User talk:78.86.215.204

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[edit] Stephen Carpenter

Please avoid using abusive edit summaries as per Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thanks and happy editing. JRawle (Talk) 15:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Your edit summary was Removed pointless sentence that made article sound like it was written by a 12 year old. That's totally unnecessary. All you need to say was "Removed sentence" or "Removed unnecessary sentence" or "Reword sentence". Wikipedia is editied by people from all over the world for whom English may not be their first language. You can help by correcting what they've written; you don't need to insult them at the same time. I didn't look into this case in detail, but there's a chance the user who wrote that sentence could see the edit history and be offended. It's also insulting to 12-year-olds! Please read WP:CIVIL ("Judgmental tone in edit summaries").
Incidentally, the warning above is a standard WP warning template, Template:Edit summary personal.
Finally, why not create an account rather than edit under an IP? Your edits will be more closely scrutinised as an IP user when they appear in the recent changes log. JRawle (Talk) 15:52, 31 May 2008 (UTC)