User talk:SweetMagnoliaSue

Ref Criminal Minds, Season 4, episode 14.

Hi Dave, I have been watching Criminal Minds lately and adding information to the summaries for several episodes. I thought it would be helpful for people who wanted to know what the episode was about to have a little more information than a single sentence which many of the summaries were. I found an error in one about which episode Agent Rossi comes in on. I enjoy doing this and thought I was doing it well. However, I happened to notice tonight that many of my edits have been reversed to the previous single sentence with exceedingly little information about the episode. Hmmmmm. Being new to the process, I wanted to know why my edits had been reversed so I did some research but really had difficulty finding out why they were changed. I did find this note from you about my revision for episode 14 of season 4.

"Undid revision 610873412 by SweetMagnoliaSue (talk) Write in complete sentences, please."

I'm trying to figure out exactly what sentence you thought was incomplete. Unfortunately, I can no longer find my original edit which would have been at least 3-4 sentences long and written in complete sentences so I still don't know why my additions to the summary were deleted. If you have any insight on this I would appreciate it so that I don't continue to put in the effort if it is not appropriate in some way. I love editing and I love to write but maybe this isn't the best place to do it unless I can figure out what I'm doing wrong. Thank you for your time and attention. SueSweetMagnoliaSue (talk) 04:33, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

@SweetMagnoliaSue:Generally, when a good-faith (i.e. non-vandalism) edit is reversed by a registered editor, that person should leave an explanation explaining why he/she did that, so you should be able to find some explanations in the article history. I only recalling reverting one of your edits, and the reason I did it was that you wrote a fragment sentence, which going off memory, I believe was, "J.J.'s first case since returning from Washington." Aside from being a fragment sentence, as I just covered, I also didn't see how it was relevant to the plot summary. Sorry for not being to give a more detailed explanation, but I hope this helps some. Davejohnsan (talk) 16:22, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Dave, Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the information and have reviewed additional Wikipedia guidance on editing which has been very helpful. The statement you referred to as being an incomplete sentence was this: "JJ's first case after she returns to the BAU takes them to Washington." This is a complete sentence. It might have sounded better if I said ...takes the team to Washington, instead of ...takes "them" to... but according to the rules of sentence structure, it would still be a complete sentence either way. I included the statement about JJ in the summary because it was a noticeable change in a main character's status for the show. She had been gone for several episodes and Agent Todd had taken her place so I felt it was important to note that JJ was back. One of the guidance pages for editing specifically suggested that editing could include adding information to make the 'article' more complete. Thanks for the review and the reply. SweetMagnoliaSue (talk) 03:59, 7 June 2014 (UTC)