User talk:Michaelsbll

June 2008
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January 2009
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April 2010
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June 2010
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Lee County, IL
If you read the refs at the Lee County, IL article, it wasn't Robert that it was named after, it was Henry Lee III. Why are you changing this? --Funandtrvl (talk) 04:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

June 2011
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July 2011
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Decompression sickness, you may be blocked from editing. RexxS (talk) 00:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

August 2011
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Chief Justice of the United States
Warren actually did become Chief Justice before being nominated and confirmed. This is permissible under a recess appointment; Eisenhower used one to put Warren on the Court immediately following Vinson's death, and formally nominated Warren several months later. This is confirmed by the Federal Judicial Center biography of Earl Warren. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:48, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

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Richard Dreyfuss
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December 2012
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March 2013
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I notice you tend not to give edit summaries of the changes you make. Please read WP:UNRESPONSIVE Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 22:56, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

September 2013
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 * Also in late 1876 or 1878, Jane nursed the victims of a smallpox epidemic in the Deadwood area. {citation needed|date=June 2014} cite book Estelline Bennett, Old Deadwood Days, Lincoln, Nebraska &

January 2015
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''Hi, Michaelsbll. I notice that you've been asked several times now to use edit summaries (January 2009 and July 2013). I want to reiterate the importance of this. I haven't spotted any edit summaries you've used at all but if you've used them, you've certainly used very very few for any of your 5000+ edits, and it appears like none in the last 500 edits. As of this writing you most recently made 7 edits to the List of Austin Powers characters‎ article. I manually inspected them. All those edits seem pointless to me and without an explanation I do not see your motivation for making them. (If you think you were fixing some grammar issues, I would have to disagree. If you think you were fixing style, I would still disagree.) I reviewed a sample of your other edits and they appear to largely consist of similar "shuffling" of the wording (replacing a word with a synonym, and so on) for no apparent reason. This seems of little to no value to me and is more disruptive than beneficial. Please start communicating with your fellow editors. ''

''PS Also I notice you don't mark your minor changes. Please start doing this too. If you have any questions, or if there are extenuating circumstances that prevent you from doing this things, please somehow let us know.''

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bare vs expose and forbid vs prohibit
In the Nude swimming article you changed "bare" to "expose" and "forbid" to "prohibit". Bare and forbid are both good English words of English origin, expose and prohibit are both of Latin roots. My view is that words of English origin are always better than Latin words. What was your reason for changing good simple English words to fancy Latin words? Wayne Jayes (talk) 11:37, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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November 2015
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WP:Edit warring at the Shemale article
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The Shining (film)
Hi I noticed you've been copyediting the article. While I don't object to the changes, they do seem kind of arbitrary. Unless you have the sources on hand, you have to be careful that you aren't changing the meanings as different words can have nuanced connotations. For example, you changed "intense lighting" to "extreme lighting", which changes the meaning from "just some harsh lighting" to "Kubrick using the sun". Also "derives" was a much more appropriate word in the other sentence. Just something to consider. Opencooper (talk) 03:14, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Now I do object to these changes. Please stop changing making arbitrary copyedits unless you have read the source or if you're only going to modify the grammar. In English, different words have different meanings and even synonyms can have different tones and connotations. Opencooper (talk) 10:34, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

January 2018
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Rhoda Griffis, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:40, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Grammar
This edit of yours introduced bad grammar. The term "speaking with" includes the idea that the other party is also speaking. In the film, Wilson doesn't speak (he's a volleyball.) Binksternet (talk) 06:42, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * This is a long-term issue with this user. I mentioned it back in 2016, but a large part of their edits are just arbitrary word substitutions, where they subtly change the meaning of entire sentences without even considering the original sources or whether the words they use have the same connotations. On the surface it seems innocuous, but this isn't "copyediting" and the long-term effects are going to be pretty insidious. Michaelsbll, I suggest dropping the thesaurus and instead reading Basic copyediting. You don't need to change something just because it sounds wrong personally to you or is against your own usage of English.


 * Amazingly, they've been an editor since 2007. They don't seem to engage on talk pages at all though (other than doing stuff like this), so I don't foresee them changing their ways. Opencooper (talk) 10:29, 16 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Looking more closely, I'm horrified at the scale of the problem. There's certainly a WP:CIR aspect, and the lack of communication is serious. Binksternet (talk) 16:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

August 2019
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