Thread:Lady Junky/@comment-27792191-20160214223837

Lady Junky wrote: Hi.

First of all, thank you for helping us by fixing tenses, grammar and spelling in our articles. It is really nice of you :) And it helps us!

Then, I'm also going to ask you to stop deleting some contents on the articles, like you did with Marco's page. If the summary is there, there is a reason, and if you don't get it, you can ask us. Not a problem! But deleting the content like that, without an excellent reason, is against our policies. Maybe you should read them here: http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_Wiki:Policies

So, just be careful for the future ;)

Thank you! You say I should "stop" deleting as if I have done this multiple times, instead of on one page. Asking me "not to delete" would be less hostile, but nvm. The subject paragraph looked to me to be a generic explanation for Pan starting the second Curse, and thus seemed out of place unless it is repeated on each Storybrooke character's page, which would be superfluous as the Curses are explained elsewhere. Additionally, Marco's name did not appear in it. Given your objection, I guess that "everyone ... is engulfed by the curse's purple smoke" is meant to specify each individual character visible onscreen in the scene? If so, I assume it must requires inclusion on each of those character's pages even though their individual names are not mentioned? I did not see this on other minor character's pages, so I thought it was an inadvertent thing on Marco's page. I don't have a still picture of this scene, so I will assume that someone has added this paragraph to each visible character's page, and has likewise ensured it does not appear on pages for characters who did not appear onscreen in the scene, even though the Curse obviously affected "everyone" in the town?

On a second note, it seems that one of the founding wikians often used the phrase "to which." In most of the instances I've seen, it requires more words around it to make it grammatically correct (eg. "to which he replied", "in response to which"). I don't like to change someone's prose or their intention, so rather than make the sentence more wordy, I tried to just use a different phrase to indicate a reaction to the first action.

On a third note, I would recommend not jumping into an article to correct something that was written only 3-5 minutes ago. Personally, I often make additional or followup edits after hitting Publish. One reason is to save a few changes, rather than building up a massive submission of changes and risk losing them to a crash or bad keystroke. I realize that as a protector of the wiki you may be monitoring anything new that is done, but if you quickly edit something while the person is still working on their next submission, they will hit an edit conflict which can create havoc. It would be kinder to wait 10 minutes or so, to allow some elbow room to finish their work.

I realize you don't know me from Adam, but I hope you can Assume Good Faith on my part. 