Thread:Humphry02/@comment-26102520-20150713130752/@comment-26102520-20150713162001

Yes it would have. It's a test page, so you can keep changing things around until they're right.

By "as fast as possible", I meant you could have refrained from publishing and inquired about the edit. By pressing the "publish" button, you committed yourself to posting up the edit, knowing fully well that it had problems. By adding the nowiki tags, the references became compromised and it looked like a giant mess, and for what? Adding some information sooner? It would have been better for the page to hold off on publishing, especially since you knew something was wrong. That's the part I cannot understand. Why not seek help, since you know it's available (and you knew something was wrong with the page), rather than hold off on the expectation that someone will catch it?

"As long as by the end of the process the article is in good shape"

I'm going to have to disagree here. The ends don't justify the means. You literally said that you knew the nowiki tags were present in the edit, left them in, and published the edit anyway, thus creating problems that needed fixing. I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but again, I simply cannot wrap my head around why you couldn't just ask for help before publishing the edit, whose summary clearly indicates you knew something was wrong. But in spite of this knowledge, you proceeded to publish it, thus affecting the quality of the page.