Board Thread:Code Review/@comment-6475116-20150718222706/@comment-24473195-20150723000555

Shining-Armor wrote: Just going to add my two cents, you shouldn't just edit another's script. Instead you should leave a message on the script's talk page either asking the author for permission to edit it or to propose your changes to the script. I'd say that hesitation to change someone else's script is why some scripts have bugs that go unfixed. For example, today someone was fixing and improving a lua module I authored and uploaded today, without asking, and I enjoyed seeing the improvements the person made. Under normal conditions that particular module would have probably remained full of mistakes and not easy to read. In fact the reason I uploaded it here, was to see if someone would improve upon it or use it in ways I didn't imagine.

Personally, I think it should work the other way around. Authors who explicitly don't want anyone messing around with their scripts without their consent should write it clearly, on the script itself the documentation or the talk page. Or alternatively they should requests code-editor's rights and protect their work from "intrusion".