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Thanks!

, Thanks Dawn Bard! I removed that because some of my friends tricked me into believing that this particular band had withdrawn from the Soundwave Lineup, and went as far as editing the article. Should someone warn the person behind the unnecessary edit? Also, if I see edits like that in the future what should I do?

Thanks again :) Sandshark23 (talk) 04:57, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

The "help me" tag is for asking for help from any editor who checks for help me tags and answers them. It is not useful for attracting the attention of one particular editor you have a question for, for two reasons. Firstly, only a minority of editors make a habit of checking for help me tags, and so most likely the editor you want will never see your message. Secondly, it is likely to have the unfortunate side-effect of causing lots of others, who do check for the tags, to waste time coming here, only to find that it's a message that doesn't apply to them. If you want to contact a particular editor, you should post a note on that editor's talk page, in this case User talk:Dawn Bard. I have put a note there telling Dawn there's a message here, but I though it might be helpful to you to drop a note here letting you know for future use. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:46, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

To answer your question, if you see incorrect information, feel free to remove it as you did, or change it to a correct version. But often it's best to Google first to make sure it is in fact incorrect; many times an unregistered editor will make the first change reflecting breaking news, but won't include a reference, and there's naturally the suspicion it's incorrect - but it may be correct. Whenever possible, add a reference to a newspaper or other reliable source when adding info yourself (usually the article is set up to use footnotes between <ref></ref> tags for this purpose). Hope that helps. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:51, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I have looked further, and although you started your message with "Thanks Dawn Bard", it is in fact something that anyone can deal with, so I have removed the message from Dawn Bard's talk page, and I was writing an answer to your question when Yngvadottir beat me to it, but I will add further information about what to do when you see vandalism, and how to warn a user, since you have asked. No doubt you were referring to the editing of Killswitch Engage. You were perfectly right to remove the hoax edit. It is almost always a good idea to post a warning to the relevant user talk page, in this case User talk:101.119.16.206. You can write a message of your own if you like, but there are some advantages in using a ready made templated messages. There is a whole page of these messages at Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace, so many that they can look really daunting to a new user. However, in practice you will find that just a small number of them will very often be useful. In this case, where it was clearly vandalism, a suitable message would be {{subst:vandalism2|Killswitch Engage}} ~~~~. :The "subst" tells the Wikimedia software to convert this, and actually post to the user page not what you typed, but the following, followed by your signature:

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Killswitch Engage. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

"2" in vandalism2 is a level number. Normally, a first warning should be at level 1 or 2, and if the editor continues with vandalism then it can be followed with higher level warnings. Level 3 warns of a possible block from editing if the trouble continues, and level 4 gives a warning that any more may lead to an immediate block without further warning. If an editor has continued with vandalising despite several warnings, you can make a report at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, asking an administrator to look into the matter and decide if a block is warranted.

I hope that is of some help to you. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:12, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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Removed tag

Hello Sandshark, User page Pakistan-Celebrations-2013 is a user page (not an article) this is my page and no any user has right to delete a user page. Hope you understand — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lifebouy (talk • contribs) 09:23, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I honestly didn't know what was going on there - The recent edits section tagged it as template removal so I decided to add a caution to that IP address. Sorry for any inconveniences caused by that.

Just to let you know this user is a sockpuppet of Yasir72.multan. -- SMS ^Talk 11:51, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Removed Tag: thanks/question

I ACCEPT, that the article by me on Sabyasachi Bhattacharya , deleted on 23 Oct., does not say clearly why the subject is important or significant. That is a good reason for rejecting the article, not a reason for rejecting the subject. In short, I am asking what are the possibilities of REVISING and resubmitting the article. I shall be thankful for suggestions. Baulak (talk) 10:30, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello Baulak, and thanks for posting on my talk page. We do appreciate your contribution to Wikipedia, and it was not the subject we were rejecting as there are lots of articles about an individual on Wikipedia, but it was the article itself we were deleting as it didn't have enough information to classify as an acceptable article and it was not backed up with any sources, hence why I tagged it for speedy deletion.

