User talk:Rlcantwell

Spelling
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. Please note that there is a convention in place regarding the use of American and non-American spelling laid out in MoS: National varieties of English. Please do not simply modify non-American spellings to American ones. Thank you. WLDtalk 12:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Logical quoting.
Please read the Manual of style on quotation marks. -- Jeandré, 2007-03-03t22:33z

Your edits to The Trap (television documentary series)
I have had to revert all of your edits to The Trap (television documentary series), as they largely consisted of erroneous and inappropriate changing of British English to American English spellings (e.g. "programme" → "program"; "behaviour" → "behavior"; "-ise" → "-ize"; etc.). As the page is about a British subject, it is accepted Wikipedia practice that British English spelling and language conventions have primacy. Please respect this in future. Nick Cooper 11:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

coupla tips
Hi there, thanks for your improvements to same-sex marriage in Oregon. I noticed a couple things you might not be aware of: first, on the way dates work. 10 March1999 and March 101999 render the same way, it's the magic of Wikipedia; in your user preferences, you can determine whether you want the day or month first, and it will be applied to all dates formatted this way. So, you needn't change the format on pages – unless you want to make sure it's in that format.

Second, if you put an em-dash in the text like this: — it renders properly, you don't need to use the &mdash; HTML code. Hope this helps, take it easy! -Pete 04:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

National varieties of English
Greetings. I'd like to bring to your attention this comment I made to the talk page for the article Siamese fighting fish wherein I refer to these edits that you made on 26 Oct 2007. I notice, as well, from your own talk page here above that User:West London Dweller pointed out to you, almost a year ago, Wikipedia's guidelines regarding spelling variants. I'd request that you take the time to review those guidelines and I'd also ask that you refrain from changing the spelling variant of articles where there is no compelling reason to do so. Wikipedia attempts to be welcoming to readers and to editors from around the world and you could aid us in that regard by not needlessly undoing the work of others. Cheers! &mdash; Dave (Talk | contribs) 16:22, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Spelling Variants
I'm wondering why the editing spell checker flags all "Commonwealth" spellings as misspellings.

--Rlcantwell 23:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no idea which of any number of "editing spell checker[s]" you may be using. I know I contribute with Mozilla Firefox and it has an editing spell checker that flags all non-Commonwealth spellings. The behaviour of most spell checkers responds to a setting somewhere, even if it's in your own, base regionalisation settings. In any case, your spell checker did not change those spellings; by your own admission, it merely "flagged" them. Ultimately, it was you who decided to change them and a couple of the edits to which I referred, above, were, in toto, changes to Commonwealth spellings. In any event, Wikipedia has policies and guidelines of which your spell checker may not be aware. That does not obviate your requirement to be sensitive to them and to respect them. Cheers and, once again, thanks for editing. &mdash; Dave (Talk | contribs) 16:01, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Edit summary
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. --Slashme 10:12, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Please, yes, do so. Thanks. - Special-T (talk) 21:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

May 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, you may not know that Wikipedia has a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Using different styles throughout the encyclopedia, as you did in Stryker, makes it harder to read. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Marcus Aurelius (talk) 20:08, 22 May 2010 (UTC)