FireandFlames17

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October 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Talk:Chris Heimerdinger. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 22:27, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Getting started with Wikipedia

In addition to the links in the welcome message at the top, I recommend reading User:WLU/Generic_sandbox. --Ronz (talk) 19:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Veiled Legal Threat

Hi F&F, I recommend that you review Wikipedia's policy on making legal threats. Your edits such as this one could be construed in the negative which may result in your being blocked from editing. While your frustration may be appropriate and understandable, legal threats are always viewed very negatively by admins. Thanks Shot info (talk) 03:02, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Fireandflames17, these edits were not helpful.[1][2] Please review Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to make a point. If you have concerns about an editor, there are ways to express them, but not in the way that you did. Instead, try Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. --Elonka 03:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Courtesy note

Your recent edits are being discussed here --Ronz (talk) 03:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Legal threats are against the rules. Retract or you will be blocked. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:17, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The relevant policy is WP:LEGAL. We take threats of lawsuits seriously. --Elonka 03:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

(reply) I understand your frustration, and I'm willing to take a look. But you have to do your part, which is that you need to apologize immediately for making a legal threat. Otherwise, as Baseball Bugs said, your account access will be blocked. Please retract your threat quickly. --Elonka 03:25, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

How do I retract??--FireandFlames17 (talk) 03:25, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Post at the admin noticeboard thread, apologize, say you didn't mean it, and promise to do better in the future (in your words, not mine). Pretend that you are speaking to a council of tribal elders (or a Japanese court). Be very very very polite. --Elonka 03:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Additionally, you should line out the comments. If you don't know how to do it, at the front put a left angle bracket, a small "s", and a right angle bracket. To end the line-out, do likewise except insert a forward slash between the "<" and the "s". Like so. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

And of course the editor should become familar with the pertinent policy and agree to restrain himself from voilating it again. Shot info (talk) 03:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I've already deleted the post from the article talkpage, so there's nothing left for F&F to strike out, FYI. --Elonka 03:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

So this was just a coding lesson for future reference. :) Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry - I just went back to a previous edit and struck that out. Is that a bad thing or should it be taken down altogether?--FireandFlames17 (talk) 03:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

For now, leave it and let's see how the ANI thread stabilizes. :) Something else that you can do in the meantime which will be helpful, is to create a userpage: User:FireandFlames17. Having a blue link instead of a redlink there, would be A Good Thing. --Elonka 03:39, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

What is ANI? What is the best way to create a user page? Are there any templates for that?--FireandFlames17 (talk) 03:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

ANI is our shorthand term for the admin noticeboard thread. It stands for "Administrators Noticeboard / Incidents". As for your userpage, put anything you want. Some people put hours (or days!) into their userpages, but what would be helpful to start would be some indication of your interests on Wikipedia. For example, someone might put, "Hi, my name is John Smith, I'm a trash collector in Idaho, and my hobby is model trains. I'm here on Wikipedia to help out with everything related to trains that I can think of." Or someone else might put, "I love working on articles about flowers." Or you can get into more elaborate stuff, like my userpage is here: User:Elonka. Or see User:Baseball Bugs or User:Ronz. Lots of options!  :) The important thing to do though is to put something there, otherwise it's like handing someone your business card, and they get it and look at it and see that it's blank on both sides! --Elonka 03:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Note: You don't need to write pages... Even just 2 or 3 lines will do. The full guideline if you want to read it, is here: Wikipedia:User page. --Elonka 03:55, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Perfect!  :) Thanks, --Elonka 04:31, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Tags

I have opened a section on removing the tags on the Heimdinger talk page. I intend to remove them in 36 hours if no one is willing or able to support the tags with specifics. 76.238.22.59 (talk) 03:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 03:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)