I am actually fairly guilty of this, particularly when working on pages with complex tables. Is this really such a big deal? Save often is my motto. But I'll save less frequently if the consensus suggests this is the right way to go....
----- Original Message ----- From: "The Cunctator" cunctator@kband.com To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] vandal bots
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:45, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:30:57AM -0800, Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
i was watching some city bot spam recent changes and saw the bot
wasn't
logged in under any name. it occured to me that we should set some
kind of
limit to the amount of editing that an unregistered user can do so
that
it's harder to use a bot.
Your own flood of tiny, continual edits is as annoying as the city bot. You are making the Recent Changes page useless again. Perhaps you could use the Preview button a lot while you are editing, then think, cogitate, invest some mental effort, and make a real contribution other than changing an articles punctuation, and taking 10 edits to do so?
It would be a beneficial habit for Lir to start using the Minor Edit button.
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