User talk:76.81.180.3

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[edit] Edit Summaries

Thank you for your edits. Please describe your edits with the Edit Summary box. It is located just above the Save button you use. This makes it easier to understand edits when reading the page's History of edits. Thanks. Hu 00:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Previews

Thank you for your edits. Please use the Show preview button to enable you to combine edits and reduce the number of Saves that you do. This avoids bulking out the edit History with lots of small edits. The Show preview button is located just to the right of the Save button that you use. Thanks. Hu 00:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heinlein

Some of the edits you made today to the Robert A. Heinlein article have merit, but although Wikipedia does encourage boldness, the way you have gone about it is not a good way.

First, the article is a featured article that has been hammered into featured shape by many editors and much discussion over the years. To make such a large scale combination of edits in one session (composed of many small edits) does not respect the way it has been made into the featured article that it is.

Second, many of your edits are unexplained in the edit summary. Thus they are hard to examine and evaluate.

Third, you have made many individual edits within seconds of each other that could and should be combined into a single well explained edit. Such hasty editing does not inspire confidence in the edits, but most importantly, it bulks out the page history so that it becomes harder to find edits and analyze them and the edit history.

Fourth, you have edited as an anonymous IP address. That might be your privilege, but it is not really the cooperative way to edit here. Registering an ID is free and simple and easy. Although IDs can also be anonymous, they respect fellow editors by providing continuity of edits so that one subjects one's self to peer review.

I have reverted all the edits so that this can be dealt with more rationally since, as I said, some of them have merit. I suggest that you discuss them on the article's discussion page first, or make a few at a time with full summarization for the edit history and proper combination to group them effectively (not combining unrelated edits) so that the edit history is not crazy and so that people who watch over the Heinlein article have time to review and comment.

I think you have some good potential as a Wikipedia editor, and I encourage you to register. Hu 01:14, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi -- I think the article's talk page would be a more appropriate place to discuss the article.--76.81.180.3 01:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

That is exactly what I suggested. Hu 01:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Hash it out on the Talk page fellas. Way too much change without seeking consensus first. David in DC 02:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)