Maegan Ashworth

welcome

Hey Maegan, thanks for submitting your question to the help desk ;). Hope you are able to stick around and help us maintain and improve this encyclopedia! Feel free to drop any additional questions my way..

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Hello, Maegan Ashworth, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  ∴ here…♠ 07:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

individual authors

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If I have a question about a specific section of text that I would like to direct to the specific author/editor that wrote it, is there a way to find that author other than pouring over the history and trying to find the first version where that text appeared?Maegan Ashworth 07:02, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe so. Edit summaries are invaluable (!). I would recommend posting your question to the talk page of the article. ∴ here…♠ 07:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the speedy reply! My boyfriend would describe that as giving a job to humans that ought to be given to software, but I can work around it. Maegan Ashworth 07:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

... as would I; scanning individual edits is prohibitive at times and tedious at best. A history search would be wonderful -- perhaps someone else at the help desk will have a better solution. The software and interface tools at wikipedia are sometimes sorely lacking, but steadily improving. Enjoy.. ∴ here…♠ 07:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)