Wikify567

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Hello, Wikify567, 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! sinneed (talk) 14:26, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Wow. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 07:27, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Page Merges

Please stop merging cue sport pages together. It is unhelpful, and undiscussed merges are considered by many editors to be vandalism. If you think that articles should be merged, please start a discussion on the relevant talk page. Thanks. --Ged UK (talk) 12:48, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello

First of all, welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you're getting involved in WikiProjects here, but one thing you should know is that banners such as {{WP-Piracybanner}} are used on an article's talk pages only, not on the article itself. If you have any questions about using Wikipedia, go ahead and ask me on my talk page. You might aslo be interested in participating in the Adopt-a-User program that will help you understand how Wikipedia works. Cheers, – Skyezx^message 09:11, 13 November 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) 09:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Please stop panicing

Please assume that administrators know what they are doing and that you, as a relatively new user, might not. Please do not use the undo function on reports to WP:AIV - if an administrator declines to act on a report, repeatedly reposting it will not help and is disruptive. Please do not panic about the attacks made by redirects that mention a Harry Potter character. These are throw-away IP addresses and we respond by protecting the page, not pointlessly blocking the IP. And these were all different IPs, not one repeated IP. Please take extra care when reporting in future. Thank you. ➨ ❝ЯEDVERS❞ a sweet and tender hooligan 09:57, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

You are continuing to post reports to WP:AIV that we can do nothing about. One incidence of testing from an IP is not vandalism. Please read carefully the instructions at the top of the AIV page and only report recent vandals who have been properly warned. If your edits at WP:AIV continue to disrupt the page, you could be blocked from editing until you can demonstrate that you have read the green box at the top of the AIV page. Got it? ➨ ❝ЯEDVERS❞ a sweet and tender hooligan 10:08, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Just to add to that, to report them at WP:AIV, editors (or IP addresses) should normally have more than one edit, showing a pattern of vandalism, and should be warned gently at first as they may only have been trying out the 'edit' button. You might find the advice at WP:WARN helpful. Regards, EyeSerene^talk 10:12, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Re your message

Your vandal-fighting work is much appreciated, and a very important part of maintaining Wikipedia. However, WP:AIV is only for reporting ongoing, urgent vandalism that needs dealing with straight away. What we look for when following up a report is:

• Is the vandal currently active? Vandalism from a while ago, especially from an IP address, can usually be ignored as long as it's been corrected.
• Is there a pattern of vandalism to their edits? Note that some IP addresses are shared, like for a school or ISP, and if the edits are mostly good the account may not need to be blocked. Obviously we need more than one edit to establish this.
• Has the vandal been properly warned? We normally give out a graduated series of warnings, starting with level 1 for a first offence, up to level 4 (see WP:WARN for the various templates at each level). Obviously you can apply common sense - particularly offensive vandalism, for example, might deserve a level 3 for the first offence. Where possible though, we assume good faith and try to give the vandal a chance to change their behaviour so a block isn't necessary.

I hope this helps - any questions, let me know! All the best, EyeSerene^talk 10:32, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

(Edit) You can see a good example of appropriate warnings on this vandal IP talk page here. Any admin looking at the page can see they've been vandalising over a period of time, and been appropriately warned about it. EyeSerene^talk 10:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, no harm done. For the example, personally I would have been inclined to block after the October 2008 final warning, but if there's been a big gap it can sometimes mean an IP has changed (some ISPs issue dynamic IP addresses) so it's not the same person on the other end any more. Different editors see things different ways though - it's always a judgement call ;) Regards, EyeSerene^talk 10:48, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

November 2008

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute, you will be blocked from editing. \ / (⁂) 10:55, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

You appear to have discovered the joy of redirects. However, you're redirecting existing project pages, as above, and creating unwanted and unhelpful redirects from the mainspace to Wikipedia project space. Please stop. I understand your enthusiasm but you're becoming quite disruptive. You need to stop and read more about our processes before you start meddling with them. ➨ ❝ЯEDVERS❞ a sweet and tender hooligan 10:59, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I am writing to concur with the above comments Wikify567 - slow down - get some experience first. Work slowly and don't put yourself in a position where you end up blocked for actually disrupting wikipedia.--VS ^talk 11:06, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I would like to suggest that you put the breaks on disambiguating and redirecting until you have a little experience. For instance, this edit was inaccurate. "Roll" does not redirect to Roll. It's the base page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:03, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Dangerdoom

Hi. The title is correct in accordance with the manual of style. If you want to move a page to a title where there's a redirect then you need to get an administrator to help - simply cutting and pasting destroys the history. Flowerparty^☀ 10:59, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Black Widow (laser)

A tag has been placed on Black Widow (laser), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. FlyingToaster 12:20, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Please do not recreate Black Widow (laser) again. The name of the page is not easily indexable by search engines so it is an extremely unlikely search term. Also, it is not apparent to non-users of the product why the page should redirect to laser show, thus it is eligible for speedy deletion under criteria R3 as an implausible misnomer. If you wish to contest the deletion, make a request at deletion review. Thank you. Pegasus «C¦T» 12:31, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, but one or more redirects you created, such as with Poker Probe, have been considered disruptive and/or malicious, and have been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Please don't make a redirect more complicated. Here "probe" linked to "tools," and you changed it to "calculator?" FlyingToaster 12:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Please don't mark Wikipedia essays or policy pages for deletion

Such as Wikipedia:Other stuff exists, kthxbai. FlyingToaster 12:57, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Rubber ball

I'm not quite certain why you redirected Rubber ball but I've undone your change. From the surge of notices above, I see that you've been a busy editor. Flopsy Mopsy and Cottonmouth (talk) 10:02, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Adoption

I bothered to check in on some of your more recent edits since the last row of problems discussed on IRC. It seems you're still not really getting it. So I'm going to strongly recommend, again, that you look into Adopt-A-User so that someone can help you understand.

From looking at your contributions, page blanks, redirects, and other attempts to "improve" Wikipedia, I think it's fairly clear that you are still causing more damage than you are improvement. Please slow down your editing and seek help, because you really need to actually understand what you are doing, and not assume you understand. The359 (talk) 22:33, 27 November 2008 (UTC)