User talk:Dl0ad

Sorry for being so harsh on the WP:AIAV page. I see that no one has given you a proper welcome, so here's a little template that can help you get around this place. I hope you stay around!

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, Dl0ad, and welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is one of the world's fastest growing internet sites. We aim to build the biggest and most comprehensive encyclopaedia in the world. To date we have over four million articles in a host of languages. The English language Wikipedia alone has over one million articles! But we still need more! Please feel free to contribute your knowledge and expertise to our site.

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What I meant by "warning" a vandalous user, I meant for you to add a tag such as {{test}}, which tags the vandal, and warns them to stop vandalizing, or else face possibly serious consequences (such as blocking).

Examples of warnings you can give a user are found at Wikipedia:Template_messages/User talk namespace.

Furthermore, whenever you use a template (templates are surrounded by {{ }}), you want to put the words "subst:" inbetween the first two brackets, and the beginning of the name of the template.

For example, if I wanted to warn a user about vandalism using the "test" template, I would type: {{subst:test}}. This would give this message to the vandalising user:

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

(This is not a warning to you)

Now, if the vandalism continues, the template escalates too: {{test2}}, {{test3}}, {{test4}}. Once you have given the user a {{test4}}, it is at that time that they can be listed at WP:AIAV. Or, if you notice that a user has no good contributions, and just vandalizes non-stop, you can add a {{bv}} template. This indicates to the user that they have done a lot of harm, and should stop immediately. If they ignore this warning, then you can take them straight to WP:AIAV.

Hopefully this is enough information, and not too much all at once. If you have further questions, please feel free to come to my talk page.

Sorry about the confusion, and I hope you enjoy Wikipedia! Ian Manka Talk to me! 20:09, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]