User talk:162.96.105.78

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[edit] Your edit to Korean War

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[edit] Rakeop

Howdy and welcome to Wikipedia! I was not certain what you were getting at with your post to the village pump, but if your intent was to create a new article, you will first have to register (it is free and requires no personal information). See WP:REG for more information. You may also want to check out WP:WELCOME for more information about the project. If you have any questions, feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page, User_talk:TeaDrinker. Thanks, --TeaDrinker 17:23, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your extensive edits to Ronald Reagan

That appeared to be a very extensive rewrite, including deletion of large blocks of text. It's not clear what your intention was with that edit, as you didn't explain it in an edit summary or on the talk page of the article. As a general rule, deletion of large blocks of text needs to be carefully explained, as it appears to be vandalism. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 02:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Check the history for Ronald Reagan. Someone before me radically changed it, so I changed it back (with concessions to the person who had changed it). I would be happy for that person to change the article, but not radically. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 162.96.105.78 (talk) 02:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC).

Fair enough. I looked back through the edit history, and I see what you mean. The problem is that it's very hard to understand what you're doing with a large unexplained edit like that. It helps if you explain your intentions in the "Edit summary" box; that will let editors who come along after you know why you made the changes you did. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 02:43, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Please explain and document your edits. Your wholesale editing of the REagan article was unwarranted. Griot 21:32, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Becoming a registered user

[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Your ongoing edits to Ronald Reagan

Couple of points:

  1. If you intend to make extensive edits to an article (basically rewrite it), you really should discuss your intentions on the talk page.

  2. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

    Edit summary text box

    The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 01:57, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering how to implement edit summary. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 162.96.105.78 (talk • contribs).

You can have Wikipedia remind you whenever you're about to commit an edit without a summary -- go to "My preferences", click the "Editing" tab, and check "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary". -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 00:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

By the way, my edits to Reagan's foreign policy are much better and much more truthful than some of the dribble that was already there. I will be cementing edits on Reagan in a few months after doing some research, which means my editing will come to a pause soon. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 162.96.105.78 (talk • contribs).

The concern about your edits -- see also comments by Griot above -- is that you are essentially rewriting the article, but you're not letting anyone else know about your intentions. Wikipedia is collaborative environment; you communicate with other editors through the edit summary (for small edits) and through the talk page (for major structural edits). You haven't communicated at all, leaving other editors with no idea where you're going here. I'm not very knowledgeable about Reagan myself, so I can't judge the quality of the edits. Griot, who has edited the article in the past, has expressed some concerns here on your talk page.

It would really help at this point if you could go to Talk:Ronald Reagan and write up some notes to explain your edits. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 00:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Summary Request

I have noted that you edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky or even vandalizing. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! -- Kukini 00:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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