oh i thought that this might have come into play others' comments it is not necessary to bring talk pages to publishing standards so there is no need to correct typing errors grammar etc it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting never edit someone's words to change their meaning editing others' comments is not allowed there are exceptions however some are if you have their permission removing prohibited material such as libel and personal details removing personal attacks and incivility this is controversial and many editors do not feel it is acceptable please read wp attack removal of text and wp civil removing uncivil comments before removing anything unsigned comments you are allowed to append or one of its variants to the end of someone's comment if they have failed to sign it the form is subst unsigned user name or ip which results in the preceding unsigned comment was added by talk contribs interruptions in some cases it is ok to interrupt a long contribution either by a short comment as a reply to a minor point or by a headline if the contribution introduces a new topic in that case add headline added to reason by in such cases please add subst interrupted user name or ip before the interruption when a long comment has formatting errors rendering it difficult to read in this case restrict the edits to formatting changes only and preserve the content as much as possible on your own user talk page you may remove comments from others although archiving is generally preferred the text of another user's comment however may never be directly edited to misrepresent the person or change the meaning of the comment must be tricky deciding 'when' to be 'diplomatic' or to cite rules when they are broken i will pay more attention to see when it is appropriate talk