User talk:Azniv Stepanian

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Please take more care[edit]

Hallo,

I was looking at Elizabeth Gaskell yesterday and was puzzled by the word "Bibliometric", which I could not understand in that context. I find that you added it in this edit, replacing the word "Bibliomemoir" which makes sense there. In the same edit you changed UK spelling to US spelling in several places although the article is about an English writer, and you "corrected" words within quotes. For example, in the section on dialect use, in a discussion of the word "nesh", you changed "Now, I'm not above being nesh for other folks myself" to the meaningless "Now, I'm not above being neshed for other folks myself".

Looking at your other edits I have found many examples of similar mistakes, such as changing "to night" to "tonight" in "Initially, the Luftwaffe raids took place in daylight, then changed to night bombing attacks when losses became unsustainable." in this edit to Strategic bombing, and changing "Surges" to "Surge" in "the SLOSH model, which is an abbreviation for Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes." in this edit to Storm surge (I checked the source here: did you?). This edit makes no sense, adding an "a" to change "In the ceremony, the young baby is set before several symbolic items relating to different professional vocations." to "In the ceremony, the young baby is set before several symbolic items relating to a different professional vocations." In Sea state you changed "Surviving the once in 100 years or once in 1000 years sea state is a normal demand for design of ships and offshore structures." to "Surviving the once in 100 years or once in 1000 years, the sea state is a normal demand for the design of ships and offshore structures." which is meaningless. You also choose to add "the" in many places where, as a native English speaker, I think it is not needed, although the sense of the article is often (but not always) undamaged.

There seem to be at least three different problems with your editing:

Please reread MOS:ENGVAR, and stop changing UK to US English unless there is a valid reason to do so (e.g. the article is already predominantly in American English and there is no reason for it to be in another variant of English). Your edit to History of Bavaria has many examples of this: British English uses "afterwards", and "...isation" etc, and the topic has no particular tie to any English-speaking country so should be left in the style of English in which it has been written.
Never change the wording or spelling within a quote, as you did with "nesh" above and also twice in this edit to Mary Barton. There was another example, I can't find it right now, where a word in a quote was followed by "[sic]", meaning "Yes, it really was written that way", but you chose to "correct" it.
But, most importantly, you appear not to know English well enough to be able to improve the Encyclopedia. Looking again at your edit to History of Bavaria, changing "were" to "was" in the sentence "by the Treaty of Pressburg, signed on 26 December, the Principality of Eichstädt, the Margraviate of Burgau, the Lordship of Vorarlberg, the counties of Hohenems and Königsegg-Rothenfels, the lordships of Argen and Tettnang, and the city of Lindau with its territory was to be added to Bavaria." is ungrammatical (there are multiple subjects for the verb, so it needs to be a plural verb"), but changing "The funds ... were used to endow a province" to "The funds ... we're used to endowing a province" suggests that you were perhaps using an automated system of some sort and that you have no understanding of the changes you are making.

Please stop editing English Wikipedia unless you are prepared to do so much more carefully and to take note of the three points above. Your edits have been damaging the encyclopedia (as in the incomprehensible change you had made to Elizabeth Gaskell which brought you to my notice). Unfortunately in most cases they will not be easy to clean up because they were not immediately noticed and other editors have since edited the articles. If you continue to damage the encyclopedia you are likely to be reported and may find yourself blocked from editing, to protect our precious collective work. Thanks. PamD 13:51, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am going through some of your edits and tidying up the encyclopedia, but have just found this major edit to North and South (Gaskell novel), in which you make all the kinds of mistakes mentioned above: you are converting British to American English ("center", "favor", "defense" and many many more); you have changed the wording or spelling of quotes: "he was no great analyzer of his own motives" and ""ten per cent and no surrender" (that one was also the title of a reference, which you changed); and you have changed the meaning by adding "the" in "where Mr. Bell was born and owns the property". You also broke a link by changing [[Wallenstein (trilogy of plays)|Wallenstein]] (Wallenstein) to [[Wallenstein (a trilogy of plays)|Wallenstein]] (Wallenstein). Just please take more care, or stop editing this encyclopedia. Thanks. PamD 14:40, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just found another horror: here you change the surname "Yampier" to "Vampire", presumably because your spell-checker did not recognise a proper name and you did not look at the resulting suggestion carefully enough to realise that it was nonsense. PamD 10:20, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. PamD 10:23, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]