User talk:Alison/Archive 90

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Hello, I just wanted to apologize. I saw you reverted my edit on Irish Freedom Party, when I switched "protester" to "protestor." I changed that based on Commonly misspelled English words. I did notice that a few Irish articles often (though not always) used protestor and I did some light research, but didn't see anything that said it was Hiberno English. Obviously, I didn't look hard enough. That being said, there are a few other articles where I changed it but didn't know. I'll do my best to go back and fix it, but I wanted to apologize in case you come across more since you appear to be quite active on Irish Wikipedia. Cheers. Mukedits (talk) 00:30, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

• Hey there - honestly no need to apologise (apologiZe) for a difference in dialect. It's really nuanced. If you look online, you'll see that US sources, particularly AP, tend to use protester and various websites say it's preferred. Almost all of them tend to be US-based sources, so you're getting the
  Hiberno English, or Irish-English, tends to more align with British English - see here for one explanation. For our articles here, look out for {{use Hiberno-English}}, {{Use British English}} or {{use Australian English}} in the header, which will add Category:All Wikipedia articles written in Hiberno-English maintenance/hidden category to the article and will give you a hint as to which standard is preferred for that specific article. And thank you for tirelessly working on spelling mistakes - that's important work - Alison ^talk
  00:43, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited James "Lugs" Branigan, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Mount Argus.

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(talk page stalker) removed as there is no link to that church. ww2censor (talk) 12:48, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! - Alison ^talk 13:38, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Alison! Would you be willing to use your CheckUser special powders to glance at this editor to see if their account has been compromised? This is a very strange edit after 24 hours of not editing (and with no further edits since) after a run of vandalism on that template by an IP.

No need to tell me, a random IP, the outcome, feel free to nuke this section once you're done. Thank you! 81.187.192.168 (talk) 16:58, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought I was reverting the vandalism instead of the restoration. I apologize for the confusion. Blueskiesdry (talk) 23:38, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

no worries! Thank you both :) - Alison ^talk 23:45, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

I am willing to be trout slapped fyi. Blueskiesdry (talk) 00:49, 4 February 2024 (UTC)