User talk:Harrumphings
Welcome![edit]
Hello, Harrumphings, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Phosphorite. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Kleuske (talk) 17:58, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure![edit]
- Hi Harrumphings! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
-- 18:49, Sunday, February 23, 2020 (UTC)
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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure![edit]
- Hi Harrumphings! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
-- 18:52, Sunday, February 23, 2020 (UTC)
| Mission 1 | Mission 2 | Mission 3 | Mission 4 | Mission 5 | Mission 6 | Mission 7 |
| Say Hello to the World | An Invitation to Earth | Small Changes, Big Impact | The Neutral Point of View | The Veil of Verifiability | The Civility Code | Looking Good Together |
Just a small comment about the Manual of Style[edit]
Hello Harrumphings! I see you've fixed a lot of pages here, so thank you for your help! However, some of the changes you've made are not in line with the current Manual of Style. In order to keep all the articles looking the same, Wikipedia is pretty specific about grammar and punctuation. There's so much detail on the Manual of Style page, so I understand it can be confusing. In particular, here are a few things I've seen from your contributions:
- MOS:ENGVAR goes over this in more detail, but articles may be written in any national variety of English. One difference that comes up a lot is the serial or Oxford comma, which is used in American English but not in British English. It's used before "and", "or", or "nor" when three or more items are listed. Basically, if an article uses it consistently, use it. If it doesn't, then retain the existing style by not adding it.
- Simple glosses go in single quotes. If it's an exact translation of a foreign word, then it should be surrounded by ' and ', not " and ". For example, perro ('dog').
- En-dashes (–) are "spaced", with a space between them and the surrounding words. The opposite is true for em-dashes (—), which are longer and are not spaced.
- Either "U.S." or "US" may be used, as long as it's consistent. Like the variety of English used, either is fine, and there's no need to change one to the other.
Sorry to correct what you're doing, but I know it's easy to miss these things in the long lists of rules for how to edit. This simplified Manual of Style may also be clearer. I hope this helps you somewhat, and feel free to ask me, the Help Desk, the Teahouse, or even the help chatroom (IRC channel), which has helped me so much!
Take care, TuskDeer (talk) 00:24, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
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Please stop removing double spaces[edit]
There is no need to alter double spacing as you seem to be doing all over the place. See MOS:PUNCTSPACE: "Software condenses two or more spaces to just one when rendering a page, so editors may use any spacing style they prefer." See also MOS:STYLERET. Please stop doing that. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 17:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
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