[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposal: make summary mandatory

[Daniel Mayer]

On Thursday 26 December 2002 04:00 am, Tom Parmenter wrote:
> Rule or no rule, an empty summary field is bad manners.  
>
> You can always cut and paste something from your change.  The
> statement that writing a summary can be more onerous than making the
> change is ludicrous.  
>
> Tom Parmenter
> Ortolan88

Not when fixing formatting. Having to fill-in an edit summary would 
significantly slow me down so I definitely would object to having to perform 
the needless keystrokes for these mundane changes. However, when I do make an 
edit worth documenting I do so nearly every time and if anything I over 
document. This should stay a 'rule to consider' for at least logged-in users.

It would be OK by me if this was a requirement for non-logged-in users (along 
with taking-away their ability to mark edits as minor). Anything to slow the 
rate of useless experiment page creation AND give non-logged-in users another 
reason to log-in or at least use the preview function is a good thing. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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