Wikipedia:Avoid using the preview button

This page is created as a humorous complement to Wikipedia:Avoid using wikilinks

Preview button of Wikipedia™

Preview button (shown on the left) is sometimes incorrectly used to preview articles before actually saving them. It is wrong and incorrect for several reasons:

1. What if your computer crashes, all the work will be lost.
2. You won't have as many edits and therefore are less likely to become an administrator of Wikipedia.
3. Servers cannot handle the load of generating pages that do not even exist yet.
4. If your typo causes a link to go red, that will cause people to realise that they should probably create a redirect to the real page, since if you have misspelled it so might somebody else.

Alternatives

Parse all the text in your head, if you would like to see how it would look like.

Save the page (marking the edit minor) If the outcome is undesirable edit again. If you like it, edit again making a small change and apologising for marking a major edit as minor.