User talk:Posaidonman

Copyediting is difficult!

Hi Posaidonman, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I see that you have taken on the task of copyediting articles, and I'd like to ask you to be a bit more careful when you do that. Copyediting is not straightforward, and there are a couple of things I wanted to mention to you. First, while it's best not to make lots of very minor changes, making a single edit with a large number of small changes is also not ideal. This edit, for instance, contains a couple of improvements (I agree that "awarded" is more neutral than "honoured with"), but also introduces several errors (theories are not discovered, the space-time crystal phenomenon shows fermion densities – present tense, not past – and names of professorial chairs don't take the definite article, for instance), and several changes from one correct phrasing to another equally correct one. In such cases, it is a lot of work to revert only the incorrect changes, so often the edit will be reverted in its entirety. What I recommend that you do instead is work on one section at a time, because that way there will only be a few changes in each edit. Also make sure to use the "Preview" button before publishing – I suspect that you would not have made this change from "At age 24, he decided he could not proceed as a priest" to "At age 24, he decided to move away priesthood" if you'd read through the edited text before publishing it! I do agree that the previous phrasing was not very good, and I've rewritten that entire section a bit.

Another thing you should be aware of, which isn't really to do with copyediting, is that information in the introductory paragraph (the lede) does not need a source, provided there's sourcing for the information in the article body. The introduction is supposed to summarise the most important parts of the (sourced) article text. It does happen that the lede contains claims that are not sourced in the body, and then it's of course appropriate to tag for sources. --bonadea contributions talk 13:59, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Anuradha Pal. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Again, please be more careful when you copyedit. If you do not understand why the changes you made to Anuradha Pal were not improvements, it would be better if you worked in areas other than copyediting. bonadea contributions talk 21:04, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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Please be more careful when you copyedit. Have you read the long message above? As I had pointed out in my edit summary, Anuradha Pal was in need of copyediting and it was in rather poor shape, but I'm sorry to say that after your massive edit it is in fact in worse shape. It is equally promotional (you removed some blatant advertising but also added some hype) and it also contains more instances of garbled English such as "As a child prodigy when barely nine years old she countered chauvinism, discrimination and politics" and "making her in the forefront of online music education". bonadea contributions talk 10:49, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]