One Night Reader

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September 2021

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to W. H. Dimond (barquentine), please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

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Short descriptions

Hello, I just wanted to ask if you could take a little better look at the short descriptions you are adding to articles before saving them. Some of them do not really make sense, do not succinctly describe the target article, or are grammatically improper (like using "co" for "company" or "corporation"). There are some cases where a short description might not be required, as when the title of an article describes the subject of that article more or less completely. Thank you. Chubbles (talk) 11:49, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Thankyou for your comments; which I have noted. I have reread the "Learn more" info...between 2 and 12 words is recommended. I can't find anything 'bout commonly used abbreviations being unacceptable. On the Edits page it is showing those contributions which I've already made , as having a "Perfect" edit quality and a tick in a green circle...so I'm finding your criticisms somewhat contrary. Regards...... One Night Reader (talk) 01:30, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

You want the description to be legible to a reader who knows nothing about a topic; abbreviating things like "prog" for "program" inhibits understanding. I don't know what algorithm you're using to evaluate the edits, but if it is rating the edits as "perfect", something's wrong with the algorithm. Some of the descriptions simply don't make grammatical sense - please exercise good judgment in addition to relying on automated assessments. Chubbles (talk) 13:14, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

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