Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Reverted etymologies/reply (15)

As a bit of background, the editor community here has previous experience with very clever trolls. So newcomers adding unfamiliar material immediately sets off alarm bells among those of us who have had to perform clean-up duty in the past. CodeCat is one of the more active editors here, and she's done a fair amount of clean-up.

This has less to do with whether the material you've added is itself researched, and more to do with whether we (broadly speaking) recognize you and the material you're adding. Unfamiliar editor + unfamiliar material == a high likelihood of another editor reverting or reworking those edits. Also, one thing to recognize is that Wiktionary has much fewer editors than Wikipedia -- so editors are much more likely to revert suspicious new content, simply because we're stretched much thinner and have less bandwidth for vetting and formatting new content. If you stick around, and the Wiktionary editing community can verify that you're working in good faith, and working from solid sources, you'll see much less reverting and reworking.