User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2018/Sep

Renaming categories
Well, since you can't seem to be bothered with edit summaries, I'll ask here; Why are you piping links to categories? The rename doesn't show up, so you appear to be adding needless text to those pages (hence the revert). - the WOLF  child  22:37, 28 July 2018 (UTC) Additional note: these reason we have edit summaries is so people won't need to ask. FYI - the WOLF  child  22:39, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * See my last edit summary. I'm not piping them, and there is no rename involved. As I said, my edits ensure that the article is correctly alphabetised within each category. If you aren't familiar with how this works, please read WP:SORTKEY. And the reason we have civilisation in Wikipedia is that editors generally assume good faith and don't start wars for nothing. Colonies Chris (talk) 22:43, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, feel free to post some "civilized" edit summaries and you won't keep running into this problem. You can't expect every editor to be versed in every policy, guideline, community expectation, essay and every other linked "rule" here. It would make life easier to just explain what you're doing in the first place (kinda' why we have the summary feature). AGF goes both ways, my friend. - the WOLF  child  22:58, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Please use edit summaries. It really helps us save a lot of time. If you do not, it is your gain and our loss, and that is not too fair. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:11, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I acknowledge the value of edit summaries. However, almost all my edits are minor improvements such as spelling corrections or link disambiguations, which are self-explanatory. Not understanding the purpose of an edit - particularly one made by an established editor - is no justification for reverting it. I am always willing to explain the reason for an edit if someone asks. Colonies Chris (talk) 09:41, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Anna, a lot of maintenance work is done by editors like Chris, with or without semi-automated assistance. It has made the en.WP product much more professional, and as Chris says, they're mostly minor, standard improvements that would be difficult to list in an edit summary, and of little value to others. Tony (talk)  11:04, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Unlinking
Re : links aren't created solely for terms that might be unknown to a reader, one of the functions of a link is to point to an article where readers might find relevant information. In this particular case, this was an entry in a table, and given that all other entries were linked, unlinking this one visually puts in contrast and draws unnecassary attention to it (which is precisely the opposite of what we would want to do for such a commonly known entity). In general, it's good idea to take extra care when unlinking terms that appear in tables, lists or in infoboxes. – Uanfala (talk) 17:07, 12 August 2018 (UTC)