User talk:WileCoyote

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Single edits are awesome

Yo dude. Your work on the AC2 Walkthrough page is appreciated, but it would be cooler if you could do it all in one edit rather than editing each section separately. There are some on here that would view that as medal abusing - i.e, editing one page multiple times, just to clock up a massive edit count. So, it would be awesome if you could edit the page as a whole, rather than sections as singular parts. Just use the big 'Edit' button by the title, instead of the little ones by the section titles. Cheers man! :) Elchzard 20:19, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

Replied to here.

Yeah, bigger chunks are better.
Just make sure you do though, people have previously been told off for stuff like that, so watch out.

Oh, and sign your posts with four ~'s

Cheers again. --Elchzard 20:34, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

Understood, but I have an observation: the merit system is surely intended as a means to an end, a means to persuade people to make intelligent and useful edits to the wiki. If it has become an end in itself, yet another way of garnering "points" for something, then it is no longer fit for purpose. And if I get "told off" for spending my time in improving a useful resource for a game I really enjoy, I will simply go away. My life is full enough without worrying about the trivia of "medals" or whatever other rewards the wikia merit system offers. No offence intended, but honestly, some people really do lack a perspective on things.

WileCoyote 20:44, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

Dude. I'm not 'telling you off' for anything. This isn't a warning. This isn't an admonition. I'm just telling you the way some may view it. You might not be the type of person that abuses the merit system, but that type of person exists. We have to safeguard against them. Merits were introduced at central Wikia, and as far as I know, we don't have any control over their presence.
Please don't view this as a warning, or a telling off – it's neither of those. If it was, it would be a member of wiki staff posting this now, not me. Please don't see this as either of those things.
Elchzard 20:57, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

Hey, dude, that wasn't aimed at you. It really is just an observation, and I'd be very happy to have the conversation with the wikia staff :-), pointing out the fallacy in whatever argument they might level. I'm editing by DNA seq now :-), which is a step up. A reason I don't edit bigger chunks is that I've had a page crash on me before and lose a shedload of stuff (that was the Red Dead wiki). The handy little Edit buttons next to the small headings are there, I assumed, for just that eventuality. If wikia don't like small edits, they should disable small edits. Anyway, sorry if I sounded grumpy! Cheers WileCoyote 21:14, May 24, 2011 (UTC)