User talk:Kotovasii

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Again, welcome!&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 20:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Show preview
Hi, Kotovasii! Thank you again for your contributions. I just wanted to ask you to use the "Show preview" button when you are making your edits (it is located to the right of the "Save page" button). When you press it, you will see how the article looks after your edits are made, but it will not save it permanently just yet. If you something wrong/missing, you can re-edit the article again, and press "Show preview" to see how it looks then. When you are completely satisfied, then save the page. The reason for this is when you save each and every minor edit (instead of previewing them first), the entire article is saved to the database. Needless to say, it is very wasteful on Wikipedia's storage resources. If you edit a 30 KB article twenty times, you eat up 30*20=600 KB of storage, while if you preview your changes nineteen times and then save the article on the twentieth try, you only use thirty kilobytes. Additionally, a lot of minor edits do not show well in the article's history.

I hope you understand. If something is not clear, please check out Help:Show preview for more information, or just drop me a line if you need something explained further.

Happy editing!&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 21:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Mistaken criticism
Kotovasii, in your comments on Talk:Jews sans frontieres you appear to confuse me with another contributor. Your comment suggests that I am lying about the blog, and want to delete the article. Far from it! I am a friend of Mark Elf, and a regular contributor to the blog. Someone moved the comments around, so you probably mistook someone else's comments for mine. I would be grateful if you would remove the implication that I am lying -- I don't want to edit your contribution myself. Thanks. RolandR 01:39, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Dear RolandR - I am sorry about the mistake, however I cannot remove my text as the article has gone from the wiki. Kotovasii 10:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Edits to Jerusalem
Greetings, Kotovasii,

I am not sure what the issue is--I did not revert your edits to Jerusalem. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else? Justin Eiler 12:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)