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Style notes
Hi. I have a few style tips which may hopefully help with your editing. First, it would be nice if you use an edit summary, so that other people understand what you changed and why. Second, it is good if you use the preview button (and save only when you are ready to save) so that there are not so many history versions. Lastly, it is good to not overlink. Links like appearance and configuration are not helpful, since they lead to disambiguation pages. You should rather visit those pages and select the actual meaning you want. Actually, those words don't need links, Wikipedia does not have articles on dictionary definitions (meaning of words), since Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Request for edit summary
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
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, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:59, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Contributions to Saxophone
Hello - thanks for contributing to the saxophone article. Please note the following though.
- This is an encyclopedia. It is not the right place for you to insert your opinions on what type of mouthpiece or facing is good for what type of music. Players have widely differing opinions about this sort of thing - and also, what you're writing is your opinion, not a reference-worthy fact. You need to be able to substantiate anything you add.
- If you have dozens of edits to make to the article, that's fine, but please make all your edits at once rather than making dozens of separate saves. I know you are new to Wikipedia but try to make as many edits at a time as you can - hopefully not saving an article more than once or twice a day.
- It is really important to use the edit summary box each time you save, explaining what you did. In fact, if you go into "my preferences" at the very top of the screen, you can set a preference so that you will be reminded any time you try to save without providing an edit summary. I would suggest this.
Again, welcome - appreciate your contributions! —SaxTeacher (talk) 22:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments. I'm not unaware of the points you raise and I understand your point about "opinions". I do my best not to insert my own viewpoint, and try to stick to published material. As for putting all my changes into the article in one go - yes, that would be bliss. But, alas, not the way I work. I'm always finding errors. Ever written an academic paper? It's a lot like that for me. Thanks - Egrabczewski 07:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Given that you prefer to make some changes, then adjust them, multiple times before you are finished, there is a tool in Wikipedia that I think will be very helpful to you. This is the "Show preview" button. It is located just to the right of the "Save page" button. The "Show preview" button enables you to see the edits you have made, and then continue editing! Try it out and see. It displays only the section you were editing, shown with your changes - but just below is a new edit box, so you can adjust your changes before saving.
- Personally I never used the "Show preview" button until recently, but now that I have figured out how it works, I use it all the time! I hope you will begin using it. —SaxTeacher (talk) 01:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Please use the Show preview button!
I note that several other editors have left comments for you above, asking you to use the Show preview button. Yet over the past month you have made more than 500 micro-edits to the Saxophone embouchure article - a number that could have been reduced to 10 or 20 through the use of the Show preview button.
I want to stress that it really does cause difficulty and inconvenience (undue server load; difficulty viewing an article's history; alarming amounts of edits on people's watchlists, etc.) when you make dozens or hundreds of edits to an article in a single sitting. The other editors of these articles would appreciate it if you could please Use the Show Preview button to view your edits before finalising them. That is, when you have made some edits, instead of clicking Save page, click Show preview instead. Then make your additional edits and keep using Show preview again until you are satisfied with your edits.
By following this method, you will avoid causing bizarre edit logs such as this one, where 494 of the last 500 edits were yours, many less than a minute apart. Thank you, —SaxTeacher (talk) 18:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Saxophone Embouchure article
SaxTeacher, remove your offensive remark from the Saxophone Embouchure talk page at once. -Egrabczewski 18:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Please relax, be cordial, and assume good faith in your fellow editors. It is the responsibility of any Wikipedia editor to be bold in deleting material that is questionable or non-encyclopedic. Recall the sentence that appears at the bottom of every edit screen: "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it." Please don't take it personally when others edit material you wrote; your contributions are appreciated. Best —SaxTeacher 20:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Do not patronise me please. And remove the offending remark in the [[Saxophone Embouchure talk page (see all my comments). You have gone a little too far this time and if this remark is not removed immediately then I assure you I will take action. -Egrabczewski 21:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- SaxTeacher: my comment was addressed to JTalcott who, I'm sure, can speak for himself. You still haven't yet grasped the point and you keep making assuptions that are, franky, patronising. I am fine with edits to the article. I am not fine with personal remarks about me. My good faith in Wikipedia editors was unshaken until I read your over personal comments above. You SaxTeacher, who hide behind a psudonym, take little care when you decide to implicate the real name of a fellow contributor. I had no such problems over three years of contributions until I met with your editorship. Remove your offensive comments and we shall see if my previous humour is restored. -Egrabczewski 22:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'm very sorry to see that you've decided to ignore my request and have not removed your offensive remarks about me in the Saxophone Embouchure talk page. I will be reasonable with you and give you until the end of today to put matters right. Following that I will take this matter through Wikipedia arbitration. -Egrabczewski 05:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- SaxTeacher: my comment was addressed to JTalcott who, I'm sure, can speak for himself. You still haven't yet grasped the point and you keep making assuptions that are, franky, patronising. I am fine with edits to the article. I am not fine with personal remarks about me. My good faith in Wikipedia editors was unshaken until I read your over personal comments above. You SaxTeacher, who hide behind a psudonym, take little care when you decide to implicate the real name of a fellow contributor. I had no such problems over three years of contributions until I met with your editorship. Remove your offensive comments and we shall see if my previous humour is restored. -Egrabczewski 22:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Do not patronise me please. And remove the offending remark in the [[Saxophone Embouchure talk page (see all my comments). You have gone a little too far this time and if this remark is not removed immediately then I assure you I will take action. -Egrabczewski 21:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Moved from Talk:Saxophone Embouchure
I still feel that the word "slope" should be removed from the diagram as it is WP:OR. Change the text to "place upper teeth here" or something. Or just remove the diagram from the article altogether, since it is "how-to" information and doesn't belong in the encyclopedia. —SaxTeacher (talk) 12:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia editors
We contributors should not have to put up with remarks like this, particuarly from an editor. -Egrabczewski 14:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- A "contributor" and an "editor" are the same thing. Everyone who contributes to Wikipedia is a "Wikipedia editor." Perhaps you read on my user page that "I am a Wikipedia editor" and assumed that term meant I had some sort of official standing. It doesn't. —SaxTeacher 20:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
on Wikipedia there appear to be a special category of user who monitor the content of articles and give instructions and advice to contributors and who place impartial comments at the top of articles saying things like "This article needs cleaning up" or "This article may contain a biased viewpoint". Do these people have a name? Are you not one of these? -Egrabczewski 20:48, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Anyone in the world can edit an article, add text, delete text, or add tags to an article such as {{cleanup}} or {{POV}}. These tags and other similar tags produce the boxes at the top of an article that you mention. The name for anyone who adds anything to Wikipedia is "editor."
- There are some people who have been recognized as highly experienced users and are made Administrators. I think there are about 1000 of them around the world. I am not an administrator. —SaxTeacher (talk) 12:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Please use wikistyle
When editing please follow the Wikipedia manual of style regarding not changing heading names, and capitalising only the first word of headings. There is much good information in the MOS that will be useful reference. best —SaxTeacher (talk) 16:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, it says do not rename it often. So please leave it as it is. (Egrabczewski 17:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC))