Why does this page exist?
editWhile editing Wikipedia, I've made many edits that may not have been constructive. One day I decided to go though all of my edits and see what I can learn from them. This list is not yet complete, and in fact may never ever be.
I mean its okay to make mistakes. So long as they are made in good faith, and one learns from their mistake. In fact one CEO said:
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough
Applied here on Wikipedia, I feel that means is that its okay to make a mistake, in fact some lessons are only learned by mistakes. Making a mistake, and learning from it make you a better Wikipedia editor.
To help me notice mistakes many editors have left messages at my talk page.
So here it is! This is a list of mistakes, not all mistakes have been addressed yet. No need to rush. Urgent issues (like copyright) will be made right away/
| # | Date (time) | Page | What did I edit? | Lesson/mistake? | Addressed? | Dif |
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| 1 | 18 June, 2018 (21:44) | All Nippon Airways | Added a unit conversion | Well, I used Google/Bing to make that unit conversions. Instead {{convert}} or {{cvt}} can be used instead.
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No, the paragraph which contains the edit has been removed | [1] |
| 2 | 19 June, 2018 (18:32) | Draft:All Nippon Airways Flight 1603 | Creation of page | "This incident would not pass an AFD. Nose gear collapses are common and the plane wasn't written off", does not meet notability | Yes, deleted [log] | N/A |
| 3 | 19 June, 2018 (18:55) | Draft talk:All Nippon Airways Flight 1603 | Creation of page | "This incident would not pass an AFD. Nose gear collapses are common and the plane wasn't written off", does not meet notability, failed to read message at talk page, read the messages left at talk pages | Yes, deleted [log] | N/A |
| 4 | 19 June, 2018 (20:20) | Template:Aviation accidents and incidents in 2018 | Per my edit summery "Added Air China 1380" | The accident did not meet the criteria in Aviation accidents and incidents or maybe WP:AIRCRASH, read that before adding any flights to that page. | Yes, fixed by another editor (see dif) | [2] |
| 5 | 7 July, 2018 (05:45) | Seyi Vodi | In the infobox person, in the parameter "residence" added wikilink to Nigeria | For these type of parameters, counties do not need to be linked, don't over link. See Template:Infobox person#birth place and MOS:OL | Will Be Addressed | [3] |
| 6 | 7 July, 2018 (05:57) | Iksaka Banu | Minor edit to formatting | Issue was edit summery per, WP:DEP edit summery should be "Dead-end pages clean up project; [[Wikipedia:Dead-end pages|you can help!]]", note that this mistake has been made multiple times, this is the only time it is listed here | Can not be addressed | [3.5] |
| 7 | 7 July, 2018 (15:49) | 2000 in South Korea | Added refs | (1) Copied both of the refs, but more importantly failed to notice that one of the refs did not follow WP:CITEWEB. Create proper one using {{Cite web}}.. (2) Also for journals use {{Cite journal}}(3) initial edit was incorrect date (missing month) and url needs "https://www."
