Hello, I'm Magnolia677. Your recent edit(s) to the page Monowi, Nebraska appear to have added incorrect information, so they have been removed for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The article Cockburn Island (Ontario) states the population is zero. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:05, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

AD/B v CE/BCE
Although personally I prefer the neutral CE/BCE notation, Wikipedia has a policy, MOS:ERA, that says the era style first used in an article should not be changed without a convincing reason (such as the article is about an Islamic or Judaic topic). This policy is to avoid perennial revert wars. I have most often had to cite MOS:ERA to protect existing CE/BCE notation, so have to be even-handed when the reverse is true. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:16, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in 12-hour clock. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Please read MOS:CURLY. David Biddulph (talk) 00:16, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

June 2022
Hello. I have noticed that you edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 13:59, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

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Edit summaries
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February 2023
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Grammatical aspect, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Perey (talk) 16:28, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

July 2023
Hello, I'm Donald Albury. I noticed that you recently removed content from Classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donald Albury 17:08, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

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