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FYI
This edit was a lot more wordy. The editor's rationale for changing "Mainline denominations" to "Contemporary mainline churches" was not a good one, since the word denomination does mean an organized religious body. Denomination and "church" roughly equate, but some denominations, like the American Baptist Churches, are not technically speaking a single "church". Just wanted to let you know since it seemed that my revert was so egregious to you. Ltwin (talk) 23:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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Tone of comments
It's good of you to make use of edit summaries to provide a thorough explanation of the changes you are making to articles. However, Wikipedia's principles of civility and good Wikiquette would counsel against immediately leaping to insulting characterizations, such as "childishly ungrammatical," "risibly bad," "third[-]grade . . . mistake," and "I love how total morons think they can write for Wikipedia!" Wikipedia encourages all interested users to contribute; having English as a first language, to say nothing of university-level writing ability, is no prerequisite. Uncivil comments needlessly lower the tone of the project and can even have the effect of biting newcomers and driving editors away. This especially bears pointing out in contexts where you are wrong, such as in this edit (standard British grammar treats as plural the names of bands, corporations, etc.), these edits ("imposition" is the standard word for this part of the rite), and this edit (wrong on both counts: under the standard sequence of tenses of English grammar, "he is recorded as having been" is correct; and you have changed "Bunyan" to "Bunya," making it appear as though the spelling of his name in the baptismal register was different).

I hope you will keep these things in mind in the future as you continue to improve the encyclopedia. — Glenfarclas  ( talk ) 09:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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Supper of the Lord
Supper of the Lord is indeed a Christian phrase as a little googling will tell you. Please remember to be WP:CIVIL. Martijn Meijering (talk) 10:02, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Further evidence that the Supper of the Lord has been used by Christians:
 * submitted by drs (talk) 10:40, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * submitted by drs (talk) 10:40, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Please calm down in your edit summaries
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About your edit summaries:
 * "the author not knowing how to use a semi-colon. Hilarious! Who are these people who write these articles?) "
 * "(Total loss of punctuation. Amazing!)"

reflect your frustration with low quality of wikipedia, which is understandable. However please keep in mind that wikipedia is written by people with different background and free of charge. What is in fact hilarious and amazing that the project survived for 10+ years and does have a solird record of success (together with drawbacks, of course). Whatever the project accomplished is the result of cooperation: some people know facts, while other peole know how to use semi-colons. The latter ones are the ones who bring atricles to very good level.

Your contibutions are very important and the community is grateful for them. However the spirit of cooperation requires a more tolerant attitude to other people's mistakes. Please take your time and review the "five pillars of Wikipedia" linked above, especially the section about mutual respect.

Once again, thank you for your efforts in making wikipedia better. Staszek Lem (talk) 02:32, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Edit summaries
I can see it has been mentioned before, but can you please stop insulting other editors in your edit summary? The reasons why have been mentioned previously, and continuing to do so has no benefit at all. Thanks BulbaThor (talk) 22:30, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Please make an attempt to modify your edit summaries
You've received enough advice. Your use of snark in edit summaries is counterproductive. Find another way to summarize your edits.  Tide  rolls  23:16, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

...or better still don't make them at all, as all those I've seen from you at Middle Ages have been quite simply risible. Malleus Fatuorum 14:19, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

You've convinced me...
...that you will not stop your oblique abuse via edit summary. Take some time to acquaint yourself with this project's goal of maintaining a collegial editing environment.  Tide  rolls  17:45, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Tide  rolls  17:45, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

manmade
If "manmade isn't a word", then why is it in my The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition? Ihardlythinkso (talk) 15:06, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Please be more careful
You were doing so well upon your return. Clearly you have the capacity for neutral comment. Concentrate on developing that capacity.  Tide  rolls  20:17, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

July 2012
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks for continuing to write insulting edit summaries about trivial grammatical mistakes. It's not as if your own editing is beyond reproach. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Spinning Spark  17:18, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Aug 2012
I feel some of your recent edit summaries are rather belittling, epecally when they relate to such trivial grammatical errors.

Correct the articles my all means, but could you not make constructive and encouraging comments instead?

Also, the large block you removed from the Neil Armstrong article, would it have not be more useful to place it were is should go (and flow), rather then just delete it on mass? - or better still discus it's placement on the talk page?

