User talk:Lincoln Josh

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Boldness
Bold is good, but moving a bunch of pages without discussion is disruptive. Is there any discussion on these moves?

Have you read WP:ENGVAR which specifies that arbitrary changes from one spelling convention to another must not be done. Please stop and allow other editors time to consider the situation (i.e. a few days). You should expect to be reverted. Johnuniq (talk) 09:30, 25 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Moving various "signaling" to signalling pages is not welcome. Please revert your edits. Glrx (talk) 15:59, 25 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Ooh, people, I've made some reversions. I can't see that much has changed: anyway I excluded the reverted things from my watchlist.
 * Some things were remained. I didn't manage to find so easy a way to re-re-name as for edits' undoing. Anyway, the redirections, which were created automatically, have remained. That is, it's unlikely to experience much difficulty searching those things with American spelling.
 * By the way, I must notice that at one or two pages there was yet inner discordance: not in terms but in the plain text, one sentence contained "signaling" while another showed us "signalling". Lincoln Josh (talk) 21:23, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Why?
Why have you changed spelling on Dieffenbachia to British spelling? I'm not seeing that the article is from a British point of view or anything. - Denimadept (talk) 18:43, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, just was about there inserting a couple of nbsps:) Lincoln Josh (talk) (In fact, can't bear such a vainly ambiguous suffix as this "-or".) Lincoln Josh (talk) 19:07, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

14 June 2013
In a recent edit to the page Equatorial mount, 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, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author 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. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 14:45, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Use of "r" in pronunciation guides
Please see WP:RHOTIC where it says:


 * It is often possible to transcribe a word in a generic way that is not specific to any one accent, for example observation as . Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of the UK, will pronounce this, and those who merge and , as in much of the US, will pronounce it , but since such variation on the part of the speaker is automatic, it does not need to be spelled out, at least not in the case of a simple pronunciation guide to a key word in an article. Indeed, the Help:IPA for English key, designed for readers who are unfamiliar with the IPA, simply defines the sequence  as the sound at the end of runner, and warns that it may not be distinct from  for some people. That is, there is little point in transcribing observation as , , , or , depending on accent, and this would add a considerable amount of clutter to the article.

Note the last sentence in particular, in relation to articles such as Lancaster, Lancashire and Morecambe. Wikipedia's convention, which may differ from other publications, is to include the "r" even though some accents, including British Received Pronunciation, may not pronounce it. Ironically, Lancashire is an area where "r" is often pronounced: see Rhotic and non-rhotic accents. --  Dr Greg   talk  19:58, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for informing me of such corporative peculiarities However "convenient" is it amongst rules holders on the site, my point remains simple: the Encyclopaedia is written not for those who're submerged in all that stuff - I mean only -- but for the public. For the public, it is unlikely if all the other dictionaries they see on the Web are wrong when a couple are right. Another point: when it will be ok for almost everyone in Europe (not specifically learning American or Irish English), the clear schwa may encourage those Americans - being interested in places etc. within the Isles - to look up for "what the hell do those damn Brits do with their mouths!".
 * Simple. Lincoln Josh (talk) 16:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

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