User talk:Murkus69

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Thank you and sorry for Bernie Madoff. I'm a German and mostly work on German Wikipedia. Perhaps I should be more careful as I don't know all special rules of English grammar. Murkus69 (talk) 22:21, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021

Murkus69, I am sorry, but reading your message above and your contributions, it looks to me like you don't have a sufficient level of English to copyedit Wikipedia, like you are doing.

[1]. You need to capitalise the J ("Jewish") when writing about religions and nationalities.
[2]. There should be a comma between In 2005 and she. The structure of this sentence looks like it is copied from German, and it doesn't work as well in English.
[3]. Not only are the words here necessary for the sentence to work in English, the edit summary is wrong (two word ~~too much~~ -> two word too many).
[4]. The word read is perfectly acceptable in this context.
[5]. Again: it looks to me like you are using German syntax. In English, the structure of the previous sentence worked better.
[6] This not an error in the translation, this is a perfectly acceptable way to phrase this sentence in English. Also, in English, adverbs usually come before the verb, so I don't really understand why you would change the position of sexually here.

I hope you understand and I advise you to come back to enwiki once your English skills will have improved. JBchrch (talk) 08:58, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Murkus69, you really need to reconsider your involvement with enwiki. 20 min after I posted my message above, you introduced yet another error, by writing begining instead of beginning [7]. Also, you substantially changed the meaning of the sentence and worsened its style, and I am not sure whether this was intentional on your part. JBchrch (talk) 19:03, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I won't work on English articles any more, except I find contents which are obviously wrong. And there's still a lot to do in Wikipedia Germany. Murkus69 (talk) 19:45, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]