Thread:Bron Handa/@comment-31763506-20190503045159/@comment-31763506-20190503085526

OK. Look.

You seem to be missing several key points here. The first is that I got a notification of your edit while I was trying to get to sleep at midnight my time and I've been listening to your complaints through 5 AM, and that isn't doing anything for my temper.

Second is that I didn't JUST revert your edit because of the mistake in the Tower link and the duplicate link deletion, which I frankly didn't understand, it was because the links you added were sloppily formatted. The first one was Orcs instead of Orcs (note the source), and this was done in several other cases with plurals. There were cases where you appeared to have tampered with the link versus the display text. You also deleted the link to the Zirantians on the Races page entirely. So I had every reason to believe you had no idea what you were doing. (Actually I still believe that.) My original intention was to go through your edit and correct all of these minor mistakes by hand. While I was starting to do so, I had an inkling that I remembered your name from somewhere, and found Lostone2's note on the Races page on your wall. Then I looked at the comments thread on the Races page and saw that you had ignored Decanter's instructions on deleting content from it and had reverted your edits. So that made me pull the panic button and go for the full reversion, because I now had evidence you were a "problem child" and I felt I needed to get admin oversight on whether your new articles were considered legitimate.

Third. You seem to think that because you spent a large amount of time and effort on your edit that it has intrinsic worth and can't be easily replaced. The fact is that is very easily replaced because of something that seems to have gone over your head. The reason that there are so many duplicate links is that I added them using a simple computer program. It was easier to add the links than not as I went through the various permutations of each linked word or phrase. This means that will take me little more than 15 minutes to do the same with your new set of linked words, if we decide those links should be added. The same actually applies to the duplicate links in each bullet point if it is determined that they should be removed. That's probably LESS than 5 minutes, since it's just one regular expression instead of one for every link. You value your own time, but the fact remains the machine can do this better and faster, so I don't.

If you like, I can point you in the direction of a flat text editor and some resources on Regular Expressions so you can learn how to put links in your own articles more quickly and efficiently.

So if you want to take umbrage at my cranky perfectionism and commitment to protecting an article I've spent a couple dozen hours working on, especially given the fact that sleep-deprivation is making even more nasty than usual... Eh. I've got a empty bag marked "Givable Fucks".