User talk:Writer Beau

September 2023


A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. 17jiangz1 (talk) 05:47, 11 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Can you explain what you mean? Writer Beau (talk) 05:48, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Editors are expected to treat each other with respect and civility. On this encyclopedia project, editors assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not appear to do at Interstate 20 in South Carolina. Here is Wikipedia's welcome page, and it is hoped that you will assume the good faith of other editors and continue to help us improve Wikipedia! Thank you very much! –Fredddie™ 06:22, 11 September 2023 (UTC)


 * How did I not WP:AGF? By following WP:BRD? Writer Beau (talk) 06:23, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Templating an editor with over 30 Featured Articles by accusing him of an edit war when he's just fixing a spelling error and then refusing to discuss it here (the correct place) for two. –Fredddie™ 06:28, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The article talk page is the right place to discuss an article, no matter how many featured articles you have. I hereby ban you from my talkpage Writer Beau (talk) 06:32, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The article talk page is the right place to discuss issues that aren't as clear cut as you making stuff up, like you did here.  Liliana UwU  (talk / contributions) 06:33, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * That's actually a fact, and you can compare the citations for both claims. Writer Beau (talk) 06:35, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * None of this is a dispute over the content of an article. It's an unwillingness of you to accept that "Past I-95, roadway continues ..." is missing a word ("the") before roadway, that two links in citations have gone dead, that "Overview Mp of I-20 Bus. (Florence, South Carolina)" is missing a letter in the word "Map", that ranges of section numbers should have an en dash (–) instead of a hyphen (-). If you'd have gracefully accepted that the article had these spelling/formatting errors, among a few other things, then there would be no dispute. Of course, you'd never edited this article before I improved it, so it's very curious that you're telling me that I have to get permission from the article talk page to fix a bunch of typos.
 * Now, if I were trying to add or subtract whole paragraphs, and you disagreed with the addition or subtraction, that would be an actual content dispute. WP:BRD would apply if you disagreed with the addition or subtraction and revered me. Instead, it appears that you're disagreeing with minor formatting fixes for the sake of disagreeing.  Imzadi 1979  →   06:42, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I already asked you to stay off my user page. No means no. Writer Beau (talk) 06:43, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It's OK to admit you were wrong and move on, but here we are. PS: talk page "bans" are unenforceable. –Fredddie™ 06:47, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Stop harassing me Writer Beau (talk) 06:49, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Say, Writer Beau, how many other accounts do you have?  Liliana UwU  (talk / contributions) 06:55, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Johnuniq (talk) 09:50, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Interstate 20 in South Carolina
Would you care to explain why you reverted my improvements to the article? Namely:
 * Why wouldn't we insert the missing word "the" to the last sentence of the lead?
 * Why wouldn't we follow the MOS on spelling out numbers less than ten in the phrase "two miles"?
 * Why wouldn't we follow the MOS on spelling out the state name for a location in a citation?
 * Why wouldn't we tag links in citations that have gone dead?
 * Why wouldn't we add missing citation information?
 * Why wouldn't we correct the typo "Mp" to "Map" in that citation?
 * Why wouldn't we insert a correct en dash in a range instead of the incorrect hyphen, per the MOS?

In short, the edit I made doesn't not need consensus to be implemented because it follow project consensus, namely the MOS and basic grammar.  Imzadi 1979  →   05:59, 11 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Content issues should be handled on the topics talk lage, allowing other editors to find it. Writer Beau (talk) 06:01, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * That is literally not how Wikipedia works. This is not a content issue. These are corrections, not a change in the content of the article. Everything from before my edit and everything after my edit is the same in terms of the information present, except that I fixed how it is spelled or punctuated or capitalized in line with our style guide and proper English/proper grammar.  Imzadi 1979  →   06:10, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * If we are talking about words in a mainspace article, we are talking about content. Writer Beau (talk) 06:13, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Just so we're clear here. I've been an editor since October 2005 and amassed over 146,000 edits here, and I'm being told by someone who's been an editor for and hour with just 8 edits that I can't correct typographical or grammar errors in an article without taking it to the talk page of the article first? That is ludicrous and simply now how Wikipedia works.  Imzadi 1979  →   06:14, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Take it to the article talk page. You are hereforth banned from my talkpage. Writer Beau (talk) 06:17, 11 September 2023 (UTC)