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Edits on pages with rewrites
Thank you for your interest in improving the content of Tolkien Gateway. I noticed that your rewrote content on several pages recently. Edits should not primarily be made to rewrite content to suit one's personal preferences. In addition, even rephrasing should not change content so that the statements in the sources by J.R.R. Tolkien are not longer as they were. For example you changed that he was of a family that claimed descent from a captain of the Northmen to "he claimed descent from the Northmen". There is a difference between making or repeating a claim oneself and one's family making that claim. Furthermore you changed "After 15 days he came at last to the Éothéod" to "He was pursued for fifteen days, as far north as the Gladden Fields". This is incorrect. Borondir was sent out by Cirion on the 10th of March and he arrived at the Éothéod who lived in the upper vales of Anduin (i.e. far above the Gladden Fields) fifteen days later on the 25th of March. We do not know from where Borondir was sent (but probably from Minas Tirith and not from near Dol Guldur) and he was only pursued as far north as the Gladden Fields and not further north all the way to the Éothéod. In addition, you did not correct the existing problem that the existing statements were not supported by a precise reference. The only reference was to an entire chapter of the book Unfinished Tales, although the information either comes from a subsection of that chapter or from a footnote of that chapter or is even cited in that subsection from parts of the appendices of The Lord of the Rings. Please always have the sources in the books open next to you when you edit and consider if an edit is really necessary and will do more good than harm for the quality of the content on Tolkien Gateway. Akhôrahil (talk) 11:52, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for the corrections! Sorry for my carelessness. NotJesper (talk) 00:55, 10 March 2024 (UTC)