User talk:Th3 Halt

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Bill Gates
Hi, and thank you for your contributions. This is a friendly observation about your recent edits to Bill Gates. You made, which I with an explanation. Subsequently, you the same edit. Rather than re-making that edit, a better course of action would have been to discuss with me why you thought my explanation was incorrect, and your version better. Please see WP:BRD for an essay on this principle.

In the interests of collaboration, and as an alternative to seeing your edit reverted again, perhaps you'd like to take this opportunity to discuss why you feel so strongly about this point? The way it reads to me, and presumably to the person who wrote that sentence in the first place, is you are saying it's possible to be an author and a co-author at the same time. That's why the word or was used. Thanks. – Wdchk (talk) 00:48, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for the message. I didn't mean to say it's possible to be an author and co-author at the same time. The way it sounded to me was Bill Gates authored several books by himself and co authored several books with other people. I am new to Wikipedia and heard some people revert stuff that has no reference even if it is minor. I did not see your summary of edit and the fact you reverted it until after I changed it back nor did I know people can see a whole list of edits and summaries of edits. Thank you for your message...however I still think "and" is more proper than "or" in this sentence. -Th3 Halt


 * I think this may be a question of personal style and what you're used to, and for that reason I don't intend to argue the point. In this case, it probably won't be misinterpreted. I'm glad you've had a chance to see how the edit history works. – Wdchk (talk) 03:24, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Haiti
Hello again. This is about of an edit I made. What you are calling "sentences" are not sentences at all; they have no verb. Wikipedia's style guidelines, at least the ones I have seen, require such a sentence fragment to have no punctuation after it. The best example I could find, which I linked to in my edit summary, is here. I may have missed something, so if you have a reference to the Manual of Style (or another guideline) that says otherwise, I would be happy to see it. Also, my edit was designed to introduce some consistency. Please explain why you think some of those fragments should be punctuated, while other similar ones are not. Thanks. – Wdchk (talk) 03:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)