User talk:Warmington

Varieties of English
I see that a very large proportion of your editing consists of replacing US English with British English. Wikipedia's manual of style gives guidance on circumstances where one variety or another is to be preferred (e.g. an article about a specifically British topic should use British English), but in general one should not try to impose one's own style on an article. If a particular article has been written using one style then it should be left in that style unless there are specific reasons for changing it. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:33, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Dear James, Thank you for pointing this out. It was not my intention to change US/British English spellings. I use an add-on for Firefox which displays content in my preferred British English. Those differences were inadvertently submitted along with the other more useful edit(s) that I consciously made. I shall ensure that in future this add-on is disabled when I am editing Wikipedia. Warmington

Hello. For the record that proxy was recently acting as an open proxy. That episode seems to be over, and I've reset the block so that logged in users can edit. -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:30, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Can you please elaborate on how you require editing abilities for your job? You've made very few edits since registering this account in 2010, and paid editing is generally frowned upon (especially if there's any hint of a conflict of interest - please see WP:COI). Nick-D (talk) 10:36, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm interested in the previous open proxy problem for this account - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Warmington&diff=prev&oldid=458666653. In November 2011, you appeared to be at Lancaster University, yet now you are at Amazon Web Services. In both places you say you need editing capability in your work. Many of your edits look like spelling revisions or grammar corrections, and none like paid editing. I can't see how those are part of your work. You might see this comment as being nosy. I'm just puzzled, and learning about proxies - a field I have little knowledge of. Peridon (talk) 10:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * A thought occurs - are you perhaps using another account as well as this one? Peridon (talk) 10:54, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Dear Peridon, I work for Lancaster University and also run a business providing consultancy services. I work frequently from different locations. My role involves training and mentoring others in delivering varied types of ICT consultancy and development, and we often use Wikipedia as a reference. Although I might not actually make significant changes very often, it is important that I am able to add to or correct information in order to ensure a relevant and consistent experience for my trainees. Not being able to do so when required might result in less than optimal outcomes or much wasted effort in our work. HTH.

(I've moved this latest discussion to the bottom, to keep things in chronological order -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:02, 28 February 2012 (UTC))


 * AWS is frequently used to evade blocks, as it's pretty easy to set up a new server on AWS and resume editing from there. This is a good reason to keep this block in place.  You may consider requesting IP block exemption for this account, but usually we will require a fairly extensive and constructive editing history before granting this right.  --Chris (talk) 02:00, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Dear Chris, thank you for your explanation. I have owned that IP address for over 12 months but I can see what you mean. Although not ideal I will do my best to work around this issue.