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:No problem, everyone has to start somewhere. First, you can safely assume that if you reply on your talk page then whoever wrote a message there has that page on their watchlist and will get an email notification, just as you will when I post this reply (unless you unchecked "Watch this page" when you made this post). Also, all updates appear on [[Special:RecentChanges]] so I, and any moderators, would see any change to the talk page alongside changes to the task page, and of course that is how I spotted yours. It is not a case of "getting permission" or usually even agreement, but a statement of "why I did it" (brief being better). Please pay attention to the "Summary:" when you edit. You left it as <nowiki>{{header|LiveCode}}</nowiki> which is not any kind of crime but often not any kind of help either (that '''and''' five more words being best). When such an explanation will not fit in the summary and does not belong being left permanently on the task page, it belongs on the talk page, even unread. Not every change needs all that, but when I delete someone elses code it is only being civil to explain myself. It is quite helpful to show the output, so when you do update [[Walk a directory/Recursively]] I'll expect to see that. I'll add that the above attempt does not actually explain to me what you fixed, different output probably would. Lastly you need to learn to sign your comments by adding <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>. Any further questions? --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 14:18, 17 November 2021 (UTC) |
:No problem, everyone has to start somewhere. First, you can safely assume that if you reply on your talk page then whoever wrote a message there has that page on their watchlist and will get an email notification, just as you will when I post this reply (unless you unchecked "Watch this page" when you made this post). Also, all updates appear on [[Special:RecentChanges]] so I, and any moderators, would see any change to the talk page alongside changes to the task page, and of course that is how I spotted yours. It is not a case of "getting permission" or usually even agreement, but a statement of "why I did it" (brief being better). Please pay attention to the "Summary:" when you edit. You left it as <nowiki>{{header|LiveCode}}</nowiki> which is not any kind of crime but often not any kind of help either (that '''and''' five more words being best). When such an explanation will not fit in the summary and does not belong being left permanently on the task page, it belongs on the talk page, even unread. Not every change needs all that, but when I delete someone elses code it is only being civil to explain myself. It is quite helpful to show the output, so when you do update [[Walk a directory/Recursively]] I'll expect to see that. I'll add that the above attempt does not actually explain to me what you fixed, different output probably would. Lastly you need to learn to sign your comments by adding <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>. Any further questions? --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 14:18, 17 November 2021 (UTC) |
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thanks for the advice, Pete. My every attempt to edit the Summary failed to produce a lasting result. What's the trick? |
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