[WikiEN-l] Reverting without reading - another example

[Mark Wagner]

On 10/26/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> George Herbert wrote:
>
> >On 10/26/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Earle Martin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 26/10/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at 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".
> >
> The summarries are important in
> many cases, but it would be madness to require them in all cases.  If,
> for example, I move an article because of a small spelling change in the
> title, I will try to follow that by cleaning up the links.  There may be
> 20 or 30 such links; I do not accept the need to generate a long series
> of edit summaries when those summaries are longer than the edits themselves.

Copy-and-paste is your friend.  Linux copy-and-paste is even better,
as you've got *two* clipboard buffers to work from.

-- 
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]