User talk:Chris.tester

Menai Strait
Your recent edits to Menai Strait changed values in the velocity of the tidal flow in the strait without citing any references. It may well be that your figures are correct, however, in the absence of robust and reliable references to support the facts, I have reverted the article to its original state. Please also note that edits that change values in an article should not be marked as minor. It would also help if you could use edit summaries to explain your edits. Many thanks.  Velella  Velella Talk 20:27, 1 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. I am new to Wikipedia so forgive my missing the "edit summary".


 * If you look at the version you reverted you will see it also does not cite references to any speeds mentioned.


 * My edits only related to units and the order of the units display, not the values (unless you disagree that 8.8kph is not "around 9 kilometres per hour" - this was what the wiki markup decided to approximate it to). This is why I marked it a minor change.


 * Regarding the content changes I did make - in a maritime context (when talking about tides for example) the international standard unit is the knot. The default use of kilometers per hour is not standard, nor correct in this context.


 * Given what I have said - can you please clarify why my edits are not valid and more importantly how you suggest these changes to units can be made given the fact that the previous versions of the page do not contain them? (surely this must happen all the time?) Cheers, Chris.tester (talk) 20:57, 1 June 2013 (UTC)


 * You are absolutely right that a great deal in Wikipedia is unsourced but thankfully that situation is slowly getting better. However, when an editor changes something that has been put in by a reputable editor some time ago and does so without giving a good reason and citing a reliable source, then the change is almost always reverted on the basis that it is better to retain something which has been unchallenged for some time rather than accept an arbitrary new value. There are many editors who randomly change data on Wikipedia as a joke or worse and there is a constant battle to retain reasonably accurate information. However, I had mistakenly come to the conclusion that you had changed the real value of the tidal flow but I now see that you haven't. My mistake and I will now revert to your version. Many apologies  Velella  Velella Talk 22:21, 1 June 2013 (UTC)