Snowgrouse

Cleanup

Cleaned up as of May 2017; too many spammy comments that have nothing to do with improving the wiki but just attempt to start a chat with me, and too many invitations I'm not interested in. NB: I'm not really here to chat about the topics I'm involved in; I'm sure there are discussion forums elsewhere on the Internet where you can find more like-minded people to discuss the stuff. Kindly have a look at the Talk page guidelines; it says right there that this place isn't a social forum.

However, of course, if it's something directly relating to an article, I'll take note! The above is just to notify the "hi, can you proofread my book for me" or "have you tried these mantras? They're really powerful!" folks.

Cheers. --Snowgrouse (talk) 05:29, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

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: Why do Indian Wikipedians do this mass messaging thing? It was one of the main reasons I had to clean up my talk page--because I was constantly getting this kind of spam from Indian editors. I don't want to remove myself from WikiProject India, but it seems like I have to so I won't be spammed with this again. I don't even want to opt out of all mass messages, just the overenthusiastic Indian editors. Being a part of the project doesn't indicate I have the interest or the time for this kind of thing, sorry. --Snowgrouse (talk) 03:58, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Conflicts of interest in academic publishing

Hi, Snowgrouse, I've clarified (hopefully) the bit you tagged in Conflicts of interest in academic publishing#Avoidance, disclosure, and tracking. Thank you for pointing out my jargon, and please let me know if it's still hard to understand.

You also corrected a misspelling, specifically "biassed"->"biased". I make plenty of spelling mistakes, but this one is actually a dialect difference; British English (and some Commonwealth Englishes, less consistently) double the last consonant when using some suffixes, I think because the sound is often repeated in pronunciation ("travel-ling"). Now I totally do not care what spelling variants are used, but some editors really, really, really care, so I thought I'd let you know before you run up against one. Official policy is to not edit war about it or gratuitously change style within an article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling. Since the article in question never had a consistent dialect (which is definitely my fault), there is nothing at all wrong with your edit, which was helpful, and this note is in no way intended to criticize you. HLHJ (talk) 17:41, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Cheers, and thanks for the pointer. I've only encountered "biassed" incredibly rarely even in US scientific/academic texts, so I was surprised to see it pop up. Too exhausted right now to go and check the article, but I appreciate the heads-up. --Snowgrouse (talk) 18:35, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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