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(1) Will Be Addressed (2) fixed by citation bot (see dif) (3) fixed in next edit (see dif) | [4] |
| 8 | 17 July, 2018 (22:25) | Zhang Peili (artist) | added wikilinks | linked to countries, generally we should not (see MOS:OL) | Yes, fixed by another editor (see dif) | [5] |
| 9 | 17 July, 2018 (22:38) | Alan Young (lawyer) | added wikilinks | linked to countries, generally we should not (see MOS:OL) | Will Be Addressed | [6] |
| 10 | 17 July, 2018 (22:46) | Alan Young (lawyer) | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will Be Addressed | [7] |
| 11 | 17 July, 2018 (22:51) | Whistle-blowing policy in Nigeria | added wikilinks | linked to countries, generally we should not (see MOS:OLor MOS:LINK) | Will Be Addressed | [8] |
| 12 | 17 July, 2018 (22:56) | Johnathan Walton | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will Be Addressed | [9] |
| 13 | 17 July, 2018
(23:03) |
Third Pole | added wikilinks, unit conversions | (1) Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation, (2) used Google/Bing to make that unit conversions. Instead {{convert}} or {{cvt}} can be used instead, and (3) square miles should be used, not acres
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(1) Will Be Addressed
(2) Will Be Addressed (3) Yes, fixed by another editor (see diff) |
[10] |
| 14 | 17 July, 2018
(23:07) |
John Sprent | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will be Addressed | [11] |
| 15 | 17 July, 2018
(23:17) |
Society of Classical Poets | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will be Addressed | [12] |
| 16 | 17 July, 2018
(23:27) |
Soaring Eagles Dance Group | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will be Addressed | [13] |
| 17 | 18 July, 2018
(00:30) |
School District Public Library | added wikilinks | The subject should be in bold, not quotes | Yes (see dif), but page turned to a redirect | [14] |
| 18 | 18 July, 2018
(00:37) |
School District Public Library | Add {{stub}}
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{{stub}}should be added to the bottom of the page, there is also different types of stubs, see WP:SST
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Yes (see dif), but page turned to a redirect | [15] |
| 19 | 18 July, 2018
(00:49) |
Reyan | Posed question | Forgot to sign comment using ~~~~
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Yes, fixed by bot (see dif) | [16] |
| 20 | 18 July, 2018
(00:59) |
Peter Kaye (businessman) | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will be Addressed | [17] |
| 21 | 18 July, 2018
(01:20) |
Pedal pub | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | No, page turned to a redirect | [18] |
| 22 | 18 July, 2018
(01:35) |
Operative fact | Add {{Confusing}}
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Did not add the reason why it was confusing in the template itself , see Template:Confusing | Yes, fixed by another editor (see dif) | [19] |
| 23 | 18 July, 2018
(01:38) |
Olaniyi R. Akindiya | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will be Addressed | [20] |
| 24 | 18 July, 2018
(01:46) |
The North Pepin Independent | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will be Addressed | [21] |
| 25 | 18 July, 2018
(02:11) |
The National Ballet Academy of Amsterdam | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL or MOS:LINK violation | Will be Addressed | [22] |
| 26 | 18 July, 2018
(02:13) |
Moscow Imperial River Yacht-Club | added wikilinks | (1) Possible MOS:LINK violation, (2) {{Underlinked}}should have date, this error has occurred multiple times
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(1) Will be Addressed (2) Yes, fixed by bot (see dif) | [23] |
| 27 | 18 July, 2018
(02:16) |
Momenta | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:LINK violation, plus a WP:INTDABLINK violation | Will be Addressed | [24] |
| 28 | 18 July, 2018
(16:35) |
Zespri | added wikilinks | Put punctuation in wikilink (maybe MOS:LINK) | Yes, fixed by another editor (see dif) | [25] |
| 29 | 19 July, 2018
(00:22) |
Janet Martin Welch | added wikilinks | Possible MOS:LINK violation, | Will be addressed | [26] |
| 30 | 19 July, 2018
(00:33) |
Ash Ingestion Detection for Aircraft (AIDA) | added wikilinks and a see also section | MOS:ALSO violation, lists must be bullet-ed | Yes (see dif) | [27] |
| 31 | 19 July, 2018
(00:51) |
Zuzana Králová | Added {{Citation style}}and {{Underlinked}}
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Perhaps use {{Multiple issues}} instead
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Yes, fixed by another editor (see dif) | [28] |
| 32 | 19 July, 2018
(01:03) |
Substantially equal periodic payments | Add {{Confusing}}tag
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Did not add the reason why it was confusing in the template itself , see Template:Confusing | Yes, fixed by another editor (see dif) and dif | [29] |
