User talk:Mekeretrig

Welcome!

Hello, Mekeretrig, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Spitfire^Tally-ho! 09:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RE:Removing Vandalism

What you have been doing is absolutely great, the help is really appreciated, as you may have noticed clicking "undo" generates a automatic edit summary, so that's all fine and good. One thing that you have not been doing is warning the users who vandalize, to do this go here: Wikipedia:WARN#Multi-level_templates, go down the left hand side and find what you think the user is doing, then copy the warning onto the users talkpage, never forget to put a signature on: ~~~~ Lets so lets say some one was vandalizing a page called Peter Pan, the message you would send the, would be: {{subst:uw-vandalism1|Peter Pan}} ~~~~ Do you see? If not just tell me. With the warnings you start at level one, and work your way up to level 4, follow? If I'm not making sense please let me know and I can explain, thanks Spitfire^Tally-ho! 10:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm getting off the computer now, If you have any questions please leave me a message and I'll reply as soon as I can. Warning users is important, but if you want to carry on reverting edits with out warning users, that is 100% fine, great to have you here, all the best Spitfire^Tally-ho! 10:24, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, great to see that you seem to understand my babbling about warnings, brilliant work :), now, I really must tear myself away from the computer. All the best Spitfire^Tally-ho! 10:30, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One thing I forgot to mention: warnings should go under a header for the month that they refer to, so if it is May, which it is, put the warnings under a header called May 2009, like this: ==May 2009==
Warning here

If a header already exists you can just attach your warning to the ones already there, as you did here: User_talk:92.64.107.89, sorry, I should have mentioned that before, all the best Spitfire^Tally-ho! 10:35, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is fairly complicated, in most cases an experienced editor will be on the scene and promptly report the vandal to administrators. However, if there is no such editor, then what you have to do is go to the page WP:AIV (found by typing WP:AIV into the search box) this page is patrolled by administrators and it contains a list of users and IPs (anons) who have been vandalising, the way to add a vandal to this page is like so:

In the case of a editor who edits under an IP address: use the template {{IPvandal|Put the IP address here}} here say why you are listing them, this is normally: "vandalism after final (level 4) warning" finally sign the post: ~~~~ this report goes at the bottom of the page, always the bottom, before clicking "save" copy the material that you have added, if the page does not save correctly then paste the report into the edit box and click save again, keep doing this until it saves, for more information about this see Help:Edit conflict. If you're reporting a user with a user name you do exactly the same, but instead of using {{IPvandal|Put the IP address here}}, you use {{Vandal|username here}}. The only time you should list a user or IP is if they have vandalised after receiving a level 4 warning, again, if this does not make sense just ask me to explain, and remember, if you're not sure about reporting, just leave it, a different editor will report them shortly, all the best Spitfire^Tally-ho! 10:47, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In short, report users if you like, but if you can't manage don't worry about it its fine, and the work you're doing at the moment is great Spitfire^Tally-ho! 10:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May 2009
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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/A Man In Black/Workshop. 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. pablo_hablo. 21:42, 29 May 2009 (UTC) [reply]

No worries - I thought it was a bit strange! pablo_hablo. 21:57, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]