Replied at User_talk:Chriswaterguy#Civility? --Chriswaterguy talk 09:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, what I have edited are changes that reflect the IOC's standards of using straight forward UK English spelling system. I only made changes on pages related to the Olympics. Please do not respell or re-correct everything in another English variant that are not officially utilised by the IOC. This loses accuracy and confuses many people as the articles' spellings will contradict against the actual spelling reflected by the IOC. If you have changed every thing into another English variant, please revert it back to the English adopted by the IOC. Bleedingshoes (talk) 18:55, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was making corrections mainly to proper names. Note, in addition, the 2008 Olympics using American spelling. Samuel Webster (talk) 08:59, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just letting you know, Bleedingshoes submitted a thread to WT:AIV about this, which I've moved to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Continuously changing spelling variation. Feel free to comment. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:46, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In your haste to change "centre" to "center", you renamed the file name of an image, thus causing an image red link. This would be considered vandalism. Please make sure your changes are do not cause problems such as red links (especially images). Cavenba (talk • contribs) 03:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! My bad. Apologies. I'm trying to undo massive spelling vandalism by Bleedingshoes, and I see I was way too hasty myself! Samuel Webster (talk) 08:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What a sec, what image? I don't see any with a red link. Samuel Webster (talk) 08:57, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, you reverted changes I made to PROPER NAMES. You didn't even bother to investigate which names are correct. Had you done so, you would have discovered that I corrected the names, and you reverted a correction. Why did you do that? Samuel Webster (talk) 08:57, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not vandalism, it's a mistake. Don't go WP:BITEing, the newbies, Cavenba. Bstone (talk) 18:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Webster, I reverted your change with the image. FYI, see the diff. And seeing as both of us have been here since about the first half of 2006, Bstone, he's about as much of a "newcomer" as me. And with Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, the correct spelling is "metre", it's a common noun, not a proper one (if you want to get into the matter, technically it should always be "metre" because it is an SI base unit, and SI spells it "metre" not "meter"), unlike "center" in this case. Cavenba (talk • contribs) 22:22, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Although I think your case for Center is pretty strong on the merits, please do be careful in how you refer to other Wikipedians. IMO a few things you've said have been impediments to others assuming good faith on your part. I fully understand why this is an emotional issue to you (I'm INFP if that means anything) but it's counterproductive to insult other Wikipedians, even implicitly. AFAICT there's no reason to infer that Bleedingshoes is acting in bad faith; I gather you feel differently, and if you can provide links to specific edits you think were wrongly-intentioned that would be very helpful. But regardless, it's important to present them civilly. Regards, PhilipR (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]