User talk:WOSlinker

Welcome, WOSlinker!

If you have any questions, you can ask in the assistance reading room or possibly contact me personally. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 00:49, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Automated edits?
Hello, I have blocked your account for the time being as you appear to be engaged in automated or semi-automated edits which I need you to pause (hence blocking to get attention). These can be a major problem at Wikibooks because of the use of flagged revisions (sometimes known as "Pending Changes"). For an account that does not have +autoreview, the small edits result in a Reviewer having to sign-off the edit. This creates a huge amount of work and is not welcomed as we have so few active reviewers and a nine month backlog of reviews. If you wish to make high speed trivial edits then you should go through the approval process in the same way that a bot editor would so that the community can determine if they are useful and ensure that your account is properly flagged to prevent the review backlog being swamped - thanks. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 16:26, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * QuiteUnusual, my edits have been fully manual. I was fixing errors listed at Special:LintErrors/multiple-unclosed-formatting-tags but it appears that people here are not instersted in reducing the errors as 67 of the edits have been reverted. So I'll head back to Wikipedia instead. -- WOSlinker (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not a question of "not being interested." As I tried to explain, each edit that you made was queued as a pending change because your account was not flagged as either +reviewer or +autoreview. The same as Wikipedia, this then requires a reviewer to check it manually - as we have a 270 day backlog (age) of 3000+ pending changes, we discourage people from making these small edits on a very large scale - like the ~350 you made - without first discussing it so that we can flag your account first. On the normal rate of clearing the backlog, you've added about 30 days worth of work which could have been avoided. It also pushes bad edits down the log and leaves them persisting for longer. I started to rollback the edits because, as I suspect you know, if I roll them back then reapply them it will autoreview and save me going through a manual review. Nobody is trying to make you leave - just trying to make things more efficient for everyone. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 20:29, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * QuiteUnusual, I will go ahead and review his edits, and will maybe able to complete it in 3 days, if not more. I have some free time the next 4 weeks, so maybe I will be able to review the backlog to some extent @WOSlinker. Thanks.. Vishal Bakhai - Works[[Image:Flag_of_India.svg|15px]] 11:48, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * In the interest of transparency, I want to inform that I've now gone ahead and given him auto-reviewer. His latest set of small edits have already flooded RC and created the backlog. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 07:55, 9 August 2018 (UTC)