User talk:BrianMcInnis87

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April 2017

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style, as you did at Machinarium. Level 4 as apparently continuing edits done as IP. -- ferret (talk) 17:18, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

May 2017

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January 2022

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Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Jimi Hendrix. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use your sandbox. Read the talk page before attempting any further edits to the substance and content of this biography. You are adding errors that are not supported by the sources. - CorbieVreccan ^☊ ☼ 21:29, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

April 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason.

In particular, DO NOT add hyphens to words which do not normally have them in everyday usage in either American or British English. If in doubt about adding a hyphen to a compound word made up of two nouns, then don't do it, as the vast majority of such words are NOT normally hyphenated in modern English usage. Compound words where the first half is an adjective, however, are more likely to be hyphenated. See MOS:HYPHEN.
DO NOT use "gay" as shorthand for "LGBT". If more than one of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues are implicated in a section, use "LGBT" or spell out which. Likewise, DO NOT use "gay" when "lesbian" or "transgender" is specifically applicable instead to the specific situation.
DO NOT use nonstandard and awkward negative usage to describe groups, like "nonheterosexual". Avoid using "nonwhite" instead of "person of color" or similar. Describe groups and identities by who is in them, NOT by who is not in them.
DO NOT use "homosexual" as a group noun to describe gay men (as opposed to as an adjective). This is an explicit WP:Manual of Style violation; see WP:GAY? and note that states: "Significant mass changes of articles from gay to homosexual, or the reverse, require a supporting specific consensus or are likely to be viewed as disruptive."
This is NOT the New York Times, and Wikipedia doesn't use their manual of style. Wikipedia's Manual of Style says that acronyms normally do not have a period after each letter ("no full point with an acronym"); see MOS:POINTS. Likewise, do not spell out very large numbers, nor ordinal (counting) numbers larger than "ninth": MOS:NUMERAL.
Finally, competence is required to edit Wikipedia. For example, this edit uses "dove" as a past participle, which is bad English usage. The parts of speech are (dive/dove/has dived); "dove" is only used as standalone past tense. If you are not sure if the edit you are making for grammatical purposes is actually correct grammar, don't make the edit. 71.62.227.79 (talk) 01:34, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at The Fountainhead. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. You have been warned before about poor editing, including the addition of superfluous hyphens.

Please desist or you will get blocked again. OsFish (talk) 11:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

'View' is not a prefix, nor 'point' a suffix. Thus a hyphen is necessary. Thank you. BrianMcInnis87 (talk) 13:22, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns and note that "Compounds that contain affixes, such as house-build(er) and single-mind(ed)(ness), as well as adjective–adjective compounds and verb–verb compounds, such as blue-green and freeze-dried, are often hyphenated. Compounds that contain articles, prepositions or conjunctions, such as rent-a-cop, mother-of-pearl and salt-and-pepper, are also often hyphenated" whereas noun-noun compounds generally are not. An affix is where the second word is itself already modified (and is usually, here, not a noun). If in doubt, you may consult a dictionary, such as Wiktionary. 71.62.227.79 (talk) 18:34, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

May 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Yellow Dog (novel), disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Tow (talk) 17:14, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

June 2022

Hello, I'm Nightenbelle. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Bobi Wine seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Nightenbelle (talk) 17:59, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

November 2022

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Your edits

With this edit at Terrence Malick you added that the original name of a film was "code-named". The source cited makes no mention of a "code name". Did you mean "originally called" or "originally named"?
On your talk page above that User:71.62.227.79 explicitly cautioned you: "Wikipedia's Manual of Style says that acronyms normally do not have a period after each letter ("no full point with an acronym"); see MOS:POINTS. Likewise, do not spell out very large numbers, nor ordinal (counting) numbers larger than "ninth": MOS:NUMERAL". Please explain the following edits: [1][2][3].
With this edit you changed "Englishwoman" to "English woman". In the context of this sentence, wiktionary:Englishwoman was used correctly. Why did you change it?

Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:51, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

December 2022

You have been blocked from editing indefinitely for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. -- ferret (talk) 14:20, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]