User talk:ScoBrit
ScoBrit here!
Welcome
[edit]Welcome!
Hello, ScoBrit, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Technopat (talk) 23:50, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Redlinks
[edit]Hi ScoBrit, you might appreciate a read of WP:REDLINK. They're not an error and can sometimes be useful. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:58, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
WP:UKNATIONALS
[edit]I would counsel you to read this guideline, as already advised to you, particularly this section. One ought always to provide an edit summary in any case but not leaving one for controversial edits such as changing nationality will be regarded as questionable practice. You ought to have a very good reason for making such changes and explain it. Rather than making unexplained and potentially controversial edits it is advisable to discuss the issue on the talk page, particularly to avoid edit warring. Mutt Lunker (talk) 21:47, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to thank you for your message and advice, I am a new member and I am really just trying to help and not do any damage to anything on Wikipedia. The reason I took the time to change his nationality was because he is called the "British" No.1. In the media he is known as "British" usually. He plays in a team that represents Great Britain. I took it in the people's interest to change his nationality and in that thought I was doing the right thing. I will continue to call for it to stay as "British" because he is the person that represents every constituent country in the United Kingdom.ScoBrit (talk) 22:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Please use the edit summary when you are changing things in articles. It helps everyone understand what you are doing, and why, and avoids misunderstandings. Thanks. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 15:03, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
- Shouting at me in capitals as to why you made a particular edit is a poor substitute for having provided an edit summary as explanation in the first place. You can not assume people will know why you have made an edit, even if it seems clear to you.
- Your initial edit today removed a large section of cited text and not just the sentence regarding the indicated consequences of a Conservative election victory which you now indicate was your intention.
- Regarding Did you even read the sentence ?, the fact that I revised it to update it, grammatically at the very least, is surely an indication that I did indeed read it. The sentence had become outdated by the passage of the election, hence my revision. Did you yourself notice I had revised it?
- The sentence is still of relevance, at the very least historically, in regard to how the stripe of the Westminster government has an effect, or potential effect, on support for independence. What's more, though there is a coalition in Westminster, the Conservatives are the senior partner so the pre-election indicated effect of their potential victory may or may not be as strong but is still pertinent.
- Regarding calling me an idiot on my talk page, I understand you are new here but kindly read Wikipedia:Civility.
- Lastly, a minor point. I'd prefer if you add any comments on my talk page at the bottom, please don't leave lots of blank lines and please also sign your comments.
- Mutt Lunker (talk) 18:47, 10 July 2010 (UTC)