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Can be potentially disruptive edit

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I have observed some editors repeatedly making dummy/null edits on articles they created so they show up as the latest editor and "own" the article. This appears to also be a way of artificially inflating their edit count. I think we should add something here discouraging that kind of behaviour as un-collegiate. FOARP (talk) 08:19, 6 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wrong forum. That's a behavioral issue. If you see it and feel it is a problem, report the user.

BTW, can you point to an example? I've been around for a while, and I've never seen this before. Paradoctor (talk) 06:51, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 20 October 2022 edit

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Please change "good faith edit" to "good-faith edit", since this is a compound adjective. 123.51.107.94 (talk) 01:31, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

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