User talk:Darklocq/Editnotice

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If you've come here to complain about minor edits, please reconsider. I'm receptive to constructive criticism about poor edits. (Misread a policy? Oughta use a template? Wrong about something in-game?) Hostility over trivia is another matter. I'm here to help the TES gaming community, and we're all volunteers, who aren't obligated to edit exactly the way someone else prefers.

I'll quote one of our admins—
RobinHood70: "We certainly don't expect perfection, nor is a one-off series of edits necessarily an issue. Many people, myself included, tend to notice mistakes only after hitting save, and we go back to edit them."

  • I do use "Show preview", though once in a while I forget, or accidentally hit "Save page" too soon. Just like you do.
    • Even using preview, not everyone catches everything.
    • I'm a bit dyslexic, and I have crappy eyesight. If I took a few passes to get it all just right, you can live with it.
  • I fix factual, coding, and style errors as I encounter them.
    • Do you really want someone to ignore another error they spotted after saving a fix for one – just because they're afraid of you yelling at them about your watchlist convenience? That is the effect some of you are having.
  • Consider also that you can:
    • Change watchlist and notification settings.
    • Use watchlist tools to show multiple edits as 1 diff.
    • Leave change-patrolling to someone with more patience for it.
    • Change auto-patrolled to include more people.

As long as what I'm doing is a net positive, please do not make trivial demands about my editing habits (and remember that I can't magically change my capabilities). Chasing off other editors, for not being just like you and not caring more about your convenience than the project's content, is not a net positive. Ask yourself why a wiki devoted to one of the most popular game franchises in history has so few editor left.