User talk:Wikibajwa

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Happy editing! Fragrant Peony (talk) 05:15, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Changing spellings on 'Use British English' pages
Hi Wikibajwa, welcome to Wikipedia & thanks for your contributions. I noticed that some of your edits, such as those for the page Mick Aston, changed the spelling of words from British/Commonwealth English to US English. Please note that the convention on Wikipedia is to use the spelling variants appropriate for the subject of the article. In this case, Mick Aston was British, so British English spelling is used on that page. For more information, have a read of Wikipedia's Manual of Style section on that subject. Thanks again! Rusty Springs (talk) 05:38, 21 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for guidance. I will take care about it from now. Wikibajwa (talk) 05:46, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Copyediting
Hi Wikibajwa. Thank you for your copyedits to archaeology biographies. However, I need to bring your attention to a few things:


 * 1) As Rusty says above, please bear in mind that different varieties of English have different spells. In particular, British English generally uses -ise spellings. You should not switch from one English variety to another without a good reason.
 * 2) A comma after an introductory phrase (e.g. From 1865 to 1880, he ...) is optional and most authorities recommend omitting it unless the clause is long or ambiguous. When copyediting articles that are otherwise well-written, and especially featured articles, it's probably best to defer to the style the original author(s) used.
 * 3) You don't have to change one thing at a time. Making dozens of tiny edits to an article floods the watchlists of other users and makes it difficult for them to see and revise what you did. I would greatly appreciate it if you could combine your copyedits into one single edit.

Thanks for your understanding. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 06:36, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

You're making a lot of work for yourself and others. Please desist. Seasider53 (talk) 07:20, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

You also need to be careful with linking. The Buckingham Street you linked to in the William Burges article is the street in Dublin, not the one in London where Burges actually lived and worked. KJP1 (talk) 07:33, 21 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Sincere apologies for all those mistakes I overlooked. I'll make sure I don't repeat such mistakes. Wikibajwa (talk) 07:37, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Using "Preview" is always a good thing to do. Doug Weller  talk 11:51, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks Wikibajwa (talk) 04:10, 23 January 2023 (UTC)