User talk:Melleber

Welcome!
Hello, Melleber, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 18:30, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
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Some issues
Hi. In addition to finding some mistakes (thanks!), your recent edits have a couple of issues I wanted to mention: The manual of style addresses WP policies about all sorts of things, from punctuation through writing style, some of which may be foreign to the way you are used to doing things. It reflects the well- and often-argued opinions of a wide variety of editors with different backgrounds and the contributions of many existing manuals of style, and can definitely take some getting used to. I would suggest that, while a certain boldness is encouraged here, before correcting borderline issues, you should see if they are addressed in the MOS.
 * At Sesinho, Eddie Van Halen, Appalachian Mountains, etc., you changed the spelling of words like color from American English to British English (i.e. colour). This type of change is generally frowned upon, as outlined at MOS:ENGVAR.
 * At Aboriginal-based organized crime, a number of incorrect changes were made, including the un-bolding of the first phrase of the lede (matching the title), and adding quotes around titles within the cite templates.
 * Hyphenation is one of those subjective areas where it's usually best to follow the prevalent style of the word in WP, particularly if there's an article by that name. Some guidelines are given here. Also note that WP has a fairly specific policy regarding dashes.

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If you respond here, I'll see it. As with any Talk page postings, you should type four tildes (i.e. ~ ) at the end to automatically sign your message with your username and timestamp. —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 19:04, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

July 2013
In a recent edit to the page Eleanor Rigby, 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. Technopat (talk) 14:06, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Example? 184.151.114.175 (talk) 15:18, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

New help request
I am editing Angel's Friends, there are a lot of capitals being used for "Angels" and Devils" and "Guardian Angels", "Guardian Devils", this just doesn't look right, these should not be capitalized right? Please advise Melleber (talk) 16:02, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Reply to help me request: In this case "Guardian Angels" is the proper name of one of the groups, so capitalization would be correct. In cases where the word Guardian is left of, but the reference is still to the group, capitalization would be correct as well. But in the case of the generic term angel or devil, you're right these should not be capitalized. So you'll want to consider the context of each instance before deciding if the capitalization is correct. The Wikipedia policy on capitalization can be found here: Manual of Style/Capital letters. —    Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 16:10, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Comma after a short introductory prepositional phrase
Hi again. I noticed you adding commas after a short introductory prepositional phrase (e.g. In 1492, Columbus embarked ...), which is something I felt was correct until recently: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 139. I recall doing some research afterwards and finding their claims to be supported – that the comma is only required after longer phrases (I think one MOS put it at >= 5 words). Too bad, really. I think the statements read better with the comma. —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 19:32, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

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