User talk:Richardccramer

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you recently removed some content without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry: I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, you can use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Materialscientist (talk) 00:09, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone through the training now and will be sure to remember to leave explanations for my edits in the future.

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Wikipedia project addition review/edit[edit]

Hey Richard!

First off I'll say that I think you did subtle but substantial improvements on the original "Lilith's Brood" page. I will list just things as I go through them. I didn't just edit them myself because I didn't want to make any changes you weren't totally on board with. However, if you want me to go through and make a grammatical edit myself (instead of this long sort of laundry list of minor things) I can do that myself, no problem. I'm happy to edit a final version as well! Just keep me posted!

I think that it may read more clearly to write the first paragraph of 'Synopsis' as "Dawn, the first novel in the trilogy, was published in 1987. The plot begins after a group of extremists have obtained nuclear weapons and their actions resulted in..."

There is a typo in first paragraph, "alineness" instead of "alienness"

Throughout the whole section I would capitalize Oankali, unless it is only capitalized in the Wikipedia link. In that case, I would un-capitalize the Wikipedia link.

Second paragraph, first sentence, you want to italicize "Dawn"

Under 'Themes' in the first sentence you want to italicize "Xenogenesis"

"The oankali believe that humans have an inevitable self-destructive conflict between their high intelligence and their hierarchical natures, Lilith and the oankali-human hybrids are constantly battling with the inner conflict." This sentence needs a period after 'hierarchical natures' instead of a period.

I would also just continue to clean up the 'Themes' section. The quotes are introduced in a slightly strange way, and 'American' needs to be capitalized in a few places.

Overall, I think you're going to be able to give it a good cleaning up! I also saw that you may have deleted some things and someone added them back, so sorry if I commented on those and you already knew about it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kjjohnson52 (talk • contribs) 18:14, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]