User talk:Bardic Wizard

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Bardic Wizard! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Wikipedia:Questions, or feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or type {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. Again, welcome! Jim1138 (talk) 03:28, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with... learning about edit conflicts and such. I took the Wikipedia adventure but I don't get it.

Bardic Wizard (talk) 03:19, 26 October 2017 (UTC) I found help in irc. So nvm. Bardic Wizard (talk) 03:59, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An edit conflict occurs when two editors are tring to update a page at more-or-less the same time. When you start an edit, your browser gets a copy of the source of the page at that time. If someone else comes along to edit the page (before you save your changes), they also get a copy of the source, just like yours. (There could be more copies outstanding, with more editors.)

When you go to save your edits, there is a check that the page has not been changed since you got your copy of the source. If someone has saved their changes before you did, that creates an edit conflict for you and your changes are not saved. Instead, you get a copy of the new state of the page source and instructions to look at the other changes and your own changes and decide how to resolve the differences.

There are a couple of dangers here. You could replace the new state of the page with the version with just your changes - this effectively throws away the earlier changes made by the other editor, generally a bad thing to do. You could just cancel out of the edit and lose the changes you intended to make - not as bad a thing to do, but certaily frustrating.

When you have made a lot of changes at multiple locations in the file (say you were doing copy-editing), an edit conflict is pretty difficult to resolve. Only if the intervening changes are small or confined to a single location in the page, is it easy to merge the new changes into your version. This generally requires examining the change history in another window in order to figure out what has to be brought over.

The Wikipedia Adventure game does not get into this level of detail. Until you are pretty confident of what you are doing, I would recommend that - when you see an edit conflict - you simply abandon your planned changes and start over. Making changes in smaller chunks is a way to avoid running into this situation, since there will usually be a smaller opportunity for other edits in the interval between your edit request and your save request.

There is more help and explanation at Help:Edit conflict. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 07:07, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with... I saw a lot of custom signatures around. I read the relevent guideline, but it was unclear. Is it okay to change mine to this: Bardic Wizard (Happy Hanukkah^{Merry Christmas})

Bardic Wizard (talk) 21:50, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see nothing wrong with that signature, though I personally would advise against changing it too often. Huon (talk) 22:26, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Bardic Wizard (Happy Hanukkah^{Merry Christmas}) 23:26, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Lilac Fire

On 11 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lilac Fire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Lilac Fire in Southern California grew from a small brush fire to 4,100 acres (17 km²) in one day? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lilac Fire. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lilac Fire), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You fool

You have not caught me and perhaps never will. 99.194.142.233 (talk) 07:43, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]