User talk:Gradboat

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AD/BC vs CE/BCE
Please see WP:BCE. mgiganteus1 (talk) 23:30, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Care in removing "AD"
Hallo, I've just seen your edits to Silverdale Hoard.

It is incorrect to remove "A.D." from the title of the book in a reference (Downham), so I have reverted that change. Please watch out for content in quotes and titles, where we leave the original author's words as they used them.

I personally think it is helpful to use AD for 3-digit (or 2-digit) dates, as these are not as immediately recognisable as dates as the more common 4-digit dates, and it makes for easier reading, but WP:MOSNUM probably supports your removal of this in the text (unfortunately, to my mind)! Happy Editing. Pam D  08:47, 29 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Just looking at some of your other edits, out of curiosity: please remember to watch out for image file names, as another place where your changes are inappropriate. In this edit you broke the link to an image, though another editor seems to have reverted all your changes so the damage was mended. Pam  D  08:53, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Single purpose account
Gradboat, I've checked a representative sample of your edits going back to April 2011, and I couldn't find one that wasn't an unexplained change from BC/AD to BCE/CE. You've been at this long enough to know the policy (WP:ERA) by now. But for clarity's sake:


 * "Do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to its content. Seek consensus on the talk page before making the change. Open the discussion under a subhead that uses the word "era". Briefly state why the style is inappropriate for the article in question. A personal or categorical preference for one era style over the other is not justification for making a change."

Please abide by it. --Nicknack009 (talk) 10:21, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

September 2015
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice:. Doug Weller (talk) 08:54, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

To clarify - you've had several warnings about changing from BC to BCE without agreement on the talk page but you've ignored them. You don't seem interested in anything else except a view WP:ENGVAR changes. And before you accuse me of bias, I much prefer BCE for most historical, archaeological, mythological etc articles, but I don't try to impose it. If you agree to a self-imposed topic ban from editing era styles, perhaps another Admin will agree to unblock you. Doug Weller (talk) 08:57, 3 September 2015 (UTC)