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"I can't do much else, may as well keep folks up to date" I guess. If they're sitting on the shore with a fully stocked rescue boat delaying help to post their
by corobo 3y ago
"I can't do much else, may as well keep folks up to date" I guess.
If they're sitting on the shore with a fully stocked rescue boat delaying help to post their edits, aye I'd be peeved too. Otherwise, might as well keep info updated as it becomes known.
One of the beauties of the internet is that there's enough people willing to do the work to keep the rest of the world up to date with real-time information.
Chances are changing tenses was just a single command anyway, `./pastTensify.sh "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Baltimore) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Balt..."` or whatever the Wikipedia bot command equivalent would be.
Adding actual information about the event will naturally take a little longer as it needs writing first - they probably fired off the pastTensify automation while writing the meat and potatoes of their edit.
- card_zero 3y agoIt was somebody on their phone, not signed in, and all they did was change "is" to "was" in two places, leaving the single word edit summary "was". But thank you for imagining Wikipedians are so professional.
- corobo 3y agoThank you for the clarification. Not sure I understand the snarky turn at the end there but I imagine I'm just lacking whatever context you have! No problem :)
- card_zero 3y agoTwo days later, I come back to find this downvoted a lot, even though I meant it literally. I've been a Wikipedia editor for some 10+ years, only a few of us use bots, we're not generally very sophisticated, so the assumptions amused me.
- corobo 3y agoAh. I think the wording plus the existing downvote when I read your reply made me not even consider it might be literal and not at all snarky.. I'd like to blame my British sarcasm-as-a-first-language upbringing, but really that one's on me. For what it's worth I've popped an upvote on your comment and will go out of my way to double check snark is actually snark before replying to things in future. Sorry for the misfiring assumption!