User:Titodutta/Essays/Common mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes. I have seen others making mistakes. From my experiences here I am preparing a list of most common mistakes made by a new editor

Signature related

 * Signing in article: Sometimes editors sign in articles. But signatures should be added in talk pages only. To clarify this, one should not sign in this page Swami Vivekananda, but one should sign hi/her comment in talk page here Talk:Swami Vivekananda. For more information see Signature


 * Not signing talk page: It is exactly the opposite. Editors forget to sign talk pages (eg. article talk pages, user's talk pages). From my personal experiences I have seen, for first few days editors forget to sign in because you just get confused where to sign (i.e. talk pages) and where not to sign (i.e. articles). And then your sub-conscious mind learns it.

Manual of Style

 * Duplicate entry in See also Per WP:ALSO we should not add a link in "See also" section if the link is already added in article body. I made this mistake for first 3–4 months.


 * Bare URL Another thing some new editors sometimes do is adding bare URL (eg. ). For more information see WP:BARE

Miscellaneous

 * Edit summary Wikipedia suggests to write edit summary for every edit, see WP:FIES for more details. But, only few new editors write edit summary in all of their edits. Well, writing edit summary is not mandatory, but it is a good practice.