User talk:131.148.177.26

September 2020
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Social distancing. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Asartea (talk) 16:59, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for informing me. I was unaware that the edit saved, as I did not officially "submit" an edit to my knowledge. Rather, I exited the page without confirming any permanent edit. The edit was not meant to be any form of vandalism.

I was using Wikipedia for an educational discussion on reliability and credibility of sources when doing research. I wanted to show students why Wikipedia can sometimes be questioned by teachers as a credible source when citing information--due to the fact that it can be permanently edited by anyone. We discussed using Wikipedia as a jumping point by using footnotes to find the origins of the sources and confirm the credibility of the information being presented.

Again, thank you for letting me know that my sample edit became permanent; it was a misunderstanding on my end as to how permanent edits to Wikipedia are made.


 * No problem as long as it doesn't happen again. Of course I must point out that indeed everybody can edit Wikipedia, but as you experienced we do watch them :) Asartea (talk) 18:26, 17 September 2020 (UTC)