Thread:Yuna.Fan/@comment-24032889-20171205225358/@comment-24032889-20171206071115

And again, your grammar is great. If you were writing these things outside the wiki, there would be no problem with it. It's more of a sort of "style" of writing that is what I'm getting at. The wiki tries to sound more formal than informal. In other words, it's not what is being said but rather how it comes across. And it's fine that you didn't know to consider that sort of thing because it's not something you've probably ever needed to account for in other, more common forms of writing.

I've been doing history sections since like... geez. At least the beginning of Volume 2. And nowadays I'm often going back to those older history sections and condensing the hell out of them because they were way too long for sometimes just minimal actions in the span of a few episodes. And that was my previous writing. Before you made the Blake History edit I just mentioned, the previous edit was me taking away 1,500 or so characters from her Mountain Glenn section.

I browse the wiki and look for ways to keep up on my grammar. A lot of my edits are just me noticing that a comma was out of place and changed the meaning of the sentence to something inaccurate, or maybe someone used an - 's - when making Weiss possessive. In other words... even though Weiss, Jacques and Watts are singular, when we say "Weiss' father" or "Jacques' company", because their names end in an S, we only add an apostrophe and not an apostrophe followed by an S. That breaks normal singular vs. plural style rules, but it's agreed upon here.

Just like more often, the serial comma is used across America, but we don't use it here even though we follow American English. We say "Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang" not "Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang." See the comma after Blake? That's the serial comma we don't use.

Thanks. I really didn't want to come off like, "Hey, if you're going to keep contributing, you're going to have to follow my rules." Because when I see you've already done a character's section, I'm like "Well that's five fewer minutes I'm spending on this." You're certainly welcome to make it easier on me, and I'm glad you're getting a sense of fulfillment out of it too.