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I am afraid that I have had to revert four revisions you made to articles: Special:Diff/1081128479 and Special:Diff/1081128697 to Scythian languages, Special:Diff/1081284226 to Hephthalites, and Special:Diff/1082088203 to Ahmad Shah Durrani. In each case, it looks as if the edit was either entirely unintentional or, where it was intentional, did something different from what you intended - I think you probably realised this with the first of the two edits to Scythian languages, but it also looks as if you didn't realise what had actually gone wrong with that edit (you inserted two words right in the middle of a third word), so the second one didn't properly correct it.
It looks to me as if you are carrying out a large number of mostly small edits at speed - you may need to be reviewing them a little more carefully than you have been doing, to make sure that what you have actually done is what you intended to do. Because when they don't, they can leave problems worse than the ones you have corrected. And I am fairly certain that I have not found anything like all of your bad edits, as I've only looked at your edits on about a dozen articles, a small proportion of your total edits.
Having said that, the majority of your edits look fine - some are correcting things that I wouldn't bother with (particularly considering that we have editors here writing in at least half a dozen different but equally valid varieties of English from around the world - and that's just including those with English as their first language), and very occasionally, I suspect that you have misunderstood what the previous text of an article was trying to say and (probably unintentionally) changed the meaning of what you were correcting. But usually, you have certainly been improving the previous text.
Best wishes for your future here.
PWilkinson ( talk) 16:03, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I just did a quick check and saw that your edit on Steph Curry getting 500 playoff threes in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Grizzlies was wrong ( https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/10/sport/steph-curry-warriors-grizzlies-celtics-bucks-spt-intl/index.html). I did a quick check and found that it was actually in Game 4 as seen in the links here: https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-stephen-curry-solidifies-3-point-god-status-with-epic-playoff-first/ https://www.nba.com/news/stephen-curry-becomes-1st-player-in-nba-history-with-500-made-postseason-3s
I have fixed the edit already, just a heads up that you can use sports-focused sites just to ensure accuracy as much as possible. Nintendoswitchfan ( talk) 06:30, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, thank you for this. Maybe i did a typo error. I'll follow your advise regarding my sources on my next edits. Thanks again. WonderCanada ( talk) 16:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
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Looking through your edits, it appears several of them are copied or otherwise closely phrased from the news sources you cite. I'm reverted some of these, please do not copy from sources in the future. Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 14:11, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
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Welcome WonderCanada!
I'm Sm8900, 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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- Sm8900 ( talk) 🌍 04:56, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
I am afraid that I have had to revert four revisions you made to articles: Special:Diff/1081128479 and Special:Diff/1081128697 to Scythian languages, Special:Diff/1081284226 to Hephthalites, and Special:Diff/1082088203 to Ahmad Shah Durrani. In each case, it looks as if the edit was either entirely unintentional or, where it was intentional, did something different from what you intended - I think you probably realised this with the first of the two edits to Scythian languages, but it also looks as if you didn't realise what had actually gone wrong with that edit (you inserted two words right in the middle of a third word), so the second one didn't properly correct it.
It looks to me as if you are carrying out a large number of mostly small edits at speed - you may need to be reviewing them a little more carefully than you have been doing, to make sure that what you have actually done is what you intended to do. Because when they don't, they can leave problems worse than the ones you have corrected. And I am fairly certain that I have not found anything like all of your bad edits, as I've only looked at your edits on about a dozen articles, a small proportion of your total edits.
Having said that, the majority of your edits look fine - some are correcting things that I wouldn't bother with (particularly considering that we have editors here writing in at least half a dozen different but equally valid varieties of English from around the world - and that's just including those with English as their first language), and very occasionally, I suspect that you have misunderstood what the previous text of an article was trying to say and (probably unintentionally) changed the meaning of what you were correcting. But usually, you have certainly been improving the previous text.
Best wishes for your future here.
PWilkinson ( talk) 16:03, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I just did a quick check and saw that your edit on Steph Curry getting 500 playoff threes in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Grizzlies was wrong ( https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/10/sport/steph-curry-warriors-grizzlies-celtics-bucks-spt-intl/index.html). I did a quick check and found that it was actually in Game 4 as seen in the links here: https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-stephen-curry-solidifies-3-point-god-status-with-epic-playoff-first/ https://www.nba.com/news/stephen-curry-becomes-1st-player-in-nba-history-with-500-made-postseason-3s
I have fixed the edit already, just a heads up that you can use sports-focused sites just to ensure accuracy as much as possible. Nintendoswitchfan ( talk) 06:30, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, thank you for this. Maybe i did a typo error. I'll follow your advise regarding my sources on my next edits. Thanks again. WonderCanada ( talk) 16:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
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Looking through your edits, it appears several of them are copied or otherwise closely phrased from the news sources you cite. I'm reverted some of these, please do not copy from sources in the future. Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 14:11, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
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