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Hi Scarpy. Thank you for your work on The Island (Cheesman Reservoir). Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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✠ SunDawn ✠ Contact me! 05:45, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Co-Dependents Anonymous when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:46, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Allen House (Boulder, Colorado) when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:53, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

You gave done this to multiple pages. Please check your edits. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:57, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

The Infobxes are inconsisent - and I don't see any visual feedback when a parameter is wrong. - Scarpy (talk) 03:00, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

If you use preview, you will see a nice big red warning of which parameters are wrong. Them not being consistent is not a valid excuse as all the issues you presented were the same infobox... {{Infobox building}}. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

You're saying if I restore, on the Egan page for example, and preview, I'll see text pointing this out? - Scarpy (talk)

Oh yeah it does. Okay I will do that from now on. - Scarpy (talk) 03:06, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Related - why is there so much variance between all of these infoboxes? Some of them are completely useless because of it. Like the infobox for yacht clubs is pointless. - Scarpy (talk) 03:06, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

It is a well known problem... Every Infobox is created by someone different and they don't always follow the same guidelines. Something we are trying to fix... But you always need to check the preview and check the documentation.... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:35, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Why is it different from citation templates and other things where issues are visible in the preview and in the article if they're not corrected? And what material problems does this cause? Is there a way to check without doing a preview? Like you must have something that alerts you when this happens, can I just check whatever that is? - Scarpy (talk) 03:51, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

You can check the unknown parameter category related to the template you are using... But that is actually more work. Previewing your edits is a basic requirement of editing... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:56, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I take your point and I get that is is frustrating for you, though I'm baffled as to why. Again, what's the material consequence here other than that some information may not display in an infobox? I'll preview because I don't like the talk page noise. But no where is it listed that previewing is a basic requirement for editing in WP:EDITING or any place else I'm aware of or can find. - Scarpy (talk) 04:04, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

If you do not preview your edits, you have no idea what they will look like. You clearly are not checking your work at all as the information you are entering into the Infoboxes is not showing up on the page as you are using invalid code. Not really interested in going in circles with you. If you want to be a constructive member of the editing community, please check your work properly. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:06, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Now you're making a different argument. I think we can agree that previewing is a best practice, but not a requirement for editing. I've made a lot of valuable contributions to Wikipedia over the course of 16,000 edits and 19 years. Anyone who cares to look can see that, and would see that the quality of my contributions speaks for themselves. I asked several good faith questions that have went unanswered. That's not going around in circles, that's just being curious. - Scarpy (talk) 04:11, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

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