Who is this comment from? I don't think personal messages like this should go unsigned.
 * Hi, Rsquire. You can check the revision history for any talk page to find the poster of unsigned messages.  The message above was left by .  Signing posts is always a good idea but is not required by policy.  Sometimes folks forget, as you did in your inquiry.  I will take this opportunity to disagree with Simuliid; it's my opinion that your recent edit summaries have been very neutral. Regards  Tide  rolls  15:25, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Doctor of the Church
Hi,

My reversion of your edits is mostly a matter of my own taste, though you had left a loose end with "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People provides is the source on England in the early Middle Ages." The 'standard' spelling of canonise is even more complicated than I realized as an American, but cannot really be called a misspelling. Sparafucil (talk) 05:46, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

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On Christian ethics
There's nothing wrong with trying to make things clearer in an article, but your addition makes explicit what can be inferred and is thus unnecessary, and it breaks the impartial and encyclopedic tone that Wikipedia tries to maintain. See editorializing and presumptuous language. --Aozf05 (talk) 04:08, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Yuri Gagarin
Hi Rsquire, regarding this edit, I completely understand that the punctuation is incorrect, but direct quotes from sources must be preserved exactly. Please do not change again. Thanks!

Bach
I wanted to say something about the tone of your edit summaries but see that others did it before me. Instead of this lecture, you might have said "comma, for clarity", - for politeness. (I didn't write the passage, nor did I read it in a long time.) Every user is every other's "proofreader" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:58, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

The writing of sarcastic edit summaries on grammatically correct English

 * A misplaced comma is surely not as problematic as a full-stop inserted in the middle of a sentence.
 * When changing the tense of a verb in a sentence where there are two verbs governed by the same subject, it is recommended that both verbs are changed.

Compare:
 * 1) Previous: "...in the introduction to the Lives he attributes various architectural features to "the Goths" whom he holds responsible for destroying the ancient buildings..."
 * 2) Yours: "...in the introduction to the Lives he attributes various architectural features to "the Goths." whom he held responsible for destroying the buildings of ancient Rome..."

When referencing a scholarly work, it is acceptable (and in some contexts customary) to refer to the author's processes in the present tense e.g. "Vasari says that this, Vasari writes this, Vasari states this and Vasari holds this opinion." "Anonimo, on the other hand, gives an entirely different version and explains the context."

Happy editing!

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Little Germany, Manhattan
Your replacement wording:

he was convicted only of lack of safety-preparedness, for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison

does ''not have the same meaning as the original wording:

one of the only things he was ever punished for was lack of safety-preparedness, which was sufficient for him to receive a ten-year prison sentence

does it? Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:21, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

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Jerusalem
You didn't read the link I provided in my edit summary, Requests_for_comment/Jerusalem. You need to read it and comply with it. Compliance is mandatory.  Sean.hoyland  - talk 11:52, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
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Jerusalem is under discretionary sanctions per WP:ARBPIA
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11th warning: insulting edit summaries
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12th warning: insulting edit summaries
Be informed that with this edit and this one, your ongoing refusal to abide by WP:CIVIL is noticed once again. Insults, far from being a sign of erudition, are instead the behavior of a child. Willful disregard of others reflects poorly only on the practitioner. It's all been said to you before, and twice has resulted in disciplinary action. This history could not escape the notice of a dufus. It did not escape you either, as you are clearly able to behave otherwise. You have no excuse. Your attitude is reprehensible. You have previously been asked politely to cease. But now it is appropriate to demand it. Stop now. It's WP policy, and that policy is there for good reason. That too is not beyond your comprehension. Evensteven (talk) 06:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Hebrews edits
In general I really like what you've done with Hebrews. However, I have my doubts about "calls itself" and "in its original Greek manuscripts". Original Greek manuscripts, to me, would mean something close to the autograph copy. We don't have anything close to that - Codex Alexandrinus is 5th century or so. As for "calls itself", the superscription may well be a later addition. Bacchiad (talk) 19:22, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

BTW
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word overnight can mean 1. during the night, 2. for a night, or 3. instantly. Regards Denisarona (talk) 07:25, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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--Neil N  talk to me 14:19, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Could you update Location of foreign embassies in Status of Jerusalem please ?
Location of foreign embassies should be updated that Guatemala will open on the 16'th of May 2018, https://www.mako.co.il/news-military/israel-q2_2018/Article-ee0f0d1bbe26361004.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.144.60.80 (talk) 15:56, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

More Hostile Edit Summaries
As numerous people have told you before, please don't keep doing this kind of thing. Alephb (talk) 21:07, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

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