Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Delirium wrote:
While it's certainly nice for people to read all edits, on the flip side, people should be expected to post at least a few words in the edit summary, especially for significant changes. Something like "deleting rant" would be sufficient. Making large changes without so much as a single word in comment (in either the edit summary or talk page) is rather discourteous.
We advertise ourselves as "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit", but you expect people to know all our rules and policies before they do so. /That/ is discourteous; if you're going to tell people "your do it rong" (in your worst Engrish) you could at least have the decency to explain WHY.
I don't expect them to "know all our rules and policies", but I *do* expect them to read the text "edit summary" (conveniently placed right next to the "save" button) and deduce that that's where they should place a summary of their edit. I don't recall having to read policy pages to figure that out when I was new here.
-Mark