User talk:M.S.K.

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Just wanted to give you a tip of the hat - your recent edits to Civil Air Patrol were spot on. Well done! The article is much improved thanks to you! —SaxTeach e r (talk)  18:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Copy editing
I noticed that you're Canadian. I reverted your edits to Virginia Tech because they changed acceptable American diction to Commonwealth usage. You were correct in changing "cancelled" back to "canceled" (a Brit who woke up earlier than the rest of us/US "fixed" that word this morning) and "homefield to "home field" (I don't know who initially had that idea), and I will fix those two words as soon as I finish with this. Compound words like "placekicker" and "postseason," however, are standard American spellings (perhaps as a result of the large German influence in American English), and "winningest" is moderately acceptable American usage, particularly in Southern American English. I prefer British-style compounds myself, and "winningest" sounds a bit odd to me too (I speak Inland Northern American English), but Wikipedia standards dictate articles should usually be in a dialect consistent with their subject regions.

No hostility is meant by the reversion. --Dynaflow 17:53, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Taken to the extreme, were I to write Virginia Tech entirely using examples and form similar to what is found in Southern American English, it wouldn't be especially meaningful to much of the world. Thus, I don't think that's an especially well-considered standard.  At any rate, the words "placekicker", "postseason" and "winningest" do (much to my dismay) appear in the dictionary, so I concede on those points.  --msk 15:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 19:24, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

When you have some spare time...
...please review Email authentication, Authentication-Results in particular.

ale (talk) 15:58, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

MOS
Please don't make changes such as this -- the original format was entirely correct, per our MOS. Thanks. --Epeefleche (talk) 02:59, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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Cloudmark
Hi MSK, someone posted he following announce to my talk page. (Dunno why, probably at random.) I'm just voting keep, but you can probably cast a more informed vote. The rest of this post (except the signature) is copied from my talk page:

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cloudmark is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Cloudmark until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ale (talk) 06:48, 3 September 2017 (UTC)