On 10/26/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
Earle Martin wrote:
On 26/10/06, Andrew Gray
<shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's a nice idea, but after a few weeks of
everyone being good about
it, I predict seeing lots and lots of edit summaries consisting of "."
That should be a warnable offense.
Why not make blank edit summaries a "warnable offense", then? It'd be
essentially the same thing.
A lot more technically friendly if the software requires them to enter
"something" first; random people who aren't Wikipedia-familiar will
understand a message popping up with a little paperclip saying "I've noticed
you didn't enter an edit summary, these are important and required before we
can enter the updated data".
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com