User talk:Summertoad

Psycho Donuts[edit]

Thank you for contributing to the article and sharing your interest; I hope you are finding Wikipedia easy to adjust to and I welcome any questions you have about the site or how things work here.

Please be careful, however, not to use misleading edit summaries when you make a change to an article. In this edit your edit summary says you were "correcting syntax", whereas what you actually were doing was undoing the previous writing style (there were no grammatical errors there), which I already contested with the summary for this edit. Wikipedia has a strict policy against edit warring, so if you disagree in that edit, or if you think it should be written differently, the best thing to do is to start a discussion (either here, or at Talk:Psycho Donuts) explaining why, so we can work out a consensus without reverting one another.

Thank you, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:37, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:37, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"The shop" refers to the people and the company behind the shop, not just the physical building itself; this sort of language use is very common. Here are some representative Google results:

phrase	ghits
"shop describes itself"	7,840
"store describes itself"	1,940
"business describes itself"	44,300
"company describes itself"	412,000

rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 04:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

These are not examples from Wikipedia, they're examples from all over the internet. And it's not an "error", it's just a kind of language use; prescriptive grammar is not automatically good writing.

And by the way, if you feel I have "not edited" this article, please check the history; I created the article. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 04:23, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you disagree with me about the writing style and you want to seek a third opinion, you can post a message at the language and grammar help desk or at Wikipedia:Third opinion. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 04:25, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]