User talk:Rakaputra WSF

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January 2015

Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

I noticed your recent edit to Milk snake does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! —BarrelProof (talk) 15:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

I also notice that you are removing some Wikipedia article links. You haven't provided any explanation, so I can only guess why. I think you are removing them because they don't lead to articles – i.e., they are WP:REDLINKS. Redlinks used to bother me too. However, in some cases that you modified, it looks like those are links to places where articles should be created. In such a case, the link should not be removed. I suggest to please read the guidance found in WP:REDLINKS.

Also, I restate that overall your lack of using edit summaries makes it very difficult to understand the motivation of your edits and determine whether they are helpful to the article or not. Some of your edits appear to have problems, and it is hard to figure out how to fix the problems if there is no description of why the edits are being done.

—BarrelProof (talk) 18:37, 27 January 2015 (UTC)