User talk:Neiby

Welcome!

Hello, Neiby, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum see the Wikipedia Teahouse.

Introduction
The five pillars of Wikipedia
How to edit a page
How to write a great article
Simplified Manual of Style
Your first article
Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
Feel free to make test edits in the sandbox
and check out the Task Center, for ideas about what to work on.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 08:26, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Schrödinger's jellyfish Thanks for the welcome! There is a great deal to learn, and I've made a few mistakes already by accident, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. I will definitely be hitting you up if I have some questions. Thanks again! Neiby (talk) 16:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Twinkle

Hi!

Please read WP:TWINKLEABUSE before continuing to use Twinkle. Reverting non-vandalism edits using Twinkle, and without leaving an additional edit summary, is not considered acceptable use of the tool. Besides, what the heck were you even trying to do there, anyway?

Cheers, RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 09:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RadioactiveBoulevardier Yes, my sincere apologies for that! I'm new here and didn't realize what that [vandalism] tag was. I didn't even realize it was Twinkle that was adding that button. I didn't learn until it was too late what it actually did. I thought for certain that I had accidentally reverted a non-vandalism edit but I couldn't figure out exactly which ones they were because I didn't realize my terrible misunderstanding until later in the day, at which point I disabled Twinkle until I understood it better.

My thought process--as much as there was any thought behind it--was that I thought the [vandalism] button was just a label that had been applied to a user's edit by someone else after it had been tagged as vandalism, and I thought that if it were a label, clicking on it might lead to more information about that incident, or something along those lines.

Mostly, I was an idiot for enabling Twinkle without even knowing what all it was doing. Thankfully, that was short-lived and I know much more about the tool now, but unfortunately, I did accidentally damage at least one page. I hope you were able to correct my screw-up(s). They absolutely were not intentional. Neiby (talk) 16:14, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Once you're a little more accustomed to mainspace and make some more edits there, you may enjoy the Counter-Vandalism Unit Academy! Some of the tools definitely have a learning curve, I had a few goofs with Twinkle and then switched over to RedWarn once I got a better understanding of Wikipedia policy. Happy editing! 18:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC) Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 18:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of Puddle Lane books

Hi there, you endorsed my WP:PROD of this article, but the PROD was then reverted (no reason was given), so I've nominated it for deletion. You're welcome to participate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Puddle Lane books. I assume that you're not familiar with AFD yet; I'm happy to help if you have any questions about it, but since I nominated this particular article for deletion I don't think it's appropriate for me to coach you on how to write an AfD vote for that article specifically. -- asilvering (talk) 20:31, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]