Wikipedia talk:Aggregate data into lists rather than stubs

Add examples, please

Please add examples to illustrate what you are saying. E.g. link to an instance of an "asteroid number" that redirects "into a list of related minor planets". Spel-Punc-Gram (talk) 07:59, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Should editors make improvements to a page like this?

I have made a number of changes to this essay: notably, in "Updating a list is much faster than stubs", I have rewritten the first sentence.

My question is: while it's obvious one of the foundations of Wikipedia that articles can be edited, is it appropriate to edit an essay – which is someone's personal work?

We could perhaps compare this to the editing of posts in a Talk page: I believe that you're not supposed to edit someone else's post, even if it has typos, grammatical mistakes, poor style, etc. – and even though it's (currently) perfectly possible to for anyone to edit any part of a Talk page. (I say "currently", because the Visual Editor on mobile doesn't allow this, and that may mark a trend towards editing being barred in future.)

I edited a couple of Talk posts years ago, but, if I remember correctly, someone else wrote to me and told me not to.

A comment on my question: I doubt many – if any – people will see my question here, apart from perhaps the essay's author; is there a better place to pose this question? Spel-Punc-Gram (talk) 08:35, 2 June 2023 (UTC)