User talk:KevinM

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Advice[edit]

Hello and welcome to UESPWiki! Thanks for your interest in the wiki; however, you seem to have been making multiple edits to a page by not using the show preview button, clogging up the Recent Changes in the process. We appreciate your enthusiasm, but keep in mind that each edit needs to be patrolled, so multiple consecutive edits create an unnecessary hassle on those who patrol. So please utilize this feature! You may also want to look over our style guide and Getting Started guide. Feel free to ask if you have any questions. AKB Talk Cont Mail 19:02, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I would just like to add that this applies to userspace edits as well. For example, you have edited your user page 131 times in the last two weeks. For that page specifically, I recommend saving your work locally for a while to see if you want to change anything else. I understand the feeling that your user page is an easy page to nitpick constantly! —Dillonn241 (talk) 04:15, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Hat Notes[edit]

Hey! I've noticed you adding hat notes (those "This page is about X, for the person in Y, see Z" notes). Per the guidelines on hatnotes, they should only be added if there is a reasonable assumption that a user is going to accidentally end up on a page and not realize by the name alone that it isn't the same as the other, similar page. For example, If someone is named Bob and another NPC is named Bob Goodperson, the page at Bob would get a hat note, since both NPCs could be referred to as just Bob in dialogue. But the page of Bob Goodperson wouldn't need a hat note, since the main Bob is never ever referred to with that last name, so anyone landing at Bob Goodperson isn't likely to think it's the same as just Bob.

Most of the pages you added Hatnotes to don't really need those notes. Two NPCs that share a first name but not a last name don't need hatnotes. There are MANY of these, and we don't need to add hatnotes to them all. Jeancey (talk) 18:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Messaging Admins[edit]

Hey KevinM, I was ging to respond to your message on my talk page, but then I saw you messaged several admins with the same question. It's always fine to ask a question to an admin if you want some help with editing or another topic. However, admins are usually only asked to interfere in discussions if there is a conflict. Wiki policies are built by consensus of the community, not the whims of an admin. Our voice should have the same weight as any other user with good arguments, it's just that the community did put their trust in us to handle more sensitive tools on the wiki. Don't see this as a warning, you didn't intend to selectively message outside parties to sway the discussion to your side, so I no harm done. --Ilaro (talk) 09:45, 16 May 2024 (UTC)