User talk:Fachidiot

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Happy editing! Knuthove (talk) 16:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Knuthove: Did I do anything wrong yet? I'm trying to figure out how all of this works. If you took the time to look trough my edits and comment if I am breaking any norms it would be greatly appreciated. A reply on my use of the talk pages and method for replying would also be welcome. Fachidiot (talk) 16:31, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are doing great! You even used the {{reply to}} template and signed your talk page reply! That is way above expectations from me, at least for a new user. The only think I can think of to keep in mind with regards to talk pages is to indent your replies with a fitting number of leading colons ":" to make the thread more readable. Your edits seem great to me, other than the below mentioned overuse of the "minor edit" checkbox. I don't know much about medicine, but I know they have an especially strict manual of style and sourcing requirements. You should probably check out (and join) the WikiProject Medicine. I really hope you keep on contributing to this great project! Happy editing. — Knuthove (talk) 16:44, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, for article talk pages, while the ideal is that you should propose your changes on the talk page, discuss with the editors and reach a consensus, my experience is that talk pages for most articles are very dead places. For example, Talk:Overdiagnosis which you edited, has had eight editors in 14 years, disregarding bots. This means that you probably have to make a post directly on the user talk page of one or more of the main editors of the page to get a discussion started. You can find good targets for this by using the article's revision history, or the xTools authorship page. It is also a reason to be bold in your editing, though I guess medical editors might have a slightly less gung ho attitude towards that than the rest of Wikipedia. — Knuthove (talk) 17:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edits[edit]

Again, welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you have marked all your edits as minor. The minor edits help page says that "Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if the edit concerns a single word, and it is improper to mark such an edit as minor." Edits such as this and this, while not big, are not "minor" in the very limited sense that Wikipedia uses the term. This is not in any way a big deal, but I just thought I should make you aware that it is considered bad practice to mark edits as minor when they are not totally impossible to disagree with. I hope you will keep on improving Wikipedia like you have already started to do! — Knuthove (talk) 16:23, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Knuthove: Thank you for pointing that out, I was understanding "minor edit" to mean any edit that does not change the overall structure of the article. If it instead refers to any edit that does not change the semantic meaning of any statement in the article I will of course begin to follow this practice. Fachidiot (talk) 16:35, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]