Fashionmouse

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Hi User talk:Bluerasberry,

Thanks for the welcome and helpful reference pages. I'd love to get started. Are there any simple editing projects that need to get done? I'd love to jump in and practice with something on the simple side. Fashionmouse (talk) 15:57, 21 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

 

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Hi, thank you for your edits to Coco Chanel. Although you were right to remove the silly sentence that some kid added, I just wanted to note that if an article that is not USA-centric is written in one form of English, then it is generally accepted that that is the form of English the article should stay in. Wikipedia articles are not expected to all be in US English - in fact, articles on Indian subjects may use Indian English (although I'm not sure how that differs exactly), so if a long article on an international/European designer has been written in British English, then that is the format the article should stay in unless there are really good reasons it should be in another form of English. So it's a good rule of thumb to leave British spellings alone unless the rest of the article is in American English (or vice versa). Mabalu (talk) 16:46, 23 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi Mabalu,

I understand. In the future I will leave British spellings alone. Unfortunately, the return to the previous version also removed the other edits I :made. Ones that corrected strange phrasing, comma use, and inconsistent flow.Fashionmouse (talk) 15:17, 24 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi - I apologise for that. It can be really tricky when a good-faith editor does a lot of small edits around an article, including a few good ones mixed in with a lot of less valid edits. Sometimes the only way is to revert, even if a few good edits are lost, as it is too tricky to go through fixing a lot of small edits one by one. I've taken a look at some of your other edits, here are my responses:

• "a sportive, and casual chic" - Yes, removing the "and" was correct here, but IMO, the real problem is that the phrase is weird overall - it would be far more direct to say "sporty, casual chic" which is more of the usual way of phrasing it. "Sportive" is really just a pretentious way of saying "sporty."
• I wouldn't describe money collected by passing around a plate as "a salary" - that implies it was a regular and consistent set amount paid to them, which it clearly wouldn't have been if it was scraped together from collecting. So again, that seemed a strange way of describing it, when the original sentence seemed to describe more clearly.
• "modelled her hats in the F Noziere's play" - you were right to remove the "the" there. I've put in Fernand Nozière as that is more encyclopaedic than F Noziere, and tweaked that section a bit as I saw some odd phrasing - an actress doesn't necessarily "model" hats on the stage, they're part of her costume.
• The Adrienne Chanel sentence - I think both versions are equally fine, but it was an odd sort of sentence with strange emphasis, so I have rewritten and condensed it a bit. It's not that unusual for an aunt to be a similar age to her niece/nephew, so not really necessary to dwell on it in as much detail.

By the way, you would be absolutely correct to Americanise spellings in articles on American subjects, or to correct British spellings if they are an anomaly in an otherwise US-English article. It is more about the consistency of an article than whether or not it should be in one form of English. Again, thank you for raising the point as it was well worth my taking a closer look again. Mabalu (talk) 23:02, 24 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Mabalu Thanks so much for considering my edits, and for your informative analysis and corrections. Fashionmouse (talk) 16:06, 27 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hello Fashionmouse! Because you are an active member of WikiProject Fashion, would you be interested in collaborating with other members to improve the article Jacket in July 2016? If so, check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion/Collaboration of the Month, which is an initiative of WikiProject Fashion to improve one of our important, poor-condition articles each month. Chickadee46 (talk|contribs) (WP:MCW) 03:11, 30 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hey Chickadee46,

Thanks for the invite. Unfortunately, I will be out of town most of July :( I'd love to contribute to a collaboration when I get back! Fashionmouse (talk) 20:57, 30 June 2016 (UTC)Reply