User talk:Zackomode

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by changing "inordinance" to "ordinance". Doug Weller talk 09:15, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Bloody Sunday (1905), 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

, 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. RolandR (talk) 10:18, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Trevor Noah, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. You should NEVER alter a direct quote or citation. Even if you think that the original was incorrect, or phrased in a way which you would not use, you should maintain the words as they are in the source cited. RolandR (talk) 10:31, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at User talk:Zackomode, you may be blocked from editing. RolandR (talk) 23:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Western (genre). Most of these changes were unhelpful, and some were outright mistaken. You have been warned enough times, particularly about amending the words or titles of cited works. If you do so again, I will report you and request that you be blocked from editing. RolandR (talk) 10:58, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits to

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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Culture of Australia. Larry Hockett (Talk) 05:57, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have only been here for a week, and you are making scores of small edits, most of which are unconstructive and have had to be reverted by other editors. Among other behaviour, you frequently change wording for no apparent benefit (and often incorrectly); you change spelling from British English to American English for no obvious reason except your own preference; and you repeatedly, and despite earlier warnings, change the wording of quotes and cited material to fit your own preferences, thus misrepresenting the source cited. All of this is disruptive to the encyclopaedia, and obliges other editors to waste their time correcting the damage you are causing. You apparently mean well, but your editing so far has not been helpful. If you continue to behave like this, you are likely to be blocked from editing altogether. Please take the time to read and learn our

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Please note that some of your edits are unhelpful, and in some cases plain wrong. Your insertion of the Oxford comma is a matter of personal preference, not grammar correction, and you should NEVER change a direct quotation from a written article in a newspaper or magazine, even if it was grammatically incorrect to start with... it's not Wikipedia's job to correct published articles. Also, you are changing words that results in a complete change in meaning – for example, changing "with in" to "within" in The Times review in Made in Heaven#Critical reception is not just wrong, you've changed the whole meaning of the sentence. Richard3120 (talk) 15:50, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't change the punctuation of direct quotes, as you did in J. K. Rowling. There were also ungrammatical changes to the text, and your changes often detrimentally altered the meaning of the text. Esowteric+Talk 15:51, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at

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Just to let you know that

AN/I concerning you, as they appear to have a similar editing method to your own (perhaps using a tool such as Grammarly). Esowteric+Talk 09:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply

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From [1]: Let me clear this up without lying to you: I've never made a second account here, as you speculate. But, perhaps, as you stated, both of us use Grammarly. The reason why I said this is because I'm not the same person. In fact, I've created my account last year before Zackomode joined in (if you look at my edit history or the date I joined). Anyway, I promise I'll stop using Grammarly unless there are grammatical errors (not including quotes). I'll talk to Zackomode about it. Emotioness Expression (talk) 09:29, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there! I've just got mentioned that you and I use Grammarly. They think there's a link between us. I did make things clear that you're not connected to me in any way. After all, we created our accounts a year apart (Emotioness Expression created in 2019 and Zackomode created in 2020), and we both similarly use Grammarly for edits that are both helpful and unhelpful. I've learned a lot today that using a grammar tool could lead to such things mentioned before. I made a promise that I'll stop using Grammarly unless there are grammatical errors. Now, it's your turn to make a promise. Hope you'll respond. Emotioness Expression (talk) 09:53, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'll stop using Grammarly unless there are grammatical errors. I think that's unwise, and I think you should stop using Grammarly, period – unless there is a way to restrict it to the one small area of the text where you see the grammatical error. Otherwise it will continue to make poor suggestions throughout the article, and you will continue to fail to find them and reject them.

I honestly don't understand what's so difficult about doing manual editing like everybody else. Quality is more important than speed. ―Mandruss ☎ 12:14, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Zackomode has been confirmed as your sock and indeffed. Here's the SPI link. Esowteric+Talk 19:54, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]