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Hey Socraticsausage! Thanks for the message! There's no need to apologize, your edit was good - especially for a first edit! Wikipedia can definitely be complex for beginners, but you're starting out great. Your edit to ISO 15288 was good and factual, it was only a problem of style - that giving Stuart Arnold's name should be more towards the beginning of the article where the editing of the standard is being discussed. While the change was reverted, that doesn't mean it was a bad edit. Edits are changed, added, shifted, and rearranged constantly here - which is why we try and give a reason or discuss changes in the talk page when they happen. I'm going to add your edit back into the article in a slightly better place to show you what I mean - here's the link:[[1]]. Let me know if that doesn't need sense or you have any questions! -FlyingToaster (talk) 05:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
- No worries, as a systems engineer you probably have a lot of expertise Wikipedia could benefit from. :) I do work as a programmer, but I definitely didn't know about ISO/IEC 15288 without Googling! -FlyingToaster (talk) 06:16, 2 October 2008 (UTC)