User talk:204.13.204.123

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from Wikipedian: — TheKMantalk 21:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

PS: you accidentally deleted some content on the Nine Network article, but its fixed now.

[edit] Re:Thanks and Two Questions

To TheKMan,

Thank you for welcoming me to User Talk and explaining some of the guidelines. In general, when I am so inclined to edit a Wikipedia article, it is to correct minor mistakes in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. My apologies if I accidentally deleted some content from the Nine Network article the other day, and thank you for restoring it. I have two questions for you: 1) I am always coming across simple grammatical errors in article after article, and I can't understand how they got there. Doesn't Wikipedia have a board of editors who review each article after submision, to make sure it conforms to standard before it is posted? 2) About a year ago I made very minor changes to an article, but after clicking on the SAVE PAGE button, most of the article disappeared and was replaced with an abbreviated and somewhat different version. The following day I received a message that I had vandalised the article by deleting and changing content. That sure put a scare in me. Any thoughts on what might have happened?

Thank you,

Simon
  • Hi again. The answer to your first question is, no, there is no official board of editors. The original incarnation of this site was Nupedia, which did not get very far because of its strict peer-review process (only 24 articles were ever completed in its 3 year run). There are several reasons for minor errors made in articles: the multitude of articles and edits can make it difficult for other editors to discover new errors, the ability for many different people to edit pages, sometimes English isn't a native language, and sometimes people just make mistakes every now and then. One responsibility of all Wikipedia users is to make corrections when they discover mistakes (and thanks for doing so). The answer to your second question is, sometimes Wikipedia editors can be overzealous in reverting edits made by anonymous users and handing out warnings. I am not exactly sure what happened in your case, but it sounds like someone else made and saved a change to the article while you were still editing it. When this happens, you are usually just sent back to the edit page (with their new changes). I'm thinking, someone may have made major changes to the article (perhaps in bad-faith), and you re-saved that page, listing you as the latest editor (then someone else came by and mistakenly gave you a warning). Feel free to post on my talk page if you have any questions or comments in the future, and remember to be BOLD in your editing. — TheKMantalk 19:07, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
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