User talk:***Ria777

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Edit Summary Request

I have noted that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky or even vandalizing. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! -- Kukini 17:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why still no edit summaries? Kukini 17:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

'cause I forget to do 'em! (and you just forgot to sign.... Do it and then delete this.)

I'd like to second the request that you use an edit summary. You're often removing categories and recategorizing articles with no explanation. This is poor form and as stated above can appear questionable to other editors.--Crossmr 19:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to make a third request that you use an edit summary. In your last 100 edits since the last request for you to make an edit summary you've made 1.--Crossmr 14:05, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can set your Preferences to help you. Find the Editing tag and check the "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary." -- Fyslee 10:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

I happened to notice your contributions to the area of Occult. If you'd like, please check out WikiProject Occult if you are inerested in helping out. Thanks! SynergeticMaggot 18:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

in re: Bisexual Erasure

noticed that you removed Bigotry and Prejudice from the "also see" list. Not saying at all that this isn't a good edit. Just wondering on your reasoning there. Thanks CyntWorkStuff 06:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a couple of reasons.

one, the link to "sexual hierarchy" entry made those somewhat redundant.

two, links to the bigotry and prejudice links imply some sort of active policy and a quite possibly malicious one at that. remember, neutral point of view. for the record, I agree with your stance on bisexual erasure as common. for that matter, I think that the long history and prevalence of consensual incest also gets conveniently ignored.

-- Ria

Minor edits

Remember to mark your edits as minor when, but only when, they genuinely are (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one, or vice versa, is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb, is that an edit of a page that consists of spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'. --Crossmr 17:32, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is the only warning you will receive. The next time you vandalize a page (Star of Bethlehem) , you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --

Stop making gibberish edit summaries

When you were asked by more than one user to use edit summaries is wasn't because they wanted to see random characters in the edit summaries. They want to see what your edits actually are. When making comments on talk pages its unnecessary, but when making edits to articles, catagories, or making other changes to talk pages (like adding signatures, formatting, etc) you should be using edit summaries that actually describe the edits you're making. In your last 75 edits you've only made about 15 edit summaries that actuall describe the edit you're making the rest are gibberish or blank edit summaries. Please actually describe what you're doing, and why if you've haven't explained it elsewhere. You've been making numerous and extensive catagory changes to a lot of articles with little or no explanation. I'm not saying thats bad, but 90% of the time no one has any idea what edits you're making or why.--Crossmr 23:59, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would have to second Crossmr's request. Even if everything you're doing is perfectly logical to you, it needs to be explained when you are making changes like this which tend to have a highly technical nature. I'm glad you want to help Wikipedia better organize its articles, but please do try to use real edit summaries. (ESkog)^(Talk) 00:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You were doing a decent job for a while, but then you slid back into the pattern. Please try to understand how much more work it is for other editors to have to decipher what you have done to articles. I hate to block a user who is making generally constructive edits, but I'm not sure I have an alternative; the time you waste from other people may or may not be as much as the time you are saving with these recategorizations. Please, please, consistently provide explanations for technical edits. (ESkog)^(Talk) 23:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

what does "technical edit" mean? versus a normal/regular edit?***Ria777 02:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hinauri

You put Hinauri into the category 'Māori goddesses'. I appreciate your help, because I was going to create such categories once the articles had all been verified, but Hinauri is not a goddess, so I reverted your change. Kahuroa 10:19, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

first, I know everything and never makes an error, so you had no right to do this, at all.

second, I do try to verify such stuff before I make such judgment calls based on what the entries day. (perhaps I should research the topics first, but I admit that I sacrifice accuracy for my desire to put an entry somewhere, sometimes, though not intentionally. on more than one occasion I have felt tempted to put an entry in a category and then thought that I should really know more about the subject before I make such a judgment call. in fact I looked about figures specifically described as goddesses in order to make up a Māori goddesses cat., so it would exist and people could then say, hey, this cat. should have more entries.) anyway, I will keep this in mind. (BTW, I do know that a category can exist with no entries.) ***Ria777 15:12, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:OWN and read it very carefully. You don't own any articles or edits you make to an article. Any editor can change anything they want at any time if there is a just reason for doing so. So they had plenty of "right" to make this change.--Crossmr 16:12, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I meant that ironically! ***Ria777 19:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD nomination of Changelings in popular culture

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Category:Fictional herbs

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CfD nomination of Category:Early scientific cosmologies

I have nominated Category:Early scientific cosmologies (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. ScienceApologist (talk) 12:28, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:UFO-related entities

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CfD nomination of Category:UFO-related phenomena

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Speedy deletion nomination of Tibetan Volunteers for Animals

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You may want to read the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies. Splittist (talk) 05:37, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of The Metabarons Roleplaying Game for deletion

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Category:Earth mysteries has been nominated for deletion

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