User blog:Epicnail/About Editing

Lately there have been more editors helping the wiki, which is a great thing. Our pages are somewhat messy and inconsistent, and there are a lot of things we can do to solve the problem. Lately, however, people are making increasingly minor edits in major quantities.

I have seen edits such as:


 * Removal of underscores only


 * Removal of invisible spaces only


 * Changing to


 * One small wording change only

Doing any of the above isn't necessarily bad, but it definitely is if you are making lots of these types of edits in a row. The main reason for this is "page consistency". It's a valid excuse, but it still doesn't justify making 75 edits in a half hour adding one word or removing one space. I myself think that's just lazy editing. There are lots of other glaring issues going unnoticed or untouched because they take more effort to fix.

Such problems include:


 * Messy rap meanings pages


 * A need for removal of uninteresting trivia and addition of cool trivia.


 * A need for non-Wikipedia character info sections


 * A need for information on stub pages


 * Fact-checking on trivia and rap meanings pages

I think it's cool that everyone wants to edit stuff but please consider that there are more important things to fix. It takes about as much time to come up with an original character information section as removing 50 underscores from 50 articles. It's not about the number of edits that you make as much as what you edit. Keep that in mind non rollback people. Also, more experienced editors please set a good example for newer peeps.

Ye, I think that's all. Feel free to discuss below.