audio file dcgeist is vandalising this article by repeatedly removing content while refusing to exaplin the problem or start a discussion to correct the problem the problem he says is style which he believes very clearly explains the problem he prefers to delete content rather than help to edit the page to allow its inclusion is united states to be the only country in the western hemisphere without an audio file for pronunciation of the name when did style become so important that it justifies the deletion of content over style correction the addition is ungrammatical it clutters the article's opening sentence it is visually off putting and difficult to read this is a very significant stylistic concern by contrast the addition of an audio clip pronouncing two common english words is a minor and unnecessary matter of content could you explain why you think the addition is ungrammatical in the parenthetical comment do you have a proposed solution that will avoid deleting content or is deleting content your purpose the opening can be reworded rather than deleting content please note that the pronunciation even of common words in english is of value to both non native speakers as well as native born speakers since even common words may change pronunciation within a proper name please justify having only one country in north america whose article is forbidden to contain an audio file while remaining mostly neutral on this front please don't call something vandalism when it's not this is a disagreement and under the terms of bold revert discuss the onus is actually now upon you to justify its inclusion not the other way around but either way it's not obvious vandalism it annoys admins when people throw that term around or at least me and as for is united states to be the only country in the western hemisphere i point out that united states is the only country name in the western hemisphere made up entirely of common words without proper names of america is different of course but the audio file isn't about that name so there is an argument to say that it is the country least in need of a pronunciation guide since there's no unusual or proper words in that particular name but united contains vowels which do not behave in the way that non native speakers expect i have taught english overseas and have seen the problems firsthand the word united has no encyclopedia article here nor pronunciation given for a non native speaker to examine also the word states is a plural and english plurals have two possible pronunciations for the added final s s or z according to rules that native speakers learn but which non native speakers struggle with for these reasons alone non native speakers