You are free to revise and resubmit your article at any time, but keep it mind that if you have revised it and it still doesn't conform to Wikipedia's guidelines, it will be deleted. To be honest with you, I am not too good on giving specific advice on creating an article as I mainly stick to patrolling the recent changes log and reverting vandalism - I will link you to Your first article, which gives some pretty good advice onto how to create a good article, or you can ask someone at Wikipedia:Questions.

To further increase the chance of having your article being approved, I would suggest submitting it through Wikipedia:Articles for creation rather than just creating the article, because if you submit it through here your article will be reviewed before it is considered for publishing, and if it isn't published you will be given some good feedback on how you can improve your article.

I hope that helps. Have a good day :) ◄Sandshark23► talk♦contribs 10:53, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you.

I am grateful for the guidelines you provided and I will get back with a revised text. Baulak (talk) 16:23, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

No worries Baulak. Anytime :) ◄Sandshark23► talk♦contribs 23:21, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

A Request

Dear Sandshark, Here is the revised version of an article I submitted earlier (deleted by you), now revised in accordance with the Wikipedia norms which you pointed out and the aids to Editors which you drew to my attention. Pleas let me know if the present version is approved by you as an article fit for inclusion in the Wikipedia.Baulak (talk) 14:06, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello again Baulak. Before I give more advice, I would just like to point out a few things before I continue, as it seems I have given the wrong impression.

1) I didn't delete the article you created. All I did was 'tag' it for speedy deletion, which brings it to the attention of someone who has the power to delete the article. It is up to them to decide what to do with it - in your case, the artice fulfilled the criteria I had tagged it for, so an administrator deleted it.

2) I am not the person to talk to if you want to get an article approved. I am not an administrator or a reviewer on Wikipedia, I am just a normal user with some general knowledge on how Wikipedia works - I do not have the power or the knowledge to approve an article, or to tell someone if their article is good or bad.

What I will advise, though, is to put this {{subst:submit}} tag on your sandbox, where your article currently is. This will bring it to the attention of someone who has experience in reviewing and approving articles, who will then tell you if your article is good enough or not. If it isn't approved, an experienced Wikipedian will give you some advice on how to improve it.

Good luck. ◄Sandshark23► talk♦contribs 00:44, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Much obliged

Many thanks and good wishes. Baulak (talk) 10:33, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Removal of welcome-v

I had clicked the wrong button on Huggle then undid it. That removed everything for some reason. I replaced your message. Haven't seen this problem before. Edit conflict maybe? Thanks for the note. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 02:28, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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Your request for rollback

Hi RedMetlHedd. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! AdmrBoltz 15:24, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

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Metamodernism

Hi! Thanks for your help so far, and would appreciate any additional assistance you can offer with this article. We have an anonymous IP making unproven claims of self-promotion in the face of fully sourced additions to the article. I've removed the two names this person is complaining of, one I added and one added by a second anonymous IP address. My concern is merely that the list itself, which the first anonymous poster does not seem to object to, remain, and that we then figure out in talk whether any disputed names should be included. Are you available to assist? Festal82 (talk) 17:21, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Hey Festal, and I'm sorry I took so long to respond, I've been busy with quite a few things.

I'm not too great with editing and writing articles, which is why I mainly stick to reverting vandalism and modifying articles which I am comfortable with modifying. However, if you would like my assistance, I will try and help you out. ◄Sandshark23► talk♦contribs 00:06, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

thanks sandshark

thank you sandshark23 I did not want to edit it I just wanted to see if you could really edit whatever you wanted on Wikipedia making it an inaccurate source I did not mean to waste your time I apologize for the inconvenience sincerely, quizz98 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.61.27.86 (talk) 00:18, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for apologizing. I am glad to see you have learned that those kind of untrue/non-constructive edits are not allowed on Wikipedia. Also, you weren't wasting my time, I was already using a program to revert vandalism so it doesn't really effect me. Talk to you soon :) ◄Sandshark23► talk♦contribs 09:25, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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