User talk:Anne N. Cephaly

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Happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 11:40, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

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I was taking a look through your edits and I noticed you state "look it up in your dictionary" fairly often. Please note that dictionaries do not contain all definitions of a language, especially scientific ones. This is especially true for "edifice", which doesn't mean "a building" in volcanology but rather the structure of a volcano. Take care! Volcanoguy 20:15, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Indeed, Anne N. Cephaly (I love the user name!) I would also be grateful if you would take more care. I had the same comment to a well researched edit you undid. I had in fact already consulted multiple dictionaries for the word "feces" and also what those dictionaries say about agreement of a plural noun and plural verb before I made my edit. Indeed, your comment repeated my very point that the word "feces" is a plural noun! But perhaps you did not take the trouble to look up in your dictionary what a plural noun is? If you do, you will find that my edit does exactly what dictionaries say, that is use the word as a plural with plural agreement for the verbs. If you were thoughtful enough check the talk page, you would also have found a section that already had made this point and even guided you in the right direction for why you might be confused by mass nouns or collective nouns. SciberDoc (talk) 10:00, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Plural and collective nouns are only used with plural verbs in British English. For example the team are... In American English we use the grammatical principle of subject-verb agreement so a team is. I see that someone has removed the use American English tag so you could include the weird affectations of modern British English. I can't see any other examples of British English in the article so I believe that it was written in American English. Changing it so you could write it this way violates the principle of WP:ENGVAR. Maybe a note to mention that in most dictionaries feces IS would be correct. I don't have a British English dictionary or books about British grammar but there probably is such a thing. Anne N. Cephaly (talk) 14:37, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

John C. H. Grabill

Hello. I noted that you reverted my edit on the John C. H. Grabill article. You stated that the sephia photo is better, but based on what? It seems to be a personal appreciation rather than an objective statement. In fact, the frameless b&w photograph is more suitable for the infobox (and this also comes from a personal opinion).

Moreover, the replacement of the photograph was not the only change I had made to the article. With your reversion, that change also disappeared. Therefore I recommend you not to revert arbitrarily before trying to reach a consensus on the article talk page. Entering into an edit war is not convenient for any of us. Fma12 (talk) 21:04, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

It's "sepia" and the sepia-tone original from the Library of Congress is the definitive version so it is the one that should be in an encyclopedia. Also you have spelled "Grabill as "Grabhill". I am going to revert some of this. This should be discussed on the article's talk page, not here. Also reverting your changes once is not an edit war. Anne N. Cephaly (talk) 15:04, 29 March 2022 (UTC)