User talk:R3DSH1FTT

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Devia xeromorpha, 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 first 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. bonadea contributions talk 14:59, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please slow down a bit

Hi again, R3DSH1FTT, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. I'd like to ask you to slow down a bit and check that the edits you make actually improve the articles. You seem to be moving quickly from one article to the next, making one small spelling or vocabulary change in each article. Although many of your changes are in fact improvements, many of them are, unfortunately, not. Here are some examples of edits where you have introduced an error: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].

I'm not sure why you thought that any of those edits (or several other similar ones) would be improvements – please make sure that you always look at the text after you have made the edit, so you can catch and fix any errors you make. We all make typos, grammar errors, and other mistakes when we edit. But making a habit of reading the text after we have edited it means that we'll hopefully spot our own errors! Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 15:10, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and one other thing. Please try to use informative edit summaries. You often use the summary "Grammer changes" even though very few of your edits have anything to do with grammar. The edit summary should give other editors some idea of what your edit did. It doesn't have to be detailed, but should not be misleading. --bonadea contributions talk 15:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 2024

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Equisetum fluviatile. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Plantsurfer 15:22, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Tacyarg. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Eva Anstruther have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. A Bing search is not a useful external link. Tacyarg (talk) 16:14, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the Bing search you added to John Henry Dick also. Please don't add search results as external links. Tacyarg (talk) 16:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ship names

Please remember that ship names (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Names and titles) are italicized. You incorrectly removed the italics from William Fawcett in William Fawcett (paddle steamer). I have corrected that, but please do not do that again. Donald Albury 13:24, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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