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Here bai wat the hell are u talking bout, the tk clan are like the best at tking in the game, we own everything we see, and if you mess with us we'll tk ur ass, put that stuff back on the site or we'll pwn you
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Thank you for the message. Since i haven't made my own reply section yet i'll reply like this for now. If you want to you may make that section for me.
AooM11:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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Refactoring ≠ good
Hi Booksworm. I see that you refactored the debate about the child wikipedians category. The afd page (which, by extension, refers to ucfds also) plainly states this is a bad idea, because xfds are discussions, not votes, and categorizing comments by opinion turns it into a vote (not to mention making discussion very hard to follow.) I'm not going to undo your change, but I do request you don't do it again. Picaroon928821:30, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. The best way to get the new version is too look for the beta in the IRC channel, #vandalproof. If this is a problem for you, let me know and I can help further. Thanks. —Xyrael / 17:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Image Tagging
I'm not sure, Booksworm. You'll have to look up information on whether information from the British Railway Policy is copyrighted or not. Good luck, Tangotango07:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
I would like to know how it was vandalism to The Beautiful Mistake site. There was a completely biased paragraph in there saying they were on a hiatus and there was a paragraph saying they broke up. I just combined the two. That whole article was a cut and paste job until a fan came in and added that they were only on a hiatus. There wasn't any proof of the claim and I know this, but I thought it would be better to make one paragraph instead of two of them, especially when one paragraph was just a fan typing in random things. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.177.178.215 (talk • contribs) 12:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Re: Excuse me!
Dear Omicronpersei8,
I do beg your pardon for the slight misunderstanding about 72.177.178.215's edits on the page The Beautiful Mistake. Slight vocabulary misunderstanding (on my part), however the term is slightly too ambiguous. Using a more clear context or better term would have been more appropriate on 72.177.178.215's part. However, your removal of the Virgin Glactic link on Space Tourism was not justifiable and could explain your reasoning, and I will remove the message I placed on your talk page.This has been understood, and removed message. Replaced link with a link for the real Virgin Galactic BookswormTalk to me!15:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC). However, please leave a message on my talk page, link below; thanks in advance.
I hope we can be on better terms in the future and I hope to work with collaborativley on the Wiki and to defend it.
Once again, I beg your pardon and I wish you more enjoyment on Wikipedia,
That's fine, thank you for understanding. I don't see there being any problems between us, and thanks for being on RC patrol. I just felt it was rather harsh at the time to give the user in question an instant {{test3}} (a strongly-worded, almost threatening warning template) for at most slightly objectionable wording. I think that's why it's best to use gentler warnings at first unless it's obvious vandalism that's going on – WP:AGF, after all. It's not very difficult to run off would-be good editors because of excessive responses to simple mistakes, and I don't see the editor in question as having done anything wrong, and even improved the articles he or she edited.
Anyway, it's okay to make a mistake now and then, as I certainly have many, many times, but please just try to double-check now and again, as you did revert me three times yesterday seemingly after I removed one link from an article that happened to be spam (and which I didn't detail appropriately in my edit summary, to be fair). Removal isn't automatically vandalism, and don't let one edit by a user lead you to conclude all of his or her edits are undesirable.
Thank you for being a nice and humble guy, and good luck on patrol. I'm sure a couple of accidental edits won't mar your good record. Leave me a message sometime if you need support on RC patrol and I'll try to back you up if I'm online. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 18:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
