User talk:Romanian Maniac II

December 2019

You are entitled to delete text on your user talk page but please be advised that the warnings are in the history and deletion of warnings will not prevent you being blocked from editing if you do not adhere to Wikipedia policies and guidelines.

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Since I did not place a warning as such on your talk page, you did not get another "warning" despite any implication suggested by the wording of my message. I now see that a better explanation was needed and my first sentence was unnecessary. So I am striking the first sentence above. In retrospect, I think as a new user you would not have seen the problem. I note that your edit was not vandalism; it just did not conform to the manual of style.

Simply put, your edit was an attempt to give additional information about the game but by using the words "you" and "your" instead of referring to a "player", it appeared you were giving directions or advice to the reader. Wikipedia is written in the third person and your edit should have been phrased in the third person, not the second person ("you", "yours") both to conform to the manual of style and to avoid the appearance of giving direction or advice.

I have restored your edit but changed it so it now uses the third person. Please see the sentence as I have revised it.

Thank you for your polite and constructive comment from which I was able to clarify this. Please continue your constructive editing. I do advise that you read or at least stay aware of the Wikipedia pages that I have linked. Donner60 (talk) 05:10, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Romanian Maniac II (talk) 06:17, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]