User talk:TheFreeWorld/Archive 1

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Again, welcome! ɯ ɐ ɔ 💬 18:51, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

National varieties of English
In a recent edit to the page Scramble for Africa, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to India, use Indian English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 20:36, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017
Hello, I'm Iryna Harpy. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Denial of the Holodomor without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:06, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting. Thanks! 220  of  Borg 05:47, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Manual of Style
I recently left you a rather obnoxious warning message for editing against the Manual of Style when I was, in fact, wrong about the guideline and you were right. I have reverted myself but I wanted to apologize anyway, since you may notice the message removal. --Spike Wilbury (talk) 11:04, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

August 2017
Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting. Thanks! Moxy (talk) 14:34, 10 August 2017 (UTC) '''Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting .'''

No need to "fix" redirects
Hi, I noticed you changing links to the Second World War to World War II. There is no need to do this, and in fact the practice is discouraged. See WP:NOTBROKEN for more information. DuncanHill (talk) 11:22, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Need to engage with others
pls read over WP:NOTHERE = Little or no interest in working collaboratively.--Moxy (talk) 12:32, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

August 2018
Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting. Thanks! Moxy (talk) 22:58, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Maps
Hi there. I must ask you to please stop adding low resolution maps to the infoboxes of countries. These maps you are adding are of such a low resolution that the labels and text in them are unreadable. The natural inclination for a user would be to click on them to see more detail, but they can't. As a result these maps are of no use so please stop adding them. Canterbury Tail talk 14:56, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

POTD creation
If you create POTD templates, than remove from the end of the page. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 15:21, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for all you do!

--- Coffee  and crumbs  09:31, 27 September 2019 (UTC) 

POTD selection
Thanks for helping to schedule some recent POTDs. Regarding next Tuesday's (Äußere Kanalstraße), in particular, however, the article in question is a stub and thus isn't eligible to be featured on the Main Page. Generally, I try to make sure that the article associated with a featured picture is of sufficient quality (free of any maintenance templates like "needs additional citations" and/or have few [citation needed] tags). As such, we can ensure that articles have enough content to form a POTD blurb and also avoid featuring substandard articles. Cheers. &mdash;  RAVEN PVFF  &middot; talk &middot; 15:00, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Hey there! How d'ye feel about the restored version I did? It's fine if you don't like it, just don't want your vote to get counted for it if you don't approve, y'know? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.4% of all FPs 03:34, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Utah Monolith
Hey there! Could you clarify which version(s) of the image you support now that an alt is up? Cheers! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 16:50, 14 December 2020 (UTC)