User talk:AlanS181824

Welcome![edit]

Hello, AlanS181824, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

You may also want to take the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit The Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! — Cirt (talk) 01:54, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop changing spellings[edit]

Please stop making random changes between different English spellings conventions as you did on multiple articles lately. Per WP:ENGVAR, all standards are equally acceptable on Wikipedia as long as they are used consistently within each individual article. The only exception is that articles whose topic is closely connected to a specific English-speaking country should prefer that country's conventional spelling. For European topics, there is no such preference. Moreover, spellings with "-ize"/"-zation" etc. are acceptable both in American and in British English, so there is rarely a necessity to change them to "-ise/-isation", except in order to make things consistent in articles that have used the latter system predominantly from the start. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:50, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I understand what you are saying but I am simply editing spellings on European related articles so that they match the official variety of English directed for use by the European Union. For European topics it would make sense to use European spelling, don't you think? Thanks. AlanS181824 (talk) 08:04, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, it wouldn't. The exception to ENGVAR only applies to articles directly connected with English-speaking nations. Europe is not an English-speaking nation. It doesn't matter if the European Union has some official preference in its internal communications. Both American and British spellings are commonly encountered and perfectly acceptable among European writers and readers. If you wish to extend the ENGVAR exception to the whole of Europe, you'd have to garner consensus for that at WT:ENGVAR first. Until then, you need to stop making those changes now. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:48, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please also don't invent words/spellings[edit]

Hi. By extension to the above, please also don't invent your own words or spellings. As per the linked and verified reference in the Garda Síochána article, the most common (English) term for an individual member (or group of members) of the service is "Guard" (or "Guards"). "Gard" is not a common spelling. Not least as "Gard" is not a word. Guliolopez (talk) 11:33, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your edit adding Irish language column to List of Irish dishes, it is a great idea and looks fantastic. Smirkybec (talk) 14:30, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2019 election voter message[edit]

Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:16, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message[edit]

Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]