Hotdjdave

Welcome Hotdjdave!

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Hello, Hotdjdave. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions! I'm Paine Ellsworth, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.

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Sincerely, Be prosperous! Paine  10:49, 28 November 2015 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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Thank you for your interest in editing Wikipedia, Hotdjdave. Your edit to American Revolutionary War was successful, but because it was not considered beneficial to the page, the edit has been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment with editing, please use the sandbox instead. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.  Thank you very much!  Paine  10:49, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

PS. Please see MOS:LQ for punctuation guideline.

See MOS:LQ; also, please do not "correct" other editors' Talk page comments. It's unnecessary and generally not appreciated. General Ization ^Talk 19:53, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

So how does one correct incorrect grammar?

April 2017

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to The Star-Spangled Banner, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 19:54, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

I didn't know that correcting grammar was something we were not supposed to do. All I did was move commas or periods inside quotation marks where the belong. I did nothing else. So please let me know what else I am doing wrong. Thank you.

Please see above. As explained at MOS:LQ (which was called to your attention twice above), under the logical quotation style commas and period do not always belong inside punctuation marks. And as I explained, you should not "correct" other editors' comments on Talk pages, even if you object to their spelling, grammar or other aspects of their comments. The last warning had to do with your removal of large quantities of content from The Star-Spangled Banner, which has nothing to do with "correcting grammar". General Ization ^Talk 21:50, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Recent edit reversion

In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.S Philbrick(Talk) 12:02, 31 May 2020 (UTC)