User talk:HartonScye

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I'm not sure what your intention was but you did not merely fix a broken reference name - you instead changed content and did some very strange things with references - including changing the edition of the Flight International World Air Forces directory from the 2021 to the 2019 version, while linking to an entirely different (and broken) source. You need to be much more careful when making changes, because those changes to the article were damaging.Nigel Ish (talk) 09:28, 27 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Sorry,@Nigel Ish
 * My sincere apologies. I usually go back and check my edits, and so discover all my silly stuff-ups. That definitely would have occurred with this latest error, the very next time (i.e about now-ish!). I must admit, however, I got unexpectedly called to other things, and had been a bit distracted while editing: Something I will be sure not to do again.
 * I realise you don't wiki-know me at all, and can see I'm fairly new, so perhaps I deserve the rather stern telling-off you provide here. Just to say though, although I stuffed up here, if you look at my few edits so far, I think you will be reassured as to my usual level of care. Given that, it seems a little unfair to come on so strong, as I am very responsive to even mild remonstrances, and try to be careful. I made a mistake - perhaps even a ghastly one - but  irretrievable?  I mean so, "damaging", a revert couldn't fix? So far, I think I've made pretty good progress for a newbie, with some reasonably useful edits. I ask for +patience ++gentleness in communication and - contempt.Thanks HartonScye (talk) 09:51, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * yeah, I see what I did: I had two versions open. Current one, plus the an old version to get a copy of the accidentally deleted source. Like a complete idiot, I made the change to the old version, so wiping out all intervening edits. Again, my apologies. See, this is why I knew I should not have registered: I knew I would muck up as soon as I did. Oh well, it seems I never run out of bloody idiocies to commit. HartonScye (talk) 09:59, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * @Nigel Ish - Really? IS this justified?  "revert unexplained change to content and references, including  falsification of ref titles" WTH? Could you not have assumed I made a simple, if stupid, mistake? FFS!  All the absolute crap that goes unnoticed and uncorrected here on WP, and this is what a well-intentioned, if idiotic, new user gets. FFS! J.H.C! I hope you never make a mistake in a public forum that makes you cringe internally. Why would I give any consideration to the communications of a person who writes in such a way? I can hardly express how loathsome I find the apparently intentionally harsh and automatic assumption of bad faith which your ES displays. HartonScye (talk) 10:32, 27 August 2021 (UTC)