User talk:Dextrase

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—Ruakh_TALK 18:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion

Hi,

Just so you know, I reverted your last edits at English personal pronouns, because it looked like you were just testing out the wiki markup. (?) If so, you might want to use Wikipedia:Sandbox instead; that's a space reserved for markup experiments. :-)

—Ruakh_TALK 19:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please sign your comments on talk-pages only; please do not put your signature on article pages! —Ruakh_TALK 22:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

English personal pronouns

Can you explain what bothers you about this text:

Historically, my comes from a reduction of mine, and well after the emergence of my, mine continued to be used instead of my before words beginning with vowel sounds. Similarly with thy and thine.

and what you find better in this text:

Historically, mine (originally mīn in OE) was eventually reduced to my. Similarly with thy and thine.

? I think it's important to give the information that not too long ago, the my/mine distinction was as today, except that mine was used instead of my before words beginning with vowel sounds. Hopefully we can find a compromise that will suit both of us.

—Ruakh_TALK 23:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm taking your lack of response to mean you've changed your mind. If that's not the case, please let me know (by replying here or at my talk-page, or bringing it up on the article's talk-page). —Ruakh_TALK 06:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Émile Nelligan

Thank you for your contributions! A few notes regarding you recent changes: (1) we have a manual of style regarding how we present dates. In general, we use "24 December" or "December 24" as opposed to "December 24th" or "24th of December". I also noticed you changed some words from American spelling to British spelling. This is constructive, but simply not needed. Since the English Wikipedia is used by people who write in various forms of English, we try to either conform to what the subject relates to (Elizabeth II should be British English, Barack Obama should be American English), or whatever was originally in the article. Here this subject is Canadian, so we have no particular and well defined variation, so we should just stick with what we already have. More at WP:RETAIN. Hope you find this information helpful, and let me know if you have any questions! Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:58, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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