User talk:Gisarev

September 2012

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Rwanda does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history. Thanks! Also Flag of Rwanda. DBaK (talk) 23:47, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding

Thanks for letting me know. If you would like to upload an image for use on a page, the place to do so is the Wikimedia Commons. Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 23:03, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Rwanda

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Flag of Rwanda, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. AnonMoos (talk) 23:38, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Google and Flag of Rwanda

Hi. I saw what you wrote at User talk:Cncplayer#How to link correct Rwanda flag to google search. For the benefit of this conversation, and for other editors who might show up here trying to help, I'll quote it: "when i run google search for Rwanda a wrong old flag is displayed. The link from which the flag is extracted is http://www.sitographics.com/enciclog/banderas/africa/image/ruanda.gif; i would like to have the correct flag displayed in google search and extracted from: Flag of Rwanda".

In response to this, I must say that I don't see how editing Wikipedia is going to affect what Google displays there, or why it is desirable that it should. (I am assuming that you are talking about the default country preview information that Google shows - if not, please explain exactly what it is.) As you point out, the flag you don't want displayed is not even coming from here but from an external site - it looks like Google has its own setup for doing a preview of information on a country, and using text from Wikipedia is only a part of this. If you check what Google does for United Kingdom - it uses the flag from Wikipedia; for United States it does not display a flag, and so on. It's not really previewing the Wikipedia page as such in those cases. So how could editing Wikipedia for this purpose work? It can't. Your problem is with Google and the source of the flag, not Wikipedia. If you look at that Google preview box you will see a Feedback link at its bottom right - click it and then report the flag as being wrong. I have done so; if others do it might help them to fix it. Or write to www.sitographics.com and explain the problem and ask them why the wrong flag is getting fed through. They certainly have got the right flag - see http://www.sitographics.com/enciclog/banderas/africa/source/38.html - so it's not clear why the old one is being used. But to involve Wikipedia in this was just a mistake: please don't do it any more.

Another mistake is just to remove chunks from articles without explaining why. Have a look at your contributions - with the exception of your note to Cncplayer they are all just deletions, some quite large, of material from the articles. Some of these went far beyond simply removing a flag even if that had been a good idea, and caused real damage. You should not really be surprised that you were accused of vandalism because that's what it looked like. And every time that you were editing, there was a box at the bottom saying "Edit summary (Briefly describe the changes you have made)" and you ignored this, despite the fact that I had already put a nice request on this page about it.

So can I politely suggest:

Always use an edit summary.
Give up the attempts here to manipulate what Google shows. Take it up with Google. It is not a Wikipedia issue.
If you have a problem with Rwanda or any other page, don't just make massive changes to the page, especially when you are not an experienced editor. Instead, take it to the article's Talk page and explain your problem and see if people can help. You'll find that people are much nicer if you do things this way round.

I hope this helps and that you are able to get into some happy and productive editing here.

Thanks and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 07:46, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]