User talk:RyanSonic2002

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Hello, RyanSonic2002, and welcome to Wikipedia!

An edit that you recently made to Sergo Ordzhonikidze seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox.

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National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Nana Akufo-Addo, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 18:02, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

December 2020

Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in COVID-19 pandemic. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 18:06, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the edits you made to Moon rock were disruptive, so I reverted the whole thing, for the following reasons:

No such word as "moonrock"
"impacts basins" instead of "impact basins"
We capitalize the name of Earth's Moon, treating it as a proper noun, to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" which we use for the satellite of any planet other than Earth. We also capitalize Earth as our planet's name, regardless of the fact that other sources choose a different style and don't capitalize them. JustinTime55 (talk) 20:17, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Coronavirus disease 2019, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Hi, RyanSonic2002! I believe that you missed the {{Use Commonwealth English}} template in the Wikitext at the very beginning of the article. Peaceray (talk) 00:53, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in 2020 Ghanaian general election. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Are you using Grammarly on Wikipedia pages? — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 18:42, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at President of Ghana, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. And this looks like another mess you made with Grammarly. Seriously, stop doing this! — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 19:01, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

More messy edits:

Nintendo
Qing dynasty
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (including some ENGVAR problems)
Tigray conflict
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
Retribution (professional wrestling)

and Ferret got the rest of 'em. Whew. @RyanSonic2002: You MUST stop doing this! Wikipedia is not a toy, and there are no "quick 'n' easy" ways to edit the articles here. — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 20:56, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. -- ferret (talk) 20:06, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@UncleBubba: I've gone ahead and blocked to stop this disruption, as the user is clearly not heeding any warnings and probably every single edit needs reviewed. Hopefully they will now read their talk page.... -- ferret (talk) 20:08, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferret: Thank you! I was about five minutes (or ten cuss words) away from filing an AN/I report. I've run across this before—thankfully, it doesn't seem too common. Mostly, the miscreants tend to be bored students who use Grammarly for school stuff and think it might help them "clean up" Wikipedia without doing any real legwork. <sigh> I wish they knew how much damage it does and how much time it wastes. Thanks again! — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 20:37, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@UncleBubba: 30 reverts later and close to an hour of reviewing, I think it's mostly cleaned up, at least the more serious issues. -- ferret (talk) 20:43, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferret: Thanks! I could see you working as I was going through the list (looks like I reverted 9 or 10). You're faster than I am, so I'm really glad you got involved! Thanks again, and Happy Christmas (or [insert holiday of your choice]). — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 20:56, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Doug Weller talk 16:33, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

RyanSonic2002 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

unkown RyanSonic2002 (talk) 16:53, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

I am declining your unblock request because it does not address the reason for your block, or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that

the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, or
the block is no longer necessary because you
1. understand what you have been blocked for,
2. will not continue to cause damage or disruption, and
3. will make useful contributions instead.

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:05, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Reply to email you sent to me

@RyanSonic2002: You sent me an email about your activity here. I prefer to follow customary Wikipedia practice and communicate on Talk pages, so I'm responding here. You said:

Hey there, I just wanna say I'm sorry that I fucked up the articles that I made a mess. Please forgive me. I could use Grammarly to fix the errors carefully.

From what you wrote, I think you're missing the point: editing grammar, flow, and style on Wikipedia isn't something that can be easily automated—if it were, everyone would just feed the pages through Grammarly and our work would be done. That's not the case, though. In my experience, Grammarly, while great for (many) term papers and business documents, is terrible for processing Wikipedia articles, mainly because (unlike a human editor) it does a terrible job of:

Differentiating between open text and quotes. (If the person said/wrote it using bad grammar or syntax, that's how we quote it—we never correct quotations.)
Understanding that some articles are written using British English, while others use American English.
Realizing that, in some cases, "prior to xxx" is better than "before xxx".
Knowing, for example, that wont (one's typical behavior in a situation) is a valid word, and should not be changed to won't (a contraction of "will not").
And many, many other things.

The bottom line is that you are welcome—and encouraged—to help build and maintain Wikipedia, but you must contribute in a way that doesn't cause damage. I recommend you spend some time to learn the rules and practices the volunteers follow. Look at the links Tbhotch put at the top of this page. If those aren't helpful, let me know (post here; I'm watching), and I'll give you a larger set.

But PLEASE do not use Grammarly (or any similar service) to edit wikipedia pages. If you don't feel your command of English is good enough to correct spelling/grammar/syntax in the pages here, then please visit The Teahouse (WP:Teahouse) and ask how else you might contribute. I believe you will find many people there who will love to help you out. Good luck! — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 16:04, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RyanSonic2002, I firmly second what User:UncleBubba has just said here. Automated grammar checking tools can only be used constructively by people who have sufficient expertise in English grammar. Their accuracy is poor, and their value is in providing suggestions for grammar experts to evaluate. You are clearly not an English language grammar expert. As UncleBubba suggests, if tools like Grammarly were sufficient in themselves to correct all the grammar errors in Wikipedia articles, we'd just run them from a bot account and fix everything in one automated run. So when this block expires, please find something else to do and do not go back to making grammar changes using Grammarly or any other automated tool. Your enthusiasm is welcomed, and the people at the Teahouse can help guide you to areas where you can contribute productively. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:23, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

March 2021

I reverted several of your recent edits to 2020–21 United States racial unrest, George Floyd protests, and 2020–2021 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial justice protests articles as they were tedious and unnecessary. This type of editing could give the perception that one might be gaming the system, so you may wish to instead experiment using the sandbox. Minnemeeples (talk) 20:23, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Minnemeeples, I am puzzled by those edits, and I'm wondering when we reach NOTHERE territory. Drmies (talk) 16:16, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]