User talk:Davidcarfi

Edit summaries, "minor edit" marking
Hello! One of the nice things on wikipedia is called "edit summaries"

See this page: Help:Edit summary

You can (and should!) write edit summaries for your edits. And if you view a page history -- see Help:Page_history if you don't know how -- you'll see other people's edit summaries. For example, I reverted some of your edits yesterday, and explained why in my edit summary, and you can see that explanation at the page history here. Then you re-made the changes but didn't say anything in your edit summary. It's fine if we disagree with each other ... I think these particular edits are ones where reasonable people can disagree ... but I offered an explanation for why I reverted it, so you're supposed to respond to that, either in your edit summary or on the article talk page -- Help:Talk pages. In this particular case the talk page is Talk:Translation operator (quantum mechanics).

Also, you've been tagging almost all of your edits as "minor edits". A "minor edit" is one that no one could possibly disagree with, for example correcting a spelling error or erasing vandalism. You have been making substantial layout changes, as well as putting back in the show/hide box that I deleted yesterday, that at least one person (me!) disagrees with, so I think you shouldn't be marking them as "minor". It's no big deal, I know it can be confusing, but now you know :-D

I know that editing wikipedia is complicated technically and has a complicated set up community / cultural norms, and I hope you understand that I'm trying to help you and not harangue you, and I hope you stick it out until you get the hang of it. :-D

Thanks in advance! --Steve (talk) 16:42, 22 September 2018 (UTC)