User talk:42.106.14.81

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March 2019[edit]

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Happy editing! Rockstonetalk to me! 03:04, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, your edits to Oliver Sacks did not appear to be constructive, and have been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, make sure you use the Preview function before saving changes you're not sure about, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 03:12, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are mistaken. It is your edit which was unconstructive, and hence has been reverted. Please take greater care in the future.

Stop disrupting the Oliver Sacks article, as you did with this revert, in which you fraudulently referred to my reversal of your previous edit as "unconstructive." Specficially:

  • The word "doctor" is not a superior choice of word than "physician", since the latter is more specific.
  • Your edit to the passage on Sacks' swimming habits, in which you changed the phrase "Sacks swam almost every day for nearly his entire life" to "Sacks swam almost dialysis for most of life" made it grammatically incoherent. The word "daily" is not spelled "dialysis", and "most of life" is not a coherent phrase, as it's missing a possessive.

If you revert the article again, it will simply be reverted, and if necessary, the article may be locked from future edits, and your account blocked from editing. Please do not make that necessary. Nightscream (talk) 03:23, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    • The article is about a British person, and the variant of English is clearly noted. Your edits are trying to impose US English, and consequently have been reverted. Note the words used, which you reverted, are ‘daily’ not ‘dialysis’, ‘travelling’ which is the correct spelling not ‘traveling’ and ‘doctor’ which is the standard term in the UK not ‘physician’.

Please don't delete parts of a quote[edit]

As you did at The Sirius Mystery. Doug Weller talk 10:49, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, was a mistake ... when editing I didn’t notice it was a quote.
It happens, I've probably done it myself. Doug Weller talk 10:56, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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