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Anarchyte (talk • work) 16:31, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Changes to Chimpanzee Article

Some mobile user has been making what look to me like pointless edits to the Chimpanzee article. They delete large sections of text and then put them back, sometimes with a few blank spaces removed. In the edit summary it says they were approved by you. I don’t know what the policy is on these kinds of edits. IMO they are more disruptive than constructive because the user never leaves an edit summary and the way they edit you really have to search hard to find what, if anything was changed. I personally think such edits are a waste of time since there is no discernible change to the article and it wastes people’s time making sure it isn’t vandalism. But if such edits are considered constructive that’s fine, it isn’t worth an argument. I just wanted to double check and get your opinion. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 04:31, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi @MadScientistX11: thanks for bringing this up with me! Unfortunately I'm not sure I exactly understand what you mean when you say that they "delete large sections of text and then put them back", could you clarify what you see them doing? Is it possible that we are seeing different things when we view the diff? (I tried turning off a few beta features but the diff page looks the same as before, unless I missed the setting.) To me, I see that the only changes are in citations, where there is a yellow (on desktop; red on mobile) highlight showing that the user removed a space before the closing curly braces, ie, " }}" -> "}}". I agree that there being no edit summary summary is not ideal, and that it does take some time looking for those small highlights where they removed spaces (although admittedly it would be much more difficult to find the change if the diff showed the entire paragraph being deleted and replaced, if that is how you are seeing it). In my case though, I found the edits to be neither particularly constructive nor disruptive so I accepted them as they did not seem to warrant a revert, but I'll gladly reconsider if the edits are problematic in any way. I'm also pinging @Peaceray: they accepted a similar edit not long before me, in case they have any input. ChromeGames923 (talk · contribs) 05:10, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I don’t use a lot of new features, so that is probably the difference. It’s not important though, I just wanted to double check that you were carefully reviewing the changes which you obviously are. Thanks for the quick response. Happy editing! --MadScientistX11 (talk) 13:55, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi @MadScientistX11: I really appreciate you checking with me, I'm fairly new to this myself so I'm definitely looking to continue learning and improving! As for the diff, my screen looks like this image, except for the edits in question there were only yellow highlights on the left showing deleted spaces, and no blue highlights on the right since there were no additions. Best, ChromeGames923 (talk · contribs) 22:13, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Hyliion deleted due to copyvio

Hi ChromeGames923, just a courtesy note that I've deleted Hyliion due to substantial copyright violations going back to its foundational edit. It came up on my radar at Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations/Wikisanchez. Many of that editor's created articles have each sentence copy/pasted from the cited sources. I know you weren't involved in writing the content on that page, but I see you moved the article to a new title last week, so I figured I'd drop you a note to let you know. I hope all is well during these crazy times! All the best, Ajpolino (talk) 18:43, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Ajpolino: I hope you're doing well too. That's unfortunate to hear, but I'm glad that you caught it and I appreciate you notifying me about it. Thanks, ChromeGames923 (talk · contribs) 04:08, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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Short descriptions

... should be short. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Short description. The descriptions should be "no more than about 40 characters", with very exceptional circumstances needed to use more. Your descriptions at Discrete-time Markov chain and Continuous-time Markov chain were much too long.

Additionally, please have a think about the purpose of them. The point is that a reader using the search bar needs to determine either "yes, this is the topic I'm looking for", or "no it isn't", as quickly as possible (fractions of a second). It is of no help to write in technical language like "$\mathbb {Z}$-module homomorphism" for Additive map (where the lead should be understood by a strong secondary school student, but you wouldn't get to modules until university). Better is "mathematics concept", "property in mathematics", "type of mathematical function" etc. Someone knows immediately, "no, I'm not looking for maths" or "yes, I am". But if they're looking for a philosophy term, they'll go "uhh... um... I don't know what the description means, so maybe". That is, unless there are multiple articles on the same mathematical term (e.g. Identity (disambiguation)#Mathematics), the subject area is enough information.

It does not matter if Wikidata is the originator of the short description: you are responsible for adding it. We do need good short descriptions on the pages you've been editing, but I would recommend that you go back over some of the ones you have been rewriting and change them — Bilorv (talk) 10:18, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

@Bilorv: Thank you for the helpful feedback and comments. I see that some of the short descriptions I added do not function very well for their indented purpose, and a more general idea of the topic would be more useful for disambiguating searches. I will try to do better in this regard and in keeping things shorter. Separately, I had been under the impression that Wikidata short descriptions would be displayed if Wikipedia does not have one; that is why I often added short descriptions that were shorter than the ones on Wikidata but not necessarily short enough to be 40 characters. After checking now it seems this is no longer the case as of a few years ago, so I will keep that in mind as well. ChromeGames (talk · contribs) 00:29, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, and I'm glad the comments could be useful. For the record, this is also the first I'm learning of Wikidata short descriptions not appearing unless overriden, but either way a Wikipedia-hosted SD should comply with our principles. — Bilorv (talk) 17:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

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