User talk:Absentities

Welcome!

Hello Absentities, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

At Wikipedia, new Users do not automatically receive a welcome; not even a machine-generated welcome. Welcome messages come from other Users. They are personal and genuine. They contain an offer of assistance if such assistance is ever desired.

I suggest to everyone I welcome that they may find some of the following helpful — there’s nothing personal in my suggestion and you may not need any of them:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Dolphin (t) 11:27, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Switching to American English[edit]

Hi Absentities. I see you are editing articles to switch the spelling of words from British English to American English. For example, you made this edit at Aeronautics. You switched "realisation" to the American spelling "realization"; you switched "aeroplane" to the American spelling "airplane". Please don't do that.

Wikipedia is an international encyclopaedia. It is not an American encyclopaedia! The English language exists in various forms - all of them legitimate and all of them acceptable at Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not have a preferred version of English. Please read MOS:ENGVAR.

Articles can be written in any variation of English providing it is correct in one country or another. We do not change the choice of a word or the spelling of a word to change from one variation of English to another. Please look very closely at MOS:RETAIN. Dolphin (t) 11:38, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I will heave it in mind next time. Peace! - Absentities — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎ Absentities (talk • contribs) 13:39, May 29, 2022 (UTC)

Please be more careful, Some of your rapid-fire edits are actually introducing grammar or WP:MOS errors. Meters (talk) 19:23, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Computer problems[edit]

Recently my computer has encountered some problems so I will need to go and fix it. I don't want to get into details, but now it is barely working and I will need to go to get it fixed. This will mean that I may be absent from Wikipedia for quite a long time, so this account may seem "abandoned" in the following days. Anyway, I hope everything goes alright. Have a nice day fellow Wikipedians! - Absentities

Hi Absentities! I see you have signed your edits - that is good. You have done so by writing your Wiki name but the way it should be done is just to type four tildes. (The tilde is a wriggly line: ~. The edit keyboard actually contains a single button that does four tildes.) This will leave behind a link to your User page and also the date and time. Please look at Wikipedia:Signatures. Dolphin (t) 04:16, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]