User talk:Greybuck
Wiki markup
Welcome to the wiki! This topic is mostly a complaint: I keep having to clean up after your edits. I can see your good intent, but please make sure to read up on how to edit a wiki, and more specifically how to use wiki markup and how to use a talk page first. Please also try to look at the editing style of other contributors, and most importantly: use the preview feature before submitting your content! This could save work for the other editors, and could help you get your point across. Thank you for reading this, I hope you see this as what I intended it to be: constructive criticism. —Fenhl 11:47, 5 November 2012 (PST)
Dare I add an edit and say, that is "precisely" how I am taking it: because I did not know those pages cited existed.
Could you provide a more concrete example of what the problems were? I was unaware that there were problems.
Chrys —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greybuck (talk • contribs)
- This I can think of right now:
- You keep forgetting to sign your comments, for example the one above. Whenever you add a comment on a talk page, put ~~~~ (four tildes) at the end.
- Sometimes your edits completely disrupt the structure of existing pages. For example, in this edit of the relay 21 talk page you added two extra sections of which each had the same title as an existing section, and one of which was empty. This is where you should have used the preview feature first.
- The relay pages specifically have an established style (although I haven't gotten to writing a formal style guide yet). I have had to correct the same mistake twice (here and here). If you edit a page you have already edited, it is always advisable to read through the edit history, or at least the edit summaries, since your last edit.
- When you edit something, always put something in the edit summary.
- There may have been other issues, but I can't remember right now. Please also note that these pages are part of Wikipedia, not FrathWiki, and best practices might differ in the details. —Fenhl 14:03, 5 November 2012 (PST)
