User blog comment:Doctor98/How to be a good Editor, and not make pointless edits/@comment-1038387-20140119234302

A bit random, but it's a start. You missed plenty, but so would I if I would make a list. I'm not going to make one. Okay, I'm going to make a list of four quick tips.


 * Don't take it personal. I revert EVERYONE's edits.
 * If you don't know how to do something, check on a page that has it how it's done and copy it. That's how I learned it a kazillion years ago. Don't understand it? Ask an admin.
 * Read every last policy. No policies? Ask an admin.
 * Most importantly: think of your writing style. This isn't typos. Or punctuation. Or capitalization. Or grammar. This is composition. The majority of things I revert are haphazardly placed sentences or clauses, parabombs, people replying to previous sentences, trivia that isn't trivia but a plot point... The statements are true. The language in itself is correct. But you've completely butchered the paragraph and made it into an incoherent set of sentences.