Welcome to Alexjos1858’s page. I am an Editor, Writer, Grammarian and an English Language Learner (ELL).

I am always open to collaborate with you reading this. I will be breaking a Guinness World Record which is the longest Edit-a-thon Nigeria, next month. I'm going to work a lot for those days of marathon editing.

I will be updating my page frequently. Kindly stay tuned!

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Remsense ‥ 论 07:07, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Southern Rhodesia in World War I, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. .

The article uses South African spelling, not American English spelling. bonadea contributions talk 15:55, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Bonadea! Thank you for pointing out these amazing corrections. I and my team are currently discussing over the Wikipedia: Manual of Style. We are always open for you to help us out. We don't know everything, and we're ready to learn more. Our team leader has warned us about the way to go about quality editing on Wikipedia.Thank you. Alexjos1858 (talk) 16:40, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you make disruptive edits to Wikipedia contrary to the Manual of Style. asilvering (talk) 01:33, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer to the discussion at WP:ANI#New seemingly-related group of good-faith but deleterious West African copyeditors. -- asilvering (talk) 01:33, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, @Asilvering. The team wants the best for Wikipedia, but you guys has been making this difficult when you all know we are actually learning more on the work. How could we know this if we didn't have this live and practical event. If I must be real with you, you guys are not making Wikipedia conducive for us with all your dragging on this website since 2 days ago. Yes, we admit our mistakes but why do you think blocking everyone's account would be the best shot to stop this Edit-a-thon if that is the case this isn't fair. To round this up, the title of the dragging is highly defamatory when you are using New seemingly-related group of good-faith but deleterious West African copyeditors, the word 'deleterious' begins to change everything, why would you use that kind of word on us? With all the edits we have been doing so far, and because we made a few mistakes, you want to cancel everything. The experienced editors are clearly discouraging us, when we all know that the "Young shall Grow up one day" and that is the whole point. Alexjos1858 (talk) 05:18, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm not Remsense, who is the editor who wrote the "deleterious" phrase, but I can imagine why they wrote that - because they are probably feeling something quite like what you're all feeling right now: "look at all these editors undoing all of my hard work!" This editathon has been driving other editors so crazy they want all of you blocked from editing. I don't want to stop you guys from editing. I think it's great that you're all learning to edit wikipedia together, and I hope you manage to meet your world record goal. You're not going to be able to do that if you all get blocked for disruption. So please, take the advice I've given in the threat at WP:AN. There are so many things that need doing on Wikipedia that you can help with. If you have questions, you can ask me, you can ask in that AN thread, or you can ask at WP:TEA, which is specifically there to help new editors. I promise that there are lots of experienced editors who will be happy to help you learn how to edit Wikipedia. But no one will be happy to help you learn English. You've got to do something that's less difficult than copy editing. -- asilvering (talk) 05:57, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, @Asilvering. I really appreciate the fact that you took your time to reply me. It was Remsense that defamed us and that is sacrilegious. He didn't just defame us but the whole of West Africa which consist of 17 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo). He wanted to become a weapon fashioned against us, but we are winning here. If other experienced editors from those countries mentioned above sees this, Remsense won't find it funny again. Thank God you said we are persisting despite the dragging so far. Right now, my team are currently working on our mistakes. Thank you so much once again. I will send you a message again if need arise. Alexjos1858 (talk) 11:03, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making threats towards other editors, implied or otherwise. You also appear to have misunderstood what Remsense said; you have not been defamed, nor has all of West Africa. -- asilvering (talk) 15:44, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you for your prompt response. Alexjos1858 (talk) 16:11, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll reply here as I did on the thread: if there's any way I could've gone about this as not to offer even a modicum of possibility for people to interpret my statements this way, I wish I had done that. It was pretty clear the group was at least mainly Nigerian when I originally posted, but given it was possible some editors could've been from elsewhere I chose not to be specific out of ignorance, but I see how that could be taken the wrong way. The last thing I would want to do is make a group of editors from an egregiously underrepresented region onwiki feel like they shouldn't be contributing. If I did so for anyone who was excited about contributing before, I apologize for that. Remsense ‥ 论 17:26, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, @Remsense, I think you come out of this well, and what's occurring right now is a disconnect I've observed several times between new editors from Nigeria and established non-Nigerian wikipedia editors: both "sides" say things they evidently think are perfectly normal and even quite polite, but these messages are reacted to by the other "side" as though they are lies or over-the-top personal attacks. I don't know if it's cultural, linguistic, or both, but I want to assure everyone involved in this current brouhaha that I do honestly believe that you all want what's best for the encyclopedia and no one means to hurt each other. It's my hope that everyone involved can come to believe that about each other as well.

This will somewhat unavoidably blunt the above, but @Alexjos1858, I also want to tell you and everyone else at this editathon that it's not "just you", or "just West Africans", or anything like that - it's a well-known stereotype of Wikipedia editors that we're grouchy and rude to "outsiders", regardless of who those outsiders are. When a bunch of new editors join at the same time and try to make the same kinds of edits, it immediately sets off all kinds of alarm bells. And for good reason - since, like this time, it means a lot of cleanup work for others, who quickly become overwhelmed because they're not used to dealing with that kind of volume. So far, none of you have been banned from editing entirely, and I'd like to keep it that way. That's going to require more patience from the established editors who are already feeling worn out (sorry, Remsense et al), but it's also going to require a change of focus towards the kinds of edits that you can do effectively. We don't expect contributors at English Wikipedia to have flawless English skills, and some people make valuable contributions with much less English ability than I'm seeing from this editathon. But copy editing, specifically, you really ought to avoid. -- asilvering (talk) 17:53, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not to get sidetracked or make this about myself, but I imagine I could be quick to anger too. For my entire life, I've seen people online make this region the subject of racist jokes, invective, and belittling—often to the exclusion of almost any other representation, maybe more than any other region. The last thing I would ever want to do is contribute to that, even by accident.

If anyone there feels those things in what I've done, I apologize and hope my remarks and actions can be taken in good faith. That's all I wanted to say here. Remsense ‥ 论 18:08, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have to abide by our policies, such as the one that says No personal attacks. If you attack and threaten any Wikipedia user again in the way you quite unreasonably attack Remsense above, I will block you for considerably longer than 31 hours. Bishonen | tålk 20:51, 28 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Please don't make edits like this one. They don't actually make any difference for the readers, and clutter the watchlist of other editors. Such changes are welcome as part of a substantial edit, but on their own should be avoided. Fram (talk) 11:32, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copy edits of ALL kinds ought to be avoided, given the discussion at AN and above. Please stop. I don't want to block you for making edits that would otherwise be at worst mildly annoying, but this is ridiculous. -- asilvering (talk) 17:57, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]