User talk:Pmw2piVB
Welcome!
Hi Anderjef, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users—please check it out! If you have any questions, you can get help from experienced editors at the Teahouse. Happy editing! SamWilson989 (talk) 19:04, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- You also may find it helpful to read WP:MINOR which explains what edits count as minor and which as major. From your contributions, it seems you are incorrectly marking your edits as minor. Hope this helps! SamWilson989 (talk) 19:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your feedback @SamWilson989! I saw that WP:MINOR page earlier, and I'm not sure where I went wrong. If you don't mind, could you provide an example or two of where you think I could have improved so I can avoid such mistakes in the future? Anderjef (talk) 22:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- No problem. WP:MINOR states that "Adding or removing references / citations, external links, or categories in an article" should not be marked as minor changes. This is because sometimes those additions (or removals) can be erroneous - an editor might add references that are unreliable. It is always a bit of a grey area what counts as minor and what counts as major but it's always safer to not mark it as minor if there's ever any doubt. You may find another editor comes along and tells me that I'm wrong. But in the case of your CGP Grey edits or your edits to History of Turpan (where you were adding lots of cleanup tags), I think it would be better if they were marked as major edits. Thanks! SamWilson989 (talk) 22:18, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Got it. Thanks so much! I see my error now in CGP Grey, but in History of Turpan I would have expected to fall under "Adding or correcting wikilinks", but I can keep in mind I should hedge if I'm modifying a significant number of them. Anyways thanks again! Anderjef (talk) 22:29, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Just to clarify, it wasn't the wikilink adding that made it a major edit but your addition of lots of various cleanup tags. Keeping those as major edits especially helps in flagging up to page-watchers that an article is in need of improvement as well as helping those editors in the future work out who added them and why. SamWilson989 (talk) 22:41, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- I see. That helps. Anderjef (talk) 23:12, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Just to clarify, it wasn't the wikilink adding that made it a major edit but your addition of lots of various cleanup tags. Keeping those as major edits especially helps in flagging up to page-watchers that an article is in need of improvement as well as helping those editors in the future work out who added them and why. SamWilson989 (talk) 22:41, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Got it. Thanks so much! I see my error now in CGP Grey, but in History of Turpan I would have expected to fall under "Adding or correcting wikilinks", but I can keep in mind I should hedge if I'm modifying a significant number of them. Anyways thanks again! Anderjef (talk) 22:29, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- No problem. WP:MINOR states that "Adding or removing references / citations, external links, or categories in an article" should not be marked as minor changes. This is because sometimes those additions (or removals) can be erroneous - an editor might add references that are unreliable. It is always a bit of a grey area what counts as minor and what counts as major but it's always safer to not mark it as minor if there's ever any doubt. You may find another editor comes along and tells me that I'm wrong. But in the case of your CGP Grey edits or your edits to History of Turpan (where you were adding lots of cleanup tags), I think it would be better if they were marked as major edits. Thanks! SamWilson989 (talk) 22:18, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your feedback @SamWilson989! I saw that WP:MINOR page earlier, and I'm not sure where I went wrong. If you don't mind, could you provide an example or two of where you think I could have improved so I can avoid such mistakes in the future? Anderjef (talk) 22:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
List of common misconceptions
Ten citations is a bit much for one sentence. More than two is a tad excessive. Bkatcher (talk) 04:31, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- I agree. I was just taking from the source which was condensing even more citations into that space. Feel free to reduce. :) Anderjef (talk) 04:34, 3 July 2022 (UTC)