Help talk:Adopt-a-page/Getting Started

Changes proposed
Over the weekend, I wanted to do something different for a change and actually execute some changes regarding page adoption and moderation rather than just talking about them. I felt that if I could add a few needed items to this page, I could then create a similar page for moderators, which would get me further down the road of differentiating the roles of adopters and moderators so we can start teaching them how to work together.

Those were good ideas. Then I executed a bad idea: I went ahead and started editing this page. One small edit led to another. All of them seemed small, but when one adds them up, what one finds is that I made major changes to this page in an admittedly merciless edit.

I repent. That's not the way things are supposed to be done here. When one wants to make major edits to a page someone else created, one discusses the proposal on the discussion page so the original author doesn't have to suffer a stroke after finding their masterpiece wholly ruined by some well-meaning idiot.

Since part of repentance is making restitution, I have performed a Rollback on all my changes. I also created a sandbox page (User:Ritcheymt/Sandbox for Adopter Getting Started) which shows the changes I propose. I hope you'll forgive my idiocy and temporary forgetfulness regarding the role I play on this wiki. Meanwhile, I hope you'll examine the proposal and tell me what works and what needs improvement. RitcheyMT 19:34, 22 February 2011 (UTC)