User talk:Tpsreport84

Please read WP:ERA and fix your edits
You can't just change era styles willy nilly. I prefer CE but I've got to follow our guidelines. Doug Weller talk 17:18, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Doug Weller talk 17:23, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry, when I read about the topic before, the key takeaway I got was that it didn't matter, as long as there was consistency. It would take a long time to go back and undo, especially since most of the articles had neither AD nor CE before I edited them. Rolling forward, should I just not do terminology edits, or only if there isn't a system used?
 * If they didn't have it, it doesn't matter. You can add a style if none exists. Basically we keep the established style, changing only if there's a discussion and agreement on the talk page. Doug Weller  talk 12:45, 13 January 2020 (UTC)


 * You shouldn't add a style where it isn't needed, which is the norm with AD/CE dates. So don't add it for no reason and especially not under the guise of a "grammar edit". Srnec (talk) 04:08, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

The two of you are giving me contradictory info. I add the AD/CE to add clarity if someone is coming into an article without knowledge of which side of the chronological divide. It's unlikely they won't know, but I think it's a simple addition. The times I've labelled it "Grammar edit(s)" is because most of my edits in that case are grammar, or I accidentally click a different pre-written entry than where I say "Adding date terminology".
 * I must add that, while some of your edits involve a word change or two, the overwhelming number of them are formatting adjustments and practically none involves any change to grammar. You really should know the difference. Also, in every case your era insertions have been superfluous and smack of POV bias so have caused unnecessary controversy.--154.59.156.91 (talk) 12:46, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

I have already stopped doing changes to date terminology weeks ago, so that comment is a moot point. As for grammar edits vs. formatting fixes, does it really matter? Like I said before, I use a pre-filled comment on my phone and often times I am adding/subtracting commas, which is very much a grammar issue.

river
See WP:NCRIVER. When the form is "the river X", river does not need to be capitalized. Srnec (talk) 02:22, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I hadn't been sure on that, but what info I could find seemed to point to capitalization. I'll stop doing that now.

Spaces
Hi Tpsreport84,

Please don't make edits that solely change the spacing style from double spaced to single spaced (or the reverse). It's completely invisible to readers, they see the same thing regardless, so the only effect is to annoy local maintainers who apparently prefer the other style. Both single space and double spaces in the source appear exactly identical when rendered as a webpage, so this is pointless and just gums up watchlists. Finally, it's certainly not a "grammar edit" if you do make such an edit, because this isn't a matter of grammar. SnowFire (talk) 19:56, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi SnowFire,

I apologize, I didn't mean to gum up the works and hadn't realized the spacing was invisible to readers. Though I was wondering, how come local maintainers had double spacing between words, not just after a period, in the Granada War article? Tpsreport84 (talk) 17:16, 4 June 2020 (UTC)


 * If it was between words rather than sentences, it was probably just a mistake - but still a harmless one. Thanks!  SnowFire (talk) 20:08, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Comma punctuation
Hi Tpsreport84. I am not sure what country you live or were educated in (because different English-speaking nations may have different rules), but just so you know, the punctuation edits that you have done on some articles, where you add a comma following and separating a series of nouns (for example), such as Dr. Frank, Dr. Gertrude and Dr. Tonta, which you would reedit as Dr. Frank, Dr. Gertrude, and Dr. Tonta, follow a more old-fashioned form of English punctuation. In the U.S., a more succinct form of punctuation, illustrated by the above first example, has been the accepted standard for at least the last 50 years. The "and" separator following the list of nouns, does not also need another comma preceding it in the string, and is now considered redundant and deprecated. Happy editing... Stevenmitchell (talk) 14:21, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

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