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English type tagging

Hi Roastedturkey, I was wondering what basis you were using to apply the various engvar templates you have been adding to talkpages? Variations are usually determined by the editors working on the articles or by application of engvar, and your tagging has caused an issue on the Taiwan talkpage. CMD (talk) 15:23, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

I usually do it to cement the variety of English the article prefers per MOS:CONSISTENCY to make inconsistencies less likely. I may also do it if an article has strong national ties to the topic. It was probably a poor decision to do it with the Taiwan article, however, as it had no clear preference over which variety of English to use. I apologize for any problems I may have caused there. --Roastedturkey (talk) 19:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Battle of Plattsburg

The policy is not to change the version of English. Please do not to this again.Tirronan (talk) 15:49, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Where can I find this policy?--Roastedturkey (talk) 16:53, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

MOS:RETAIN Tirronan (talk) 23:53, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

MOS:RETAIN itself says that MOS:TIES is an exception to itself. --Roastedturkey (talk) 11:00, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Gambian English

Resolved

.....my bad....found sources.--Moxy 🍁 03:47, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Sea

The article Sea is written in British English, so I propose rolling back all the edits you have made today. The history of the article is that it was virtually a stub for years until Chiswick Chap and I expanded it in April 2013, starting with this edit. We then took it to GA and later FA. Do you think we could have done that if it were littered with spelling mistakes? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:03, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Indeed. The Wikipedia policy is not to change language settings without very good reason and wide consensus. Since the law of the sea is in English and both of us are British, that does seem unlikely. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:09, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

According to the talk page, the article should be written in American English.--Roastedturkey (talk) 18:08, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

The American English tag was added by LlywelynII with this edit on 29 July 2014‎ without any consultation, more than a year after the article had been expanded in British English, and long after it became a FA. I have removed the American English tag, replaced it with a British English tag, and returned the article to its state on 29 May 2019. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:52, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Expanding the article, even to FA status, does not justify replacing the spelling variation.--Roastedturkey (talk) 18:57, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Annexation; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Ways to improve Belligerents of the American Revolutionary War

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Thank you for creating Belligerents of the American Revolutionary War.

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Your contributed article, Belligerents of the American Revolutionary War

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Belligerents of the American Revolutionary War moved to draftspace

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Thank you for reverting vandalism!

Thank you for reverting this dubious edit (https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=United_States&diff=944202717&oldid=944197319) by "India bangladesh sri lanka pakistan". By doing so, you help make the wiki a more reliable resource. Victionarier (talk) 15:52, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Warning

Copyediting articles is welcome. Changing terms twisting what the reliable sources state is not copyediting. Regards.--Asqueladd (talk) 10:08, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

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