User talk:Dongallogly

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Please help me with... making sure my contributions are wanted.

I rarely make contributions or changes to things I see in Wikipedia. I've made perhaps a dozen in my lifetime. When I do, it's to correct spelling errors or clumsy grammar, or to clarify the logic of someone else's contribution. It's always done in good faith and I, of course, don't want to introduce more errors.

I recently got a note on my talk page saying that some of my contributions violated policy somehow. The example cited was a spelling error that I corrected. The word "winds" was used to describe the movement of a river instead of the correct word "wends". To wind means to go around and around and around, as a string on a spool. To wend means to go, to move over or through, or to travel. It's the present tense of the more common word "went". Anyway, this small change was apparently reverted by someone and I was referred to page on vandalism, which I found mildly insulting. It's difficult to tell, exactly, which of my contributions have stuck and which have been reverted.

How can I know if my changes are making the improvement that I believe they are? And how can I ensure that others see the point of the improvements I'm suggesting?

Dongallogly (talk) 23:28, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi and thanks for your question. So that particular message was posted in 2013 so obviously a while back. It does not appear you did anything wrong with that edit. They identified the edit as good faith and I wouldn't want to speculate why they left the message but can understand that it was upsetting. Please continue to correct grammar that you find on Wikipedia - it's helpful. If you get that sort of message again feel free to leave a message asking about it on that person's talk page or using in your reply (making sure to sign it with Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:44, 12 June 2018 (UTC) . Hope that helps. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:44, 12 June 2018 (UTC)