User talk:Darkhorse99

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Darkhorse99, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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A couple of things to check[edit]

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. There are a couple of things I think you should check up on before you edit a lot more articles.

The first is WP:OVERLINK which explains why it is a good idea to exercise restraint sometimes when linking articles. For example, in your recent edit to George Washington you should probably not have linked "American". I see quite a few pages where you have added links which are not needed and will probably be reverted. Please slow down on this and read the policy.
The other thing you could read up on is WP:ENGVAR, which explains that we usually do not change between the spellings of national varieties of English. So, for example, your edit to Denver where you changed "laborers" to "labourers" was not appropriate, any more than it would be for an English article to talk about the UK's "Ministry of Defense". Please watch ENGVAR issues carefully as they can cause great annoyance to other editors.

I hope this helps. Happy Editing and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 12:50, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

National varieties of English[edit]

In a recent edit to the page Bebe Stores, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to India, use Indian English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Ireland, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can visit the help desk. Thank you. David J Johnson (talk) 13:58, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]