User talk:DiscreetParrot
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Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:26, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 04:01, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi. The text you link to instructs to avoid editing other's posts, with the intention of not changing their meaning. This is something I never do because I agree that this would be wrong and unhelpful. It also mentions the concept of deleting comments and advises to do so cautiously. It does not instruct not to do it or even so much as state that it's bad practice. I don't quite agree with your suggestion that talk pages are meant to be a record of discussion. In some cases preserving old discussions can absolutely have value, but the fundamental purpose of talk pages is to discuss making improvements to their respective articles. Some discussion points loose all value over time, and of course there are some discussions that are simply off topic (not about improving the article or pointing out issues with article content) which naturally deserve deletion. Talk pages cluttered with a ton of old discussions is a real problem; value time can be wasted trawling through them to get a picture of what the current situation is. I've been frustrated by this many times before. I've never previously dared to delete comments before, but what I've done tonight is to review certain discussion pages of articles I care about and carefully prune out a bunch of discussions that I feel no longer hold any value at all. I see this as an entirely good thing and I'm quite surprised to find my work being mass reverted. DiscreetParrot (talk) 05:41, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- In your mass reversion I see you've even gotten rid of new discussion points I'd added, replies I added, and missing section headings I'd added (some people seem to dump their discussion points just anywhere). DiscreetParrot (talk) 05:49, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Feel free to re-add, without removing. You might be interested in activating WP:ARCHIVENOTDELETE as a way of keeping the main talkpage less cluttered by very old content. DMacks (talk) 06:23, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Archiving huh. I wasn't aware of that concept. I've just done some reading up on it and it seems like a good and indeed better concept for what I'd wanted to achieve. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll get archives created, move stuff to it as appropriate, and restrict deletions to only off-topic ones that have no value. I was a little annoyed at having all that work undone and having to spend extra time restoring certain bits, but I'm glad to have learned about a much better solution out of it.
Thank you DiscreetParrot (talk) 07:34, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good plan! I did manage to get at least one of them "just undo the deletions, revive/retain your additions" while I was working on the situation. DMacks (talk) 14:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Letting Cluebot III setup an auto-archive works well. It often takes a few days before you see any action. Also, it is good to leave a few threads (maybe four), even if they are very old. It shows us just how long ago there was any interest. Constant314 (talk) 17:33, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Feel free to re-add, without removing. You might be interested in activating WP:ARCHIVENOTDELETE as a way of keeping the main talkpage less cluttered by very old content. DMacks (talk) 06:23, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Circuit breaker, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. I agree with @MrOllie: that your recent edit was synthesis. Constant314 (talk) 02:54, 27 January 2025 (UTC)