User talk:Will1410
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Will! You're doing some great work on Firesign Theater. Woo hoo! Jolomo
[edit] Rolling Stone Album Guide
Sorry if the grammar changes were incorrect, in school they always taught me to either use all past tense or all present tense when describing something for instance. He was a very nice man and he gives his time to charity. It makes more sense if it were either He is a very nice man and gives his time to charity or He was a very nice man and gave his time to charity, it just sounds better if they have the same tense that's why I did it, for the changing of the old volumes of the guide, I thought of it like when comparing something that became outdated.
If you look into a history text book it would say "Germany was founded by Prussians" not "Germany is founded by Prussians." If Germany was founded in 1871, It's not saying that the Prussians no longer founded it once its say "was" its just that that happened in the past, use past tense.
If the update of the volume happened in the past it made sense to me to say volume 6 updated volume 5 instead of volume 6 updates volume 5. Say the update of volume 5 by 6 happened this year then it would be more commonly used as "is" because its so recent.
The events happened in the past I'm just using past tense towards them, one updated one 30 years ago its just natural to want to give it past tense.
My flashlight was made in China or My flashlight is made in China, both are acceptable in this case, which is what I now think the Rolling Stone Guide situation is like, both ways they're acceptable.
Its not worth fighting over grammar so if you still think that my logic doesn't' make sense then go ahead and revert whatever edits you think I screwed up, Its not that big of deal.
On the album review guide, I'm sorry about changing the definition of the stars, you can immediately change those back if they're quotes from Rolling Stone, I just tried to make them less confusing because half the reviews say "a record" and then describes characteristics and then the second part says "records" so they switch from using single to plural, I was just trying to make it the same, either saying "records' or "a record" every time but I didn't know that those were exact quotes so I made a mistake, sorry.
Anyways to sum it all up, change whatever you feel necessary and where I made an error, I was just trying to help and I hope above I explained my logic well enough to try and convince you that I had good intentions and in my mind it made sense but I see where I might have made mistakes if you look at it differently, thanks for giving me a heads up before editing it and you have my permission to do whatever with what I wrote, Thank you -- Patman2648 18:23 22 March 2006 (UTC)
