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The type of English an article is written in is often shown at the top of the edit page. In the case of Grammar this states "Use British (Oxford) English" - Arjayay (talk) 13:25, 5 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

March 2018 edit

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. JNW (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

  • Per the above explanation, which you’ve ignored. JNW (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2018 (UTC)Reply


March 2018 from Wakingapp My apology, it took me time to spot about Arjayay and JNW comment on my talk page (and get to know the concept) and understand how to reply. I have read the links Arjayay provided me but still have a question left. I understand that a word has many ways according to the English style of the speaker. However, in the MoS there was no mark to that cosmetic changes (missing commas for instance) creates a problem with the National varieties of English. yet still I have received a warning from JNW which I find hard to put together with the do's and don'ts in the MoS. I would like to have a clarification regarding cosmetic fixes.

  • Changes that have not been reverted by other users have been undone to eliminate any unintended harnesses.

WakingApp (talk) 16:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)Reply