Slingb

November 2010

Hello, Slingb! Welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your experiments with Wikipedia. However, your recent tests, such as your edit to the page Derren Brown, have been reverted or removed because those are against our policies. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Fæ (talk) 17:21, 13 November 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary for your edits. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. AussieLegend (talk) 17:33, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Derren Brown‎, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Fæ (talk) 17:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Password

Please raise the issue of the Derren Brown site password on Talk:Derren Brown rather than being tempted to edit-war over the matter. Thanks, Fæ (talk) 17:55, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I am unclear what email you used to contact Wikipedia but you may find the following alternative useful.

• For urgent and completely confidential removal and suppression of text on credible copyright or personal privacy grounds please see WP:Requests for oversight (who are unlikely to suppress material published elsewhere, the linked page gives details of what they are allowed to do for you).
• General non-confidential questions about policies and copyright matters can be raised on one of the Wikipedia:Requests noticeboards.
• For live advice you are welcome to ask for help from experienced editors and administrators on #wikipedia-en-help ^connect (you are free to stay anonymous and keep your questions generic, though your IP address may be visible if queried and by the nature of IRC it is a public forum unless you request a private DCC connection with one of the channel members).

I hope that any future interaction you have with Wikipedia goes more smoothly, normally proposing changes on the article talk page and asking for advice first works best for anything potentially controversial or where you may be perceived to have a conflict of interest. Thanks, Fæ (talk) 00:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for all this advice, only just seen it, sorry I don't know my way around wiki well yet. Slingb (talk) 13:22, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit-warring

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Derren Brown. Users who edit disruptively or refuse to collaborate with others may be blocked if they continue. In particular the three-revert rule states that making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block. If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the talk page to discuss controversial changes. Work towards wording and content that gains consensus among editors. If unsuccessful then do not edit war even if you believe you are right. Post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. AussieLegend (talk) 17:55, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

This is your last warning; the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Derren Brown, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. The edits were reverted becaause Wikipedia is not censored. You were asked to discuss this on the article's talk page but have failed to do so. AussieLegend (talk) 19:07, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Talk pages

As per WP:REDACT, you should not edit your comments once another editor has replied to them. We don't remove content from article talk pages once a conversation is finished. The content remains on the talk page until it is archived at some point in the future. --22:39, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Slingb for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. AussieLegend (talk) 02:13, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Slingb, please do take a moment to consider the guidelines of sockpuppetry. In this case it appears that either you have been logging in under more than one account name or have an associate or website fan making similar contributions at the same time. Sockpuppet investigations are often resolved by an explanation of what happened by the users involved. Could you please help out by providing your view on the situation either here or on the above investigation page? Note, a commitment to change behaviour from editors that did not understand the policy often helps make for a positive outcome. Thanks, Fæ (talk) 07:38, 14 November 2010 (UTC)