User talk:Xeaver

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 12:10, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Note: Australia does not use American English. Australian spelling conventions are much more like those of British English. So it is "realised", "recognised" etc. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 12:12, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

I thought since a word is underlined in red it should be changed that's all Xeaver (talk) 09:21, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

This is a very important lesson you have just learned. The world is bigger than Microsoft wants you to believe. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:44, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Please, please, stop making changes like this. I've looked over some of your other edits, and it is extremely important for you to recognize, before you keep plowing ahead, that most of the English-speaking world spells the word for the middle part of something "centre" (and also spells "recognize" "recognise"). It is really important to gain much more familiarity with the global array of English variants before you plunge into copyediting Wikipedia articles. Syntax is not always the same between English-speaking people in the U.S., England, India, South Africa, and Australia; it is very important to RECOGNISE that an article about what Americans would call a downtown apartment building is about a "city-centre tower block" in other countries. Lakh and crore are number words in Indian English that I'd never read before I started editing Wikipedia and yet there are over a billion people in the world who use them all the time.

Also, as someone who has been a copy editor for over 30 years in one form or another (starting as a work-study student, now as a senior lawyer), it almost never improves a sentence to add more words. Your changes are clearly well-intentioned but they are not helpful; they add verbosity and in many instances alter meaning and create incorrect propositions.

What's far more helpful for you to do at this stage as a new Wikipedia editor: fix overcapitalisation (I did that on purpose), once you've read MOS:SENTENCECASE; also, correct MOS:NUM, MOS:CONTRACTION, and MOS:AMP errors. This will keep you plenty busy and will be extremely beneficial to the encyclopedia. MOS:ITALICS is another issue people mess up more often than they get correct. Get the proofreading down cold and then move on to judicious, necessary copyediting.

Thanks for appearing genuinely to want to help the encyclopedia. Doing this will teach you so much about the world that you never knew was there to know, and it will help you every day for the rest of your life, in the most random, joyous circumstances. Start with sentence case and MOS:NUM for a couple thousand edits. Read the articles while you're at it. Trust me. Take care. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:13, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

July 2022

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Michael Flohr, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Did you actually CHANGE A DIRECT QUOTATION?! If something is in quotation marks, it is NOT TO BE CHANGED unless you need to make minor changes for grammatical consistency but put the changes in brackets. Like, if the sourced quotation is, "My old boss Calvin Coolidge needed to eat tacos for lunch every Thursday and it was his one legit joy in life," (with a reference to an interview of Pres. Coolidge's press secretary in the Washington Post), the only way to change that is in a manner like this: President Coolidge "[ate] tacos for lunch every Thursday," according to his press secretary, who called this routine the president's "one... joy in life."

Your edit summary is really confusing and not helpful. It is in no way your place to decide for the encyclopedic record that "if you've seen one pa[i]nting you've seen them all." Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:54, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

As far as English varieties are concerned, it's Microsoft that you should address with the issue. I don't wait for Microsoft to tell me how big is the world. I know these varieties exist. Moreover, if you use a mac-book laptop, you'll find that they use just one variety and they underline in red the others.

that's my idea about those paintings and didn't think it would be part of the edit. Xeaver (talk) 14:26, 15 July 2022 (UTC)