User talk:47.184.175.161

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Happy editing! JarrahTree 14:06, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Edits to Chinese Alligator[edit]

Hey there! I just wanted to let you know that in general it's bad practice to make unnecessary edits to sentence structure (i.e.: edits that don't increase clarity or fix errors, and are effectively just a way of restructuring the sentence that's already there). Many of your edits to the Chinese alligator article were of this unnecessary variety, and of those, some actually made things worse. For example, you changed "by people" to "by peopleby people" [sic], and conjoined the words "life cycle" into "lifecycle", which is a frequently made mistake that is incongruous with Wikipedia's own article on that matter.

However, I did want to note that your editing of "shelled prey" into "prey with shells" was kept because it did improve clarity somewhat; the adjective "shelled" could mean "prey with shells" or "prey whose shells have been removed", after all, though that confusion is unlikely to take root in the reader thanks to the context of the article. I just wanted to stop in and let you know about this general rule so you could continue to make edits with more of a critical eye. I wish you the best going forward. Happy editing! Crossark (talk) 00:14, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edit: I would like to apologize for not also keeping your edit of "less distributed by people" to "disturbed less by people". The rearrangement wasn't necessary -- both are grammatically acceptable and, contrary to your quite incendiary remarks on my talk page, neither order is specifically endorsed by the manual of style. However, the correction of the spelling error was correctly made, so I was wrong to not preserve that change. Crossark (talk) 00:20, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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