User talk:Gelatoarcade

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Happy editing! Tamzin (they/them) | o toki tawa mi. 08:17, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

(As an addendum to the above, I'll note that Wikipedia's Manual of Style takes no position on "themself" versus "themselves," but regardless I appreciate the copy-edits you've been making intermittently the past few months.) Tamzin (they/them) | o toki tawa mi. 08:19, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Oh, my apologies as I felt my edit sounded more grammatically correct. I wasn’t aware but thanks for the tip! Gelatoarcade (talk) 14:46, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

No worries. I'm not saying you were necessarily wrong. As a general rule, if a grammatical question isn't covered in the MOS, you should feel free to do it whichever way you prefer, but you also might not want to go out of your way to change how others have done it. Still, absolutely no need to apologize; it's great to see a new editor jump right into hunting typos and such.

I recommend reading through WP:MOS, our manual of style, our at least WP:SMOS, the Simplified Manual of Style. Those will show you which style rules are set encyclopedia-wide, and which are left to individual editors' discretion. A very important section of the MOS is WP:ENGVAR, which lays out the rules on national varieties of English. This matters when it comes to, for instance, your edit to Pope Francis: The article is written in American English (you can tell from the template saying {{Use American English}} at the top of the page), so in that case miter was actually correct.

Please don't take this as me nitpicking your edits. You're off to a great start, and I just want to make sure you're familiar with some of our copy-editing rules. If you're interested in copy-editing more, check out the Guild of Copy Editors and the page Wikipedia:Basic copyediting.

P.S. No need to write your name after a post. The four tildes (~~~~) will do that for you. Tamzin (they/them) | o toki tawa mi. 23:45, 11 October 2020 (UTC)