User:Trafford09/UWL

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Please summarize your work using the "Edit summary box". If you make anything other than a minor edit to an article, it helps others if you fill in the edit summary. Edit summaries are visible in the page history, watchlists, and on Recent changes, so they help others users keep track of what's happening to a page. If you use section editing, the summary box is filled in with the section heading by default (in gray text), which you can follow with more detail. You also can put links to articles in the edit summary. Just put double brackets around [[the article title]] like you would normally. The summary is limited to 200 characters, so many people use common abbreviations, such as sp for correcting spelling mistakes. Read more: Edit summary	Read more: Tips

An alternative to lightbulb?! --->

For level 3 heading[edit]

Continued flouting of wp:ES#Always provide an edit summary[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to WWW. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Trafford09 (talk) 21:20, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia relies on wp:consensus, and our all adhering to its guidelines.

One such is wp:ES#Always provide an edit summary. Please adhere to it, or state why the consensus doesn't apply in your case. Trafford09 (talk) 06:33, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

For special level 3 heading[edit]

Why are you special? wp:ES#Always provide an edit summary[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to WWW. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Trafford09 (talk) 21:20, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Don't we all just love Wikipedia? It gives us many free rights:

the right to open our own account
the right to edit articles
the right for other people to come and help us, when we put {{help}} here - like you did just above
the right to look up anything on a huge encyclopedia

And what does Wikipedia ask, in return for all this? Well, not very much at all:

Wikipedia asks that we all follow some simple rules, to help everybody.
One of the these rules is wp:ES#Always provide an edit summary.

This is not much to ask, and it is not difficult.

But you seem to find it not just difficult, but impossible?

Maybe you are a special person? Please could you tell us why you are so special?

... or perhaps you would consider setting a good example, and following the rules, like the rest of us ... Trafford09 (talk) 07:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Please reply to concerns[edit]

Hello WWW. I have a concern - probably shared by others - that you don't read Talk pages - even your own. Please prove me wrong by adding a comment of your own, here under mine.

The reason for my concern is that myself & other editors have had issues with your editing style.

We have left helpful tips for you here, but there is no evidence you have read any of them.

Indeed, the pie-chart of your edits shows that all your contributions - bar none - have been edits to Wikipedia articles. You have never - on this account - edited a Talk page, even your own.

My guess is that you are not a natural English-speaker, and it would be refreshing to know that you spoke and understood English.

Wikipedia works on wp:consensus, and therefore it's important to know that all editors can communicate here in English and collaborate.

Please respond here. Thank you. Trafford09 (talk) 08:53, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism[edit]

Well, you continue to ignore Wikipedia wp:consensus, on wp:ES#Always provide an edit summary. And you decline to answer why the consensus doesn't apply in your Special case. To me, that's vandalism. What do you think? Trafford09 (talk) 1:53 pm, Today (UTC+1)

Reminder[edit]

Thank you for your positive response, and for now supplying Edit Summaries. By the way, in case you were unaware, to avoid accidentally leaving edit summaries blank, you can select "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" on the Editing tab of your user preferences. Regards,

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