User talk:YouWillBeAssimilated

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, YouWillBeAssimilated! I am SarekOfVulcan and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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SarekOfVulcan (talk) 06:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to see a new vandal fighter

Keep up the good work - I keep seeing your name in huggle. Hope you don't mind me making a couple of suggestions to help.

Consider adding twinkle to your tools (Note: don't work in Internet Explorer - I changed to Firefox just so I could use twinkle) - it's in the "Gadgets" section of "My Preferences". You then get more links in the diff page view, clicking one of the new "rollback" links means you can undo all the vandal edits from one editor in one go, after the page goes back - you get the vandal's talk page opens - and Twinkle provides you with a "warn" tab on talk pages, so you can easily pick the correct template and warning level - the page name (and diff link) are filled in for you.
Put something on your user page User:YouWillBeAssimilated - a couple of WP:Userboxes will do or a line of text, it will make your name come up in blue in the page history then you won't look like a new user.

Hope that is of some assistance to you, later on when you done a fair bit of vandal fighting, you might like to consider using Huggle, it's faster than normal editing or Twinkle as the PC does not have to send the page content back to the servers - just an instruction to revert. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 22:21, 18

NICE TO ＳＥＥ　Ａ　ＮＥＷ VANDAL FIGHTER!!!

Civility

Please do not make edit summaries such as this one. Insulting other editors, even if they make bad edits, is a bad idea on Wikipedia for a number of reasons. Thank you for removing the unencyclopedic content, but be advised that civility is a Wikipedia policy, and editors who repeatedly violate it will find themselves blocked from editing. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message here or on my talk page. -kotra (talk) 23:12, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The comment was actually in reference to the added text rather than the author thereof, so the edit summary wasn't uncivil. I'll consider avoiding the use of "illiterate" or "not literate" in my edit summaries for reasons of possible ambiguity or misinterpretation. The word as I used it has a different meaning and doesn't necessarily infer that the author himself is illiterate. It simply means the inclusion didn't meet minimum writing standards. — YouWillBeAssimilated (talk) 00:02, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's a fairly uncommon meaning but I'll take your word for it. Either way, it's not particularly helpful to good faith editors if the intent is to encourage a more academic tone (or any further participation at all). -kotra (talk) 00:23, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree that it's uncommon. The 2009 American Heritage Dictionary defines it as "violating prescribed standards of speech or writing." The 2003 edition of the Collins English Dictionary defines it as "violating accepted standards in reading and writing; e.g. an illiterate scrawl." And Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines it as "violating approved patterns of speaking or writing." Like countless thousands of other words, it can have more than one meaning. — YouWillBeAssimilated (talk) 00:31, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These dictionaries give that meaning as the non-primary meaning; i.e. the more uncommon meaning... but I'd rather not get into a debate of semantics. I only wanted to say that I interpreted the edit summary as somewhat condescending/flippant/unhelpful, and I'm sure I'm not alone there. Just a bit of unsolicited advice, take it or leave it as you wish. -kotra (talk) 00:59, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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