Wikipedia:Don't use Grammarly

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WP:NOGRAMMARLY

Did you know Grammarly is very dangerous to Wikipedia?

Yes, we mean this thing:

You may be asking "Why? Isn't it just a grammar tool?" Unfortunately, it has a bad habit of going against WP:ENGVAR and WP:TPO. It can even destroy pages when using the source editor.

To put this into perspective, let's compare a page before and after using Grammarly.

Before:

Hi, can someone helped my taking article example? --⁠example (talk) 08:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

yes. For course. Noted this that message is indented the to right using colon : the upon beginning the for response. --⁠example (talk) 10:10, 26 June 2019 (UTC) the increased numerable for colon characters use what time replying to that message. These messages used two colons. --⁠example (talk) 10:20, 26 June 2019 (UTC) three colons due to it replying the to above message. --⁠example (talk) 10:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC) conditionally to you are a in need of to reply the to message taking 2 colons and someone already is using 3 colons, used 3 colons to reply the to message. --example 22:09, 30 June 2020 (UTC) four colons, and then in. --⁠example (talk) 10:40, 26 June 2019 (UTC) @example: that is an example for using template:reply to ping that user. --⁠example (talk) 12:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC) yes, thanked you are a of pinging my. --⁠example (talk) 12:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC) BTW I love the colour red. example (talk) 12:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

After:

Hi, can someone help me by taking the article example? --⁠example (talk) 08:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

yes. For course. Noted this that message is indented the to right using colon: the upon beginning the for a response. --⁠example (talk) 10:10, 26 June 2019 (UTC) the increased numerable for colon characters use what time replying to that message. These messages used two colons. --⁠example (talk) 10:20, 26 June 2019 (UTC) three colons due to its replying to the above message. --⁠example (talk) 10:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC) conditionally to you need to reply the to message taking 2 colons and someone already is using 3 colons, used 3 colons to reply the to message. --example 22:09, 30 June 2020 (UTC) four colons, and then in. --⁠example (talk) 10:40, 26 June 2019 (UTC) @example: that is an example for using the template: reply to ping that user. --⁠example (talk) 12:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC) yes, thanked you are a of pinging me. --⁠example (talk) 12:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC) BTW I love the color red. example (talk) 12:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, world!

Edit summary: Editing my own grammar.

Looks "better", but this would be a violation of WP:ENGVAR and WP:TPO and perhaps cause a lot of syntax errors. Also, you will get an ugly fat message on your talk page saying:

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at WP:Example. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Example (talk) 03:27, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So just don't use Grammarly. Thank you.