User talk:Uranophile

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Yankee
While some of your edits to the article were fine there were some problems with the others. In general the English speaking world uses American to refer to a person from the U.S. and the use in this article, where there really is not an ambiguity, is not really a problem. There were several places where your changes resulted in the meaning of a sentence being changed and saying something different. Also, in one place you changed a direct quote, which should never be done. Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 12:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ditto on David Carradine; words are preferred over abbreviations (American/US) for ease of reading. Rodhull  andemu  10:25, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Native Americans
And at L. Frank Baum‎ you not only changed American to US, you changed Native Americans to North Americans, a terminology that is not used here and appears to reflect your personal point of view. It also eliminated links to other articles. Please do not do this again. You also need to communicate here with other editors. I don't want to be harsh, but this is a collaborative exercise and communication is vital. Not communicating usually leads to being blocked. Dougweller (talk) 05:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Furthermore on David Carradine
You changed "Caucasian" to "European". Neither Carradine, nor the character that he played in Kung Fu were European. Carradine, as the article states, was born in California, and his character's father was from California. No doubt in both cases he was of European descent, but "Caucasian" is correct and appropriate in the context. Also you changed the correct spelling of the word "entered". You also changed "spokesperson" to "spokesman". Although both are correct, it was an unnecessary change and the way it was is appropriate. You completely changed the meaning of the sentence that explained the Kwai Chang Caine was "immortalized in popular culture". I sited a source for "Asian-American" actors finding work on Kung Fu, but you changed the wording anyway. And you changed "ABC" to A.B.C., when the latter is perfectly acceptable. I have reverted all of the edits that others had not already changed to date, except "rehabilitation" which was the only one of your edits I found helpful.--Ishtar456 (talk) 01:55, 29 June 2010 (UTC)