Kenneth940

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October 2013

Edit Summaries

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

 

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. 220 of ^Borg 06:04, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Personal note

Hello there Kenneth940. Thank you for trying to help to improve Wikipedia.

Just a personal note to say that I found a few of your edits to Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) slightly concerning. If you had an edit summary explaining them it would make it easier to understand what you are trying to do! i.e. "Making page more neutral(wp:NPOV)" , "Remove excessive negative comments to balance page" , "Rmv(remove) unsupported or biased statement" or similar.

NPOV etc

For example here adding "The accusations of politicization remain unsubstantiated." and "Such cases are exceptionally rare among the many thousands involving the RSPCA each year" here, are unsourced and sound like your personal knowledge, or personal point of view (POV) which is not encyclopedic. On WP it is required that the information or view is expressed by a reliable source, such as a published judgement or newspaper report.

Deletion

Again here removal of an entire sentence and source needs to be explained. In fact you had previously removed the same sentence (with other changes) six weeks earlier here. If you remove something and find that you are being reverted or otherwise undone, then it is best to take the issue to the talk /Discussion page, in this case Talk:Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals . Of course, if the edit is Vandalism, obviously untrue, extremely dubious(without a reliable source), or a violation of WP Biographies of living persons policy (ie "Joe Bloggs is gay", without any reliable source) then you are fully entitled to remove it again, but Edit warring over 'contentious' content must be avoided and should be politely discussed between disagreeing editors.

Minor

Several of your large edits are marked as minor, such as here. Note that; "A check to the minor edit box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous versions" and "...rearrangements of text without modification of its content.", which that edit most definitely was not. This is a common mistake, and I note that later edits were not incorrectly marked as minor.

Section headings

Changing a section heading such as here from "RSPCA deputy chairman criticism" to "Deputy chairman raises concerns over 'political' allegations" has merits as the first seems rather POV. However other WP (Wikipedia) pages may be linked directly to that paragraph so that change may break the link.You can use this template:

{{anchor|previous section title}}

and place it just after the section title thus:

==Deputy chairman raises concerns over 'political' allegations==

{{anchor|RSPCA deputy chairman criticism}}

This will ensure that any links to the original section title are maintained, while allowing the title to be altered.

I hope this information is of some help to you.
If you want to 'talk' to me click on the ^Borg in my signature. Happy Editing! Regards, 220 of ^Borg 12:33, 8 October 2013 (UTC)