User:StartGrammarTime

This user is an Australian.
G'day, mate!

This user uses AEST.
Their current time and date is
02:03 PM / Wed 11 Dec 2024.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

Hi! I like to wander around Wikipedia reading interesting articles (and then almost inevitably editing them a little). You can often find me on pages relating to monarchies, especially pages of lesser-known royalty and their families, courts, and companions.

Whenever possible, I try to improve articles by doing some clean-up work - usually fixing grammar, typographical or formatting errors, or bringing errant alternate spellings into line with the rest of the article. I welcome any feedback on mistakes I've made. If I am unable to respond promptly to any messages, I apologize in advance; I live with chronic pain and often have to take short breaks from editing.

My particular interests include helping new editors, common misspellings, BLPs, rewriting tricky sentences to improve their clarity, fixing dead links and bare URLS, and cleaning up AI-generated text.

Reference material

Manual of Style • Earwig's Copyvio Detector • article revision search • templates for citation/sourcing problems • Wikipedia Library

more specifically...

price conversion template • citing multiple book chapters • using non-English words and phrases • named references

Editing (or, These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things (To Edit))

edit requests • unreferenced BLPs • citations needed • clarification requests • copyedit requests • new pages feed • help requested • orphan articles

Peacock words These words tend to pop up in articles with WP:NPOV, WP:PROMO and WP:COI issues. Links are to search results, for easy investigation:

solutions • vibrant • customer focus • significant role • lasting impact • rich history • boasts • it's important to

Tip of the day...

Section editing

If you have created an account, you might notice little [edit] links on some pages. An [edit] link is shown for every heading on a page. Sometimes you will see two edit links per heading ([edit|edit source]). In that case, the [edit] link will launch the VisualEditor, a WYSIWYG editor, and the [edit source] link will launch a text based editor. You can create a level 2 heading by typing ==Headline==, a level 3 heading by typing ===Headline===, and so on, all the way up to level 5. Level 1 headings are reserved for system use only. The [edit] link lets you edit only the text that is below this heading and above the next one. This is especially useful for long talk (discussion) pages. If you do not like the [edit] links, you can turn them off in your user Preferences by disabling the VisualEditor. If you use a modern web browser, you also can enable the option Enable section editing by right clicking on section titles instead of, or in addition to, Enable section editing via [edit] links.

If you want to create a new section at the bottom of a talk page, click the New Section link in the navigation links under the heading This Page. Bonus tip: In your user Preferences under Editing you can enable section [edit] links for the lead section of articles too. Be sure to save your changes.

Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip