Traviswa

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Again, welcome! Rschen7754 14:46, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

The people at work at USRD do suck this is spam don't spam people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Traviswa (talk • contribs) 20:37, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

You're invited to the Teahouse.

Hello! Traviswa, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Bananasoldier (talk) 23:11, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

February 2015

Please do not attack other editors, as you did on Talk:U.S. Route 12 in Indiana. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. -- Orduin ^Discuss 22:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Let me just make a few comments on some other recent editing of yours. Edits like this one are quite inappropriate. First off, in that original edit (and the two after that restored the content), you're using Wikipedia's voice to comment on content in a Wikipedia article. We don't really do that; such comments should be made on the appropriate talk page or the article flagged with the appropriate warning box, which takes the commentary and separates it from the article content. Instead, your comments in the article's text are a dig at both the volunteers who wrote and reviewed Ohio State Route 778, as well as INDOT, and since INDOT has nothing to do another state's highway, that's also quite inappropriate.

In short, if you're going to add content into the prose of an article, which you should do, then it needs to be germane to the subject of the article and appropriately written since it will be coming to readers in Wikipedia's voice.

As for the usage of maps as sources, this is long-settled practice for sourcing, and it's perfectly acceptable. There are Featured Articles, like U.S. Route 131 that use a lot of maps as sources, in addition to other material. You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Using maps and similar sources in Wikipedia articles for more information.

Finally, your comments about WP:USRD above weren't exactly cool either. The project has about a dozen or so active members who try to work on over 10,000 articles and counting. We're all volunteers, each with varying levels of personal knowledge on the various states' highways. If you've got knowledge about Indiana, then dig in and start improving Indiana's articles. You received the standard welcome template in case you weren't aware that there is a WikiProject organized around the various state highways in the US in addition to similar projects for the other major English-speaking countries and one for everything else in the world. If you don't like the notice, you could have just removed it from your talk page, no insults necessary. Imzadi 1979 → 01:11, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

Please don't continue making edits like Imzadi's talking about. We're happy to have you contributing productively after the block, if you're interested in helping, but continued problems won't be tolerated, and you'll probably soon find yourself on the receiving end of a permanent block. Nyttend (talk) 03:45, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

I love the attitude here. Nobody cares about racist trash, but don't make fun of our project. --NE2 19:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)