User talk:Brianetta

Hi Brianetta,

you reverted one of my edits with the edit summary "Umm... hope this wasn't malicious." The answer is that no, it was not malicious. As my edit summary stated, it was an administrative action in accordance with WP:DENY. That is, it was preventing a blocked disruptive editor from editing in contravention to their block. If you want to take responsibility for that edit on your own account, that's fine. It is permissible to revert edits of administrators, but you might want to consider carefully in future before reverting an administrator's edit made for administrative reasons, making sure you first understand why the edit was made. SpinningSpark 14:57, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't aware of reverting anything; I merely removed a single word from the middle of a sentence that seemed to be singularly out of place. Looking at the edit history, my edit appears to show me removing an entire paragraph, which isn't something I did. Previous edits are as difficult to decipher, and so figuring out who edited what was something I decided not to do. I merely removed the intrusive word "not" and typed in an edit summary.

There was no slight intended toward you or toward any other editor of this wiki, and my edit summary was simply a genuine reflection of my hope. I hope you will see that prior to my edit, the paragraph is vaguely nonsensical, and afterwards it makes sense.Brianetta ^{Brian Ronald, UK. Talk here} 15:13, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah ok, I see it. That "not" was put in by a vandal (and removed) after the edits I was trying to revert and I must have accidentally restored it. My error. Still, you must have taken it out with an "undo", rather than just edit out that one word, because the rest of my edit was undone. As that is all you are objecting to, I will reapply my WP:DENY edit, but with a bit more accuracy this time. SpinningSpark 15:26, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

My recollection is of leaving the history page for the main article, clicking edit, hitting backspace four or five times, entering the summary and clicking save. Clearly I managed to do something else at the same time, for which I apologise. I don't often edit Wikipedia, and when I do I'm never entirely confident. This episode hasn't helped my confidence any, and I'm thinking I should just leave it alone in future. Thanks for understanding. Brianetta ^{Brian Ronald, UK. Talk here} 15:49, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It really isn't a problem. Don't let that put you off from editing. The mistake was just as much mine as yours. This sort of thing is easily done and we got to the right place in the end. SpinningSpark 17:26, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]