User talk:219.74.63.217

Improper editing

Hi there, I am writing this to inform you that a number of your edits are problematic. You are an editor of some sophistication, judging by the fact that you have read and blanked this talk page in the past when other editors pointed out issues with your edits. If you have continued to read this page, you will see that some editors here have pointed some issues with your edits — firstly, that you do not use edit summaries; secondly, that you add/change/remove content seemingly arbitrarily and without reference to sources or any apparent reason; and thirdly, that your stylistic edits are counterproductive. The fact that you seem to make hundreds of edits per week is of concern, as no editor can be expected to look through each and every one of your edits to check if they are good. I feel that there is no prima facie guarantee that your edits are, in fact, good, as from monitoring my own watchlist, I have found many of your edits either arbitrary or non-improvements.

To be specific, your latest edit was a template edit with no edit summary. I am unsure what this does. Even "fix template" as an edit summary would be helpful. As you are an IP editor, the fact that you do not leave an edit summary leaves watchers of articles having to scrutinise your template edits to see if their effects on the page. This causes a lot of inconvenience.

Your second-last edit replaced "Secretary-General of the Singaporeans First" to Secretary-General of the Singaporeans First; the wikilink remains to Singaporeans First, but it's now such that the entire title is wikilinked there. I am unsure if this is correct as per the manual of style. If you are doing this with the specific knowledge that it is, again, I would find it helpful if you could mention it in your edit summary. You have done this edit on many, many pages, and I have no idea whether I should undo these or not.

In another recent edit, you changed the photo of Ong Teng Cheong for seemingly no reason. In another edit on the Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency page, a GRC which now no longer exists, you changed "the MPs was (sic)" to "the MPs are", erroneously suggesting that there are currently MPs representing a nonexistent constituency. In another edit, you, seemingly for no reason, reordered "Heng Swee Keat, Maliki Osman, Tan Kiat How, Cheryl Chan and Jessica Tan" to "Heng Swee Keat, Jessica Tan, Cheryl Chan, Tan Kiat How and Maliki Osman".

To be clear, I don't believe that your edits are purposefully (or, in any case) unhelpful. However, you need to start using edit summaries going forward, otherwise I will begin to revert edits that have no prima facie value. I also believe that this form of editing is unhelpful, and it may warrant administrator action against your editing abilities. Dawkin Verbier (talk) 17:43, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

July 2023

Hello, I'm The Night Watch. I noticed that in this edit to Aljunied Group Representation Constituency, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. The Night Watch (talk) 02:06, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did with this edit to Leon Perera. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 10:25, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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