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16:02, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Ammeirahh, 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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Word substitutions[edit]

Once again, welcome! I noticed in your last dozen edits or so, you have been doing a series of word substitutions in articles, changing one word to another. Unfortunately, although you appear fluent in English, your English is not perfect, and in many cases, the articles were better before you changed them. We're happy to have you here, and I can suggest lots of areas where you can help, if you like, but substitution of single words is a difficult task best left to native speakers. I won't go through all the examples, but here are a couple:

this edit at "Freeway" Rick Ross – made it worse; the word eventually was correct in that sentence; I've reverted it. The English word eventually is a classic example of a false friend and does not mean the same thing as the French word eventuellement. (By the way: your edit summary is grammatically incorrect; you meant to say: Substituted "in the end" for "eventually".)
this edit at .458 Lott – offering a product, is very different from providing a product, and they didn't provide it, they offered it (for sale).

In some other cases (aside – apart; obtained – acquired; after – following, et al.) the changes are acceptable, but they are not an improvement, and per Wikipedia principles, every edit should improve the article in some way, no matter how small. If the new word is not an improvement over the old word, then there is no reason to change the article.

Perhaps you thought, as someone with non-native English, that changing only a tiny amount in an article, like one word at a time, was better than adding whole sentences, paragraphs, or sections. Paradoxically, this is not the case. To change a single word, you need a native, or near-native sense of the language. But to add content including complete thoughts (along with citations to reliable sources, of course) it's okay to make mistakes in English; somebody else will come along and copy-edit your words, to fix up any grammatical or syntax problems, and to adjust any awkward wording; the important thing, is getting the added content right, and sourcing it properly. I hope this helps, and if you have any questions about this, or any other topic, please don't hesitate to contact me either here ({{ping}} me) or on my Talk page (soit en français, soit en anglais). Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 23:34, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]