User talk:The Active Atheist

The Active Atheist (talk) 08:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)== August 2016 == Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, please use the sandbox instead, where you are given a certain degree of freedom in what you write. bonadea contributions talk 08:52, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:The Active Atheist/sandbox

A tag has been placed on User:The Active Atheist/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Created in order to document a vandalised version of a Wikipedia article

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Vandalism happens on Wikipedia, all the time, every hour of every day. Sometimes the vandals manage to be quite funny, but using a Wikipedia page to document some random juvenile wasting other volunteers' time unfortunately falls outside what Wikipedia is for. You might be interested in browsing Wikipedia:Silly Things and the various pages in Category:Wikipedia Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense - a lot of it is quite funny, and it also explains why pages like that are no longer added to. Cheers, --bonadea contributions talk 10:24, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Response to your post here: I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by "shut down an inactive user page, banned a sandbox option, CSD, placed on a watch list and now a red IP total ban". What happened was, from my perspective: I noticed that you had, in good faith, used your user talk page to document vandalism to a Wikipedia article; I reverted the vandalism which had been performend by some random IP user; I removed the documentation thereof from your user talk page; and I placed a notice about why I had done that. When you recreated the documentation in your sandbox I flagged that for the administrators to check and possibly remove if they agreed with my opinion, and then posted a longer notice here to explain why I'd done that. That's all. Sorry this came across as so harsh. The good news is that you don't need to wait for anybody else to remove vandalism, and you don't have to report it anywhere (unless it is a page that is protected from editing by anybody but administrators - in that case you can post to the article's talk page to point it out.) Cheers, --bonadea contributions talk 15:36, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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