Thread:N00bKing/@comment-4795804-20190127101200/@comment-3153244-20190127124505

Hi there,

Remember that a wiki is not owned by any one person.

You're right that no one person owns a wiki - however, admins are generally the ones who have the most experience on that particular wiki, and over here, that experience is what allows us to decide the needs of the community, including (as Spike said) whether a particular action is needed.

We do appreciate your help in cleaning up double redirects, however, one reason we request that you ask before doing mass edits like these is because we do have a bot on our wiki; much of your effort in categorising image categories for instance, could have be saved by posting a request over at Thread:20414. And if, as you say, the categories are incorrect, then not only will you have wasted your own time, but you'll also be spending ours in checking whether anything else was done incorrectly.

NB: Not everything is doable by bot, but many things are.

If I was making edits with malicious intent, then I could understand a reason for concern. We had a user a while ago who had good intentions in bringing over new templates to our wiki, but good intentions didn't stop the templates from breaking over here because he didn't understand properly how they worked, and because he didn't check with us beforehand. This is different from adding categories obviously, but my point being that yes, intentions are important, but what we are concerned about is whether they may bring along unintended action as well.

Your recent edits were fine, but all that we ask is a little heads up before making a change like this to a good number of our pages.

(Rewording grammatically incorrect sentences in articles? Rewording a paragraph so it makes more sense? Expanding article stubs with relevant information? Be my guest!

''Making massive structural changes to an already-lengthy, well-developed page, or adding a particular phrase or category to a good number of our pages? We'd prefer if you checked beforehand.)''