Wikipedia talk:Expect no thanks
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I've been doing this a lot of years, and I can tell you... you really do have to love it a lot to get into the improvement of this reference work and to stay with it. We're all volunteer editors and I've been fortunate enough to have acquired tools that help me help others. I like to answer edit requests, and I've made a lot of edits for other users. For me it is helpful to sort the gratitude I've received into three categories:
- Sometimes, not often, well, in fact kind of rarely, editors come to my talk page to thank me, or they take the time to respond on another talk page with gratitude.
- Also not often but quite a bit more frequently than #1 above, editors click the notifications thanks , which tickles my blue notie button at the top of a page.
- Since we're all clairvoyant and sagacious to some degree or another, I often sense that while an editor might feel gratitude for my help, they just aren't strongly compelled to explicitly thank me. We can get pretty busy around here.
So armed with these three types or levels of gratitude, I've been able to continue to make improvements to this encyclopedia, and all the while without expecting a lot of "thanks" from other editors. Having said that, I want to thank you for reading this and for all of your good faith contributions to Wikipedia the ref. and to Wikipedia the project! Thank you very much! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 10:19, 13 May 2025 (UTC) Reply