User talk:Wiki4950

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June 2020

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

I noticed your recent edit to Grammatical mood does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! — Anita5192 (talk) 16:04, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes you can't change "man" to another term

Hello, Wiki4950. I notice that you have been altering multiple articles to change “man” to “person” or “woman”. I understand why you are doing this, to make the language more neutral, less male-centered. At the article Relative clause you changed some generic sentences from “man” to “person”; that was fine. But you also changed the sentence “I met a man who wasn’t there” to “I met a woman who wasn’t there,” and when it was reverted you did it again. Please don’t do that again, because the phrase is a direct quote (from Antigonish (poem)), and we must not alter direct quotes. Thanks. -- MelanieN (talk) 21:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]