Talk:Tessa

Attempts to cleanup

This page was tagged for cleanup by someone else on January 10. On January 14, I found the page in the "Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup" category, and revised it to conform to MOS:DP. Because it is a disambig page, and not a page specifically about a given name, I removed the "given name" infobox and the "given name" category (the latter of which may have been a mistake, I realized afterward; the MOS is somewhat contradictory on this point, apparently because its approach to given names changed in 2007, and I've opened a discussion on the MOS Talk page about the issue). I cleaned up the remaining entries, again per the MOS and per WP:Disambiguation, which summarizes the purpose of a disambiguation page. The only entry I actually removed was "A spanish pop star", which didn't link to any article and thus seemed to me like it was probably vandalism.

My cleanup was reverted, with the comment that I shouldn't just remove information without moving it to another article. This literally made no sense to me, and still doesn't make any sense, because I didn't remove any entries on the page (except that pop star bit, and if there's a pop star called Tessa with a WP article I'd be fine with including a link), only the infobox (which contained only the information "This is a female given name and a form of Theresa," information already contained in the page, both before and after my cleanup). I reverted back to my version, sincerely assuming that the intervening editor had just made a mistake and thought I had removed stuff that I hadn't.

Then my cleanup was undone again by another editor, who said he had kept my "worthwhile" changes, which were apparently very few. Aside from how rude it is to tell someone that their efforts aren't worthwhile, I have no idea how this editor decided what was worthwhile and what wasn't. (Interestingly, he decided my edit removing the "This page needs cleanup" tag was not worthwhile. I'm not sure why both editors are okay with the statement that the page needs to be cleaned up, but not with any effort to do so.) So I reverted that, since there was no substantial explanation for why he disagreed with my edits, and my edits are conforming with MOS:DP (which I said was policy, which was an error on my part; it's not policy, just a guideline expected to be followed when there's no reason for exception).

Then the first editor undid my cleanup again, for the same reason, still absolutely inexplicable to me, with no attempt at clarification. So I reverted again and left a message on her Talk page.

I apologize for the length of this explanation of what's happened here, but since I do risk running afoul of WP:3RR, I felt it necessary to describe why I felt the need to keep reverting. In a nutshell: I made my edits for a reason, to comply with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. My edits were undone for no apparent reason that I can understand. I feel justified in giving precedence to edits for a reason over edits for no reason. If any editor would actually like to discuss these edits and explain their objections, I am happy to talk about them. Propaniac (talk) 16:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

The original editor has now removed my note on her Talk page asking her to clarify. Propaniac (talk) 16:16, 15 January 2008 (UTC)