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September 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Mondegreen, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 01:58, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Geek with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. RA0808 ^talk _contribs 02:02, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

April 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Nerd, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 01:50, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding stuff to Nerd without citing your sources. Your sources have to be reliable. You're also edit warring (although being involved I'm really in no position to warn you about that).--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:26, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Short people listed at Redirects for discussion

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Your edits

Hello. This is in response to your messages on my talk page. Looking through your history I see that quite a few other editors have found some of your edits problematical -- it's not just me. Your enthusiasm for improving Wikipedia is to be commended and we're all grateful that editors like you take an active interest in making Wikipedia better. Unfortunately some of your edits don't always fit in well with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. For instance several of your edits that have been reverted have been done so because they appear to be original research (click to read about original research). Basically you make claims that might be true but you haven't supplied reliable independent sources to back up those claims. In the recent situation with the Religious discrimination article your edit appeared rather dubious to me and since you did not supply a source backing up your claim reverting it seemed like the best option. If you do not know how to add citations to articles you can always ask me how to do so on my talk page.

Additionally sometimes your prose isn't quite as good as it could be. Sometimes you're a bit too casual or the text you add is awkwardly placed. In cases like this if you at least supplied a source for you claim then editors would be far more likely to fix your prose than just revert it.

Finally, yes, there are lots and lots of problems throughout Wikipedia. The problem is that I cannot possibly fix all of them. Does this mean I shouldn't try to fix any of them? Of course not. It just so happens that many of the articles you edit are on my watchlist so I see many of your edits and then review them. Some I revert; some I leave as is. We all fix things where we can.

If you have any questions or comments you can reach me on my talk page. Thanks. SQGibbon (talk) 00:45, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How to avoid frustration

Ticklewickleukulele, I know it can be frustrating getting your edits reverted after you spend a long time working on them. It happens to the best of us when we get started. I've reviewed all of your edits, some are good, and I encourage you to get involved and keep editing. You can avoid future frustrations by reading WP:Guidelines. There really is a community of editors around here that you can become a part of. None of us were "assigned" to monitor you. We just all have vandalism tools which led us to your edits. If you improve your edits, we will stop reverting them. It seems to me that your biggest sticking point with other editors is your lack of citing sources. See: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. It's really easy to do when you find a good source. When in the edit box, just look for the "Cite" menu in the upper left had side of the edit window header. When you click it, a drop down menu saying "Templates" will appear below. Click on that and find the appropriate template. Then just fill in the form.

I know it may seem like this drab place needs a little more humor, trust me, I have a dark sense of humor; but those of us who spend hundreds sometimes thousands of hours trying to make this place usable as a great source of information for people, just find that something like Wikipedia:You should not write meaningless lists is one more thing thing in the very very very long list of shit we have to monitor and correct. If you want to get on the good side of other editors (which helps if you are trying to avoid frustration) try to keep they cheeky humor refined to your own userspace. Something like User:Ticklewickleukulele/You should not write meaningless lists. I hope my comments help. Feel free to ask me any questions regarding how to improve your edits.--Dkriegls (talk to me!) 02:28, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bad day

It looks like you're having a bad day. All your contributions are reverted, even though they appear to be in good faith. Maybe you should look at each one and try to understand why. Compare what you were trying to accomplish with what the reverting editors might be thinking. Please ask here if you don't figure it out. Dicklyon (talk) 02:57, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And now you're edit-warring about it instead of discussing. This is not good, and make you seem more like you are only to disrupt. If that's the case, we can ask for you to be blocked. Is that what you're looking for? Dicklyon (talk) 04:40, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting an account

Hi, I saw your comment at User talk:Materialscientist, and I thought I would let you know. Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, you can't delete an account. Otherwise, you won't be given credit for the edits you made to the project! However, users are given the right to vanish. See WP:VANISH for more information. Michaelzeng7 (talk) 23:59, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

August 2012 sockpuppetry warning

Hello (User:Ticklewickleukulele) and welcome to Wikipedia. Your editing pattern indicates that you are using multiple accounts (Special:Contributions/99.113.14.200) to make or conceal unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this. Please edit from only one account; regularly switching between your IP address and your user name, especially on the same article and without disclosing it, can amount to sockpuppetry, which is a blockable offense.

Additionally, given your block, warning, edit and deleted article history, you seem to have had consistent problems with comprehending Wikipedia's core policies on verifiability, sourcing and what Wikipedia is not since you began editing. I urge you to please read the 3 above policies, as they go directly to the core of what Wikipedia is all about and will help you turn your Wikipedia career around before the admins get involved again. Looking at your talk page as is, you're cruising for an indefinite block as a persistent vandal. Bravo Foxtrot (talk) 01:17, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

re: A few questions

Hey, sorry for the delay in my response.

1) The difference between vandalism and original research is that with vandalism the person is trying to deface Wikipedia, like with swear words or erasing articles and the like. There is no intent to improve, just deface.

Original research is when someone adds what may be factual and well-written content but does so without supplying reliable sources. That person's intent may be entirely positive but without sources it is inappropriate for Wikipedia. You can read more about these here (vandalism) and here (original research).

2) I do not have the power to erase your records. In fact this is a very difficult thing to do and is only done so under extreme circumstances (like if personal information about an editor is published without their permission). You can read more about that here.

3) I am not going to nominate you to be an administrator. This is nothing personal it's just that you do not appear to have enough experience and knowledge about how Wikipedia works. Generally you need at least 3,0000 edits and a history of participating in administrative tasks. You currently have just over 300 edits. But even if I did nominate you, the nomination would be shot down very quickly. You need to give it more time. I have over 28,000 edits and probably would not successfully pass the nomination process.

4) There are various tools to help editors patrol for and revert vandalism. I use Twinkle. It automatically appends the letters "TW" to the summary of every edit a Twinkle user makes when using Twinkle. It is not a reference to your name.

If you have any more questions please do not hesitate to ask. SQGibbon (talk) 00:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2013

Please do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. Geoff ^{Who, me?} 18:08, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 2013

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:Capybara, you may be blocked from editing. --Mr Fink (talk) 20:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You know, if the elephant wasn't a rodent, you could have just told me. If I said that the whale was a rodent then that is vandalism, but I remember being told that the elephant was the largest rodent. I would never do anything to vandalize Wikipedia. BTW it was a talk page. Ticklewickleukulele (talk) 01:06, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

July 2013

In a recent edit to the page Bacon, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Please note that it has nothing to do with the number of English speakers in any given country, the article was started using British English, and per WP:RETAIN it shall continue to use British English. kelapstick^(bainuu) 23:18, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

June 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as Talk:Ogg are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic or unrelated topics. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. SQGibbon (talk) 14:27, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bold, Revert, Discuss

When you find your edit quickly reverted, as you did at Marriage, you should not just go and reinsert the same edit. Things work best here with the cycle of Bold, Revert, Discuss, or BRD. So if you want to see our article on marriage limited to the male-and-a-female version of it, you should now take it to Talk:Marriage and achieve consensus before reinserting it. --Nat Gertler (talk) 07:02, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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