User talk:Rithme4

Welcome!
Hello, Rithme4, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Nari Hira. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Your edits to Arusha
Please note the existence of the official Wikipedia policy WP:LOWERCASE: "Titles are written in sentence case. The initial letter of a title is almost always capitalized by default; otherwise, words are not capitalized unless they would be so in running text." See also WP:NCCAPS: "Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name." Cobblet (talk) 11:38, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Cobblet for the suggestion!Rithme4 (talk) 08:01, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Edits with spacing
Welcome to Wikipedia Rithme4! I noticed you recently edited Cernunnos and some other pages related to antiquity, though your changes are not following the guidelines for placing inine citations. citations. Please do not add a space after the punctuation and before the citation itself. FULBERT (talk) 10:14, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Noted FULBERT! Rithme4 (talk) 08:02, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

National varieties of English
In a recent edit to the page Horae, 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.  General Ization  Talk   13:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

"Worshipped" versus "worshiped"
Hello! I have noticed you have been going through huge swathes of articles and changing every instance of the word "worshipped" to the alternative spelling "worshiped." While both spellings are technically acceptable, "worshipped" is the standard spelling and is usually preferred. In any case, users are not supposed to change the dialect and spelling used in an article without prior consensus on the talk page. I would like to politely request that you please refrain from making dialectal changes like these in the future. Thanks! --Katolophyromai (talk) 21:15, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Spelling changes and "minor" edits
Hello. I see you've changed the spellings in a number of articles from their original and appropriate forms (Indian or British English, in some cases) to their US English versions. Would you please carefully read through the links provided above (particularly WP:ENGVAR) and be sure to check article histories before you even consider making such changes. You should also describe and justify such changes in the edit summary box, rather than marking all your edits as minor (they're not!). In a couple of cases, you've also incorrectly changed the meanings of words, as in the article on Persephone, where you changed "armless" to "unarmed". You're evidently a new and enthusiastic editor, and we all make mistakes, but could you please check through your contributions so far and -- unless this has already been done by others, of course -- revert any incorrect or inappropriate changes you've made. Thanks in advance. Haploidavey (talk) 09:52, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

National varieties of English
In a recent edit to the page Cider, 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. Theroadislong (talk) 12:55, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Changing a quotation is clearly not a minor area nor is it acceptable
I've reverted your edit to Angel. Doug Weller talk 10:03, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Last warning about marking edits minor
You've ignored the request above. You've never replied to any comments on this talk page, and seem to never have communicated with other editors. I'm asking you not to mark any edits are minor as you clearly can't distinguish between what is minor and what isn't. Please. I'm sorry to sound harsh, but if I had done as I should have been able to do, ignore the fact that you marked your edit to Angel as minor, I wouldn't have discovered that you changed a quotation. Doug Weller talk 10:06, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Bad edits
Hi, regarding this edit: Please be more careful when copy-editing articles. Thanks. - DVdm (talk) 13:25, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * You replaced "because same-sex sexual activity" with "because the same-sex sexual activity". Grammatically wrong.
 * You replaced "the work was a first draft" with "the work was the first draft". Not needed.
 * You replaced "His decision to do so was largely because" with "His decision to do so was large because". Grammatically wrong.
 * You replaced " crack down" with "crackdown". Nothing wrong with the former: See https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/crack-down

This edit induced a grammatical error and damaged the sentence. - DVdm (talk) 13:31, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

This edit was very bad. Please see if you can list, here below, the errors that you made in that edit. - DVdm (talk) 13:34, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Rithme4, have you been running articles through a grammar checker, or something? I ask because the grammar and spelling errors you're introducing are of the kind made by most automatic grammar and spelling checkers. If that's the case, please switch it off, and use your brain. Haploidavey (talk) 13:53, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Indeed,, in this edit you replaced "These boundaries can be transform block boundaries, prediction block boundaries, or both, and may coincide with macroblock boundaries" with "These boundaries can transform block boundaries, prediction block boundaries, or both, and may coincide with macroblock boundaries". That completely ruins the sentence and turns it into nonsense. Please stop copy-editing articles of subjects you don't understand. - DVdm (talk) 14:16, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * And more, and more again. - DVdm (talk) 14:22, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi DVdm,
 * Thank you for your suggestions. Apologies, I wasn't able to figure out how to reply to all the comments good or bad ones. Please be more encouraging to the new users since you have been here for a long time. I accept my edit mistakes and would try to adhere to the rules much better once i get back to editing. Rithme4 (talk) 07:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * perhaps it would be a good idea to first learn to work on the Wikipedia in your own language. I don't think that you suffiently comprehend and master the English language to be working on the English version. - DVdm (talk) 08:02, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Sure, thanks!Rithme4 (talk) 08:08, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi Haploidavey,

Thank you for your suggestion. Meanwhile, you could have been more passive enough while suggesting.Rithme4 (talk) 08:06, 6 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello Rithme4. It's good to see your responses here. I don't doubt your good faith, but I thought some of your editing errors might be the result of your trust in a browser-based, automated spelling and grammar-checking program. Unfortunately, such tools are quite crude; they're not trustworthy guides for editing article content. I'm assuming you're not a native speaker of English, so take your time, and check everything before you publish any changes. Haploidavey (talk) 09:09, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for a competence issue, although some of your edits are improvements, most of them introduce poor English and sometimes make major changes in meaning because of this.. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Doug Weller talk 16:51, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi Doug Weller,

I am not sure if this is the way to reply. All the while i haven't been able to identify a way of replying to both good and bad comments.

Please help me out if you are able to see this message of mine. Thanks! Rithme4 (talk) 07:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

A possible solution - adoption
I'd like to see you stay, but you need to understand that your edits have caused problems. We do have a program that might help you. See Adopt-a-user. If you put that template on your page and get adopted I or someone else will unblock you. Doug Weller talk 16:53, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, though I am not quite sure how to go about this. Is it possible for you to adopt me?? Rithme4 (talk) 07:54, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If you go to the page Doug linked to, there is some bolded wikicode text in a box on the right. If you copy and paste that text below, it places you on a list of potential adoptees that adopters will see and (as Doug states) if you are adopted, you will be unblocked by someone. 331dot (talk) 23:36, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

thank u 331dot 13:45, 11 June 2018 (UTC)