User talk:78.32.211.178

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to List of former and unopened London Underground stations, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. CocaPopsRather 16:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am puzzled by this.

'Due to' was changed to 'owing to', because in correct English due to can only attach one noun causally to another noun - one thing is due to something else. One cannot say "The train was late due to a landslide" because "was late" is not a verb - and "The train" is not due to anything. You can say "Our late arrival was due to a landslide", because arrival can be due to lateness. Your view of what is constructive is somewhat at variance with constructing correct English sentences, or so it appears. If you are going to maintain a worldwide website using English, there is at least some responsibility to keep the grammar as correct as possible and if one of your readers takes the time to do it for you, it is incorrect and rather ungrateful to reverse it. Either Wikipedia cares about this kind of thing or in fact is doesn't care.

If you come across a sentence in which 'due to' cannot be used, it is usually possible to substitute 'because of' or 'owing to' instead, to solve the problem. 78.32.211.178 (talk) 13:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Midsomer Murders. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 20:09, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously the explanation was contained in the cited reference to the 2021 Census results. The area of England fictionalized in Midsomer Murders would have very few ethnic minority residents indeed and the information cited from the House of Commons Library can surely be taken as accurate, and contemporaneous. You have reversed the edit because you think it politically incorrect, but in fact it is, in a literal sense, politically correct. What you are doing is to impose political correctness when that detracts from the factual accuracy of the edit. I remind you that there is no fundamental human right not to be offended by something you do not like.

The explanation for the gradual introduction of an unlikely number of characters from an enthnic minority background in Midsomer Murders is nothing to do with the inevitable demographic makeup of 'Midsomer' the county, but entirely due to an early example of censorious 'cancelling' inflicted on Brian True-May, and in your reversal of the edit a few minutes ago (you were extremely prompt in doing so), you are attempting to continue that activity of political correction yourself.

Others have pointed out that the inclusion of many black and Asian characters in recent series of Midsomer Murders seems anomalous, in view of the fact that most people from those ethnic groups in England (and of course in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well) live in inner city conurbations; this suggests that the show is attempting to make an artificial point and this is not really its remit - it is not the task of a detective series to try to steer or manipulate attitudes to multi-ethnicity in society; neither is it Wikipedia's job to do so. Conversely, it is perfectly credible that the character of Dr Karimore, the pathologist, might be of Indian heritage - of course that is perfectly possible and unremarkable and therefore correct and acceptable. However, it is vanishingly unlikely that the rural setting of the series including many inaccessible and geographically isolated villages would include so many people, not being principal characters such as Kam Karimore, from a non-white ancestry. They just wouldn't be there, but in the series they now are for a reason unconnected with the storyline itself. Basically, the allegation being made against the series is that because of Mr True-May's remarks and the controversial way they were regarded at the time they were made, the policy following his resignation has been to make the series more 'woke', and this might be found disturbing and unjustified by some viewers. Your reversal of a carefully inserted edit, backed up by official data from the Government in a reference, is further indication that you yourself misunderstand the point being made and wish to promote some artificial impression, possibly because you seem, mistakenly, too frightened not to do so. Do you not accept the official census data from the survey carried out in 2021 and published by the British government? If not, why not? You are not the originator of that data and it is free for anyone to use or cite in support of a point being made.

Your view that something "did not appear to be constructive" is your own view and the website is presumably yours, not mine. I shall refrain from interfering in future because the policy underlying the editing and moderating process appears unbalanced and partial, more a matter of fashion or personal opinion than anything else. 78.32.211.178 (talk) 20:36, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Wellesley Barracks, you may be blocked from editing. Dormskirk (talk) 22:55, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]