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I'm just asking if you'll reconsider your approach to comma-related changes on Wikipedia. A large percentage of your changes actually introduce problems where there were none before. I know that you must be receiving notifications about the large number of your edits being undone, so I feel a little silly writing this, but I notice that the issues are not stopping. I can tell from your username that you have good intentions, but you are creating more work for your fellow editors. Would you please consider halting changes to punctuation until you better understand the rules around them? I appreciate it. EricEnfermero (Talk) 03:31, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, what do you think about that photograph that I mentioned in the talk page of 'Lion'? Leo1pard (talk) 18:17, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
It looks nice. - Here2help
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About edits such as this one, please see WP:MOS#Spaces following terminal punctuation. --JBL (talk) 13:38, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
There is no sense in which edits like this are "grammar edits" -- please choose more appropriate edit summaries. More broadly, I looked over a random sampling of perhaps 30 of your recent edits. Your median quality edit is probably a minor improvement in wording that does not affect the meaning, but the mean impact of your edits might actually be negative because of a small number edits like this one. If you're going to do this little stuff, please spend enough time on each one so to be confident you are not destroying meaning! --JBL (talk) 13:54, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
JBL, Oh, I see. If that was your edit, then good edit lol, I can see why you reverted my previous edit. I will be more careful next time. Thanks! - Here2help
Hi, just want to explain this edit: I was trying to fix the CS1 error caused by one of the refs, template the other, and fix the hyphenation of one of the authors' names. Hope you don't mind me restoring the edit. Me, Myself & I (☮) (talk) 15:19, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
No problem. I'll trust your judgment this time...:P - Here2help
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Murph9000 (talk) 20:12, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Thanks! :) - Here2help
Hi! I noticed your signatures don't contain a link to your user or talk page, as per WP:SIGLINK. If you didn't know, you can leave a signature using 4 tildes (~~~~). If you do use this and have edited your signature, then it would be helpful to other editors to include the links. Thanks! Olidog (talk) 07:48, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
I've been meaning to ask someone how to sign off properly, thanks! Here2help (talk) 08:27, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
"...the belief that he is a powerful wizard..." means the same thing as "...the belief he is a powerful wizard..."
The extra word you added did not add meaning. The extra word that you added did not add meaning. - SummerPhDv2.0
Gotcha Here2help (talk) 04:29, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Did you know there is an administrator, User:HereToHelp, with a similar name as yours, or are you perhaps related to him? Ribbet32 (talk) 07:01, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Ribbet32,
I didn't know that, and I am the furthest thing from an administrator lol :P Here2help (talk) 07:03, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Okay, let me know. I don't mind changing my username. Here2help (talk) 23:25, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
hi Here2help, i have just changed your edits to The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings in the Reception section within quotation marks as i believe they were originally correct in line with WP:QUOTE. BTW i love your numerous little edits, keep up the great work!
Coolabahapple (talk) 09:01, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
This is purely my personal opinion, not official WP policy or guideline or even an essay—but speaking strictly personally, I would like to ask you to refrain from edits that do not affect the rendered text, such as this edit that you made to Violet (color).
I'm not reverting that change; the previous text with the doubled space would not be something I'd ever argue for. Nevertheless I'm leaving you this note to ask you to consider: While such edits do not affect the text seen by the reader, they do increase editor workload. They clutter and complicate the editing history of the article and make diffs between versions more time-consuming to go through, especially since such changes can be difficult to see and evaluate in the diffs display. This can sometimes cause a lot of wasted time and effort for later editors trying to figure out what a previous edit has done.
All because of edits that do not improve the article for the reader, not in the slightest detail.
Thank you for considering this suggestion. I realize you are acting in good faith to improve the encyclopedia as you see it, but please consider that such edits can make unnecessary work for those who follow you. Jeh (talk) 07:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Okay, I'll be more careful. I was just trying to make the spacing in the sentence consistent with the spacing everywhere else in that article. Thanks! Here2help (talk) 07:05, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, if you are "here to help" then please don't go about making edits like this replacing colons with commas and labeling it as "proper punctuation". The colon was proper here. See, for instance here where they say: "You Can Use a Colon If the Quotation Is an Independent Clause." Cheers - DVdm (talk) 08:44, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
I see what you mean, but I felt that the colon was improper because of what preceded it, not by the independent clause that succeeded it. "I stated, 'x,y,z'" has more proper punctuation than "I stated: x,y,z". To keep the colon, I would have had to add, "I stated as follows: x, y, z". The punctuation I chose kept the punctuation proper and made the sentence more concise. Here2help (talk) 09:15, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Do not add the oxford, or serial comma to articles where it is not used. See MOS:OXFORD. Compare WP:CITEVAR. -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:23, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed you do a lot of typographical fixes, which is great. Did you know that you can mark these as minor edits when you save them? It helps people like me with a lot of pages on watchlist. Thanks! ☆ Bri (talk) 22:33, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
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