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Verbosity in edit summaries, or: Geez, I didn't need your freaking life story, man

Dear SRMX12, thanks for helping build the Homestar Runner Wiki! You're doing a great jorb. I wanted to take a sec to talk about your edit summaries. First of all, this is not a complaint! It's just an observation and a couple of suggestions. Feel free to disregard everything I say. So, with that in mind, let me just point out that your edit summaries are very thorough—the most thorough I've seen on this wiki. If there were a prize for that, you'd win it. Now, given the choice between too much and too little, we'd definitely prefer a wordy edit summary over one that was blank or didn't properly cover the edit, but there is a sweet spot that dare I say you're overshooting. You're at about a 9, when you could get by with a 3. Just to pick an example, instead of "At one point someone had 'Pom Pom' as 'Pom-Pom'. I deleted the hyphen," you could put "deleted hyphen" and it would be just as effective. Complete sentences and emphasis on the first person are not necessary—again, they're not wrong, just superfluous maybe. If you're adding content, it's assumed that you're the one doing it (who else would be?) and that the content you're adding is relevant to the page. A bare-bones summary is usually plenty and easier to read (see the example below). If a reviewer needs more info, he or she can click on the diff link to see exactly what you did.

Let me also point out a cool feature of MediaWiki. Whenever you edit a specific section (by clicking the little edit link next to the section instead of the main one at the top of the page), the system wraps the section heading /* Like so */, and it automatically generates a link to that section. (You can also do it manually.) So, for example, this summary:

In the "Homestar's Shoes" section, I added the appearance of one of Homestar's shoes in the new Halloween toon.

could be rewritten like this code:

/* Homestar's Shoes */ added new Halloween toon

and would show up like this in the page history:

→Homestar's Shoes: added new Halloween toon

Clicking that little arrow jumps straight to the section. This also works on any page with an id in the code (like Minor Foods). Typing /* Turduckens */ at the beginning of the edit summary would make a link to that spot in the table.

Again, I'm not trying to discourage you from writing lengthy summaries if that's your thing (they do have a certain quaint style). I just don't want you to think that you have to or that they're necessarily better than short summaries. It's one of those things you might not think about unless someone pointed it out, so I did. Cheers, and keep on tranglin'. — It's dot com 19:07, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm sorry about my wordy summaries. I just thought it would be best to be specific so that people would know what I'd changed. I'll keep your advice in mind... I just tend to be a little wordy in general when I write stuff. (I'm sure some of my friends are sick of the long emails I send them sometimes.)

Thanks for wecloming me to the Homestar Runner Wiki!

-SRMX12

The Game

This is awesome! Can't wait to see the finished version. Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 03:42, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!! I'm glad to know that I'll have at least one Homestar Runner fan that'll appreciate my game when it's complete. :D

Remember, if you're interested, keep checking the teaser for updates! The "blog" in the Notes and Credits section will keep you informed on SBAG4CP's development. I'll also be adding the rest of the main characters to the teaser, as well as giving everyone dialogue when you click on them.

'K, that's my spiel. Thanks again for showing interest!

-SRMX12