| 33 | 19 July, 2018 (21:31) | Xylorycta conistica | Added unit conversions | Use {{Convert}}instead, also per consistency with other moth related articles unit conversions were not needed
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Yes (see dif) | [30] |
| 34 | 20 July, 2018 (00:47) | User talk:20....DCB2 | Warned Editor | Wikipedia:Deny recognition (don't feed the trolls) | Too late! | [31] |
| 35 | 20 July, 2018 (00:51) | - | Comment | Improper formatting, space is not needed before reply, use ":" or "*" instead | Too late! | [32] |
| 36 | 20 July, 2018 (03:40) | Air Melo Line | Reverting vandalism | WP:AGF, edit was actually constructive | Yes fixed by another editor (see dif) | [33] |
| 37 | 20 July, 2018 (04:14) | Battle of Peachtree Creek | Reverting vandalism | WP:AGF, WP:VANDTYPES#Blanking, illegitimate, reason of blanking was provided. Think don't click. | Yes (see dif) | [34] |
| 38 | 20 July, 2018 (22:14) | District heating | "added info on 19 July 2018 steam pipe incident" | Adding redundant information, point of Wikipedia is to improve it, not just self-promotion | Yes (see dif) | [35] |
| 39 | 21 July, 2018 (03:26) | Meagan Good | Reverting vandalism | WP:AGF, edit was actually constructive | Will be addressed | [36] |
| 40 | 21 July, 2018 (04:10) | User talk:73.13.177.80 | Asking for warning to be removed | Improperly formatting comment, use ":" before indintation instead of spaces. | Too late! | [37] |
| 41 | 21 July, 2018 (15:54) | Raymonde Guyot | Added wikilinks | (1) MOS:OL, (2) WP:INTDABLINK. Added disambiguation link | (1) Will be addressed (2) Yes (see dif) | [38] |
| 42 | 7 August, 2018 (21:49) | Composite cross population | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [39] |
| 43 | 7 August, 2018 (21:52) | Dekalb County District Attorney's Office | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation and also improper capitalizing | Will be addressed | [40] |
| 44 | 8 August, 2018 (03:08) | East Slovak Gallery | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [41] |
| 45 | 8 August, 2018 (03:08) | East Slovak Gallery | Removed {{Dead end}}template
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{{Multiple issues}}should only be used when 2+ issues
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Yes fixed by another BattyBot (see dif) | [42] |
| 46 | 8 August, 2018 (03:12) | Frieda Duensing | Removed {{Dead end}}template
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{{Multiple issues}}should only be used when 2+ issues
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Yes fixed by another BattyBot (see dif) | [43] |
| 47 | 8 August, 2018 (03:14) | Camilla Jellinek | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [44] |
| 48 | 8 August, 2018 (03:19) | Gilles Rémy | Added wikilinks | Put punctuation in wikilink (maybe MOS:LINK) | Yes fixed by another editor (see dif) | [45] |
| 49 | 16 September, 2018 (15:53) | Cutoff grade | Removed {{Dead end}} template
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{{Multiple issues}} should only be used with 2+ issues
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Yes fixed by another BattyBot (see dif) | [46] |
| 50 | 16 September, 2018 (15:56) | Riccardo Francolini | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [47] |
| 51 | 16 September, 2018 (16:05) | Mensendieck system | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [48] |
| 52 | 16 September, 2018 (16:16) | Huminodun | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [49] |
| 53 | 16 September, 2018 (16:20) | Jan Ignacy Kenig | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [50] |
| 54 | 16 September, 2018 (16:23) | Eric Jablonowski | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [51] |
| 55 | 16 September, 2018 (16:31) | Ian Jordaan | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [52] |
| 56 | 16 September, 2018 (16:37) | Narianganam | Removed {{Dead end}} template
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{{Multiple issues}} should only be used with 2+ issues, did not include other issue in same box
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Yes fixed by another BattyBot (see dif) | [53] |
| 57 | 16 September, 2018 (16:39) | Alberto Nin Frías | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [54] |
| 58 | 16 September, 2018 (17:55) | Sports Federation of India | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [55] |
| 59 | 16 September, 2018 (18:02) | Eric Standley | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [56] |
| 60 | 16 September, 2018 (18:05) | Sumathi Best Television Children's Program Award | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [57] |
| 61 | 23 September, 2018 (02:32) | Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency | Revert to verision w/o Copyvio | Reverted version also may be a copyvio | See Talk Page | [58] |
| 62 | 23 September, 2018 (02:53) | Baseball openers | Removed {{Dead end}} template, Added wikilinks
