User talk:Whydontyoucallme dantheman

welcome

Hello, Whydontyoucallme dantheman! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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December 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Richard Miniter, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Richard Miniter was changed by Whydontyoucallme dantheman (c) (t) deleting 9881 characters on 2007-12-31T21:08:23+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 21:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops mistake. Carry on, but discuss on article talk page before any major edit.Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 11:47, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

January 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Richard Miniter, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Richard Miniter was changed by Whydontyoucallme dantheman (c) (t) deleting 9863 characters on 2008-01-02T21:25:13+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 21:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles, as you did to Richard Miniter. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. —slakr^\ talk / 21:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Whoh, my bad. I honestly did look at it, but I thought you were *adding* a bunch of links, not deleting them. :P I'll go grab some caffeine and this won't happen. :P Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 21:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About your user page comment

You have my sympathies! It is outrageous. At least the humans have generally realized their errors and I hope you have reported the bot. May it console you to know that there are some of us humans out there who recognize that your edits are good. I suggest you just edit a bit more and perhaps in smaller chunks to start with. Hopefully the bots and the hawks will leave you alone then! Good luck.--Slp1 (talk) 22:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I decided to give it a second go. Whydontyoucallme dantheman (talk) 21:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries please!

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. I notice you used to use them, but have stopped? They are very useful! MSGJ (talk) 22:02, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

welcomers comment

I see that you had a lot of trouble against a bot. Did that get resolved? Kingturtle (talk) 22:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think so. The second person to revert me undid his work, and the article has not been mis-edited since then. I am staying away from it though. Someone else can battle the bots. I should take down the note on my user page, but I get the feeling that as soon as I do that I'll get bot-reverted again (Murphys Law). Whydontyoucallme dantheman (talk) 22:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think that bot went after your edits because your first edit on that article removed 10,000 bytes of info, more than half the article. That is a trigger that says to that bot "It must be a vandal." Why would anyone in their right mind do that? Well, in your case, you were in your right mind. Kingturtle (talk) 00:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

August 2014

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'''''Ruby & Quentin''''' ([[French language|French]]: '''''Tais toi!''''' ({{IPA-fr|tɛ twa}}, [[wikt:tais-toi|''Shut up!'']])

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