User talk:Sfu376

March 2018
Hello, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. I hope you have a successful time here. Please do try to make sure that your edit summaries accurately reflect what your edits do, as otherwise it can be confusing and misleading. I think your edit to My Mother-in-Law was definitely an improvement, and thanks for making the changes, but your edit summary said "fixed some grammatical errors", whereas in fact you did far more than that. On the other hand, some of your edits seem to be based on misreading of the text, and don't seem to be helpful. For example, at Munawir of Negeri Sembilan you replaced "His younger brother, Tuanku Ja'afar was installed as the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negri Sembilan" with "His younger brother and Tuanku Ja'afar was installed as the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negri Sembilan" (my emphasis. Does that mean that you think that his younger brother and Tuanku Ja'afar were two different people, both of whom were installed as the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negri Sembilan? That really doesn't make much sense, and in any case even if you did think it meant that it would have made no sense to use a singular verb. Likewise at Thirumal you replaced "Maayon ... who is most popular among Tamils" with "Maayon ... who is the most popular among Tamils". That makes no sense, because it does not say the most popular what. It seems to me that the sentence was intended to mean exactly what it originally said, i.e. that he was more popular among Tamils than among other peoples, rather than that he was more popular among Tamils than were unspecified others, which is what you changed it to mean. Your other edits likewise present a mixture of on the one hand some small improvements and on the other changes where you appear to have misread or misunderstood either the meaning or the grammatical structure of sentences. It would probably be safer for you to stick to making changes in statements of fact, rather than trying to correct grammar. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:00, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Problems with grammar correction and changing quotations
I see that after receiving the message I posted above you have continued to try to correct grammar, but while some of your changes were slight improvements I am afraid you are still making mistakes in doing so. For example, replacing "one of their best works" with "one of their best work" was a mistake. The expression "one of" unambiguously indicates that the sentence is referring to works as individual items, not to the body of work collectively, and in that context the singular makes no sense. Another example is your editing about the demographics of Sarmathura, where in a statement that 17% of the population "belongs to the scheduled caste" you replaced "belongs" with "belong". Not only is that not normal English, but it was also inconsistent with the way percentages were dealt with in the rest of the paragraph: for example, it says "54% are male and 46% are female". Once again, I suggest that correcting grammar is not the best way for you to contribute to the encyclopaedia. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:48, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I have now noticed an even more important change. A quotation should say exactly what the quoted person said, and it is never appropriate to change a quotation to what one thinks it should have said. For example, if someone said "to continue as a studio project would be pointless" then that is what that person should be quoted as saying, even you think that it would have been better to have said "to continue studio projects would be pointless". If, on the other hand, you have evidence that the person was misquoted, and you are replacing an inaccurate quotation with what the person actually said, then you need to explain that, as it is likely to look to other editors as though you are replacing the quoted words with your own preferred version. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:03, 28 March 2018 (UTC)