Who is David Gerard? He also reversed my conversions on Vinyl records? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_records
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-19 12:41 Subject: [USMA:29868] RE: Wikipedia > > From: MightyChimp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I did some edits to the "floppy" and vinyl records pages. > >How will I know if someone is complaining? > > You have already had a response. Somebody did not like what you did. They > have undone a lot of your editing already. Look at the 'floppy' page again > and you will see it has changed. You can see what each editor has done by > selecting the option at the top of the page labelled 'Page history'. Then > select the 'last' option for any person. That will identify the changes that > they made. > > I am not surprised your edits were reversed. But do not be downhearted about > it. Here are some tips to be more successful: > > 1. When you edit a page, always fill in the 'Edit summary' at the bottom. It > helps people build trust in you as an editor. People suspect edits that are > made without a summary. > > 2. Spend 30 seconds registering a username for yourself. People are more > suspicious of anonymous users. Some are simply vandals that add swearwords > etc. > > 3. Learn from your successes and failures. Uncontroversial edits often go > unchallenged and unchecked. So start with the simple stuff that few people > would object to (e.g. adding a metric unit next to a non-metric unit). You > will then be left mostly unsupervised. > > 4. Building a positive reputation is worthwhile. Controversial edits (e.g. > renaming a "3.5 inch" floppy a "90 mm" floppy) might be acceptable to metric > enthusiasts like me, but in the Wikipedia community you could find each of > your edits being checked very closely. > >
