User talk:Flowernerd

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sneaked and snuck

Hello- I was looking at some of the edits you made at the Battle of Wuhan page (Thanks for that), and I was wondering if you could explain a little bit about the correct usage of sneaked and snuck. The usage notes on this Wiktionary page: [1] also talk about the issue, but I would never have made the change that you made from snuck to sneaked, and I would like to understand the rationale behind the proper usage of these words (if you have the time). Thanks again for your grammar-related editing. Geographyinitiative (talk) 07:58, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, I'm not sure of myself there, but as far as I can tell, sneaked is more universally used, and snuck is used more in the USA, and is a little more informal. Either one is an acceptable simple past tense, but since "sneaked" is more formal/encyclopedia and more British I went with it since I figured it would do no harm and the article seemed to be written in British English. Both words mean exactly the same thing: simple past of "sneak". This kind of raises the question of what version of English we're using in this article. I saw at least one British spelling ("realised") so I figured I'd go with British usage, which I'm not expert in. If we are going with British usage, I should probably go back and think about whether collective nouns are singular or plural. If nobody cares, I might switch to USA usage because that's my native variety so it's easier for me to use. If you feel I'm being silly and pedantic, by all means change it back. :) Flowernerd (talk) 15:50, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I accept your judgement on all the issues you brought up- you're an English teacher correcting English usage on Wikipedia, and that's great, thanks!! (We do get some rotten English sometimes, caused by people using Google Translate, etc. or just being unfamiliar with English. I'll give you some particularly terrible examples: Daiyang village & Huanggang Normal University. They are so messed up that it would take a lot of work just to piece together what is being said. Most of the articles in List of villages in China have some kind of English grammar problems.) But I just wanted to hear your thoughts about this particular edit because, as an American, I think I use both 'sneaked' and 'snuck' in my oral and written language, in both formal and informal contexts, and I had never directly realized that the two words were almost identical in meaning, usage and tone, but that it might be better to switch to 'sneaked' for an article with a British English feel. Thanks for your time. Geographyinitiative (talk) 22:40, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vital articles

I think the process is a bit arbitrary, but I'm wondering if you made the same mistake I did, thinking Level 5 was more important than Level 1. 5 has the most articles that should be brought to feature status, 1 the 10 most important. You're right though, that wasn't an article that is one of the 50,000 most important ones. Doug Weller talk 09:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, I made that exact same mistake! Thanks for letting me know! Flowernerd (talk) 20:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]