User talk:Dsmccohen

Your recent edits

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Your recent edits

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Welcome!

Hello, Dsmccohen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Stephenb (Talk) 10:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

September 2007

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did to Christmas, you will be blocked from editing. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 10:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits reverted back to anal/Alexander instead of annual/Jesus. When anyone sees that, they will see it as vandalism. My apologies but it looked like what it was. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 10:18, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I will be extra careful in the future, sorry if I net-shouted, and apologies accepted re: my edits looking like vandalism.

That was a bit strong - I think you were trying to revert vandalism, but got it wrong. (Undoing just reverts a single edit, so I reverted Christmas further back. However, please be more careful next time! Stephenb (Talk) 10:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I did revert back - see here. Just be careful, and stay calm and civil, please, or you will risk getting blocked. Stephenb (Talk) 10:09, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alright mate, as you like, but I kept loading it and it didn't show up as "annual/Jesus" 'til I edited it again over here. Anyway, you didn't warn me, but that was pretty frustrating. I'm someone who until very recently used to actually vandalise wikipedia for my own amusement and never got punished cuz I had no account. Now I've got an account and I'm trying to make wikipedia the great source for quick information it could be and I'm getting reprimanded. That just... it's very ironic.

Certainly you can also verify with history that "anal" and "scrubs" and "alexander" were there before I had a hand in this article, yeah?

Yep, I agree. Note: "Reload" often just reloads from your browser's cache of web pages previously downloaded. When using IE or Firefox, use Ctrl+F5 to force a reload from the server. I've added the welcome message at the top to give you some pointers. Happy editing. Stephenb (Talk) 10:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Is it true...

Moved from Talk:Wikipedia.--chaser - t 09:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That wikipedia is supposed to be in American English? I've heard this (I hope) bullshit claim a couple times, and I'd like it verified how wikipedia feels about proper spelling.

I am of the view that American English should be seen as incorrect spelling, grammar and lexicon, to the point where I consider having articles titled "Football (Soccer)" and "Privatization" as legitimate as having articles titled "Friend (Nigga)" and "Po-lice".

However, I realise there's a lot of people who are under the delusion that American "Standard" English is somehow more legitimate than African American Vernacular English and somehow on the same level as the Queen's English. And I also realise rewriting every spelling/grammar/lexicon difference in every article in parenthesis or with a slash is a bit much.

However, I am quite serious that I'd like it if proper English got more respect around here. Am I wrong to want that? Is this really the American English (and not English) wikipedia? If so, doesn't real English deserve its own wikipedia? If not, in what respect are the two "standards" to co-exist? So far it seems that at least articles on "un-American" things are fairly safe, and I've been tolerating American English's dominance over wikipedia, but I became very frustrated when I realised the "Football" article (an article that I can't think is of any interest to Americans) has to include "soccer" in the URL.

So what's the deal wikipedia? Is wikipedia American or merely mostly Americanised? Sorry, AmericaniZZZZZZZZD.

Does anyone know if the French wikipedia is any different? Do they have to put up with everything being renamed all joual and whatnot to satisfy the loud-mouthed Quebecois? Dsmccohen 09:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English answers most of your questions. Talk:Football (soccer)/(archive 2) is about the specifics about that particular page. I don't know how things are handled on the French Wikipedia.--chaser - t 09:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

October 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to History of the Jews in Switzerland, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: History of the Jews in Switzerland was changed by Dsmccohen (c) (t) replacing entire content with something else on 2007-10-16T09:52:10+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot 09:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to History of the Jews in Switzerland, you will be blocked from editing. --Gordafarid 09:58, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to 17 (number), you will be blocked from editing. SMC 10:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]