Thread:Yuna.Fan/@comment-24032889-20171205225358

Hello!

I've seen you fairly active on this wiki during this volume, especially in the history and affiliations sections. You bring a lot of great content and take a load off of other people's shoulders, mine included. I saw HazelQuill's message on your wall, and I wanted to add to it in a different sort of way. Your edits have gotten noticeably more succinct as Hazel said, and that's awesome. I don't mean to say anything more about that. I wanted to touch base with you on admittedly minor details.

There are a few fine-tune sort of rules to know as well- the smaller things that make articles read well overall. The wiki has its own sort of brand of style and formality, and I don't blame you for not knowing. I had to have quite a few conversations with admins over the years to understand the wiki's smaller grammar and writing style rules that made people keep tweaking what I thought was a perfectly good edit. I still run into them every now and then.

The most common "fine-tune" edits I make on the wiki are for formality. The most basic form of this is that the wiki only uses third-person (No I, We, or You). Of course, you've always used the third person, but that was to give an example. The most common edits I make are removing contractions and replace them with the words that make them. (Contractions are informal compared to spelling it all out). I also remove a lot of "then" and "that" from history sections. "Then" is almost always unnecessary because history sections are understood to be chronological. "That" is much more often perfectly fine and often necessary, but sometimes it can make sentences wordy or too informal. It's a vague line, but it counts. A rule of thumb would be to avoid using it if the sentence makes sense without it.

Those are the small things the wiki upholds. I hope to see your name in the Edit History often! Again, I don't want to make this seem like you're unwelcome here. It's completely the opposite! The wiki is a collective body of people who bounce off each other to make the end result as true and accurate as it could possibly be. I made this post in hopes that its contents could make you feel like what you do for collective people is appreciated the little bit more. And you do a lot. 