User talk:70.94.8.139

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[edit] English

Please try to use British English spellings in your additions to Robert Crowley (printer); every time you add large amountsof text, I have to go through copy-editing it in order to make the article consistent. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:43, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Really, who is making you do it? 70.94.8.139

My concern for consistency, and the Wikipedia:Manual of style; I edit here and became an administrator because I care about the contents and the quality of the encyclopædia . Why are you adding material without care for the way it reads, or for the conventions of the work to which you're adding it? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removing other editors' comments from Talk pages

Don't. You might disagree with the comments, but deleting or editing other editors' comments isn't allowed. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

It was my own comment, and it is no longer valid. 70.94.8.139
So long as you insist on editing from an anonymous IP address, no-one can be sure, because an IP address can be used by more than one person. In any case, removing one's own comments is generally deprecated (and they're in the history anyway); striking them out using <s>...</s> is preferred. But why not open an account? It's simple, quick, has no strings, brings many advantages... --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
I have an account. Sometimes I forget to log in or don't bother. Most often the system logs me out and I don't realize it.

Still, the same applies; if it's anonymous, it's anonymous. Why, incidentally, do you refuse to make the effort to follow Wikipedia policy and make your additions consistent with the form of English already in use in the article? If I can manage it when editing an article in American English, I don't see why the reverse isn't possible. Going through what's becoming a rather oversized article in order to clean up all the American spellings shouldn't be necessary. The odd slip is understandable, but you seem to refuse to be considerate as a matter of principle. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:13, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I rarely notice or think of it simply because those are the wrong spellings as far as I'm concerned, and I know very few of them. I appreciate Wikipedia's openness to relatively messy and disorganized collaboration of the sort we're enjoying. You see it as a problem; I don't.