On 10/17/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@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