On 10/17/07, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman(a)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.
Hmm, I got into the habit when I was considering submitting an RfA. I think
on the whole it's a good habit, even if I tend to use the same summaries
over and over: "create stub", "rd", "recat",
"tyop", "c/e". I find it
frustrating when people (particularly anons) don't write anything, as it
makes it much harder to
gauge intent. When someone changes a population figure
with no summary, I suspect vandalism. A simple "update pop" would help
me believe they're acting in good faith.
Steve