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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! --Drm310 (talk) 18:04, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

January 2016

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. BethNaught (talk) 18:53, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool

Thank you for using the collections feature in Wikipedia beta! Due to technical and moderation issues, we will be turning off this experimental feature. Your collections will be available for viewing and export until March 1st. If you would like to save your collection as links on a special Wikipedia page, please fill out the following form. If you are interested in giving your feedback about Wikipedia Collections please do so here.

Thanks,

Jon Katz
Product manager, Wikimedia Foundation
Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 00:11, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

November 2017

• Recently I noticed that an editor had been repeatedly moving a page around, in some cases to inappropriate titles. At first I thought this was a case of a new editor acting in good faith and not realising that such moves can have disruptive effects, so I put some time and work into drafting a message explaining point by point what the problems were. However, before posting that message I did some further checking of relevant editing history, and I discovered that the editor in question is far from being a naive new user who does not know what is going on. The account which has been doing the disruptive moving is one of a number of accounts which exist with the sole, or in one cae almost sole, purpose of trying to use Wikipedia to create an article about a non-notable person, at least one of the accounts being used by that person himself. Having seen numerous attempts at creating the self-promotional page deleted, under more than one title, the person(s) involved has/have now re-created the page yet again, and moved it around to a number of different titles, including an article title slightly different from the one under which it has been repeatedly deleted. Whether intentionally or not, such moves are disruptive, as they make it difficult for other editors to trace the history of the page.
• The person you have been writing about comes nowhere near to satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and is therefore not suitable to be the subject of an article, no matter how that article may be written. You are, of course, welcome to make contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, but if your purpose is to write a personal web page, then you would be better advised to use one of the many web sites which do provide that sort of service, such as a social network site or a web hosting service.
• If you continue to edit in ways which contribute little or nothing to building the encyclopaedia, while taking up time of other editors who have to clean up after you, then all of the accounts you have used may be blocked from editing, to prevent such waste of time. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:23, 4 November 2017 (UTC)