User talk:Trevmar

Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, Trevmar! Thanks for the contributions to the Sarcoidosis article. Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Minor edits

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 13:42, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, the days when I was fully savvy on wikis have long since gone. My head is full of medical jargon and concepts these days. I will try to be more careful, however. Trevmar (talk)

It doesn't matter that much, users can set their preferences to ignore minor edits which means some people might miss it. Previously you could mark all edits minor by default but that option seems to be disabled now, for me at least. I don't bother marking my edits minor even when they are but if your preferences are set to automatically tick all edits as minor you may want to look into disabling it. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:10, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You know, honestly I don't know what my default settings are, but I did just try an edit, and the box wasn't ticked, so maybe I checked it by mistake. As I said, I will be more careful in future.Trevmar (talk) 14:13, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Meh, the only further comment I can provide is sometimes I hit the minor edit button when I'm aiming for save or the edit summary. I only mentioned because I saw several tagged in a row in your contribution history and thought it might be a misfiring default. Since that seems to not be the case, not much else to watch for. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please thread your posts

See conversation threading. When you post large blocks of text that are not separated from other persons' posts by an indent, it becomes difficult to separate comments by different people. Use one colon for each new post, and the template {{od}} for a "carriage return" to start a new line. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 18:23, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WLU, these days my mind is focused on science, rather than editing. I appreciate your help in formatting. But I do beg your forbearance in understanding that I have responsibilities which are being displaced by having to spend time here, trying to correct the facts, and to assure editors I am complying with WP:AGF.

I am intrigued why editors here keep tagging my work with "alternative medicine." What I am doing is as mainstream as it is possible to do these days. Why is the "alternative" tag always applied here? Trevmar (talk) 18:39, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]