[WikiEN-l] Most useless edit summary ever?

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/16/07, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> In all fairness, this is probably a consequence of RFA's culture of "must
> use 100 percent edit summaries before passing"! People quite often write
> entirely useless edit summaries, aided by the prompt in Preferences,
> simply to pass RFA. I know I did. Post RFA, however, I realized that
> updating articles with edit summaries such as "+info" is beyond banal, so
> I turned the damn prompt off. Now most of my real contributions are without
> edit summaries. This is, I think, a good thing. Tasting the forbidden fruit
> labelled "No edit summary" keeps Wikipedia exciting.

Hehehe. You know, I made a subconscious decision at one point, that if
it took more time to think of a decent summary than to make the actual
edit, it was a step worth skipping.

—C.W.