User talk:JediRogue

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Mary Ann Cotton
I reverted your recent edit to this article for two reasons:

1) I believe that the original research tag is unnecessary, as the article has already been tagged as needing reliable sources. By getting such sources any WP:OR problems that exist would automatically be identified and fixed. I also don't think there is any actual original research on the page, as all that info can be found in various sources I have read in the past (though I can't recall specifically which for each point offhand) even if those sources were not listed. I may be wrong, but when sources are tracked down it'll fix itself one way or another.

2) You said you fixed spelling but changed "labourer" to "laborer" and some -ise words to -ize. Those were not errors but proper spelling in England. The article is about events that happened in England, so we use the spelling and grammar rules of that country. English-language Wikipedia doesn't pick a side in the American vs. British spelling debate, we just pick the one that is more appropriate to the particular topic or -- if the subject isn't so clearly defined geographically as this one -- whichever was used when the article was first created. This is explained over at WP:ENGVAR if you'd like more information.

And both of those are very easy mistakes to make (and arguably neither are full-fledged mistakes, just not how typically we do things here), and ones lots of people (including myself) have made here. DreamGuy (talk) 13:35, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah after I started to make the changes to the British spellings which I was picking up because I scan for spelling mistakes when I edit and the British ones come up so I automatically change them, I tried to find out what the official stance was on using British spellings. I didn't find ENGVAR at the time (thanks for the link!) but found Manual of Style (spelling) which seemed to imply that both were accepted. Since I am using my browser's spell check and it doesn't distinguish between a spelling error being real or just a British spelling and because both were accepted I decided that it would be harmless if I just changed it anyway. I actually noted it on my userpage that I would.


 * WTR the WP:OR, I thought the section on that page about Mary_Ann_Cotton sounding like something that someone had put together on their own however your point about the lack of sources is quite correct and probably a more accurate explanation. It was just such a strange section to see that it through me off. I went through all of Category:Female serial killers so I had a pretty good idea of what kinds of things are usually seen in those articles.


 * I don't disagree with your revert. Thank you for explaining it. &mdash; JediRogue (talk) 16:34, 28 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Errr... Not sure how I ever missed that section before. I don't think that used to be there but I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to know when it got added. That p'articular section could have been tagged as OR (I believe the template is  ') or just plain removed as inappropriate, which I just did. DreamGuy (talk) 18:36, 28 August 2009 (UTC)