User talk:Gclink

Welcome!
Hello Gclink, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. 86.159.159.194 (talk) 12:31, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Editing articles
Hi there. 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. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you.

Whilst there is no evidence of malfeasance on your part, a failure to supply an edit summary is frequently evidence of article vandalism and it is quite possible that any summaryless edit will get reverted.

Also, please preview any edit using the "Show preview" button before finally saving the page. This avoids the (in excess of) 30 sequential edits (all without edit summaries) that you made to the article DC motor. In general terms making more than 3 successive such edits is heavily discouraged.

Finally, although I accept that you were making a good faith expansion of material already in the article lede, I have nevertheless had to delete it as the lede should be a summary of material in the rest of the article (and in any case it was unreferenced). As the deleted material was not mentioned elsewhere, it could not have been a summary. You may wish to consider adding it to a more appropriate place, but please don't forget the all important citations for it if you do. A look at the Wikipedia style manual may be of help to you in the future. 86.159.159.194 (talk) 12:31, 12 November 2012 (UTC)