User talk:Whyeventry

March, 2014
Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Doug McDermott. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you are given a good deal of freedom in what you write. Rikster2 (talk) 03:02, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't agree with your assessment of this as a "joke edit." I feel that I am connecting the dots that no one else has connected. I felt this was a relevant edit because, as a potential draftee of the New York Knicks, and happening in their home arena, the connection of what McDermott did (as seen driving the lane in the YouTube video) and what the Beastie Boys asked about is important. As a fan of both the Beastie Boys and McDermott, please don't think there was any malicious intent on my part. I do get the feeling that if edits aren't made by a certain person or persons, those individuals may feel like the edits are jokes or trolling. Could the tone of my edit have been more encyclopedic? Sure. But I still feel it was relevant for the points made above.