User talk:104.34.127.117

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Gnome. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, please use the sandbox instead, where you are given a certain degree of freedom in what you write.

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Happy editing! --Macrakis (talk) 01:07, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

August 2022

Hello, I'm Heyallkatehere. An edit that you recently made to George H. Eldridge seemed to be a test and has been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Heyallkatehere (talk) 21:21, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Kate...I guess I'm a bit confused about my fix being reverted back. The phrase "...and 12 other soldiers were received the Medal of Honor..." doesn't sound at all correct to me. For reference, I'm American and have been working with type professionally for almost 40 years. Maybe "were received" is an overseas expression? Anyway, I'm happy to be corrected if I misunderstand, but "...and 12 other soldiers received the Medal of Honor..." sounds a lot more grammatically correct to my ears. Missterkayare (talk) 23:16, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Ensure quoted statements are presented correctly

Hi. I am watching the article for Charles Starkweather and noticed you changed the content of a quote for a "punctuation fix". I know you did not confirm the content of the quote from the provided source, since the source just failed verification and doesn't contain the quoted statement. In the future, be very careful to follow policies and guidelines regarding quotations (essay) (in short: accurate reproduction and ~~accreditation~~ attribution required), which in that case would have been to leave it alone. I'm not reverting your change because the failure to verify from the source renders the whole thing impossible to currently determine. Cheers. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 19:33, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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