User talk:B.l.cohen

Paternoster
Was there any particular reason for removing this text from the article?
 * In Glasgow, these include microswitches to stop the lift, actuated on the upgoing side if a projecting object lifts the adjacent hinged floor panel on any floor, and an "air-cord" running from top to bottom beside the cars to stop the lift if there is a change in drive chain length.

In future, please leave an edit summary when you remove something from an article, stating why you have done so. Otherwise it might be misinterpreted as vandalism, or at very least, someone may re-add the content to the article even thought it might be incorrect. Many thanks,  J Rawle  (Talk) 10:13, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

This was my first time in wikipedia and I am far from familiar with how to use it. The item you refer to was removed from my own text on second thoughts because it was simply wrong - I was not thinking carefully enough when I first wrote. It's many years since I have given much thought to the safety devices on our Paternoster, in the bad old days when I was safety officer for the department.

I don't know how to do an edit summary and am too busy to start finding out now. I chanced on your message while doing something else.


 * I didn't realise you had originally written than sentence. But that's why an edit summary would have been useful. You could have put a brief version of what you just wrote above as the summary, then people watching the page would understand. The following is the standard Wikipedia explanation of an 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.  J Rawle  (Talk) 14:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)