User talk:Historical Cartograph

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February 2021

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

I noticed your recent edit to Slavery in the United States does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. I also noticed that some of your edit summaries were very short ("NPOV") and some seemed to avoid the real character of your changes ("brevity"). Also: Please don't mark potentially controversial changes as "minor". Rsk6400 (talk) 14:35, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Should each edit on a controversial page be discussed before going into effect? Historical Cartograph (talk) 17:07, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No. I didn't refer to your edits as such, only to your edit summaries. In the dialogue you see before publishing your changes, you have a check box on the left marked "This is a minor edit". You should not check that box unless the edit is uncontroversial, e.g. correcting a grammatical error (see WP:Minor). Controversial or bold edits are allowed, even encouraged. If another editor (in that case, me) disagrees, they may revert, and if you think you have good reasons for your edit, you start a discussion, aiming at reaching consensus, see WP:BRD. I'd like to encourage you to use meaningful edit summaries, since they help other editors to see that you have good reasons, so they might be more willing to enter into a good discussion. I'd suggest an edit summary like "enslaved person > slave, easier to understand and shorter".

Another thing: To make sure that I see your comment here, you can use {{Ping|Rsk6400}}. --Rsk6400 (talk) 18:03, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

February 2022

Hello, I'm Fehufanga. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person, Josh Whelchel, but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. --*Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page ♮ 00:30, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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