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[[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]], and "The Infosphere Welcoming Committee" 23:53, 3 January 2011 (CET)
== Changing English ==
== Changing English ==


You've been breaking one of [[I:R|The Infosphere's rules]]. Probably unintentionally, I assume. If you're American, you place the commas and periods inside the quotation marks. If you're British, you don't. When you make edits such as [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Template:BWABB/1&curid=6430&diff=78314&oldid=70021 this], you're [[I:R#General editing rules|changing English variant for the sake of doing so]], which is kind of something the makers of this place don't want you to do. ''Please'' read the rules for further info. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 18:38, 20 January 2011 (CET)
You've been breaking one of [[I:R|The Infosphere's rules]]. Probably unintentionally, I assume. If you're American, you place the commas and periods inside the quotation marks. If you're British, you don't. When you make edits such as [http://www.theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Template:BWABB/1&curid=6430&diff=78314&oldid=70021 this], you're [[I:R#General editing rules|changing English variant for the sake of doing so]], which is kind of something the makers of this place don't want you to do. ''Please'' read the rules for further info. [[User:Sanfazer|Sanfazer]] 18:38, 20 January 2011 (CET)

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Changing English

You've been breaking one of The Infosphere's rules. Probably unintentionally, I assume. If you're American, you place the commas and periods inside the quotation marks. If you're British, you don't. When you make edits such as this, you're changing English variant for the sake of doing so, which is kind of something the makers of this place don't want you to do. Please read the rules for further info. Sanfazer 18:38, 20 January 2011 (CET)