User talk:Campzanika

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Hello, Campzanika! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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About edit summaries

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you.

Katr67 (talk) 23:07, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About show preview

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. Katr67 (talk) 23:07, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

January 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Girl Scouts of the USA. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -MBK₀₀₄ 20:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The recent edit you made to Girl Scouts of the USA constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to remove content from articles without explanation. Thank you. Catgut (talk) 20:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

how does it constitue vandalism?

Please do not add inappropriate external links, as you did with this edit to Girl Scouts of the USA. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Ipatrol (talk) 20:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i did not add a link, I don't even know how to do that

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. Enigma^msg 20:57, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please go to Talk:Girl Scouts of the USA and discuss your proposed changes. I have not looked at them in depth, but it certainly appears that there are problems. --—— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 21:37, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note to blocking admin

Please delete Camp Zanika Lache as well. Enigma^msg 20:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why delete the article? In retaliation? I think this editor is acting in good faith. Block only if you think it will encourage Campzanika to discuss his/her edits. Campzanika, rather than edit warring please start discussing your edits on the article's talk page. Obviously your edits are being construed as vandalism. Thank you. Katr67 (talk) 21:16, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, not in retaliation. It was just another bad contribution, like the edits to the Girls Scouts article. This does not belong on Wikipedia. Enigma^msg 22:39, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did, and it was not in retaliation and I was not trying to be mean or insulting, i am just new to this and didn't understand. if I was to post something on the Camp Fire page saying that Camp Fire has always been open to all religions unlike Girl Scouts, I'm sure people would have a problem with that. And again I am truly sorry, I didn't realise, and I know now to go to the discussion page first--Campzanika (talk) 21:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Campzankia. I think you are misunderstanding the format of talk pages. I was replying to Enigman's directive to delete the article you created. I was puzzled why the article needed to be deleted, though admittedly it had some issues. (I started cleaning it up.) If you are referring to deleting certain sections of the articles you edited, unfortunately I think some overzealous vandal fighters saw the unexplained deletions as vandalism. Thanks for starting to use edit summaries, that really helps. You don't necessarily need to go to the discussion page first, after all this is the encyclopedia everyone can edit, but when your edits are repeatedly reverted, that is the time to discuss. Just in case you don't know about edit histories, I'll explain it this way (if you do understand, don't take it personally--lots of people don't get this): if you see the changes you've made go away, or they seem like they haven't "stuck", it's probably because they have been reverted. Then it is time to check the page history and read the edit summaries and look at the page diffs. Let me know if you have any other questions. Oh and FYI because your username seems to indicate a conflict of interest, that may have contributed to your problems. I can tell your more about that in another post--but please read about some of our procedures in the bluelinks provided--we do seem to have a lot of rules here. Katr67 (talk) 22:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

thank you! I thought it was my crazy internet doing something to make it not appear. I skimmed over the procedure but I'm going to read it in full now, before I do anything else. thank you again. --Campzanika (talk) 22:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for assuming bad faith with you

But next time please don't edit war and ignore warnings like that. What you were doing was wholly inappropriate, especially without consulting other editors. Enigma^msg 23:00, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you read Campzankia's explanation above, you'll see that s/he made a mistake. S/he wasn't actually edit warring. Also, terming a newbie's first attempt at an article as "another bad contribution" is kindy bitey. Especially because you can see that his/her contributions were not bad at all. Please review Campzanika's contribs and WP:AGF. Katr67 (talk) 23:09, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry I didn't even realise that I was getting warnings until I got the one about being deleted. I've been reading through the procdures so that this won't happen again, and thank you for introducing me to the term "edit wars". Again I am sorry.--Campzanika (talk) 23:15, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, because it has been identified as an account used for promotion of a company or group, with a username that implies that this has been done by that company or group. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Organization and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.

This kind of activity is considered spamming and forbidden by policies, and also violates our username policy.

However, if you feel that there has been a mistake in your blocking, please appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below or email the administrator who blocked you. Your reason should include your response to this issue and a new username you wish to adopt that does not violate our username policy (specifically, understand that accounts are for individuals, not companies or groups, and that your username should reflect this). Please check that your new username has not already been taken by checking this list. Cirt (talk) 14:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is taking things too far. Especially coming with no warning. Unblock and let him/her change his/her username. Katr67 (talk) 17:18, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]