User talk:175.144.53.102

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You can't be serious. Editing incrementally is how I work. Why do people make this so much harder than it needs to be? - 175.144.53.102 (talk) 20:17, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very sorry! Ruyter talk 20:23, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I'm very sorry. I was far too hasty. Ruyter talk 20:40, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I'm Geekdiva, just being a bystander over here. 175—can I call you 175?—the reason why two editors undid your edits, even according to them, is because they were wrong. They misjudged your work. However, there is a reason why an earnest editor might do so.

Quite a few sets of multiple edits by IP-address editors are from vandals trying to get around Wikipedia's people and tools that undo vandalism. To make editing easier for you and to get around these frustrating (for all involved except the real trolls) false-positive incidents, I suggest creating an account. It actually gives you more anonymity, not less, as long as you choose a username unconnected with your online and real lives.

Hey, even UnsungKing123, one of the people who undid one of your sets of edits, was blocked. You might already know this, but it was for sockpuppetry! It looks like he might have been using IP & confirmed user accounts as sockpuppet accounts to make himself look good in ways he thought might be effective to distract everyone from doing disruptive stuff elsewhere: a good hand, bad hand method. But truly, I don't & can't know if those actions were by strategy or happenstance. We can only do our best and assume good faith until we figure out whether there's a problem or not. With enough time, tools and volunteerism, we Wikipedians—like me and you, 175—do pretty well.

Unfortunately, I couldn't review your edits and I could only type this off the top of my head due to my real-life limitations, but what you describe is a perfectly valid method of editing, and one that some of the most prolific editors by contribution count use. You could also edit off-line, check the History to see if any other edits have been made that you need to incorporate into your off-line draft, and then post the final version so that many edits become one. But I do think that getting an account would be the best way of handling things, if you ever choose to edit again. Hope this helps you or another. —Geekdiva (talk) 05:30, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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