User talk:Scraigle

Amish (spelling of Hochdeitsch)
Hi. Regarding your attempt to correct the spelling of the word Hochdeitsch in the Amish article, please note that this is in fact the correct spelling of the word in the Pennsylvania Dutch regional dialect used by the Amish. You're not the first person (and I'm sure you won't be the last) to assume it must have been a typo and should be changed to Hochdeutsch, but it really is supposed to be spelled the way it is. The person who chided you with an edit summary saying What part of "this is not a mistake; do not alter spelling" don't you understand? was referring to an HTML comment which was put in the article's source text some time ago in order to warn people not to do what you did — but you probably didn't see that comment because our new VisualEditor interface for editing Wikipedia articles didn't show it to you. In any case, I wanted to thank you for your interest in improving Wikipedia, and I hope this misstep won't sour you to the experience of helping us here. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 01:10, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I am the person who reverted the edit and Richwales is correct; I had no idea that you couldn't see the comment (which is glaringly obvious with the original source editor which is what I still use). I just assumed that you saw the comment and edited anyway (which btw happens alot even without the new editor). I apologize for reacting like that. Dusty |&#x1f4ac;|You can help! 01:31, 26 July 2013 (UTC)