User talk:Speculating
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Game?[edit]
Hi Speculating, you seem to make a lot of superficial edits. Are you trying to WP:PGAME the system? There is no reason to remove a double space. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 13:37, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Assume good faith + I found their edits in Sudan to be useful. Someone needed to remove the double space as per common sense or Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting FuzzyMagma (talk) 14:21, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- I beg to differ (edit conflict). I was just saying:
- Speculating, hi, I see you have today made many tiny edits, such as removing a space from Sudan to convert a (harmless, and in some spelling systems correct or advised) double-space into a single-space. This is basically pointless, as it does not affect the rendered display seen by readers; and it is troublesome, as it flags up as an unexplained edit, causing other editors to have to check what has been done in case it is vandalism. So, in a word, please don't do that! Many thanks, Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:24, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- if it pointless then it make sense not to do it, or at least please (Speculating) add a summary for your edit. would not go as far as accusing someone of gaming without first explaining that their edits are pointless. They are new after all FuzzyMagma (talk) 14:30, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Might be semantics, but I didn't accuse them but just straight up asked them if they were doing that. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 18:45, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- if it pointless then it make sense not to do it, or at least please (Speculating) add a summary for your edit. would not go as far as accusing someone of gaming without first explaining that their edits are pointless. They are new after all FuzzyMagma (talk) 14:30, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Speculating, hi, I see you have today made many tiny edits, such as removing a space from Sudan to convert a (harmless, and in some spelling systems correct or advised) double-space into a single-space. This is basically pointless, as it does not affect the rendered display seen by readers; and it is troublesome, as it flags up as an unexplained edit, causing other editors to have to check what has been done in case it is vandalism. So, in a word, please don't do that! Many thanks, Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:24, 27 April 2024 (UTC)