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{{Multiple issues}} should only be used with 2+ issues, did not include other issue in same box, possible MOS:OL violation
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Page turned into a redirect | [59] |
| 63 | 23 September, 2018 (03:14) | Way Kuo | Added {{Overlinked}}
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These types of templates should be added to the top of the page (see WP:MTR#Overview) | Template removed (see dif) | [60] |
| 64 | 27 September, 2018 (03:43) | Delta delay | Removed {{Orphan}} template
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{{Multiple issues}} should only be used with 2+ issues
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Yes fixed by another BattyBot (see dif) | [61] |
| 65 | 27 September, 2018 (03:46) | Apollo Theater (Miranda de Ebro) | Removed {{Orphan}} template
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{{Multiple issues}} should only be used with 2+ issues
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Yes fixed by another BattyBot (see dif) | [62] |
| 66 | 28 September, 2018 (02:05) | XML Certification Program | Removed {{Orphan}} template
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{{Multiple issues}} should only be used with 2+ issues
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Yes fixed by another BattyBot (see dif) | [63] |
| 67 | 28 September, 2018 (03:02) | Jean Nicolas Louis Carré | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [64] |
| 68 | 28 September, 2018 (03:03) | Jules de Saint-Pol | Added wikilinks | Possible MOS:OL violation | Will be addressed | [65] |
| 69 | 28 September, 2018 (20:14) | Air Niugini | Added unit conversion | Use {{Convert}}instead
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Yes (see diff) | [66] |
| 70 | 28 September, 2018 (21:06) | Xuyi High School | Added unit conversion | Use {{Convert}}instead
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Yes (see dif) | [67] |
| On 16 March 2020 I decided to no longer go though my past edits. The following are any mistakes that I found via my notifications (undo or talk pages). Hence, the numbering is far lower then it should be. There's a lot I ignored or missed. | ||||||
| 71 | Started on 11 February 2019, Longterm | Talk:Landing Zones 1 and 2 | Causing confusion, [redacted], and other issues. | [redacted]. I know them. But won't publicly list them. Led to some Wikidrama a few months later. Just be smart. | Yes, as a result the help of various edits on cited page | N/A |
| 72 | Started around 11 February 2019, Longterm | Various talk pages | Confusing signature | Keep signature simple, apologize only when there's a reason to do so | Yes, via recommendation by another editor | [68] |
| 73 | Started on 7 July 2019, Longterm | Talk:Apollo program#Gender neutrality | Failure to follow various procedures. | Remember WP:NOTVOTE. Stop being such an [blank]. <-no idea what I meant by this lol | Yes, as a result the help of various edits on cited page | [69] |
| 74 | 5 January, 2020 | 2020s | Attempted fix caused other issues | Slow down, make sure you're fixing the right thing, especially if things are repeated on a page. | Yes, initially undid by another editor (see diff); correctly fixed mistake later (see diff) | [70] |
| 75 | 29 January 2020 (20:39) | User:OkayKenji/Support vessels of SpaceX | Creation of unneeded article | Think before creating a draft - if you are willing to work on it | Yes, requested deletion | N/A |
| 76 | 10 March 2020 (01:15) | User_talk:OkayKenji | Comment to IP editors | Possible WP:AGF policy not followed toward IP. Be nice. | Too late. :( | [71] |
| 77 | 3 June 2020 (05:42) | Launch commit criteria | Added information | Added nonsense text "* there are 50 locations though the North American coast and North Atlantic". Preview edits before submitting them. | Yes by another editor (see diff) | [72] |
| 78 | 10 June 2020 (06:11) | Yorkshire Society | Edit summery | Check to make sure that when pinging a editor, you need "User:" prefix. Also it was pretty ego-tistic to comment on their talk page about their mistake eh? | Too late. :( | [73] |
| 79 | 17 June 2020 (0:42) | User talk:CRS-20 | Adding a template | The template {{Unsigned}} needs to substituted using subst:
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Yes fixed by another AnomieBOT (see diff) | [74] |
| 80 | 17 June 2020 (5:33) | User talk:LoganBlade | Adding a post | Hit "New section" instead of "Edit source" - easier to see that its a new post. (ego) | Too late. :( | [75] |
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Errors found by other editors
editFeel free to post any errors I made here. If you can in the edit summery leave [[User:OkayKenji]] in the edit summery to ping me!
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My goal is to update this monthly from now on.
Last updated: 6/17/2020