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Thanks link

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HLHJ (talkcontribs)

Could there be a thanks link next to the reply link, as on this page? New editors often have trouble finding the thanks facility, and even for experienced editors, it's slower to go to the history page and thank. This would save time visiting pages and reading messages which are purely thanks.

Leonaardog (talkcontribs)

Thank you!

Tacsipacsi (talkcontribs)

It’s already being (not very actively) worked on, see phab:T249893.

Omotecho (talkcontribs)

In jawp, I will appreciate Thanks button very much personally . As in my view and focusing on ja community.

  • it will be a wise tool which will calm down experienced editors when they don't be replied by Junior editors: not like SNS, you don't know if your advice is perceived or not.
  • Another gap a Junior/less than 500 edit history not aware yet of, or often times long term editors tend to forget: they say it's a protocol to reply thanks, but that is not very popular among beginner editors to thank ASAP you read and understand an advice;
  • elders (in age) think it's applicable anywhere in your life on/off wiki.

Are we not ignoring another unwritten but shared knowledge among senior/long-term editors, if limited to particular language community(ies). And IMHO I wish you need not to learn wiki-manner (local) after many wounds by getting scolded/ridiculed you are bad-mannered. /:

Thus, I wish we have thanks button as one remedy, among many, for enhancing friendlier and welcoming exchange of help. (with thanks to (@HLHJ's input, updated as my view could be bound with local culture.~~~~~) Cheers,

HLHJ (talkcontribs)

Long long ago (on English Wikipedia, before 2013), there was no thanks button. If you wanted to thank someone, you had to type a message. Also there were dinosaurs (they went extinct before the 2020s). I do not think it is impolite to not use the thanks tool. But saying thank-you is polite, and the thanks tool makes it faster for the thanker and thankee both.

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