On 10/31/11 1:31 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
For me, the most common reason why an "edit" click is not followed by a "save" is because I end up not having the time to complete the work, or the edit I had in mind becomes more complicated than I thought (sometimes the latter partly explains the former). To put it idiomatically, it's a reaction to biting off more than I can chew.
That may not be entirely typical, but in the sense of "editing proved more difficult than anticipated" it probably explains many abortive attempts at editing. I suppose it's been suggested before, but I think more fine-grained section editing capability, so you can simply highlight any portion of an article and open an edit window for just that portion, could be helpful.
This is completely understandable. I recently looked at a 13-page article in the Bullletin of the Pan American Union for 1933 on "Hipólito Unánue." Our stub article shows him as president of Peru in 1825-6. He wasn't. I had to ask myself how much time am I prepared to use for sorting this out.
Ray