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Hi. I noticed you had to edit the same page at least 4 times in a row. I would like to reccomend that you use the "show preview" button located next to "save page". Since it does not close the edit window, it saves the time usually spent repeatedly clicking "edit" and then "save page", and prevents flooding of Special:Recentchanges. BBG 22:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Show Preview really is a handy tool. You'll save yourself a lot of time, and you'll save recent changes from a lot of flooding. OptimisticFool 22:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Mr. McCloud, Just to reiterate (and I don't want this to seem like the community is yelling at you): every single edit you make (every time you hit the Save Page button) logs an edit into our Recent Changes Page. By making multiple small changes to the same page (instead of using the Show Preview button) you do three real disservices to the wiki. First, you flood Recent Changes, thereby kicking out other changes off of the 30 that usually display, meaning contributors have a harder time finding edits that go against firm held consensus. Second, you make the job of the Recent Changes Patrol (which I sometimes feel like the only member) much harder. The RCP exists to check every single edit to check for Spam and the like (and is actually the reason some edits have orange exclamation points next to them on your Recent Changes log.) Third, you may actually be burying where the RCP and other editors can't find it or have a harder time reverting it.

I want to restate that the community is not against you. I personally think that mostly all of the edits you've made have been productive and have followed the basic tenet to "leave the knowledge base a little better when you log out then when you logged on." Keep up the good work, but heed the advice of your fellow community member. Flashfight 22:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)