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Hello, Epimorph, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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WP:AIV

Thank you for your recent posting of an anonymous editor to Administrators intervention against vandalism. In the future though, when reporting IP addressed to WP:AIV, please make sure that they have had a final warning in the recent past. Due to the nature of IP addresses, spans of time between edits may indicate different users. Being it is possible that the currently vandalizing user did not get a true final warning they are often not be blocked. To remedy this, please make an effort to ensure that all vandals reported to WP:AIV have an appropriate, and recent, final warning. The most common final warnings are {{test4}} or {{bv}}. If you have any questions regarding this, please do not hesitate to ask me on my user talk page. Thanks again!-- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 14:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I personally (and many other admin) will not block an anon that has not been warned recently (at least past 24 hours). For me, it is my concern that i actually block a good faith editor who is testing (just learning what wikipedia is). There are many blatant vandals, and they of course should be blocked. However, a final warning, in my experience, often stops many vandals. They think that nobody is watching them and once that orange bar of doom pops up and they see they might get blocked, most of the school kids get scared that they will get in trouble and stop. That being that case, I would rather them stop through that than being forced to block. Blocks are not to be punitive, but to stop vandalism currently in process. That is why many administartors require there to be a recent final warning and activity after that (showing clear demonstration that the vandalism is in process). Hope this helps. If there are any other questions, please feel free to let me know! (by the way, your anti-vandalism work is much appreciated. Enjoy the shiny award below). -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 15:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, Chrislk02, award you this anti vandalism barnstar for your hard work in fighting vandalism! Keep up the good work, it is much appreciated. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 15:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 23 November 2015 (UTC)