User talk:Altcorrector

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April 2021
Hello, I'm CommanderWaterford. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. CommanderWaterford (talk) 17:50, 11 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello, I gave justifications. Some informations were misleading or hypothetical. No reason to add non reliable information.--Altcorrector (talk) 18:08, 11 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Dear, rollback-like features should never be used to revert good faith edits such as those of Altcorrector without giving a good reason in the edit summary or on the talk page. Would you please correct this mistake? Sincerely, Apaugasma (talk&#124;contribs) 18:19, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Dear Altcorrector, CommanderWaterford seems to be rather busy: as you can see from their edit history (find it on the left of a user page or user talk page under 'Tools', 'User contributions'), they have already done more than 500 edit this day alone (to compare, I consider myself a rather active user, and have only just over 1000 edits in 4 months), with sometimes up to 10 edits per minute. It's safe to say that at this rate, mistakes are bound to happen, and reverting your edits certainly was such a mistake. Please do not be discouraged by this, since your edits seem very constructive and helpful to me!

For future reference, you may want to read the essay on what Wikipedians know as the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle (BRD): we like editors to be bold and go ahead with making a change, but to be just as bold in reverting a change they think to be unhelpful. When that happens, the norm is not to re-revert (like you did), but to discuss the proposed change, normally at the article's talk page (e.g., here). The (D)iscuss part of BRD can sometimes be frustrating, but what I've found works very well is to always remain polite (exaggeratedly so if possible, as if they were sitting in front of you and your boss was sitting right next to them), and to always act as if all editors have the best of intentions (even if they actually don't, everything just works better if you can convince yourself they do). Apaugasma (talk&#124;contribs) 21:04, 11 April 2021 (UTC)