User talk:Retro72

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Hello, Retro72, 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, or you can to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! JohnInDC (talk) 01:42, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
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Taking care in edits
Thanks for your edits to University of Michigan. However, I had to revert several of them because they introduced errors where there had been none before - mismatched subjects and verbs, wrong words and so forth. It's worthwhile of course to make even small improvements to the encyclopedia, but please take care that your changes do in fact improve matters and not make them worse. Thanks! JohnInDC (talk) 01:44, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Okay🙃 Retro72 (talk) 01:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I don't think you took my request to heart - I've had to fix several of your edits in the past half hour, including this one that is simply incompetent - substituting "across" for "a cross" in connection with an article on religious iconography, and incorrect changing the meaning of the phrase, "initially the only figure shown with [a halo]" to "initially, the only figure is shown with [a halo]". You need to read what you are changing and see if it makes sense in ordinary English.  You are making work for other editors with these sloppy edits - please stop.  JohnInDC (talk) 13:20, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * In this edit you edited a quotation, and a different editor reverted you; you also seem to insert the definite article, "the", into places that it doesn't necessarily belong. I point these out to you so you can get an idea of the kinds of mistakes you are making, and avoid them going forward.  Most important however is to just pay attention to what you're doing.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 14:11, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Subsequent to my comments above, you changed "United States" to "United Stat", here. These sloppy edits are disruptive and if you don't stop making them I am going to start issuing formal warnings.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 19:44, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * In addition, Sprint Corporation may own telecommunications subsidiaries but it also provides telecommunications services in its own right and as such is not primarily a "holding company", as you incorrectly labeled it. I strongly suggest that you slow down your edits until you can be sure of the truth and accuracy of the changes you are making.  JohnInDC (talk) 19:50, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

My bad, thank you. Retro72 (talk) 19:52, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Here is another example of "fixing" grammar that in fact creates an error where none existed before: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Young_Sheldon&diff=827130968&oldid=827130797 .  I am beginning to have serious concerns about your ability to competently make the edits you keep making.  JohnInDC (talk) 15:11, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

National varieties of English
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Halo, 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 India, use Indian English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Ireland, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article 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.  User:Anchorvale User talk:Anchorvale  Special:Contributions/Anchorvale  08:10, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Grammar. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Denisarona (talk) 14:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Please stop changing English spelling. The article Grammar specifies the use of British spelling. Denisarona (talk) 14:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, you have already been warned about this. You must learn the ways in which American and British spelling differ, and stop arbitrarily changing one to the other.  JohnInDC (talk) 15:14, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Note
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Guy (Help!) 22:45, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018
Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Fenton, Michigan. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. John from Idegon (talk) 01:57, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Fenton High School (Michigan). John from Idegon (talk) 02:01, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018
Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments. Such edits are disruptive and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 02:28, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * This account has been blocked indefinitely for persistently introducing errors to different pages through tendentious editing. Please note that some degrees of competence is required to edit the English Wikipedia. To appeal this block, please follow the instructions at Guide to appealing blocks. Alex Shih (talk) 15:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)