User talk:Pxhayes

Hello, Pxhayes and a belated welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you've already been around awhile and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help one get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Manual of Style[edit]

Hi Pxhayes, I've reverted some of the changes you made here which did not conform to our manual of style. In particular,

MOS:ACRO says "do not add special styles, such as SMALL CAPS..."
MOS:DATERET says that the existing date styling should be retained
MOS:ERA says "do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to its content."

I also feel that littering the edit view with HTML and CSS markup (which you needed to do to achieve those changes) is not very helpful in any case. I haven't looked at the rest of your recent edits yet, but if you have been making widespread changes outside the MoS, can you please revert them.

Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss further, need help, or just feel I have made a mistake. SpinningSpark 10:25, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

... And two years later, you made this edit, that violates the prohibition against curly punctuation and this one that violates the prohibition against spaced em dashes. Since you have never responded on this user talk page (or indeed any other), I've indefinitely blocked you as an unresponsive account. I will unblock you if you agree to check whether any changes you make agree with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Graham87 08:47, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Pxhayes (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I apologize for using curly quotes. I was unaware. I won't do it again. The MoS seems silent on the American practice of putting hair spaces around em dashes, and even requires a hair space in one particular circumstance for accessibility reasons. Nonetheless, I promise to no longer bracket em dashes with hair spaces. Patrick Xarles Hayes (talk) 19:11, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Fair enough, all good now; I'll unblock you. For what it's worth, outside of quotations, the Manual of Style does say: "An em dash is always unspaced (without a space on either side)". Graham87 02:51, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]